Jorge Bergoglio’s omission of any mention of God or Christ in his public pronouncements is becoming more frequent and blatant… Four years ago, it would have been impossible for anyone to think
that any pope could be so deliberately secular. But Bergoglio now seems to be not just anti-Catholic but anti-Christian as well. How can his TV producers and media handlers fail to notice the very
blatant omission of Jesus from this video message? How can they have failed to at least point out this outrageous and unprecedented circumstance to him?
A letter to the pope on
his latest video message:
Not once do you even mention Jesus
Translated from
May 4, 2017
Dear Padre Bergoglio (as you say you prefer to be called):
Every day I search anxiously among your numerous interventions something beautiful, clear, not ambiguous, not partisan nor partial, that could be appreciated and re-disseminated. And almost every day, I remain disappointed. I have just heard your monthly video for the Worldwide Prayer Network.
It is dedicated to young people. Yet, never, not once, not even in passing, do you mention Jesus. Not once, not even by mistake, and certainly not even as an example of a great man.
Instead, you call on young people “to mobilize themselves for the great causes in the world today”.
But should not a pope call on the youth [and all men] to commit themselves for THE GREAT CAUSE OF GOD, for the SALVATION OF SOULS, for the SALVATION OF MANKIND?
Should you not indicate Christ as the ‘precious pearl’ to be sought and to be embraced so that one’s life may truly flourish?
Is not the salvation of souls the supreme goal of the Church? Jesus said: What will it gain man to conquer the whole world if he loses his own soul? Isn’t it to encounter and know him – Our Savior and Salvation – that we were born? Is he not the true sense to man’s life?
In these years of great apostasy, when it seems that the seed of Christian faith is being dissipated in the whole world, can any leader of the Church remain inert and fail to call on young people to follow Christ and give courageous witness of their faith
[every chance he gets]?
And was it not Jesus himself who presented himself against the world – as Salvation from the world? He said:
“I have told you this so that you might have peace in me. In the world you will have trouble, but take courage, I have conquered the world”. (Jn 16, 33).
But you instead call on young people “to mobilize themselves for the great causes in this world”. This is what you said:
"I know that you, young people, do not wish to live in the illusion of a freedom that is dragged along by the fashions of the moment, and that you aim higher. Is that not right, or am I mistaken? One would conclude from this message that this pope thinks young people are incapable of aiming for the highest, for the divine, for 'the things above' over the things of the world.]
Do not allow others to be the protagonists of change. You young people hold the future. I ask you to be constructors of the world, to get to work for a better world. It is a challenge, yes. Do you accept it?
Pray with me for young people so that they many respond generously to their vocations, mobilizing themselves for the great causes of the world”.
You enumerate a list of banalities that are very off-putting. Juvenile rhetoric without content other than that of the world, precisely. And you never proclaim Jesus and the salvation he brings.
What an abyss there is between your words in this video and what the great John Paul II said to the two million young people who came to Tor Vergata in Rome for the World Youth Day during the Jubilee Year 2000!
"In fact, it is Jesus you seek when you dream of happiness. It is He who awaits you when nothing of what you find satisfies you. He is the beauty that should attract you most. It is he who can provoke you with that thirst for a radicality that will not allow you to stoop to compromise. It is he who will impel you to take off the masks that falsify life. It is he who reads in your hearts the truest decisions that all others would suffocate.
It is Jesus who will inspire in you the desire to make something great of your life, the will to follow an ideal, the rejection of allowing yourself to be engulfed by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourself with humility and perseverance to improve yourselves as well as society, becoming more human and fraternal.”
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 06/05/2017 20:09]