NOT A GAG! It's a sign at the entrance to the hotel suite occupied by the pope at Casa Santa Marta. (I provided the overlaid translation, obviously.)
Visitors to pope's hotel suite
warned 'Complaining not allowed'
by Ines San Martin
CRUX
July 14, 2017
“Complaining Not Allowed” (in Italian, Vietato Lamentarsi), reads the sign, which was recently spotted on the pope’s door by long-time Italian Vatican watcher Andrea Tornielli. In much smaller print, a red warning on the sign defines this as the first law in the protection of one’s health and well-being.
[I do not see these words on the sign.]
The sign also warns transgressors, saying that they’re subject to developing a “victim complex”
['victimism' - vittimismo - is the word used] with the subsequent “diminution of their sense of humor and ability to solve problems.”
Complaining in the presence of children, the sign warns, would lead to a double sanction.
The sign closes on a more upbeat note, advising readers that “to become the best of yourself, you have to concentrate on your own potential and not on your limits, therefore: Stop complaining, and act to make your life better.”
The sign was produced by Italian psychologist and psychotherapist Salvo Noé, who gave it to the pontiff after a June 14 weekly audience. Noé specializes in psychology in work environments, and gives lectrues on
well-being [Ah yes, well-being - that New Age mantra for the New Ager's daily goal and ideal] to universities, security forces and companies.
[It is not surprising Bergoglio appreciates the kind of pop psychology people like Noe purvey, since it is very similar to his own tiresome platitudes.]
According to Tornielli, who got the picture and background from “an old priest who was with the pope earlier this week,” Francis promised to put it up on his office door, but seeing it would look out of place in the Apostolic Palace, he decided instead to put it where he resides.
Though Room 201 is considered the pope’s private quarters, he’s often welcomed people there, mostly long-time friends who are not part of his public agenda.
[Most famously, of course, Eugenio Scalfari, who is nonetheless very much part of Bergoglio's pubic agenda. He has become the stalwart mouthpiece through whom this pope first floats his most outrageous apostate statements, important enough to the image the pope wants to present of himself that Scalfari's reportage of the first of what would be periodic 'reconstructions' of papal interviews merited a place in the DOCUMENTS section of the pope's Vatican webpages for months - and after it was, most properly if very belatedly, taken offline, it appeared in the first Vatican-published anthology of Bergoglian interviews.]
Francis has spoken about the dangers of excessive complaining many times, including early on in his pontificate when he said that Christians who complain too much or are melancholic, “have more in common with pickled peppers than the joy of having a beautiful life.”
[Thus speaks the onetime perennial pickled-pepper face from his Buenos Aires days - before, that is, he went on to discover how much "I really enjoy being pope".]
A year later, during one of his daily morning Masses, in Santa Marta, the Argentine pope warned against exaggerating difficulties compared to those undergoing major tragedies when praying.
“Our life is too easy, our complaints are over-dramatized,” the pontiff said at the time. “Faced with the complaints of so many people, of so many brothers and sisters who are in the dark, who have lost all memory, almost lost all hope - who are experiencing this exile from themselves, who are exiled, even from themselves, (our complaints are) nothing!”
And yet, the complaints of orthodox Catholics against your relentless daily assault on the deposit of faith and your wreckovation of the Church to set up your own church are not only legitimate and well-founded but essential to the defense of the faith - and therefore just as desperate if not more than those complaints that you appear to be most concerned about. It's just that you refuse to acknowledge any complaints against you at all because you really think you cannot possibly do or say anything wrong!