Get Out Your Notepad. FrancisChurch is a Font of New Truths

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No sinners here in this car!

No sinners here in this car!

The point of being Pope of FrancisChurch is to ‘make doctrine’ not defend it.  Isn’t that right?  Look at all the new things we keep learning to believe.  We have to go ‘ever forward’ and never return to the Ancient Mass.  We have to renounce ‘small minded rules and conditions that used to be Catholic but really were just spawn of Pharisees.  We have to make ‘the poor’ the center of the Gospel which actually makes no sense without the poor.  We should even kneel before the poor in Church!  (I’m sure they’ll find that uplifting.)

We must hate disunity, renounce war, believe Palestine is a country and in a brand new Cuba.  We have to think ISIS murderers decide who is a true Christian and believe arms makers are un-Christian hypocrites. My remarried father-in-law told my wife the other day that Pope Francis said we can all get divorced now if we want.  Why would he think that?  Most of all, among this font of new truths, it is important that we always remember to hate ‘inequality’ wherever it exists.

Today Pope Francis has gone even further and made an entirely new social justice.  From now, on Pope Francis says, we have no right to anything if it makes someone else’s pile unequal.  From this moment, if you’re not poor you’re a thief in FrancisChurch.  Good thing he rides in that Fiat.  But what about the driver?

Pope Francis on Tuesday (July 7) said protecting the planet was no longer a choice but a duty and called for a new “social justice” where access to the earth’s resources would be based on equality instead of economic interests.

I always cringe when I hear liberals use the word ‘access.’  They are so concerned about everyone’s access all the time.  I can’t access health care because they want me to pay the doctor!  I must access the earth’s resources so I can eat my cereal. Wait a minute.  How is it you have access to Kashi when I have to access these Raisin Bits?!

For people who love ‘access’ they sure like locking down classrooms and locking truth out of Vatican meetings.

In back-to-back speeches on the third day of his trip to Ecuador, the pope made his first full-court press on environmental issues since the publication last month of his landmark ecology encyclical “Laudato Si.”.

Speaking before a group that included indigenous people of the Equatorial Amazon, he also renewed his call for special protection for the area because of its vital importance to the planet’s ecosystem.

The pope has said he wanted the encyclical to influence a United Nations climate change summit in Paris in December and has now effectively taken his campaign to convince governments on the road. In September he takes his message to the United States and the United Nations.

“One thing is certain: we can no longer turn our backs on reality, on our brothers and sisters, on Mother Earth,” he said in a first speech at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador.

While he did not specifically mention climate change or its causes, he quoted often from the encyclical, which said there was a “very solid scientific consensus” on global warming and its human causes.

He appeared to be making a clear reference to climate change doubters when he said: “It is wrong to turn aside from what is happening all around us, as if certain situations did not exist or have nothing to do with our lives.”

Uh oh.  Sinner again in FrancisChurch!  It’s gotta be me.  How could it be Pope Francis?  He’s studied chemistry for Pete’s sake.

 

FrancisChurch Doctrine In One Simple Equation

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FrancisChurch of unity and love without conditions or elitist religiosity

FrancisChurch of unity and love without conditions or elitist religiosity

Why is it that Pope Francis seems to be deathly afraid of physical separation. To him, Heaven is like one enormous living pile.  It doesn’t matter how much it stinks, how uncomfortable, or how hard it is to breath.  So long as there’s unity, there it is. Perhaps that’s why Pope Francis seems to care so little about the meaning or history associated with the word, ‘utopia.‘

“Evangelization can be a way to unite our hopes, concerns, ideals and even utopian visions.” These were the words of Pope Francis during Mass at Quito’s Bicentennial Park today.

Over 1.2 million people attended the event, an unprecedented number given the fact that the population of the city is roughly 1.6 million. The park commemorates the first cries of independence that began against Spanish rule in Latin America in 1809.

Prior to the Mass, the Holy Father held a private meeting with the bishops of Ecuador. He then made his way to the park, where enthusiastic crowds greeted him with cheers and throwing flower petals.

In his homily, the Holy Father reflected on the theme of unity and evangelization. He told the faithful that he wished to see the cries for independence and freedom from exploitation that Bicentennial Park represents “under the beautiful challenge of evangelization.”

Uniting the idea of Christian evangelization with the populist cries of the worst banana republics is the essence of Liberation Theology.

Jesus’ call that all “may be one,” he continued, was raised in a context of mission in the world. A world, he noted, that Christ loved dearly despite experiencing “the worst of the world” in his own flesh.

“We too encounter daily a world torn apart by wars and violence. It would be superficial to think that division and hatred only concern struggles between countries or groups in society. In reality, they are a manifestation of that ‘widespread individualism’ which divides us and sets us against one another, that legacy of sin lurking in the heart of human beings, which causes so much suffering in society and all of creation,” he said.

I’m ready to repeat that I’m not against division.  I’m not falling into that FrancisChurch hole.  It’s not a sin.  In many ways it’s a blessing.  I am against hatred, but I can’t honestly say I’ve seen too much of it.  Mostly I see selfishness, cruelty, and cowardice.  I see the seven deadly sins: wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony.  ‘Hatred’ is mostly a word used by demagogues and a characteristic of demons.

Then there’s ‘widespread individualism.’  That’s only a sin if you write for a Catholic outlet, teach in a college, or go on television.

The 78-year-old Pontiff said that despite this, Christians are also called to take up Christ’s call and accept the grace and duty of unity through evangelization. However, the Pope explained that unity does not mean uniformity or something that is fashioned with set conditions, which he described as a “religiosity of the elite.” Rather, unity is a concrete proposal by Jesus to love and care for one’s neighbor as explained in the parable of the Samaritan.

OK, Pope Francis.

Division = Bad.

Unity = Good.

Unity ≠ Something that is fashioned with set conditions, i.e. the    “religiosity of the elite.” 

Therefore:

FrancisChurch goodness is unity and love of neighbor so long as it has no conditions, no religiosity, and nothing related to power or money.

Why is the entire world telling us this is Catholic teaching and not just the radical rallying of an resentful ignorant mob?

 

 

Francis Strikes at the Heart of the Church

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jesus holy eucharist

Yesterday, in Quito’s Bicentennial Park, Pope Francis said something blasphemous, insidious.

I think of those hushed words of Jesus during the Last Supper as more of a shout, a cry rising up from this Mass which we are celebrating in Bicentennial Park. Let us imagine it together. The bicentennial which this Park commemorates was that of Latin America’s cry for independence. It was a cry which arose from being conscious of a lack of freedom, of exploitation and despoliation, of being “subject to the passing whims of the powers that be” (Evangelii Gaudium, 213).

Francis isn’t saying that when Jesus gave Himself to us in the Holy Eucharist he was crying out against exploitation, despoliation of the environment, and the powers that be, is he?  He’s just saying Jesus’s ‘hushed voice’ was in many ways like a cry, and that we can imagine together that it was the cry of Latin American independence, right?  We can also imagine it’s like the cry against economic injustice, oppression, environmental destruction, and exploitation: the ageless excuses of the leftist machine.

Francis is only saying we can imagine all these things at the same time: the Last Supper, Ecuador’s freedom, and worldwide environmentalist socialism.  He doesn’t really believe those things are what the Last Supper is all about, no!  If the Last Supper is about anything in FrancisChurch it’s about washing prisoners’ feet every year, right?

Let’s not kid ourselves nor be fooled by the paid courtisans who blow with the breeze.  Communism is exactly what Pope Francis thinks Our Lord’s Supper is all about.  Francis is a liberation theologist.  It’s not the same thing as Catholic.

Right out of the shoot Francis told the world that God isn’t Catholic.  Well, if he thinks God isn’t Catholic then why must we all pretend Francis is?  Francis is what he thinks God is.  We’re the same say.  We think God is Catholic so we are too.  Francis thinks God isn’t Catholic so neither is he.  To be religious is to honor God for whom and what you believe him to be.

I’m still waiting to hear about there being no Muslim Allah.

I know the Pope also told the world he was a ‘son of the Church.’  Well, we are all sons of the ancient Jews too, but that doesn’t make us Jewish.  And it doesn’t make today’s Church some kind of new wine that hasn’t happened yet, either. Our Church is not the ‘son’ of the Catholic Church (but FrancisChurch is a dubious offspring indeed).

Liberation Theology is as wrong as it is to covet, to steal, to lie and to kill.  It’s sacrilegious to ascribe those intentions to Our Lord and His New Covenant, even to coax others to imagine it.  To do so, especially with what is the heart of our Faith; Jesus’ sacrifice, the Blessed Sacrament, and the priesthood, is in direct opposition to the Church.  It’s nothing like Catholic at all.