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.