In the famous interview-meeting of Pope Francis with young people from different backgrounds, made public by Disney+ on April 11, one of the participants, Celia Fernandez (who defines herself as non-binary, neither a man nor a woman, or at least not totally (????), "explains" to the pontiff what a non-binary person is, then defines herself as "Christian" (who knows why) and asks him if he sees a space for trans, non-binary or LGBT people. The response of the Bishop of Rome (as he likes to define himself) is that "every person is a child of God, God does not reject anyone, God is a father, I have no right to throw anyone out of the Church, [...], the Church cannot close the door to anyone".
Celia then asked him "what do you think of those people in the Church or priests who promote hatred and use the Bible to support those speeches of hatred and who read you as the gospel to say 'I am not excluding you, the Bible says so'?", to conclude by saying "that is not the message of Jesus".
Immediately, don Jorge Mario Bergoglio affirms:
"those people are infiltrators, who take advantage of the school of the Church for their personal passions, for their personal narrowness, it is one of the corruptions of the Church [...], closed ideologies, deep down all those people have an internal drama, a drama of very great inner incoherence, who live to condemn others because they do not know how to ask forgiveness for their own faults. In general, one of these people who condemns is incoherent, he has something inside, so he frees himself by condemning others, when he should bow his head and look at his own guilt".
Let's just mention the fact that this "non-binary" girl confusingly refers to the Bible as the source of hate speech, and states flatly that "that's not the message of Jesus". That is, what the Bible says is not what Jesus says (????), obviating the fact that the Bible is the Word of God. God speaks eternally through the Holy Scriptures, not that they contain what God said but what He says, in each historical moment and in each of the regions of the planet.
But what is striking is that the Bishop of Rome takes this statement as valid, to reaffirm that those who condemn homosexuality based on the Bible are "infiltrators", which is a unique rarity: for Don Jorge, the infiltrators are those who are inside, not those who come from outside, like those who make these statements that have a strong whiff of progressivism of Anglo-American matrix (George Soros et alii).
These infiltrators, in the Bergoglian interpretation, are "narrow" people who have an "inner drama", they are enormously incoherent who live to "condemn others", incoherent people who have "something inside" who free themselves by "condemning others", when in reality "they should be more humble". Rather than as Bishop of Rome and pastor, our compatriot seems to speak as a psychologist, quite amateurish by the way.
Now, St. Paul speaks in his letters - also today - and tells the Christians of Corinth not to associate with anyone who calls himself "brother" but is "impure, greedy, an idolater, an outrageous person, a drunkard or a thief" (1 Cor 5:11). And then he states emphatically that "the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God", in the sense that "neither the impure, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor rapacious will inherit the kingdom of God" (1 Cor 6:9-10). To the Christians in Ephesus, St. Paul tells them that "fornication, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as is fitting for the saints," for "no fornicator or unclean person or covetous man shall share in the inheritance of the kingdom of Christ and of God" (Eph 5:3-5). And in his First Letter to Timothy, the Apostle of the Gentiles says that "the Law is good, provided it is taken as law, 9 bearing in mind that the law was not made for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the irreligious and profane, for parricides and murderers, for murderers, adulterers, homosexuals, traffickers in human beings, liars, perjurers, and for everything that is contrary to sound doctrine [...]" (1Tm 1:1). ...]" (1Tm 1:9-10).
But as if it were not clear from these quotations what the Apostle affirms, he reminds the Christians of Rome that "the invisible nature of God, since the creation of the world, has been revealed to the intellect through his works: His eternal power and His divinity, so that they are inexcusable; because, having known God, they did not glorify Him as God or give thanks to Him, but became confused in their reasoning and their foolish heart was darkened: boasting that they were wise, they became stupid" and "exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature instead of the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. Therefore God gave them over to evil passions; for their wives exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones; and men, abandoning the natural use of women, burned with lust for one another, committing the infamy of man with man, receiving in themselves the recompense of their error" (Rom 1:20-27).
From the words of the Bishop of Rome it follows then that SAINT PAUL WOULD THEN BE AN INCOHERENT WHO INFILTRATED IN THE CHURCH OF CHRIST (????). In such a case, it would be good if Don Jorge would explain - IF HE CAN - what is the internal drama that afflicted St. Paul, what was his drama of very great internal incoherence that led him to condemn others because "he did not know how to ask forgiveness for his own faults", leaving all this in writing. If what he says is true, SHOULD THE BIBLE HAVE TO BE MODIFIED, or in any case, THE PAGES CONDEMNING HOMOSEXUALITY HAVE TO BE ARRANGED?
Ultimately, who is right: St. Paul or Bergoglio? Is the Word of God expressed through St. Paul or the Bishop of Rome? Ultimately, who is right: God in the Bible or Freud in psychology?
José Arturo Quarracino
April 12, 2023
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