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I find the above item from CNS, the news service of the USCCB, a bit absurd in its touting of the pope's 'Marian
devotion'. So, he will "begin 2018 with a focus on Mary and migrants and refugees".
The focus on migrants and refugees is by choice since he chose to make them the theme of his message for the
2018 World Day of Peace, observed by 'the Church' only and no one in other faiths and the secular world, on the
first day of the year. 2018 will be its 51st edition.
And any focus on Mary would be due to the fact that the Church does celebrate on January 1 the Solemnity of
Mary, Mother of God, so it is an obligatory focus for any Catholic, including the pope (even if he is an anti-Catholic
Catholic, that is to say a Bergoglian catholic). What happens to Bergoglio's Marian devotion for the rest of 2018 -
to be conveniently displayed when he returns from a trip and visits the Salus Populus Romani icon at Santa Maria
Maggiore, and on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception at the Spanish Steps next December? (This year, he did
not even celebrate a Mass on Assumption Day.)
The supreme irony is that 2017 was a Marian year par excellence, because of the centenary of Our Lady's
apparitions in Fatima - and yet this pope of the many-times-self-proclaimed Marian devotion objectively
devoted much more of his time, attention and public statements to celebrating Martin Luther in 2017, and
only perfunctory pro-forma because obligatory homage to Our Lady of Fatima.
One can never reproach Bergoglio enough for his obsessive devotion to Martin Luther even at the expense of
the Mother of God herself.
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