I have written here before about Catholics who support people, policies, and practices that are against the faith. One example is an American President who claims to be a Catholic while at the same time promoting abortion and same-sex marriage. The ever tone-deaf Biden regime recently chose the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception to celebrate ‘Pansexual and Panromantic Pride Day’ because “everyone deserves to feel seen, respected, and supported — no matter who they love.” No comment from Ashley Biden.
Disturbingly, nearly half of all Catholics think abortion should be allowed in all or nearly all circumstances. A failure of catechesis.
What bothers this Catholic more than government leaders taking stands that violate their faith, is when the head of the religion itself does so. Pope Francis recently took part in advancing the fake ‘Palestinian Jesus’ narrative. I cannot say that the Pope Francis’ actions here are the final straw as, in my opinion he broke that camel’s back a long time ago. His papal tenure has been a death of a thousand cuts. I had a great deal of respect and admiration for both Saint Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. While they both may have occasionally said and done things I disagreed with, overall I valued their Pontificates.
Not so with Pope Francis. In the Vatican gardens in 2019, Pope Francis blessed a pagan fertility statue in an action condemned by bishops, cardinals, and theologians. Cardinal Raymond Burke said, “Something very grave happened during the special assembly of the Bishops’ Synod for the Amazon region. An idol [Pachamama] was introduced into St Peter’s Basilica — the figure of a demonic force.”
Pope Francis is steeped in liberation theology, which tends towards Marxism and focuses on social work rather than salvation. Popes JPII and Benedict often referred to the need for a preferential option for the poor but that is not the same as making it an authentic Catholic theology. As a matter of fact, in 1995 Pope John Paul II condemned liberation theology, saying that it had died in Latin America after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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