Two Old Old White Guys Do Lunch –
Benedict and Francis - some notes.
I was reading many nanny media meme
accounts how these two old, old Catholic CEO dudes having lunch together was a
first in history.
Of course I was born before the Great
Dumb of America begun with Ronald Reagan and the real life version to me
sometimes of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers – Brain Snatchers? – The Media / MSM?
I remember reading a library book by Malachi Martin close to twenty five years ago and I cannot find or remember the
title. But in that book there was touching scene depicted with the mind of this
ex or retired Jesuit who was a very conservative Catholic dude.
In that book, he depicted two popes, one
official (the first to resign) and one un-official bishop of Rome, also known
as the first "anti-pope" and their meeting
on the road to hell so to speak in Roman lead mines where they had more or less
been condemned, to die working themselves to death and as the result of some
current religious pogrom from some Roman Emperor.
The popes after lives of bitchy
ambitions, embrace in forgiveness of their enemy pope and die pure in the grace
of the moment. A touching story.
Malachi in that book also managed to
paint a scene of Constantine, waiting for the last minute for baptism of all
his horrible sins including the murder of a son and a wife etc. That forgiveness is given in a sacramental
and all the evil of Constantine’s life is forgiven though not really erased in
the tally of things, the equations of life things etc.
I am not that good with names. And then
quoting all these Latin names in history, of popes Pontian and Hippolytus, I think crowds the landscape with a bit of
fog in understanding and or perspective of that moment in history, especially
to a typical modern American audience.
Duh.
But there, I read that many times quoted
cliché of Benedict having a lunch date with Francis and a First in History
false media meme. Whatever.
Speaking of Latin names and Latinos. I
saw this horrible ABC article, link below, about how all the Latinos are
insulted that a pope of European descent claims the right to the title of
“Latino”.
The Black Flag Ops article really is I think a demand from the white
right GOP to divorce Francis from those brown people claiming some equality to
the rights of the white race, making the pope out to be “Latino”.
If you think
I am exaggerating, just look at the past four years and the GOP’s efforts to
destroy the economy of the United States for the mere sake of trying to
discredit a man in the White House of African descent. Whatever again.
There is also a link below that got
past the editors at The Telegraph in the UK of an interview with a Cardinal
Bergoglio before the conclave, the link on the article has disappeared but the black hearted “Journalist”
is polluting the information lanes of the internet with unsubstantiated quotes
from a full transcript of the interview. How does that work? Lost the link? But
found the full transcript? Dan Brown are you out there?
Which leaves my delayed rage to the end
of this piece so to speak, to say that when I look at Benedict and Francis
embracing above, I am glad I am no longer a Catholic.
Because if these two are
the best the RC church can do for moral leaders after two thousand years, the
institution has definitely jumped the shark!
Whatever (in case anybody is listening)
a third time.
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