THAT ST PETER'S STATUE PLOT THICKENS ...

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This Twitter post asked how many homosexuals were pictured here. Two was not the answer 

You can't make this stuff up. Heaven and earth are joined, it seems, in righteous anger against Fiducia Supplicans (FS), the latest and most outrageous denial of Church doctrine by Jorge Mario Bergoglio and his lavender mafia associates. Africa is resolute in its opposition, with at least one bishop courageously naming it heresy. 

It's not only episcopal conferences which have declared their opposition to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith thumbing its nose at the Magisterium of holy Mother Church. In a suffragan diocese of Buenos Aires where Jorge Bergoglio as archbishop had authority, on Bergoglio's birthday, the day he authorised Cardinal 'Heal me with your mouth' Tucho Fernandez to release FS, Almighty God has graphically displayed His anger too.

And further research into the phenomenon which in spite of lightning rods disabled that statue symbolising papal authority has revealed a further, very significant, detail.

The statue's halo had been missing for some time before December 17 (Bergoglio's birthday, just hours before publication of FS). It had been missing since September 2018. Pix before Sept 2018 show the halo; a photo late Sept shows no halo. The significant detail is that the Apostolic Constitution Episcopalis Communio was issued 15 September 2018), about the day that St Peter's halo disappeared.

Episcopalis Communio didn't seem a big deal when promulgated but in hindsight is seen by commentators as "huge; the formal announcement of Framcis' intention to tear down the Catholic Church and replace it with a synodal church. an Ape of the Church. At the time commentators said it was a logical extension of Evangelii Gaudium, issued early in Francis' pontificate, in November 2013." (Anthony Stine, Return to Tradition).

The popesplainers have fallen over themselves in the rush to say that statue was photoshopped. And/or that the storm which caused the lightning strike never happened. Anonymous Twitter accounts appeared overnight to explain the lightning strike away and to say the diocese where the statue is located is not Bergoglio's home diocese, as reported (on this blog, for one). No, it's not; but it's what's called a suffragan diocese over which the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires, where Bergoglio was archbishop, has authority. 

That statue, before and after

So Anthony Hichborn of the highly-regarded traditional Catholic website Lepanto Institute sent someone to Buenos Aires to investigate on the spot, to photograph the statue, to confirm its halo, key and blessing hand were missing, and that UPI had reported a huge. historic storm in Buenos Aires the night of December 17, complete with tornadoes which are rare in the region. CONFIRMED! New Evidence PROVES God Used Lightning To Rebuke Francis (youtube.com)

Not visible in this image of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolas, St Peter's statue is on the right

So, two questions: How much longer will New Zealand's LGBTQ community have to wait for blessings on their same-sex coupleness (or should that be coupling)? Umpteen episcopal conferences around the world have pushed back against Fiducia Supplicans, which quite clearly gives the go-ahead, in praxis, to blessing "couples in irregular situations and for couples of the same sex” (in other words, blessing sodomy) - but no word as yet from the NZCBC. Maybe they're waiting for the very last of the world's episcopal conferences to weigh in so they can add up the pros and cons and then join the side with the numbers.

Dear bishops, dinna fash y'sel's'. It seems it's over to each of you to make up your own mind on FS.  

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect for the Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) and author of the controverstial Fiducia Supplicans, told Spanish news outlet ABC that bishops must make a "discernment" for themselves whether to implement the sanctioned blessings. He has clarified that each bishop is free to either adopt or ignore its recommendation for "spontaneous" blessings of people in a same-sex relationship. 

+Fernández is referencing sodomy.  You know, the sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance, utterly abhorred by Scripture and the Catholic Church, since for ever. So he's let our bishops off the hook.  Oh well, that's all right then. Still, one has the sneaking suspicion NZ's bishops will plump for the US corner of the ring rather than Africa's.

Fernández affirmed that the guidance does not diverge from traditional Catholic doctrine, saying "if the text is read with an even disposition, it can be seen that it supports with great clarity and simplicity the perennial Catholic teaching on marriage and sexuality." https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/vatican-says-bishops-allowed-to-withhold-same-sex-blessings-sanctioned-by-recent-document/ar-AA1maitl

Tell that to the Marines, your Eminence.

The Holy Family - black voids instead of eyes 

And why did the NZ Bishops' Conference display the work of the unspeakable, excommunicated-then-unexcommicated Father Marko Rupnik on their Facebook page to illustrate the Feast of the Holy Family? +Rupnik, re-incardinated to a diocese in Slovenia, is now living in Rome at his old facility, continuing his work, free presumably to continue not only his kinky portrayals of the purest symbols of our holy Catholic religion, but also his monstrous sexual abuse of nuns and the sacrament of Reconciliation. (notwithstanding his 'repentance' which resulted in Bergoglio cancelling Rupnik's excommunication). How can the NZ Bishops' Conference promote this weird work?

Sorry, that's three questions so now here's a fourth, from the Vatican whence our bishops sourced the blasphemous image (above): "What we do with Fr Rupnik's art?" asks the Vatican (artlessly).

What you do is, you bin it. Paint over it. Get rid of it. And please don't make any arty-farty comments about that being the artistic equivalent of book-burning. For a start it's simply charity: how do you suppose Rupnik's victims react to Rome flaunting his blasphemous work all over the world in so many Church publications and some of Europe's most significant churches? And in New Zealand's too: vide John Scott's Our Lady of Lourdes, Havelock North, the architectural jewel of Palmerston North Diocese.

Fr Rupnik is protected by the Vatican not only as a friend of Francis but by Rome's heavy investment in his work everywhere in the Catholic world. And according to Anthony Stine, "he has way too much dirt on the hierarc. He's clearly being protected."

Rupnik's 'art' is the instantly recognisable, childish signature of "the spirit of Vatican II"; its value as art lies only in its incidental betrayal of the deviant, perverted nature of the artist. Out of kilter, asymmetrical and primitive, it is a fruit of the primitive Mass adopted by Vatican II and a debasement of Byzantine iconography which mirrors the perfection of God.

We preserve the works of Caravaggio, for example, as undoubted genius; for their reverent portrayal of his subject matter. A genius flawed, yes, not grossly so, as is the monstrous Fr Rupnik who, sheltered by the Church, is still presumably coining it with further expressions of deviancy for the delectation and delight of the faithful.

Prayerful reparation must be made, not just to those abused nuns but to God Himself who is blasphemed by Fr Rupnik and by inference, also by the Vatican.

The bishops' compliment of a link on their FB page in reply to the comments above from a reader of this blog, is returned with this (below) from someone who knows her onions:. https://hilarywhite.substack.com/p/what-marko-rupniks-art-tells-us-about

Cardinal Fernández’s comments were reported by the Catholic News Agency, an independent news service operated by EWTN, itself a private Catholic satellite and cable network.

While the move to grant such blessings was hailed by one advocate as “a tremendous step forward in the church’s relationship with LGBTQ Catholics,” it also provoked a strong reaction from those opposed to the move, with one critic blasting it as “creating scandal and confusion.”

Church leaders in Germany, Austria and France quickly endorsed the move, media reports indicate, while the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops emphasized that the declaration did not change church teaching on marriage.

But two church leaders in Kazakhstan — Archbishop Tomasz Bernard Peta of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of St. Mary in Astana, and Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider — flatly rejected the new policy and said Pope Francis, under whose name the document was issued, “does not walk uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel,” quoting Galatians 2:14.

Bishops in Malawi and Zambia also barred their priests from issuing such blessings.

Cardinal Fernández insisted that offering an informal blessing is not “accepting a marriage, nor is it a ratification of the life they lead, nor is it an absolution. It is a simple gesture of pastoral closeness that does not have the same requirements of a sacrament.”

The prelate labeled the view that such blessings were a “first step” towards the acceptance of same-sex marriage as “totally incorrect,” saying those who believe that “has either not read the text or is ‘in a bad mood,’” the newspaper reported.https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/256384/fernandez-its-proper-for-each-bishop-to-discern-regarding-fiducia-supplicans-

We'll leave the last word to the saintly Bishop Athanasius Schneider, who serves as an auxiliary bishop in Astana, Kazakhstan, and took perhaps the harshest tone against the document in a letter posted to social media.

"The fact that the document does not give permission for the 'marriage' of same-sex couples should not blind pastors and faithful to the great deception and the evil that resides in the very permission to bless couples in irregular situations and same-sex couples," wrote Schneider. "Such a blessing directly and seriously contradicts Divine Revelation and the uninterrupted, bimillenial doctrine and practice of the Catholic Church."

St Basil of Caesarea

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