The biggest news event of 2013
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While the controversy over that Jesuit interview was still ongoing, there came a second off-the-cuff interview, this time with the famed Italian atheist Eugenio Scalfari:
- Pope Francis: The ‘most serious’ evils are ‘youth unemployment and the loneliness of the old’
The fallout from these interviews was truly remarkable, with President Obama praising the Pope, along with liberal media pundits everywhere. Those same media liberals began using the Pope’s words to criticize faithful Catholics trying to defend the Church’s teachings on life and family. Dissident Catholics like Nancy Pelosi shed tears of joy - literally.
At this time, too, came the revelations of the Vatican’s crushing discipline of one of the most faithful orders of monks in the Church, which, when compared to the multitude of dissident orders which remained relatively untouched, has been a heart-wrenching and confusing episode for many Catholics to witness.
...In late November came Pope Francis’ major work, the 220-page exhortation, the Gospel of Joy. In it, he condemned abortion as a crime that cries out to God for vengeance, and let one and all know that the Church could never change its teaching on abortion:
- Pope Francis: Abortion ‘cries out in vengeance to God’; Church will never change teaching
That same exhortation, however, was also packed with statements that many interpreted as critical of traditional Catholics, especially those with a leaning toward the traditional Latin form of the liturgy. See our analysis here (and that of Michael O’Brien):
- Who is Pope Francis talking about? ‘Obsessed’, ‘self-absorbed’, ‘sourpusses’
- Michael O’Brien on Pope Francis and the New Phariseeism
Then, while leaders around the world, including the Pope, were issuing messages of praise for the deceased South African President Nelson Mandela, pro-life leaders cautioned reserve, pointing out that Mandela had legalized abortion, which has resulted in the deaths of nearly a million South African children.
Full article at LifeSiteNews,com