Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome Archives - Page 2 of 3

Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome Vol. XIX. In which Fake Site News and CRISIS!!! misrepresent Pope Francis on civil unions.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • October 4, 2017 • LGBT Issues; Moral Theology; Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome

Pope Francis Derangment Syndrome has gotten so bad that Scanlon at Crisis!!! and Baklinski at Fake Site News can quote the pope accurately but still attribute to those words a heretical meaning vastly at odds with what they plainly say. They engage in calumny in plain sight, and hope that their audience won’t notice. The pope says, “Marriage is only between a man and a woman, a union between two men is something else,” and Fake Site and Crisis!!! report: Pope approves of same-sex unions! They’re not trying to hide their deception any more.

Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome XVIII. Wherein LGBT groups lament the pope’s “dangerous ignorance” on gender identity.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • August 6, 2016 • LGBT Issues; Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome

Does Ms. Duddy-Burke really think that the pope is advocating violence? Does she really think that there are people sitting around waiting for the pope to say something about gender identity that they can then use as an excuse to go on a rampage in clubs or bathrooms? That, if only the pope would make a bold departure on these points, such people would suddenly experience a wave of brotherly love, hold hands, and sing Jackie DeShannon? LGBT individuals will not be safe unless the pope changes Church teaching? This is strange.

Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome XVII. In which the pope speaks on a plane, and the Church crashes into the Tiber.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • December 3, 2015 • Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome

The Catholic Church came to an end earlier today, dear reader, after a brief 2000-year run. It has crashed smack into the Tiber River, there are almost no survivors — only a remnant of 11 — and we must sit and gaze on the ruins and wail. Or at least that is what one would think, to judge by the apocalyptic screams coming from the right-wing blogs over the last day or two. So what happened this time? I will tell you, but you must brace yourself. Are you ready? The pope gave an interview. (I pause so you may recover your wits.)

Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome XVI; or, Maureen Mullarkey’s latest rant: Notes on a dumb show.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • October 1, 2015 • Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome

Maureen Mullarkey has given vent to another in a long, splenetic string of anti-Francis bloggage. In this one, she accuses the pope of colluding with Obama in order to destroy freedom across the globe. The short of it is, it was posted at First Things, R.R. Reno took it down, wrote a post to the effect that Ms. Mullarkey will no longer write for his site; after which, the post appeared at 1 Peter 5, and Ben Domenech at the Federalist declared that, whatever Mr. Reno does, Ms. Mullarkey is welcome to publish her filth with him.

Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome XV. Wherein a disappointed Judge Napolitano calls Pope Francis a “false prophet.”

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • September 29, 2015 • Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome

So I go to Fox News and I find Judge Napolitano raving on about the pope again. He has raved before. In his latest column, he tells us that the pope is a “false prophet” and has disappointed many Roman Catholics.” (That’s the title.) So here we go again: It’s Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome. It never ends. Mr. Napolitano starts by noting his self-identity as a “traditionalist Roman Catholic.” Within the breast of such an one is “fear and trembling over what [the pope] might say.” For reasons of their own, traditionalists always quaver in a state of near-panic.

Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome XIV. Wherein the American right erupts in a collective nutty over papal visit.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • September 20, 2015 • Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome

There is a pattern to this kind of Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome: The pope should speak of that part of the moral law I agree with, not that part I would rather avoid. So Mr. Gosar is deeply offended that the pope might speak about our duty to care for the creation. The pope, he says, wants “to guilt people into leftist policies” through “false science.” Never mind that in Laudato Si, the pope said, “the Church does not presume to settle scientific questions or to replace politics.” Conveniently, Mr. Gosar does not mention any of this.

Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome XIII. In which the Year of Mercy confounds New York Times columnist Jill Filipovic.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • September 14, 2015 • Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome; Pro-Life Issues; Sacraments

You cannot conceive, nor can I,” Graham Greene writes in Brighton Rock, “of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.” Now, if I can’t conceive it, and you can’t conceive it, and Graham Greene can’t conceive it, imagine how much trouble they must be having at the New York Times. And so they are. Jill Filipovic, the author of this latest excursion into Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome, goes as far as to call forgiveness “unforgiving.” It must have been pretzel day at Coney Island when she turned in that copy. And her piece has a plenitude of them.

Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome XII. In which Greg Toppo of USA Today says the pope’s beliefs are just like those of dissenting Catholics.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • September 3, 2015 • Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome

Mr. Toppo strikes out in the lead: “Pope Francis’ evolving views on a host of fraught social issues have surprised observers” — . Wait. Wait. Wait. “Evolving views”? What “evolving views”? Do I take it, from this, that Pope Francis was once, at some point in the distant past, a doctrinal hardliner, but has since softened and “evolved,” to the great surprise of these unnamed “observers”? How now? Would you care to chart this “evolution,” Mr. Toppo? I don’t really find any such charting in your article. Call me a skeptic.

Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome XI: I’m shocked, shocked to find that there is orthodoxy going on in this papacy.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • February 23, 2015 • Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome

Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome, in the secular media, has reached a critical mass where more and more poor souls are reporting themselves shocked, shocked to find that the pope is Catholic. Such gasps would trickle in before, but now they seem to be more frequent. Just this weekend there were two meltdowns in the liberal press: the first at MarketWatch, over the shocking discovery that the pope is not in favor of contraception; the second at the Daily Screech, over the shocking discovery that the pope is not in favor of gender theory.

Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome X: Anti-papal malarkey and damnable schism.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • January 28, 2015 • Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome

Where the pope most challenges you, perturbs you, drives you up the wall: That is the very thing you need to hear. The problem is not Peter. Rachel Lu is right: If you continue this mad campaign against Francis, your words will end up being used by secular leftists to promote their own agenda for the culture and the Church. And when that happens, you will have no room to whine about it. If you are a Catholic, you don’t ever, ever, shut your ears to Peter. Unity is in Peter. And schism , whether in fact or only by obstinacy, is damnable.

Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome IX: Glenn Beck needs a team to teach him about Catholicism.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • January 26, 2015 • Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome

Glenn Beck, with the selfless charity of one who thinks well of himself, has offered to put together a “team” that will teach Pope Francis what capitalism really is. Oh boy. Here we go again. Whenever I see stuff like this, I always wonder whether those saying it have read the pope’s words first-hand. Have they read Church social teaching, in the Church’s own words? Do they think they need to? Or do they get all their information about the Church and the pope from the secular press? Veritas? Quid est veritas? Even Rush Limbaugh’s storied pursuit of the truth stopped.

Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome VIII: More liberal denial and despair.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • January 20, 2015 • Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome

Liberalism, as it exists today, is a fairy tale that occasionally bumps up against truth, gets perplexed and angry for a spell, then returns to Neverland. In few places is this more true than in the liberal media’s coverage of Pope Francis. I have written oft about this sad phenomenon. Their delusions about Francis, and their ignorance of the Church they write about, never ends. And they seem to be woefully incurious about getting it right. In the latest episode of this saga, someone writes an article titled “Pope Francis Might Not Be As Awesome As We Thought He Was.”

Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome VII: Anna March unmasks pope’s brilliant disguise.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • June 25, 2014 • Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome

Before she published her major new essay on Pope Francis this past Sunday, I had never heard of Ms. Anna March. I confess it to my shame. Here is one of the great writers of our generation, who has penned a full seven articles now for Salon. Her titles alone convey the range and depth of her vision: “My Bad Sex Wasn’t Rape”; “My Shazam Boobs.” In the latter fine essay, Ms. March teaches us how hard-won is the lesson that “I can celebrate my tits without mourning their potential loss.” Hers truly is a voice for the ages, and she is yet but 44.

Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome VI: After LCWR rebuke, liberals all out of hope about pope?

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • May 21, 2014 • Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome

They’re all out of hope. On April 30, Cardinal Gerhard Müller — and not for the first time—rebuked the Wyrd Sisters of the LCWR. In the weeks since, the liberal media has, as oft before, lashed itself into a pitch of outrage at their imaginary folk hero, Pope Fuzzy Francis. The man of their dreams, before whom their words swooned, has taken off the happy clown nose and become Pennywise. From the bite of their comical rhetoric, one might be tempted to think that the scales are falling from their eyes and the truth will fully dawn on them that the pope is Catholic.

Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome V: In which Fox News “editor” Adam Shaw has temper tantrum against the pope.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • January 27, 2014 • Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome

Adam Pshaw of Fox News—he spells it “Shaw”—claims to be a “news editor” who “writes about Anglo-American and Catholic issues.” Or maybe it is just Fox News that makes the claim. Oh! thought I, if that is the case, let me take a look into what “Catholic issues” the twenty-something newlywed and father has tackled for Fox News. Here is what I found: Of the thirty-one articles on his archive page, twenty-four of them boast such titles as “Forget Xbox One: 2014 Could Be Nintendo’s Year” and “Duck Dynasty Video Game Offers More Gun Fun.”