# 26 OF 45 - THIS UNHAPPY BOOK REPORT ON "THE POLITICAL POPE"
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GEORGE NEUMAYR - "THE POLITICAL POPE" CENTER STREET, N.Y. 2017 - EXCERPTS
The Pope Celebrates Martin Luther (cont'd) p. 157-164 - Chapter Nine
"The pope during his trip to Sweden spoke of "unity." But in what it consists? Mainly, a shared commitment to left-wing politics....He also proposed during the trip that environmentalism be added to the Beatitudes, which caused the Wall Street Journal to remark "his suggestion that Jesus' words don't merely need reinterpretation but updating was a rhetorical move only slightly less ambitious than proposing and Eleventh Commandment...
"This pope is an indifferentist," said a senior churchman interviewed for this book. "We have already had an infallible response to the errors of Martin Luther:The Council of Trent," and Bishop Athanasius Schneider from Kazakhastan during talk in Washington, DC. "The teaching of the Council of Trent about the errors of Luther, I repeat are infallible, ex cathedra. And the comments of the pope in the plane are not ex cathedra."
"One Hell of an Ecumenical Mess
"The religious relativism of Pope Francis is complicating his relationship with conservatives, both non-Catholic and Catholic. In 2016, it appeared that the Society of Pius X was on the verge of returning to a regular canonical relationship with the Church. But the doctrinal confusion of this pontificate has caused the traditionalist group to hesitate. Bishop Bernard Fellay, the leader of the order, has said that it has been discouraged by the "great and painful confusion that currently reigns in the Church."...
"Rabbi Abraham Skorka, one of the pope's close friends, has said that Francis's view of "evangelization" is aimed not at converting non-Christians, but convincing Christians to embrace "social justice." "This is the new evangelization that Bergoglio is stressing - not to evangelize Jews," he said. "This he told me, on several opportunities."... Liberal politics, not the salvation of soul, preoccupies Francis's Vatican...
Soft toward Everyone but Traditionalists
"The only religious group whom Pope Francis dares to critique are fellow Catholics. Thye come in for frequent scoldings from him for their "rigidity." On numerous occasions, he has blasted them for adherence to the "law." In 2016, he even described as "heretical" for not appreciating his loose interpretation of Catholicism. The essence of Catholicism, he said strangely, lies in accepting ambiguity...
"Early in his papacy, Pope Francis, was captured on videotape belittling an altar boy for holding his hands together piously. Were they stuck together, he asked the bewildered boy. Another time he mocked a Catholic group or sending him a note its members had recited thousands of rosaries for him."
Chapter 10 - The Permissive Pope .165 -6
"In the "ten tips to happiness" that he offered during a 2014 interview with the Argentinian weekly Viva, Pope Francis gave as the first tip: "live and let live." That permissive spirit explains why the mainstream media often calls him the "cool" pope.... Historians have established that bad popes of the past committed mortal sins. But Francis is the first pope to bless sins. He has become notorious for giving scandalous advice to Catholics in adulterous relationship.... When she told him that that her local priest objected to her reception of Communion, Pope Francis replied, "There are some priests who are more papist than the Pope."
Liberalizing Annulment Procedures
"In 2015, Pope Francis announced that he was liberalizing the Church's annulment procedures, pushing through permissive changes that cannon lawyers have described as the most significant alteration to those procedures in four hundred years... Liberals inside and outside the Church cheered the changes, describing them as "pastoral" and a "Catholic version of no-fault Catholic divorce." ....
George H. Kube
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