I fall for it almost every time: the media throws up a misleading and sensational headline about the Pope, like these ones that appeared yesterday - “Hope and Change in the Vatican;” “Pope overhauls Catholic image but real reforms await;” “Pope calls for fresh Church approach to children of gay, divorced parents.” Invariably, these stories often revolve around some imagined radical shift in Catholic teachings instigated by current Pontiff Francis I. Most of the time, there is some connection made either to homosexuality or same-sex marriage. This latest batch seems to have originated with an article from the French Agence France-Presse which quoted the Holy Father with this line: “On an educational level, gay unions raise challenges for us today which for us are sometimes difficult to understand…” Yet, so far, I have been unable to verify definitive attribution. I doubt he even said it. This then begs the question: Why does the media go to these great lengths to manipulate and downright misconstrue what the Pope says or does not say? Here, the homosexual connection is important, because contemporary gay culture is expert at creating illusion that solidifies into materiality out of nothingness. This I discovered rather quickly in The Castro: a post-modern community that bended and reworked society into its own image; a collective of the wounded that set-up protective barricades of fantasy to help heal the pain of misunderstanding and loss. With the Pope, he is seen as the ultimate father-figure: a man who supposedly rejected me, but someone that I desperately want love from. Right now, they desperately see what they want - not the Truth.
Excerpt from Pope Francis:
“The pillars of education according to the Pope are: “convey understanding, convey ways of doing things, convey values. Faith is conveyed through these. The educator should be up to being a person who educates, he or she should consider how to proclaim Jesus Christ to a generation that is changing.” He insisted, therefore: “Education today is a key, key, key mission!” And he recalled some of his experiences in Buenos Aires regarding the preparation necessary to welcome children in an educational context, little boys and girls, young adults who live in complex situations, especially family ones: “I remember the case of a very sad little girl who finally confided to her teacher the reason for her state of mind: ‘my mother’s fiancé doesn’t like me.’ The percentage of children studying in schools who have separated parents is very high. The situation in which we live now provides us with new challenges which sometimes are difficult for us to understand. How can we proclaim Christ to these boys and girls? How can we proclaim Christ to a generation that is changing? We must be careful not to administer a vaccine against faith to them.”
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