Senior Jesuit priest and close friend of Pope Francis accuses Jesus of being ‘stymied and callous’
Fr. Spadaro SJ has long been known as a close advisor to the Pope, lending further weight to the scandal of his words which have been described as 'blasphemy.' | In a commentary published August 20 in Italy’s secular and left-wing paper il Fatto Quotidiano, Father Antonio Spadaro S.J. provided his personal take on the Gospel of the day for the Novus Ordo Mass calendar, taken from the Gospel of Matthew, 15: 21- 28. ● Recounting the passage of Christ’s encounter with the Canaanite woman whose daughter was afflicted by a demon, Spadaro accused Christ of being first “indifferent,” and then “stymied and callous.” ■ Archbishop Viganò wrote that Spadaro’s commentary was published in the safe knowledge of the protection of Pope Francis, and that it was “the manifestation, the epiphany, as some ‘theologian’ of Santa Marta would call it, of a counter-church with its false dogmas, mendacious precepts, deceitful preaching, its corrupted and corrupting ministers.”
■ Spadaro's wicked blasphemy is beyond anything we have heard of in recent times. It is shocking! Jesus was, and still is, Love incarnate. He was s merely testing this Canaanite woman. The point is that healing is made possible by sincere faith. Jesus was the savior of the Canaanites too, not just the Israelites. The mental leap we are to make is to step away from tribalism (which is exclusive) and to accept the universal point of view. Faith is the important thing, not your ethnicity. -Ed.