Today we were treated to the spectacle of the Pope who quit, stepping out into the press to say that there is a Hell and you have to be in a state of grace to avoid it.\u00a0 You must believe and follow the Catholic faith to get to Heaven.\u00a0 I’m not sure Pope Benedict has ever made so succinct an expression and denunciation of the morbid post-VII mind.<\/p>\n
I would imagine that this poor pope must suffer a great deal of angst and regret, and his few words are born of pain.\u00a0 Even if he believes for some profoundly inconsistent reason that every thing is going well, how can his conscience not weigh heavy?\u00a0 He must at least be concerned.<\/p>\n
I suppose I am a suspicious person.\u00a0 Maybe it’s because I get surprised when people are devious and desperate.\u00a0 But it’s simple.\u00a0 If you have the Faith then your goals are not worldly, but if you don’t share the Faith, your focus slants deeply toward money, power, prestige.\u00a0 You live on a slide.\u00a0 That may be why I suspected Benedict’s abdication was a putsch.\u00a0 As soon as he read his sad announcement I guessed we’d get some Francis next.<\/p>\n
The majority of cardinals in the conclave which followed were either dissident or compromising and, like Benedict, also under some particularly intense pressure.\u00a0 Hence money, power elected Francis.\u00a0 Francis is the pope the elites of ObamaWorld wanted when they unseated Benedict.\u00a0 The Holy Spirit declined to miraculously make good a group of generally faithless and frightened men, or mysteriously change the writing on their ballots.<\/p>\n
Today we have two popes and the one supposed to be doing the job isn’t Catholic.\u00a0 We have a man who doesn’t hold the Faith and cannot achieve a state of grace making saints, granting annulments, making bishops, and teaching the world his deadly and politicized heresies.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Politics.\u00a0 Money.\u00a0 Power.<\/p>\n
Pepin and Charlemagne may not have been saintly, but they were wise enough to see the Church needed its own Papal States.\u00a0 A few acres just isn’t enough against an ever-tightening global regime.<\/p>\n
I was equally suspicious when Justice Scalia died.\u00a0 My first thoughts upon reading the details were,\u00a0 They’ve killed him and they’re going to throw the election to the Court.\u00a0<\/em> He was old and fat.\u00a0 He had a heart attack, right?\u00a0 He didn’t have anyone who would want him dead?\u00a0 There aren’t any professional murderers out there near the Mexican border and in the middle of no where, right?\u00a0 The family, the doctors, the officials, the pundits all say there was no foul play, so all these stories about the shady and unprofessional handling of the situation are just hysteria.\u00a0 Yes?<\/p>\n Who knows, and it doesn’t matter now because Obama is nailing the lid on the coffin as we speak, and adding a new monster<\/a> to his line-up. We have already had an election hit the Court.\u00a0 Remember those hanging chads in 2000?\u00a0 The Democrats were only able to steal so many votes in Palm Beach County that year.\u00a0 The Bush family went to the Supremes with that, Reagan’s court.\u00a0 Well, we don’t have Reagan’s court any more, but there are still a bunch of Bushes out there and an election to win, so to speak.<\/p>\n Where is this GOP primary headed?\u00a0 We have to wait and see.\u00a0 My guess is if party leaders want to rob the election from the voters, they’d rather hand off the decision.\u00a0 Then when the new Supreme Court ruled against the will of the people the media would find it satisfactory, and we could get back to our shrunken lives.<\/p>\n Please God, I’m wrong and things go well.\u00a0 That is my expectation because I’m sort of an optimist.\u00a0 <\/em>Still I continue to be suspicious.\u00a0 I don’t know why we assume people don’t<\/em> do ruthless things behind the scenes to make pieces fall into place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today we were treated to the spectacle of the Pope who quit, stepping out into the press to say that there is a Hell and you have to be in a state of grace to avoid it.\u00a0 You must believe and follow the Catholic faith to get to Heaven.\u00a0 I’m not sure Pope Benedict has …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[815,816,81,19,591],"class_list":["post-6968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gop-primary","tag-justice-scalia","tag-pope-benedict","tag-pope-francis","tag-supreme-court"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6968"}],"version-history":[{"count":59,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7038,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6968\/revisions\/7038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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