Appalling homily by Pope Francis at #BenedictXVI funeral! Can’t believe what I just heard. Not one word about BXVI’s immense legacy. Indeed, he barely mentioned the man at all, except briefly at the end, to say “Bye!” What a disgraceful act. A sign of immense disrespect. Anaxios!
Compare it to Benedict’s fulsome and loving remembrance of John Paul 2 at his funeral: vatican.va/gpII/documents…
The meanness, the stinginess, of Francis’s meager words today — the scandal isn’t what Francis said, but what he did not say. He could have given pretty much that same funeral homily for his butler. #BenedictXVI
You don’t have to like #BenedictXVI to recognize that he was likely the greatest theologian ever to sit on Peter’s Throne, and that he was an irreplaceable pillar of St JP2’s papacy. Francis’s homily literally said nothing about Benedict, but said everything about Francis.
Sorry, but I can’t quite get over it. Francis must truly have hated Benedict, or at least his vision of Christianity. Seems that Francis declared Year Zero, goodbye to all that, etc. Bad times coming for faithful orthodox Catholics, I fear.
I am an ex-Catholic, but I could have given a more substantive and loving homily about #BenedictXVI if a Swiss Guard had dragooned me spontaneously and dragged me to the podium. Heck, as little regard as I have for Francis’s papacy, I’d find good words for him at his funeral!
It’s just painful that this great and holy man, Joseph Ratzinger, was given to the ages with such repulsive disrespect by his successor. Contempt laid bare, on a world stage. In a way, #BenedictXVI’s last act was to expose the smallness of Francis’s soul.
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