EMBARRASSING, NONSENSICAL: THE PRETENDER POPE

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Bergoglio and mindless minders

 

The Pantheist Pretender Pope Bergoglio is downright embarrassing. After deliberately donning a feather headdress, making the Vicar of Christ on earth look a figure of fun and the Catholic Church ditto, in his latest airborne interview he also sounds ridiculous (which for a pope, he is).

Ridiculous, and also devious. He trotted out St Vincent de Lérins once more as he has in the past, trying to justify his constant meddling with the Magisterium by telling the journos that "true doctrine is always progressing". Ever the Jesuit, he takes the saint's classic rule out of context.  

'Ut annis scilicet consolidetur, dilatetur tempore, sublimetur aetate' translates as "progressing, consolidating with the years, developing with time, deepening with age." 

Bergoglio however, pretends it means that "true doctrine in order to go forward, to develop, must not be quiet ... is always ‘progressing.’ That is why the duty of theologians is research, theological reflection. You cannot do theology with a ‘no’ in front of it." 

Que? Pardon? Just what does that mean? Just how Jesuitical can one get?

St Vincent de Lérins however, had gone on immediately to say that "It is necessary, however, that (dogma) always remain absolutely intact and unaltered.

"Some may ask," (the saint wrote) "will there never be any progress in religion in the Church of Christ? There certainly will be, and a great deal. For who can be so much of an enemy of men and hostile to God as to wish to prevent it? 

 "However, one must be careful that it is a true progress of faith and not a change. True progress occurs through internal development. Change, on the other hand, occurs when one doctrine is transformed into ‘another one’. 

It is therefore necessary that, with the progress of the times, the understanding, knowledge and wisdom of individuals and of all, of one alone and of the whole Church, should grow and progress as much as possible. However, the kind of doctrine, the doctrine itself, its meaning and content must always remain the same.".

Saint Vincent of Lérins had formulated a failsafe rule for distinguishing faith from heresy, which is sometimes referred to as the Lérinian canon: "in ipsa item catholica ecclesia magnopere curandum est ut id teneamus quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab omnibus creditum est" (even in the Catholic Church itself we must be very concerned that what we profess has been held to be so everywhere, always and by all). The holy monk outlines the just faith according to spatial (ubique), temporal (semper) and plenary (ab omnibus) directives; but this "Catholic rule" is never mentioned by Pope Francis.

A disgusted and perplexed reader of this blog says "Jacinda can dictate the questions, and surely so can the pope. Why does he take the risk, it is not working for him?  Is the pope losing it?

 "Here too in the same session on the plane to Rome he looks nonsensical:

he sounds nonsensical too

 

Pope Trashes Tradition - Calls adherents sinful 'backwardists'  

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/pope-trashes-tradition  

"The pope declares orthodoxy a sin, says our reader, and says dogma (morality) is constantly changing. Claims that he is not changing doctrine become a joke. Bishop (Joseph) Strickland has had to immediately and forcefully contradict him. 

"I think the pushback he got for the pagan rituals he participated in while in Canada has got too much for him." 

Bergoglio's problem is pride. He loves winging it in more ways than one with journos on planes. He would consider it beneath him to have these interviews scripted by Vatican minions. 

Another possibility is that said Vat minions might want Bergoglio gone and had set a trap for him.  

Bergoglio's not one to be affected by pushback (any publicity is good publicity), which may be why someone in the Vat might want to be rid of him. Pride goeth before a fall.

playing dress-ups again

After his awful Amazonian exercise, Bergoglio - never one to miss a photo opp - answered criticism of his borrowed native headgear there by asking "What’s the difference between having feathers on your head and the three-peaked hat worn by certain officials in our dicasters?” He was referring to the three-pointed red birettas worn by cardinals. 

The difference, 'Your Holiness', is that three-pointed birettas are traditional for cardinals and 'feathers on your head' are traditional for Indians. They are not traditional for popes or even pretend popes. 

Seems like you simply cannot get your head around the meaning and significance of that word. "Traditional".