Bergoglio Declares New Human Right

Francis as a Guest at one of the most beloved left-wing broadcasters 

Edit: most Roman emperors weren’t this full of themselves. 

(Rome) The reputation of the papacy has not soared since 2013.  Pope Francis is practicing a redesign that others see as a sell-out.  Like some of the other interviewees, he took part in a program on the third channel of the Italian state broadcaster RAI yesterday, Sunday.  One of many who have an opinion and voice it.

As a side note, in May 2015, in an interview with the Argentine newspaper La Voz del Pueblo (People's Voice), Francis said:

 "I haven't watched TV since 1990.  It is a promise I made to Our Lady of Mount Carmel on the night of July 15, 1990.”

On July 16, the Church celebrates the memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, which has been observed by the Carmelite Order since the 14th century and has been a celebration of the whole Church since 1726.

In that interview, Francis also revealed that he reads "only one newspaper," the leftist La Repubblica by [Freemason] Eugenio Scalfari.  Later, much later, attempts were made to deflect the message by turning La Repubblica into the ideologically less insidious Il Messaggero.  Did the pope perhaps mix up something in the other part of his statement?

RAI3 is the traditionally left-most Italian public broadcaster.  It was controlled by the Italian Communist Party (PCI) even before the collapse of the Eastern bloc and was therefore also called "Telekabul".  The program “Che tempo che fa” by Fabio Fazio, in which Francis took part, is politically positioned accordingly.  Fazio always invites a guest who he interviews.  The studio guests are also prominent.  They have included Barack Obama, Emmanuel Macron and Bill Gates.

In a program in 2006, the German writer Günther Grass was able to launch his perhaps most despicable attack on the then reigning Pope Benedict XVI.  Grass, the “clean man” and prosecutor of the war generation par excellence, had revealed in the run-up to his autobiographical work “When Skinning the Onion” that he himself had served in the Waffen SS.  He had kept it secret for 60 years.  What he still didn't say: as a minor he could only have volunteered for this unit.  It wasn't to be the only PR stunt Grass used to promote his memoir, critics accused him of.  On Fabio Fazio's broadcast, he claimed to have met another prisoner in a Bavarian camp, whom he characterized unfavorably, and who told him that he wanted to "become a pope".  When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope in 2005, a year before the publication of the Grass memoirs, Grass was pretty sure he recognized the voice of that young man in the prison camp.  Self-promotion of Grass at the expense of others and at the same time an outrageous dig at the then incumbent German Pope with a fictitious story ("Ah, a careerist who always wanted to be high").  A deep grip in the dirt bucket.

"The largest cemetery in Europe"

Yesterday's TV broadcast claimed it was "a historic first live interview" by the Pope.  In fact, it had been pre-recorded and broadcast with a time delay, as was easy to see from the Pope's wristwatch.  Why the opposite was claimed probably also has something to do with PR measures that we are constantly surrounded and manipulated by.

Fabio Fazio, who at the time, together with Günther Grass, then “ enjoyed” discussing Benedict XVI,  lavishly scattered flowers for Francis. The Argentine Pope is "an intellectual at heart, a Pope who has decided to reach everyone," said the TV presenter.

Francis expressed his thanks and in the program lamented the fate of hundreds of thousands of migrants, especially those who push their way to Europe via the Mediterranean route.  He reiterated his claim that there were "concentration camps" for migrants in Libya and called on EU countries to agree on a "balance".  The head of the Church meant that the states should agree on a generous reception of migrants. Francis said:

 “What is being done to the migrants is criminal.  They suffer so much to reach the sea.  There are pictures of concentration camps, yes I use that word, by human traffickers in Libya.  You can see what those who try to flee suffer on these recordings.”

According to Pope Francis, the Mediterranean is “the largest graveyard in Europe” because migrants are “rejected”.  There are numerous ships "waiting for a port".  Calling at a safe port, by which Francis meant a port in an EU country, is only granted with hesitation.

The Pope asked EU member states to say how many migrants they would take in.  The EU has to push for a compromise.  In plain language, Francis demanded that the EU should discipline the member states so that all states accept migrants.  Francis praised Italy and Spain, the two countries "where most migrants arrive" who are "welcomed, accompanied, encouraged and integrated".  Pope Francis said the need to welcome migrants is all the more relevant because of Europe's declining population.  "People are needed, and an integrated migrant helps the country."

 Forgiveness as a human right

 It is important to “feel and touch”, said Francis, in order not “to be tempted to look the other way”.  He also formulated a "truth" that will "shock" some:

 “Forgiveness is a human right.  We all have the right to be forgiven when we ask for forgiveness.  We have forgotten that someone who asks for forgiveness has the right to be forgiven.”

Overall, however, the world's problems are not new: migrants, war, weapons manufacturers who fuel it, and climate change.  For this, Francis received great applause from the audience in the Milan studio.

According to Francis, the “greatest evil of the Church” is “spiritual worldliness”.  This is "even worse than that of the most permissive popes" because it allows "an ugly thing to arise in the Church, clericalism, which is a perversion of the Church".

 “The clericalism that lies in rigidity;  and beneath all rigidity there is always decay.”

Francis also answered some personal questions.  He said he needs people around him, which is why he lives in Santa Marta.  He has "but few true friends" and likes "classical music and tango":

 "A porteño who doesn't dance a tango isn't a porteño."

 *Porteños are the  inhabitants of Buenos Aires.

According to Francis, it is important to always be in a good mood.  But he also thinks a lot about why children have to 

Trans: Ramcred Vekron99@hotmail.comsuffer.  The only answer he could find was to sympathize with them.  Dostoyevsky was a great teacher for him in this regard.

At the end, the audience gave the Pope a standing ovation.  A gesture that was of course intended by the broadcasters.

 Text: Giuseppe Nardi

 Image: RAI3 (Screenshot)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.Com

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Venerable British Medical Journal “Fact-checked” by Fakebook

Edit: meanwhile, Facebook, now Meta’s, stock is collapsing. Ht to the Paranormies. 

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The Gangster Communist Legacy of Orthodoxy

 Edit: think there’s a refuge in Orthodoxy? Think again before you follow professional poison pens line Dreher and Holy Steve.

Funny enough, this is from the often unreliable New York Times.  The Orthodox Church has been unapologetic about its Communist legacy, perhaps it’s how the NYTs sticks it to organized religion? 

By Matthew Brunwasser

• March 7, 2013

SOFIA — His enthronement as patriarch of Bulgaria, spiritual leader of millions of Orthodox believers here, was supposed to stir pride and moral togetherness in an impoverished country confronting a vacuum in political leadership and widespread economic pain.

Instead, the installation of His Holiness Neofit last month, in a ceremony replete with byzantine splendor, served as one more reminder that Bulgaria had never really thrown off the inheritance of 40 years of rigid Communist rule and all the duplicitous dealings that went with it.

Bulgaria has suffered fresh turmoil since mid-February, when nationwide protests erupted over a rise in power prices. The national government resigned in what it said was a bid to avert more bloodshed. But this week, the country went into nationwide mourning over the death of one protester, Plamen Goranov, 36, who set himself on fire in front of a public building in his hometown, Varna.

The church has played no part in calming its troubled nation. Like 11 of the 14 metropolitan bishops who make up the ruling synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Neofit was revealed to have a file documenting or implying cooperation with the powerful secret police under Communism. 

Proof of collaboration — for which the church has never apologized — was expected, but the number of bishops implicated when a state commission opened the files on church leaders in January 2012 “was beyond all expectations,” noted Momchil Metodiev, a historian who has researched the church in the Communist era.

By comparison with the 30-volume record involving Simeon, the Bulgarian Church’s current metropolitan for Western Europe, Neofit’s 16-page file was slender. While the file contained only a proposal by the authorities to recruit him as an agent and a negative assessment of his suitability for State Security work, the revelations raised tantalizing questions about whether more incriminating documents had been removed.

That such questions linger, more than 20 years after Communism, illustrates Bulgarians’ messy relationship to that past.

One day after the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, the Communist dictator Todor Zhivkov, who had been in power since 1954, was deposed, not by popular uprising but in a palace coup. The politics behind the act remained murky, meaning that his removal is still a matter of dispute.

Few Bulgarians can say the word “democracy” without irony or bitterness, because while they gained freedom and their country has now joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union, it has remained poor and underdeveloped, with the riches most dreamed of under capitalism reserved for the lucky, often criminally connected, few.

And although State Security officially disbanded, its officials have retained a hold, contributing to the lack of clarity or debate about the past.

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Many former agents went into private business and recruited wrestlers for muscle. Their networks, often criminal, gradually took over much of Bulgaria’s legitimate economy, helping to make Bulgaria notoriously corrupt, said Philip Gounev, a corruption expert at the Center for the Study of Democracy in Sofia. 

Similarly, the church has not faced up to its past. “Just as people say that our country is in ‘state capture’ by criminals and oligarchs who have taken control of the state, the church is in a state of ‘state capture’ by metropolitans associated with the state security police,” Mr. Gounev said. 

The church counters that it is, for instance, planning to canonize martyrs from the Communist era over the next two years, making saints of those found to have died or been imprisoned for the faith among the thousands of believers who were persecuted. “We can expect to close the page of our Communist heritage by this very symbolic act,” said Desislava Panayotova, from the cultural department of the Holy Synod. 

But it seems that it will take more than canonizations to restore the church’s position as a moral beacon in an increasingly secular society. 

After the state, the church is the second-largest landowner in the country, making it an attractive target for criminal groups. With its weak management and opaque institutions — the church does not, for instance, have a designated media spokesperson — observers say the church has remained aloof from any state efforts to clean up corruption. 

While many historic churches and monasteries crumble from neglect, the Bulgarian news media relay a stream of shocking stories about church officials’ luxury cars, expensive watches, shady land deals and ties to questionable businessmen.

The Stara Zagora metropolitan, Galaktion, a close rival to Neofit in the recent patriarchal election, bestowed an honorific church title on a wealthy sponsor, Slavi Binev, a former taekwando champion and owner of a security firm who is now also a member of the European Parliament. 

Mr. Binev was described in a 2005 WikiLeaks cable from the U.S. Embassy in Sofia as heading a group whose “criminal activities include prostitution, narcotics, and trafficking stolen automobiles.” In response, Mr. Binev told a Bulgarian newspaper that he was not perturbed to be on a list of people who were “the blossom” of Bulgarian business in the transition from Communism.

The metropolitan of Plovdiv, Nikolai, bestowed the same church title on Petar Mandzhukov, an international arms dealer, and later announced that he planned to sell his Rolex watch to pay the unpaid electricity bill for a church in his diocese, apparently hoping to quell public anger both at church riches and at the rising price of electricity that helped spark the recent protests. 

The church has also been accused of paying priests in cash to avoid social welfare payments and taxes.

One huge challenge is healing the post-Communist schism of 1992, when priests who said they had opposed Communism formed their own synod. 

Ugly disputes over church properties resulted, including physical fights. The police were called in during one particularly fierce battle over the church candle factory, a major source of income.

Mr. Metodiev, the historian, who describes himself as “anti-Communist,” made a surprising discovery during research in the secret police files. “The leaders of the schismatic synod were in fact the closest allies of the Communist Party in the synod during the Communist period,” he said. 

One bishop notorious for implementing State Security orders — Kalinik, the metropolitan of Vratsa — remains on the church synod today.

Mr. Metodiev asserts that those with ties to State Security, particularly those recruited as young informers in the 1970s and 1980s, are now powerful, making the synod in fact more staffed by secret police than any other, including during Communism itself.

“The very idea of meritocracy failed,” Mr. Metodiev said. “People are now accustomed to developing their careers due to connections. This is one of the most damaging long-term results of the power of the State Security.”

Winning the war against tyranny

Groove Pope Asks for “Good Vibes”

Report on Catholic World Report 

Like, whatever man!

Pope Francis gave his first interview to a television talk show Sunday night, asking viewers who do not pray to send him “good thoughts, good vibes.”

Speaking with Italy’s most popular prime-time talk show, Che Tempo Che Fa, the pope said that he needed prayers and closeness right now.

“Pray for me, I need it. And if some of you don’t pray because you don’t believe, don’t know how, or can’t, at least send me good thoughts, good vibes,” Pope Francis said Feb. 6.

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Support for the Canadian Truckers

Our readers may be interested in learning about the anti-Covid protests (wrongly called an "occupation") going on in Ottawa, because even Canadians can't take this anymore. Read about it in the mainstream press here.

The EF wholeheartedly gives its support to the truckers and supports them in their fight against the mandatory togetherness imposed by the totalitarian nanny state.

If any of the truckers are reading this, we urge you to do your best to avoid violence: Best to let the violence begin with a command from Trudeau himself.

No tienes que ser judío para actuar como judío.

Auf Geht's Brandon!

Let's wake up before it's too late

Storm on the Sea of Galilee.

Abbé Michel Violet is a former Lutheran pastor who converted in 2000 and was ordained a Catholic priest in 2003. He formulated a protest against the motu proprio Traditionis custodes and the ban on administering the sacraments in the traditional form. But he also comments on the situation of the Church in France and political maneuvers aimed at weakening it. We document his statements.

By Abbe Michel Violet

At the beginning of this year, sadness is certainly the feeling that the French share most and undoubtedly they are not the only ones in the world.

As a Catholic priest, I believe in the primacy of prayer and in particular the prayer that we raise to God in the Church when we celebrate the sacred liturgy. But even that sacred practice has turned into a cause of sadness today, and I don't think things are going well in that regard!

Abbe Michel Violet

I have received the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes with childlike obedience because it comes from the successor of Peter, who justifies it with his concern that no parallel Church will arise from the traditional Mass according to the missal of 1962. If some brothers in France could give that impression by refusing to concelebrate with their bishop at the Chrism Mass - an attitude I regret - it does not mean that Catholics who are attached to the traditional liturgy, have even the slightest intention of joining another Church. For everyone I know in my country, there is only one Catholic Church whose Pope is named Francis and there can be no other!

Therefore, it seems to me neither fair nor merciful to restrict the celebration of the Mass of St. John XXIII. to add also the withdrawal of the celebration of the various sacraments of the Church in its ancient form. And the assertion that this religious practice is in contradiction with the Second Vatican Council strikes me as surprising, since I have always been told, and have been for a long time, that this Council is in continuity with the previous Councils. How can there be a contradiction in celebrating a baptism after Vatican II in the form in which it was celebrated after Vatican I and for many centuries before that?

Moreover - and I think I am justified in this criticism, which does not call into question the validity of the sacraments administered according to the modern liturgy - the latter largely abolished the exorcisms, partly because their authors, some of whom I knew well, did not believe in original sin! It seems to me that the survival of this liturgy is of the greatest interest, especially in the interest of Catholic orthodoxy. Therefore, I am sad about the possible abolition or even the ban of the traditional liturgy.

It is also sad for those who die. As a priest, how can I refuse to give the Last Rites to a dying person in the same way that his parents or grandparents received it? Our bishops are our fathers and our superiors. I cannot imagine that they prevent us from bringing a dying man the comfort he rightly asks of us.

It is also sad that we cannot guarantee the funeral mass in the Extraordinary Form. Those who know this liturgy, which has accompanied death for centuries and which today has been, for some, one of the rare occasions to attend Mass, which made them reflect on the Christian doctrine of death and lead them to ask the question asking about the resurrection, can't help but be deeply hurt when they are denied the final testimony they want to give for their lives down here. And I would like to add that for convinced Christians there is everything in this ritual that strengthens their faith in the resurrection. Everything in this traditional form helps when the Requiem Aeternam is sung, the taking over of the terror of separation by singing the Dies Irae, if one has bothered to understand it! Doesn't everything collapse and give the impression of the end of the world and sometimes with deep-seated anger when one learns of the death of the little brother or sister...? At this moment you don't want to be pounded with the hallelujah or hear "Christ is risen" sung to every conceivable tune. [Or worse, the ditties of sex predatory Marty Haugen] Everything in its time, with the Libera me and the In Paradisum!

Forgive me if I give a personal example, not to stir but to convince. For medical reasons I experienced the approach of death and the hope of being accompanied by this ancient prayer of the Church on my last visit to a Catholic shrine is of great help to me. I don't want to be forced to withhold it from other Christians who ask me! could I do that I do not know!

It is also sad to think of the young seminarians of Institutes who live to the rhythm of the traditional Mass and to force them to abandon the ancient liturgy of Holy Orders. We would deny those who give their lives to the Church this liturgical form that unites them to Christ the Head, that has shaped them since their youth, that has enabled them to hear the Lord's call and follow their studies in the seminary! It is for their respective authorities to inform them that, exceptionally, they must later celebrate in a different manner, due to exigencies of service, according to the orders of their bishop. They will accept this as an act of brotherly charity rather than a prohibition

Sadness also reigns over the spectacle of division among Catholics! At this time of prayer for Christian unity, so precious that it makes more sense than ever to preserve it, I regret that some people have so little regard for Catholic unity that they to defame Our Holy Father, the servant of unity par excellence. And I go so far as to rejoice, to my great shame, that the various political governments no longer attach great importance to Catholicism, avoiding the drama of the fourteenth century, the Great Western Schism (1378), in which two popes ruled at the same time, then even three who mutually excommunicated each other!  I hope I'm not giving the wrong idea to our elected Republican presidents, to elect a Pope by an independent commission of cardinals, also open to women and laypeople, and Presided over – why not –  Mr. Jean-Marc Sauvé. [Sauvé, a senior state official and deputy chairman of the French Supreme Administrative Court until 2018, is President of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church ( CIASE). See the CIASE or Suavé report: Not 330,000, but "only" up to 28,000 victims of abuse? ]

Imagine what an advantage that would be for tourism, which would have an additional attraction! And this kind of adventure would have the additional advantage that many ecclesiastical ambitions would be satisfied by the propagation of mitres and birettas! Purple and crimson dreams would come true!

I shall have occasion to return to it in a different context and in detail, as other Catholics have done. I am only now addressing this issue because what I suspected is happening. The CIASE report, with its inflated figures, is now beginning to show its true colors as a pretext to significantly transform the Catholic Church.

For example, there is no hesitation in making public the allegations of abuse made by a priest who died in 1994 and was a renowned artist in the field of stained glass that decorates many of our churches. I'm not familiar with this case, but I've seen these stained glass windows and think they're great! It seems that they are even protected by the Monuments Office. I learn that not only are they exhuming this dossier against a dead man, but that they also intend to remove all of his glass windows! [They should get rid of Eric Gill's garbage, tbh.] What consequences the horror of 897 had for Church and society! It was the loss of confidence in the papacy that enabled its domination by the great Roman families, the predecessors of our left-wing bobos, who placed their descendants on the throne of Peter.

In fact, women (then Theodora and Marozia) were given an important role, as recommended by CIASE. They influenced the election of several popes, whose abilities they came to appreciate very intimately, but had little to do with theology! This drifting away of the Church lasted from 904 to 963.

I consider it a dangerous path to make disappear the works of art of a man who has not lived according to Catholic morality. If we continue on it, there will soon be great gaps in our museums and churches. It will be necessary, and this will only be the beginning, to remove the works of Caravaggio and whitewash the Sistine Chapel!

Above all, it encourages those nostalgic for the Inquisition to continue their work of purification. They have their sights on none other than our Pope Emeritus, suspected of knowingly covering up reprehensible acts by priests during his tenure as Archbishop of Munich (1977-1982), and Le Point newspaper, which focuses on the dismantling of bishops, do not hesitate to share this message with a photo of Benedict XVI. to illustrate how he is very old and looks desperately at the sky with folded hands as if asking for forgiveness. Shame on the person responsible for this article and presentation, that of a Dr. Goebbels is worthy, responsible!

He presided over the writing of a new Deuteronomy. It was precisely under these conditions that Robespierre, in good faith, created terror and declared himself the leader of the party of good because of virtue! Do we want a Church of terror in the name of that same virtue?

And this at a time when our country is sinking into the materialistic mediocrity of economic globalism, when the lack of freedom prevents us from speaking about real, legitimate fears by propagating false fears.

So there is also sadness about the decline of our country, in which a Catholic elite is complicit!

I confess that I do not understand how, after the comedy played for us Catholics by the President of the Republic during his visit to the Collège des Bernardins and after the bioethics laws he passed, our religious authorities can now say that they will not make any voting recommendations in the next presidential elections. It is true that they were not heard when the abortion period was extended to fourteen weeks. As a result of the Sauvé report, the Church is now ashamed to speak about moral issues!

And no doubt they will continue to do so after President Emmanuel Macron, President of the Council of the European Union and undeclared candidate for the upcoming presidential elections, expressed his desire to see women's abortion rights enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.

Many Catholics are waiting for a response from their pastors, if only to emphasize that abortion cannot be made a women's right in a European charter of rights. If so, it would be, to quote Pope Francis, acknowledging the usefulness of abortionists as hit men. And how can one ignore the fact that euthanasia and outright murder are being proposed by his supporters to the outgoing president as issues for the next election campaign. President Macron would thus add two more serious sins to the apostasy from his baptism and the promotion of abortion, which the Church condemns with excommunication latae sententiae, leading to the intensification of the culture of death.

Our French Bishops' Conference could hardly remain silent unless it hoped the stones would cry out! But I don't know if the believers will understand that because at the same time it is to be feared that many believers will lose interest in donating money!

Only if the Church admits this will it live the correct neutrality it strives for! Because at this time the Christian people are waiting for coherent words and deeds, for signs of mobilization and not of renunciation, especially in the face of increasingly anti-Catholic political forces!

From what I've said, someone might ask if it's still possible to hope? My answer, without hesitation, is “yes” if we manage to show courage quickly. People believe they are masters of their own destiny and plans. They easily forget the omnipotence of God. It is God who, with our indispensable witness, will reveal Himself and make His righteousness visible when the time comes. He will help the defenders of the Catholic faith to victory and put the impostors in their place.

Translation: Giuseppe Nardi
Image : Wikicommons

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Mark Shea's favourite POTUS enjoys White Privilege (along with some powerful slanty-eyed connections)

Saint Elizabeth Orthodox Church is Woke —- “I Can’t Breeve!!”

Saint Elizabeth of Saint Paul Icon

George Floyd Icon between two decorative benches. 
Not gay at all!

Edit: it usually takes a pretty progressive faith community, or the really effeminate busy-body Vox Cantoris, to virtue signal for a felonious drug addict like George Floyd, but this Saint Paul, Minnesota, Orthodox Church just loves putting its neck on the chopping block in this act of pure cringe. I’ll bet the priests’s wife’s kids love this!

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It was only a matter of time...

Charlie Brown checks out

Build the gallows now

E. Michael Jones on the Collapsing COVID Narrative, Geopolitical Chutzpah in Ukraine, and Pornography

Dr. E. Michael Jones returns to Our Interesting Times to discuss the latest neocon attempt to provoke a conflict with Russia, the apparent collapse of the COVID regime, and we also talk about a "debate" in which he participated regarding pornography. 

Dr. Jones is the editor of Culture Wars magazine and the author of several books including Logos Rising: A History of Ultimate Reality and the recently released second edition of The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and Its Impact on World History. 

Wahrheit macht frei

Boosted Aberrosexual Demigod Has Corona

 Edit: now the knighted whoopsie will postpone his most recent farewell concert schedule till he’s got the go-ahead from the witch doctors.

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