working with communists.

Fowler

has an article questioning the Pope working with communists.

an ideology bent on liberating humanity from the “opium of the people” and conforming the populace into a unified groupthink is, at its core, opposed to the worship of God, and the inalienable rights gifted by Him.

 

As Communist philosopher Karl Marx once proclaimed: “The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.”

 

The path to true happiness, then, is found in humanity — and not in pursuing a relationship with a transcendent Creator.

 

As Jesus Christ reveals “No one can serve two masters”; under communism, however, that master is the state. There is no room for God. Yet proponents of this genocidal, anti-Christian

how the pope's blessings are being spun. Maybe this is his plan to destroy the church?

 GetReligion has an article on how the press is spinning the Pope's blessings, full of photos to make their readers interpret this as blessing of a gay marriage.

nothing new here.

But it has implications for the church's bottom line, i.e. money, so maybe this part might lead to a few bishops to oppose it (yes I am being sarcastic: They should oppose it because it destroys catholic teaching and minimizes the idea of sin,)

The big word is “gestures.” Thus, the photo is the story. That’s the whole point. The photo, for about 99% of readers who see it, says what Catholic progressives want it to say. Catholic clergy will not be punished for performing these blessings. Catholic clergy who refuse to perform them can expect to get calls from reporters. The leaders of Catholic schools and ministries that choose to dismiss Catholics living in same-sex relationships can expect to be asked by judges whether these employees have been blessed by a priest, acting with the blessing of the pope. The photo is the story. Protecting the priests in the photos appears — until Vatican actions prove otherwise — to have been the point of Fiducia Supplicans. The New York TImes report does a great job of contrasting the anti-photo-op language in the Vatican document with the photo-op realities in real life. Again: The photo is the story. Note, again, the word “gesture.”

Catholic clergy will not be punished for performing these blessings. Catholic clergy who refuse to perform them can expect to get calls from reporters. The leaders of Catholic schools and ministries that choose to dismiss Catholics living in same-sex relationships can expect to be asked by judges whether these employees have been blessed by a priest, acting with the blessing of the pope.

italics mine.  

The photo is the story. Protecting the priests in the photos appears — until Vatican actions prove otherwise — to have been the point of Fiducia Supplicans.

in other words, the mishmash of heresy is not to bless gay couples, but to wink at priests who are already doing such things.

and as an added bonus: Removing protection from diocese and parishes who actually follow God's law.

Sigh.