You know how we sometimes have to tell our separated brethren that we don't worship the pope? We don't like it when they sings songs at football games about hanging him from the chapel door, but we don't worship him either. Nor do we count living popes among the canonized saints. We do not consider a living pope worthy, for example, of praise and worship music addressed to him.
But it turns out that we have to tell certain Catholics this, too. I present you with, yes, a hymn to Pope Francis. Please listen until at least the refrain.
I haven't laughed so much in days. I will now forsake my sickbed and get ready for tonight's Polish class. H/T Eccles.
Update: I'm laughing at papolatry, by the way, not the pope. I don't think any pope is a laughing matter.
No, I think she is entirely sincere. It's a sad commentary on whatever catechesis she has received. Conflating the Holy Spirit with a human being, or the ambitions of a human being, is a big no-no. A simple person may be forgiven that, though, given all the nonsense we have heard in recent years. There's a reason "confusing the faithful" has been considered such a danger.
She would probably be shocked and appalled if someone suggested she shouldn't hang out on an altar or use it as a backdrop. I think the argument goes like "Are women dirty, that we can't be on the altar?" I suspect, however, that the same women would think twice, out of respect, before going into a Hindu temple while menstruating or walking into a mosque with their hair uncovered. Interestingly, Anglo Saxon women were afraid to receive communion while menstruating, and Saint Gregory the Great, while charmed by their humility, assured their pastor that there was no bar to menstruating women receiving the Blessed Sacrament.
This would be a bad joke if there ever was one... unfortunately I don't think it's even a bad joke.
ReplyDeleteNo, I think she is entirely sincere. It's a sad commentary on whatever catechesis she has received. Conflating the Holy Spirit with a human being, or the ambitions of a human being, is a big no-no. A simple person may be forgiven that, though, given all the nonsense we have heard in recent years. There's a reason "confusing the faithful" has been considered such a danger.
DeleteWhat the heck is she doing hanging out on an altar?
ReplyDeleteShe would probably be shocked and appalled if someone suggested she shouldn't hang out on an altar or use it as a backdrop. I think the argument goes like "Are women dirty, that we can't be on the altar?" I suspect, however, that the same women would think twice, out of respect, before going into a Hindu temple while menstruating or walking into a mosque with their hair uncovered. Interestingly, Anglo Saxon women were afraid to receive communion while menstruating, and Saint Gregory the Great, while charmed by their humility, assured their pastor that there was no bar to menstruating women receiving the Blessed Sacrament.
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