Lateran corridor: Off-limits tomorrow
to any but the pope and selected ‘refugees’
Translated from
June 17, 2017
Sometimes, there are details that can tell the whole story. One of this, I believe, is something that was recounted to me and which I shall recount here in turn.
The setting is the cathedral of Rome, St. John Lateran, where, tomorrow evening, the pope will celebrate the Mass of Corpus Domini.
[For the first time, celebrated by the Vatican on the Sunday following the actual Feast of Corpus Christi, which was liturgically defined to take place the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, which is the second Sunday after Pentecost. The rest of Italy has followed the post-Vatican II practice of much of the rest of the Catholic world in which the feast is celebrated instead on the Sunday following the actual Thursday commemoration.]
The Mass will be followed by the traditional procession from the Lateran Cathedral along the Via Merulana which leads to the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, where the solemn commemoration will end with Benediction and Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament.
The reigning pope, unlike his predecessors since the second half of the 20th century, has participated only once in this procession.
[Shortly after his election in 2013, when he notably chose to walk the entire mile-long route, instead of riding with the Eucharist on a moving platform set up as an altar, upon which the pope kneels in adoration before the Eucharist. Since then, of course, we have become accustomed to the fact that Bergoglio does not genuflect at Consecration nor does he kneel before the Blessed Sacrament, ostensibly because he suffers from sciatica, although that does not seem to bother him at all when he kneels, every Maundy Thursday, to wash the feet of selected persons, not necessarily Christians.]
The following day, Monday, June 19, the pope will once more be at his Roman cathedra to open the annual Ecclesial Convention of the Diocese of Rome, a central moment for the diocese. Bishops, clergy and laymen alike will assess what has been achieved in the past 12 months, and will launch the program for the next 12 months.
The theme for this year’s convention is: “
Non lasciamoli soli! Accompagnare i genitori nell’educazione dei figli adolescenti”. (Let us not leave them alone. Accompany parents in the education of their adolescent children). The pope will give his keynote address.
Now we come to the detail. He will enter the interior garden of the Lateran complex below the apartments occupied by the catehdral’s canons, and pass into a long corridor which will lead directly to the sacristy, and then to the church itself for the ceremonies.
But we are told that
signs have been put up along this corridor to prohibit priests, sisters and other laymen from standing along the corridor to greet the pope, because the occasion is now reserved exclusively for the pope to meet with selected refugees and migrants. Obviously, a planned affair, because they cannot very well enter the Lateran cloisters and the ‘papal corridor’ spontaneously and on their own.
And of course, this encounter will be well-documented for the archives of a Bergoglian ritual which is increasingly assuming the character of
a senile obsession [Obsession, yes, but senile, no! Bergoglio must sincerely be convinced that indiscriminate and unconditional acceptance of all ‘migrants’, no matter how impracticable for the host governments, is a priority mission of his personal apostolate as of his pontifical ministry, along with championing climate catastrophism, promoting the UN’s anti-Catholic ‘development goals’, and moving towards ‘one world religion’ exemplified by Bergoglianism which recognizes all faiths, including lack of it, as equally valid in the eyes of God.]
Allow me to observe that perhaps – on a subject with such financial, social and even criminal consequences as indiscriminate immigration, a political policy that is dubious at both the national and international levels other than being clear wheeling-and-dealing – the Bishop of Rome and Primate of Italy who is also pope, would do well to show more prudence and equilibrium. And yet for him, the center of his attention must always be the least Christian sectors of the population.
[Bergoglian advocacy of attention to the ‘peripheries’ would not be so catastrophic if it did not mean, in his pastoral practice and thinking, forgetting his own flock, the Catholics.][Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 18/06/2017 02:36]