Recent Popes & Francis Book (Updated with new important facts).

Recent Popes & Pope Francis Book “Let Us Dream” Review.

Popes fit into four categories: scholars, diplomats, and saints and sinners. In my view, as a youth of the 1950s, Pope Pius XII was scholar, diplomat and saint. One of the most saintly popes in the 20th century was Pope Pius X. Giuseppe Sarto?was born June 1835, and was head of the?Catholic Church ?from August 1903 to his death in 1914. Pius X opposed modernist ?interpretations of Catholic doctrine, promoted liturgical reforms and scholastic philosophy and theology. He initiated the preparation of the?1917 Code of Canon Law , the first comprehensive and systemic work of its kind. He is a?saint ?in the Catholic Church and is namesake of the?Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X .

Pius X was devoted to the?Blessed Virgin Mary ?under the?title ?of?Our Lady of Confidence ; while his papal?encyclical ?Ad diem illum ?took on a sense of renewal that was reflected in the motto of his pontificate. He advanced the?Liturgical Movement ?by formulating the principle of?active participation of the faithful in the mass by his?motu proprio ,?Tra le sollecitudini ?(1903), he encouraged the frequent reception of?Holy Communion , and lowered the age for?First Communion , which became a lasting innovation of his papacy. Like his predecessors, Pius X promoted?St. Thomas?as the principal philosophical [and theological] method taught in Catholic institutions. As pope, he vehemently opposed [many, but not all] nineteenth-century philosophies, which he viewed as an intrusion of secular errors incompatible with?Catholic dogma , especially?Modernism , which he wrote is the synthesis of every?heresy . Pius X reformed the?Curia ?with the?Apostolic Constitution ?Sapienti consilio?in 1908.

Pius X firm demeanor and sense of personal poverty, is reflective by his membership of the?Third Order of Saint Francis . After the?1908 Messina earthquake ,?for example, he filled the?Apostolic Palace ?with refugees, long before the Italian government acted. He rejected favors for his family. Many miracles took place in his name, before and after his death.?After his death, a strong cult of devotion followed his reputation for piety and holiness. He was beatified ?in 1951 and?canonized ?in May 1954 by?Pope Pius XII . The?traditionalist Catholic ?Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X ?is in his honor, while a statue of him stands in?St. Peter's Basilica . Facts on Saint Pope Pius X are the following:

1. His parents were Polish. Pope Pius X was born in Italy to parents that had immigrated to Italy after the Prussian occupation. They were given political asylum. Jan Krawiec, from Wielkopolska, was a tailor, and in order to blend into Italy, he changed his name to Giovanni Battista Sarto. Sarto means tailor in Italy, so Giuseppe chose the name because it represented what he was. Later, he and his wife gave birth to Giuseppe, who we now know as Pope Pius X.

2. Pope Pius X opened the Vatican to refugees and homeless. Some time ago, there was a moderate scandal when Pope Francis decided to provide space for local homeless people to take refuge in the Vatican. Over a hundred years ago, after a great earthquake hit Italy, in Messina, Pius X opened the apostolic palace for the refugees and homeless to take harbor therein.

3. The Pope changed Papal Dining to be with his friends. Great scandal was incurred among the elite when Pope Pius X ceased dining alone, and started inviting friends and people he met to eat with him.

4. He created a spy network to detect modernists within the Church. Proving that his assertions that modernists were pernicious charlatans that put their energies into avoiding detection, he created the “Department of Extraordinary Affairs” and appointed Umberto Begnini as the director. A network was created throughout the Church to report on modernist activities. (Pope Francis also created a secret network.)

5. Pope Pius X was the instrument of God’s miracles during his life. During a papal audience, he held a paralyzed boy. While hugging the boy, he suddenly broke free from the hug and began to run around the room in joy that he was healed.

6. Pius X began street visits, and known for keeping candy in his pocket for children. He went out to teach them catechism and made many friends among the poor and homeless in Rome and elsewhere, as he had done this while a bishop and earlier.

7. Pius X began daily sermons for the people, and weekly catechism for children. He opened up the San Damaso courtyard in the Vatican for catechism classes, where he made a special reserved space for children. Later, he would issue a Confraternity of Christian Doctrine that was motivated to reclaim children from ignorance of Our Lord.

Pope Pius XII was a not declared saint. Leaders thought he did not do enough to help Jewish people under the Nazi regime. Actually, the documented facts are that this Pontiff saved about 800-thousand Jews. The USSR was ally of FDR and Churchill during the war. Communists then spread negative propaganda about Pius XII, and unfortunately, many Jews worldwide accepted these false reports as “gospel.”

After the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, came John XXIII, who began Vatican II in 1962 with about 2,100 bishops. Many cardinals were surprised, and steadfastly opposed to it, since they thought there was no need for a Council. The pope went ahead with it anyway.

In 1958, Giovanni Montini became a Cardinal by Pope John XXIII , after the death of Pius XII in Oct. 1958. Sometime later, Cardinal Montini had three known meetings with Saul D. Alinsky, author of Rules for Radicals published in 1971, republished by Vintage Books in 1989.?At the start of his book, Alinsky wrote “…, the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom—Lucifer.”

Cardinal Martini became Pope Paul VI in June 1963, and completed the work of Vatican II. He gave controlling support to Cardinal Bugnini to change the Traditional Mass, establishing the Novus Ordo Missae, by 1965, with new sacramental rites. Hence, with Pope Paul VI approval, they radically altered Orthodox Catholicism doctrines, and changed the Mass, five years later in 1975. Most bishops attending Vatican II in 1965 voted for these changes, but they had limited knowledge of the resulting final changes that were actually approved. As a result, thousands of priests, religious and millions of laypersons left the Church. Sunday Church attendance has precipitously declined to about 23%, and sadly, only 63% believe that Holy Communion is the real body and blood of Jesus Christ.

Unrelated to Pope Paul VI, but doubtless known to Bishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio, during this timeframe, is the following report: “La Plata, Argentina, Dec 2, 2008 Archbishop Hector Aguer of the La Plata in Argentina said that the new book by Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, “Nocturnal Conversations in Jerusalem,” casts doubt on truths and practices” continuously taught by the Church. During his, program “Keys to a Better World.” The archbishop said that in his book, Cardinal Martini casts doubt on “truths and practices permanently upheld by the Church, such as the celibacy of priests, priestly ordination reserved to men and the immorality of homosexual relations.”

During the conclave, after Pope Benedict XVI resigned in 2013, it is probable that Cardinal Bergoglio’s friends, including Cardinal Sodano, a once-powerful prelate who long served as the Vatican's No. 2 official, whose legacy is blemished by his support for Fr. Marcial Maciel, serial sex abuser and founder of the Legion of Christ. Cardinal Ratzinger wanted to expel Fr. Marcial Maciel, but Cardinal Angelo Sodano stopped him. After all, Fr. Maciel was head of the Legion of Christ, which includes thousands of new priest members, especially in South America. The head of the Legions impressed Pope John Paul II (truth about Marcial was concealed from him by Sodano). ?Another Cardinal and connected with the Vatican Scandals, includes McCarrick, the sex abuse leader, who likely influenced voting for Cardinal Bergoglio to be the next pope. (McCarrick was defrocked in 2018.) A “whitewashed” Vatican report blamed Benedict XVI and John Paul II for most of the Church sex scandals. (Deceased Saint Pope JPII and retired Pope Benedict XVI (95-years) obviously could not defend themselves from this false report.)

Popes split on Latin Mass as Pope Francis reverses Benedict’s edict by Leonard Greene, New York Daily News?-?Jul 16, 2021. Pope Saint John Paul II wrote in Vatican II, “The Liturgy belongs to the whole body of the Church. It is for this reason that it is not permitted to anyone, even the priest or any group, to subtract or change anything whatsoever …,” Pope Benedict XVI agreed, writing that the Latin Mass should remain. (Latin has been the communication language of the Catholic Church for 2,000 years)

You do not need to be a theologian or a scholar to say to yourself, “Well, wait a minute; Christ founded the Catholic Church and its Doctrine, the Mass and Sacraments, and the Papacy. What He founded should endure until the end of time. How can popes take away what Christ founded? How can Church leaders modify what Christ established?”

Another interesting fact is that Pope Francis proclaimed Popes John XXIII and Paul VI “saints,” although they did not have to go through the customary advocacy process and neither had the required two miracles. Why was Pope Pius XII and blessed Bishop Fulton J. Sheen not made officially saints, when both had multiple confirmed miracles?

?Our Blessed Lord nevertheless determines who is actually a saint, and who is a sinner.

We all should know that “human error” befalls all persons, including Popes Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Pope Francis. In addition, faithful Catholics should not refuse to obey disciplinary laws and moral teaching of popes when they teach as the ordinary universal magisterium. There have been 266 popes since Jesus Christ established His Church on Pentecost Sunday, 2,000 years ago. Allegedly, thirty of these popes were “bad apples” and Church leaders. In many cases (not all), they were immoral in their personal lives, which had little or nothing to do with their papal duties, and some have certainly confessed their sins. Let us leave to Christ to judge the souls of Church Leaders, as well as all members of His Christian Church.

Most of Pope Francis public meetings and statements or declarations, we believe, have been personal public statements, which are not decrees made officially, under the “Universal Magisterium” prepared from the Chair of Peter, Vicar of Christ. Free people in Democratic societies have “freedom of speech” and they often say whatever comes to mind without thinking. Catholics should respect and honor the Office of the Papacy, but they do not have to accept every pope statement. Our attitude should be that we always have respect for this office, as we should always have for the U.S. President’s Office.?

Cardinals, Bishops Priests and Deacons take oaths of obedience. Laypersons do not take oaths of obedience. Christians should however consult their established conscience. ?We should always respect faiths that preach goodwill. We cannot/should not support faiths that promote violence. Pope John Paul II wrote, “Only Schismatic, Apostasy, and Heretics are excluded [from the Church], not [true baptized] members of the Catholic Church.”

The following represents my concluding review of Pope Francis new book: “Let Us Dream—The Path to a Better Future.”

Preamble: All popes should know that public and political statements in in the media and published works could have a pronounced influence on the public, especially Catholics, Protestants and other faiths, worldwide. From this book, one can see Francis Socialistic Philosophy, which evolved from his suffering experiences with the past fascist government of Argentina, which was particularly cruel towards his people and priests.?Thus, Francis “pendulum” of thinking and his philosophy shifted far left of fascism, which he labels “Conservativism,” towards Socialism. His brand of Socialism Ideology permeates numerous pages of this book. Francis is no longer archbishop of one country after he claims leadership of over a billion Catholics. While we find good and insightful ideas in Pope Francis published work, our primary objective is to learn and understand his thought processes, which is the basis of his philosophy and theology.

“A Socialist is someone who loves to spend other people’s money.”

Pope Francis book: “Let Us Dream—The Path to a Better Future” has three chapters: Let Us Dream, Let Us Choose, and A Time to Choose. This is the third and last chapter.

Socialism. Page 54: “Another principle of [Catholic] Social [Liberation] Teaching is the ‘universal destination of goods.’. …The goods of life—land and lodging, and labor—should be made available to all. …Coronavirus has accelerated a change of era that was already under way. …Things we never imagined would take place—the environmental collapse, a global pandemic, the return of populisms …It is an illusion to think that we can go back to where we were. Attempts at restoration always takes us down a dead-end street.”

Response: We had most of these “challenges” in past centuries. If by environment he means “climate change,” it has varied over millions of years of recorded history. It has not collapsed! Pandemics also existed previously, such as the Spanish flu. Populism returns when people are frustrated with liberal leadership. When have “attempts at restoration” of Conservative principles been a “dead-end street?” We must reestablish Catholic doctrines, practices, and expose extreme liberal immorality.

No Certainties. Page 55-56: “Whoever takes refuge in fundamentalism is afraid of setting out on the road to truth. Discernment [judgement, sensitivity], on the other hand, allows us to navigate changing contexts and specific situations as we seek the truth… I learned this way of thinking from Romano Guardini …in his book The Lord. Guardini showed me the importance of el pensamiento incompleto, unfinished thinking. .. With Guardini, I learned not to demand absolute certainties in everything, which is the sign of an anxious spirit. …When things and people manifest their essence, they give us the certainty of their truth, the trustworthy evidence that invites us to believe in them.

Response: If discernment “allows us to navigate changing contexts,” how can this be “certainty of their truth? ?How can one suddenly “believe in them versus others?” The Pope says the Hebrew vowel “emet,” on the other hand, connects truth to fidelity, and to what is certain, what is firm, what does not deceive or disappoint.” We agree! There is “objective truth,” based on reason, mathematics, and sciences. There is “revealed truth” in the Gospels—not truth based on “changing contexts.” Subjective truths, such as the arts, music, and feelings are emotions are variable truths.

Limits of Love. Page 56: “The sin is in exploiting what must not be exploited, in extracting wealth (power or satisfaction) from where it should not be taken. Sin is the rejection of the limits that love requires.… In other words, if you think that abortion, euthanasia, and the death penalty are acceptable, your heart will find it hard to care about the contamination of rivers and the destruction of the rainforest.”

Response: If Francis believes this story of The Lord, why does he “mandate” radical changes for Traditional Catholics and its original prayers, rituals, and early practices? The Pope equates “sin” with “scientific progress.” In Genesis 28: “God blessed them and said, “Be fertile, increase in number, fill the earth, and be its Master.” The poor have progressed by Capitalist financial systems and by extracting food from “Mother Earth.” Communist China moved nearly a billion people out of poverty.?Love is not about limits!

Love is sacrificial love, as Jesus Christ did for all sinners on Calvary. ?

Catholics do not accept abortion or euthanasia. The death penalty is allowable in extreme cases. Saint Thomas Aquinas says so, as does the Catholic Catechism. Christians are clearly against contamination of rivers and destruction of rainforests.

Discernment. Page 57: “If you don’t open up, you can’t discern. Hence my allergy to moralism’s and other –isms that try to resolve problems with prescriptions … and rules. … I believe in objective truths and solid principles. I am grateful for the solidity of the Church’s tradition, the fruit of centuries of shepherding humanity and of fides quaerens intellellectum, faith seeking reasoning and understanding. Discernment is as old as the Church, It follows for the promise that Jesus made to His disciples that after He was gone the Spirit “will guide you into all the truth” (John 16:13).

Response: Is the pope against moral teaching or rules in the Catholic Church? If Pope Francis is grateful for the solidity of the Church’s tradition, then why is he mandating elimination of Latin Masses? Why did he claim Lutherans, Islamic, Buddhists and Amazonian Pagan faiths are equivalent to the Catholic faith and traditions? Who are these multiple spirits? How will Pope Francis know which of the billions of people are listening to the One True Holy Spirit? What if they are listening to evil spirits in this discernment processes? Who can recognize and determine the difference? In addition, the pope put in charge of this Synod Process, two alleged heretic leaders.

Argentine Poet. Page 58: Francis quotes from Francisco Luis Bernardez: “At the end of it I’ve understood that what on the tree flowers lives from what is buried. A tree separated from its roots does not flower or fruit, but dries up. So here we have two ills from the same cause: the abandonment of the elderly deprived of the visions of the young, and the impoverishment of the young deprived of the dreams of the old; and a society that dries up, becomes fruitless, and sterile.”

We agree that this is a beautiful expression from an Argentine poet.

False Messiahs. Page 61: In crises, “false Messiahs” always appear who ignore the freedom of the people to build their own future, …Discerning what is and what is not God, we begin to see where and how to act. …What comes from God asks: What is good for me, what is good for us?

Response: We do not think God is only insuring “freedom of people to build their own future.” We think God asks, “Do you believe in My Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ? Will you follow His gospel teaching, and sacrifice for His Church?” Does the pope not realize that we are already in a “huge social explosion,” which liberal groups helped to facilitate with immoral outrages and failure of Vatican leadership in the Church, including financial scandals? He offers a “false choice” between saving the financial system, and saving lives. The truth is that one cannot save lives without also sustainable financial systems. Moreover, it is unrealistic to expect to provide every person in the world with what he calls “a dignified existence.” ?The role Jesus Christ gave to the Apostles in the Catholic Church is to preach the Gospels and Save Souls, not simply “a dignified existence” on earth for today’s eight billion people.

Historical Perspective: By Nikolas Kozloff (April 30, 2008): The recent election of former Bishop Fernando Lugo as President of Paraguay poses a sticky dilemma for the Vatican and underscores the hostile political environment facing incoming Pope Benedict XVI in South America. Lugo, who was known to his constituents as the “Bishop of the Poor” [comparable to Bishop Bergoglio] for his support of landless peasants, advocates so-called Liberation Theology, a school of thought, which took shape in Latin America in the 1960s. Recognizing the pressing need for social justice, Liberation Theology was minted by Pope John XXIII to challenge the Church to defend the oppressed and the poor. Since its emergence, Liberation Theology has consistently mixed politics and religion. Its adherents have often been active in labor unions and left-wing political parties. Followers of Liberation Theology take inspiration from fallen martyrs like Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador and Dorothy Mae Stang, American-born nun murdered by ranching interests in Brazil. A right wing death squad gunned down Romero, an outspoken voice for social change, in 1980 during a Mass in the chapel of San Salvador’s Divine Providence hospital. Dorothy Stang [was] an advocate of the poor and the environment was shot to death in the Brazilian Amazon in February 2005; her assailants were later linked to a powerful local [proprietor].

Doctrinal Czar. During the 1980-90s [Pope] Benedict XVI, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, acted as John Paul II’s “Doctrinal Czar.” At the time, John Paul was in the midst of a fierce battle to silence prominent Church liberals. “This conception of Christ as a political figure, a revolutionary, as the subversive of Nazareth,” the Pontiff [Saint JPII] once said, “does not tally with the church’s catechism.”

In 1983, the Pope [Saint John Paul II] wagged his finger at Sandinista government minister and Nicaraguan priest, Ernesto Cardinal on a trip to Managua, warning the latter to “straighten out the situation in your church.” As prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican’s doctrinal watchdog agency, Cardinal Ratzinger warned against the temptation to view Christianity in an exclusively political light. Liberation Theology, he said, was dangerous as it fused “the Bible’s view of history with Marxist dialectics.”

Value of Everything. Page 61: Francis quotes from Mariana Mazzucato’s book, which provoked a lot of reflection within him {Francis]. ?He quotes from Kate Raworth, an economist at Oxford University, who talks of “doughnut economics”: how to create distributive, regenerative economy that move people out of the ‘hole” of destitution but avoids the ’ceiling” of environmental damage.?[They both] contributed to the Vatican’s thinking [meaning Pope Francis thinking] about a post-Covid-19 future.”

Response: Mariana Mazzucato faults [Western Capitalism] where she claims, “We didn’t create anything,” like former President Obama famously argued on TV with the Joe the Plumber. Kate Raworth, known for her 'doughnut economics', a model that balances between essential human needs and planetary [Earth] boundaries. Some of these are good ideas, but in the extreme, are against all free market forces. Francis repeats his belief that “all of humanity have access to land, lodging, and labor …” which perhaps speaks of his viewpoint or ideology about Liberation Theology.

Vatican Bank Scandals: Founded in 1942 as a means to manage money on behalf of the Catholic Church, its main purpose was to ‘provide for the safekeeping administration of movable and immovable property entrusted to it by physical or juridical persons and intended for works of religion or charity.’ It was plunged into disrepute in the late 1970s after many years of rumors about money laundering on behalf of the alleged mafia.

The bank that acts on behalf of the Catholic Church has developed a reputation for corruption, scandal and mismanagement over the last few decades. Murder, bribery, suspicious deaths, money laundering, and other nefarious acts linked to the bank known as the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR). Pope Francis as leader of the Catholic Church in early 2013, made it clear that one of his goals was to reform the way the Vatican Bank is operating, bringing about a series of reforms that would restore confidence and trust in the financial arm of the church. [Changes to a secretive institution was always going to prove a difficult task].

When Pope John Paul I died in 1978 in mysterious circumstances, many conspiracy theories suggested it might have had something to do with his desire to clean up the affairs of the Vatican Bank. The scandal intensified a few years later, when in the early 1980s a bank that it had a majority stake in called Banco Ambrosiano hit the news for all the wrong reasons. Bank leaders transferred money out of the country into shady overseas banks, as well as linked to an illegal masonic lodge known as Propaganda Due, which had ties to the Mafia. Banco Ambrosiano was investigated. Its Chairman, Roberto Calvi, was arrested and sentenced to four years in prison. After release on appeal, Calvi fled Italy, and found hanging under London’s Black friars Bridge shortly after.

Page 66: Role of Women: “But the highest–ranking post is the Secretary of State, where the undersecretary for relations with states is a woman who has the responsibility for the Church’s relations with multilateral organizations such as the United Nations and the Council of Europe.” … ”In a body responsible for overseeing the financial management and policies of the Vatican made up of seven cardinals and sever laypeople, it is striking that six of the later are women.”

Response: We have no issue with highly-qualified women in high management positions. Nevertheless, after multiple Vatican banking scandals, by cardinals over decades, this Pope is distributing responsibilities to 14 high-level women and men. Will dilution of management responsibilities save the Vatican from future bankrupting? Should the Catholic Church depend on the UN (two-thirds of which are Muslims) and EU Council (who are Socialists), and have denied centuries of actual Catholic history of founding European culture, universities, sciences, guidance and support?

Homosexuality Issues: In an unprecedented move for the Vatican, Cardinal Raymond Burke was removed from the church’s highest court to become the chaplain of the Knights of Malta, a Vatican charity group, after vocally opposing the church’s recent progressive moves. His new?position holds limited responsibilities. The church has seemingly adopted a more accepting stance toward the gay community. Francis famously said “who am I to judge?” about gay people, and, last month, at the church’s annual meeting produced a document asking church leaders to discuss whether they were ready to be more welcoming towards divorced Catholics and gay people.

Response: “The pope is not free to change the church’s teachings with regard to the immorality of homosexual acts or the insolubility of marriage or any other doctrine of the faith,” Burke responded.?

Page 72-73: Church Sins: “Christ’s followers should love and listen to the Church, build her up, take responsibility for her, including her sins and failures…. These people end up trading doctrine of ideology, and their suspicions and suppositions lead them ultimately into conspiracy theories, viewing everything through distorted lens. For example, at the Synod of Amazonia in Rome in October 2019 some groups in the Church and their media reported the presence of indigenous people through a continuously distorted lens…. The presence of native people in the prayer service—was twisted by hysterical accusations of paganism and syncretism.”

Response: Real Catholics support their Church. It is the leadership and high-level individuals, not the “Church,” that are irresponsible and lead to these failures. The Amazonia native people, in their “pagan prayer” service(s) were clearly using idols and dancing at St. Peters tomb. Our pope and leadership should never support pagan idolatry and unchristian worship in this holy dwelling or any Basilica.

Page 82-83 Synod Approach: “The synod experience allows us to walk together now not just in spite of our differences, but seeking the truth and taking on the richness of the polar tensions at stake. …What matters most is that harmony that enables us to move forward together on the same path, even with all our shades of difference. … There have been three synods during my time as Pope: on the family, on young people, and on Amazonia. At each, more than two hundred bishops and cardinals and laypeople gathered …to carry out discernment ... at the end of which bishops voted on the concluding document.”

Response: Pope Francis assumes this synod will provide “harmony that enables us to move forward together on the same path, even with all our shades of difference.” There is no justification for his “assumption.” Our own experience at the local synod meeting level is that only “positive” inputs are acceptable, and most critical issues will likely by filtered-out in the “discernment process.” as it moves up the chain of bishops within each organization, to the Synod leadership, who are alleged heretics.?

My summary viewpoint based on Pope Francis new book “Let Us Dream”? (We encourage our readers to obtain a copy of the Pope’s new book and form their own conclusions, which not based on theories or inference, but in consideration of all the facts.)

1.????Pope Francis is a Socialist, and appears to favor Liberation Theology. Popes Saint Pius X, Saint John Paul II, and Benedict XVI considered this theology as profane.

2.????Francis claims to be a “pope of mercy,” who refuses to condemn anyone, including homosexual leadership activities. He defrocked Cardinal McCarrick, only after most bishops considered him guilty, five years later. The Pope backs abortionists President Biden and Speaker Pelosi, who claim to be “good” Catholics. He also proclaims Christ may have forgiven His betrayer, Judas.

3.????Francis considers other faiths, such as Islam, Lutherans, Buddhists, equivalent to the Christ’s Catholic Church.

4.????Francis proclaimed “ridged” Catholics are sinful and mandated discontinuance of Latin Masses, which existed nearly 2,000-years.

5.????Francis promotes UN Political Socialistic policies, including climate change, saving “Mother Earth,” and wages for everyone.

6.????Francis has not advocated teaching the gospels and morality, or saving souls by conversions in this book. He speaks only of “groups or classes of souls,” akin to Biden’s political speeches about the “Soul of the Nation,” absurdity.

7.????Pope Francis ordered Sacraments discontinued and Churches closed during the Covid19 pandemic, especially during Holy Week of Easter in 2020. He demanded that all people obtain anti-virus shots and wear masks, even when some have natural immunity or have other critical conditions. (Reportedly, some of the leading vaccines use aborted human embryos in composition.)?

8.????Francis “read all thirty-seven volumes of Ludwig Pastor’s History of the Popes.” He wrote, “Once you know that papal history there’s not much that goes on in the Vatican curia and the Church today that can shock you. It’s been a lot of use to me.” Allegedly, secret recording of phones occurs in the Vatican.

9.????Francis is very political in his viewpoints against conservatives in and against sovereign countries establishing walls to prevent illegal foreign incursions (which is out-of-control in the U.S.), whereas the Vatican has a 30-foot walls. He is extremely critical of GOP leaders and overtly supportive of DEMs, including those who publically advocate for abortions, worldwide. Charitable funds have been used to support millions of illegal migrates and circuitously for abortions and contraceptives for numerous groups in foreign countries.

10.?Pope has failed to excommunicate well-known Speaker Pelosi, which is a scandal in her forceful advocate for abortion. She has repeatedly referred to her Catholic faith as a “justification for doing so.” In her May 4 comments to?The Hill, she not only grounded her support for abortion?in her status as a “devout Catholic,” ?she described Pope Francis and the Church teaching against abortion as an “appalling” invasion of an issue of a “personal nature.” Pope Francis continues to create political deficiency by appointing Cardinal Gregory as new leader in Washington, D.C. further emboldening abortionist false Catholic politicians from Biden, to Senators, and numerious other scandalous leaders.

11.?The Pope continues to not deal effectively with Catholic outrages: homosexual scandals, multiple banking scandals, leadership scandals, pagan idol scandals, German Church Schism (pending), the Pope's elevation of excommunicated Luther, Islam “equivalence” scandal, and elimination of the Traditional Latin Mass. The ambiguous worldwide Synod process involves people, including the unbaptized and atheists, under Vatican management by alleged heretics.

Finally, I quote from a Pope that I admire for his outstanding intelligence, Catholic theology and serenity, who knew his own limitations and sacrificed himself for the Good of the Church: "Over the pope as expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority, there stands one's own conscience which must be obeyed before all else, even if necessary against the requirement of ecclesiastical authority. This emphasis on the individual, whose conscience confronts him with a supreme and ultimate tribunal, and one which in the last resort is beyond the claim of external social groups, even the official church, also establishes a principle in opposition to increasing totalitarianism". (Source: Joseph Ratzinger in: Commentary on the Documents of Vatican II ,Vol. V., pg. 134 (Ed) H. Vorgrimler, New York, Herder and Herder, 1967).

Saint Francis of Assisi, in the 13th century travelled to the Middle East, on a mission to convert the Sultan leader of Islam to Christianity. He failed! Nonetheless, Francis’s holiness so impressed the Sultan, that he permitted Franciscans the right to maintain Christian sites from 1219 AD until the present day. In contrast, Pope Francis went to Islamic leader Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the important imam in Sunni Islam?“hand-in-hand in a symbol of interfaith brotherhood”, as foretold in biblical prophecy. The Pope then stated The “God” of Allah and of Christianity are the same.?

Pope Francis then declares that, “the diversity of religions” that we see in the world was “willed by God”… “The pluralism and the diversity of religions, color, sex, race and language are willed by God in His wisdom, through which He created human beings. This divine wisdom is the source from which the right to freedom of belief and the freedom to be different derives. Therefore, the fact that people are forced to adhere to a certain religion or culture must be rejected, as too the imposition of a cultural way of life that others do not accept …” (This contradicts the Apostles Creed.)

These are historical facts and direct “quotes” from Pope Francis new book, “Let Us Dream.” While the Pope explores many troubling problems of society, he presents idealistic socialist solutions. Catholic leadership mission, we believe, is to first preach the gospel and save souls. He speaks of “groups,” yet evades teaching morality and standards for individuals. His focus is often on “other faiths” and he avoids or evades any talk of conversions of anyone to Catholicism.

Without Orthodox Catholic leadership, which teaches morality by example, we will lose our “distinctiveness” vis-à-vis some mainstream “compromised” Christians. Today’s youth are wandering in a sea of confusion, and they are crying-out for genuine leadership.

Please pray for Pope Francis that the Holy Spirit will guide him. Your candid feedback on this Book Review is always welcome.

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