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PopeWatch: Open Thread

We haven’t had an Open Thread in a while.  The usual Open Thread rules apply:  be concise, be charitable and, above all, be amusing!

Saint Augustine was a realist: “No man can by force of will say that three times three is not nine.” By her commitment to reality, the Holy Church has been the greatest benefactor of civilization: in theology, philosophy, science, works of charity, and the arts. Étienne Gilson, of the same religion that gave us Pascal and Pasteur, wrote: “We are told that it is faith which constructed the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. Without doubt, but faith would have constructed nothing at all if there had not also been architects; and if it is true that the façade of Notre Dame of Paris is a yearning of the soul toward God, that does not prevent its being also a geometrical work. It is necessary to know geometry in order to construct a façade which may be an act of love . . .”

Perhaps the decline of classical reasoning explains the fuzzy and unsystematic thinking of many who portray themselves as theologians. It explains at least in part how Europe, and Rome itself, once the nursery of great sculpture and architecture, has been foisting on culture such pretentious mockeries of art, as often displayed in recent years in the Venice Biennale and scattered urban galleries. Happily, here at home the current nominee to head the National Endowment for the Arts, Mary Anne Carter, will be able to undo the waste of public monies on sham art, some of which has been blatantly anti-Catholic.

Pope Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King to celebrate the dominion of the Savior over all creation, sustaining and nurturing every aspect of human knowledge. As the Nazis began to disseminate pagan myths of racism and statism, he had the Vatican Radio broadcast in German: “Twice two makes four, whether you are a Japanese, a German or an Eskimo. There is a truth common to all mankind, and every nation is but a different incarnation of the same truth about man.”

Father George Rutler, Homily Christ the King, November 25, 2018

 

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Philip Nachazel
Philip Nachazel
Thursday, November 29, AD 2018 3:56am

Speaking of sham art, enter Amy Schumer. Racist art is catching on for the left. They can’t afford to examine their conscience, but if they did they would be appalled at themselves….well, maybe some of them;

https://www.lifenews.com/2018/11/28/amy-schumer-trashes-pro-life-senator-cindy-hyde-smith-f-her-she-has-a-crackhead-looking-mouth/

Evil has a face. That face, once opened, takes away all doubt as to the darkness residing in the heart. What an artist! Funny Amy…or just pathetic?

Phillip
Phillip
Thursday, November 29, AD 2018 7:32am

Where Peter is, there is the Church. This is true in good times and in bad. Unfortunately, the Church for the past 60 years has been in bad shape. Corrupted theology and liturgy. Abandoned and lost vocations. Souls adrift.

This Pope is the perfect embodiment of today’s Church. Prayers and sacrifice for restoration and true renewal.

Mary De Voe
Thursday, November 29, AD 2018 7:35am

Capitalism put a man on the moon. On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon and placed an American flag on the moon, claiming the moon for the United States, a new frontier.
Communism, socialism, by any other name, put 100 million people into the ground through tyranny, starvation and victimization; torture and murder.
And it was the Democrats who in their more politically correct and patriotic days enabled our country to explore and conquer space by not aborting out astronauts or wasting our potential on same sex marriage, transgenderism and gender identity toilets.
Capitalism wins hands down in the race for prosperity, national identity and making America great again.

Philip Nachazel
Philip Nachazel
Thursday, November 29, AD 2018 10:00am

Amen Mary!

As we text a Red Cross ship, The Comfort, is off the coast of Venezuela giving vital aid to the victims of socialism. Medical assistance provided by those awful hate mongers and greedy capitalist.

Michael Moore should be in Venezuela carving out a hind quarter from a dead zebra to feed his fellow socialists. Now that the zoo’s are empty of inhabitants they can hope to eat a starving dog along the way.

Bowling for Caracas might be a good title for his next slopumentary.

Mary De Voe
Thursday, November 29, AD 2018 2:07pm

As happened in Russia, China, and now in Venezuela, the elite have taken 80% to 90% of the capital and leave the socialism to the workers. The price of rice controlled by the government regime in Venezuela has rise 80%. So, the famine did not just happen. It is planned into the lives of the people.

Mary De Voe
Thursday, November 29, AD 2018 2:09pm

The souls in hell are not remembered. not even Michael Moore.

Phillip
Phillip
Thursday, November 29, AD 2018 2:13pm
Philip Nachazel
Philip Nachazel
Thursday, November 29, AD 2018 3:35pm

Thank you Phillip.
I didn’t research it well.
Caught a blurb late last night about the humanitarian aid effort. I recall seeing the huge red Cross on the hull or the side of the ship.

Bernie Sanders see’s success in Venezuela…

How I wish the Clinton’s, Sanders, Moore’s, Obama’s et al would just limp their way there, loping their mules.

Quotermeister
Quotermeister
Thursday, November 29, AD 2018 5:58pm

“Of the twelve apostles, only one was a diplomat, and he is the only one of them who was not a saint, having drunk a toxic cocktail of arrogance and naïveté. This recipe is still fatal. Mary Howitt, moral dissector of the Spider and the Fly, had reason in her generation for devotion ‘to the pope and not the papacy.’ In the ticking hours of our generation, there may be some cause for reversing this.”
– Father George Rutler
https://www.crisismagazine.com/2018/a-nursery-rhyme-pope-francis-would-do-well-to-read

Frank
Frank
Friday, November 30, AD 2018 6:56am

So former Prefect of the CDF, Cdl. Gerhard Müller, has been quoted in a La Stampa interview as having said it is wrong for Viganò to have called for the resignation of the Pope—apparently meaning any pope, not just the current one. He advocates instead that the Cardinals demand the Pope “reform” and that he “give an explanation” of himself with respect to the failure to address effectively the abuse of seminarians and the scourge of homosexuality in the ordained ministry. Müller is traditionally German in his zeal for adherence to rules and procedures, unlike most of his contemporaries in the German Church hierarchy, but one has to wonder if he was paying attention when the Dubia were presented and ignored, or where he finds support in Church law for some kind of prohibition against a papal resignation. Nobody likes that idea, and it’s not likely to happen with Bergoglio, but Müller seems to be trying to play both sides of the street again. If he thinks the Cardinals should act, he ought to be organizing them to do so rather than giving press interviews.

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