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[Catholic Caucus] The Strange Gods of Pope Francis
American Spectator ^ | October 10, 2019 | George Neumayr

Posted on 10/10/2019 10:26:56 AM PDT by ebb tide

[Catholic Caucus] The Strange Gods of Pope Francis

His project is to weaken Catholic faith while strengthening the UN-Vatican alliance.

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Tourists in Rome are long familiar with the image of Romulus and Remus suckling the teats of a wolf. But this week visitors to the Pan-Amazon Synod encountered a new image: an Amazonian mother suckling a dog. That picture hangs in a church next to the Vatican: Santa Maria in Traspontina. I wandered into it the other day and was struck by the jarring contrast between its stunning Baroque interior and the bonkers propaganda plastered on and near its walls. Much of the church had been turned into a shrine to the plight and nature-worship of Amazonians. Beneath the picture of the woman nursing a dog (while carrying a baby), a poster declares fatuously, “Everything is Connected.”

The poster captures the sheer obnoxiousness of the pope’s “ecological” kick. What a dismal devolution Rome has suffered under him. What will he do next? Turn the Pantheon back into a pagan temple? Why not? If Amazonian pantheism is a “religious experience” worthy of Catholic respect, why not revive ancient paganism, too? Perhaps the pope’s next synod can rehabilitate Nero.

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TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Theology; Worship
KEYWORDS: apostasy; francischism; paganism

1 posted on 10/10/2019 10:26:56 AM PDT by ebb tide
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2 posted on 10/10/2019 10:28:48 AM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome)
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To: ebb tide
"waiting for Benedict to die"

Reminds me of the 45 yr. old guy who married the 71 year old very rich widow, hoping to inherit her wealth when she died.

He died at 58 while she went on to live to 94.

3 posted on 10/10/2019 10:42:57 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: ebb tide

The gods of Antipope Bergoglio are the “Gods of the Marketplace”, described by Rudyard Kipling a century ago.


AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.

We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.

We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.

With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “Stick to the Devil you know.”

On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.”

Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!


4 posted on 10/10/2019 10:45:43 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: ebb tide

George gets it.


6 posted on 10/10/2019 10:52:03 AM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow
I'm sorry to say--- I think he does.

Pray and fast. I'm serious. This kind does not go out, except by prayer and fasting.

7 posted on 10/10/2019 5:27:05 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Enquiring minds have really had enough of this.)
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