I don’t get angry for fun. I wouldn’t say I get angry easily. When it comes to Pope Francis, I don’t delve deeply into Church politics. I know enough to know it’s consistently bad; I only try to have a general idea of the biggest doings.
I tend to wonder how the hierarchy can be sincere. How can they have any sense of internal personal integrity? Is the Faith a thing to be believed and lived? Their actions too often suggest it is not.
There are three events, however, that made my muscles (such as they are) tighten with indignation. I felt the blood ripple in my veins.
I share them today not to encourage the clouding of vision through the passion of anger but for the furthering of clear vision itself—to put us in mind of the first pope’s words “be sober and watchful” on account of the prowling forces of darkness, the “spiritual wickedness in high places” of which St. Paul speaks.
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