Who am I to judge?

I find it very inspiring the way Pope Francis is bringing such fresh inspiration and truly a new way of being in his role as head of the Catholic Church. I have been reading a particularly though provoking article originally published in The New Yorker magazine on July 30, 2013 entitled ‘Who am I to judge? Francis redefines the papacy’.

The journalist wrote: ‘From the beginning he has set a new tone, one of informality, openness, humility, and approachability. He has begun to redefine the papacy...He had done this by consistently avoiding questions of doctrine, speaking largely through gesture and example.

This behavior was exemplified during his remarkable press conference on Monday, on the flight back from his first foreign trip, to Brazil. His words about homosexual priests prompted headlines around the world: “If they accept the Lord and have good will, who am I to judge them?” he said. “They shouldn’t be marginalized… They’re our brothers.”

As many of you know, in his teaching White Eagle has for many years been advocating this new ‘Aquarian’; way of being—a way of brotherly understanding, equality, tolerance and non-judgement. His best known and wildest selling book ‘The Quiet Mind’ has many sayings on this theme.

‘Do not judge what you see on the surface, but develop an inner vision and insight into spiritual cause and effect. Then you will know that you can judge no-one.’

‘We shall do well to remember how much we ourselves need forgiveness, and to learn to forgive freely, judging no-one. Another soul is unknown to us; but it is our duty, our surpassing joy, to search ever for the spark of the divine in all.’