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Pope Francis’s 10-Step Program to Happiness
 

without God

 

Pope Francis's 10 Step Program to Happiness without God

How happy your people must be! How happy your officials,
who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!
(2 Chronicles 9.7)

 

 

Not long ago, ABC News enumerated the “10 Steps to Being Happy, According [to] Pope Francis”.

This is significant in two ways: first, it provides us — at last — with the erstwhile cryptic formula for being happy that had eluded all the philosophers and all the oracles from classical antiquity to the present. We are speaking here of man’s ultimate ambition! His happiness! This is no small achievement.

 The second way, however, in which it is significant is that this formula —  articulated  by no less than a Roman Catholic Pontiff, as the means to attain happiness itself … neither mentions nor invokes:

  • God

  • Scripture

  • Heaven

  • Faith

  • Hope

  • Charity

  • Love

  • Religion

  • The Old Testament

  • The New Testament

  • Anything that Jesus Christ did, said, taught, or commanded.
     

The Formula for Happiness — according to Francis:

1. “Live and let live.”

2. “Be giving of yourself to others.”

3. “Proceed calmly” in life.

4. Have “a healthy sense of leisure.”

5. “Sundays should be holidays.” Spend Sundays with family and friends.

6. “Create dignified jobs for young people.”

7. “Respect and take care of nature.”

8. “Stop being negative.”

9. “Respect others’ beliefs.”

10. “Work for peace.”
 

No, this is not “fake news”

You are not experiencing a psychotic episode.

Presumably you are not in a drug-induced state of aphasia.

For the head of the Roman Catholic Church of over 1 billion souls, the fulfillment of these 10 “steps” constitutes happiness. Contrary to what the Church has taught from its inception over 2000 years ago, for Francis, apparently, God is not man’s happiness. In fact, He is not even alluded to.

 

Psychadelic happiness  “And no religion, too”

Does it sound familiar? “Why, now that you mention it!” It is an enervated reiteration of the lyrics of the Beatles’ John Lennon’s song “Imagine”. You can find the lyrics here . It is, arguably, the anthem of post-Christian man
. “Imagine”!

Different — by a Quantum Leap

 Quite different, yes? … I mean, from anything that you may have once learned (or heard rumor of) from that “outdated” Baltimore Catechism that put things in clear and unambiguous perspective, distinctly Catholic, Scriptural, Patristic, and relevant. Here, let us help you. Below are three questions concerning happiness, its nature and the means of its attainment that vastly differ from what Francis would have us believe to the contrary.
 

  • Question 3. Why did God make us?

Answer: God made us to show forth His goodness and to share with us His everlasting happiness in Heaven.

  • Question 4. What must we do to gain the happiness of heaven?

Answer: To gain the happiness of Heaven we must know, love, and serve God in this world.

  • Question 6. Why did God make you?

Answer: God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him forever in Heaven.
 

If you wonder to whom you should defer, we would suggest that tens of thousands of Saints stand as a pure testimony, often indited in the blood of martyrdom, that happiness is to be found in God alone — to the tedious meanderings of one man in the Church who appears to find happiness elsewhere than God — when he ought not, nor encourage others to.

Do we maintain that Pope Francis does not hold that authentic happiness is to be found in God? Not only is that implausible, but it is absurd — as many utterances of Francis have been — and perhaps that is why we find it so troubling. We merely observe that he fails to mention it, or exhort us to it. And that, given his Petrine office, is deeply troubling indeed. 

 

Geoffrey K. Mondello
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