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PopeWatch: Airborne Pope

PopeWatch shudders whenever the Pope is in the air.  Sandro Magister explains why:

 

Like clockwork, Pope Francis’s words spoken at high altitude, this time during his flight back from Peru to Rome on the night between January 21 and 22, have produced the umpteenth great confusion:

> Video of the press conference with Pope Francis

There were two explosive subjects of the press conference, both localized in Chile: the fate of the bishop of Osorno, Juan de la Cruz Barros Madrid, and the lightning wedding celebrated by the pope between a hostess and a steward, during the flight from Santiago to Iquique.

In this second case, Francis said that he had judged at once that “all the conditions were clear” for the validity of the sacrament, and therefore it could be celebrated right away. To come to this certainty he explained that the words of the two spouses were enough for him.

Concerning the bishop of Osorno, the opposite took place. The pope said that he “studied and restudied” the case for a long time, but there was no “evidence” for his guilt. And because of this he is keeping the bishop at the head of the diocese, in spite of the accusations that continue to be brought against him, accusations that for the pope are in reality “calumnies.”

In Chile, responding curtly to a question from a journalist, Francis had spoken not of missing “evidence,” but of “proofs.” And for the use of this latter word – in reality little or not at all different from the former – he apologized on the airplane. He held firm, however, to the correctness of the word “calumny” as he applied it to those who say they are victims of sexual abuse that the pope maintains never happened.

He also said, however, that he had never listened to the “victims” because they neither “came to” nor “were presented to” him. When in reality they asked over and over again, publicly, for the pope to listen to them so that he could verify on the basis of their testimony precisely that “evidence” which he continues to say is missing.

During the flight back from Rome, Francis also furnished a new exegesis of the letter he wrote to the Chilean bishops on January 31, 2015, made public by the “Associated Press” just before this journey to Chile.

From how the letter was written, in fact, it seemed to be clear that Pope Francis himself thought it was right, until the end of 2014, to remove this bishop, only to change his view and promote him, on January 10 of 2015, to the see of Osorno.

But now it seems that this was not the case. From what Francis said on the airplane it should be gathered that he always maintained that this bishop was “good and capable,” even when “a few people of the episcopal conference” of Chile wanted him to resign. And in fact, not once but twice the pope said that he had turned down his resignation, both before and after the appointment to Osorno, because to accept it would have meant “admitting his guilt,” when instead, he stated categorically: “I am convinces that he is innocent.”

In this tangle of contradictions, it remains unexplained why the victims of the spiritual guide of the bishop of Osorno, the priest Antonio Karadima, should have been given the greatest credence, arriving rapidly at the canonical sentence of condemnation, while some of these same victims are instead not given credence and not even listened to when they accuse the bishop.

During the inflight press conference, Francis also said that he had “thanked” Cardinal Sean O’Malley, head of the pontifical commission for the protection of minors, for the words he had spoken on the question.

In reality, the statement that the cardinal published on January 20 on the website of his archdiocese of Boston is anything but in harmony with the pope.

 

Go here to read the rest.  The Pope today blasted fake news.  He should know.  When it comes to producing fake news, the Holy Father is a grand master, especially when he is airborne.

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Philip Nachazel
Philip Nachazel
Thursday, January 25, AD 2018 5:02am

?? ???…..???

It’s good to be King!

Father of Seven
Father of Seven
Thursday, January 25, AD 2018 6:12am

He is no father. Catholics deserve better.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Thursday, January 25, AD 2018 6:45am

Possibly, it is based on the fact that at high altitude the ET’s, in their UFO’s, can better transmit the Vulcan Mind meld . . .

If he was in the deep forest, they could telepathically communicate with him through Bigfoot.

Ranger01
Ranger01
Thursday, January 25, AD 2018 10:04am

He seems never to have been a very clear thinker or communicator and age, I’m sure, has taken its toll.
Nevertheless, his lieutenants continue on their assigned duty: to sew doubt and confusion via the vague language of jesuit-speak.

PAB1124
PAB1124
Thursday, January 25, AD 2018 10:17am

Pope Francis will never be called “Great” or “Saint” but maybe “Infamous”.

Philip Nachazel
Philip Nachazel
Thursday, January 25, AD 2018 11:28am

The white smoke that billowed from the pipe in 2013 was the exhaust from the hashish…or so tis the assumption in case yar der vondering.
Bigfoot- Vulcan mind melds- ET’s…these are the things of “historic” proportion.
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Mary De Voe
Thursday, January 25, AD 2018 1:58pm

So, why did lightning strike the cupola of St. Peters in the Vatican? And why did hawks attack the peace doves released by Bergoglio?

Phillip
Phillip
Thursday, January 25, AD 2018 2:17pm

This Papacy seems more inclined to appease Satan than Christ:

http://www.fatimaperspectives.com/fo/perspective1146.asp

Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd
Friday, January 26, AD 2018 2:51am

Now we know:
“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
—‘The Second Coming’ William Butler Yeats.

Pope Francis is a rough beast–a creature of the devil.

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