Francis, the political Pope

Welby, the political Archbishop

In the Age of Francis and Welby,

Long years of peace taken for granted,

plunged Europe into a war before their very eyes

Because of the cobweb-filled altars

And dusty holy books in their Cathedrals of Etcetera.

In the Age of Francis and Welby,

all the nations kicked God out

of their hearts and national agenda

And binned Him in their national junkyards

And all the world regressed to the State of Nature.

In the Age of Francis and Welby,

the world at daggers drawn,

Liberty snatched and love and compassion

intractably took a flight to the Darkest Blackness

When hope was murdered, and dreams shattered;

Life miserable and laughter in flight

And wars took over!

In the Age of Francis and Welby,

Famine took over our world

And some resort to flesh and body parts trade -

And selling their children to fence off famine,

Whilst others eat grass to survive.

In the Age of Francis and Welby,

Violence everywhere,

Youth violence,

Gun violence,

Stabbings, maiming, destructions, killings,

Youth preying on youth as beasts in a jungle -

Black on Black;

White on Black;

Black on White

Brown on Brown;

White, Black on Brown

White, Brown on Black

Brown on Black and White;

Men on Men

Men on women

Women on men

Women on women

Straights on LGBQ+

LGBQQIA+ on Straights

Lone wolves prowling about world cities

For whom to attack.

Cells, cells everywhere,

All over West!

But security have gone AWOL!

And terror, tyrants, and dictators

 over our world taken -

A world recreated by lords and masters.

The 21^st century is the Millennium,

the two watchmen of the vineyard

Went a sleeping and not a fishing, snoring loudly,

Whilst wolves in sheep clothing raided the vineyard

Stealing the sheep, with some scattering

All over the mountaintops, hills, and valleys

And all the world forced to Gethsemane,

And then to Golgotha, and then to limbo

Awaiting His Second Coming.

The shame of the Age of Francis and Welby,

The political Pope and the political Archbishop!

• APRIL 21, 2022.

• JOHN ODEY ADUMA, British Chevening Scholar, publisher of Vigilance – The World’s Leading Security Magazine, Scorpion News Corp, and author of the bestseller: “Be a Beacon of Hope in the World: A Message to Young Britain” was formerly Executive Secretary, Foundry Association of Nigeria, (1997-2000), National Coordinator, The Pastoral Resolve, (General Muhammadu Buhari’s Pastoralists NGO; and Chairman, Editorial Board of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc, 2000-2003.

“…like over the dark cloud,

the sun will shine over

Turkey and Syria again.”

O Turkey,

O Syria,

Have you both been brought so low,

Reduced to a mere rubble,

And humbled in just a matter of moment?