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The Drama and Beauty of the Reality
Such are some of the latest words of the Vatican's apostate-in-chief,
the man who styles himself Pope Francis.
They're taken from an interview published with him in Studia Moralia,
which is an academic journal put out by the Alfonso Academy in Rome,
which was once a prestigious university for Catholic moral theology.
So, did you get that?
What?
France?
Francis wants a concrete encounter with the existential peripheries,
and he does not want what he calls theoretical reflections disconnected from reality.
This is typical for his kind of morality,
which we have seen since the exhortation Amoris Laetitia
is nothing other than situation ethics or ethical existentialism.
According to that ethical system, there are no moral principles,
that are perennially valid, that rigidly apply always and everywhere,
such as,
because there is no such thing as an intrinsic evil, according to this morality.
So, basically, it all depends.
It depends on the situation.
It depends on each case.
Sound familiar?
Accompaniment, discernment, case by case.
Yep, that is situation ethics.
On April 18th, 1952, Pope Pius XII gave an address to the participants
in the Congress of the World Federation of Catholic Young Women.
In it, the Holy Father, with great clarity of thought,
condemned what he called this new morality.
He declared, quote,
The distinctive mark of this morality is that it is not based, in effect,
on universal moral laws, such as, for example, the Ten Commandments,
but on the real and concrete conditions or circumstances in which men must act
and according to which the conscience of the individual must judge and choose.
Such a state of things is unique and is applicable only once for every human action.
That is why the decision of conscience, as the advocates of this ethic assert,
cannot be commanded by ideas,
principles, and universal laws.
Unquote.
Again, does this sound familiar?
When Francis rails against being attached to rules and laws,
ideas and theories, that is what he's doing.
He's teaching situation ethics,
as though the moral law, which ultimately derives from the eternal law of God,
were simply a man-made rule that can be done away with according to circumstances.
Francis adds,
as though the moral law were a set of ceremonial directives
that only Pharisees would put above the demands of the reality of the moment.
Pope Pius XII then contrasts this new and false morality with the true Catholic position.
Quote,
Christian faith bases its moral requirements on the knowledge of essential truths
and their mutual relationship.
This is what St. Paul, in his epistle to the Romans,
chapter 1, verses 19 through 21,
teaches about religion as such,
whether it be Christian or prior to Christianity.
Through the creation of the world, says the apostle,
man catches sight of, and one may say grasps, the Creator,
his everlasting power and his divinity,
and this so clearly that he knows and feels himself obliged to recognize God and to do Him honor.
Thus it is that to neglect God,
to neglect this cult or to pervert it in idolatry,
is seriously sinful for all men and at all times.
Unquote.
So, here the Pope was using the example of the sinfulness of idolatry,
which is an intrinsic evil and never permissible, no matter the circumstances.
Now, Francis does condemn idolatry,
but never really the literal kind, only the figurative kind,
like the idolatry of money,
of freedom, of consumerism, and so on.
When it comes to literal idolatry,
say, worshipping a statue of Mother Earth in the Vatican gardens or in St. Peter's Basilica,
or letting a pagan sorceress confer some kind of a, quote,
blessing on him in the Vatican,
then the Frankster is a lot more lenient.
Then it's meeting God in different ways and whatnot.
Remember what Francis wrote in his exhortation,
Corrida Amazonia, regarding the Pachamama statue.
This is from paragraph 79, quote,
It is possible to take up an indigenous symbol in some way
without necessarily considering it as idolatry.
Unquote.
Yeah, maybe, except what happened in the Vatican gardens was literal idolatry.
It's all on video.
The people were gathered around.
The wooden statue in a circle and began prostrating themselves before it
with their faces to the ground.
And in St. Peter's Basilica,
Francis received an offering of soil to Pachamama
and placed it on the high altar of St. Peter's.
What staggering blasphemy and idolatry.
But hey, the situation was one in which this sort of thing could be done, right?
Just like in Amoris Laetitia,
Francis invented the idea that God might very well desire one to commit adultery
in one's very specific and complex circumstances.
You can find that in paragraph 303 of Amoris Laetitia.
But don't worry.
Francis really does believe in intrinsic evil.
It's just not idolatry or adultery.
It's more like racism, pollution,
not welcoming mindsets,
migrants,
indifference to suffering.
In the interview published in Studia Moralia,
he says,
Oh, there comes metaphorical Frank again.
Anyway, speaking of reality and of metaphors,
he has some more to say.
Quote,
Reality is better seen from the suburbs.
From the center, you have a sweetened, distorted vision,
while from the periphery, you see the raw, real reality without any mask.
Unquote.
You know, in philosophy, there is a principle that says,
what is gratuitously asserted is gratuitously denied.
In other words, whatever is claimed to be true without evidence
can, by the same token, be denied.
Denied without evidence.
So Francis says that reality is better seen from the peripheries,
whatever that is actually supposed to mean.
But he doesn't say why.
He offers no reason why.
He just says it.
He just asserts it.
And it's not exactly, you know, obvious.
So to respond to something like that,
all you have to do is say,
No, it's not.
Reality is not seen better from the peripheries,
but from the center.
Done.
And you could argue that it's actually better from the center,
because from there you can see not only the center,
but also all the peripheries.
Whereas your vision is necessarily going to be limited from the peripheries,
because from there you have to not only see the center,
but also what lies beyond it.
See how this works?
So, look.
The reason why Francis loves to use metaphors
is because he can say anything and nothing.
He doesn't have to use any theology.
He can twist and bend his metaphors as he needs them to get his point across.
And whenever someone accuses him of serious error,
he can always say that that's not how he meant it.
Clever, huh?
Metaphorical and sentimental theology.
That is what since Vatican II has replaced the crystal clear,
incredible,
incredibly substantial and meaningful scholastic theology of real Catholicism.
And the best way to see the difference between this beautiful and real Catholic theology
and the idiotic, tedious, endless blather of the Novus Ordo papal impostors
is to read the old papal encyclicals.
Go to papalencyclicals.net
and read the encyclicals of any pope up until and including Pius XII,
who died in 1958.
For example, read Mortalium Animus of Pius XI,
Haurietes Aquas of Pius XII,
or Satis Cognitum of Leo XIII.
Read Merari Vos of Gregory XVI,
Quanta Cora of Pius IX,
or Aesopremi of St. Pius X.
You will notice a striking difference.
You will notice clarity of thought and expression,
graceful style,
and incredibly nourishing substance.
If you then compare that with something like Populorum Progressio of Antipope Paul VI,
Ut Unum Sint of John Paul II,
or Evangelii Gaudium of Francis,
your eyes will be opened.
Or, in the words of Francis,
you will see the raw, real reality without any mask.
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