Man with a plan and a job to do
When Christendom began to fall in the north and the modern elites started to consolidate power, banking engulfed us, industries formed, and men became more and more debased and enslaved; what was once right and wrong became only Right and Left. The realities of good and bad didn’t change, just our understanding of them.
The terms ‘Right and Left’ were given to us during the French Revolution. (The most confusing terminology in our lost world has been handed to us by Leftists. When you bind the language you have control.) Ronald Reagan corrected this orientation for us. ‘Right and left’ is misleading. Reagan said it’s really ‘up and down.’
It helps to consider that when the Son of Man is lifted up, He draws all men to Himself. In that case up points toward good. But when the cross is pulled down, as it is so often today, ‘up’ becomes Right.
After the Reformation, and deprived of the Holy Sacraments, the common mind darkened and the truth above became obscured by a cloud. All could see the ground below, but only the faithful Catholic could see blue sky through the cloud. What was before ‘holy or worldly’ had become either ‘conservative or liberal.’ One could still be worldly and follow the world the same way, but following the truth became more difficult and our collective knowledge of it weaker without the Church.
Today, as more and more truths are pushed out of the modern awareness, we have to look to the past to find them. So they call us old fashioned and conservative, but we just have a natural love of truth in a post-Christian empire.
People are right to say that conservative thinking is limited, but at least it’s pointed in the right direction: toward a society of truth that preceded our own. But liberalism is still nothing but worldliness and is always wrong in every age. Put simply: not everything old or traditional is good, but there’s nothing good about liberalism.
Why is worldliness bad, and why do the true saints warn against it? They know that we sheep can only follow either the Good Shepherd or the bad one. Our Lord has named the prince of this world and chasing him is the same business for all time. There is no real difference between philosophical or political liberalism and Christian liberalism. They are both faithless. Don’t be fooled. There are no aspects of liberalism worth pursuing. They only lead to sin and death.
When Christendom began to fall and the modern order to form, the old governments of kings and men deteriorated, becoming increasingly wordly. It didn’t happen everywhere at once. It was like a receding tide, with waves of truth rushing in less and less frequently. People think the other side of Christendom is some kind of free happiness of ordered reason and virtue. At the least it’s a return to paganism, right? But that’s just not true. The other side of Christendom is North Korea first, then Hell second.
Pope Francis
Pope Francis is everywhere promoting a new world order which is essentially communism in its contemporary face. He unleashes the formally corked, yet highly developed faux-Christian radicalism of liberation theology worldwide, even shamelessly embracing old-school communists as he strides the world like an Oscar winner. He uses Christ and His Church, but he is not one with it. He is a communist and that is heresy.
The Church has four marks: it’s one, holy, catholic, and apostolic. If you use these marks to discern what is or is not the Church, you’ll find it’s usually not where people say it is. Most ‘catholic’ people and institutions simply do not demonstrate most of these four marks.
Communism, which is the advanced end of Liberalism or worldliness, can also be discerned by four marks. These are lying, cheating, stealing, and killing. A communist society descends upon men in the name of ‘justice’ or ‘social justice,’ but it is in no way just.
Pope Francis accepted this week a gift from Evo Morales, a communist dictator, friend, and great admirer. It was a corpus nailed to a hammer and sickle, the classic sign of godless communist totalitarian states. Francis had just honored and prayed for Fr. Luis Espinal, the Jesuit creator of that abomination, at the site where he’d been murdered for his communist activism. FrancisChurch venerates and promotes the sainthood causes for many such men. He smiled, received the thing, and mumbled something conversational, which the entire conservative press then falsely reported as a rebuke so desperate were they to hide the bare truth. But this tiny lie, along with Francis’ other few and meager words against communism do not by any means make him not a communist. His entire papacy is a communist vehicle. In two years he can claim a mountain of destructive actions and statements. He is what the American socialist establishment likes to call ‘a transformational figure.’ In short, Francis demonstrates the four marks of communism quite well.
For one, Francis spreads lies.
Francis ascribes thoughts and motives to our Lord that only a fool would have. He makes Our Lady rash and witchy. He invokes the name of the Holy Spirit for the most twisted and faithless excuses. The Gospel is not about the poor and ‘marginalized.’ That would be an enormous misunderstanding of the deposit of faith, but it’s Francis’s, and he lies when he says it’s also the Church’s. In his words the Gospel makes no sense without the poor. We should ‘kneel before the poor in Church.’
Prior to every papal trip Francis asks for Our Lady’s prayers at her Church in Rome. Then he visits with a few homeless corralled in for him to touch. The realities of these two routines are inseparable for Francis. For him the Catholic faith is only about revolution, social revolution, a new economic order. It’s all lies.
His histrionic encyclical, Laudato Si’, is hundreds of pages worth of false science, cruel accusations, demagoguery, and destructive commands in the name of Christ.
Francis cheats.
He openly flouts the liturgical rubrics that bind the Mass and make it universal. It’s bad enough that he’s a vigorous promoter of the fabricated protestantized Mass we must endure and has contempt for the Ancient one; he also feels the need to give lawless example. It isn’t enough they’ve brazenly eliminated what no Pope had ever dared to suppress; these new rules must also be rejected in order to send a message of what? Chaos? Human Egotism?
A hallmark of the destructive Francis papacy is the misapplication of mercy, as if it were something he and his notorious gang of heretics had the right to fling everywhere in the name of God. Like a Baptist, he tells Bolivian prisoners he has been saved from his many sins. His October 2014 Synod was a farce and a stunt. Hyper-streamlined annulments are on his agenda and baptisms for gay ‘parents.’ He’s spurned the entire ancient saint-making apparatus completely, leaving no input for God or man. He does not see the doctrines and moral truths so much as guides to follow, but rather as things to use and bend toward some sentimental, materialist, and utopian goal. Francis breaks rules. He cheats.
Francis preaches stealing.
Francis peppers every speech with calls for ‘just distribution of wealth,’ equality, and advocacy on behalf of the poor and the ‘oppressed.’ The miracle in the loaves and the fishes is the attitude of sharing. Holy Communion is about helping the least.
Francis says alms are obligatory. He says wealth distribution is not philanthropy but morally required. Who does Francis think he is that he can order people to give their own money away? If alms are legally obligatory, they are no longer alms. They are simply taken from you at gunpoint. This is what socialists call ‘social justice.’ None of their schemes are voluntary.
Every judge knows that administration of justice means inflicting pain on some perpetrator of a crime, but for Francis and his gang of fans worldwide, those who ‘possess’ unequally are criminals and taking from them is justice.
Francis helps and enables killing.
Francis is a political ally of the murderous Left: the UN population controllers, the Obama admin, the Castros and the dictators, the Palestinians. They inform his papacy and they praise him up and down because he promotes their inhuman agendas everywhere in the name of Christ’s Church. They count on him to bend the minds and hearts of Christians in favor of their goals and he performs. Using the Church, Francis normalizes cruel states like Cuba then betrays free and just places like Israel to ruthless enemies.
Francis has openly corrected the pro-life movement and the waved a white flag at the sexual agenda. He says some faithful things in the press but his FrancisBishops are all ‘social justice’ liberals who spin and capitulate. Among the hierarchy, the lavender mafia has never been more powerful and Francis’ Synod sacrilege moves steadily toward its goal.
Francis is a pacifist and an enemy of criminal justice. Without true justice, criminals kill and make war on the innocent. He calls arms makers un-Christian while relying upon them like anyone else. He stands on a rock in the Mediterranean and waves countless Muslims into Europe along with their murderous associates, then he attacks those who try and defend the Christian continent from the ruin that must necessarily come. As Pope, Francis is a friend and advocate for thugs and murderers around the world and no friend to the helpless, the weak, or the just.
Hard Questions
In closing, as a special request to members of the Catholic press who are keen to tell us Francis’ communism is just Catholic teaching, or that he’s being manipulated, or how Vatican II commands us to have a ‘preferential option for the poor,’ or that the Laudato Si’ manifesto is helpful and harmless since we can freely ignore its science and its specific recommendations yet somehow tease out its moral message for observance: please answer my questions:
- Why did Francis ask Christ to make the impure, scandalous, or threatening become miraculously good at the Synod? What does he mean? Why is Fr. Lombardi sure he meant nothing specific?
- Why do tinpot Marxist dictators feel comfortable handing communist faux-Christian abominations to Pope Francis? Why has he done little to combat this perception?
- Why did the worldwide conservative media quickly publish the lie that the pope rejected the communist Hammer and Sickle Jesus as blasphemous, when he actually accepted it in a smiling and gracious way.
- Why did Pope Francis pray and lay flowers at the murder site of the Jesuit who designed his new hammer/sickle crucifix? Why did he say, ‘He preached the Gospel, and this Gospel troubled them, so they eliminated him?’
- Why does the ‘faithful ‘c’atholic press say ‘useful idiotic’ things such as, “Francis wasn’t endorsing Fr. Espinal’s communism, just his love?”
- Why does Francis continue to collaborate with openly socialist groups like the World Mtg. of Popular Movements, openly calling for a ‘truly communitarian economy,’ and then telling us it would be of ‘Christian inspiration?’
- Why does our Pope blast the ‘economic order’ and invent new ‘sacred rights’ to labor, lodging and land from others. Why does he share a podium with a man wearing a picture of mass-murderer, Che Guevara, on his jacket?
- Why did Pope Francis say that taking people’s resources and redistributing them isn’t philanthropy. It’s morally required. Why does he tell the world he’s happy to see a communist dictator again?
- Why does Pope Francis call leaders who stand for justice and truth by rejecting Marxist global warming schemes cowardly?
- Why does Pope Francis preach his own Gospel, where the Holy Eucharist is supposed to cause us to reject individualism, and demand exchange, encounter and solidarity?
- Why does the Vicar of Christ apologize for Christian Civilization and call it brutal. Why does he call capitalism the evil ‘dung of the Devil?’
- Why are respected and faithful conservative Catholics so eager to ignore the enormous reality of a heretical Liberation Theology Pope, even going so far as to subtly sideline faithful Catholics who protest, and pounce upon any unreasonable rationale for his words or deeds.
- Why does the pope order all Catholics to ‘kneel before God and implore forgiveness’ for the colonialist sins of their forefathers? Is it doctrine now that we must make silly apologies even to God for things we didn’t do, or for slurs anti-Catholics hurl at His Church?
Things are grim. Let’s not pretend. It’s no day to compromise nor to side with the enemy. We must look at the Pope Francis situation squarely because the men behind him have no illusions about us.
What is scary about this Pope is that he seems to want to lead one faction against the other faction. He broadly castigates whole classes of people, as if wanting to give a focus for some people’s hatreds. What kind of Pope leads the charge of one side of haters against the other side? He speaks as if all capitalists were evil rotten human beings. I am deeply worried about this Pope. Something is really wrong.
This is a clear tactic of Marxism. Always pit one group against another, especially poor against rich. And it works every time.
I have been worried about this pope since day one. Within minutes of his election I googled his name and pulled up a photo of him kneeling before a half naked woman, kissing her feet, when he was a bishop in Buenos Aires. I thought, hmm, anyone who treats his sacred duties in that way – groveling on the floor for the Holy Thursday liturgy – as a means of making grand political statements about the poor – will not respect his role of pope any better. He has politicized the Vicar of Christ, and sadly his politics are those of an ignorant and temperamental 20-something pothead in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Cetitude is gain ground each day, that this man is NOT A POPE, but an ANTI-POPE who was elected because of his Marxist training and influence in South America.
Given how many feathers Pope Francis has already ruffled at the Vatican and beyond with a series of statements emphasizing income inequality, and his attempt to rid the Vatican of old Catholic officials whose main mission appears to be to stifle change and protect their privileges, it is nevertheless still surprising that some critics would claim that the first Latin American pope is a Marxist.
However, it is possible that he IS more than familiar with Thomas Piketty’s surprise best-seller “Capital in the 21st Century,” which, as Santiago Zabala pointed out last year, is critical “of income inequality,” and is not very different from Pope Francis’s views on capitalism in his apostolic exhortation “Evangelii Gaudium.”
Bill Berkowitz
If Francis were still only a priest or bishop, there would be no confusion about him. People would see a South American Jesuit brought up in Liberation Theology, and recognize that of course he’s a Marxist, of course he salutes the hammer and sickle, of course he disdains Tradition and Catholic theology, of course he holds a worldly faith in socialist government and revolutionary action rather than the Catholic faith. That’s what we’d expect from him, and what we’d get, and all would make sense. Most of us have met priests just like him.
But he gets the most votes in a conclave, and suddenly everyone’s puzzled. Now people are scratching their heads wondering why he acts exactly as his career would predict. They try to find just the right tint of rose-colored glasses through which his words and actions can be seen as Catholic. They search through hundreds of pages of writings and hours of sermons looking for genuinely Catholic nuggets large enough to fill a 140-character tweet. In short, they try to make him Catholic.
But Francis doesn’t hold the Catholic faith; he holds a version of the Marxist faith which is dressed up in some of the vestments of Catholicism, just as any objective observer expected the moment he was elected and we read his backstory. Some of us may have hoped that the Holy Ghost would convert him on his election or at least prevent him from using the Church to spread his false religion, but that hasn’t happened. What should that tell us?
Excellent take on this man. I guess that’s why our heads are spinning over how fast things are sliding into openly Marxist theory coming from the pope of all prelates! You are right, we’ve got lots of apostate and heretical priests and bishops, but we are shocked to see one elevated to the Papacy.
Nonsense! The problem with ALL AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT ON THE WHOLE IS THE COMPLETE IGNORANCE OF CHRISTIAN NATURAL LAW, including conservatives, Christians, left and right. What you’re seeing in the Pope includes the THIRD WAY of Catholicism, NOT MARXISM. Since you suffer from this disease of the mind of seeing only TWO narrow categories Capitalism and Socialism you WARP the words and actions of the Pope, and misread him automatically
The natural law understanding that pre-Christian thinkers had 4 main components, and was Christianized in the Middle Ages. It was diminished down to practically nothing by most of our founders and was completely lost by the time of Oliver W Holms.
A brilliant recent fast paced 40 min presentation was recently seen on EWTN’s program “on Location” last Saturday. by a Catholic philosopher from Texas with a Polish last name.
Incidentally, Justice Thomas is the only one on the High Court who has MAINTAINED THE FULL TRUTH OF CHRISTIANIZED NATURAL LAW.
BONE UP ON THE CATHOLIC INTELLECTUAL TRADITION.
One more thing. Do you know ANYTHING about Jesuit spirituality? It is very practical and concrete. When the Holy Father speaks he does so from this perspective of St. Ignatius, IN ORDINARY LANGUAGE NOT IN THEOLOGICAL TERMS.
Finally, do you know anything about peoples of the Mediterranean world. Well, it is allows for people to EXAGERATE TO MAKE ITS POINT, JUST LIKE JESUS ( ” if your eye is your problem, cut it out”).
You err in your appraisal of the Pope because you take everything he says and does in abstract theological terms. Your DENSE!
Appointing homosexuals and enemies of the faith to high positions in the Church is not traditional Jesuit spirituality. Speaking in vague and confusing terms so that the immoral Left may graft their ideas on to your words is not Catholic.
How we help the poor is a prudential matter. Decade after decade of corrupt Latin American governments is the cause of the problem not unfetter capitalism. Capitalism, like democracy, must be infused with moral people. That is the problem.
Constant spinning by people like you is no help to those who are confused. Let your yes mean yes and your no mean no.
pette salveinini on July 12, 2015 at 3:30 pm Well said!
I would like to say North Americans forget that they have a responsibility to the poor because it is part of the Gospel and also they, the poor teach us to detach ourselves from the material by making us see their needs and give of ourselves to them.
I don’t see any marks of Communism in Francis reminding the Church of the need to leave our consummerism.
This is what Francis said :
” railing about the injustices of the global capitalist system that he says idolises money over people, demanding instead a new economic model where the Earth’s resources are distributed equally among all.”
I also suggest that if some of you speak Spanish you should read or listen in audio a book by Fr. Julio Memvielle a Catholic Priest from Argentina this is the video on Youtube :
El Judío en el misterio de la historia – Padre Julio Meinvielle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MrD6cwR1hU
You want to understand politics read or listen to it.
Hopefully then many of you judging Francis for his desire to remind Catholics of the need to help the poor and to detach ourselves from the material can be seen for what it is Christian teaching.
You don’t help the poor by making them dependent on the State. You enslave them. Just like was done to the blacks in America in the 60’s.
Stumbling Block could not be more correct, and honest, in his comments about this Pope. You don’t put your flock in the hands of Evil men. Have you ever heard of Subsidiarity? Check your catechism. It has been ignored by the Modernist Heresy that controls the church for more than 50 years.
Humbly examine this Pope’s actions…..if you are a Modernist, and Progressive, you are thrilled to death, pun intended.
Venerable Fulton J. Sheen reportedly uttered a prophecy that confirms some details about the false prophet, and that he will come from within the Church, from one of her Bishops:
“The False Prophet will have a religion without a cross. A religion without a world to come. A religion to destroy religions. There will be a counterfeit (Catholic) church. Christ’s (true Catholic) Church will be one. And the False Prophet will create the other. The false church will be worldly, ecumenical, and global. It will be a loose federation of churches. And religions forming some type of global association. A world parliament of churches. It will be emptied of all divine content and will be the mystical body of the Antichrist. The mystical body on earth today will have its Judas Iscariot and he will be the false prophet. Satan will recruit him from among our bishops.”