THIS MOST UNHAPPY BOOK REPORT ON "THE POLITICAL POPE" # 4 OF 12

THIS MOST UNHAPPY BOOK REPORT ON "THE POLITICAL POPE" # 4 OF 12

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    This is the fourth in a series excerpts from the book by George Neumayr titled, "The Political Pope."

Chapter Two: Who Am I To Judge 13-17

    In one of last speeches before leaving office in 2013, Pope Benedict XVI dissected the destructive liberalism that spread with the Church after the council of Vatican II. The secularism of Western culture had seeped into the Church, he lamented.

    "There was the council of the Fathers - the true council - but there was also the council of the media. It was almost a council in and of itself, and the world perceived the council through them, through the media. So the council that immediately, effectively, got through to the people was that of lhe media, not of the Fathers." said Pope Benedict XVI..... The absorption of modern liberalism into Catholicism had produced, he said, "so many problems, so much misery, in reality: seminaries closed, convents closed, the liturgy was trivialized....

    That he (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) selected Francis as his papal name was the first act to charm liberals, as they opportunistically portray St. Francis of Assisi as the patron saint of socialism, pacifism, and environmentalism. Instead of challenging this liberal caricature, Bergoglio reinforced. He told reporters that he adopted Francis as his name because Francis of Assisi was "a man of poverty, the man of peace, the man who loves and protects creation." In truth, St. Francis of Assisi was a rigorously orthodox medieval churchman who would have regarded the liberalism of this pope with horror.

    Pope Francis explained that the inspiration to name himself Francis came to him when Cardinal Claudio Hummes, archbishop emeritus of Sao Paulo, Brazil, whispered in his ear after the election, "Don't forget the poor." His mention of Hummes was music to the ears of the media. Hummes has long been known to reporters as a critic of the free market with friendly ties to socialist organization in Brazil. (He's known for saying, "didn't know" if Jesus Christ would have disapproved of gay marriage.)

    Less than a year before Bergoglio became pope, in a foreshadowing of the liberal direction  of his pontificate, he ran into John Quinn, the ultra-progressive former archbishop of San Francisco, at a coffee shop in Rome. Quinn is the author of "The Reform of the Papacy" a book that explicitly rejects traditional teaching on the papacy, calls for Protestant style "collegiality" and urges the Church to adopt the politics and morals of the Western world. "I've read your book and I'm hoping what it proposes will be implemented,"  Bergoglio told a pleased Quinn. In retrospect, Pope Francis has largely implemented it and the left-wing American churchmen that Quinn represents - the so-called seamless garment bishops - have enjoyed a return to power. ...

    The former cardinal of of Los Angeles and Cesar Chavez acolyte Roger Mahoney tweeted to his followers,  "So long papal ermine and fancy lace!" and gushed about the left-wing political orientation of the new pope. Ernesto Cardenal, the Marxist activist whom Pope John Paul II rebuked, was excited by the emergence of Pope Francis. "We are seeing a true revolution in the Vatican," he wrote.

    The openly heretical German theologian Hans Kung said he "was overwhelmed by joy" at the news of Bergoglio's election.... Kung predicted that Francis would deviate from the "line of the two pope from Poland and Germany." ... Pope Francis and Kung have been exchanging friendly letters and that Francis has signaled and openness to hearing King;s criticism of papal infallibility....

    The notorious heterodox German theologian Cardinal Walter Kasper was also energized by the news of Bergoglio's election.... After Kasper urged his fellow bishops to open up Communion to adulterers, Pope Francis praised his "profound theology." The Catholic left has taken to calling Kasper the "pope's theologian." ...

George H. Kubeck