Why Is Pope Francis So Obsessed With The Devil?
No, that's not my question. That was the question posed by CNN. And it certainly caught my attention. You see, we here at LGD are no fans of Pope Francis. We see that he rarely speaks (positively)
No, that’s not my question.
That was the question posed by CNN.
And it certainly caught my attention.
You see, we here at LGD are no fans of Pope Francis. We see that he rarely speaks (positively) of Jesus Christ. The man whose sole job — literally his only job — is to promote the name and renown of Jesus Christ on this Earth, this man simply doesn’t do it.
Instead, he is always promoting far left causes, like these:
Pope Francis Says We Must Accept the Rape and Terror of Migrants
Pope Francis: You MUST Believe In Climate Change
Funny, I thought a Pope was supposed to say you should believe in Jesus Christ….not climate change.
Anyway, when he’s not promoting far left causes, according to CNN he is talking a whole lot about the Devil. Satan. Lucifer. The one he follows?
Take a look, from CNN:
Pope Francis seems to be obsessed with the devil.
His tweets and homilies about the devil, Satan, the Accuser, the Evil One, the Father of Lies, the Ancient Serpent, the Tempter, the Seducer, the Great Dragon, the Enemy and just plain “demon” are now legion.
For Francis, the devil is not a myth, but a real person. Many modern people may greet the Pope’s insistence on the devil with a dismissive, cultural affectation, indifference, or at the most indulgent curiosity.
Yet Francis refers to the devil continually. He does not believe him to be a myth, but a real person, the most insidious enemy of the church. Several of my theologian colleagues have said that he has gone a bit overboard with the devil and hell! We may be tempted to ask, why in the devil is Pope Francis so involved with the prince of demons?
This intelligent Jesuit Pope is diving into deep theological waters, places where very few modern Catholic clerics wish to tread.
Francis’ seeming preoccupation with the devil is not a theological or eschatological question as much as a call to arms, an invitation to immediate action, offering very concrete steps to do combat with the devil and the reign of evil in the world today.
In his homilies, Francis warns people strongly to avoid discouragement, to seize hope, to move on with courage and not to fall prey to negativity or cynicism.
He is drawing on the fundamental insight of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, the Pope’s own religious family. With his continual references to the devil, Pope Francis parts ways with the current preaching in the church, which is far too silent about the devil and his insidious ways or reduces him to a mere metaphor.
During the first months of Francis’ pontificate in 2013, the Evil One appeared frequently in his messages. In his first major address to the cardinals who elected him, the Argentine pontiff reminded them: “Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.”
In several daily homilies in the chapel of the Vatican guest house, the Pope shared devilish stories with the small congregations rapt in attention as he homilized on taboo topics.
He has offered guidelines on how to rout the demon’s strategy: First, it is Jesus who battles the devil.
The second is that “we cannot obtain the victory of Jesus over evil and the devil by halves,” for as Christ said in the Gospel of Matthew, “who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.”
The Pope has stressed that we must not be naive: “The demon is shrewd: he is never cast out forever, this will only happen on the last day.”
Francis has also issued calls to arms in his homilies: “The devil also exists in the 21st century, and we need to learn from the Gospel how to battle against him,” the Pope warned, adding that Christians should not be “naive” about the evil one’s ways. The devil is anything but a relic of the past, the pontiff said.
Acknowledging the devil’s shrewdness, Francis once preached: “The devil is intelligent, he knows more theology than all the theologians together.”
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So what do you think?
Comments welcome below!
Not to us, O Lord, not to us,
But to Your name be the glory
Because of Your love and your faithfulness!
János Pataki December 25, 2017
Szerintem Ferenc Pápa maga az ördög..
Cher Krause February 27, 2018
Obsessed with warnings to us of the evil ones trickery, etc. Teaching to be on guard and know Jesus is our defense!
Max Emrich June 1, 2018
Can’t see anything bad here about Francis speaking about the devil, just as the Bible does: warning us against him and to be vigilant. It’s very biblical and true that the devil exists, so what? May be it’s rather you being a bit to obsessed with the Pope and finding hints of demonic things he does… Nothing against being critical towards the Pope, but this here is just nonsense, dear guys!