Friday, March 29, 2013

Comparing Pope John Paul II to Pope Francis I

This is not going to be flattering or pretty but I am exercising my free choice, whether fairly or not, correctly or not:

While Pope John Paul II, a former actor, used the papacy as a stage to act out his real life drama (he saw himself as the composer and conductor of his life-long symphony that crescendoed in his celebrated dying years), this Pope Francis I, a former nobody, has already manipulated the papacy on day one into a series of blank canvases so that in every canvas he had filled and yet to fill, he was and would be the central figure performing a deed worthy of praise only because it had appeared or would appear holy and had appealed and would appeal to the public but in reality, there is no nexus between the image he had projected and would continue to project and the holiness of such an image.  There is no redemptive value behind any of his public displays which only serve Satan, displays that mock Christ in seemingly holy deeds and taunt Christ with seemingly holy utterances that put people on the descent to Hell rather than on their way to salvation and the accent to Heaven.

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