Pope Francis demonstrates once again that when he is wrong he tends to be at his most bull-headed:
As he opened the afternoon session of the Oct. 6-27 synod Friday, Pope Francis addressed the theft of the statues on Oct. 21.
Saying he was speaking as the “Bishop of Rome,” meaning the head of the local church in the Eternal City, Francis requested “pardon” from anyone who was offended by the theft of the statues and their being thrown into the river.
According to a video of his remarks that made the rounds on social media, Francis said the statues had been displayed “without idolatry” in the Church of Santa Maria in Traspontina, located about halfway down the broad Via della Conciliazione that leads away from St. Peter’s Square.
Francis also added that Roman law enforcement officials have recovered the discarded statues and are holding them for the moment at a police station.
Friday’s apology caps what has been a month-long drama surrounding the statues, which first made an appearance during an Oct. 4 indigenous prayer service staged in the Vatican gardens in the presence of the pope.
Go here to read the rest. So, according to the Pope pagan idols can be displayed in a Catholic church without idolatry. Well, PopeWatch guesses that is no more impossible than people in an adulterous second marriage being able to worthily receive communion although they are living in sin. This Pope has his own special version of reality that he seeks to impose on the Church.
I pray daily for this worthless excuse to be deposed and anathematized. Please, Lord Jesus, send him back to South America!
It is my fervent hope that this will be widely rejected or ridiculed. Perhaps dozens of idol smashers or thousands booing Pope Bozo at the conclusion? Although brave bishops and priests have been outspoken the laity are going to have to lead.
Haha..Take a look at the background in the photo, “This isn’t a pagan ritual. No prostration is happening”.- Paolo Ruffini. Right, so maybe it’s not prostrating in the technical sense like at Holy Orders ordinations, but if it’s not that then the group must be bowing to Mecca.
Line from CRUX link: “and the destruction of indigenous statues that underscored the willingness of conservatives to violently vent their opposition to the pope. (Credit: AP Photo/Andrew Medichini).”
Hmmm seems it’s only 19th century Protestant missionaries who found indigenous nudity inappropriate.
Remember National Geographic pictorials in Africa so popular with adolescent boys? “I only read it for the stories”.
To me there is a strong link between the First and Sixth Commandments. The Israel that permitted divorce and remarriage was the same Israel that that fell into idolatry with such frequency that the prophets called Israel a harlot. Idolatry is spiritual adultery committed against God in violation of the First Commandment. This Synod is proving to be the Antiochus IV Epiphanes Synod.
Ah. I had quite forgotten about Baghdad Bob.
Consistency with regard to heresy, idolatry, syncretism, or all three, is the hallmark of this wayward pontificate: The heresy is “right”, the “old beliefs” will have to make way to accommodate the new Bergoglian heresy adventure, or be twisted or necessarily shattered to “fit” them in. Pope Jorge will then consistently defend his new syncretist “catholicism” (Small “c”). Never a step back to admit, “Oops! I goofed. I do boo-boo.”
The evolving syncretism, “outgrowing” the strictures of tradition Catholicism is a hallmark also of the postmillenial Jesuit order, and already foreshadowed the Bergoglian false church.
So for example, in once-hallowed St. Ignatius Church—-the massive and ornate imitation of St. Paul Outside-the-Walks in San Francisco on the USF campus—-only a couple years prior to Jorge’s apotheosis, one of the beautiful marble side-altars, where the “old sacrifice” was once offered for decades, was removed and a Muslim mehrab (prayer niche orienting the Muslim to Mecca—or at least to Sacramento, the real source of power and worship today for most today) had to be replaced a few years back, foreshadowing the sanctification of “Pachamama.” Many gods are good in Bergoglian Jesuit-World.
An older very devoted Catholic lady, one with her head on straight, once hissed at me in reference to all this, “Stephen, that is because it is a FALSE CHURCH!” Her words were like a lance aimed at heaven.
For the rest: Fall down and worship, all. Names are being taken. The police are being notified.
Please, someone ask Cardinal Sarah if it is proper to resist idol worship. Pope anti-Francis leads others astray. That is the greater harm of an abusive father, beyond what he does to himself. Count Cardinal Sarah as a casualty.
“ Count Cardinal Sarah as a casualty”. This is the great sadness and tragedy of today – so many leaders high and low- confused about what to do what to say, how to understand and, so many in the flock hoping hoping hoping for a glimmer of light