You know, the more I see of Pope Francis the less I like. He has all the appearances of being trendy and tolerant, in tune with the zeitgeist and not at all comfortable with this sin business. In 'reaching out' to gays he made the astonishing claim that
'it is not possible [for the Church]
to interfere spiritually in the life of a person." Well, if it's not 'interfering spiritually' then what exactly is the Church's purpose?
And if a good press is what you're after you can't beat the Immigration Industry. And he's been fast off the mark here too. Visiting Lampedusa and demanding that all immigrants be
'given a home in Europe'. Before Christmas, in another PR coup, he visited immigrants in Rome, handing out gifts and declaring that "
a change of attitude towards migrants and refugees is needed on the part of everyone, moving away from attitudes of defensiveness and fear, indifference and marginalisation, all typical of a throwaway culture, towards attitudes based on a culture of encounter, the only culture capable of building a better, more just and fraternal world."
According to
Catholic Online he then rounded it all off by expressing the hope that countries would welcome
migrants keeping the values of their culture of origin. So are we to assume then the millions of Muslims rampaging through the West will retain their quaint customs, ones like stoning to death for adultery, death for apostasy and death for insulting the 'prophet'? And Africans retain 'values and customs' such raping children to cure AIDS, or killing and eating your enemies?
Seems like it.
Look, I have no love for the Catholic Church. Growing up in Ireland when I did I in fact came to detest the narrow-mindedness and rampant hypocrisy in which it wallowed. Gave up Catholicism by my mid-teens. But now I see it as a possible ally in the fight against the cultural war on the West. But Pope Francis won't be much of an ally. What he fails to realise is that pandering to contemporary moral standards might win him some grudging brownie point from the chattering classes and the representatives of the various sexual degenerates out there. But it also leads to oblivion.
Look at the Church of England which has become the most trendy of all. Eschewing the taking of moral positions on anything, it instead espoused a vapid New Age feelgood vibe, kumbaya. They even appointed an incomprehensible African tribesman as their head honcho to demonstrate their
bona fides. Yet, far from making it relevant to the new age, the institution is for all practical purposes moribund. Its churches empty, the few believers rapidly ageing and dying off. You see, for better or worse, it's the old fire and brimstone uncompromising religions that are doing best. No matter how bizarre their teachings and rituals.
So this Pope is leading his institution down the path of oblivion.
Going back to the immigration issue, Aristotle taught us that impractical morality is no morality at all. (No wonder he's hated by libtards). There is nothing on this earth more impractical than allowing vast numbers of additional immigrants into Europe. No need for me to elaborate why, of course. And, were we to take the Pope's suggestion, the inevitable consequence would be to turbocharge the stampede, increasing numbers by orders of magnitude.
Impractical morality of the purest kind.
So here I make a
practical moral suggestion for Pope Frankie. Open up the Vatican to the huddled masses on your doorsteps. Giving them call cards at Christmas is all well and good, but Frankie, you said it yourself, we must welcome them into our houses. You have a very very big one just up the road, and a lovely - and very large - holiday home at Castelgandolfo. The immigrants would just love them. And you know what? you would too, Frankie. You see they're such wonderful people. You said so yourself.
So what about it, Nincompope?