No, this blog is not about Francis or the book. This blog is about the future pope, in my opinion, will look like a dictator pope to the world.
The definition a dictator is this (according to Google): a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained power by force.
Francis is being called the Dictator Pope, because he is the first pope in recent memory who speaks off the cuff, commits jarring actions (that still somehow surprise people,) or fires people like Trump. That doesn't make him a dictator! He needs to be called something else (by the next pope, but that is a topic for a different blog.) Trump is not a dictator because A) the president does not have total power, and B) because he obtained office not by force. For that matter, neither was Obama. Francis, in the same way, cannot be called a dictator because the truth is (and Vatican I has defined) that the pope does not have total power. Nor did Francis take the Holy See by force. Sure, the reason for Benedict's resignation makes people scratch their head, but Benedict is not in exile. Even if he was threatened to leave, Benedict has made no attempts to claim he is the true head of the Church. So where does that leave us? It leaves us with pope who does things by executive order. And Francis is not the first nor will His Holiness be the last.
The pope that I mentioned above, the one who will be stuck with the mess the last six popes have left us in, will have to take so many executive actions to get the Church back on track its not even funny. The liberal media will have a field day with him! That is why I am am going to review this show: HBO's Young Pope. This series will touch on what would it look like to have a Pope who didn't pander to the world. I have been forewarned, and will take necessarily precautions to avoid the sin. But you have to admit how alluring it would look like for what a pope that pisses off the liberal media would look like. But HBO is the most liberal of all the channels! This should be interesting!!
to be continued...
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