Posted on 02/27/2021 8:09:37 PM PST by ebb tide
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On the other hand, Francis himself says that shepherds must smell of sheep and that they need to follow the sensus fidelium, rather than impose a direction on them. It seems that now he leaves the field even more open for the controversy about the points that really matter: gender ideology, gayzism, religious syncretism and, above all, the money that is under it all.
What they didn't expect was for the people to be as awake as they are. The cry of alert was given, the people are angry, the crisis is irreversible, the Campaign of Fraternity has had its greatest loss in history, and the whole event only served to leave people even more vaccinated against Liberation Theology, which will continue to take place despite papal letters or episcopal tears.
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Today, the pope's popularity in Brazil is lower than the Dead Sea. His attempt to save the skin of his Brazilian friends will only leave the faithful firmer in their determination to stop the fundraising campaign. It would be much easier to apologize, delete the problematic texts or even move away from the basic text and replace it with a more Catholic, or at least, consensual one. But these people really are there to divide, and cynically use the discourse of "union" as a method to silence the dissenting, orthodox voices.
How is it possible for the bishops' conference to endorse a basic text that adopts homosexual language, which assumes data from the Gay Group of Bahia (a state in Brazil) and still attribute violence against them to "religious fundamentalism"?
See the quote from paragraph 68 of the text:
Another social group that suffers the consequences of structured politics in violence and the creation of enemies is the LGBTQI+ population. The 2020 Atlas of Violence shows that the number of reports of violence suffered by the LGBTQI+ population recorded in Dike 100 in 2018 was of 1,685 cases.
According to data from the Gay Group of Bahia presented in the Atlas of Violence 2020, in 2018, 420 LGBTQI+ people were murdered, of these 210, 64 were transgenders. It is noticed that in 2011, five homicides of LGBTQI+ people were recorded. Six years later, in 2017, this number increased to 193 cases. The increase in the number of homicides of LGBTQI+ people between 2016 and 2017 was 127%.
These murders are the effects of hate speech, religious fundamentalism, voices against the recognition of the rights of LGBTQI+ populations and other persecuted and vulnerable groups.
It is worth noting that the acronym LGBTQI+ is also used by the bishops' conference in Brazil, whose language is Portuguese, not English. Thus, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, queers, intersex and the + includes any other gender that may be yet to be designated. The only thing missing is that "B" stands for bestiality, to complete the spectrum of their perversion, alongside a "P" for pedophilia.
The bishops' conference of Brazil is throwing into the trash the Campaign of Fraternity and is responsible for this demoralization before the Catholic people.
Cdl. Joseph Ratzinger
There's no point in them trying to blame the critical groups. They need to beat their chests and take the blame for this nonsense! How did such a text end up in a document that is the very basis for the Campaign of Fraternity? Who did this? Who approved this? Was it the president of the conference? Was it the permanent council? These are the questions to ask, and that is what needs to be faced.
Until they do so, it is no use for bishops to play victims and appeal to their "authority as successors of the Apostles," for they are the ones who are unworthy of this excellent role. They shame themselves by their ambiguity and subservience to the most macabre ideologies of our times.
It is worth noting that Cdl. Joseph Ratzinger stated that "ambiguity is the mark of the demonic." (The Ratzinger Report, Ignatius Press, 1985, p. 150). Indeed. The bishops of Brazil, as well as those of the United States, may learn from this teaching and speak with clarity and fidelity to the gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Perhaps the reaction of our Brazilian brethren in the Faith may help to spur even more our reactions here in defense of morality against the likes of "Father" James Martin and his pro-gay supporters in the clergy and hierarchy in America.
Raymond de Souza, KHS, KM, is a Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, a Knight of the Sovereign and Military Order of Malta and a 4th degree Knight of Columbus. A speaker on pro-life and apologetics issues, he is the delegate for international missions of Human Life International. He has visited 38 countries of the six continents as part of conferences held in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, and has speaking ability in Italian and Afrikaans. He is available to address Catholic audiences anywhere in the free world to defend the Gospel of Life and the purity of Catholic doctrine, counting on the recommendation of bishops and priests in New Zealand, Australia and the United States. Bishops and priests in New Zealand, Australia and the United States have recommended him to speak on those issues. He has been a radio broadcaster in New Zealand and Australia, and today writes a syndicated column for the Catholic paper The Wanderer.
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The Vatican under the command of Pope Francis is busy rebuking ownership of firearms fors personal protection and supressing followers of the pre Vatican 2 liturgy form including the latin mass But when it comes to other forms of mono theistic beliefs such as the One World Abu Dhabi Movement. Francis refuses to say one word disclaiming and decrying what practice adherents of the Islam code Sharia not only claim, but truly believe that God has authorized them to any evil means using force or decption used to convert is justified as well as kill those who refuse to submit to their version of Gods will .
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