FrancisChurch Doctrine In One Simple Equation

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FrancisChurch of unity and love without conditions or elitist religiosity

FrancisChurch of unity and love without conditions or elitist religiosity

Why is it that Pope Francis seems to be deathly afraid of physical separation. To him, Heaven is like one enormous living pile.  It doesn’t matter how much it stinks, how uncomfortable, or how hard it is to breath.  So long as there’s unity, there it is. Perhaps that’s why Pope Francis seems to care so little about the meaning or history associated with the word, ‘utopia.‘

“Evangelization can be a way to unite our hopes, concerns, ideals and even utopian visions.” These were the words of Pope Francis during Mass at Quito’s Bicentennial Park today.

Over 1.2 million people attended the event, an unprecedented number given the fact that the population of the city is roughly 1.6 million. The park commemorates the first cries of independence that began against Spanish rule in Latin America in 1809.

Prior to the Mass, the Holy Father held a private meeting with the bishops of Ecuador. He then made his way to the park, where enthusiastic crowds greeted him with cheers and throwing flower petals.

In his homily, the Holy Father reflected on the theme of unity and evangelization. He told the faithful that he wished to see the cries for independence and freedom from exploitation that Bicentennial Park represents “under the beautiful challenge of evangelization.”

Uniting the idea of Christian evangelization with the populist cries of the worst banana republics is the essence of Liberation Theology.

Jesus’ call that all “may be one,” he continued, was raised in a context of mission in the world. A world, he noted, that Christ loved dearly despite experiencing “the worst of the world” in his own flesh.

“We too encounter daily a world torn apart by wars and violence. It would be superficial to think that division and hatred only concern struggles between countries or groups in society. In reality, they are a manifestation of that ‘widespread individualism’ which divides us and sets us against one another, that legacy of sin lurking in the heart of human beings, which causes so much suffering in society and all of creation,” he said.

I’m ready to repeat that I’m not against division.  I’m not falling into that FrancisChurch hole.  It’s not a sin.  In many ways it’s a blessing.  I am against hatred, but I can’t honestly say I’ve seen too much of it.  Mostly I see selfishness, cruelty, and cowardice.  I see the seven deadly sins: wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony.  ‘Hatred’ is mostly a word used by demagogues and a characteristic of demons.

Then there’s ‘widespread individualism.’  That’s only a sin if you write for a Catholic outlet, teach in a college, or go on television.

The 78-year-old Pontiff said that despite this, Christians are also called to take up Christ’s call and accept the grace and duty of unity through evangelization. However, the Pope explained that unity does not mean uniformity or something that is fashioned with set conditions, which he described as a “religiosity of the elite.” Rather, unity is a concrete proposal by Jesus to love and care for one’s neighbor as explained in the parable of the Samaritan.

OK, Pope Francis.

Division = Bad.

Unity = Good.

Unity ≠ Something that is fashioned with set conditions, i.e. the    “religiosity of the elite.” 

Therefore:

FrancisChurch goodness is unity and love of neighbor so long as it has no conditions, no religiosity, and nothing related to power or money.

Why is the entire world telling us this is Catholic teaching and not just the radical rallying of an resentful ignorant mob?

 

 

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.