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Thursday 5 November 2015

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, bu
t 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. Lord, seize us with your power and light, help us to protect all life, to prepare for a better future.
  2. Let us sing as we go. May our struggles and our concern for this planet never take away the joy of our hope.
  3. An integral ecology includes taking time to reflect on our lifestyle and our ideals.
  4. Christian spirituality proposes an alternative understanding of the quality of life.
  5. Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is not a secondary aspect of our Christian experience.
  6. The teachings of the Gospel have direct consequences for our way of thinking, feeling and living.
  7. The emptier a person’s heart is, the more he or she needs to buy, own and consume.
  8. Many things have to change course, but it is we human beings above all who need to change.
  9. Believers must feel challenged to live in a way consonant with their faith.
  10. We know how unsustainable is the behaviour of those who constantly consume and destroy.
  11. A decrease in the pace of production and consumption can at times give rise to another form of progress and development.
  12. Reducing greenhouse gases requires honesty, courage and responsibility.
  13. Interdependence obliges us to think of one world with a common plan.
  14. Leaving an inhabitable planet to future generations is, first and foremost, up to us.
  15. What is at stake is our own dignity.
  16. What kind of world do we want to leave to those who come after us, to children who are now growing up?
  17. The world we have received also belongs to who will follow us.
  18. Having a home has much to do with a sense of personal dignity and the growth of families.
  19. For indigenous communities, land is not a commodity, but a gift from God, a sacred space.
  20. We need an integrated approach to combating poverty and protecting nature.
  21. It is contrary to human dignity to cause animals to suffer or die needlessly.
  22. The culture of relativism drives one person to take advantage of another, to treat others as mere objects.
  23. Christian thought sees human beings as possessing a particular dignity above other creatures.
  24. There is an urgent need for us to move forward in a bold cultural revolution.
  25. Scientific and technological progress cannot be equated with the progress of humanity and history.
  26. By itself the market cannot guarantee integral human development and social inclusion.
  27. We are learning all too slowly the lessons of environmental deterioration.
  28. It is possible that we don’t grasp the gravity of the challenges before us.
  29. Each age tends to have only a meagre awareness of its own limitations.
  30. Never has humanity had such power over itself, yet nothing ensures that it will be used wisely.
  31. For believers, this becomes a question of fidelity to the Creator.
  32. Earth is essentially a shared inheritance, whose fruits are meant to benefit everyone.
  33. We continue to tolerate some considering themselves more worthy than others.
  34. We should be particularly indignant at the enormous inequalities in our midst.
  35. At times more zeal is shown in protecting other species than in defending the equal dignity of human beings.
  36. A fragile world challenges us to devise intelligent ways of directing, developing and limiting our power.
  37. Every creature is the object of the Father’s tenderness, who gives it its place in the world.
  38. “Creation” has a broader meaning than “nature”; it has to do with God’s loving plan.
  39. Each community has the duty to protect the earth and to ensure its fruitfulness for coming generations.
  40. The present world system is certainly unsustainable from a number of points of view.
  41. We need only to take a frank look at the facts to see that our common home is falling into serious disrepair.
  42. Whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenceless before the interests of a deified market.
  43. The alliance between economy and technology ends up sidelining anything unrelated to its immediate interests.
  44. Economic interests easily end up trumping the common good.
  45. There is no room for the globalization of indifference.
  46. Developed countries ought to help pay this debt by limiting their consumption of nonrenewable energy.
  47. A true “ecological debt” exists, particularly between the global north and south.
  48. To blame population growth, and not an extreme consumerism on the part of some, is one way of refusing to face the issues.
  49. We have to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.
  50. The deterioration of the environment and of society affect the most vulnerable people on the planet.
  51. The human environment and the natural environment deteriorate together.
  52. One particularly serious problem is the quality of water available to the poor.
  53. These problems are closely linked to a throwaway culture.
  54. The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.
  55. Climate change represents one of the principal challenges facing humanity in our day.
  56. The climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all.
  57. “To commit a crime against the natural world is a sin against ourselves and a sin against God.” (Patriarch Bartholomew)
  58. The throwaway culture of today calls for a new lifestyle.
  59. There is a value proper to each creature.
  60. There is a need to seek other ways of understanding the economy and progress.
  61. There is an intimate relationship between the poor and the fragility of the planet.
  62. We need a new dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet.
  63. I invite all to pause to think about the challenges we face regarding care for our common home.

Wednesday 4 November 2015

The Bergoglio Banker

Francesca


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.”

Tuesday 3 November 2015

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


Here is the story.

Toronto bans music festival from city square over Christian songs

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.


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. 

 Francesca

No time to write.


Read here.



Or here.


Or especially even here. 



And here from Tantumblogo:


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). 

Sunday 1 November 2015

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]




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!