UNITED STATES
Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
Popes make purposeful decisions secretly and then often wrap their decisions in “other worldly” mythology to obscure their worldly purposes and to garner support from Catholics raised rigidly on these myths. By contrast, Jesus spoke simply and honestly about this world and how to meet its challenges transparently.
In the current world of democracies, papal influence over Catholic and other voters provides popes access to opportunistic political and financial elites, the so-called 0.01%, who seek to disguise their own self interested policies with spiritual smokescreens offered by popes seeking legal protection and financial subsidies. In this internet age of a 24/7 news cycle and relentless legal investigations, however, the real papal decisions and underlying goals are increasingly discernible from reported papal actions, despite the incessant efforts of popes and some of these leaders to hide true papal intentions behind a pervasive and professional public relations strategy.
After two years, the real goal of Pope Francis is clear — it is to salvage and enhance the power and wealth of the maximum number of “salvageable” cardinals and bishops while tightening papal control, as the pope is doing in the financial area. Under the misguided, deceitful and ruthless policies of the two previous popes with their related financial, child sexual abuse cover-up, “gay lobby” and other scandals, cardinals were rapidly sliding down a slippery slope.
We now know with reasonable certainty that cardinals likely elected Francis to “change the public subjects from papal sins to papal myths”, while the Vatican’s international political and financial alliances were strengthened and expanded in the international “balance of power” system. The big prize, the World Cup of papal power politics for almost four decades, is helping to elect a “friendly” US president next year, preferably another one named Bush — Francis’ main and final goal!
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Pope Francis’ public “subject changing” strategy has included massive media management, including unnecessary papal trips, vague papal statements on capitalism and soon climate change, a farcical “family-less” Family Synod, mixed messaging, photo ops and “tweeted” sound bites. Increasingly, this public relations strategy is failing, as the Catholic revolt over Bishop Barros continues even after the desperate removal of Bishop Finn, too little too late! Reality is catching up to the pope’s vague promises. The dismal prospects for the over hyped climate change encyclical are discussed in detail below.
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