THE CHURCH MILITANT - BELEAGUERED BY BERGOGLIANISM

New lamentations by Super-Ex:
When 2017 was marked by a pope
who celebrated Luther more
than the Fatima centenary,
what shall we expect in 2018?
Translated from

December 19, 2017

SuperEx – my correspondent who is ex-Avvenire, ex-Movimento per la Vita, etc.but not ex-Catholic - has written to express his best wishes for the Christmas season to myself and to the Catholic Church.

But he also adds a gloomy review of the year about to pass, because as he says, there are no sadder words than to say “It could have been ...” Instead, we know how it has been in the reign of Pope Francis, Sovereign Pontiff...

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Dear Tosatti,
The year is coming to an end and one asks spontaneously what a Catholic Pope could have reminded the faithful in 2017.

The first answer that comes to mind is Our Lady of Fatima. Actually, Bergoglio did devote a few days to commemorating the centenary of Mary’s apparitions in Fatima. But only to comply pro forma and then shelve it: "I said this and did that. That’s it for the centenary!" Or [as the Italians say], ‘Passata la festa, gabbato lo santo’ (literally, ‘Once the feast is over, you can forget the saint’).

That’s right. One recalls how the entire tragic weight of Mary’s words in those apparitions was carefully ignored in the pope’s ‘observance’ of the centenary: the vision of Hell shown to the three children, the prophecies of more difficulties for mankind if the world did not heed the call for prayer, penance and conversion... Instead, we were told that Fatima has nothing more to tell us. [Actually, the pope said in Fatima last May that Our Lady’s message was one calling for peace, nothing more!]

Of course, the Mary who appeared in Portugal a hundred years ago was not at all ‘Bergoglian’: she spoke of conversion and chastisement for sins. So she was ‘put in her place’, so to speak. Just as the pope had earlier done to the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, whose charism includes a deep Marian devotion.

Then, on the flight back from Fatima, the pope also found it opportune to pick at Medjugorje, which certainly deserves a more serious consideration than a few harsh and confused statements given standing up in an airplane subject to ups and downs! If only out of respect for the millions of persons who believe that Mary appeared there, and who have a right to be treated with greater sensitivity if in fact, the pope eventually decides to downgrade the phenomenon.

The fact is we must accept that in 2017, Mary was not in the center of Bergoglio’s thoughts. Perhaps if only because that Jewish girl who bore the Creator in her womb, is a serious obstacle to Bergoglio’s dialog with Protestants, who are comfortable with having women bishops and with feminist rhetoric, but cannot understand why the Catholic Church should venerate a simple girl as the Mother of God!

So, to shelve the Fatima centenary [as a necessary but nonetheless minor celebration in 2017] also meant forgetting all about another centenary – that of the Communist revolution in Russia, which is closely linked to the Fatima apparitions because it was in Fatima that Our Lady foretold the errors that Communism would spread around the world with its ideology.

But how can the pope speak ill of Communism, considering his sympathies for the Castro regime in Cuba, his ‘super-dialog’ with Beijing, and his esteem for Bolivian President Evo Morales and his gift to him of Christ crucified on the hammer and sickle [and whom, Antonio Socci pointed out recently, the pope just met at the Vatican for the fourth time – they also met when the pope visited Bolivia in 2015 – when he, Bergoglio, has yet to grant an audience to the family of Asia Bibi]? So to bring up what Mary said of Communism would not have been opportune at all!

Because speaking of the Russian Revolution [a social experiment that ended disastrously in the collapse of the Soviet empire and its satellites in 1980] could have been an opening in the dialog with the Orthodox Churches which suffered terribly because of that revolution, and who have much more in common with Catholics than do the Lutherans! But Cardinals Kasper and Marx would not have understood...

But setting aside the Fatima centenary and that of the Russian revolution - Bergoglio friends like Scalfari, Bonino, and a new one, Andrea Orlando (born 1969, currently Italian minister of justice, was one of the founders of the leftist Partita Democrata, Italy’s more or less dominant political party in the past few years) would surely have agreed, which is important to this Vatican. It served, among other things, also to bring down the curtain for now on the IOR, where unspeakable things [also unspoken about] have been occurring lately [largely unreported and ignored by the media] which if they had taken place five years ago, would have provided the anti-clerical left with abundant material for daily denunciations and a continuing narrative of corruption and malfeasance.

A friend points out that it is probably very well that Bergoglio has not once referred to the horrors of Soviet communism [or of Chinese communism, for that matter.] Because if he had done so, he might have had to follow his now well-defined script, whenever he is forced to acknowledge Islamist violence in specific terrorist attacks, which is to immediately neutralize it by saying “But Catholics too have their fanatics and terrorists”. Imagine, my friend tells me, if we had to listen to him say, “But Catholics too have had their own gulags”!

But these are our times: Not just Catholic theology and the catechism are daily put to the test, but between syntactical errors and illogical statements, we are also constantly being given spine-shivering distortions of history!

So if 1917 was not dedicated to commemorating our Lady’s apparitions in Fatima nor the Bolshevik revolution, much less dialog with the Orthodox Churches, it doesn’t mean that the Bergoglio Vatican failed to link it with a significant historical event.

For more than a year now [since mid-2016 and preparations for the pope’s travel to Sweden on Halloween’s Day to open the fifth centenary year of the Lutheran schism], Bergoglio and his closest associates have been commemorating and celebrating Martin Luther – the great heretic par excellence and divider of Christianity and Europe, friend to sovereigns and the powers in his time, the creator of national and nationalistic churches, real churches of state!

And Bergoglio wished to initiate the hosannahs himself, traveling to Sweden to do that with a female Lutheran bishop. Why Sweden of all places? A truly secularized country, in which both faith ad the family are in crisis, of whom only 2% of the population say they practise their religion (most of them being Lutherans), which has women priests galore, and was the first country in the world to recognize same-sex ‘marriage’.

But this pope chose to go to Sweden. Religious sociologist Rodney Stark, in his latets book entitled The trumph of faith, gives us some information about Sweden. He reminds us, first of all, that the Lutheran Church was the church of state till 2006, and that it is a church now in its death throes.

Not the Lutherans, but New Age cultists and oriental religions are all the thing now in Sweden: 20% of Swedes believe in reincarnation and in horoscopes; half of them believe in telepathy; one in five trusts in the power of amulets; two in five believe in ghosts; and most young people are interested in UFOs.

In short, writes Stark, everywhere in Sweden is a ‘private and invisible’ religion, a do-it-yourself faith that is fully consistent with Protestant free conscience and individualism. Following one’s own discernment, as the pope advocates, does he really want every Catholic to custom-individualize his own Credo and his own morality, as they now do in Sweden?

What about 2018? It being the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Revolution [that gave birth to the Me generations and the ‘primacy of my conscience’ and the rejection of traditional morality in favor of “I alone know what’s best for me and I alone can decide”], we shall probably witness the canonization of John Lennon, while ‘Imagine’ becomes the official Vatican hymn.

The word ‘peace’ [which has become as abused as the word ‘love’ and has ceased to mean anything when spoken casually, or even in a context such as the ‘Love and peace’ slogan for the pope’s trip to Myanmar, or his message for the 2018 World Day of Peace, itself an almost meaningless ‘celebration’ observed only by the Catholic Church which instituted it, and whose celebration never seems to go beyond the pope’s message for the year] can provide many take-offs for countless sermons. [Each of them as meaningless as when a beauty contestant says that all she wants for the world is peace.]

Yet after the Year of Mercy, what can we have? Let’s see: the Year of Peace and Love? A quinquennial for migrants and for the environment?

Or since it is the 50th anniversary of Humanae vitae, will the church of Bergoglio mark it by dismantling it piece by piece, as it has already started to do? Remember it was the encyclical whereby Paul VI, in that fateful year 1968, said a firm NO to the anthropological and ethical revolution that had just conquered the world overnight.


Here's another review of 2017 in the Church. Imagine what it would read like if the writer were a more skillful ironist! But a great job nonetheless of assembling together in one article the absurdities in 2017 of the church of Bergoglio :


A threadbare Christmas tree in a Roman square.


My summary of the spiritual fruits
received from the pope in 2017
By Finan di Lindisfarne
Translated from
ANONIMI DELLA CROCE
December 19, 2017

No point speculating on why this Christmas tree in a Roman public square seems to be almost bald. Yet it contrasts with what I thought was a year that was very fruitful for evangelization and the spiritual direction of souls.

Let me summarize what were, for me, the points of great interior growth and discovery of new frontiers of the faith.
o Faith is relative: It is wrong to absolutize any principle, because it is a sign of scant spiritual and intellectual maturity.
o The Eucharist is not all that important: It is, of course, but we should not obsess about things taught in the Church for the past 2000 years, such as Trans-substantiation.
o Whatever the Church said in the past must be taken with a grain of salt: dogmas, magisterial documents, ecumenical councils – nothing from the past can be important here and now.
o True faith can be measured only by how one welcomes immigrants, according to the absolute Biblical concept of opening frontiers. It is wrong to defend ourselves from hostile peoples who wish to destroy the Christian faith (we recently saw an optimal example of genuine welcome for migrants from the Bishop of Florence who sold a piece of land belonging to the Church on which local Muslims could build a mosque).
o Addendum to the above: Any biblical passage that condemns syncretism is abrogated. The episodes in which God punishes Israel for having allowed the construction of pagan temples within the walls of Jerusalem must be considered as a mere literary exercise.
o On sexual morality, we have witnessed an evolution of sexual emancipation and freedom which will finally bring us to the truth: namely, I alone can decide what my sex is, because it is a gift. However, we are still awaiting the completion of this evolutionary process whereby there will be rightful condemnation for anyone who would wish to confine love to the cage of natural heterosexuality.
o More progress has been made in the area of critical judgment: To think that we can judge any human actions in the light of God’s commandments has been declared wrong by the new ‘men of the church’ who have received the light directly from the Holy Spirit (who blows where He wills): An example is homosexual practices which from being sinful (as a consequence of a retrograde society) have now become virtuous – and that is why the pope has appointed open advocates of homosexual love to high positions in the Catholic Church.
o Homophobia is a pernicious dogma. Anathema to whoever denies the sanctity of homosexual love!
o In the matter of self-determination, the retrograde concept that life is sacred has been replaced, because there are cases when it is not so [as when it is still in the womb], and it is now possible to choose the moment of death: It is wrong to seek to cure a terminally ill person, just let him die as a sign of mercy.
o The ideas of ‘the Cross’ and ‘sacrifice’ are also outdated: God is mercy only! Woe to those who profess the ideas of punishment and sin, of justice and divine condemnation – they are trapped in their own obtuseness.
o The ecological revolution is of primary importance: global warming is a fact and must be corrected, as the Psalms tell us. [They do?]
o Joseph and Mary were refugees: anathema to anyone who denies this truth of the faith.
o Those – and here I shall officially call them ‘rosary-sayers’ – who obtusely defend the family composed of mother, father and children; the indissolubility of marriage; the ban on communion for remarried divorcees who continue to live in adultery – must be isolated and considered insane.
o It is not possible to ask the pope for clarifications on moral matters.
o To grant ius soli [citizenship by virtue of physical presence in a country] to anyone who has entered Italy is a dogma: It is not natural to try to consider it reasonable for anyone to try to investigate such prospective citizens in any way.
o The traditional external gestures of reverence shown inside a church have been abrogated: Eating, dancing, singing pop songs in church are to be considered gifts from heaven to be offered to the Eucharistic presence.
o Priests are forbidden to wear the cassock and any other signs that distinctly identify them as priests. They must dress like all the other faithful. After all, consider the case of a sinner who enters a church in search of a priest before which he must confess a grave sin; he sees someone who is dressed like a laborer, so he leaves without confessing, not knowing that the ‘laborer’ was in fact, the parish priest. So what? Confession is a medieval practice and it has now been replaced by the mercy God bestows on each man abundantly for any and all sins. But then again, what sin? Doesn’t divine mercy cancel the very idea of sin? [So we are told now. But why was it, once more, that God sent his Son to earth? To tell men we could just go on doing as we please and not to worry, God’s mercy will assure us all of heaven after death? So why did he drive out Adam and Eve from Paradise, to begin with? You see where all this ‘mercy without justice’ crap falls apart once it is examined with common sense alone?]
o Martin Luther is a saint: All the Church documents condemning him are hereby abrogated. Protestantism in whatever form is simply one facet of the ‘Church of Christ’, of which the Catholic Church simply happens to be the oldest form.
o Ideologies previously condemned by the Church, such as Marxism and all its filial branches, including Liberation Theology, have now been fully rehabilitated.
o The new model for monasticism shall be Enzo Bianchi’s Bose community.
o The idea of the Gospels as the absolute and definitive textual record of what Jesus said must be laid to rest because the Jesuit Superior-General, Fr. Arturo Sosa, has pointed out that we do not really know what he said since there were no tape recorders in his time. So we must consider the gospels only as initial drafts from which we can then develop our own faith.
o The only firm point in Church teaching must be global pacifism which must and can never ever be rejected.
o Hell does not exist, and if it does exist, it is empty. As the Jesuit Superior-General also tells us, Satan is only a mythological figure. [His fellow Jesuit, the pope, claims on the other hand, that Satan is very real that he tempts man to evil and sin, but does it really matter when according to him also, there cannot be ‘sin’ since God forgives everything and everyone?]
o Our Lady does not ‘send’ messages; let’s play down this tradition of Marian apparitions – it can be tolerated for ‘simple folk’, but must not be encouraged. Indeed, it is not possible to think that the Mother of God would ever speak in reproaches [sin, hell, penance – really?] nor to ask us to change our behavior (to ‘convert’), because, don’t you know, God cannot want us to change: he accepts us for what we are because he is infinitely merciful.
o Communion in the Church must be seen in the context of divisions and encounters which provide vital energy and impulse, and that is why the presence of factions that are diametrically opposed in matters of doctrine constitutes great spiritual fruit.
o Religious freedom must be confirmed as dogma. All religions are equal, but it is also necessary to promote Islam in order to avoid dissidence.

In conclusion, dear readers, I do find it strange that the Christmas tree in the photo is virtually bald, when 'the Church' has never before experienced a year so rich in spirituality and innovation.

[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 21/12/2017 00:47]