Sunday, August 18, 2019

Hospital Ship With Name Of Pope Emblazoned On Its Side

Vatican News  reported that "[t]he 'Pope Francis Hospital Ship' has arrived in the Archdiocese of Belem, and is set to begin work in areas of the Amazon region which are accessible only by river." [1]


2019.07.09 Nave ospedale in Amazzonia
Credit: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2019-08/hospital-ship-will-bring-word-of-god-health-care-to-amazon.html

This is a good thing for the Catholic Church do to, but at what point in Bergoglio's life had he earned enough money to have this ship built to put his name on it, as if he owned it?  Is he suffering from egomania?

Quoted from Wikipedia without hyperlinks and references [2]:

Egomania is preoccupation with one's self and applies to anyone who follows one’s own ungoverned impulses and is possessed by delusions of personal greatness and feels a lack of appreciation. Someone suffering from this extreme egocentric focus is an egomaniac. The condition is psychologically abnormal.

What about painting over the name "Papa Francisco" and replace it with "Cathólica" to read "Barco Hospital Cathólica" instead?  This is only a suggestion.  There are other possibilities.

Today's Gospel reading for Mass in the Extraordinary Form [3] is from Luke 18: 9-14.  It ended with these words of Christ: "For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted." [4]



[1] https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2019-08/hospital-ship-will-bring-word-of-god-health-care-to-amazon.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egomania
[3] http://www.extraordinaryform.org/properssundays.html
[4] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+18%3A9-14&version=NIV

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