An Editorial by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

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There are a lot of Catholics who hate Pope Francis, because of his caustic personality, his horrible morals, his perverse theology, and his Marxist politics, by which he has expressed disdain for God, the Saints and about everything in the Catholic Church or in Western Civilization, that he could fit into a news byte.

But the strange thing about this, is that many who think they are righteous are the ones who actually are involved in a vicious or sinful hate of the man.

And now that it appears that it may be that he is dying, they are gloating even on social media of his death.

But is gloating over the death of such a man an honest thing to do? I do not think so.

As Our Lord says in Ezechiel 33:11, “I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked”

And since we Catholics should conform ourselves to the Sacred Heart in all things, we should not either.

But it is very sad to see that so many who insisted Pope Francis remain in power, or held authority legitimately, for so many years, also refused to seek his repentance. And among these those, who now dance around his death bed, are some of the worst of the worse, because they prefer him dead or in power, but in neither case repentant.

They preferred him in power, than to admitting that munus and ministerium mean different things. They preferred him in power to reading the Code of Canon Law. The preferred him in power than to electing a legitimate successor of Saint Peter. They preferred him in power rather than asking for his rebuke in council.

However, those Catholics who know that the world does not revolve upon prayers alone, but on every good deed done, insisted his election in 2013 was invalid because Pope Benedict XVI did not abdicate; and insisted that Pope Benedict XVI have a successor; these also saw the wisdom of the Catholics of Rome in electing him pope, thereafter, so that he might have the benefits of the High Priestly Prayer of Christ the King. These also participated in the Sutri Initiative for nearly 18 months, because they had true supernatural charity for Pope Francis and sought his repentance or deposition. These Catholics are in the Camp of God, and entirely different moral universe from those who now gloat, and refused to see Pope Francis either questioned in his authority, rebuked in council, or removed from power.

Would that the Bishops have listened to this petition, for as it said, therein, if he had the grace of Peter, the Lord would give him repentance, and if he did not, the faithful would be relieved from his evil influence. But these Bishops chose not to act, deliberately, and now they share in the guilt of letting such a man go to his grave without a fraternal correction.

Those faithful too who knew of the Sutri Initiative but valued their own reputations or hatred for the man more will also have to answer to the Divine Justice for failing in charity towards the man.

And those who wanted him in power so that they could grift on the dissent he was causing in the Catholic Church are perhaps the lowest lifeforms on social media.

The first side sought the man’s salvation and grieves that he is headed to destruction impenitent. The other side cared only to insult him and use him as a punching bag, and now gloats that he will be damned.

Let us not join these devils who are dancing around the hospital bed of Pope Francis. Maybe our prayers can no longer do anything, but we should at least refrain from that vile behavior of the dark side of all these recent controversies.

And, thank you, one and all, who read FromRome and who joined me in rebuking the man for his errors, opposing him in his unjust claim to the Apostolic See, seeking the greatest mercies in Heaven for him, in the Prayer of Christ, and the greatest final mercy on earth, a fraternal rebuke. The entire motive for this was Charity, and we did nothing other than what Catholics should do, who are to love all those in Christ, whether they be saints or sinners.