Pope Francis and the State of the Union

In the first papal address ever given to the United States Congress by a Pope, the Vicar of Christ never mentioned Christ, but rather only Moses as the one who “leads us directly to God and thus to the transcendent dignity of the human being.” Given an historic opportunity to preach Catholic truth to secular power, Francis held up as models for imitation not Christ, nor any of the saints of the Catholic Church, but rather Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, the controversial convert Dorothy Day (a socialist and early women’s rights activist) and Thomas Merton, the Modernist monk whose famous conversion story (Seven Storey Mountain) was followed by a life that ended in a dalliance with Buddhism and a horrible death by electrocution in a bathroom in Bangkok.

Francis did not see fit to mention even the popular Mother Theresa, who had the courage to tell the audience at the National Prayer Breakfast, including many members of Congress, things that Francis is clearly averse to saying to the powers that be:

every abortion is the denial of receiving Jesus, the neglect of receiving Jesus… And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?... Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love one another but to use any violence to get what they want. As for abortion, Francis never mentioned it, much less condemned it in the manner of Mother Theresa, even though Congress is in the very midst of debating the defunding of Planned Parenthood on account of its butchery of the unborn and the sale of their body parts. Concerning the defense of life, Francis said only this: “The Golden Rule also reminds us of our responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development. This conviction has led me, from the beginning of my ministry, to advocate at different levels for the global abolition of the death penalty.”

For Francis, the right to life requires the “global abolition” of the death penalty, as if convicted murderers on death row, who have forfeited their right to life as Pius XII taught, represent a “stage” in life’s development. And what about the “global abolition” of abortion, which actually does destroy human life at its earliest stage? Of this Francis said not one word before Congress. Indeed, while he has incessantly demanded abolition of the death penalty, which the Church has always approved as appropriate to redress the gravest crimes, he has never called for the global abolition of abortion, which the Church has always condemned as the mass murder of innocents. The contrast could not be more revealing.

Aside from abolition of the death penalty, Francis called for dialogue of all sorts, action on the environment, a more equal “distribution” of wealth, an end to the arms trade, no more war and violence, peace, love, solidarity, and “the avoidance of simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil…” The net effect was that of a State of the Union address, eliciting applause and standing ovations from the Democrat and Republican sides of the chamber depending on which political sentiment was appealed to. All leapt to their feet, however, when Francis referred to America, the abortion capital of the world, where “gay marriage” has been imposed on all fifty states without a word of protest from Francis, as “the land of the free and the home of the brave.”

In the aftermath of the Pope’s address, even the Jewish radio talk show host Michael Savage could see what is happening. He described it (during his show on September 25) as “a seamless integration of Church and State.” By this he means the de facto absorption of the Church into the modern state system and the reduction of the role of the papacy to that of a kind of non-denominational chaplaincy to the New World Order. Truly we are seeing fulfilled before our very eyes the process Bishop Rudolf Graber described in the 1970s: that of synarchy, the very fulfillment of Masonic designs according to which “Catholicism, like all religions, would consequently be absorbed into a universal syncretism. Far from being suppressed, it would be integrated, a course which is already being steered in the principle of fellowship between clerics.” One need only watch the video of the Pope’s participation in the subsequent multi-faith prayer service at the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan to appreciate this awful reality. Only the Protestant minister in attendance mentioned Christ and the Gospel. Francis, on the other hand, the very Vicar of Christ, called for a moment of silence.

Only Our Lady of Fatima can obtain for us now the grace of deliverance of the Church and the world from what would humanly appear to be the cancellation of the divine commission to make disciples of all nations. And only the promises of Christ Himself, acting through His Mother as Mediatrix of all graces, can provide our certain assurance that this crisis too — as unprecedented as it is — shall pass. In the meantime, we must recognize the crisis for what it is and arm ourselves against it with the Rosary and the other helps the Church alone provides.

WHO REALLY IS POPE FRANCIS?
9/27/2015

Which one of these is Pope Bergoglio: the voice of the oppressed, the poor, the marginalized or the voice of the oppressors?

In Cuba we witnessed a political, never pastoral, Pope Bergoglio becoming the voice of the oppressors. He ignored the cry for help of 11 million Cubans marginalized, oppressed, the poorest among the poor enslaved under a brutal Stalinist regime for over 56 years.

The Pope in Cuba called for “reconciliation” which in Francis’ Orwellian lexicon means not to create “lios” (not to revolt), as he told the youth in Brazil. Francis told the Cubans to accept to remain slaves, to forget their martyrs and forgive their torturers, to be patient, that thanks to his Faustian pact negotiated among Obama and the Cuban Stalinist regime very soon American taxpayers’ dollars will flow to the island prison alleviating their extreme misery and making easier to endure their lack of freedom and the regime’s continuous human rights violations.

In United States we saw a mostly pastoral Pope intertwined with his leftist political agenda. He gave his outmost priority to the hoax of global warming, but he did not address directly the holocaust of more than 55 million unborn babies in the U.S. by abortion, the most abominable of the crimes. Neither he denounced the genocide of Christians by Muslims in Africa and the Middle East.

In the United States, Francis made a very moving pastoral visit to prisoners; but in Cuba the Pope did not want to expose to the world the infra-human conditions in which the Cuban political prisoners live. For the Pope, the Cuban political prisoners did not deserve a word of hope.

Cuban political prisoners are not common criminal, they are patriots that have been incarcerated for demanding freedom and respect for the human rights of the Cuban people. As a token of gratitude towards the Pope, the regime freed 3,000 common criminals, but not a single political prisoner.

Furthermore, they incarcerated or put under house arrest all the dissident leaders during the visit of the Pope.

In the U.S. the Pope allowed a small girl to reach him at the pope mobile to deliver a message from the immigrants living illegally in U.S. In Cuba three times Cuban dissidents tried to give him a message before being pulled out from the by the regime agents; but Francis even denied that any dissident tried to reach him at the pope mobile even though it was captured by the television cameras.

Pope Francis opposed the death penalty in U.S.; but no in Cuba. In Cuba all that Francis said about the Cuban tragedy was that “they are a people which has its wounds, like every other people.” It was a slap in the face of all Cubans in and out of Cuba. Hundreds of thousands of Cubans have suffered torture and debase of their human dignity in Castro’s dungeons. Thousands were murdered by the infamous firing squads where many died shouting “Viva Cristo Rey” and Pope Bergoglio didn’t give a damn to honor our Martyrs.

More than 30,000 Cubans have drowned trying to escape from the hellish regime that the Pope admires as an example for the rest of Latin America.

Francis, an admirer of Che Guevara and Fidel, begged for a meeting with Fidel Castro which was described by the Vatican as very friendly and familiar. At the end of the meeting with Castro, the Pope expressed publicly his deep appreciation for Fidel Castro, a murderous tyrant who has committed the genocide of the Cuban people and who for 56 years has made a country that had the highest standard of living in Latin America in 1959 to the poorest and most oppressed in the history of this hemisphere.

Quite obsequious with the torturers of the Cuban people, the Pope did not accept to receive a representation of the pacific dissidents of the Stalinist regime who are the true voice of the enslaved Cuban people. “As Newsweek has observed, seventeen years ago in his homily in Havana, John Paul II mentioned “freedom” seventeen times and “justice” thirteen times. In his homily, Francis did not mention “freedom” or “justice” once.

The Cuban cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino played to its fullness his role as lap dog of the Cuban regime.

The visit of Pope Francis to Cuba will be recorded as a big blot in the history of the Catholic Church in Cuba.

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