Author: Mark Docherty

As you can imagine, the SJWs  over at Jesuit America Mag are drooling over this HERE.

“In a speech delivered at the Vatican just three days before the U.S. presidential election, Pope Francis urged social justice activists from around the world not to give into the politics of fear by building walls…“Because fear—as well as being a good deal for the merchants of arms and death—weakens and destabilizes us, destroys our psychological and spiritual defenses, numbs us to the suffering of others.  In the end, it makes us cruel.””

Yep. And please don’t tell me it’s a metaphor, or that this is just a coincidence mere days before the election. He is simply repeating what he had already made clear in remarks on the U.S. trip last year and at the border city stunt afterwards.

“On the issue of migration more generally, Francis devoted several minutes of the speech to condemning “physical and social walls” that “close in some and exclude others.” In February, following a visit to the border, the pope said in response to a question from a journalist that politicians who propose building walls instead of bridges are “not Christian,” leading to objections from the Trump campaign.
The pope said on Saturday that Christians should not give into the temptation to build walls, even in the face of “hateful and cowardly attacks,” a reference to global terrorism. “Dear Brothers and Sisters,” he said, “all walls fall.”
 
Francis said “mercy is the best antidote against fear” and that it “is much more effective than walls, that barbed wire fences, than alarms and arms, and it is free. It is the gift of God.”…Francis also offered some advice on how to fight terrorism and oppression, saying, “the best antidote is love. Love heals everything.””

No, love is not the best antidote to terrorism. You can’t ‘coexist’ with people who will not rest until you are dead. Refusing to take necessary actions to defend your family and your country is what’s sinful, not the other way around.
Francis is deliberately trying to influence this election.  Clearly, he’s with her.
Oh, and then afterwards there was a tornado in Rome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S8gbh9F_zw

Thanks Vox and Mundy, a great way to start my day!

#SpiritCooking
https://twitter.com/SteveSkojec/status/794595470567870464

It's perfectly normal that this woman is close friends with Hillary campaign leaders. #SpiritCooking pic.twitter.com/uC4agv7kz1

— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) November 4, 2016

Skojec has a few thoughts HERE.
Story HERE.
Look, anything that involves the use of menstrual blood, semen, breast milk and urine is virtually a guaranteed lock to be Satanic for real. It’s real. Do some research.
Oh wait, here she is in her own words.  From the Skojec post:

Q:: “What place do you see the occult having within contemporary art; can magick be made (not simply appropriated/ performed)?” Marina Abramovic responded saying:
A: “Everything depends on which context you are doing what you are doing. If you are doing the occult magic in the context of art or in a gallery, then it is the art. If you are doing it in different context, in spiritual circles or private house or on TV shows, it is not art. The intention, the context for what is made, and where it is made defines what art is or not.”

Yep, context does matter.  Like when the priest says the words of consecration at the altar in the context of Holy Mass, something miraculous happens. Should he do so outside the context of Mass, nothing happens. And I didn’t use this example by coincidence.
I would be willing to bet there is a whole lot more.  When you have a group of people who think the law does not apply to them, while at the same time also not believing in any sort of higher moral order, what exactly would stop them from engaging in whatever sort of evil disgusting behavior they wanted? After getting away with shit for 30 years, the gravity of the acts would naturally descend into deeper and deeper depravity as the thrill of the crime, and the thrill of getting away with it, waned with each successive act.
Crimes of a deviant sexual nature are almost certainly part of this as well. Almost certainly. Money can buy you access to whatever you want. Charlie Sheen is an instructive case. His descent reached a point where he had committed every deviant act possible with every girl possible and the girls themselves became unexciting to him, to the point where he had to start banging dudes with breast implants.  Yeah.
My gut tells me whatever is on the Weiner laptop is more deplorable (ha!) than we can possibly imagine, and we already know it involves the Clintons. There is no way, NO WAY, Comey reopens this case unless he personally viewed evidence that was incontrovertible.  It’s also likely he had no choice anyway, because said evidence was about to be leaked either by his own agents or NYPD. I’m sure there are plenty of emails containing state secrets, probably proof of gross financial wrongdoing through the foundation, etc.  However, none of it could be seen as incontrovertible at face value unless PICTURES.
Sort of a Weiner specialty, right?
Hang on tight, folks.  Pray a lot.

Wherein Francis once again embraces “bondage of the will” AKA total depravity and ignores the fact that Luther had to destroy Scripture in order to justify his theology.  It’s sort of a big deal.
Nugget number one:

“With gratitude we acknowledge that the Reformation helped give greater centrality to sacred Scripture in the Church’s life.”

How so, exactly? Was it when Luther took the Scripture he didn’t like and ripped it right out of the bible?  Whole books of Scripture? Or was it when he was adding to or amending verses to change their meaning? Should he have been allowed to tear up the Epistle of St. James, too? He really hated that one, because anything pointing to the fact they we are CULPABLE for our actions contradicts his twisted theology. Francis is also perpetuating the myth that the Church was hiding the bible from the common people for centuries.
Second nugget:

“Through shared hearing of the word of God in the Scriptures, important steps forward have been taken in the dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation.”

How so, exactly? We don’t even have the same bible. Theirs is missing the parts that underlie important aspects of Catholic theology (aka TRUTH). Wouldn’t it be a pretty “important step” for them to acknowledge this? As in, “Our founder was so utterly filled with Pride that he dared to desecrate Scripture. This was wrong. We apologize.”
Third nugget:

“Let us ask the Lord that his word may keep us united, for it is a source of nourishment and life; without its inspiration we can do nothing.”

We are NOT united; by their own choice, they remain separated from us. To say we are united is a lie.
Fourth nugget:

“The spiritual experience of Martin Luther challenges us to remember that apart from God we can do nothing…the question of a just relationship with God is the decisive question for our lives.”

Okay, well let’s just focus on Psalm 118 (119), which even the Lutherans have in their bible. Remember, the Lutherans believe we are all ultimately incapable of good works, which first and foremost among good works means obeying the Commandments. Here are the first ten verses of Psalm 118(119):
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. Blessed are they that search his testimonies: that seek him with their whole heart. For they that work iniquity, have not walked in his ways. Thou hast commanded thy commandments to be kept most diligently. O! that my ways may be directed to keep thy justifications. Then shall I not be confounded, when I shall look into all thy commandments. I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned the judgments of thy justice. I will keep thy justifications: O! do not thou utterly forsake me.  By what doth a young man correct his way? by observing thy words. With my whole heart have I sought after thee: let me not stray from thy commandments.
That’s just the first ten verses.  There are 166 more.
Finally, the fifth nugget:

“With the concept “by grace alone”, (Luther) reminds us that God always takes the initiative, prior to any human response, even as he seeks to awaken that response. The doctrine of justification thus expresses the essence of human existence before God.”

Luther’s doctrine of justification DOES NOT express “the essence of human existence before God.” Hear him in his own words:

Martin Luther – “A person that is baptized cannot, thou he would, lose his salvation by any sins however grievous, unless he refuses to believe. For no sins can damn him but unbelief alone.”, from “The Babylonian Captivity”
“Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides… No sin can separate us from Him, even if we were to kill or commit adultery thousands of times each day.”, from Dr. Martin Luther’s Saemmtliche Schriften, Letter No. 99, 1 Aug. 1521.
“Do not ask anything of your conscience; and if it speaks, do not listen to it; if it insists, stifle it, amuse yourself; if necessary, commit some good big sin, in order to drive it away. Conscience is the voice of Satan, and it is necessary always to do just the contrary of what Satan wishes.”, from J. Dollinger, La Reforme et les resultants qu’elle a produits. (Trans. E. Perrot, Paris, Gaume, 1848-49), Vol III, pg. 248

These are lies.  Do not unite yourself to them.
All of this nonsense was refuted at Trent. All the documents are available online.

I will post shortly on what Francis actually did say, which makes clear he cares nothing for the souls of millions who are walking around with a completely erroneous notion of Justification, which will certainly lead the vast majority of them to Hell. Because when you think God doesn’t even expect you to TRY to obey the Commandments, why would you?
But but but that’s how their poor consciences were formed! How can they be to blame for that? I thought one of the conditions for Mortal Sin was Full Knowledge? These poor Lutherans know not what they do!
EXACTLY. That’s why they need to be faced with the Truth, if you really believe in the Truth. And as I’ve said before, in the age of smartphones when everyone has the sum of all knowledge in the palm of their hands, you really should not plan on pleading Invincible Ignorance at your Particular Judgement. Not a good strategy. While they are at it, maybe they should read up a little on the founder of their false religion.
Anyway, direct rebuttal of the Francis homily tomorrow. For now, here is a partial reposting of my suggestion; a snippet of Truth from 88 years ago, an excerpt from Pius XI, who obviously DID care for souls:

“…The union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it, for in the past they have unhappily left it. To the one true Church of Christ, we say, which is visible to all, and which is to remain, according to the will of its Author, exactly the same as He instituted it. During the lapse of centuries, the mystical Spouse of Christ has never been contaminated, nor can she ever in the future be contaminated… For since the mystical body of Christ, in the same manner as His physical body, is one, compacted and fitly joined together, it were foolish and out of place to say that the mystical body is made up of members which are disunited and scattered abroad: whosoever therefore is not united with the body is no member of it, neither is he in communion with Christ its head.

Let them therefore return to their common Father, who, forgetting the insults previously heaped on the Apostolic See, will receive them in the most loving fashion. For if, as they continually state, they long to be united with Us and ours, why do they not hasten to enter the Church, “the Mother and mistress of all Christ’s faithful”? Let them hear Lactantius crying out: “The Catholic Church is alone in keeping the true worship. This is the fount of truth, this the house of Faith, this the temple of God: if any man enter not here, or if any man go forth from it, he is a stranger to the hope of life and salvation. Let none delude himself with obstinate wrangling. For life and salvation are here concerned, which will be lost and entirely destroyed, unless their interests are carefully and assiduously kept in mind.”

Let, therefore, the separated children draw nigh to the Apostolic See, set up in the City which Peter and Paul, the Princes of the Apostles, consecrated by their blood; to that See, We repeat, which is “the root and womb whence the Church of God springs,” not with the intention and the hope that “the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth” will cast aside the integrity of the faith and tolerate their errors, but, on the contrary, that they themselves submit to its teaching and government…”

from Pius XI, MORTALIUM ANIMOS, 6 Jan 1928

Read the rest HERE.

11 Feb 2013, Lightning strikes St. Peter’s for the first time in recorded history, on the day of Benedict’s resignation, the 155th anniversary of Our Lady of Lourdes.
7 Oct 2016, Lightning strikes St. Peter’s for the second time in recorded history, on the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, the 445th anniversary of Our Lady of Victory, commemorating the dual miracle of Lepanto, the greatest naval battle in the history of mankind, and the vision of victory granted to Pope St. Pius V.
Francis went on later that day to address the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, founded by St. Eugène de Mazenod in the wake of the French Revolution. He could have talked about Mary, Lepanto, the menace of Islam, the horrors of the revolution.  Yeah right.

“May mercy always be the heart of your mission, of your evangelising effort in today’s world. On the day of the canonisation of Fr. de Mazenod, St. John Paul II defined him as a ‘man of Advent’, docile to the Holy Spirit in reading the signs of the times and following the work of God in the history of the Church…May you too be ‘men of Advent’, able to grasp the signs of new times and to guide brothers on the ways that God opens in the Church and in the world.  The Church is living, along with the world as a whole, in an age of great transformations…She needs men who carry in their heart…unconditional love for the Church, who increasingly endeavours to be an open house. It is important to work for a Church that is for all, ready to welcome and to accompany!”

Oh, I’m paying attention to the signs alright.
13 Oct 2016, the 99th anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun – the greatest physical manifestation by the Creator of the Universe since the Incarnation – Francis hosted a thousand Lutheran pilgrims at the Vatican. They brought in a statue of Luther to “accompany” Francis in his remarks. Of course this made it impossible for him to talk about Mary, or Fatima, or Sister Lucia. So he said this:

“Let us give thanks to God, because today, as Lutherans and Catholics, we are journeying together on the way from conflict to communion.”

This statement is demonstrably false, unless I missed something about the Lutherans denouncing their heresies. But of course we are talking here about a false unity where we pretend there aren’t any differences, and both sides are somehow “right”. It would be a whole new religion called Church of Nice, where everything is allowed except intellectual honesty.

I ask you to please pray that my journey to Sweden might contribute to the unity of all Christians.

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) October 30, 2016

Let us abbandon a language of condemnation and embrace one of mercy.

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) October 29, 2016

The logic behind charity is to be willing to give up everything so that unity and love prevail.

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) October 27, 2016

Love is a patient effort by persons who dedicate themselves to listening and drawing closer to others.

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) October 26, 2016

“False unity trumps Truth” is Canon #1 of the Church of Nice.
30 Oct 2016, Feast of Christ the King in the traditional calendar, the latest in a series of earthquakes destroys the 14th century basilica at Norcia, birthplace of St. Benedict and an epicenter of traditional Catholicism. Damage is spread all the way to Rome, a hundred miles away, including a crack above the main arch of St. Paul Outside the Walls, built in the 4th century by Constantine. This is the place with the mosaic portraits of all the popes.

At the Angelus today, Francis prayed for the victims, then said this:

“Over the next two days I will be making an Apostolic Journey to Sweden, on the occasion of the commemoration of the Reformation, which will see Catholics and Lutherans gathered together in remembrance and prayer. I ask you all to pray that this trip is a new stage in fraternal path toward full communion.”

Tomorrow is the start of a year-long “celebration” of the 500th anniversary of Luther’s riving of Christianity.  Francis will address a gathering of false ecumenists and heretics in Lund. In case you don’t know, 31 October 1517 is the date celebrated by protestants as the birthday of the “reformation”, because it’s the date that Luther sent his 95 Theses to his superior, the Archbishop of Mainz.
Everywhere are signs.  So yeah, you might want to stay frosty.

I wrote about the whole Cardinal Sarah ad orientem blow up back in July, explaining the reasons, the importance, the diabolical nature of the attacks against it, and how the whole affair was merely a prelude to a future showdown. These are things you must understand if you want to make sense of current events. Here is a sample:

The dethroning of God and the deification of man.
I’ve been meaning to write for some time about the root cause of all the madness – the inversion of the First Commandment (title of this post).  Note well, not the expungement of the commandment, but rather its diabolical inversion at the command of the satanically influenced secular world to worship self as if we were god.  The root goes wayyyy back, more than 500 years, and we won’t trace all that in this post.  Let’s just focus on the current phase of the collapse, which is the entirety of the Second Vatican Council – all of it – but especially its attack on the Mass.
Which brings us to the current event of Cardinal Sarah’s appeal for ad orientem, and the ensuing admonishment from his boss. Let’s get one thing clear right off the bat.  This is not a trivial event. On the contrary, it is most revealing, both in the subject matter and in the way it played out.  Don’t let anyone tell you this is about style, preferences, fashion, etc.  Don’t let anyone tell you this is just rearranging deck chairs.  I mean, of COURSE it’s rearranging deck chairs, but that doesn’t mean we should shrug our shoulders and waste the teachable moment.
This is about the most diabolical change in the Mass of Paul IV… and that’s really saying something, because there sure is a lot to choose from.  It doesn’t matter that the change wasn’t mandated, and it doesn’t matter that the rubrics suggest the change wasn’t made at all.  The only thing that matters is that the priest standing at table facing the people was the end result, almost instantaneously in all the churches of the world.  Paul VI himself was doing it in Rome before the missal was even promulgated.  No time for citations… go look it up.
The change to versus populum flattened the liturgy, led us to focus on the priest and on ourselves instead of God, supported all the SJW nonsense by making it about “the community”.  There are a hundred books written about this. It’s so obvious, that even with no knowledge of history, if someone sees ad orientem for the first time, and you explain that we are all facing God and worshipping him together, and this person has at least a shred of Sensus Catholicus, THEY INSTANTLY GET IT, and wonder how it had never occurred to them before.
So yes, what I’m saying is that this is the actual most destructive thing about the N.O.
Not communion in the hand, though also an abomination.
Not EMHCs, though also an abomination.
Not altarboy girls, though also an abomination.
Not the awful music, though also an abomination.
Not 27 “Eucharistic Prayers”, though also an abomination.
Not the butchered Offetory, though also an abomination.
Not the loss of Latin, although lamentable, especially the near loss of chant.
Not the removal of tabernacles, although a corollary to versus populum.
No.  None of these has had a more devastating effect than versus populum.  None of these has contributed more to the dethroning of God and the deification of man.  And it’s exactly as the marxist masonic modernist infiltrators wanted.

Much more to come on this, trust me.
Link to the complete post HERE.

I trust by now, everyone has seen the homily a few weeks ago from Father John Lankeit (twitter handle: @LionInThePulpit, rector of SS Simon and Jude Cathedral, Phoenix USA).  It pretty much spread like wildfire across social media.  If you haven’t seen it, you MUST spend the next twenty minutes of your life watching it.

I am blessed to have this man as my pastor. I’m told the calls of thanksgiving have been coming into the parish office from literally all over the world. Not only that, but the calls of thanksgiving have far, far outnumbered the grumpy cats.
Anyway, Fr. Lankeit is headed for an eight day silent retreat.  He is requesting prayers for all the priests in attendance.
https://twitter.com/LionInThePulpit/status/792005231777165312
Just imagine the ferociousness of spiritual warfare being waged against men like this. Please spare a few prayers.
 

Maybe the folks over at Vatican Radio should just change the name of their publication to The Daily Heresy. HERE
Today, we get further insight into how Francis plans to wield Moral Relativism as a sacrament-wrecking and soul-destroying tool, by turning it into a virtue:

“What is the Kingdom of God?  Well, perhaps the Kingdom of God is a very well-made structure, everything tidy, organization charts all done, everything and the person who does not enter (into this structure) is not in the Kingdom of God. No, the same thing can happen to the Kingdom of God as happens to the Law: unchanging, rigidity…    the Law is about moving forward, the Kingdom of God is moving forward, it is not standing still. What’s more: the Kingdom of God is re-creating itself every day…A rigid person only has masters and no father. The Kingdom of God is like a mother that grows and is fertile, gives of herself so that her children have food and lodging, according to the example of the Lord. Today is a day to ask for the grace of docility to the Holy Spirit. Many times we are not docile to our moods, our judgements. ‘But I do what I want….’  The Kingdom does not grow in this way and neither do we grow.”

Remember the good old days when indulgences came with specified days and years credit for remission of temporal punishment?  I feel like there should be a  Francis insultometer, which indicates the actual amount of supernatural grace transmitted to the insultees based on the repungnancy of his comments. Are you a rigid closed-minded self-absorbed Promethean neo-Pelagian restorationist pickled pepper face Christian?  5 years indulgence for you! Maybe the master list can be amended with the numbers. HERE
But seriously, isn’t it obvious to everyone what is going on here? I think even a ten year old can see the Moral Relativism running rampant in these comments and throughout this papacy. The Holy Spirit is urging us Forward! We must show docility toward this urging! Hope and Change!
Francis showed his hand, definitively, in Amoris Laetitia #301 with this sentence:

Hence it is (sic) can no longer simply be said that all those in any “irregular” situation are living in a state of mortal sin and are deprived of sanctifying grace.

Full Stop.  You can’t mistake what that means, nor call it in any way “confusing”. Also, it is impossible to take that sentence out of context. Here is what it says: What was true in the past in a matter of moral theology IS NO LONGER TRUE.
Friends, God does not change. He exists outside of time. “For I am the Lord, and I change not” Mal 3:6.  Hence, his Commandments don’t change. The dogma of immutability and the immutability of dogma are one in the same. The excuse of “the changing times” has been used throughout the ages to excuse behavior condemned by God.  It’s literally as old as the bible, which itself was already old and “outdated” by the time it was assembled. Read more about it HERE.
Oh, and let me go back to that other phrase from the above quote:

Well, perhaps the Kingdom of God is a very well-made structure…

Guess what, Jorge? The Kingdom of God isn’t just very well-made, it is UTTERLY PERFECT in its unchanging magnificence, and your public mocking of it is a blasphemous mortal sin.
But nevermind that. Francis is here to unveil the “new truth” and serve as both its revolutionary and its enforcer. It was clear in his endorsement of the Kasper Doctrine before the synods.  It was clear at the synods. It was clear in the Schonborn Endorsement of AL. It was clear on the papal plane in his “I can say yes. Period.” It was clear in the response letter to the Argentine bishops.
Stop saying it’s confusing.

Can we at least agree that a Lutheran cannot be pope? HERE
Francis yesterday continued his twisting of the One True Faith by demonstrating, once again, that Calvinist/Lutheran theology is at the core of his own false religion. All the “mercy” that Francis talks about is NOT the mercy of God, but rather a false mercy, because it is grounded in this false idea of Total Depravity.  You absolutely MUST understand Total Depravity, and why it is false, if you want to make sense of how Francis operates.
First, here are the comments from yesterday: HERE

“Behind an attitude of rigidity there is always something else in the life of a person. Rigidity is not a gift of God. Meekness is; goodness is; benevolence is; forgiveness is. But rigidity isn’t!” he said.
In many cases, the Pope continued, rigidity conceals the leading of a double life; but, he pointed out, there can also be something pathological.
Commenting on the difficulties and suffering that afflict a person who is both rigid and sincere, the Pope said this is because they lack the freedom of God’s children: “they do not know how to walk in the path indicated by God’s Law”.
“They appear good because they follow the Law; but they are concealing something else: either they are hypocritical or they are sick.”

I’ve written so many times about this:  Francis thinks mankind is INCAPABLE of resisting sin and living a Christian life, because he personally is completely lost in sin. He doesn’t just think it is difficult, he thinks it is impossible. Instead of renouncing sin as the path to freedom, he thinks trying to live by God’s Law takes away freedom.
Kids, this is the very definition of Total Depravity.  Please go look it up. This is why the Lutherans, Calvinists, etc are not simply “variations” of a “reformed” Catholicism.  No, they are a completely different religion, because they deny that men have free will. They deny that a sinful act is the result of a person making a conscience choice to do wrong, because they believe man is so utterly inclined toward sin that resisting it is futile.
Like every wretched heresy, this one is mixed with some truth to make it plausible.  In this case, that men must cooperate with God’s grace on the path to salvation. Don’t be distracted by this. Of course we need to cooperate with God’s grace.
But that’s not all! Total Depravity goes even further, in claiming that even our GOOD choices are evil, because those choices are ultimately always grounded in selfishness. We simply are not capable of doing good, because even when we do good, we do so for our own interests. Our Will is not just impeded by concupiscence, but rather our Will is totally fallen, and we are not capable of choosing to love God.
So, why is this false?  Because Total Depravity violates God’s perfect justice. If we truly don’t have free will, then we can’t be held responsible for our actions. It wouldn’t be fair. But we see throughout scripture that man is absolutely held accountable for his decisions. I mean, isn’t this the whole point? God created us to know, love and serve Him in this world, and be with Him forever in the next. God laid out how to know, love and serve him, and now expects us to do just that. He wouldn’t do that if we were incapable of it.
Sometimes it helps to mention that God had to make the plan of salvation simple enough for the most stupid person ever born to understand it. Otherwise, imperfect justice.
I’m out of time.  Please go google some more Lutheran and Calvinist theology to further explore how unCatholic Francis really is.