What The New Pope Said Recently

"Christians need to 'speak the truth with love,' overcoming temptations of wanting always to be liked ...' Pope Francis said." [1]

So allow me to do just that: to speak the truth as I know it to be the truth, and with love, to the best that I am able to convey my love, which is to say the truth as I see it and not sugar coat it or fear it even though I could be wrong because I am fallible, unlike the pope who supposedly is infallible.  I hope to be forgiven, yet again, if I am wrong because the fallible me is going to speak about the supposedly infallible Francis, the new pope.  If I am right, I hope with love that Francis, the pope, to be distinguished clearly from Francis of Assisi, the saint, will learn from the Saint and one day become holy like the one and only true Francis, Francis of Assisi.

"In his homilies at his early morning Masses June 3 and 4, Pope Francis spoke about people who are corrupt: their attitudes, actions and ways of speaking.
"'Hypocrisy is the language of corruption,' he said during the June 4 mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae." [2]

First of all, to assume the papacy and to take the name Francis after Francis of Assisi is a contradiction.  Francis of Assisi would never have wanted to be pope; he was humble and wanted to be like Christ.  On the other hand, Francis, the pope, want others to think of him as Francis of Assisi.  That is, in my opinion, hypocritical because he is anything but, and as such, Francis, the pope, spoke "the language of corruption" on day one as pope by naming himself Francis after Francis of Assisi.  I hope with love that Francis, the pope, would change his name and accept what he truly is and what he is not. [3]

I am not the first person who sees the contradiction between Francis, the pope, and Francis, the saint.  Hans Küng, on May 21, 2013, wrote a splendid piece entitled The paradox of Pope Francis published in the National Catholic Reporter that is worth reading. [4]

Not only does Francis, the pope, tries to impersonate Francis, the saint, he beguiles like he devil.  He set it up like this and I quote: "Even if dressed in 'soft words, beautiful words,' if a statement is motivated by self-love or self-gain it is not true ...
"'There is no truth without love.  Love is the first truth,' he said, 'If there is no love, there is no truth.'" [5]

I could not agree more, assuming that he was talking about the Love of God and God's truth and not his love for Satan and the ever-changing and deceiving Satanic truths.  What comes next is shocking to me.  Francis, the pope, said "'Today let us ask the Lord that our speech would be the speech of the simple, to speak like a child, like children of God, speaking the truth in love,'" because "[t]he meekness of Jesus and the words he expects of his followers, the pope said, are simple, 'like that of a child.'" [6]  I detect no love in those words of Francis, the pope, for his predecessor, the erudite theologian that is Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, and therefore there can be no truth in them. It should be obvious that there is no truth in those words since the words of Christ are not "like that of a child," an ordinary child of Sin that is a descendant of Adam and Eve, as opposed to Christ Who is a Child of God and without Sin.

In fact, those words of Francis, the pope, had nothing to do with God's truth or his love for God because I believe they were crafted intentionally to be an indirect and a not-so-subtle swipe at Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. [7]

While these words of Francis, the pope, may sound like "soft words, beautiful words" they were actually daggers cloaked in softness and beauty.  I believe these deliberately chosen words were motivated by self-love, for this current pope seems to think highly of himself even though he tries to act just the opposite (and it is all an act), and by self-gain, for he wants to elevate himself by stepping on Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (the only way he can hope to cast a shadow on the brilliance of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI).

I hope with love for Francis, the pope, and for the sake of his soul, that Satan would loosen its grip on him, return to him his conscience and let him return to God.

Finally, Francis not only committed the sin of hypocrisy by not acting like Francis of Assisi even though he took the name Francis, he had committed the sin of compound fraud by deliberately misleading people to think that by speaking against hypocrisy that he is free from it [8].  In other words, it is bad enough to be a hypocrite, like preaching about hunger and poverty but eating well and living comfortably, but then to be a hypocrite and to preach against hypocrisy as if he is righteously non-hypocritical, that is exponentially bad.  It is not quite as bad as but is close to betraying Christ with a kiss.  For the love of Francis, the pope, I pray that he would become holy like Francis, the saint.








[1] Wooden, Cindy. "Truth must be spoken with love, pope says." Catholic San Francisco, Vol. 15, No. 18, p. 12.  Accessed June 9, 2013. http://www.catholic-sf.org/files/digital_paper_201306044306.pdf
[2] Ibid.
[3] Note added 6/23/13:  What a stupid fool I was to wish that!  How could I have missed it?  Jorge Mario Bergoglio (an Italian by birth, i.e. a Roman) chose the name Francis after Francis of Assisi who was born Francesco di Pietro (Peter) di Bernardone because the prophesy of Saint Malachy had to be fulfilled, that this last pope would be Petrus Romanus (Peter the Roman).
[4] http://ncronline.org/news/vatican/paradox-pope-francis
[5] Wooden, op. cit., p. 12.
[6] Ibid.
[7] Note added 6/22/13:  I promised Brother Matthew, a novice, 23 years old, whose intellect and maturity lie far beyond his earthly years (probably an old soul) to give Pope Francis a charitable read, taking into consideration that he chose the name "Francis" after "Francis of Assisi" because the Pope is similarly "detached in the heart" from worldly matters.
[8] What good hypocrite would speak against hypocrisy if he knows he is one?  Only an evil hypocrite trying to hide his true character would speak against hypocrisy.