Posted on 03/12/2024 8:14:19 AM PDT by ebb tide
For Christians, Lent is a season of repentance. But for some radical leftists in America, it’s been an opportunity for sacrilege.
On Ash Wednesday 2024, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, “America’s Parish Church,” was thronged with the faithful, seeking ashes of repentance.
But the following day, the same hallowed space was desecrated by the sacrilegious clamor of a thousand God-hating radicals.
As the coffin of “Cecilia” Gentili, a self-styled “whore” drag queen, was carried down the aisle, the godless crowds proclaimed him as the: “Great whore, St. Cecilia, the Mother of All Whores.”
And as this cry echoed from the consecrated walls of the cathedral, where countless Masses have been offered, a priest of Jesus Christ gave the silence of his consent and, worse yet, joked with the anti-Christian throng.
This blasphemous event saddened me to my core…
But I was not surprised.
Tomorrow, March 13, it will be eleven years since a corrupt group of cardinals, calling themselves the “St. Gallen Mafia,” succeeded in their plot to prop up a man of their choice in a conclave without a proper appreciation of that cardinal’s stances.
When Francis appeared on the loggia that night, many were disturbed.
Shortly after the St. Patrick’s scandal hit the news, a friend of “Cecilia” made a statement to the press. He cited Francis as justification for the sacrilege that took place.
“We are caught in the middle of a war” between Francis and Catholics who oppose him, he said. And he was right.
Francis has declared war on faithful Catholics.
LifeSiteNews was at the forefront of honest coverage of the bombshell of Fiducia Supplicans. This wicked document, penned by an archbishop-author of erotic literature, paved the way for the desecration at St. Patrick’s Cathedral when it “permitted” sacrilegious same-sex blessings.
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The analogue is the conversion of the Hagia Sofia into a mosque.
I am not Catholic, not very religious but Francis doesn’t seem like an asset.
Dolan making his please kill me last plea!
He’s a mutt
Neither is Bergoglio.
Ramadan: Where “fasting” means waiting to pig out after it gets dark... which is actually not very healthful.
The problem is that Catholic leadership is dictatorial. If you get a rotten Pope, your only alternative is to leave. There was a time when they wouldn’t be let you leave — your choice was between Catholicism and getting burned at the stake.
meddlesome priest...
When you put a man, any man, in charge of your church instead of God the corruption is inevitable.
God gives the Sunday sermon and decides when the lawn needs mowing at your church? C’mon, the New Testament itself places human leaders over the church.
Your assessment puts it most mildly.
The imPopestor is a cancer.
But under the RC model for assurance of faith, it is written (among other things)"
'the one duty of the multitude is to allow themselves to be led, and, like a docile flock, to follow the Pastors," "to suffer themselves to be guided and led in all things that touch upon faith or morals by the Holy Church of God through its Supreme Pastor the Roman Pontiff," "of submitting with docility to their judgment," with "no discussions regarding what he orders or demands, or up to what point obedience must go, and in what things he is to be obeyed... not only in person, but with letters and other public documents ;" and 'not limit the field in which he might and must exercise his authority," for "obedience must not limit itself to matters which touch the faith: its sphere is much more vast: it extends to all matters which the episcopal power embraces," and not set up "some kind of opposition between one Pontiff and another. Those who, faced with two differing directives, reject the present one to hold to the past, are not giving proof of obedience to the authority which has the right and duty to guide them," "Nor must it be thought that what is expounded in Encyclical Letters does not of itself demand consent." (Sources http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3578348/posts?page=14#14)And in the judgment of the Cardinals:
Francis quickly emerged as perfect conclave candidate By Barry Moody March 14, 20133:36 PM EDTUpdated 11 years ago
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The cardinals who elect the pope are sworn to secrecy about their deliberations, but details began to filter out on Thursday about how rank outsider Jorge Bergoglio quickly emerged as a frontrunner to replace Pope Benedict. Bergoglio was a runner-up to the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger at the 2005 conclave that made Ratzinger pope. But he was not even mentioned in many media long lists of the likely papal candidates or "papabili" this time around.
It was an unusually short conclave with an unexpected finish. When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergolio from Argentina was declared the new pope on Wednesday evening, the announcement was greeted with astonishment from the crowds gathered in St. Peter’s Square.... “The world has about 18,000 Jesuits, and they are the ones who determine the future of the church,” explained Mounier. "They are used to thinking deeper than the others. They work closely with the poor, but they are intellectuals who are in tune with the changes in society.” - https://www.france24.com/en/20130314-pope-francis-first-jesuit-church-history-latin-american-poverty
Which changes included:
Meet the Newest Anti-Fracking Activist: Pope Francis 
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/11/13/meet-the-newest-anti-fracking-activist-pope-francis/
Along with alarming statements attributed to him (like “The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‘Father, the atheists?’ Even the atheists " "Proselytism is solemn nonsense...") besides his social justice, climate alarming, prolix papal encyclical Laudato Si.
His (among cadres of other Catholics) liberal declension has left Traditional Catholics in substantial degrees of dissent. Of course, the NT church itself began in particular dissent from the historical magisterium. As did the Reformation. But the standard for conformity must be that of the only wholly God-inspired, substantive, authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, in particular Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the gospels). In which distinctive Catholic teachings (and some held within Prostentantism) are not manifest.
I really am not one who makes interpretations from Biblical prophecies. That sort of thing can be totally wrong and then one is guilty of false prophecy but I have to admit his actions and his name, Ber GOG lio. The Gog/Revelations thing.
I sure hope not that.
He very much fits the bill for the False Prophet.
Time will tell.
Considering his health, it doesn’t seem likely. But it will be very interesting to see who the College of Cardinals elects for the next pope. Somehow, I don’t see them putting in anyone better.
Another Chink in the Armour of RCC.
Who selected this 'group'?
Expand that to all Christians. What has he done to spread the faith? He bows to Muslims. He embraces homosexuality. Deep down I am convinced he supports abortion. He embraces secular religions like global warming and “environmentalism.” He supports communism, oops, socialism. He doesn’t call out China’s crackdown on Christians. He says nothing about Christian genocide in Africa. I can’t think of anything he does to spread and promote Christianity.
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