Francis glowered a lot

A number of people have praised Pope Francis's smiling face. This surprised me. I remember him scowling a lot. Some people said they disliked the look of him when he first walked out on the balcony after his election. I too had a had feeling about him then. Blogger Steve Skopje who has since lost faith wrote recently:

"When I decided to start my little revolutionary publication, OnePeterFive, it stemmed from the strong, inexplicable sense I had, when I first laid eyes on Bergoglio as he emerged as Pope Francis, that there was something deeply evil at work. It was a powerful, preternatural experience, one I later learned was shared by a number of people around the world — enough to make it more than a coincidence. Too few to be sure what it meant."

He was an angry man who on one occasion slapped a member of the public. He swore a lot too, but he also prayed for hours a day and had a great devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

He is about to be buried in one of my favourite churches where others popes are buried including a much greater man, Pope St. Pius V who created the coaltion which led to the defeat of the Mahometan fleet at Lepanto which saved Christendom. Francis told us that Christendom no longer exists.



He said that the Church should not add burdens to people but burdened Catholics by telling them to share his views on climate change, economics, immigration and capital punishment on top of all the almost innumerable other doctrines we have to believe. In fact the Pope is not infallible on climatology or politics but Catholics do not realise that they are not bound to assent to all his thoughts.