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Showing posts with label fraternity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fraternity. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Pope Francis says Fraternity is the "anchor of salvation." REALLY? What happened to Jesus?

Pope Francis is at it again with his video message celebrating the Day of Human Fraternity. 

It's deja vu! Or maybe we've wandered into a time warp in the universe taking us back to the "enlightenment" of the French Revolution with its motto of "liberty, equality, fraternity." Francis certainly seems to glory in the language of that era. Really...he wrote an entire encyclical on it that Topsy and Tuptim discussed at length.

We hear plenty of demands these days for liberty and freedom, most of which involve being "liberated" from, not only the laws of God, but from nature itself. And now Francis tells us in a video message celebrating the "Day of Human Fraternity" that Fraternity is the "anchor of salvation for humanity." Not Jesus Christ, of course, but "fraternity." Let's all hold hands and sing Kumbaya. 

Our resolve is to walk side by side, “brothers and sisters all,” in order to be effective artisans of peace and justice."

It makes one's head spin.

Saturday, March 13, 2021

Topsy and Tuptim Meet at the Apple House after a Long Hiatus to Discuss Chapter 3 of Fratelli Tutti!

[Part I and Part II

Topsy looks flustered as she comes into the Apple House and sees Tuptim sitting at a table drinking coffee. 

Tuptim: (Putting down her cup and tapping her watch) Hey, Lady, where have you been?

Topsy: (apologetically) Traffic on 81 was terrible -- another truck problem...a jackknifed semi at the first Strasburg exit. Fortunately I wasn't too far from the exit, but it still took twenty minutes to go a quarter of a mile. Sheesh! It seems to happen at least once a week on that highway.

Tuptim: Oh gosh! That's so frustrating.