How will Pope Francis be remembered? Well, he's still chugging along on half a colon, and
may have more plans up his sleeve, but it's time to take stock of the "Pope of Surprises".
Here are a few entrants for the forthcoming World Cup (to be conducted using Twitter
polls), and further nominations are requested.
My Italian is weak, but I am told that this is the pope's favourite portrait..
- Franciscan friars of the Immaculate
- Order of Malta
- Amoris Laetitia
- Response to the Dubia
- Pachamama worship
- Slapping of a lady pilgrim
- The church in China
- Appointment of Cupich, Farrell, Tobin etc.
- The Scalfari interviews
- Imaginative ex-aeroplana teaching
- Encouragement of Emma Bonino
- Encouragement of James Martin
- Management of Vatican finances
- Finance of Rocketman
- Reception of Cardinal Zen
- Traditionis Custodes
- Pope Francis book of insults
- Vatican Christmas scenes
"Live long and prosper, dear Tridentine Mass enthusiasts," says the Pope.
To nominate further achievements (and be as polite as I am, for
I have not said anything either for or against these remarkable accomplishments),
please reply to this post or else reply to the corresponding Tweet. We'll start when
I am ready.
Our Father (Jesus should really have known better)
ReplyDeleteVicar of Christ- what even IS that???
ReplyDeleteDo not overlook Francis's response to a spiritual bouquet of rosaries.
ReplyDeleteRidiculing little kids who presented him with a spiritual bouquet.
ReplyDeleteAbu Dhabi.
ReplyDelete"Are your hands stuck?"
You left out the Papal Knighthood for the Dutch activist for abortion and contraception in 2017.
ReplyDeleteUr lurgity is not cathlic -- only my lurgity is cathlic.
ReplyDeleteWho am I to judge? (after having written several insults about orthodox Catholics)
ReplyDeleteThe gutting of the Pontifical Academy for Life and Archbishop Paglia's leadership of the same.
ReplyDeleteYes...for the Vatican to devastate Pope St JP 11's institution which was built on such robust foundations and which promised so much was (almost) beyond belief...and is up there with the dismissal of Pope Emeritus Benedict's informed, scholarly and charitable act of unity in his MP.
DeleteYou don’t have to Breed like bunnies comment
ReplyDeleteMaradiaga
ReplyDeleteAs Mr Spock might well ask, is banning the traditional Latin Mass 'the final frontier'?
ReplyDeleteO.K. nominations closed, thank you. We'll start the competition in a day or two.
ReplyDeleteWho am I to judge.
ReplyDeleteRicca as head of household/Vatican bank
Appointment of the embezzler Carballo to Cong. for Religious
Inzoli/Fr. Mercedes
Gay cocaine orgy guy whose name I can't remember
Condoms ok for zikka virus
Emma Bonino one of Italy's greats
hammer and sickle crucifix
Pachamama
"first and greatest commandment" Scripture re-write
change Lords Prayer
Death penalty
canonised JPII, Paul VI
"Coco-puff" Cdl. Coccopalmerio and Msgr. Luigi Capozzi.
Deleteand all that was just off the top of my head
ReplyDeleteI've got nearly all those, thanks. 55 in total.
DeleteI hate to suggest you could ever be wrong when blogging Ex Cathedra but surely it should be 'Mismanagement of Vatican Finances'
ReplyDeleteclimate change conferences hosted by the Vatican
ReplyDeletehis support of pro abortion and pro infanticide Joe Biden
admiration of Luther
Shutting down Masses in St. Peter's Basilica
ReplyDeleteNo genuflection at the Consecration
ReplyDeleteHe doesn’t genuflect at the consecration
ReplyDeletePachamama stands head and shoulders above all the others.
ReplyDeleteThe Bishop Zanchetta case
ReplyDeleteFr Inzoli
The wedding on the plane
Kissing the feet of Imans
He never does the "epicletic gesture." (This means he has never celebrated a valid Mass.)
ReplyDeleteAfter declaring the Mass of All Time no longer part of the Roman Rite, he will declare the four gospels and several letters of St. Paul no longer part of the New Testament.
ReplyDeleteRefusing to discuss homosexuality at the Vatican meeting on abuse - despite 180,000 teenage boys having been molested by priests worldwide
ReplyDeleteThe Economy of Francesco roadshow, allowing Leonardo - more natcissist than narcissus - Boff to be a keynote speaker there (ok, i am not sure if the Economy stuff was his idea or if it's something his groupies came up with so feel pure and virtuous and not like those trads who just care about the Mass)
ReplyDelete*to feel.
DeleteFratelli Tutti and Laudato Si are also good candidates, his foundness of Al-Tayeb is interesting too, even if Tayeb's ideas on domestic violence are way more moderate now than in 2019. The Crucifix with the migrant vest is also a nice one, as are the quotations out of context.
His reaction to the Charlie Hebdo's attacks: "Referreing to Alberto Gasparri, who organises papal trips and was standing by his side, the Pontiff said: “It is true that you must not react violently, but although we are good friends if my good friend Dr Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch.’ Pope Francis then threw a pretend punch his friend’s way. He went on: “It’s normal. You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.”"
Unless you attend the TLM, obviously. Silly me, those idiots don't have faith, mock them as you will. And everybody knows that the appropriate response to stupid and rude cartoons is a punching/killing spree, right?
Looks like it's going to be a Top 100 Hall of Fame!
ReplyDeleteTrying to make that altar boy put his joined hands down right at the beginning of his pontificate
ReplyDeleteI think it is very sad that it came to this. The traditionalist bloggers and commenters I joined with in 2010 - and played my enthusiastic part (as you know) - later went off the rails. I never signed up to be a Brexiter, a Trumpist, a vaccine denier, etc. Yet that is what my friends became, rather than tradition-supporting Catholics. What Pope Francis has done - in response - is totally inevitable, as the TLM became simply a rallying point for all the opposition to his papacy. I am sad, yes, but also at peace: this is the end of the road for the culture wars. Now we have to live together again!
ReplyDeleteSorry but it's not clear for me. What do you mean by 'live together'? Go to NO mass together?
DeleteYes, I can see where you're going with that. Forgive me for simply following the Pope, which is why I converted to Catholicism 30 years ago in the first place. No further arguments are needed now: Papa Francisco has solved it. My point was, if you care to re-read it, that the radical arguments all too often were nothing to do with either Mass (NO is now BTW a redundant term) but pure politics. Wasn't that clear enough in what I wrote? Pax et bonum.
DeleteI am sure is a wonderful feeling to have such a safe guide as a pope: "which is why I converted to Catholicism 30 years ago in the first place". But what happens when a new pope makes a U-turn? You either follow him and switch your opinion, or you decide which pope you follow and which you don't i.e. in a sense you make up your own magisterium. Both are difficult tasks.
DeleteWhat is this clutter raw ? Can anyone join in ?
ReplyDeleteDear Agony Anti-Moly:
ReplyDeleteYour nefarious nephew Eccles has been bleating around the bush that I am the black sheep shepherd of my flock.
I've given my sheeple the best shears of my life, patiently pulling the wool over their eyes while fleecing them in Peter's Pens.
My Moto Proprio motto: Mutton ventured, mutton gained.
Counting sheep until you answer my dubia,
Sleepless in Santa Marta