Thursday, August 1, 2013

I Love This Guy!!



So Pope Francis spent some time in South America hangin out in one of Rio's most violent slums. He drove around in a Fiat instead of an armored vehicle, and just generally went around pissing off conservative Catholics and the homophobes in his church.

"He told  35,000 pilgrims from his native Argentina to make a "mess" in their dioceses, shake things up and go out into the streets to spread their faith, even at the expense of confrontation with their bishops."~AP news service.

Anytime the elites spend time explaining away the comments of their leader, “Yeah, that’s what he said but he really didn’t mean it the way it came out”, you know you’ve got a winner, a change agent of magnificent dimensions for a church desperately in need of a tectonic plate shift.

 God, if it's not too much trouble, can we have one?

Someone with depth and weight, possessed of genuine  love for the least of us. Someone who can stand and say enough!  Cause right now God, we are blowing the moment. We are preaching a version of Christ that cannot be found in the Bible to a people that are crying out for the Christ that is present in the Gospels. We are preaching to a dead church what the corpse wants to hear, while outside the sanctuary people who desperately need the Christ who was an advocate for the poor and the powerless can't figure out how the church they see at Value Voters conferences has any relevance to their immediate needs.

So please, send us one just like Francis.


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