# 41 of 45 - THIS UNHAPPY BOOK REPORT ON "THE POLITICAL POPE"

# 41 OF 45 - THIS UNHAPPY BOOK REPORT ON "THE POLITICAL POPE"

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - BLOGGER. GEORGE H. KUBECK -FRI. FEB. 21, 2020

 

George Neumayer - The Political Pope - Center Street, N.Y. 2017, Excerpts p.195-205

"Freezing Out Conservatives, Promoting Liberals"

"In 2016, Pope Francis entrusted the Pontifical Academy for Life to a social liberal, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia,whose praise for the propagandistic television show Modern Family has confused Catholics. Under the direction of such worldly progressives, the Vatican has received criticism for its unreliable documents.

 

Conservative Catholics, for example, protested the risque and misleading content in sexual education materials that the Vatican distributed at World Youth Day in Poland in 2016. The materials encouraged the use of sexually explicit films as occasions for discussion and neglected to highlight Church teaching. "It's bad enough when Planned Parenthood pushes perverse form of sex education into our schools. For the Vatican to jump on that bandwagon is a night-mare scenario." said Judi Brown, president of the American Life League.  ...

 

In Familiaris Consortio, Pope John Paul had explicitly rejected access to Communion for the divorced and remarried and reaffirmed moral absolutes against the objections of situation ethicists. Amore Laetitia strikes at the root of his work by encouraging the "help of the sacraments" for the divorced-and-remarried, by emphasizing conscience over magisterial teaching, and by obscuring the distinction between mortal and venial sin....

 

Pope John Paul had anticipated this problem when he wrote in Veritable Splendor, "It is quite human for the sinner to acknowledge his weakness and to ask mercy for his failings: what is unacceptable is the attitude of one who makes his own weakness the criterion of the truth about the good, so that he can feel self-satisfied, without even the need to have recourse to God and his mercy."...

 

"Proselytism is solemn nonsense," Pope Francis said to the Italian atheist Eugenio Scalfari after reassuring him that he didn't want to convert to Catholicism... Impossible to square with the message of Dominus Jesus, the 2000 document by Joseph Ratzinger and approved by Pope John Paul II, which said, "If it is true that the followers of other religions can receive divine grace, it is also true that objectively speaking they are in a gravely deficient situation in comparison with those who, in the Church have the fullness of the means of salvation." That document also sought to "rule out, in a radical way ... a religious relativism which leads to the belief that 'one religion is as good as another....

SUPPORTING LIBERAL NUNS

"It has been an open secret for decades that American nunneries operate as centers of left-wing dissent... In 2015, Pope Francis pulled the plug on the investigation and let it be known through his aides that he had no intention of arresting the liberalization of U.S. nuns.... Boston cardinal Sean O'Malley going so far as to call Benedict's investigation a "disaster."...

"Radical Nuns Okayed by Pope Francis" was among the headlines. Francis;s whitewash of the group had produced. Officials under Pope Benedict XVI had spoken about the "doctrinal errors" and "secular mentality" of U.S. nuns... Oblivious to the fact that liberal religious orders are dying.... Francis's Vatican, wrote Weigel, has embraced the appeasement policies of Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, who served as a leading diplomat during the Cold War and favored "detente" with the Soviet Union: ...

 

Even Pope Francis canonization of Pope John Paul II, a movement which began under Pope Benedict XVI, was seen as "manipulative" according to German philosopher Robert Spaemann, insofar as Francis  combinded with the canonization of Pope John XXIII in an attempt to pacify liberals in Church."It was already apparent that Francis views his predecessor Pope John Paul II from a critical distance when he canonized him together with John XXIII, even though a second required miracle was not attributed to the latter," Spaemann has said. "It seemed as if the Pope wanted to relativize the importance of John Paul II...

 

At the actual canonization ceremony, Pope Francis appeared indifferent."It was conducted in such an understated fashion as to come off rather flat, despite the enormous number of bishops who came from all over the world. Pope Francis said next to nothing about John Paul, and nothing about Poland at all, despite the immense number of Poles in Rome," according to de Souza....  George H. Kubeck