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Introducing the following blogpost by Sandro Magister on his Facebook pages, Antonio Socci’s comment was: “Always getting worse! Magister
reconstructs some incredible Bergoglian theses. Now tell me if this is a Catholic Pope!” [No, “Tell me if this is a Catholic!”, let alone pope...
So Magister has provided us with a small and recent compendium of the gospel being preached by Bergoglio as Christian, when he has cut, trimmed and fitted
Scripture to tailor it to his agenda and his persona. There must be a more systematic way however to keep track of all these anti-Christian Bergogliades...]
The ‘Last Things’ according to
the gospel of Bergoglio
[in which our hubristic pope blithely goes on editing Jesus
day after day, leaving out the parts he does not agree with]
October 20, 2017
In the newspaper La Repubblica which he founded, Eugenio Scalfari, an undisputed leader among Italian secular thinkers, last October 9 returned to speaking in the following terms about yet another aspect of what he considers a ‘revolution’ by this pope, reporting comment reportedly made by the pope in one of their many friendly‘conversations’:
“Pope Francis has abolished the places where souls were supposed to go after death: hell, purgatory, heaven. The idea he holds is that souls dominated by evil and unrepentant will cease to exist, while those that have been redeemed from evil will be taken up into beatitude, contemplating God… The universal judgment that is in the tradition of the Church therefore becomes devoid of meaning. It remains a simple pretext that has given rise to splendid paintings in the history of art. Nothing other than this.
It is seriously doubtful [Really?] that Pope Francis really wants to get rid of the “last things” in the terms described by Scalfari. [Then why has the Vatican spin machine not budged an iota to deny or refute the statements Scalfari attributes to the pope? It’s exactly the way Bergoglio likes it – just keep everyone reeling in confusion, from one new Bergoglianism to the next, these being launched at us daily like scattershot from a demented (or criminal) rifleman.]
There is in his preaching, however, something that tends toward a practical overshadowing of the final judgment and of the opposite destinies of blessed and damned.
On Wednesday, October 11, at the general audience in Saint Peter’s Square, Francis said that such a judgment is not to be feared, because “at the end of our history there is the merciful Jesus,” and therefore “everything will be saved. Everything.” In the text distributed to the journalists accredited to the Holy See, this last word, “everything,” was emphasized in boldface. [As if the ‘merciful Jesus’ had not warned again and again of hell and eternal damnation. 1) If God meant ‘everything’ (which obviously includes ‘everyone’) to be saved, he would never even have driven Adam and Eve out of Eden, and there would have been no need for salvation history. But didn’t he already earlier condemn Lucifer and his followers, making it possible for Lucifer/Satan himself to tempt the first human beings to follow his sin of hubristic arrogance, that he could be as God himself. The Original Sin Jorge Bergoglio is re-committing everytime he presumes to edit, distort or otherwise deliberately misinterpret the words of Christ. “Here, Jesus, let me, Jesus II, show you where you went wrong, and where I can do better than you!” This is a man who seriously deludes himself that he can improve on God!
2) No wonder that for Bergoglio, 2017 has been important, not because of the centenary of Fatima, but so he can celebrate the first saint of the church of Bergoglio, Martin Luther. Isn’t it all a farce for him to feign homage to Our Lady of Fatima when he denies the Hell that was such a central part of Mary’s message and the most horrifying of the visions she showed the three children at Fatima? Does he even say the little prayer recommended to be said at the end of each decade of the rosary, “Lord Jesus, forgive us our sins and save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls into heaven especially those who are most in need”?]
At another general audience a few months ago, on Wednesday, August 23, Francis evoked the end of time with an image that gave for the end of history an image that was only and entirely ‘comforting’: “an immense tent, where God will welcome all mankind so as to dwell with them definitively.” An image that was not his own but comes from chapter 21 of Revelation.
Except that he did not continue with the rest of the passage, in which the Lord says, “The victor will inherit these gifts, and I shall be his God, and he will be my son. But as for cowards, the unfaithful, the depraved, murderers, the unchaste, sorcerers, idol-worshipers, and deceivers of every sort, their lot is in the burning pool of fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
At the Sunday Angelus in St Peter’s Square on Sunday, October 15, he commented on the parable of the wedding banquet (Matthew 22: 1-14) from the Gospel that day, avoiding, of course, the unsettling parts:
No reference to “the king became indignant, sent his troops, had those murderers killed and their city burned.” Nor to the part in which, the king, having seen “one man who was not wearing the wedding garment,” ordered his servants: “Bind him hand and foot and throw him out into the darkness; there shall be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth.”
On the previous Sunday, October 8, he also quoted selectively from the parable of the murderous vineyard ]workers (Matthew 21), leaving out what the vineyard owner does to those who had killed his servants and finally even his own son: “He will put those wretches to a miserable death.” Much less did he cite [nor would he cite] the concluding words of Jesus, referring to himself as the “cornerstone”: “He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but when it falls on any one, it will crush him.”
Instead, Pope Francis insisted on ’defending’ God from the accusation of being vindictive, almost as if wanting to mitigate the justice [justice he probably thinks excessive, if not downright unnecessary!] illustrated in the parable: “It is here that the great news of Christianity is found: a God who, in spite of being disappointed by our mistakes and our sins, does not go back on his word, does not stop, and above all does not avenge himself! Brothers and sisters, God does not avenge himself! God loves, he does not avenge himself, he waits for us to forgive us, to embrace us.” [Well, whoever said, to begin with that God ‘avenges’ himself ? It’s really Bergoglio projecting himself onto God! You think if Bergoglio were ‘God’, he would be ‘all-merciful’? He would be infinitely ‘merciful’ to his followers and pitilessly, implacably ruthless with the rest of us, for which he would probably ‘re-invent’ hell - and realize he does not know better than God after all.]
In the homily for the feast of Pentecost, last June 4, Francis argued, as he often does, against “those who judge.” And in citing the words of the risen Jesus to the apostles and implicitly to their successors in the Church (John 20:22-23), he intentionally cut them off halfway through: “Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive, they will be forgiven.” Omitting what follows: “Those you do not forgive, they will not be forgiven.”
We know the truncation was deliberate because he did it earlier - the exact same deletion of the words of Jesus on the previous April 23, at the Regina Coeli of the first Sunday after Easter.
Last May 12, while visiting Fatima, Francis showed that he wants to set Jesus ‘free’ from the image of being an inflexible judge at the end of time in warning against “A Mary of our own making: one who restrains the arm of a vengeful God; one sweeter than Jesus the ruthless judge.”
Of course, the liberty with which Pope Francis cuts and stitches up the words of Sacred Scripture does not concern only the universal judgment [as everyone who has ears to hear and eyes to read will have known since March 13, 2013, which, to borrow from Franklin Roosevelt, I have begun to think of more and more as ‘a day which will live in infamy’!] Deafening, for example, is the silence in which he has always shrouded Jesus’s condemnation of adultery (Matthew 19:2-11 and parallel passages).
In a surprising coincidence, this condemnation was contained in the Gospel passage that was read in all the churches of the world precisely on the Sunday of the beginning of the second session of the synod of bishops on the family, October 4, 2015. But neither in the homily nor at the Angelus on that day did Pope Francis make the slightest reference to it.
Nor did he make any reference to it at the Angelus of Sunday February 12, 2017, when that condemnation was once again read in all the churches.
Not surprisingly, the words of Jesus against adultery also do not appear in the two hundred pages of the post-synodal exhortation “Amoris Laetitia.”
Just as AL makes no reference whatsoever to the terrible words of St. Paul condemning homosexual practices in the first chapter of the Letter to the Romans.A first chapter that was also read - another coincidence - at the weekday Masses of the second week of the synod of 2015. But of course, neither the pope nor any of his paladins ever cited them during the synodal discussions about changing the paradigms of the Church on this issue. Paul said it all quite bluntly:
"Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper. They are filled with every form of wickedness, evil, greed, and malice; full of envy, murder, rivalry, treachery, and spite. They are gossips and scandalmongers and they hate God. They are insolent, haughty, boastful, ingenious in their wickedness, and rebellious toward their parents. They are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know the just decree of God that all who practice such things deserve death, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them" (Rom 1, 26-32).
[One imagines Bergoglio has no love at all for St. Paul who is never less than scathing in denouncing what is wrong, especially those who take the Body and Blood of our Lord in vain. BTW, someone ought to write a takeoff on what Paul might have said about the Bergoglian outrages proposed in AL!]
Moreover, at times Pope Francis even takes the liberty of rewriting the words of Sacred Scripture as he sees fit. For example, in the morning homily at Santa Marta on September 4, 2014, at a certain point the pope attributed to Saint Paul these “scandalous” words: “I boast only of my sins.” And he concluded by inviting the faithful present to “boast” of their own sins, in that they have been forgiven from the cross by Jesus.
But in none of Paul’s letters can such an expression be found. The apostle instead says of himself: “If it is necessary to boast, I will boast of my weaknesses” (2 Cor 11:30), after having listed all the hardships of his life - the imprisonments, the floggings, the shipwrecks. Or: “About myself I will not boast, except of my weaknesses” (2 Cor 12:5). Or again: “He said to me: ‘My grace is enough for you; strength is in fact made fully manifest in weakness.’ I will therefore gladly boast of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me” (2 Cor 12:9), with more references to the outrages, persecutions, anguish he has suffered.
Coming back to the final judgment, Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged that "in the modern era, the idea of the Last Judgement has faded into the background.” [In which he was simply stating an obvious observation.]
But in his second encyclical, Spe Salvi, he forcefully affirmed that the Last Judgment is “the decisive image of hope.” It is an image that “evokes responsibility,” because “grace does not cancel out justice,” but on the contrary:
“The question of justice constitutes the essential argument, or in any case the strongest argument, in favour of faith in eternal life (because) “with the impossibility that the injustice of history should be the final word does the necessity for Christ's return and for new life become fully convincing…
“Grace does not make wrong into right. It is not a sponge which wipes everything away, so that whatever someone has done on earth ends up being of equal value. Dostoevsky was right to protest against this kind of Heaven and this kind of grace in his novel ‘The Brothers Karamazov.’ Evildoers, in the end, do not sit at table at the eternal banquet beside their victims without distinction, as though nothing had happened.”
- Benedict XVI
[Aldo Maria Valli quoted these same passages in one of his recent commentaries on Bergoglio’s dismissal of Hell and Judgment from the Four Last Things (death, Heaven, Hell, judgment).]
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