Posted on 08/13/2021 8:42:47 AM PDT by ebb tide
In the last episode of Holy Smoke, I discussed Pope Francis's brutal and petty new document which seeks to ban as many Latin Masses as possible. This week we look at the other recent developments, which are arguably just as disturbing: two criminal prosecutions in which close allies of the Pope are accused of a range of hair-raising offences – and the question of how much Francis knew about their activities still hasn't been answered, either by the Vatican or its tame press corps.. Also, I touch on a new explanation for Rome's dreadful pact with China. Did the Pope's Secretary of State sign away the freedom of Chinese Catholics because Beijing was threatening to release data relating to the use of the gay hook-up app Grindr inside the walls of the Vatican? We may never find out. But one day there will be a new pope. Is it too much to hope that the college of cardinals will learn from the disasters of the past eight years?
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Yes.
Yes.
No. It fell apart long ago!
“Is it too much to hope...?” Yes. Crazy Frank the First is reported to have stacked the college with clones. In this, he learned from democrat presidents who stack the civil service with their own clones to harass republican successors.
The US Catholic Bishops only care about selling their services to the US feral government.
Nooooo... This isn’t the first time we have had crap running the church..That’s why Martin Luther left and started his own church...Catholic church is still standing.... Hillare Belloc,French Catholic writer said,I know the church is divine, but for those who don’t,if the church wasn’t divine,the morons running it would have destroyed it years ago....I’m paraphrasing ,but you get the gist of what he said....
Frankly, Frank is of the Frankfurt School I fear.
Yes it is. The Bishops’ support for critical race theory and structural racism was the last straw for me.
It is run by a bunch of leftist racists who hate themselves and take that hate out on everyone else.
I think the Catholic Church is ripe for a new Reformation.
It has already fallen apart
As the late Pope Benedict once said.....wait, he’s not dead?
Nothing to see here, move along!
It’s been falling apart for nearly 2000 years—and more like 3500 if you want to go back to Moses.
And don’t get me started on the Patriarchs.
At least things went well under David. Isn’t Bathsheba Hot? Absalom, Absalom.
Absolutely NOT!!! The Gates of Hell will NEVER destroy the Church....NEVER.....but we are being led astray by a very bad Pope.
short answer-—YES!
And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
This.
Do you really believe that divinity is the reason your church hasn’t collapsed yet? It’s not going anywhere until the Daniel’s 70th week is here. God has His reasons for everything, both good and bad, surviving until the fullness of the Gentiles are complete. Including apostasy, the Antichrist and the False Prophet emerging.
Not falling. It’s being pushed apart by Progressives and Jesuits.
NotablyJack Dorsey is Jesuit educated.
Heterodox and authoritarian simultaneously is a neat trick.
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