The following article is by a fellow Crusader in our local area:
February 11, 2013
• Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes
• Pope Benedict XVI Resigns – first Papal resignation in over 600 years
• Reign ends on Feb 28 at 8pm
• Lightning Strikes Saint Peter’s Dome – 5:55pm
March 13, 2013 13/3/13
• Jorge Mario Bergoglio becomes Pope Francis I
• 187 years to the day since Leo12 papal encyclical condemning masonry
• White smoke at 7:06 pm (or 6:66pm)
• Appears on balcony 13/3/13/ 20:13 (ie chair of peter vacant for 13 days and 13 minutes)
• Newly elected Pope Francis jokes with Cardinals saying ‘May God forgive you for what you’ve done.’
March 14, 2013
Grand Master Gustavo Raffi of the Grand Orient Masonic Lodge of Italy praises election of Pope Francis
March 28, 2013
Pope Francis washes the feet of female Muslim prisoner
May 22, 2013
Pope Francis Says Atheists Who Do Good Are Redeemed. ‘We all have the duty to do good. For Atheists: Just do good and we’ll find a meeting point’
June 02, 2013
On Jesus multiplying the Bread and Fish – ‘Here’s the miracle, that it is more a sharing than a multiplying’
June 15, 2013
‘We look for Jesus Christ and say: ‘This is your sin, and I will sin again’. And Jesus likes that, because it was his mission: to become the sinner for us’
July 08, 2013
‘I also think with affection of those Muslim immigrants who this evening begin the fast of Ramadan, which I trust will bear abundant spiritual fruit.’
July 26, 2013
Pope Francis tells youth: ‘Be rebellious’ and ‘mess’ with dioceses
July 29, 2013
‘Who am I to judge?’
August 30, 2013
Pope Francis breaks protocol by bowing to the Queen of Jordan
August 31, 2013
Pope Francis begins the Papal Selfie trend
September 04, 2013
‘The issue for those who do not believe in God is in obeying their own conscience’
September 11, 2013
Pope implies The Virgin Mary has ‘defects’, saying “The Church and the Virgin Mary are mothers…All mothers have defects, we all have defects, but when we speak of our mother’s defects we gloss over them”
September 13, 2013
Pope says church is obsessed with gays, abortion, and birth control – ‘It is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time….We have to find a new balance’
September 27, 2013
On Adoration – ‘Fall asleep then, sleep! He is still looking at you.’
October 01, 2013
‘Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us’
‘The most serious of the evils that afflict the world these days are youth unemployment and the loneliness of the old’
‘Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good’
‘I believe in God, not in a Catholic God. There is no Catholic God’
‘You know what I think about this? Heads of the Church have often been narcissists, flattered and thrilled by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy’
November 24, 2013
On Muslims – ‘We must never forget that they ‘profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, who will judge humanity on the last day.’
November 26, 2013
‘I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty’
December 11, 2013
‘Never fear the final judgment, because Christ will always be at our side’
December 17, 2013
Pope Francis makes the cover of The Advocate – the leading LGBT magazine
December 20, 2013
On The Virgin Mary: ‘Our Lady was human! And perhaps she even had the desire to say: ‘Lies! I was deceived!’
December 23, 2013
Time Magazine names Pope Francis ‘Person of the Year’
December 27, 2013
Esquire Magazine names Pope Francis ‘Best Dressed Man of the Year’
January, 2014
Pope sends iPhone message to televangelist Kenneth Copeland via Tony Palmer
January 20, 2014
‘Those that are Muslim, with the Quran. The faith that your parents instilled in you will always help you move on.’
January 26, 2014
Pope’s Peace Doves attacked by Crow and Seagull
January 28, 2014
Pope Francis on the cover of Rolling Stone
February 12, 2014
‘If you don’t feel the need for God’s mercy, don’t even bother going to Mass!’
February 28, 2014
‘When love fails, and it fails many times, we have to feel the pain of that failure, accompany the people who have felt the failure of their love’
Tony Palmer, under Pope Francis’ name, releases video stating that ‘Real communion is not the bread but the brother’
March 03, 2014
Pope Francis accidentally says ‘the F word’
March 05, 2014
Pope Francis goes to Confession in public and breaks protocol
Pope Francis gets his own fan magazine, Il Mio Papa (or ‘My Pope’)
March 10, 2014
Pope Francis says The Catholic Church should not dismiss gay marriage, but should study it
April 03, 2014
‘Scold the Lord a little. ‘Hey you promised me this and you haven’t done it!…Prayer must be a negotiation with God’
April 17, 2014
Pope Francis washes feet of disabled and elderly
April 23, 2014
Pope Francis phones woman in invalid marriage, telling her it’s okay to take Holy Communion – ‘A little Bread and Wine does no harm’
April 24, 2014
‘There are some priests who are more papist than the Pope’
April 28, 2014
Pope Francis tweets ‘Inequality is the root of social evil’
May 12, 2014
Pope Francis quotes Hillary Clinton ‘It takes a village to raise a child’
May 13, 2014
Pope Francis says he would baptize aliens
May 25, 2014
Pope Francis arrives in Jordan. Before his arrival, those waiting at the airport in Amman felt a magnitude 4.1 earthquake that struck in Israel near its border with Jordan
May 24, 2014
Pope Francis visits Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity. Days later, a fire breaks out at the scene.
May 27, 2014
‘Since it is not dogma, the door is always open to rethink priestly celibacy’
June 05, 2014
Pope meets with Televangelist Joel Osteen at the Vatican
June 08, 2014
Pope Francis hosts inter-religious prayers for peace at Vatican, including Muslim prayers
June 24, 2014
Pope meets with Televangelist Kenneth Copeland and other Evangelicals at the Vatican
June 29, 2014
Pope says ‘communists are closeted Christians’.
July 27, 2014
Pope Francis gives his Top 10 List on how to be happy – doesn’t mention Jesus once
July 28, 2014
Pope Francis apologizes to Pentecostals
September 01, 2014
Pope Francis hosts all-star soccer match for peace
September 04, 2014
Retired Israeli President Shimon Peres proposes a new global “United Nations of Religions” to Pope Francis
September 13, 2014
Pope Francis announces that World War III may have already begun
September 14, 2014
Pope Francis marries 20 couples – some of whom were ‘living in sin’
September 17, 2014
Pope Francis plans on exiling Cardinal Burke
October 9, 2014
‘But God does not exist: Do not be shocked! So God does not exist! There is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, they are persons, they are not some vague idea in the clouds … This God spray does not exist! The three persons exist!’
October 13, 2014
Pope Francis Family Synod concludes with document suggesting dramatic shift in attitude toward gays – Document must be revised after public outcry
October 19, 2014
‘The Church should not fear change…by carefully surveying the signs of the times, we are making every effort to adapt ways and methods’
October 27, 2014
‘God is not a divine being or a magician, but the Creator who brought everything to life…Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.’
October 27, 2014
‘But there is a third group of Christians…They are lukewarm. They are neither light not dark. And God does not love these’
October 29, 2014
‘It’s strange, but if I talk about these subjects then the Pope is a communist, according to some. The fact that the love for the poor is in the center of the gospel is misunderstood.’
November 9, 2014
Pope Francis prays in Mosque with Muslim leaders
December 2, 2014
Pope Francis unites Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists in joint declaration against ‘slavery’
Pope Francis compares Islamic Terrorists to Christian fundamentalists, saying ‘We have our share of them (fundamentalists). All religions have these little groups’
December 14, 2014
“I confess something to you, when I have seen a Christian…with such rigidness on the outside, I ask the Lord: ‘But Lord, throw a banana peel in front of them, so that they will take a good fall, and feel shame that they are sinners…”
January 15, 2015
Pope Francis says there are limits on free speech and if someone speaks badly about his mother, they could ‘expect a punch’
January 19, 2015
Pope Francis tells Catholics they ‘do not need to breed like rabbits’
January 25, 2015
Balloons Replace Doves as the Vatican Symbol of Peace
January 27, 2015
Pope Francis meets with transgender man dubbed ‘devil’s daughter’