TrapCast Express
TrapCast Express, it's Thursday, May 21st, 2020.
Breaking news from Switzerland.
The Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva, Fribourg has appointed the first ever female Vicar General.
On May 19th, the Diocese published an announcement on its website, stating, and here I'm translating from the German,
quote, Bishop Charles Morad, Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva, and Fribourg, has appointed Mrs. Marianne Paul-Hensen,
effective August 1st, 2020, as the Episcopal Delegate for the Diocesan Region of German Fribourg.
In this,
The write-up on the Diocesan website goes on to explain that Mrs. Paul-Hensen is married and the mother of three children.
She also has four grandchildren.
So yeah, this lady will represent the Novus Ordo Bishop throughout the German-speaking parts of Fribourg, Switzerland.
But don't worry.
She is well aware that she's not a priest, and so she won't be administering sacraments or anything,
but she will assist Bishop Morad in the government of the Diocese,
together with four other such vicars for the other parts of the Diocese.
It's a big one.
And I think we can file that under Corrida Amazonia effect.
Speaking of which, Corrida Amazonia, France's awful patron,
post-synodal exhortation on the Amazon region that we took apart a few episodes ago.
On February 13th, the Crisis Magazine website published an article by its editor-in-chief,
Michael Warren Davis, with the interesting title,
The Pope is Still Catholic.
Now, by Pope, he means Jorge Bergoglio, of course, the man who calls himself Francis.
What did Francis do?
Do for Davis to say he is still Catholic?
Let me quote straight from the article.
Quote,
Yesterday, the Holy Father did something completely unexpected.
Nothing at all.
Unquote.
Yup, that's all it takes nowadays.
If Bergoglio does nothing, as opposed to declaring yet another heresy,
he is suddenly proving his Catholicism.
It's amazing how that works in the Vatican II religion.
Now, of course, Davis was referring to the fact that in Corrida Amazonia,
Francis could have called for women priests and deacons,
and for abandoning clerical celibacy, but didn't.
And that fact alone, in the author's mind, proves he is still a Catholic.
As though he'd ever been one in his adulthood.
See, in the Novus Ordo sect, these journalists and commentators get a very basic thing wrong.
What makes you a Catholic?
A Catholic isn't your refusal to subscribe to one heresy.
It's your refusal to subscribe to any heresy.
Among other things, of course.
These people always act as though making one orthodox statement makes you a Catholic.
And so they don't care, for example, that Cardinal Gerhard Muller
endorses liberation theology and denies transubstantiation,
the bodily resurrection of Christ,
and the perpetual virginity of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
because,
hey, he opposes communion for adulterers
and agrees that God's moral law doesn't admit of exceptions.
So there, he's not only a Catholic, he's even a conservative, according to them.
That is pathetic.
Let's remember what Pope Leo XIII taught in his magnificent encyclical
on the unity of the Church in 1896,
Satis Conitum, paragraph 9, quote,
There can be nothing more dangerous than those heretics
who admit nearly the whole cycle of doctrine
and yet by one word, as with a drop of poison,
infect the real and simple faith taught by our Lord
and hand it down by apostolic tradition, unquote.
And Pope Benedict XV wrote in 1914, quote,
Such is the nature of Catholicism that it does,
and not admit of more or less,
but must be held as a whole or as a whole rejected, unquote.
That's the encyclical Ad Beatissimi, paragraph number 24.
Now, returning to Michael Warren Davis,
he really believes that nothing in France's Carita Amazonia
even suggests that anything will change
with regard to married clergy or women priests.
And yet, as our announcer,
analysis in Tradcast Express number 108 showed,
that is simply not true.
Bergoglio has built the premises into the text
that will allow him or his successor
to draw the conclusion that celibacy should be lifted
or even that women should be ordained if push comes to shove.
And for those of you who have not heard that yet,
you'll find that episode, Tradcast Express 108,
at soundcloud.com slash Novus Ordo Watch.
Soundcloud.com slash Novus Ordo Watch,
and then click on playlists,
and there scroll down to Tradcast Express,
and you'll see every single episode listed.
Now, to show how far removed from reality
Michael Warren Davis' assessment of Carita Amazonia is,
consider what he says here, quote,
I did.
to detect a whiff of apology for the Pachamama incident.
Yes, he claims that it is possible to take up
an indigenous symbol in some way
without necessarily considering it as idolatry.
But he also insists that those symbols must undergo
a gradual process of purification or maturation.
In a word, Christianization.
I suppose the Christmas tree would be an example
of a pagan symbol,
a symbol that has been so purified of heathenry.
Whether this is possible for a statue of a fertility goddess
is dubious, but it shows that Francis hasn't lost the plot.
Unquote.
These people are unbelievable.
I mean, what do you say to that?
Yeah, in Carita Amazonia,
Francis is apologizing for the Pachamama idolatry
that took place in the Vatican Gardens
just before the Amazon.
Because by reading deeply between the lines,
he could be interpreted to be hinting that perhaps
the adoration of a pagan fertility goddess
wasn't entirely Catholic.
Wow, what a conservative, bro.
Now, before we move on, there's one more thing
in the Davis article that I want to comment on.
The author writes, quote,
Pope Francis keeps a statue
of a sleeping St. Joseph on his desk
as a reminder that the patron of the church
watches over the faithful even in his rest.
Unquote.
Does this make any sense?
In the Catholic Church, St. Joseph is the husband
of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
the foster father of Jesus Christ.
He's the workman and the patron of the Universal Church.
In Bergoglio's church, St. Joseph,
is asleep.
And we're being told, oh, well, this means
he's watching over the church even when he's sleeping.
Yeah, except that St. Joseph is in heaven.
He doesn't sleep anymore.
Michael Warren Davis is insulting your intelligence, folks.
He should work for Catholic Answers.
He's a spin doctor, nothing else.
And lastly, let's take a quick look
at an interview published in the international version
of La Croix on April 30th.
There, a Jesuit anthropologist,
double yikes,
a Jesuit anthropologist from Cameroon
says that he really doesn't see all that much incompatibility
between Catholicism and voodooism.
Yeah, the Jesuit in question is Ludovic Lange.
And he is asked about the religious practices
of the Bamileke people.
The article bears the title
African Traditional Religion and the Veneration of Ancestors.
But basically what we're talking about is voodoo.
The word voodoo is not actually used in the article,
but that and similar animist beliefs
are generally put under the umbrella term
African Traditional Religion.
Lado explains that he doesn't like the term
ancestor worship and instead prefers
veneration of ancestors,
since these ancestors are not, he says,
considered deities.
He explains that after a person has been buried,
the Bamileke people wait a few years
before they exhume the skull
and ceremoniously carry it to the family sanctuary,
which is where the people make sacrificial offerings
to them, sprinkling the place with blood
from chickens or goats,
or with palm oil, for instance.
And asked what in the ritual practices
of the Bamileke people he considers
as irreconcilable with Christianity,
Father Lado answers, quote,
For my part, I don't see anything.
These sacrifices can be compared
to those of the Old Testament.
In relation to Christianity,
I consider the veneration of the ancestors
as the Old Testament of my people.
In a way, it can be likened to the communion of saints,
which includes the deceased, unquote.
You know, maybe it's just me,
but I don't recall ancestors being worshipped
or whatever, you know, sacrifices being made
to deceased people in the Old Testament.
So I guess what he's saying is that
if Moses had met these voodooists,
he would have been really impressed.
Not to mention Elias, right?
When the prophets of Baal called upon their god
to send fire from heaven,
Elias said, wow, that is so similar to my religion.
Oh my goodness, right?
Yeah, not exactly, okay?
You can read the whole story
in the third book of Kings,
chapter 18, verses 21 to 40.
If your Bible doesn't have a third book of Kings,
then it's called the first book,
in your edition.
But Mr. Leto is not totally gung-ho about this.
He mentions that he and his fellow clergy,
quote,
See, he's actually a conservative.
Folks, if this isn't the great apostasy,
what will be left?
What will be left to apostatize from?
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