November 15, 2016
A furor has arisen regarding the Pope’s comment in an interview in his flight back to Rome that “Satan got a raw deal from God.” Here are nine things to know and share:
- It is possible that a mistranslation occurred. The colloquial Italian phrase that the Pope used for raw deal can also be understood to mean “distasteful deal”.
- The Holy Father may have been speaking humorously. When Father Lombardi, Vatican spokesman was asked about this, he merely smiled, shrugged his shoulders and walked away.
- If the Pope was speaking seriously, perhaps he was intending to convey how Satan was looking at the situation. Do not most sinners think they get a raw deal? Viewed from that vantage point, the Pope’s statement was correct, albeit incomplete.
- We must recall that this is the Year of Mercy and perhaps the Holy Father was attempting to say that God’s mercy extends even to Satan.
- The Vatican has denied that this statement constituted an all is forgiven message from the Pope to the Prince of Darkness
- This is not a reversal of the traditional teaching of the Church regarding Satan. At most it is a minor development that the Pope may, or may not, expand upon.
- This statement was not made ex cathedra, but it must be treated with respect as Catholics must treat all statements of the Pope with respect.
- Islamic jihadists who are now calling Catholics devil worshipers are completely misinterpreting what the Pope said.
- I am not paid enough for doing this.
I dunno Don…you might have a bright future with NCR. You and the likes of Mr. Shea, a progressive new age quasi Catholic perspective! Go get the big bucks Donald! 🙂
Nine Things to Know and Share? With this pontificate it’s more like Nine Things to Grin and Bear!
The air crew on the pontifical flights should check the cabin pressure as it seems the Pope is not getting enough oxygen. If it is okay, then I humbly suggest a hefty dose of dramamine so that PF can sleep his way back to Vatican City.
And, as I am sure you know, Don, everyone in jail is innocent. 😉
Yep Don. Just ask anyone in jail!
They’re in jail because their damned lawyers screwed them over.
“They’re in jail because their damned lawyers screwed them over.”
True. If their attorney wins the case, it was no great feat because they were innocent. If he loses the case it can only be because he was incompetent, corrupt, etc. Just ask any prisoner!
. Speaking of which, check Reuters tonight on the Pope calling for a worldwide ban on the death penalty. Here is one morsel: ” “The commandment “You shall not kill,” has absolute value and applies to both the innocent and the guilty,”
Apparently his Bible doesn’t have the rest of the Pentateuch in which there are over 33 death penalties to the Jews from the same God who gave the fifth commandment….nor does his Bible have Gen.9:5-6 or Romans 13:4 which apply to gentiles and Jews at the governmental level. I like his heart…his mind is in chaos in certain areas of reality. He just left non death penalty Mexico whose murder rate is twenty times that of largely death penalty East Asia by UN figures.
Meanwhile, his frequent comments about the devil being real and being our enemy are one of the few areas where Pope Francis sometimes sounds more traditional than Pope Benedict.
That said, there was a call on Fr Z’s blog for a nine hour novena to be prayed whenever Pope Francis gets on a plane with reporters. 😉
Bill, The Pope’s Bible seemingly is missing the part of Genesis wherein God commands that he who sheds man’s blood by man shall his blood be shed. Because man is made in God’s image.
T. Shaw,
Yes…that’s Gen.9:5-6 which I mentioned and which a Cardinal quoted in the catechism in ccc #2260 in what I suspect was an effort to counter ccc #2267 by perhaps another Cardinal which says prisons suffice for protection now….a delusion refuted by Mexico, the second largest Catholic population.
It understandable why the Pope is devil friendly; they work together.
Fantastic.
Nine things to share reminded me Jimmy Akin. He is trying his best these days.
This is not satire-this is dialogue with the devil: Cardinal Ravasi calls for Dialogue with Freemasonry . . .Cari Fratelli Massoni. Thier patron, the Light Bearer, Lucifer
November 15, 2016, why is this dated as printed?
It’s a future National Catholic Register Post.
“And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given to him to do two and forty months.” That would put it at September, 2016. Maybe we will have another pope by November.