Posted on 02/07/2022 5:58:42 PM PST by marshmallow
Francis plays to celebrity who makes millions on anti-Catholic network
VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - In an interview on Italy's most left-wing talk show and predictably loquacious on his pet themes of Mother Earth, migrants, clericalism and pacifism, Pope Francis was tongue-tied on the theological question of why innocent children suffer.
During his 50-minute exchange with celebrity talk show host Fabio Fazio on Italian state television Rai 3, the pope shrugged his shoulders when asked to explain the tragic suffering of innocent children.
"Of course, questions remain open: Why do children suffer? I find no explanation for this," Francis admitted. "I have faith, I try to love God who is my Father, but I ask myself: 'But why do children suffer?' And there is no answer."
The "only one way" response to avoid the "temptation" of such a question is to suffer with suffering children, Francis said. "In this 'a great teacher' was Dostoevsky," he added.
When responding to the problem of theodicy — the defense of God in the face of evil — the pontiff failed to mention sin, the fall of humanity and the redemption won by Christ.
Instead, Francis trotted out a semi-pelagian response to the question of evil, claiming "so many evils come precisely because man has lost the ability to follow the rules, has changed nature, has changed many things — and because of his own human frailties."
Francis alluded to the Devil as "another who sowed evil in the world out of envy," but did not attribute suffering to Satan. Rather, "one does not speak" with evil as "dialogue with evil is dangerous," he warned.
"So many people go, try to dialogue with evil. I too have found myself in this situation many times, but I wonder why — a dialogue with evil, that.......
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He can’t answer the question because he does not believe we are sinners in a fallen Creation.Which would make the Roman Catholic Church into just another lefty "do gooder" outfit.
“Is the Pope Catholic?”
No.
He has excommunicated himself latae sententiae and is no longer Catholic. As he is no longer Catholic, he either never was pope, or is no longer pope.
Not only that, his rigged election was illegal, illicit and invalid.
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