Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
More than ever, those who truly seek the faith, will do well to dive into as many pre-Vat II teaching documents as they can handle, because what the “new church” will be pushing will hardly resemble the true faith, as handed down by the apostles.
The church is bleeding members at an alarming rate. If Francis keeps this up, the church he leads is going to consist of himself and his red-hatted homos.
“We don’t want to convert the young people to Christ or to the Catholic Church or anything like that at all,” said Bishop Américo Aguiar, the head of World Youth Day (WYD) Lisbon 2023 who will be created a cardinal by Pope Francis in September.”
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Go, therefore,* and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit,
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teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.* And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”
A Man with his eyes on eternity and judgement knows he has all the time required by the will of God to repent and be saved. One suspect there is another focus in play.
“Pope” Frankie is likely a homo too.
A man focused on God’s will never worries whether God will give him enough time to finish.
I don’t think any of those names are surprising. Rossi caught my eye though. You’d think an Argentine Jesuit would have received some kind of promotion earlier, if he were a friend of Francis. And if he weren’t a friend, well, Francis isn’t known for letting bygones be bygones. But it looks like he’s been on the back burner since Francis’s election.
I assume the Gugerotti has been a key player in whatever negotiations the Vatican has been doing with Russia and Ukraine.
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2023-07/get-to-know-the-future-cardinals.html
There are a lot of “Spirits” out there. Many not so Holy. One of the first things I noticed concerning Bergolio was his affinity for the word “Spirit “. Anyone else notice how seldom he attached the word Holy to it, as in Holy Spirit. He’s constantly being led by the “Spirit “. Which one?
Bergoglio used to reference the “god of surprises” alot, which is a title I had never heard before he came along. It seems to be similar to Loki, a god of tricksters
For someone who invokes a ‘god of surprises’, blathers on about embracing the marginalized, and chastises the supposed rigidity of those who maintain the immutability of Church’s dogmas and doctrines; Francis—
1). Has repeatedly rigged his synods to produce outcomes agreeable to himself, and appears to be in the process of doing it with this ‘synod’ too. He doesn’t appear to like surprises in his synods as much as he says he does.
2). Francis has no qualms about marginalizing, de-platforming, sacking, disbanding and badmouthing orthodox prelates, orders of monks and sisters, and those Catholic laypeople who prefer a form of the Roman Rite that Francis dislikes.
Margins are bad, except when Francis shoves you into one.
3). Francis is very rigid in his denial of space and voice to any and all who defend the immutable Deposit of Faith. Any and all novelties are free to be tried out, but Francis is determined to stamp out any suggestion that conserving and handing on an immutable Deposit of Faith is a position that deserves hearing.
Francis’ pontificate is a tower of intellectual dishonesty and hypocrisy. I know God loves him as he loves us all, and it’s my duty to pray for the man— but doing so is very, very hard.
“God of Surprises” is the title of a popular 1985 book written by Gerard Hughes, SJ. The phrase might originate from Karl Rahner, SJ.
Can anything good come out of the Jesuits?
… They’re supposed to be all about “discernment of the spirits”, but so many of them clearly have no clue how to do it. News flash essjays! If the spirit is telling you that it’s OK to break God’s law … You’re listening to a bad spirit!
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The “God of Surprises” narrative one would hear constantly at Jesuit University alumni reunion “homilies” during the last several decades principally as a justification for rejection of the Catholic past.
However, actually God is the “God of order, not of confusion.” (1 Cor 14:33). We know that the true message of the Gospel does not change. (”Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” Heb. 13:8.). And: “Even if an angel were to preach another message [than the Gospel],” S. Paul tells us we should reject it (Gal. 1:8).
At present, the naming of 22 new Cardinals only brings to mind the image of vultures picking over the bones of a dead carcass. I hope they get what they want out of a dying visible Church (although I do not believe the Catholic Church can ever die) (Mt. 16:8).
But when Fr. John Perricone cites in a recent essay (“The Latin Mass,” Summer 2023) that 73% of Catholics no longer believe in the Real Presence of the Eucharist,…Well, one knows the false god of surprises and his minions from hell have done quite a job.
In fact, one might say a hell of a job.