I am afraid he already went well off script and put his foot in it. Just before he took the big bird to Africa he said that sexual perversion should not be illegal when just about to fly off to countries were it is very much illegal and the vast majority of their citizens (Catholics included) think it should very much be illegal. All to keep Fr James Martin and co onboard with the programme. The Africans actually live their Faith and are dying for it in large numbers. The sexual perverts do not go to Church. But that didn't matter to Pope Francis. Talk about putting the Papal Big Feet right in it. Please God their are no more enflight Press Conferences where he once again comes out with something totally appalilng.
Catholics, especially Catholic priests are being slaughtered like flies in Africa as they are in places like China. But from the Blood of the Faithful comes the life blood of the Church. Thus it is and thus it has always been.
He's contradicting himself, acting with the neo-colonial stance he himself previously condemned. I hope the Africans quote it back to him.
I don't understand these people going on and on about sexual perversion and sexual perverts all the time. As though the future of the Church depended on this. It is a very,very peripheral issue at best. It is the same with Governments going on and on about Trans Issues all the time as though they were vital to our mutual survival. No matter the Rights and Wrongs of these issues they are very,very fringe things.
I know that this off topic but have you seen the line up of perverts for our St Patrick's day parade. It's unbelievable. I haven't heard a peep from our church leaders.
Notwithstanding that very many of those going on and on about these things very obviously share and are practitioners of these perversions, the devil, who is manipulating them and who actually detests them, knows that if one aspect of moral doctrine can be inverted, it will mean that, contrary to the two thousand year teaching of the Church, doctrine is not immutable and Truth is not fixed; furthermore, if there is thus proved to be no Truth and since God is Truth, there is therefore proven to be no God. No doctrine, no Truth, no God...just nothing will remain. I take it that this is the ultimate destruction of the Church that Our Lord assured us would not be allowed to happen. Yet, it has all the appearance of a Final Battle.
From the look and sound of most of our bishops nowadays, I'd be more inclined to imagine they'd identify with them. We need St Patrick to return and banish the snakes again.
Not if the elites who push this narrative are part of it. Why else be so constant so relentless in pushing pushing pushing the "respectability" even "desirability" of such things. A very personal stake in it?
It was the same thing in New York. It's like having rats in your house, you have to stamp down on them as soon as they start or they end up everywhere and running the place.
If everyone approves of their Shennanigans then it will help silence their consciences. Their consciences must be a torture to them.
(Edit: This will probably be the first and last time that I post such a long text ) In order to better understand some of the wording, it may should be added that this article comes from a very orthodox website that is generally critical of Pope Francis. Nevertheless, I find the content interesting, since I have not read about it anywhere else. Translated from: https://katholisches.info/2023/02/24/der-beginn-einer-neuen-phase-in-der-religionsgeschichte-tempelkomplex-in-abu-dhabi-eroeffnet/ (A picture of the House of the Abrahamic Family can be seen in the link) "The Beginning of a New Phase in the History of Religion" - Temple Complex Opened in Abu Dhabi The "House of the Abrahamic Family" for a world unity religion? (Abu Dhabi) The House of the Abrahamic Family, a controversial construction project associated with the creation of a world unity religion, was inaugurated on Feb. 16. The interfaith project consists of three cubic buildings of completely equal design: a mosque, a synagogue and a church, connected by a park and an underground interfaith center. The project is intended to express an "Abrahamic" unity of the three world religions. It is "the result" of Pope Francis' so-called Abu Dhabi document, according to the website of the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia. The "House of the Abrahamic Family" is an interfaith center in the Saadiyat Cultural District in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) that is directly related to the document on the brotherhood of all people signed in Abu Dhabi on Feb. 4, 2019, by Pope Francis and Ahmad Mohammed al-Tayyeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar (Cairo). This document and the building project are an expression of the so-called "spirit of Abu Dhabi" for the brotherhood of all people. Funding was provided by the desert emirate, but one of the driving forces behind the "Spirit of Abu Dhabi" is Pope Francis. According to the initiators, the initiatives for the "brotherhood of all people" are intended to "promote peaceful coexistence among peoples and combat extremism." The overall project represents a common descent of Judaism, Christianity and Islam from Abraham. Christ remains the unnamed one. Following the signing of the document on the brotherhood of all people, which Austrian philosopher Josef Seifert called, "the heresy of all heresies," Pope Francis established a High Committee for the Brotherhood of All People in August 2019 to implement the document.
cont. This committee presented a gigantic construction project in the fall of 2019, for which the groundbreaking ceremony took place immediately afterwards. The initiative for this came from the government of the United Arab Emirates. The leading emirate of Abu Dhabi provided the building land and secured the financing. On October 3, 2020, Pope Francis signed his third encyclical Fratelli tutti (All Brothers) in Assisi, which is to be understood as a kind of political testament of the current pontificate. The scope of the overall project called "Brotherhood of All People" became evident when in December 2020 the UN General Assembly declared February 4, the day of the signing of the Abu Dhabi Document, as the International Day of Brotherhood of All People. The motion to do so was the first initiative of the High Committee for the Brotherhood of All People right after its constitution. On February 4, 2021, the International Day of Brotherhood of All People was celebrated for the first time. On Thursday, February 16, 2023, the now completed complex was officially opened by Sheikh Saif bin Zayid al-Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior of the United Arab Emirates, and Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak al-Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence. Both belong to the ruling family of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, which also provides the head of state in the United Arab Emirates. The current Emir of Abu Dhabi and President of the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Zayid al-Nahyan, is considered to be the key figure behind the overall project. He had already led preparations for the construction project and the signing of the Abu Dhabi Document by Pope Francis and Grand Imam al-Tayyeb in 2019, when he was still Crown Prince. Mohammed bin Zayid al-Nahyan became crown prince of the emirate upon the death of his father in 2004. Since May 2022, he has been Emir of Abu Dhabi and head of state of the United Arab Emirates, which comprises seven Gulf emirates. In fact, however, he had already been in charge of his half-brother since 2014, after the latter suffered a stroke. He officially succeeded him after the latter's death the previous year. At the opening of the House of Abrahamic Religions last week, which he did not attend in person, the emir wrote on Twitter that Abu Dhabi was "a proud story of people from different communities working together to create new opportunities."
cont. The center that has been built, which in the future will be one of the attractions in the Gulf Emirates in the cultural district alongside offshoots of the Guggenheim Museum and the Louvre in Paris, houses a church dedicated to Pope Francis in accordance with the ideas of the ruling family. In addition to the Ahmad al-Tayyeb Mosque and the Moses Maimonides Synagogue, there is officially the Pope Francis Church ("His Holiness Francis Church"). Since such a dedication is inconceivable for the Catholic Church, the cubic church has been given St. Francis of Assisi as its patron. The mosque, on the other hand, is named after the other signatory of the Abu Dhabi Document Grand Imam Ahmad al-Tayyeb, and the synagogue after the famous medieval rabbi Moses Maimonides (1138-1204). The street on which the entire complex is located bears the name of former French President Jacques Chirac. After the opening on February 16, the very next day the first Islamic Friday prayer was held in the mosque, on Saturday the Sabbath was celebrated in the synagogue, and on Sunday, February 19, a service of the word was held in the church, as reported by the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia. At the latter, Pope Francis was represented by Cardinal Michael L. Fitzgerald, former president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. According to Emirates News Agency, the cardinal praised the interfaith building complex as "a concrete example for people of different religions, cultures, traditions and beliefs to return to the essential: charity." Also present was Bishop Paolo Martinelli, Vicar Apostolic for South Arabia. Msgr. Martinelli said the remarkable words: "We have entered a new phase in the history of religions." And further: "With the Abu Dhabi document on the brotherhood of all people, a prophetic and far-sighted document, religions are presented in their original capacity to cooperate and to contribute together to the formation of a more humane world in which we all recognize each other as brothers and sisters. called to fraternity, to coexistence and tolerance, to mutual acceptance and to the promotion of justice and peace." Msgr. Martinelli described the Church as a "gift to Pope Francis." At the same time, he called St. Francis of Assisi a "saint of fraternity among all people, of peace and reconciliation" and a "saint of the integrity of creation."
cont. Martinelli went so far as to declare: "His Holiness Pope Francis wanted to take the name of this great saint precisely to remind us of the value of fraternity, peace and creation." Was he suggesting that the Abu Dhabi project came about not in the run-up to the signing of the document of the same name in 2019, but in the run-up to the election of the pope? Indeed, Pope Francis launched "The Video of the Pope" initiative on papal prayer intentions in January 2016 with a video that earned him accusations of promoting syncretism. A few months later, in April 2016, Francis told the Focolare Movement's Earth Day in Rome that it was "not important" which religion one belonged to. What is important, he said, is that everyone works together and respects each other. Accordingly, behind "Abu Dhabi" there is a discernible thread that runs through the current pontificate. This thread has its starting point, as historian Cristina Siccardi pointed out in an analysis in 2019, in the document Nostra aetate of the Second Vatican Council. Originally, the temple complex was to be completed as early as 2022, but due to unforeseen delays it took longer than planned. Critics, such as the aforementioned philosopher Josef Seifert and the historian Cristina Siccardi, see an alarming connection with the worst form of the controversial "Spirit of Assisi" and the now "Spirit of Abu Dhabi". In 1986, on the initiative of the Catholic community of Sant'Egidio, an interreligious prayer meeting had been invited to Assisi, attended by representatives of numerous religions, including Pope John Paul II. The half-baked affair ended in a syncretic and sacrilegious abomination. Nevertheless, the "spirit of Assisi" was maintained. According to Cristina Siccardi, the road to Abu Dhabi leads through Assisi. However, it is not about the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi. This holy one is abused only as figurehead for the syncretistic idea of a world unit religion. Thus the whole thing is less about religion, but rather about a political project. The new Francis Church on the island of Saadiyat is not to be found on the Internet page of the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia headed by Msgr. Martinelli, so it is not subject to this, but to the carrier of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian total complex. The website lists nine churches for the United Emirates, including St. Joseph's Cathedral as the Episcopal Church in Abu Dhabi. The consecration of the new cube church is still pending. It will take place "later, after which the sacraments can be administered in the church," according to the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia. Ninety percent of the residents of the United Arab Emirates are foreigners. This is due to the fact that the emirs have inbvested the petrodollars in other business sectors such as tourism, finance and IT. Although the majority of the guest workers come from other Arab states, a very strong group also comes from South and Southeast Asia. The emirs thus face a growing number of people who come from other Islamic traditions or belong to other religions altogether, including many Catholics from the Philippines. The al-Nahyan ruling family, which is the leading one among the seven emirs, reacts to this unusual population situation with a display of tolerance so as not to endanger the internal stability of the country and its rule. The ideological basis it tries to give this tolerance, however, goes far beyond tolerating the religion of its guest workers. In this context, it is repeatedly pointed out that the idea of a world unity religion by relativizing religions goes back to Freemasonry. The Abu Dhabi temple complex is a major step in this direction, the opening of which Bishop Martinelli described as entering a "new phase in the history of religions." The next project of the UAE government will be the construction of a Hindu temple. Recently, the U.S. State Department praised in a report that Islamic imams in the United Emirates are "closely monitored" and their sermons at Friday prayers are "tightly controlled." At the same time, attempts to proselytize Muslims are punishable by up to five years in prison.
I think there is a risk that this global ecumenical movement will be capitalized on by the ongoing synodal process (2021-2024); I think that the triennium that begins this year is like a precipice that the Church has to jump between two stones; the moment when heretical movements gain relative strength to push their reform agenda within local churches.
https://gloria.tv/post/XE3bw1dEMUS93DtJmcg6uuUgJ if this is true; it is an indirect approval of the German synodal path.
Powerful stuff from the Register. A Pontificate of Power https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/a-pontificate-of-power
One may claim the Pope has authority to do what he chose to do, but I feel the virtue of justice was violated. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/b...tholics-to-pray-and-trust/?utm_source=popular
