POPE FRANCIS AND THE MARKS OF COMMUNISM

When Christendom began to fall in the north and the modern elites started to consolidate power, banking engulfed us, industries formed, and men became more and more debased and enslaved; what was once right and wrong became only Right and Left. The realities of good and bad didn’t change, just our understanding of them.

The terms ‘Right and Left’ were given to us during the French Revolution. (The most confusing terminology in our lost world has been handed to us by Leftists. When you bind the language you have control.) Ronald Reagan corrected this orientation for us. ‘Right and left’ is misleading. Reagan said it’s really ‘up and down.’

It helps to consider that when the Son of Man is lifted up, He draws all men to Himself. In that case up points toward good. But when the cross is pulled down, as it is so often today, ‘up’ becomes Right.

After the Reformation, and deprived of the Holy Sacraments, the common mind darkened and the truth above became obscured by a cloud. All could see the ground below, but only the faithful Catholic could see blue sky through the cloud. What was before ‘holy or worldly’ had become either ‘conservative or liberal.’ Once could still be worldly and follow the world the same way, but following the truth became more difficult and our collective knowledge of it weaker without the Church.

Today, as more and more truths are pushed out of the modern awareness, we have to look to the past to find them. So they call us old fashioned and conservative, but we just have a natural love of truth in a post-Christian empire.

People are right to say that conservative thinking is limited, but at least it’s pointed in the right direction: toward a society of truth which preceded our own. But liberalism is still nothing but worldliness, and always wrong in every age. Put simply: not everything old or traditional is good, but there’s nothing good about liberalism.

Why is worldliness bad and why do the true saints warn against it? They know that we sheep can only follow either the Good Shepherd or the bad one. Our Lord has named the prince of this world and chasing him is the same business for all time. There is no real difference between philosophical or political liberalism and Christian liberalism. They are both faithless. Don’t be fooled. There are no aspects of liberalism worth pursuing. They only lead to sin and death.

When Christendom began to fall and the modern order to form, the old governments of kings and men deteriorated, becoming increasingly wordly. It didn’t happen everywhere at once. It was like a receding tide, with waves of truth rushing in less and less frequently. People think the other side of Christendom is some kind of free happiness of ordered reason and virtue. At the least it’s a return to paganism, right? But that’s just not true. The other side of Christendom is North Korea first, then Hell second.

Pope Francis is everywhere promoting a new world order which is essentially communism in its contemporary face. He unleashes the formally corked, yet highly developed faux-Christian radicalism of liberation theology worldwide, even shamelessly embracing old-school communists as he strides the world like an Oscar winner. He uses Christ and His Church, but he is not one with it. He is a communist and that is heresy.

The Church has four marks: it’s one, holy, catholic, and apostolic. If you use these marks to discern what is or is not the Church, you’ll find it’s usually not where people say it is. Most ‘catholic’ people and institutions simply do not demonstrate most of these four marks.

Communism, which is the advanced end of Liberalism or worldliness, can also be discerned by four marks. These are lying, cheating, stealing, and killing. A communist society descends upon men in the name of ‘justice’ or ‘social justice,’ but it is in no way just.

Pope Francis accepted this week a gift from Evo Morales, a communist dictator, friend, and great admirer. It was a corpus nailed to a hammer and sickle, the classic sign of godless communist totalitarian states. Francis had just honored and prayed for Fr. Luis Espinal, the Jesuit creator of that abomination, at the site where he’d been murdered for his communist activism. FrancisChurch venerates and promotes the sainthood causes for many such men. He smiled, received the thing, and mumbled something conversational which the entire conservative press then falsely reported as a rebuke so desperate were they to hide the bare truth. But this tiny lie, along with Francis’ other few and meager words against communism do not by any means make him not a communist. His entire papacy is a communist vehicle. In two years he can claim a mountain of destructive actions and statements. He is what the American socialist establishment likes to call ‘a transformational figure.’ In short, Francis demonstrates the four marks of communism quite well.

Francis ascribes thoughts and motives to our Lord that only a fool would have. He makes Our Lady rash and witchy. He invokes the name of the Holy Spirit for the most twisted and faithless excuses. The Gospel is not about the poor and ‘marginalized.’ That would be an enormous misunderstanding of the deposit of faith, but it’s Francis’s, and he lies when he says it’s also the Church’s. In his words the Gospel makes no sense without the poor. We should ‘kneel before the poor in Church.’

Prior to every papal trip Francis asks for Our Lady’s prayers at her Church in Rome. Then he visits with a few homeless corralled in for him to touch. The realities of these two routines are inseparable for Francis. For him the Catholic faith is only about revolution, social revolution, a new economic order. It’s all lies.

His histrionic encyclical, Laudato Si’, is hundreds of pages worth of false science, cruel accusations, demagoguery, and destructive commands in the name of Christ.

He openly flouts the liturgical rubrics that bind the Mass and make it universal. It’s bad enough that he’s a vigorous promoter of the fabricated protestantized Mass we must endure and has contempt for the Ancient one; he also feels the need to give lawless example. It isn’t enough they’ve brazenly eliminated what no Pope had ever dared to suppress; these new rules must also be rejected in order to send a message of what? Chaos? Human Egotism?

A hallmark of the destructive Francis papacy is the misapplication of mercy, as if it were something he and his notorious gang of heretics had the right to fling everywhere in the name of God. Like a Baptist, He tells Bolivian prisoners he has been saved from his many sins. His October 2014 Synod was a farce and a stunt. Hyper-streamlined annulments are on his agenda and baptisms for gay ‘parents.’ He’s spurned the entire ancient saint-making apparatus completely, leaving no input for God or man. He does not see the doctrines and moral truths so much as guides to follow, but rather as things to use and bend toward some sentimental, materialist, and utopian goal. Francis breaks rules. He cheats.

Francis peppers every speech with calls for ‘just distribution of wealth,’ equality, and advocacy on behalf of the poor and the ‘oppressed.’ The miracle in the loaves and the fishes is the attitude of sharing. Holy Communion is about helping the least.

Francis says alms are obligatory. He says wealth distribution is not philanthropy but morally required. Who does Francis think he is that he can order people to give their own money away? If alms are legally obligatory, they are no longer alms. They are simply taken from you at gunpoint. This is what socialists call ‘social justice.’ None of their schemes are voluntary.

Every judge knows that administration of justice means inflicting pain on some perpetrator of a crime, but for Francis and his gang of fans worldwide, those who ‘possess’ unequally are criminals and taking from them is justice.

Francis is a political ally of the murderous Left: the UN population controllers, the Obama admin, the Castros and the dictators, the Palestinians. They inform his papacy and they praise him up and down because he promotes their inhuman agendas everywhere in the name of Christ’s Church. They count on him to bend the minds and hearts of Christians in favor of their goals and he performs. Using the Church, Francis normalizes cruel states like Cuba then betrays free and just places like Israel to ruthless enemies.

Francis has openly corrected the pro-life movement and the waved a white flag at the sexual agenda. He says some faithful things in the press but his FrancisBishops are all ‘social justice’ liberals who spin and capitulate. Among the hierarchy, the lavender mafia has never been more powerful and Francis’ Synod sacrilege moves steadily toward its goal.

Francis is a pacifist and an enemy of criminal justice. Without true justice, criminals kill and make war on the innocent. He calls arms makers un-Christian while relying upon them like anyone else. He stands on a rock in the Mediterranean and waves countless Muslims into Europe along with their murderous associates, then he attacks those who try and defend the Christian continent from the ruin that must necessarily come. As Pope, Francis is a friend and advocate for thugs and murderers around the world and no friend to the helpless, the weak, or the just.

In closing, as a special request to members of the Catholic press who are keen to tell us Francis’ communism is just Catholic teaching, or that he’s being manipulated, or how Vatican II commands us to have a ‘preferential option for the poor,’ or that the Laudato Si’ manifesto is helpful and harmless since we can freely ignore its science and its specific recommendations yet somehow tease out its moral message for observance: please answer my questions:

Why did Francis ask Christ to make the impure, scandalous, or threatening become miraculously good at the Synod? What does he mean? Why is Fr. Lombardi sure he meant nothing specific? Why do tinpot Marxist dictators feel comfortable handing communist faux-Christian abominations to Pope Francis? Why has done little to combat this perception? Why did the worldwide conservative media quickly publish the lie that the pope rejected the communist Hammer and Sickle Jesus as blasphemous, when he actually accepted it in a smiling and gracious way.

Why did Pope Francis pray and lay flowers at the murder site of the Jesuit who designed his new hammer/sickle crucifix? Why did he say, ‘He preached the Gospel, and this Gospel troubled them, so they eliminated him?’

Why does the ‘faithful ‘c’atholic press say ‘useful idiotic’ things such as, “Francis wasn’t endorsing Fr. Espinal’s communism, just his love?” Why does Francis continue to collaborate with openly socialist groups like the World Mtg. of Popular Movements, openly calling for a ‘truly communitarian economy,’ and then telling us it would be of ‘Christian inspiration?’

Why does our Pope blast the ‘economic order and invent new ‘sacred rights’ to labor, lodging and land from others. Why does he share a podium with a man wearing a picture of mass-murderer, Che Guevara, on his jacket?

Why did Pope Francis say that taking people’s resources and redistributing them isn’t philanthropy. It’s morally required. Why does he tell the world he’s happy to see a communist dictator again? Why does Pope Francis call leaders who stand for justice and truth by rejecting Marxist global warming schemes cowardly? Why does Pope Francis preach his own Gospel, where the Holy Eucharist is supposed to cause us to reject individualism, and demand exchange, encounter and solidarity?

Why does the Vicar of Christ apologize for Christian Civilization and call it brutal. Why does he call capitalism the evil ‘dung of the Devil?’

Why are respected and faithful conservative Catholics so eager to ignore the enormous reality of a heretical Liberation Theology Pope, even going to far as to subtly sideline faithful Catholics who protest, and pounce upon any unreasonable rationale for his words or deeds.

Why does the pope order all Catholics to ‘kneel before God and implore forgiveness’ for the colonialist sins of their forefathers? Is it doctrine now that we must make silly apologies even to God for things we didn’t do, or for slurs anti-Catholics hurl at His Church?

Things are grim. Let’s not pretend. It’s no day to compromise nor to side with the enemy. We must look at the Pope Francis situation squarely because the men behind him have no illusions about us.

Nor is there an issue of mortal sin but simply an urgent need to take the message of charity seriously.

Not according to Pope Francis.

Pope Francis: “Our common home is being pillaged, laid waste and harmed with impunity. Cowardice in defending it is a grave sin."

Grave sin = mortal sin. The two words are used interchangeably in Catholic teaching.

Francis supports liberation theology. He honors liberation theologists such as Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino and has written the preface for Cardinal Muller's pro-liberation theology book, "Poor for the Poor: The Mission of the Church". Liberation theology is communism with a Christian veneer.

Did one Wall Street banker go to jail over the Lehman Bros crash of 2003-2004? Was Soros ever prosecuted over his currency manipulations: pain,death, and destruction? Hillary Clinton’s $100,000 overnight win in a cattle futures investment of $`1000? Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe? Saudi Royalty? Dubai emirs while thousands of third world workers get housed in prison-like conditions?

Please explain how advocating for liberation theology/eco-socialism (communism) is an appropriate Christian response to the above complaints?

So do you, like Kasper, pick and choose from the Gospel that which you believe? Are you even a Catholic?

“Who answering, said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made man from the beginning, Made them male and female? And he said: [5] For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh.”

“[6] Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.” Matthew 19

If the liberal press can poison folks like you (And, I don’t mean you personally), then there is no hope. Pope Francis speaks of unbridled capitalism, a capitalism that savages and exploits. This is mostly true for Latin America but we all know what occurred in the Lehman Bros crash when thousands of middle class folks lost their homes and families were literally placed on the streets. Why isn’t this kind of exploitative capitalism a grave sin? Child labor in China, India, the Philippines? Haven’t we seen fires gut factories in Bangladesh with hundreds of factory workers killed while making shoes for Nike?

You need to be careful and read between the lines and not drink the MSM kool-aid.

Here’s short BBC account of what he said during the last Mass in Paraguay

“During his previous stops in Bolivia and Ecuador, he spoke out against social injustices in the region.

“Welcome the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the prisoner, the leper and the disabled,” Pope Francis spoke at the Mass in Asuncion.”

For sure, this is no Joel Osteen speaking here!

The "kool-aid" drinkers are those who rant about "unbridled capitalism" (a misnomer when applied to the underlying causes of the complaints you have cited) while promoting liberation theology/eco-socialism. Economic systems are generally as moral or as immoral as those who participate in them (with the exception of communism, which is intrinsically evil).

The kool-aid drinkers are those who willfully ignore Pope Francis' and the Vatican's collaboration with socialists, eco-nazis, population controllers and other anti-Church leftists.

For example, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs has received funding from Soros. Jeffrey Sachs’s $200 Billion Dream

And check this out:

Vatican hosts two leading pro-abortion, population control activists at climate conference

And then there is the notorious Dr. Hans Schellnhuber, honored "Laudato Si" presenter, who believes that poor Gaia is overpopulated by 80%. Presumably he counts "the poor" (rather than brilliant atheists such as himself) as the excess baggage.

And how about Naomi Klein and Dr. Margaret Archer? Why are these perverse people being recruited by the Pope to help him carry out his agenda? Only kool-aid drinkers could actually believe that he would deliberately select fellow travelers not in sync with his intentions.

He has now recruited "climate change expert" Governor Moonbeam Brown provide advice to the Vatican. Kool-aid drinkers must surely be swooning.

POPE FRANCIS CALLS ON JERRY BROWN AS CLIMATE CHANGE EXPERT

Before Francis snuggled up to Morales (the hammer and sickle crucifix gifter), Morales was snuggling up to Putin.

Anyone who truly believes that Pope Francis is standing up for the poor by snuggling up to commies ought to lay off the kool-aid.

Splitting bits and pieces of a major encyclical devoted to man as custody of our natural treasures and beauty and turning it into an Al Gore defense of climate controls is absurd. He speaks of a throwaway culture of consumerism that empties itself of Christ, the very creator of our earthly planet. Can anyone turn a blind eye to the degradations of the rain forests and the oceans? The senseless slaughter of wildlife: ivory trade in elephant tusks? dolphins? or seal cubs for fur and profit? This is not a liberal or conservative issue. It is very much a Catholic issue in the sense that natural reserves are for use by all of God’s inhabitants.

Now the MSM would like to hijack the message as Francis being an avid supporter of climate change caused by normal human activity and this of course is what they do. But for those who read the encyclical carefully we don’t drink the kook-aid as strained through the opinion and news report filters of the NY Times.

You mean “redefining” the Church like fighting the commercial (mis) appropriation of land used by slum dwellers.

Note the reference to “your” land in the link below. And yet we in America are ok with “our’ property rights but stand against the exploitation of the property rights of the poor, and the Pope is anti-capitalist.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-visits-paraguay-slum-gives-mass-to-1-million/

The senseless slaughter of wildlife: ivory trade in elephant tusks? dolphins? or seal cubs for fur and profit?

Forgive me for considering the sinful slaughter of children in the womb of far greater concern than the fate of dolphins and seals. Where is the encyclical condemning abortion and euthanasia?

The encyclical Laudato si', which makes sweeping claims based on junk science rather than empirical evidence, is an embarrassment to the Church, and these words of St. Augustine seem particularly appropos in describing its unfortunate effect:

"Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of the world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and the seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so forth, and this knowledge he holds to as being certain from reason and experience. Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people outside the household of faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men. If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason? Reckless and incompetent expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by those who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books. For then, to defend their utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages which they think support their position, although they understand neither what they say nor the things about which they make assertion [quoting 1 Tim 1:7]."

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