[ 0 → 4] TrapCast Express [ 4 → 17] TrapCast Express, it's Wednesday, September 4th, 2019, breaking news from Vatican City. [ 17 → 26] Man reportedly throws candelabra off main altar in St. Peter's, says a headline on cruxnow.com today. [ 26 → 27] Quote, [ 27 → 39] On Wednesday, a man described as unstable was reportedly arrested by Vatican police after tossing a candelabra off the main altar in St. Peter's Basilica. [ 39 → 40] Unquote. [ 41 → 44] Well, the real news here, I guess, is that the fellow got arrested. [ 44 → 50] Because when Paul VI did the same thing in the 1960s, they called it liturgical renewal. [ 51 → 56] Anyway, Francis is gone from the Vatican now for a few days as he has embarked on a... [ 56 → 65] ...a new blather tour, which is taking him to Mozambique, where he arrived earlier today, as well as to Madagascar and Mauritius. [ 65 → 68] These are all nations belonging to the African continent. [ 69 → 76] And already, Francis has made some headlines simply by speaking his mind today aboard Airhead 1, [ 76 → 83] the gigantic airplane that he uses to blow CO2 emissions all over the place while lecturing people on reducing their carbon output. [ 84 → 85] Francis calls U.S. [ 86 → 88] criticism of his papacy an honor. [ 89 → 92] Joshua McElwee writes today at the National Non-Catholic Reporter. [ 93 → 93] Quote, [ 93 → 101] In a brief exchange with a journalist aboard his September 4th flight from Rome for the beginning of a three-nation tour of southern Africa, [ 102 → 109] the Pope was presented with a new book that details years of efforts by conservative U.S. Catholics to influence his decision-making. [ 110 → 116] Handed the volume by its author, Nicolas Senez, Rome correspondent for the French Catholic newspaper, [ 116 → 118] La Croix, the Pope said plainly, [ 119 → 130] Yeah, so much for Francis not being aware of his own heresies and stuff, right? [ 131 → 135] In any case, with the imposter Pope gone from the Vatican for a few days, [ 135 → 140] this is now the perfect time for the Swiss guards to change the door locks there. [ 140 → 141] Just saying. [ 141 → 145] Unless, of course, they're just planning to get him stuck in the elevator again. [ 145 → 146] Did you know that? [ 146 → 147] Did you hear about that? [ 147 → 149] It happened this past Sunday. [ 149 → 152] Francis was seven minutes late for his Angelus address, [ 152 → 162] and he apologized and explained that he had gotten stuck in the elevator at the Casa Santa Marta for 25 minutes until firemen rescued him. [ 163 → 166] He said that the problem had been caused by a drop in voltage. [ 166 → 173] And so, of course, I'm wondering if that has something to do with the fact that the Vatican has been running on, you know, green energy. [ 174 → 176] By the way, did you know that the Casa... [ 176 → 180] The Casa Santa Marta is run by Monsignor Batista Rica? [ 181 → 185] Yeah, and he's got his own elevator story to tell from his days in Uruguay. [ 186 → 189] Anyway, while we're on the topic of anti-Pope Francis, [ 189 → 195] I want to make sure you didn't miss this incredibly important tweet of his that he published on August 12th, [ 195 → 201] in which he once again graced the world with his profound and infinite wisdom. [ 201 → 202] He said, quote, [ 202 → 203] quote, [ 203 → 204] quote, [ 206 → 216] We'll just leave it at that. [ 216 → 221] Go ahead and replay that part of the podcast if you must, but I'm not going to repeat it. [ 221 → 224] You can't make this junk up. [ 224 → 235] How can anyone think that this man is part of the religion of St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Francis de Sales, St. Robert Bellarmine, [ 235 → 237] or St. Pius X? [ 238 → 243] And it's not like that's an isolated or uncharacteristic thing for him to say either. [ 244 → 252] For example, did you hear the bunk he blathered at members of the International Union of the Guides and Scouts of Europe in the Vatican on August 3rd? [ 253 → 254] And check this out. [ 254 → 256] The Frankster said, quote, [ 256 → 258] creation has no borders. [ 259 → 261] It is of and for everyone. [ 261 → 265] The plants, the woods, the animals grow without conflict. [ 265 → 267] It finds without border controls. [ 268 → 271] Creation is an open book that gives us valuable teaching. [ 271 → 277] We are in the world to encounter others, to create communion because we are all connected. [ 278 → 282] Creation is made to connect us with God and among ourselves. [ 282 → 284] It is God's social network. [ 284 → 291] But if we start out with preconceived ideas about others, fixed ideas, we will always see limits and barriers. [ 292 → 295] If instead we start by encountering the other, [ 295 → 297] with his history, with his reality, [ 298 → 302] we will discover a brother with whom we inhabit the common home, [ 303 → 306] with whom we inhabit the creation that has no frontiers. [ 306 → 307] Unquote. [ 308 → 309] Oh, brother. [ 310 → 316] This man is subverting the youth with dangerous ideas that go against the natural law. [ 317 → 321] Nations are defined, among other things, by borders. [ 321 → 325] And those nations have a right to exist. [ 325 → 326] As sovereign nations. [ 327 → 332] And they have a right not to be dissolved into some kind of globalist new world order. [ 333 → 334] Oh, look. [ 334 → 337] Plants don't need a passport to grow where they want. [ 338 → 341] Yeah, that's because they're plants, idiot. [ 342 → 344] And you know what else they don't do? [ 344 → 345] They don't love. [ 345 → 347] They don't care for others. [ 347 → 348] They don't help the poor. [ 349 → 352] And they don't ask questions or spread insufferable tripe. [ 353 → 354] They're not rational. [ 354 → 355] They don't have... [ 355 → 355] They don't have an intellect. [ 356 → 357] And they don't have free will. [ 358 → 361] As a matter of fact, they don't even have feelings. [ 362 → 365] So, what does that have to do with the social order of men? [ 366 → 370] And by the way, creation does have plenty of borders. [ 371 → 378] Rivers, lakes, oceans, mountains, chasms, bushes, deserts, the sky, and the ground. [ 379 → 384] All of these, in some way or another, limit what can grow and where. [ 384 → 385] If you're looking... [ 385 → 390] If you're looking for something to enter with open borders, your best bet is, well, hell. [ 391 → 392] All are welcome there. [ 393 → 396] Heaven, by contrast, has rather strict immigration policies. [ 397 → 398] What did our blessed Lord say? [ 398 → 399] Quote, [ 399 → 409] Enter ye in at the narrow gate, for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat. [ 409 → 414] How narrow is the gate, and straight is the way that leadeth to life. [ 414 → 417] And few there are that find it. [ 417 → 417] Unquote. [ 418 → 422] That's St. Matthew's Gospel, chapter 7, verses 13 and 14. [ 423 → 431] You know where I got that particular analogy about hell having open borders and heaven having strict immigration policies? [ 431 → 435] I got it from the sign of a Baptist church. [ 436 → 437] That's where we're at. [ 437 → 443] A heretical club like the Baptists are closer to the truth than the supposed vicar of Christ. [ 444 → 448] All right, folks, I've got one final tidbit for you here. [ 448 → 456] It's an explosive story from the Associated Press, and I'm going to ask you if it sounds familiar to you. [ 456 → 456] Listen to this. [ 457 → 457] Quote, [ 458 → 464] Divorced Roman Catholics in the United States are receiving annulments in record numbers, [ 464 → 471] the result of streamlined procedures for dissolving a marriage by a church trying to end the estrangement of thousands of members. [ 471 → 474] No longer is it necessary to prove such... [ 474 → 482] Such charges as homosexuality, insanity, deceit, or bigamy for a marriage to be declared null in the eyes of the Catholic Church. [ 483 → 489] Annulments are no longer just for the world of the rich or well-connected, said LaSalle Caron, [ 489 → 495] a Washington real estate man and the father of two, who had his 13-year marriage annulled two years ago. [ 496 → 500] You no longer have to hire a canon lawyer in Rome, said Mr. Caron, [ 500 → 504] who's a founder of a program for separated and divorced Christians in Washington. [ 505 → 512] It's a simple matter now, not hurtful or expensive, and it can be psychologically rewarding. [ 512 → 515] Mr. Caron said he felt relief after his annulment was granted. [ 516 → 519] I was put in the best position to remarry, he said. [ 520 → 527] The church didn't say that 13 years of my life didn't exist, just that it wasn't the ideal marriage. [ 527 → 528] Unquote. [ 528 → 531] So, does this sound familiar to you folks? [ 532 → 533] Well, it should. [ 533 → 541] Because this story was published in the New York Times on Wednesday, January 6th, 1982. [ 541 → 544] Tradcast Express is a production of Novus Ordo Watch. [ 545 → 548] Check us out at tradcast.org, and if you like what we're doing, [ 548 → 554] please consider making a tax-deductible contribution at novusortowatch.org slash donate.