“Our Francis who art in Rome ...”

Papa noster ...?

The motto of Saint Michael the Archangel is rhetorical: “Quis ut Deus? Who is like God?”

No one.

That is to say no one who is of a sound mind would dare to say “Me! I am like God ... indeed, even greater than God!”

Such a state of affairs appears to have come to this with Francis: 

“Maius ego sum Deus: I am greater than God! God legislates. But I, Frances, amend, abrogate, invalidate, or abolish what God legislates ... as I see fit.”

Is it madness? Perhaps; or something darker in the making that has become a problem, the magnitude of which the Church and Her popes have not encountered in 2000 years.

Now Francis has called for a revision of the Lord’s Prayer in the way of amending the sixth petition “and lead us not into temptation”.

That Jesus Christ Himself taught us to pray this way apparently means nothing to Francis. He has a better idea, a better way to end the Our Father than Christ gave us when He said “Thus therefore shall you pray: Our Father ...”  (Saint Matthew 6.9)

Increasingly in the papacy of Francis, Christ is now a secondary source. Francis is the first.

Do you doubt it? Consider the following:

“in certain circumstances, a person who is divorced and remarried and is living in an active sexual partnership might not be responsible or culpable for the mortal sin of adultery particularly when a person judges that he would fall into a subsequent fault by damaging the children of the new union.” Francis finally declared this to be his “authentic magisterium” through his scandalous and deeply divisive Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Latetia.

Did not Christ say “The servant is not greater than his Lord; neither is the apostle greater than He that sent him.”? (Saint John 13.16) How then can any man abolish the teaching of Christ? Is the servant greater than his Lord? Will man strike out what God Himself engraved in stone on Mount Sinai and what proceeded from the mouth of His Only Begotten Son? Who, we ask, would possibly have the temerity, the audacity, to do this? In the 2000 year history of Holy Mother Church, only one pope — Francis — and under the specious presumption of permitting sin — that is to say, an evil —  to achieve a counterfeit good.

“But, you, contend, “does not the Church teach, has She not always taught, that” “One may never do evil that good may come of it”? (Romans 3.8) — how then are we to reconcile what Christ and Saint Paul taught ... with the rhapsodic teachings of Francis — that contradict them? Saint “Peter and the apostles answering, said [to the authorities who threatened them]: We ought to obey God, rather than men.” (Acts. 5.29)
 

The Nine Commandments ... for the Moment

Whether it concerns homosexuality, adultery and “re-marriage”, the Holy Eucharist and its worthy reception, and now the 2000 year old Lord’s Prayer, Francis has a new solution to a problem that does not exist — a redaction which is not consonant with either Sacred Scripture or Sacred Tradition — and now ... even with the words Christ uttered Himself. Will he revise all of Sacred Scripture to “correctly” accord with the corrupt and “progressive” Modernist agenda that he unabashedly pursues? Who — we ask — can correct God Himself? Indeed, “Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct Him?” (Job 40.2)  It is, quite suddenly, a real question  ... and one that frighteningly verges on diabolical pride.

Pray the Our Father — the Pater Noster — in Latin: “Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.”, instead of proliferating “Our Francis who art in Rome” into the nearly 7000 living languages of Babel where the Novus Ordo Mass is celebrated before an ever diminishing congregation.

And do not commit adultery — no matter what Francis or any other disaffected Catholic ecclesiastic tells you. It is nothing less than sophistry. It may be okay with him, but it is against the Seventh Commandment given by God Himself. Let us say, rather, with Saint Peter: “We ought to obey God, rather than men.”