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Yesterday we left off while analyzing the question: Just how powerful is Cardinal Reinhard „ Bling” Marx. Today’s post should be viewed as a continuation of the analysis started in the Man Marking Marx – Die Power Ball.
Today we begin with an observation from the MondayVatican blog, a blog that is very friendly to Francis and the revolution. (see here) Here is how they described Card. “Bling” Marx:
It is noteworthy that Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich-Freising, a prime engineer of Vatican reforms and one of the main players in this season of the Church, has recently insisted that the Church should learn from Luther.
It needs repeating that both sides of the Great Political Divide that Francis unleashed on the Roman Catholic Church, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ITS 2000 YEAR HISTORY, see Marx as not only the most “most influential religious leader in Europe” (see here) but also as the “prime engineer of the Vatican reforms” as per above.
With respect to the Luther quote, consider his a “straggler” that we will pick up in a future post.
Today we will try to locate and pin down the Network that is the Power behind Die Power Ball.
The Network
Given the above, and the analysis from our previous posts, we have been able to construct a profile of Cardinal Reinhard “Bling” Marx both as a person (see here) and as prominent cleric wielding immense power and clout. Today we will try to “place him” into the structure of the group that we designate as the “Network”. It is this group that is responsible for providing Marx with this immense power and and media protection (see here), power and protection that allows the agenda of this special interest group to advance. It is this special interests group that provides the source of this immense power wielded not only by Marx and the present organization that he heads, but likewise served to promote this same agenda by the German Bishops’ Conference post VII and by the individual German Bishops after the Second World War.
Looking at various pieces of evidence (data points) that we have assembled so far, we can construct the following outline of this Network and make the following observations:
General Observations
Cardinal Reinhard “Bling” Marx has advanced to positions both in the German Bishops’ Conference (President) and in the Vatican hierarchy (Member of Council of Cardinal- C9) which provide him with an immense amount of power in making decisions affecting not only the German Church and the universal Church, but also each and every member of the Church Militant. That’s you and me folks!
Card. Marx was chosen to be the President of the German Bishops’ Conference, backed by a Network who is a powerful lobby within the German Church and by extension the Roman Catholic Church.
Card. Marx won an election by a “wafer-thin” margin in the Plenary in April of 2014, after leading a vicious media campaign against a potential rival. (see here)
Card. Marx was appointed by the bishop of Rome to sit on the Council of Cardinals (C9), who are advising Francis on the “Curia reforms”.
Network Sightings
“Occurrences” have been observed that indicate that a “group of highly placed clerics” representing a Network with connections to EXTERNAL SPECIAL INTERESTS outside the Catholic Church, engaged in activities which directly effect the internal functioning of the Roman Catholic Church and its leadership.
Evidence of this Network is contained in the Davies interview, and the quote is as follows:
MD: Yes. He and his fellow German, Lehmann, were made Cardinals. You see there is no chance of Cardinal Ratzinger being made Pope. The job of Kasper and Lehmann is to go to the conclave and stop anyone Ratzinger supports from being made Pope. (see here)
(NB) Since “the job” of Kasper and Lehmann is to go to the conclave and stop anyone Ratzinger supports from being made Pope”, than these two must have received instructions for carrying out that “job” from an outside “source”. This could be someone from outside the German Bishops’ Conference since Lehmann is considered the “capo di tutti capi”, which would imply that there is someone above him.
Furthermore Kasper and Lehmann have not only a “source of funding” for this job, but media protection likewise. Evidence for this assertion is from the following quote:
MD: It is interesting, Pope John Paul II wouldn’t appoint Kasper and Lehmann at first and a week later he did.
JB: Yes. Their appointment came as a shock to a lot of orthodox Catholics.
MD: Well do you know where the pressure came from? The Polish hierarchy. Because they get so much money from the Germans. So Kasper and Lehmann said, ‘You scratch our backs and we’ll scratch yours.’
Original Manifestation of this Network
The first “public” manifestation of this powerful Network was observed at the beginning of the Second Vatican Council, which overturned the prepared schema and introduced the alternative schemas, which in turn led to the introduction of the “smoke of the spirit of the new springtime” into the Church, which in turn led to the destruction of the institution of the Church and undermined the One True Faith. The ringleaders of this cabal was the German Frigs, along with the Frenchmen Liénart, the Belgium Suenens and the Dutchman Alfrink.
On an aside, it would not be too unreasonable to suspect that these four were allowed to run roughshod over Vatican II due to a “service” that they performed at the conclave of 1958.
Ideological Agenda
It would be fair to say that this Network has consistently promoted an anti-Catholic, progressive-leftist ideology opposing the Catholic Faith since the commencement of the Second Vatican Council.
Source of Funding
The source of funding for this Network is the Kirchensteuer which was re-introduced by the German Basic Law of 1949. This Church Tax generated €5.5b in income in 2013 alone. It is estimated that the income dropped to €4.9b in 2014 based on the drop in the German Church Tax payer pool.
Due to the form of the collection of the Church Tax and enormous amounts that are collected and ultimately “administered” by the German Bishops’ Conference, the Bishops’ Conference is very dependent on the national political powers that be. The amount that the individual Church Tax payer is assessed is either 8% or 9% of their income tax. The Catholic Church uses the state to collect the Kirchensteuer. Therefore, the Church hierarchy are in essence reliant on the German state for their existence. (see here)
The amount of the Kirchensteuer collected annually has allowed the Catholic Church in Germany to become the second largest “business” employing 700,000 employees. Second largest employer in German behind Mercedes Benz. (see here)
Distribution Mechanism
The creation of the national bishops conferences by the Motu ProprioEcclesiae sanctae by Pope Paul VI in 1966, allowed for groups of mid level functionaries appointed to these national bishops’ conferences to wrest control over the Catholic churches away from the diocesan ordinaries (bishops). This confernance mechanism essentially replaced the natural communion between a bishop and the pope with collegiality, an artificial “creation” which allowed these mid level functionaries to “pool” the power of the individual bishops into a “collective”, a power that they then used to steer their own agendas.
The advent of the “collegiality” collectives allowed shadowy figures such as Joseph Bernadine in the US and Karl Rahner in Germany to usurp the power of the individual bishops and establish a dichotomy of interests between these collectivized Bishops’ Conferences and the pope.
Because of the unique manner in which the German Church is funded, i.e. through the Kirchensteuer, the German Bishops’ Conference became the ultimate “administers” of all the Church Tax collected in Germany.
The Kirchensteuer has created an environment of corruption within the leftist circles of the German Bishops’ Conference. The dramatic numbers of both practicing and lapsed Catholics who are de-registering, has caused a massive problem that is threatening to collapse the entire ponzi scheme church funding system. (see here)
Marx’s Lineage
With the advent of Vatican II and the creation of the national bishops’ conferences, many shadowy figures ascended into key positions of authorities. Once such corrupt and heretical cleric was the Jesuit Karl Rahner. An explanation of this situation is as follows:
The Episcopal Conferences were dominated in fact by their theological experts and since among them the most powerful were the Germans, the role of their principal theologian, the Jesuit, Karl Rahner, was decisive. Father Wiltgen sums it up efficaciously, describing the power of the progressive lobby united in what he calls the “European Alliance”. “Since the position of the German Bishops was adopted by the European Alliance and again, given that the position of the Alliance was generally accepted by the Council, it was enough for one theologian alone to convince the German language Bishops of his personal ideas so that the Council would make them its own. This theologian existed: Father Karl Rahner of the Society of Jesus.” (see here)
Lehmann was a protégé of Rahner. An explanation of this situation is as follows:
Everyone knows, actually, at least in Germany, that the one who is still pulling the strings of dissent against Rome is precisely Lehmann, an old disciple of Karl Rahner. Father Ralph Wiltgen, in his book The Rhine Flows Into The Tiber, highlighted Rahner’s role in the Second Vatican Council from the moment the Episcopal Conferences carried out a determining role.
And Marx is a protégé of Lehmann and by extention Rahner and the current figurehead to this EXTERNAL SPECIAL INTEREST. An explanation of this situation is as follows:
Fifty years after Vatican II, Rahner’s shadow is hovering once again over the Catholic Church, making his voice heard in the pro-homosexual positions of some of his followers, younger than Lehmann and Kasper, like Cardinal Archbishop of Munich, Reinhard Marx and Archbishop of Chieti, Bruno Forte.
Summa summarum
Concluding, it is this Network described above comprised of shadowy figures that trace their lineage to key figures who plotted and carried out the destruction of the Catholic Church after the Second World War, culminating in the Second Vatican Council. During VII, these individuals found themselves in key positions of authority with access to both power and financing. They created a what amounts to a criminal organization within the Catholic Church through which they expert power. At present, the figurehead of this organization is Cardinal Reinhard “Bling” Marx. The power behind Marx is Cardinal Kurt Lehmann who exercises power from behind the curtain. To illustrate the kind of power Lehmann exercises, the following is a good indication:
The only plausible reason is that the Pope has offered the head of Cardinal Burke on a plate to Cardinal Kasper and, through him, to Cardinal Karl Lehmann, the ex-President of the German Episcopal Conference. Everyone knows, actually, at least in Germany, that the one who is still pulling the strings of dissent against Rome is precisely Lehmann, an old disciple of Karl Rahner.
To demonstrate the threat that this Network and their supporting EXTERNAL SPECIAL INTEREST pose to the church, a list of scandals that can be plausibly connected to them are as follows: Buying of Cardinal-ships for Lehmann and Kasper, Vati-Leaks – (original story appeared in Die Welt), Abdication of Benedict XVI and the present scandal whereby Kasper and Lehmann are complicit in “Team Bergoglio” allegations. These allegations were made by Dr. Austen Ivereigh, the spokesman for another of the “Team Bergoglio” cabal, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor. According to the allegations, a present day “European Alliance” consisting of Cardinals Kasper (German), Lehmann (German), Danneels (Belgian) and Andre Vingt-Trois (French) whereby the plotters gained the acceptance and then canvassed for votes to elect Bergoglio. (see here)
On an aside, no Dutchman was implicated, which lead on to conclude that the Dutch Catholic Church was the first national church that fell to the spirit of Vatican II. But I digress…
It is this shadowy Network of proteges of Karl Rahner, funded by the Kirchensteuer and influenced by EXTERNAL SPECIAL INTERESTS that represents the greatest threat to the stability of the Catholic Church and to the well being of souls in its care.
But more on that in the next post.
indignusfamulus said:
Dear SA,
Here’s a little encouragement from the recent past–something a Pope said that wasn’t all bad…..
“There should be no lack of coherence or unity in the expression of our faith and witness to the Gospel in whatever reality we are called to live, whether physical or digital. ”
I pray that God’s Spirit will accompany you and enlighten you always, and I cordially impart my blessing to all of you, that you may be true heralds and witnesses of the Gospel. “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to the whole creation”
(Mk 16:15).
Benedict XVI World Communications Day talk. January, 2013
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indignusfamulus said:
Dear SA,
Ha! If you’re life is anything like ours, you’re only half-kidding. 🙂 🙂
We plan on reading it by periodic short peeks.
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S. Armaticus said:
Trust me, it is. 😉
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S. Armaticus said:
On an aside, Mundabor has a great comment under one of his recent posts. He speaks about how he allocate the time needed to write his column. Funny how his “schema” is very similar to mine. 🙂
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indignusfamulus said:
Dear SA,
Here’s something else we found fascinating….
Playing detective about the Church made us curious to know what fiction writers (and PR people) use from knowledge of human nature, to helps them in their work- creating great villains (or white-washing them) for public consumption. Here’s a 4- point consolidation of all we found online:
1.KNOW THE BACK-STORY –STRONG MOTIVATION IS THE KEY
Not unlike the hero, a good villain is driven by something: greed, neuroses, or the conviction that his cause is just.
Ask yourself-Why does he ignore standard morality and do evil instead? How does he view his intentions as “good”?
They can be purely selfish, as long as he can justify them “logically” and keep working towards a goal. He can thus still be frightening and threatening.
A villain driven to power for power’s SAKE is shallow. But one driven to power out of revenge for something he thinks was terrible, is far more complicated.
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2. WHAT WATERS HIM DOWN (PR short-list?)
Evil done on someone else’s behalf stikes us as less evil, justified, even laudable at times. Find things that make his maladjusted behavior seem somewhat forgiveable or “lovable” –worthy of redemption, that make him a character to whom people can relate.
Give him his own private set of injustices–sympathetic things like childhood ridicule or lonleliness- outrage for a loved one’s sufferings or pity for another’s injustices. Give him some likeable character traits– soft spot for puppies, babies (cripples?)etc.
–Get the reader to think of him as ” just like me” -and then when he’s really bad, he’s “just like me- at my worst”…(Clinton and the inactive Senate comes to mind)
(Remember: Real villains do things I’d never do.)
–Another angle is having him be too dumb to defeat the hero. ( but that get’s boring fast)
3. WHAT MAKES READERS TURN AGAINS EVEN THE KIND OF VILLAIN THEY CAN RELATE TO?
Observing the temptation to change things become godlike, increasing as power is obtained, leading to the villain’s further descent in to evil. The idea is, that “all power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. Power becomes too heady for him to control. He goes over the edge, beyond all reasonable limits and lets himself act and react, in purely evil ways. In short, he goes too far. Ordinary flaws- bad moods, become magnified to outweigh the person’s good qualities and positive traits.
Logic is lost, uncontrolled rages appear as vengeance and jealousy take control, and he goes against nature (like a mother or father who is cold-hearted or cruel to their own children) Horror stories require a demon, evil spirits or obsession and a person with a skills. A crime thriller calls for a crime lord, a boss of a rival gang or the ringleader of a corrupt police force, a priest, or a highly placed official or a member of a manipulative secret society.
-Tolkein mastered these variations in Lord of the Rings with Gollum, Sauron, the Nazgul, the Witch-king, Saruman, Shelob, Worntongue and the Mouthof Sauron.
4. WILLTHE READER BE ABLE TO FIGURE HIM OUT, OR KEPT WONDERING:
What is going on in his head that allows him or her to treat others with such total lack of humanity and disregard? Was he born that way? –A shady past? A trouble maker? A deranged psychopath? How far will he go, to what extemes? Does he spend every waking minute committing evil deeds?
–Some of the best villains are considered good and trustworthy by others, keeping their ambitions secret- as long as it suits their needs.
–The hero too can be taken-in for a time…but at some point the battle between good and evil engages.
And here we all are.. Wow. 🙂 🙂
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Deacon Augustine said:
Just in case you haven’t seen it – the word is out that Marx’s puppet in the Vatican approved the heretical mid-term report of the Extraordinary Synod before it was published. More evidence that he has turned to the world and walked away from Christ.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-approved-family-synods-controversial-mid-term-report-before-pu
Barring miracles it seems we have a Judas Pope. I wonder what 30 pieces of silver looks like in today’s money?
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S. Armaticus said:
Dear DA:
Yes I seen it. It was the confirmation.
On an aside, I am glad that you are seeing the the power relationship of who is the master and who is the servant.
It is critical that this true relationship is defined. Once we have this in place, the “agency” issue becomes quite clear. Think about how Kasper goes around and says what the pope thinks. And the popes guy, Baldisseri goes around defending not Francis, but Kasper. And Francis doesn’t defend himself, but defends Kasper. (Read the La Nacion interview from 7 Dec). It is amazing. It is as if Kasper was the pope.
The other cardinals must see this. And if they don’t, then someone needs to make them aware of this situation.
S.A.
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indignusfamulus said:
Dear SA,
This “Fishwrap” link is likely a very liberal view of things, which means caution on the opinions of their work—but it’s research and quotes connect a lot of dots between Rahner, Lehman, VonBalthazar, Schonborn,and many others, and all the Popes since John XXIII–so it may be well worth your time, considering your ongoing discussion of them.. We’ll have to read it several times before the dizziness leaves.. but here’s a small sample :
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/word112803.htm
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” Both Rahner (1902-1984) and von Balthasar (1905-1988) once were Jesuits, though von Balthasar left the order in 1950 to found the lay Community of St. John with mystic Adrienne von Speyr. Rahner ifluenced many conciliar texts. Von Balthasar was not invited. Yet when Pope Paul VI formed the International Theological Commission on May 1, 1969, as an advisory body to the newly renamed Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, both Rahner and von Balthasar were members.
–In 1979, while Ratzinger was archbishop of Munich, he blocked the appointment of theologian Johann Baptist Metz to the local university. Rahner wrote in protest:
“Twenty-five years ago the Holy Office in Rome forbade me to write anything further on the subject of concelebration.That was a senseless, unscientific manipulation by church bureaucrats. I judge your action against Metz to be of the same category.”
–In the same year, von Balthasar defended JPII’s decision to revoke Swiss theologian Hans Küng’s license to teach Catholic theology, saying, “”No one can deny that this was urgent after years of dogmatic, moral and liturgical permissiveness … Perhaps it is inevitable that the pope should give the impression of Hercules cleaning out the Augean stables.”
But was he?
“While Rahner became an icon of the church’s liberal wing, von Balthasar spoke for those who worried the dream of — a return to the sources, was being obscured by a post-1968 frenzy of rebellion. It should be stressed that despite their differences, the two remained friends.
” the most powerful disciple of von Balthasar is Ratzinger. They co-authored a book in 1971 With Ratzinger’s backing, then-Fr. Christoph Schönborn, now the cardinal of Vienna, in 1989 helped found a residence outside Rome for men discerning a vocation to the priesthood called the “Casa Balthasar.” Another co-founder was Ouellet. .
— Meanwhile, German Cardinal Karl Lehmann is perhaps the closest thing in the college to a disciple of Rahner.
Despite the fact that Lehmann in 1972 joined Ratzinger, von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac and others in founding Communio, his theological outlook has hewed closer to Rahner’s on many issues.
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Pius X- wrote: (“Pascendi Dominici Gregis”)p.3
–“the most pernicious of all the adversaries of the Church…put into operation their designs for her undoing, not from without but from within.”
–“.. consider “their tenets, manner of speech, and action, with which “they proceed to diffuse poison through the whole tree..”
–“..audacity is their chief characteristic…well calculated to deceive souls, they lead a life of the greatest activity,..”
–” their doctrines have given such a bent to their minds- they disdain all authority and brook no restraint.”
–” relying upon a false conscience, they attempt to ascribe to a love of truth that which is in reality the result of pride and obstinacy.”
–“We had hopes of recalling them to a better mind..first- treated them with kindness..then with severity; and at last- with great reluctance, to public reproof.
–“For a moment they have bowed their head, only to lift it more arrogantly than before.”
God Bless.
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S. Armaticus said:
Dear IF:
Quick note. Thanks for the links and keep them coming.
From my end, please be cognizant of the fact that people like Rahner are tangential to this discussion. I find myself at time reminding myself not to stay too far from the current narrative, since this would be counter productive.
However, given the above, the Rahner issue is something that will eventually need to be addressed by the Catholic Church itself. What is becoming apparent is that Rahner is the dead body in the basement. The entire “spirit of VII” crowd have this major skeleton in the closet. The manner in which they keep this skeleton out of sight is by this very emotional and irrational (to the outside observer) “dogma” of not questioning VII. It is the third rail topic for them. To clean up this corrupt and frankly patholigical situation in the Curia and papacy, this whole issue will need to be reexamined. And I think the Catholic cardinals are being to see this now.
But we need a Catholic pope, and one with cajones to boot.
Now I strayed off topic. 😉 See how easy it is to do.
S.A.
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indignusfamulus said:
Dear SA,
We fully agree, and are glad you’re staying with the narrative, which also requires a lot of investigation and explanation by people who understand or are willing to tackle what lies beneath and behind it all.
Hope you don’t mind, but we quoted your above comment regarding Rahner on Louie V’s Harvesting just now, (#3 Our response to Barbara) as it fit so well with our point that the philosophy reveals so much about the man.
What you’re doing in addition to that here, is revealing how men can take advantage of philosophies that also suit other purposes–such as the accumulation of wealth and power. Both are vital to solving the overall riddles their actions create.
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S. Armaticus said:
To understand what is happening, one needs to understand the relationships involved. And once those are understood, we can see what the real agenda is that drives these people and their corresponding actions.
S.A.
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indignusfamulus said:
Here’s a link from Barbara on Harvesting to a free online book that explains the philosopher-connections including Rahner:
One Hundred Years of Modernism:
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S. Armaticus said:
Thks for the link.
Now can you order me some free time so that I can read it. 😉 😉 😉
Just kidding,
S.A.
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