He’s Not the Obama-Pope After All. He’s the Boehner-Pope.

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The horrible sight of John Boehner bawling and Jo Biden pretending to hold back tears when Francis spoke to Congress, just a day before Boehner himself was finally deposed as GOP Speaker of the House, will be forever etched in my mind.

Since the moment Francis walked on the balcony I’ve been convinced he was an Obama-Pope.  Some cardinals claim to have done it.  Some say it was the banks, which were effectively nationalized when the president took office.  It’s obvious to me that whatever world powers were capable of toppling a faithful sitting Pope after several hundred years would of course have their own Pope in mind to replace him.  What would be the point, if you just got another Catholic Pope?  Benedict seemed to think that would happen when he abdicated.  Was it wishful thinking or just baloney?

And Francis seemed primed and ready to make the Church a willing stooge of the Left, a shepherd of souls of course – just leading them right into the statist tank where they can stay ignorant of the faith, reject the Sacraments, rot morally, then go to Hell.  The problem is he can only go so far so fast because he’s the Pope.  He can be Obama’s Pope, but it’s hard to actually be an Obama-Pope.

The Catholic League’s Bill Donohue has some reaction to the fact that Pope Francis met secretly with Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who was jailed briefly for refusing to sign gay marriage certificates.  No one seemed to be aware of this meeting with the Pope himself at the time, and the Vatican refused to openly confirm it happened, but nevertheless the FrancisMessage got out.  Now the new false Catholic Right is gloating and the FrancisChurch leftists are angry that the Pope seems to care about religious freedom even the face of gay fascism.

Donohue’s message to the Left is, “Of course the Pope is Catholic and you were fools to think otherwise.  Stop expecting the Synod to automatically do your gay bidding now.”  But both of his assertions are misleading.  The Pope does not demonstrate Catholicism.  He demonstrates Liberation Theology, a sort of bewildering Communist Protestantism.  Sometimes he does Catholic things. Sometimes he says Catholic things.  That’s what Protestantism is.  It’s Christian, sometimes.

Secondly, there’s no reason to expect something Catholic from the Synod.  When the dirty deed is done, people like Donohue will either be silent, or spin it into victory.  That, unfortunately, is their new job.

Spinning is key to FrancisChurch since it is almost entirely hype.  Who can say what the numbers were for the American FrancisPilgrimages?  From what I can tell, the entire Philadelphia event was a flop.  Even at the planning stages, there were complaints of scads of unwanted tickets and unmade reservations while the press continued on about the millions who would descend.  Obama-State security shut down the city for something that could have easily been managed.  People were furious.

Now the mayor is yelling and throwing blame around.  His entire constituency lost a bundle in business.  They feel used, and they were.  The painfully obsequious Archbishop Chaput declared the moment, “very successful,” and touted numbers of 900,000 visitors.  They had been anticipating well over a million.  They actually got something between 80,000 and 140,000.  People don’t come out to see Francis really.  They just don’t.

But there is certainly a lot of fawning and FrancisWorship.  There’s plenty of that.  There are countless celebrities who praise, but of course it’s their job to praise things that keep their acts in business.  Aretha Franklin, the tremendous singer who turned Gospel music into pop, said Pope Francis embodied the themes of her signature song, “Respect.”  That song is about sex but nevertheless. It’s rumored she earned $200,000 for that papal event and basically ignored the Pope.  She even stood right in front of him, blocking him with her back while she sang Amazing Grace.

There’s much more FrancisWorship though, among bishops.  Almost immediately they came out of the woodwork from all around the world to pay homage to the Spirit of God acting through ‘him,’ and chided us about his new gospel of global warming, illegal immigration, poverty programs, and pacifism in the face of Muslim terror.  After the U.S. trip, Canada’s notorious Fr. Rosica said we’d all seen “not only the shadow of Peter, but God’s power working in him…Many of us, including this writer and priest, have been healed.”  Poor Archbishop Kurtz, current head of the USCCB, seemed to stumble when he commented, “Five days that felt like five weeks; that’s how beautiful it was.”

I actually think that was almost honest.

While the ‘humble one’ tells arms-makers they’re going to Hell and every parish to take in Syrians, he of course, is protected by an elite guard.  He jets around the planet creating carbon dioxide, then appears briefly in a Fiat.  He never stops crying about the poor, something entirely repugnant to hard-working poor people everywhere, then gets served veal and lobster salad, and plenty of it.

What is the result of all this?  Well, it has nothing whatsoever to do with what you’ll hear in the press, but everything to do with human nature.  Francis is repulsive to people, almost as repulsive, unfortunately as what goes for Catholic Mass is to most normal men and women.  I mean repulsive not in the sense of disgusting, but in repellent.  He repels people, pushes them off and out.  Even Francis knows his popularity is trumped-up.  He witnesses his attendance figures in person.

In the end, back to Boehner and Bill Donohue’s telling use of the word, “base” to describe these new believers in the FrancisGospel.

The true Catholic press of course folded almost immediately when Francis walked out on the balcony.  The latest inglorious example is the once-faithful now arrogant, FirstThings.  Now there’s great pressure among such outlets to create a new political alignment within the Catholic world, where ‘conservatives’ are now these FrancisLiberals who go for all kinds of silly, unjust and destructive causes because the Pope does, but stay true to what remaining Catholic principles the Pope has.  In this new alignment, actual conservatives are just far-right nuts with no hold on the reality of FrancisPlanet, and those Donohue calls ‘the Pope’s base’ are just flat out liberals.

The problem is, and the FrancisVisit figures demonstrate it, that this realignment will never reflect reality.  Just as the Obamacare/Planned Parenthood-funding GOP never reflected the Republican voter in the era of Boehner; FrancisChurch will never move faithful Catholics.  If the world powers-that-be in the reign of Obama have created a Pope in Francis, then he’s not the Obama-Pope.  He’s the Boehner-Pope.  His Church will only pretend to be Catholic like Congress pretends to have principles, and the people will reject the ugly spectacle no matter what the hype.

ObamaWorld hasn’t made the Church it’s own.  That’s not possible.  They’ve just neutralized it by installing a figure who will negate it’s power to save and heal.  The real Church will continue to die since it’s being smothered.

Rosica may worship and Aretha may dance, but no Christian pilgrims will come out for FrancisChurch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Obama: Don’t Buy That Cynical “The Poor You Will Always Have With You” BS!

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Going for walks, discussing policy, or sometimes just values

Going for walks, discussing policy, or sometimes just values

Obama’s grasp of Biblical quotes is about what you might expect from a man who’s spent most Sundays golfing for twenty years.

Obama scorned Christians at the Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit on Tuesday, twisting the words of Jesus Christ into an insult against the Savior of the believers he was addressing.

“It’s important for us to guard against cynicism and not buy the idea that the poor will always be with us and there’s nothing we can do,” Obama said. Lest leftists and liberal Christians say his comment was “taken out of context,” but here are his full remarks:

“One of the things I’m always concerned about is cynicism,” Obama said. “My chief of staff, Denis McDonough, we take walks around the South Lawn, usually when the weather is good. And a lot of it is policy talk, sometimes it’s just talk about values. And one of our favorite sayings is our job is to guard against cynicism, particularly in this town. And I think it’s important for us to guard against cynicism and not buy the idea that the poor will always be with us and there’s nothing we can do, because there’s a lot we can do. The question is, do we have the political will, the communal will to do something about it.”

Does Obama take walks around the south lawn with his chief of staff when the weather is bad, in order to discuss policy or sometimes just values?  Can’t they even bother to pay an adult writer for these cheesy lies?  Aren’t the American people even worth a half-hearted appearance of sincerity?

Obama’s quotes Matthew 26:11 in a manner that’s utterly contrary to the verse’s meaning.

6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

7 There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.

8 But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?

9 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.

10 When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.

11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.

12 For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.

13 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.

Far from heaving a resigned sigh, Jesus is reminding the disciples that poverty, like death or the pain of childbirth, are constants in this fallen world that can be attended to but never wiped out. The Complete Commentaries of minister Matthew Henry affirms this:

“Observe his reason; You have the poor always with you,” Henry writes. “Note, 1. There are some opportunities of doing and getting good which are constant, and which we must give constant attendance to the improvement of. Bibles we have always with us, sabbaths always with us, and so the poor, we have always with us. Note, Those who have a heart to do good, never need complain for want of opportunity. The poor never ceased even out of the land of Israel, Deu. 15:11.” [For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.]

Twisting the words of the Gospel to push unjust, disastrous government programs robbing Peter to pay Paul? For shame.

Well put.  Someone tell Pope Francis and his Yoda.

 

 

 

 

 

Pope Francis: The Answer to Obama’s Prayers

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Pope Francis: The Answer to Obama's Prayers

Superhuman Political Force for the Poverty Panel

NBC News reports:

It’s being dubbed “the Francis effect” and it’s hitting Washington, DC.

From 4500 miles away Pope Francis is exerting his influence on everything from foreign policy to summits on poverty. Pope Francis got a big shout out on Tuesday from the leader of the free world as a great example of someone who understands what’s important.”Nobody has shown that better than Pope Francis, who I think has been transformative just through the sincerity and insistence that he’s had that this is vital to who we are,” President Barack Obama said during a panel discussion at Georgetown University.

“And that emphasis I think is why he’s had such incredible appeal, including to young people, all around the world.”

Why does the Francis adulation from Obama go on and on and on? Is the Pope more sincere?  Is he ‘transformative,’ whatever that liberalspeak means?  What does it say when something is ‘vital to who we are?’  Does Pope Francis really have an ‘incredible appeal’ especially including young people, or is it just non-stop well-funded hype?

I know one thing: it’s not filling up Churches, but we don’t need those any more anyway.  You can ‘kneel before the poor’ anywhere, can’t you?

Well, not in Georgetown.

The three day Catholic-Evangelical leadership summit at Georgetown is a direct response to the pope’s call to help the poor.

It’s been answered by an influential lineup of people on vastly different ends of the political spectrum. Speakers include ideological opposites from progressive Senator Cory Booker, a New Jersey Democrat and former conservative presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty to members of Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic lay organization, to Nuns On The Bus, a Catholic groups focused on social justice.

Democrats, dissidents, and a Romney Republican.

“It’s been a long time since we’ve seen a pope have this kind of influence in the United States,” said E.J. Dionne, Washington Post columnist who moderated the poverty panel including President Obama.

…and the whole thing run by a left-wing Wapo pundit.  Does anybody ever help the poor by actually doing something for them?  I’ve never met a poor broke person who would be interested in moderators of ‘poverty panels.’

However, it’s too early to say whether Tuesday’s talk will lead to change.

“If they care about these problems, Americans can change the politics that would, over the next five to 10 years, make a huge difference. And I’m not talking about changing Republican-Democrat. I’m talking about making poverty and the opportunity to escape from poverty a higher issue on both parties’ agendas,” said Robert Putnam, the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard.

I guess if both parties adopted your big government redistribution platforms it wouldn’t matter if they were Republican or Democrat, you’re right.

The report presents some silly charts showing how beloved and respected Pope Francis is.  Then it talks about how important Catholics in Congress supposedly are.  It all boils down to a sort of superhuman papal political force.

The president said he can’t wait to host the pope and if he can spur the least effective congress in history to action, it might just be a certifiable miracle.