`Pope Francis was under pressure from within to resign before his illness because he used the pulpit to preach politics, wading into areas for which he was both unqualified and wrong.
The straw that broke the camel's back for many of the power elite in the church was his blowing off the reopening of Notre Dame …
`Pope Francis was under pressure from within to resign before his illness because he used the pulpit to preach politics, wading into areas for which he was both unqualified and wrong.
The straw that broke the camel's back for many of the power elite in the church was his blowing off the reopening of Notre Dame in Paris, considered the 2nd most prominent Catholic church in the world, but showing up later at a relatively unimportant Malta conference.
Francis burned a lot of bridges with his political agendas, and so it is not clear that any cardinal who reminds the other cardinals of Francis or his policies will ever be elected.
The biggest problem in the church is that Jesus didn't preach abstinence...that came from the middle ages because priests with children could lose church lands if the eldest son petitioned the king. The rule was to have a woman (common law wife, I guess she could be called as much) but the kids were "bastards" so that they didn't have legal claim.
This was strengthened to abstinence when sovereigns would fight with the church over power and lands, and abstinence is contrary to reality, because sex is available and desirable to every adult.
Nowadays, the horrific profile of the church as a haven for pedo clergy has gutted its power in advanced, wealthy countries.
Recently, after medical science confirmed that nailing one hands to a cross won't work because the body weight will rip through the nails and the person will flop to the ground, with their feet still nailed to the cross, or also rip out. Also, Mary Magdalene has a shrine in France where she lived for many years, so scholars researched why she would risk such a perilous journey 2000 years ago, when she wasn't under any threat and she would have no support upon arriving. Women will follow the man they are in love with to the ends of the earth, and southern France has long held that Jesus didn't die on the cross, that his feet were nailed (horrid enough) and his wrists were tied, as scholars of Roman history have concluded was typical. He was taken off--the nail with his blood is "sang real" from the myth of Percival--and Mary and his mother came to southern France, possibly landing near Arles. Speculation is that Mother Mary did visit in the area that is now Lourdes, where the Grotte de Bernadette has been the site of numerous confirmed miracles. When the Jewish religious leaders, the ones that turned on him, asked to see the body they were shown a tomb. Forced to open the tomb, Jesus' followers claimed he had arisen because Jesus was never there. That is why the shroud of Jesus was a fake.
Good post, very interesting.
`Pope Francis was under pressure from within to resign before his illness because he used the pulpit to preach politics, wading into areas for which he was both unqualified and wrong.
The straw that broke the camel's back for many of the power elite in the church was his blowing off the reopening of Notre Dame in Paris, considered the 2nd most prominent Catholic church in the world, but showing up later at a relatively unimportant Malta conference.
Francis burned a lot of bridges with his political agendas, and so it is not clear that any cardinal who reminds the other cardinals of Francis or his policies will ever be elected.
The biggest problem in the church is that Jesus didn't preach abstinence...that came from the middle ages because priests with children could lose church lands if the eldest son petitioned the king. The rule was to have a woman (common law wife, I guess she could be called as much) but the kids were "bastards" so that they didn't have legal claim.
This was strengthened to abstinence when sovereigns would fight with the church over power and lands, and abstinence is contrary to reality, because sex is available and desirable to every adult.
Nowadays, the horrific profile of the church as a haven for pedo clergy has gutted its power in advanced, wealthy countries.
Recently, after medical science confirmed that nailing one hands to a cross won't work because the body weight will rip through the nails and the person will flop to the ground, with their feet still nailed to the cross, or also rip out. Also, Mary Magdalene has a shrine in France where she lived for many years, so scholars researched why she would risk such a perilous journey 2000 years ago, when she wasn't under any threat and she would have no support upon arriving. Women will follow the man they are in love with to the ends of the earth, and southern France has long held that Jesus didn't die on the cross, that his feet were nailed (horrid enough) and his wrists were tied, as scholars of Roman history have concluded was typical. He was taken off--the nail with his blood is "sang real" from the myth of Percival--and Mary and his mother came to southern France, possibly landing near Arles. Speculation is that Mother Mary did visit in the area that is now Lourdes, where the Grotte de Bernadette has been the site of numerous confirmed miracles. When the Jewish religious leaders, the ones that turned on him, asked to see the body they were shown a tomb. Forced to open the tomb, Jesus' followers claimed he had arisen because Jesus was never there. That is why the shroud of Jesus was a fake.