Pope Francis, Pius X comparison

[Godisgreat23]

This is really great I for one believe that catholic church needs to go back to its roots and make changes to those which were present during the times of Pope Pius X.

 

[Mrs_Sally]

I don’t see much merit in allowing his sisters to remain in poverty.

He didn’t leave them in poverty. He did not make them princesses (of the Vatican court or whatever other lands the Church owned at the time), but they did have dinner with him regularly and were not left out in the cold.

 

[Lucky7]

I have been researching other popes…specifically other “religious” popes and I am finding there were a number of popes that reformed the Church in various ways as well as focusing more on the poor, etc. One such other Pope was Pius V (a Dominican), so I’m not so sure you can take just one other Pope (Pius X) and compare him to Pope Francis.

 

[JaMc]

I have been researching other popes…specifically other “religious” popes and I am finding there were a number of popes that reformed the Church in various ways as well as focusing more on the poor, etc. One such other Pope was Pius V (a Dominican), so I’m not so sure you can take just one other Pope (Pius X) and compare him to Pope Francis.

True. But St. Pius X is perhaps the best known Pope who has become, among many, the personification of Tradition and strict adherence to doctrine. Also, you’ll see many traditionalists on-line using Pope Francis’ humble style as fodder for a belief that he is somehow a “modernist” or otherwise heterodox, when, in fact, St. Pius X’s humble style - especially in 1903 monarchial, imperial Europe - was just as much a departure from Papal practices at the time as Pope Francis’ humble style is today.

In other words, the example of St. Pius X is ideal proof that a Pope can be closer to “the people” and cut back on ceremony, while remaining faithful to Tradition and doctrine.

 

[Lucky7]

True. But St. Pius X is perhaps the best known Pope who has become, among many, the personification of Tradition and strict adherence to doctrine. Also, you’ll see many traditionalists on-line using Pope Francis’ humble style as fodder for a belief that he is somehow a “modernist” or otherwise heterodox, when, in fact, St. Pius X’s humble style - especially in 1903 monarchial, imperial Europe - was just as much a departure from Papal practices at the time as Pope Francis’ humble style is today.

In other words, the example of St. Pius X is ideal proof that a Pope can be closer to “the people” and cut back on ceremony, while remaining faithful to Tradition and doctrine.

Ah, fair enough. That makes sense for sure.

 

[Cwoosley]

Pope Francis has made the New Evangelization come alive, not with Bible thumping, nor with Catechism thumping, but with the joy of love in humility. Traditionalists have appropriated St Pius X as their standard bearer. Now they may be coaxed back into the fold of full communion by realizing how close Pope Francis is to the qualities of St Pius X that matter most: his joy of love in humility. “The greatest of these is love.” Come Holy Spirit. Kindle in all of us the fire of this love."

 

[Aelred_Minor]

His meek demeanor also reminds me of his immediate predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI.