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PopeWatch: End Times?

The Pope may or may not be technically a heretic, that is a subject for debate, but he is certainly giving plenty of fodder for those who view him as an anti-Christ:

Pope Francis made a strong new push for globalism on Thursday, calling for a supranational, legally constituted body to enforce United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and implement “climate change” policies.

Speaking to members of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, the Pope said: “When a supranational common good is clearly identified, there is need for a special legally constituted authority capable of facilitating its implementation.”

“Think of the great contemporary challenges of climate change, new slavery and peace,” he told members of the Pontifical Academy, who are meeting this week at the Vatican for a plenary session themed: “Nation, State, Nation-State.”

Featured speakers at the May 1-3 plenary include German Cardinal Walter Kasper, who spoke on: “Peace Stemming from Justice. Theological Reflections Between Men, Communities and Nations”; Archbishop Roland Minnerath of Dijon, France, who delivered the opening talk on day two, themed: “Nation, State, Nation-State and the Doctrine of the Catholic Church”; and German climatologist and founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, who addressed the Pontifical Academy on “The State of the World.”

In his address to the academy, the Pope said that while “the principle of subsidiarity” requires that “individual nations must be given the power to operate as far as they can reach,” nonetheless “groups of neighboring nations — as is already the case — can strengthen their cooperation by attributing the exercise of certain functions and services to intergovernmental institutions that manage their common interests.” 

The thrust of the Pope’s remarks, however, focused on growing trends toward nationalism which he said threatens migrants, the “universal common good” and the power of the United Nations and other transnational bodies to implement the Sustainable Development Goal agenda. 

The Church “has always exhorted men to love their own people and homeland,” he said. “At the same time,” he added, “the Church has warned persons, peoples and governments about deviations from this attachment when it is about excluding and hating others, when it becomes conflictual nationalism that builds walls, indeed even racism or anti-Semitism.”

“The Church observes with concern the re-emergence, almost everywhere in the world, of aggressive currents towards foreigners, especially immigrants, as well as that growing nationalism which neglects the common good,” Pope Francis continued.

Go here to read the rest.  Fulton Sheen is being considered for sainthood.  Perhaps what he wrote on January 26, 1947 should be tossed into the mix:

 

But above all these descriptions, Our Lord tells us that He will be so much like Himself, that he would deceive even the elect-and certainly no devil we have ever seen in picture books could deceive even the elect.  How will he come in this new age to win followers to his religion?  He will come disguised as the Great Humanitarian; he will talk peace, prosperity and plenty not as means to lead us to God, but as ends in themselves He will write books on the new idea of God to suit the way people live; induce faith in astrology so as to make not the will but the stars responsible for sins;  he will explain Guilt away psychologically as inhibited eroticism, make men shrink in shame if their fellowmen say they are not broadminded and liberal; he will be so broadminded as to identify tolerance with indifference to right and wrong, truth and error; he will spread the lie that men will never be better until they make society better and thus have selfishness to provide fuel for the next revolution; he will foster science but only to have armament makers use one marvel of science to destroy another; he will foster more divorces under the disguise that another partner is “vital”; he will increase love for love and decrease love for person; he will invoke religion to destroy religion;  he will even speak of Christ and say that he was the greatest man who ever lived; his mission he will say will be to liberate men from the servitudes of superstition and Fascism:  which he will never define; he will organize children’s games, tell people who they should and should not marry and unmarry, who should bear children and who should not; he will benevolently draw chocolate bars from his pockets for the little ones and bottles of milk for the Hottentots; he will tempt Christians with the same three temptations which he tempted Christ:  The temptation to turn stones into bread as an earthly Messias will become the temptation to sell freedom for security, as bread became a political weapon, and only those who think his way may eat; The temptation to work a miracle by recklessly throwing Himself from a steeple will become a plea to desert the lofty pinnacles of truth where faith and reason reign, for those lower depths where the masses live on slogans and propaganda.  He wants no proclamation of immutable principles from the lofty heights of a Church, but mass organization through propaganda where only a common man directs the idiosyncracies of common men.  Opinions not truths, commentators not teachers, Gallup polls not principles, nature not grace-and to these golden calves will men toss themselves from their Christ.

PopeWatch does not consider Pope Francis an anti-Christ, merely a very bad Pope.  But if Pope Francis were the anti-Christ in what ways would he have acted differently in this kidney stone of a Pontificate?

 

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Don L
Don L
Monday, May 6, AD 2019 7:07am

I was taught the faith long before immigration and climate became commandments of the highest value.
As the pope attacks national boundaries as an evil, having stated a desire for all-world nations to (collectively) distribute the wealth, I can’t help but scream out “what about the grave evil Pope Pius XI called violation of the principle of Subsidiarity?
Interesting that even the National Catholic Register seems reluctant to deal with the scandal of the Vatican funding caravans that are clearly seeking to break and abuse our laws.

Eliane
Monday, May 6, AD 2019 11:18am

The pope is giving the message to the illegals immigrant ,that is OK to break in any country’s laws and we are in the wrong for defending and protecting our border. and demanding that they do it legally if they want to emigrate.

OrdinaryCatholic
OrdinaryCatholic
Monday, May 6, AD 2019 11:48am

Remember that the Pope sent the funds to feed, clothe and shelter the immigrants on the Mexican side of the border. If his motive is to provide life’s needs for these people then no one can really fault him no matter what we think it represents.
We are strongly getting to the point that the Pope is so disliked that no matter what the Pope says or does, it is wrong, even if it is right.

Penguins Fan
Penguins Fan
Monday, May 6, AD 2019 1:22pm

The Argentine Pope wants a strong international body to b***h slap the USA, especially Trump, who he despises. True concern and care for the Latin American poor would involve helping them where they are and not encouraging them to go to the USA.
Amoris Latetia and Bergoglio’s comments about Communism look like heresy to me.

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Monday, May 6, AD 2019 1:34pm

“PopeWatch does not consider Pope Francis an anti-Christ, merely a very bad Pope.”

1st John 1:18-25

18 Children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come; therefore we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out, that it might be plain that they all are not of us. 20 But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all know. 21 I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and know that no lie is of the truth. 22 Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also. 24 Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father. 25 And this is what he has promised us, eternal life.

Patrick
Patrick
Monday, May 6, AD 2019 6:12pm

I’m always looking for insightful podcsts to pass time with on long drives. Here are 2 Marshall Taylor podcasts regarding immigration opionins from Cardinal Sara and Thomas Aquinas. Both are deep thinkers grounded in theology and very contrary to the Pope Frances agenda.

https://taylormarshall.com/2019/04/237-cardinal-sarah-breaks-silence-podcast.html

https://taylormarshall.com/2019/03/whats-catholic-view-illegal-immigration-aquinas-catechism-podcast.html

c matt
c matt
Wednesday, May 8, AD 2019 10:18am

Do differently? The Anti-Christ would probably be less overt about things.
Anti-Christ is a stretch, but forerunner of the Anti-Christ, well . . . .

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