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SUNDAY REPORT
The Strange Gods of Pope Francis
His project is to weaken Catholic faith while strengthening the UN-Vatican alliance.

by GEORGE NEUMAYR

October 10, 2019, 12:04 AM

Francis addresses the UN General Assembly in 2015 (YouTube screenshot)

Tourists in Rome are long familiar with the image of Romulus and Remus suckling the teats of a wolf. But this week visitors to the Pan-Amazon Synod encountered a new image: an Amazonian mother suckling a dog. That picture hangs in a church next to the Vatican: Santa Maria in Traspontina. I wandered into it the other day and was struck by the jarring contrast between its stunning Baroque interior and the bonkers propaganda plastered on and near its walls. Much of the church had been turned into a shrine to the plight and nature-worship of Amazonians. Beneath the picture of the woman nursing a dog (while carrying a baby), a poster declares fatuously, “Everything is Connected.”

The poster captures the sheer obnoxiousness of the pope’s “ecological” kick. What a dismal devolution Rome has suffered under him. What will he do next? Turn the Pantheon back into a pagan temple? Why not? If Amazonian pantheism is a “religious experience” worthy of Catholic respect, why not revive ancient paganism, too? Perhaps the pope’s next synod can rehabilitate Nero.

Stripped of all of its pious cant, the pope’s Pan-Amazon Synod is nothing more than a bald violation of the First Commandment. Pope Francis is placing strange idols before the Triune God — in this case, Amazonian ones. Last week, he had a contingent of Indian activists — some of whom I have heard were flown over to Rome first-class by the German bishops — perform pagan rituals in the Vatican gardens. In that moment, every prediction of his anti-modernist predecessors came true: they all said that if the Church adopted the subjectivism of the “Enlightenment,” it would end up blessing false religions.

But more is at work here than simply the pope’s usual religious relativism. Why did he select the Amazon as his pretext to undermine doctrine and discipline? He could have chosen other remote regions. Why that one? I am told by a seasoned Vatican observer that the answer lies with the German bishops, who are largely financing this farce and its accompanying propaganda.

“This is about bringing the Vatican and the United Nations closer together,” he says. “The German bishops don’t care about Amazonian Indians, and they certainly don’t care about people not receiving the sacraments. Just look at Germany and how few people even frequent the sacraments there. What the German bishops care about is that the Church is more and more incorporated into the work of the United Nations.” The subject of suffering Amazonians is just an excuse, he says, for the “United Nations to treat the Church as one of its instruments,” with the complete backing of the Vatican.

Before the synod started, the pope had been babbling on about the binding quality of UN pronouncements. It is no coincidence that his silly gathering is crawling with UN observers, such as Jeffrey Sachs, whose consulting racket includes trying to convince dioceses and religious orders to “divest from oil companies” and the like. I have seen a number of these UN creeps self-importantly jump out of gas-guzzling SUVs near the Vatican. They don’t appear too worried about their own carbon footprint. Indeed, they always seem to be accompanied by a raft of superfluous security guards and flaks.

The Vatican is looking awful these days — graffiti, ugly cattle barricades, and a paramilitary presence, as if it is waiting any moment for an outbreak of the kind of Islamic terrorism the pope assures us doesn’t exist. At times, I feel like I am in the middle of an Italian farce. The other day I was eating next to an African priest and nun who appeared to be on a date. Sure enough, her hand slid over to his hand.

Architecturally and artistically, Rome remains a treat. But religiously, it is depressing as hell. Just stand by one of the Vatican gates and watch priests whip off their collars the moment they step outside, as if the priesthood is nothing more than a 9-to-5 job. Or sit in a café and listen to their pathetically worldly banter.

The street Borgo Pio, not far from one of the Vatican’s gates, is where many of the ecclesiastical heavies hang out. Last Sunday I saw Cardinal Seán O’Malley, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, and Bishop Robert McElroy eating dinner at one of the restaurants on the street. Here was my chance to ask them about the synod and related matters. As they ambled back to the Vatican, I caught up with them and tried to conduct a brief interview. They disdainfully begged off, with Tobin, who no doubt remembered my article about the soap actor living in his rectory, saying laughingly, “Oh, George, oh, George.” O’Malley called my questions “hostile.” McElroy, the most darkly ideological of the three, just broodingly and quietly walked away. For all their talk about “dialogue,” the last thing they wanted to do on the eve of the synod was to speak with a journalist critical of it. The synod is in effect a raised middle finger to orthodox Catholics — a declaration that everything they hold dear no longer exists at the highest levels of the Church.

The Vatican is under enemy occupation and will remain so for many years to come. There is much chatter among Vaticanistas about a “Francis II,” now that the composition of the next conclave is largely liberal. By the time his pontificate ends, Francis will likely have selected two-thirds of the cardinals. The current secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, is thought to be the leading Francis clone. I have been told that Pope Francis is waiting for Benedict to die so that he can “then pass the pontificate to Parolin.”

Parolin is just a circumspect version of Francis. He holds the same batty views but presents them more diplomatically. Here and there one hears grumbles about the pope’s bumptiousness, but for the most part the Catholic Left is thrilled with him. The mask of modernism has been ripped off, only to reveal, in the words of Francis, an “Amazonian face,” beneath which is a UN body.

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SUNDAY REPORT
‘This Pontificate Is Worse Than the Falklands War’
What one hears in Buenos Aires.

by GEORGE NEUMAYR

September 1, 2019, 12:01 AM




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At a boozy evening of angry Argentine Catholics, one man hilariously blurted out in response to one of my questions, “This pontificate is worse than the Falklands War,” a reference to Argentina’s humiliating defeat at the hands of Margaret Thatcher.

As I walked around Buenos Aires for two weeks, I saw some Argentine pride in Jorge Bergoglio, but not much. Even the Pope Francis sections at gift shops seemed curiously muted — the presentation of Francis-related items appeared small and almost pro forma. The stops on the “Bergoglio tour” don’t look very well maintained. Near the home of his birthplace, for example, graffiti is scrawled. No one has bothered to erase it.

Far from reviving Catholicism in Buenos Aires, this pontificate has deflated it. “Immediately after his election church attendance seemed to go up a little bit,” said one Argentine Catholic. “But now it has gone down. Parishes which once had perpetual Eucharistic adoration no longer have it. The situation in Buenos Aires has gone from bad to worse.” Another Argentine Catholic tells me, “I stopped going to daily Mass because the quality of it has become such a joke.”

Indeed, many of the Catholic institutions in Buenos Aires seem either ghost-townish or in the hands of open heretics. (The Vatican nunciature looked like an abandoned haunted house.) I walked into an archdiocesan bookstore in the heart of Buenos Aires only to see placed in its most prominent display case fawning books about Hans Küng, one of the most heretical theologians of the 20th century.

I ran into an American student who is taking courses at Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA), Buenos Aires’s most prominent Catholic university. How Catholic, I asked him, is it? “Not at all,” he said. “It attracts a lot of obnoxious liberals. Liberalism is out of control here. UCA is even less Catholic than Jesuit Boston College, which I have also attended.” That made me laugh; I had never heard of a school less Catholic than that secularized mess of a Boston university.

Nothing even remotely resembling an authentic Catholic curriculum exists at UCA. But it does offer courses on “magic.”

The now-laicized molester Theodore McCarrick used to pop down to Buenos Aires from time to time to visit the Incarnate Word order. (It was founded by a gay molester, Carlos Buela *, with whom McCarrick palled around.) I now understand why McCarrick liked Buenos Aires so much. For all of its elegance and sophistication, Buenos Aires is a pretty seedy and louche city, with plenty of rent boys and gigolos for the McCarricks to purchase.

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Renuncia del fundador del IVE P. Carlos Miguel Buela
P. Carlos Miguel Buela tuvo que renunciar a su cargo de superior general del Instituto del Verbo Encarnado después de una larga investigación realizada por el Vaticano. El fundador renuncia al cargo en carta fechada 8 de mayo del 2010. El Rev. P. Carlos Buela agradece al Papa Benedicto XVI que no intervenga el IVE después de su renuncia.

Como ha venido siendo noticia en los últimos meses hay “fundadores” de comunidades religiosas que han sido investigados por la Santa Sede recientemente después de años de hacer oídos sordos a las acusaciones recibidas en Roma. Relatos de encubrimiento, abuso de poder, abuso sicológico, abuso sexual, mentiras, manipulación, conductas deshonestas… Estos casos, el P. Maciel, P. Karadima, P.Buela, P. Gelmini; fundadores de comunidades religiosas han abierto en Roma una olla tapada por largo tiempo.
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The city’s glory lies in the past, not the present, which gives it an air of decay and sadness. With inflation at around 50 percent and interest rates at 75 percent, people spend their days at cafes, whorehouses, and the like. Many look either unemployed or under-employed (I saw a number of distinguished-looking older men, probably cut loose from positions at banks, working as bus boys or hotel clerks.)

Meanwhile, the Peronistas are poised to return to power, which will only compound the misery. The Peronista pope is, of course, helping them. I am told that the incumbent president, Mauricio Macri, is trailing Alberto Fernández (who is said to be a puppet for his running mate, former two-term president Cristina Kirchner) too badly to win. Fernández, who boasts a drag queen son, has pledged to accelerate the country’s economic and social liberalism.

According to seasoned observers, the power in Buenos Aires lies largely in the hands of liberal groups, the very groups a power-hungry Jorge Bergoglio did the most to cultivate. “He would seek out the Rotarians, liberal Jewish rabbis, and interfaith leaders because he knew they held the power,” said one Catholic. “You don’t become archbishop of Buenos Aires without kissing those rings.” (By the way, Rabbi Abraham Skorka, whose friendship with Bergoglio the media never fails to celebrate, is now the subject of allegations that he overlooked the pederasty of a mentor.)

Last week, Crux ran a tortured piece about the “Francis effect,” noting desperately that it is seen not in the Church (where sacramental use is down) but in society at large, whatever that means. In truth, its supposedly salutary influence is seen in neither. Argentina is on the verge of electing a secularizing socialist on steroids while its culture disintegrates under the loss of its historic faith — a loss her native son treats not as a crisis but a modernist strategy.

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Where Bergoglio Buried His Communist Mentor
I visited her grave at Santa Cruz church in Buenos Aires.

by GEORGE NEUMAYR

August 28, 2019, 12:05 AM




“Memory Place,” Santa Cruz Church, Buenos Aires (WIkimedia Commons)

“Ihave met many Marxists in my life who are good people, so I don’t feel offended,” Pope Francis has said in response to the charge that he is a communist. As I’ve reported before but bears repeating in this context, Pope Francis grew up in socialist Argentina, an experience seared in his mind:

He told the Latin American journalists Javier Camara and Sebastian Pfaffen that as a young man he “read books of the Communist Party that my boss in the laboratory gave me” and that “there was a period where I would wait anxiously for the newspaper La Vanguardia, which was not allowed to be sold with the other newspapers and was brought to us by the socialist militants.”

The “boss” to whom Pope Francis referred is Esther Ballestrino de Careaga. He has described her as a “Paraguayan woman” and a “fervent communist.” He regards her as one of his most important mentors. “I owe a huge amount to that great woman,” he has said, saying that she “taught me so much about politics.” (He worked for her as an assistant at Hickethier-Bachmann Laboratory in Buenos Aires after he got the equivalent of a high school degree in chemistry.)

“She often read Communist Party texts to me and gave them to me to read. So I also got to know that very materialistic conception. I remember that she also gave me the statement from the American Communists in defense of the Rosenbergs, who had been sentenced to death,” he has said. Learning about communism, he said, “through a courageous and honest person was helpful. I realized a few things, an aspect of the social, which I then found in the social doctrine of the Church.”

In other words, he found in his warped conception of Church teaching the communism to which Ballestrino introduced him.

As the archbishop of Buenos Aires, he took pride in helping her hide the family’s Marxist literature from the authorities who were investigating her. According to the writer James Carroll, Bergoglio smuggled her communist books, including Marx’s Das Kapital, into a “Jesuit library.” (I am hoping to visit it.)

After Ballestrino found herself on the wrong side of the state in 1977, she was tossed out of a plane, and her body eventually washed ashore. Vatican correspondent John Allen has reported what happened next:

“Almost three decades later, when her remains were discovered and identified, Bergoglio gave permission for her to be buried in the garden of a Buenos Aires church called Santa Cruz, the spot where she had been abducted. Her daughter requested that her mother and several other women be buried there because ‘it was the last place they had been as free people.’ Despite knowing full well that Ballestrino was not a believing Catholic, the future pope readily consented.”

On Monday, I visited that grave at Santa Cruz church. It was an illuminating visit. The pope’s communist mentor is pictured throughout the church and is given pride of place in its cemetery.

The church itself has become a shrine to her and other communist radicals, whose pictures and relics pervade it. I noticed that the stations of the cross in the church have been comically politicized, placing Jesus Christ in contemporary settings. He is depicted as a communist martyr, crucified by militarists and greedy capitalists.

Once a striking 19th-century church, Santa Cruz is now just a propaganda prop for Pope Francis’s gang of communist clerics. It is pitiful and puts me in mind of what a precocious teenager said to me the other day after I asked her what she thought of the pope: “He is so bad and ridiculous I don’t think he is the pope. Nothing he does is like what other popes have done.”

That is a common refrain in conservative circles here. I asked one traditionalist professor why Bergoglio copped to his tutelage under an outré radical like Ballestrino. He replied, “Bergoglio wanted to impress global leftists, especially at a time when reports surfaced about how he had let the state kill two commie Jesuits during the Dirty War.”

The latter matter is too complicated for me to resolve. But I take his point. In 2013, Bergoglio was eager to play up his left-wing credentials to dilute the impression he was a toady to Argentine thugs. Clearly, as a power-hungry cleric who instinctively sided with the Argentine deep state, Bergoglio was capable of some crude compromises.

But as pope, he wants the public to see him as a heroic, principled socialist. Again, from my 2017 column on Pope Francis’ communist influences:

“I must say that communists have stolen our flag. The flag of the poor is Christian,” he said outrageously in 2014. Such a comment would have disgusted his predecessors. They didn’t see communism as a benign exaggeration. They saw it as a mortal threat to God-given freedom, as it urges governments to eliminate large swaths of individual freedom, private property, and business in order to produce the “equality” of a society without economic classes.

In the early 20th century, as Marx’s socialism spread across the world, Pope Pius XI declared the theory anathema. “No one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist,” he said. Pope Francis believes the reverse: that no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and an opponent of socialism.

“Inequality is the root of evil,” Pope Francis wrote on his Twitter account in 2014. Karl Marx would agree. But past popes would have dumped a bucket of water on any priest foolish enough to say that. According to traditional Catholic theology, the root of all evil came not from inequality but from Satan’s refusal to accept inequality. Out of envy of God’s superiority, Satan rebelled. He could not bear his lesser status.

He was in effect the first revolutionary, which is why the socialist agitator Saul Alinsky — a mentor to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and countless other public nuisances — offered an “acknowledgment” in his book, Rules for Radicals, to Satan. Alinsky saw him as the first champion of the “have nots.”

During Pope Francis’s visit to Bolivia in July 2015, he received from Evo Morales, Bolivia’s proudly Marxist president, a sacrilegious crucifix of Jesus Christ carved atop a hammer and sickle. Morales described the gift as a copy of a crucifix designed by a late priest, Fr. Luis Espinal, who belonged to the Jesuit order (as does Pope Francis) and had committed his life to melding Marxism with religion. (Pope Francis honored Espinal’s memory upon his arrival in Bolivia.)

Had John Paul II been given such a grotesque cross, he might have broken it over his knee. Not Pope Francis. He happily accepted the hammer-and-sickle cross, telling the press on the plane ride back to Rome that “I understand this work” and that “for me it wasn’t an offense.” After the visit, Morales gushed, “I feel like now I have a Pope. I didn’t feel that before.”

I thought about all of this as I walked through Santa Cruz church. Littered with communist polemics — a Leonardo Boff book on liberation theology greets visitors in the pastor’s office — the parish is proof of the communist infiltration of Holy Mother Church — an infiltration that landed a disciple of Esther Ballestrino on the chair of St. Peter.

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The Pope’s Pitiful Reign of Error
The upcoming Pan-Amazon Synod is shaping up to be a disaster of historic proportions.

by GEORGE NEUMAYR

October 6, 2019, 12:04 AM


At the unveiling of the monument to migrants in St. Peter’s Square (YouTube screenshot)

Iarrived in Rome this week in anticipation of another defining liberal moment of this pontificate: the Pan-Amazon Synod, Pope Francis’ latest pretext to fiddle with Catholic discipline and doctrine. I haven’t been to the Vatican in some years. It was hardly a golden age under Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI, but at least back then Vatican City had recognizably Catholic features. Now it looks like the United Nations Plaza.

As I walked down the hill to the Vatican, from the convent turned inn where I am staying, I noticed graffiti about “comrades” on the walls surrounding it — walls, by the way, far more imposing than Trump’s. One would have to be a criminal with Olympian talents to scale them. Yet what’s the first sculpture one encounters in St. Peter’s Square? A depiction of illegal immigrants, unveiled recently by Pope Francis. The immigrants are huddled together on a kind of ark — certainly not Noah’s, for the sculpture contains almost no religious content, though some interpret a Hasidic Jewish couple on board as Joseph and Mary. The sculpture looks completely out of place, plopped randomly near the arms of Bernini, which now appear more like the forearm of George Soros.

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A visit to the Vatican was once an awe-inspiring religious experience. It now feels more like a trip to Disneyland. It exists primarily for tourists, not pilgrims. It is a bazaar of camera-snapping Asians, cackling Germans, thieving vendors, gum-chewing priests, and trysting middle-age couples. The overwhelming impression it leaves is that Catholicism is a religion of the past, not the present or future. Whatever the future of Islam, at least Muslims have enough regard for God to keep Mecca and Medina from turning into Touristville. Not so for FrancisChurch, which is hastening the death of Catholicism by self-indulgence, if not suicide.

One small example of FrancisChurch’s death wish is the ubiquity of a gay calendar sold in tourist shops throughout the city featuring handsome priests, some in suggestive poses. Women no doubt buy the calendar, but one suspects its primary consumers are the bishops, vocation directors, and clerical colleagues of these priests. I don’t know what is more depressing about the calendar: that the priests would voluntarily pose for it, or that their superiors are likely to buy it. In any case, it is a hideous illustration of a gayed-up religion, screwing around while the Church collapses under the weight of a gay pederasty scandal of epic proportions.

The very clerics who would buy such a calendar are descending upon Rome to debate the expansion of a married priesthood — a grimly ironic topic given that most of them are incapable of real marriage, owing to their lack of interest in women. The Pan-Amazon Synod, which starts on October 7, is supposed to solve the problem of too few priests in the remote wilds of South America. But why is that a problem? Isn’t this pope famous for saying, “I don’t want to convert you”? So what does it matter if Catholic missionaries don’t reach Amazonian Indians?

I picked up a copy of L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper which reads less like a Catholic periodical than a back issue of the Nation. The sheer BS and left-wing propaganda of its contents are stunning: “Climate Change is a Challenge for Society as a Whole” (that was its front-pager); “The Theology of the Noun” (called the “Holy Father’s extemporaneous discourse,” which is too impenetrably flaky to even summarize); “The Green Alphabet of Pope Francis”; “Protect Forests to Ensure the Future of Humanity”; “Do Not Use God As a Pretext to Build Walls”; “For a World Free of Nuclear Weapons”; “Healthcare for the Poorest Too.” Those articles made up most of the issue. All of them bear upon this world, not the next one.

One article, however, did touch upon the upcoming Pan-Amazon Synod. It was written by Fr. Antonio Spadaro, one of the pope’s favorite Jesuits. Spadaro is famous for his anti-American bile and his relativism. He is the Jesuit who conducted the infamous interview in which Pope Francis said that the Church is too preoccupied with the killing of unborn babies and the destruction of marriage. In this article for L’Osservatore Romano, Spadaro tries to explain the “purpose” of the Synod. The article is an incoherent mess, asserting at once that the Synod will promote “evangelization” and the “search for new paths.” Don’t the two cancel each other out? Why would the Church need to evangelize a people from which the Church must “learn” and “listen”? It would appear that the point of the pope’s Synod is not for Catholics to evangelize Amazonian Indians but for Amazonian Indians to enlighten the Church.

On Friday, Francis brought some of them to the Vatican gardens for a planting session. But for Spadaro, the most important “seeds” are contained in the “ancestral wisdom” of Amazonians, whose belief system, we are led to believe, derives from divine inspiration. “The voices of the Amazon call on the universal Church to seek out new paths,” Spadaro writes. The Church has much to learn, he says, from the pantheism of “these peoples of the forest.” One gets the impression that Spadaro’s romanticizing comes less from visiting the Amazon than watching The Mission. A few months of roughing it with those peoples of the forest would probably cure him of his hankering for “indigenous spirituality.”

With all the talk of “listening” to Amazonian Indians, I would have expected to see some in Rome. I haven’t seen any. But I have seen plenty of German priests hanging out at Roman cafes and bloviating about them. “The hand behind this Synod is German,” one Vatican observer said to me. “Just as the German socialists pushed and financed the spread of Liberation Theology in Latin America,” he said, so they are now pushing this Amazonian nature-worship. The Synod is just an excuse to eliminate priestly celibacy, advance climate-change activism within the Church, and spread syncretism, he argues.

One of the Americans Pope Francis has selected to participate in the Synod is San Diego’s bishop, Robert McElroy. I remember McElroy from my days at the University of San Francisco. He was a protégé of the uber-liberal San Francisco archbishop, John Quinn, the gay mafia’s don on the West Coast. These days McElroy is a hopeless papal sycophant. But under Pope John Paul II, I remember him babbling on about faithful dissent. As a lackey for Quinn, he publicly distanced the archdiocese of San Francisco from the then-Vatican’s condemnation of gay adoption. McElroy would later play a role in the archdiocese’s partnership with a gay adoption agency in Oakland. In San Diego, McElroy has hectored Catholics who oppose climate-change activism and illegal immigration. Expect McElroy to join Spadaro in his blather about the profundities of Amazonian pantheism.

Orthodox Catholics visiting Rome view the upcoming Synod with horror. I went to a roundtable discussion on Friday at a hotel in Rome that highlighted this concern. It was hosted by Voice of the Family and featured such speakers as Roberto de Mattei, Marco Tosatti, Michael Voris, Michael Matt, Taylor Marshall, and John-Henry Westen.

“The Holy Father has entangled the Church in an anti-God philosophy, granting absolution to a political system that has as its primary end the overthrow of the Divine, of all that is sacred,” said Michael Voris. Roberto de Mattei, a historian, said we are witnessing the creation of a new religion under Francis, one that seeks to give the Church an “ ‘Amazonian face,’ ”, in the pope’s own words. Marco Tosatti said the event will simply give a papal imprimatur to religious relativism and political leftism. Taylor Marshall sees it as the culmination of modernism’s long march through the Church, a movement that has been gathering speed for over a century at least, and that seeks to replace Christianity with “humanism and globalism.”

At the last Synod, the one ostensibly held to strengthen the family, the pope ended up weakening it by endorsing adultery. At this one, he will play the same game, invoking “evangelization” to undermine it. All of his blather about a “synodal, listening” Church conceals the raw autocracy of his pontificate, a catastrophically willful attempt to remake Catholicism in his own left-wing image. He listens to no one save flunkies who already agree with him. His Amazonian affectations are a monumental act of condescension, just one more globalist lecture at hapless peoples on whom UN jerks and papal dilettantes can experiment.

I remember a few years back a story that came out about Bolivian tribesmen who had retained the classical music taught to them by Catholic missionaries centuries ago. The tribes had kept playing the compositions long after the missionaries left and passed them down to future generations. It was the modern churchmen around Vatican II who tried to wean the Indians off it and put guitars in their hands. But they weren’t interested in lame 1960s music and kept the old compositions. It turned out that thousands of those compositions existed, some of them given original adaptations. One of the big music companies turned them into a CD, and it became a hit.

The self-consciously modernizing Catholicism of Pope Francis is not a hit. It is a wilting waste of time, evident in the thousands of Italians who have stopping going to Church. According to Marco Tosatti, lapsed Catholicism in Italy has cost the Church in the last couple of years tens of millions of dollars (once they leave, they no longer pay the church tax). The Vatican recently announced that its budget deficit has doubled.

The irony of the pope’s worldly, temporally minded Catholicism is that it leaves the world bored. The Vatican’s groaning gift shops attract buyers not with encyclicals on global warming but with mementoes of its glorious past.


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Nuevamente, otro Cardenal de la Santa Iglesia Católica de Dios arremete contra varios errores contenidos en el Instrumentum Laboris de este Sínodo, aportando argumentos sólidos e irrefutables, que todo católico debería conocer. Además afirma que existen "falsos hermanos" dentro de la Iglesia, que son los enemigos de Juan Pablo II y Benedicto XVI, NO INCLUYENDO a Bergoglio. Os dejo aquí el enlace a su entrevista completa: https://dominusestblog.wordpress.com/... Recemos por este y los demás pastores que o no son enemigos de Cristo o que sí lo son, pero que un día fueron sus amigos, para se arrepientan de corazón, porque el Señor los espera con los brazos abiertos en la Cruz. Dios os bendiga +++. Amén.

 

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