From the only reliable source of Catholic news on the net, Eye of the Tiber:
When asked to comment Pope Francis said, “The story is not true. The Encyclical will be leaked and then formally published after it is praised by Mark Shea as on a par with Holy Writ and criticized by PopeWatch for seeming to contradict what Pope Hadrian the VII said. However did popes do their jobs before Catholic blogs in America?”
St. Benedict is laughing! (Bora et labora.)
Maybe a little less Bora and much more Ora is in order.
ROFLOL !
Dear Donald
I find your posts jocking and mocking about Pope Francis complety disgusting and ask how can you consider yourself a catholic with such behaviours. Don’t you believe in the Holy Spirit ? Instead you behave like many atheists. Unbelievable and disgusting !
Ah MRC, I see that you belong to the saddest of all minority groups, the humor impaired.
In regard to the Holy Spirit and popes I will defer to this answer of then Cardinal Ratzinger when asked if the Holy Spirit picks popes:
“I would not say so, in the sense that the Holy Spirit picks out the Pope. … I would say that the Spirit does not exactly take control of the affair, but rather like a good educator, as it were, leaves us much space, much freedom, without entirely abandoning us. Thus the Spirit’s role should be understood in a much more elastic sense, not that he dictates the candidate for whom one must vote. Probably the only assurance he offers is that the thing cannot be totally ruined.
There are too many contrary instances of popes the Holy Spirit obviously would not have picked!”
Deliciously funny….in a Catholic sort of way.
I find your humorous and other writings to be delightful because there is a single undercurrent of self-deprecating humility to them. There is a general awareness that you know things worth knowing more generally and can speak eloquently, that is tempered with a sense of amusement that you should be the one to say it. You would have been a great satirist if you lived in an age where satire was appreciated.
I would blush David if 32 years at the bar had not deprived me of the ability to do so!
Well, at least Eye of the Tiber didn’t actually use our pictures, so we’ve got a little room for deniability….