By Tommy Acosta
What the hell is going on? Vice president Vance pays the Pope a visit on Easter Sunday and on Easter Monday the Pontiff drops dead?
Not even in the craziest of movies could a coincidence like this happen.
No one in the media seems to be concerned over the irony of this occurrence. Which puzzles me.
It’s a curse I have that I see things obvious to me but hidden to most. Probably a residue of growing up in the 60s.
On the day Catholics celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, the Pope meets Vice-President Vance and less than 24 hour later, is dead.
This does not compute. This could not be circumstance or coincidence.
Also, consider this. On Feb 11 of this year the Pope criticized the administration for its treatment of undocumented immigrants.
Vance articulated a defense of the administration’s effort to deport all illegal immigrants by evoking a concept from medieval Catholic theology known in Latin as “ordo amoris” contending that the concept delineates a hierarchy of care — to family first, followed by neighbor, community, fellow citizens and lastly those elsewhere.
The Pope chastised Vance for using that quote from scripture.
In the Pope’s letter to Vance and Trump, the Pope corrects Vance’s understanding of the concept.
“Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups,” he wrote. “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the ‘Good Samaritan,’ that is, by meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception.”
Strangely enough, after his public rebuke of the administration on Feb. 11, Pope Francis is suddenly admitted to the hospital with a lung problem four days later, on Feb. 14.
Are you thinking what I am thinking?
Examine the Easter Sunday photo below of Vance and the Pope looking at each other at their meeting. Look at the expression on the Pope’s face. His eyes bulging out. A look of disbelief. As if he is looking at the devil himself.
Then look at Vances’s eyes. Do you see pupils or an iris? No. Just darkness. The Pope sees something lurking behind the scenes.
It’s as if the Pope is seeing the end of all good and witnessing the glim future for humanity in Vance’s eyes.
He is in shock. He is cringing. Seems to have lost his will to live. And he knows his own death is upon him.
Coincidences? The Pope criticizes the administration’s immigration policies and ends up in the hospital less than a week later? He meets the vice-president in person and dies the next day?
Only God knows what really happened.
One has to consider that maybe there is a battle going on between the forces of good and the forces of evil. Maybe there is a heaven and hell in the afterlife. Maybe there is a devil and a savior. Maybe there are angels and demons.
Pope Francis believed in love and could not turn his head away from the plight of the destitute.
Vance believes in his country. and Trump above all.
Who is the good guy and who is the bad guy? Depends on which side of the pew you kneel.
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