Another 'old' translation - a light one from our merry Spanish monk...
Obligatory ‘stiff neck’ syndrome
(from looking towards Rome too much)
and some ecclesiomedicinal notes
Translated from
May 22, 2017
We have never spoken about this, but I am told that there are ad hoc medications for some personal ecclesiological ailments. So I asked at specialized pharmacies and they have confirmed some things.
Perhaps because the much-vaunted positive ‘Francis effect’ has not come at all, nor has the ‘new springtime’ of the Church that was supposed to bring it, I am told that sales of
Ecclesiotranquiline are booming. I am not surprised because one is witnessing too many cases of ‘nerves’, highstrung nerves in high places, which lead the nervous ones, ultimately, to fly off the handle, i.e., lose self-control.
So we have seen Cardinal Maradiaga with an extreme case of ‘the nerves’, accusing Cardinal Burke of everything [everything, that is, that Maradiaga conceives to be the most mortal of mortal sins against his master Bergoglio]. Burke, whose most ‘anti-ecclesial’ action has been to join three other cardinals in asking this pope to clarify some questions – but Maradiaga and his ilk consider this to be an unforgivable capital offense. Well, is that not one reason we have cardinals
[and bishops and priests and the faithful] to raise questions when there are doubts about the faith
[and is it not the duty of the pope to answer such questions and thereby ‘confirm his brothers in the faith’ as Jesus mandated Peter to do]?
Anyway, Cardinal Maradiaga – and any of your colleagues in Bergoglio’s Advisory Council [and others in his immediate circle] - to calm you down, please take
Ecclesiotranquiline!
And high-dose
Ecclesiotranquiline three times a day for José Manuel Vidal and the site he edits and writes for, Religión Digital, which is always trying to raise a scare. All their lives, Vidal and his writers have been demanding freedom of expression, and now that what is expressed does not please them, they are screaming against it.
Most recently, against Benedict XVI’s freedom of expression.
The emeritus Pope, who has been quieter than Tutankhamen’s mummy since he retired, wrote a few lines for a book by Cardinal Sarah – and what have we seen but unprecedented garment-rending and fang-baring by those who consider the Afterword/Foreword as nothing less than a frontal assault against the reigning pope! Maybe Vidal and company should take the tranquilizer every six hours.
And Vidal’s recent number against Cardinal Rouco Varela, emeritus bishop of Madrid and former president of the Spanish bishops’ conference, is completely laughable. According to a What’sApp sent to me by a seminarian from Murcia, Rouca recently said something against the reigning Pope.
But as people who follow Vidal’s site know, against Rouco Varela, anything goes – and does! - as one seminarian noted, but not just against Rouco Varela, against many others [presumably in the anti-Bergoglio camp]. Well then, double that dosage!
Last Sunday, everyone was caught by surprise because the pope has called a new consistory, naming five cardinals, among them the current Archbishop of Barcelona. Barcelona has had cardinals at the helm in recent decades and apparently, the Vatican has decided to continue with the practice.
Interpret it as you wish. Either that Mons. Jose Omella is one of the pope’s men, or that there are not enough bishops in Spain who follow this pope slavishly.
Think of all those perennial complaints against bishops who have ‘stiff neck’ syndrome for twisting around too much to watch Rome for signals, but now that is considered a sign of fidelity to the Gospel!
We are still awaiting true harbingers of spring. Even a secular newspaper like
El Pais has been saying so more than once. And
the more progressivist circles in the Church are completely disappointed. [No, they can’t be! Haven’t they seen most of their Vatican-II delusions now coming to pass with this pope?] And so, the sales of
Ecclesiotranquiline are going through the roof. And I am told that a new drug called
Resignatron will soon be on the market – it may be taken in the form of tablets, suppositories or seltzer pills.
I have also been fascinated at the apparent brisk sales in
Lucialyrium, which, as its name indicates, is a collyrium for those who wish Santa Lucia to preserve their eyesight. Or that Vatican functionaries seem addicted to
Dissimuline so they can continue their targeted hits without a qualm. Or
Smilon[bI], to keep up a brave face throughout all this. But Misericordine is also selling like hotcakes, while Traditionamine has had a steady sale and may, in fact, be getting more in demand, even as Progresterine pill sales are declining.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 05/06/2017 02:48]