The Synodal Church, cognitive dissonance, and the video "What on Earth Is Going on at the Vatican"

Amici,

Michael Matt has for years been a major player in the Trad Catholic scene in America, and so has his family. But at the moment, like so many others, he insists Bergoglio is actually pope. See an interview here at LifeSiteNews for details. One commentator to that article wrote that Matt is making a lot of sense. 

Matt is not making sense. Honestly, this whole "Bergoglio is pope" meme has to stop. Why? Insisting Bergoglio is pope will force anyone maintaining that position into severe cognitive dissonance. Insisting that ANYTHING is X, when it is clearly Y, will make you "cross-eyed" as it were; i.e. induce in you cognitive dissonance. Allow that cognitive dissonance to continue, not clearing it up immediately, will leave you psychologically prone, knocked flat. Leave it too long, allow it to fester in you, and you'll lose your faith. 

And THAT is the plan, my friends, of Bergoglio or whoever is managing him. Drive regular, "orthodox" Catholics out from their faith, and ultimately simply render them deeply ill in the soul. Let me prove this very easily. 

Did you-all see the circus like freakshow video of the capering and antics of performers around Bergoglio? All the exotic dancers and contortionists? Here it is, on Rumble. I assume they were "celebrating" the opening of the synod – yet with Tio Jorge, any reason would do – and it looked for all the world, well, Hellish. Just simply Hellish. Watch. Decide for yourself. Bergoglio enthroned in the City of Dis, rather distantly flanked by two high-level churchmen, impassive as a Mardi Gras-like carnival swirls around him. 

• Merely seeing that would make me ill were I somehow thinking Bergoglio in some way actually served as a valid pope. 
• I do not, not for an instant, and so I dismissed what I saw as idiocy. Fluff. Nonsense. 
• But the producers of this twaddle did not intend this show for people like me. 

Oh, no. It was intended for those who insist Bergoglio is pope. For such folks, it will cause great pain and torment. For them, it's an insidious manipulation. Grotesque. A mockery of everything they ever believed about the Church. A stake through their hearts. And please believe me when I say it is making Catholicism a laughing stock among Protestants, Jews, and Muslims. I'm seeing endless comments from them via the conservative political blogs regarding the descent of the Church into, well, Sodom. I've never read such a aggregate of vehemence against the Catholic Church before on these sites. And the sites and their commentators are "conservatives", and generally religious and valuing the importance of religion. 

Just crazy.

Just brutal.

And very effective.

Do not fall into their trap. 

Do not allow yourself to be devastated.

         AnP