Gloria.TV News on the 13th of January 2017 Damian Thompson has published a Spectator article entitled, “Why more and more priests can’t stand Pope Francis.” The piece contains some interesting insider …More
Gloria.TV News on the 13th of January 2017
Damian Thompson has published a Spectator article entitled, “Why more and more priests can’t stand Pope Francis.” The piece contains some interesting insider information. Thompson calls Francis, “combative, charming, bad-tempered, idealistic and vengeful.”
Nasty Curial Politics: According to Thompson, Pope Francis has – quote – “broken with a far more significant papal tradition than living in the papal apartments or travelling in limousines. He has defied the convention that a pope, once elected, ceases to play nasty curial politics.”
Limited Mercy: Vatican employees testify to Francis’ outbursts of temper, rudeness towards subordinates and vulgar language. Thompson writes, “He can also be genial, funny and compassionate. But this side of his personality is increasingly reserved for his inner circle and his allies.”
Vindictive: According to Thompson, Francis is far more brutal in the exercise of his power than his predecessors. He quotes a priest who works in the curia: “Bergoglio divides the church into those who are with him and those who are against him — and if he thinks you’re in the latter camp then he’ll come after you.”
Divisive figure: Thompson quotes a senior Vatican observer who claims that personal loyalty obsesses Francis — and – quote – “if the cardinal electors had done due diligence they would have discovered that he was an extraordinarily divisive figure among the Argentinian Jesuits.”
Damian Thompson has published a Spectator article entitled, “Why more and more priests can’t stand Pope Francis.” The piece contains some interesting insider information. Thompson calls Francis, “combative, charming, bad-tempered, idealistic and vengeful.”
Nasty Curial Politics: According to Thompson, Pope Francis has – quote – “broken with a far more significant papal tradition than living in the papal apartments or travelling in limousines. He has defied the convention that a pope, once elected, ceases to play nasty curial politics.”
Limited Mercy: Vatican employees testify to Francis’ outbursts of temper, rudeness towards subordinates and vulgar language. Thompson writes, “He can also be genial, funny and compassionate. But this side of his personality is increasingly reserved for his inner circle and his allies.”
Vindictive: According to Thompson, Francis is far more brutal in the exercise of his power than his predecessors. He quotes a priest who works in the curia: “Bergoglio divides the church into those who are with him and those who are against him — and if he thinks you’re in the latter camp then he’ll come after you.”
Divisive figure: Thompson quotes a senior Vatican observer who claims that personal loyalty obsesses Francis — and – quote – “if the cardinal electors had done due diligence they would have discovered that he was an extraordinarily divisive figure among the Argentinian Jesuits.”
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Thank God more clergy are speaking out about this nightmare we have for a pope.
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Divisive figure: ...they would have discovered that he was an extraordinarily divisive figure among the Argentinian Jesuits.
Of all the unthinkable candidates, Jorge Mario Bergoglio is perhaps the worst. Not because he openly professes doctrines against the faith and morals, but because, judging from his work as Archbishop of Buenos Aires, faith and morals seem to have been irrelevant to him.
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Divisive figure: ...they would have discovered that he was an extraordinarily divisive figure among the Argentinian Jesuits.
Of all the unthinkable candidates, Jorge Mario Bergoglio is perhaps the worst. Not because he openly professes doctrines against the faith and morals, but because, judging from his work as Archbishop of Buenos Aires, faith and morals seem to have been irrelevant to him.
A sworn enemy of the Traditional Mass, he has only allowed imitations of it in the hands of declared enemies of the ancient liturgy. He has persecuted every single priest who made an effort to wear a cassock, preach with firmness, or that was simply interested in Summorum Pontificum.
Famous for his inconsistency (at times, for the unintelligibility of his addresses and homilies), accustomed to the use of coarse, demagogical, and ambiguous expressions, it cannot be said that his magisterium is heterodox, but rather non-existent for how confusing it is.
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This election is incomprehensible: he is not a polyglot, he has no Curial experience, he does not shine for his sanctity, he is loose in doctrine and liturgy, he has not fought against abortion and only very weakly against homosexual "marriage" [approved with practically no opposition from the episcopate], he has no manners to honor the Pontifical Throne. He has never fought for anything else than to remain in positions of power.
May God help His Church. One can never dismiss, as humanly hard as it may seem, the possibility of a conversion... and, nonetheless, the future terrifies us. Read more
Of all the unthinkable candidates, Jorge Mario Bergoglio is perhaps the worst. Not because he openly professes doctrines against the faith and morals, but because, judging from his work as Archbishop of Buenos Aires, faith and morals seem to have been irrelevant to him.
A sworn enemy of the Traditional Mass, he has only allowed imitations of it in the hands of declared enemies of the ancient liturgy. He has persecuted every single priest who made an effort to wear a cassock, preach with firmness, or that was simply interested in Summorum Pontificum.
Famous for his inconsistency (at times, for the unintelligibility of his addresses and homilies), accustomed to the use of coarse, demagogical, and ambiguous expressions, it cannot be said that his magisterium is heterodox, but rather non-existent for how confusing it is.
<snip>
This election is incomprehensible: he is not a polyglot, he has no Curial experience, he does not shine for his sanctity, he is loose in doctrine and liturgy, he has not fought against abortion and only very weakly against homosexual "marriage" [approved with practically no opposition from the episcopate], he has no manners to honor the Pontifical Throne. He has never fought for anything else than to remain in positions of power.
May God help His Church. One can never dismiss, as humanly hard as it may seem, the possibility of a conversion... and, nonetheless, the future terrifies us. Read more