What's Really Going On with the Amazon Synod, & PC (Pachamama Catholics) too!

Amici,

Today is the Feast Day of St Raphael the Archangel. Go here: for a variety of prayers to him and also a novena, and the St. Raphael Chaplet. 

Alas, things in the Catholic Church are – quite honestly – in meltdown. The reaction to the tossing of the ugly, pathetic "earth goddess Pachamama" idols in the Tiber is what you'd expect of the PC (Pachama Catholic?) Church. "An act of bravado" and "theft" and so on.

Of course, the Amazon Synod has nothing to do with such "religious" aspect of things, but money and power are the REAL motives for what's happening. The following is an excellent interview about all that with Bernardo P. Küster, Brazilian Catholic Journalist – Mr Küster is an independent journalist in Brazil and he's been uncovering Church corruption and the bishops' links to the Marxists in Brazil. Amazing stuff. This "poor mouth" about the indigenous Amazon people is all cover for what they're really after: the 23 Trillion of mineral wealth in the Amazon basin (that's why the poor of Brazil's northeast get NO mention at all; the jackpot is in the Amazon. Review the interview for details. 

At 17 minutes in, Küster says, “The issue is never the issue. This is how these people think. They say we have to give the sacraments, but is it true? No; they want to use the pretext of the sacraments to change the Church, and destroy it.”

He is interviewed by John Henry Westen of Lifesite. This is a must see interview. And it dovetails perfectly with Maureen Mullarky's article here:

'The Catholic Church’s Amazon Synod Is Exploitation OfThe Poor Masquerading As The Opposite'

And also with Hilary White's excellent report on the simply unbelievably bad--rotten, stinking, putrid--state of the Italian hierarchy and how they're helping the hard Left there to try to win an election against Centrist/Family First politicians.

(Her new one on the same series about our papal disaster "Bergi" is here. 

So, behind the scenes, all this Sturm und Drang is smoke screening the Marxist/Leftist (and of course, "Homosexualist") takeover of the Church.

For those interested in the actual theological catastrophe enveloping Catholicism, see this Taylor Marshall and Tim Gordon vid I've linked to below.

Contra "PC Catholics (Pachamama Catholics): We Are the Religion of Idol Smashers

"Elijah wasn't 'racist'," Marshall says, "he hated idols because he loved God. Offenses toward God are the greatest offenses. We've lost that. Offending God: sins like apostasy, heresy. Commandment One. Once you commit those sins, the all rest of the Nine are easy. If you don't respect God, you're not going to respect your neighbor, the Lord's Day, your neighbors wife. All the sins fall from that. Our Lord Jesus Christ said, "The love of God is the first and greatest Commandment."

Great discussion of Taylor Marshall and Tim Gordon:

All things Pachamama: Are they Idols and was this Theft?

An excerpt:

"Elijah wasn't 'racist'," Marshall says, "he hated idols because he loved God. Offenses toward God are the greatest offenses. We've lost that. Offending God: sins like apostasy, heresy. Commandment One. Once you commit those sins, the all rest of the Nine are easy. If you don't respect God, you're not going to respect your neighbor, the Lord's Day, your neighbors wife. All the sins fall from that. Our Lord Jesus Christ said, "The love of God is the first and greatest Commandment."

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Pope Francis gets it exactly backwards in his Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium

A friend posting at OnePeterFive mentioned (and kindly linked to) Bergoglio outragous comment in the pope's Apostolic  Exhortation EVANGELII GAUDIUM, section 161, that:

It would not be right to see this call to growth exclusively or primarily in terms of doctrinal formation. It has to do with “observing” all that the Lord has shown us as the way of responding to his love. Along with the virtues, this means above all the new commandment, the first and the greatest of the commandments, and the one that best identifies us as Christ’s disciples: “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you” (Jn 15:12). Clearly, whenever the New Testament authors want to present the heart of the Christian moral message, they present the essential requirement of love for one’s neighbour: “The one who loves his neighbour has fulfilled the whole law… therefore love of neighbour is the fulfilling of the law” (Rom 13:8, 10). These are the words of Saint Paul, for whom the commandment of love not only sums up the law but constitutes its very heart and purpose: “For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, ‘you shall love your neighbour as yourself’” (Gal 5:14).

Ambaist! What a perversion to write this. Read John 15, from the first verse to 17. Note how not so subtly Bergoglio perverts it. St. John is quoting Our Lord as saying, "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.  If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love." (Verses 9-10) Clearly the idea is to be right with with God, to place God first, as He must be, necessarily so. One cannot "love" (in the high sense, charitas, agapē) without loving God first. Matthew 22:37-39 "Jesus declared, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.’" 

Instead, as my friend pointed out, Bergoglio makes a Humanist statement, not a Catholic theological one. As I wrote in answer to his post:

Naturally, Bergi has got it exactly backward. First things first, and God necessarily – by essential definition – comes first; but our Caudillo puts Man first, and of course he puts himself first among men.

What kills me is it is all so banal, so lame, so stupid -- could anyone design anything more likely to turn off people to religion than the Vatican II Church and its Bergoglio? What homosexuality is to procreation, what Modernism is to Aquinas, what the N.O. is to the TLM, that's what the Vat2 Church is to Catholicism.

AnP

Bergoglio Jumps the Shark by Teaching Against the First Commandment

Salvē amici!

Well, after six years now of fish-leaping, it seems Jorge Bergoglio (a.k.a Pope Francis) has finally jumped the shark with his signed statement that God positively wills the plurality of religions.

Reaction of the Righteous has been righteous: First, Bishop Athanasius Schneider's reaction:

https://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2019/02/05/pope-signs-declaration-saying-god-wills-religions-pluralism-what-does-this-mean/

Bishop Athanasius Schneider, whom Francis has grounded and won’t let the bishop do public speaking, has responded with this: https://onepeterfive.com/schneider-christian-god-willed/

Cardinal Müller, whom Bergi fried from the CDD (old Holy Office, officially since Vatican 2 the "Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith") has produced a manifesto: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-mueller-issues-manifesto-a-quasi-correction-of-pope-francis-pontif

Orthodox (as in truly Catholic, rather than St. Gallen Mafia type) bishops respond: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-mueller-issues-manifesto-a-quasi-correction-of-pope-francis-pontif

And good ol’ Cardinal Burke opens his own website. Just so cool! https://cardinalburke.com/ He’s asking us connect to him. I'm certainly going to.

All this has happened rapid fire, like a .50 machine gun firing away. The reaction of Schneider, Müller, and Burke (sounds like a law firms) indicates Jorge Mario Bergoglio has finally "jumped the shark", i.e., gone too far. Breaking the First Commandment (actually, did you know there are 13 Thou Shall Nots in that section of the Bible?:) is just too much. Bergi should have been tossed years ago, but this outrageous statement comes just before a big Vatican meeting about the priest/bishop sex abuse scandal in Rome, where it is widely expected that that devil McCarrick will be laicized. Bergoglio forced a shut down on the U.S. Bishops dealing with this mess and everyone will be looking to see what happens in Rome (sounds like a line from Tacitus, doesn't it?).

Meanwhile, for those with the time, Taylor Marshall and Timothy Gordon cover it in detail:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I84WTg4GX8

and go through Spanish and Italian versions of what Bergoglio said, as well as the English.

There can be no question that Bergoglio said God positively willed plurality of religions, and this of course is a direct, unequivocal breaking of the First Commandment: "I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt not have strange (any other) gods before Me."

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