Monday, April 11, 2016

In Bitter, Bizarre First Post "Love" Homily, Pope Lashes Out at Critics, Calls Judas "This Poor Repentant Man," Blames Jewish Priests for Judas' Death (They Were Bad Confessors and had No Mercy)

"Please help me."

The Pope appears to be growing increasingly unhinged.

Is the aggressive crazy talk a response to perceived opposition or a post Amoris victory lap?

Vatican Radio reports on today's homily at Santa Marta. The first part deals not with Judas but with those who clutch to "the letter" of the law. It is impossible to believe that Francis is not referring to opponents of the "pastoral solutions" proposed in Amoris Laetitia
Pope Francis on Monday spoke of the importance of taking stock of what is in people’s hearts and lives instead of only taking the law into account. 
...the Pope spoke of the Doctors of the Law whom – he said - passed judgment with their hearts closed to God and to prophecy; all that mattered to them – he explained – was to uphold the Law. 
Pope Francis was reflecting on the Reading from the Acts of the Apostles in which the Doctors of the Law accuse Stephen of speaking “blasphemous words against Moses and God” because they “could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.” 
They even instigated false witnesses to uphold their claims, he said. 
“Their hearts, closed to God’s truth, clutch only at the truth of the Law, taking it by ‘the letter’, and do not find outlets other than in lies, false witness and death” he said. 
Then Francis presented a novel theory on Judas. As far as I know, no one ever in the history of the world has ever directly blamed the Jewish chief priests for Judas' suicide:
Pope Francis said: "It hurts when I read that small passage from the Gospel of Matthew, when Judas, who has repented, goes to the priests and says: ‘I have sinned' and wants to give ... and gives them the coins. ‘Who cares! - they say to him: it’s none of our business!’ They closed their hearts before this poor, repentant man, who did not know what to do. And he went and hanged himself. 
And what did they do when Judas hanged himself? They spoke amongst themselves and said: 'Is he a poor man? No! These coins are the price of blood, they must not enter the temple... and they referred to this rule and to that… The doctors of the letter. " 
The life of a person did not matter to them, the Pope observed, they did not care about Judas’ repentance. 
The Gospel, he continued, says that Judas came back repentant. But all that mattered to them “were the laws, so many words and things they had built”.
Francis appears to be arguing that Judas' return to the priests was tantamount to trying to make a confession to them. But the priests were bad confessors and rejected him. No doubt they lacked mercy.

This is of course demented.

It is tedious to observe that:
  1. The Jewish priests (being Jewish priests) had no power to forgive sins in that sense.
  2. Neither Judas nor the priests believed they had such a power.
  3. In any case, while looking down at Judas for being sort of a rat, the priests obviously wouldn't think that acting against Jesus was a sin per se.
  4. Most Biblical commentators attach significance to the particular Greek word used for "repentance" in this passage as opposed other passages. The common understanding is that his repentance was more akin to "I'm sorry I find myself in this position now" rather than "I'm truly sorry that I betrayed my Master and friend."
  5. This is reinforced by the fact that Judas did not try to save Jesus or go back to the other apostles in order to reconcile with them, etc. Rather, he killed himself.
Perhaps Francis believes in what some have called the "blood libel."

But concerning Judas not Jesus.

Interestingly, he concluded the homily by repeating a sort of anti-Catholic blood libel--that the Church has a long history of burning dissidents and so on:
"History tells us of many people who were judged and killed, although they were innocent: judged according to the Word of God, against the Word of God. Let’s think of witch hunts or of St. Joan of Arc, and of many others who were burnt to death, condemned because according to the judges they were not in line with the Word of God” he said.
The above isn't Catholic. It's anti-Catholic.

Enough.

Who will stand up to it?

23 comments:

  1. He is loosing his mind... Accepting sin as a way of leading a Church is taking away from him a clear thinking... Devil is confusing him. He is clearly under attack and influence of the devil

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    1. Agree. How else can such behavior be explained?

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    2. the devil isn't 'confusing' him at all...he's very lucid in his apostasy. There is such a thing as a faustian bargain made of one's free will and entered into with gusto. I think we are seeing ample, irrefutable evidence of this with bergoglio and his hand-picked ghost-writers and capos. Their end game is the sanctification of sodomy....all of their judgements and reasoning are upside down.

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  2. The most charitable thing we can conclude is that he is rapidly descending into some kind of dementia. Otherwise, he is just plain evil. Can he really believe this bile?

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    1. The 64 million dollar question.....WHAT IN THE WORLD IS WRONG WITH THIS GUY??? I have to call it the same as I always have: Diabolical Insanity, nothing else fits.

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  3. Ive thought hes had dementia for a long while now

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    1. I took care of a relative who had dementia until his death. This is not dementia. I think the pope is what you get when you mix a youth under Peron with being a Jesuit.also the Latin American church is full of nuttiness.

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  4. Related to #3: Isn't a priest barred from absolving the sins of someone with whom they participated in the sin, anyway? So even if they had the power to absolve, they were the ones with whom Judas had conspired in his betrayal of Our Lord in the first place and would thus have no power to absolve him.

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    1. Exactly Kent. Why in the world would they show him 'mercy' when he was doing THEIR BIDDING?? The 'reason' part of our faith is non existent with Francis.

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  5. It's simple. When Pope Francis sees no opposition (from those who count in his world) to what he preaches he is emboldened to keep going. His sermons have become more and more heterodox as time goes by - why not? He can say damned near anything and as he clearly believes there will be nary a peep.

    Heck, even the great white hope, Cardinal Burke, says nice things about the diabolical document. Find the good, laud it, ignore the bad - say that it is a square peg be hammered into that round hole - and Pope Francis has carte blanche.
    Barbara

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  6. Folks, he is not demented. A demented mind is not as calculating as is demonstrated by our Pope. These howls of "it must be dementia" make you appear helplessly frustrated and foolish.

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    1. You may be right, but as odd as it sounds, I think you can be demented AND calculating.

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    2. He has been a heretic since his much younger days in Argentina. This is his belief system.
      No need to make excuses for him.

      His twice married sister and his favorite nephew who co-habitates with his girlfriend---are thrilled that they are no longer living in sin---just living in "irregular" situations.

      Seattle Kim

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    3. And tell me---why would I even want to try to bring my 2 sons (ages 21 & 23) back into a church that no longer teaches they are living in sin but merely in irregular situations? What a load of bullshit.

      Sometimes I think my family might have been spiritually safer as Southern Baptists who were ignorant of the Catholic Church. But I got all starry eyed back in 2003 and converted. Converted to what? IDK. I don't think this is the Catholic Church anymore.

      I hope the sedevacantist chapel I now attend is enough cuz I am done with Frank and his bullshit morality.

      Seattle Kim

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    4. KIM, the schism of KK is in prophecy and all the end times events. Remnant Church will emerge. This one will be safe. Baptists and many Evangelicals will join False Church of pope Francis - one world church. Read this: https://fatherofloveandmercy.wordpress.com/ GOD BLESS - THE FIATH IS FOR SOULS... nothing else counts.

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  7. The man is putting himself squarely in conflict with Jesus himself. Make no bones about it. "It would be better for that man had he never been born."

    Now Francis is saying "those damn rigid priests wouldn't hear his confession."

    Crazy. Evil. Upside down.

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  8. Yes, he IS evil. "And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth: and he had two horns [mitre], like a lamb [vicar of Christ]: and he spoke as a dragon." (Rev 13:11)

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  9. If this is how Pope Francis refers to the Word of God, then he has no idea what that phrase actually means. Then again, that shouldn't be surprising. Pope Francis reflects the intellectual rot infesting not only the Jesuit order but the hierarchy as a whole. Does anybody seriously believe that if Cdl. Bergoglio had not been elected, somebody radically different would have replaced Pope Benedict?

    The Catholic Establishment, consisting of intellectuals and bishops, has ignored and twisted basic Christian teaching so much that it has become unrecognizable. I will never forget Absp. Chaput equating Supreme Court Justice Scalia with Frances Kissling as a "cafeteria Catholic" for having the audacity to question JPII's arbitrary, revisionist teaching on capital punishment in "First Things" magazine! Someone schooled in Aquinas and Augustine never would have made such an asinine public comment.

    Then again, Catholicism long ago -- way before Vatican II, the Enlightenment or the Reformation -- sacrificed its Petrine patrimony on the altar of power, wealth, political influence, secular prestige, institutional isolation and effete arrogance. This is what Francis' papacy, ultimately, is all about. This is what the USCCB, Kasper, Daneels, Mahony, Law, Marx (the cardinal, not the Communist), von Balthazar, et al) are about.

    I'll go so far as to say that I don't think this Pope nor any member of the hierarchy really knows what the Gospel is, outside of cliches.

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  10. Someone said it recently but to me it sums everything up. Bergoglio is trying to be more "merciful" than God Himself. In his mind he is the successor of Christ, not merely his delegate.

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    1. he certainly does seem to be cut from the same cloth as muhammed, eh?

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  11. I just think he's so out of his depth in moral theology and in depth knowledge of the New Testament (suggesting the the Jewish priests of the day had the power to forgive sin (hello..... Jesus claiming that power is what made them beside themselves....) that he probably thinks Jesus was unnecessarily harsh to Judas, so he just passes all that over. I shouldn't say he thinks he's more merciful than God the Father, but God the Son, i.e., Jesus Christ, it certainly sounds that way.

    He's a product of the half-baked Catholic instruction of the 60s and 70s.

    Also interesting hearing that his sister is divorced and re-married with children in each marriage. Nice to have brothers in high places...

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    1. I was speaking to my spiritual father today about the Pope. Seems he is afraid of being accused of judging Francis, although he essentially agrees that somethin' just ain't right about ole Bergoglio...

      He will fess up to this in private, but he never criticizes Francis in public, or for that matter, speaks of him much at all anymore. I guess for many priests, silence is the way to go.

      I pointed out that silence might not prevent the flocks from tumbling over the cliff of irregular situations, although we be gently accompanied to the very edge by our merciful pastors.

      But, he is afraid.

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