Lift High the Cross

Today is the Feast of Exaltation of the Holy Cross.

My friends, we must cling to that Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ throughout this calamity that has come upon us. Do not ever think of leaving the Catholic Church because of what one Pope does. At the same time, do not be a papolater. Stay faithful. Stay with Our Blessed Mother Mary and Saint John the Evangelist at the foot of the Holy Cross.

Look, we're all upset about Francis. Some are suggesting that he is an antipope. Others, or the same ones, state that Benedict XVI is still the Pope, or that we have two. We don't. We have one Pope, and it is Francis. 

If he is an antipope, then history will judge him and a future Pope or Council will declare it and all of his works, anathema! 

He cannot be deposed, so forget it. He can be confronted, and cardinals and bishops must act. 

Bergoglio has shown himself clearly now for all to see. He is a vindictive man. He is a narcissist. He is angry and disgusted with you and me. He is lashing out irrationally at faithful Catholics - laity and clergy. He insults and has done so since he took the Seat. He follows Alinsky principles as his homily on this Monday past, reveals. 

It is we who are the problems, he thinks. Isolate and ridicule the enemy, that is what Alinsky taught and what this good little Marxist does. We are the ones being divisive, in his modernist mind.

No! It is not us, it is him!

We did not ask for this but we are getting it. We prayed for the pope we needed and not the one we deserved. We were not worthy, we got the one we deserved. 

It is him. It is Bergoglio, he is the divider. He is the divider that is under the influence of Satan, Not me. Not you. It is Bergoglio. He is the one who has caused this distress, this calamity following his god of surprises, a god no more real than the one worshipped by Mahomet!

It is projection on his part as Hilary White has written. We did not create this division. He insults, he sets his face against the little people. He speaks of going out to the peripheries. Well, it depends which periphery you're in for him to even care. He created this whole crisis in his lust after the Kasper agenda, or; is it Kasper who carried out the Bergoglian agenda? 

Was Kasper just a dupe of Bergoglio?

It really doesn't matter now. We are, where we are. 

What we can know is this: based upon the Law, Benedict XVI renounced the papacy, the colour of his cassock does not make him Pope. He should not have the title "emeritus," there is no such thing as an "emeritus pope" but that does make him Pope. He is simply now, Bishop Ratzinger. Should Francis put on a pink cassock tomorrow, it wouldn't change anything, he would still be Pope, though a rather queer one, no doubt.

Friends, it is as simple as this: Francis is Pope because the priests of the Diocese of Rome accept him as their Bishop and that makes him the Bishop or Rome and thus, Pope of the Universal Church, period! 

Sedevacantism is not an option.  You can read at True or False Pope, the most thorough rebuttal to it. Yet, can anyone deny that Work of Human Hands by Father Cekada is a document that everyone should read to understand that evil that set itself upon the Holy Sacrifice? Sedevacantists are Catholic, are they heretics? Well, if they are, are these any worse than the Kaspers and the rest in "full communion?" Can we not all understand the scandal that drove them to this position? Do we not actually have more in common in faith with them than most people or priests in your typical diocesan parish? I love my "sede" friends whom I know personally and online. But they are wrong. It is the easy way out. Is Francis a heretic? Probably. Does it mean he ceases to be Pope? Not in Law. He cannot be deposed. He is Pope. So was John XXIII, Paul VI and the rest. The papacy did not stop at Pius XII. 

Francis is the Pope and we must endure it and what may come. Lund is only a few weeks away. It won't be pretty. It may be the last straw for many to cease their tolerance of his scandals.

Deposed he cannot be. Denounced, he most certainly can be.

We are in crisis not seen in centuries. Robert Royal states today:

"I’m afraid that the rest of this papacy is now going to be rent by groups of dissenters, charges of papal heresy, threats of – and perhaps outright –schism."

This, is what Bergoglio has given us. 

Yet, the Lord is permitting it. Therefore, we must accept it as part of His divine plan!

Stay faithful friends. Stay with Christ and His Church. Our Blessed Lord is Head, the Holy Ghost is in control. Do not be a papolater. Do not ascribe to the Bishop of Rome that which the Protestants have accused us of. 

Do not panic. Do not waver. Do not flee. 

We were born for this.

Vatican confirms it - Bergoglio said, "Non ci sono altre interpretazioni!"

Perhaps the detractors of LifeSiteNews might want to offer a little apology. It seems that they were ripped apart on social media for daring to suggest that Bergoglio actually said what he did.

Well, now it is confirmed from the Vatican News Service and from l'Osservatore Romano

Esprimendo il suo apprezzamento per il testo elaborato dai presuli, il Pontefice ha sottolineato come esso manifesti nella sua pienezza il senso del capitolo viii dell’esortazione apostolica — quello che tratta di «accompagnare, discernere e integrare la fragilità» — chiarendo che «non ci sono altre interpretazioni». Il documento dei vescovi, ha assicurato il Papa, «farà molto bene», soprattutto per quella «carità pastorale» che lo attraversa interamente.

Expressing its appreciation for the text processed by the bishops, the Pontiff stressed that it manifests in its fulness the meaning of chapter viii of the Apostolic exhortation — what is "accompany, discerning and integrating fragility» — making it clear that" there are no other interpretations. " The bishops, he assured the Pope, ' will do very well, especially for the "pastoral charity" which crosses it entirely.

http://www.news.va/it/news/amoris-laetitia-lettera-del-papa-ai-vescovi-di-bue

and:

http://www.osservatoreromano.va/it/news/discernimento-e-carita-pastorale

Still think it is possible to defend this man in the Chair of Peter?

If, as Ann Barnhardt states, "Bergoglio is now openly discussed as probably being an antipope within the Curia, but they are all so terrified of him due to their career mentalities, that they all agree that there "nothing we can do" and that "we just have to wait for him to die," -- if her information is accurate, then there will be hell to pay for those in the hierarchy who continue to stand by while this insanity continues. Literally, Hell!

Bishops, Cardinals, you had a pair once, I think; do you remember where you put them?

Bergoglio confirms Amoris Laetitia allows for Eucharistic Sacrilege!

"No other interpretation," 

The words of Jorge Berogoglio on the infamous chapter in Amoris Laetitia!

Now we know. Now we know what Bergoglio really thinks, there is no more doubting it.

Yet, there will be people, including in this combox, who will say, that he did not say this or that he said elsewhere, word that are perfectly orthodox. No. This is modernism and this is heresy. It only takes a drop of water to poison a litre of water. If you drink it, you will still die.

The Bishops of Buenos Aires have issued a document to their priests on the interpretation of Amoris Laetitia. The side-by-side, Spanish-English can be found at this link:

https://www.data.lifesitenews.com/images/pdfs/Basic_Criteria_for_the_Application_of_Chapter_VIII_of_Amoris_Laetitia__September_5__2016.pdf

Read the document. There are phrases of ambiguity and then there is this:

6) In other, more complex circumstances, and when it is not possible to obtain a declaration of nullity, the aforementioned option may not, in fact, be feasible. Nonetheless, it is equally possible to undertake a journey of discernment. If one arrives at the recognition that, in a particular case, there are limitations that diminish responsibility and culpability (cf. 301-302), particularly when a person judges that he would fall into a subsequent fault by damaging the children of the new union, Amoris Laetitia opens up the possibility of access to the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist (cf. notes 336 and 351). These in turn dispose the person to continue maturing and growing with the aid of grace.

9) It might be convenient that an eventual access to the sacraments be brought about in a reserved way, above all when conflictive situations are foreseen. But at the same time one must not cease to accompany the community, so that it might grow in a spirit of understanding and welcoming, without creating confusion regarding the teaching of the Church on the indissolubility of marriage. The community is an instrument of mercy that its “undeserved, unconditional, and free” (297).

"Eventual access to the sacraments," for people who are in adulterous situations and who have no intention of rectifying it, or at least; as John Paul II taught, living as "brother and sister," if no other option were possible.

The bishops sent their report to the Pope. The full response translation can be read here:

https://www.data.lifesitenews.com/images/pdfs/Letter_of_pope_to_Pastoral_Region_of_Buenos_Aires__September_5__2016.pdf

The money quote is this:

"The document is very good and completely explains the meaning of chapter VIII of Amoris Laetitia. There are no other interpretations. And I am certain that it will do much good. May the Lord reward this effort of pastoral charity."

There is no more doubt. Bergoglio is approving of sacrilege. He is licensing the "eating unto one's own condemnation." There is no more room for accusations that we are twisting his words or misinterpreting him or him being confused because something is not in his first language. He was quite clear in what he wrote, and what he meant.

Any Catholic cardinal, bishop or priest who aligns himself with Bergoglio in this interpretation of Amoris Laetitia will bear eternal consequences for those faithful deceived by this lie - a lie from the very Bishop of Rome. Did you ever think that you would live to see the day?

No more excuses. No, this is not dementia. This is not our mistake of what he said. He said it, and it is not Catholic. 

Bergoglio has completed rebuked St. John Paul II in Veritatis Splendor:

"acts which, in the Church's moral tradition, have been termed "intrinsically evil" [intrinsice malum]: they are such always and per se, in other words, on account of their very object, and quite apart from the ulterior intentions of the one acting and the circumstances. Consequently, without in the least denying the influence on morality exercised by circumstances and especially by intentions, the Church teaches that 'there exist acts which per se and in themselves, independently of circumstances, are always seriously wrong by reason of their object.'" " ... an attempt is made to legitimise so-called 'pastoral' solutions contrary to the teaching of the Magisterium ..."

The man must be denounced for his error and his heresy.

Catholics have been betrayed by Joseph Ratzinger, a coward who abandoned us. A father who abandoned his children. The man that has taken his place is not a spiritual father, he is the equivalent of the evil stepfather who manipulates and abuses his children. 

No more excuses from any that Amoris Laetitia must be interpreted in the light of Tradition. No! Amoris Laetitia must be denounced along with the Pope who promulgated it. Enough of the excuses. 

You bishops and cardinals are cowards. You will be held account for not confronting this Bishop of Rome to his face!

The time has come.

PostScript:

Nobody says it better than Father Hunwicke!

http://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.ca/2016/09/the-problem-about-pedestals.html

And, Hilary White

http://whatisupwiththesynod.com/index.php/2016/09/10/the-purge-is-here-we-enter-the-neo-modernist-wasteland/

"Stormed and humiliated." - The rebuilding of the Institute John Paul II by Francis and the "sexual revolution in the Vatican"

http://www.katholisches.info/2016/08/19/gestuermt-und-gedemuetigt-der-umbau-des-instituts-johannes-paul-ii-durch-franziskus-und-die-sexuelle-revolution-im-vatikan/

On Line translation

(Rome) The theologian Andrea Grillo, a staunch Bergoglianer, revealed in a comment "the plan behind the incredible appointments" (Il Timone) at the head of the Pontifical Institute John Paul II For Studies on Marriage and Family, which was carried out on Wednesday by Pope Francis.

The reshuffles mean a realignment of the John Paul II established international center, which for 25 years has been the guardian and supporter "of the authentic Magisterium of the Church" in the area of marriage and family. The intervention of Pope Francis is "the application of Benedict XVI's hermeneutics of rupture 'of Vatican II to that institution and to the moral theology in general, and in particular to overcome the doctrinal heritage of sexuality, life and family of Paul VI and John Paul II," as written in the Catholic monthly magazine, Il Timone .

"Familiaris Consortio" was yesterday, today is "Amoris Laetitia"

The serious human intervention suggests that not only touches to the post-synodal letter Familiaris Consortio of John Paul II, but also to the prophetic encyclical Humanae Vitae of Paul VI, is to be replaced by Amoris Laetitia.

Pierangelo Sequeri was appointed as the new director and Curia Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia on the new Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Institute. On outstanding representatives of Catholic marriage and family teaching as Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, Cardinal Angelo Scola and Msgr. Livio Melina, who passed since the founding of the Institute in succession, now follows Sequeri. "The transition is big, strong and surprising, especially because it is carried out in parallel with some general developments in recent years," said Grillo.

The John Paul II Institute

Founded in 1981, the same year in which Familiaris Consortio was published and is directly related. It was founded at the request of the then Pope to deepen the study of theology and philosophy of marriage and the family, which was visible as a priority of the pontificate of John Paul II, 

The headquarters is located at the Lateran University in Rome. Five additional offices in the United States, Benin, Brazil, India Mexico, Spain and Australia.

In these 35 years, thousands of theologians, bishops, priests, professors and pastors were in the area of "theology and anthropology of marriage" formed. The approach by Grillo had been very "classic", but quickly developed a strong apologetic profile and experienced by the encyclical Veritatis Splendor of 1994, the "gradual accentuation of moral maximalism, who coined strongly the work of the past 20 years."

Conflicting positions between Pope Francis and the Pontifical Institute

For the most recent development, however, was decisive. In the past three years since the end of the pontificate of Benedict XVI the tones between the willed by Pope Francis' Church and the Institute were always rough.

The culmination of the tensions began with the preparation of the Synod of Bishops on the family when at the Institute prevailed the conviction that Pope Francis share the theses of Cardinal Kasper and the course began to make a change in Catholic moral teaching.

Professors of the first rank of the institute were open against Kasper "openings" position. The result was that Pope Francis did not appoint representative of the Institute as synod members or as observers. The most qualified "in-house" experts on marriage and family were excluded from the Synod. The marginalization by the pope reinforced the already existing fears. It did not escape even outside observers and those transitioning through saw this as a direction decision of the Pope in favor of Kasper-theses.

Grillo must dig deep into their rhetorical tricks to find a "small scandal", which should serve as knitting for the previous director. The priest and moral theologian Livio Melina, since 2006 at the head of the Institute, had shortly before the official presentation of the post-synodal letter Amoris Laetitia written a critique of the papal document by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn and distributed to the students of the Institute. Following the publication of post-synodal letter on April 8 followed several courses that are critical to the controversial Exhortation concerned. The Institute was represented at positions in open contradiction to the papal "openings". An attitude that is certainly not arrived well at the highest level.

"To maximalist"

Msgr. Melina, who at the Gregoriana did his doctorate under Cardinal Caffarra and several years under the direction of Cardinal Ratzinger at the CDF has worked before at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute.Was appointed, is one of the world's most important Catholic moral theologians and bioethicists. His positions appear in the Vatican but no longer in demand.

Bergoglianer Grillo turned up already in the past two years, nosing in on the institute because it is "too maximalist" and that Familiaris Consortio regarded as "Pillar of Heracles". 

To justify the papal intervention, Grillo then accused the Institute that adherence to Familiaris Consortio have adopted in terms of theology of marriage "in recent months, an almost pathological form".

The defense of the marriage sacrament and the Church's moral teaching was not only reviled by him as a "quasi-pathology" but also as shown as an "aberration." The appointment of Pierangelo Sequeri "rightly puts an end: said Grillo literally: "It symbolically opens after a period of 35 years, which began with Familiaris Consortio, a few months after Amoris Laetitia a new phase. Not without continuity with the good that has been done, but not without a break with all limitations of this experience. "

The new director

The new director Pierangelo Sequeri comes from the clergy of the Archdiocese of Milan. 

Ordained in 1968, Sequeri is older than the detached from him Melina. The fundamental theologian Sequeri was primarily known as a musician, including through its cooperation with the music group Gen Verde the Focolare Movement. Since 2010, he is part of Benedict XVI's international Medjugorje inquiry commission and was the rector since 2012 of the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy. 

The expectation of this new director, is evident in the anthology "Family and Church" (Famiglia e Chiesa, LEV, 2015). The new Grand Chancellor, Archbishop Curia Vincenzo Paglia had, in his capacity as Chairman of the spring 2015 Pontifical Family Council conducted three seminars on the Synod of Bishops. The speakers were in the narrow and broad sense invariably Kasperianer. Your presentations should underpin the "holes" in view of the crucial Synod of Bishops in October 2015 and were published as a collection by the Vatican publishing. The defenders of the Church's moral teaching, whether or Cardinals Synod had to seek publishers for their publications themselves.

Sequeris contribution includes "a small, large program, at least for the next 20 years of the Institute," said Grillo pleased. "It changed course, leaving the harbor, sailing on the open sea. The captain knows the route and is not afraid. It will not only attract the ecclesiastical but also the secular family culture benefit from having him perhaps as necessary. Even to this culture to speak, has suddenly re possible. "With these words Grillo celebrates the papal engagement with the Francis a" fortress of the marriage sacrament and moral teaching "(Cardinal Caffarra), which had withstood 35 years old, with a stroke of the pen dragged.

Il Timone says that Pope Francis the Pontifical John Paul II Institute. For Studies on Marriage and Family"stormed and humiliated" had to enforce "the sexual revolution in the Vatican." The real "revolution" of Pope Francis takes place through appointments .

Text: Giuseppe Nardi

Image: MiL

Are Bergoglio's minions settling the score with the 45?

Father Ray Blake thinks something's up too!

"Intimidation can work on several levels from the Mafia boss who sends messages saying, "I know where you live", to someone threatening to deprive someone of their living or home, all too easy in the Church. It is especially worrying when the downright heretical are give free range and those who defend what has always, and everywhere and at all times been held as being the Catholic faith are treated with violence."

Father Hunwicke writes:

"Not long ago, as is well known, a group of 45 scholars, teachers, and pastors, wrote a Letter. (I emphasise that these people came from a wide variety of countries throughout the world: I emphasise this because I do not want what I am about to say to be narrowly construed as a criticism of any members of the English Church.) The Letter was addressed to each member of the Sacred College of Cardinals respectfully asking them to beg the Holy Father graciously to consider the clarification of certain parts of Amoris laetitia which have proved to be dangerously ambiguous. Cardinals, I think, count as Sacred Shepherds. This was a private letter (although its contents have unfortunately become public). Even if it had been a public letter, I do not see how it could have failed to enjoy the protection of Canon 212.

 Dr Javier Hervada, sometime Professor of Canon Law at Navarra, comments on Canon 212: "The right of free speech and public opinion within the Church is acknowledged. Science, skill, and prestige are required to exercise the right justly or to give the corresponding moral obligation greater or less force. The basis of this right does not reside in these prerequisites but in the condition of being one of the faithful".

 In the fourth year of this current pontificate, it is appropriate also to mention the insistently repeated calls of the Holy Father Pope Francis himself for Parrhesia [bold and free speaking] in the Church.

 With regard to the paragraph which now follows below, I would like to make it very clear that I am not talking about myself or in any way describing or alluding to my own situation or any experience I have had.

 Intimidation and cruel pressures have, it appears, been applied to persuade some of the signatories to the Letter to rescind their signatures."

Go ahead boys. Take your best shot at these 45.

It will be your downfall.

The Vatican and the SSPX: Show me the money!

Bishop Bernard Fellay of the Society of St. Pius X gave a talk in August which can be viewed on Rorate  Caeli. A number of bloggers have commented on what Fellay says. Some have opined that it is a "trap."

Having listened to the entirety of the two videos, there is a takeaway that deserves some thought.

The Church is in a grave crisis, there are good men left in the Vatican, they see the SSPX as a lifeline and that they hold the true faith as it was always taught. The Society has friends that it did not have a decade ago, it has allies. 

An offer of a Personal Prelature is apparently on the table. Much has been made about this and what it would entail and what they would or would not need to accept relating to the Second Vatican Council.

Is it a trap?

Here is how we will all know and it is something that I have no doubt, Bishop Fellay and his colleagues are already well aware of.

It's about the money. Period.

The Society is full of it in liquid terms and in land. It has been a good steward of the wealth bequeathed to it and given to it over decades to foster the work of God. The temporal wealth of the Society is what enables the Society to do the spiritual work of educating priests and saving souls. One cannot exist without the other. 

Is Rome, is Francis sincere?

Follow the money.

UPDATE:

Why do I think this is where the rubber meets the road?

We have the example of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate and the open persecution. We see the attack now on contemplative and cloistered nuns. Have we forgotten that the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter was promised a bishop, as just a few examples? Can these men in Rome be trusted? 

I don't know the statutes of the Society, how it is structured, how its property is held in various countries. The danger is in the future make up of a "Board," if you will and the power vested in the Superior General. If the Superior General is compromised by Rome and can appoint the Board of Governors of the Society, will he appoint a Board favourable to him that might eventually vote to follow a path out of step with the foundation of the Society. As long as the Society can maintain its property, it can survive whatever Rome wishes to throw at it. If this Pope, or another in the future tries to force the Society to accept a heretical action or sacrilege, they can continue to resist. If they do not control in perpetuity their assets, then they can be plundered over time in the manner of loading them, and all traditionalists, on a boat and then try to sink it. Rome must have no ability to seize their seminaries or chapels or schools. If that is not guaranteed, then we will know Rome's true intention.

One more point. On Hilary White's blog, What's up, S. Armaticus of Deus, ex machina has left a comment. He writes:

"And finally, I think you and all of your readers need to get ready. The finally battle is approaching. Francis will recognize the SSPX unilaterally. And that is when the defecation will hit the oscillating device." 

This is the great danger. That one morning he wakes up and just "does it." As full, complete and universal authority is vested in him, if he does this, without an agreement, the Society is in a position to be formally declared schismatic because they will be forced to submit without security, without clarity of the issues. They, and all those who attend there and support them, will be considered schismatic and their work will be severely affected. It would be an act on the part of Rome of great error and will, in my view, unleash a heavenly fury. Maybe this is what is necessary. 

It is my view, and it has been for a while. that ++Marcel Lefebvre was wrongly "excommunicated," that he was acting, in good conscience, in a "state of emergency." It is further my view, that he was the instrument of God, the Holy Spirit, the fruit has shown this to be obvious. One day, he will be declared a Blessed. 

If we find that the Vatican is prepared to make a deal with the Society of St. Pius X that allows the Society to maintain full and complete control over their assets in perpetuity then Rome's motivation is just and good. If there is any reason on the part of Bishop Fellay to believe otherwise, then he must not sign any agreement and continue on in the current situation until God's good time and a truly Catholic pope.

That's it folks.

Show me the money!

Francis appointed Bishop of Paramatta in Australia demands Catholic Faith accept "sodomy!"

Nota Bene: The Diocese of Paramatta has put out a Tweet: 

DioceseofParramatta ‏@parracatholic  11h11 hours ago

Misleading article by @gregbrown_TheOz - read what Bishop Vincent ACTUALLY said about acceptance of all people here

The Bishop's original comments are found here.

http://catholicoutlook.org/bishop-vincent-long-ofm-conv-delivers-2016-ann-d-clark-lecture/

The bishop of the Catholic diocese of Parramatta has called on the church to accept homosexuality, lamenting that the faith is not a “trailblazer” against inequality. Bishop Vincent Long Van Nguyen has gone further than the Pope, who has said God loves and accepts gay people. 

Bishop Long said it was not good enough to treat gay people with compassion and then define their lifestyle as “intrinsically disordered”.

The comments, del­ivered in a speech in western Sydney last month, are likely to cause consternation in the church hierarchy, which is against same-sex marriage. 

“We cannot talk about the ­integrity of creation, the universal and inclusive love of God, while at the same time colluding with the forces of oppression in the ill-treatment of racial minorities, women and homosexual persons,” Bishop Long said. “It won’t wash with young people, especially when we purport to treat gay people with love and compassion and yet define their sexuality as ‘intrinsically disordered’.

This is particularly true when the church has not been a shining beacon and a trailblazer in the fight against inequality and ­intolerance.” 

Bishop Long was appointed by Pope Francis in May to lead one of Australia’s largest dioceses. The speech is in direct contrast to the views of his predecessor at the diocese, Anthony Fisher, who is now the most senior Catholic in NSW as Archbishop of Sydney. 

The Australian reported in May that Archbishop Fisher condemned the anti-bullying Safe Schools program as even more radical and dangerous social engin­eering than same-sex marriage, to which he is also vehement­ly opposed. Bishop

Long fled Vietnam on a boat in 1979, eventually making it to Australia as a refugee. In his speech, he said the gospel showed that it was the holders of tradition who were often guilty of “prejudice, discrimination and oppressive stereotype”. 

“That is what Jesus consistently does. He has a habit of challenging ingrained stereotyped attitudes, subverting the tyranny of the majority, breaking social ­taboos, pushing the boundaries of love and redefining its meaning,” Bishop Long said. “He questioned the prevailing assumptions and stereotyped attitudes. He turned the presumed order of moral goodness upside down.”

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/parramatta-bishop-calls-on-church-to-accept-homosexuality/news-story/38408da11324d1ff8c427005aca3e6d4

The Poop Video - more Marxist drivel with no Jesus Christ.

More Marxist, atheist, globalist drivel.

Bergoglio wants to "put the human person at the centre." 

The mask continues to fall from the face to this man.

He forgot Someone, hidden again under his papers and his sinister hand.

Watch this instead. 

I arise today through the strength of heaven

Light of sun, radiance of moon

Splendor of fire, speed of lightning

Swiftness of wind, depth of the sea

Stability of earth, firmness of rock

I arise today through God's strength to pilot me

God's eye to look before me

God's wisdom to guide me

God's way to lie before me

God's shield to protect me

From all who shall wish me ill

Afar and a-near

Alone and in a multitude

Against every cruel, merciless power

That may oppose my body and soul

Christ with me, 
Christ before me

Christ behind me, 
Christ in me

Christ beneath me, 
Christ above me

Christ on my right, 
Christ on my left

Christ when I lie down, 
Christ when I sit down

Christ when I arise, 
Christ to shield me

Christ in the heart of everyone who thinks of me

Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me

Is the "verbal duel" caused by Pope Francis affecting Catholic leaning to Clinton?

If I were an American, I would vote for Donald Trump. Two reasons, because I am a conservative, and, because, I am a Catholic. 

Donald Trump is a human being with flaws, just as I am. Hillary Clinton is best described as a fundamentally flawed human being. Frankly, she is evil.

Donald Trump is not a perfect candidate for a Catholic, none of those in any of the primaries were. The closest was probably Dr. Ben Carson from a morals and policy point of view. 

Hillary Clinton is fundamentally not someone for whom any Catholic can vote. With Donald Trump, there is some hope, that through a Supreme Court under his watch, the matter of abortion might eventually be addressed. With Hilary Clinton, it never will be addressed and the matter will get only worse. She will radically continue Obama's policies, and, extend them. 

In an article in Conservative Review the matter of Catholics dramatically shifting to Hilary Clinton deals with some rather startling statistics.

https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/09/why-catholics-are-dramatically-shifting-to-hillary-clinton

I was rather surprised to read that one reason is a "verbal duel" that Donald Trump allegedly had with Pope Francis. A duel caused by Bergoglio! 

My recollection is that some bishop or advisor in Mexico suggested that the Pope should think in a certain manner about a "wall" and that a question was planted by a Mexican or Hispanic reporter on the aeroplane back to Rome. Once again, Bergoglio blurted out a statement that he had no business stating.

Bergoglio, covertly referring to Donald Trump said that he was not a "Christian" because he would build "walls."

Trump handled the unjustified and obnoxious attack by the Pope quite well, knowing he could not win it. He was quite justified in his initial comment that any religious leader to question the faith of a person was "disgraceful" and the pope was being used by Mexico "as a pawn." 

Trump was right. Bergoglio's comment was disgraceful and he was being used, though, I have no doubt he was a willing pawn.

http://voxcantor.blogspot.ca/2016/02/pope-intercedes-in-us-presidential.html

As a Catholic, I was embarrassed by this outrageous and unjustified statement by the Bishop of Rome.

Human migration is a big issue for this Francis. He is entitled to his opinion. He is not entitled the facts or to tell nations how they should govern themselves in affairs that are none of his business. Nation states have the fundamental right to protect their borders and live in security.

For a man who has a whole floor of a hotel reserved empty for his own protection, he is one to talk about security. For a man who lives in a State protected by walls and massive security, with guns, I should add, he is one to talk about, "building walls!" 

Catholics in Canada voted en masse for Justin Trudeau, a Catholic and a man who demanded that all candidates would be pro-abortion and who has just ushered in euthanasia. American Catholics may be about to do the same with Hillary Clinton who will fight any attempt by States to limit abortion and ensure that a Supreme Court will never overturn Roe vs. Wade. 

To Trudeau and Clinton, abortion is a sacrament! There is not enough blood to satisfy these two.

If Catholics vote in large numbers for Hilary Clinton, as they are expected to do, and if any do it because of a non-existent "verbal duel" which was a one-sided attack by the Bishop or Rome himself, history will judge Catholics and this Bishop or Rome, extremely harshly.

If you are a Catholic and you vote for Hillary Clinton, God help you.

The judging won't just be by history.