'Tucho' Fernandez's declaration of love for the Pope

The 10 years of Francis: a Pontiff turned prophet of human dignity

We judge everything through the sieve of our own political option, to the point that we demand that the Pope only say what may be useful to his own ideological interests. (Cathcon: Speaking for yourself, Tucho!) 

Francis demystified the Papacy, made it simple, street, at hand, with the language that everyone understands. He put on the mystique of God's love and fraternity but ended up removing all aura of mystery, rarity, and inaccessible power. Someone would say that this is suicidal, because in this way he exposed himself to being rudely mistreated by Catholics who do not agree with him in their blogs. They even treat him as a heretic or a false pope. These are things that a short time ago, if someone said them, they would immediately earn an extreme canonical measure. But those who condemn him as a heretic, at the same time demand that he condemn the bishops and theologians for certain "doctrinal errors", which he does not do. They do not finish accepting that the Papacy loses its character as an all-powerful and controlling judge. To make matters worse, it occurs to Francis to say: "Who am I to judge?"

Cathcon: Once the Papacy is demystified, then the modernists will move on to demystifying Christianity.  After all, they think synod makes the Church, when in reality it is the Mass. 

With his close lifestyle, simple, expressing his opinion freely and without giving excessive importance to his own opinions, he brought the papacy closer to that simplicity of the first pope, Peter, the fisherman from Galilee. We cannot deny that this has a lot to do with the Argentina that nurtured it. Most Argentines don't reveal titles of nobility, we don't like anyone who pretends to be powerful or know-it-all, we like plain treatment, shared mate, the freedom to speak.

But the mark of the immigrants who arrived is also very Argentine, and Bergoglio harbors a Piedmontese spirit, of hard-working, hard-working, persistent people. He likes to get up very early, takes few breaks, is not obsessed with pleasing himself, and leads an austere life committed to great goals. That is why he himself has forcefully said that "there is no worse indignity than that which deprives the dignity of work." It is curious how they have manipulated his teachings to the point of saying that he encourages laziness.

Cathcon:  Hard work is not impressive if it is working to bad ends, such as the abolition of the Latin Mass.  Unfortunately, one of the defining characteristics of Francis is not physical laziness but intellectual laziness.

Thus we move on to a great drama of our homeland, especially in the last decade: throwing everything into the devouring whirlwind of the abyss. Judge everything through the sieve of our own political option, to the point that we demand that the Pope only say what may be useful to his own ideological interests. If not, turn it around. This is one of the reasons why a visit from you to our country and to others, such as Spain, experiencing similar situations, will be difficult.

Francis, who never stops talking about a God he loves and who waits, of a Christ who saves and always gives a new opportunity, is why he himself has become a prophet of human dignity.

Cathcon:  This simply does not square with the texts that are issued, where Christ gets a walk on part if that.

Perhaps this is the central theme of his message: that dignity, beyond any circumstance, since every human being has infinite value due to the immense love of God that sustains him. He then defends immigrants, calls for a dignified life for prisoners, rejects the death penalty, gives voice to the most discarded and abandoned, issues that are not politically correct and touch some interests.

To the words he adds gestures that we already know: his first visit to Lampedusa, his lunches with people who sleep on the streets, his phone calls to the most forgotten people on the planet, his trips to countries that nobody knows about, and all to say: where there is a forgotten or despised human being there is a treasure, and I want to be there.

If there is a desperate mother, fleeing sexual exploitation and misery on a raft, with three children on her back, does it make sense to demand that Francisco send her back to her land, to uphold an anti-immigration message, even more so, that condemns her to destitution just because she was born beyond a border line? Would it make sense for him to join the message of sending all prisoners to the wall, especially if they are black? Or ask him to expel that family with small children that he built where he could, a little room with four sheets to spend the winter?

On the other hand, we can hear him condemning the traffickers of human beings who throw them into the sea, or the gangsters who profit from the seizure of land. But pretending that he spends his time defending the powerful would be useless. Let's better accept him as he is, let's try to collect the contribution of his thought and his beautiful testimony, and thus we will always have the affectionate memory of having had an Argentine pope. We will feel that it was ours that voice that resounded in this dark, violent and selfish world inviting us to raise our heads to recognize the other. Happy 10 years our dear old man!

Source - published in March 2023