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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FrancisVatican Refuses to Confirm it Met with a Christian

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"Um, I'll have to get back to you on that."

“Um, I’ll have to get back to you on that.”

It seems to me that, up until recently, we could count on the Vatican press people to demonstrate the kind of integrity and honesty you might expect from the center of the Christian world.  In some ways they were an example to others.  Today they spin like the White House.

Why must they treat the Pope’s meeting with Kim Davis the same way they treat his emotional meetings with transsexuals and his supposed phone calls where he tells people in second marriages to go to Holy Communion?

Do they see any difference between these individuals, or are they just engaging in political dialogue with polar ‘extremes?’  Do they have any sense whatsoever of Christian teaching and witness, or are they just ashamed?

At Catholic World Report:

Robert Moynihan, editor of Inside the Vatican (and founding editor of Catholic World Report), has just posted a detailed description of a meeting alleged to have taken place between Pope Francis and Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who was jailed earlier this month for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

UPDATE: Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi, SJ told Reuters that he would neither confirm nor deny that the meeting took place, and that there will be no further statements. 

The Catholic Right is going to jump up and down about this.  “Oh my gosh!  Francis did something Catholic” (in secret).  “Hearsay has it that he thanked a woman who refused to help the state confirm gay couples as spouses and heads of families!  Davis says it happened but Francis and the Vatican are silent” (silenced?)

It’s interesting the two actually got together.  Pope Francis and Davis don’t really have that much in common, do they?

 

Men Must Do Their Christian Duty Even in the Time of Francis

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The Truth of Christ summed up in one hanky

The sight of John Boehner sobbing and Jo Biden ‘manfully’ holding back tears behind Francis Thursday might possibly have been the low point in American history, perhaps the entire West.  Never has civilization been so scrubbed of manly virtue and never has it been so false.  Three fools and three liars; three men of ‘audaciousness,’ none of them Christian.  One represents evil, the other capitulation, while Francis the Judas delivers a captive Christ. He did not even mention Him.

In two plus short years Francis and his worshipers and apologists have succeeded in making the Protestant Right, the remnant voice of Faith and reason in America, despise Catholics.  Ann Coulter is right.  It’s Pope Francis ‘catholicism’ that is flooding Texas.  It’s also conquering Europe and destroying the world.  After thousands of years of Crusades and battles, what Pope would stand on an Italian rock waving Muslims into Europe and scolding her defenders?  Only a man who hates the Faith, the sacrifices of its saints and its soldiers would do such a thing.

After five centuries we’d succeeded in demonstrating to Protestants that Catholics don’t worship their Pope, and now in two years we’ve proved them right all along.  If you remove Pope-worshipers from the cult of Francis, delete their faces from the trumped-up and tiny crowds around the country last week and from the airwaves, there would be no one left.  Perhaps three Christians would remain who were so unfortunate to have to watch the horror pass by.  I don’t believe for a minute there are faithful Catholics enthusiastic about Francis, because people like that are able to discern a fraud.  They know Faith in Christ when they hear it, when they see it.  Catholic witness and prophecy are not something Biden and Boehner cry over.  At least Nancy Pelosi probably maintained a shred of dignity.  Can you imagine?

Maureen Mullarky didn’t need to watch the FrancisSpeech to know what it was.

In large measure, Thursday’s propaganda event will prove a concluding flourish to what this pope is on course to achieve: the descent of the Catholic Church into one more geopolitical “ism,” a pious-seeming companion to every other materialist -ism that tempts modern man away from freedom and toward submission to totalitarian order. Since ascending to the papacy, Francis’ actions have served a mongrel papo-caesarism that drains Christianity of its soul. Christian idiom degrades into the carrier of a secular agenda.

“A pious-seeming companion:”  that’s our Pope.  You can even get a cardboard “Flat Francis” friend to seem to be your companion too, but I think they’re about $79.00.  Talk about a throwaway culture of waste and excessive consumerism!

Ideolatry, the idolatry of fixed ideas, is as rampant in the Vatican as in any other directorate, and just as dangerous. Even more so. Because the pope commands deference from the world’s peoples, the present object of his worship—from climate-change dogma to the antagonisms peculiar to an anti-democratic Leftist elite—disfigures the faith of billions. It becomes a golden calf festooned with gospel quotes.

Deference to a pope comes readily to Catholics. We are groomed for it. Within legitimate bounds, there is grace in that. But the boundaries are not totalizing. Outside of them, obeisance falls prey to forces that do not serve the church. Neither do they lend succor to a civilization painfully wrought from endemic tyrannies and universal poverty. Far, far from it.

There comes a moment when deference glides into collusion. At that point, we all become Good Germans. Fascist-friendly. Trust in respected authority curdles into a thing entirely different—a willed blindness to something dark in the particular voice commanding assent. Decent and dependable, we incline toward the beckoning circle of connivance.

Our own lifetime has not prepared Catholics for such a moment. But it is here now. We can adjust our sensibilities, our priorities, and our hopes to counter this juncture. Or we can surrender our children and grandchildren to a downward slide into a retrograde world order built on contempt for the bases of those very structures that have lifted a still-increasing portion of the earth’s population out of the misery that is history’s norm.

FrancisChurch, it’s henchmen, and it’s dupes are not only shepherding the world into totalitarian death and squalor.  They’re shutting down the Church, the instrument of Grace which saves souls.  When the Church, already rendered dysfunctional and now being fitted for slaughter, is gone from the Earth, there won’t just be a return to paganism, to savage animism, or totalitarian slavery.  There will be Hell on Earth, or if we’re lucky, Islam.  It will be something much worse than just Cuba.  Hell itself is also a ‘post-Christian society.’

Something in me gave way at the sight of an exultant image of Che Guevara overseeing the altar in Plaza de la Revolución, the approved site of the recent papal Mass in Havana. A sadistic, murderous thug looked down on attendees in an obscene burlesque of Christ Pantocrator. Under the gaze of a butcher and amid symbols of the regime, Jorge Bergolio joined his fellow Argentine in service to the calamitous Cuban revolution. The entire spectacle played like a farcical inversion of John Paul II’s presence in Warsaw’s Victory Square, in 1979, and in stark contrast to the message he brought to Cuba in 1998.

What collapsed was any lingering sense of obligatory constraint. Gone is the time for courtesy extended to an occupant of the papacy despite his hubris and ruinous impulses. Out the window is dutiful tolerance for this man’s accusatory or incendiary language. Politesse has run its course. Historian Roberto de Mattei, writing on the wound to marriage delivered by Francis’ recent motu proprio (a personal mandate) ends his analysis with this: “Silence is no longer possible.”

The rest is here.

The seedbed of Catholic Truth and defense of the Church in our country used to be found in the faithful American Catholic Media, re-established by people like Mother Angelica during the reign of John Paul II.  Today, from those desperate pages we hear the cry of “anti-Catholicism” at Protestants and faithful Catholics who still love Christ’s truth and justice,  but faith ‘in Francis’ is, unfortunately, not Catholic.  Faith in Christ is.  To call out FrancisFaith for what it is, is not to reject the Church; it’s the way to embrace it and stick close to it.

Manly Christian duty demands that we uphold the Church.  The formula is simple: encourage those who hold the Faith and live it, but correct those who do only one of those or who do neither.  That formula doesn’t change for anyone.  Obedience to the Pope only goes so far as he holds the Faith and lives it.  When he fails, our duty tells us direct action must follow.

Our own neglect of this duty to correct those who live outside the Church has crushed her in our time.  On this Earth enemies are the rule.  Christian resistance is the exception and the way to Heaven.

With whom does Francis, the author of fast, cheap, and false annulments, have more in common: King Henry XIII or his resistor Pope Clement VII?  Must we obey now that Henry is Pope or instead challenge him in the name of Christ?

Our Lord is not a man of tearful compliance in the face of evil.  Soldiers are great because they fight, risk, and die, not because they kill.  Our Lady is the Queen of Lepanto, not of Catholic Charities.   In the face of an unprecedented and unchallenged reign of a heretic king, Thomas More was ‘disobedient’ in the minds of many, but the saint maintained he acted out of love for King and country when he said,  “I die the king’s good servant, but God’s first.” 

St. Thomas did not say, “but the Pope’s first.”  His obedience to God was also loyal to the Pope because Clement was faithful.   In true Christian unity, not the type Francis rails about, all are united in Faith.  But the reign of Francis is like the reign of Henry.  It’s against the Church and cannot be a source of unity.  Popes are supposed to uphold the Faith, not destroy it in the name of ‘mercy’ and ‘the poor.’  We must go on being loyal sons of the Church even when the Pope is wrong, not lay down and lie in the name of obedience.

Tears are for the field of battle I’m sure, and for men like  Boehner, hopefully at the judgment seat of Our Lord, but they’re an ugly and pitiful sight standing behind ‘the Francis’ in Congress. The Church needs men of duty, not men like that.