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 |  Subject: Even Petrus Romanus Is Promoting The Vision Of A Dark Pope That Shall Rise  Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:26 am | |
|  Even Petrus Romanus Is Promoting The Vision Of A Dark Pope That Shall Rise
What are we to make of Pope Francis’ fascination with combining politics and the church? In recent interviews he has referenced a 1903 novel by Robert Hugh Benson, Lord of the World, which he has brought up before. Benson’s work is possibly the first ever dystopian novel. It’s about a Catholic apocalypse, treasured by some traditional Catholics. It’s the story of the anti-Christ taking power and restoring all peace to Europe through a universal dictatorship, which eventually sets out to exterminate the remnants of the church after a new, misguided plot. The protagonist eventually becomes a pope of an underground church. He mostly lives alone and in secret in the Middle East, offering the Mass and governing the remnant church through secret private messages sent out to individual bishops. It is fascinating that Pope Francis keeps recommending this book to people, precisely because that fictive papacy is unpopular, feared, hated, and marginalized. It is entirely transfixed with… |
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