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🗓️ 23 April 2025
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0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, April 23, 2025. |
0:07.8 | I'm Albert Mowler, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
0:14.1 | Of course, much of the world is right now talking about the death of Pope Francis and the plans for the funeral coming this weekend and for other events. |
0:21.9 | But you'll notice a couple of things just briefly today before we move on to some other stories. |
0:26.8 | Number one, this is what happens when you claim a monarchial status for the leader of your church. |
0:33.4 | When you look at the office of the Pope and when you consider the fact that the Pope is a monarchial office, |
0:39.2 | then you see the fact that there is so much cultural fascination. And of course, part of this is |
0:44.3 | entirely legitimate because of the influence of the Roman Catholic Church around the world, and thus |
0:49.1 | the influence and power of a Pope. But it's more than that, and this is something that is down to the |
0:56.1 | center of the Reformation. And that is the fact that the Reformation is only in a very limited way visual. |
1:04.1 | The Roman Catholic Church is in virtually every way visible. And so you have the visible glory. |
1:10.5 | It's one of the things Luther talked about, |
1:12.3 | the St. Peter's Basilica, all the rest of it, all of the color, all the robes, all of the |
1:18.3 | monarchial trappings. And it is really interesting to see so many people in the press say, |
1:23.9 | well, you know, Pope Francis wanted to simplify the papacy. And arguably, he did in some sense, |
1:29.0 | some symbolic gestures, even down to the placement of his more simple coffin there in St. Peter's |
1:35.5 | for the funeral and the viewing. And so he also stayed in terms of where he lived as Pope in a far more |
1:43.2 | humble place. But the less humble place was still there. |
1:47.5 | The palace is still there. The more monarchial trappings are all still there. And so even as Pope |
1:54.6 | Francis put at least some of that on a lower scale, so to speak, it's still all there. It can all come back in a moment. |
2:03.0 | And furthermore, the color and all the rest of it, the pageantry, the royal trappings, the |
2:08.8 | visual splendor, it's all going to be there. And one of the things we need to know, |
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