Posted on 08/19/2016 3:45:06 PM PDT by ebb tide
Today (August 17) the Vatican announced that by motu proprio (his own initiative), Francis has formally erected the new “super-dicastery” of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, the Family and Life (PCLFL), effective September 1. The new dicastery will absorb (and thus abolish) the Pontifical Councils for the Family and the Laity and will also overlap the function of the still-existing Pontifical Academy for Life, one of whose members, the German philosopher Josef Siefert, published a devastating critique of the disastrous Amoris Laetitia, calling upon Francis to correct its errors against the Faith.
Francis has appointed as head of the PCLFL none other than Bishop Kevin Joseph Farrel of Texas, a “pro-gay” prelate widely denounced for installing as pastor of a Texas parish a homosexual priest who participated in an explicitly “gay” website for homosexual clergy and religious. (The priest was removed only after public outcry over the appointment.)
Farrel clearly accepts as a given that there will be homosexual priests in pastoral ministry. Citing remarks by Francis concerning “respect” for “homosexual persons,” Farrel declared here that “The Church still has the expectation that priests must commit to a life of celibate chastity whether they are homosexual or heterosexual.” Still? The expectation? Whether they are homosexual or heterosexual?
So much for the constant teaching and practice of the Church, affirmed by Benedict XVI, that men who consider themselves “gay” cannot be admitted to seminaries as their intrinsically disordered condition renders them unfit for the priesthood, which is configured to the person of Christ, the male par excellence.
As for the still-existing Pontifical Academy for Life, this has been turned over to the “pro-gay” Archbishop Vincenzio Paglia, who replaces Spanish bishop Ignacio Carrasco de Paula as President. Paglia will also take over the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, replacing the Vicar General of Rome Cardinal Agostino Vallini as grand chancellor. Vallini denounced the distribution of condoms in Italian public schools as “an initiative [that] can only be combated by the Church of Rome and the Christian families seriously affected by the education of their children.”
Paglia has infamously praised the “gay” propaganda TV series “Modern Family” and it was he who “was also responsible for inviting homosexual couples to last year’s World Meeting of Families.” In defense of the invitation Paglia huffed: “We are following Instrumentum Laboris on the Synod to the letter. Everyone can come, nobody is excluded.”
Not surprisingly, Paglia also supports Francis’ pet cause of finding a way to admit public adulterers in “second marriages” to Holy Communion, having published between sessions of the laughably misnamed “Synod on the Family” a book promoting the overthrow of the Church’s contrary teaching and discipline in defense of the indissolubility of marriage, affirmed under John Paul II, especially in Familiaris consortio. Indeed, as Edward Pentin reported, members of the John Paul II Institute, known for their defense of his teaching in this regard, were systematically excluded from any participation in the Synod’s two sessions.
With the creation of the new “super-dicastery” and these two appointments, Francis has effectively placed the entire Vatican apparatus concerning marriage and family under the control of two prelates who are manifestly subversive of both.
With each passing day, Francis confirms all the more the dire warning of Sister Lucia at Fatima that “the final battle between the Lord and the reign of Satan will be about marriage and the family… [A]nyone who works for the sanctity of marriage and the family will always be fought and opposed in every way, because this is the decisive issue.” But who would have thought that opposition would be aided and abetted by the very one who occupies the Seat of Peter?
Christ’s Church on Earth has been deliberately trashed by all ‘popes’ who followed Vatican II. This one, however, may deserve the eternal vacation in hell.
this is a bit of a long read ( I am admittedly tired and lazy today) is there someone who can summarize exactly what this means?
Summary: Francis has the fox watching the hen house.
FYI, I didn’t leave the catholic church it left me.
Is Pope Francis the final pope?
That is too early to tell for sure. But if he is, he will be an antipope and the final Antichrist.
But if he is, his age would suggest that there is not a lot of time left. But also because of his age, it may be that he will not be the last pope.
Now, according to Catholic prophecy:
An antipope will arise, and could/should be the current Pope Francis.
A pope will hold an ecumenical council that satisfies heretics and results in a more ecumenical religion being accepted.
The vast majority of Catholics will accept the antipope.
A pope that performs miracles will arise.
People around the world will accept the faith that this miracle-performing pope endorses.
A pope that supports the “Great Monarch/Prince of the North” will arise.
The Great Monarch, that the pope supports, will eliminate the Anglo-descended nations.
The “Great Monarch/Prince of the North,” that the pope supports, will eliminate an Islamic confederation.
A pope will reign with the Great Monarch for around four years.
The destruction of Rome comes after tribulations that a pope oversees.
Armies from lands, including Russia and Asia, will gather in Armageddon
A great judge comes after Rome is destroyed.
According to certain understandings of the Malachy prophecy, Pope Francis is the last pope and if other Catholic prophecies are correct, those events will happen under his pontificate.
The latest hymn from the Vatican:
Times have changed
And we’ve often rewound the clock
Since the Puritans got a shock
When they landed on Plymouth Rock.
If today
Any shock they should try to stem
‘Stead of landing on Plymouth Rock,
Plymouth Rock would land on them.
In olden days, a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking.
But now, God knows,
Anything goes.
Good authors too who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose.
Anything goes.
If driving fast cars you like,
If low bars you like,
If old hymns you like,
If bare limbs you like,
If Mae West you like,
Or me undressed you like,
Why, nobody will oppose.
When ev’ry night the set that’s smart is in-
Truding in nudist parties in
Studios.
Anything goes.
When Missus Ned McLean (God bless her)
Can get Russian reds to “yes” her,
Then I suppose
Anything goes.
When Rockefeller still can hoard en-
Ough money to let Max Gordon
Produce his shows,
Anything goes.
The world has gone mad today
And good’s bad today,
And black’s white today,
And day’s night today,
And that gent today
You gave a cent today
Once had several chateaux.
When folks who still can ride in jitneys
Find out Vanderbilts and Whitneys
Lack baby clo’es,
Anything goes.
If Sam Goldwyn can with great conviction
Instruct Anna Sten in diction,
Then Anna shows
Anything goes.
When you hear that Lady Mendl standing up
Now turns a handspring landing up-
On her toes,
Anything goes.
Just think of those shocks you’ve got
And those knocks you’ve got
And those blues you’ve got
From that news you’ve got
And those pains you’ve got
(If any brains you’ve got)
From those little radios.
So Missus R., with all her trimmin’s,
Can broadcast a bed from Simmons
‘Cause Franklin knows
Anything goes.
Who knew the Bible was a living Book sort of like our Living Breathing Constitution that only means what the elitists tell us it means.
Lead us not into temptation
But deliver us from evil
I have never been a fan of Francis.
Bishop Kevin Joseph Farrel of Texas
Wonder what else he got wrong.
For the record, Farrell inherited a huge mess in Dallas, and did a pretty good job of cleaning up the problems Grahmann left behind. He was a Benedict appointee in Dallas.
Reading and listening to Ferrara is good and worth while, since reading and listening to Ferrara moves me to investigate his conclusions. His conclusion about Paglia is suspicious and I shall investigate further.
New Vatican book suggests opening door to Communion for ‘remarried’ Catholics
Some snips:
In recent days, several news reports have come from Europe that are worth presenting to the U.S. Catholic world. The most important event is the publication in Rome of a new book that contains the presentations of an earlier set of seminars hosted – in January, February, and March 2015 – by the Pontifical Council for the Family, which is headed by Archbishop Vicenzo Puglia.
As the Italian newspaper La Republicca reported, on July 22, 2015, this book offers new lines of arguments that are purposely made in order to admit “remarried” divorcees to the Sacraments – even if only in a limited way. It says, for example:
A penitential path ad-hoc, let us call it a “via discretionis” [a discreet or discretionary, path], which consents to make it possible that remarried divorcees may have access to the Sacraments of the Eucharist and of Reconciliation. This is the proposal which emerged during a three-day international seminar, behind closed doors, which has been convoked by the Pontifical Council for the Family in light of the upcoming Synod of Bishops in October 2015.
If the fake Pope’s mission is to destroy the Church, he seems to be doing a good job.
A true pope can not be an anti-pope or false pope at the same time. Of course I don't believe that Francis is a true pope and therefore he can not be the "last pope". I do pray that he is the last false pope though.
Thank you for the link.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/new-vatican-book-suggests-opening-door-to-communion-for-remarried-catholics
Francis Bergoglio, islamist facilitator.
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