The Pope in America, and What an America...


Did you see this Time magazine issue out on the stands recently?

I don't believe I'm the only one to speak about the plain meaning of what is on this cover. I confess I'm not one to have any full mastery of these things, but I can't see how the icons of America here were randomly chosen for the Pope to peruse.

First there is the Golden Gate Bridge, which represents the pontiff's title of "bridge builder." This leads to the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, a modern symbol of Masonry's Royal Arch notoriety. Then there is the most prominent phallic symbol in the country, the Washington Monument, leading to one of the most renowned idols of goddess worship in the world, the Statue of Liberty.

All of this under the covering (the flag) of the present manifestation of Roman authority, the United States, which the magazine declares that the Pope adores. Of course he does, she is his means of cracking heads of all who do not align with the City's precepts.

In fact, I can't help but point out a bit of the profound irony on this magazine cover. Note the tease in the upper left corner? And the assertion, "Why Iraq hasn't healed"? Besides the fact that Iraq is really where Babylon once ruled, and besides the fact that the Pope is merely the latest of the long line of World Rulers through the millennia, the answer to why it hasn't healed is splayed all over that cover.

It is a frightening place, the World.

Abjectly harrowing. Indeed a massive body of death. It's all right there.

There is a way out...

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