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Jorge jokes about Our Lord's Crucifixion




In the book, El Jesuita: Conversaciones con el cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, Jorge makes a joke about Our Lord's Crucifixion.  On pages 41 & 42 in Chapter 3 of the book translated from the Spanish to English one reads the following:

But the main emblem of Catholicism is a Crucified Christ dripping blood...

The exaltation of suffering in the Church depends heavily on the time and culture. The Church represents Christ in the cultural atmosphere of the time that one lived. Looking at the Eastern icons, the Russians, for example, it is found that there are few images of the crucified suffering. Rather it represents the resurrection. But if we look at the Spanish Baroque or Cuzco, we find the patience of Christ ripped away because the Baroque emphasized the passion of Jesus. The White Crucifixion, Chagall, who was a Jєωιѕн believer, is not cruel (but) it is hopeful. Pain is shown there calmly. I believe that it is one of the most beautiful things he painted. 

[NOTE THE FOLLOWING TEXT HAS BEEN EDITED OUT OF THE ENGLISH EDITION OF THE BOOK]

At this point, Bergoglio turns smiling, perhaps to ease the talk.

Can I tell a story that comes to mind, he asked?

Sure.

It is about a Jєωιѕн boy who thrown out of all schools for being unruly until another Jew recommends to the father a "good Catholic school." And it encourages him that, surely, there (they) are going to straighten (him out). The father takes the advice. Thus passes the first month and the boy is very well behaved, without warning (surprisingly). Nor has he behavior problems in the coming months. The father, won by curiosity, goes to the rector to know how he managed this transformation. “It was very simple," replied the priest. "On the first day I took him by the ear and said pointing to the crucifix, ‘That was a Jew like you, if you misbehave, you will end up the same.’ " 

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What would you say of one who shared the above with you?  Would it be safe to say the man who now claims to be the 'Vicar of Christ' sees the crucifixion as the punch line of a joke?  Or he doesn’t believe in the suffering Christ went through in His Passion for our sins?  The Catholic Church has an ancient law, first written of by Saint Prosper of Aquitaine (390AD–455AD), “lex orandi, lex credendi.”  This roughly translates as, “the law of prayer is the law of belief.”    So if the above are his beliefs what does this say about how he prays?  Are Jorge's outward behaviors signs which gives one hints as to how he prays and what he thinks?  Why is Jorge always equating Christ to modern day Jews?

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*The Spanish edition published in 2010 is titled,  El Jesuita: Conversaciones con el cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, s.j. por Sergio Rubin y Francesca Ambrogetti con Prologo por Rabino Abraham Skorka, which translates into English as, The Jesuit: Conversations with the Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, S.J. by Sergio Rubin and Francesca Ambrogetti with prologue by Rabbi Abraham Skorka.

**An English language edition was published in 2013 as, Pope Francis: Conversations with Jorge Bergoglio: His Life in His Own Words, by Sergio Rubin and Francesca Ambrogetti.  Interestingly it has been edited and Jorge's joke was one of the editors' revisions.  Why have the editors at the Penguin Group covered for Francis?[/font][/size][/color]

At the risk of going through 11 pages of this nonsense, the bottom line is this.......We have no proof at all the man even said it. Other than the word of some old  senile, wackjob "journalist".

This is about as credible as the whole Ukrainian crap about Trump vomited out by the radical commie-democrat left in America.

It'a all bunch of  baloney. you all  might as well be reading the Enquirer or Star magazine for crying out lout.