What is the Francis?

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Faithful English pastor Fr. Ray Blake was identified in the blogosphere as a target of some pressure since he was silent for an extended period on his very sophisticated website.  Fr. Blake is often critical, in a brilliant yet indirect and qualified way, of some of the faithless initiatives of FrancisChurch.  When Father returned after his hiatus to condemn mafia-like tactics in the Church, a reader noted that it is likely the Pope was behind them to an extent.  To this Father responded that ‘nothing Francis has said’ would indicate that, then he blasted the commenter for libelous talk.

Message:  I’ll do the judgment making, the discerning, and the risk-taking.  You just do the listening, layman.

This is the kind of thing that happens in Mafia-like wards too.  Father’s readers understand this.  They know that he now has lied and compromised his principles in order to protect himself.  After all it’s true, he is the one who has taken the risk and is receiving the pressure, not the readers.  They are under no threats or correction from anyone in this situation, while it is likely he is.

Nevertheless, the fault stands.  A faithful resistance cannot be built upon half-measures, arrogance, lies, and capitulation.  It simply won’t work.

And this isn’t unique.  All of our heroes seem to lay down when the Francis-boom lands.  (That must be what the nuBenedict means when he says Francis is a good governor?)  We have similar problems in the faithful U.S. media too.  We scuttle out like mice or little puppies to do our damage, then run hiding when the man comes around.  It’s really a money issue.  However, the money behind FrancisChurch hurts a lot worse than a rolled-up newspaper.

I’m hearing lately that we need to stifle these bubbling doubts about Francis actually being the pope.  Ann Barnhardt maintains that he is an anti-pope since he resigned under an erronious dual-pope understanding.  Benedict felt that he would continue as sort of a contemplative co-pope, therefore his abdication is invalid.  Louie Verrecchio and Antonio Socci both make the same case without coming to final conclusions.  There is also the issue of pressure, something which would naturally be hard to clearly prove.  Finally, there’s that St. Gallen group: the existence of an illegal and organized movement of cardinals to install Francis prior to and outside the conclave.

All of these considerations have merit.  As Cardinal Brandmuller has reminded, the situation is unprecedented and rife with problems.  I do not think it helps to carelessly toss these questions off as disobedient, uncatholic, or hysterical.  It’s worse to pretend they don’t matter at all and that we should just get past them.  As with Fr. Blake’s readers, the faithful understand when they’re being corralled and of course, though we are sheep in the Lord’s flock, we are still nonetheless men.

‘Sure, ‘maybe’ Francis is a heretic but that’s happened before, and it’s not for us to say.’  We get this message often too.  How many ‘maybes’ must we suffer through?  Hundreds of years ago a pope was deposed for the heresy of permitting a nation to select it’s own bishops.  That’s good, but what we have here today is about 186 times worse.  At what point may we make a conclusion of our own about the situation?  Should we wait until gay sex is a sacrament, or continue to pray and be docile?

My position on the abdication has always been the same.  Benedict appears to have left under pressure but it’s a difficult thing to prove.  The most powerful indicators are the fact that a worldly prince and a heretic was selected to follow him, and that he appears to be under some type of confinement and control today.  Francis is the kind of man who would follow a putsch, and this nuBenedict we keep seeing via third party does not sound anything like himself.  Instead he seems poorly scripted, muddled, and much more like Tucho Fernandez than Ratzinger.

“Your friendship is the air that I breathe and in which I live?”  Wasn’t it something like that the Emeritus said to the Francis on his 65th anniversary?

Whether Benedict was forced out or his abdication invalidated for any other reason, a fact I believe is not unlikely, it’s not the most important thing when it comes to the papacy today.  The main issue is that Francis has clearly demonstrated his heresy, and as faithful laymen it is our responsibility to call for his abdication.  He is not able to defend the faith, priesthood, or Sacraments, or to canonize saints, or do any of the things absolutely necessary to preserve the Church.  It doesn’t matter whether he’s pope or not.  He should not be pope.  He has shown us he is, in fact, incapable of it.

While we continue to resist the faithless wreckage of FrancisChurch, I put the onus on those who know for certain that Francis is pope to prove it.  I don’t advocate calling Francis an anti-pope, but I don’t see any reason to pretend that it couldn’t be the case.

As a compromise, it might be better for Francis to do what Benedict did: retreat to pray for humanity as a contemplative papal element, where he can give gushing interviews and bask in the friendship of an actual Catholic pope.

Wait. I guess that would be ridiculous.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stop.

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Deep in my memory I recall a kid, a really horrible obnoxious kid from my years at Catholic school during the disgraceful era of Pope Paul VI.  He was never up to anything but trouble.  I remember him whenever I come across this picture of young Pope Francis.

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At this point, it would be obvious to any reasonable, normal, thinking person, regardless of his faith or lack of it, that the Catholic Church no longer really exists in a physical sense.  Very few people understand that there is a living ‘Church Militant’, albeit now basically underground.  They just see bishops, priests and men like Francis, an entirely thoughtless ass and a wrecker.  They know that there were no men among our faithful to prevent him, and now our Church is as dead as the others.

Who in the world would want to join the Church of Francis now, a Church who’s very leader is a loud, lying, hypocrite; a messianic propagandist for the monster state, a friend of ISIS?  They’d have to be a very strange person indeed, or they’d have to be paid.

The Weasel Zippers commentary today is the very best I’ve seen about the barrage of blasphemous unCatholic environmentalism issuing from what used to be Rome today.  It just says one word:

“Stop.”

But I don’t think it will stop.  It will just keep on killing.  Please God, I’m wrong.  What can be done?

 

 

 

 

One Day’s FrancisChurch Destruction

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With Mark Zuckerberg dragging his creepy spirits into the Vatican to give homage to the Francis who conquered his enemy, Christ’s Church, is there only one month of free speech left?  Someone tell me what this internet transfer business means?

What happens to a man whose brains and brutal determination send him to the top of an empire today?  Why do they all turn into the same zombies?  Isn’t there one who can think outside the box?  Isn’t there a single titan today who can be an actual Christian, or is that somehow illegal?

It’s funny how all these rulers must honor each other, despite the fact it reveals their hatred of God and men?  Francis doesn’t care what we think of him at all.  He and Zuckerberg will tell us what to think.

“It was a meeting we’ll never forget….You can feel his warmth and kindness, and how deeply he cares about helping people.”

Translation: You will now believe the new religion. Francis will be your demigod and together we will rule over you, our pitiful, inferior slaves.

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Aleteia’s article arguing that John the Baptist was a hipster says a lot about the World Youth Day FrancisCatholic now being cultivated.  Isn’t a hipster sort of a bearded, gender-neutral man who can’t think for himself and barely had a father?

How can we make ‘catholic’ hip?  That’s the question of the era.  Answer: Wreck it.  Then it will have been made hip.  John the Baptist wasn’t hip.  He was a man.  That’s why Herodias hated him.

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Why is it that every faithful #NeverTrump Catholic is always some brainiac?  They’re so smart they know that Trump is just pretending to be conservative, as if every other GOP politician isn’t also?

Joseph Pearce is the latest light pushing that magician from the American Solidarity Party for the ‘conservative’ Trump alternative.  ‘Solidarity’ is a good thing, yes?  It means taking care of our neighbor, right?  Or is it just code for cleptocratic clerical socialism?  Mike Maturen will receive .0034 of the popular vote.  There has never been a meaningful movement for a third party to the left of the GOP, and there never will. A viable third party could only come from the right, like they have now in Europe.  Perhaps they could name it the “Subsidiarity” party.

These professional Catholic thinkers are so ‘good’ they want Hillary for president.  They betray their Church, their country, and the murdered unborn children for whom they claim to have special preference.  They’re arrogant and superior.  These useful idiots fit squarely into the FrancisChurch that pays them.

We moved recently into a house owned by a very booky ‘academic’.  From the top of the attic to the very corner of the basement the house was filled with books; tired, outdated, foolish, worthless, pretentious books.  There was almost nothing worth reading.  The house was also filled with bugs, roaches, spiders, and the most pestilent air I’ve ever inhaled.  The dust from one of those roach-eaten books would make you terribly sick for weeks.  You see, the professor believed bugs had as much of a right to live as he did.

We bombed the place, painted it with Kilz, ripped out the kitchen to the subfloor, and aired the open house  for six months.  The professor’s wife used to visit him there every Friday.  Why do men give their lives to study, if they’re only going to confuse people and twist their own souls?

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I’m becoming increasingly disturbed to hear Catholics placing faithless men and women in Heaven.  Isn’t Heaven what our faith is all about?  Then why must they act like it’s dispensable, secondary?  If being obedient to Christ and his Church and remaining in a state of grace through the sacraments isn’t necessary, why on Earth do we do it?  Either the Church was always right about this or it’s always been wrong.

At FirstThings they are sure that there’s no such thing as an ex-Catholic.  Tim Kaine and Mike Pence are still Catholic somehow.  Really?  Then how would you describe the inhabitants of Hell?  Are they still Catholic too?  The Church Militant is a spiritual reality, a group of living men, women. and children united in grace and obedience to God.  That’s what it means to be Catholic.  Heaven is Catholic and so is God.  It’s not that He condescends to our ‘religion’.  It’s that we rise to His reality.

But Francis doesn’t agree.  He thinks “there is no Catholic God.”   That’s because Francis isn’t Catholic.

The other day my pastor taught us that only snobs who think they’re superior believe Heaven is for Catholics.  It’s a class thing, see.  We’re just like first-class passengers: rich people who need their own restrooms and require a curtain between them and the unwashed.  Pope Francis would have shouted for joy to hear it, you know that bitter FrancisJoy you have to force yourself to feel?

Then a good priest I know told us Sunday about an irreligious, recently deceased man who had no vocation other than to tend reptiles and exotic pets.  He said he was sure this man was now in heaven because ‘God has a way and a plan for everyone.’  My friend is a very faithful, prayerful, and devoted priest but his kind of thinking is poisonous.  He sees no line.  Almost everyone will go to Heaven, yet he continues to serve the Church.  Why?  This fallacy has sunk us all.  It’s deadly to preach it.

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St. Corbinian’s Bear makes an excellent point about Pope Francis, the humble and lovable, the guy with all the warmth, the one who radiates. The Bear wonders why we have to believe the things he teaches when he’s such a miserable and untrustworthy liar.

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Not the video, but the printed Francis prayer intentions for September have been released.  Part of it reads:

That by participating in the Sacraments and meditating on Scripture, Christians may become more aware of their mission to evangelize.

If I didn’t know that by ‘mission to evangelize’ he means do something to help the UN reach their Sustainable Development Goals, I’d think there was almost something Catholic to this FrancisRelease.

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Finally, this story by the Denzinger-Bergoglio boys says everything you’d ever want to know about the man on the throne.  He’s nothing but a greasy communist in a clown suit.  Read it and weep, and know that there’s really very little difference between a Francis, a horrid Bonafini, and a Zuckerberg today.  All three of them loathe the people of God and their King.