Pope Francis Out With His First Hit Single

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FrancisChurch theology now in song

FrancisChurch theology now in song

Do you ever get the feeling Pope Francis is just sort of place-holding while armies of people hype him into all kinds of figures like pope, theologian, politician, climatologist, economics advocate, St. Francis and Mother Teresa, cool guy, bouncer, teddy bear, pop star?

Ever since I learned that the Vatican retained consulting giant McKinsey & Co. fresh after the Conclave to help Pope Francis ‘reform’ the Church, I find little to celebrate in stunts like this:

Pope Francis was already well-qualified as a renaissance man, having formerly worked as a bouncer at a Buenos Aires nightclub and a literature professor who was able to persuade Argentina’s most famous surrealist writer, Jorge Luis Borges, to speak to one of his classes.

Now the pontiff has added yet another improbable title to his résumé: Songwriter.

His new song, titled “So we can all be one,” is the product of a collaborative effort between Francis and Italian-Argentinian musician Odino Faccia. Its public debut came March 29, following Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square.

“We are the world. We are the children. We are the ones who make a brighter day so lets start giving!”

Faccia told Crux in an e-mail that his bond with the pope comes from his work, since he’s always favored music that promotes peace and values. Faccia, considering how to transmit the pope’s message of peace, composed the song — with Francis’s full support.

After singing the new song on Palm Sunday, Faccia told Crux that Pope Francis reported to him that he “really liked the song.”

“This message is of light and hope,” begins the three-minute song, which describes overcoming darkness and looking ahead, rather than allowing the past to determine one’s life.

“So that all may be one,” goes the chorus, “gone are the walls, only the value of the encounter remains … that is the bridge to peace.”

I think this effort may express the Pope’s theological insights quite well. Could it possibly be more trite, empty, or meaningless?

“So we can all be one,” distributed by Sony music, is currently available only in Spanish, but Faccia said versions are currently being produced in English, Italian, Polish, Arabic, and Portuguese.

They say St. Peter’s Square is really starting to thin out for papal appearances.  I wonder what will happen when they start playing this in a loop?

 

 

Catholic College Student Suspended for Not Going Through with ISIS Funding Scheme

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Unnamed honor student who did not show sufficient trust or respect

Unnamed Laura who failed to sufficiently honor Catholic College’s mission

Hemingway started out as a reporter with no college degree.  Student Laura X at a Catholic College in Miami might want to do the same.

Barry University has suspended a student reporter for her participation in a Project Veritas video that featured a university coordinator assisting in the creation of an ISIS club on campus.

The student journalist, identified only as Laura, recorded her efforts trying to launch a “Sympathetic Students in Support of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria,” student group last week.

This morning, she received an emailed notice from Maria Alvarez, the university’s associate vice president and dean of students, stating she had been suspended over allegations that her reporting violated the university’s Code of Conduct.

“In response to complaints filed by members of the University community on Wednesday, April 3, and received by my office this morning, April 6, 2015, your alleged actions were the cause root of disruption of the University community and the creation of a hostile environment for members of the University staff,” the notice read. “Because these alleged actions violate Barry University’s Code of Conduct, effective immediately you are placed on Interim Suspension from Barry University.”

The university’s Code of Conduct demands that “[m]embers of the campus community must act out of mutual respect to establish an atmosphere of trust,” and that enrollment at the school “presumes an obligation on the part of the student to act at all times in a manner compatible with the university’s purpose, processes and functions.”

Of course, in order to have trust and be respected you have to be trustworthy and respectable, yes?

If I had to be part of an organization which demanded I “act at all times in a manner compatible” with it’s “purpose, processes and functions,” I’d run for the door.  That’s because I would be not in the bosom of a Catholic school, but the grip of an Orwellian network which cared nothing for my life nor the lives of victims anywhere.

During the suspension, Laura is forbidden from visiting the Barry University campus or attending classes.

 

 

FrancisChurch Shepherds Faithful Into The Planetary Capacity Regime

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Pope tees up for UN tyrants

InfoWars reports:

Officials within the UN are pushing the notion that the human population should be reduced in order to effectively combat climate change.

The long standing notion has been continually pushed by Christiana Figueres, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC). In 2013, Figueres had a conversation with Climate One founder Greg Dalton regarding “fertility rates in population,” as a contributor to climate change.

For ‘planners’ everything is a system with inputs and outputs.  Make this intervention here, and the humans will provide that targeted output there.  We are to be pushed, molded, formed, crushed.

“Obviously less people would exert less pressure on the natural resources,” Figueres answered, also noting that estimates suggest the Earth’s population will rise to nine billion by 2050.

Dalton then questioned whether that figure could in some way be stalled or halted.

“So is nine billion a forgone conclusion? That’s like baked in, done, no way to change that?” he asked Figueres.

“There is pressure in the system to go toward that; we can definitely change those, right? We can definitely change those numbers,” Figueres said in response.

Really, we should make every effort to change those numbers because we are already, today, already exceeding the planet’s planetary carrying capacity.” she also claimed.

What kind of sweeping, arrogant, ignorant statement is that?  Is the Earth some Airbus to Hell where you can only carry on one bag and a computer?  Someone told her the ‘planet’s planetary capacity’ and she believed it – and look, we’ve exceeded it already!  That must be why we have all that warming which no-one can feel or detect. Humans have already ruined the climate so humans must cease.

“So yes we should do everything possible. But we cannot fall into the very simplistic opinion of saying just by curtailing population then we’ve solved the problem. It is not either/or, it is an and/also.” the UN official also said.

There is one thing liberals never are and it’s simple.  They are always complex and complicated and we are simple. That must be why Pope Francis told us on Good Friday to:

“enter into the mystery of the empty tomb”, to “seek a deeper meaning, an answer, and not an easy one, to the questions which challenge our faith, our fidelity and our very existence.” 

Truth is so complicated it can’t even be known or believed.  To have faith is far too simple a solution.  We must always question, question, question.

That must also be why Pope Francis, author of the upcoming encyclical on the climate and sustainability, recently warned against breeding like rabbits.  I think three-children is the “number experts say is important to keep the population going,” he advised.

Why we must get this kind of moral advice from someone who has such weak discernment, who relates to UN overlords with planetary egos and systemic ignorance, I have no idea; but he’s the Pope foisted on us upon Benedict’s abdication, and we have to size up the situation for what it is.

Climate change ‘c’atholicism coming up next, you dirty rabbits.