The new gospel in the Church of Rome is that the only truth is that there is no truth
Pope Leo XIV has welcomed a ginormous Indian elephant in St. Peter’s Basilica to mark the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the Vatican II document on interfaith relations.
Airavata, the elephant ridden by the Hindu god Indra, squats in the nave, waving its trunk between the transepts. When Leo prods “Airy Fairy” (the pontiff’s pet name for his pachyderm) in the posterior with his papal ferula, Airavata stands to his feet and trumpets a new gospel in the Church of Rome.
The Church of Rome’s new gospel is a 21st-century Catholic upgrade on Jesus’ outdated gospel. Since Jesus merely relied on the Hebrew Bible and was not blessed with the inclusive wisdom of Rome’s infallible magisterium, he could only issue exclusivist statements like “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father except through me.”
The popes have always recognised Jesus’ limitations and have sought to regularly update the biblical instructions of the apostles, who were ignorant fishermen and would never have understood the complexities of the later centuries. Pope Francis superbly spotted a serious error in Jesus’ version of the Lord’s Prayer. So, in the Italian version, he changed it from “lead us not into temptation” to “do not abandon us to temptation.”
The popes know that even God isn’t perfect and even God can get it egregiously wrong. Since God made a humungous humanitarian cockup by instituting the death penalty, popes since the time of John Paul II have been gently trying to correct God. It was Pope Francis who was bold enough to tell God to His face that God Himself had failed to recognise how the death penalty was an atrocious affront to human dignity. In a private revelation, God told Francis that He stood corrected. God asked Francis to change the biblical teaching on the death penalty by altering the Catechism and issuing the magisterial declaration Dignitas Infinita.
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