BENEDICT XVI: NEWS, PAPAL TEXTS, PHOTOS AND COMMENTARY

Truly sick of this man and sickened by him, but he's the pope, and I love the Church and the Catholic faith, so I cannot just stand aside and ignore the evil he represents...
Dear Lord, God almighty, if it be possible, let this cup pass from your Church!

I had to chuckle at the title for Andrea Gagliarducci's Monday musings this week about the Vatican and Church affairs in general:
www.mondayvatican.com/vatican/pope-francis-latest-reforms-show-a-change-of-...

What does he mean 'the latest reforms show a change of paradigm'? Has he just discovered that boiling water is hot?

From the person who was elected pope on March 13, 2013, to his entire pontificate as it has shown itself to be in the past three years and five months, the Church has witnessed a total change of paradigm in both the figure of the pope, the idea of the papacy itself, and worse, in the Church's mission and priorities.

A paradigm, from the Greek word paradeigma meaning 'pattern or example', is a distinct set of concepts or thought patterns that marks and characterizes an area of human activity. The Bergoglio paradigms are as distinct as they can possibly be - fashioned as they are narcissistically in his image and likeness - from the paradigms of the papacy and the Church that Catholics have known over two millennia.

And well they ought to be because they do not apply to the one true Church of Christ - he has obviously chosen to discard all the pre-Bergoglian paradigms - but to the church of Bergoglio. I do not think I can insist on this often enough.

So why has it taken the recent reforms - in particular, the new super-dicastery for 'promoting human development' - for Gagliarducci to suddenly sit up and say, "Hey, there's a new paradigm taking shape and I didn't know it!"

I suppose it is because like most commentators who have wanted to be loyal and obedient to this pope (as they have been - largely - to the popes before him), and as we Catholics, in the pre-Bergoglian paradigm of the Church, are supposed to be to any pope, Gagliarducci has found it difficult, if not well-nigh impossible, to think "But this pope is not really Catholic!" and "He's not reforming the Church - he's making it over into his own church, and doing away with the Church of Christ!"

For the simple reason that both ideas have been unthinkable till now, i.e., they are simply not part of the Pope-Papacy-Church paradigm transmitted to us from apostolic times, through the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, and 265 popes before this one. Well, time to wake up and face reality.

I have obviously morphed from someone who sought to be objective at the start about a pope I soon discovered I do not like at all (my problem, obviously, and purely subjective), to criticizing his words and actions every time I found something substantially and substantively questionable from my orthodox Catholic point of view.

But the burden of evidence for a de facto church of Bergoglio has not just been constant but consistent and increasing daily - documented evidence in media reports that I have sought to put on record in the Bergoglio posts I am constrained to make, as much as I dislike doing it.

Because it is my way of documenting his relentless wreckovation of the Church and the seeming advances of the church of Bergoglio, and nothing could be more distasteful. For more than three years now, I have waited and prayed for signs that he might relent and repent, say and do something that will make me light a candle in church and offer a novena of thanksgiving, but day after day, it is more of the same, only worse.

Other critics use the term FrancisChurch, which I object to on two counts: 1) As I have said more than once, using the name Francis demeans the Saint of Assisi, because the church of Bergoglio is certainly not the Church the saint loved and upheld; and 2) to couple that papal name with Church spelled with a capital C implies accepting that he has imposed himself on the one true Church of Christ, when he has merely co-opted it for the church in his image and likeness that he thinks the Catholic Church ought to be.

If he had been a genuine Catholic pope who said and did nothing unorthodox or objectionable to Catholic belief and tradition, I would have been most happy not reporting anything at all about him - media would have all of it covered - because this Forum was not meant to be about popes or the Church in general, but about Benedict XVI and the Church he led.

But I would have been irresponsible to remain uninvolved and mute about the unprecedented trail of confusion and error that this man leaves behind him, complicated by the fact that he appears to have co-opted Benedict XVI in such a way that anything the emeritus says about him and their personal relationship has become widely interpreted as Benedict XVI's unconditional and total support for everything his successor says and does.

To believe that is to believe that Benedict XVI has thrown away everything he stood for in the first 86 years of his life to cast his lot with a man whose very Catholicism is in doubt, a man who rejects DOMINUS IESUS and everything it says about the unicity of the one true Church of Christ. Even senile dementia, God forbid!, would not lead him to do that!

I have become increasingly receptive to extreme expressions of disapproval, to say the least, against this pope. The latest to have done so most explicitly is the blogger who call's himself St. Corbinian's Bear... I can't say I disagree with his title...


If Pope Francis is not the Antichrist,
he'll do until someone worse comes along

September 2, 2016

Over three years, the Bear has made many a piquant comment in many different ways about the man occupying the papacy. Agitprop, parody, sober analysis, and invective. A lot of the time, perhaps too long to remain pointed. The Bear will not make that mistake here.

Now is the hour for the charism of discernment of spirits: "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world." (1 John 4:1).

If you are reading this on purpose, you probably have the charism of discerning spirits. There is a vast congregation of Catholics who clearly see Pope Francis as an enemy of the Catholic Faith.

Perhaps you imagine the Bear shall say Pope Francis is making the Church smaller and weaker. No. He is not making it smaller. He is utterly destroying it. He is laying the ax to the root. He is an arsonist burning it to the ground. [Here, I beg to disagree. He certainly is trying that, but Jesus said that even the gates of hell would not prevail against his Church.]

Not the external trappings, of course. Those are the only thing in Heaven or on earth that give him his power. [If by external trappings you mean the infrastructure and the institutions that make the Church what she is, yes. He would never dare a fraction of what he has dared so far if he did not already have a ready-made Church to wreckovate and make over into his very own anti-Church, aka church of Bergoglio.]

Pope Francis is turning the Church into just another self-satisfied, high-sounding human organization. [More properly said, 'the church of Bergoglio is just another self-satisfied, high-sounding human organization', the NGO nonpareil that dwarfs its model NGO, the United Nations.]

Now, sin is taught to be holding incorrect opinions on dubious scientific issues of pop culture, such as global warming. It does not take much to change the underlying spirit of an institution, especially when it has been so deranged anyway these past fifty years. [I resent that falsehood! It dismisses all the good work done by John Paul II and Benedict XVI (and even Paul VI, who did after all write Humanae Vitae) - to uphold and defend the faith handed down to them from apostolic times, despite the insidious and relentless sabotage of the Vatican II progressivists. Well now, one of them is the pope, and he is proving to be more radically anti-Catholic than any of them dared to be. Satan is thriving and very much at home in Casa Santa Marta.]

The man wants you to believe he is humble. If you can discern spirits, you will see beyond the shadow of a doubt that he is eaten up with the demon of Pride. The Church has always had it all wrong until Francis the Special came to align it with the world.

Francis is animated by the Spirit of the World. He worships the Prince of the World, and, for all a Bear knows, is his prophet. If you have the charism of discerning spirits, this is obvious. If you don't, you'll never get it, no matter who says it, or what proofs are adduced.

The most powerful weapon he has for the destruction of the Church is the apparent silliness of such claims. That is his cover.[Silly the claims may be, but they are deadly serious because being wrong, they are still made by someone who was elected pope and legitimately holds the immense power and authority that a pope has. And the power of his office is obviously the indispensable attribute that enables him to do all the harm (and evil) that he is doing to the Church. ]

It is fitting for a ridiculous creature, then, to announce it. A Bear, nature's clown, who nonetheless has a Bear's famous nose for sniffing out fires of all kinds. Including those involving brimstone.

The Bear is not saying he is not the Pope. [Not anyone can say so, alas!] Such matters are beyond the ken of Bears. If he is Pope, then he is a very bad Pope. If he is Pope, we have learned just how little Catholicism is required of a man in order to be Pope. [Or that one can be un-Catholic and anti-Catholic and be Pope.]

Pope Francis is not just a fraud, he is a very evil and dangerous man. Friends, try it: Discern spirits. If Pope Francis is not the Antichrist, he'll do until one comes along. [And I thought, before March 13, 2013, that Obama was the anti-Christ! Precursor maybe, looks like!]