Capital “T” Truth – The Transition Point from Science To Theology?

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We are living in historic times!

Over the last 18 months, your humble blogger has been using various videos produced by Dr. Jordan Peterson to help explain the numerous EVENTS, OCCURRENCES and other various PHENOMENA that one can readily observe in the Visibislium Omnium, et Invisibilium. Another brilliant lecture and Q&A session is embedded above for your viewing pleasure. A must watch…

Update: A great summary can be found on the Life Site News website HERE.

The PHENOMENON that has grown up around Dr. Jordan Peterson has been quite amazing. He went from an obscure clinical psychologist teaching at the University of Toronto to one of the most sought after, if not the most sought after public speakers at the time of this writing. (see here)

One aspect that makes this PHENOMENON of particular interest to us Catholics, is that the underlying theme of Dr. Peterson’s research and subject matter of most of his lectures is Catholic at its very ROOT. Your humble blogger has been laying out this  case in various recent posts.

The reason that the Catholic aspect of Dr. Peterson’s work is being brought to your attention dear reader, is that another article appeared about Dr. Jordan Peterson, this time on the First Things website. In the article titled Jordan Peterson, Unlikely Guru, its author, one  Matthew Schmitz makes the following observation:

“Jordan Peterson is a success because so many other men are failing.”

Now the above observation can be true, and partially is true, yet in the humble opinion of your even more humble blogger, this misses the entire point. Actually, it reduces the Peterson PHENOMENON to a caricature, which then can be easily explained away and eventually dismissed.

Specifically, what bothers this blogger is that this statement implies that if “men” stop “failing”, then the message that Jordan Peterson expounds, since it is local to this time and place, will lose its validity, and by extension Peterson’s “success” will cease.

But just in case this Peterson PHENOMENON  doesn’t have a Pyrrhic nature, escapes into the wider public domain and begins spreading into the Catholic world, a development which appears to be threatening to certain members of this part of society and their status quo, attacks by various establishment actors have commenced.

Over at the Catholic Herald, in a post titled What is a Catholic to make of Jordan Peterson?, its author Brandon McGinley presents this argument:

While Peterson’s political views have dominated the media narrative about him, his meandering explorations of Christian theology remain among his most popular lectures. These two areas of inquiry cannot be separated, though: Peterson’s idiosyncratic but sympathetic views on Christianity appear to be outgrowths of his ultimately incoherent views about human societies, blending brash political incorrectness with a love of tradition and an enthusiasm for individualism. For modern Christians frustrated by their loss of standing in liberal societies, this makes Peterson, like a stiff cocktail, potent, delicious, and, if enjoyed carelessly or in the wrong context, dangerous.

Notice the lightness of this text and the “argument” reducing the product of a magnum opus of a 40 year career of science and research by Dr. Peterson, to nothing more than pleasant chatter at a social function. Yet also notice the author’s inadvertent confirmation of the “dangerous” nature of Peterson’s message.

All in all, what the above tells us, as per the SIGNALLING EFFECT, is that these post-conciliar “spirit of the new springtime of VII” sectarians lack the competence and intellectual honesty to face the REALITY in which they have found themselves. Their helplessness is manifesting itself in the typical passive aggressive lashing out at both their real and imagined enemies. But what they are in fact reacting to is their implicit sensing that the Peterson PHENOMENON brings them ever closer to their Final Rendezvous With Destiny and With Death.

And why can one be certain as to the correctness of the above observations?

Well, we can use sensory data to support our contention. We see that Dr. Peterson has tapped into an innate and very deep conscious need of individuals to understand what constitutes capital “T” Truth. One reason, and a very practical reason why these individuals have this need is that it allows them to understand what is happening around them in their daily lives.

What also appears to be the case is that this above identified need for the acquisition of capital “T” Truth extends into the individual’s spiritual needs, i.e. into the  ECCLESIASTICAL sub-set of the Visibilium Omnium.

And to demonstrate this above point, no better proof can be had than in a post over at the Life Site News website. Here is how it reads: (see source here)

Livestream of Cardinal Sarah speaking in Toronto Monday at 7 p.m. EST

March 10, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — The University of Toronto’s St. Michael’s College is hosting Vespers and a talk by Cardinal Robert Sarah on Monday March 12 from 7 to 9 p.m., Eastern Standard Time. Cardinal Sarah is the Prefect of the Catholic Church’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. He is also the author of the two popular books, God or Nothing and The Power of Silence.

The demand for tickets to the event has been so high that the venue has been moved off the University of Toronto campus and to the downtown St. Michael’s cathedral which can hold a much larger number of people.

The event may be viewed live on Monday at either

Facebook LIVE:
www.facebook.com/ustmikes

or

the cathedral Livestream:
https://www.stmichaelscathedral.com/live/

The talk will also be available afterwards at the same two Internet addresses.

What we are in fact seeing in the post above is the identical PHENOMENON to that of Dr. Peterson’s. To be more precise, what we are seeing is the transition point at which capital “T” science becomes capital “T” theology.

Where Dr. Peterson leaves off, Cardinal Sarah picks up.

And this is the correct answer to the criticism presented in the Catholic Herald and First Things posts.

Yes?

Concluding, the only manner in which one can explain this Card. Sarah PHENOMENON is that the good Cardinal has also tapped into this innate and very deep conscious need of individuals to understand what constitutes capital “T” Truth. And this need is manifesting itself in the same manner, with packed venues for the lectures of Cardinal Sarah.

Which brings one to a practical consideration. Given that the current occupant of the bishopric of Rome is having a hard time “attracting” followers, not to mention repelling the Faithful Catholics, and given that the loss of adherents is a death-knell for any IDEOLOGY, social movement or even RELIGION, then the attractivistic powers of the Cardinal Sarah’s message should be of interest to certain centers of influence within the Sacred Vatican Walls.

Far be it for this blogger to make claims about the working of the Third Person of the Holy Trinity, but…

Leaving off this post, I would just like to present this idea for the review of you dear readers:

 

 

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FrancisChurch And The J. Wellington Wimpy Strategy

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On the back of yesterday’s post, your humble blogger has decided to revisit a theme that was identified and explained during the time period leading up to the last presidential election. If you dear readers recall, a strange phenomenon was observed whereby commenters on numerous pro-Trump blogs would put up comments that ran along a similar theme, i.e. “I like Trump but he can’t win and if I vote for him, I will be wasting my vote”. The basis for this view was on account of the FAKE POLLS that were being produced at the time. This phenomenon was labeled as WEAPONIZED DESPONDENCY.

In a post titled DESPONDENCY – The ZombieBishop’s Weapon Of Choice, we illustrated how this FrancisWeapon was being deployed by one of the FrancisCardinals, in his battle with Catholics in his dioceses. In this case, FrancisCardinal Cupich was presenting a very bleak forecast of the number of priests that the Archdiocese was projected to lose, in order to make decisions about church closings and Catholic elementary school consolidations.

Today we see more EVIDENCE of FrancisChurch WEAPONIZING DESPONDENCY in order to… well… here is how his ghost writer, one Archbishop “Tucho” Fernandez explains it: (see here) (emphasis added)

“The pope goes slow because he wants to be sure that the changes have a deep impact. The slow pace is necessary to ensure the effectiveness of the changes. He knows there are those hoping that the next pope will be turn everything back around. If you go slowly it’s more difficult to turn things back. He makes this clear when he says ‘time is greater than space.’”

But it doesn’t appear that Francis is going slow any longer. Why would that be?

Here is that Archbishop Tucho once again:

If one day he should intuit that he’s running out of time and he doesn’t have enough time to do what the Spirit is asking him, you can be sure he will speed up.”

So the frantic pace at which Francis is instituting “FrancisChange” would imply, based on the information obtained from one of the, if not THE closest Francis ally, that Francis fears that his time is coming to an end. This also corresponds with the conclusion presented in our most recent post here.

Now, all indications are that Francis’ mission in life is to stop the Restoration “of all things in Christ” in the Catholic Church. Or as Francis would say, to make “changes that have a deep impact”.

The manner in which Francis and his henchmen are trying to stop the Restoration and destroy those religious organizations that promote it, is nothing short of “Stalin-esque” “Mao-esque”. Like this here:

The anecdotal evidence of Francis trying to erase Tradition from the post-conciliar Church can be see in a few recent examples.

The first comes from Norcia. As most of my readers know, the earthquakes in Italy in early 2017 destroyed the Basilica of St. Benedict. The Basilica was also a Benedictine monastery that used the Traditional Rite. After the earthquake, the local ordinary made some quite startling announcement about the Basilica in Norcia going forward. Not only will the Benedictines not be allowed to rebuild the Basilica, but they will not be allowed to return. They will be relocated permanently to an old monastic grange a couple of miles away. To add insult to injury, the Basilica will be rebuilt in a “modernists” style. (see here)

The next example of use of WEAPONIZED DESPONDENCY comes from Mariawald, a Trappist abby in Germany. The Trappists at Mariawald, in an attempt to save their monastery took advantage of the provision present in Article 3 of the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum that allowed for the whole conversion of such a house to the exclusive use of the Traditional Rite.  The then abbot, Dom Josef Vooberg returned to all the traditions of the Trappist order before the “reforms” following the council. For his actions, the abbot was forced out in 2016, and now the entire abby is being closed down and completely dismantled. (see here)

And finally, we move over to Florence and the Dominicans. As my long time readers know, the Dominicans are the largest of the Catholic orders where the “Lefebvrist drift” can be readily observed. These young Dominican’s, especially in the US are not only returning to the traditions of the Order of Preachers from before the “reforms” following the council, but also provide the intellectual and philosophical underpinnings that support other Restorationist movements within the Catholic Church.

So naturally, they have become targets for the Francis, as has been predicted on this blog. The latest reports of using WEAPONIZED DESPONDENCY against the Faithful Catholics comes via Sandro Magister’s blog. In a post titled San Marco Must Not Die, we can read the following:

San Marco in Florence is the most famous Dominican convent in the world, frescoed by Fra Angelico and for centuries a beacon of holiness, of art, of culture, down to our day.

And yet now it is on the verge of being suppressed, at the behest of none other than the order of Saint Dominic.

And why is it being suppressed, you ask dear reader?

It may in fact escape one who does not know the recent history of the Florentine and Italian Church that San Marco appeared to become the focus, in the second half of the twentieth century, of a resistance of high intellectual and spiritual quality, as of an incisive polemical and critical “vis,” against the direction taken by the Catholic Church after the council, markedly in Florence but everywhere else as well.

And how is the suppression being interpreted by those in the know?

The shutdown, first deliberated in September of 2013 and then postponed, now also stipulates:

– the loss of the identity and functions of the “Levasti” Library, unique in Florence for its library collection in religious studies and its network of intellectual relations;
– the downsizing to online distribution only of the “Rivista di Ascetica e Mistica,” created in 1929;
– an uncertain fate for the historic Pharmacy;
– in short, practically an obliteration that has the strange flavor of a “damnatio memoriae” that has fallen upon the last Dominican generations of San Marco.

Yes, the attempt to wipe out the Dominicans of San Marco from the history of the Catholic Church. Once again:

This is vile, folks.

And finally, the method being used is one that is well known. Here is how the Magister blog explains the “contradictoriness” of the actions:

There appears in this decision on San Marco and on other convents a twofold argument, that of the state of necessity and that of new and more dynamic aims, with which organizations in general justify reductions and cuts in their own structures. Besides, all of us often take on the attitude known as “sour grapes,” like that of the fox in Aesop. But there is a risk. In the case of San Marco, the strategy of sour grapes – that which says, “At bottom it’s better this way, we’ll do more important things” – prevents an adequate evaluation of the many consequences and harms, including “pastoral,” of abandoning the convent.

To restate the mechanism, the post-Modernists are liquidating assets so that they can apply the proceeds for “new and improved” “dynamic aims” that they would like to undertake at a point in time in the future.

To draw an analogy, it’s like asking your grandmother to allow you to sell her house and give you the proceeds, on the basis of a promise that you will build her something better in the future. And you operate a construction company that you got handed to you by your father and you managed to bankrupt it in a relatively short period of time.

At the end of the exercise, the naive, swindled grandmother has no house and no dosh.

And the Magister post also explains the reason why this rationale is deployed. It is because this rationale…

“…prevents an adequate evaluation of the many consequences and harms, including “pastoral,” of abandoning the convent.”

Yes folks, it’s about avoiding accountability.

And why does this FrancisStrategy sound familiar?

Why it’s the same FrancisStartegy being used by the FrancisCardinal Cupich in Chicago. Here is how this was presented in the above linked The ZombieBishop’s Weapon Of Choice post:

It would also appear that the Archbishop is acting as if this rate of attrition is a foregone conclusion. Yet we also know that there are diocese who are experiencing increases in vocations. (see here) And this increase in vocation PHENOMENON is also starting to appear in large Archdiocese and for two years running (see 2015 here and 2016 here). But no hint of this fact in referenced article, what so ever.

One could fall into a state of DESPONDENCY reading this Chicago Tribune article, no?

Yes, one could fall into a state of DESPONDENCY, indeed.

Concluding, what we see is a recurring scenario whereby an incompetent ordinary, superior, or bishop of Rome needs to pay the bills make changes. He is incompetent and whatever actions he takes will have a disastrous impact on the assets and patrimony souls in his care. He most likely has a history of disastrous management pastoral decisions, since he no doubt became an ordinary after a long period as an auxiliary bishop. He can’t admit that he is a disaster, since that would get him removed, i.e. he would lose the station in life that he has become accustomed to.

He can’t return to a more rational Catholicism since he has “skin in the game” to keep “the spirit of Vatican II” alive. Or at least his immediate superiors does.

It has become an ideology with these shepards, since it allows one to promise utopia heaven on earth tomorrow, in order to disregard the hell that they and their “spirit of VII” sect have created for the souls in their care today. 

So what is an incompetent ordinary to do when faced with a situation like this?

Well, the easiest response would be to use the J. Wellington Wimpy strategy.

And that strategy goes something along the lines of this: “I’d gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today“.

Yes, you promise the souls under your control everything tomorrow, so that they will allow you to monetize the assets under your care today! 

And the way you prep the sheep is by WEAPONIZING DESPONDENCY.

 

A Petersonian Evaluation of Francis – Why Definitions Matter…

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Over the course of writing this blog, I have been obsessively harping about definitions. One set of definitions that I have been repeatedly writing about ad nauseum are:

• Scholasticism (Thomism, Scholastic Rationalism),
• Modernism (neo-Modernism) and
• post-Modernism.

The reason for this pedantic obsession is that a proper definition, and what goes with it – the understanding of underlying concept, of what it is that one is observing, allows for a better diagnosis and/or autopsy of a given phenomenon. The proper diagnosis then allows one to provide an effectual evaluation. The effectual evaluation then becomes an appropriate treatment. And at the end of this process, the patient returns to good health.

A clinical approach, yes?

The perfect example of the effectiveness of using a clinical approach, with precise language and definitions, can be seen here:

Now to the subject at hand.

The manner in which I have differentiated between Scholasticism, Modernism and post-Modernism is by categorizing them according to the manner in which they define what constitutes TRUTH.

Yesterday, the entire Catholic world received a great gift from Francis. Actually, it might have been the greatest gift given by any of the post-conciliar “innovators” and received by Catholicism since the beginning of that satanic council which began in 1962. The gift I am referring to can be seen here:

For those who still can’t see what I am referring to and to understand its significance, allow me to explain.

Francis has given the Catholic world the “official Francismagisterial” definition of what he understands as “truth”.

Now, why is this of such critical importance, you might ask dear and loyal reader?

The reason that this so important is that now we can work backwards and place Francis firmly into one of our philosophical or ideological categories:

Scholastics (Scholastic Rationalists, Thomist, Classical philosophers) – Truth is defined as: bringing the mind into conformity with reality (‘adaequatio rei et intellectus’), 

Modernists (neo-Modernists, most post-Enlightenment philosophers) – Truth is defined as: bringing thought into line with life (‘adaequatio realis mentis et vitae’),

Post-Modernists – Truth is defined as: bringing thought into line with passions (feelings) (‘adaequatio realis mentis et adfectus‘).

So in the above, what we see is a gradual process of degeneration as to what constitutes something to be true:  from always, everywhere and for everyone (Thomists) to partially grounded in objective reality (Modernists) to no basis in objective reality (post-Modernists).

What is of further significance, and most likely the largest distinguishing feature of the FrancisDefinition of truth, as opposed to the Modernist definition of truth, is that in Francis’ definition of truth, “the truth” is completely external to, and independent of the actual subject.

In other words, the individual may seek to find the FrancisTruth, but he can never know the FrancisTruth since it’s the counter-party that gets to define what it in fact is. So we can explain this dynamic as follows:

• if it is hurtful to the counter-party, it is not FrancisTrue
• if it is not hurtful to the counter-party, might be FrancisTrue, but not necessarily. The counter-party could not be being truthful about the hurtful nature of the exchange.

Complete chaos?

You bettcha…

Think about this for a second or two…

But before we get to who gets to define what is FrancisTrue, a short digression…

Since we now have a good grasp of the difference between what a Modernist would consider as being true (bringing thought into line with life) and what a post-Modernist would consider as being true (bringing thought into line with the counter-party’s passions), let’s do a practical application exercise:

IF someone,… anyone… accuses another person of… for example…  being an “Old maid!”,  a “Self-absorbed, Promethean , a neo-Pelagian!”, a “Museum mummy!” , a “Pickled pepper-faced Christian!”, a “Promoter of the poison of immanence!”, a “Pastry-Shop Christians!”, a “Christian bats who prefer the shadows to the light!”, or just your average everyday run of the mill “Specialist of the Logos!”,

THEN would the accuser, according to Francis, the bishop of Rome, be engaging in untruthful behavior?

Once again, here is how Francis defines something as being “true”:

“An impeccable argument can indeed rest on undeniable facts, but if it is used to hurt another and to discredit that person in the eyes of others, however correct it may appear, it is not truthful.” But it actually is much worse…

The answer is: WHO KNOWS?

Which leads to the question: what process or mechanism underlies this lack of clarity?

Given that we know in which philosophical/ideological category Francis belongs, we can then turn to Dr. Peterson, and use his methodology to get a grasp on the post-Modernism underlying the FrancisDoctine. It goes something like this: (emphasis and comments added)

“One way to look at (the Francis) ideology is as an assault on the Logos,” he said, noting that Christians identify the Logos with Christ. “The Logos is the principle that brings order out of the chaos.” It also means absolute truth, but ideologies such as Nazism or Marxism do not believe there is even such as thing as truth. They will claim to be true whatever serves the cause of their ideology. “The Soviet Union was built on lies,” Peterson said.

Peterson bristles at the suggestion that religion is an ideology. “Anyone who says that doesn’t know anything about religion or ideology. “

I think the above speaks for itself!

Concluding, what your humble blogger will end this post with, is a clinical evaluation using the Petersonian methodology.  The framework used will be along the lines of the explanation of post-Modernism provided by Dr. Peterson in the video below.

One suggestion when reading the below, please watch the video simultaneously to see how closely the Deus ex Machina evaluation of Francis, bishopric of Rome aligns with the definition of the typical post-Modernist provided by Dr. Peterson.

Deus ex Machina Clinical Evaluation of the Francis bishopric of Rome

Starts at the 01:48 mark of the video.

Post-conciliar post-Modernists completely reject the structure of Western Civilization. And I mean completely. They cannot come out and say it directly, so they use a proxy: capitalism. 

So I can give you an example in one term. Francis, who is considered the the head of the international left, thereby being the equivalent of the “head trickster” for the post-Modernist movement presently, regards Western culture, let’s call it the patriarchy, as “phallogo-centric”.

So “phallo” comes from “phallis”, which is the insistence that what you see in Western culture is the consequence of a male dominated, oppressive, self-serving society. And you might say, well, you know… societies do tend to be self serving, and people in power do tend to act in their own best interest, but attendency is not an absolute, and that’s one of the things that needs to be considered continually. There are no shortage of flaws in the manner in which the neo-Modernists structured the semi-rational Institutional post-conciliar church. And compared to any hypothetical, but completely irrational utopian FrancisChurch, it’s an absolutely dismal wreck. But compared to the rest of the global “religious” sects, and of societies throughout the history of mankind, it’s doing better then they are.

So the prescribed treatment should be to return to the rational, Phallogo-centric, patriarchal Faith that has underpinned the Catholic Church since its founding.

So the first thing you might want to know about Francis and post-Modernism is that they doesn’t have a shred of gratitude.

And there’s something pathologically wrong with a person who doesn’t have gratitude, especially since they live in what so far is the best of all possible worlds in terms of economic conditions. And if your not grateful, you are driven by resentment. And resentment is about the worst emotion that you can possibly experience, apart from arrogance. 

Resentment, arrogance and deceit, there’s an evil triad for you.

And if your bitter about everything that’s happening around you, despite the fact you are bathed in wealth, there’s something absolutely wrong with you. 

So here’s what Francis and the post-Modernist’s believe:

They don’t believe in the individual, that’s the “logos” part. Western Culture is “phallogo-centric”. Logo is “logos”, that’s partly the Christian word, but it’s also the root word of logic. Not believing in the “Logos” by definition means that they don’t believe in the “Biblical” Jesus Christ, second person of the Most Holy Trinity.

They also don’t believe in logic. They believe that logic is part of the process by which the patriarchal institutions of the West, such as the pre-conciliar Holy Roman Catholic Church continue to dominate and to justify their dominance. 

They don’t believe in dialogue. The root word of dialogue is “logos”. Again, they don’t believe that people of good will can come to consensus through the exchange of ideas. They believe that that notion is part of the philosophical substructure and practices of the dominant culture. So the reason they don’t let people who they don’t agree with speak on campuses or teach at their universities is that they don’t agree with letting people speak. It’s not part of the ethos. 

Ok, so what else do they believe and not believe. 

They believe that since you don’t have an individual identity, your fundamental identity is group fostered. And that means that you’re basically an exemplar of your race, hence white privilege. Or your an exemplar of your gender, or your sex or your ethnicity.

Or you’re an exemplar of however you can be classified, so that you are placed in the position of victim against the oppressor. Because that’s the game.

For the post-Modernists, the world is a Hobbesian battleground of identity groups. They do not communicate with one another because they can’t. So the Dubia will never be answered by Francis. All there is, is a struggle for power. This is why the power centers of the opposition, like the FFI or the Knights of Malta must be pacified and taken over. And if your in the predator group, such as the Traditionalists or conservatives, which means your an oppressor, than you better look out, because your not exactly welcome. And neither are your ideas.

So that’s what the post-conciliar church and the Traditionalists are up against.

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I would say that it’s time for Traditionalists and conservatives to stop apologizing for being Traditionalist and conservatives. You don’t apologize to these people. It’s a big mistake. They read apology as an admission of guilt. You don’t apologize and you don’t back down. 

You young people who are the students, you need to take over the student unions. You need to take them back, because they are absolute snake pits and they have been since the 1990’s.  Older people who are the parishioners, you need to take over the parishes. You need to take them back, because they are absolute snake pits and they have been since the 1970’s.      

So that’s what the Traditionalists and conservatives, true Catholics are up against. I mean, what’s happened is, also as a consequence of this post-Modernist neo-Marxist intellectual invasion is that the center keeps moving. It’s moved way to the right now, so if your classical conservative, you’ve move far closer to the Traditionalist, and this phenomenon is self evident. 

And so for all of you who are interested in pursuing the Traditional agenda, there are a lot of post-conciliar conservatives that you can be talking to. Especially on the parish level.

And then finally with regards to talking to, and even proselytizing young people, you finally have something to sell to them. It’s not easy to sell quasi-logical post-conciliar conservatism to young people because they want to change things by their very nature. By selling them Traditionalism, you are selling them change, meaningful change and a coherent, comprehensive Faith firmly grounded in Reason.

But that’s not what conservatives want to do by their very nature. They want to maintain things as they are. Well, now you’ve got something to sell to young people.

You can sell them salvation through acquiring meaning in their lives, derived through acceptance of responsibility and aided of actual grace.

The left is selling them rights and license. You can sell them responsibility as a path to meaning which simultaneously is the true path to salvation, “worked out in fear and trembling”.

Epilogue from Dr. Peterson: 

“And I can tell you, because I’ve received many letters, (…) young people are absolutely starving for someone to provide them with the sense of responsibility.

And say, look, here’s something worth living for, man!

You know, you can find meaning in life with freedom, but freedom is a chaotic sort of meaning. And freedom isn’t the sort of thing that makes people happy. It’s the sort of thing that makes people troubled, because freedom expands your series of choices. That makes you nervous and uncertain. But that’s not a bad thing, but it requires that you shoulder the responsibility of the freedom.

But responsibility per se is what gives your life meaning, genuine meaning, in the face of suffering. And young people are starving for that.” 

Blessed Are The Peacemakers, For They Shall Be Called… The Bishop of Rome…

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Today we take a break from our post-Modernist theme and our Nietzschean/Marxist analytical framework to address a situation that surfaced yesterday on account of an article based on an interview given by Cardinal Gerhard Muller. As you know, Cardinal Muller gave an interview in which he had some very interesting things to say. Today we will delve into his statements since your humble blogger sees them as being of very significant importance. (see here)

So today we begin by taking a closer look at the text of the Cardinal Muller interview, as it appeared on Rorate Caeli website and provide some background information about Cardinal Muller and the SIGNAL that he has sent out into the Catholic Universal Church.

And as has been noted earlier and often, CONTEXT is key, so let’s try and put a proper (most likely) FRAMING in place so that we can better “judge” the SIGNALS that Cardinal Muller was (most likely) emanating through the interview.

First, the KNOWN KNOWNS.

Cardinal Muller is by no means your typical Catholic Cardinal, nor is he even your typical German Cardinal. It would be a fair to say that Cardinal Muller isn’t intelligent enough to be known for his intellectual prowess, like a Cardinal Ratzinger. Yet Card. Muller is intelligent enough not to need to conform to any given “views” or even “zeitgeist” that may be reigning at any given time behind the Sacred Vatican Walls. Case in point, he is intelligent enough, not to mention confident enough, to rebuke a German Cardinal, one senior to himself and a Friend of Francis, such as a Cardinal Kasper or a Cardinal Schönborn without the slightest hesitation. He can even go as far as to label them as “flatters”. (see here)

On the one hand, Cardinal Muller has made a name for himself by going ROGUE. (see here) Cardinal Muller is so confident that he can be a friend of heretics and dissenters at one time (see here) while on the other hand, being a friend of Tradition at other times. (see here)

So what it appears that Cardinal Muller is attempting to do, is to cover all this bases, while simultaneously threading the needle so to speak.

What Cardinal Muller sees as his “target audience” is the supposed vast JPII “The Great” part of the Catholic Church, and especially those Cardinals who will be voting at the next conclave who have a sentimental view of the JPII years. These will be Cardinals who just what peace and quite after the upheaval of the Francis bishopric of Rome.

This part of the electors will constitute the largest sub-set at the next conclave and Card. Muller is angling for their vote. One such example of this sort of “masterful” attempt at just this, was writing an “orthodox” introduction to  the JPII apologist turned Francis “Joy of Sex” proponent Rocco Buttiglione’s materially heretical book. (see here)

But just in case Tradition reasserts itself by the time of the next conclave, which it is doing quite dramatically at present, Cardinal Muller is also making friendly with this part of the electoral base. To understand this, we first need to understand that Cardinal Muller used to be the direct superior of Archbishop Pozzo, the head of the Ecclesia Dei Commission.

Now Archbishop Pozzo during Card. Muller’s tenure at the CDF, became known for making “heretical – against the spirit of the new springtime” statement about Vatican II documents needing to be read in light of Tradition. He also made claims that the VII documents were not magisterial in their entirety. And Cardinal Muller did nothing to correct Archbishop Pozzo. (see here)

Now everyone knows that Cardinal Muller is competent, and he surrounds himself with competent people. He is even known to “go to bat” for competent people, (see here) so with respect to Archbishop Pozzo and his statements, competence was not an issue. And it was tolerated by Cardinal Muller, hence it can be interpreted as a “softening” of his position toward Tradition, i.e. Catholicism.

What is even more relevant to this “softening” of Cardinal Muller’s position with respect to Tradition and specifically toward the SSPX is the following anecdote relayed by Bishop Fellay, the Superior General of the SSPX of a conversation he had with the good Cardinal. We transcribed this passage in our post titled The Satanic Council and it reads as follows:

The Congregation for the Faith has to deal with these problems and they give the impression to put aside our problem. When in fact, already three years ago, Cardinal Muller told us in a meeting ‘ Your are occupying the Congregation of the Faith, you are obliging us to dedicate (?) to you such precious time while there are enormous problems in the Church’ So he was very unhappy to be dealing with us while there were enormous problems in the Church. At the time, I was not very happy about these things but with the time, with reflecting, yes they are facing enormous problems and suddenly what appeared to be the problem that is us, maybe it looks like a solution. And here you have to understand something, which is very, very interesting. The excesses of the present pope have caused a startled reaction. It’s open now. It’s no longer hidden, or let’s say for people like were hiding themselves, no you have cardinals, you have bishops who have openly contradicted these new tendency, this new tendency of hitting the morals and even the doctrine. We have counted that there are between 26 and 30 cardinals who have openly attacked these modern positions. And numerous bishops. They say that to the point that we have lost the monopoly on the contestation of the protest, til just a few years ago we were the only ones to state publicly these (to be) wrong. Now as they say, we have lost the monopoly of these attacks.

and

We’ve been told that at the last meeting of the Congregation of the Faith, where they all meet together, all the cardinals and bishops which are members, we call that a plenaria, this is the full meeting, there was only one cardinal who said, ‘no, no. no, the Society must absolutely accept the whole council’. And other voices who said ‘these people do only one thing, (that is) to repeat what the Church has always taught’. So you see, there is something on the move…                       

What the above passage demonstrates is that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith during the tenure of the competent Prefect Muller was a hot bed of Traditionalist activism.

And even if we assume it was Cardinal Muller who was the lone voice insisting that the SSPX “accept the whole council”, this was most likely a tactical position rather than an ideological or “theological” position on the part of Cardinal Muller. This would be in keeping with Cardinal Muller’s history of being a “friend” to all sides. He maintained the “majority” position, while allowing the rest of his subordinates to argue for the “minority” position.

Given this information above, one can now see in a better, more accurate light the last act of defiance of Cardinal Muller’s as the Prefect of the CDF. That last act of defiance was to issue a statement that the SSPX still must “accept the whole council”. This statement was made during the height of the Francis “siren call” to the SSPX to “reconcile” first and clarify doctrinal questions later. (see this great summary of the details here)

In retrospect, this move on the part of the good Cardinal effectively, and one can say with German precision, short-circuited any reconciliation agreement that might have been on the table and saved the SSPX from a fate worse than death. (see here) As we know now, this Francis swan song, along with other hastily promulgated Moto Proprios were designed to create a “Traditionalist ghetto” (see here) where Catholicism could have been isolated and eventually extinguished. (see here)

So when history will be written, it could be argued with a high degree of confidence that Card. Muller was the person instrumental for saving the SSPX and the Restoration of Tradition in the wider Catholic Church.

With respect to the current subject matter though, it would not be a stretch to think that a pre-conclave NARRATIVE could arise wherein Cardinal Muller could be framed as the savior of the Traditional Latin Mass and protector of Tradition in the wider church due to his “strategic initiatives”. He can easily let it be known that if he were pope for example, he could easily unleash the dogs of Tradition that are presently being pent up in the CDF and unleash the Restoration in the entire Universal Church.

But if those dissenting priest still want to give the “breakfast wafer” to the serial adulterers and the intrinsically disordered and don’t want to adore the “Cupichian cookie”, well there’s the Buttiglione book, you know. But I digress…

Concluding, when looking at the totality of Cardinal Muller’s career, it is quite evident that the good Cardinal want’s to be pope.

This latest interview, when looking at it critically through this framework, can be seen as an attempt to promote just that. In that article, he in effect can be seen as trying to “eliminate his competition”. By using a straw man of “traditionalist groups” and the TeamFrancis dissidents as “progressivists”, the good Cardinal has framed his position squarely outside of these two “extremist” groups.

Further, he has harshly criticized equally these two groups. The charge against the Traditionalists, aka Catholics is that they are “disloyal” and their actions could cause a schism. A schism which Francis is knowingly actively pursuing. Therefore by extension, he has undermined such competitors as Cardinals Sarah and Burke.

Against the dissidents, the charge is that they are “unmerciful” and “flatters”. Here he has in mind Cardinals Tagle, Schonborn, and the poll position sitter, our DavosPope, Cardinal Parolin.

What is also interesting is that the harshest criticism was leveled at Francis though. Even if the Traditionalists are “disloyal”, them the height of disloyalty is the example of Luther, according to the Cardinal. And who is the largest promoter of the rehabilitation of Luther in the post-conciliar church? Well this doesn’t really need to be addressed, let alone answered, since it’s the 800 pound gorilla in the Domus Sanctae Marthae.

What even more interesting is that with the criticism of the Traditionalists, Card. Muller placates this charge by observing that even though their actions might be questionable, their position is a correct one. Their concerns need to be addressed by the Church authorities, but especially by the successor of Peter.

As for the dissenters, there are no extenuating circumstances for their actions given. These folks are cast as unmerciful toward the Catholics, i.e. “ignoring them, or worse, humiliating them”. The motivation behind the actions of the dissenters is given as: an equally exaggerated progressive front which today seeks to credit themselves as super-papists”. 

Furthermore, in the above assessment by Card. Muller, these dissenters are as “equally exaggerated” as the “bloggers”. And the “bloggers” according to TeamFrancis and Francis himself, are presently being presented as the bane of the Catholic world, and the cause of all the problems that poor Francis is having in his steering of the post-conciliar Barque toward the newly rehabilitated Theihardian omega point.

And finally, if all this criticism of the extremes was not enough to sway the future electors, Card. Muller provides his Curriculum Vitae, written as with a particular focus on his history of as a “peace-maker” and reconciler of opposing, even “extreme” positions. Further, the good Cardinal stresses his intellectual credentials (16 years as professor of theology) as well as his pastoral acumen (40 years as priest). He further nods to Tradition by citing a 16th century theologian, while demonstrating his modern, contemporary “sociological” prowess by suggesting that “prattlers” are in need of a “shrink”.  As to his humble person, he returns to his theme of “theological structurer” and sees his role as being a Cardinal “who help(s) him (Francis) with the truth and theological, human competence”. 

Notice that word? (COMPETENCE)

All in all, it would appear that Cardinal Muller has thrown his hat into the ring at the upcoming conclave. What is apparent is that Cardinal Muller is a very ambitious man. He is exactly the sort of “careerist bishop” and “climber” as was the former Cardinal Bergoglio, except that he is much, much more intelligent.

He is a threat to the Bergoglian “bishorpric of Rome” line of succession, which is why Francis removed him from the CDF. He also appears to be an immediate threat to Francis, which explains why Francis is baiting him with the “Some have told me anonymously that you are my enemy’” lines. Here Cardinal Muller relays this heart-wrenching story to most likely highlight this “victim-hood” status, which Francis handed the good Cardinal on a silver platter.

What ultimately motivates Card. Muller is ambition. Card. Muller wants to be pope. So he is laying out a path that would put him in a position whereby if the “god of surprises”, i.e. fate would present an opportunity at the next conclave, he would be ready to grab her by the skirt as she walks by, as the old German expression goes.

And at the next conclave, Cardinal Muller is positioning himself under a campaign theme that can best be described as follows:

 

 

Fr. Spadoro’s Junk Theology “Amp Settings” Go To 11!

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Today we continue with the theme that we started in the post titled Fr. Spadaro Wants All To Know That 2+2 Still Equals 5 At The Domus Sanctae Marthae. As we explained in that post, the genesis of this phenomenon, namely, that a member of the “leadership team” of the Francis bishopric of Rome, can make as ridiculous a statement as that, is neither laughable nor accidental. What is most likely the case is that Fr. Spadaro was emitting a signal to the aged neo-Modernists still alive that the post-conciliar revolution is still kicking.

A short digression is in order. If life in fact does imitate art, no better depiction of the Francis’ reign can be found than the farewell tour of the band Spinal Tap in the movie This is Spinal Tap. For those of my loyal readers who recall the movie, the Spadaro quote is very similar in nature to the dialogue between the movie characters Marty Di Bergi, the maker of the “mockumentary” and the band’s guitarist Nigel Tufnel, regarding the loudness dial on the band’s “magic” amp. This dialogue I present in the video above.

The reason that I am bringing this to your attention is that this exchange very succinctly captures the mindset of the TeamFrancis in general and Fr. Spadaro in particular. What is essential to understand is that Fr. Spadaro and Francis, just like Nigel Tufnel do not understand that raising the volume on the “magic” amp to 11 will not in any way affect the “quality” of their product. To be more precise, using the “magic” amp with the 11 volume level setting will not make Spinal Tap any more successful than using the FAILED neo-Modernist “magic” pseudo-philosophical sophisms that produce 2+2=5, in attracting new adherents to Francis’ Junk Theology.

Given the above, today your humble blogger will drill down into the “magical” adjective that has been used in the above paragraphs. The reason being that these two examples, namely expecting to obtain a different (better) result by turning up the sound level by the band Spinal Tap, or suspending the precepts of Natural Law in the case of Francis and the neo-Modernists are both examples of the same underlying phenomenon.

This phenomenon alluded to above is what is known as “Magical Thinking”.

As usual, we begin with a definition. “Magical Thinking” is defined as follows:

Magical thinking is a term used in anthropology and psychology, denoting the fallacious attribution of causal relationships between actions and events, with subtle differences in meaning between the two fields.

In our case, the reason why both Spinal Tap’s and Fr. Spadaro’s “reasoning” fall squarely into the “magical thinking” category is that there is no causal relationship between increasing the volume level to 11 or suspending the precepts of Natural Law and the hoped for increase in new adherents.

With respect to the latter, the magical thinking theory that best explains Fr. Spadaro and Francis is the following:

Bronisław Malinowski‘s Magic, Science and Religion (1954) discusses another type of magical thinking, in which words and sounds are thought to have the ability to directly affect the world.^[11]

Literary Structuralism, anyone? (see here)

One negative side effect of magical thinking is the following:

This type of wish fulfillment thinking can result in the avoidance of talking about certain subjects (“speak of the devil and he’ll appear”), the use of euphemisms instead of certain words, or the belief that to know the “true name” of something gives one power over it, or that certain chants, prayers, or mystical phrases will bring about physical changes in the world. 

What the above text explains to a very high degree is the post-conciliar penchant for what Louie Verrecchio termed the “pseudosacral homopoetic prose”. Here is how Louie describe the genesis of this phenomenon:

The bishops who authored this sewage (Ed. note: pseudosacral homopoetic prose) are precisely the product of that roguish council (VII) wherein it was deemed expedient for churchmen to focus, not on combating the errors that threaten the citizens of this fallen world redeemed and ruled by Christ the King who reigns victorious over all things, but on entering into consultative dialogue with every miscreant that inhabits the fairytale land they invented wherein “all things should be related to man as its center and crown.” (cf Gaudium et Spes)

Notice the reference to “magical thinking”.

So the inference from Mr. Verrecchio’s assertion is that post-conciliar NUChurch is a part of the magical thinking camp.

This observation has to be considered an OBJECTIVELY CORRECT assertion.

Which leaves one very important question hanging, and that is this: why is Catholicism, as opposed to the neo-Modernist NUChurch not consigned to the magical thinking category?

The answer to this question comes from a substantive difference theory that states the following:

(Robin) Horton describes this as one of the key dissimilarities between traditional (“traditional” meaning primitive in this case) thought and Western science. He suggests that the scientific worldview is distinguished from a magical one by the scientific method and by skepticism, requiring the falsifiability of any scientific hypothesis.

And here, Horton nails the difference between magical though and critical thought.

He could just as easily be speaking about the dissimilarities between Francis’ post-conciliar NUChurch and Cardinal Burke’s Catholic Church.

We read further:

He notes that for native peoples “there is no developed awareness of alternatives to the established body of theoretical texts.”^[29] (Ed note: Protestantism, shall we say?) He notes that all further differences between traditional (“traditional” meaning primitive in this case) and Western thought can be understood as a result of this factor. Because there are no alternatives in societies based on magical thought, a theory does not need to be objectively judged to be valid.

Yet on the Catholic side, the situation is diametrically different.

Just as a reminder of what constitutes “organic growth” within Catholic theology, a definition we painstakingly explained in the post titled Settled Stupidity, reads as follows:

Organic Growth: reconciliation of reason with revelation, of science with faith and of philosophy with theology, SUBJECT TO: that source of our Faith that comes from divine Revelation.

It is specifically because of this above, i.e. that the Catholic FAITH alone, is derived from two sources, that separates Catholicism from other forms of magical thinking. Specifically, the key difference that distinguishes Catholicism from any other formal or informal “religious” belief, Protestantism included, is the fact that a part of the Catholic Faith is:

“as known through “natural light of human reason from the things that are made”.

It is this aspect of Catholicism that is responsible for the INHERENT OBJECTIVITY of Catholicism.

If you dear reader recall, what drove the Patristic Fathers to recognize the objective knowledge of the Greeks and Romans as a part of the knowledge coming from God was as follows:

Christian thinkers, from the beginning, were confronted with the question: How are we to reconcile reason with revelation, science with faith, philosophy with theology? The first apologists possessed no philosophy of their own. They had to deal with a pagan world proud of its literature and its philosophy, ready at any moment to flaunt its inheritance of wisdom in the face of ignorant Christians. The apologists met the situation by a theory that was as audacious as it must have been disconcerting to the pagans. They advanced the explanation that all the wisdom of Plato and the other Greeks was due to the inspiration of the Logos; that it was God’s truth, and, therefore, could not be in contradiction with the supernatural revelation contained in the Gospels. It was a hypothesis calculated not only to silence a pagan opponent, but also to work constructively.

Concluding, what stands behind Fr. Spadaro’s statement that 2+2 can equal 5 is the notion that there is no such thing as objective truth, i.e. the Logos.

Since the post-conciliar neo-Modernists have abandoned the REALITY that objective truth exists, they have found themselves in the land of magical thinking.

And the problem with creating a “theology” based on magical thinking is that it doesn’t work.

It is this exact thing that can be read in John Lamont’s Attacks on Thomism when he writes the following text:

Neomodernism, however, on a religious level is a purely negative thesis. As a result it has no attractive force of its own, and ecclesiastical structures that fall into its grip eventually die away – a process now visible all over the world.

And it is this lack of substance (Truth) in Francis’ and Spadaro’s Junk Theology that has made the post-conciliar NUChurch just as successful as the band Spinal Tap and Nigel Tufnel “magic amp” with the volume setting of 11.

Fr. Spadaro Wants All To Know That 2+2 Still Equals 5 At The Domus Sanctae Marthae

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So I take it all you dear readers seen this already.

Pretty stupid thing to say. Yes?

Here is one explanation for why this is stupid: (see here)

If “2+2” can equal “5” in the realm of theology, then it can also equal “9” and “catfish” and “π” and just about anything you want it to. More than a considered belief that there are exceptions to “the rules”, this is an irrational belief that “the rules” are essentially arbitrary and without objective, transcendent basis. And that is #arecipefordisaster.

Once more: is it stupid?

Of course it is. But Fr. Spadaro doesn’t appear to be stupid. Devious, underhanded, slippery, yes. Stupid? No.

So why did he write something this stupid?

Here is my take.

Two things to note. First is the overt, explicit reminder that the post-conciliar NUChurch is not like the old, hermeneutically continued, “medieval”, rational Church that Our Lord founded in Anno Domini 33. The signaling effect of this humble 20 alphabetic and 4 numeric character TWEET has a much deeper meaning. Drilling down into this meaning, one reaches the philosophical strata. If you dear reader recall, John Lamont in his seminal work Attacks on Thomism, appearing on the Rorate Caeli blog, explains this phenomenon: (emphasis added)

Another article of the postconciliar creed has to do with the character of the Thomism that was promoted by popes from Leo XIII to Pius XII. The substantive accusations made against this Thomism are that it unjustifiably limited theology to a particular philosophical system, that theology was forced to conform to it, and that it was not the true thought of St. Thomas

Hmmm…. That sounds familiar. (see here)

The reasons given for the neo-Modernist’s rejection of Thomism was because:

These claims play a subordinate role in the criticism of preconciliar Thomism, whose main thrust lies in accusations that Thomism was ‘abstract’, ‘rationalist’, ‘ahistorical’, ‘arid’, ‘frozen’, ‘immobile’, ‘obsessed’, ‘encouraging pure secularity’, ‘sclerotically hardened and furred theologically, spiritually and ecclesially’, ‘causing a rupture between theology and life’, a ‘wax mask’, a ‘straightjacket’ that ‘reduced theological speculation to sterility’.

Hmmm…. Sounds a lot like this here. On an aside, your personal message from Francis can be found here. But I digress… Back to the story.

Just like 2+2=4 is ‘abstract’, ‘rationalist’, ‘ahistorical’, ‘arid’, ‘frozen’, ….

Moving on, here is John Lamont’s take:

Thomism made an easy target for this propaganda, just because it is a highly developed philosophy. Any advanced field of study, such as philosophy, mathematics, or physics, can be convincingly portrayed as ‘arid’ and ‘rigid’. For most people’s tastes, this portrayal will often be true. Precise and rigorous subjects inevitably have arid components.

Yet:

Because it deals with fundamental questions whose answers are true always and everywhere, philosophy will be ‘ahistorical’ and ‘immutable’. It will not meet the desires and expectations of individuals or societies, because these desires and expectations are never geared towards subtle and difficult concepts. It will meet their needs – if it is true. But a demonstration of philosophical truth is a feeble counter to propaganda.

While:

Neomodernism, however, on a religious level is a purely negative thesis. As a result it has no attractive force of its own, and ecclesiastical structures that fall into its grip eventually die away – a process now visible all over the world.

Which:

This is one thing that on the natural level permitted the survival of Thomism, despite the drastic measures taken to uproot it from the Church; unlike neomodernism, it has something positive and substantial to say. Moreover, what it has to say is actually true. This is in no way a guarantee of broad success, but it ensures the continued existence of Thomism in the small constituency of good scholars who are concerned with the truth and in a position to discover it.

And Mr. Lamont concludes this seminal essay with the following:

Whether it will expand much beyond this constituency in the future is unknown, but there is no doubt that its (Thomism) future shows more promise than that of neomodernism.

Well the good news is that Thomism is reasserting itself as the ONE TRUE PHILOSOPHICAL base for Catholicism once again. Its main promoters are the Society of St. Pius X (see here and here), its break away communities like the Fraternity of St. Peter, Institute of the Good Shepherd, etc., the rejuvenating Dominican Order (see here and here), and large swaths of the wider Catholic Church (see here).

As for Fr. Spadaro’s tweet, what it signals is that the revolutionary soviet encamped on the 4th floor of the Domus Sanctae Marthae are not too happy with this development.

Now on to the second issue.

The second issue has to do with the numbers themselves. In Fr. Spadaro’s tweet, we observe a numerical example as opposed to a anecdotal example. Assuming that an anecdotal example would have been much easier to “get past the gullible” twitterati than a mathematical one, it needs to be inferred that it was the numeric characters themselves that were the main point of interest for Fr. Spadaro.

Furthermore, what we are no doubt observing here is an attempt at promoting the logical fallacy of the  undistributed middle. For those who might have forgotten, the undistributed middle occurs when “two separate categories are said to be connected because they share a common property”. In Fr. Spadaro’s false construction, the undistributed middle is: Theology.

So how does this work, you may ask?

For the answer, we need to explain the undistributed middle fallacy in this instance. What is most likely at work is that Fr. Spadaro intended to imply that all of “theology” is outside of mathematical logic. Notice the phrasing:

IF: 2+2 in #Theology can make 5.

AND: Theology “has to do with God”

THEN: Everything having to do with “theology” is outside of the laws of mathematics. 

 

In other words, “theology” is outside the natural order and the Natural Law itself, by inference.

This is what on this blog is known as the “theological ghetto”.

Back to Lamont. What we are in fact seeing is a restatement of the neo-Modernist rejection of Aristotelian Truth, namely:

… reviving the philosopher Maurice Blondel’s rejection of the traditional definition of truth as bringing the mind into conformity with reality (‘adaequatio rei et intellectus’) in favour of an account of truth as bringing thought into line with life (‘adaequatio realis mentis et vitae’).

And since we have come to the point of “into line with LIFE”, a sine qua non of any neo-Modernist ideology, here is the last part of Fr. Spadaro’s tweet:

“Because it has to do with God and the real life of people.”

What Fr. Spadaro is in fact doing is restating the neo-Modernist base ideology with his 125 character tweet, and it is as follows:

What they (neo-Modernists) did explicitly assert was that the truth of past dogmatic pronouncements does not consist in their being an accurate description of reality, and that a theology that was not relevant to the present day (‘actuel’) was untrue.

Got that!

So now we can go on to the numbers and the undistributed middle fallacy.

The implication that Fr. Spadaro wants to leave in the public domain is that since Theology is about God and 2+2 can make 5 in Theology, therefore you cannot OBJECTIVELY MEASURE anything having to do with Theology since is comes from God. And only that “theology” that is “relevant to the present day”, that comes from God – who can make 2+2=5 “is true”.

Which leave one question to be asked and that is this:

what other area of “theology” presently is presently considered ripe for measurement?

Could it be something to do with the seminaries?

Why seminaries you ask dear reader?

Well it just so happens that it is the state of the seminaries that will be the key to the next conclave. According to our “signaling agent” Andrea Gagliarducci at the MondayVatican blog, this is the information that he has received. In a recent post, titled Seminaries: Key To The Next Conclave, we can read the following:

What will be the leading themes of the next Conclave? This question has been circulating for some time in Rome, …

And then we go on to read:

All of those involved in these conversations give a unanimous response: the next election will be about the seminaries.

So far so good.

Furthermore:

The future of the Church is being played out in the field of priestly formation. Vocations, the way that local bishops will manage them, the education of priests and the way this education influences their work with the flock will all be crucial. But also crucial will be the number of seminarians in the future, as proof of how many vocations the new emphasis on pastoral care is able to produce.

Yet in the same article, we read the following:

Pope Francis employed this approach in Buenos Aires, and the figures of the seminary show that vocations did not benefit from it. (Here is a more detailed post about Bergoglio’s time in Buenos Aires.)

Concluding, the decision maker class behind the Sacred Vatican Walls are planning an agenda for the future pontificate. They need to do this since they sense that this one is in its twilight.

No matter how many qualifiers appear which attempt to defuse this observation, this is the objective reality behind the Sacred Vatican Walls.

If we assume that this information comes from Andre Gagliarducci’s sources, which we must, and that he put a passage into his post of this nature, a passage highly critical of a sitting pontiff, it would mean that this sources are not to worried about this information getting out into to public domain.

On the other hand, Francis and his revolutionary soviet are sensing that numbers do in fact count. Therefore, they are going to the tried and tested neo-Modernist well of logical fallacies and faulty syntax to try and remind everyone that there is no such thing as OBJECTIVE TRUTH. And even if there is, it doesn’t matter since the only thing that matters is “accompaniment”.

Which leaves the following question open: will the College of Cardinals and other prelates in positions of decision making authority buy it again.

But just in case, Fr. Spadaro want’s to let everyone know that 2+2 is still equal to 5 on the 4th Floor of the Domus Sanctae Marthae.

 

Things Will Never Be The Same…

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Today a republication via the catholic Zero Hedge website. And just to prove how catholic the Zero Hedge website really is, the below post comes from the ANTONIUS AQUINAS blog which one can view HERE.

Today’s topic is one that I wanted to address but just didn’t have the time. I am eternally grateful that Antonius Aquinas has done this work. And he quotes F.A. Hayek, the Austrian School economist to boot.

Now how great is that?

On short comment is this. After this election cycle, the CORRUPT MainStreamMedia will never be viewed the same by a majority of the US electorate. Early signs of just this PHENOMENON are presented here:

Looking at the latest Total Audience Report, the data indicates that:

• Teens (12-17) watched 14 hours and 18 minutes of traditional TV per week in Q2, a rather large 13.5% drop year-over-year and a 36.2% contraction over the past 5 years;
• Older Millennials (25-34) watched 20 hours and 56 minutes per week in Q2, a 5.5% decrease year-over-year (up from 3% in Q1) but a more expansive 25.6% drop over 5 years;
• Gen Xers (35-49) watched 29 hours per week, just a 1% decrease year-over-year but a 12% decline over a 5-year period;
• Adults aged 50-64 watched 40 hours and 18 minutes per week, representing a 1% increase year-over-year, but a 1.9% drop over 5 years; and
• Adults aged 65 and older watched 48 hours and 38 minutes per week, up 1.2% from the previous year and up by 5.1% over 5 years.

In other words, what a difference 5 years makes! If you’re looking for one chart that says it all (the TL:DR version), here it is: (Please reference graph at top of post)

So those are the DATA POINTS. Below is the post (see here) that I am reproducing…

FOR THE RECORD

It’s Still the Media, Stupid!

The US Presidential campaign has demonstrated once again that the mainstream mass media is still the dominant force and arbitrator of political events and if it is successful in pushing the Wicked Witch of Chappaqua past the finish line this November, it may have achieved its greatest triumph.  During the campaign’s stretch run, the mainstream media has used every form and variety of spin, distortion, half truth, calumny, and lies in its diabolical effort to make Killary Rotten Clinton President of the USSA.

The mass media – television, newspapers, movies, the Entertainment industry, book publishing, advertising, and now sports – is part of society’s opinion molding movers and shakers which form part of what Noble Prize winning economist F.A. Hayek called “intellectuals.”  This all important group are not simply nerdy academic professors with patches on their sleeves, but are those who have the ability to shape public opinion, as Hayek describes:

It is the intellectuals in this sense who decide what views and

opinions are to reach us, which facts are important enough

to be told us, and in what form and from what angle they are

to be presented.  Whether we shall ever learn of the results of the

work of the expert and the original thinker depends mainly on their

decision. *

Since at least the 1960s, the dominant opinion-molding sector of the mass media has been the electronic media, which has far outpaced newsprint and academia in influence.  While its power may be on the wane in the Internet Age, it is still the most powerful and important tool in the political elites arsenal for imparting their agenda.

The electronic media, through its use of pictures and images, has been able to manipulate political outcomes and shape public policy discussions at almost every turn.  As every media realist has long understood, the mainstream media has long been controlled by the Left which has used this power to counter any opposition to its narrative.

The major media outlets are controlled by five corporate giants – Time Warner, Disney, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., Bertelsmann of Germany, and Viacom – the largest purveyors of crony capitalism and cultural Marxism the world has ever witnessed.  No dissent is allowed to be heard on these outlets nor is there any hope of career advancement for journalists or writers if the Leftist paradigm is not trumpeted.

A free society does not exist because of a free press.  In fact, every society which has naively allowed a free press to exist, invariably finds that the press will seek to undermine it, especially its most innovative and successful individuals.  The reason, as Hayek so brilliantly explains, is that the press, and in this age the electronic media, is part of the intelligentsia which by its nature is envy ridden since it has little to offer the world in the production of actual goods and services.  Its members, therefore, are constantly denigrating their betters.

Such a mindset and sociological disposition will naturally lead members of the mass media to support politicians who will regulate, tax, and control the productive members of society.  This explains, in part, their vile and hysterical opposition to Donald Trump.  For Trump, unlike his crazed and corrupt opponent, has largely gained his wealth and position through his own intelligence, foresight, and hard work.

Offsetting media bias is a Herculean task and can only be done by one who is savvy and financially independent enough.  This is why Donald Trump has gotten as far has he has and has used his leverage to heroically call out the manipulations of the mainstream media.

It is surprising, therefore, that Trump agreed to the Presidential “debates” in a forum orchestrated by the media with “moderators” who would be gunning to undermine him at every turn.  Better to have chosen a neutral environment with an honest third party participant such as Brian Lamb of C-Span.  Agreeing to the same rigged debate format was a tactical mistake.

For anyone to seriously challenge the American Leviathan, it must be understood that the mainstream media is a part of that despotic structure and it too must be neutered.  Donald Trump has done more than any Presidential candidate to expose the treachery of the mainstream media, now others must take up the cause.

*F.A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism.”  https://www.mises.org/sites/default/files/Intellectuals%20and%20Socialism_4.pdf

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Folks, This Really Is The Flight 93 Election!

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See here.

MY SENTIMENTS, EXACLTY!

Folks, this really is the Flight 93 election!

Original see here.

Trump and the Surrender Caucus of the GOP

Right now we are witnessing one of the reasons the Left is winning and the Right losing America.

No Democratic Party president or presidential candidate in history has ever been subjected to, or will be subjected to, the kind of savage attempted assassination by his own party’s leaders that Donald Trump is now enduring from the great and the good among Republicans and “respectable” conservatives.

All for a locker room crudity that he thought he spoke in private.

Without the active, enthusiastic support of Republican office holders, present and former, this distraction from the real issues would have dried up and blown away in two days. But the ugly truth is Trump’s own party’s leaders are leading the pack of baying hounds.

Contrast this with the Left’s reaction to indiscretions by its presidents or presidential candidates: No matter the infraction, the moral failing or the actual crime, the Left stands by its main man. Always.

Of course, the band of Never Trumps now trying to destroy their voters’ choice for the presidency were already looking for an excuse to commit this coup against the party base well before the current opportunity arose.

But the reality is that in similar circumstances the feckless Republican Party, along with much of the “respectable” American Right, would be administering the same slashing to a candidate they liked.

Richard Nixon was not destroyed by the Democrats and the Left.  They were merely his tormentors, in Congress and the press.  Nixon’s presidency was ended by the prissy elders of his own party. The committee of Republican senators sent to deliver the political death sentence was chaired by none other than conservative icon Barry Goldwater.

If Lyndon Johnson had found himself in similar circumstances (participant in the cover up of a silly burglary of his opponent’s campaign headquarters), his party would have rallied round him and saved his presidency. They would have called it a witch hunt over a minor matter and, even if the Democrats had been a minority in Congress, as the Republicans were when Watergate broke, they would have blocked his impeachment in the Senate.

To the Left the agenda and power are everything. Character, peccadillos, and personal pastimes are nothing.

This is the cold-blooded attitude that makes for political victories in universal suffrage democracies.

Bill Clinton brings to mind another example of the Left’s unfailing loyalty to its leaders. Bill’s lifelong hobby of rape, molestation and harassment of women was open and notorious … and of absolutely no concern to the Democratic Party or organized feminists, though it violated every precious precept of the Party’s alleged fealty to the cause of the female sex, along with some of the most salient complaints of organized feminism. Through it all, the Left’s swords were wielded in faithful and successful defense of their leader.

You’ve got to give them credit: The Democratic Party, now the American Left, plays for keeps, and they never, ever, ever … take their eye off the ball.

And, as everyone seriously involved in politics knows, the ball is: the Agenda and the Power to enact it.

Republicans and conservatives, on the other hand, are represented by leaders whose primary concern is to be well regarded by ladies who lunch at the club.

And so, because Trump, believing his conversation private, made a crude comment — the likes of which most men have heard several times in their lives and which pales into risible insignificance alongside Bill Clinton’s sexual hobbies, or his and his wife’s rapid accumulation of great wealth through some of the most poorly concealed acceptance of bribes in the history of influence peddling — Republicans and conservatives are told to abandon their candidate.

Not this writer.

And, it is to be hoped, not the overwhelming majority of Trump’s supporters and those who should be supporting him.

Keep your eye on the ball: The Agenda and the Power to enact it.  When you take your eye off that, you will lose to those who never do. Religious people, evangelicals, Mormons, middle and upper middle class suburban women, all take note. Yours will be the greatest losses if the Left returns to power for eight more years.

What needed to happen was simply this: Trump issuing an apology — just this once — for his locker room vulgarism. This he did in his Sunday evening debate.  It was classic Trump, short and to the point, but adequate to the puniness of the matter at hand.  

And now the Republican Party, including and especially its major office holders, conservative commentators, and the Trump Campaign, need to say something along the following lines every time this matter, or God knows what other distraction, is brought up:

“We understand why you don’t want to talk about the issues of greatest concern to the American people, including and especially to American women; we understand why you’re trying not to talk about the atrocious economy and scarcity of good paying jobs, the open borders that you’ve created and the mass invasion of America by illegals it’s caused; we understand why you don’t want to talk about the general amnesty for illegals you’re planning; we understand why you want to avoid discussing the violence, danger and insecurity you’ve created in America by your vicious  attacks on America’s police and by your refusal to forcibly identify and confront radical Islam; we understand why you don’t want to talk about the truly awful Obamacare, that’s being paid for by enormous increases in health care premiums imposed on America’s working and middle classes.

“You don’t want to talk about any of these issues because a very large majority of Americans detest what you’ve been doing on all of them. And because Hillary Clinton is promising eight more years of all these disasters.”

“But no matter what distractions you bring up, we are going to talk about all these issues of intense concern to the American people, and only these, from now till Election Day.”

This would all work out well in a rational political world.

But the Republican Party today is led by men and women who would rather lose the presidency and subject America to the Left’s agenda, perhaps permanently, so they can maintain their control of the Party — or, in the case of conservative commentators, so they can maintain their control of the politically ineffective “conservative movement.”

Trump’s handling of the matter will be decreed insufficient by the Ladies lunch moralists of the Republican Party leadership and by the equally testosterone deficient conservative intellectuals among the NeverTrumps.

But if this distraction, or any other, derails the candidacy of Republicans and conservatives’ choice for the presidency, it will be solely because Republican Party leaders and the NeverTrump turncoats led the mob or joined it.

Just as Nixon could not have been brought down if the Party he served so long and so well had stood by him, no locker room vulgarism, spoken in reasonable expectation of privacy, could destroy Trump.  Unless its prosecution had the enthusiastic complicity of Republican and conservative leaders, to whom personal position is more important than the conservative agenda and the power of the presidency to pursue it.

If the Left again gains the presidency, as I’ve argued before, it will be a terminal defeat for conservatism. Demographic changes that will be intensified and fanatically promoted by the Left for the next eight years will effectively establish a one party state in the governing branches of the federal government: The presidency and the activist federal judiciary. 

In the short term the Republican Party will dissolve. An American political party can survive many things, including a great defeat. But it cannot survive its leadership’s deliberate destruction of a presidential candidate chosen by its own voters.

We continue to support Trump with great enthusiasm, and with great admiration for his courage and fighting spirit.  We urge him, for the duration of the campaign, to focus exclusively on the issues that brought him this far in his, and our, struggle to preserve and restore America.

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Messaging: Don’t Mind the Old Guy in White

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There is an old witticism that goes something along these lines: Just because I am paranoid, doesn’t necessarily mean that someone is not out there trying to kill me.”

Taking the above into account, over the last couple of weeks several “interesting developments” have been observed in the Main Stream Media. These developments transpired in articles appearing in the Main Stream Media outlets, which this blog covers from the perspective of optics, messaging and narratives. These “interesting occurrences” have created a new media narrative, a narrative that goes against the “Good and Humble Pope Francis reforming the the outdated Catholic Church”, and one which goes something like the following: “Catholic Church is in chaos: who’s steering this bus Barque of St. Peter?”

Let’s just quickly review the culprit stories.

The most noticeable was that which appeared in the New York Time titled The Pope and the Precipice by Ross Douthat (see here). Then we had two or three – or a hundred, but who’s counting – at the Breitbart News Network (see here and here), then a second story from Adam Shaw at Fox News (which we featured here) and finally the infamous story by Fr. James V. Schall S.J writing at the National Review Online pertaining to a “heretical pope” (see here). In that post titled Messaging: The Good Jesuit, I suggested that a Clintonian War Room could have been set up by Fr. Tom Rosica of the “Salt + Light” fame (see here), which is tasked with combating “narratives” which might get out into the public domain.

And now to the subject at hand. Over the weekend, a story appeared on the website of the Reuters News Services (see here). Reuters is primarily a business oriented new service “covering breaking news in business, politics, entertainment, technology” and general interest stories as well. The story was in the form of an Op-Ed piece by one Christopher M. Bellitto, Ph.D., an Associate Professor of History at Kean University in Union, NJ. (see here) Dr. Bellitto’s op-ed piece is titled: Don’t believe everything you hear — there’s only one pope.

In the article, Dr. Bollitto writes: (with emphasis and [comments])

A flashy Daily Beast article [Who reads the Daily Beast?. Ah, the “clericalized laity”.(see here) ;)]on bubbling Catholic dissatisfaction with Pope Francis declares, “There’s more than one Pope in town.” Conservative columnists Ross Douthat warns, “remember there is another pope still living!” These are just two examples: you can find others along the ideological spectrum.

There is only one pope and his name in Francis, whether people like him and the direction he is steering Roman Catholicism or not. Reporters, commentators, and academics should know better than to use the phrase “two popes.” This sloppy, ignorant, and irresponsible talk to drum up a good conflict story comes from both ends of the ideological spectrum.

Now, with respect to the second paragraph, Dr. Bollitto is stating facts on the one hand, while engaging in one of our bishop of Rome’s favorite pastimes, i.e. constructing “easy to knock down straw men”. No sweat! (see here). Yes, there is only one pope. And that pope is Francis. Now we do have one very well informed journalist in Italy (see here) who has a different point of view, but hey, isn’t there strength in diversity and the strength in diversity crowd should be happy. Never mind, “diversity of though” is not diversity. Mea Culpa. And this “non-diversity diversity” is not the type of diversity they or Dr. Billotto accept. But I digress…

What is most glaring in the second paragraph is that Dr. B states that the “Reporters, commentators, and academics of engaging in sloppy, ignorant, and irresponsible“ stuff. Never a good thing for “Reporters, commentators, and academics”, ya’ know! So hey guys, let’s get back on message.

But wait. In the next paragraph, Dr. B goes on to suggest that there could be another reason why the “reporters, commentators, and academic”, are off message and that is: they are confused.

And who is doing the confusing? Why it’s none other than the Pope Emeritus of course. Here is what the good Dr. B writes:

How could this confusion have been avoided? Since Joseph Ratzinger is no longer pope, he is no longer Benedict. He is a bishop named Joseph Ratzinger; being a bishop is an ordained state that never goes away. He chose to call himself pope emeritus and to keep the name Benedict, which leads to “there are two popes” talk. Given the circumstances, let’s call him Papa Ratzinger, which gives him the elder statesman status and respect that he deserves. Wearing a white cassock was also his choice and is likewise confusing. Better that he should wear a bishop’s outfit (black cassock, broad purple belt and buttons, and a pectoral cross), but maybe a white zucchetto (that yarmulke-like skullcap) instead of purple to make the link in an honorary way to his former job.

Ok. So maybe it’s not that the ”reporters, commentators, and academics” are engaging in “sloppy, ignorant, and irresponsible” behavior. What could be the case is that they are being confused by Benedict. If only he would ditch the white cassock and return back to his “bishops’ wear”, not even cardinals’ wear” but “bishop’s wear”. Oh, but he can get a consolation prize, he can keep his white yarmulke zucchetto. And that should be the ticket. Or at least, it would stop the confusion of the”reporters, commentators, and academics”.

I will leave it off here with respect to Dr. Bollitto. All that I will add is this: with brilliant ideas like these, it is assured that he will continue to be invited as an expert to media outfits such as:

[Dr. Bollitto is]… frequent public speaker and media commentator on church history and contemporary Catholicism. He has been quoted in The New York Times, the Washington Post, et al, and has appeared on The History Channel, CNN, MSNBC, PBS’ News Hour, NPR, and other local radio and TV stations. Dr. Bellitto is also a member of the Speakers’ Bureau of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities and the former chair of Kean’s History Department. [Guilt by association can be fun. He could be a crypto-salesian (see here);) ]

As to what is behind this above described messaging, here is my take.

First, since it appeared in a news service dedicated to news important to the financial markets, this could be a just a run of the mill general interest story that they put up regularly. Call it a coincidence.

However, there are people in the financial industry who are large benefactors of the US Catholic Church. If you recall the incident where Rush Limbaugh observed that Francis spoke like a Marxist (see here), the follow-on effect was the complaining sectors within the US Catholic Church that ” ‘threatened’ wealthy capitalist benefactors” were holding back for just that reason (see here). So naturally, Reuters would be interested.

But there was a wider message, since not all subscribers to Reuters News Service are ‘threatened’ wealthy capitalist benefactors”, and that is this:

Don’t mind what the old pope in white says. He is not a pope. And whatever you hear about how the old pope can undermine Francis, it’s just the conspiracy theorists.

So please dear reader just move along.

There is nothing to see here.

Messaging: Truth and Error

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Today Deus Ex Machina has a Polish theme. But first a few introductory comments are in order.

We start with Cardinal George’s interview, sections of the interview appear on the Rorate Caeli blog (see here). I would have written about it earlier, however I try not to visit nor promote blogs that are propagandistic in nature, whose political editorial line promote Error. Therefore, I have a deep appreciation for the RC blog since they sift through the manure so that I do not have to.

Next and incidentally, how does cd. George fit into the Polish theme, you may ask dear reader? It’s simple. Cardinal George is archbishop of Chicago. Chicago historically has been known as Poland’s “second city”, also. Historically, more individuals of Polish descent lived in Chicago than any other city outside of Warsaw. So that is the explanation.

Now let’s go to the subject at hand. There were a couple of interesting features in the cd. George interview that need to be pointed out. On a ‘bigger picture’ level, here are the key points starting from lesser importance: (reproduced with emphasis and [comments])

Creating Expectation:

Cd. George states:
It’s [the Who am I to judge? faux pas] created expectations around him that he can’t possibly meet. That’s what worries me. At a certain moment, people who have painted him as a bit player in their scenarios about changes in the Church will discover that’s not who he is. He’s not going in that direction. Then he’ll perhaps get not only disillusionment, but opposition that could be harmful to the effectiveness of his magisterium.

This paragraph is interesting in that it sends a clear message to Francis, namely “you can be as innovative as you like”, but the risk is that your body of “teaching” (and I use the term loosely) will be thrown onto the trash heap of history. Now cd. George suggests that the ‘throwers’ could be the special interests that Francis is promoting, but the implication is that he or his novelties will be terminated once a non-ideological successor ascends to the Throne of St. Peter. In a similar fashion as Francis is doing with the “teachings” of JP II and B XVI. Please keep in mind dear reader that cd. Burke still in not quite sure what Evangelii Gaudium is.

In support of the above contention, the interviewer notices the following:

You’ve now mentioned twice things you’d like to ask the pope. It sounds to me as if you’d really like to have some face time with him.

I bet the good cardinal would like to have a friendly chat with the bishop of Rome. Here cd. George is offering fraternal “help”, which is what a cardinal is appointed for in the first place.

Truth and Error:

Cd. George states:
The differences are becoming so wide within the Church, the division so stark, we are not talking anymore about “liberals” or “conservatives” or left and right, but about what is true and what is false, about those who are faithful or unfaithful to the Magisterium.

Even though cd. George did not use the word “Error”, the word “false” is as close as it gets. With this statement, cd. George is sending a message to Francis that he could be “interpreted” as teaching Error. And if this is the case, then please refer to the above point.

Furthermore, we can add this statement to the list of maxims that will underpin the upcoming struggle for the Church as we know it. These words spoken by cd. George were just as clear as were cd. Burke’s Twelve Words spoken in Limrick.(see here)

Calling out Francis to clarify:

Cd. George states:
The question is raised, why doesn’t he himself clarify these things? Why is it necessary that apologists have to bear that burden of trying to put the best possible face on it? Does he not realize the consequences of some of his statements, or even some of his actions? Does he not realize the repercussions? Perhaps he doesn’t. I don’t know whether he’s conscious of all the consequences of some of the things he’s said and done that raise these doubts in people’s minds.

The importance of this paragraph is that another cardinal-elector has called out Francis to clarify. Please bear in mind that cd. George is only 77 years old, and has a 50/50 chance of surviving his illness. If the good Lord allows, he will be a cardinal elector at the next conclave.

And now to Poland proper.

Archbishop Gadecki, President of the Polish Episcopal Conference gave an interview recently that Rorate Caeli also has reproduced, with translation on its blog (see here). Before I go into what the good bishop said, it must be pointed out that the issue of aberro-sexual unions was never mentioned directly. The only reference to them was in what bp. Gadecki called the “controversial points discussed at the Synod”. The reason that I mention this is to demonstrate just how low priority this issue is in the Polish reality.

But let’s get back to what bishop Gadecki did say. The key points raised are these:

Germany is the problem

Bp Gadecki states:
Abp. Gądecki explained that the postulate of allowing Communion for divorced and living in new relationships was raised by the Synod mainly on the initiative of German and South American circles. In Germany, in practice, nobody goes to confession any more, yet everybody (including divorced) proceeds to receive Holy Communion.
In South America, on the other hand, the problem is that people who are divorced and living in new relationships often join sects, where they receive communion and blessing. This is one of the important reasons of such strong development of sects on this continent. Such situation creates a pressure on South American bishops to somewhat oppose this process. [Way too simplistic of an explanation and made to order for the German hierarchy.]

By pointing the finger at Germany, and their vassal bishops’ conferences in South America, he is highlighting that the problem with the orthodox Catholic moral teaching is very restricted to a narrow “special interest group” who are promoting these positions. And the support of these positions leads directly to the Kirchensteuer (see here) which funds the German church and by extension the churches in the South American countries. A German re-conquista in all intents and purposes.

Modern Times do not excuse changing moral teaching

Bp. Gadecki states:
This prohibition was transmitted to us by Christ in conditions equally difficult as today, perhaps even more difficult, because pagans converting to Christianity had even more irregular marital situations, also with respect to marriages between close relatives.

Therefore, stressed Abp. Gądecki, holding onto the Tradition of the Church, also clearly explained in the Catechism, there is no possibility of absolution and Holy Communion for a person who is in a situation of divorce and who remains in a new relationship. There is no possibility of such a change of the doctrine of the Church which would admit other solutions, even restricting them to specific cases. This is especially true if one is aware that exceptions would soon become a rule. The Archbishop of Poznań informed [journalists] that in the eyes of bishops from many regions of the world, e.g. from central and eastern Europe, this [such change] would be absolutely unthinkable.

Abp. Gądecki explained that one cannot be guided only by sociological categories, because the Church does not come to the truth by consensus, one or another, but [the Church] is obliged to be faithful to the doctrine. Any “positive” solution to this problem would only serve as a “smoothing down” of the sociological situation existing in some countries, for example in Germany. [Called out by name. And this is from an Episcopate that has taken advantage of the German church’s generosity on more than one occasion in the past.]

This argument directly undercuts the Kasperian “theology of mercy done on the knees.” Bp. Gadecki says that if divorced and remarried want to receive communion, they should abstain from conjugal relations. But changing teaching is a dead end, as is clear from the phenomenon that we have highlighted here, that goes by the euphemism “the new springtime”. Besides, this is a show stopper because for the Poles and “many regions of the world, e.g. from central and eastern Europe”, this solution is VERBOTEN.

Protect the Children.

Bp. Gadecki states:
This survey [pre-Shameful Secret Synod survey], he added, demonstrated that the crisis of marriage and family is not only a Polish issue, but it is something extensive and affecting all continents. The percentage of divorces and the number of children harmed by this are frightening.

Abp. Gądecki also stressed that if we put the main emphasis on the mercy to divorced parents, then the welfare of their children will be ignored. One cannot pursue happiness at the expense of the child. He added that the rights of children should be placed first, according to the principle that we are obliged to defend in the first place the rights of the weak, and such are the children.

Here the bishop is not so much highlighting the hypocrisy of Francis’s “theology of mercy done on the knees” (loves the pew sitter who throws the Euro’s into the collection plate, but ignore the consequences on the children) but is instead playing to the domestic audience. Poland in general and the Polish Catholic Church in particular are presently under assault from “genderology”. The present government is promoting ‘gender’ programs now even at the level of elementary education. Funding for these initiatives come from European Union and United Nations funding as well as the private foundations of the George Soros variety. Given the situation on the ground, “child welfare” message is one that resonates in Poland and could resonate well in the wider Church.

Truth and Error Again!:

Bp. Gadecki
Answering a question of one of the journalists asking if he has changed his line, because in the past he seemed to be a representative of the liberal part of the Episcopate, Abp. Gądecki answered that the categories of “liberal” and “conservative” have been borrowed from the political domain, yet when transferred to the religious domain they do not describe the reality of the Church correctly. In the ecclesiastical order there is no such things as “liberal” or “conservative” approach to the faithfulness to the Magisterium of the Church. At most, one can be faithful to the Tradition of the Church or one can be unfaithful.

And here we see the convergence of messages of the Polish Episcopate and the US Episcopate. And as we know from Sandro Magister’s interview, the US bishops’ positions are “coherent and combative” (see here). So with these words, bishop Gadecki, speaking on behalf of the entire Polish Episcopate is giving a strong signal to Francis that his actions could fall into Error.

And on a final note of interest is the phenomenon whereby “liberal” bishops like Gadecki have had a real eye opening experience with the advent of the church of Francis. This is something that is an observable phenomenon presently not only in Poland but in other national churches. Think Italy and the Italian Bishops’ Conference abuse of Bruno ‘slippery as an eel’ Forte. (see here)

And finally, I will end this post with some more good news from Poland.

On October 25th, a Pontifical Mass was offered by His Grace Marian Gołębiewski, Archbishop Emeritus of Wroclaw, at the Sanctuary of St Hedwig in Trzebnica, Poland. Wroclaw (pre-war Breslau) and the Lower Silesia region of Poland is turning into quite a hotbed of the Restoration movement in Poland. But that’s for a future post. Below is the link to the event courtesy of the New Liturgical Movement blog. Enjoy (see here)