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TrapCast Express, it's Tuesday, March 10th, 2020.
Our critical review of France's exhortation Carida Amazonia continues.
In this episode, we're tackling the first part of his fourth and last chapter,
entitled An Ecclesial Dream.
And as you can probably imagine, it really is quite a nightmare.
The first paragraph in chapter four is paragraph number 61, and it begins thus,
quote,
The church is called to journey alongside the people of the Amazon region, unquote.
Actually, she's not.
Bergoglio simply made it up because it's part of his political agenda.
He continues by noting that missionary efforts are
to
develop a church with an Amazonian face,
to which end he wants a culture of encounter towards a multifaceted harmony.
Yeah, my eye.
Here you can clearly see that for the Frankster,
the Catholic Church is a human institution with a merely human and earthly face.
The true Catholic Church, however, is a divine institution
and has the face of Christ since he is her head.
We call the church the mystical body of Christ for a reason.
So we don't need or want a church with an Amazonian face
any more than we need or want one with an Appalachian face
or a Norwegian face or an Alpine face or an Eskimo face
or a Serengeti face or a Black Forest face or anything else like it.
The church only has the face of Christ.
Oh, and just what's that Amazonian face?
That's what this stuff's supposed to mean anyway.
See, Bergoglio loves metaphors because they allow for many different interpretations,
which in turn leads to confusion.
And that's exactly what he wants.
Now, in paragraph 62, Francis proclaims,
Now, that sounds really good, right?
Kind of conservative there.
Except notice that he says,
but he's saying that all the while he's undermining the Catholic faith.
He's undermining the gospel and the church's true missionary activity.
And so in the very next paragraph, number 63,
for example, he says of the poor and of the abandoned,
quote,
How sad it would be if they were to receive from us a body of teachings or a moral code,
but not the great message of salvation,
the missionary obedience,
a appeal that speaks to the heart and gives meaning to everything else in life.
Unquote.
Now, there you see the typical 1960s modernist speaking,
as though the body of teachings and the moral code of the gospel
were not the message of salvation.
For Francis to juxtapose the two shows once again,
that he does not believe that the Catholic Church is, in fact, a divine institution.
And of course,
his church isn't,
but that's because it's not the Catholic Church.
Now, here's what Pope Leo XIII wrote about missionary activity among savages.
Quote,
To conciliate the minds and to win the confidence of these uncivilized nations,
they, meaning the missionaries,
should teach them the salutary precepts of religion right from the beginning.
They should bring them to understand the true notion of what is just and honest.
Finally, they should explain what it means to be children of God,
for they too have been called to this,
thanks to the merits of our Savior.
This is what the popes had in mind
when they sent so many missionaries to barbarian nations.
Unquote.
That's from Pope Leo XIII's encyclical,
Yom Predem, number 14, published in 1886.
So there you have the body of doctrine and the moral code
that Francis just pooh-poohed.
That is the message of salvation.
Francis just neutralized all the few good things he does say in that chapter
about evangelization.
For him, it's not about a body of doctrine or a moral code.
In other words, not faith or morals.
Great.
So what's left?
Well, nothing but politics, environmental concerns, humanitarianism, and so on.
Well, remember what he said when he visited Morocco a year ago.
I've got to quote this because otherwise people won't believe me.
After his usual spiel against proselytism, he said,
quote,
For being a Christian is not about adhering to a doctrine or a temple or an ethnic group.
Being Christian is about an encounter, an encounter with Jesus Christ.
Unquote.
He said this on March 31st, 2019,
and the translation is taken straight from the,
So, there too he pooh-poohed adhering to the doctrine of Christ
when that is absolutely mandatory.
As made clear in the second epistle of St. John, verse 9,
quote,
That's the Monsignor Ronald Knox translation.
In the Dewey translation, it puts it a little more archaically,
but,
still the same thing.
It says, quote,
Well, what is the message of salvation if not a doctrine?
A Lord himself said,
That's John 7, 16.
St. Luke writes in the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 2, verse 41,
and they were persevering in the doctrine,
St. Paul writes to the Romans, saying,
That's Romans 16, 17.
And perhaps the most applicable passage to our case here
is found in the second letter of St. Paul to St. Timothy, chapter 4, verses 3 and 4.
For there shall be a time when they will not,
endure sound doctrine,
but according to their own desires,
they will heap to themselves teachers having itching ears,
and will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth,
but will be turned unto fables.
Boy, ain't that the truth.
All right.
Well, France's ecclesial nightmare continues.
There's more I'd love to talk about,
but I've got to keep it moving here,
or else we'll still be discussing this awful document by Christmas.
In paragraph 68, he goes into enculturation,
no doubt one of his favorite topics.
Enculturation, he says, is a double movement.
Not only does the church give, but also receive.
He says that, quote,
The church herself undergoes a process of reception
that enriches her with the fruits of what the Spirit has already mysteriously sown
in that culture.
In this way, the Holy Spirit adorns the church,
showing her new aspects of revelation and giving her a new face, unquote.
See, the church herself is evangelized by the pagan cultures.
Not only does she teach them, but they teach her.
And, of course, that is somehow the work of the Holy Ghost, God the revealer.
That's modernism.
Okay, there is no supernatural.
There is no supernatural revelation to be found in the Amazon region, okay,
or any other region of the world, for that matter.
But, of course, by taking that position,
Francis can take anything he likes from the Amazon
and raise it to the level of quasi-doctrine.
You know, it's the Spirit speaking to the church now,
and we must read the signs of the times.
And, of course, you know exactly what the God of surprises will have in store for everybody.
Precisely the liberal talking points that Club Francis wants to see implemented,
like a syncretistic liturgy, married priests, women deacons, and so forth.
Now, some will say,
no, Francis did not allow married priests or women's ordination in Corita, Amazonia.
And that's basically true,
but he put the premises there to make it possible later on.
Right.
He laid the foundation that can later be used to draw those conclusions.
Or to put it in more Amazonian terms,
I guess we can say he sowed the seeds on fertile ground
so there'll be rich fruit to harvest later.
What? You think I'm exaggerating?
Well, you just haven't come across paragraph 69 yet, have you?
Let me quote it for you.
Or let me quote from it for you.
Quote,
What is needed is courageous openness to the novelty of the Spirit
who is always able to create something new
with the inexhaustible riches of Jesus Christ.
Indeed, enculturation commits the Church to a difficult but necessary journey.
True, this is always a slow process
and that we can be overly fearful,
ending up as mere onlookers
and as the Church gradually,
stagnates.
But let us be fearless
and let us not clip
the wings of the Holy Spirit.
Unquote.
Oh boy, here we go.
So many favorite expressions
that delight the modernist heart.
First, the term courage.
That's always a good one to use
because nobody wants to be considered a coward.
So, whatever garbage you want to unleash on souls,
just tell them that it requires courage
to accept
and all opposition to it
will seem cowardly or timid.
Then, openness.
Well, in our world,
that is considered the virtue.
Open minds, open doors,
open hearts,
open borders,
open everything.
Yeah, and they can't figure out
how the smoke of Satan got in
or the coronavirus.
Anyway, then there is novelty,
meaning newness.
Well, until the Vatican II religion came along,
novelty was considered problematic,
to say the least.
There are so many papal condemnations of novelty
that I can't even quote them all here,
but let me at least give you a few.
Here, St. Pius X,
in his encyclical against modernism,
Pacendi Dominici Gregis,
denounced a
blind and unchecked passion for novelty
and exhorted far, far from the clergy.
Be the love of novelty.
In his encyclical,
P.A. Nilanimo,
the same Pius X pointed out that
all terms smacking of an unhealthy novelty
in Catholic publications are condemnable,
such as those deriding the piety of the faithful
or pointing out a new orientation of the Christian life,
new directions of the church,
new aspirations of the modern soul,
a new social vocation of the clergy,
or a new Christianity,
or a new Christian civilization.
Well, there's Vatican II in a nutshell.
Pope Pius IX wished that
every error and profane novelty
may be repelled and eliminated
in the encyclical Optime Nocetis.
Pius XII, in Humani Generis,
lamented the reprehensible desire of novelty,
and he counseled,
let no Christian, therefore,
whether philosopher or theologian,
embrace eagerly
and lightly
whatever novelty happens to be thought up
from day to day,
but rather let him weigh it with painstaking care
and a balanced judgment,
lest he lose or corrupt the truth he already has
with grave danger and damage to his faith.
In the apostolic exhortation,
Menti Nostrae,
Pius XII denounced
the mania for novelty.
Pope Gregory XVI,
in his encyclical letter Mirari Vos,
reminded the bishop,
that the universal church
is affected by any and every novelty.
And Pope Leo XIII,
writing in the encyclical Providentissimus Deus,
warned that at his time,
the thirst for novelty
and unrestrained freedom of thought
make the danger of error most real and proximate.
Now, of course, Francis is no dummy.
He knows he can't get away
with just calling for novelty,
so he ascribes,
to the Holy Ghost,
the novelty of the Spirit.
Yeah, that's Spirit.
Oh, it's definitely a Spirit
that's the originator of all these novelties,
all right.
It's just not a holy one.
Then Francis, of course,
claims that that Spirit
is creating all this newness
from the riches of Christ.
When, of course, we all know that
in truth, it's nothing but dusty junk
from Bergoglio's treasure trove of apostasy.
But in order for that not to be too obvious,
the Frankster covers it up
with more rhetoric.
Rhetoric that appeals to people's emotions.
Surely you don't want to be
a mere onlooker
as the church gradually stagnates, right?
Because, you know,
that Bergoglian church
always has to be moving, right?
I mean, who needs a church
that's just kind of there?
It's got to be moving.
So, you know,
in 1946, in his allocution
Quam vis inquieti,
Pope Pius XII denounced
that very notion
when he said that the new theology
on which all of this is based
is in a state of perpetual motion.
He said it will always be
on the road to somewhere
but will never arrive anywhere.
And that's exactly it.
And so Francis concludes,
but let us be faithful
and let us be fearless.
Let us not clip the wings
of the Holy Spirit.
And there we go again.
He brands opposition
to his agenda of novelty
as fear
because who wants to be considered
a scaredy cat, right?
And worse yet,
Bergoglio declares
that any opposition
to whatever new junk he dreams up
is opposition to the Holy Spirit himself.
There, perfect.
With these rhetorical tricks,
Francis has laid down the premise
for the introduction
of any novelty whatsoever
in principle.
Think about it.
What can you not justify
with what he just said?
Courageous openness
to the novelty of the Spirit
drawn from the inexhaustible riches of Christ
to oppose which
would mean opposing God himself.
And he's already told us
the source for this newness.
It's the Amazon region
where that Spirit
has mysteriously,
mysteriously sown seeds
of new revelation.
Folks, this is utter modernist garbage.
This has nothing to do
with Catholicism.
Now, in paragraph 70
of Corrida Amazonia,
Chaos Frank wastes no time
to apply what he just said.
Listen to this.
Quote,
For the Church to achieve
a renewed enculturation
of the Gospel in the Amazon region,
she needs to listen
to its ancestral wisdom
Listen.
and once more
to the voice of its elders,
recognize the values present
in the way of life
of the original communities
and recover the rich stories
of its peoples.
In the Amazon region,
we have inherited great riches
from the pre-Columbian cultures.
These include openness
to the action of God,
a sense of gratitude
for the fruits of the earth,
the sacred character of human life
and esteem for the family,
a sense of solidarity
and shared responsibility
and common work,
the importance of worship,
belief in a life beyond this earth,
and many other values.
Unquote.
All right, so here Francis proposes
the counterpart of the Church teaching.
It's the Church listening.
So, get ready for some
great old Pachamama stories.
Well, apparently the Catholic Church
knows nothing about the Church,
nothing about the action of God,
about gratitude for God's benefits
or the value of human life,
the common good,
proper worship,
or life after death even.
And that's why she has to listen
to the Amazonian pagan elders
now to discover these riches.
I mean, this junk is simply insufferable.
Why does anybody listen to this man?
But you know what?
This isn't even new.
Don't think that Francis
is the first one
to come up with this.
This is Vatican II.
This comes from Paul VI
and John Paul II.
For example,
while he was visiting
the African nation of Benin,
on February 4, 1993,
John Paul II,
who, by the way,
is a saint in the new Church,
he met with voodoo witch doctors
and told them,
quote,
you have a strong attachment
to the traditions
handed on by your ancestors.
It is a very strong attachment
to the traditions handed on by your ancestors.
It is a very strong attachment
to the traditions handed on by your ancestors.
It is legitimate
to be grateful
to your forebears
who passed on
this sense of the sacred,
belief in a single God
who is good,
a sense of celebration,
esteem for the moral life
and for harmony in society,
unquote.
I'm not making this up.
You can verify this for yourself.
The translation of John Paul's address
to the adherents of voodooism in Benin
can be found
in the Vatican's newspaper
Osservatore,
Osservatore Romano,
English edition
of February 10th, 1993
on page 7.
And on that same page,
this is very interesting,
on that same page,
there is an info blurb
about voodooism
and it describes
a little bit that sense
of celebration
that the voodooists have.
It says,
quote,
voodoo ceremonies
consist of rituals
invoking the spirits
and the great God
and are marked
by drums and songs
accompanying an animal sacrifice.
The rite culminates
in a trance
in which a ritual dancer
is thought to be possessed
by a divinity.
Ceremonies are conducted
by a man or a woman
who are often knowledgeable
about witchcraft as well.
Unquote.
I guess these are the seeds
that the spirit
has sowed
in the voodoo religion.
Let's hope
that Francis won't try
to harvest the fruits here
anytime soon.
All right,
that's it for today.
Unfortunately,
we still have quite
a bit of ground to cover
because
France's ecclesial dream
is far from over.
So,
we'll pick up here
next time.
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