Francis Strikes at the Heart of the Church

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Yesterday, in Quito’s Bicentennial Park, Pope Francis said something blasphemous, insidious.

I think of those hushed words of Jesus during the Last Supper as more of a shout, a cry rising up from this Mass which we are celebrating in Bicentennial Park. Let us imagine it together. The bicentennial which this Park commemorates was that of Latin America’s cry for independence. It was a cry which arose from being conscious of a lack of freedom, of exploitation and despoliation, of being “subject to the passing whims of the powers that be” (Evangelii Gaudium, 213).

Francis isn’t saying that when Jesus gave Himself to us in the Holy Eucharist he was crying out against exploitation, despoliation of the environment, and the powers that be, is he?  He’s just saying Jesus’s ‘hushed voice’ was in many ways like a cry, and that we can imagine together that it was the cry of Latin American independence, right?  We can also imagine it’s like the cry against economic injustice, oppression, environmental destruction, and exploitation: the ageless excuses of the leftist machine.

Francis is only saying we can imagine all these things at the same time: the Last Supper, Ecuador’s freedom, and worldwide environmentalist socialism.  He doesn’t really believe those things are what the Last Supper is all about, no!  If the Last Supper is about anything in FrancisChurch it’s about washing prisoners’ feet every year, right?

Let’s not kid ourselves nor be fooled by the paid courtisans who blow with the breeze.  Communism is exactly what Pope Francis thinks Our Lord’s Supper is all about.  Francis is a liberation theologist.  It’s not the same thing as Catholic.

Right out of the shoot Francis told the world that God isn’t Catholic.  Well, if he thinks God isn’t Catholic then why must we all pretend Francis is?  Francis is what he thinks God is.  We’re the same say.  We think God is Catholic so we are too.  Francis thinks God isn’t Catholic so neither is he.  To be religious is to honor God for whom and what you believe him to be.

I’m still waiting to hear about there being no Muslim Allah.

I know the Pope also told the world he was a ‘son of the Church.’  Well, we are all sons of the ancient Jews too, but that doesn’t make us Jewish.  And it doesn’t make today’s Church some kind of new wine that hasn’t happened yet, either. Our Church is not the ‘son’ of the Catholic Church (but FrancisChurch is a dubious offspring indeed).

Liberation Theology is as wrong as it is to covet, to steal, to lie and to kill.  It’s sacrilegious to ascribe those intentions to Our Lord and His New Covenant, even to coax others to imagine it.  To do so, especially with what is the heart of our Faith; Jesus’ sacrifice, the Blessed Sacrament, and the priesthood, is in direct opposition to the Church.  It’s nothing like Catholic at all.

 

 

Francis, the Synod, And the UN Poised To Turn The Planet Into One Big Faithless Favela

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The best is yet to come.

The best is yet to come.

I remember a pastor who admitted during one of his Sunday rants that he became a priest because his dad would drink on weekends.  Father’s sermons were angry.  He had a style that alternately yelled then was gentle, sort of beating up the mostly older crowd into a dizzy sense of relief.  For some reason this seemed to work.  People loved it.  I just felt manipulated and foolish for being present.

I couldn’t understand why father would be prompted to make the sacrifices of priesthood just because his own father was weak.  It didn’t make sense until I considered how he viewed the Church.  This priest saw the Church today as something very different from the Church before Vatican II.  In fact he had contempt for the old Church and worked very hard every day to root out its persistent remnants.  He felt the same way toward the old Church that he did toward his father: angry.

Pope Francis is similar.   Driven by some resentment, he wants his papacy to make things fundamentally different, to change realities that have always been and will always be.  It’s a radically destructive kind of mania.

Pope Francis has asked people to pray for October’s Synod of Bishops on the family during Mass in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

He also tied the synod to the Jubilee of Mercy, a year-long celebration that will begin in December.

The synod will be a time for the Church to “deepen her spiritual discernment and consider concrete solutions to the many difficult and significant challenges facing families in our time,” the Pope said.

Celebrating Mass with as many as one million people gathered under the hot sun in Los Samanes Park, Pope Francis asked them “to pray fervently for this intention, so that Christ can take even what might seem to us impure, scandalous or threatening, and turn it — by making it part of his ‘hour’ — into a miracle. Families today need this miracle!”

How can the Catholic Church ‘deepen it’s discernment?’  Are the things it teaches not true?  Why do liberals always call it ‘deep’ when they reject something good?

And no Christian is moved by false scandals or threats.  Who is Francis impugning?

The Pope is continuing to make it clear that he wants the ‘serene theology on its knees’ of Cardinal Kasper to be pushed-through.  He exhibits all the fierce motivation of a cult leader on the verge of some conquest.  It’s not hard to see.

Nevertheless, and despite this great new era of New York Times FrancisMercy, the only things that are truly impure are humans, and those need a change of heart to be ‘purified’ by Christ, yes?  To ascribe one’s own oh-so-humble and ‘merciful’ intentions to Our Lord would of course be sacrilegious heresy, but Pope Francis wants us to think it’s a divine movement, the kind to which Our Lady was so responsive.  Do you think she appreciates that comparison?

The joy of the wedding feast at Cana, he said, began when Mary was attentive to the needs of others “and acted sensibly and courageously.”

“Mary is not a ‘demanding’ mother, a mother-in-law who revels in our lack of experience, our mistakes and the things we forget to do,” he said. “Mary is a mother! She is there, attentive and concerned.”

As with the guests at the Cana wedding, who were offered the finest wine at the end of the celebration, Pope Francis insisted, so, too, for families today “the richest, deepest and most beautiful things are yet to come.”

“The time is coming when we will taste love daily, when our children will come to appreciate the home we share and our elderly will be present each day in the joys of life,” he said. “The finest of wines will come for every person who stakes everything on love.”

Taste love daily?  That’s gross!  No wonder Francis picks people like this to do his ghostwriting.

Pope Francis said he knows “all the variables and statistics which say otherwise,” but “the best wine is yet to come for those who today feel hopelessly lost.”

Just like the Wedding at Cana, Our Lord’s Church has saved the best wine for last?  The breathtaking arrogance of FrancisChurch!  For a hundred generations we’ve been building to this moment.  What fools we’ve been all these millennia!  No wonder we need completely different kinds of new hippie saints.  Back to the Gospel!

In the new Final Covenant, socialist planning will save the family so they are all together once more and, though owning few of those evil modern conveniences, no longer poor.  All will be united in one big, odd, man-made FrancisFamily; the old, the young, the gay, the remarried, the third wives, the the sort-of cousins, the half-half sisters, their mothers’ boyfriends and their polygamous uncles, all running up together to Holy Communion in one new big utopian pile of mercy.

 

 

 

 

Hyped, Hysterical FrancisWorship Emanates From the Hierarchy

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Fast and Pray Oh Christian That You Are Docile to the FrancisTeaching

Fast and Pray Oh Christian That You Are Docile to the FrancisTeaching

EWTN/CNA reports:

In preparation for Pope Francis’ visit to Cuba this fall, the bishops of the island nation are asking the faithful to perform acts of mercy during the first Fridays of July, August and September.

“Pope Francis never stops talking about mercy,” the bishops said in a June 29 message. “The first Sunday after his election, he mentioned it 13 times. And he just recently called for the celebration of the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy which will begin December 8 this year and conclude November 20, 2016.”

That’s true.  Mercy, mercy, mercy and not a word about repentance.  It’s like the opposite of what a prophet of God might say.

Mercy “is nothing less than ‘reaching out with our heart’ to others,” the bishops continued. “Sometimes it seems we live in a heartless world. Everywhere we come across moral, spiritual, social, intellectual, physical and material poverty…and we also find people who have hardened their hearts in the face of human suffering.”

People who ‘harden their hearts in the face of human suffering’ don’t do any work.  It’s called lazy.  Most of the time poverty goes with it, but in many cases, like the Holy Family itself, poverty can come from sacrifice and self-giving.  That kind of poverty is nothing to denigrate.

Is FrancisChurch trying to tell us that Mary, Joseph, and Jesus were foolish, or that they were unfortunate victims of someone else’s hard heart?  And why is everything poverty…’moral, spiritual, social, intellectual, physical and material?’  (Nothing is actually ‘social,’ is it?)

I think the only poverty Pope Francis can speak to is spiritual.

In light of this situation, and to prepare for the Pope’s Sept. 19-22 visit, the Cuban bishops asked people to perform works of mercy for those in need on the first Fridays of the next three months. They also requested “special times of prayer and fasting,” as well as community prayer vigils Sept. 17-18.

The goal of these initiatives is “to ask for God’s help so that he would dispose the hearts of all Cubans so they would listen to and receive the message of hope and mercy that Pope Francis will bring to us,” they stated.

This is just more creepy Francis-worship.  Look at the hysterics of FrancisVisit Abp. Chaput, or Cardinal Dolan’s rejoicing!

The Left is so bent on making us think Catholicism is now Francis-ism, we must now all pray, fast, and do works of FrancisMercy so that the inane, un-Catholic, and dangerous things he says will sink ever more deeply into our once Christian brains.