BOMBSHELL! AS I HAVE WRITTEN TIME AND TIME AGAIN, POPE FRANCIS DOES JUDGE WHEN THERE IS SOMETHING TO JUDGE AND HYPOCRISY IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS HE JUDGES

Of course when Pope Francis said,"Whom am I to judge" it was in the context of a Vatican priest who was said to be homosexual but was seeking the Lord and living a chaste life. This emphasized the Church's consistent teaching in the catechism that while the homosexual orientation is disordered due to original and actual sin, the same sex orientation in and of itself is not sinful but the unnatural sex acts are. If a homosexual is chaste, who are we to judge is very good advice! Keep in mind that unnatural sex acts for heterosexuals are sinful even in the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony!

But read the following scathing remarks that Pope Francis said about the mayor of Rome! Talking about judging someone and doing so publicly!!!!!!

Pope shows no mercy as he blasts Rome mayor as a 'pretend Catholic'

By Olivier Baube 12 hours ago
 

Rome (AFP) - Pope Francis raised eyebrows in Italy on Tuesday by slapping down the left-leaning mayor of Rome as someone who "pretends to be Catholic".

The unforgiving assessment of Ignazio Marino -- a man the Italian media love to hate -- further heightened tensions between the pope and the mayor in the run-up to the start of the Holy Year of Mercy in December, with the Vatican fearful the Italian capital is ill-prepared for the millions of extra pilgrims.

"He pretends to be Catholic, it came on him all of a sudden. It doesn't happen like that," Francis said.

The pope's cutting comments on the politician -- who observers say rubbed the pontiff up the wrong way with his vocal support of gay marriage and euthanasia -- came as Francis returned from a barnstorming visit to the United States and Cuba.

Asked on the flight home if the pope had invited Marino, Francis said, "I didn't invite the mayor. Is that clear? I asked the organisers and they didn't invite him either."

Marino's presence on the last leg of the papal tour, coming hot on the heels of his holidays in the US and the Caribbean, did not go down well in Rome as the capital reels from a series of crises.

With the Italian press and social media humming with the pope's putdown, Marino said he had been not been invited by the pope but by the city of Philadelphia.

"If the most popular man in the world takes down one of the least popular in Italy, that says that all the rules of the game have been thrown up in the air, including possibly those of mercy," said the Turin daily, La Stampa.

"The Pope excommunicates Marino," headlined the right-wing Roman daily Il Tempo, which devoted inside pages to the controversy, while Il Giornale, owned by former premier Silvio Berlusconi, gloated at Marino's "colossal shame".

"The Pope freezes the mayor of Rome," said the centre-left La Repubblica, whose editorial said the swipe could almost be seen as a bid to "hand Rome back to the right who had poisoned the city", a reference to the Mafia corruption scandal which has engulfed its former right-wing mayor Gianni Alemanno.

Others saw the pope's disdain for the mayor as being linked to his support of gay marriage, and in particular the city "legalising" same-sex marriages conducted abroad, even though Italy still bans such unions.

One thing is sure -- the row will not help relations as Rome gears up to welcome 20 million pilgrims for the Year of Mercy, which begins on December 8, when the faithful will be granted special indulgences, the highest form of forgiveness.