Can You Believe
This?
Such Shameless Self-Promotion!
“My story through
history” …
not just through “my
papacy.”
not just through “my
life.”
not just through “my struggles.”
… but through
“history”!
Of the 265 lesser
men who populated the papacy before Francis soiled the seat of Peter,
none dared to view himself through an inverted scope that encompassed
his measure since Herodotus and Thucydides began inditing the annals of
history through events far more significant than the mean and
self-obsessive life of Jorge Bergoglio.
What shameful self-adulation,
what an embarrassment to every Catholic!
It is totally worthy
of Francis-the-Famously-Humble.
Geoffrey K. Mondello
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal
Monday April 8,
2024
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It can be
found in the Fiction section of your favorite
book store
Photo credit: from
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/religion/article/93932-pope-francis-new-book-bears-his-personal-touch.html
On the other hand, in the Non-Fiction section of your
favorite book store you may find this:
“You Had
Better Listen!”
Actually, you needn’t
buy the book (there really isn’t
one); but you will find the short truthful story at
the link below:
It is a markedly different presentation, just as the photographs are
markedly different, but equally authentic (actually, Francis
personally choose the picture of his younger, more amiable self
for the book cover of his self-memorialization,
“Pope
Francis Life, My Story Through History.”)
It is much different in tenor, as you will see, than the picture of
him benignly smiling for the
photographer. You see undisguised malice and arrogance as he
contemptuously dismisses those whom he deems less than totally
cooperative with
“Team
Bergoglio.”
Ruthless is the word that immediately comes to mind; a word
that appears to echo through the halls of the Vatican as well. But
you already know that, don’t you?
Totally
Faithful to the Sacred Deposit of Faith entrusted
to the Holy See in Rome
“Scio
opera tua ... quia modicum habes virtutem, et servasti verbum
Meum, nec non negasti Nomen Meum”
“I
know your works ... that you have but little power, and
yet you have kept My word, and have not denied My Name.”
(Apocalypse 3.8)
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