In recent days, every time I read a story involving the Pope, Bishops and anything whatsoever related to scourge of homosexual assaults upon minor male children, I come away thinking I have lost my mind.
None of this is really happening, is it?
I MUST BE be delusional!
For example, amid a child sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church in which Pope Francis himself has been implicated by an ex-Nuncio to the United States, accusations which the Pope has refused to directly address, Pope Francis today decried the “emergency” of plastic debris littering the Earth’s oceans.
The Holy Father issued a message aimed at “galvanizing” Christians to begin working to conserve the Earth’s environment, according to the Associated Press.
From the very beginning of his Pontificate, environmental conservation has been one of the Pope’s most emphasized issues.
“Sadly, all too often many efforts fail due to the lack of effective regulation and means of control, particularly with regard to the protection of marine areas beyond national confines,” Pope Francis said.
“We cannot allow our seas and oceans to be littered by endless fields of floating plastic,” he explained. “Here, too, our active commitment is needed to confront this emergency.”
To combat what he sees as a growing problem, Francis urged Christians to “pray as if everything depended on God’s providence and work as if everything depended on us.”
Certainly the environment needs protecting.
But the Pope’s priorities seem very confused and pathetic.
The Catholic Church is currently facing a destructive sexual abuse scandal after Carlo Maria Viganò, the former papal Nuncio to the U.S., released a scathing letter accusing Francis of essentially covering up sexual abuse allegations against Theodore Edgar McCarrick, the former Archbishop of the District of Columbia, who was forced to resign his position in the Church this year after the Vatican declared allegations against him to be “credible.”
Pope Francis “knew that [McCarrick] was a corrupt man, he covered for him to the bitter end,” Archbishop Viganò has alleged.
Unfortunately, Francis has yet to address the allegations against him head on.
He has said he might or might not address them at a later date, after the press had investigated the claims and made a judgment.
The Vicar of Christ defers to journalists to proclaim the truth?
The press?
Saying ocean debris is an “emergency” while the Catholic Church has been confronted by an unprecedented crisis of confidence and credibility at the highest level of Episcopal authority is, well how can I say it, delusional.
Is it not?
What thinkest you?
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