TrapCast Express
TrapCast Express, it's Tuesday, May 8th, 2018.
Folks, you can't make this stuff up.
Every day I pour over the Vatican headlines, and I think the reason they're called headlines
is because you can't stop shaking your head as you read these lines.
Listen to this.
Former Vatican communications chief gives talk on fake news.
That was one of the headlines at CatholicNewsAgency.com on May 4th.
Yeah, do you remember why he's the former Vatican communications chief?
Remember what happened there?
Just a few weeks ago, he had to resign in disgrace
because he had been caught red-handed producing fake news.
After it was revealed that Dario Viganò, that's the gentleman's name,
had manipulated a letter from Benedict XVI to give the false impression
that Benedict was endorsing a set of books about Francis' theology
when in fact he did more like the opposite,
Viganò had to resign in disgrace, and the only reason
he's still part of the Department of Communications at all in the Vatican
is because Francis appointed him to it again.
In a lesser role.
And this Monsignor Viganò now just gave a talk on April 28th
as part of a fake news and the ethical responsibilities of media
question and answer panel inside the Vatican.
Folks, it is a circus in Vatican City.
Circus Roncalli, we might say.
Next, on May 2nd, this headline appeared on LifeSiteNews.com,
Vatican invites Katy Perry to talk about transcendental meditation.
This was part of the Vatican's so-called Unite to Cure conference,
of which Mr. Viganò's talk about fake news was also a part.
Aside from transcendental meditation being a dangerous New Age thing,
Katy Perry is on record saying that she has sold her soul to the devil.
She has promoted occultism, lesbianism,
and cannibalism.
And, of course, that's just the kind of person you'd want recommending anything
to your children, right?
Because that's what her talk was ultimately about,
transcendental meditation and how to introduce that to children.
Now, Francis himself, of course, was quite happy to meet Perry
and greeted her cordially at the Vatican.
I am sick to my stomach.
Now, speaking of chaos, Frank,
in case you didn't hear about it yet,
just four days ago, his unholiness blasphemed once again,
directly insulting God the Holy Ghost when he said,
and I quote,
this Holy Spirit is a disaster because he never tires of being creative.
Unquote.
Yep, Francis said that during an address to consecrated religious in the Vatican.
And so, of course, you've got your typical Novus Ordo people saying,
hey, it was a joke.
Okay.
Yeah, of course, it was a joke.
But it was a blasphemous one.
That's the point.
It was blasphemy.
And if you want to know what God thinks about blasphemy,
you may want to flip through the Old Testament a little,
like 2 Maccabees 10.36, for example.
Or the New Testament, too,
like Colossians 3.8, Jude 14-16,
or the Apocalypse.
Anyway, we've got a post on Chaos Frank's latest blog,
just go to novusordowatch.org slash wire
and look for the post dated May 4th,
entitled Francis Blasphemes Again.
In other news,
after the Conference of German Novus Ordo Bishops back in February
approved a document text that would permit Protestant spouses of Novus Ordos
to receive what purports to be Holy Communion,
a number of dissenting bishops appealed to the Vatican to prevent that
from being used in the Vatican.
So, we've got a post on Chaos Frank's latest blog,
that would permit Protestant spouses of Novus Ordos to receive what purports to be Holy Communion,
a number of dissenting bishops appealed to the Vatican to prevent that from being used in the Vatican.
So, we've got a post on Chaos Frank's latest blog,
that would permit Protestant spouses of Novus Ordos to receive what purports to be Holy Communion,
becoming church practice in Germany.
Francis reacted very quickly and asked the disputing parties to come to the Vatican for a meeting.
Ooh.
Well, that meeting took place on May 3rd,
and you want to know what the outcome was?
Francis basically told them,
you figure it out.
Yep.
That's what they went to the Vatican for,
to have Francis tell them to just come to,
an agreement already and leave him out of it. And Francis didn't even participate in the meeting.
No, no, that was Louis Laudaria, the head of the Congregation for the Destruction of the Faith,
and he read a statement from Francis. Sure, there was discussion among the various participants and
the whole meeting lasted just over two hours, but as far as Francis settling the issue one way or
another, forget it. That did not happen. American Vaticanist John Allen reported on this last
Thursday and wrote, quote, in the meeting which took place in German, Archbishop Laudaria illustrated
that Pope Francis appreciates the ecumenical commitment of the German bishops and asked them
to find in a spirit of ecclesial communion a possibly unanimous result, unquote. So, yeah,
that's...
Francis for you. That's very much how he reacted also in 2016 when someone in some press conference
asked him about how a Catholic should vote in the United States presidential election.
His answer was, vote your conscience. Well, no kidding. The people who were asking, though,
actually wanted to form their conscience in that regard and thought that maybe the man who calls
himself the Pope.
Could help them, but nope, definitely not. When it comes to those things that his putative office
would actually require him to step in and make a decision about, he won't. On the other hand,
if it's about climate change or welcoming the Islamization of Europe, for example,
that's when Francis gets really active. All right, and our last headline for today fits right in with
the previous story.
Consult the laity, Vatican Theological Commission says. That was posted on Vatican Insider on May 4th,
and it beautifully demonstrates how in the Novus Ordo sect, the blind not only lead the blind,
they even ask them for directions. Here are some quotes from the article written by Joshua
McElwee. Quote, a Vatican commission responsible for helping the Catholic Church study doctrinal
issues has stressed the importance of including lay people in the global institution's various
authority structures, writing in a new document approved by Pope Francis that their involvement is
indispensable in decision making. The participation of lay faithful is essential. It later states,
they are the immense majority of the people of God, and we have much to learn from their
participation in diverse expressions of life.
Unquote. And here you can see the false modernistic conception of theology, where the lived experience
of man is a place of revelation from which sacred theology draws its data. That is absurd. It is
false, and it is most likely heretical. Real Catholic theology, on the other hand, operates
from the top on down. It does not go from the bottom up. It begins with God's revelation in
scripture and tradition, as interpreted by the magisterium, and then draws conclusions from that.
It does not begin with human experience, and then somehow declares something about God.
What these people really want and advocate is a church and a doctrine from below.
Oh, the irony. Because that's exactly what they've now got.
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