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Serendipitously, Christopher Ferrara compiles a documentation of now- more-than-just gay creep in the church of Bergoglio analogous to McClusker's
examination of this pope's deceptive profession of praise for Humanae Vitae against his actual record in statements and deeds about artificial
contraception. Ferrara's analysis, however, is based on the men Bergoglio has appointed to high places and their activist endorsement of LGBTism
(to enlarge the scope of mere homosexualism)...

Next stage in the church of Bergoglio:
Coming out gay and proud of it
[Forget Sodom and Gomorrah, and St Paul!]
By Christopher A. Ferrara
THE REMNANT
July 29, 2017

As I have noted on these pages more than once, the essential novelty of the Bergoglian pontificate, even in the midst of the turbulent sea of novelty that is the post-conciliar epoch, is its carefully planned and relentlessly executed assault on the Sixth Commandment under the guise of “accompanying and “integrating” public sinners involved in “second marriages” and other “irregular unions” through a vague process of “discernment” of their “concrete situations.”In other words, a form of situation ethics in matters sexual. This development is simply apocalyptic. There is no other word for what we are witnessing.

From the beginning, this assault was also aimed at mainstreaming the habitual practitioners of sodomy and their “homosexual unions.” We must not forget that it was Bergoglio who got the homo-ball rolling by approving and ordering the publication of a document falsely presented to the world as the midterm relatio of the Synod Fathers in 2014, when they had not even seen it and later resoundingly rejected it. Therein we read:

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Homosexuals have gifts and qualities to offer to the Christian community: are we capable of welcoming these people, guaranteeing to them a fraternal space in our communities? Often they wish to encounter a Church that offers them a welcoming home. Are our communities capable of providing that, accepting and valuing their sexual orientation, without compromising Catholic doctrine on the family and matrimony?/colore] /dim]

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[The last statement there is self-contradictory, obviously, because one does compromise Catholic doctrine by 'accepting and valuing' homosexual orientation, but those who framed this statement cunningly provided themselves with two 'outs' – they only mention homosexual orientation, not practice; and the doctrine they would not compromise only has to do with family and matrimony, and not sexuality. So, they could always say, "Oh, we were not at all endorsing homosexual practices, and well, we did not mention sexuality because this synod is only about matrimony and family (besides, we do think there is a variety of human sexuality that is normal, not just male and female sexuality)." There we are – more self-deception and seeking to inflict doctrinal deception on the faithful!]

[In the sense meant by the pro-gay prelates] welcoming and accepting homosexuals qua homosexuals would include not just acceptance of their lifestyle but also and recognition of their diabolical mockery of marriage. Hence the same document declares that while “same-sex unions cannot be equated with marriage between men and women… there are cases in which reciprocal support to the point of sacrifice constitutes a precious support for the life of the partners.” [So what seemingly they concede to doctrine, they immediately subject to exemptions.]

It was Bergoglio who insisted that this abominable text be included in the proceedings of Synod 2015, as if the Fathers had adopted it [In fact, they protested that the topic was never even discussed, but Bergoglio's hand-picked secretary, Mons. Bruno Forte, who wrote the controversial relatio, wrote in all the stuff his lord and master approved for publication!], despite their rejection of “the most shocking document in the history of Rome,” whose fraudulent publication as “their” report helped spark an open rebellion against Bergoglio’s ham-handed manipulation of the synodal proceedings. (Note: the English, French and Spanish translations of the original Italian document appear to have been purged from the Vatican website; only the Italian and Portuguese versions remain.)

Consider the following indications of where Pope Bergoglio stands respecting the conquering march of militant homosexualism in Church and State:
•At the very beginning of his pontificate, Bergoglio appointed a notorious homosexual, Msgr. Battista Ricca, as prelate of his own papal household and the so-called Vatican Bank.
•Confronted with the scandal of the Ricca appointment during an airborne press conference, Bergoglio uttered his infamous “who am I to judge?” respecting “a person [who] is gay and seeks God and has good will…”— this about a homosexual proven to have been involved in sodomite relationships [including the Swiss lover he brought to him to his posting in Paraguay and managed to get the local nunciature to hire, as well as a police incident in Paraguay reporting he was trapped in an elevator with a male prostitute, all this while having a live-in lover. Yet not one report about this ever came out in the mainstream media when Ricca was appointed, much less when the pope defended his appointment with 'Who am I to judge?'
•Setting the tone for the entire project of the emerging Gay Church, in the infamous America magazine interview of September 2013, Pope Bergoglio scoffed at the very idea of disapproving homosexual conduct: “A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‘Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?’ We must always consider the person. Here we enter into the mystery of the human being. In life, God accompanies persons, and we must accompany them, starting from their situation….” [At least in the July 2013 airborne new conference, he made a show of believing in the Catholic teaching against homosexual practices by telling the newsmen "I am a son of the Church. Look up what the Catechism says about this issue!" It took more words to say that than simply "The Church teaches that homosexual practices are sinful", words obviously which Bergoglio is unable to say – and has never said nor has ever been reported to have said!]
•Bergoglio has since made a big show of personally meeting with and physically embracing an assortment of deviants, even accepting as given the 'marriage'of a woman pretending to be a man who 'married' another woman.

•Bergoglio has ostentatiously kissed the hand and concelebrated Mass with a notorious pro-homosexual activist priest, and prayed at the grave of the pro-communist rebel priest, Lorenzo Milani, described by La Repubblica — Pope Bergoglio’s favorite, radical-Left newspaper — as “a bohemian artist of unconcealed homosexuality,” whose correspondence includes filthy, depraved references to his love for boys that he admitted aroused temptations to sexually abuse them, restrained only by his fear of Hell.
•Bergoglio has refused to speak out against the legalization of “homosexual unions,” “gay marriage” or even “gay adoption” in Italy, Ireland, the United States and Malta. For this default of his duty as Pope he offers the excuse that “the Pope does not place himself into the concrete politics of a country” - which, on the contrary, is exactly what he does when it comes to various political issues beyond his competence, such as climate change and immigration policy. [Or'the arms trade as the major cause for wars' and campaigning against the death penalty which Catholic doctrine has always allowed when employed as just punishment meted out legally (an issue within his competence but in which he openly contradicts Catholic teaching and Catholic thinkers more recognized than he is such as Thomas Aquinas!]
•One of the few forthright episcopal opponents of the emerging “Gay Church” is Archbishop Charles Chaput, appointed Archbishop by Pope Benedict. Chaput, who was elected as the US delegate to the rigged Synod, has issued pastoral guidelines forbidding Holy Communion to sexually active “gay couples” as well divorced and “remarried” couples who continue in their adulterous sexual relations. Tellingly, Francis refuses to make Chaput a cardinal, passing him over in consistory after consistory, even though Philadelphia is traditionally a major cardinalate see.

Now, with Bergoglio’s heavy hand on the tiller of the Barque of Peter, which he is yanking ever more violently to the left, the homosexuals who infest the Church at every level in the midst of the Church’s worst crisis in 2,000 years are “coming out” everywhere, often with Bergoglio’s direct assistance.

A growing cast of 'gay church' promoters and enablers



LGBT-mainstreamer James Martin, SJ:
The photo speaks for itself
The annoyingly prissy Father James Martin, who likes to say “What the hell!” a lot, is a relentless promoter of the “gay” priesthood and “gay” marriage. He has not only escaped all ecclesiastical sanction for his subversion of the Church’s infallible moral teaching, but Bergoglio has made him a consultant to the Vatican’s Secretariat for Social Communications.

Evidently, Bergoglio’s Vatican embraces his pro-homosexual activism, including a book on “building a bridge” between the Church and the imaginary “LGBT community” wherein Martin simply rejects the Church’s teaching, affirmed even in the Catechism of John Paul II, that the homosexual condition is intrinsically disordered (Martin would prefer to call it “differently ordered”), that homosexual acts are gravely depraved, and that sodomy is a sin.

Martin assiduously promotes the notion that God has “created” homosexuals and “transgenders” as such, which can only mean that He has positively endowed them with intrinsic disorders inclining them to acts of grave depravity.

In a video defending his book, Martin recites the Church’s teaching on the intrinsic immorality of sodomy and then promptly dismisses it as not having been “received” by the “LGBT community.” The rest of the video, featuring images of happy “gays” in their happy “gay” relationships, argues for the mainstreaming of the “LGBT community” in the Church.

Walter Kasper: from washed-up Modernist to head
theologian of the Bergoglian Age of Mercy. Peace out!
Cardinal Walter Kasper, Bergoglio’s favorite theologian whose Modernist notion of “mercy” has animated the entire Bergoglian program of moral insurrection, defended Ireland’s legalization of gay 'marriage' in 2015: “A democratic state has the duty to respect the will of the people; and it seems clear that, if the majority of the people wants such homosexual unions, the state has a duty to recognize such rights.”

Reinhard Marx: Pro-gay icon of a wealthy,
bloated and corrupt German hierarchy
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who informed the world press that Bergoglio expressed 'joy' over the German bishops’ authorization of Holy Communion for adulterers pursuant to Amoris Laetitia, sees no problem with the recent legalization of gay 'marriage”' in Germany. The real problem, says he, is that “the Church has not exactly been a trailblazer as far as the rights of homosexuals are concerned.” Concerning gay 'marriage', Marx declared: “The Christian position is one thing. It’s another thing to ask if I can make all the Christian moral concepts laws. Whoever fails to understand that the one does not automatically lead to the other, has not understood the essence of modern society.”



Christoph Schönborn:
'Official' interpreter of Amoris Laetitia and faux conservative;
point man on mainstreaming gay 'marriage' and gay 'parenting'
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, whom Francis has called a 'great theologian' under the embarrassingly mistaken impression that he was Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, is leading the way to the Church’s acceptance of gay 'marriage', gay adoption/parenting, and LGBT families.

As LifeSite News reported, in a 2015 interview in La Civiltà Cattolica whose contents are vetted by the Vatican Secretariat of State, Schönborn declared:“We can and we must respect the decision to form a union with a person of the same sex, [and] to seek means under civil law to protect their living together with laws to ensure such protection.” Bergoglio has said Schönborn's interpretation of AL is the correct one.

Schönborn’s own cathedral in Vienna has published a pamphlet on AL that features a beaming “gay couple” and the adopted child they have deprived of a mother. The accompanying text, written by one of the child’s 'two daddies', boasts of their “Rainbow family, modern family, unconventional family… there are many titles for our fine nest of sanctuary. But we are not so special, we, that is: daddy Bernd, Papi Georg, and son Siya…” As LifeSite News reports, “Daddy and Papi” plan to inflict themselves on another innocent victim of “gay adoption”: a three-year-old girl from Johannesburg, South Africa.

Archbishop Vincenzio Paglia:
Complete with “gay” sunglasses, he had himself
painted into a homoerotic mural in his cathedral
Pope Bergoglio has made this notoriously pro-gay prelate head of the Pontifical Academy for Life as well as Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Pope John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family. Bergoglio has neutralized both of these Vatican institutions by sacking their previous members, appointing (among others) pro-abortion and pro-euthanasia members, whose appointment Paglia defends, and rewriting the mission statements and statutes. As LifeSite News notes, Bergoglio’s installation of Paglia as head of the two institutions is part of “an apparent overhaul … in favor of a departure from fidelity to Catholic teaching on life.”

Paglia paid a homosexual artist to paint a blasphemous homoerotic mural in his cathedral church in 2007. The mural includes an image of the archbishop himself, looking up to a naked man.


Center, Bergoglio and Cupich yuk it up, as Bergoglio's 'gay church' rises.

Blase Cupich, slick-talking promoter
of Holy Communion for sodomites
Cardinal Blase Cupich, a key Bergoglian LGBT-mainstreamer, promptly announced a path to the reception of Holy Communion by gay couples upon his installation as Archbishop of Chicago: Based on their 'inviolable' conscience, they would be able join at the Communion rail (or on the Novus Ordo bread line) the public adulterers in “second marriages” that Cupich is accommodating while they “discern what the will of God is.” [Cupich is a prime example of favored Bergoglian prelates who are both PERVERSE - i.e., "acting contrary to the accepted or expected standard or practice in a way that is unreasonable or unacceptable, often in spite of the consequences"; and PERVERTED, not necessarily in the original sexual sense of the word, but in its more general meaning of "corrupted or distorted from its original course, meaning, or state". And now that I have spelled out the meanings of both words, I realize it applies to all 'Catholic' progressivists and definitely, to all Bergoglians, starting with the church founder himself.]

As Cupich stated during a press conference at the Vatican Press Office: “I think that gay people are human beings too and they have a conscience.” [Oh what an original apercu! Has anyone in the Church ever said gay people are not human beings and that they do not have a conscience? This man seems to have the brain of a bedbug.] The new Bergoglian gnosis of “discernment,” he said, is “for everybody. I think that we have to make sure that we don’t pigeonhole one group as though they are not part of the human family, as though there’s a different set of rules for them. That would be a big mistake.” ][Told you! Bedbug brain!] In other words, ] “gay couples” habitually engaging in sodomy are just as entitled as heterosexual adulterers to receive Holy Communion while “discerning” whether to cease committing sodomy—a decision entirely up to them, however. [The inevitable reductio ad absurdum of AL's relativism/subjectivism!]



Timothy Dolan:
Guffawing his way through the rise of Gay Church
When the failed pro football player Michael Sam 'came out' as a homosexual in 2014, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, whose New York Archdiocese is thoroughly infested with homosexual priests, declared on national television: “Good for him. I would have no sense of judgment on him. God bless ya…. The same Bible that tells us, that teaches us well about the virtues of chastity and the virtue of fidelity and marriage also tells us not to judge people. So I would say, ‘Bravo.’” Dolan infamously served as Grand Marshall of the 2015 Saint Patrick’s Day Parade despite its inclusion of a Gay Pride contingent marching under a Gay Pride banner.

Joseph Tobin, friend of the LGBT community -
Always with the big grins, these people
Cardinal Joseph Tobin, made a cardinal by Bergoglio and placed at the head of the Archdiocese of Newark, last month gave his blessing to a 'gay pilgrimage' that ended with a sacrilegious Mass at the cathedral in Newark. One of the militant homosexuals who participated in this abomination called the Cardinal’s blessing of it 'a miracle'.The New York Times hailed the event under the following headline: “As Church Shifts, a Cardinal Welcomes Gays; They Embrace a ‘Miracle’”.

Tobin supports Martin’s pro-LGBT propaganda and lauds his book: “In too many parts of our church, LGBT people have been made to feel unwelcome, excluded, and even shamed. Martin’s inspiring new book invites church leaders to minister with more compassion and reminds LGBT Catholics that they are as much a part of our church as any other Catholic.”[Shut up already with that sanctimonious baloney! All baptized Catholics – including CINOs like Cardinal Tobin and his Lord Bergoglio – are 'part of the Church'. The question is how faithful are they to the Church and her teachings, i.e., how faithful are they to Christ.]

Kevin Farrell: Another Francis-appointed,
Smiley, Warm and Fuzzy,
Gay-Welcoming 'Prince of the Church'
Elevated to cardinal status by—who else?—Pope Bergoglio, Kevin Farrell dutifully marches in Bergoglio’s growing “homophile” cardinalate brigade. He likewise praises Martin’s call to mainstream homosexuality and “transgenderism” in the Church. Martin’s book, he declares, is “[a] welcome and much-needed book that will… help LGBT Catholics feel more at home in what is, after all, their church.” [Same-old, same-old sanctimonious yada-yada-yada!]. Before he was named cardinal, the pro-gay prelate was first named the first head of Bergoglio’s new Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, which should accomplish as much for the family as the phony Synods did.

Life Site News sums up the crucial role of Bergoglio’s cardinals in Martin’s subversion: “Francis-appointed Cardinals back Jesuit’s pro-LGBT book.”



Pro-gay Bishop Robert McElroy,
with requisite mirthful mien
Bishop Robert McElroy, head of the Diocese of San Diego—one of the earlyrecruits to the expanding corps of pro-gay”shock troops Bergoglio is installing in key dioceses, has praised Martin’s book thus: “The Gospel demands that LGBT Catholics be genuinely loved and treasured in the life of the Church. They are not. Martin provides us the language, perspective, and sense of urgency to undertake the arduous but monumentally Christlike task of replacing a culture of alienation with a culture of merciful inclusion.” ]colore=#0026ff][Either McElroy never heard of Sodom and Gomorrah and never read St. Paul on the sinfulness of unnatural relations, or he believes that God himself and later St. Paul have been fostering a 'culture of alienation' by enjoining man against sinful sexual actions. It is not the Church that has alienated sexual deviants but the deviants themselves who automatically think the Church rejects them, who have – especially n this new age of LGBT tyranny over the majority – self-alienated themselves from the Church and then blame her because they are unwilling and unable to live by her teachings.]

McElroy has also demanded that his diocese be “deeply inclusive: embracing mothers and fathers beautifully bonded in their married love and the love of their children, as well as… LGBT families…” He pronounces the Catechism’s teaching that homosexuality is “intrinsically disordered” to be “very destructive language that I think we should not use pastorally.” McElroy has already explicitly authorized Holy Communion for the divorced and “remarried” who “discern” that they are not guilty of adultery, while posing no impediment to Holy Communion for sodomites. [It's hard to decide which American bishop is most odious and most anti-Catholic today – Cupich, Joseph Tobin or McElroy!]

Pro-gay auxiliary bishop Robert Dolan:
Serving under McElroy, he headed a 'gay parish'
A brand-new recruit to the growing gay-friendly hierarchy Pope Bergoglio is installing, Father Robert Dolan was made McElroy’s auxiliary bishop last June 29. Dolan is being billed as “Vice Disruptor” under McElroy, meaning he is part of the Bergoglian preference for what McElroy describes as “pastoral leaders, rather than theologians” with “more knowledge of the nitty-gritty of life.”

The “nitty-gritty of life” includes episcopal opposition to President Trump’s immigration policies, being spearheaded by McElroy (And what about abortions? The mass murder of unborn children is not that big a deal under this pope as welcoming all immigrants!) The nitty-gritty must also include the now-requisite “embrace of the LGBT community.” Accordingly, Dolan served as pastor of a ‘welcoming parish’ in the city’s gay and lesbian district, which assignment he describes as “an eye-opening experience, but also a joyful experience.”

There’s endless, unquenchable joy in Gay Church—now open for business in the “gay and lesbian district” of every city, which naturally requires at least one LGBT parish. Because, as everyone knows, “gay and lesbian Catholics” are different from just plain Catholics – they are special people. They can hardly be expected to attend just any old Catholic parish. Oh, no, no, no! They must have their own special parishes where they can be 'welcomed' with all their deviant lifestyle on public display and never be told they are living in sin.

Fr. Thomas Rosica: Nasty pro-LGBT attack dog
The unbearably smug Father Thomas Rosica, a Vatican Press Office attaché during the Phony Synods, indignantly declared during the rigged proceedings: “The jubilee of mercy requires a language of mercy, in particular in speaking about homosexuals or gay persons. We do not pity gay persons but we recognize them for who they are. They are our sons and daughters and brothers and sisters.” [But he doesn't say that unlike most of us sinners, they do live in chronic mortal sin, and aren't their souls in danger???]

Assuming the role of LGBT attack dog, Rosica blasted Chaput and 'some other bishops' (who have been critical of Martin’s book and the LGBT mainstreaming campaign in general), accusing them of “erecting high, impenetrable walls and noisy echo chambers of monologue” and attributing opposition to Martin’s propaganda to “the dark, dysfunctional side of the Catholic blogosphere…”

Rosica harkened back to the Phony Synods, during which “courageous bishops and Cardinals of the Church challenged their brother bishops and Synod delegates to be attentive to our language in speaking about homosexual persons.” He praised New Zealand Cardinal John Dew in particular for his “fervent plea to examine our ecclesial language of 'intrinsically disordered’ to describe homosexual persons.” The language of the Catechism, according to Rosica, is merely “scholastic theology” that “misses the mark and ends up doing more harm than good.”[Did Rosica – or any other pro-LGBT prelate - ever try to tackle Cardinal Schoenborn directly about this? After all, the Viennese cardinal chaired the editorial committee that put together the Catechism from 1985-1992, even if now he routinely and blatantly violates provisions of that very Catechism. Why does no one tackle him about his downright hypocrisy and dishonesty?]

Alluding to one of Bergoglio’s demagogic slogans, Rosica declared: “Reality is more important than lofty theological or philosophical ideas”, in this case referring to the negative precepts of natural [and divine] law, including the absolute impermissibility of sodomy.



Robert Barron: Telegenic soft-pedaler
of Catholic teaching on the intrinsic evil
of sodomy and the abomination of gay 'marriage'
Alongside the more obvious “gay Church” promoters are some smooth-talking 'conservative' commentators, such asBishop Robert Barron—made a bishop by Bergoglio, of course—who enable the same mission by insisting the Church is not “anti-gay” and apologizing for her supposed insensitivity to “gay persons,” while soft-pedaling the intrinsic evil and depravity of sodomy as merely (to quote Barron) “falling short” of “the high bar” of the Church’s teaching on sexuality, which is thereby reduced to a lofty ideal, and deviant sex as an “incomplete integration of the sexual act”, rather than one of the sins crying out for divine retribution.

Last, but far from least-
Francesco Coccopalmerio:
The secretary he recommended for bishop
has a thing for drugs and gay orgies
Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, who has declared (based solely on Amoris Laetitia) that public adulterers living in “second marriages” should be admitted to Holy Communion if they find it “impossible” to refrain from adulterous sexual relations, has also stated that while this permission would not extend to “gay couples” because “it’s not a natural condition” —u nlike “natural” heterosexual adultery! — nevertheless “We can accept them, welcome them, accept their decision…”

In what is surely only the tip of a very large iceberg, Coccopalmerio’s personal secretary, Luigi Capozzi, was arrested in the midst of a drug-fueled homosexual orgy in an apartment located in the same building as the headquarters of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. According to the journalist who broke the story, Francesco Antonio Grana, Coccopalmerio had recommended (unsuccessfully) that Capozzi be made a bishop.

Edward Pentin, unable to obtain an official Vatican comment on the scandal (because it is undeniable), reports that his source within the curia admits that “the story is true” and that “the extent of homosexual practice in the Vatican has ‘never been worse’, despite efforts begun by Benedict XVI to root out sexual deviancy from the curia after the Vatileaks scandal of 2012.” Those efforts have clearly not only been halted but have gone into reverse.

Conclusion
As Pope Bergoglio continues to stack the College of Cardinals and the episcopate with pro-gay subversives or clueless liberal ding-a-lings, the faithful can only brace themselves for the next stage of the Bergoglian Debacle—the rise of Gay Church—while praying for a speedy (and probably miraculous) deliverance from the clutches of the Dictatorship of Mercy.

In its puff piece on Cardinal Tobin, The New York Times notes that after he was sent packing from the Vatican to Indiana on account of his failure and refusal to do anything effective to discipline America’s plague of dissident nuns — an assignment he resented — Tobin “lifted weights in the early mornings wearing a skull-printed do-rag.” What could be more appropriate to depict the gay-friendly Bergoglian regime Tobin so perfectly exemplifies than the universal symbol of death? [Bergoglio and his fervent acolytes obviously do not see that their open endorsement of LGBT lifestyles promotes the culture of death in the sense that they are endorsing lifestyles in which generation of new life is impossible.

[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 31/07/2017 22:54]