Pope Francis on the West: ‘We are Racists, We are Racists.’

Is publicly confessed racism the 21st-Century’s Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa?

From Breibart:

ROME, Italy — Pope Francis accused the West of racism Friday, insisting migrants are “subdivided” by skin color and country of origin.

Refugees are subdivided,” the pontiff declared during a lengthy Good Friday interview on Italian television. “There’s first class, second class, skin color, [whether] they come from a developed country [or] one that is not developed.

“We are racists, we are racists. And this is bad,” the pope stated.

As he has done on other occasions, Francis compared the current problem of migrants and refugees to the flight into Egypt of Joseph, Mary, and Jesus when King Herod was seeking to kill him.

The pope went on to praise a painting of the flight into Egypt by an Italian artist who portrayed Saint Joseph as a clean-shaven, modern-day Syrian fleeing the war with his child.

“An anguished face that these people have, just like Jesus, forced to flee,” Francis said. “He sent it to me and I made holy cards from it.” [Lord have mercy.]

Someone in the Vatican with book-larnin’ please point out to Papa Errata that Egypt and Judea were both part of the Roman Empire, thus the Holy Family were hardly “migrants” or “refugees.” Otherwise, by the Pope’s reckoning, your Tatler could regard himself similarly owing to his flight into New Mexico from New York.

Turning to the matter of the Pope’s concern: by use of the first person plural in his emotive cry (unless he is using the royal We like his forbears–unlikely), we may assume he means every person in the Western Hemisphere is a racist (except of course those on the ever-growing list of approved victims). That is quite an assumption. What special insight does Francis have into the hundreds of millions of souls in the West, that he is able to discern in them a particular shortcoming of character? Observant Catholics will not dispute we are all sinners, but it strikes this layman the Pope is grossly overreaching with this charge and, yet again, appearing ridiculous.

Most Catholics will vigorously reject the Pope’s irresponsible claim and some may even suggest instead of issuing tiresome scolding broadsides, he take action against the rampant heresies in Germany and many other parts of the world. As of now, while not explicitly encouraging them, he seems content turning a benignly deaf ear.

The only Catholics who applaud this self-righteous twaddle from the Francis are the editors and writers at those lamentable period pieces, the National Catholic Reporter, Commonweal, America and others, plus of course those ancient post-conciliar clerics who have yet to face their maker and be held accountable for the rampant destruction they have wreaked upon Holy Church.

The Church will survive these bad men. We have our Lord’s assurance of it. Still:

Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?