The following comes from a November 14 Catholic News Agency article by Ann Schneidble:
The acts of terrorism which took place in Paris Friday night are the latest part in what Pope Francis has called a “piecemeal World War III,” describing the attacks as “inhuman.”
“There is no justification for these things,” the pontiff said in a phone interview Saturday with TV 2000, the official broadcasting station for the Italian Bishops Conference.
Speaking in response to the November 13 attacks, which are the deadliest acts of violence the city has seen since the World War II, the Pope said he is “moved and pained” by what happened, and expressed his closeness to those affected by the tragedy.
At least 128 people are confirmed dead and more than 180 wounded in terrorist attacks which targeted bars, restaurants, a concert hall, and a football stadium in the heart of Paris on November 13. Around 80 people are listed in critical condition, according to the BBC.
The BBC reports that French president Francois Hollande has called the attacks “an act of war” by ISIS.
Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, sent a telegram to Cardinal Vingt-Trois on behalf of Pope Francis, assuring the archbishop of Paris of his prayers for those affected by “horrific terrorist attacks.”
“The Holy Father vigorously condemns violence, which cannot solve anything,” the telegram reads, according to Vatican Radio’s translation of the message which was originally written in French.
In order to understand what is going on, one must understand each of the following definitions.
ISIS (aka ISIL) = Islamic State; CALIPHATE is: the political-religious State comprising the Muslim community and the lands and peoples under its dominion;
SHARIA LAW is the basic Islamic legal system derived from the religious precepts of Islam, particularly the Quran and the Hadith; JIHAD is a holy war waged on behalf of Islam as a religious duty.
The Muslim Faith is ‘political’. And they are allowed to lie to “infidels” (those not of their faith) to further their beliefs / goals.
Many of our elected leaders have no clue what they are working with – or simply do not care so they can attain their evil goals.
Politicians who support – OPEN BORDERS, or DISARMING our law abiding CITIZENS, or ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION and/or AMNESTY, do not care about the security of Americans, or the sovereignty of the USA.
Relayed to me Nov 14th, via e-mail, a stark observation from a Catholic living in Versailles:
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“Here in Versailles, we are quiet; but Paris is a Babylon. France is in danger because it is punished for its infidelity. The patience of God is limited. Islam is the consequence of our apostasy.”
Since Muslims are encouraged to lie to non-Muslims to attain their religious goals, there is NO Way that there can be accurate and complete – VETing in the immigration process.
Any politician who says otherwise is lying.
Remember 9-11. All the killing and destruction was perpetrated by only 19 men.
15 of the 19 were citizens of Saudi Arabia. The others were from the United Arab Emirates (2), Egypt and Lebanon.
So we don’t forget: https://video.foxnews.com/v/1151859712001/flashback-911-as-it-happened/?#sp=show-clips
It is not a “piecemeal WWIII”—yet another bizarre example of Bergogliosimo phraseology: but it is the unfolding conflict with ultimate evil that the Church should be girding itself for; not as this papacy has come to be, to be a mouthpiece for neo-socialist wealth-redistribution, climate-change ideology, and grand dreams of a utopia world order.
And if it were to be “WWIII”, piecemeal or whole and entire, why, O Great Visionary, have you wasted the last 2 years on these neo-socialist dreams of you and your accolytes, when this is what you now acknowledge we should have been preparing for?
Steve, neo-socialist wealth distribution is not a totally accurate description of what the Pope has said. Rather, he has called for a stop to the unfettered capital redistribution of wealth to the already rich, and provide for the rest of the 99%. We once had a middle class in this country. Today we have the top few percent of families owning 90% of the wealth; really just a few families, less than 100.
And “piecemeal WWIII” — this is another crazy Francis-ism. A World War by definition is absolute, whole and entire: it can’t be “piecemeal”. By definition, this is a contradiction—except for the Great Visionary.
Nor, as the photos of the Bergoglio pope looking at his watch during Mass, can anyone assert that he strikes people as a great spiritual individual. Grace builds on nature: the nature of this man is confused, euphoric, and dependent on the approval of his socialist allies.
We needed a leader… and we got an Argentine Neville Chamberlain.
More uneducated nonsense from Bob One, name one place where there is unfettered capitalism, ie no government regulation, try starting a business and see how many government hurdles you have clear first. Why does your ilk constantly confuse genuine charity with forced government confiscation and redistribution. Once they government gets the hell out of the way and we start getting more real economic growth like in the 80’s and 90’s, more people will be working and start building prosperity for themselves..
This is what is happening in some parts of Europe, and the reasons why – which has different goals than most may think.
Please note that most of the immigrants from the middle east are men.
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/11/watch-anti-migrant-video-going-viral-across-europe/
They intend to spread their Faith through intermarriage and reproduction.
Just like Trump said, months ago – we along with other Countries should establish “safe zones” in their Country of origin.
And supply humanitarian aid (not money) as needed.
I think the people at Lutheran Satire have pegged this pope’s unendurable mis-statements and malaprops perfectly in their knife-edged witty cartoon: “Frank the Hippie Pope”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEchg1KhmTY
It’s unfortunate the Vatican does not have the same mentality of nearly 1,000 years ago during the reign of the crusader popes. Christians have never been under such assault by the Mohammedans since the 1400’s. What is necessary for the faithful is to team up with those with financial resources and others with military experience. Only then, can we field a righteous army to eliminate this threat from the Evil One. Our administration in Washington, D.C. appears to be impotent in this regard. As a Vietnam veteran, if I were 40 years younger, I would show them a thing or two. Deacon Vince
Vince, oh, yes, the crusades were such a GREAT idea.
Especially when Christians from the west turned on Christians in the east and looted their cities for money.
GREAT example of how to follow Jesus!!
To add to what Leah stated above regarding the situation in Europe:
I talked again with my daughter and son-in-law who live in a suburban enclave south of Brussels yesterday about events: I asked her how the Muslim arrondissements (esp. we are talking about Mollenbek, which they had previously warned me about to avoid when I last came to Brussels: it is right near the train station—remember the recent train attack, foiled by the two Americans: that jihadist was staying with his sister in Mollenbek)..
She responded “no”: it is just that the Muslims ignore the laws, and import them, either via Antwerp or by other means, and they are their own law in their ghetto. I wonder if P. Francis wants to call on Muslims to disarm…
She also reminded me that, according to many Belgian citizens, the nation imported vast numbers of “workers” starting in the 1970s because the Belgian birth-rate dropped to virtual non-replacement-zero. Every immigrant automatically gets $1000 euros a month, and an additional $140 euros/monthly for every child they have. She has checked. How nice that we encourage Muslim settlement of Europe, something that P. Francis has also encouraged—heedless of the results.
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Hmmm. Vast drop in the birth rate in a once-Catholic country in the 1970’s. Humanae Vitae, 1968.
And who was the Card. Primate of Belgium at that time? Ahh, yes, that great lion of V2, Card. Leo Josef Suenens, (in office til 1979) a great defender of Humanae Vitae? (A. Not: he vigorously argued with Paul VI against releasing it.)
And who was his hand-picked successor, from 1979-2010? One Gottfried (“Rot-fried”?) Danneels, another V2 lion, an anti-Humanae Vitae proponent (no where has he ever gone on record supporting it), and allegedly more recently, one of the “Sahnkt-Gallen” ring that pressured Ratzinger out of the papacy for the latter’s alleged incompetency.
So this is how we got here, to having…
…having terrorist-sponsoring ghettoes in once-most Catholic Belgium.. (Belgium was 93% Catholic in 1967, with about 43% Mass attendance; as of 2010, it is about 75% Catholic and only about 5-7% attend Mass, according to a story in Brusselnieuws.be on 11/30/2010.) (Non-attendance at Mass is a matter I can attest to myself .having been there and seen the empty churches on Sunday.)
Viva, Vatican II, and Papas Suenens and Danneels!
And this Great Visionary: what did he foretell were the greatest evils of our era? “Youth unemployment and the loneliness of the old.” (Yes, he really did say that (Oct. 1, 2013 address).
While the black cloud of Muslim invasion is brewing greater every day, and he and his apparatchiks at the utterly irrelevant Vatican commissions are encouraging mass invasion (“immigration”), this is the tune he is playing on his fiddle. Mirabili dictu
STEVE PHOENIX, your attacks against the Vicar of Christ are a loud & clear statement of where your heart lies.
You are undermining the Roman Catholic Church in order to work for… what? Some schismatic group of your own liking?
We have seen people like you throughout history, who have splintered God’s Church into all kinds of breakaway sects.
Grow up, Anonymous, and understand that speaking the truth is what Catholics are called to do. Peter denied Christ. That didn’t mean he wasn’t the first pope, but rather that he was human and flawed and weak. So too are we all.
Why not try helping the Holy Father for once and encouraging him by admitting the truth and encouraging him to follow Christ instead of hiding out for fear of those who might crucify him.
Your attacks against thinking Catholics who want the Faith and not political spin is astounding. And your ‘anonymous’ moniker is legion.
It’s OK, Ann M:
I expect that the famed brave Anonymous, so brave he doesn’t dare use a screen moniker, never, never, never answers the facts: that, for the past two years the man entrusted as Christ’s Vicar, the man who was so warmly embracing of the Greatest Living Murderer, Fidel Castro, yet turned away, on his parade route, from dissidents risking their lives to speak with him (they are now imprisoned in Castro’s dungeons) ; the man who turned out an “encyclical” which virtually is a secular-atheist climate document, and the man, the very Vicar of Christ, who would not mention Jesus Christ even ONCE in his historic opportunity to address the US Congress—-this and his pre-occupation with socialist causes when he…
Steve Phoenix always uses a recognized name. The poster who used the name k was eventually smoked out of the extremely duplicitous posting closet so the “anonymous” moniker was then used. The father of lies best work has been done anonymously. This slippery snake has worked under the cover of anonymity so well that many are convinced that he doesn’t even exist. IOW Use a moniker or be content to be viewed as either someone with something to HIDE or this….
“Anonymous” is synonymous with Revelation 3:16
But because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold, not hot, I will begin to vomit thee out of my mouth. Douay-Rheims
Wow. I come onto this website while I am recuperating, click the first comment and find this.
Guess I did not have enough to offer up.
God bless you and heal you, Catherine.
I am truly sorry that I got into your head so bad that all these years later it is still bugging you.
I apologize to Catherine and to all other readers who found anything in one of my old posts offensive.
Peace and love to you all.
Anonymous didnt say anything wrong Steve does say things that are schismatic. But its typical of this crowd. Catherine your a big baby, you cant debate without attacking Maryanne and k. What is it with you? You own this website or what? Can you dialogue without your usual stupid attacks. Ill expect some personal attacks soon. Thats typical of you. We are tired of your style of dialogue! Your followers too. Your all the same.
It’s OK, Ann M:
I expect that the famed brave Anonymous, so brave he doesn’t dare use a screen moniker, never, never, never answers the facts: for the past two years the man entrusted as Christ’s Vicar, the man who was so warmly embracing of the Greatest Living Murderer, Fidel Castro, yet turned away, on his parade route, from dissidents (who are now imprisoned in Castro’s dungeons) risking their lives to speak with him; the man who turned out an “encyclical” which virtually is a secular-atheist climate document, and the man, the very Vicar of Christ, who would not mention Jesus Christ even once in his historic opportunity to address the US Congress—-this and his pre-occupation with socialist causes when he should be…
…he should be concerned about the Death of Christendom, these challenges, which are perfectly fair questions for thinking Catholics, cannot be answered.
We needed a S Pius V and we got instead an Adrian VI.
Or perhaps you would rather St Catherine of Siena’s response, when she was so annoyed at Gregory XI and his deliberately resistant progress to return to Rome that she exclaims in one letter, she did not need to visit the papal court to smell it. ‘The stench of the Curia, Holiness”.. (cf. Letters of St Catherine of Siena, 4 vol. Sr. Suzanne Noffke, OP)
You see, Christians are being horribly murdered, beheaded, burned alive; innocent people are bombed in one of the major cities of the world; the Maronite patriarch says soon there will be no Christians in the Middle East at all: and the papal office with one or two exceptions is mostly silent: The Vicar of Christ should be screaming from the rooftops every day for them, and to rally what is left of Christendom as a true pope did (S. Pius V).
It is “Religio depopulata”, one of St. Malachy’s prophecies fulfilled, and the Muslim invasion is overwhelming Europe and soon also the world,… and we have no leadership. Anonymous can’t answer those assertions: attack the observer.
Thank you, Steve Phoenix for truly caring about all souls.
Catholic Charities helped Syrian refugee in Baton Rouge who is now missing
https://www.wbrz.com/news/catholic-charities-helped-syrian-refugee-in-baton-rouge
Sharp observation, Catherine, about the re-settled “refugee” with likely ISIS affiliation, aided by Catholic Charities (they being paid with bundles of US taxpayer money)—-the “Syrian refugee” (nor are they mostly NOT Syrian and NOT refugees, but adult males who are orchestrated invaders of the dupe West) who is now being sought by Homeland Security and has vanished—but flash-update Nov 17th: he went to Washington DC. All a coincidence.
They are NOT mostly men. Syrian refugees coming to the US are half children, and one quarter elderly. Just under half are female. Few are combat age.
YFC lies again.. as always….
An absolute untruth but it originated with the UN’s own refugee program (“only 49% of ‘Syrian” refugees are male): they skewed the numbers counting all immigrants over the past several years.
Paul Bedard in The Washington Examiner 9/30/2015 documents the EU’s own numbers from the Eurostat agency: of the 662,000 persons that have effectively invaded the West in 2014-15, 72% (SEVENTY-TWO) were male and almost all in the 18-35 age group. Also only about 25% were from Syria. Lies will not work anymore.
YFC get this through your skull 62% of Syrian refugees are men of military age, and they are not tracked after 3 months arriving here in the US. You and the rest of the Left really wishes to see this country destroyed, there is no doubt about that
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 22.2% of Syrian refugees fleeing into Europe and North Africa are males between the ages of 18-59. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/10/02/donald-trump-has-his-suspicions-about-syrian-refugees-they-are-unfounded-heres-why/
The numbers coming to the US are similar, which is what I was quoting but I can’t at the moment find that link.
So Catherine where do you get your ridiculous claim. Your skull? And Canisius, calm down, you are hyperventilating.
Shocking story about how the useless idiots at Catholic Charities have likely aided an ISIS terrorist in the US, Catherine, thank you. I guess. (Better to know, unless you are an Anonymous useless one.) We are so screwed up.
Catherine, the refugee is not missing. He moved to Washington DC. I’m guessing he had family or friends there. That is the way it works in America: We don’t have a system of internal passports the way the Old Soviet Russia had.
Thank you Steve Phoenix!
Expert Warns: ‘It’s a Religious Obligation to Spread Islam’
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/11/expert-warns-against-muslim-immigration-its-a-religious-obligation-to-spread-islam/
Muslim immigration is a form of jihad through colonization called hijra, which dates back to the time of Mohammad. The Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups pursue the hijra strategy.
Thank you Catherine, Steve Phoenix, Campion et all for the intelligent and informational exchange. And, yes, it is good to know what’s coming. One can attempt to be prepared, even if that preparation is to increase giving glory to God to make up for rampant stupidity. Society has been hard wired to dig on lentils and bitter fruit.
As for those who believe they ‘get into someone’s head’ Anonymous ‘k’s and the like are little more than wannabe earworms, that is they repeat and repeat but the tune is not catchy. But then creativity isn’t had on the fainting couch while recouping from a steady diet of – hmmm – lentils and bitter fruit.
God bless!
You are welcome, Ann Malley! Our very faithful priests have often been penalized for being too faithful. The laity cannot be transferred or early retired as a pastor or have faculties removed for defending and upholding solid teaching. CCD is to be greatly commended for their very fine work. No different than the dissenting spies who frequent this website, a very faithful priest told us that he knew that dissenters came to listen to him at Masses. This pattern goes with the territory because no servant is greater than the Master. True contrition is a grace but anonymous apologies are a dime a dozen when repeating patterns of undermining faithful priests.
ALLOWING ERROR IS SPIRITUAL TERROR
The Marxist Core of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development
https://www.lepantoinstitute.org/cchd/the-marxist-core-of-the-catholic-campaign-for-human-development/
Very informative story, Catherine, yet again.
I knew Alinsky’s organizations in Chicago were deeply intertwined with “Catholic” leadership (remember, he shockingly got the “Pacem in Terris” award in 1969 for “Catholic social action” leadership—yes, Alinsky! Our great Bernardin-type leadership) and that the US Jesuits at the then-Chicago JSTC were totally indoctrinated by him—where “PICO” came from: but I didn’t know, as Lepanto documents, that the Campaign for Human Development has all along been effectively a “front-group” for their communist-functioning activities.
All the millions of hard-earned $$ given by good faithful Catholics—-to effect overthrow of the US, starting at the local level. I have…
.. bookmarked the Lepanto site. Everyone should.
Hey, Bob One: read Catherine’s link to Lepanto Institute about the CHD: maybe it will be like the fish gall, taking off the scales from your eyes, in the Book of Tobit (Tobit 6:1ff).
“Catholic Charities”, “Catholic Campaign for Human Development” (CCHD), and
“Catholic Relief Services” (CRS) – get approx. $63 MILLION dollars in Federal Grants each year to do Obama’s bidding – even to put US citizens at risk, including our own women and children.
Other than in name only – they no longer have anything to do with the Catholic Faith and have become merely social services organizations. – This is a requirement to get taxpayer dollars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Office_of_Faith-Based_and_Neighborhood_Partnerships
Maureen Malarkey, Nov. 19, 2015, on Vatican Secretary of State’s announcement that Muslims can participate in the Year of Mercy:
“Do we hear the Islamic world asking for mercy? Where are the Muslim voices of repentance? Last I looked, there was rejoicing in the Middle East over the grand success of the heroic action of eight true sons of Allah.
Parolin’s comments stink of Vatican lust for dhimmitude (=dhimmi, Koran: required state of subservience for non-Muslims, including abandoning their own beliefs and traditions):
“Mercy is also the most beautiful name of God for Muslims, who can also be involved in the Holy Year, as this is what the Pope wants.” (–Parolin)
“Mercy is drained of meaning by this pontificate. To distribute it freely to those who do not want it devalues the substance of it. Dispensing it unasked to those who would spit on it or turn it against their sentimental benefactors, makes a laughingstock of Christianity. And it further endangers what is left of the Christian world.
Preening quislings in the Vatican are free to lay mercy on their own killers if they choose. But not on mine. And not on the murderers of my children. They have no warrant to do it. Only the dead have standing to forgive their killers. The living cannot extend mercy—exoneration from consequence—in the name of the dead. ” –Maureen Mullarkey, speaking the truth in a world of dhimmitude.
Those of us who care about what is left of Christendom, about our children and grandchildren literally (as our mine) in the line of the advance of the coming Caliphate, care enough to resist and to do what we can to fight back. So we will continue to contact our soporific solons, ourlazy legislators, our cowed cardinalate, and our shockingly un-concerned Vicar of Christ (who deliberately wont even MENTION Jesus Christ before the US Congress, in his one and only historic opportunity: he did mention Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day, two ex-communists, twice however.) was the ultimate act of dhimmitude. Matt.7:16
Steve Phoenix sometimes you have the most bizarre ways of interpreting things. The Vatican Secretary of State was calling Muslims to REPENTANCE and shaming those who cheer on the terrorists. It’s beyond me how you interpret that to “Parolin’s comments stink of Vatican lust for dhimmitude (=dhimmi, Koran: required state of subservience for non-Muslims, including abandoning their own beliefs and traditions):” Then again, this is the way you twist all the words of Francis and Vatican II and all the Post VII popes. if you do this intentionally, it is a sin. If you do it unintentially, you are ignorant.
General announcement: since Our Fellow Self-Identified Catholic has chosen dhimmitude (“willing subservience” to the Sharia masters) as before there will be no further direct response to one of the new willingly enslaved.
72% of the orchestrated invaders are male, all Muslim, and predominately in the 18-35 year age group, according to the EU’s own agency (Eurostat, as of Sep. ’15). Since that is 72% of 662,000, that is over 460,000 in a land army that is overwhelming the world.
Inviting Muslims at the same time into the Year of Mercy—without conversion to Jesus Christ and of course without renouncing Muhammed—is the ultimate act of dhimmitude. Just like kissing the Koran: it is admitting surrender. Enjoy being a…
..”dhimmi”. Time to go willingly get measured for your leg-irons.
link please!
So this ‘Fellow Catholic’ enjoys accusing other people of supposed sins—isn’t this the guy always wearing his own “victim-diadem?”
Sheer prevarication, “Parolin was calling Muslims to repentance” (Our Fellow Ha Catholic).
Those words appear nowhere in his address—not even the word “repentance”. You have made it all up again, Fellow Change Agent, discrediting yourself, not Phoenix.
Here is the original quote Steve Phoenix provided:
“Maureen Malarkey, Nov. 19, 2015, on Vatican Secretary of State’s announcement that Muslims can participate in the Year of Mercy:
“Do we hear the Islamic world asking for mercy? Where are the Muslim voices of repentance? Last I looked, there was rejoicing in the Middle East over the grand success of the heroic action of eight true sons of Allah.”
Sheer prevarication again: Vatican secretary-of-state Pietro Parolin, who YFSIC (Your Fellow Self-Identified Catholic) claimed to have asserted “The Vatican Secretary of State was calling Muslims to REPENTANCE and shaming those who cheer on the terrorists” NEVER ever called Muslims to repentance (read his interview), never used the word repentance, and never “shamed” terrorists.
Again, Mr. Cut-and-Paste YFSIC is mixed up with the quote by Maureen Mullarkey. Admit you have no idea what you are talking about.
“… The Vatican Secretary of State was calling Muslims to REPENTANCE and shaming those who cheer on the terrorists.”
To repent of what, YFC? If all people supposedly have an inherent right to follow their own conscience, however malformed, who are you to judge that Muslims aren’t doing precisely that. To include those orthodox individuals who take seriously the call to imitate the prophet Mohammed?
“According to DHS, Section 212(d)(3)(B) of the INA allows either the secretary of state or DHS secretary in consultation with each other and with the U.S. Attorney General “to determine that certain terrorism bars of the INA do not apply.”
“While [DHS official Jessica] Vaughan conceded that there are a number of immigrants seeking protection who have been denied due to unintentional contact with terrorists, she sees the exemptions as likely another opportunity for people to get around the system. ”
“If the recent past is any guide, those evaluating these cases will be ordered to ignore red flags in the applications, especially if the applicant is supported by one of the many advocacy groups that have the ear of senior DHS…
…“The administration already approves of the admission of gang members as asylees and criminals in the DACA program and grants of prosecutorial discretion, so I don’t expect them to be troubled by the admission of terrorists and garden variety fraudsters in our refugee program. This is how we end up with families like the Tsarnaev brothers [the Boston marathon bombers], who were originally admitted for political asylum.” — quoted in Dale Price, Dyspeptic Mutterings, Nov. 18, 2015.
When the terrorists, hidden among the present mass influx of “orchestrated invaders” hit again—remember, Dzhokar Tsarnaev was 10 years old when he was admitted to the US—there will be blood on the hands of all of you who have advocated the…
… the policy of the present mass-land-invasion of the US and the West.
Why it is so important to elect a well-qualified pontiff, one erudite in the organized developed systematic theological belief of the Faith, is evidenced in the Bergoglio papacy’s superficiality (“piecemeal WWIII” comments, for example). Grace builds on nature: if the nature is defective, grace is effectively limited.
That is why it was necessary to point out, when it was unpopular to do so, that this pope suffers from a serious lack of education and from an “intellectual inferiority” complex due to his having failed his Ph.D thesis in systematics at Frankfurt, and not even having passed his comprehensive exams (a matter deliberately mis-reported in US news media, to play him up as a great intellect).
But why it is so critical is that the present pontiff evidences he cannot answer a question he should be able to define as Supreme Teacher of the Faith? When he was questioned, in the Lutheran-Catholic ecumenical dialogue on or about Nov. 15th in Rome at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Rome, by one woman about inter-communion, before he could even venture an answer, he showed an uncomfortable candor when he blurted,
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“The question on sharing the Lord’s Supper isn’t easy for me to respond to, above all in front of a theologian like Cardinal Kasper – I’m scared! ” (Rocco Palma, Whispers in the Loggia, Nov. 15, 2015)
It has already been pointed out by many others (Canisius, for one) that the puppet-strings on this pontiff are the Sahnkt-Gallen group who undermined P. Benedict XVI and effected his resignation (i.e. Danneels, Marx, Lehmann, etc)–but esp. Kasper is the putative “Teacher of the Faith”. The pope effectively said so: A man who doesn’t believe in the miracle accounts of the Gospel, who has equivocated on the resurrection as “[not] an objectively and neutrally ascertainable historical fact.”—forget the virgin-birth— it is then that you realize we are in trouble beyond our ken.
Why, exactly, is an honest display of humility a bad thing? I believe Kaspar was head of inter-religious affairs, has probably studied for YEARS the volumes and volumes of agreements and documents that came out of ecumenical dialogue. He probably wrote many of them himself.
To be Pope is NOT to be theologian-in-chief. It is NOT to be a know-it-all. It is NOT to have thought through every possible theological or pastoral question. So it is natural that he surrounds himself with experts, and treats them with respect for their particular expertise.
While answering a spontaneous question, a Pope who ventures and answer is not making a definitive de fide statement of faith. Stop slinging barbs at the Holy Father, please.
With regard to his natural abilities, this pope displays deficient training for fulfilling his essential role as the Supreme Teacher of the Faith. It shows in his maladroit statements and confused “teaching”.
Conveniently, it makes him dependent–on Kasper, on Lehmann, on Danneels, so on. But a pope cannot defer to a Kasper, as when he stunningly admits (“…It isn’t easy for me to respond to, above all in front of a theologian like Cardinal Kasper – I’m scared! ”–11/15/15). Then who is the pope? We have to assume it is really Kasper.
It is more than a matter of P. Francis’ just having failed his Ph.D thesis in systematics at Frankfurt (although this matters), but as a result, he must defer to a man (Kasper) who does not believe in the miracle accounts of Christ in the Gospels, who does not believe in a historical resurrection, nor the titles of Christ (“Son of God”, “Son of Man” Kasper believes are fictions).
Under these influences, it means that the defective leader will almost certainly lapse into error (witness the disastrous synod on “marriage”). Yes, Christ will guide Peter, but Peter could be devastatingly wrong on occasion too (Acts 15; Gal. 2:11). But what will be the impact on the Church? Division, defection and discord. So blame everyone…
Cardinal Mc Carrick talks about an influential man who asked him for a favor. It starts about 18 minutes into his speech about the Italian man asking for a favor and then blatantly lobbying for Cardinal Bergoglio. It is only a few minutes but he talks about the meeting with this unnamed man.
https://youtu.be/b3iaBLqt8vg
First— McCarrick was too old to be an elector at the conclave that elected Bergoglio. It is evident from his age & something McCarrick talks about from about 16:00.
Second — The proscriptions about promising a vote for a papal candidate do not proscribe “talking up” a name, which is what it seems the favor that was asked of McCarrick.
Third – Canon law proscribes making deals for papal elections. It does not proscribe lobbying or whipping votes.
On all three accounts, any attempt to discredit the election of Brogoglio fails.
Catherine, you totally misunderstood the video. He didn’t ask for a favor. He just said that Begoglio could handle the financial mess. It is no different than me telling an elector that Cardinal Burke was a great Catholic priest and would make a great Pope.
If it had been the shady thing that you want to make it out to be, the Cardinal would not be discussing it in a speech.
It has already been pointed out by many others (Canisius, for one) that the puppet-strings on this pontiff are the Sahnkt-Gallen group who undermined P. Benedict XVI and effected his resignation (i.e. Danneels, Marx, Lehmann, etc)–but esp. Kasper is the putative “Teacher of the Faith”. The pope effectively said so: A man who doesn’t believe in the miracle accounts of the Gospel, who has equivocated on the resurrection as “[not] an objectively and neutrally ascertainable historical fact.”—forget the virgin-birth— it is then that you realize we are in trouble beyond our ken. This is what happens when an unqualified candidate is manipulated by corrupt men into the pontificacy.
The EU’s own statistical agency (“Eurostat”, Paul Bedard, 9/30/2015, Washington Times) tabulates that there are 662,000 orchestrated invaders (NOT “Syrian refugees”) coming to the West, and that 72% are male, most of them (about 2/3rds) in the 18-35 age group.
They are almost overwhelmingly Muslim, and their hostility to Christians is self-evident:
“Italian Police: Muslim Migrants Threw Christians Overboard,” By Hada Messia, Livia Borghese and Jason Hanna, AINA, November 20, 2015:
Rome (CNN) — Muslims who were among migrants trying to get from Libya to Italy in a boat this week threw 12 fellow passengers overboard — killing them — because the 12 were Christians, Italian police said Thursday.
Previously in April,…
in April, approx. 10 more Christians were drowned at sea. This shows how well the invaders will fit into western society. Hopefully they will all come to San Francisco to live.
First of all, It was the Washington Examiner, not the Washington TImes. Please get your facts straight. Oh and by the way, get ALL your facts straight. Even this right wing article makes the point that Syria makes up the largest group of refugees seeking asylum into EU, but only comprise one-fifth of all asylum seekers to the EU. And that 72% being male: that is 72% of ALL the refugees seeking asylum, not 72% of Syrian asylees. So you can’t claim, as you try to do, that Syrian asylum seekers are 72% male if they only make up 1/5 of all asylum seekers. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/eu-of-600000-refugees-only-20-are-syrian-72-men/article/2573083
Another lie about Card. Parolin inviting Muslims in the “Year of Mercy” to repentance is that, were they to do so, they become “riddah” or apostate for which the Koran prescribes death:
“A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence. This is still the position of all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, both Sunni and Shi’ite.” Robert Spencer, Jihadwatch.org Nov. 20, 2015
Now the fact is, no where in Card. Pietro Parolin’s recent interview,inviting Muslims to the “Year of Mercy”, did he actually invite them to repentance, and certainly he did not invite them to embrace Jesus Christ and renounce Muhammad [“Heavens, no! That would be a violation against Nostra Aetate (V2)]. Were they to do so, this is what would happen to them:
“Father Attacked with PICKAXE in BRADFORD for converting from Islam to Christianity,” by Levi Winchester, Express, November 20, 2015:
Nissar Hussain, 49, suffered a shattered knee cap and broken hand, when he was hit 13 times with a pickaxe and repeatedly punched and kicked.
Mr Hussain, a nurse, said he became a target after he converted to Christianity in 1996 and…
“…after he converted to Christianity in 1996 and his family appeared in a Channel 4 TV documentary about mistreatment of Muslim converts in 2008.
Since then he claims his family were driven away from a previous home by hardline Muslim residents, “
Cardinal McCarrick lobbied for Cardinal Bergoglio
About 18 minutes into his speech, listen to what the Cardinal Mc Carrick says about the unnamed influential Italian man asking for a favor and blatantly lobbying for Cardinal Bergoglio.
https://fromrome.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/cardinal-mccarrick-confesses-that-he-was-lobbied-to-support-cardinal-bergoglio/
Even if it’s true, so what? Lobbying is not disallowed, quid pro quos are what are disallowed.Forming a pact that promises votes is what is disallowed. Lobbying is not prohibited and happens at every papal concave ever.
Here’s another uplifting, clear and intelligent communique from Papa Francisco, today, Nov 20th: “Neurotic Priests Scare Me, Says Pope”
“https://news.yahoo.com/neurotic-priests-scare-says-pope-183920387.html
“I will tell you sincerely, I’m scared of rigid priests,” he said. “I keep away from them. They bite!” “If you are sick, if you are neurotic, go and see a doctor, spiritual or physical,” he added. “The doctor will give you pills. But, please, don’t let the faithful pay for neurotic priests.”
What a positive, sympathetic and understanding Papa for all his clergy sons. Really makes them feel good and want to work for the caring pontiff.
To avoid heresy and evil, no matter where it comes from – read
1) a Catholic Bible,
2) the Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition.
There is no excuse for ignorance amongst the literate.
CCC: ” 1791 This ignorance can often be imputed to personal responsibility.
This is the case when a man takes little trouble to find out what is true and good,
or when conscience is by degrees almost blinded through the habit of committing sin.
In such cases, the person is culpable for the evil he commits.”
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