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The Bergoglio files:
Anything-to-be-different 1840.1
NB: 1840 is the number of days so far that Bergoglio has been pope, so 1840.1 represents the first anything-to-be-different initiative that we know he has had today.
I used to remark that the annual Corpus Christi procession in Rome from the Lateran Basilica to Santa Maria Maggiore, approximately a mile along one of Rome's major streets (but not very wide), the Via Merulana, was the tourists' best chance to see the pope fairly up close without need of permits or passes, if he or she just stood along the procession route.
Then Bergoglio - after a first year in which he ostentatiously walked the mile between the two basilicas - decided to give up taking part in the procession but riding ahead instead to Santa Maria Maggiore where he would lead a Eucharistic Adoration and Benediction (at which he never kneels or genuflects) to end the procession. Now it seems the Corpus Christi procession is no longer an option for a fairly upclose papal sighting.
Unless you go to Ostia this year (and who knows where to next year?). Because now he is 'moving' the procession to Ostia. This was the ancient port of Rome on the Tyrrhenian Sea, about 12 miles southwest of the city center, and considered part of the Commune of Rome.
And while one must be happy for Ostia if it should draw a record number of tourists on that day, what then happens in central Rome? Cannot the pope's vicar in Rome, or maybe the Arch-Priest of the Lateran Basilica, lead the Corpus Christi procession in place of the pope? Why, because of a Bergoglian caprice, suddenly deprive central Rome of a revived tradition it has enjoyed since the time of John Paul II?
One surmises that the route of the Corpus Christi procession in Ostia would be fairly brief so that Bergoglio can ostentatiously go on foot. One thing is sure - he won't be 'caught' kneeling in front of the Blessed Sacrament as it is borne on a pedestal in a float that is (was) the centerpiece of the Corpus Christi procession in Rome, and as John Paul II and Benedict XVI used to do. I believe JPII walked the route the first time he revived the tradition, and then chose the float option subsequently. Perhaps that is the reason Bergoglio stopped taking part in the procession - so he won't have to do that (because walking a mile with his sciatica may really have become impossible for him).
It goes without saying that it would be unthinkable to expect him to do that when he will not even genuflect before the Elevation of the Bread and the Wine at Mass, ostensibly because it is painful for him to kneel. Of course, his apologists never explain why, on Maundy Thursdays, he apparently has no problem kneeling down, 12 times in succession, to wash and wipe and kiss the feet of the 12 persons to whom he deigns to demonstrate his humility and service for the cameras of the world!
Could it be that Bergoglio thinks his 12 objects of 'devotion', who are flesh and blood before him - not all of whom are Catholics or believe in Christ - are more worthy of kneeling to than Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament or at the moment of Trans-Substantiation during the Mass? Maybe he does, because he has this idea that every person who is poor, oppressed or disadvantaged in any way not only represents Christ but is Christ himself! Which is going well beyond what it means to say that an ordained priest - no matter how sinful and corrupt he may be - becomes 'in persona Christi' when he offers the Sacrifice of the Mass (or hears confession), and only then!
But if he believes that, then he is more Lutheran than we thought, for denying the reality of Trans-Substantiation - which is the only alibi one can imagine that he could use to justify why he never kneels before the Blessed Sacrament nor genuflects at the Consecration.
Still think he is more than just a nominal Catholic? If he is, he is the most anti-Catholic 'Catholic' imaginable. Yet he is the pope. Kyrie eleison!
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 28/04/2018 19:58] |
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