Wednesday, March 13, 2013

The other Ex Cathedra

has just been elected. Francis. A first. He was, they say, the runner-up in 2005.

Italian blood but Argentine. A Jesuit. First time for one of them to be White Pope. Very orthodox fella --surprise!--and very pious, lowkey and big on "the poor."

Well, the world's a big place. He has his cathedra,




I have mine.



PS. The quality of the media people on TV was as you would expect. Really out of their element. Even some of their experts were very unexpert.

A Notre Dame history professor said that choosing Francis of Assisi's name was important: "That's not a power name, that's not a dogma name." Right on part one, Professor. Excruciatingly and predictably stupid on part two: As his latest biographer points out, St Francis was indeed obsessed with not using power over others, but he was totally orthodox in a very medieval way. Absolutely straight up and down Roman Catholic, with a special reverence for priests and for the Eucharist. He went to see the Saracens not to learn about their fascinating faith, but to convert them to the true religion, Catholicism. So a dogma name, yes. (And he's the professor of history...)


And the comments sections of all the websites allow us to see the continuous stream of stupidity that the human race creates from moment to moment.
I used to have a theory that if God did indeed know all the thoughts of every heart, then He was long ago driven to madness or suicide.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What will John Dear, SJ and the folks at "America" do now?

OreamnosAmericanus said...

Don't know Rev Dear, and have only vague memories of America mag, but the funny thing about the Roman Church is that it keeps choosing Roman Catholics to lead it, not Episcopalians. No accounting for it. :)

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