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Famous atheist: My friend, Jorge Bergoglio had as many doubts as I did. Was Pope Francis a practical atheist?

Father Bergoglio, the writer Borges and doubts of faith

An interesting, but terrible, note on the judgment of the great atheist writer Jorge Luis Borges on the future Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio.



"But there is something that alarms me a little; I noticed that he has as many doubts as I do. Which I don't know if it's right in a religious person. My mother would be horrified by something like that. But perhaps it's not so strange if we consider that he is a Jesuit": then we understand the interviews with Scalfari and many of his public speeches.

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JORGE LUIS BORGES: "MY FRIEND JORGE BERGOGLIO, THE JESUIT"

"How rare and disconcerting the people of God are at times, Alifano. Well, I'll tell you. There are two priests who visit me often and they have nothing to do with each other. You know them both; one I inherited from my mother, who was very devout; I mean Father Guillermo, who used to come every week to hear her confession when she was alive; the other is Jorge, a Jesuit who is a chemist and now teaches literature at the University of Salvador. María Esther Vázquez introduced me to him a long time ago; so we have a great friendship.

Guillermo comes almost every week. I tell you the truth, sometimes I don't know how to get rid of him; he's a bore who insists on converting me and can't admit that there is an agnostic belief that I lean toward. “It's time for you to stop having doubts, Georgie, and believe in God once and for all,” he preaches to me with exaggerated confidence. On Sunday I'll pick you up to go to Mass; then we'll have lunch with the brothers of my congregation and in the afternoon I'll take you to a soccer stadium to share the emotion with these people.” Now, it doesn't seem strange to you that this priest doesn't understand that I am blind and that because of my lack of faith I have no interest in going to Mass, nor in eating with his other colleagues; one is enough for me. Even less, to propose the folly of accompanying him to a soccer match; everyone knows that I hate this sport.

With the Jesuit, who is a chemical engineer and a very good reader, we understand each other better; he teaches literature and has included my texts in his lessons, which seems a bit exaggerated to me. I try to dissuade him and repeat that mine has no value, that they are a series of drafts, but he doesn't listen to me... Apart from this detail, 

Father Bergoglio is an intelligent and sensible person; you can talk to him about any subject: philosophy, theology, politics. But there is something that alarms me a little; I have noticed that he has as many doubts as I do. Which I don't know if it is right in a religious person. My mother would be horrified by something like that. But maybe it's not so strange if we consider that he is a Jesuit. 

Of course, these people are historically transgressive and even have a sense of humor, in addition to handling concepts that in some cases differ from other congregations of the Church."

— Jorge Luis Borges (conversation with Roberto Alifano, 1979)

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P. O'Brien said…
Cardinal Newman said that a thousand difficulties do not constitute one doubt. If Bergoglio really doubted, he did not have the Faith.

And just yesterday I read this from a biography of Hilaire Belloc: "Belloc knew what the Faith had cost him -- the intellectual pleasures of skepticism."
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