TrapCast Express
TrapCast Express, it's Thursday, February 9th, 2017
and Francis has once again made a mess
and it is bad
Today, the Italian paper Corriere della Sera
published the transcript of a question and answer session
with Pope Francis when he met with 140 superiors general
of male religious orders last November
A good part of it is just more of the usual Francis blather
but there are also some very memorable lines
that you haven't heard before
We have a link to the full text
with some of our usual blistering commentary
on our blog at novosordowatch.org
slash wire
Now to give you a glimpse of just how bad it is
here's a summary
of some of the highlights
or, well, lowlights
Francis says he has always liked to be criticized
quote
See, there's the reason why he never responded
to the dubia of Cardinal Burke and company
It's just that they don't make him grow
That is the problem
Burke should have figured
Then, Francis once more condemns
black and white
thinking as he's done before
because black and white thinking
he finds to be abstract and casuistic
See, he prefers instead the color of gray
all 50 shades of it
which he claims allows us to discern
the complexities of life
so that we can offer the true doctrine of the gospel
and not the rigidity of an abstract doctrine
Now, of course, Francis' idea of moving forward
by discerning God's will in gray
gray areas
is nothing but a smoothed-over endorsement
of subjective do-it-yourself morality
where the only fixed standard is
that there is no fixed standard
Then, the Vatican's chief modernist denounces
restorationists and their evil
there it is again
rigidity
He's talking about the traditional-leaning religious orders
in his own modernist church
Believe it or not
he even condemns their relative success
in producing vocations
saying that the Holy Spirit
quote
does not follow the logic of human success
unquote
Well, apparently he already forgot
that just 10 days ago
he was complaining about
hemorrhaging vocations in his church
Well, you see
plentiful vocations, according to him
are a sign of triumphalism
and, of course, we can't have that
Too bad that on September 14th of every year
the Novus Ordo sect celebrates
a feast of the triumph of the cross
But perhaps Mr. Bergoglio can replace that soon
with a feast of the inclusive outreach of the cross
or something along those lines
But we're not done yet
In his Q&A, Francis also condemns
penance
Yes, penance
He labels it Pelagian
and then insinuates
disgracefully
that those religious orders
who focus on doing penance
and defending the church
and defending the faith
are likely to produce scandal
Here's what he says verbatim
Quote
They seem like soldiers
ready to do anything
for the defense of faith and morals
and then some scandal emerges
involving the founder
Unquote
Now, this is a new low
even for Francis
But the best line of the entire interview
was when he answered the question
about how he can be so peaceful
so serene
Here's what he says
Quote
What is the source of my serenity?
No, I don't take tranquilizers
Italians give some good advice
In order to live in peace
we need a healthy
couldn't care less attitude
Unquote
See, that's it
He really just doesn't give a flip
And that's exactly
how he's been behaving too
Lots more in that interview
but this is all we can look at here
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