CHRIS FROM BELLEVUE writes: Amidst the darkness that invades our motherland, I offer this ember of hope that all is not lost for Europe. As art goes, politics follows as they say, or we should hope.
A simple woman expresses her fears that Francis is not Catholic. Francis laughs and calls her "rigid." He says he has never said anything that departs from Catholic social teaching. See Atila Sinke Guimarães's anaylsis of the Communist and socialist rhetoric in Francis's apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium. Francis speaks of the economy as a "caravan of solidarity" and says "inequality is the root of all social ills."
INTROIBO AD ALTARE DEI has the highlights and concludes: “By their fruits thou shalt know them. Are grapes gathered from thorn-bushes, or figs from thistles?” (St. Matthew 7:16). Our Lord told us that only a bad tree produces bad fruit. Now, we see a man who claims to be “pope,” yet he preaches an earthly “gospel,” fails to uphold traditional teachings on the murder of the unborn and unnatural vice, never demands that people repent, and cites evil people for admiration. Even the magazine Newsweek asked, “Is The Pope Catholic?” The evidence of his own actions tell us the answer is a resounding “NO.” He is neither Catholic nor pope.
LYDIA SHERMAN writes: I suspect the reason for creating constant upheaval in the Arab countries (which also have quite a few Christians) is money. Arab countries have their own banks and from what I can find out, do not have much to do with usury, fractional reserve banking, or other dishonest money practices. The big bankers have to "break" these nations by getting them to borrow to defend themselves. Then they will owe and owe and the world bankers will take over their countries, and get their wealth which is what they have been after all along. They have never been able to get their mitts on this wealth and it sticks in their craw, to use an old hill-country expression. Assad and his family appear to be normal human beings who just want their country to be left in peace. Assad knows who is behind all this. (I always felt sorry for Greece, whose king resigned and took up residence in England when the bankers staged rebellion in order to shame him into resigning). Assad knows what they are up to. The Greeks today are sad that their king gave up and left them to the type of government they now have. I hope Assad won't go away. Assad's wife is British born, and the family looks just like any of us. The personal insecurity and terror that family must feel just has to be enormous. We should be…
PEOPLE magazine has a rare subversive story about the rigging of the widely-hailed graduation of two women from the elite, physically-demanding Army Rangers school. As was previously suspected, it was fixed, sources say.
Multiple sources told PEOPLE: (more…)
“We were just joking about that damnation stuff. Solemn nonsense. We didn’t really mean it! Come on in, folks!” (more…)
AN openly homosexual television personality was lector at the "papal" mass in New York and a former rapper and one-time underwear model who once played a porn star and who supports "gay marriage" was the MC for the celebrity entertainment last night.
DON A. writes:
Ann Barnhardt, on her blog, posits that there is evidence that Pope Francis was elected invalidly. Evidently, there is a video of Cardinal Danneels of Belgium, speaking in Dutch I presume, admitting that he led a group that engaged in canvassing on behalf of Francis. According to the Universi Dominici Gregis, the Apostolic Constitution of the Catholic Church, the following edict is observed: (more…)
THE Lady Mass was the Catholic Mass celebrated daily in many parts of medieval Britain, when devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, to whom the Mass was dedicated, flourished. On Saturday, the Lady Mass was typically celebrated at the principal altar, as opposed to a side altar on weekdays, and was the main Mass of the day. Here is a 2011 reenactment of a sixteenth-century Lady Mass in a Welsh church. The liturgy is essentially the same as the Traditional Latin Mass as we know it today. Here is an excellent introduction. See more here. Although the intention is to honor the Mother of God, the form and ritual are the same as on other days.
"Modern so-called history is largely a conspiracy against the truth." ---- Father Edward Cahill, Freemasonry and the Anti-Christian Movement
THESE words by Pope Pius XI in his 1925 encyclical Quas Primas, On the Kingship of Christ can be read as a public rebuke from the past, a scolding by a real pope of a phony pope. They directly contradict “Pope” Francis’s encomiums of secular democracy in his speech before Congress yesterday:
It would be a grave error …. to say that Christ has no authority whatever in civil affairs, since, by virtue of the absolute empire over all creatures committed to him by the Father, all things are in his power. Nevertheless, during his life on earth he refrained from the exercise of such authority, and although he himself disdained to possess or to care for earthly goods, he did not, nor does he today, interfere with those who possess them. Non eripit mortalia qui regna dat caelestia.[27]
Thus the empire of our Redeemer embraces all men. To use the words of Our immortal predecessor, Pope Leo XIII: “His empire includes not only Catholic nations, not only baptized persons who, though of right belonging to the Church, have been led astray by error, or have been cut off from her by schism, but also all those who are outside the Christian faith; so that truly the whole of mankind is subject to the power of Jesus Christ.”[28] Nor is there any difference in this matter between the individual and the family or the State; for all men, whether collectively or individually, are under the dominion of Christ. In him is the salvation of the individual, in him is the salvation of society. (more…)
THOMAS DROLESKEY writes: A supposed “pope” gives a “blessing” to a woman who is living in sin with the divorced, pro-abortion, pro-perversity Governor of the State of New York, Andrew Mark Cuomo, while praising Figlio di Sfachim’s father, the pro-abortion, pro-perversity Governor Mario Matthew Cuomo (see It Is Still A Terrible Thing to Fall into the Hands of the Living God). Support the killing of babies as a “legal right” of women to “choose”? No problem with Jorge as long as you are for “social justice” and oppose the death penalty, both in theory and in practice. Gee, I guess I really wasted my time back in 1986 when I thought I was doing my duty as a Catholic to speak against Cuomo the Elder when I ran for lieutenant governor on the New York State Right to Life Party ticket with the longtime District Attorney of Nassau County, New York, the late Denis E. Dillon. Everything goes in Jorge’s false church, including all concept of authentic justice for the innocent preborn. Bergoglio made a “quiet” show of support for the Little Sisters of the Poor in Washington, District of Columbia yesterday, but he has no qualms about publicly calling Mario Cuomo a “great man.” What a fake, phony, fraud. I really do not know which is worse, Jorge Mario Bergoglio praising Mario Cuomo or the obnoxious pro-abortion, pro-perversity camera-hogging Senator Charles H. “Chuck” Schumer, the future Senate Minority (or Majority) Leader…
HENRY MAKOW, who was raised as a Jew, writes in his latest column on the recent controversy over Ann Coulter's "anti-Semitic" remarks: Anti Semitism is very good for Jewish leadership but not so good for ordinary Jews who are unaware of the Satanic nature and agenda of the Jewish enterprise. Anti Semitism enables the leaders to control and manipulate the flock who think they are hated for no reason. This is why Jewish organizations lovingly tabulate incidents of anti Semitism every year. Why the Jewish leadership organizes terrorism and pogroms against Jews. Why the Jewish leadership is implicated in the Holocaust. Why Jews are trauma brainwashed. Anti Semitism makes Jews support Israel. Jews are not monolithic. Like all groups in society today, and society itself, the leadership is Cabalist or Satanic. The rank and file are sheep. Ultimately, if things go wrong, the blame will be cast on the rank and file.
SOME QUICK HIGHLIGHTS from “Pope” Francis’s speech to Congress:
*He never once mentions the name of Jesus Christ, the King and Redeemer of all nations
*He does mention Moses, in what is arguably a subtle hat tip to Jews
*In the language of a fervent secular humanist, he praises American democracy, without condemning its failure to recognize God’s rights over society
*He lavishes more glowing words on American freedom, failing to state the Catholic position that true human freedom cannot be cultivated by any state that does not recognize the moral authority of the Catholic Church
*He harangues American citizens, who in the last 50 years have taken in tens of millions of immigrants, many of whom have violated the country’s laws, for not being hospitable enough
*He never mentions that Catholic doctrine does not support the dissolution of nations, illegal acts or insubordination to just laws
*He praises Martin Luther King even though King rejected the One True Religion and was a pawn of the Communist-created civil rights movement, which has led to the mass moral oppression of American descendants of slaves
*He does not condemn the tyrannical Supreme Court decision overturning natural law on marriage in Obergefell vs. Hodges
*He does not condemn “gay marriage” despite the claims to the contrary by some ridiculous, addled journalists who say that his reference to the family does indeed constitute criticism
*He never mentions federally-funded Planned Parenthood, which not only kills millions of unborn children every year but traffics in baby parts
*He never mentions the arrest of Kim Davis
*He criticizes the death penalty, in the sort of strongly-worded, unambiguous language he does not use on most major issues of the day, even though the Magisterium does not teach that the death penalty is intrinsically immoral and even though the number of lives ending in the death penalty is minuscule compared to those lost to American crime, abortion, AIDS and other sexually-transmitted diseases
*For these and other reasons, he adds to the mountain of evidence (more here), which includes blatant, indisputable heresies; the promotion of rites, laws and doctrines that do not conform to the Catholic religion; and even shocking blasphemy against the Mother of God, that he does not believe in the Catholic faith and therefore cannot, despite his celebrity status and in keeping with the warnings and discernment of theologians, canon lawyers and popes, be considered a legitimate pope because a non-Catholic leading Catholics is a logical absurdity. (more…)
BROTHER NATHANAEL, the in-your-face critic of Jewish influence who brings a distinctively Jewish style (he's a convert) to his video polemics, argues that the refugee crisis in Europe was deliberately provoked by Israel and American neocons in order to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
