BLAME THE SERPENT; BLAME THE AGING 93 YEAR OLS REPORTER AND HIS MEMORY OR BLAME THE POPE? FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU! FOOL ME TWICE, THRICE, FRICE AND FIVES, SHAME ON ME!

Fr Martin Fox said...

Here we go again. The pope talks to the "unreliable" atheist journalist, who publishes sensational claims, prompting the Vatican to wave it away. Rinse and repeat.

Question for those rushing to say, "nothing to see here": Why does the pope keep talking to this guy?

March 29, 2018 at 2:51 PM

TJM said...

Father Fox,

Maybe the Pope has a need to be paid attention to. He really needs to stop speaking off the cuff to lefties.

March 29, 2018 at 4:31 PM

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Anonymous said...

No rationalization from Mark Thomas?

Francis may have been misquoted once but not twice or three times or four time or five times or six times or not this seventh time. He is doing this on purpose to cause confusion. What a hateful deceitful old heretic. He needs to go.

March 30, 2018 at 6:02 AM

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Gene said...

Spin, spin, spin. The Pope is a heretic, an embarrassment to the Church both politically and theologically, and a further cause of many devout Catholics beginning to question whether the True Church resides in Rome. This former Calvinist Catholic is beginning to wonder...

March 30, 2018 at 6:41 AM

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Fr Martin Fox said...

Anonymous at 6:24 pm:

I am perfectly willing to agree that the source of this "interview" is untrustworthy.

But how do you explain the Holy Father meeting with this same individual, over and over, with similar outcomes? This is not the first or even second time Signore Scalfari has published a claim about the Pope's words that the Vatican has to disown.

Can you explain this for me? I'm not trying to pick on you, but I am genuinely interested in any explanation you have, given your comment above.

March 30, 2018 at 10:59 AM

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Carole V. said...

Why should the Holy Father have to do what Fr. Martin or Dr. McDonald want? I mean, come on youse guys.

March 30, 2018 at 10:15 PM

TJM said...

Carole V,

And you would be singing a very different tune if Santita abolished the use of the vernaculars in the Latin Rite.

March 31, 2018 at 9:55 AM

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Fr Martin Fox said...

Carole:

What do you think the office of bishop of Rome, Successor of St. Peter actually is?

I ask, because you seem to think that the pope owes nothing to the faithful. That a member of the faithful -- such as me or Father (Dr.? I didn't know) -- can have no expectations of him. Is that really what you think?

As I said, I'm curious what you suppose the nature of his office to be.

March 31, 2018 at 2:15 PM

Fr Martin Fox said...

Carole:

What do you think the office of bishop of Rome, Successor of St. Peter actually is?

I ask, because you seem to think that the pope owes nothing to the faithful. That a member of the faithful -- such as me or Father (Dr.? I didn't know) -- can have no expectations of him. Is that really what you think?

As I said, I'm curious what you suppose the nature of his office to be.

March 31, 2018 at 2:15 PM

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Carole V. said...

The Holy Father, Bishop of Rome, doesn't owe Fr. Martin or Fr. McDonald a thing.

His obligation is to the Church and Fr. Martin and Fr. McDonald, together or singularly, don't make up the Church. The pope "is the perpetual and visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful."

He is not beholden to the personal opinions or expectations of any priest, any lay person, or any group of clergy and laity.

Wasn't there a time in the 1960's when a group of advisors expected the Pope to approve the use of birth control pills? The pope, though, did what he knew to be right and true and did not shape his teaching or decide who he granted interviews to in order to live up to the expectations of some priest, did he?

April 2, 2018 at 8:33 AM

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TJM said...

Carole V,

Are you a ghost writer for Mark Thomas?

April 2, 2018 at 3:48 PM