Pope Francis is a good man. Pray for him. Pray for the weak Catholics who cannot understand what he is saying and for the good ones who want and need more clarity. Pray for those of us who help those who are confused. Pray for more clarity on his part. Pray for those who highlighted things in the media for their own agendas, as these people are in danger of hell.
MY Faith is not reliant on one man unless he speaks from the Chair of Peter. This is a good man who is our pope, but perhaps not as media savvy as he could be. There were really bad popes and the Church survived. He is not bad.
If you want a list of bad popes, here it is: "The Bad Popes is a 1969 book by E. R. Chamberlin documenting the lives of eight of the most controversial popes (papal years in parentheses)": thank Wiki:
MY Faith is not reliant on one man unless he speaks from the Chair of Peter. This is a good man who is our pope, but perhaps not as media savvy as he could be. There were really bad popes and the Church survived. He is not bad.
If you want a list of bad popes, here it is: "The Bad Popes is a 1969 book by E. R. Chamberlin documenting the lives of eight of the most controversial popes (papal years in parentheses)": thank Wiki:
- Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
- Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
- Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy
- Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
- Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
- Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
- Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
- Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked. Thanks to wik for list.
My Faith is not based on one man, the media or schismatics who will take advantage of such things. My Faith is in Christ, the Church and the long teaching of the Magisterium.
We should not be upset, but helpful in sorting out further misconceptions, as we are all through our baptism to take care of our brothers and sisters in Christ. And, to evangelize….but in truth and not confusion.
A long time ago, an excellent spiritual director of mine told me that where there is confusion there is satan. Well, we know who is in charge of the media and we also know all those in the Vatican press offices are not all saints. We must also realize that not all popes are the same.
Do not idolize a man, pray for him. This pope would not want to be the center of a cult of personality.
Do not idolize a man, pray for him. This pope would not want to be the center of a cult of personality.