Embarrassing: Pope Francis' Last Interview
In January, the Vatican's Tribunale della Penitenzieria Apostolica asked Italian actor Giovanni Scifoni to make a video for social media in preparation for Lent.
The project involved meeting people who had committed the usual very serious crimes, such as mafia killers and former drug addicts [but not abortionists or paedophiles].
Scifoni asked each of them the same question: "Is there anything in your life for which you cannot forgive yourself?
The question was also put to Francis, who was interviewed for the occasion in the room next to the Paul VI Hall. His elusive answer:
"There was a woman, a Sicilian immigrant, who had lost her husband in the war and who helped my mother two or three times a week. When I was Rector of the Faculty, they called me from the porter's lodge and told me that the lady was there to say goodbye to me. I said I wasn't there, and it was a great pain. Years went by, and when I was already Archbishop, her son and daughter came to say hello, and then I had her come. It was a joy to meet that woman, but I never forgave myself for saying no, because I was busy and many other things. The memory keeps coming back. I wear the medal that the lady gave me before she died every day and I remember what I never forgave myself for when I refused to accept it".
During the interview, Francis also said: "God is great, God is great" and added: "He forgave Judas. God forgives everything. God always forgives. It is we who do not want to be forgiven".
However, in the actually existing Gospels, Christ says this about Judas:
- "Woe to the man who betrays the Son of Man! It would have been better for him had he not been born" (Mt 26:24; similar in Mk 14:21 and Lk 22:22).
- "None but the son of perdition [= Judas] was lost, that the scripture might be fulfilled" (Jn 17:12).
Conclusion: Francis twisted the Gospels.
When asked whether Adolf Hitler and others like him would be forgiven if he had sincerely asked for forgiveness before his death, Francis, the great opportunist, beats around the bush:
"But they would be in third grade, perhaps (laughs). Things change there. Everyone feels like a child of God. God never tires of forgiving. It is we who get tired of asking for forgiveness. That is the rule".
Scifoni confronts Francis' cheap 'mercy'-ideology with the real-life experience of a Mafia hitman who told Scifoni that he could not forgive himself for killing so many people.
Scifoni said to him, "But do you believe in forgiveness?" And the Mafia killer replied, "It's too easy, I don't like it, I don't want that kind of forgiveness."
Again Francis evaded the question: "It's true, because it's very beautiful, because they want a way of forgiveness. In the next few days I will baptise a person who killed his family. He came to faith in prison and now he wants to be baptised. I will do it in the next few days."
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