City Light News, April, 2013. Does a pope
possess the moral authority to call on someone to be a protector? He calls on
everyone to protect ‘the environment, the poor, and their families.’ When will
he do his part? Who is he protecting? Should he not be
protecting the persecuted? Who is more persecuted than those poor persons who
have been abused by pedophile priests? There are many Roman priests who have
been ‘outed’ as pedophiles and they have not received adequate punishment. And
the bishops who covered for them need to be punished also. Pope Francis calls
people to be protectors. When will he be an example by protecting children
instead of the priests who have molested them? Does he even care for the poor? A pope who cared for the poor
would have a heart for the persecuted also, would he not? A pope who cared for
the persecuted would punish pedophile priests, would he not? Have we heard of
any measures being taken by this Assisi Vatican
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truly converted who have received the Spirit and exercised their illumined
minds for a few years can discern that the pope has no power in his speech.
“And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power” (Luke 4.32.)
This was said of Jesus when he taught in Galilee .
Why was there power in his speech?
Because his doctrine was backed by a holy life. “Which of you convinceth me of
sin?” (John 8.46.) There was power in his speech because his acts were in
harmony with what he taught. There was power in his speech because while he
preached righteousness he never forgot to condemn injustice also, unlike Pope
Francis.
“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of
your father ye will do” (John 8.44.) When will Pope Francis speak to his
pedophile priests in this righteous, condemnatory fashion? What moral work
could be more important for Pope Francis to do than to rush upon guilty
pedophile priests, with legal aid and force, and beg the book to be thrown at
each guilty priest under his charge? The pope has no spiritual power, except
from the devil maybe. But he has great political influence. He could make this
happen. No force upon earth prevents him. If he were a just man, would he not
do this good deed? If he were a just man, would he not begin by quoting Jesus’
words to these molester-priests and then sic the law on each one of them? It
was Jesus’ mission to preach, heal, forgive the repentant, live holily, and die
on a cross for the sins of man, not dole out civil justice. But it is the
mission of a minister of God’s church to excommunicate evildoers to the
‘destruction of the flesh’ (1 Corinthians 5.5.) This kind of judgment is to the
purpose, after all, that the spirits of these evildoers ‘may be saved in the
day of the Lord Jesus.’ Why does the pope not do it then? Is he not a true
minister of Christ? Does he not care for the souls of his priests? Maybe he
cares for their souls as little as he cares for the children they have
molested. A true minister of Christ would exercise discipline, just as the
Bible commands him to. “Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being
alone” (James 2.17.)
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