On Francis
Posted by
Ann Barnhardt - March 14, AD 2013 10:34 AM MST
Let me start with a positive comment. Remember, this is the best I could come up with:
If we had gotten the pope we DESERVE, we would now have Pope Snoop Dogg.
And thus ends the positivity.
Francis, like his homeland of Argentina, is a total disaster. He has
overseen the near-total destruction of the Church in Argentina. He
hates and despises the Tridentine Mass, which is to say that he hates
the Mass - let's not mince words, and is a rabid persecutor of anyone in
Argentina who shows ANY signs of tradition. A priest in Argentina
literally risks the end of his career if he wears a cassock in public.
He has forbidden the Tridentine Mass in Argentina, which is an act of
direct disobedience, specifically against the papal decree Summorum
Pontificum, but embraces horrific "charismatic" and "Superfun
Rockband"-type liturgical sacrilege.
Which brings us to his
regard for the papacy, and the Church itself. He said yesterday in his
bizarre little speech, again and again, that he was the Bishop of Rome,
which is true, but in being the Bishop of Rome the pope is the head of
the Universal Church, not just the city of Rome. Francis does not
believe this, and even made a reference to the idea that the pope is
"first among equals". This means that he regards the Church as a mere
loose confederacy, and also that he thinks the Church is, or should be, a
democracy. The proof of this is, again, his blatant disobedience to
Summorum Pontificum. He will never do anything to clean up the sodomite
infiltrators in the Church outside of Rome because he doesn't feel that
the pope has any authority outside of Rome. Bottom line here: many
bishops and archbishops have been kept in line over the past eight years
because Benedict was relatively aggressive in booting out extremely bad
bishops. Benedict was feared in a healthy way. This guy is basically
the big green light to every Marxist-homosexualist to just go ahead and
do whatever, because they know Francis will never remove them or even
chastise them, because Francis doesn't believe that the pope has any
universal authority and is merely the bishop of the city of Rome proper -
at least that is the excuse that will be given when nothing is done
about abuses and heresies **that Francis is sympathetic towards.**
BUT, like all insecure leaders who say that they reject authority and
obedience, reports from Buenos Aires are that he is an iron-fisted
totalitarian against traditionalists, precisely because he has no
confidence in or respect for his own authority, and thus assumes that no
one else does either, and thus wields power against his perceived
enemies only from brute force. Again, this is TEXTBOOK 20th century
Marxist worldview and psychology. It is also the diametrical opposite
of the virtue of MEEKNESS, which is power under control.
Next, he is an "ecu-maniac", which is to say that he is in the "all
religions are equal and can't we all just get along" camp. In Buenos
Aires he knelt before and received the "blessing" of a Superfun Rockband
Church "pastor", and even received "communion" from a Protestant.
There are pictures floating around of that episode. This is terrifying.
He clearly does not have a strong belief in or understanding of Our
Lord, His Church, the Mass or the Real Presence of Our Lord in the
Eucharist. But, as I have stated repeatedly, almost none of the men
ordained in the 1960s, 70s or 80s do.
Next, he's a Jesuit.
Now, I must disclose that I have a deep personal, seething, visceral
hatred of Jesuits, but my hatred of them is a corollary to the fact that
they long ago descended into truly evil heresies and apostasy.
Jesuits, in addition to being a cult of sodomites who hate God, are also
… wait for it … Marxists. Now Francis has in the past put up some
token resistance to so-called "Liberation theology", which is just
Communist Totalitarianism in religious drag, but he is huge, huge, huge
on "social justice", which is merely code for Marxism. This guy's
worldview revolves around giving people free stuff because it's nice,
which as we have discussed is contrary to logic and reason, specifically
in the subset of mathematics, and thus is contrary to Our Lord who is
FIRST the Logos, with the Divine Caritas (charity) proceeding out of the
Logos. Bottom line, there will be zero positive assistance to the
world from Francis with regards to the inevitable economic collapse.
Not only will there be nothing helpful coming from him, he will almost
certainly come out in favor of more debt, more "free stuff", and more
rhetoric about how people are "entitled" to physical and service
commodities (which are someone else's man-hours, remember) as "rights".
But Ann! He has gone on record against homosexual "marriage" and abortion!
Wow. Is this really how far we have sunk? The Roman pontiff is on
record as being against sodomy and killing babies and we cite this as
proof of ORTHODOXY? Really? I wonder if he also believes in gravity.
Does belief in gravity constitute a conservative worldview now?
Benedict thought that between the "Natural Solution" (the passage of
time yielding the death or retirement of the bad guys) and the
appointments he was able to make over the last eight years that he had
set up the College of Cardinals to elect a successor that was very much
in the Ratzingerian camp. Benedict was wrong. Not only did they not
elect a Ratzingerian, they elected the anti-Ratzinger. In the 2005
conclave Francis came in second to Ratzinger, which is to say that
Francis was the "opposition". In what must have Benedict's mind reeling
today, after eight years of purging and priming the College of
Cardinals, the very men Ratzinger placed turned around and elected the
anti-Ratzinger. This proves, as I have said all along, that playing
prevent defense, namely the "natural solution" of waiting for the bad
guys to die is UNSOUND. In war, you fix your bayonets, say your
prayers, and you charge.
Tridentine Mass-goers and clergy,
this guy will be on the warpath against us at some point. Prepare.
Brace. He may attempt to undo Summorum Pontificum either directly or
through intense passive aggression. Any hopes of reconciling the good
guys in the SSPX is now totally over. Beyond that, the splinter
factions will now claim that "they were right", and sadly even more
schism will result, and more people will remain outside the Church. So
sad.
We got what we deserved, and probably better than we
deserve. God's chastisement of His people is sending them bad priests,
bishops, and now, in all likelihood, a bad pope. What do you expect?
Look around. The world is awash in staggering sin and blasphemy and no
one will lift a finger to do anything about it. And, as my last essay
on penance proved via my email box, no one is sorry or has any desire to
make reparation to Our Lord for any of it. No one has the slightest
comprehension of the notion of taking on the burden of guilt for sins
that they didn't directly commit, which blows my mind because that is
LITERALLY the ENTIRE POINT of the Incarnation. The mind reels at the
collective obtuseness needed to miss that glaring point.
No
one has the slightest comprehension of the idea of seeing Our Lord in
agony and simply stepping over to Him and asking, "What can I do to help
You? What can I do to make You feel better? Let me take some of Your
burden. Let me go with You."
Nope. So long as we all leave Him alone in His Passion, He will leave us to our self-absorption and indifference.
Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison.
Viva il Papa.