Is Francis a Trustworthy Pope?
New poll among American Catholics shows high degree of trust in Pope Francis.
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Recent polls show that a majority of Americans seem to have lost faith in President Joe Biden. His approval ratings have dropped and many believe he is taking the country in the wrong direction. Many conservatives believe that he is destroying America. And some believe that he is doing so deliberately.
Ironically, the world’s other best-known progressive Catholic—Pope Francis—is prospering in the polls. A recent poll of Catholics by The Pillar, a Catholic news organization, found that American Catholics put more trust in the Pope than in their local bishop or in American bishops taken as a group.
This is ironic because there are very few issues on which the pope and the president disagree. The policies they endorse are remarkably similar. Whether the issue is climate change, fossil fuels, vaccine mandates, immigration, Islam, China, Iran, or socialism, there is hardly an iota of difference between the two.
Moreover, the two men seem to have formed a mutual admiration society. Biden keeps a photo of the Pope and himself in the Oval Office, and the Pope has, in effect, taken Biden’s side against the United States Conference of Bishops on the issue of whether Biden should be denied communion because of his endorsement of abortion. Biden even claims that during their recent meeting in Rome, Pope Francis said he “was happy that I was a good Catholic and I should keep receiving communion.”
But if the polls can be believed, Biden has now fallen out of favor with voters. The question is, why is Francis still riding high? To anyone who has paid attention to Pope Francis’ career, the amount of trust placed in him by the Catholics who were polled is astonishing. Equally surprising is that Catholics who go to Mass at least once a week expressed the highest amount of trust.
This trust can be explained in part by the media’s positive treatment of Francis, and in part by simple ignorance. For many church-going Catholics, the most important thing that they know about Francis is that he is the pope. And most pious Catholics tend to have a built-in bias in favor of whoever happens to be pope.
Yet, as I have mentioned, the Pope’s political and social views are largely indistinguishable from Biden’s. And, for the most part, his positions on the issues are just as radical as Biden’s. For example, on the issue of immigration, both men hew to an extreme knock-down-the-borders-and-let-them-all-come-in position. And they do so with hardly any regard for the harmful consequences to the host country or to the migrants themselves.
Arguably, the Pope is the more radical of the two. He continues to be one of Europe’s biggest boosters of mass migration long past the point where it became obvious to the majority of European’s that mass migration has been a disaster.
Does the Pope want a disaster? Does he think, along with other elites, that Europe is in need of a population replacement? That’s hard to say. But there’s a good deal of evidence now that Francis wants to replace the Catholic Church with a new model—one that is more modernist, more humanist, more in touch with the times. In short, a Church that is less God-centered and more man-centered: a Church that is more pastoral and less—far less—doctrinal.
Considering that Catholics are already far less doctrinal than they were only a few decades ago, one wonders how much more dilution of doctrine the Church can afford. The recent Pillar poll shows that a majority of Catholics born after 1980 no longer believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Other polls reveal that many Catholics no longer agree with Church teachings on contraception, abortion, homosexual marriage and hell.
How much further in that direction can the Church go before it becomes little more than a form of humanist spirituality? And why does Francis want to push it in that direction?
The answer that an increasing number of Catholics are coming to is that Francis doesn’t like the Church as it has been constituted for the last 2,000 years. Although he has a great deal of tolerance for a great many things, Francis has no patience with traditional Catholics. He continually berates them as “rigid,” “dogmatic,” “fundamentalists” who are allied with the Devil (Francis still believes in Satan) against him.
Just as many Americans are coming to the conclusion that Biden is destroying America, a small but growing number of Catholics believe that Francis is destroying the Catholic Church. Moreover, they believe that he is deliberately attempting to destroy it.
What evidence do they offer? The first thing they point to is the increasing confusion among Catholics about what they are supposed to believe. Francis says one thing, and then he says the opposite. He says one thing in public and then something quite different in private. Unlike our muddled-minded president, however, the Pope himself is not confused. When he sows confusion, he does it in a calculated way. He may be lacking in theological profundity, but several authors who have written about his rise to power describe him as a crafty, even Machiavellian thinker.
But the Pope’s agenda is revealed more in what he does than in what he says. Just as the intentions of Joe Biden (and/or his handlers) can be best discerned in who he appoints, so can the intentions of the pope. Like Biden’s appointments to high office, Francis’ appointments seem to be calculated to undermine the mission of the posts to which they are assigned. As I suggested elsewhere, if the pope appointed the head of Amalgamated Coal Mines to lead the Vatican Commission on Climate Change, we would be justified in assuming that he didn’t really care about saving the environment.
But take a look at some of the people he has put in charge of institutions and commissions whose charge is the social environment:
- In 2017, Francis appointed Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia as the Chancellor of the John Paul II Pontifical Institute for Studies of Marriage and the Family. Up until then, Paglia was best known for commissioning a billboard-size homoerotic mural for his cathedral Church. Paglia himself appears in the mural embracing another man. As I wrote at the time: “So, at a time of great confusions about sexual morality, the man that Francis picks to instruct Catholics about marriage and family is a connoisseur of homoerotic art.”
- More recently, Francis appointed Msgr. Phillippe Bordeyne as the new president of the John Paul II Family Institute. Bordeyne had this to say about his mission: “We theologians cannot continue to assert certainties about the family when we see the transformation it is undergoing today.” Moreover, Bordeyne wants to update John Paul II’s teachings about human sexuality to include “atypical forms and expressions.” Undoubtedly, Bordeyne hopes that these “atypical” forms will soon become more typical.
- In 2016 Francis created the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, and put Bishop (now Cardinal) Kevin Farrell in charge. Although “the pastoral care of the family” is part of the core mission of the dicastery, Farrell seems most interested in the LGBT “family.” He invited decidedly pro-gay Fr. James Martin to be a featured speaker at the 2018 World Meeting of Families in Dublin. He also wrote a positive blurb for a book by Martin. A protégé of the notorious Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Farrell once shared an apartment with McCarrick for six years.
One can only assume that the 85 percent of Catholics who gave their vote of confidence to Pope Francis, don’t know about these appointments.
One can also assume that there is much more that they don’t know about Francis. The designers of the Pillar survey said they asked the questions about trust because of “a nearly constant flow of recent revelations relating to sexual abuse within the Church.” And they added, “We found that trust surprisingly high.”
Yes, it is surprising. Once again, the poll respondents may have been misled by media reports, many of which gave the impression that Francis was doing his best to combat clergy sex abuse.
In reality, Francis did everything he could to avoid the issue. When he finally convened the long-heralded clerical sex abuse summit in Rome in 2019, he appointed pro-LGBT Cardinal Blasé Cupich of Chicago to steer the proceedings, and Cupich managed to steer the discussion away from the hot button issue of active homosexuality among clergy and bishops.
Did Francis really want to uncover the full truth about sexual abuse and abuse coverups? The appointment of Cupich suggests that he did not. Cupich was known to be solidly in the LGBT camp; moreover, he himself had been accused of covering up instances of clerical sex abuse in several different dioceses.
But, then, so has Francis. In the summer of 2018, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a former papal nuncio to the United States, wrote an 11-page “Testimony” in which he accused Pope Francis (and several other high-ranking prelates) of covering-up Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s history of sex-abuse. Curiously, Francis never replied to the bombshell accusation. As suggested by the many Catholics who seem to have never heard of Archbishop Vigano or the accusation, that turned out to be a successful strategy.
In January 2017, LifeSite News published an article listing “Six cases where the sex abuse scandal touches Pope Francis.” The first case is particularly interesting because it gives an insight into the kind of company Francis keeps.
In 2012 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) defrocked Fr. Mauro Inzoli who was accused of molesting several children, including in the confessional. However, Pope Francis reversed the decision in 2014 and reinstated Inzoli as a priest. This was done at the request of Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, a friend and close confidante of the Pope. However, it turned out to be a bad move since Inzoli was subsequently sent to prison for his crimes by civil authorities.
Coccopalmerio himself came to the attention of authorities in 2017 when Vatican police found him presiding over a drug-fueled homosexual orgy in a Vatican apartment which belonged to his homosexual secretary, Monsignor Luigi Capozzi. The police ordered Coccopalmerio to leave before they arrested Capozzi and others. This may or may not have been an attempt to save face for Francis. However, the Pope was already indirectly involved in the apartment affair. It was Francis himself who had intervened to be sure that the apartment went to Capozzi rather than to the secretary for Cardinal Mueller, the conservative prefect of the CDF.
Ordinarily, it’s commendable to go to bat for one’s friends, but not when the intervention enables the friend to continue in his wayward ways. Francis, however, has a habit of covering for sexually compromised prelates, and even of elevating them to plum positions.
For example, despite a history of sordid sex scandals, Monsignor Battista Ricca, a trusted friend of Francis, was appointed to be Prelate of the Vatican Bank. Ricca was also put in charge of the Casa Santa Maria guest house (where the Pope resides). Since both positions are highly sensitive, Ricca hardly seemed the man for either job. Ironically, the justification for appointing the scandal-ridden priest to the Vatican Bank position was that he would help to reform the scandal-ridden institution.
Another friend of Francis who benefitted from papal indulgence is Argentine bishop Gustavo Zanchetta. Francis, who was at one time Zanchetta’s spiritual advisor, transferred Zanchetta to Rome after the bishop was accused of “aggravated continuous sexual assault” of two seminarians in his diocese. Despite the fact that Zanchetta was also accused of fraud and mismanagement of diocesan funds, Francis then appointed him to a newly created post at the Central Vatican Bank (not to be confused with the Vatican Bank—the one that Battista Ricca was supposed to reform).
A friend in need is a friend indeed. But why is it that the friends of Francis are so frequently in need of being bailed-out of trouble? His choice of friends casts doubt not only on his judgment, but also on his character. Perhaps the next time The Pillar polls Catholics about who they trust, they could frame one of the questions this way: “What is your level of trust for a pope whose good friend presided over a drug-fueled orgy in a Vatican apartment?”
Francis is a Communist. Only those easily lead would trust the Devil's Commie Pope.
Poop Francis is a satanic islamic loving Islamofascist...
What you think looks like communism is actually Islamofascism at work...
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The Pope is feeling quite sure of himself after meeting with Joe Biden in person recently.
It is not every day that a Pope can make an American President shit his pants.
The Pillar took a poll, and I would assume that they polled the kind of Catholics who they cater towards, Novus Ordo, pro-Vatican 2 modernists.
Being a "rigid" traditional Catholic, and being old enough to remember Catholicism before the effects of Vatican 2 were forced on us, this is my 2 cents.
Younger Catholics probably have no idea how different and compromised the church is from the past. However, there are others who are fully aware, yet choose the reformed modern church because it is easier, much easier, and more worldy.
It's "Jesus loves me!" VS. "If you love me, keep my commandments". One church focuses on everybody accepting others, and their sins, to make the world a paradise. The other church focuses on everybody accepting Jesus, loving sinners but not accepting their sins, to help them get to Heaven.
Jesus said few would take the narrow path that leads to Heaven, while many will take the easier path that makes life more pleasant, but leads to perdition.
You could and ought to turn back to the true Catholic Church. Currently, it is "undercover" as the Church Teaching lives in fear and obscurity. There hasn't been a pope in the Vatican publicly exercising his office since the death of Pope Pius XII. By their fruits shall you know them.
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Don't put your faith in a very flawed man or in an equally flawed church. We are to trust in Christ and him alone.
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You are incorrect. While Antipope Francis isn't the pope, the Catholic Church - a divine institution - does exist and everyone must join it or risk going to Hell.
LOL sure where is the scripture for that? oh yeah you don't have any it is just a lie from the catholic church. nothing divine about the pedo covering gay luvin catholic church
Francis is not trustworthy, nor is he a believer.
Increasing numbers of Catholics are figuring out that Pope Francis is our Manchurian Candidate; a one-man wrecking crew.
Most of the Catholics I know do not trust Francis. Everyone of us has misgivings about him, on several topics. He is from a socialist country which explains his politics but to a lesser degree why he does not adhere to strict Catholic theology.
Which socialist country?
Francis is the first HISPANIC Pope so he's getting a PASS.
I'm not convinced he is the Pope, as I'm also not convinced that the Vatican is one of the most corrupt cities in the World.
He isn't the pope, he is an antipope (i.e. imposter while the true pope isn't recognized). It shouldn't be difficult to come to this conclusion. Older papal encyclicals are available online to be read. Their clarity and firmness of doctrine are like day vs. the current "weasel word," modernist, EVIL night.
75% of American Catholics are more loyal to the morals of the Democrat Party than the Catholic Church. My alma mater, Seattle University (Jesuit), now allows drag queen shows on campus.
No person can be a Catholic who doesn't hold what the Catholic Church teaches regarding morality. While a person may be ignorant, it still would be material heresy. Any person who doesn't believe - among other things - that abortion is MURDER, isn't a Catholic.
The bigger question is how this happened? I attended a public school and went to "Catholic" PSR. What appears to have been the case is that truths are purposefully NOT being taught. I am largely self-taught (e.g. by reading) with regards to my understanding of the faith. The days of learning the Baltimore Catechism No. 3 are long gone. However there is this: http://www.baltimore-catechism.com/
As for the question, “Is Pope Francis Trustworthy ?” That’s good question, an even one would be “Are ant of the pope actually trustworthy ?”
Many people sincerely view the pope is a wonderful, good and godly man. In this “group think” there seems to be few people who might stop and wonder and then think of the very important question. “Is the papacy really of God or is it one of the greatest and most powerful and deceitful hoaxes even played on humankind ?”
Let he Bible show the truth. For according to the Bible, Christ and not Peter Who is the real and actual foundation and rock of the Christian Church. As seen in First Corinthians 3:11. and 10:4. Furthermore, the apostle Paul felt the need to write a long letter of instruction in Christian doctrine to the Christians at the church at Roman. [the Epistle of Romans] It would be very strange the Paul would have felt the need to write such a long letter of instruction to the Christian in Rome if Peter was actually there as the head and First bishop of the Christian Church ,as the apologists for the Roman Catholic Church claim. For Peter would have had been a fine teacher of Christian doctrine. Moreover, the Apostle Paul in his written the greeting of the Christians in the Roman Church in the very last chapter of this epistle Paul mentions many of them by name. Nevertheless, Paul makes no mention of Peter in his list of names. That would have been very rude and unchristian of Paul if Peter was really there as the first head of that Church in Rome.
Moreover, in Galatians 2:11 it may be seen that Paul had even contradicted and stood against Peter on a specific subject. That would had been a clear case on insubordination of Peter really was the supreme head the the Christian Church. Of course many Roman Catholic priests will site Matthew 16 :18,19 as proof that the papacy is of God. Matthew 16:18,19 needs to be viewed in context in verse 16 in which Peter had rightly declared about Jesus the “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” It was that statement about Jesus Who really is the actual foundation and rock of the Christian church, as just sited above in First Corinthians 3:11. 10:4. As for Matthew 16:19 about Peter having “the keys to the kingdom of heaven.” The Jesus said/Those words of Jesus did come true in Acts chapter 2:14-47 and 3:11-26 Then God through Peter’s sermon gave birth to and started the Christian Church by having many converts to Jesus. In addition in acts chapter 10: God used Peter preaching to open the way to the Gentiles. First to Cornelius,24-33 and then to the whole household of Cornelius 34-48. This not really means that Peter was the first pope.
As further explained in more detail in HALLEY’S BIBLE HANDBOOK on page 602 “The rock on which Christ would build His church is not Peter, but the truth to which Peter confessed, that Jesus is the Son of God. The deity of Jesus is the foundation on which the church rests… “ It further explains about verse 19. “the keys to the kingdom… is that Peter opened the door of salvation ,on the Day of Pentecost, to the Jews[Act:2] and later to the Gentles [Acts 10]. He was not given the power to forgive sins but to proclaim the terms of forgiveness. Whatever authority it gave to Peter was also given to the other apostles [Matthew 18;18. John 20:23.] - and only in the sense that they could declare Christ’s forgiveness.”
In conclusion, the papacy is a hoax .For it’s based on the doctrines of men ,Mark 7:7. and the actual way to God the Father in not the ways of religion of men but only by Jesus Himself. John 14:6.
Well said Walter ; there was a very good reason for Martin Luther’s reformation insisting on the 5 Solas - Sola Scriptura; Sola Fidel; Sola gratis; Sola Christo and Soli Deo Gloria.
These corrected the excesses of the Roman church, ensures that we follow the Bible, the divine teachings of the triune Living God, and not man made edicts by a mere mortal dressed in fancy clothes, but a sinner like the rest of mankind, saved only by God’s grace through the salvation of Christ’s atonement for our sins on the cross for those who believe in him.
You are incorrect and presumptuous - like all Protestants. The Bible is a Catholic book, created by the Catholic Church, and only to be INFALLIBLY interpreted by the Catholic Church.
You mean like Leo X?
There are very specific conditions with regards to papal infallibility. I am not competent to make a judgment in this matter. The ecumenical councils - minus the bogus, apostate Vatican II "council" - are infallible. Further than that, I can't say with certainty.
you mean like indulgences, a works-based salvation where you need baptism and the sacraments to be saved, worshipping mary the 'queen of heaven' which is the name of a pagan deity, ishtar, in the book of Jeremiah? Your current pope is an apostate who thinks there are many paths to God and thinks atheists can be saved. Your church has covered up pedophilia and homosexuality for decades if not centuries. The only thing that keeps the catholic church from becoming a cult like the mormons is you believe in the trinity. The bible was not created by catholic church it was created by the jews who gave us the OT, and the catholic church adds the apocrypha to scripture even though it is not part of the jewish scripture. the NT was written by jews before there was any catholic church, with the possible exception of Luke, though most likely he was jewish before becoming a christian.
Trust? I don't trust any communist....the end justifies the means with those people.
What this says is that American Catholics trust the Pope more than their bishops. That is a commentary on how we feel about our trendy, rich, progressive, pedophile-protecting bishops.
One problem that Pope Ciccio Primero has with his 3rdWorldism is that 3rd World priests and bishops, and especially those from Africa, are way more traditionalist than his supporters; the most vocal clergy in the Theology of Liberation come from Latin America and Europe. His rule is actually coming very hard both on the clergy and on the Catholic people of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Judging form a distance, the American Catholic hyerarchy is split 50-50, but I might be wrong.
Probably the same fools who place a high degree of trust in Saint Fauci.
Francis is an antipope (https://www.tcwblog.com/182861450). He isn't the pope. So the answer to the question should be obvious. If he isn't the pope, then he can't be "a trustworthy pope."
And it is possible that he is holding a satanic symbol in the photograph above. It has been alleged that this is a variation on the satanic symbol - The Broken Cross.
And I know for a fact that there are some (i.e. at least one) in the "Catholic Church" leadership who follow him, and are aware that there are those who don't believe that he is the pope and that "Cardinal" Siri was. Their conscious rejection of or failure to investigate and change their allegiance makes them guilty of - at least - schism.
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NO HE ISN'T. THEY ARE ALL VICARS OF SATAN. AND FATIMA, LIKE THE RC MARY, ARE WHORES OF BABYLON.
BEGONE SATAN!
Is that a serious question???
As a Catholic I view this Pope as just another member of the Communist globalist totalitarian cabal which seeks to destroy individual freedoms, Judeo-Christian Western Civilization, Capitalism and Sovereignty of Western nations. Pope is supposed to be the "Defender of the Faith"...but Francis believes that's the Islamic faith...not the Christian faith. Every time someone says/writes the word "Progressive"...I interpret that as Communism.
I think its possible that this current Pope is appeasing the muslims at large not because he loves them but rather that he doesnt want them attacking the Vatican, or Rome, while he sits behind a massive wall built centuries ago to keep islamic warriors out, as that will happen one day in the future just as these islamic morons said they will do after Istanbul was created due to the fire of islamic warriors destroying Constantinople. This Pope washes and kisses the feet of muslims while teaching that islam is a religion of peace,meanwhile muslims are slaughtering his flock in Africa and elsewhere each and every day of the Week, and mentions nothing about it. He truly is the anti christ.
Allow me to reply with a corresponding question.
IS THE POPE JEWISH?
EVERY POOPE IN HISTORY IS A VICAR OF SATAN. AND THEN THERE IS EUGENIO PACELLI, KNOWN AS POOPE PIUS xII WHO IS KNOWN AS HITLERS POOPE. EVERYTHING ABOUT THAT CHURCH IS EVIL. IT IS A DEATH CULT OF LIES AND SEXUAL DEVIANCE.
The satanic catholic fake church was built upon lies... and teaches they worship the same fake god of satanic islam.
Not a wonder why Poop Francis is heralded as the Representative of Christianity... he serves satanic islam. Encouraging the spreading of satanic worshiping muslims around this world.
The satanic islamic process is...
1) Immigrate
2) Saturate
3) Infiltrate
4) Dominate
5) Subjugate
And America, the Western world alongside the Poop of the satanic catholic fake church is helping this process become reality! While Christians and Jews are being persecuted and killed around the world...
wELL, THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH FOUNDED ISLAM.
The satanic catholic fake church serves satanic islam...
Thus... the creator does not serve the created.
Do you have a brain? <<< Evidently not.
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