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As tough and strong a man as I may be, I am scandalised in the classic and theological sense. My peace and the peace of my wife and my close friends have been disturbed. The peace of many of you readers has been disturbed. The fact that this has been brought about by the man chosen by the Cardinals of the Catholic Church to be the Vicar of our Sweet Christ on Earth is what is most profoundly sad and distressing.please Tweet my posts.
Whether he has been tried or not; whether those with the authority to act or not declare it, Jorge Bergoglio, - the man known as Pope Francis - is, in my opinion, a heretic, a likely antipope and may, because of his varied actions and words, have lost the papal office. He certainly acts and behaves as if he has no papal charism, no grace of office.
Look friends, and I point this out mainly to the papal positivists and apologists out there engaging in papolatry - Popes are not infallible in everything they say or do. Their statements are infallible and decisions are only infallible on matters of faith and morals, and only when they declare it. Period.
This change in the catechism regarding capital punishment is a disgraceful abuse of power and pompous arrogance.
I can not, -- I will not accept what was not always the teaching. What was true yesterday is still true today. You may choose in your own conscience to disagree with capital punishment, that is your right. You may think it is not the duty of the State, today. that is fine, you may hold that opinion, that belief. The problem is that the Church cannot compel you or me to believe that it is wrong when it has always taught that it is permissible. You cannot be compelled to assent in mind and heart and belief to something that was okay yesterday but not today.
This is a really a red-herring, or as if something is shouting to a dog, "squirrel." You can easily research capital punishment statistics. It is not public policy in Europe or Canada or most "western" countries. It is on the books in Russia, but it has not been used in decades. China, Iraq, Pakistan, mostly Muslim countries and oh, yes; the United States of America still have capital punishment as an option in sentencing. There are fewer than 2000 people per year executed. This is not the most pressing issue in the world.
Remember, this Francis has also said that "life in prison is like a death sentence." So, is that next? Does the State, legitimate authority, have any right to protect its citizens and punish guilty criminals. Criminals, who conduct the most heinous crimes? Mass murderers, killers of police or prison guards, child murderers? Sure, lock them up, throw away the key; - once could argue that 30 or 40 years of solitary confinement may be worse than an execution, I get it. It is in civil discourse and politics a debatable point, it is also permitted by Holy Scripture and the Church throughout history.
This is a really a red-herring, or as if something is shouting to a dog, "squirrel." You can easily research capital punishment statistics. It is not public policy in Europe or Canada or most "western" countries. It is on the books in Russia, but it has not been used in decades. China, Iraq, Pakistan, mostly Muslim countries and oh, yes; the United States of America still have capital punishment as an option in sentencing. There are fewer than 2000 people per year executed. This is not the most pressing issue in the world.
Remember, this Francis has also said that "life in prison is like a death sentence." So, is that next? Does the State, legitimate authority, have any right to protect its citizens and punish guilty criminals. Criminals, who conduct the most heinous crimes? Mass murderers, killers of police or prison guards, child murderers? Sure, lock them up, throw away the key; - once could argue that 30 or 40 years of solitary confinement may be worse than an execution, I get it. It is in civil discourse and politics a debatable point, it is also permitted by Holy Scripture and the Church throughout history.
There is more.
The wider problem is this is not only a smokescreen that over the pervert crisis of homosexuals in the priesthood, episcopacy and cardinaliate, but it is what it portends for the future.
If this heretical monster, this malefactor gets away with this, then he may very well attempt it again, but the next time the chopping block will include the teaching on same-sex attraction and behaviour and then Humanae Vitae.
From the night that this malefactor Bergoglio walked out on the loggia my peace has been disturbed. My urge to vomit was a warning to be mindful of what was coming. It went on for hours, my unsettlement for days and weeks.
The time has long since past for this man named Pope Francis to be called out by the bishops and cardinals for his errors and is heresies.
We are alone against the cowards. Half of our shepherds are cowards and the others are wolves.
May they repent, lest they are damned.