"Ratzinger's Galaxy" (graphic follow up on Panorama's article)

Cafeteria is Closed ^ | January 20, 2007 | Gerald Augustinus

[SaltyJoe]

Politics in the Vatican?

I like competition, but not when it’s so personal. Some are better at remaining ethical while in disagreement. I might have to take a vacation…to the Eucharist and with a lot of Holy Water.

There is much I find disagreeable with "politics". Perhaps the very word shows its divisive nature. There’s no politics with halved organs in our human body. The brain thinks. The heart pumps. Even when organs are two and opposite of each other, they still perform in unison and without intent to dominate the other. How silly would that be of Nature for one organ to maliciously dominate the other? Was Jesus more than mere punster when we stated that we shouldn’t let the left hand know what your right is doing? Of course, He's prophetic!

Perhaps, too, I'm leery of how Jesus spoke of the politics when He described what the present generation was like:

Matthew 11:
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"To what shall I compare this generation? It is like children who sit in marketplaces and call to one another,
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'We played the flute for you, but you did not dance, we sang a dirge but you did not mourn.'

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There is only one function for all creation--to praise the Holy Trinity.

The fruit of one's actions is simply surmised:

Luke 11:
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Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. "


There are no politics in Heaven. There are no politics in Hell. Jesus told us so when He cast demons out and was accused of having power over demons as a demon.

Politics are a demonic invention. The transferance of guilt shows the accuser casting a false light for the crime upon the innocent. The function of politics is to slow the efforts of mankind who, with the help of God and His Good Angels, will establish the Kingdom of Divine Will on earth.

Of all the silly politics mankind suffers, whether secular or even in the Vatican, we’ll see the True strength of the Sacraments before time ends if we have eyes and ears to see and hear. Sometimes these events reveal themselves in the form of political elections. Sometimes miracles happen without giving science enough evidence for explanation. But, that's why it's called "Faith".

Of Vatican “politics” that I read from any source, even from media with the most noblest in intentions, I have a deep suspicion as if it’s written with a goal to dominate human will. And, maybe that suspicion is abhorrent too (“To mark the full-fraught man and best indued With some suspicion"). My reasoning for it is purely historical from a plethora of examples. How many news pundits pretending to know the inside workings of the power-in-charge have given a “sky is falling” opinion-as-fact report? The president’s cabinet is at each others’ throats? The First Lady has put her husband in the dog house?

This Season of Lent might mean that I’ll have to ignore the negative influence of politics that would have me call my brother “stupid” (as well as all the other negative influences to sin, like lust and stuffing my face with food). It might mean that I only read the Daily Mass & Homilies on the message boards. Then I'll learn more of the lifelong struggle of domination within myself. It’s the invisible over the material--the soul to master the body. That’s how I come to know that politics are diabolic in origin. Politics caused the loss of mankind’s free will which was once in harmony with Divine Will but severed because of temptation and sin.

Mark 14:
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Watch and pray that you may not undergo the test. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak."

There is temptation to give battle, but embarrassment for friendly fire lends to awkward apology:

"Free me so far in your most generous thoughts,
That I have shot mine arrow o'er the house,
And hurt my brother."