Socci: "Pope Bergoglio: 'Jesus plays the fool a bit' -- and other grave expressions and actions"
Pope Bergoglio: “Jesus plays the fool a bit”. This and other
inconceivable, extremely grave “expressions” pronounced last
Thursday...
Antonio Socci
LO STRANIERO
19th June 2016
It is earth-shattering for a pope to mix-up a two-faced devil with
Jesus. It happened last Thursday when Bergoglio mistakenly referred to a
column capital on Vézelay Cathedral: a “case of mistaken identity”
emblematic of this pontificate, even if a somewhat superficial
ghost-writer was probably to blame.
It is, on the other hand, in his own style to mix them up (Jesus and the
devil) by proposing that Judas had been saved (without repenting) thus
giving the impression he hadn’t ended up in hell...
It’s difficult to know whether this Pope believes in hell or not – but
listening to him – it seems that the only ones going there are those who
are against mass immigration, who use air-conditioners or plastic
glasses and Christians who follow the Gospel to the letter.
In any case, in that same discourse last Thursday evening at the Church Conference in Rome,
Bergoglio didn’t limit his comments to the nonsense about the capital in Vézelay.
He strung together a series of inconceivable other “pearls” reaching the
limits of blasphemy: Jesus in the episode with the adulteress “plays
the fool a bit ” (a shocking phrase which the Vatican site changed to
“pretended not to understand” , but we have the recording...) and then
Jesus, in the same episode when the woman was saved from being stoned –
“was scant on morality” (ha mancato verso la morale) (this also
textual). Then Jesus was not “a clean one” (“un pulito” ) he actually
used this expression, who knows what he was suggesting (better not even
ask ).
Then finally, Bergoglio even affirmed that “a great majority of our
sacramental marriages are null” (constraining Padre Lombardi to explain
why the text on the Vatican site was corrected to: “a portion of our
marriages”.
And to complete his performance the same Bishop of Rome – added to this
reckless and devastating assertion that , on the other hand, many
“cohabitations “ are “real marriages” (de facto legitimizing
cohabitations, after delegitimizing real, solid sacramental marriages).
This naturally for secular public opinion is only curious and even
amusing, like a car demolition show, but from a Catholic point of view
it is devastating; it’s a sort of scourge that has fallen upon the
Church and risks destroying Her.
BEYOND LIMITS
So much so, that Robert Spaemann, one of the foremost German Catholic
theologians and philosophers, and Benedict XVI’s personal friend, was
back thundering again on Friday, in “Die Tagespost” with an article
carrying the eloquent headline: “Even in the Church there is a limit to
what is bearable”.
Here are some of his remarks:
“[...]some of the Holy Father’s affirmations are in clear contradiction
to the words of Jesus, those of the Apostles and the traditional
doctrine of the Church. [...]If, in the meantime, the Prefect for the
Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith is seen openly accusing the
Pope’s closest advisor and ghost-writer of heresy, it means that the
situation has indeed gone too far. Even in the Catholic Church there is
a limit to what is bearable.”
Spaemann also criticised Bergoglio’s habitual ambiguity on certain
themes touched upon in Amoris laetitia where – in order not to be caught
in manifest heresy – he says and doesn’t say, he alludes, but doesn’t
explain, he throws hand grenades furtively. *
Here is more from Spaemann:
“[...]Pope Francis is not very fond of unequivocal clarity. A short time
ago when he declared that Christianity has no “ultimatums” it evidently
doesn’t disturb him at all that Christ says: “But let your speech be
yea, yea, no, no: and that which is over and above comes from the evil
one.” (Matt. 5, 37). Paul’s letters are full of “ultimatums” And,
ultimately, “He that is not with me, is against me!”(Matt. 12, 30).”
Spaemann had already intervened on April 29th against Bergoglio’s
“Amoris laetitia”, explaining that there are” “decisive sentences which
change substantially the teachings of the Church” [...] “That an issue
of a breach emerges doubtlessly for every thinking person, who knows the
respective texts.[...] “If the Pope is not ready to make corrections,
it remains reserved for a later Pope to make things right officially.”
Another important Catholic philosopher, Josef Seifert, collaborator with
both John Paul II and Benedict XVI, recently intervened with harsh
criticisms, which he justified in this way:
“The Pope is not infallible if he doesn’t speak ex-cathedra. True Popes
(like Formosus and Honorius) were condemned for heresy. And it is our
holy duty – for love and mercy’s sake towards many souls – to criticize
our bishops and even our dear Pope, if they deviate from the truth and
if their errors are damaging the Church and souls.”
Moreover, added to the nonsense of Bergoglio’s magisterial teaching are
his decisions in the governing of the Church now of a South American
accent .
DICTATORSHIP
For example, Bergoglio has drawn up a series of measures which subtract
prerogatives from bishops and subject them to a sort of ‘Damocles
sword’, with the risk of removal if they don’t adapt themselves to the
Bergoglian ‘word’.
In fact, after the two Synods, in which the opposition by bishops and
cardinals to the “Bergoglian revolution” was vast and decisive,in the
ecclesiastical world now everyone has been intimidated into silence.
So much so that Monsignor Athanasius Schneider, Bishop in Kazakhstan (where they remember well what tyranny is) declared:
“When we arrive at a point in the Church where the faithful, priests and
bishops are afraid to say something, as in a dictatorship, this is not
the Church.”
Nevertheless, among lay Catholics there are more and more troubled voices being raised. Most of all in the United States.
Yesterday, for instance, Phil Lawler, from Catholic Culture, commenting
on the papal discourse of last Thursday, published a harsh comment
entitled: The Damage done ( again) by the Pope’s Declarations on
Marriage”, wherein he brings to light other “pearls” from that
intervention.
PERSECUTION
As regards some pastoral questions, one is struck by the insensibility
of this papacy to the tragedy of persecuted Christians, and, by
contrast, his approval of questionable regimes and even inhuman
dictatorships, which continue to persecute and imprison Christians.
The most glaring case - along with the Islamic regimes – is China.
Indeed , a cause for scandal was Bergoglio’s interview on February 2nd
to “Asia Times”, in which he was completely silent about the enormous
problems of human rights and religious freedom in China (where there are
still bishops like Monsignor Su Zhimin in lagers), but in that
interview, addressed to the Communist tyrants in Peking, Bergoglio
pronounced “ wildly absolutist words of the past, present and future of
China” forgetting “the millions and millions of victims that the Pope
never names, not even covertly” (Magister).**
“What disturbs many Chinese Catholics” Sandro Magister writes “is the
silence the Vatican authorities maintain on bishops being deprived of
their freedom.”
Then, over the last few days the case of the Bishop of Shangai, Ma
Daquin, has caused quite a sensation. The Bishop after four years of
forced residence – signed a self-incrimination, typical of Stalinist
times or the Maoist cultural revolution, in which he sustains he had
been in error and makes an apology to the Patriotic Association which is
the Church of the Chinese Communist regime.
However, there is more. Father Bernardo Cervellera, one of the
most-informed experts on the Chinese Church , on his site “Asia News”
(even if he is a Bergoglian) for the sake of truth had to report: “A
Chinese Bishop fears that someone in the Vatican had piloted Monsignor
Ma Daqin’s ‘confession’ in order to please the Chinese Government.”
For certain there are millions of Chinese Christians, heroically living
their faith under persecution who have been profoundly disappointed,
confused and grieved for this about-turn. But Rome has also become that
over the last three years.
A Rome where you hear inconceivable, resonant words about the Son of
God, like those pronounced last Thursday in St. John Lateran’s Basilica
by Jorge Mario Bergoglio.
*’tira il sasso e nasconde la mano’, is an idiomatic expression which
implies someone who likes to provoke and then denies responsibility of
the repercussions on others, enjoys confusing others.
[Translation: Contributor, Francesca Romana]
http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2016/06/socci-pope-bergoglio-jesus-plays-fool.html
the original video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmNOvTyDGBs
Gesù «non era un pulito» (min. 29:53-54); e nel rispondere ad una domanda, parlando dell’episodio della donna colta in flagrante adulterio (Giovanni 8:3-11), ha detto che Gesù «fa un po’ lo scemo» (1:04:37-40), e che Gesù «ha mancato la morale» (1:05:40-42)
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