[Catholic Caucus] The Case Against Pope Francis

Les Femmes ^ | January 19, 2024 | Mary Ann Kreitzer

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[Catholic Caucus] The Case Against Pope Francis

Suppose we were in a courtroom to discuss the murder of Jesus. Who would be in the dock? Judas? Caiphas? Annas? The members of the Sanhedrin who engaged in the illegal trial of the King of Kings? All the members of the crowd screaming, "Crucify Him!"? Pontius Pilate?

Interesting questions, don't you agree?

Suppose now that a serial killer was sitting in the Vatican on the chair of Peter who was committed to killing off the faith little by little, poisoning one doctrine after another.  

Terrible thought isn't it?

Suppose charges were brought up against him. How would the prosecution proceed? What does a detective look for as he makes a case against a murderer? Motive? Opportunity? The bodies of the victims? The weapons used in the crimes?

I recently read an interesting article by John Zmirak in the January issue of Chronicles Magazine. It essentially put Pope Francis in the dock and outlined his crimes:

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Francis?
An atheist pope is destroying the Church

Just to correct the title....No one can "destroy the Church," although Francis is surely giving it the old college try. But that doesn't mean an evil man masquerading as a Catholic can't do incredible damage to the deposit of faith and to the Catholic flock. Past popes did it, not to mention other members of the hierarchy. Just look at England and their pathetic bench of bishops under Henry VIII. Between the bishop apostates and the evil English monarchs and chancellors, the faith almost disappeared from England for centuries. 

And yet, the Catholic faith is alive in England today, probably due to the suffering of numerous martyrs who met gruesome fates at Tyburn and other places. Even those wicked monarchs and their assassins couldn't wipe out the faith completely.

We are living in challenging times, times that "try men's souls" to borrow Thomas Paine's quote about the American revolution. The current revolution in the Church inflicts suffering from the top down and has left many Catholics floundering. They need not if they cling to the faith of our fathers over the millennia. Suffering for Christ saves!

Read Zmirak's article and, while you're at it, consider bookmarking The Stream where he writes as a Senior Editor. 

And here's another of his illuminating articles about the pope:

Do Christians and Communists Have the Same Goals, as Pope Francis Claims?

Fasten your little barque to the two pillars in St. John Bosco's dream: the Eucharist and devotion to the Blessed Mother, especially her rosary.  May each of us do our part to restore and defend the faith. And consider a few Hail Mary's for John Zmirak and the truth tellers at Chronicles and The Stream. Those defending the faith are entitled to our support.

Lord Jesus, silent before your accusers, have mercy on us.

Our Lady, Seat of Wisdom, pray for us.

St. Joseph, pillar of the family, pray for us.

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IMO, this is the money quote...

“That goal, I believe, is the destruction of the Roman Catholic Church. As Paul Kengor documents in The Devil and Bella Dodd (2022), Dodd was a longtime Communist activist, involved for decades in global intrigue. After her personal epiphany of Marxism’s basic evil, she found her way into the Catholic Church. And she warned publicly (for instance, in testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee) that the Party had carefully recruited young, zealous Marxists to enter seminaries, with the secret intention of subverting the Church. Marx himself spoke often of Christianity as one of the key obstacles to awakening the masses. Engels wrote that religion, private property, and the family were the three great enemies of the Revolution. So it’s hardly a shocking idea that Communists—who’d managed to infiltrate the physics team at Los Alamos—would also target the priesthood.”

What Zmirak doesn’t mention is the likely mechanism of how this happened. I’ll repost my proposed timeline...

1947, Paraguayan biochemist and communist operative, Esther Ballestrino de Careaga flees her country to avoid arrest by the military government.

1957, irreligious, 21-year-old nightclub bouncer Jorge Mario Bergoglio is hired as an apprentice chemist at Hickethier-Bachmann Lab in Buenos Aires.

Young Bergoglio’s boss at the lab is Esther Ballestrino de Careaga.

Ballestrino tutors Bergoglio on Marxist theory, giving him communist books and newspapers to read and recruits him as a asset.

1958, Bergoglio joins the Jesuits with marching orders to destroy the Catholic Church from within.

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Very believable, especially when he admitted hiding those communist books from the authorities.

[frank ballenger]

Question to Dr.David Anders on Called To Communion asked if there is a group within the Vatican who could decide any Pope is having mental problems or cognitive decline and could vote to have him step aside. Including if he didn’t know he was in that mental state.

“No.”