Excellent, articulate interesting coverage. And God bless our Pope Francis walking the walk in a hostile world. God bless all of you. What a wonderful church we have , warts and all.
When I was about 20-22 -- 55-53 years ago. I was in Rome, having lunch with an Irish Jesuit priest who I had met in Germany. He was working on his doctorate at The Gregorian. He said to me, "God is not male. God has no gender. God has no mind and so God can't think. God has no eyes and so God can't see us. God has to ears and so God can't hear us. God has no mouth and so God can't speak. God has no heart, and so God can't love us." Etc., etc., etc. I didn't get a chance to discuss this with him because we were suddenly in a huge Rome riot. I actually never saw him again. He took me back to wherever he was living, and I stayed there for the next 10 hours, until Rome began to calm down. Phone calls were cost prohibitive. I didn't want to write about this in a letter -- of course -- that his superiors might see. My point is: even that long ago, not every priest in The Church was a True Believer.
What is your beef? We know about Judas, one of the twelve who betrayed God Incarnate to his face. You are responsible for your own reception of the report that sinful human individuals were not abandoned to the consequences of the sin of the ancestors but have been joined in their humanity by the Son of God and his participation in the suffering and dying so to conquer the ancient fall and allow freedom of will to exercise choice to live with him in eternity or not.
@@Pacdoc-oz I do not believe he had a 'beef'. In fact he summed it up by saying "My point is: even that long ago, not every priest in The Church was a True Believer." And yes there was Judas, but we should still be shocked when a priest espouses heretical beliefs. If we simply shrug our shoulders and point to Judas, we have allowed ourselves to become hardened against the painful reality of grievous sin. And that is never a good thing. Jesus could have hardened His heart so the betrayals didn't wound Him, but He did not. When we are pained by someone's grave sin, and then offer prayer to God asking pardon and healing of that person's soul, we call down graces from Heaven. We are, in fact, our brother's keeper insofar as we must desire their salvation as well as our own.
@@mariac4602@Pacdoc-oz the Judas gospel says only he understood Jesus. The symbol of Judas has been central to the New Testament persecution of the Jews.
I was ashamed to be a Belgian. The Catholic University of Leuven invited the pope to celebrate 600 university, knowing full well that a papal visit would bring the world press. The pope came and the university thanked him by having the rector magnificus criticising church policy. It was a cheap shot because there is nothing knew about church policy and it was not a forum to have an intelligent discussion. To be fair: the discussion about woman didn’t register in the Belgian press. What did register was his statement “doctors performing abortion are killers for hire”. What also registered was a priest being arrested as a drugs dealer after his homosexual friend, another priest died during a sex act while taking drugs. It is this continuous drip drip drip of scandals that has destroyed the reputation of the church. It took the church 14 years to laicise Vangheluwe. They did it this year, after pressure from the Belgian bishops, politicians, the press, a parliamentary enquiry and a papal nuncio that is not up to the job.
Thank you for your informative comment. I agree, I was a cheap shot, horrible, and as we all know, nothing is fair anymore. Pope Francis truly needs to buckle down and Get the church straight via Magisterial teaching, white is white, black is black, not these secular opinions, announcements, etc. Put your crown back on and UPHOLD 2000 + yrs of Apostolic teachings and tradition. Excercise the AUTHORITY of the church. Get rid of the bad apples.
We heard about the statement about women in the francophone press. Many Catholics were appalled with the rector's attitude. UC Louvain clearly trapped Pope Francis because they wanted to look as "woke" (hate this term), as possible.
I love the same bat time same bat channel reference each week. In keeping with that old TV show perhaps during your post you should add big colorful speech bubbles that say “Pow” and “Bam” like they used to 😂
My sense of the Synod on Synodality is that the pope was willing to ask the church what they think while taking certain issues off the table. The answer was: we are tied up in knots. Final results of the Synod: pat women on the head and move on to ... where exactly? The tussle continues ad infinitum.
@@carolynkimberly4021 The Church inches forth into the future ... inch by inch. Some of us can't wait. Fiducia Supplicans was a baby step. 500 years from now no one will remember it, we will be so far beyond it in terms of (self) acceptance.
I agree with the University's comment about his talk being 'reductive' because I do see that this dialogue around men and women has become incredibly reductive." Men are all this one women and women are all this other way, and never the twain shall meet, except in the bedroom". I am not talking about there being more than 2 genders, or denying some distinctive physiological differences which are biologically based, but to primarily view and describe women and men in these broad, yet narrow, strokes, is demeaning not only to the individuality of each person but also to the reality of God's creative act in bringing forth each person as an individual. never-to-be-repeated body and soul. We aren't all some minor variations on a theme but uniquely created individuals with our own set of traits, strengths, gifts that aren't bound by our gender. We have bold women and meek men. We have intellectually brilliant women in all fields, and the same with men. We have athletes of the highest order in both sexes and those who would rather stay home and read a good book. All that to say, the rhetoric coming from both sides of the discussion fails to acknowledge the fullness and reality of each individual person standing before us. When we look at a man and even unconsciously think "He will be like this and have these traits.." and do the same with each woman we encounter, then we lose the rich opportunity to engage with a unique person and to allow the slow unfolding of this beautiful soul before us.
the first work of grace in a baptised person is to lead them out of the grip of anger and contempt. What serious wrong has Almighty God done to you that you rage perpetually?
Pope Francis responded very well. The Francophone Catholic University has been going down an intellectual meltdown because of an active minority. Such a shame to see such a prestigious university defend shallow ideologies.
Minute 9:00 ; the problem with Pope Francis is that he speaks about women and not to women! This is in sharp contrast to Pope S:t JPII who spoke to women and elevated us when he talked about the female genius and complementarity between the sexes. Pope Francis have again and again hinted towards misogyni in his papacy and examples include the horrific Abu Dabhi document where he equal the differences between sexes as something of God’s ”permissive will” and not the positive will and thus align himself with the muslim thought of women being inferior to men, the silly comment on his journey to Sweden where devoid of historic knowledge & cultural understanding he told swedish women that we are not feminine and thus swedish men has to look for foreign wives (sic!), the appointment of women to synod etcetera that are not at all representative in their opinions of mainstream Catholic ladies, and on and on….. Honestly, we do not need female priests or dioconesses….., we need female bankers (good housekeepers) especially in the Vatican 😉
Great podcast. Please allow me to correct you on the Belgian Royal family I first thought you were saying he was a North African Bedouin His name is famous throughout all French Christendom: pronounced Bo (like Bo Bridges) : Dwan (in wan or Fawn) Bo’ Dwan). À tout Seigneur tout honneur But still great work Joseph, Montréal
I am sure pope Francis enjoyed seeing women wearing white. He always does. Most of all when getting to officiate at their wedding. What that would have to do who can go from being a deacon to a priest in the Roman Catholic church must be in the hearts of those women at the time.
Considering the prime minister of Belgium is just a caretaker and they had trouble forming a functioning government for over 10 years i suppose he took his chance to stand out since he's unlikely to achieve anything in his political career
Could John Allen be less chatty and get to the point? I live in Sweden and news about what happens in the Church is hard to come by. This could be an important source of information, but I seldom have the patience to get through his effusive and meaningless verbiage. Moreover, hard to understand since the only language he pronounces correctly is English..
The term "crimes against humanity" was first used in 1890 to describe the treatment of the Congolese by Belgian colonialists during Leopold II's 30 year direct rule. Little Belgium's pioneering role in 20th Century genocide, mass deportation, concentration camps and forced labor is today rarely remembered. However, now that Belgian PM DeCroo has opened the door, perhaps it's time to remind him and the Belgian people of their own recent bloody history which unlike the Church, they have done virtually nothing to take ownership of. Disgraceful. Nor have they ever been held to account for their pusillanimous role in the fall of France in 1940 and the collaboration of their King during the occupation.
I think that it is not unexpected that the Pope's position on women's roles in the church is "deterministic and reductive," when considered in a broad societal context. Of course, Pope Francis is correct in seeing the differences in male and female. However, when societies, except the least progressive ones, have agreed that women are capable of leading countries, armies, laboratories, businesses, etc., the Catholic position on women playing subservient roles to men by their prohibition from being part of the clergy and, hence the governing power of the organization will remain problematic vis a vis 'civilian society.'
@@carolynkimberly4021 You have missed my point completely in that it made no judgement on His Holiness's defense of the Catholic church's views on the priesthood and women. Personally, I think that your attack on Saint John XXIII is a corruption of the respect Catholics should show, not only to the Pope, who was chosen with the assistance of the Holy Spirit, but of entire process that the church goes through to declare a person a saint.
@@Trumblocity But, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. [29] And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise."
Re the pope's comments on women - is it really Catholicism and secularism? -- but how about the difference between Catholicism and many other Christian denominations who admit women to their clergy and church leadership roles
Well, you do know the difference between the historic apostolic churches and the Protestant sects? The EO, the Copts, Armenians, Ethiopians, Syrians, etc. don’t have female clergy, either. And those Prot. groups that do, often ceased confessing the basic Christian faith, like the Virgin birth, Divinity is the Savior, and His bodily resurrection. That’s not all but most.
In today's world, at least the pope is trying something to help journalists. You think it might help him? Help is what journalism needs. In an age where people get the news from podcasts and podcasters have the influence that used to be or should, if professionals these days acted as such... well, that's the problem... so, yeah, I didn't check it out, but I can see why you'd be ambivalent.
Well the 'journalists' go outta their way to help him. Vatican News Jan 22 2024: 'Departing from his prepared text, Pope Francis thanked the Vatican journalists for "the delicacy that you often show in speaking about the scandals of the Church," referring to respect for the victims and to the "silence" full of shame regarding the more lurid details. "Thank you,” he said. “Thank you for this attitude when you have to talk about scandals.” '
John Allen, please -- you need to identify very clearly what the DATE of each particular program is. Please say: "Today is mm/dd/yyyy. The new changes day by day.
You are not capable of providing an unbiased review of your wife. That's because there is a hard and fast rule in reality. I mean there is that whole horizontal bop issue and other entanglements.
What a stuoid statenent. Who are these cads who so smugly think they have a monopoly on the truth? So afraid of dialogue dissent, just obsessed with those who question and open to seeking more dialogue. You go Francis.
Your distain of "secular" anything (I love your use of "milieu") is quite evident when you kinda spit out the word. I'll grant that education -- kindergarten through college graduation -- from Harvard on down -- leaves a lot to be desired. (Part of the problem, of course, is that General Education Courses need to be at least four years long before starting on one's major and minor, because there is SO much to learn these days to be even basically educated. Of course, that would make college 6-8 years long, and I know that's impossible. But that's another story for another time.) But I am telling you -- because I know -- "secular" colleges and universities -- at least outside The US -- do a pretty good job of education. AND professors DO NOT just sit around in the "lounge" and in the classrooms and do nothing else but degrade religions and Catholicism in particular. What happens to young Catholics and members of other religions in colleges and universities is that they start to learn the difference between faith/belief and verifiable facts -- and The Church -- and the rest of Christianity -- are, eh, 'light' on verifiable facts. Also -- and I have no doubts that you won't believe me- - - I've known parish priests -- around The US AND when I lived in Europe -- for most of the last 55 years of my life. And I can tell you, for a fact, that there are more priests 'out there', than you probably suspect, who no longer believe in what The Church teaches (all of it or some aspects of it) and that they only reason that they don't leave the priesthood (and The Church) is that they don't know what they would do for a living if they did leave the priesthood -- most of them have been in their 40s when they've awakened. And my first 'taste' of that -- that not all priests were True Believers -- was way back when I was in HS and I began to realize that the assistant pastor of my parish -- and he was brilliant -- was not a True Believer. Also, if you really think and believe that The RCC is the voice of God on earth -- you MUST be kidding. God isn't some petulant guy who acts like human beings. Omg -- you MUST be kidding. Christianity's God was made in the image and likeness of human beings and is WAY too small. smh
Americans are just another bunch of sinners, nothing special. Most of us who are Christians whatever denomination were educated in a wide variety of cultures and the good news came to us through one culture, Judaism fulfilled by the Messiah. This spiritual phenomenon was yeast to raise the lump of dough into the bread of life.
Let us ponder. If "male and female he created them" is true then it is proper to meditate on the fundamental basis of the difference. Complementary and mutually necessary for relationship and species perpetuation and maturation. We know hormones and genes grow the brains of men and women with much similarity and some differences at the anatomical and functional level. Maybe it is a serious moral defect for people to allow burdens to be put on people who is not equipped to bear them. Maybe it is perfect love which seeks to protect women from leadership of the family unit. Have you noticed any world leader who has not turned grey haired within their terms of office?
One last thing for the moment: When The Church starts exhibiting the love and peace of God, then MAYBE The Church will be paid attention to. Until then -- you can pretty much forget it. The laity will continue to march out the door.
It’s interesting, as a non-Catholic, to hear the Post-VII Catholics talking all about “we, us, our.” But in scandals they revert to the old “the Church - they, them.”
Yes and I often wonder what would happen if a country or a few countries starting with the Vatican would simply boycott for a month or so. Not go to church, not do the house keeping, the secretarial work, teach catechism etc. Leave it to the all knowing clerical men what would happen? Could there be a more open diologue regarding the laity’s thoughts…
I like how Pope Francis(jon Hus),from the gateqway to Hell,canonized Pope John 23/Pope Sixtus,who started the Spanuish Inquisition,helped the Nazis and after the war he denied it with a sudeen EEcumenical Movement and had two Lucys. Well,Pope Pius 12 knew St. Peter 1's sisters were St. Martha and St. Lucy Fillipinio does not mean Sixtus underatood anything right. Saint Lucy of Fatima has been wioth me after her death and still is.
please please please GET THE NAME OF THE LATE BELGIUM KING RIGHT. IT’S PRONOUNCED BOOOODWAAAN…. NOT THE WAY YOU SAID IT. Get the pronunciation right when on video and check beforehand. So so often you get names totally mispronounced and its an insult to the person. In this case the saintly King of the Belgians.
Every time he opens his mouth, intellectually-challenged Pope Francis says something stupid, confusing, divisive and/or evil. If he won't recant of his innumerable heresies and blasphemies then he should close his mouth. Father John Matthew Duffy Toronto, Canada
@denisosullivan4065 Denis If you want to be Pope so badly, then join the priesthood and have the faith and the guts battle the Satanic Bergoglian Anti-gospel.
He defended the Church's position on abortion and the role of women very well. The faithful Belgians were overwhelmed with joy at his visit. So your attacks are a bit vile and pointless, with all due respect Father.
@mta1 Pope Francis also gives the Order of St. Gregory to his mass-murdering abortionist friends. He is deliberately loading the Apostolic College with compromised, malleable sodophiles. He has allied himself with the Rothschild banking cartel - and he is the darling of all leftist-Globalist leaders. After he says or does something contrary to the authentic Gospel, Francis shrewdly says something "orthodox" to keep the influential platform of the papacy he requires to continue attacking the True Christ. Francis speaks truth and vile falsehood on alternate days to sow confusion and divide believing Catholics. By getting the faithful to argue with each over what they think he may have said or meant, clever Pope Francis prevents Catholics from forming a unified phalanx that could battle battle effectively against his ctafy luciferian Anti-gospel. I know what I am talking about. Father John Matthew Duffy Toronto, Canada
@frederiquecouture3924 There is nothing to laugh about regarding the dangerous way of the modern world - and there is nothing funny about the present worldly Modernist hierarchy that has hijacked Christ's Church.
Are ALL of you unaware that Francis is a card carrying Freemason and these are the Last Days before the Great Chastisement promised by Our Lady of Akita in 1974?
If we really believe -- well, if you really believe -- that The Church is led by God (I still can't believe that you believe that), then you either trust that God knows what 'He' is doing -- or you don't. And quite obviously The Church doesn't trust God enough to let 'Him' do 'His' thing. smh
first, put aside the Church as Idol - the fellowship of baptised believers consists of sinners who are offered the forgiveness of their sins, guidance and instruction and support of one another as they spread the good news to others. Each individual has the freedom to choose to be for or against their maker and to be ruled by guidelines of attitude and behaviour perfect for life in eternity. We believe, we hope and we love.
It is not church teaching that God chooses the pope. God gave all free will. Certain men get together and do the picking. God may or may not approve of the choice, but free will it is. Sometimes the San Gallen mafia has the most influence.
Excellent, articulate interesting coverage. And God bless our Pope Francis walking the walk in a hostile world. God bless all of you. What a wonderful church we have , warts and all.
Yes the UN, WHO, WEF and da climate boilening crowd need as much papal approval and support as possible to do God's work.
When I was about 20-22 -- 55-53 years ago. I was in Rome, having lunch with an Irish Jesuit priest who I had met in Germany. He was working on his doctorate at The Gregorian. He said to me, "God is not male. God has no gender. God has no mind and so God can't think. God has no eyes and so God can't see us. God has to ears and so God can't hear us. God has no mouth and so God can't speak. God has no heart, and so God can't love us." Etc., etc., etc. I didn't get a chance to discuss this with him because we were suddenly in a huge Rome riot. I actually never saw him again. He took me back to wherever he was living, and I stayed there for the next 10 hours, until Rome began to calm down. Phone calls were cost prohibitive. I didn't want to write about this in a letter -- of course -- that his superiors might see. My point is: even that long ago, not every priest in The Church was a True Believer.
What is your beef? We know about Judas, one of the twelve who betrayed God Incarnate to his face.
You are responsible for your own reception of the report that sinful human individuals were not abandoned to the consequences of the sin of the ancestors but have been joined in their humanity by the Son of God and his participation in the suffering and dying so to conquer the ancient fall and allow freedom of will to exercise choice to live with him in eternity or not.
@@Pacdoc-oz I do not believe he had a 'beef'. In fact he summed it up by saying "My point is: even that long ago, not every priest in The Church was a True Believer." And yes there was Judas, but we should still be shocked when a priest espouses heretical beliefs. If we simply shrug our shoulders and point to Judas, we have allowed ourselves to become hardened against the painful reality of grievous sin. And that is never a good thing. Jesus could have hardened His heart so the betrayals didn't wound Him, but He did not. When we are pained by someone's grave sin, and then offer prayer to God asking pardon and healing of that person's soul, we call down graces from Heaven. We are, in fact, our brother's keeper insofar as we must desire their salvation as well as our own.
@@Pacdoc-oz the Judas gospel says only he understood Jesus. The symbol of Judas has been central to the New Testament persecution of the Jews.
@@mariac4602@Pacdoc-oz the Judas gospel says only he understood Jesus. The symbol of Judas has been central to the New Testament persecution of the Jews.
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I was ashamed to be a Belgian. The Catholic University of Leuven invited the pope to celebrate 600 university, knowing full well that a papal visit would bring the world press.
The pope came and the university thanked him by having the rector magnificus criticising church policy. It was a cheap shot because there is nothing knew about church policy and it was not a forum to have an intelligent discussion.
To be fair: the discussion about woman didn’t register in the Belgian press. What did register was his statement “doctors performing abortion are killers for hire”.
What also registered was a priest being arrested as a drugs dealer after his homosexual friend, another priest died during a sex act while taking drugs. It is this continuous drip drip drip of scandals that has destroyed the reputation of the church. It took the church 14 years to laicise Vangheluwe. They did it this year, after pressure from the Belgian bishops, politicians, the press, a parliamentary enquiry and a papal nuncio that is not up to the job.
Thank you for your informative comment. I agree, I was a cheap shot, horrible, and as we all know, nothing is fair anymore. Pope Francis truly needs to buckle down and Get the church straight via Magisterial teaching, white is white, black is black, not these secular opinions, announcements, etc. Put your crown back on and UPHOLD 2000 + yrs of Apostolic teachings and tradition. Excercise the AUTHORITY of the church. Get rid of the bad apples.
We heard about the statement about women in the francophone press. Many Catholics were appalled with the rector's attitude. UC Louvain clearly trapped Pope Francis because they wanted to look as "woke" (hate this term), as possible.
@@mta1 One country, two cultures. :)
I love the same bat time same bat channel reference each week. In keeping with that old TV show perhaps during your post you should add big colorful speech bubbles that say “Pow” and “Bam” like they used to 😂
Adam West would have approved. RIP Mr West.
I almost feel sorry for Francis. He probably thought he was exempt from the rule that the Revolution always ends up eating its own.
You forget to mention that Francis had Daneels on the logia with him upon his election to the papacy.
My sense of the Synod on Synodality is that the pope was willing to ask the church what they think while taking certain issues off the table. The answer was: we are tied up in knots. Final results of the Synod: pat women on the head and move on to ... where exactly? The tussle continues ad infinitum.
... and give gay married couples a pat on the head, as individuals, not as couples ... and move on.
@@fredphilippi8388 Francis already has blessed SS "couples" with his heretical Fiducia Supplicans
@@carolynkimberly4021 The Church inches forth into the future ... inch by inch. Some of us can't wait.
Fiducia Supplicans was a baby step. 500 years from now no one will remember it, we will be so far beyond it in terms of (self) acceptance.
@@carolynkimberly4021this is a horrid time in history where l like Pontius Pilate, one dares to ask’ what is trurh?’
@@carolynkimberly4021❤
I agree with the University's comment about his talk being 'reductive' because I do see that this dialogue around men and women has become incredibly reductive." Men are all this one women and women are all this other way, and never the twain shall meet, except in the bedroom". I am not talking about there being more than 2 genders, or denying some distinctive physiological differences which are biologically based, but to primarily view and describe women and men in these broad, yet narrow, strokes, is demeaning not only to the individuality of each person but also to the reality of God's creative act in bringing forth each person as an individual. never-to-be-repeated body and soul. We aren't all some minor variations on a theme but uniquely created individuals with our own set of traits, strengths, gifts that aren't bound by our gender. We have bold women and meek men. We have intellectually brilliant women in all fields, and the same with men. We have athletes of the highest order in both sexes and those who would rather stay home and read a good book. All that to say, the rhetoric coming from both sides of the discussion fails to acknowledge the fullness and reality of each individual person standing before us. When we look at a man and even unconsciously think "He will be like this and have these traits.." and do the same with each woman we encounter, then we lose the rich opportunity to engage with a unique person and to allow the slow unfolding of this beautiful soul before us.
Great commentary John. And I always enjoy your humor.
I've got more. I'm just too angry at this point to keep writing. Back later.
the first work of grace in a baptised person is to lead them out of the grip of anger and contempt.
What serious wrong has Almighty God done to you that you rage perpetually?
Last comment was adorable. God bless and have a great week.
In those moments Pope Benedict is dearly missed. He would be able to teach those professors a lesson
You mean teaching how to have a private men’s club and render women superfluous. No thank you. Good riddance Pope Benedict.
He's been 'missed' for 13 painful years
Why in the world should he be missed?
@@FrancesRobinson-yn2ks Well as Pope, he wouldn't be denigrating women.
Just for a start Frances.
Do try and rein in your nasty side.
Pope Francis responded very well. The Francophone Catholic University has been going down an intellectual meltdown because of an active minority. Such a shame to see such a prestigious university defend shallow ideologies.
Let’s hear it for the Pope .
Minute 9:00 ; the problem with Pope Francis is that he speaks about women and not to women! This is in sharp contrast to Pope S:t JPII who spoke to women and elevated us when he talked about the female genius and complementarity between the sexes. Pope Francis have again and again hinted towards misogyni in his papacy and examples include the horrific Abu Dabhi document where he equal the differences between sexes as something of God’s ”permissive will” and not the positive will and thus align himself with the muslim thought of women being inferior to men, the silly comment on his journey to Sweden where devoid of historic knowledge & cultural understanding he told swedish women that we are not feminine and thus swedish men has to look for foreign wives (sic!), the appointment of women to synod etcetera that are not at all representative in their opinions of mainstream Catholic ladies, and on and on…..
Honestly, we do not need female priests or dioconesses….., we need female bankers (good housekeepers) especially in the Vatican 😉
Good Morning.
Great podcast. Please allow me to correct you on the Belgian Royal family I first thought you were saying he was a North African Bedouin His name is famous throughout all French Christendom: pronounced Bo (like Bo Bridges) : Dwan (in wan or Fawn) Bo’ Dwan). À tout Seigneur tout honneur
But still great work
Joseph, Montréal
Francis truly is an inclusive person: he includes everyone in his insults!
Genius
John has been telling us Pope Francis is a brilliant diplomat for years..............
Popesplaining has taken a battering recently
I am sure pope Francis enjoyed seeing women wearing white. He always does. Most of all when getting to officiate at their wedding. What that would have to do who can go from being a deacon to a priest in the Roman Catholic church must be in the hearts of those women at the time.
When does reporting begin vs. opinion
Considering the prime minister of Belgium is just a caretaker and they had trouble forming a functioning government for over 10 years i suppose he took his chance to stand out since he's unlikely to achieve anything in his political career
Could John Allen be less chatty and get to the point? I live in Sweden and news about what happens in the Church is hard to come by. This could be an important source of information, but I seldom have the patience to get through his effusive and meaningless verbiage. Moreover, hard to understand since the only language he pronounces correctly is English..
The term "crimes against humanity" was first used in 1890 to describe the treatment of the Congolese by Belgian colonialists during Leopold II's 30 year direct rule. Little Belgium's pioneering role in 20th Century genocide, mass deportation, concentration camps and forced labor is today rarely remembered. However, now that Belgian PM DeCroo has opened the door, perhaps it's time to remind him and the Belgian people of their own recent bloody history which unlike the Church, they have done virtually nothing to take ownership of. Disgraceful. Nor have they ever been held to account for their pusillanimous role in the fall of France in 1940 and the collaboration of their King during the occupation.
I think that it is not unexpected that the Pope's position on women's roles in the church is "deterministic and reductive," when considered in a broad societal context. Of course, Pope Francis is correct in seeing the differences in male and female. However, when societies, except the least progressive ones, have agreed that women are capable of leading countries, armies, laboratories, businesses, etc., the Catholic position on women playing subservient roles to men by their prohibition from being part of the clergy and, hence the governing power of the organization will remain problematic vis a vis 'civilian society.'
@@travellinmark2745 The priesthood must never be corrupted by the whims of society. John XXlll should never have opened the door to the world.
@@carolynkimberly4021 You have missed my point completely in that it made no judgement on His Holiness's defense of the Catholic church's views on the priesthood and women. Personally, I think that your attack on Saint John XXIII is a corruption of the respect Catholics should show, not only to the Pope, who was chosen with the assistance of the Holy Spirit, but of entire process that the church goes through to declare a person a saint.
As it should be. The role of the priest is a fatherly role in imitation of Christ. Woman cannot assume that role and cannot be priests.
@@Trumblocity But, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. [29] And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise."
Re the pope's comments on women - is it really Catholicism and secularism? -- but how about the difference between Catholicism and many other Christian denominations who admit women to their clergy and church leadership roles
Well, you do know the difference between the historic apostolic churches and the Protestant sects? The EO, the Copts, Armenians, Ethiopians, Syrians, etc. don’t have female clergy, either. And those Prot. groups that do, often ceased confessing the basic Christian faith, like the Virgin birth, Divinity is the Savior, and His bodily resurrection. That’s not all but most.
We respect the outcome of the Election of the Pope 🕊️
Now is the day of salvation. Last week used to be. Tsk.
😂
In today's world, at least the pope is trying something to help journalists. You think it might help him? Help is what journalism needs. In an age where people get the news from podcasts and podcasters have the influence that used to be or should, if professionals these days acted as such... well, that's the problem... so, yeah, I didn't check it out, but I can see why you'd be ambivalent.
Well the 'journalists' go outta their way to help him.
Vatican News Jan 22 2024:
'Departing from his prepared text, Pope Francis thanked the Vatican journalists for "the delicacy that you often show in speaking about the scandals of the Church," referring to respect for the victims and to the "silence" full of shame regarding the more lurid details.
"Thank you,” he said. “Thank you for this attitude when you have to talk about scandals.” '
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit
AMEN. *. Satan get thee behind me 🕊️
No students got into the event at Leuven!
To commend the other who accuses the one to be sexist as "wearing pants" is a sort of sarcasm that leans into the accusation.
John Allen, please -- you need to identify very clearly what the DATE of each particular program is. Please say: "Today is mm/dd/yyyy.
The new changes day by day.
"12,500 views Oct 2, 2024" might contain a hint Fwed.
whats with the FSSP visit by the vatican hit men
The Pope takes truth to Power in Belgium.
10 births per 1000 women. Belgium will soon not exist
You are not capable of providing an unbiased review of your wife. That's because there is a hard and fast rule in reality. I mean there is that whole horizontal bop issue and other entanglements.
What a stuoid statenent. Who are these cads who so smugly think they have a monopoly on the truth? So afraid of dialogue dissent, just obsessed with those who question and open to seeking more dialogue. You go Francis.
"Who are these cads who so smugly think they have a monopoly on the truth?"
Jorge Bergoglio aka Pope Francis is the name you're searching for.
Your distain of "secular" anything (I love your use of "milieu") is quite evident when you kinda spit out the word. I'll grant that education -- kindergarten through college graduation -- from Harvard on down -- leaves a lot to be desired. (Part of the problem, of course, is that General Education Courses need to be at least four years long before starting on one's major and minor, because there is SO much to learn these days to be even basically educated. Of course, that would make college 6-8 years long, and I know that's impossible. But that's another story for another time.) But I am telling you -- because I know -- "secular" colleges and universities -- at least outside The US -- do a pretty good job of education. AND professors DO NOT just sit around in the "lounge" and in the classrooms and do nothing else but degrade religions and Catholicism in particular. What happens to young Catholics and members of other religions in colleges and universities is that they start to learn the difference between faith/belief and verifiable facts -- and The Church -- and the rest of Christianity -- are, eh, 'light' on verifiable facts. Also -- and I have no doubts that you won't believe me- - - I've known parish priests -- around The US AND when I lived in Europe -- for most of the last 55 years of my life. And I can tell you, for a fact, that there are more priests 'out there', than you probably suspect, who no longer believe in what The Church teaches (all of it or some aspects of it) and that they only reason that they don't leave the priesthood (and The Church) is that they don't know what they would do for a living if they did leave the priesthood -- most of them have been in their 40s when they've awakened. And my first 'taste' of that -- that not all priests were True Believers -- was way back when I was in HS and I began to realize that the assistant pastor of my parish -- and he was brilliant -- was not a True Believer. Also, if you really think and believe that The RCC is the voice of God on earth -- you MUST be kidding. God isn't some petulant guy who acts like human beings. Omg -- you MUST be kidding. Christianity's God was made in the image and likeness of human beings and is WAY too small. smh
Americans are just another bunch of sinners, nothing special. Most of us who are Christians whatever denomination were educated in a wide variety of cultures and the good news came to us through one culture, Judaism fulfilled by the Messiah. This spiritual phenomenon was yeast to raise the lump of dough into the bread of life.
Let us ponder. If "male and female he created them" is true then it is proper to meditate on the fundamental basis of the difference. Complementary and mutually necessary for relationship and species perpetuation and maturation. We know hormones and genes grow the brains of men and women with much similarity and some differences at the anatomical and functional level. Maybe it is a serious moral defect for people to allow burdens to be put on people who is not equipped to bear them. Maybe it is perfect love which seeks to protect women from leadership of the family unit. Have you noticed any world leader who has not turned grey haired within their terms of office?
The catch pharse is "Ignore"
John Allen is not well informed about situation in Belgium
The synod is a harness 2 restrict the free movement of the horse and rider.....
One last thing for the moment: When The Church starts exhibiting the love and peace of God, then MAYBE The Church will be paid attention to. Until then -- you can pretty much forget it. The laity will continue to march out the door.
It’s interesting, as a non-Catholic, to hear the Post-VII Catholics talking all about “we, us, our.” But in scandals they revert to the old “the Church - they, them.”
What the @#$% are you talking about?
Gosh. It takes you 10mins to get to your clickkbait subject.
I understand from a Vogue magazine article that women do 75% of the actual work in the Church.
The Pope finally said something that is correct.
Expulsions? He excommunicated a hero of the Faith, Abp. Vigano
Yes and I often wonder what would happen if a country or a few countries starting with the Vatican would simply boycott for a month or so. Not go to church, not do the house keeping, the secretarial work, teach catechism etc. Leave it to the all knowing clerical men what would happen? Could there be a more open diologue regarding the laity’s thoughts…
Oh, well if Vogue says so ....
In the Novus Ordo church, yes.
100% behind Pope Francis!
Then you are an idiot.He is an outright heretic.
me 2 .....if we land @ Normandy
Francis the destroyer. Walking disaster.
I like how Pope Francis(jon Hus),from the gateqway to Hell,canonized Pope John 23/Pope Sixtus,who started the Spanuish Inquisition,helped the Nazis and after the war he denied it with a sudeen EEcumenical Movement and had two Lucys. Well,Pope Pius 12 knew St. Peter 1's sisters were St. Martha and St. Lucy Fillipinio does not mean Sixtus underatood anything right. Saint Lucy of Fatima has been wioth me after her death and still is.
please please please GET THE NAME OF THE LATE BELGIUM KING RIGHT. IT’S PRONOUNCED BOOOODWAAAN…. NOT THE WAY YOU SAID IT. Get the pronunciation right when on video and check beforehand. So so often you get names totally mispronounced and its an insult to the person. In this case the saintly King of the Belgians.
Every time he opens his mouth, intellectually-challenged Pope Francis says something stupid, confusing, divisive and/or evil. If he won't recant of his innumerable heresies and blasphemies then he should close his mouth.
Father John Matthew Duffy
Toronto, Canada
@denisosullivan4065
Denis
If you want to be Pope so badly, then join the priesthood and have the faith and the guts battle the Satanic Bergoglian Anti-gospel.
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He defended the Church's position on abortion and the role of women very well. The faithful Belgians were overwhelmed with joy at his visit. So your attacks are a bit vile and pointless, with all due respect Father.
@mta1 Pope Francis also gives the Order of St. Gregory to his mass-murdering abortionist friends. He is deliberately loading the Apostolic College with compromised, malleable sodophiles. He has allied himself with the Rothschild banking cartel - and he is the darling of all leftist-Globalist leaders. After he says or does something contrary to the authentic Gospel, Francis shrewdly says something "orthodox" to keep the influential platform of the papacy he requires to continue attacking the True Christ.
Francis speaks truth and vile falsehood on alternate days to sow confusion and divide believing Catholics. By getting the faithful to argue with each over what they think he may have said or meant, clever Pope Francis prevents Catholics from forming a unified phalanx that could battle battle effectively against his ctafy luciferian Anti-gospel.
I know what I am talking about.
Father John Matthew Duffy
Toronto, Canada
@frederiquecouture3924
There is nothing to laugh about regarding the dangerous way of the modern world - and there is nothing funny about the present worldly Modernist hierarchy that has hijacked Christ's Church.
Stay away from religion..and you'll probably get closer to god..think for yourselves
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Are ALL of you unaware that Francis is a card carrying Freemason and these are the Last Days before the Great Chastisement promised by Our Lady of Akita in 1974?
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Hey John time to shave the Pope does
He's been growing a beard for years.
If we really believe -- well, if you really believe -- that The Church is led by God (I still can't believe that you believe that), then you either trust that God knows what 'He' is doing -- or you don't. And quite obviously The Church doesn't trust God enough to let 'Him' do 'His' thing. smh
first, put aside the Church as Idol - the fellowship of baptised believers consists of sinners who are offered the forgiveness of their sins, guidance and instruction and support of one another as they spread the good news to others. Each individual has the freedom to choose to be for or against their maker and to be ruled by guidelines of attitude and behaviour perfect for life in eternity. We believe, we hope and we love.
@@Pacdoc-oz Oh good grief. smh
Pope Francis is Pope by The Holy Spirit thence You Our God
Jorge Bergoglio is a heretic.
Oooo so then St Gallen Mafia were inspired by the Holy Spirit.....
It is not church teaching that God chooses the pope. God gave all free will. Certain men get together and do the picking. God may or may not approve of the choice, but free will it is. Sometimes the San Gallen mafia has the most influence.
All Dollar Signs $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$👀 that’s the Masonic way, by money or by force.
@@mariachico4456 Exactly but sadly most Catholics are either too stupid or uninformed to realize that.Like the Holy Ghost chose the Borgia Popes!