Don’t Let the FrancisMercy Fool You, Faithful Catholic

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Sneaky, guilty, and up to no good

Sneaky, guilty, and up to no good?

In his passionate, battling manner Mundabor has an excellent point about the double-edge sword of FrancisMercy laid upon the planet on September 1st.

He doesn’t trust it.

As Mahound made clear, the outreach to those guilty of the sin of abortion is not really an outreach at all, but like all FrancisMercy it’s just a trick, a PR stunt designed to make Francis popular with the 999 out of 1,000 people who don’t understand Catholic teaching on Confession.

Almost everyone in the West thinks that Catholicism is backward and unforgiving, but most of all they think it’s changeable, because everything in their minds has been morphing their entire lives.  Most people think what they are given to think by the powers that be, yes?  Humanity and common sense creep in, but get quickly swept away in the hurricane of media and sin.  So they see Francis, the television tells them it’s a new Church now, and it makes perfect sense.

The powers that be know they actually can make a new Church.  They just did it in the 1960’s.  It’s eternal character didn’t change, but that doesn’t mean it’s not entirely different today.  The world got the Pope it wanted, he suppressed the Mass and the catechetics, relaxed the Church governance and voila’, a wrecked world.  The faithful Church in Quebec was crushed practically in a matter of months.  Today they just received the first shipment of death kits from their government.  Mission accomplished.

So now every unrepentant sinner is celebrating because the media told them to celebrate and because that rotten Church, which has been the source of their grief despite the fact that they never darken its doors, is now forgiving them.  Thank you Francis, the Pope of New Mercy.

In reality that effort wasn’t for anyone except Obama and UN.  It consolidates the FrancisBase, those herd of swine in the country of the Gerasens who, when filled with demons, run right off a cliff.  It wasn’t for the Church or the people. It was for the purposes of the media-backed FrancisProp machine.

Some say the jubilee mercy letter brilliantly places Confession in a good light with a huge chunk of the apostate world, but that doesn’t matter because it won’t help.  Those people don’t care.  They’re not going to run down to Confession now, learn the Faith, or practice it.  And as the Mahound said:

If the Pope were truly interested in offering absolution to those who were a party to abortion, he would implore them to see a priest today, not wait until the start of his own Jubilee Year on December 8.

It’s all just politics.

So what about the SSPX?  It’s a coincidence that the very same issue recently raised by Madison Bp. Morlino and touted by Fr. Z, that of ‘jurisdiction for Confessions,’ should come up as FrancisMercy just when it was being used as a cudgel.  Since the FrancisEra was imposed, Michael Voris, former leader of the faithful obedient Catholic stalwarts, and his friend Fr. Paul Nicholson, have been ranting against the ‘evil group of disobedient SSPX traditionalists’ and dividing Pope Benedict’s beloved movement.  Mundabor sees this latest FrancisMercy as an opening to more of the same.  According to him, it’s all about the Synod and neutralizing the opposition.

I do not trust this. I do not trust the time, I do not trust the motives, and most importantly I do not trust the person. I fear Francis even when he bears gifts, because a scheming and heretical pope cannot have in mind anything good for Catholicism.

A liberal is a liberal is a liberal.  You can’t be part liberal.  It just makes you liberal.  Just the same you can’t be part heretic.  There is nothing good or Catholic about liberalism. There are only faithful and unfaithful.  You have to accept the whole package, not hem and haw over interpretations, social justice and sustainability, and play rhetorical Parcheesi.  Everybody knows you’re a dishonest fraud and a cheat; a traitor to the cause.

The faithful Catholic establishment loves to remind us of Pope Paul VI and his chaos, how in the end he pulled through with Humanae Vitae.   Wow.  He did something Catholic.  The man suppressed the Mass of the Apostles, quite possibly one of the most destructive things anyone has ever done.  He gave us the notorious Cardinal Bernardin and the nasty bishops conferences.  He handed his tiara to the UN because he didn’t want to look fancy or powerful.  Nice.

I don’t think God appreciated those changes.  Those castaways meant something to Him.  But you don’t have to take my word for it. Just look around you, or are you unfamiliar with the appearance of death?  This world is a lot more like Venus today than Earth.  Do you know how hot it must be walking around Venus right now?  Have you heard of the boiled frog?

Francis is not both liberal and Catholic.  That’s impossible.  Doctrine is practice is application, and I’m not talking about recycling.  The entire planet knows for which team the Pope plays.  The only ones who don’t are we faithful foolish few.  We are the ducks for the big dinner.

I do not trust the time and the motives, because it seems to me that Francis is opening the war on the sacraments with a manoeuvre aimed at disorienting his enemy. He is “merciful” to the SSPX: how will the conservative Catholics, then, be angry at him when he is “merciful” to adulterers? I smell a huge German rat here, and whilst many German bishops will feign mock opposition or even mock indignation, I am pretty sure they all know where this is going to end, and will play the game for all they’re worth. Adultery is well worth an SSPX confession, and they will now shout even louder that once Francis is “merciful” to the “schismatic” SSPX ( I know, I know… slander and false accusations never get old) how can he refuse “mercy” to the oh so acutely suffering concubines and perverts?

But most importantly, I do not trust the person. Not for one second will I think that Francis has suddenly become an orthodox Catholic. Please understand that Francis is not pursuing a less heretical agenda today than he was yesterday. He will not start today to like the rosary-counting Catholics he so much despises. The Evil Clown that went to bed yesterday evening is the same that woke up this morning. Of course he is throwing a bone to the conservative crowd before he serves the sacrilegious entree to his heretical followers, or at least tries to let them have as much of the dish as he can.

“Throwing a bone to the conservative crowd before he serves the sacrilegious entree.”  Mundabor is right.  That sounds like just what we should expect from our papal Obama-fan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What Does Archbishop Cupich Know About Catechesis Anyway?

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An opportunity for Catholic students to dialogue about truth

An opportunity for Catholic students to dialogue about truth

Dominic Lynch at Lifezette.com phoned new Chicago FrancisBishop Blase Cupich for an interview.  Since we have so many new martyrs, saints, and venerables in FrancisChurch who seem to elude requirements for demonstrating heroic virtue, saintly character, or miracles, I think we might be looking here at some future Patron Saint of Excuses.

In a phone conversation, Cupich shared thoughts about Catholic identity on campuses, what he would contribute to this fall’s gathering at the Vatican on the family, and whether he is a Chicago Cubs or Chicago White Sox fan.

How can Catholic universities in America regain sight of their institutional identities?

It’s very important to keep in mind that there’s always a tension in making sure that the Catholic ethos and inspiration that gave rise to the university continues to be handed on from one generation to another. At the same time, it’s also important to realize that universities are laboratories where people do grow. They need the space to make sure that they incrementally understand the faith. Sometimes that means it’s not all at once — there has to be a certain pedagogy to it.

In FrancisChurch every Catholic is a scientist and every target is a ‘laboratory.’  Freedom to sin is ‘space’ and sinning is ‘growing.’  Spiraling into a pit of vice is ‘incrementally understanding the faith’ according to some ‘pedagogy!’

We also know that a good number of students in our Catholic universities are not Catholic. For instance, various theology classes can’t turn into catechetical institutes. There has to be some awareness of teaching people how to think theologically. That tension is always going to be there in an institution of higher learning.

Teaching theology without catechesis?  Thinking ‘theologically’ without learning theology?  Embrace the ‘tension’ of cognitive dissonance, says Cupich.  In other words, be absurd.  It’s just higher learning, see.

But it sure sounds lower.

Loyola University Chicago recently hosted transgender activist Laverne Cox. How should a Catholic university navigate thorny concerns like that?

I don’t know the context of the person coming there, so I can’t really comment on that particular issue. I do know there are issues of concern to students, and if you can use a controlled environment by which there can be honest and open dialogue so people do come to an awareness of what the truth is, that’s of value. It’s always of value for people to take different steps towards the truth — even in terms of a point-counterpoint. That’s a legitimate way for a university to educate people, in general.

I don’t know too much about that event but clinically speaking, if the environment is controlled by some creepy professor, then you can have a Petri dish of dialogue.

I thought speakers came to teach not learn.  Giving voice to the depraved and perverted allows the guest speaker a chance to learn the truth from who – the odd student foolish or unfortunate enough to be taking the class, but who’s bold, righteous, and honest enough to speak out and receive a C or an F for his tepid critique?

The truth moves one way in a situation like that – out the door.

In FrancisChurch slippery bishops and gay spectacles get mountains of funding while Catholic truth can only pay, protest, and fail.

From here Abp. Cupich skips right over the Synod without saying anything frightening, then moves toward the family in general.  We have to do better accompanying them as they pass on the faith!

When the Synod on the Family convenes again this fall, Communion for the divorced and remarried is an issue to be discussed. Where do you align on that issue?

I don’t think that’s a big issue. The real issue today for families and marriage within the church is: How can the family continue to be the place where the Gospel is passed on? That seems to be where the real crisis is. Some are concerned about a decline in Mass attendance, and that is troublesome. However, I believe we’ve lost a sense in the church that the family is where the Gospel is communicated.

We have to help our families see that if the faith is going to continue, it’s going to have to be handed on within the context of the family. As for the other issues of who can go to Communion and all the rest of it, those are not unimportant, but they’re not the central issues. The Synod should not concern itself with those kinds of technical questions.

If you were to make a specific contribution to the Synod, what would it be?

I’ve been a priest now for 40 years and I think that marriage preparation is too focused on the relationship between the couple. We don’t do a very good job in the church of helping people who get married to see the role they have in bringing children into the world and passing on the faith. We don’t accompany them there.

Pope Francis has repeatedly asked us to “accompany” people. We have to put together marriage preparation programs that factor into the equation of how we are asking them to create a family, a place where the faith is passed on. We don’t talk about that at all to married couples.

How important is that kind of training for Catholics at an early age?

Well, that kind of catechesis is going to be effective not only if it is done well in the classroom, but also if it is supported at home. Too many people believe that they don’t have responsibility for passing on the faith. They think that they can take a child to religious education, go off and pick up the laundry and come back and pick-up a Catholic. We’re not serving families well by not challenging parents to take on the catechesis with us. It starts with building a whole new generation of married couples who see the importance of their part in passing on the faith.

What are your plans to stem the tide of Catholics leaving the church?

It’s not just the Catholic church that is losing regular church attendance. It’s the case for all of the mainstream, mainline religions. The real issue here is there is a redefinition of the human person that the culture wants to promote: that the human person lives in isolation, who is autonomous, who is the author of their own life, and who wants to be left alone. That’s opposed to the church’s understanding that the human person is relational, who lives in community with others and whose life is defined in terms of their relationship with others.

That is scary to some people because communities make expectations of us. We live in a culture today that has a very strong market-driven understanding of human life that wants to divide us. It’s easier to sell products to individuals rather than to communities.

We need to start with this question: How do you see your life? Is it lived in isolation or do you see the value of relationships where we make demands on each other in faith?

Except for the blame he puts on ‘the evil market,’ none of this sounds too bad to me.  That’s the problem.

Well there is that bit about too much autonomy and people thinking they are the authors of their own lives.  That does sound a touch invasive. I guess it’s possible FrancisBishop Cupich might want to author my life a little, and grab what remains of my freedom for the sake of my family’s faith.  Is their faith yet another excuse?

Didn’t he just tell us that transgender college speeches were dialogue and that sinning was space for incremental growth?  Why should I trade my freedom and family so Archbishop Cupich can pass on some of that FrancisFaith?

I am the author of the life God gave me, and I don’t hate my autonomy – especially now that FrancisChurch seems to want it so badly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sinful Not To Abandon Your FrancisChurch Husband

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Sorry, but under the circumstances it'd be a sin not to drop you.

Sorry, but under the circumstances it’d be a sin to keep you.

AFP reports on Pope Francis’ latest guidance on marriage and separation.  Apparently you’re morally obligated to break up your marriage and family if you’re the weaker sex and you’re being humiliated.

Pope Francis said Wednesday that it may be “morally necessary” for some families to split up, marking a change of tone in the Catholic Church’s attitude to troubled marriages.

“There are cases in which separation is inevitable,” he said during his weekly general audience, with a message hoping to encourage greater compassion in the Church ahead of a highly anticipated global meeting on family life in October.

Pope Francis is always changing the Catholic ‘tone,’ and in the process completely tearing down the last vestiges of Christian society.  One must be careful not to hand the world a bunch of rhetorical excuses, but then again, ‘who am I to judge?’

“Sometimes, it can even be morally necessary, when it’s about shielding the weaker spouse or young children from the more serious wounds caused by intimidation and violence, humiliation and exploitation,” he said.

Why does Francis say ‘the weaker spouse?’  Do you think that may mean the man, or is he talking perhaps about various gay marriages?  What happens if my wife humiliates me?  I guess I’m out of luck and I’ll have to stick with her.  That’s an ‘intimidating’ prospect.  Oops.

I have been exploiting, intimidating and humiliating my wife for twenty-eight years.  I know because I’ve heard all about it.  Thank God she’s stronger than me and we didn’t have FrancisChurch until just now.

Francis said there were many families in “irregular situations” and the question should be how to best help them, and “how to accompany them so that the child does not become daddy or mummy’s hostage”.

“how to accompany them so that the child does not become daddy or mummy’s hostage?”  That bears repeating somehow.

The issue is likely to be addressed during the upcoming synod — a gathering of bishops — on the family, which Francis hopes will help reconcile Catholic thinking with the realities of believers’ lives in the early 21st century.

Could they have a more notorious goal?  What in the world are we going to do about our Church in this time of Mercy?