Cardinal Sarah is again throwing down the gauntlet

Cardinal Sarah released a new book late last year about the priesthood; Instead of parroting the PC line, he pointed out the need was to renew the priests in holiness.

In a new book, Cardinal Robert Sarah calls priests to spiritual renewal, saying that it will not come through structural changes, but through rediscovering the priest’s mission and identity as the presence of Christ in the world.

“Christ never created structures. Of course, I’m not saying they aren’t necessary. Organization is useful in society, but it is not first,” Sarah said in a Nov. 16 interview with the Catholic French weekly Famille Chrétienne.

“What is first is the very first word of Christ in the Gospel of Mark: ‘Convert and believe in the Gospel.’” The Vatican’s former liturgy chief published “Pour l’éternité: Méditations sur la figure du prêtre” (“For Eternity: Meditations on the Figure of the Priest”) in Europe on Nov. 17.

The book, currently available only in French, includes passages from saints and the Church Fathers to encourage meditation on the renewal of the priesthood, which, according to the cardinal, is a necessary step on the way to resolving the crisis in the Catholic Church.

I did read his last book, written with Benedict, which is still only available in Italian but I pasted it page by page into google translate and managed to read it. It has a similar argument, and stresses the church's traditions for celibacy and holiness, and by releasing it at a time when the PC were almost ready to push the Amazon synod's agenda for married priests and womenpriests, threw a monkey wrench into the works. Duh.

This one was released at a time when synods are again pushing the agenda of the woke in the church.

Synods are of course nonsense: They claim to want to talk to everyone, but are actually about letting activists hijack the meetings.

Will these meetings get pushback? Maybe, if the Bishops start getting a backbone.

An example of this is the Australian bishops, who blocked the PC agenda in a meeting to the laments of the women and gay activists, not ordinary folk or the quiet little old ladies in the pew like myself...

 The article is biased of course; most of the quotes was by the activists. 

The synods of course are nonsense.

the ordinary Catholic, who serves God in the duties of their daily lives, is not there: only activists. and of course, when activists get in charge of institutions, they push out those who oppose their agenda.

manga quotes the bible

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at this point, one of the students tells of fighting in a recent civil war that devestated central Japan: he fought out of love of his country but was horrified by the atrocities he saw, and after reading a letter found when he looted a corpse, he realized his enemy were humans with families.

After the war, seeking meaning, he decided to study English and learned about Christianity.

 this is probably fictional since I have the book and she only mentions they visited her, but on the other hand, her book on Japan has two versions: The popular one, and a longer more detailed one that includes a lot more about cities and mentions one reason for her travels is about seeing if missionaries could help the cultures (although she never criticizes the religions of others, and her only missionary help was funding a hospital in Northern India years later... most of her complaints are about dirt and fleas, but this is not racist because a lot of the same criticisms are found in her descriptions of England and Scotland 's poor areas.)

The Manga stresses that she notes there are good people everywhere, which is actually an echo of her beliefs, and it includes the sardonic teenaged Ito who is an important character in the book. A lot of the essays about Ito ignore an important point about him: He is not of the samurai class, he learned English on his own, and he was supporting his mother. He was not a Christian...He was very important to the success of Ms Bell, and indeed, was the one who explained things to her: in contrast, her other travels such as in Korea she had to rely on western missionary interpreters, meaning that the information might not be as accurate.

Is there a demonic inspiration to the well coordinated cultural war?

 From Father Z: a quote from a long interview with Jewish Athiest Naomi Wolf:

https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/we-have-entered-the-last-stage-of-tyranny-dr-naomi-wolf/

he writes: The important part starts at 37:00 and goes for several minutes.

“Honestly at this point, these people are so evil and their attack on humanity and on the West is so comprehensive — well, I’ll just say what I believe, Sarah — I’m a very critical thinker and I’m not trying to blow my horn but it’s just like what I do. I’ve looked at this attack on us for the last 2 years from every level and it’s so global in scale, it’s so well-coordinated, its so kind of demonic in its imagination, and so comprehensive. I have also studied politics and history my whole life; in no other — NO other circumstance — not even Nazi Germany’s ascent, have I seen such a supernatural amount of coordination. Usually people fight, there are rifts, there’s an in-group, and an out-group, people betray each other; it’s human nature. Nothing like that for 2 years has happened!

“I can’t understand this without reference to non-human, non-material reality. In other words, I actually think this is a satanic attack on humanity. And I’m not a, you know, a woo-woo person. I never talk about this kind of stuff in public but I think we have to face it. These are meta-human powers I think we’re up against.

“And that’s not necessarily all bad news. Paradoxically, seeing, concluding that this was a meta-human level of evil with supernaturally-efficient skill sets led me to believe in God more literally than I ever have because they have to be targeting something, right? But I’m not proselytizing, I’m not asking people to believe or see what I see but I cannot understand this global . . . that the sophistication, skill and complexity of this as attributable to just human politics — even bad politics, even bad people. It doesn’t make sense. It only makes sense on a metaphysical level that we don’t understand yet.

“So I guess what I’m trying to say is if that’s the case, I don’t really think we have any hope (just us alone) but I do think if there is a metaphysics involved, maybe we have hope by prayer or repentance, or you know, I’m literally reading the Old Testaments these days like what are we supposed to do — like tell me, prophets, I don’t know; this is too horrible. It could be like principalities and powers that we don’t understand. So other cultures, other civilizations in the past have cleaned up their own act and at least in the Western narrative, that helped them deter their worst enemies, their worst outcomes. That’s my best offering to this community. That’s all I’ve got. This is really bad. . . . It’s not about left vs. right but us against them — these demonic oligarchs who want to enslave us.” Naomi Wolf.