A papacy all atwitter

Did the Pope do anything else on June 18, 2015? It was a Thursday.    

I count a total of 63 Tweets. Most of them would fit quite well as left wing, Marxist and environmental paganist political spin. I am reminded that this is the day that Laudato si was issued. What a bombardment of political propaganda.

This was the English Twitter account. How many were there in other languages?

As Barona states in the combox, "Not once was the Holy Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ mentioned." Not once!

Are we really stupid enough to believe that he Tweeted all these? Any of them? He can barely speak English! Did he Tweet these in other languages? Did he sit down with the Secretary of State or Fathers Lombardi or Rosica to say, "This is what I want to Tweet today?"

Look, I've not been gentle with this Pope on what he what he says, but let's be real.

There are people in the Vatican who have a diabolical political agenda who are using the Pope for their own advantage. It is disgusting that they have seized social media for their own use and to do it in the name of the Bishop of Rome, the Vicar of Christ is reprehensible.

The bottom line is this; the Pope himself allows it. Either he is naive and does not know what he is allowing these malefactors to do in his name or does know about it and he is supporting and encouraging it.

Either way, it's a problem.

And this is not magisterial teaching. 

It is utter bovine product of consumption.

1. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

   Lord, seize us with your power and light, help us to protect all life, to prepare for a better future. #LaudatoSi

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2. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

   Let us sing as we go. May our struggles and our concern for this planet never take away the joy of our hope.

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3. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

   An integral ecology includes taking time to reflect on our lifestyle and our ideals. #LaudatoSi

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4. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

   Christian spirituality proposes an alternative understanding of the quality of life.

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5. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

   Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is not a secondary aspect of our Christian experience.

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6. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

   The teachings of the Gospel have direct consequences for our way of thinking, feeling and living. #LaudatoSi

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7. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

   The emptier a person’s heart is, the more he or she needs to buy, own and consume. #LaudatoSi

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8. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

   Many things have to change course, but it is we human beings above all who need to change.

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9. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

   Believers must feel challenged to live in a way consonant with their faith. #LaudatoSi

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10. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    We know how unsustainable is the behaviour of those who constantly consume and destroy.

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11. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    A decrease in the pace of production and consumption can at times give rise to another form of progress and development.

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12. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    Reducing greenhouse gases requires honesty, courage and responsibility. #LaudatoSi

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13. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    Interdependence obliges us to think of one world with a common plan.

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14. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    Leaving an inhabitable planet to future generations is, first and foremost, up to us.

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15. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    What is at stake is our own dignity.

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16. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    What kind of world do we want to leave to those who come after us, to children who are now growing up?

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17. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    The world we have received also belongs to who will follow us. #LaudatoSi

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18. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    Having a home has much to do with a sense of personal dignity and the growth of families. #LaudatoSi

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19. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    For indigenous communities, land is not a commodity, but a gift from God, a sacred space.

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20. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    We need an integrated approach to combating poverty and protecting nature.

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21. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    It is contrary to human dignity to cause animals to suffer or die needlessly. #LaudatoSi

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22. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    The culture of relativism drives one person to take advantage of another, to treat others as mere objects.

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23. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    Christian thought sees human beings as possessing a particular dignity above other creatures.

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24. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    There is an urgent need for us to move forward in a bold cultural revolution. #LaudatoSi

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25. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    Scientific and technological progress cannot be equated with the progress of humanity and history.

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26. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    By itself the market cannot guarantee integral human development and social inclusion.

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27. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    We are learning all too slowly the lessons of environmental deterioration. #LaudatoSi

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28. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    It is possible that we don’t grasp the gravity of the challenges before us. #LaudatoSi

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29. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    Each age tends to have only a meagre awareness of its own limitations.

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30. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    Never has humanity had such power over itself, yet nothing ensures that it will be used wisely.

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31. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    For believers, this becomes a question of fidelity to the Creator.

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32. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    Earth is essentially a shared inheritance, whose fruits are meant to benefit everyone. #LaudatoSi

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33. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    We continue to tolerate some considering themselves more worthy than others.

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34. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    We should be particularly indignant at the enormous inequalities in our midst. #LaudatoSi

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35. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    At times more zeal is shown in protecting other species than in defending the equal dignity of human beings.

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36. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    A fragile world challenges us to devise intelligent ways of directing, developing and limiting our power.

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37. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    Every creature is the object of the Father’s tenderness, who gives it its place in the world.

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38. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    “Creation” has a broader meaning than “nature”; it has to do with God’s loving plan. #LaudatoSi

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39. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    Each community has the duty to protect the earth and to ensure its fruitfulness for coming generations.

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40. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    The present world system is certainly unsustainable from a number of points of view. #LaudatoSi

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41. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    We need only to take a frank look at the facts to see that our common home is falling into serious disrepair. #LaudatoSi

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42. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    Whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenceless before the interests of a deified market.

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43. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    The alliance between economy and technology ends up sidelining anything unrelated to its immediate interests.

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44. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    Economic interests easily end up trumping the common good.

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45. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    There is no room for the globalization of indifference. #LaudatoSi

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46. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    Developed countries ought to help pay this debt by limiting their consumption of nonrenewable energy.

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47. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    A true “ecological debt” exists, particularly between the global north and south.

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48. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    To blame population growth, and not an extreme consumerism on the part of some, is one way of refusing to face the issues.

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49. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    We have to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor. #LaudatoSi

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50. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    The deterioration of the environment and of society affect the most vulnerable people on the planet.

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51. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    The human environment and the natural environment deteriorate together.

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52. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    One particularly serious problem is the quality of water available to the poor. #LaudatoSi

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53. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    These problems are closely linked to a throwaway culture.

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54. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.

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55. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    Climate change represents one of the principal challenges facing humanity in our day. #LaudatoSi

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56. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    The climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all.

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57. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    “To commit a crime against the natural world is a sin against ourselves and a sin against God.” (Patriarch Bartholomew)

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58. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    The throwaway culture of today calls for a new lifestyle. #LaudatoSi

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59. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    There is a value proper to each creature.

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60. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    There is a need to seek other ways of understanding the economy and progress. #LaudatoSi

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61. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    There is an intimate relationship between the poor and the fragility of the planet. #LaudatoSi

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62. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    We need a new dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet. #LaudatoSi

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63. Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex  Jun 18

    I invite all to pause to think about the challenges we face regarding care for our common home. #LaudatoSi

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The Bergoglio Banker

http://voxcantor.blogspot.ca/2015/11/appointed-by-francis-arrested.html

BREAKING: Dominican real "theologian" determines Pope Francis' Synod document could lead to "de facto schism"

Sandro Magister has another must-read column. A thorough and superb analysis of the Final Relation from the Synod. We must not allow the heretic priests, bishops and commentators to get away with their modernist interpretations. We must call them heretics because that is what they are.

Here is how the real "theologian" speaks and sums up the situation.

Ultimately, if in one territory the priests encouraged by the “guidelines” of their bishop end up establishing practices that are uniform but divergent from those of other territories, this could lead to a de facto schism, legitimized for both sides by a dual possible interpretation of this document. And so we come to what we had presented back in July as a situation to be feared, if the synod did not succeed in defining a clear approach. And here we are.

The rest can be read at the link below. It is worth reading and sending to every priest you know.

http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1351170?eng=y

Synod of Discord. Toward a “De Facto Schism” in the Church?

Dominican theologian Thomas Michelet lays bare the ambiguities of the synodal text. Which has not brought unity but has papered over the divisions. The conflict between “hermeneutic of continuity” and “hermeneutic of rupture.” The dilemma for Francis

by Sandro Magister

ROME, November 4, 2015 – Two weeks after its conclusion, the interpretations of what the synod on the family said still do not match up.

For some, this uncertain outcome was intentional. Fr. Adolfo Nicolás Pachón, the superior general of the Jesuits whom Pope Francis included on the commission charged with writing the final “Relatio,” openly claimed it as a success just after the synod ended:

“In everyone’s mind, on the commission, the idea was to prepare a document that would leave the doors open, so that the pope could come and go, do as he sees fit.”

And in fact all the expectations are now focused on what Francis will say. Who for his part already on October 28 revealed his intentions by telephone to his friend Eugenio Scalfari, a professed atheist and the founder of the leading newspaper of Italian secularist thought, “La Repubblica,” who promptly transcribed the pope’s words as follows:

“The diverse opinion of the bishops is part of this modernity of the Church and of the diverse societies in which she operated, but the goal is the same, and for that which regards the admission of the divorced to the sacraments, it confirms that this principle has been accepted by the synod. This is bottom line result, the de facto appraisals are entrusted to the confessors, but at the end of faster or slower paths, all the divorced who ask will be admitted.”

Christian group advises City of Toronto of a Constitutional fight over right to permit a public square!

Our American and international readers will certainly be interested in what happens in our City of Toronto. You may think twice about visiting here and spending your money. I am writing that because this post is going to be sent to Mayor John Tory to protest the disgraceful and constitutionally illegal banning of a Christian music festival from a city square. 

SIGN THE PETITION HERE

https://www.lifesitenews.com/petitions/lift-ban-on-christian-music-festival/878241

Here is the story.

Toronto bans music festival from city square over Christian songs

 Christianity , Freedom Of Religion , Toronto , Voices Of The Nations

Sign the petition to the City of Toronto asking that they lift the ban on the Voice of the Nations music festival. Click here.

TORONTO, October 29, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) -- The City of Toronto is refusing to grant a Christian group a permit to use a prominent downtown square for its annual musical festival next year, because the city has decided that singing the name of Jesus in the public venue contravenes city policy against “proselytizing.”

Voices of the Nations (VON) has been using city property since 2006 for an annual “multi denominational” event in which it celebrates Christianity through live music and dance. It has been using the Yonge-Dundas Square without issue for the past five years. This year’s August 1 event attracted 19 different performance acts, including children’s choirs and popular Christian bands, where well-known ‘praise-and-worship’ songs such as “Days Of Elijah” are performed.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/toronto-bans-music-festival-from-city-square-over-christian-songs

http://www.jccf.ca/city-of-toronto-faces-legal-action-after-violating-religious-freedom/

Appointed by Francis. Arrested!

I knew this picture of Pope Francis' banking adviser was out there but I couldn't find it. Thanks to Sarmaticus for posting on it. 

 

No time to write.

Read here.

http://eponymousflower.blogspot.ca/2015/11/breaking-vatileaks-ii-francis-courtiers.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheEponymousFlower+(The+Eponymous+Flower)

Or here.

http://marymagdalen.blogspot.ca/2015/11/more-news-from-renaissance-court.html

Or especially even here. 

https://mundabor.wordpress.com/2015/11/02/vati-tits/

And here from Tantumblogo:

https://veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/now-francis-falls-victim-to-vatileaks-ii/

The woman mentioned below – Francesca “Immaculate” Chaouqui – is quite a creature.  She played a substantial role in the original Vatileaks that helped bring down the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI.  She was “rewarded” for her performance in the period circa 2009-13 with a substantial role in the Vatican Prefecture for Economic Affairs, the activities of which (in a predecessor form) also played a huge role in bringing down the pontificate of PBXVI.  There was substantial scandal when this self-promoting libertine and exceedingly progressive woman was promoted to this position by Pope Francis.  She apparently feels no compunction biting the hand that feeds, in now leaking numerous additional economic documents that form the basis for two soon to be forthcoming expose books on Vatican finances.  These books are oriented towards embarrassing and undermining the Church, furthering the flight of especially Italian souls.

Bishop Athanasius Schneider on the real Pharisees

During the Rosica Affair, the Fox and I received letters of prayer and encouragement from a Bishop ministering as an Auxiliary in an obscure diocese in a former Soviet republic. What a kind and good and holy man that did this to strangers at a time of distress. 

This bishop has made more Catholics aware of Kazakhstan than any other single person. His little gem, Dominus est, should be read by you and a copy given to a priest for good measure. This is the man that was responsible for Benedict XVI only giving Holy Communion on the tongue whilst people were kneeling. 

Bishop Athanasius Schneider is a Catholic, pure and simple. He is a bishop who speaks and writes words of truth and clarity lacking in many of those we hear from. It is galling to see that this man is not a Cardinal and close to the Pope such as the likes of Maradiaga, Wuerl and Kasper and others.

Rorate Caeli Blog has an exclusive interview with Bishop Athanasius Schneider. I'll give you a little taste of it here but for the rest of that cool refreshing drink of Catholicism and episcopal spine. His words at Rorate Caeli are masterful and O, so Catholic. I invite you to go there to read it all, here, he quotes. Saint Basil the Great.

A back door to a neo-mosaic practice in the Final Report of the Synod

In a letter to Pope Damasus and to the Occidental Bishops, Saint Basil describes as follows the confused situation inside the Church: “The laws of the Church are in confusion.  The ambition of men, who have no fear of God, rushes into high posts, and exalted office is now publicly known as the prize of impiety.  The result is, that the worse a man blasphemes, the fitter the people think him to be a bishop.  Clerical dignity is a thing of the past. There is no precise knowledge of canons.  There is complete immunity in sinning; for when men have been placed in office by the favour of men, they are obliged to return the favour by continually showing indulgence to offenders. Just judgment is a thing of the past; and everyone walks according to his heart’s desire. Men in authority are afraid to speak, for those who have reached power by human interest are the slaves of those to whom they owe their advancement. And now the very vindication of orthodoxy is looked upon in some quarters as an opportunity for mutual attack; and men conceal their private ill-will and pretend that their hostility is all for the sake of the truth. All the while unbelievers laugh; men of weak faith are shaken; faith is uncertain; souls are drenched in ignorance, because adulterators of the word imitate the truth. The better ones of the laity shun the churches as schools of impiety and lift their hands in the deserts with sighs and tears to their Lord in heaven. The faith of the Fathers we have received; that faith we know is stamped with the marks of the Apostles; to that faith we assent, as well as to all that in the past was canonically and lawfully promulgated.” (Ep. 92, 2). 

Pope Francis allegedly tells Scafari, "All the divorced who ask will be admitted" presumably to Holy Communion

The Vatican denies the statement by Scalfari.
One Peter Five takes it apart.

It has been said that Bishop Bergoglio of Rome does not read anything on the Internet and reads only one newspaper. 

The one that published this:

In the same phone conversation of the past Wednesday, he declared himself very interested in the article I had dedicated to him two Sundays beforehand. He asked me what I thought of the conclusions of the Synod on the family. I responded -- as I had already written -- that the compromise that the Synod had reached did not seem to take into account the changes had had taken place in the family in the past fifty years, [and] therefore pointing towards the recovery of the traditional family was an objective that was completely unthinkable. I added that the open Church willed by him finds herself before a family that is open both in its goodness and in its wickedness, and that it is this that the Church finds before her.

"It is true -- Pope Francis answered -- it is a truth and for that matter the family that is the basis of any society changes continuously, as all things change around us. We must not think that the family does not exist any longer, it will always exist, because ours is a social species, and the family is the support beam of sociability, but it cannot be avoided that the current family, open as you say, contains some positive aspects, and some negative ones. ... The diverse opinion of the bishops is part of this modernity of the Church and of the diverse societies in which she operated, but the goal is the same, and for that which regards the admission of the divorced to the Sacraments, [it] confirms that this principle has been accepted by the Synod. This is bottom line result, the de facto appraisals are entrusted to the confessors, but at the end of faster or slower paths, all the divorced who ask will be admitted." [Rorate translation, emphasis added]

http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/11/bombshell-pope-to-his-favorite.html#more

http://secretummeummihi.blogspot.com/2015/11/francisco-todos-los-divorciados-que-lo.html

FOR ALL THE SAINTS

I, John, saw another angel come up from the East, holding the seal of the living God. He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who were given power to damage the land and the sea, “Do not damage the land or the sea or the trees until we put the seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” I heard the number of those who had been marked with the seal, one hundred and forty-four thousand marked from every tribe of the children of Israel.

After this I had a vision of a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation, race, people, and tongue. They stood before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands. They cried out in a loud voice:

“Salvation comes from our God, who is seated on the throne, and from the Lamb.”

All the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They prostrated themselves before the throne, worshiped God, and exclaimed:

“Amen. Blessing and glory, wisdom and thanksgiving, honor, power, and might be to our God forever and ever. Amen.”

Then one of the elders spoke up and said to me, “Who are these wearing white robes, and where did they come from?” I said to him, “My lord, you are the one who knows.” He said to me,

“These are the ones who have survived the time of great distress; they have washed their robes and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb.”  

For all the saints, who from their labours rest,
Who Thee by faith before the world confessed,

Thy Name, O Jesus, be forever blessed.

Alleluia, Alleluia!

Thou wast their Rock, their Fortress and their Might;

Thou, Lord, their Captain in the well fought fight;

Thou, in the darkness drear, their one true Light.

Alleluia, Alleluia!

For the Apostles’ glorious company,

Who bearing forth the Cross o’er land and sea,

Shook all the mighty world, we sing to Thee:

Alleluia, Alleluia!

For the Evangelists, by whose blest word,

Like fourfold streams, the garden of the Lord,

Is fair and fruitful, be Thy Name adored.

Alleluia, Alleluia!

For Martyrs, who with rapture kindled eye,

Saw the bright crown descending from the sky,

And seeing, grasped it, Thee we glorify.

Alleluia, Alleluia!

O blest communion, fellowship divine!

We feebly struggle, they in glory shine;

All are one in Thee, for all are Thine.

Alleluia, Alleluia!

O may Thy soldiers, faithful, true and bold,

Fight as the saints who nobly fought of old,

And win with them the victor’s crown of gold.

Alleluia, Alleluia!

And when the strife is fierce, the warfare long,

Steals on the ear the distant triumph song,

And hearts are brave, again, and arms are strong.

Alleluia, Alleluia!

The golden evening brightens in the west;

Soon, soon to faithful warriors comes their rest;

Sweet is the calm of paradise the blessed.

Alleluia, Alleluia!

But lo! there breaks a yet more glorious day;

The saints triumphant rise in bright array;

The King of glory passes on His way.

Alleluia, Alleluia!

From earth’s wide bounds, from ocean’s farthest coast,

Through gates of pearl streams in the countless host,

And singing to Father, Son and Holy Ghost:

Alleluia, Alleluia!

Tom Rosica, James Martin and the real "theologians" against you and me

“There being an imminent danger for the Faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects. Thus, St. Paul, who was a subject of St. Peter, questioned him publicly on account of an imminent danger of scandal in a matter of Faith. And, as the Glossa of St. Augustine puts it (Ad Galatas 2.14), ‘St. Peter himself gave the example to those who govern so that if sometimes they stray from the right way, they will not reject a correction as unworthy even if it comes from their subjects.” (SummaTheologiae, IIa IIae, Q. 33, A. 4)

If you've not heard about what happened to Ross Douthat of the New York Times, at the hands of Catholic so-called "theologians," it is time you did. On October 17, Douthat penned a column in the New York Times, The Plot to Change the Catholic Church wasting no time getting to the point in the very first paragraph of his op-ed column.

The Vatican always seems to have the secrets and intrigues of a Renaissance court — which, in a way, is what it still remains. The ostentatious humility of Pope Francis, his scoldings of high-ranking prelates, have changed this not at all; if anything, the pontiff’s ambitions have encouraged plotters and counterplotters to work with greater vigor.
And right now the chief plotter is the pope himself.

I read it the day it was published and was astonished that the secular media was coming to the same conclusions as many of us. 

The push back against Douthat did not take long. James Martin. S.J. was first of the mark and has since used the word "hater" against those who question his Jesuitical arrogance. Then, a group of so-called "theologians" issued a public Letter to the Editor of the Times, chastising Douthat. Were they trying to get him fired?  Douthat is not the first to attacked by churchmen for stating his opinion, he will not be the last.

Douthat has responded again. Fundamentally, according to the "theologians," his crime is not being one, therefore, he is not part of the club and has no business commenting. These modern day no-nothings and their clericalist aides and abettors hate an educated laity.

Dorothy Cummings McLean picks up this matter in Catholic World Report. 

As the Affair Douthat unfolds, I keep attaching faces to the names I hadn't heard or seen for many years. One of them belongs to an active homosexual who brought his boyfriend along on the departmental retreat and shared a room with him. Another belongs to an active unmarried heterosexual who brought his girlfriend along on the departmental retreat and shared a room with her. They were both very pleasant and cheerful men. I liked them very much—which does not erase the facts that they did not believe the teaching of the Catholic Church concerning sexual morality and that today they are professional Catholic theologians.

Some Catholics these are, poisoning the minds of our youth not enough in touch with the Truth as Mrs. Cummings McLean was whilst a student there.

In the combox at CWR, a writer quotes the late Richard John Neuhaus writing in First Things in 2003.

It was at a conference in the mid eighties that I listened to Hans Küng hold forth in triumphalist tones on the victory of the progressives. “We” control, he announced, the seminaries, the academic departments of theology, the catechetical and liturgical institutions, the publishing houses, the magazines that matter, and the chanceries. Most of the bishops, he said, are now on “our” side, and those who aren’t have been neutralized. Anyone who wants a future in the hierarchy or the Catholic academy has no choice but to cooperate, he observed. It was a clean sweep; all that was left were a few details; the disgruntled band of risibly reactionary dissidents from the new order didn’t understand what had happened and couldn’t do much about it."

Douthat is right. These heretics, and that is what they are, hid underground as best they could under the last two papacies, They worked quietly, these malefactors did, to undermine and destroy the faith. Under Jorge Bergoglio, they have the confidence to come right out in the open, either because the Bishop of Rome is weak and ignorant to what is going on around him or because he endorses it and promotes. it

So what does this have about Thomas Rosica, CSB?

I have a collection of emailed letters from Rosica. Letters which insult and deride this writer and more. Cummings wrote about some of them previously at Catholic World Report following the farce of a vexatious lawsuit against this writer by Rosica. A poverty vowed Basilian the suit was undertaken, allegedly "pro bono," by Fogler Rubinoff, one of Toronto's largest and most expensive legal operations.

Below is one of the letters. I am making it public because it shows that this attempt to silence and berate lay men and women who have every right and duty to raise their concerns to the Church and Catholics in general is not new. These bishops, priests and theologians are the best examples of clericalism, something they apparently thought was wrong in the Church before the Council which they adore as if it is their god. 

Tom Rosica, James Martin and the others cannot silence the Catholic faithful and the truth. They have played their hands and they have been exposed. They are not the President and Vice-President of the Internet. 

They cannot cope with the fact that we may not be "bishops or liturgists" but we do know what words mean and there are many we could use and Dorothy Cummings McLean knows it too.

"The brain-blowing combination of asserting that what is not Catholic teaching is somehow Catholic teaching and then shrieking like a frightened schoolgirl when the word "heresy" is uttered is what the American Catholic/Jesuit theological academy is all about." 

From: Thomas Rosica [mailto:rosica@saltandlighttv.org]

Sent: March 24, 2011 8:18 PM

(…) your vision of the Church will not help you to grow. It simply confirms you where you are. …

You launch arrows and broadcast yourself from a website. You have no theological formation ... Your keyboard and your monitor do not make you a bishop or liturgist.   

Fraternally yours in Christ,

Fr. Rosica 

From Raffaella in Italy, Where is that "secret" dossier?

I invite you to read this from Raffaella's blog. The Popes, the Vatican and the Catholic Church. It's interesting to get a flavour of what our Catholic friends in Italy have to say. Special thanks to Johnny from Italy for aiding in translation.

http://ilblogdiraffaella.blogspot.it/2015/10/che-fine-ha-fatto-il-dossier-vatileaks.html

Once upon a time there came to be the famous Vatileaks dossier edited by the cardinals Herranz, De Giorgi and Tomko on instruction of Benedict XVI in 2012.

At the time it seemed to be a "Pandora's box", the precious guardian (according to Vatican experts and "mystery writers") of all the Vatican’s secrets.

Suddenly ... poof! It disappeared! No journalist has ever invoked it again, no newspaper editor has demanded its publication in the name of a transparency which is always invoked but, in fact, never put into practice.

According to commentators, “crows” [translator note: in Italian, the crow can signify a spy of sorts] no longer fluttered in the Vatican as of March 2013. Yes ...  some sea-gulls circled round devouring poor defenseless pigeons, but not even a “crow's" shadow was to be seen.

Even wide-mouthed “frogs” [translator note: similar to crow, frog can mean someone who was told something in confidence, but then betrays that confidence] always alert in the Pontificate of Benedict, had been poisoned and thrown into the swamp.

The fresh breeze of spring (isn’t that true my lord Cardinals?) blew gently in the sacred palaces within the Leonine Walls.

Until bang! Today it turns out that the “crows” and “frogs” are more alive than ever. They had simply hidden themselves for a while. Where? Who knows ... you should ask those who are always in contact with these animals.

We note, however, the paradox: the “crows” of Benedict acted for the "good" - they wanted to clean house, seeking on the outside what they could not get inside. The little animals of Francis, however, are to be censored: they are mean and smelly, these crows opposed themselves to the cleaning job.

If we want to take ourselves for a ride [translator: mock ourselves] and tell fairy tales amongst ourselves, it’s OK, but the whole situation is comical: we are dealing with people who commit crimes just like in 2011 and 2012 (even before actually).

And I do not think much has changed since then: the IOR [tr.: Vatican Bank] is still there (of course! Now ATMs work!), the Curia is still there and has not undergone "slimming", and scandals big and small still abound. The "perception" has certainly changed, but all this is certainly the mass media’s merit.

Since we returned to the situation that existed before March 2013 why not dust off the famous dossier of the three cardinals? Why not ask for its publication?

What sense is there to keep it secret? If you really want to clean up, ALL the names should come out: the internal instigators [translators: legal term, it means the person who orders others to execute of a crime] and the external perpetrators. Whoever they are ...

Tommy Rosica says that you "traditional, faithful, orthodox Catholics throw out words and have no idea what those words mean"

Our good friend Barona did his Friday penance by watching the entire video so you won't have to. If you visit over at Toronto Catholic Witness you can watch the snippet of it with this most wonderful quote by one of the interviewees, Tommy Rosica.

"Those claiming to be...traditional, faithful, orthodox Catholics throw out words and they have no idea what those words mean."

Logically then, of course, it would follow that if one does know what those words mean, then one is not a "traditional, faithful orthodox Catholic."

I fully agree.

The "Twerp" smacked down by the Man - but what I want to know Johan Bonny, is she a blonde a brunette or is she even a she?

He's so upset. He just can't handle himself around real manhood, as opposed to those in some fantasy.

The poor, poor whittle Bishop of Antwerp, Johan Bonny - smacked down at the Sodomy Synod to Destroy the Family by Robert Cardinal Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. You know, one of those silly, narrow, bigoted Africans that "should not tell us too much what to do."

"There was no way of discussing it in a peathful way" cried little Johan Bonny when each time he raised the matter of fisting, felsching and rimming. he was smacked down, by an African.

Poor, poor whittle Johan; the big, bad Afwicans wouldn't wet him talk about his gerbils. 

After all,  according to Johanny, "one knows that homosexuality exists also in the world of animals" so that makes abusing them for your anal thrills just fine, eh Johan?

How often do you masturbate Johan? How much pornography do you watch? Straight or gay porn? As the great Fulton Sheen once asked, "Is she blonde or is she a brunette." Or is she a he? Which, or what is it? Because there has to be a reason for such a darkened intellect and a lack of faith.

What is important for me is that Pope Francis moved tags. This greatly exited me. I can not remain a neutral spectator of these changes, I want to participate. Furthermore, everyone at some point in his life is confronted with relationships, friendships, family and the education of children. We must not deny that there is trauma about these matters in the Church. Far too many people have felt excluded for a long time. The Church can fix the breach of trust by talking openly and sincerely about the issues which are really bothering people...

As bishops, we have too long thought it impossible to discuss some lessons or disciplinary rules: we have acted pragmatically to avoid damaging the Faith. Thus, a gap has widened between the Church’s official teaching and daily practice...
 Before Francis, there was an official status quo about these topics and very few opportunities for discussion. In less than two years, the Pope has managed to get a discussion started about these issues...
 Personally, I find that in the Church there should be more openness for the recognition of the substantive quality of the LGBT couple. Their form of shared life must meet the same requirements as religious marriage. Basic values are for me more important than the institutional form. Christian Ethics champions lasting relationships in which faithfulness, loyalty and care for each other are central; and which are open to new life, or at least recognise the responsibility of the partners to be generous towards children and young people. We must accept that those values may be present in a relationship of diversity and we must try to give form to these relationships...
 We need to seek within the Church for a formal recognition of the “relationality” which is as present in many couples which are homosexual as in those which are heterosexual. Should it be a sacramental recognition of marriage? Maybe the Church should instead think about recognising a diversity of patterns.
 This discussion is the same for civil marriage. In Belgium, the same model is used for gender relations of homosexual and heterosexual couples; but there are other possibilities, which I believe are valid. It may not be necessary to force all relationships into the same model...
 Just as there is in our society a variety of legal frameworks for partners, so the Church should recognise a diversity of relationship forms. This would avoid the pitfall of complex ideological disputes. I favour the recognition of a variety of forms which emerge from a reflection on pastoral experience, rather than theoretical discussions; because they often degenerate into sterile disputes and generate discord...
 Life is a practical thing, is not it? Such issues can only be dealt with credibly if humanity and understanding are exercised; not by theoretical discussions. The same dynamic is active in the Church. The ecclesial community is a big family and my main concern is how to encourage this style of response. I do not want to downplay the significance of the doctrinal issues; but... I also want to keep the family together. I want all the family members to celebrate Christmas together and form a united community.

[J. Bonny in “De Morgan” 27th December 2014]

On animals as faggots
http://voxcantor.blogspot.ca/2015/09/is-bishop-bonny-sodomite-is-he-being.html

On the "ordaining" of married men and even women
http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/blog-san-pietro-e-dintorni-en/detail/articolo/celibacy-antwerp-womens-ordination-14375/

On proportionalism and conscience
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/belgian-bishop-urges-synod-to-adopt-moral-relativism-charges-pro-family-gro

Heresy
http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/francis-effect-goes-beyond-laypeople-pews

I can't wait until Francis makes this heresiarch Primate of Belgium and Archbishop of Brussels, it will be as much fun as Wuerligig.

Dr. Anca-Maria Cernea - A Doctor of more than medicine

During the Sodomy Synod to destroy the family, you may have heard about an intervention by a laywoman, a doctor from Romania. Here name is Dr. Anca-Maria Cernea, Doctor at the Center for Diagnosis and Treatment-Victor Babes and President of the Association of Catholic Doctors of Bucharest.

How bad has it gotten when it is the laity that understand the Catholic Faith and Truth more than some clerics, some prelates and even the Bishop of Rome himself?

Did they listen?

Tom Rosica, why have you not published this? you seem to care so much for what the laity thinks.

James Martin, you write of "love" and "mercy," why don't you write of this?

Donald Wuerl, why do you give interviews of distortion and manipulation, even outright lies instead of commenting on the clarity as expressed by Dr. Cernea.

Why, indeed.

Your Holiness, Synod Fathers, Brothers and Sisters,  

I represent the Association of Catholic Doctors from Bucharest. I am from the Romanian Greek Catholic Church. My father was a Christian political leader, who was imprisoned by the communists for 17 years. My parents were engaged to marry, but their wedding took place 17 years later. My mother waited all those years for my father, although she didn’t even know if he was still alive. They have been heroically faithful to God and to their engagement. Their example shows that God’s grace can overcame terrible social circumstances and material poverty.

We, as Catholic doctors, defending life and family, can see this is, first of all, a spiritual battle. Material poverty and consumerism are not the primary cause of the family crisis. The primary cause of the sexual and cultural revolution is ideological.

[Prophecy!] Our Lady of Fatima has said that Russia’s errors would spread all over the world. It was first done under a violent form, classical Marxism, by killing tens of millions. Now it’s being done mostly by cultural Marxism. There is continuity from Lenin’s sex revolution, through Gramsci and the Frankfurt school, to the current-day gay-rights and gender ideology. Classical Marxism pretended to redesign society, through violent take-over of property. Now the revolution goes deeper; it pretends to redefine family, sex identity and human nature. This ideology calls itself progressive. But it is nothing else than the ancient serpent’s offer, for man to take control, to replace God, to arrange salvation here, in this world. It’s an error of religious nature, it’s Gnosticism. It’s the task of the shepherds to recognize it, and warn the flock against this danger.

“Seek ye therefore first the Kingdom of God, and His justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.” The Church’s mission is to save souls. Evil, in this world, comes from sin. Not from income disparity or “climate change”.

The solution is: Evangelization. Conversion. Not an ever increasing government control. Not a world government. These are nowadays the main agents imposing cultural Marxism to our nations, under the form of population control, reproductive health, gay rights, gender education, and so on. What the world needs nowadays is not limitation of freedom, but real freedom, liberation from sin. Salvation.

Our Church was suppressed by the soviet occupation. But none of our 12 bishops betrayed their communion with the Holy Father. Our Church survived thanks to our bishops’ determination and example in resisting prisons and terror. Our bishops asked the community not to follow the world. Not to cooperate with the communists. Now we need Rome to tell the world: “Repent of your sins and turn to God for the Kingdom of Heaven is near”.

Not only us, the Catholic laity, but also many Christian Orthodox are anxiously praying for this Synod. Because, as they say, if the Catholic Church gives in to the spirit of this world, it is going to be very difficult for all the other (orthodox) Christians to resist it.

The Wuerligig Cardinal keeps spinning and spinning; which way will it face?

Cardinal Wuerl continues to utter comments in the spirit of the recently held Synod that confound us. The latest is that:

“The frame of reference now is no longer the Code of Canon Law. The frame of reference is now going to be, ‘What does the Gospel really say here?’”

To which canonist Ed Peter’s responds.

“The 'frame of reference' for the mission of the Catholic Church has never, ever been the Code of Canon Law, and no canon lawyer I know of has ever, ever claimed otherwise. The 'frame of reference' for the Catholic Church has always been, and has only been, Christ the Lord."

https://canonlawblog.wordpress.com/2015/10/28/canon-law-has-never-been-the-frame-of-reference-for-the-church/

During the lead-up to the Synod on the Family, the Pope issued a motu proprio modifying the process for declarations of nullity. Some have commented that this motu proprio will mean for the Church that which was previously admonished and ended by Rome in the United States in the early 1970's.

On  April 11, 1973, the  Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, under the authority of Blessed Paul VI, issued a letter to the Bishops of the United States of America on "Invalid Marriages."

SACRED CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH
Letter regarding the indissolubility of marriage

This Sacred Congregation, which is responsible for defending the doctrine regarding faith and morals throughout the Catholic world, has been examining with careful attention the dissemination of new opinions which seek to deny or to put in doubt the doctrine regarding the indissolubility of marriage constantly proposed by the Magisterium of the Church.
These opinions are widespread, not only in books and newspapers, but also beginning to circulate even in seminaries, in Catholic schools, and even in the practices in some ecclesiastical tribunals of this or that Diocese.
Furthermore, these opinions, together with other doctrinal or pastoral explanations, have been advanced here and there as a pretext to justify abuses against the current discipline regarding the administration of the Sacraments to those who live in an irregular union.
Therefore, this Sacred Dicastery examined this problem during its Plenary Meeting of 1972, and issued its mandate, approved by the Supreme Pontiff, exhorting the Bishops to attentively insure that all those entrusted with teaching religion in schools or institutes of any grade, as well as those who serve as officials in ecclesiastical tribunals, remain faithful to the doctrine of the Church on the indissolubility of marriage and act in accord with this doctrine in their ecclesiastical tribunals.
Regarding the administration of the Sacraments, local Ordinaries should strive, on one hand, to encourage the observance of the discipline in force in the Church, and on the other hand, to act so that pastors of souls show particular solicitude toward those who live in an irregular union, seeking to resolve these cases through the use of the approved practices of the Church in the internal forum, as well as other just means.
Communicating these things to you with devoted respect, I remain yours,
+ Franjo Cardinal Seper
Prefect
 + Jérôme Hamer, O.P.
Secretary
Rome, April 11, 1973.

The following quote bears reading:

"A Catholic who is knowingly a partner in an invalid marriage is in reality and before God not married to his or her apparent spouse. Hence performance of the marriage act within that union is not a sacred and holy seal of married love, but really a wrongful use of sex. Those who have seriously disobeyed divine or ecclesiastical law by entering into an invalid marriage, and have perhaps committed many sins within that union, have a duty to return to grace as quickly as possible, and certainly to abstain from Holy Communion until they do so. Some solution is always possible, even in the most difficult cases. At times one must accept a considerable amount of self-denial and bear the cross generously; but God’s grace is able to make even the most difficult burdens bearable. Even if individuals feel that they do not now have the moral strength to do what the law of God demands of them, they ought not despair. In prayer, faithful attendance at Mass, in doing the works of Christian love, they can with God’s grace gradually acquire the courage to do with peace whatever is necessary. Pastors and diocesan marriage tribunals will try to be of assistance to those in invalid marriages. Those seeking a good conscience in these matters must remember that their consciences are to be formed in the light of Church teaching. Every solution that is reached must be entirely faithful to the command of Christ that consummated and sacramental marriages can in no way be dissolved or treated as though they can be." 

The above quotation comes from page 514-515 from The Teaching of Christ: A Catholic Catechism for Adults published in 1983. (ISBN 0-87973-899-5).

The editors were Donald W Wuerl, Ronald Lawler OFM Cap and Thomas Comerford Lawler.

It would follow then, that Cardinal Wuerl knows very well what The Teaching of Christ is. It is, therefore, incumbent on the Cardinal to provide clarity, not obfuscation, truth and not distortion during his utterances with the media and Catholics in general as it relates to matters discussed at the Synod. 

Perhaps the good Cardinal can start a blog based upon his point at the opening of this post which was challenged by Ed Peters; it could be titled, WDTGRS. I'm sure Father Z wouldn't mind.

A line attributed to St. Thomas More, at least as spoken in the movie A Man for All Seasons, comes to mind.

"We must pray that when your head stops spinning, your face is front again."