I thought it would be good to look at the last day and the funeral of the late Pope Francis and see if we can bring scripture to bear on some of the views expressed both by him and at his funeral.
Morality and internal security
You might ask: ‘What is an organisation which supports the Protestant settlement of the United Kingdom doing commenting on Roman Catholicism?’
Well, I suggest that what the leader of the world’s one point four billion Catholics says matters. It has an effect on both the cultural and spiritual environment.
I’m not talking about internal doctrine. I could go there, but I’m focussing here on matters of morality and internal security.
‘Build bridges, not walls’
It’s all very well for Cardinal Battista Re to tell mourners at Pope Francis’s funeral to “build bridges, not walls”, echoing the late pope’s own words.
But that exhortation would give rise to fewer accusations of hypocrisy were the Vatican itself not surrounded by a very big wall.
The Pope’s Swiss Guards are not known for welcoming in migrants to bed down for the night.
So if the Vatican does not want to let in any old Ahmed, Abdullah or Mohammed, why should the rest of us do so?
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’Unfamiliar customs
On Easter Day, hours before his death, the late pontiff said: “On this day, I would like all of us to hope anew and to revive our trust in others, including those who are different from ourselves, or who come from distant lands, bringing unfamiliar customs, ways of life and ideas – for all of us are children of God.”
Well, we may all be made in the image of God, but I read in the Apostle Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians in chapter two, that unbelievers are not the children of God but the children of wrath:
Eph 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
And in chapter five that they are the children of disobedience.
Eph 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Writing to the Galatians, he explains:
Gal 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Faith in Christ Jesus
Faith in Christ Jesus, the pre-condition of being ‘children of God’, is not an open characteristic of the Muslim immigrants swarming in to Europe and crossing the English Channel.
They certainly are ‘bringing unfamiliar customs, ways of life and ideas.’ Not half they are.
Customs such as antisemitism and contempt for non-Muslims, all of which is written into the Mohammedan religion. I don’t think much of their idea that poor indigenous girls in care are easy meat for their sexual depravity either.
On top of that, they are working, migrating and increasing in order to replace our Christian constitution with an Islamic one.
In Bible times, those who snuck in to a country intending to overturn its religion, and with that its laws, did not last long:
2Chron 15:13 That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
The comments of King Charles at Easter suggest he, like most of the Establishment, simply doesn’t get it and urgently needs your prayer. Celebrating Islamic festivals in our Cathedrals? The BBC promoting Islam at Easter? Our elite have a death-wish.
’Marginalised and migrants’
“How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalised, and migrants,” the late Pope wrote. By ‘vulnerable’ and ‘marginalised’, I understand he meant those of an LGBT disposition, those who according to the Bible need repentance of wicked activities and vile affections:
1Cor 6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
In fact his big mistake is to start with the pastoral, not with God’s righteous laws. You can temper justice with mercy, but start with mercy and justice won’t get a look-in.
Psalm 89:14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
And then to equate ‘migrants’ with these alleged vulnerable and marginalised folk who appear to run all our British institutions and quangos is beyond.
Funnily enough, pro-gay, pro-trans and pro-migrant are also articles of faith at the World Economic Forum, the WEF, in Davos. It is hard to escape the conclusion that Francis was the globalists’ pope.
Cardinals will meet
The Cardinals will now meet to elect a successor. As I maintain, this matters. What the pope says affects us all. Pray for his successor, who is a mere man like the rest of us, to seek the Lord in his word and stand for the family, for righteousness, for Christianity.
I’m sure you will tell me in the comments whether that is too big a prayer for our miracle-working God. But be polite. We don’t diss dignitaries here, we pray for them.
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