The Catholic Monitor

-Updated December 31, 2017 Is Pope Francis the silent voice friendly with tyranny while President Trump is the voice for freedom? On December 31, Newsweek in an article titled "Pope Francis Hated 2017, Calling it a 'Wasted' Year of Death and Lies" reported that Pope Francis said: Humanity "had 'wasted and wounded' the past year 'in many ways with works of death, with lies and injustice'... The Pope did not reference... individuals in his remarks... Francis was a none-to-subtle critic of President Donald... Trump's policies and actions without mentioning the commander-in-chief by name" in 2017. Ironically, Francis in the "none-to-subtle" attack on President Trump was unwittingly pointing his finger at his own "policies and actions" as well as his silence in the face of injustice as compared to the President. The headline on December 29 in the Telegraph was: "Donald Trump Condemns Arrest Of Iran Protest

Insidious means to proceed "in a gradual, subtle way, but with very harmful effects." (Oxford Dictionary) Is Pope Francis insidious in bringing about Communions to the those in adulterous "second marriages" through Amoris Laetitia? The Pope's personally chosen Special Secretary for the synods on marriage and family Archbishop Bruno Forte revealed Francis's "gradual, subtle way" of bringing about adulterous Communions to the website Zonalcale.it: "If we speak explicitly about communion for the divorced and remarried." Archbishop Forte, reporting on a joke of Pope Francis, "you do not know what a terrible mess we will make. So we won't speak plainly, do it in a way that the premises are there, then I will draw out the conclusions." (Zonalcale.it, May, 3 2016) Papal biographer and Crux editor Austen Ivereigh and all of Francis's inner circle as well as loyal supporters know that Forte spilled the beans on the Pope&

-Updated October 9, 2018- Pope Francis in his fixation with the devil and his foes, feces as well as heresy appears to be possessed by the spirit of Martin Luther who never stopped talking about excrement and talking to the devil: ""Devil, I have just s*** in my trousers. Have you smelled it?" -Martin Luther (Queenmobs.com, "Fecal Fridays: Martin Luther on the Toilet," December 1, 2017) Luther had continuous visions of the devil and of excrement as all Luther scholars know: "The filthy language of Luther... a vocabulary of excrement... -against Satan... in his later years the violence and frequent obscenity... directed at his human foes." ("Martin Luther," by Michael A. Mullet, page 338) Besides the Pope's fixation on the devil, his foes and feces, it appears that Francis has, also, joined Luther in believing in the heresy of imputed grace justification. Luther's image of imputed grace was that man was a pile of dung