For later reading

The Jeremiah of our times repeats her charge that Francis is not the pope (so he can't be the antipope).

Well, I love conspiracy theories.

But this is disturbing: Ratzinger's secretary essentially said the same thing.

LINK (July1916)

yes, that's Sandro Magister, who later was thrown off of Chiesa and now blogs on another site. Reports say he got the shaft because he leaked the Pope's encyclical details before it was published.

In the draft of the encyclical, Francis says global warming is "mostly" due to human activity and the burning of fossil fuels. He calls for a radical change in behavior to save the planet for future generations and prevent the poor from suffering the worst effects of industry-induced environmental degradation.

Of course, Jesus went around telling people not to pollute with donkey feces, but to walk. And don't cook your lentil porridge:  fire pollute the air.

Several Vatican commentators hypothesized that the leak was aimed at taking the punch out of Thursday's official launch of the encyclical, in which the Vatican has lined up a Catholic cardinal, an Orthodox theologian, an atheist scientist and an economist to discuss the content 

They noted that conservatives — particularly in the U.S. — attacked the encyclical even before it was released, chiding the pope for talking science in a church document and insisting that global warming isn't a scientific reality. It would be in their interest, the argument goes, to fudge the pope's message via a scoop by L'Espresso, since Magister has championed views of the conservative Catholic camp hostile to Francis.

but of course, his zeal against fossil fuels is usually seen as hating SUV's, but here in the rural Philippines, it means people cooking with LPG gas (less polluting than the alternative, wood), taking a tricycle to shop (A motorcycle with side car) instead of walking, and of course, using handplows and threshers instead of water buffalo and threshing by hand. (not to mention herbicides and pesticides that improve the yield of rice... I don't mention GM rice because hey thanks to chruch pressure, we don't allow it).

milllstone anyone (take two)

It isn't just Hollywood. It isn't just teachers/priests/scout masters.

Read it and weep:

so where are the parents? where was the press?

and the modern Savonarola says alas there are a lot of there people around, so why is no one stopping them? She has a video on evil, but is a bit over the top (homophobia and islamophobia), yet at least she is discussing the problem: Too many folks are too polite to do so, so are ready to punish the whistleblowers (Tony Robinson, anyone?) who dare to say that the king is naked. (i.e. who are so eager to stop the bullying of those with Same sex attraction that they deny what is going on in the bathhouses, who are so eager to help those with gender disorder that they don't see the danger of letting non transgender pervets pretending to be transgender into ladies' rooms... and in the case of Islam, where 90 percent of their believers are indeed following it as a religion of peace, not recognizing that ther is a problem with a certain radical and violent strain of that religion that is being pushed by oil money from the middle east).

But she is not stopping there: She got started with the financial shennanigans a couple years back.

to quote the wild woman:

-We aren’t simply talking about some thug who owns a gymnastics studio, watching parents allow him to openly abuse their children.

-We aren’t simply talking about a cadre of bureaucrats and judges in the NHS, watching a nation as they openly imprison and execute a little boy.

-We aren’t simply talking about some CEO of a brokerage firm or bank, watching an entire industry and government as he openly steals billions.

-We aren’t talking about a Palo Alto oligarch, watching the world as he openly makes billions off of clandestinely surveilling every man, woman and child, and then openly lies about it.

-We aren’t talking about a Hollywood producer, watching the entire movie industry as he openly assaults and rapes casting-couch starlets.

-We aren’t talking about a powerful TV news anchor, watching the entire media juggernaut as he openly harasses and fornicates in the workplace.

-We aren’t talking about a presidential candidate, watching the world as she openly lies, rages at subordinates, engages in racketeering, treason, and murder.

-We aren’t talking about the President of the United States, openly lying and openly carrying on affairs in the White House (take your pick here – it applies to most of them)

and if you think that is bad, you should read what she says about the Pope.

Now I like some of what the Pope says, but the dirty little secret is that he is indeed destroying the church, and almost no body except for the extreme ones, is bothering to say no: Why? For fear of being called extremist? For fear of losing their job? For fear of being criticized?

Where is St Athanasius when we need him.


how does this work? propaganda anyone?

the MSM pushing:

child drag queens?

Women cheering the fact that they can kill their unborn child?

the Pope who laments "termination of pregnancy" without noticing it is a child they are killing?

A pope who winks at divorce while not noticing that families are falling apart and this idea will make it worse since it implies marriage is a temporay contract?

A pope who pushes socialism while ignoring the corruption in socialist countries is as bad, if not worse, than in capitalistic ones?

catholic bishops who threaten people working enforcing immigration laws, but protect the pedophiles in their midst? (I lived in Altoona when the abuse was going on there, so don't tell me not to be mad).

The AMA giving in to pressure to stop opposing the killing of the weak and handicapped who can be pressured into suicide to save money? (yes I know: it is being pushed in the name of choice, but I worked with single payer, and fought a lot of medical rationing back then. So just give it a few years).

so who is stopping these things, which were considered evil just a couple years ago (and still are considered evil in unenlightened third world countries).

any one? Anyone?

It seems that the only one who is saying that it's important to live a virtuous honest life is a non PC agnostic psychologist from Canada, and the MSM is trying to destroy his reputation too.

I will give you a sweetie nicey example of pushing evil and calling it good.

I am reminded of the film "call me by your name": I saw it as a boring and fake r rated hallmark type wanna be about gay romance, so didn't pay a lot of attention to it....

 but Ruby, who has seen her father groom and seduce boys here, correctly noted that the guy seducing the immature 17 year old was doing the same thing: and even when the 17 year old hesitated, he was pressured by someone who claimed he "loved" him to continue.

and unlike me, she had the guts to stand up in her PC school classroom and say that.

so maybe there is hope...

bullying

the modern Savonarola on bullying

story that set her off.

Eccles does it with satire.

Francis Alinskky tactics strike again

The German bishops wanted to "reform" the church, so they held a bishop's meeting on the family and tried to sneak their agenda (easy divorce) into the meeting, but got caught.

their ultimate aim is pushing fault free divorce and homosexual activity as not a sin, of course.

(quick theology note here: Yes, Catholics think that being gay is not a sin, and is probably at least partly inborn, similar to how substance abuse and bipolar/promiscuity is inborn: You were born with this weakness, but that doesn't give you a pass for your behavior. But it does mitigate the depth of the sin: the biggest sin  is not falling into sin from weakness, which is often repented by the person, but a sin based on pride and egotism).

They snuck it into a footnote of one of the Pope's 300 page tomes, presumably figuring no one will read the whole thing, and that has caused mischief, but never mind.

The problem goes beyong divorce/sexual issues and directly into the Eucharist.

Catholics are old fashioned, and agree with the bible that this is the actual body and blood of Christ, which is why the Christians were often accused of "cannibalism" in ancient Rome.

and as Paul notes: You don't receive the sacrament carelessly or when you are in sin.

But now the German bishops are ignoring the holiness of the sacrament, and insisting that it's okay for someone in a second or third marriage to receive it, and now insisting that "non Catholic spouses" who feel hurt should be allowed to receive the sacrament that they "feel" is just a nice piece of bread.

Uh, no. But never mind. Hurt feelings are more important than reality. But of course the German bishops are "modernists" who think the whole thigamabob of religion is just fantasy, so it doesn' t matter.

Crazylady AnnBarnhart says that it's easier to understand if you realize they just don't believe in the faith.

or if you read Rev Wilkerson's book from the 1970's The Vision, where he saw the church being infiltrated with career minded men who were planning to make the church into another SJW NGO.

Or if you read the message of "Akita" where she saw priests and bishops fighting with each other and some were sad because they couldn't follow what they were being told to do.

But anyway, the next agenda is of course wimenpriests. And married priests.

and that will be done by fiat by slight of hand via the "Amazon" meeting that is scheduled.

OnePeterFive has the report here

This goes beyond the question if women can lead: It goes to the basis of modern feminine ideas that women and men are interchangable. And of course, notice that believing nuns like Mother Teresa or Mother Angelica would be good priests, but don't want to be priests because they recognize that our inborn gender is part of us, and that social institutions work best when they are based on this reality and not on the utopian dreams of the modern day Marxists.

as for married priests: The Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches already allow married men to become priests, but one suspects what they want is that men who are already priests should break their vows and marry, the underlying idea is that hey, everyone needs sex, don't they?

As for pedophilia: open secret about gay cartels pressuring believing seminarians out of the seminary (if they got in: they often were screened by feminist nuns and pro homosexual psychologists, as was done in the Altoona diocese, so if they objected to the agenda they were deemed to "rigid" and denied a place).

but this is true in non Catholic seminaries too, where one report noted 30 to 50percent of those studying in mainline church seminaries are gay, and one dirty little secret is the lesbian womenpriests who are leading the charge to legalize abortion and the rest of the sexual agenda.

So the world is falling apart.

as for the Amazon: Remember those nasty Protestants who are trying to stop the Amazon tribes from killing their kids that I wrote about?

Wonder why these bishops say nothing about it?

Because they are part of the problem: again from 1pet5:

 the document highlights that we, the Catholic Church, can learn from those indigenous peoples. It highlights the role of “Wise elders – called interchangeably ‘payés, mestres, wayanga or chamanes,’ among others” who “promote the harmony of people among themselves and with the cosmos.” In light of the papal encyclical Laudato si and its attentiveness to putative ecological problems in the world, and thus to the need for an “ecological conversion,” the indigenous people are being presented as someone we should listen to and learn from...