Father Z brings us some observations, with his comments in red, of the Vatican as the current pontificate heads into what is likely to be the latter days of Pope Francis:
Long time vaticanista Aldo Maria Valli gave an interview about all things Francesco/Bergoglio. He talks about the rumors concerning Francis’s health, a conclave, the scandal of Becciu, synods (“walking together”), Hungary and Orban.
Valli’s most telling comments were about the ethos of Rome and about Traditionis custodes. Concerning the former, I felt this the last few times I was there.
What atmosphere do you really breathe in the Vatican these days? [What’s the mood like?]
“The feeling of temporariness (provvisorietà) and insecurity is palpable. This is accompanied by a climate of tension and suspicion, for fear of being subjected to purges and retaliation »
Retaliation? Really?
“In the recent case of the motu proprio which effectively abolishes Summorum Pontificum, the bishops have been clearly told that if they do not align they will be removed without too many compliments.”
About the cruel Motu Proprio TC with my zisk:
Meanwhile, as you recalled, the Pontiff made sure to prepare the ground for the suppression of the Latin Mass. Why launch this war?
“Because it is precisely by unleashing a war and provoking dissensions and protests that Bergoglio can demonstrate that the Tridentine Mass is ‘divisive’”. [Jesuits are famous for their general lack of liturgical knowledge and interest. TC must come from that, surely. However, it is also useful because it caused a distraction from something else. I think it will backfire.]
It is not so?
“With a wise and generous application of Benedict XVI’s previous motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, communities linked to the ancient rite have never found themselves in conflict with other faithful and priests”. [Do you see the key word there? “Faithful” and priests. Conflicts might arise with priest and “faithful” who are not faithful.]
Does Francesco want to fuel a conflict that did not exist?
“Arousing the casus belli is typical of Francis’ Peronist [!] mentality: first he provokes the exasperated reaction of those he wants to hit, and then in the face of their protest he shows himself authoritarian and despotic and accuses them of disobedience”.
Go here to read the rest. Francis reminds PopeWatch of the aging Mao, fueling turmoil for the sake of turmoil. God deliver us soon from this curse of a papacy.
..and all along many thought that the “great chastizement” was going to be about fires and floods, instead, to quote Sanborg, it comes in on “little cat feet”.’ This too shall pass…but only after the Vatican liter box is clean out.
May God depose, anathematize and exile this worthless heretical Marxist Peronist Caudillo to an isolated monestary on Mount Athos to consider for the remainder of his life the harm he has wreaked on souls throughout the Church and beyond.
I remember during the 2016 GOP primary debates, almost every candidate droned on about how Obama didn’t know what he was doing. Marco Rubio, who I was never a fan of, correctly chimed in by saying Obama knew exactly what he was doing.
I think much the same can be said about Pope Francis. As Henry Sire, the author of The Dictator Pope, points out Bergoglio knows exactly what he is doing.
In both the ecclesiastical and secular political world, conservatives are getting outsmarted by leftists all the while calling leftists stupid. Much of the blame for the havoc wreaked by the left can be laid at the feet of conservative stupidity and arrogance. And until we face up to that fact, we will continue to get our asses whipped in both political and ecclesiastical arenas.
Obama didn’t know what he was doing. Marco Rubio, who I was never a fan of, correctly chimed in by saying Obama knew exactly what he was doing.
I think you’re mistaken. Obama had no executive experience ‘ere he took the office, was too introverted and lacking in self-confidence to try to build relationships with members of Congress. His staff would prepare memoranda for him where three options would be listed. He’d check one of the options and add some inane marginalia.
Obama’s a man with a certain vintage and his policy quirks (fellating Iran, the green energy boondoggles) are familiar to people who came of age reading the newspapers at the same time. Beyond that he has attitudes more than he has actual considered positions, and the attitudes are predictable given the social nexus in which he has lived his life. Obama isn’t antagonistic in the least to the kultursmog or the default settings of the federal bureaucracy. He ‘did’ what that sort of person wanted him to do and would do willingly. He does have a personal signature – a mix of secretiveness and spite. The FBI and the IRS were willing to assist him.
Our problem isn’t Obama, but the whole culture and social nexus which makes use of the Democratic Party as an electoral vehicle. It’s made our political system an unsustainable enterprise.