WE NEEDED FAITH, NOT POLITICS

If you're the donut man, sell donuts.

And if you're the pope, preach Christ.

In life, you have to know your role and remember your purpose. You have to keep your eye on the prize. Yesterday, in front of a Congress and a nation, Pope Francis forgot who he was.

He came to the plate, and he didn't swing.

He failed to deliver the one message his life is supposedly dedicated to delivering. With the eyes of a government and a people upon him, he squandered the opportunity of a lifetime.

America needed to hear something, and he didn't say it.

If you're the pope, you preach Christ. You spread the good news of a Savior sent to redeem mankind. You call the world to Christ, you call the world to repentance, you call the world to its knees.

You tell all who will hear, the most important thing they or anyone else will ever hear – that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

You follow the example of the Apostle Paul who went among the Corinthians with one topic on his lips – “Jesus Christ, and him crucified.”

You stand before the Americans, like that same Paul stood before the Athenians, and say, “Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.”

But that's not what Francis did.

I'm not sure he even mentioned God or Jesus.

Instead, he talked about immigration and global warming and social justice. He gave a halting, barely comprehensible lecture ripped right out of the progressives' talking points. He said nothing new, noble or memorable.

And he certainly didn't preach Christ. He said not a word that called anyone to God, or gave them an insight into salvation or the eternities.

He did nothing to save a soul.