Bishop Strickland's new letter: God does not and cannot bless sin

Amici,

Bishop Strickland has a new pastoral letter out; this one issued on the eve of the infamous and utterly anti-Catholic "Synod on Synodality" that is expected to change Church teaching on a host of carnal-related issues. So Strickland tackles the "same-sex blessing" insanity in his letter. Read it here at LifeSiteNews. "God does not and cannot bless sin." 

Oh, really? Someone please inform the "Pope". 

Making Himself a Target

Bishop Strickland knows this new letter will enrage the "homosexualist" (what's that even mean? Supporter? Advocate?) Bergoglio and the infamous Fr James Martin, (a.k.a. Pope Francis' pinkie finger, Francis' rent boy, and other monikers too disgusting to pass on). It will stir up a lavender hornets' nest. No other American bishop, and apparently few in the world but the African bishops, stand tall for traditional Church teaching against Sodomy.

Bishop Strickland knows the hammer will fall soon, I am afraid; thus, he "goes for broke." For as surely as the insane Argentine (and I mean nutso: he clearly believes à la "Tucho Fernández that he has oracle-prophetical semi-divine powers and can redefine "Catholic" to suit his will, and that we must all obey his every whim: see this article for details.) is especially in favor of homosexuals and sexual predators in general (like that rapist and incompetent, cartoonish "artist" Jesuit Marko Rupnik).

Bishop Strickland wrote: "The truth is, at the core of our existence is Love, and there is no power in Heaven or on Earth that can keep the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit from loving us fully and completely." Right, but what does 'love' here mean? "The core of our existence is Love" – as in I guess, from the capital L, God. I don't know why Christian preachers of the Faith can't clearly say, as Fr Ripperger does, that "love" means "will the good." To say "God loves you" sounds maudlin, or squishy, or feel good: but to say "God wills your good" – which is what the phrase means – bears a clear, no nonsense understanding of what is meant. To say "God is love" is to say God is ontologically The Good. Goodness in itself, Good as such. Omnibenevolence (supremely good) is the formal term. It's one of the divine attributes, like Omniscience and Omnipotence. 

God thus wills our good because He is Good Itself, and any so-called "good" we humans pursue – like carnal satisfaction, money, fame, etc. – leads us away from The Good, and therefore into Hell. Thus, Heaven or Hell, no in-between. What's wrong with putting it this way?

Because of course the squishy Vatican II Church would get the vapors. It would pass out and need revived with smelling salts. The Vatican II three-year cycle of Mass readings took out most references to Hell, eternal damnation, all that. No doubt secular Jewish psychologists (very big in the '50s and '60s) told them that such language and imagery would turn off "modern man". Any Vatican II priest who preached "hellfire and damnation" sermons would be assigned to the local lunatic asylum or defrocked. But now a new Pharaoh has arisen, one who did not know John Paul II, etc., and this new Pharaoh is iron-handedly slapping down and defacing the squishy Vatican II Church with a sado-masochistic relish, making its conservatives squeal as he imparts homosexual blessings and the Seven Sacraments on egregious, unrepentant mortal sinners. Bergoglio says priests in the confessional must always forgive even when the "penitents" are not sorry for their sins, as most homosexual and adulterous people are not. 

• Because these "conservatives" (and even many Trads) insist Bergoglio is pope, they just must bend over in awe as he violates everything they thought they believed about Catholicism. I am sure he relishes their pain he is inflicting.

So, we go down our merry way, traipsing along to a general ecclesiastical and secular Armageddon. Be prepared for what's coming, and pray for Bishop Strickland.

    An Préachán