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which had begun this past Thursday.
As you can probably imagine, he had a lot to say.
And yes, I sacrificed myself and read all of it.
So please join me now in a little bit of Advent penance
as we look at some of what he said.
Let's begin with his address to priests, consecrated persons,
deacons, catechists, ecclesial associations and movements
of the Church of Christ.
This was on December 2nd.
As always, of course, he couldn't resist the temptation
to speak in metaphors, figures of speech,
because they make for great headlines,
require no theology, and admit of different interpretations.
Besides, when you have nothing of substance to say,
a metaphor can quickly come to the rescue.
Listen to this.
Quote,
Thanks to the presence,
of many of our migrant brothers and sisters,
it, the Church,
appears as a polychrome people,
a true point of encounter
between different ethnicities and cultures.
This face of the Church reflects Cyprus' own place
in the European continent.
It is a land of golden fields,
an island caressed by the waves of the sea,
but above all else,
a history of intertwined peoples,
a mosaic of encounters.
The Church, as Catholic, universal,
is an open space in which all are welcomed
and gathered together by God's mercy
and invitation to love.
Unquote.
Actually, no.
The Church does not welcome all people.
She only welcomes those who are at least open
to being Catholics, open to conversion.
She does not, for example, welcome those
who are publicly scandalous
and have no intention of amending their ways.
Those, in fact, she excludes and excommunicates,
not because she is hateful,
but because she is loving.
And such an expulsion of a publicly unrepentant great sinner
is often the last resort,
the only means left to get him to repent.
So, the Church's exclusion of those
who obstinately refuse to do the minimum,
necessary to be accepted in the Church,
is actually a mercy towards such souls.
But, Chaos Frank continues.
Quote,
Wrong again.
In fact, you cannot have a building without walls.
Just bridges aren't going to cut it.
In fact,
if you remove walls,
if you remove borders and boundaries,
you know what happens?
Everything dissolves.
Whether it be a country, a building, a society,
or even a cell in a living organism,
if you erase that which defines and constricts it,
it begins to dissolve.
It begins to die.
You can see that in something as simple as an egg.
If you fry an egg in your pan,
what happens when you rupture the liquid yolk?
See, that's what I mean.
It disintegrates.
You know why there are walls in the Catholic Church?
Because there are walls also in the Kingdom of Heaven.
As Christ warned us,
Then the king said to the waiters,
Bind his hands and feet,
and cast him into the exterior darkness.
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
That's Matthew 22, 13.
The only way you can distinguish the exterior from the interior
is with a wall,
with some kind of border, boundary, perimeter.
In the story with Lazarus and the rich man,
it's a chasm that can't be overcome,
as we read in Luke 16, 26.
See, it's funny,
but Francis remembers all that very well
when it comes to things he condemns.
Like the mafia, not helping the poor, and so on.
Then he suddenly remembers
that we will be judged on how we treated others,
and that not everyone is going to find himself inside,
but some outside of heaven.
Oh, and didn't he just recently,
effective October 1st,
bar people from entering Vatican City
if they don't have the so-called Green Pass?
Talk about excluding people.
And if I'm not mistaken,
the people at the checkpoints
who vet you for that Green Pass,
I'm pretty sure they carry weapons.
You know, the kind that Francis likes to condemn.
Anyway, the false pope has a few more words of wisdom for us.
He also says,
quote,
None of us has been called here to proselytize as preachers.
Never.
Proselytism is sterile.
And does not give life.
Unquote.
You know, the way Francis talks,
you'd think that his church is full of people proselytizing,
making converts left and right,
and hammering people with
thou shalt's and thou shalt not's.
This proselytism thing is a boogeyman.
It doesn't exist,
at least not to any extent worth mentioning.
Okay?
Much less condemning.
And yet he constantly has his trap open about it.
Make no mistake,
this guy is constantly proselytizing
for his own ideology.
It's just that his ideology
seeks to dissolve the gospel.
And one of the ways he does that
is by telling people not to preach it.
But that is itself a preaching
of his own anti-gospel.
Secondly,
Francis' claim that proselytism is sterile
and doesn't give life
is a non-sense.
It's another one of those many little dogmas
he just makes up and repeats again and again,
hoping that people will believe it
just because he says it,
and says it often,
and with assertiveness.
The truth is
that proselytism worked great
for the apostles, for example.
In Acts 2, 40 and 41, we read,
And with very many other words
did he, St. Peter,
testify and exhort them.
And with very many other words,
And there were added in that day
about 3,000 souls.
So here,
sacred scripture tells us
not only that St. Peter preached
to the Jews,
telling them what to believe
and what to do, right,
how to act,
but also that he was successful
in doing so.
And it even gives a number
of the converts made,
about 3,000 souls
in one day.
Some years back,
Francis chastised someone
who told him that she'd made
a number of converts to Catholicism.
You know, triumphalism and all that.
Yeah.
The truth is,
Francis doesn't want converts.
He doesn't want anyone
coming to Catholicism
for objective and rational reasons.
At most,
he wants people to convert
based on encounter,
feelings, experience,
whatever, soup kitchen togetherness
or something.
Because then it's got
a subjective foundation.
And if it's based on something subjective,
then it can easily be integrated
into a big interreligious whole
that allows each person
his own subjective experiences
and traditions
while allowing other people
theirs.
And that is a perfect foundation
for the Big Ten universal
Freemasonic religion
in which everyone is included
because we're all in it.
We're all brothers and sisters
and ultimately,
we all believe in the same God
who manifests himself
in different traditions
and desires this diversity of belief
as an expression of his wisdom.
That is the perverted anti-gospel
Francis has been promoting.
And he's using the poor
and the needy as pawns
to give this false gospel
an air of charity and legitimacy
when in actual fact,
he cares nothing for these people's
eternal welfare
only for their bodily needs.
But what doth it profit a man
if he gained the whole world
and suffered the loss
of his own soul?
Francis is a criminal,
a spiritual criminal.
Next, Francis repeats
one of his favorite half-truths,
namely that God never
tires of forgiving.
Now, that is
a very dangerous thing to say in our times and circumstances. Certainly, God will always forgive
a soul who is sufficiently supernaturally contrite for his sins, and in fact, he goes out of his way
to draw souls to such repentance. God is definitely not outdone in mercy and forgiveness. And yes,
that is something that should be told to people, specifically to individual pious souls who are
discouraged, who perhaps are tempted by despair, and, you know, things like that. However, this is
not something you can tell a soul who is lax, who doesn't have a good grasp of the seriousness of
sin, someone who's presumptuous, and so on. In fact, to tell people indiscriminately that God
never tires of forgiving, and then leaving it at that, is tantamount to encouraging them to
keep on praying.
Keep sinning. And that is exactly what Francis is continually doing.
Look at the state of our world today, especially the decadent post-Christian West. If there is one
thing this world doesn't need to hear more of, it's that God always forgives. It's completely
the wrong message. This world needs to hear about God's justice, that eternal condemnation is real,
that most of humanity is on its certain way there, unless there is genuine conversion,
that God cannot be mocked, that God will avenge man's crimes against him, especially blasphemy,
apostasy, heresy, and the murder of the unborn, and the fact that in the end, no one will get away
with anything. That is the message this world needs to hear. We don't need any more
sermons on tenderness and caresses, on closeness and mercy. I'm sorry, but there's still more
from the Frankster. Let's briefly go to the address he gave on December 3rd in the Eastern
Orthodox Cathedral in Nicosia, Cyprus. There, the apostate Jesuit said, quote,
the gospel is not handed on by communication, but by communion.
Unquote. Now, what an idiotic thing to say, right? You know, if he'd said that the gospel
is not only handed on by communication, that would have been perfectly fine. But no,
smart Alec Bergoglio, of course, says it's not handed on by communication at all. Really now?
Let's see what St. Paul says about that. And how shall they hear without a preacher?
Faith?
Then cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
That's a quote from Romans chapter 10, verses 14 and 17. It should be pretty obvious that if
you've been charged with transmitting the doctrine of Jesus Christ, then at some point,
somehow, you're going to have to communicate. Which is, of course, exactly what the apostles
did. Read the Acts of the Apostles, and then tell me with a straight face,
that the gospel wasn't handed on by communication.
Oh, and by the way, isn't the gospel kind of a precondition for communion? How can you be in a
supernatural common union if you don't first communicate the gospel? But hey, no, not according
to Francis. The gospel isn't handed on by communication.
Which raises the question, if he has nothing to communicate, why does he talk so much?
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