*The Abdication Drama continues:
*La Repubblica reports that the existence of a "gay lobby" within the Vatican contributed to the Pope's abdication. Vatican spokesman says these are "fantasies", but please just look the other way while this guy conveniently disappears. What a bunch of buffoons! Some of those who will choose the next pope don't even understand what the Church teaches about ordination, they are confused among each other on even the most basic questions of morality! They think we are as stupid as they are!
*Reaction from prominent European traditionalists is anything but positive.
*Rumors of a new ultimatum and deadline for the SSPX are not true. The Holy Father tweets, "not my problem anymore."
*Mahoney: Conclave or bust!
*Maybe an African Pope is the ticket? "The less contaminated the new pope is by the dominant Euro-USA secular liberal-left mindset, the better it will be for normal people everywhere, Catholic or not."
*Because, of course, an essential duty of the pope is to fly on airplanes. Of course, that explains it!
*Archbishop Robert Smith of Edmonton: The Pope is teaching us how to be a quitter! Thank God for the church leadership we have!
*Pravda refuses to parrot the party-line. Exactly how is this a good thing?
*Pope's pension is secured. For the rest of us who will have to work until the day we die, well...
I'm sorry folks, but this whole thing is simply ridiculous. Is this the Vatican leadership that the SSPX and traditional Catholics must submit? Between their tweeting, quitting, "gay lobbying"... it's all just one big, Vatican II, joke! And the joke is on us, brothers and sisters... the joke is on us. This action on the part of Benedict XVI, while legally acceptable, in practice will do little more than strip one more thing from the modern Church that is sacred and noble. Now the papacy can be judged by modernity, expediency and utility. How is that good for the Church?
One thing, and only one thing, will reform this mess, and that is a total abrogation of the Second Vatican Council and all the changes, in teaching and method, in governance, in liturgy and in theology that followed that Council. The Vatican II experiment was tried, and it failed. It has done thing but denude the Church Militant of the sacred, and we are approaching the point at which it can no longer be tolerated. It's time to return to Tradition!
*Shocker! VCII Vatican in cahoots with the Chinese government.
*Chronology of the Ratzinger papacy's relations with the SSPX.
*What exactly is American Catholicism?
*"Delegate" of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Bishop Azevedo, has a sex abuse skeleton in his closet. Is this the Vatican to which the SSPX must submit?
*When not promoting abortion and artificial contraception abroad (albeit, indirectly) CRS lectures us about government spending at home.
*German bishops say it is perfectly OK to kill babies. Way to go novus ordo!
*A fifth straight Armageddon for the US Government! Really? How many Armageddons do we need before the end actually gets here? Rush nails it. It's just a farce, and that's all.
*Stanley Druckenmiller: "We have an entitlement problem."
*Patrick Buchanan: Death by Free Trade.
*0 Hedge: Central banks are the devil.
"Now the papacy can be judged by modernity, expediency and utility."
ReplyDeleteI think that's an oversimplification. The resignation was either due to some threat by "the wolves" close to him, or the resignation was due to a near nervous breakdown from the unimaginable filth he never expected. This resignation was to avoid a greater evil; it was strategic. I much prefer Benedict resign and thus raise some flags than to just sit quietly by as he slowly passes away in office and everyone think it was a good run, just like JPII, and with some time for mourning we can then go through the process and get a new Pope without calling attention to things.
If there was a funeral mass, then everything would be clouded over yet again, with the mainstream Catholic media mourning rather than questioning. If the history of resignations tell us anything, it's that they happen under suspicious circumstances, including scandals. Before the resignation, most traditionalists were focused on bad liturgy and other such things, but afterwards there has been heavy attention on the lavender lobby. Realizing this, they could very well be the ones who are preventing the Church from getting back on course. Expose and oust those people, and we'll likely see more sanity coming from Rome.
The main problem with homosexuality is not the acts themselves, but that these acts naturally and rapidly lead to a wholesale destruction of conscience and morals. This means complete enslavement to sin and satan, which in turn means complete opposition to anything Catholic. Any bishops or cardinals enslaved in this vice have no loyalty whatsoever to the Faith and will bring down the church. I think there is so much overlap between homosexual and modernist, that in many ways there are ideologically synonymous.
http://www.africanindependent.com/vatican_pope_black_candidates040105.html
ReplyDeleteApparently, we have had three black Popes already and Taxi Mag is not a friend of The Catholic Church and the foul-mouthed columnist advocating it is a joke
Being black does not inoculate one against criticism - just ask Clarence Thomas- and Popes don;t generally tell others to F-off
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