PopeWatch: Teaching on a Jet Plane

Peanuts anyone?

Well, this again confirms my thoughts, early on, in this pregnancy, er, papacy:
1) This pope isn’t too smart, evidenced by his train-wreck of a theological career;
2) I am convinced he also is suffering from some type of cerebral pathology, as evidenced by the hush-hush visit of a world-class brain surgeon to the Vatican, as reported by the Italian news journal, Quotadiano Oct 21, 2015. In the case of the latter, the frontal-parietal lobe’s judgment and reasoning functions are all mixed up (and maybe doped-up). He probably has been advised, but he is the Visionary by self-acclamation, and is not likely going to restrain himself, even if he could.
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The key phrases of the interview are where, while correctly dismissing abortion as an option , he addresses contraception on either side of answering the abortion issue:
“On the ‘lesser evil,’ avoiding pregnancy, we are speaking in terms of the conflict between the fifth and sixth commandment. Paul VI, a great man, in a difficult situation in Africa, permitted nuns to use contraceptives in cases of rape,….On the other hand, avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil. In certain cases, as in this one, such as the one I mentioned of Blessed Paul VI, it was clear. ”
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And in Humanae Vitae (#14), here is where Paul VI with uncustomary clarity states is the complete opposite of the Bergoglio line:

“Though it is true that sometimes it is lawful to tolerate a lesser moral evil in order to avoid a greater evil or in order to promote a greater good,” it is never lawful, even for the gravest reasons, to do evil that good may come of it—in other words, to intend directly something which of its very nature contradicts the moral order, and which must therefore be judged unworthy of man, even though the intention is to protect or promote the welfare of an individual, of a family or of society in general. Consequently, it is a serious error to think that a whole married life of otherwise normal relations can justify sexual intercourse which is deliberately contraceptive and so intrinsically wrong.”
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All of you knew all that: Yet we reach another new plateau of shock, when this latest foolishness dropped from the papal lips (along with his gratuitously attacking Trump—amazing: silences on Obama; hugging the communist dictators of Venezuela and Cuba, two of the greatest murderers of our time; and clasping to his breast earlier this month Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, the very funder of the ISIS murderers of Christians in Iraq and Syria—all with a big smile each time: but attacking Trump. A triumph of hypocrisy.). Yet, it appears we are in for more.

(To the tune of ‘Leaving on a Jet Plane)
[report across the AP wires]

All his crowds are blessed
He’s ready to show
Press standin’ there outside his door
Who’s to judge what’s true to us anymore
As the plane is risin’
It’s lot of yapping
About walls and bridges
He’s sounding his trumpet
Now who needs a missal
To survive

He prays for us and smiles right here
Tells us what we want to hear
Talks about the doctrines we can let go
For he’s teaching on a jet plane
Don’t know what Pontiff’s gonna say
About traditions, we can let go

There’s so many times he’ll let us down
So many times he’ll play around
I tell you now, they don’t mean a thing
Ev’ry place he goes, he’ll speak anew
Up in the sky, he’ll toss out news
When he comes back, he’ll bring gay wedding rings

He prays for us and smiles right here
Tells us what we want to hear
Talks about the doctrines we can let go
For he’s teaching on a jet plane
Don’t know what Pontiff’s gonna say
About traditions, we can let go

Now the time has come for touchdown
The plane will land
He’ll give his blessing
We close our eyes
He sees things our way
I’ll dream about the days to come
When I can marry a second time
By his signs, “change is on its way”

He prays for us and smiles right here
Tells us what we want to hear
Talks about the doctrines we can let go
For he’s teaching on a jet plane
Don’t know what Pontiff’s gonna say
About traditions, we can let go

‘Cause he’s teaching on a jet plane
Don’t know what Pontiff’s gonna say
About traditions, we can let go

(sorry, had to do it)

We understand that His Holiness had a large portion of his right lung removed when he was twenty years old. He may experience a degree of hypoxia at aircraft cruising altitudes, where the effective elevation of the pressurized cabin is 6,000-8,000 feet above sea level.