Religion is in Trouble in America

 

By Rich Kozlovich

There are a number of things I don't deal with in P&D, and those are sports, entertainment and theocratic arguments unless they have some social significance.  Not that I don't have views on all of that, it's just that's not what P&D is about.  Theological arguments are unending, and in the end, believers believe what believers believe and I would have wasted a lot of time going nowhere, although dealing with leftists is much the same as it's clearly a neo-pagan secular religion to leftists. We're now calling it the Church of Wokeness, and the Church of the Warming Globe, is one of the sects of that "church" of atheism. 

At any rate, P&D deals with social issues and religion comes up if it impacts those issues such as abortion, global warming, socialism, capitalism, environmentalism, etc.  And now, that's become an issue hasn't it?  

Judaic/Christian ethics and principles are the very foundation of western civilization, but it reached it's pinnacle of influence in America, and the reason why is because America was founded on the concept of the separation of church and state, ergo, America never had all the religious wars Europe did.   The only religious wars in America were intellectual ones.  A lot of egos may have gotten bruised in those battles, but no armies marched over the land.    

Let's start with:

Religion and America by Alan Joseph Bauer Dec 18, 2022 - Separation of church and state was a revolutionary concept but it was predicated on moral training in the home.  One of the great acts of the founding fathers was to separate church and state. The new United States was to have no formal state church as was common in European countries. Each man and woman, each family would lead its own religious life without the coercion of the state. This was an extraordinary change in relations between rulers and the ruled. The lack of a formal religious institution of the government did not mean that the United States was meant to be an irreligious country. Quite to the contrary. The founding documents invoke G-d and also make it clear that a citizen’s rights come from G-d and that the government has no power to abrogate them. Freedom of religious expression, freedom of speech, and freedom of assembly guaranteed the free practice of all religions without state interference. Religion was everywhere in the United States. All US currency includes a reference to G-d, as does the pledge of allegiance, and virtually every important meeting or event begins with an invocation of His name.

But that's changed.  The left has for 125 years been working to destroy the very idea there even is a God, and it's working, and worse yet, the leaders of the main stream religious are succumbing to it all.  

"When certain Christian leaders, such as the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, or the Southern Baptist Convention president, J.D. Greear, speak, nobody listens.  Why?  Because they sacrificed Christendom, and the glorious civilization it produced, upon the altar of wokeness a long time ago.  When the pope speaks, people still listen."

But when the Pope embraces leftist clabber everyone notices, and a lot of people are upset, most of them Catholics.  Below are articles I've been saving for over three years dealing with the leftist corruption of religion in America and around the world, starting with this paragraph.  

The woke pope is throwing the Catholic Church into civil war.  Speaking of Francis, the woke pope has jumped the shark and is throwing the Catholic Church into civil war. In his bid to become chaplain of the New World Order, Francis has alienated powerful members of the hierarchy, including the former head of the Holy Office.  Out of nowhere, Archbishop Charles Chaput blasted any priest who would dare give communion to Joe Biden – a “Catholic” who, according to Chaput, is not in communion with the Catholic Church. With Cardinal Zen in prison, Bishop Schneider in Bannon’s war room, and Cardinal Muller on EWTN, the Vatican is getting nervous. You won’t believe what the Vatican Secretary of State said, in fact, the other night to the top brass at EWTN!  The civil war is on, friends. Which side are you on? 

Priest Stands by Viral Homily Against Abortion, Transgenderism Despite His Bishop Siding with Cancel Mob - A priest in Ireland has stood by a homily he delivered attacking abortion and Transgenderism despite ever-increasing attempts by leftists to cancel him. Catholic Priest Fr. Seán Sheehy delivered a number of sermons last weekend attacking government and societal pushes towards transgenderism, abortion and homosexuality in Ireland, which he described as being sinful.......... 

Pope Francis and the Left’s March to the Papacy For a Church that was always regarded as “unchangeable,” the impossible has happened. Tue Aug 2, 2022 Thom Nickels 25 comments - There seems little doubt that the Roman Catholic Church in 2022 is on a mission to destroy itself.   For a Church that was always regarded as “unchangeable,” the impossible happened.  The Second Vatican Council, thought to bring a new Pentecost to the Church, did the opposite. It emptied convents, seminaries and monasteries. It changed the liturgy in a radical way so as to make the Mass unrecognizable from what it had been for centuries............

Francis’ war on tradition picked up steam over the years and went on to include an all-out-war on traditionalist Catholic religious communities with the final goal, as some critics have noted, of the complete abolition of the Latin Mass by 2023 or 2024.    But Francis’ leftwing political orthodoxy and hatred of tradition has not only cast him as a kind of dictator pope, it has shown him to be ruthless and disrespectful in his purge of the work and feelings of his predecessor............

Francis is the first radical green pope, the first open borders pope, the first “I don’t want to convert you” pope.  Francis, in other words, is the end result of “The Left’s Long March to the Papacy."......To Read More......

The Next Pope Should at Least be Catholic September 6, 2022 By Christopher Skeet - Pope Francis doesn’t like America.  Pope Francis doesn’t like capitalism.  It is unclear whether Pope Francis even likes Catholicism.  Whatever the case may be, he seems to be doing everything he can to dissuade Catholics from remaining in the Church, and to keep prospective Catholics from joining. 

When certain Christian leaders, such as the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, or the Southern Baptist Convention president, J.D. Greear, speak, nobody listens.  Why?  Because they sacrificed Christendom, and the glorious civilization it produced, upon the altar of wokeness a long time ago.  When the pope speaks, people still listen.  But that’s rapidly changing, and for the same reason.

A few of Pope Francis’ more memorable pronouncements are worth noting:............Pope Francis is also noteworthy for what he doesn’t say.  Take, for instance, when in 2015 he visited Cuba and gallivanted around with Raul Castro, a man whose legacy includes murdering and imprisoning Christians.  Not once did Pope Francis offer any criticism whatsoever of the bloody communist regime, nor utter a single word of solidarity with its victims.  And for the spontaneous protests of the Cuban people in 2021 and 2022, and the resulting brutal government crackdown?  Not a peep. ..................

Pope Francis has a rigid, inflexible worldview, born of the putrid liberation theology upon which he was weaned in Peronist Argentina.  This worldview holds that capitalism is evil, and the United States is its most sinful devotee.  His knowledge of basic economics and rudimentary history is beyond embarrassing, as is his inability to see critics and dissidents as anything but crude strawmen in a Marxist-Manichean cosmic drama.  For a man who likes to quip that “facts are more important than ideas,” he is remarkably illogical in his approach to humanity and its inherent problems. ...........To Read More...

 

Pope Francis: 'In the Name of God, I Ask the Great Extractive Industries…to Stop Poisoning Food and People’ - By CNSNews.com Staff | July 25, 2022 -  Pope Francis has already released his statement to mark the “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation,” an annual event which he created in 2015 and which is marked on September 1 of each year. “In the first place, it is our sister, mother earth, who cries out,” says Francis.“Prey to our consumerist excesses, she weeps and implores us to put an end to our abuses and to her destruction,” he says. “Then too, there are all those different creatures who cry out,” says the pope. “At the mercy of a ‘tyrannical anthropocentrism,’ completely at odds with Christ’s centrality in the work of creation, countless species are dying out and their hymns of praise silenced............ To Read More...

Pope apologizes for 'evil committed by so many Christians' -Pope Francis issued a historic apology Monday for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed families and marginalized generations. “I am deeply sorry,” Francis said to applause from school survivors and Indigenous community members gathered at a former residential school south of Edmonton, Alberta. He called the school policy a “disastrous error” that was incompatible with the Gospel and said further investigation and healing is needed.............. 

 

Pope Francis Begs Forgiveness for ‘Evil’ Committed Against Indigenous Canadians - Pope Francis held his first meeting with the indigenous peoples of Canada on Monday, in which he repeatedly apologized for the sins and evil committed by Christians against the native population. Reiterating the nature of his visit as “a penitential pilgrimage,” the pontiff said he traveled to Canada “to tell you in person of my sorrow, to implore God’s forgiveness, healing and reconciliation, to express my closeness and to pray with you and for you.”  Referring back to meetings with representatives of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit in the Vatican earlier this year, Francis said he feels a “deep sense of pain and remorse” when thinking back on “the tragic situations that so many of you, your families and your communities have known; of what you shared with me about the suffering you endured in the residential schools.”.........

 

Pelosi, the Pope, and Pachamama -  Francis says sin is serious, but acts as though it’s trivial. - Wed Jul 13, 2022 William Kilpatrick21 comments - Suppose your local district attorney complains loudly about the rise of violent crime in your city, yet consistently allows violent criminals to go free on low bail—even those with a long history of repeated crimes.  Is he a lying hypocrite?  Or is he deeply confused—unable to see the blatant contradiction between his words and his deeds?  Either way, most people would conclude that he is unfit for office.  He is as much a danger to the community as the criminals he returns to the streets.

 

The Catholic Church is currently ruled by just such a person.  Pope Francis has said one thing and done the opposite on so many occasions that it’s fair to conclude that this is his habitual mode of behavior.  One can also conclude that –like the DA who sends mixed signals—he is unfit for the office he holds.  Whether or not Francis himself is a deeply confused person, he has managed to sow enormous confusion among Catholics as to what they should believe and how they should behave.........To Read More...

 

Woke Pope Welcomes Pelosi to the Vatican – Just 2 Weeks After She Passed Most Radical Pro-Abortion Bill in History - Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. 9 Oct 2021 - Pope Francis granted a private audience in the Vatican to U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Saturday, just two weeks after the House passage of the most radical pro-abortion legislation ever introduced. Passing the Women’s Health Protection Act is a “very exciting day,” said Pelosi, a Catholic, on September 23. “We’ve long been supporters of Roe v. Wade. We haven’t been able to codify it because we never had a Democratic pro‑choice Majority with a Democratic President, and now we do, and now we do.” “Every woman, everywhere has a constitutional right to basic reproductive health, yet for years that has been questioned by some,” she added. “And so, you know about the Texas law and the rest of that.”........To Read More....

 

Globalist Pope Francis: Suppressing the Heritage of the Catholic Church - Thu Jul 29, 2021 Thom Nickels 19 comments - The radical handwriting was on the wall the moment Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Cardinal-Archbishop of Buenos Aires, was elected to the papacy in 2013. At his first address to the crowds in St. Peter’s Square as Francis I, he had refused to wear the papal mozzetta. This seemingly insignificant break with tradition was the first red flag signaling that the new Bishop of Rome was a modernist. The second red flag occurred during Francis’ inaugural Mass. At that Mass, Francis’ vestments were noticeably plain. Not just plain, but ostentatiously plain. His white miter, decorated with a simple red cross, matched the miter he wore when officiating at puppet and Tango Masses in Argentina. Kneeling among Armenian rite bishops in their bejeweled tall miters during a prayer service before the crypt of St. Peter, Francis seemed to be making a show of his preference for “simplicity.”

The new pope very quickly won the world’s admiration when it was reported that he paid his own hotel bill after the conclusion of the papal conclave. Non-Catholics who never noticed a pope before were now paying strict attention. Many saw Francis’ emphasis on simplicity as a saintly attribute, especially when he chose not to live in the papal palace but in the Vatican apartments. He was very quickly dubbed the “People’s Pope.”...........To Read More.....

BOMBSHELL: Vatican Whistleblower Archbishop Viganò Tells Bannon Why Trump’s Leadership Key to Defeated Deep State, Deep Church & Pope Francis’ Alliance with Red China - January 6, 2021 Neil W. McCabe - The former papal nuncio to the United States, now a retired archbishop, told Stephen K. Bannon that if Joseph R. Biden Jr., becomes the president Jan. 20, it is one more step in the linkage of the so-called Deep State, the Deep Church and the ultimate primacy of the Chinese Communist Party. “It would be an irreparable disaster if Joe Biden, who is heavily suspected of being complicit with the Chinese dictatorship, would be designated as President of the United States,” said Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who from 2011 to 2016 served at the Holy See’s ambassador to the Washington, a role that also made him the principal liaison between the American bishops and the pope and the Vatican bureaucracy.  The archbishop said he was troubled by the power of the mainstream media to overwhelm legitimate questions about the 2020 presidential election. The rest of the world is watching to see if America and its democratic system will hold up, he said. “If it allows the idea to spread among the masses that the electoral choice of the citizens – the first expression of democracy – can be manipulated and thwarted, it will be complicit in the fraud, and will certainly deserve the execration of the entire world, which looks to America as a nation which has fought for and ........To Read More..... 

 

Vatican think-tank becomes hotbed for pro-abortionists October 25, 2022 By Monica Showalter - Back in 1994, Pope John Paul II created the Pontifical Academy for Life for the defense and promotion of life at all its stages, in a "consistent life ethic."  According to Wikipedia, the academy is a think-tank of sorts, "an academic honorary society established by or under the direction of the Holy See."  The Vatican has a bunch of these, on various academic topics, some very cool ones, such as art.  Most have been around for centuries, but this one is a new one, founded by John Paul II, in response to a perceived need to defend human life, which is under attack in the West........So it doesn't sound very good to hear that this John Paul II–founded academy is now becoming a hotbed of pro-abortion academics, such as are found in any run-of-the-mill university institution in the Western world............To Read More....

 

Mother Earth Pregnant Mothers - Pope Francis abandons the Catholic Church’s opposition to abortion. - September 29, 2022 by Joseph Hippolito 4 Comments - A high-ranking Vatican official stunned Catholics during a recent television interview by inadvertently confirming the Catholic Church’s retreat from one of its fundamental moral positions — a retreat FrontPage Magazine explored more than a year ago. The official in question said on Italy’s national network Aug. 26 that the church had no interest in opposing that nation’s law allowing abortion. Enacted in 1978, Law 194 legalizes abortions in the first trimester and permits them afterward only if the mother’s life is in danger or if the fetus displays “serious abnormalities or malformations,” the law states. That official even had the audacity to say that Law 194 represented “a pillar of our social life.” When pressed whether the church would view the law as up for debate, the official replied, “No, absolutely not.”........

 

 Pope Francis: Not Fair to Call China ‘Undemocratic’ - Pope Francis has rejected the label “undemocratic” to describe China’s communist regime, insisting that the issue is too complex to allow for such characterizations.“I cannot get on board with calling China undemocratic; I won’t do that because it’s such a complex country,” the pontiff told journalists during his return trip from Kazakhstan to Rome Thursday. “Sure, there are things that seem undemocratic to us, that is true.”  “Labeling is difficult and I’m not ready to do that, since they are impressions, so instead I try to support the path of dialogue,” he declared.  “Understanding China takes a century, and we do not live for a century,” the pope said. “The Chinese mentality is a rich mentality, and when it gets a little sick, it loses its richness; it is capable of making mistakes.”  “In order to understand we have chosen the path of dialogue, open to dialogue,” he added.............. 

 

Vatican Chief Praises Italy’s Law Legalizing Abortion as a ‘Pillar of Society’ - Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.28 Aug 2022 - The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life called Italy’s notorious Law 194 legalizing abortion “a pillar of society” this weekend, insisting that no one is looking to overturn it. Interviewed by Italian state television Rai Tre, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia lauded the 1978 law allowing abortion in Italy, a move that critics called a new “ground zero of morality.”............At this point, Giorgia Rombolà, the host of the program, summed up the archbishop’s words, saying, “So, the Law 194 is not up for debate,” to which he replied, “No, absolutely not.”................“We do not understand how a law that suppresses defenseless and innocent human lives can be a ‘pillar’ of society,” Coghe added. “It is as if the president of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League declared itself in favor of the holocaust,” wrote Tommaso Scandroglio, in a piece for La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana..........To Read More...

  

Pelosi Names ‘Catholics for Choice’ as Group That Joined in ‘Mobilization’ for Legalized Abortion

By CNSNews.com Staff | July 18, 2022 - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) delivered a statement on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Friday in which she noted that “Catholics for Choice” had joined in what Pelosi called the “mobilization” behind bills taken up by the U.S. House of Representatives to legalize abortion nationwide. “Today, the House will pass landmark bills: our Women's Health Protection Act to make the essential protections of Roe the law of the land,” said Pelosi. ..............Pelosi Names ‘Catholics for Choice’ as Group That Joined in ‘Mobilization’ for Legalized Abortion  

• Pelosi: ‘We Will Never Quit in the Fight Against the Outrageous Right-Wing Assault on Freedom’
• Pelosi: ‘We Had the Pleasure of Attending Mass This Morning With His Holiness and Many, Many, Many Leaders of the Church
•  Pope Francis: Abortion ‘is Truly Murder’ 

My Take - Someone here has a screw loose, if the Pope really believed that why hasn't Pelosi been excommunicated?   

Nancy Pelosi Receives Holy Communion at Papal Mass in Vatican -  Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. 29 Jun 2022 - Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi attended Mass in the Vatican presided over by Pope Francis Wednesday, and received Holy Communion not from the pope himself but from another priest assisting at the Mass.  It was unclear whether the priest knew who Mrs. Pelosi was or that she has been banned from receiving Communion in her home archdiocese of San Francisco for her aggressive promotion of abortion, which the Catholic Church considers to be murder.  At a reception Tuesday evening at the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See, Pelosi said she was visiting Rome in a private capacity as part of a family vacation. In 2021, Pelosi praised Pope Francis’ “immense moral clarity,” but carefully avoided any mention of abortion, which Francis has described as “murder” and a “scourge,” likening it to hiring a paid assassin to take out a child. A “just society recognizes the primacy of the right to life from conception to natural death,” he has asserted.  In January 2015, Pelosi said that she knew “more about having babies than the pope,” insisting that a woman has “the right” to an abortion..................More.....

• Pope Meets With Pelosi Two Days After She Vows ‘to Enshrine Roe v. Wade Into the Law of the Land’

 Geopolitics And An Asian Pope July 30, 2021  By Francis P. Sempa - Communism’s greatest enemy has traditionally been organized religion, especially the Roman Catholic Church. The beginnings of the Soviet empire’s unraveling can be traced to 6:15 pm on October 16, 1978, when Poland’s Cardinal Karol Wojtyla was elected Pope and took the name John Paul II.

• Upon hearing of Wojtyla’s election, Soviet KGB chief Yuri Andropov called a subordinate in Warsaw and asked: “How could you possibly allow the election of a citizen of a socialist country as pope?” Andropov ordered the KGB’s First Chief Directorate to assess this development’s consequences. The KGB report warned about Poland’s potential destabilization and the end of the Warsaw Pact. The Soviet Central Committee conducted its own assessment and concluded that the new pope would work for religious freedom in Poland and throughout Eastern Europe.
•  George Weigel, John Paul II’s best biographer, noted that the election of a Slavic Pope who was “capable of addressing the restive peoples of the external and internal Soviet empires in their own languages, was a nightmare beyond the worst dreams of the masters of the Kremlin.” “The new Pope,” Weigel continued, “posed a serious threat, not simply to the Warsaw Pact, but to the Soviet Union itself.”........... To Read More.....

More Economic Illiteracy from Pope Francis - February 7, 2020 by Dan Mitchell @ International Liberty Back in 2013, I talked to the BBC about Pope Francis and his bizarre hostility to free enterprise. 

Trump-Bashing Pope Francis Refuses to Bash Putin for Ukraine War 

Are They Catholics, or Are They Heretics?  By Rich Kozlovich - On May 14, 2021 Dr. Susan Berrym posted this piece,  Nancy Pelosi: ‘I Think I Can Use My Own Judgment’ on Receiving Holy Communion", in short it seems to me Pelosi is declaring she's now the supreme arbiter of Church ethic, morals and doctrine.  Berrym went on to say: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said during her press briefing Thursday she can use her “own judgment” regarding the decision to receive Holy Communion, in light of the controversy over the fact that she supports legalized abortion and legislation to help more women obtain abortions...........His solution?  He wants dialogue between these abortion supporting politicians and the Bishops and others.  Really? What's that mean?  Does it mean the Bishops will confront them and demand they recognize the graveness of the sin and repent?  Not likely, so his solution means nothing, resolves nothing and upholds heresy!

Heretics Leave a Moral Foundation of Quicksand On January 5, 2020 Andrew Harrod posted the article, "The Episcopal Church's Fruits of Heresy" saying: “This church has about 30 more years before it is dead,” stated one young man at a 2016 forum at the Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) in Alexandria, Virginia, as quoted in the recent book The Seduction of the Episcopal Church.  Therein Anglican author David Virtue, a longtime critical observer of worldwide Anglicanism, reviews the Episcopal Church’s decades-long fall from grace in an exposé of Christian folly in accommodating a secularized, sexualized modernity. He goes on to say:.............

Vatican Papal Academy Sells Out the Virgin Mary for Muhammad February 24, 2021By Raymond Ibrahim............. The same folks to bring you "Abrahamism"—the idea that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are intricately connected—have narrowed their sights on promoting Mary, the mother of Christ, as "a Jewish, Christian and Muslim woman," in the words of Catholic priest Fr. Gian Matteo of the Pontifical International Marian Academy.  In a ten-week webinar series titled "Mary, a model for faith and life for Christianity and Islam," the academy will seek to present Mary as a bridge between the two religions....... 

Behold The Vatican’s New Messiah And All Bow Down At His Clay Feet -  Fauci’s Covid-19 fear mongering has managed to shut down all houses of worship By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--April 29, 2021 - Hype notwithstanding, the Lockdown world is not waiting breathlessly for the debut of the New Messiah on May 6, 2021, only the most unlikely of places—the Vatican—through its Pontifical Council for Culture, the Cura Foundation, the Science and Faith Foundation (TTOQ) and Stem For Life (SFLF)—is.  With little to no fanfare, the Vatican is giving Dr. Anthony Fauci its keynote speaking spot at an event touted as “Exploring the Mind, Body & Soul.” “How Innovation and Novel Delivery Systems Improve Human Health.

Francis: The Apostate Pope -By IQ al-Rassooli, Scholar & Terrorism Analyst February 8th, 2021 - He was elected on the 13th of March 2013 as Pope Francis, the Catholic Church’s head and sovereign of the Vatican City State. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, born in Argentina, was the first Jesuit Pope (Society of Jesus), the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first pope from outside Europe since the Syrian Gregory III (731 AD)........... 

Archbishop Jan Lenga: Pope Francis is 'Usurper and Heretic,' 'Leading the World Astray' - Michael W. Chapman | February 28, 2020 - Catholic Archbishop Jan Lenga,  the former head of the Diocese of Karaganda, Khazakhstan and now retired in Poland, was ordered to stop delivering sermons and speaking with the media because of his frequent statements that Pope Francis is a "heretic" spreading "untruths and sins" and "leading the world astray." Archbishop Lenga has rejected the order to be silent, issued this month by Polish Bishop Wieslaw Mering, because no one in the Polish church apparently has the authority to silence him, reported Crux.com.  Lenga belongs to a religious order, the Congregation of Marians of the Immaculate Conception, and is living as a guest of the order in Lichen, Poland. He reportedly is only subject to an order from the Pope.  “Christ gave me authority through the church to proclaim the truth, and I’ll do so as long as I live,” said Lenga, 69, as reported by Crux.com.  “I won’t yield to degradation by those whose own statements and actions are entangled with heresy and sectarianism." ........... 

Arbp. Vigano: Pope Francis is Teaching 'Blatant Heresy ... a Terrible Blasphemy' -  By Michael W. Chapman | April 23, 2020 - In reference to a document signed by Muslim Imam Ahmad Al-Tayyeb and Pope Francis that says the "diversity of religions" in the world is "willed by God," Archbishop Carlo Vigano, the former Vatican ambassador to the United States, said this idea is a "blatant heresy" and a "terrible blasphemy."  That specific teaching in the document has also been denounced by Cardinal Raymond Burke, an American, Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Kazakhstan, and numerous Christian scholars......... 

How a controversial letter from Pope Francis shaped climate politics and the Biden 2020 campaign- Nicholas Rowan May 20, 2020 - “We have a good one now,” Vice President Joe Biden laughed as he read aloud a leaked draft of Pope Francis’s landmark encyclical on climate change. It was June 2015, and Biden was addressing a White House-sponsored forum on clean energy investment, his first public appearance since his son Beau’s death from cancer in May. The vice president was in good spirits. Just the day before, numerous media outlets had obtained an early copy of Pope Francis’s book-length letter on the environment. For Biden, the contents were encouraging: Francis framed climate change similarly to the way the Obama administration did — as both a moral and economic issue. 

Correcting Pope Francis…Again - October 5, 2020 by Dan Mitchell -  While I generally don’t think recycling is economically sensible, I am going to reuse this 2013 BBC interview because it’s time (again) to criticize the economic illiteracy of Pope Francis..........

Vatican: The Shadow Islamic State -  By IQ al-Rassooli, Scholar and Terrorism Analyst October 21st, 2019 - In today’s 21st century, the Catholic leaders starting with Pope Francis are again siding with Muslims against the welfare of all Christians. This most certainly sounds outrageous BUT let me ask the readers the following questions to prove my point:

Why is pope Francis so much ‘in love’ with Islam that he declared in Paragraph 252 of EG [Evangelii gaudium]: “The sacred writings of Islam have retained some Christian teachings; Jesus and Mary receive profound veneration and it is admirable to see how Muslims both young and old, men and women, make time for daily prayer and faithfully take part in religious services.”

Really? Which Christian teachings? The Muslim ones that DENY the divinity of BOTH Jesus and Mary? Has pope Francis even bothered to read Muhammad’s Quran?  Has anyone else among the hundreds of thousands of his prelates?  Al Tauba 9:29“Fight [qatiloo] those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His apostle [Muhammad] nor acknowledge the religion of truth [ISLAM] (even if they are) of the People of the Book [Christians & Jews] until they pay the Jizya [onerous penalty for not being a Muslim] with willing submission and feel themselves humiliated”..........

  

U.S. Priest to Pope: 'I am Wearied From Being Scorned and Demonized by You' - By Michael W. Chapman | September 16, 2019 - In response to Pope Francis's criticism of  "rigid priests" -- priests who steadfastly uphold all of the Church's teachings, especially on sexual morality and the family -- Monsignor Charles Pope, the pastor of a church in Washington, D.C., said he was not "feeling the love" from the Pope and is "wearied from being scorned and demonized by you."  Pope Francis has criticized what he calls "rigid priests," or clerics who are "rigid" in their ministry, fairly frequently since he was elected Pope in March 2013. In an October 2016 homily, Pope Francis said that rigid people are "sick" and adhere too strongly to the letter of the law. He often associates rigidity with orthodox Catholics who adhere to the traditions of the Church, its ancient devotions and prayers, the Latin Mass, and a strong love for the Virgin Mary.........

  

Pope Francis effectively admits it: He really, really hates Americans - September 5, 2019 By Monica Showalter - Sounding more and more like a politician and less and less like a pope, Pope Francis threw out this one for his American critics who view him as just a bit too political. According to Fox News:......  

 

Pope Francis Rejects Prosperity for Developing Nations - September 11, 2019 by Dan Mitchell
I first opined about Pope Francis in 2013, when I told a BBC audience why the Pope was wrong on economic policy.  The following year, I expanded on that point, explaining that statist policies are bad for the poor. And I revisited the issue again last year.  I’m not the only one making these arguments. In a column for Reason, Stephanie Slade explained why Pope Francis is deeply misguided.......... 

 

U.S. Cardinal: Document for Upcoming Vatican Synod 'Is an Apostasy' -  By Michael W. Chapman | August 14, 2019 -  In an Aug. 13 interview, Cardinal Raymond Burke, an American who serves on the Vatican's highest court, said that the working document for the upcoming Pan-Amazon synod is an "apostasy," and "cannot become the teaching of the Church."......Cardinal Burke was interviewed on The Patrick Coffin Show, via skype, where he answered many questions about the crisis in the Cathoic Church. He also spoke about the working document for the synod................Obviously, there takes place here on the part of the Synod of Bishops an aggressive intrusion into the purely worldly affairs of the state and society of Brazil."  "One asks oneself: what do ecology, economy, and politics have to do with the mandate and mission of the Church?”