I'd forgotten that. I hope that our Pope didn't understand the significance of it, but that it was just handed to him. In his defense, he has spoken out strongly against homosexuals in the seminaries and against transexualism. That is why I say I can't really understand Pope Francis. However, whatever PF's motives, I think his appointment divinely intended to expose the evils in the Church-PF has certainly accomplished that. Horrific and all that these events are, it is better to be aware that such wolves exist, and who they are, than to be in complacent ignorance.
I so agree with you. How great it would be to have a 20 stone smoking and wine drinking saint in the age of anorexic narcissistic selfie addicted generation. GK we really need your wit and wisdom and utter joy.
The nearest we have to GKC today is Pope Emeritus Benedict enjoying his pints of Bavarian Pils. Remember Cana and Our Lord's feasting with sinners and His love of fish-he was no puritan. Monks invented beer and some like the monks of Nurcia continue the tradition in the present day.
Saints are always, by their very nature, unexpected. Which is why they delight so much. The Evil, on the other hand come before us, often Enthroned and very ready to be worshipped. Cardinals, Bishops and yes even wicked Popes.. for there have been wicked Popes before. Who, in their wildest, wildest imagining's would ever expected the Blessed Virgin?
Please, someone, anyone, please tell me that that image isn’t really depicting what I’m afraid it is...!
Absolutely. Look at St Teresa of Avila. She said when given a whole supply of partridge one Lent-- to cook them up for a feast. One of the nuns questioned this because of the season. St Teresa said " Lent is Lent and partridge is partridge!" And they had their feast.
BXVI also loves cats. He used to feed the feral cats at the Colisseum and when he walked there they would come out and follow him around.
I read it. SO funny! His posts are wonderfully droll. He absolutely captured Fr Brown. Loved the gollum rant from C. Doyle. "We hates him!"
What gets me is that whoever created it and those that celebrate Mass in front of it think that people are too simple minded to understand the meaning of it. The symbolism is striking and it seems that whenever someone is truly tapped in to evil they delight in using images and symbology that the average person would never understand in their "unenlightened" state. But this, well this is blatant. They love to lord this over people like an inside joke between themselves and mock them for their ignorance behind their backs. Eventually once they are convinced that we are truly ignorant to it they will openly mock us and ridicule us. How anyone could take part in the sacrifice of the mass in front of that sacrilegious monstrosity is truly beyond me. It ought to be exorcised and burned then its ashes distributed in a river. It makes me furious.
The title of this work is totally revealing. Those in the occult like Thelema believe that the act of sodomy is actually a creative act. I won't go into it here because it is disgusting and utterly profane and blasphemous but men such as Alister Crowly practiced this and taught it and it appears so do some within the church. That statue of baphomet the as above so below one that everyone knows reveals a whole lot about their beliefs. They are so incredibly cunning and deceiving to mankind. The reason all of this is becoming much more open is because they know as Jesus Himself said that only God the Father knows the day and the hour of the coming of the Son of Man and the judgement of the wicked which will follow. They know their fate is sealed and they have lied and deceived a great portion of men and women that this is not the case. They think that the time is coming soon and that they will reap a great bounty of souls. That is why they are revealing themselves so openly.
