Wednesday 30 October 2024

PROSTITUTES COLLECTIVE GETS $1M, TELLS FIBS

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By the inimitable Tom Scott




Dame' Catherine Healy, the prostitute who gifted New Zealand with the euphemism 'sex worker', became respectable just over 20 years ago when NZ Parliament passed the Prostitution Reform Act (PRA) - by one vote. Ultra respectable actually, by 2018, when in the Queen's Birthday Honours (imagine what Elizabeth II thought about that) she was recognised with an Order of Merit for "services to the rights of sex workers". 


We the taxpayers are coughing up more than $1million a year to fund the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective (NZPC) - effectively a trade union lauded by academics, the MSM and other vested interests as an exemplar of decriminalisation of doing sex for money which the rest of the world should follow. But the report below shows that the father of lies is fomenting fibs flat out in his promotion of ''the world's oldest profession".


So Healy the prostitute's accolade paved the way for Ardern the mass murderer's gong. Shows you how far New Zealand has fallen, and continues in its free fall, from grace. It's a phenomenon of the state equalled in the Church, illustrated by the Vatican's release of its first-ever 'mascot' for the Church's 2025 Jubilee Holy Year. 'Luce' - a doll carrying what looks just like a witch's stang- is cartoon character perfectly illustrating that cartoon Mass, the Novus Ordo, which produced it.



Archbishop Fisichella with 'Luce' the Vatican mascot for Jubilee Holy Year, 2025


Just over 20 years ago the difference of one vote ensured New Zealand would pass the most liberal prostitution legislation in the world, the Prostitution Reform Act (PRA).

 

Now known as the New Zealand model, decriminalisation remains largely an international outlier, emulated only by Belgium and a few Australian states. Yet the country is often touted as a shining example of how well decriminalisation works by numerous academics, sex trade lobbyists, NGOs and mainstream media.

 

However an independent report examining the reported benefits of the decriminalisation of prostitution in New Zealand found not one claim stands up to scrutiny. The 2023 paper “What REALLY Happened in New Zealand When Prostitution was Decriminalised?” was written by American data scientist J. Smith.

Smith found that pro-sex trade lobbyists have had an outsize influence in New Zealand since the PRA was passed in 2003. The New Zealand Prostitutes’ Collective (NZPC), a group of self-identified ‘sex workers’ instrumental in the implementation of the PRA, have consistently lobbied against further regulation. The NZPC has been government funded since 1988, a year after its inception. Government funding now totals over $1m annually.

 

But Smith’s research refutes all claims by local pro-sex trade lobbyists. The benefits of decriminalisation touted by these lobbyists include claims that the sex industry has not expanded, health and safety have improved, as has the prosecution and conviction of crimes against women. Also vulnerable children who are victims of sexual exploitation have not been harmed and there is no human trafficking in the industry.

 

Smith’s report found flaws with the pro-trade research process. For instance they skewed calculations on matters as basic as the number of women working in the trade and the number of commercial sex establishments.

 

Pro-trade lobbyists claimed there was no increase in prostitution after decriminalisation. Putting aside why this is regarded as a benefit (surely if sex work is work you would want the trade to expand), Smith queried how the numbers were calculated. Major regions were omitted and reports relied on data from a private group that lobbied for full decriminalisation rather than official police estimates.

 



 

Smith calculated that a more accurate assessment showed a 38.9 percent increase in people in prostitution in the first year post legislation. The number of brothel licences granted also increased from 189 before the legislation to 326 a year later, not including the number of unlicensed brothels. Smith said this is significant given the laxity of licence checks as reported by brothel owners and claims that the unregulated sector was expanding rapidly. Brothels employing fewer than five people do not require licences.

 

A planned 2018 re-evaluation of the industry never occurred and a 2020 Official Information Act request revealed that the Justice ministry has no intention of reevaluating the PRA.

 

In 2019 the NZPC claimed they served over 7416 sex workers in the first half of the year although in a 2024 interview in North & South, NZPC head Dame Catherine Healey estimated there were about 4000 women in the trade.

 

Then there is street prostitution which had been decreasing for five years pre-decriminalisation. However six months pre the PRA street soliciting offences doubled suggesting the increase was in anticipation of the PRA.

 

In another report, the NZPC also downgraded the number of advertisements for commercial sex since in their view an apparent increase in numbers included women they did not know, inactive contact numbers or rates deemed too high to be realistic. On another occasion they argued that the ads were from Asian newspapers and a new website.

 

Smith’s examination of pro-trade sources found they reframed sex as a basic right all men are entitled to and where the privacy of men is valued above all. She said this hindered investigations into child abuse. The NZPC also discouraged arresting abusers of child victims of commercial sex exploitation, suggesting it would not deter abuse.


Some Dame ... 
 



New Zealand police reported that as a result of legislative changes, they had less contact with the sex industry and there is no systemic intelligence gathering and collation. The Prostitution Law Revieew Committee (PLRC) downplayed reports of child sexual exploitation, blaming media exaggeration, despite the US State department naming New Zealand as a “source country for underage girls subjected to internal sex trafficking.” The department has also expressed concern about New Zealand’s failure to prosecute a single case of sex trafficking.

 

Smith also highlighted the failure to define offences under the PRA as serious sex crimes, a factor that has obstructed information gathering on the law. She concluded that treating prostitution as a job like any other has fostered tolerance of child sexual exploitaiton through prostitution.  

 

This child abuse disproportionately affected children of colour. Maori and Pacific Island children entered the sex trade before the age of 18 at double the rate of New Zealand European children.


 Prostitution was considered unnecessary in pre-colonial Maori society, since men had sexual access to female slaves (Kehoe, 1992) 

 

Smith found that the New Zealand sex trade, like many countries with legalised prostitution, relied disprotpotionately on migrants and people of colour to fill demand.

 

Violence remains a feature of prostitution. Pro-trade lobbyists blame stigma, even though decriminalisation was meant to diminish this. A PRLC survey asked about services clients might request such as “golden showers” and “fisting”. Smith asks how these practices adhere to occupational safety standards? In addition, health inspections rarely took place.

 

Smith concluded that the hypocrisy of academics, health organisations and the media, showed the total ideological capture of these institutions. For instance, following the murder of women in prostitution, the NZPC was quick to defend the PRA and claim that decriminalised sex work was working.

 

Child prostitutes, Bangladesh 

 

Smith’s paper is not the only report to criticise the NZPC’s influence. In 2018 renowned feminist scholar and activist Janice Raymnond outlined the influence of the NZPC in an article accusing the organisation of gatekeeping.

 

Raymond explained that the NZPC was not only “influential in lobbying for the law that decriminalised the sex industry, but also drafted the original bill.” Their association with brothel owners and the government funding led her to question the monopoly the NZPC has on prostitution policy and research in New Zealand.

 

However debate is largely dominated by pro-sex trade lobbyists. Those opposed may be referred to as SWERFS (Sex Work Exclusionary Radical Feminists) in an echo of the term used to deride women advocating for biological reality labelled TERFS (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists).

 

An Australian professor who researched the sex trade in Australia and New Zealand was deplatformed when she spoke out against decriminalisation. In New Zealand, it is difficult to get alternative views on the sex trade into the media. Even when sex trade survivors band together to lobby for reform, such as the group Wahine Toa Rising, they struggle to get their critiques of the industry into the public arena.

 

Critics point out that the livelihood of pro-sex trade lobbyists relies on the continuation of the sex trade. The Nordic model penalises the client and assists women to leave the industry. If the Nordic Model was implemented and funding shifted to exit services instead of the current harm reduction services, they risk losing their jobs. The NZPC, for example, is flush with over $1m in government funding.

 

Brothels in Wellington



Decriminalisation is also advocated by the United Nations, the World Health Organisation and Amnesty International.

 

Critics suggest some of these organisations may have conflicted motives. UN peacekeepers have been accused of committing large-scale sexual abuse, frequently of children while on duty. The Associated Press found that in the 12 years before 2017 when accusations surfaced there had been almost 2000 allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation by peacekeepers and other UN personnel around the world. A 1996 UN study found that half of peacekeeping missions are correlated with a “rapid rise in child prostitution” in respective countries.

 

In 2023 the WHO Office of Internal Oversight Services, or IOS, reported it had investigated 287 allegations of sexual misconduct in all WHO regions in the last 12 months.

 

Commentators and organizations such as Human Rights Watch (HRW) suggest that the problem now extends beyond the “actions of a few”, with HRW highlighting that other major supranational organizations involved in these missions have the same problems, including the African Union.

 

Feminist Janice Raymond has also highlighted the way language is manipulated to minimise violence against women which is referred to by the NZPC as “exploitative working conditions”, “occupational hazards”, “adverse experiences while working” or “malpractices.” She pointed out that in the PLRC report there is no section called violence against women. Sex trafficking is reframed as “migrant sex work.”

 

She says since the PRA only just passed in 2003 (by a single vote), consideration should be given to assessing public opinion of the law and its consequences and to revisiting a parliamentary vote. WOULD YOU VOTE FOR THIS? - Plain Sight - Yvonne Van Dongen


 







Monday 28 October 2024

SYNOD CHANGES CHURCH WITH MAGISTERIAL TEXT



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Antipope Francis gives a final synodal 'blessing' beneath the sculpture even Protestants love to hate







The never-ending Synod on Synodality has ended with those symbolical Catholic frogs still coming to the boil. Meaning that in the post-conciliar, Novus Ordo, synodal Francis sect, women will continue to encroach on the priesthood without N O Massgoers noticing. So that the Bergoglian church will be more effeminate than ever. 


The reason being that the Synful Synod's final document rules there is “no reason or impediment” to prevent women from assuming leadership roles in the Church. It wants expanded roles for women, lay participation in decision-making, and decentralisation of Church authority. Meaning more opportunities for ambitious women to manage their parish priests and/or bishops.


But perhaps more ominously, a synod body whose membership was 27% non-bishops has just produced a magisterial textFrancis/Bergoglio immediately approved the final document after synod members voted on it and according to reforms he made in 2018, the Synod’s final text is part of his ordinary magisterium. 


At least the faithful are spared another Amoris Laetitia (his apostolic exhortation after the 2015 Synod on the Family) but clearly the Synod has created a cataclysmic sea-change in the Church. The heresiarchs in charge are removing one of the four indelible marks of the Catholic Church. They're turning the Mystical Body of Christ into a democracy.




 Francis with +James Martin SJ and +Giacomo Costa SJ, synod secretary



A reader of this blog, a Traditional Latin Mass adherent who notices these things, is sufficiently alarmed at the tsunami threatening his Mother the Church to give a summary (below) of its four indispensable, indisputable marks of authenticity and truth as a wake-up call to the Novus Ordo sect to get out of it while the going is not so bad as it will be, before long. Before they wake up one morning in a different church. Or in hell. 



The Church was created by Jesus Christ. He is its Head. The Church belongs to Him. Those who belong to the Church belong to Him. He is the High Priest and King, united in one Divine Person.


The Church exists as one, in Heaven, in Purgatory and on Earth: the Church Triumphant, the Church Penitent, and the Church Militant.

 

Jesus Christ is God, He is omnipresent and omnipotent, and all truth comes from Him. Man does not, and cannot, create truth and we cannot change the Church.

 

The Church and Christ are one, therefore the Church cannot change because God does not change. He is omnipresent and omnipotent. He is present 1991 years ago on Calvary, He is present today, He is present tomorrow, and He is present in eternity.

 

The Church is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. A church that does not have these four marks is not from Christ. All divergences and deviations from these four marks are outside the Church. Anyone who states that the Church is something other than One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic must be rejected by the Ekklesia, (the people that belong to Christ).


The mission of the Church on Earth is to bring those that choose Him out of this word and to Him. It is not, and will never be, the mission of the Church Militant to bring man to himself, to accompany man in his sinful choices. If God willed a multitude of religions, and all religions lead to God, then God would not have needed to have sent His Son.

“About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing” (St Joan of Arc.)


 







In past Synods, holy Bishops referred to the Word of God and the Magisterium to help answer specific questions. The new "Synodal Way" has them consulting man, even those who are outside the Church. 


 

The Modernists have inverted the meaning of the word synod and have now applied it to the nature of the Church creating a new anti-church rather than just a tool the Pope can use for it governance. 













 St Simon (Jusepe de Ribera) & St Jude Thaddeus (Georges de La Tour)



For certain men are secretly entered in, (who were written of long ago unto this judgment,) ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God into riotousness, and denying the only sovereign Ruler, and our Lord Jesus Christ
(Jude 1,4)

Saints Simon and Jude, pray for the Church

Saturday 26 October 2024

BILL GATES ORDERED TO STAND TRIAL IN NETHERLANDS

 

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A Dutch court has ruled that it has jurisdiction over Bill Gates, one of the richest, most powerful and most evil men on the planet, and must face in court seven Netherlands citizens injured by his dud - but deadly - jab. One of the seven has already died.


Pfizer's Covid-19 v^ccine was the World Economic Forum's tool in attempting depopulation of the planet and Gates, after decades of developing v^ccines, was its prime and most influential mover. And a major beneficiary: his personal wealth grew by billions. While the world's wealth shrank. Dramatically. And the number (in the thousands) of v^xxed 'died suddenlys' grows daily.


Pfizer's Albert Bourla will be in that Dutch dock along with Gates. And the Dutch state itself, too. If the Dutch state can be prosecuted for inflicting the jab on Netherlanders, then New Zealand's Ardern Government can be, too. Suddenly it's not looking so good for the Dame.  Or indeed for Antipope Francis, who peddled the poison in Catholic churches worldwide.





The Gates' $43 million mansion bought back in 2020



 

A Dutch court has ruled that billionaire and global vaccine proponent Bill Gates will face trial in the Netherlands over his involvement in misleading the public about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.


The case, brought forward by seven plaintiffs who claim to have suffered vaccine injuries, marks a significant blow to Gates, who has been a key figure in pushing COVID-19 vaccination efforts worldwide.

 

According to Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, the plaintiffs filed the lawsuit last year, naming Gates, along with former Dutch Prime Minister and current NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, members of the Dutch government’s COVID-19 Outbreak Management Team, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, and the Dutch state itself.

 

Gates is one of the “experts” who made several claims about the COVID experimental vaccines:


They said the vaccine would stop transmission.


They said the vaccinated could quit wearing a mask.


They said the vaccinated would not get sick.


They said the vaccinated were not going to die.

 

The plaintiffs argue that Gates, through his involvement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Economic Forum (WEF), was involved in a far-reaching agenda—referred to as “The Great Reset Project”—which sought to exploit the global crisis in order to implement sweeping societal changes, all under the guise of combating the pandemic.

 

According to the lawsuit, this agenda included pushing vaccines that were known to be unsafe.

 

The plaintiffs claim they were deceived into taking these dangerous injections, and the consequences have been devastating. Physical and mental injuries have allegedly plagued them since receiving the vaccine.

 

One of the seven plaintiffs has reportedly died since the initial filing, leaving six others to carry on the fight against Gates and his cohorts. These ordinary Dutch citizens, whose identities have been redacted from the court documents, say they trusted the vaccine narrative and are now paying the price.


The plaintiffs referenced various public statements made by Gates, including a widely viewed YouTube video from April 2020 titled “The Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, Explained,” as part of their evidence.



Despite Gates’ attempts to evade the Dutch court’s jurisdiction by claiming that, as an American citizen, he should not be subject to legal proceedings in the Netherlands, the court rejected this argument, according to independent researcher and reporter Penny Marie.

 


The Gates' $43 million mansion bought back in 2020

 

On October 16, 2024, the Leeuwarden District Court announced that it does indeed have jurisdiction to hear the case against Gates.

 

The billionaire was represented in court by a lawyer from PelsRijcken but did not attend the September 18 hearing in person. His legal team’s defense crumbled when the court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs.


According to the judgment:

Article 7 paragraph 1 of the Code of Civil Procedure provides that if the Dutch court has jurisdiction over one of the defendants, it also has jurisdiction over other defendants involved in the same proceedings, provided that there is such a connection between the claims against the various defendants that reasons of expediency justify joint proceedings.

 

[…]

As the court understands, [redacted] et al argue that Hofstra et al., and therefore Gates, are part of a worldwide group of individuals, legal entities and other entities that, in the context of the implementation of a project called Covid 19: The Great Reset, have misled people into taking Covid-19 injections, while they knew or should have known that these injections were not safe and effective.

 

The court infers from Gates’ plea that Gates also understood [redacted] et al’s position in this way. The court understands that [redacted]  et al further argue in this context that Gates committed this deception internationally through two videos that were published on YouTube in April and December 2020, in which Gates allegedly gave a false representation of the necessity of the Covid-19 injections and the safety of those injections respectively.

 

To the extent that [redacted] et al intended to state that any actions by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation should also be regarded as unlawful acts by Gates in this group context, the court disregards this in the context of this incident, as they have not substantiated this.

 

[…]

Based on the foregoing, this court has international jurisdiction to hear the claims against Gates on the basis of Article 7 paragraph l Rv.

The court ruled that Gates, who attempted to have the case dismissed or contest the court’s jurisdiction, was in the wrong. His legal challenge was dismissed, and as a result, he has been ordered to pay the legal fees of the plaintiffs.

 

According to court documents, Gates is required to cover the plaintiffs’ legal costs, which amount to €1406 00 ($1518 44). This includes:

€1228 00 ($1326 17) for the plaintiffs’ lawyer’s fees.
€178 00 ($192 23) in additional legal expenses.

Gates must pay these costs within 14 days, or face further penalties. Should Gates fail to comply within the designated timeframe, an additional €92 00, plus service costs, will be added to the total.

Gates will now have to respond to the allegations in Dutch court, with a new hearing set for November 27, 2024.


Read the ruling below obtained by Penny Marie and Zebra Inspiratie:

The post Bill Gates Ordered to Stand Trial in Netherlands in November Over COVID Vaccine Injury Claims — Ordered to Pay Legal Costs as Dutch Court Dismisses Jurisdiction Claim appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.



https://loudobbs.com/.../bill-gates-ordered-to-stand.../Here


But wait ... there's more:

 

 In the judgment under ”The Facts” it says the following about Bill Gates.

”2.3. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is also affiliated with the World Economic Forum (hereinafter: WEF), an international organization whose statutory objective is to unite 'leaders from business, governments, academia and society at large into a global community committed to improving the state of the world.' Professor K. Schwab (hereinafter: Schwab) is the founder and chairman of the WEF”

The court ruling also says that the WEF ”wants to be the process of the Great
Reset, an unprecedented mobilization of actionable ideas from the Forum's action groups, platforms and other initiatives to shape the post-COVID-19 world”.

So there we have it. Bill Gates has been ordered to stand trial. https://www.petersweden.org/p/it-begins-court-rules-bill-gates?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=547128&post_id=1



 


Thursday 24 October 2024

FRANCIS IS NO MORE THE POPE THAN KAMALA HARRIS

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"Bergoglio is instituting a new false religion - a counterfeit 'synodal church' " (Fr Paul Kramer)





You won't hear about this at your parish Novus Ordo church this Sunday. Not likely even at your Traditional Latin Mass. Last Sunday, October 13, famous Italian priest Father Giorgio Maria Faré said in his sermon - which now has over 38,000 views - that “for over eleven years, a man recognized as Pope has been sitting on the Chair of Peter, but he is not, however, the legitimate Pope”. He believes Francis is not a true pope because Pope Benedict XVI did not fully resign his office. 


Readers of this blog have heard this before. Several times. But now it's being said by a renowned priest who holds a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. This insignificant lay Carmelite blogger has difficulty refraining from saying "I told you so".


That Jorge Bergoglio is an imposter is also the fixed position of Fr Paul Kramer, a close collaborator with the world famous “Fatima Priest”, Fr. Nicholas Gruner, from 1986 until the latter’s untimely death in April 2015. October 13 - the date of Fr Faré's sermon - was the anniversary of Our Lady's Miracle of the Sun at Fatima, Portugal, in 1917 and also of her apparition at Akita, Japan in 1973. 


"Most Catholics", says Fr Kramer, are so woefully ignorant that they are like the runt of the litter sucking on the hind tit with unopened eyes." And that is precisely why Vatican II wheeled out the Novus Ordo - to reduce Catholics to the state described by the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians: "Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you, and many sleep."


"A heretic, even if elected and universally obeyed," adds Fr Kramer, "is INCAPABLE OF BEING A VALID POPE - as I have repeatedly explained in my books and articles."




Fr. Giorgio Maria Faré

 

Famous Italian priest Father Giorgio Maria Faré said in an October 13 sermon, which now has over 38,000 views, that he believes Francis is not a true pope because Pope Benedict XVI did not fully resign his office. 

Faré claimed Benedict didn’t properly resign from the papacy and remained pope until his death in 2022. The priest also charged that Pope Francis was doubtfully elected and Benedict intentionally didn’t resign. 

 

Francis is not the pope 

 

Faré opened his sermon by explaining that in recent years, he has spent a great amount of time discerning the state of the Church and after much prayer and reflection, he has come to an uncomfortable conclusion.  

 

“[A] priest must choose whether to preach what Sacred Scripture and the Church have always taught or to adhere to what the so-called Pope Francis teaches in his ordinary magisterium. Yes, you understood correctly. I said the so-called Pope Francis. What I am telling you today… is that for over eleven years, a man recognized as Pope by the majority has been sitting on the Chair of Peter, but he is not, however, the legitimate Pope,” Faré said. 

 

Benedict’s resignation was invalid   

 

Faré then dove into why he believed Pope Benedict’s resignation was invalid, namely that it was a declaration, not a formal abdication, and it lacked the act of resignation. 

 

 “The formula: ‘I declare to renounce,’ in legal terms, is not the same as saying, ‘I renounce.’ The Pope [Benedict] should have said, ‘I declare to renounce, as in fact, I renounce,’ or a similar formula. As it was pronounced, Benedict XVI’s declaration is, in fact, only a declaration, not a legally valid act, nor was it followed by any ratification.”  

 

 The priest then underscored that Benedict chose the title Declaratio, or “Declaration,” for his official resignation instead of “resignation” or “abdication.” 

 

Faré added that Benedict’s resignation lacked the will to renounce the papacy. The priest highlighted that in his original Latin declaration, Benedict used the term ministerium, which refers to the visible execution of the papal office. But, citing Canon 332 §2 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law, Faré claims that for the resignation to be valid, he would have needed to resign from the munus, the “office” of the papacy.

 

Francis is a heretic whose election is doubtful 


 


 

 

Circling back to Francis, Faré claimed his 2013 election is doubtful because coalition of four radically liberal Cardinals, who are allegedly members of the St. Gallen MafiaCormac Murphy-O’ConnorWalter KasperGodfried Danneels, and Karl Lehmann, conspired for years to make Francis the pope in order to start a revolution in the Church. The priest added that this alleged conspiracy would violate articles 79-82 of Pope John Paul II’s motu proprio on electing a new pontiff, Universi Dominici Gregis  


The priest also stressed that he believes Pope Francis is a heretic and cited several heretical statements and promulgations, such as in Amoris Laetitia, in which Francis opened the door to allowing couples in adulterous relationships to receive Holy Communion, the Abu Dhabi Declaration, in which Francis said that the “diversity of religions” is “willed by God,” and Francis’s recent statement to an inter-religious meeting in Singapore that “every religion is a way to arrive at God.”  

 

But Faré emphasized that he believes Francis is an antipope first because Benedict’s resignation was invalid, not because he is a heretic. Francis’s heresies instead serve as evidence that Benedict did not resign from the papacy, according to Faré. 

 

“This legal fact has theological repercussions: without a valid election, the consequent lack of divine investiture means that Bergoglio lacks the assistance of the Holy Spirit. If he were the Pope, he would be assisted by the Holy Spirit, like every Roman Pontiff, not only when pronouncing ex-cathedra but also in the ordinary magisterium.” 

 

Benedict knew his resignation was invalid  

 

Faré further posited that Benedict planned on making his resignation invalid, which is why, in his declaratio, he wrote, “I renounce,” instead of “I declare to renounce,” and resigned from the ministerium and not the munus. The priest noted that Benedict likely took this action because he knew of the St. Gallen Mafia’s plans.  

 

“The Pope thus found himself at a crossroads: either allow an antipope to be secretly elected upon his death or attempt a strategy to foil the enemies of the Church by issuing a declaration with no legal effect.


Incidentally, I point out that — even after the Declaratio — an invalid Conclave could have been avoided. The Cardinals who noticed the anomalies in the Declaratio… could have immediately raised the issue and prevented a Conclave from being convened.


This did not happen, so it is important to note that the actual responsibility for what happened should not be placed on Benedict XVI but, rather, primarily on those who understood and remained silent in bad faith.” 


The priest then suggested that Benedict left several more clues that he retained the papal office after the conclave for the Church’s prelates to pick up on and take appropriate action, such as using the title “Pope Emeritus,” continuing to wear his white cassock, and retaining his papal coat of arms.  


 

self-explanatory

 

Other theories on whether Francis is the pope 

 

Over the years, several other Catholic prelates and thinkers have suggested that Francis is not the pope, including Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who has posited that Francis lacked the necessary intention to become pope. Viganò has also called for an official investigation into Pope Benedict’s resignation and the 2013 conclave due to apparent irregularities.


 

 



Others, too, have said Francis’ past statements and promulgations disqualify him from being a true pope regardless of the nature of Benedict’s resignation. 

 

On the other hand, Bishop Athanasius Schneider has stated that “nobody has the power to judge Francis’s status as pope” because previous writings about a pope becoming a heretic, such as St. Robert Bellarmine’s, are only opinions, not doctrine, and that there is no one within the Church who has the power to declare him a heretic.


“[I]n the case of a heretical pope, the members of the Church can avoid him, resist him, refuse to obey him, all of which can be done without requiring a theory or opinion that says that a heretical pope automatically loses his office or can be deposed consequently,” Schneider wrote. 


Members of the Church can avoid him, resist him, refuse to obey him, and also say that a heretical pope automatically loses his office or can be deposed consequently. Surely.


To read Fr. Faré’s full sermon in English, click here.  https://youtu.be/p-cConF4qdM - highlights of FFaré's sermon.

 

For Anthony Stine's YouTube video explaining the image heading this page (on the Synod) go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDEC6f0j46o




 

"Surrender me not, O Lord, to the desires of the wicked; they plot against me, do not abandon me:

- Psalm 139