"Our Lord God the Pope"...not: Part 2, the Postscript and Random Thoughts

Here are a few things I'd like to talk about for the moment:

1.) Mr. Hugo Mendez' (of Dies Domini) has linked to the first part of the series in his paper entitled, “Is the Pope God?" Correcting Popular Claims of Papal Blasphemy (very informative and more thoroughly well-written than my rantings!). So, if you're reading, Mr. Mendez, a tip of the hat to you. :)

2.) I did a Google search of the phrase "Lord God the Pope" (Yep, I lurk out often). As expected, many of the links go to sites or books where the red herring is repeated ad infinitum, but interestingly enough, when the site links to more sane articles, the words "Lord" and "God" are not even applied to the Pope; or, if a Pope's dialogue is recorded, he does not even apply the titles to himself. And some people still buy this. Go figure.

3.) Why the Pope? Why is he singled out as one claiming to be God? So far, I've never heard of "Lord God the Patriarch" - Patriarchs are, after all, the highest-ranking bishops in Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy (the Pope himself was originally considered to be the Patriarch of the See of Rome)...;)

Finally, I'm still surprised that there aren't any complaints how "Lord God the Pope" is so chauvinistic/politically incorrect and suggest instead "Lady Goddess the Mama (Pope after all is from papa, father)" or "Creator Deity the High-leader".

Or just do away with the title: "Lord God" suggests that God is a male - another one of those efforts by the patriarchal society to keep women down. And what's up with "Pope"? Why is it that those who occupy the highest positions are all men? In fact, why is there a hierarchy in the first place? It's so unfair and unequal, I say. I therefore suggest that "Lord God the Pope" be abandoned as it reeks of hierarchism, inequality, and ignorance: we all have God within us do we not?
If anybody makes a complaint I shall throw "Judge ye not" in their direction.

*For the humor impaired: the latter half of no. 3 is all tongue-in-cheek. ;)

From the mouths of Babes...

This (entitled Give Up Yer Aul Sins by Brown Bag Films) was based on recordings made in the 1960's of young children telling Bible stories in a classroom to their schoolteacher.

The Death of Jesus as related by children



Here are two more examples: the story of St. Patrick and the birth of St. John the Baptist and the story of Lazarus.

And now, something from the past...Weapons of Liturgical Warfare

-Do you feel a weird feeling that something is not right everytime you attend one of those clown Masses in your local church?
-Do you get an impulse to break out to the doors as dancers break out their jigs on the Altar?
-Have you ever mentioned words like Liturgical Abuse to someone in the parish and all you get is a blank stare or worse, get ridiculed or even ostracized?
-Did you ever use words like obedience, tradition, rubrics, Pope Benedict, GIRM, Summorum Pontificum, or better yet, talk in Latin to your local Liturgist, who suddenly looked like he/she will rotate his/her head and would have pea soup spurt out of his/her mouth by merely hearing it (or have even done the above)?
-Is there a mysterious drought of Holy Water during Lent at your Holy Water Fonts?
-Are Father A. or Deacon B.'s chances of wearing properly ordered or colored vestments next to nil?
-Does any god have a greater probability of being mentioned or invoked in your Sunday Mass except for the true God?
-Is the word men, male or he banned in your parish to the point that God is never referred with the above words, or worse is considered a she?
Or if actually used, is always used after female pronouns to the point that (if you are a male) you wanted to start an organization to stop this sexist discrimination of males in our present society?
-Do you play a little game called 'Where's Jesus?' everytime you visit your church?
-Does your local Priest or Ordinary prove to have a head, ears and a heart made of stone on Liturgical matters?
-Have your Sunday Liturgy become such that it is no longer 'Protestant-looking' nor 'Paganlike', but had turned into something so bad that the English language had not invented a term for it yet?

Fret no more, for now there is a weapon to counter all these things:


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