
Carefully Crafted Bad
Language …
but from the Vicar of Jesus Christ
on Earth?

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The
“Copro”
Hits the Fan
In
all candor, we had never so much as heard of the word — and believe
that, outside of psychiatrists offices — no one else had either. Perhaps
we are deficient in our education or wanting in our vocabulary.
Nevertheless, in
an interview with Belgian Catholic weekly
Tertio, Francis said of those whom he considers his detractors
— because they publish the growing tension between the pontiff and orthodox
Catholic media concerning the “Dubia” or five simple questions
that can answered in one word: “yes” or “no” relative to his post-synodal
exhortation Amoris Laetitia — the following (quoting Reuters
News):
“Using precise psychological
terms, he said scandal-mongering media risked falling prey to
coprophilia, or arousal from excrement, and consumers of these
media risked coprophagia, or eating excrement.”
Francis then added, “And since people
have a tendency towards the sickness of coprophagia,
a lot of damage can be done.”1
From a Pope?
We are appalled
...!
A pope
using this language concerning those with whom he disagrees?
Everyone knows the four-letter
word he is using and instantly sees beyond the sanitized psychological
nomenclature. We know what he was “really” saying … and thinking … and
are shocked by it ... ashamed of it.
Any parent who changes an
infant’s diapers and says, “Oh, my … there is so much copro in this
diaper, but since I am not hungry I will throw it away!” has serious
verbal, linguistic, and communication problems with the rest of the
world — to say nothing of an apparently widespread psychological disorder.
Let us, then, render this
arcana into terms comprehensible to the rest of the world:
“Using ordinary terms, he said scandal-mongering media risked
falling prey to being aroused by sh--, and consumers of these
media risked eating sh--.”
Francis then added, “And since people have a tendency
towards the sickness of eating sh--, a lot of damage can be done.”1
How is
that for
cutting through the
“bull-copro”?
Can you imagine a head of
state (which Francis is) using this language to denigrate his perceived
detractors? Good grief, even the FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
defines “indecent speech” as “language or material that, in context,
depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary
community standards for the broadcast medium, sexual or excretory
organs or activities.” 3 That is to say, were the interview
broadcast, the FCC would have banned Francis’s depiction of those
in disagreement with him as “indecent”! No, wait! He sanitized them,
so it’s okay. Or is it …?
Catholics, non-Catholics,
atheists, and anyone else living on this planet will likely respond
in utter incredulity with words we can only hint at: “H- -y Copro! Did
the pope himself really say that?!”
Sadly, yes …
To quote Lifesite News:
“So now, if the translation
[Reuter’s] is correct, as most of these usually are, if we dare to
see and report what are obviously newsworthy developments that do not
reflect well on the pope or his close collaborators, we are “scandal-mongering,”
“eating excrement” and being sexually aroused by this excrement of reporting
uncomfortable truth. How can a pope,
the Vicar of Christ, make such vile accusations? Whatever happened to,
“Who am I to judge?”
2
Perhaps we live in parallel
universes, but Francis’s apparent conviction that “people have
a tendency towards the sickness of coprophagia” is startling.
We had never so much as heard of the word, let alone encountered
the tendency within ourselves or anyone else on the planet that
we have met.
There is, however, another
affliction much more common, and we fear that the more our present pontiff
speaks, the more we are led to the frightening conclusion that Francis
is non compos mentis
(not of a
sound mind).
Like coprophilia and coprophagia — that he appears to see
in others as a broad tendency — it is a sickness of the mind.
This is not said disdainfully or sarcastically. It is
said with great pity — and great alarm.
Let
us pray for his speedy recovery.
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-media-idUSKBN13W1TU
Wed Dec 7, 2016
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https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/climate-of-fear-in-the-vatican-is-very-real
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http://www.newseuminstitute.org/about/faq/how-does-the-fcc-define-indecent-speech/
Further
Reading on the Papacy of Francis:

Totally Faithful to the Sacred
Deposit of Faith entrusted to the Holy See in Rome
“Scio
opera tua ... quia modicum habes virtutem, et servasti verbum
Meum, nec non negasti Nomen Meum”
“I
know your works ... that you have but little power, and
yet you have kept My word, and have not denied My Name.”
(Apocalypse
3.8)
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