tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post6957451312471258775..comments2024-03-28T16:16:51.062-04:00Comments on Musings of a Pertinacious Papist: Pope Francis and the mystery of the world's recognition of truthUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-9117885203302617732013-07-23T10:15:54.180-04:002013-07-23T10:15:54.180-04:00Very helpful summation of some strange times. Thi...Very helpful summation of some strange times. This is another perspective which levels me out, if just a bit...<br /><br />http://www.patheos.com/blogs/standingonmyhead/2013/07/the-elusive-bird-poverty.htmlJFMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05496819581817926605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-25898110528116741712013-07-18T18:01:32.931-04:002013-07-18T18:01:32.931-04:00Immanentism is in the saddle and Miss Elton is wav...Immanentism is in the saddle and Miss Elton is waving her handkerchief at it.<br /><br />I really fail to see the magic that others see but when I see the world praising the Pope I smell trouble for, to me at least, that would have been like hearing The Sanhedrin singing, "For He's a Jolly Good Fella" or watching the Pharisees and The Scribes doing the wave after Jesus said, <b>This day is fulfilled scripture in your ear</b>Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-65757163146698371452013-07-16T12:58:00.706-04:002013-07-16T12:58:00.706-04:00Let's see if we can parse the sodomite crooner...Let's see if we can parse the sodomite crooner's "compliment." <br /><br />'Francis is not like his predecessor and all those other self-aggrandizing pontiffs who wore fancy vestments and spend most of their time muttering inanities in gaudy cathedrals, the funds for the building and maintenance of which ought to have been spent on the poor. No, the current pope is a working class hero, like Jesus himself, on the front lines of the battle against poverty, eschewing all that vague talk about saving souls. He's also secretly sympathetic to our cause, though understandably unwilling to publicly come out in favor of it for fear of offending all those other repressed, hateful Catholic meanies.'RFGA, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11981669525574676528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-73117027990005328672013-07-16T11:08:44.584-04:002013-07-16T11:08:44.584-04:00It seems to me that Pope Francis (and the way he h...It seems to me that Pope Francis (and the way he has been covered by the media) has provided a unique moment of grace for many, a unique moment that has lowered the obstacles many experience to considering the rest of the truth of the Gospel. <br /><br />It remains to be seen what these individuals will ultimately do with that moment. It's another crossroads...will they follow the sign or will they bypass it and continue on their way? <br /><br />Changing metaphors, depending upon the individual, it may also be another seed planted, waiting for the right conditions to sprout.<br /><br />We should be re-doubling our prayers that this moment, this seed bears lasting fruit. If it doesn't, it will be our loss and possibly also a source of judgment upon those who ultimately rejected it. <br /><br /><br /><br />Michael F.noreply@blogger.com