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St John the Pastoral

on April 13, 2016

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The Pope Who Won't Be Buried

It has been a long time since I have put finger to keyboard to write about our holy Catholic Faith, something I regret, but which I put largely down to full-time gardening work and domestic duties. With that said, I certainly know how to waste the time God gives me each day on self-indulgent, wordly pursuits. The sorrowful death of Pope Benedict XVI, however, I feel I cannot allow to go unblogged and I expect I will keep writing about him for some time when time and self-discipline allows. Perhaps like me, you are suffering under this pontificate, the credibility of which and even the validity of which remains widely disputed, with what some might call 'Francis fatigue' . Let's face it, this pontificate, or anti-pontificate, or whatever it is, has been a war of vitriolic attrition against faithful, devout souls as well as the lukewarm and the lost. Perhaps like me, the last few years, so often a wake-up call to holiness of life has been a Vatican and civil government-driven...

Peace to All Men of Goodwill

No matter how irritating an individual is, how 'rigid' or 'weak-hearted' we may (in a fit of outright judgmentalism) consider a person to be, I would have thought that praying to God that that person might fall into sin to 'teach him a good lesson' might just be the very opposite of what Christ taught us about loving our enemies. Warming hearts Not being graced with the gift of reading hearts and souls, I would be very cautious about calling someone 'weak-hearted'. How would I know someone's heart? I am taught to hate sin in myself and in others while loving God and my neighbour for God's sake. Would it not be more Christian, should we have some reason to believe that someone is a bit hypocritical or a bit of a Pharisee to pray that the Lord Jesus might grant to that servant of His the virtue of humility? Further, I would urge caution on anyone believing he knows the hearts of others merely by judging their external actions. For examp...

The Self-Absorbed Promethean Neo Pelagians

Here come the self-absorbed, promethean neo-pelagians! Let’s pray they trip up over banana skins and fall face down their marble stairs! Ah, yes those self-absorbed, promethean neo-pelagians! They could all drop down dead tomorrow and who would care? Oh sometimes… Being Pope is hard with Christians so dark! Christmas comes around But it’s just a charade! Lights and gifts and trees! Amid war and misery! The humanity! Then there’s the… Diseased curia! Spiritual alzheimers! Existential Euthanasia! Gossip, terrorists! Can’t they close their lips! Recall my fifteen tips… Ah, but those self-absorbed, promethean neo-pelagians! Let’s pray they trip up over banana skins and fall face down their marble stairs! Ah, yes those self-absorbed, promethean neo-pelagians! They could all drop down dead tomorrow and who would care? I’m so sick of… Christian bats! Intellectual aristocrats! Doctors of the law! Pharisees and more! S...

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