He Certainly Doesn’t Seem to Comprehend Catholic Doctrine (Like it or Not)

In an honest, impromptu homily delivered Monday, Pope Francis admitted he is just making most of his theology up as he goes, ignoring thousands of years of official Church doctrine in favor of “whatever pops into my head at the time.”

Where past Popes have been careful in their attempts to stay in line with official Catholic teaching, Pope Francis confessed he doesn’t really know much official doctrine, stating that he’s more of a “shoot from the hip kind of guy” when it comes to weighty topics of morality, salvation, God, and eternity.

“People ask me questions, and I’m not always sure what to say, so honestly I’m just winging it,” the Pope said in his candid, unscheduled address. “This job is really hard, when you think about it. Trying to be the Vicar of Christ and deal with everybody’s complicated theological questions all at the same time? Ugh. It gives me a headache. So I just start talking. Even I’m surprised with what comes out sometimes.”

“I just want everyone to know about, like, love and God and stuff,” he added thoughtfully before beginning to take questions from those gathered in the Sistine Chapel, with the Pope signing off on Christian fornication, adultery, and polygamy during the short impromptu Q&A session.

At publishing time, frantic Catholic leadership had located the Pope and tackled him to the ground to prevent him from saying anything further.

Honestly, Franky, if you don’t want to be a Catholic, you can always leave and become an Episcopalian.

3 thoughts on “He Certainly Doesn’t Seem to Comprehend Catholic Doctrine (Like it or Not)

  1. At least the previous one, Ratzinger, Benedict, the XVI by that name, per everything I read was a great theologian. Sadly both in the RCC and in Protestant circle of all hues, theology is only a term to identify something, att best “interesting”. May God have mercy!

    Like

  2. http://exiledpreacher.blogspot.com/2010/03/ratzingers-faith-theology-of-pope.html

    “Rowland is more interested in placing Ratzinger’s faith in the context of Roman Catholic teaching than in entering into dialogue with Evangelical Protestant theology. References to Protestant thought are brief and rather dismissive. The scholar is quick to distance Ratzinger’s appreciation of Augustine from the Calvinistic understanding of the great Church Father. However, it seems that Ratzinger is sensitive to the Protestant charge that Roman Catholic theology is often far too philosophical and distanced from Holy Scripture. He offers a rich, trinitarian account of revelation in which revelation is not so much about information as the transformation of the person in the life of the Trinity (p. 51). So far so good. But this does not mean that the current pope has jettisoned papal infallibility for the sake of sola scriptura. Roman Catholic Tradition remains on a par with the Bible and the faithful are still subject to the authoritative Magisterium of the Church.

    Once more along Augustinian lines, Ratzinger wishes to shift Roman Catholic piety away from an overwhelming emphasis on duty and meritorious good works. He rightly sees this as little more than Pelagian moralism. Instead he proposes a renewed focus on the grace of God communicated to the sinner in a personal encounter with Jesus Christ. Ratzinger insists that the antidote to ‘Christian Pharisaism’ is found in 1 John 4:16. This sounds like music to the Calvinist’s ears, until we read that the Benedict XVI’s prescription for moving beyond moralism to the love and grace of God is a rekindling of devotion to the cult of the Sacred Heart. Isn’t this the problem with the Roman Catholic Church? We agree on so much, the Trinity, the Person of Christ, pro-marriage and pro-life biblical ethics, but where did all this other stuff come from? We cannot swallow the Roman Catholic additions to the biblical account of salvation in Christ that end up negating the gospel of sovereign grace. We reject Roman Catholic devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus for the sake of devotion to our risen Lord himself. “

    (the publication of this excerpt does not imply endorsement of the blog as a whole)

    Like

  3. Sorry to be a bit irreverent here, and hope its taken in the vein its meant..
    but for some reason, when i compare the current pope, to this one, i get funny images in my head that mel brooks is doing his dialogue and would burst out singing “Genuflect Genuflect Genuflect” singing about the inquisition being such blast…

    whoever knew that temporary unraveling of this would only take one populous pope lacking theological rigor…

    Like

Comments are closed.