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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