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[   4 →   15]  TrapCast Express, it's Saturday, June 16th, 2018.
[  16 →   21]  This may come as a surprise to you, but Francis has had a lot to say recently.
[  21 →   26]  For example, yesterday the gospel reading in the Noblesse Order Worship Service
[  26 →   29]  was Christ's condemnation of adultery.
[  29 →   37]  In Matthew 5, 27-32, in his daily homily, Francis used the opportunity to talk about,
[  37 →   39]  well, not marriage or adultery.
[  40 →   43]  Instead, he talked about how women are exploited today,
[  44 →   47]  which of course is true enough, but that's beside the point.
[  47 →   51]  In that sermon, he made a particularly curious statement.
[  51 →   52]  He said, quote,
[  52 →   58]  Without a woman beside him, whether as a mother, as a sister, as a bride,
[  58 →   59]  as a working mother, as a wife, as a husband, as a wife,
[  59 →   60]  as a working companion, as a friend,
[  61 →   65]  that man by himself is not the image of God.
[  66 →   68]  And then a little later he said,
[  68 →   73]  This is a sin against God the Creator, rejecting women,
[  73 →   79]  because without her we men cannot be the image and likeness of God.
[  79 →   80]  Unquote.
[  81 →   82]  Did you know that?
[  82 →   86]  I mean, what an idiotic thing to say.
[  86 →   88]  God created human beings,
[  88 →   90]  in his own image and likeness,
[  91 →   94]  which means he created us with intelligence and free will,
[  94 →   99]  so we could know what is true and love what is good, just as he does.
[ 100 →  104]  That's the natural image of God and man according to nature.
[ 104 →  107]  And then there's also a supernatural image according to grace,
[ 108 →  110]  and that's an enlightened understanding,
[ 110 →  114]  a will free from all weakness, and sanctifying grace.
[ 114 →  117]  Now, sanctifying grace is what makes us pleasing to God
[ 117 →  118]  and is a participatory.
[ 118 →  120]  It's a participation in his divine nature.
[ 121 →  125]  That is what is meant by man and woman being created
[ 125 →  128]  in the image and likeness of God.
[ 128 →  132]  And you can find that in any approved pre-Vatican II catechism.
[ 132 →  133]  It's so basic.
[ 133 →  135]  If you'd like to read more about this,
[ 136 →  138]  with quotations from authoritative sources and such,
[ 138 →  140]  you can find that on our blog at
[ 140 →  147]  Just look for the post dated June 16th, 2018,
[ 147 →  148]  entitled,
[ 148 →  154]  Without Woman, Man is Not the Image and Likeness of God.
[ 155 →  160]  Then on May 30th, Francis gave an address to the Russian Orthodox Bishop Hilarion
[ 160 →  167]  and told him flat out that he rejects the idea of converting the Orthodox to Catholicism.
[ 167 →  171]  We know that, of course, but it's astounding to see him say it so plainly.
[ 171 →  173]  Here is what he said, quote,
[ 173 →  178]  In Moscow, in Russia, there is only one patriarchate,
[ 178 →  179]  yours.
[ 179 →  181]  We will not have another.
[ 182 →  186]  And when some Catholic faithful, be they lay people, priests, or bishops,
[ 186 →  190]  take up the banner of Uniatism, which no longer functions,
[ 190 →  193]  which is over, for me it is also painful.
[ 194 →  197]  The churches that are united with Rome must be respected,
[ 198 →  202]  but Uniatism as a road to unity does not work today.
[ 202 →  203]  Unquote.
[ 203 →  208]  Now, by Uniatism, he means the conversion of the Orthodox to Catholicism,
[ 208 →  210]  like the Eastern Catholic churches,
[ 210 →  213]  which retain their own Eastern liturgies and disciplines,
[ 214 →  216]  but are subject to the Pope.
[ 216 →  218]  This, Francis rejects.
[ 218 →  221]  And that's nothing new, really, because back in 2016,
[ 222 →  225]  he'd already said that converting the Orthodox to Catholicism
[ 225 →  228]  is a grave sin against ecumenism.
[ 229 →  233]  So, just remember this next time someone tries to tell you
[ 233 →  237]  that ecumenism is really about converting people to Catholicism.
[ 237 →  238]  Catholicism.
[ 238 →  240]  No, it is not.
[ 241 →  244]  Then, on June 8th, for the Feast of the Sacred Heart,
[ 244 →  248]  the Jesuit anti-Pope preached the following in his daily homily.
[ 248 →  248]  Quote,
[ 248 →  251]  How does God manifest his love?
[ 252 →  253]  With great works?
[ 253 →  253]  No.
[ 254 →  260]  He makes himself smaller and smaller with gestures of tenderness and goodness.
[ 260 →  263]  He approaches his children, and with his closeness,
[ 263 →  266]  he makes us understand the greatness of love.
[ 266 →  267]  Unquote.
[ 268 →  273]  Now, it's obvious that God shows his love even in small things, so to speak,
[ 273 →  279]  but it is absurd to say that God does not manifest his love in great works.
[ 279 →  280]  I mean, seriously?
[ 281 →  286]  The creation of the world, the leading of the chosen people through the Red Sea out of Egypt,
[ 286 →  290]  the manna in the desert, David being victorious over Goliath,
[ 290 →  293]  and on and on throughout the Old Covenant,
[ 293 →  298]  and then, of course, the New Covenant, you know, the Immaculate Conception,
[ 298 →  301]  the incarnation of the second person of the Blessed Trinity,
[ 301 →  306]  the Holy Eucharist, the redemption, the resurrection, the ascension,
[ 306 →  309]  the founding of the Church and the descent of the Holy Ghost,
[ 310 →  312]  you know, little things like that.
[ 314 →  315]  Unbelievable, this guy.
[ 315 →  316]  Unbelievable.
[ 317 →  322]  I'd say the redemption manifests God's love a little more than the beauty of a daisy, don't you think?
[ 323 →  328]  And that's not to say that God's love isn't also revealed in beautiful flowers,
[ 328 →  328]  because God's love is not revealed in beautiful flowers.
[ 328 →  329]  Because it is.
[ 329 →  331]  Anyway, I'm wasting my breath.
[ 332 →  337]  See, what's really happening is that Francis, Jorge Bergoglio, is not preaching the gospel.
[ 338 →  344]  He's using his own talking points and uses whatever he can find from Scripture for the day
[ 344 →  350]  as a prop, as a gimmick, to facilitate the preaching of those talking points.
[ 350 →  353]  So, if it's tenderness he wants to talk about today,
[ 353 →  356]  then everything from Scripture gets pushed through that lens.
[ 356 →  360]  If it's the exploitation of women that's his topic of the day,
[ 360 →  362]  then that's what he finds in the gospel.
[ 363 →  368]  And so he has that set of pet topics that he likes to talk about,
[ 368 →  372]  and that's why you hear about the terrorism of gossip every few months,
[ 372 →  375]  and then it's, ooh, the Church is not an NGO,
[ 376 →  378]  then it's welcoming the migrant,
[ 378 →  383]  then we hear about how Catholics are just a bunch of rigid losers like the Pharisees,
[ 384 →  386]  then the Church is not a museum again,
[ 386 →  391]  and then the God of Surprises makes an appearance, and so forth.
[ 392 →  393]  Case in point.
[ 394 →  397]  This is from back in April, but it's as relevant as ever.
[ 398 →  402]  La Stampa reports as follows on a homily delivered on April 24th.
[ 404 →  404]  Quote,
[ 404 →  410]  God frees. Ideas and ideologies do not. They make prisoners.
[ 410 →  414]  From this axiom, clearly expressed in the Gospel of John
[ 414 →  416]  and his reference to the doctors of the law,
[ 416 →  421]  Pope Francis unfolds his homily during this morning mass in Casa Santa Marta.
[ 422 →  426]  Once again, the pontiff warns against the risk of rigidity,
[ 426 →  428]  which leads to placing oneself at the center,
[ 429 →  432]  and thus remain untouched before the works of the Holy Spirit
[ 432 →  434]  and insensitive to new things.
[ 435 →  437]  This should come as no surprise.
[ 437 →  443]  In human history, there have always been and always will be resistances to the Holy Spirit,
[ 443 →  445]  oppositions to changes.
[ 446 →  449]  Always, always to the end of the world, the Pope affirms.
[ 450 →  453]  But the Christian must tune in to a different frequency
[ 453 →  459]  because God always comes to meet us with something new and original.
[ 460 →  460]  Unquote.
[ 461 →  464]  Now this is so much garbage, it defies belief.
[ 465 →  468]  The time of Christ was a time of revelation.
[ 468 →  473]  Well, all public revelation ended with the death of St. John the Apostle around 100 AD.
[ 474 →  476]  Everything that the Church took into account was a time of revelation.
[ 476 →  476]  Everything that the Church took into account was a time of revelation.
[ 476 →  478]  Everything that the Church teaches was contained in seminal form
[ 478 →  482]  in that deposit of faith entrusted to the Apostles.
[ 483 →  486]  What did St. Paul say about this onslaught of novelty, by the way?
[ 487 →  490]  You can find the answer in 2 Thessalonians 2.14.
[ 491 →  495]  Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you have learned,
[ 496 →  498]  whether by word or by our epistle.
[ 499 →  502]  So no, God does not keep giving us new things.
[ 503 →  506]  If there is one who continually gives us new things,
[ 506 →  509]  it is Francis, and that tells you all you need to know.
[ 509 →  512]  The guy is revealing a new religion.
[ 513 →  515]  So ideas make prisoners, huh?
[ 516 →  520]  What an incredibly stupid idea.
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