Pope's sermon. One long psychological projection

As is typical of Our Pope and Our Cross,The Bishop of Rome accuses others of the very behavior he engages in

Pope at Mass: ideology should not replace faith 

Celebrating Holy Mass Tuesday morning at the Casa Santa Marta in the Vatican, 

Pope Francis lamented Christians who judge everything “from the smallness 

of their hearts”.  (That is what he does from the smallness of his 

anthropocentric heart.)

Instead, he said, the Lord mercifully approaches all human 

situations because He came to save, not to condemn.

By Robin Gomes

In his homily at Mass, Pope Francis reflected on the Old Testament 

figure of Jonah who ran away from God who wanted him to be His 

prophet to preach repentance to the people of Nineveh or 

they would be punished. (When does the Bishop of Rome ever show 

repentance for his willful errors?)

Setting sail for Tarshish, he had to be thrown overboard to calm a 

furious storm that the Lord had started in the sea.  A whale that 

swallowed him, threw him out on the  shore after three days, an image, 

the Pope said, that reminds us of Christ’s Resurrection on the 

third day. 

Man repents, God relents

Tuesday’s first reading continues Jonah’s story where, this time, 

he obeys God, goes to preach to 

the Ninevites who convert and God relents from punishing them. 

The Pope said this time the “stubborn Jonah” did his job well 

and left. 

Jonah indignant at the Lord's mercy

The Holy Father said that tomorrow’s Mass reading will show 

Jonah angry at the Lord because

he is too merciful and because He does the opposite of what he 

threatened to do.

Jonah says to the Lord that it is better to die than to 

continue this work as a prophet of God, who 

in the end does the opposite of what He sent him to do.

Saying this, Jonah goes out of the city and builds a 

hut from where to see what would happen to

 the city. The Lord then makes a gourd plant grow 

over the prophet to provide him shade. But 

soon God causes the plant to wither and die.  

Jonah is again outraged at God over the gourd plant.  The Lord 

tells Jonah that if he could be  concerned about the gourd plant, for 

which he did nothing, why couldn’t He have mercy on a

 great city like Nineveh.

The Pope noted that the heated exchange between the Lord 

and Jonah is between two hardheads.

While Jonah is stubborn with his convictions of faith, the Lord is 

stubborn in his mercy.  (The Bishop of Rome has no mercy for those

who keep the Faith once delivered).He never

 leaves us, he knocks on the door of the heart till the end.  

He’s always there.

 Jonah was stubborn because he put conditions on his faith.  He is 

the model of those Christians 

who always put conditions saying, "I am a Christian on 

condition that things are done this way."  (Things such as Divine 

Revelation has ceased and the unchanging faith has been delivered once and for all)

They accuse that these changes are not Christian, they are heresies. 

The Pope said they are 

Christians who condition God, who condition the faith and the action 

of God.

Christians who put "conditions" are afraid to grow (For The Bishop of Rome, Faith is not an unchanging Divine Revelation but a process of change)

The Holy Father emphasized that “conditions”  lock up many 

Christians in their own ideas and 

they take up the ugly path of ideology against the path of faith. (He is the one possessed of a liberal ideology)

 He said such Christians are afraid of growing (He never speaks of 

Sanctification, prolly because he never considers not but that is how 

one grows as a Christian  in holiness) , of the challenges of life, 

of the challenges

 of the Lord, of the challenges of history and are attached 

to their first convictions and ideologies.  They are Christians who 

continue to “prefer ideology to faith” and move away from the 

community, afraid to place themselves in the hands 

of God and prefer to judge everything from the “smallness of their 

hearts". (He is the one who, long ago, became concretised in heresy

 and politics and he can not, or will not, grow out of it) ado

The story of Jonah presents two figures of the Church today, the 

Pope said. One is rooted in its

 ideologies and the other shows the Lord who approaches 

all situations without disgust. Our sins 

don’t disgust the Lord, the Pope said.  (His anger against us is 

irritated by our innumerable ins and, thus the Sacrifice of 

propitiation. He doesn't show any awareness of that fact)

He approached and  caressed the lepers and the sick because

He came to heal, He came to save, not to condemn.