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CHINA’S ECONOMIC MIRACLE, WHILE CERTAINLY IMPRESSIVE, WOULD NOT LOOK AS ASTOUNDING IF WESTERN ECONOMIES HAD NOT BEEN IN A STATE OF STAGNATION AND DECLINE OVER THE PAST HALF CENTURY.

CHARLES MANSON DEAD

HELL EXISTS, ALAS.

IS HIS HOLY FRANCIS FESSARDIAN, OR HEGELIAN, OR IS HE JUST A RELATIVIST?

BLASPHEMOUS FRANCISDIRECTOR SCORSESE AGREES TO LET PEOPLE DONATE TOWARD NY BASILICA PIPE ORGAN RESTORATION IN THE ‘NAME OF HIS BIRTHDAY.’

MEET THE PONTIFICAL ACADEMY FOR ABORTION AND EUTHANASIA

FRANCIS STRENGTHENS SEC. OF STATE, NUNCIOS, AND HIS PET PRELATES, DESPITE FAILURES, SCANDALS.

RORATE DEFENDS ‘GOOD FR. MINUTELLA’ FROM DOUBLE-EXCOMMUNICATING FRANCISBISHOP, MEDIA SMEARS

BISHOP SCHNEIDER INTERVIEWED BY MICHAEL MATT

HILARY WHITE: STILL TOO ‘EVIL’ FOR TWITTER

HOW DO THE UNIVERSALISTS WHO SAY, “IN THE END EVERYTHING WILL BE REDEEMED. EVERYTHING” ACCOUNT FOR THE CHARLES MANSONS?

CALLING FRANCIS AN ANTIPOPE IS KIND OF UNFAIR TO ANTIPOPES

REMNANT CHURCH MILITANT IN THE TIME OF THE FRANCIS: FAITHFUL, BUT NOT VERY MILITANT.  BUT, IT CAN HAPPEN…

I DON’T BELIEVE IN CLIMATE.

Group of nine Communists, I mean comprehensible Christians

Nine Communists, I mean, comprehensible Christians

Why does Pope Francis keep talking about Communists?  I thought there weren’t any Communists any more.  Even China has a competitive market with worldwide manufacturing.  Russia has the most pro-Christian government in the world today, and Raul Castro loves Pope Francis so much he’s ready to seriously become a Catholic maybe.

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis said Mass in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta on Tuesday morning. Following the readings of the day, the Holy Father reflected on the place of poverty in the Gospel, saying that the Gospel becomes incomprehensible if poverty is removed from it, and that it is unfair to label priests who show a pastoral concern for the poor as, “Communists”.

How is it that the work of Christ is meaningless if it’s not all about the poor?  It’s not. It’s only ‘incomprehensible’ to Francis and to his “Yoda of Catholicism,” Gustavo Gutierrez.  Every faithful Catholic since Christ has understood the Gospels without this hysterical poverty crusade.  That’s a new thing.

Still, why re-attach the Communist label?

Francis brings this label up himself time and again in the hopes he can shoot it down.  Because it fits.  That’s the problem with liberalism.  Its labels are apt so they employ word police.  Just trying saying ‘Mr. Jenner,’ or noting that women can be lachrymose.

In the 1st reading, which tells  of how St. Paul  organized a collection in the Church of Corinth, for the benefit of  to the Church of Jerusalem, whose members were facing great hardship. Pope Francis noted that, today as then, poverty is “a word that always embarrasses.” Many times, he said, we hear: “But this priest talks too much about poverty, this bishop speaks of poverty, this Christian, this nun talks about poverty … aren’t they a little communist, right?” On the contrary, he warned, “Poverty is at the very center of the Gospel: if we remove poverty from the Gospel, no one would be able to understand anything about the message of Jesus.”

Straw Man: When priests or nuns speak of poverty no one calls them Communists.  They call them Communists when they promote statism, forced redistribution, and endless unjust policy goals in the name of ‘social justice.’  That happens all the time, and that is Communist!

Then Pope Francis repeats one of his slogans yet again.

When faith does not reach the pockets it is not genuine.

I’m no Communist.  I only want to reach into your pocket so you can be a real Christian!

 

 

Fire and Brimstone for Poverty Policy?

Fire and Brimstone for Poverty Policy?

At Aleteia Tom Hoopes reveals Philly Abp. Chaput’s assertion that neglecting the poor is a mortal sin which will condemn us to Hell.

What about the Jubilee Year of Mercy?

“I’ve said many times over many years that if we ignore the poor, we will go to hell: literally,” Archbishop Charles Chaput said, most recently, here.

I love that. I am well aware that, just as perfect contrition is better than imperfect contrition, it is better to serve the poor out of love for God and neighbor than out of fear of reprisal.

But I also know that, to get over spiritual and moral inertia, sometimes we need a little push.

So if you are like me, and avoiding hell is a motivator for you, remember that is how we will be judged, and take the steps you need to get right with God.

Hoopes cites Jesus’ story of Lazarus and the Rich Man.

For Jesus, it is impossible to love him and not serve the poor. It is there in the Last Judgement in Matthew 25:31-46; it is there in the story of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16:19-31. Anyone who thinks they are doing so is fooling themselves.

Certainly it is good to love the poor and to help them.  The story of Lazarus condemns sloth, greed, and lack of charity; sins of omission which can be temptations to those leading cushy lives.  When I hear this story I think of limousine liberals; Hollywood stars who advocate for trendy causes and government programs, but do little good.

But this new mantra emerging in the Time of Mercy, where it doesn’t matter how much faith you have, how many Masses or Sacraments you seek, if you don’t help the poor then you’re damned; is ugly.

The Mass and Sacraments should never been posed against good works as if they are only both good together.  The Mass is always good and beneficial and lack of charity is never good.  Why this dichotomy?  Are we supposed to think that the Sacraments don’t work in our hearts and souls?  Where is your faith?

Next are we going to learn again how climate change is racist and hurts the poor, and how we’re going to Hell if we don’t think like Al Gore?  If Lazarus is lying full of sores in the street, you won’t get to Heaven giving him Obamacare.