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."

An Préachán

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"Weird" Vatican developments and Hilary White's take on What's the Story with Joe...

(And yes, I use "weird" in both its modern and its ancient meanings.) 

 You-all may have heard of the latest odd Vatican development: Benedict's "forged" or "forced" letter about Francis' theology books. Father Zuhlsdorf has info on it here, and important links, as well:

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2018/03/more-of-and-about-the-letter-of-benedict-xvi-on-the-booklets/

See also Lifesite news: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/laura-ingraham-on-benedicts-doctored-letter-two-popes.-da-vinci-code-stuff

"Conservative" Catholics are up in arms, but the Trads aren't buying it, i.e. Hilary White's take:

http://whatisupwiththesynod.com/index.php/2018/03/13/from-ratzinger-to-bergoglio-just-the-next-step-in-the-logical-progression/

Is Hilary White, the author here, controversial? Sometimes, but honestly, when Hilary is right, she's right. She writes here about the current controversy of the "retired" pope endorsing the current pope's 11-volume theological work. Many are insisting "Father Benedict" really didn't endorse Pope Francis' -- er -- intellectual efforts. Rather, that he was forced, or that it was photo-shopped, etc. Hilary White isn't buying it. She makes the (unpopular among "Conservatives") case that Ratzinger was always a Vat2 Reformer, heart and soul.

An excerpt:

Why did Benedict resign? Why has he sat by passively while the Bergoglians eat the Church? And in a larger sense, why was Kasper never disciplined or removed from the College of Cardinals? Why were all the men whose names we know only too well allowed to continue attacking the Faith and the faithful for so many long years?

Because this is part of his programme. Bergoglianism is the logical conclusion of VaticanTwoism, and that, not the historic Catholic Faith, is what Ratzinger always believed in.

The truth is the man we loved never existed. He was created for us out of a blend of wishful thinking and secular media narrative, propaganda which we heavily bought into because we were terrified of the alternative. Well, here’s that alternative, grabbing us by the arms every day and screaming his blasphemies and heresies into our faces. The alternative is simply that the “conservative” proposal is false, based on false premises, a matter of clinging to our personal preferences in opposition to the evidence; a habit that I have called “Fantasy.”

An Préachán again:

She pulls no punches. Meanwhile, in shocking news, the Polish bishops are wavering on Holy Communion to divorced/remarrieds

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/polish-bishops-leaning-towards-allowing-some-remarried-divorcees-holy-commu

An excerpt:

Polish bishops appear to be showing support for allowing confessors to determine on a case-by-case basis whether remarried divorcees living in a state of objective adultery can receive Holy Communion.
In a statement issued after a two-day plenary meeting, the bishops stressed the importance of “discernment, accompaniment and inclusion” in dealing with such cases, according to the Polish Catholic website Pch24.

"Discernment"! "Accompaniment"! "Inclusion"! All the codewords that really mean: "We don't really believe this Eucharist stuff." Certainly, if they actually come out with this, they don't believe 1 Cor 11:23 (and following to the end of the chapter). And they break with Sacred Tradition as well as Holy Writ.

The $64,000 question is: If the Polish bishops cave to the consecration of sin, how long can the Chastisement be delayed? (See Fr Chad Ripperger on Holy Detachment and the coming Chastisement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3oqUkCm0i4 )

You know, in Islam, the Muslims have always said "Allah is merciful". They've never said, "Allah is love." Allah doesn't love, nor does he "do" covenants or make promises, even to bold mujahideen jihadi who slaughter many of us infidels. So "Allah is merciful!" is far more a desperate plea than a statement of theological fact. Maybe Francis in all this "mercy" talk (mercy which doesn't apply to Trads, obviously, and is highly selective in general) is on the same level?

The Good News, the Gospel, however, is that God uplifts human nature and transforms us (hence the necessity of the Incarnation, into which Baptism and the Holy Eucharist lead us), making us "New creations in Christ"; (2 Cor 5:17, and also throughout the New Testament, really, once you start looking for this teaching). The True God doesn't leave us wallowing in the pigsty of sin, oinking endlessly for mercy. It calls us to perfection in the here and now. See Matt 5:48; and Rev 5:10, plus many others: verses Bergoglio might well excise, if he could, as Luther tried to excise the Epistle of St. James.

In sum, the Gospel is far away from many, today. That's for sure.

3 As all things of his divine power which appertain to life and godliness, are given us, through the knowledge of him who hath called us by his own proper glory and virtue.
4 By whom he hath given us most great and precious promises: that by these you may be made partakers of the divine nature: flying the corruption of that concupiscence which is in the world.
5 And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue; and in virtue, knowledge;
6 And in knowledge, abstinence; and in abstinence, patience; and in patience, godliness;
7 And in godliness, love of brotherhood; and in love of brotherhood, charity.

3 Peter 1:3-7

Can there be a more succinct counter statement to the "Discernment"! "Accompaniment"! "Inclusion"! hogwash?

An Préachán