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Francis Laments Hypocritical Catholics? 

Pope Francis on Thursday suggested that it is better to be an atheist than to be a Catholic who leads a hypocritical double life. At his private morning Mass at his residence, he said, “How many times have we all heard people say ‘if that person is a Catholic, it is better to be an atheist’.”

It indeed would be better to be an atheist than to come to Mass every single day with the intention of changing the Church. Those who seek change and who are dissatisfied with tradition, i.e. the modernists, are the true hypocrites, because in the name of God they reject His Church, while seeking a new religion that incorporates heretics and homosexuals.

However, the pope appeared to be pointing a finger at conservative Catholics, saying, “There are those who say ‘I am very Catholic, I always go to Mass, I belong to this and that association.'”

Amen, there are those who are in the Church every day, putting up their Renew banners, clowning with the liturgy, scandalizing children with “youth ministry,” bossing the priests, overrunning the altar, lecturing the faithful at Mass, administering Communion, using the Church for meetings, for pagan rehearsals, for socializing, for charismaniac seances, for Protestant Bible studies, even for teaching the youth that they should respect alternative sexual orientation.

Is Francis really upset with these “Catholics?” Here these hypocrites continue their wreckovation campaign 24/7, boasting of their work in “the spirit” when in fact their work is to resist the Holy Spirit, yet the pope says nothing.

The pope in his sermon said, “It is a scandal to say one thing and do another. That is a double life.” Indeed, it is a scandal for him to say he is the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, and then not act to put an end to this socialist merry-go-round that is destroying souls and making a mockery of the Church.

But too, it is a scandal for him to preach mercy, and then punish the innocent, just as it is a scandal to preach love of the poor, and then rob the faithful of their heritage. The faithful today are being robbed of the treasures of tradition, while the pope is in praise of the global pirates that have pillaged the Church and left his people poor. Where is his love of the poor, persecuted Catholics?

We all know that failure to give to the poor, to feed the hungry, and to show kindness and forgiveness are classic signs of hypocrisy among Catholics. But has Francis enriched his impoverished church with things eternal? Has he fed his starving flock with doctrine and tradition? Has he forgiven the tradition of the Faith that he holds in such contempt?

Referring to professed Catholics, the pope said that some of these people should say, “My life is not Christian, I don’t pay my employees proper salaries, I exploit people, I do dirty business.” Lamenting this hypocrisy, he said, “There are many Catholics who are like this and they cause scandal.”

Has he considered himself? Here he sacks loyal bishops and priests, while praising criminal offenders like genocidist Nelson Mandela, heretic Martin Luther, and abortionist Emma Bonino. He proclaims love of life and family values, while inviting U.N. pro-abortion advocates like Ban Ki moon and Jeffrey Sachs to use his Vatican as a platform to advance a more “sustained” planet through population control via abortion and euthanasia. And then he points out the hypocrisy of others?

Jesus words most certainly apply: “Why seest thou the splinter that is in thy brother’s eye; and seest not the beam that is in thy own eye?” (Matthew 7:3)

It is enough to say that the Church does not “build bridges” to the world synagogue, but has built a one-way bridge to Heaven which ends at the “narrow gate.” The Church invites all people, Jews and Gentiles, to get onto that bridge, that they may leave their one-world religion and press toward that narrow gate as Catholics.

But now Francis is against the idea of converting outsiders to the Catholic Faith, and has gone so far as to dub “idolaters” those Catholics who hold to tradition, even alleging that their refusal to change is “the work of the devil.” A divine comedy this is that faithful Catholics who adore God are now “idolaters” while their leader bows and makes reparation to the planetary idol of “Mother Earth.” Read Laudato Si and you’ll see!

Hypocrisy indeed is a great evil plaguing the Church today, but the greatest hypocrisy is the boast of possessing grace and mercy while at the same time telling Almighty God to begone with His ancient mercies. The spirit of Martin Luther certainly has a hold on the Church at this time, thanks to its leader who under the guise of mercy has protested tradition and erected a statue of Martin Luther at the Vatican, even proclaiming Luther a “witness to the Gospel.”

Yes, it would be better to be a simple atheist, or to come to Church for only five minutes a week and bend a knee to God, than to show up every single day with revolutionary intentions of change, change, change. Our new-found, ecumenical religion of today is born of pride and protest, and a need to be praised by man, which offends Christ.

The Gospel points out that the publican who made no account of himself and who humbly struck his breast in a plea for mercy was kindly received by Christ into his Kingdom, while the Pharisee who boasted of the grace and salvation he thought was his was barred from the Kingdom. (Luke 18:10-14) Scripture says “his communication is with the simple” (Proverbs 3:32), and that “his mercy is from generation unto generations, to them that fear Him.” (Luke 1:50)

Let us pray that Francis will fear God, and that it will finally dawn on him that his only duty as pope is to instruct the faithful of their baptismal obligation to maintain a docile submission to doctrine and tradition.

123 thoughts on “Francis Laments Hypocritical Catholics? ”

      • Hi Chloe – Indeed, but now Francis has been cornered, and that he will lash out, against we who oppose his will to contradict both Jesus and His Bride, is guaranteed. It is a significant step forward toward the abyss for Francis and those who follow him, and as they approach that seemingly inevitable consequence, it would not be surprising to see those influenced by demons to becomes as desperate as those eternally doomed fallen angels obviously are focused on persecuting the Followers of Jesus and leading souls into the kingdom of Satan.

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        • Indeed. But take heart. I think this is the last lash of the devil’s tale before St Michael is given permission to chain him up again. Stick with the perennial teaching of the Church, go to,Mass, say the rosary constantly and adore the Good Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. We might not survive in this world, but hopefully we’ll be ok in the next.

          Our Holy Mother, is on it!

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  1. One after another, homily after homily of making accusations that really just amount to psychological projection and lack of self awareness. Francis has time and again shown that he is really targeting his enemies with these homilies. It’s unfortunate, because we all need to be challenged by the gospel, but these weaponized homilies make it difficult for anybody (either those encouraged or those targeted) to get anything out of them.

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  2. I imagine Pope Mercy and his men enjoy the almost visceral reaction that Catholics have to his daily depredations. He is beyond absurd at this point. I am grateful for the chronicling of his words and actions. It will give future historians a much easier time of writing about his failed papacy. I refuse to do any more hand-wringing, though. He has trained us to react with horror at each new insult, each new doctrine. He doesn’t horrify me or even make me angry. He will pass into eternity soon enough. The Church will judge him and go on. In my small life, I try to do the Lord’s will and live as our fathers lived. I believe, for most of us, that is enough. As the Lord taught us, if we are faithful in a few small things, he will make us master over many things.

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    • Im writing this comment without reading the article (an aberration to my preferred method of doing this) because I wish not to become angry while being in the middle of the day (as I have other things taking place that will test my patience). With this stated, why does he consistently use the homily (which takes place during Mass) to issue out subliminal yet not so subliminal attacks against his critics. And often, these attacks are personal in nature. Is it possible to profane a homily? If a priest or deacon aren’t entering into it with the pure intent and willingnes to communicate a truth that is good for the community of believers then its best not to give the homily. The consistency of “hostile” homilies from the Holy Father indicates that he is quite bothered by the current opposition to his heretical teachings. And he expresses this dissatisfaction in the homilies he gives. The Mass is sacred, it needs to be treated as so, especially by the Pontiff

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      • Good point. The attacks are not so subliminal. I agree with what Francis said concerning the “clarification” requested by the four cardinals of the dubia. “What I have written, I have written,” he said. “There is no need for clarification.” In this he says the truth. He makes his point quite clear, just as he did on February 23 concerning hypocrites.

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  3. As I began reading, what immediately came to my mind was the scripture cited about ten paragraphs in (Matthew 7:3). It is certainly true that many of us cannot recognize our own sins without prayerful reflection. I suspect that when humility is the characteristic one labels oneself with, prayerful reflection on one’s faults is especially difficult. The pope desperately needs our prayers for his conversion. It is apparent he does not ask it himself.

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  4. Luke 1:46-55English Standard Version (ESV)

    Mary’s Song of Praise: The Magnificat

    And Mary said,

    “My soul magnifies the Lord,

    and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,

    for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant.

    For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed;

    for he who is mighty has done great things for me,

    and holy is his name.

    And his mercy is for those who fear him

    from generation to generation.

    He has shown strength with his arm;

    he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts;

    he has brought down the mighty from their thrones

    and exalted those of humble estate;

    he has filled the hungry with good things,

    and the rich he has sent away empty.

    He has helped his servant Israel,

    in remembrance of his mercy,

    as he spoke to our fathers,

    to Abraham and to his offspring forever.”

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  5. Francis has demonstrated time and time again that he has nothing but contempt for Catholics who actually try to follow the teachings of Christ and the precepts of His Church. If a Catholic is not a Social Justice Warrior!™/climate-change-Kool-Aid-drinking/uber-progressive leader of the secular Left, then Francis has no use for him. As Francis/Bergoglio has made clear, he sees his enemies (i.e., orthodox Catholics) as the self-righteous Pharisee in the temple, and only “those on the margins” are as humble as the publican.

    Personally, I do not know any faithful Catholic who would dare to presume he is saved or in some way inherently better than those who never come to Mass, or who fail to fulfill the other precepts of the Church. In my experience, I find it is actually the reverse: those who never come to Mass act as if they are the justified Pharisee.

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  6. I’m South African and as much as I agree with this blog, I disagree with Nelson Mandela being called a genocidist. In what world??? Certainly not in South Africa. South Africa has peace today because that man, instead of choosing to kill all white people for what they did (Something many black South Africans of the time wanted!). He went against his people and instead, he negotiated a peaceful solution with the apartheid government to surrender power and allow for fair elections. This all in spite of him being illegally imprisoned for 27 years on the bogus charge of terrorism and for conspiring to overthrow the state LOL. The apartheid government were the terrorists!

    During his presidency he did not even seek reparation but established the truth and reconciliation commission where apartheid victims could forgive their persecutors.

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    • Mandella was a communist collaborator. He and his wife treated their enemies to “necklacing” — the practice of placing a person inside a stack of rubber tires and then setting the tires on fire. Is this cruel torture not terrorism?

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      • I’m from South Africa I know my history. Who feeds you these lies???

        He was in jail most of his life how the hell could he have done all this while on an island off the coast of South Africa?

        His wife was the radical one hence he divorced her as soon as he came out of prison (also that she had affairs). They didn’t agree on many things. She favoured a more violent take over to his peaceful forgiving one.

        Mandela was a capitalist. Americans and non- South Africans just dont get South African politics.

        The South African communist party are separate from the ANC and only align when national elections come (a coalition completed with COSATU). The fact That South Africa is a purely capitalist country should prove to you that neither the AND nor Mandela were communist lol

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        • – Necklacing was done in the name of the ANC even though the ANC “officially disavowed”.
          – ANC received support from the USSR for many years and leaders of the ANC like Joe Slovo were also members of the CPSA and obviously many other ANC leaders were communist, pro-Soviet, or otherwise extreme left wing/socialist international sympathizers.
          – You are right … Mandela was in jail during this time and doesn’t deserve the smear, but the history of the ANC is not a pretty one

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          • And i know this but yet such acts weren’t deliberate acts of the ANC but renegade members. This is a very different thing. Every organisation has its radicals. The ANC did it’s best not to hurt people even during the campaign of sabotage where they bombed strategic regions. They insured no people were around to hey hurt so they could destroy key zones of the Apartheid government like (factories, pile ons and other bases). For over 20 years they had a campaign of peaceful resistance against a regime that responded in violence every time. Only after this did they establish a military wing that could fight the Apartheid government as the ANC realised that liberation would not come through preacful non- violent means with a naturally violent regime

            I hate how people always call them ANC communist for collaborating with The Soviets. However they couldn’t be picky could they?? Not many people werr offering to help! They needed military training and financial help and the Soviet Union offered that. That’s all there is to that.

            The proof is always in the pudding. S.A. is 110% capitalist under the ANC and it is actually other smaller parties pushing communist agendas. Yes the anc has communist members but that’s not an endorsement of it.

            Those guys were included because they were leaders in the movement for liberation. I explained above how the ANC is comprised of coalition (THE ANC itself, the SACP and COSATU). The SACP are the smallest (and honestly numerically insignificant) group but had important figures like Joe Slovo that were central to the cause for liberation.

            It’s ridiculous to call the ANC communist lol only non- South Africans sprout this drivel. No native of South Africa (black or white) would claim such. We know our owm history thank you very much and know the state of our nation.

          • Im a fully grown man. My age is really non of your concern.

            I’ve actually just recounted this discussion with people I know (white black) and they are completely horrified by the things you guys are saying. They couldnt believe people were this ignorant. Now i know jews feel when they meet holocaust deniers.

            I’m done with this nonsense. You guys have ruined this blog for me. It’s disgusting and one day you will have to account to God for the things you have said here

          • Yes the ANC is quite a big party hey. If peoplee kill in the name of the church like the crusaders did when they sacked various regions including Constantinople does that mean the church was responsible??? No the crusaders went rogue and the pope disavowed them just like the ANC did to its renegades..

            Again the ANC didn’t have much choice in getting help from Russia. It’s not like the West were rushing to help us

            And just so you know I don’t support the ANC but I do know my history very well. It’s Americans who in their arrogant ignorance talk so much about a topic they really know nothing about

            This is why people dont like americans

    • Mandela was a merciless, cold blooded killer, and your own words about him going against his own people testify to this. Why do you defend this criminal and racist? Has he duped you too? He hated white people with every ounce of his being and killed innocent blacks for showing respect for them. Don’t forget, we in America viewed MANY TIMES the horrific videos of the tortures he ordered, i.e. placing kerosene filled tires around the necks of 13 year-old girls and boys to terrorize the rest into not saluting white people. Don’t try to cover this up. If Mandela was in jail, it’s because he deserved it–he was no martyr as the communists will have you believe. Who feeds you lies! Obama idolizes Mandela for his racism, which in itself is sufficient evidence of his evil.

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      • Snap back to reality buddy. You comr across as a holocaust denier l. I wouldnt ve surprised.

        Many of us here still have parents who lived through that time well and alive. You guys have seriously been duped as to who he was.

        He couldn’t have done all that while he was in jail lol

        He eas imprisoned because he spoke up against the racist and oppressive government that was killing school children who protested. Killing our mothers and our fathers. Enslaving us in our own land. For that… and not for any crime, he was imprisoned with many other freedom fighters

        What warped world do you live in??? Nevermind the images the government fed to the world were ridiculously slanted with false information.

        Americans think they know everything when they know so little. The judges of the rivinoia trials and people responsible for various crimes admited to their injustices at the truth and reconciliation commission.
        The apartheid government has death squads in the police to kill black people.

        I have a strange feeling there is some white supermacy here

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        • He eas imprisoned because he spoke up against the racist and oppressive
          government that was killing school children who protested. Killing our
          mothers and our fathers. Enslaving us in our own land. For that… and
          not for any crime, he was imprisoned with many other freedom fighters

          What kind of marxist dellusions do you believe in? He was jailed because he was a terrorist, amnesty even refused to take up his case. In fact he got a very reduced sentence. The south african government was way too lenient with Mandela and his marxist cronies, and the results of it today are unfortunately quite obvious.

          I have a strange feeling there is some white supermacy here

          Yeah, well, not all White people are dead inside and ready to go to the slaughter.

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        • Thereby you show your black racism, which is what Mandela was all about. But you also show communist sympathies, because attributing “peace” to communists is a typical communist ploy and smokescreen. Get it straight. There is no peace to speak of in South Africa, and what little peace exists is attributed to God or some good influence, and the fact that Mandela was put in jail. Had he been out of jail, things would be much worse! He was a man of blood, like Castro, who was responsible for thousands of deaths. And too, he was communist–A criminal!

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  7. At this point I really believe the Pope is a fallen away Catholic, his statements in this last talk are typical of those who are fallen away and hold a grudge against the Church. Sad to say but he is outside of his office and outside of the Church -i.e. he is no longer the Pope. I will continue to pray for him and that he is converted and comes back to the Church

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    • He really does sound like an axe-grinding anti-Catholic. Seriously, close your eyes a minute and imagine him a Baptist minister trying to draw the local townsfolk away from the “Papists”.

      It’s not very hard to picture, is it?

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  8. “…[W]hile the Pharisee who boasted of the grace and salvation he thought was his….” This phrase brought to mind the very first impression I had of the current pontificate, viz. “ostentatious humility.”

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  9. I don’t even know what to say anymore to all this. Yeah, it’s awful. Everyday we’re insulted, “marginalized” (FrancisPapacy keyword!), forgotten. It gets harder and harder to be Catholic. And yet I can’t help but, deep down, know that I’m incredibly blest. I know Christ. I’m in His Church. It often hurts to be Catholic, especially these days, but there is no where else I’d rather be. I dunno. What a strange world we live in, eh?

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    • Yes, stranger than fiction.
      I go through the meditation booklet called “My Daily Bread” and these last few have been about embracing and *asking for* the cross(es) and not hating them, but loving them!
      Boy, in the Church-of-Francis, I seem to want to *run* from them. (I am such a coward)
      Catechist Kev

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    • Hi Jafin – What else should we expect during the year which marks the 100th Anniversary of Fatima? The Apostates never had a chance against the Blessed Trinity and Our Lady.

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    • The saints wished they could live in these days, because they knew of the challenge it would pose to their faith. Fleeing the cross and running off to “side-chapels” is not “traditional,” but remaining in our parishes as examples of tradition is. Catholics need to stand forth in their parishes and be defenders of their faith, just as St. Athanasius stood in the midst and said the truth. It’s a great opportunity of grace.

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  10. One wise and faithful man wrote this a while ago:

    The Man of Lawlessness
    “2 Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our assembling to meet him, we beg you, brethren, 2 not to be quickly shaken in mind or excited, either by spirit or by word, or by letter purporting to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.[a] 3 Let no one deceive you in any way; for that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness[b][c] is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. 5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you this? 6 And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way.[d] 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, and the Lord Jesus will slay him with the breath of his mouth and destroy him by his appearing and his coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one by the activity of Satan will be with all power and with pretended signs and wonders, 10 and with all wicked deception for those who are to perish, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false, 12 so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”

    Footnotes:
    a. 2.2 Paul warns against over-eagerness to expect the second Coming, and specifies various signs to be looked for first.
    b. 2 Thessalonians 2:3 Other ancient authorities read sin
    c. 2.3 the man of lawlessness: i.e., Antichrist.
    d. 2.7 Evil will operate secretly till the final unmasking.

    That wise and faithful man was also one of the greatest saints, Paulus. His letter was written about less than 2000 years ago.

    And our Lord said this:
    “You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign shall be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” (Matthew 16,3-4)

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  11. The Catholic Church I grew up with is no longer the Church I knew. It appears more and more like a political organisation with the Pope as its director, working to ensure that we conform to its dictatorship of mercy. I am stunned as to how fast and far it has moved. Animal Farm is beginning to resonate here. Soon it will be that we who uphold the teaching on divorce and remarriage will be directly persecuted like faithful priests already.

    One truly frightening consequence of this progression is the affect on Catholic education. So a teacher in a Catholic school can now be living in sin and a faithful priest or bishop has no ability to deal with it. If he attempts to he will be labelled a hypocrite (like a priest friend of mine already) We will all be hypocrites. Children will have no role models, no one to follow, to look up to, to aspire to be like for anyone who may appear to follow the right way will be excluded for being a hypocrite.

    As a teacher for almost 20 years I am sincerely thankful I was rejected by all those Catholic schools I applied for. I am working in a government school and I can simply be me with no one to direct me how to think. I just let the liberal rubbish flow over me. I work with a range of ardent Christians to complete card carrying stroppy feminists. And the great thing is we can all get on and get on with our work. No one has to pretend and I pray for them and pray that they will convert (oops. That is now sinful). It is my mission field. Oops that is wrong now too. No room for missionaries in our One Holy Catholic and Apostolic church even though Pope Paul XI said in Evangelium Nuntiandi “The Church exists to evangelize”. When it fails in that duty it dies. Parishes die, schools die and the family dies. I am convinced that I would not last long in a Parish school for I will uphold the teaching of Church and Napoleon will send me from the farm.

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    • My own Bishop (Diocese of Portsmouth, England) is already getting deeply troubled questions from his clergy on how to apply the “teaching” of Amoris Laetitiae. Biship Philip interpreted AL in the traditional sense, i.e. no communion for divorced and “remarried”. Now his priests are wondering who to obey – their Bishop or the Pope.
      We have the insane situation of a woman who is divorced and remarried, lives part of her time in the Portsmouth Diocese and part of her time in Malta. The Maltese bishops have taken the opposite line to Bishop Philip and the Maltese position seems to be the one favoured by Pope Francis. So she can go to Communion in Malta, but not in Portsmouth??
      This lunacy is even more starkly evident in other parts of the world. Last May I crossed the 100 yard bridge from Germany (mercy and discernment) to Poland (Doctors of the Law and Pharisees).
      You should at least take comfort from the fact that a Church so ferociously independent and loyal to the Faith as Poland is standing firm. Earlier dictators like Stalin and Hitler found them unconquerable. Even Francis in the limited time left to him can’t crush them.

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      • Dear William, I hope that your Bishop continues following the truth from reading various articles from the parishes it seems that you have a very good Bishop. I was a member of your diocese in my youth and received my confirmation in Portsmouth Cathedral. I met some outstanding priests during my life in Fareham and Hayling Island.

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  12. I wonder just how far Francis will go. I wonder if there is anything he could say or write that would elicit a rising of the Bishops to actually do publicly resist him to the face.

    I mean, if erecting an idol to Luther in the Vatican didn’t do it…what will?

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    • Good early Saturday morning RTHEVR,

      This breed of the evolution of truth, rooted in the tyrannical contempt for Christ as Truth Himself, only ever ends in brute and unmitigated, dehumanizing, and therefore satanic violence. It was our Blessed Dominus Deus, Jesus the Christ Himself, who told us that they would hate us for the name that we chose to bear in this godless world, where we remain in utter exile; this time with no place to hide. Christ commanded, if any man is to come after Me, he must first pick up his cross and then follow Me. These words of the Redeemer of the Cosmos, we must cherish ever so completely and hold them thus so close in our hearts, that it is as if His Words flow directly from our very own immanence, our very ontology, as alter Christus in this world. We are commanded by Christ to act as Christ and only with the reception of sanctifying grace do any of us persevere in this time. In caritas.

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    • I wonder if there is anything he could say or write that would elicit a rising of the Bishops to actually do publicly resist him to the face.

      Have you ever thought that it just might be possible that that is not within God’s plan? That perhaps, this is happening because in a mysterious way, this iniquity is how He will be glorified?

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      • Good afternoon MarcAlcan,

        In humility, be aware that your comment, “That perhaps, this is happening because in a mysterious way, this iniquity is how He will be glorified.”, at least offers some sense of the heresy of “Dualism”, whereby Almighty God somehow requires Satan and his minions to edify the Goodness that God Is. It suggests that evil and pernicious evil is required to “balance” the forces of Good and evil in the cosmos. In caritas.

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        • Could be. But remember St. Augustine. God permitted him to live in sin for 30-odd years before breaking through with His Light, and then used all that he had done and learned in those years towards His greater glory. Sin is not required for good. Never. But God can use the most sinful situation to His own ends. It is all over Scripture, too.

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          • Good evening Julia,

            With certitude in His infinite love as Love Himself, God as the Singular Supernatural Being, as Being Himself, brings good from our evil acts for His Divine purpose. That is a different understanding though than what MarcAlcan suggested in this statement, “because in a mysterious way, this iniquity is how He will be glorified?”. Almighty God is not ever “glorified” by those acts that may take human person’s souls into eternal hell. Evil, which is the privation of the good which is due in the act, does not ever, as it cannot ever, somehow glorify Almighty God. Evil is abhorrent to God and that is why souls who enter the Kingdom of God must undergo purgation to be cleansed of every iota of the stain of sin before entry. I pray this clarifies. In caritas.

          • Good Sunday morning MarcAlcan,

            What you wrote is clearly stated as this, “…because in a mysterious way, this iniquity is how He will be glorified?” Almighty God cannot be somehow “glorified” through the evil works of His creatures, as evil is the privation of the good which is due in the act, and God is Goodness Himself. We cannot glorify God, as He glorifies Himself, by offering Him an act which is perfectly and infinitely contrary to His Nature as God. You simply made an error. Almighty God created His human creatures in His own Divine likeness and image such that we can glorify Him as He indeed glorifies Himself, by virtue of the operations of the intellect and free will that He provided for us here, this side of the veil. In caritas.

          • But you fail to address my question.

            Here it is again: Are you saying St Thomas’s “Oh happy fault” is a case of dualism heresy?

            And no, I am not saying we give glory to God by our sins. I am saying that even in our sins, God finds a way to glorify Himself. And that has been the story of salvation from day dot.

          • Good morning MarcAlcan,

            Your question is not addressed because it doesn’t apply to your argument. It only serves as a distraction and diversion away from what you specifically said. Once again, in your words, “…because in a mysterious way, this iniquity is how He will be glorified?”. Being cannot both be and not be at the same time and under the same respect. So when you, MarcAlcan say, “…this iniquity is how He will be glorified?”, your statement cannot also at the same time somehow mean: this iniquity is NOT how He will be glorified?”. I’m simply offering fraternal correction in caritas. You said what you said and in your latest response you are adding clarity to what you seem to have meant in your initial comment, when you said this, “And no, I am not saying we give glory to God by our sins. I am saying that even in our sins, God finds a way to glorify Himself.”

            In humility MarcAlcan, Almighty God glorifies Himself perfectly and infinitely into eternity, while at once perfectly and infinitely independent of all His creatures. This is referred to as His “internal glory”. In His infinite love as Love Himself, he created His angelic and human persons, not out of love for us, rather such that we can share in His Internal Beatitude, where He glorifies Himself into eternity within the Beatific Vision, where all those creatures in Heaven know and love Him, as He knows and Loves Himself, as Deus Caritas Est. In His infinite mercy, He gave us His “external glory” where we perfectly miserable human creatures are allowed to either add to or detract from His (external) glory, as we make our free will assents here in time and space, until we draw our final breaths. Our sin of course remains abhorrent to Almighty God as it is perfectly and infinitely contrary to His Divine Nature, which proceeds from His Intellect and Will.

            Lastly, in this fraternal correction, and I certainly have had and will continue to have my own, as I am and can only ever remain, this side the veil, a perfectly miserable human creature, at once knowing with certitude that I am perfectly and infinitely loved by the One Who Is Love, as are the totality of His created persons. As an aside, I’m not aware of the Angelic Doctor’s comment that you suggest he made, “oh’ happy fault”. That said, I would surmise that he was thanking Almighty God for His mercy of allowing for our correction and purgation here, this side of the veil, with the Supernatural Hope, rooted as it is in Supernatural Faith, of achieving the Beatific Vision. Incidentally, when I see your posts, I typically read them as I find them to be of interest and that is how this particular communication between us began. In caritas, MarcAlcan.

          • Actually it does make my point.
            You’ve written a very long post which still does not address my point.
            O Felix Culpa.

            So yes I stand by what I say: in a mysterious way this is how He will be glorified.

            Just take a look at the abject state of His Son as He hung on the cross. Would we say that somehow we can see God being glorified in such barbarity? And yet He was.

            So do address my question. Is O Felix Culpa heretical dualism?
            Don’t dance around it.

          • I am really surprised that with your display of knowledge you did not get my reference to O Happy Fault.

            Although it is probably my fault too. The one who first used the phrase was actually St Augustine.

            Read the Exultet.

        • True, to an extent. But surely the Church exists to save souls? Priests are ordained to save souls. While the ultimate responsibility maybe the individuals, we can all be helped to Heaven. I know that without the Catholic Church, passed on to me by good parents, teachers and religious, my particular path would be straight down.

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          • Indeed she does. But soul saving is primarily the work of Christ.

            Let me put it this way, those who are lost chose to follow their own will contrary to what they know to be true.

            So I guess, what we have to be concerned about is our own soul for it is us who perish if we fail to teach the truth because we have been entrusted with it. Those who do not know any better, well God will judge them according to what they know.

  13. Hypocrites are those who interpret the literal teachings of Jesus in the gospels as metaphorical and proclaim their own interpretations as gospel truth even when their interpretations are not in line with reason or Magisterial teaching of the Church. The Pope’s private views are just that and for the good of all souls should be neglected. At least Pope Francis’ private views are best put into that category which can be neglected :). Other Popes in the past could be believed even in their private views but not Pope Francis

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  14. For those with eyes, see and those with ears, hear. Pope Francis Bergoglio is the maestro of the linguistic double entendre’. The linguistic, “double life”, if you will. His syncretic language construction is near perfect, if that could be so. What a strange commentary on the part of the Roman Pontiff as, “…all of us, around the neighborhood and elsewhere…”. This is his claim: “all of us” and then not only, “around the neighborhood”, but also, “elsewhere”, we are to be found, “all of us”, supposedly embroiled in this “scandal”, based in his supposition that he and we, “all of us”, are involved in ongoing chatter about, ” ‘ but to be a Catholic like that, it’s better to be an atheist.’ ” One can only imagine at that point just what, “…a Catholic like that,…” indeed means? He establishes once again, only this time it is the near perfectly constructed logical fallacy of the “straw-man”, in his claim that, “all of us”, and again somehow, “all of us” are or have been situated, “around the neighborhood” and also, “elsewhere”, organized in this perpetual discussion of the “Catholic” who is, “saying one thing and doing another”. What’s even better is his perspicacious injection of his so oft preached, proletariat rhetoric about the perpetrator of this smoke and mirrors “scandal”, as being not the employee but rather the business owner. Find that little Marxist gem perfectly placed into his poisonous rhetorical construction here: ” ‘… I don’t pay my workers a just wage, I exploit people, I am dirty in my business, I launder money…’ “.

    He then establishes a near perfect conflation of realities here: “Scandal is saying one thing and doing another; it is a double life, a double life. A totally double life:…” Does it seem that the Holy Father wants us to take away an understanding which is, “scandal is the double life”, as though scandal could be nothing else? Further, the conflation of realities occurs in his suggesting that somehow, “saying one thing and doing another” is perfectly matched with and equivalent to being, “it is a double life, a double life. A totally double life:…” How often does any human person, within our perfectly fallen and miserable human nature, consequent to Original Sin, the allure of this world, and the deception of Lucifer, say one thing and do another, and this act not out of a spirit of contempt but rather out of a spirit of wishful thinking, for instance? Meaning well but at once not able to meet the muster of that which was proposed by us, in our claim of what we would do, in any given circumstance. That doesn’t excuse us from the evil or the sin but it certainly does not suggest equivalence to a “double life” being lived with malice and contemptuous predetermination, as a so called, “double life” requires, if it is to be understood as a double life. The double entendre’ or double life in this context, requires a very specific free will assent of the human person living it, over long periods of time, like that life lived of the founder of the “Legionnaires of Christ”, in one Marcial Maciel. Is the Holy Father Bergoglio suggesting that we are somehow, “all of us”, exposed to the likes of the liar and destroyer of truth and innocence, Marcial Maciel in our daily lives, “around the neighborhood and elsewhere”? It is not hard for one to see just how patently bizarre this language of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, as Francis, indeed is. All it requires is a critical breakdown of what Pope Bergoglio himself is saying. Anyone who could possibly posit as an explanation for this, as now to be understood pertinacious Bergoglian contempt for truth, to be the outcome of a so called, “translation error”, at almost 4 years now running of this pontificate, is either near implacably deceived or themselves a deceiver. I pray this helps. In caritas.

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  15. “‘if that person is a Catholic, it is better to be an atheist’.”

    Ironic the Pope should say this. Some folks would think he was talking about himself.

    Pray for Pope Francis.

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  16. It is becoming obvious that the Bergoli-Father is manifesting signs of a serious psychological disorder. It is as though he he is trying to exorcise a part of himself that he has come to despise. In faithful, orthodox, tradition-minded Catholics, he sees a reflection of his former self that he now would like to permanently eradicate.

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  17. As none of us is totally consistent in practising our faith, I assume that Pope Francis is happy to do without all the financial contributions from us hypocrites? Or perhaps we should continue to contribute while undergoing discernment and accompaniment towards non-hypocrisy.

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  18. “Let us pray that Francis will fear God, and that it will finally dawn on him that his only duty as pope is to instruct the faithful of their baptismal obligation to maintain a docile submission to doctrine and tradition.”

    The above statement, which concludes the article, is right on. A pope’s mission is to shepherd the sheep toward the narrow gate to Heaven — not to become a “pope-of-the-world”, a false prophet of a one-world-religion whose aspirations are politicized and anthropocentric.

    The spirituality of our Lord’s one, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church has always been escatological — looking forward with joyful and unwavering hope to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ at the end of the world and time. But these days, the “spirituality” (ambition?) of those who have seized the formal apparatus of the Church seems to be frankly utopian — as if the “kingdom of god” will evolve and morph out of the scientific manipulation, social engineering, and pedophelic curricular fixations of atheists, demagogues, and sexual transhumanists.

    Let us pray, indeed, for Pope Francis and for all the clergy, some of whom are doing and saying things that cannot possibly proceed from the Holy Spirit — the Spirit of Truth — while at the same time we must never forget to freely confess our own sins and hypocrisy. And please let us remember, too, that the Corporal Works of Mercy that our Lord describes in Matthew chapter 25 are only part of His expectations of His disciples, which also include the Spiritual Works of Mercy.

    Corporal Works of Mercy:
    To feed the hungry;
    To give drink to the thirsty;
    To clothe the naked;
    To harbour the harbourless;
    To visit the sick;
    To ransom the captive;
    To bury the dead.

    Spiritual Works of Mercy:
    To instruct the ignorant;
    To counsel the doubtful;
    To admonish sinners;
    To bear wrongs patiently;
    To forgive offences willingly;
    To comfort the afflicted;
    To pray for the living and the dead.

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  19. TBH I have just come to ignore what Pope Francis and probably 90% of the bishops say especially those bishops in the US and Western Europe because for the most part it is either a veiled heresy or a public one. I will just continue to rely on the Sacraments, the Magisterium, Tradition, the intercession of Our Blessed Mother and the Saints and most important of Our Lord to help me and my family get through this papacy. Don’t get me wrong when the heresy or sin present themselves I will fight to correct it and be a witness to Our Lord but this is the time we live in. The Church that Our Lord established 2000 years ago has been hijacked from the top down by Satan and his demons. This is more persecution and suffering of Our Lord and He has now offered it to His faithful to carry and bear with Him. The Lord only knows why? Maybe we are at the cusp of His Return and He is allowing us to individually to decide if we are His Wheat or the chaff that will be burned. All I can do is Trust in Him; Pray for His Victory and remain faithful to Him and His Church and it’s teaching while pray for those who are seeking to destroy His Church from within and leading souls astray.

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  20. Francis bashing away with great gusto at his favorite straw man; the “rigid”, “hypocritical”, “Pharisaical” traditional Catholic. As if the Church has been staggering under some sort of Jansenist inquisition for the past 50 years.

    Honestly, who are these Catholics at whom he’s constantly raging? The ladies in the Legion of Mary? The five people who attend daily Mass in most American parishes? What universe does this scoundrel inhabit? In the West, his churches are almost empty, parishes are closing everywhere and he’s ranting about the few remaining Catholics who actually go to Church?

    This guy is a real piece of work.

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    • I think its a warning NOT to teach doctrine (in my opinion) but if you dont teach doctrine you CANNOT pass on the Catholic faith which comes to us from the Apostles. If we Catholics are not teaching Doctrine, no one is doing it. Wouldnt that just make God a little mad because that’s the only way that “thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth”!

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      • Interesting point. As we seek the straw men, he is in reality giving a warning to those who might be scared away from speaking the truth.

        Good point.

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  21. Here, here! Well said David!

    Message to Fr Spadaro SJ and his media trolls: Pope Francis is more the vicar of Kasper than the Vicar of Christ. He is a material and manifest heretic who is the cause of great schism and confusion beyond anything seen since the Arian heresy. The mask well and truly fell off in 2016 and now we see that Pope Francis is little more than a ruthless dictator, a persecutor, enemy of orthodox and faithful Catholics. He proclaims mercy but only gives it to those who think like him. He thinks he has triumphed, but Pope Francis’ pontificate will inevitably leave the Church in rubble. It will be as fruitless as it is faithless. Our Lady of Fatima will crush his pride and heresy. Pope Francis’ only hope is conversion before he dies. If he does not, he will be judged and be given the same mercy he now gives to Cardinal Burke, the Knights of Malta and the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate. As for the Jesuits, they are headed for total extinction, a certain fruit of their manifest heresy and apostasy.

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    • I’ve been mulling that concept over for a while.

      Who is this George Bergoglio fellow representing…Jesus or Kasper?

      I think it is obvious.

      Thanks for posting.

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  22. Furthermore … Dear Fr Spadaro SJ, while your Jesuits continue to die, the orthodox Catholics continue to remain steadfast and grow.

    We will bury you as certain as 2 + 2 = 4!

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  23. In this case, I think you’re pushing a misreading of what Francis actually said. In listening to him, I think he was giving this as a warning, that outsiders see Catholics behaving this way and say, “Better not to be Catholic at all.” I don’t agree that he was making his own statement that it is better for such people not to be Catholic. On this one, I’m not seeing a problem with what he said. Now there is the whole question, once again, on whom, exactly, he is speaking of. That’s a valid problem with his statement. But not the atheist part. I don’t see a problem there, because in many contexts, he’s right. I don’t use Catholic radio bumper stickers on my car because I might forget they’re there and lay on my horn when an older driver cuts me off. That’s bad example, and does nothing to benefit Catholic radio on my part. And in general, it’s true that when we give bad example, we risk driving people away from the Church.

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    • When I read the Vatican Radio post I thought the same thing: he was quoting other people. In fact I thought the trust of what he said was pretty good, and I hoped he was taking some of it to heart.

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  24. “his mercy is from generation unto generations, to them that fear Him.” (Luke 1:50) There’s a lot in the Blessed Virgin’s words. Is she saying that to be God-fearing is a condition of receiving God’s mercy? The Mercy that counts is from God.

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  25. In the Bible we hear about the “abomination of desolation” which would be erected in the temple, profaning the sacred place and rendering it unholy and bo longer fit for divine service. I do not claim any expertise in scripture studies beyond what the normal seminary courses off, but I have to wonder if the statue of someone like Martin Luther erected in the Vatican isn’t something of an “abomination”. Do the people who applaud that know anything about Luther’s very strange life and his obvious psychological problems? It is never discussed by Lutherans; they know better!

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