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Vatican Trots Out Drag ‘Artist’ For Kids

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Dinosaurs couldn’t help it that they went extinct. But if the Roman Catholic Church follows them into oblivion, there’ll be plenty of blame to go around.

I do wish I never had nooze like this to report.

What’s with Pope Francis? Is he crazy?

On the first inaugural World Children’s Day at the Vatican, with the pope’s blessing, children as young as six were treated to a performance by a male drag “artist,” mincing around in women’s costume and makeup.

What would St. Peter have thought of that?

Cardinal Carlo Maria Vigano called Francis “one of the main activists of the hellish LGBTQ+ agenda.” I’d say he was on target.

Honk if you think Almighty God blessed this performance. And if you do, please explain why.

When in Rome…?

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Neptune? Didn’t Caligula boot him out of town?

There’s a study out there, published in The Catholic Herald, that states “Italy’s Catholics reverting to ancient Roman gods, seers, and sorcerors”–by the thousands and ten thousands (https://catholicherald.co.uk/italian-catholics-reverting-to-ancient-roman-gods-seers-and-sorcerers/).

It looks like the kind of New Age claptrap we find in America and Britain, picking up steam in Italy. But how can that be? The Vatican! St. Peter’s! Soothsayers? Fortune-tellers? Roman gods–that even the Romans didn’t quite believe in, going down the stretch. Native Roman religion was on life support even before the Senate declared Augustus Caesar a god.

Pope Francis I has made remarks which have so far proved ineffectual. What’s the College of Cardinals doing? And I don’t think lugging the Pachamama idol into the Vatican was a good idea. Sort of set a bad example, dontcha know.

Pray for the Church in Italy. We’re all in the same boat.

[P.S.–You have no idea how I want to go back to bed.]

This Pope (Here He Goes Again)

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Why is this man smiling?

In an hour-long TV interview recently, Pope Francis I said, “I like to think of Hell as empty” (https://www.ncregister.com/cna/pope-francis-i-like-to-think-of-hell-as-empty). He hastened to add that this was not Church doctrine, but “my own personal view.”

Hey, open up the gates and let ’em out! Jack the Ripper, Mao Tse-tung, Tamerlane, Karl Marx, Margaret Sanger, the whole gang–hey, all you fellows, come on up to Heaven! Or go back up to Earth and pick up where you left off, before you were so rudely interrupted. Hurry! I don’t know how long my personal opinion will trump Church doctrine!

Yogi Berra said, “Nobody goes there, it’s too crowded.” Is this what the Pope was thinking of? Like maybe they ran out of room down there?

Back in 2017 Pope Francis warned Mafia kingpins that they could wind up in Hell if they didn’t repent and change their ways. Seems he’s changed his tune. Why try to be good, why repent, if you’re booked for Paradise no matter what? But this is playground theology.

And maybe a playground pope.

Archbishop Vigano: ‘Arrest the Pope’

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As an out-of-the-loop Protestant from a family that’s half Roman Catholic, I hardly know what to make of this story.

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, former apostolic nuncio to the United States, has called upon the Swiss Guards to arrest Pope Francis I and Cardinal Victor Fernandez (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archbishop-vigano-swiss-guards-should-arrest-bergoglio-and-fernandez-expel-them-from-the-vatican/). His words, as quoted in various news media:

“The Swiss Guards have sworn to defend the See of Peter, not the one who is systematically destroying it. Let them therefore be faithful to their oath and arrest these heretical perverts!”

That’s what he said.

Is there going to be an eruption in the Church, or is this just going nowhere?  I don’t know. The archbishop refers to Francis as “Bergoglio” and “the Argentinian,” and to Cardinal Fernanez’s writings as “pornographic” and “blasphemous.” I can’t find any history that shows the Swiss Guards arresting a pope. Pope Francis has declined to comment so far.

I do not know whether to view this as real news, to be taken very seriously, or as just another nasty church-fight  as occurs within all too many churches. Maybe we’d all better hang back and see what develops.

Pray for… ‘Diversity’???

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Pachamama–how much “diversity” does he want?

Pope Francis I, the Red Pope who brought a “Pachamama” idol into the Vatican, has announced that he will make “diversity in the Church” his January prayer intention (https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2024/01/02/pope-francis-dedicates-january-prayer-to-diversity-in-the-church/).

Meanwhile, at the same time, he continues efforts to wipe out the traditional Latin mass. Apparently that’s too much diversity. Or the wrong kind of diversity. I don’t know: words get very tricky when leftids use them. It would be nice to know just what he means by “diversity.”

We sigh and pray for faithful Catholics who have to live with this pope. We Protestants have our own problems, just as bad. We are all the sheep of Christ’s pasture and we all need our Shepherd.

Honk if you can imagine St. Paul praying for more “diversity.”

Cardinal Burke Has Serious Doubts

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Back in August Raymond Cardinal Burke and several others sent a message to Pope Francis asking for answers to certain “dubia”–doubts–that they have concerning some of his theology. The full communication, Notification to Christ’s Faithful, is available online (https://www.cardinalburke.com/presentations/notification-to-christs-faithful).

No. 1 on their list of “dubia” is this: Should the church “reinterpret Divine Revelation according to the cultural and anthropological changes in vogue”? I’m guessing these cardinals don’t want to do that but they’re afraid this pope does.

They’re also asking if this pope is suggesting that “the theology of the Church has changed.” For instance: Does every sin get forgiven, whether or not the sinner repents? I think that’s a very slippery slope. So do the cardinals. They think the Church could be led into “confusion and error.”

No answer has been received from the Vatican. The doubts continue unresolved.

The Church that belongs to Jesus Christ Our Lord transcends denominations. We should all be praying for “the ten just men” within the Roman Catholic Church. And stand together with them.

Pope: Meat Is An ‘Indulgence’

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Yucking it up! I wonder what he thinks is so funny.

I’d be more careful about flappin’ my jaw about indulgences, if I were Pope. But the Red Pope is getting at the planet-cooking practice of eating meat and how we should all lay off it from now on (https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/07/12/pope-tells-young-people-eating-meat-is-part-of-a-self-destructive-trend).

See, eating meat is “part of a self-destructive trend” that includes all kinds of “consumerism.” Well, he is the PETA Person of the Year for 2015. They wouldn’t honor him if he wasn’t a kook. Supposedly he eats a very simple diet.

He urges us to get rid of things we don’t need. He doesn’t say which things, but I think we can guess–cars, air conditioning, gas stoves, lights that come on when you flip the switch, etc. Plebs! Are you pumped up for a 13th-century lifestyle?

By the way… the leadership of very many Protestant churches is no better than what our Catholic brethren are getting.

I wonder what would happen if they tried to get people to give up their video games.

 

‘Pope: “The People Are Sovereign”‘ (2016)

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This is how Pope Francis weaseled out of saying whom he supported in America’s 2016 presidential election.

Pope: ‘The People Are Sovereign’

He was caught between a rock and a hard place. If he endorsed Hillary Clinton, he was endorsing the Abortion Queen. And he couldn’t back Trump: Pope Francis doesn’t think the USA should have a border.

So he took refuge in “The people are sovereign–”

Not that he believes it for a minute.

Pope Apologizes for Converting Pagans to Christianity

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Oh, come on now! It’s just a little smudging ceremony, “smoke and prayers” to Mother Earth. Besides, Pachamama said he could do it.

And there is no truth at all to reports that Pope Francis I “accidentally” apologized for the missionary work that converted many native Americans to Christianity.

“Look, he was into the smudging ceremony and he got a little carried away, okay?” said a person who was not there and really shouldn’t be used as a source. “It’s–well, kind of intoxicating to go around apologizin’ for things done by other people a long time ago. Once you start, it’s hard to stop!”

According to our unreliable sources, the Pope burst into tears when he described the “depredations of the missionaries” and denounced them for “intersectional socio-penultimacy” against “nice harmless folk religions.” “You don’t have to go to church anymore!” he may have added.

[Editor’s Note: This is, of course, a satire. It contains only two facts. 1) The Pope did allow an image of “indigenous goddess” Pachamama to be brought into the Vatican and set up on an altar. 2) He has taken part in a “smudging ceremony” with Native Americans in Canada. And perhaps we should add 3) He does “apologize” for things that other people did. But all leftids enjoy doing that.]

Pope to Appoint First Muslim Cardinal?

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“Pachamama told me so!”

We have not a shred of confirmation for this nooze story, not a mote of evidence; but in a spirit of contemporary Journalism, we’ll run it out there anyway.

Pope Francis I has reportedly indicated that he will soon appoint the Church’s first Muslim cardinal (acmefalsefacts.com).

Said an unaccredited spokesman for the Vatican who might not really belong there, “Pope Francis was making an offering to Pachamama, the indigenous Amazon goddess, when he thought he heard the wooden image say, ‘Ain’t it time you had a Muslim cardinal?'”

“What could I do but say ‘Yes!’?” the pope may have exclaimed. Well, we think he did.

Normally a man must be a bishop or at least a priest before he can be made a cardinal, but we’ve heard the pope can do just about anything he wants as long as he can get away with it.

According to unreliable reports, there are two candidates for the honor: Mustafa Turhan Bey, a used car dealer in Istanbul, and Ali Magnun, a Saudi Arabian puppeteer.

According to a person who can have no idea what he’s talking about, having a Muslim cardinal is “a big step forward to a global government!” An equally frivolous source has the pope going “Eeny-meeny-miny-mo” to make his decision. “I suppose I could appoint them both,” he may have said, “but I don’t want to rock the boat, Pachamama wouldn’t like it.”

That’s our narrative, at least!

[Editor’s Note: In 2016 the Presbyterian Church USA had a Muslim imam pray at their national conference, an action for which they had to apologize. And that is not satire.]