T -118: HONESTY Appears Not to be the Best Policy

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FOR THE RECORD:

Below is a repost of a transcript from the Rush Limbaugh radio program. The subject is a responce by Cardinal Wuerl to a comment that Rush Limbaugh made on his show pertaining to the recent encyclical that was published by the Vatican. (see here)

For some reason the title of this encyclical has slipped my mind, but then again, it would appear that I am not the only one. (see here) But I digress…

But back to the story. What I found interesting in the below transcript is that it represents another observation of a theme that readers of this blog will find very familiar. This theme can be termed as the clash collision of  OBJECTIVE REALITY as represented by Rush Limbaugh and VIRTUAL ( or ALTERNATIVE) REALITY as represented by Cardinal Wuerl. Now I understand that politicians need to create their own reality to sell to voters and ideologues need to create their own reality to espouse to their followers. However, and being congnizant of the fact that neo-modernists need to create their own reality to feed the small “c” catholics, it is still very sad to observe when a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church is caught out being downright dishonest.

And if this episode can be turned into a teachable moment, it is that the next papacy should not be a papacy of neither mercy nor justice nor even catholicity, but rather one of HONESTY.

Because it is HONESTY that is the most lacking in the Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council.

Cardinal Takes Your Host to the Woodshed on the Pope’s Encyclical

June 22, 2015

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Yesterday on Fox News Sunday, Cardinal… I’m not even sure how to pronounce his name. I did not see the episode. We’ll hear the sound bite in just a moment.

Cardinal Wuerl. W-u-e-r-l. You know the Fox News people called us on Friday and asked to use a clip from this program from earlier in the week. I said, “Yeah, yeah. It’s not the best clip, by the way. I mean, I said a lot of things later in the week that added to that, made it even better.” They said, “No, no! this is exactly what we want!” Okay. So I knew they already had their segment planned and they wanted to use a clip from me on Tuesday.

And since it was Fox, I granted them permission to do so. It was the sound bite where I — in analyzing the papal encyclical — suggested that what it essentially was is a commandment to vote for the Democrat Party. So Chris Wallace played that sound bite for Cardinal Wuerl and asked him to reply to it. We have that coming up. Also the… Let’s see, what else? Oh, I have learned, ladies and gentlemen, something I did not know.

The pope actually has a climate advisor working on his staff and he is a genuine lunatic. He’s a German. What did I do with it? I just printed it out, here. I’ll have to find it somewhere in one of these stacks here. But I really… When you look at some of the language that’s being used in the papal encyclical on climate change, it really does come from the leftist political world, all of the phrases that the pope uses.

I’m really beginning to wonder if this whole thing wasn’t put together by a committee that may have, essentially, just hijacked the Vatican by this. I mean, that’s what the left does. They move in, they corrupt things. Just have to see.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Fox News Sunday yesterday, this is what I talked about in the previous half hour. They called, they wanted to use an excerpt from this program. They didn’t tell me why. I mean, they didn’t tell me who their guest was gonna be, said it didn’t matter. It’s Chris Wallace, it’s Fox News Sunday, I’ve had nothing but pleasant experiences with them, I trust them, so I said go ahead, use it. Here’s the first bite.

WALLACE: While the pope has bigger things on his mind than American politics, some American conservatives say he is choosing sides. Cardinal, forgive me, because this is gonna get a little salty.

RUSH ARCHIVE: Essentially what this papal encyclical is suggesting is that every Catholic should vote the Democrat Party. How in the hell else do you interpret it when the pope comes out and sounds like Algore on global warming and climate change?

RUSH: Okay, so now the cardinal, whose name is Cardinal Wuerl, is asked to respond. Chris Wallace says, “I never thought I’d ask you this, how do you respond to Rush Limbaugh?”

WUERL: (whispering) Well, this is one of the great — one of the great blessings of America, isn’t it? We’re all allowed to speak our mind. Even if we don’t have all the facts, even if we don’t have a clear view of what the other person is saying, we’re all allowed to speak our mind, and that’s what he’s doing. Ah, I think what the pope is doing is something very, very different from that. He’s saying, “Why don’t we all discuss this? Why don’t we all come to the table, and before we start eliminating other people from the discussion — before denouncing them or even ridiculing them — why don’t we listen to them and see what they’re saying and see where we really ought to be going as a human family?”

RUSH: Now, I do not know Cardinal Wuerl. I don’t know his diocese, it’s not identified, I didn’t bother looking it up. The Cardinal is attempting to do two things here. He’s attempting to be polite and also to belittle me while being polite. Because I think the Cardinal — and he may not be aware, but many in the Catholic Church are profoundly aware of how strongly they are supported on this program and by me each and every time they come under cultural attack dating back to the early nineties and ACT UP storming into St. Patrick’s cathedral and throwing condoms and so forth during Cardinal O’Connor’s mass.

I was a guest of Cardinal O’Connor’s at his home on several occasions. My support for the Catholic Church during any number of things is well documented. The Cardinal here of course has to stand up for the pope. But here’s the problem with this. That’s not what the pope said. Now, I’m gonna say this with all due respect, and I’m gonna be as gracious as I possibly can to Cardinal Wuerl. But the pope, in his encyclical, does not say, “Why don’t we all discuss this? Why don’t we all come to the table and before we start eliminating other people from the discussion or denouncing them or ridiculing them, why don’t we listen to them and see what they’re saying.”

That’s not what the encyclical says. And, in fact, it’s not what happened. At the same time Cardinal Wuerl was on Fox News Sunday claiming that while I was practicing my God-given right to say what I think, that it’s wonderful even when people don’t know what they’re talking about, was this story. It had already been published the day before in the Washington Post:”

How Climate-Change Doubters Lost a Papal Fight — Pope Francis was about to take a major step backing the science behind ­human–driven global warming, and Philippe de Larminat was determined to change his mind. A French doubter who authored a book arguing that solar activity — not greenhouse gases — was driving global warming, de Larminat sought a spot at a climate summit in April sponsored by the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences.”

In other words, the pope convened a meeting. Somebody who does not believe in manmade climate change because of greenhouse gases wanted to attend. He was denied his request. The Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences was not interested in his point of view. “Nobel laureates would be there. So would UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, US economist Jeffrey Sachs and others calling for dramatic steps to curb carbon emissions.” There wasn’t one doubter.

“There wasn’t one person there who disagreed with the consenus of the worldwide left on manmade climate change due to fossil fuel creation of greenhouse gases. But it gets better than that. “After securing a high-level meeting at the Vatican, he was told that, space permitting, he could join. He bought a plane ticket from Paris to Rome.” This is the Frenchman. “But five days before the April 28 summit [on global warming], de Larminat said, he received an e-mail saying there was no space left.

“It came after other scientists — as well as the powerful Vatican bureaucrat in charge of the academy — insisted he had no business being there. ‘They did not want to hear an off note,’ de Larminat said.” They didn’t want to hear anybody that disagreed. Now, the papal encyclical does not “suggest that we, as a human community, sit down and discuss this.” The papal encyclical does not “welcome anybody and everybody” to the so-called table to discuss this. In fact, people who disagree or have an opposing point of view were uninvited, after having purchased plane tickets, were told not to show up.

You were only permitted to attend the Vatican Pontifical Academy of Sciences meeting on man-made global warming in advance of the papal be encyclical if you read with what the pope was going to say. Now, listen again to Cardinal Wuerl, Cardinal Donald Wuerl. This is yesterday on Fox News Sunday (again, just to rehash) people that disagreed with this consensus of man-made global warming stemming) from fossil fuel fuels and carbon dioxide poisoning were not permitted.

This Frenchman wanted to go, had his plane ticket purchased and was all set to go and was uninvited, as was everybody else who had an opposing view. Yet Cardinal Wuerl said this yesterday…

WUERL: (whispering) Well, this is one of the great — one of the great blessings of America, isn’t it? We’re all allowed to speak our mind. Even if we don’t have all the facts, even if we don’t have a clear view of what the other person is saying, we’re all allowed to speak our mind, and that’s what he’s doing. Ah, I think what the pope is doing is something very, very different from that. He’s saying, “Why don’t we all discuss this? Why don’t we all come to the table, and before we start eliminating other people from the discussion — before denouncing them or even ridiculing them — why don’t we listen to them and see what they’re saying and see where we really ought to be going as a human family?”

RUSH: You know, there’s further irony: That’s all I was doing. I was simply expressing my opinion about what the papal encyclical is, and it could have been written by anybody in the upper levels of the Democrat Party or the American environmental movement. So here’s Cardinal Wuerl saying, “No, no! The pope said we all need to sit down and talk about it.” Well, that’s not what happened! They did not permit people that didn’t agree with the pope’s consensus on this.

BREAKTRANSCRIPT

RUSH: I finally found it. The pope’s chief scientific advisor… This according to the UK Independent, which has, by the way, a scathing story. The UK Independent today with a scathing story on two things that are linked, that are creating massive worldwide problems. One of them is the European Union, just the very idea that it was tried and what a disaster it is and how that’s affecting Greece. The other problem that this man identifies — it’s a writer at the UK Independent — is the “fantasy world” the pope is living in.

His words, not mine. But it’s in that story that the pope’s science advisor is identified. I’m just gonna read you the passage from the UK Independent. “How forlorn in light of all this looks that would-be well-meaning 300-page document in which the Pope, under the spell of his chief scientific adviser, a fanatical German climate activist called Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, calls for an end to use of the very fossil fuels which keep the Vatican’s own lights on. In asking us to pray for that global climate treaty, Pope Francis solemnly trots out all those familiar plaints about ‘melting polar ice caps,'” which are not melting, “‘rising sea levels,'” which are not rising, “unprecedented droughts, ‘extreme weather events’ and the rest of that greenie litany which has no basis in honest science whatever.”

A “fanatical German climate activist.”

Not even a scientist! [...]

Yep, not even a scientist.

It used to be said that “honesty is the best policy”.

T -189: The 10 Men Behind the Curtain

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As my loyal readers know, I have been sidelined by a small family issue of late and have not been posting regularly. In the spirit of full disclosure ;), my 5 year old came down with a nasty viral infection that landed him and his mom in the hospital for more than a week. While he was in the hospital, mom (and dad on the weekend) were with him. Anyways, as of yesterday, both mom and child are home and all is back to normal.

Today, I will try to start catching up on my daily posting and make up for Monday t-189, Tuesday t-188, Wednesday t-187, and today in short order.

Today I will expand on the OBJECTIVE/VIRTUAL REALITY theme that has been my main topic for the last few weeks. I am re-publishing a post from the Rush Lmbaugh website pertaining to the hysteria behind the state of Indiana’s most recent actions attempting to protect religious freedom. It is pertinant to our discussion of VIRTUAL REALITY since it shows how a group of 10 radicals through the use of social media can create an artificial environment of fear and intimidation against a pre- targeted victim.

I would also like to draw your attention to Louie Verrecchio’s blog and his post highlighting the Damian Goddard speaking engagement. (see here) It is the same mechanism at work in both of these instances. And I think it is also safe to say that it is this same mechanism that we are seeing in our Catholic backyard, whether its the situation with Archbishop Cordileone or with the run up to the Stealth Sex Synod of 2015. But more about this in a follow up posts.

So now, here is the Rush Limbaugh transcript. [with emphasis added]

FOR THE RECORD

RUSH: Lo and behold, my friends, here’s another one. Another bakery had to shut down, and this is from Indianapolis, all the way back in February, February 15th. USA Today: “A bakery that drew protests for refusing to prepare a cake for a gay couple has closed its doors.”

So you see, ladies and gentlemen, I knew that bakeries had been shut down because of this. I just erred in talking about the bakery in Denver. That one’s still open, and they weathered the storm. But this one is in Indianapolis.

“The 111 Cakery was still profitable, said co-owner Randy McGath. But McGath’s 45-year-old wife, Trish, did most of the baking and wanted more time to spend with the couple’s four grandchildren. The business ‘was wearing her out,’ her husband said. She has been taking a break from working since Dec. 31 when the bakery went out of business, he said. In March the McGaths faced a firestorm of protest after declining a request to bake a cake for a commitment ceremony for two men. Same-sex marriage has been legal in Indiana since Oct. 7.”

What? The hell, you say. You mean to tell me that gay people could get married in this bigoted, racist state? How is that possible? With everything you’re hearing about Indiana, can you believe this hysteria? Can you believe this? All these businesses claiming they’re gonna get out. All of these conventions that were scheduled to take place in Indiana, the sponsors demanding and claiming they’re gonna get out, can you believe this? A 100 percent manufactured hysteria.

If you pay attention to the Drive-By Media, you would think that the state of Indiana has more bigotry, racism, sexism, than your average Middle Eastern Sharia law country. If you paid attention to the American media you would think Indiana was one of the worst spots on earth you could go and live. So many bigots, so many racists, so many homophobes. And yet we find out that gay marriage has been legal in Indiana since last October.

A TV station in Indianapolis broadcast the story of the bakery rejecting the request to bake a cake for a commitment ceremony for two men. The next day Facebook and Twitter blew up with outrage. By the way, that’s all manufactured, too. Take it from one who knows. Take it from one who is a target of some of this stuff. We have done research, folks, we have found out that it’s 10 to 11 people who have found a way, using advanced algorithms, to make themselves appear to be thousands upon thousands of people.

There is on Twitter this thing called StopRush, and it’s people attacking me and this program much the way Indiana is being attacked today, and whatever conservative institution was attacked yesterday. What this group does is they go after local advertisers on local EIB affiliates, and they try to intimidate local businesses. This cake shop is an example, I don’t know if they’re one, but like this little mom-and-pop businesses. They just overwhelm them with complaint tweets, threatening tweets, a bunch of e-mails.

It’s 10 people. We researched it. We know who the people are. We know where they live. Virtually 85% of all the so-called outrage e-mails and tweets are generated by 10 people, made to look as though they are thousands and thousands and thousands. It’s all fake. It’s all phony. It’s all part of a left-wing, massive smear operation. It’s defamation, it’s smear, it’s everything you can imagine. But it’s made to look legit, and it does look legit until you get into it. It just scares the hell out of people. So here’s this bakery shutting down because Twitter hummed with outrage.

We are led to believe, we’re supposed to think that when something like this happens, Okay, a gay couple walk into a bake shop in Indianapolis, they want a cake. The bake shop says, “Sorry, no, we don’t believe in gay marriage. We’re not gonna bake your cake.” Ask yourself, how, then, do thousands upon thousands of people find out about that within hours? How does that happen? How all of a sudden does this bake shop start getting all of these tweets and all of these e-mails, all of them threatening, by the way. Some of them are scary threatening.

But how does anybody know? This gay couple that’s rejected at the bakery, what do they do? Do they go out, tell somebody, it then blows up? How does it happen? It’s all strategized. It’s all organized. It all has, as its objective, being turned down. They target places that they think this is gonna happen, and then they’ve got their response ready to go to make it look like the whole nation.

You know what else we found in our investigation? Let’s just take a state, doesn’t matter which one, take Illinois. Let’s say there’s a mom-and-pop operation that wants to advertise on our station in Illinois, Chicago, WLS, and that local sponsor’s commercial is heard, and the next thing that proprietor knows, he’s got thousands and thousands of tweets threatening him, telling him defamatory things about me, lies and things totally made up about things I’ve supposedly said on the radio.

And the guy gets scared. We found out that not only are only 10 people behind this, but in the vast, I mean vast majority of cases, 90% of the tweets are coming from out of state. They’re not even from people within the listening area of WLS, in the example I gave you. They’re not even people in Chicago. Because that’s not where these 10 people are. They’re in Southern California, they’re in New England, a bunch of places there in the upper Midwest. There’s an active college professor that’s one of these 10 people. The point is that this has become a stratagem that has been conceived by people at Media Matters for America, and it’s all contrived. It’s all made possible by exploiting vulnerabilities that exist in Twitter.

As a result, Twitter has become a cesspool. Twitter has become a sewer for this kind of stuff. But these people at the bake shop, let’s go back to them, the McGaths. Okay, so they refuse to bake a cake, and the next thing they know Twitter has erupted, and they’ve got threats coming in, and it’s made to look like they’re all from the neighborhood. It looks like these threats and these tweets are all from people in Indiana and in Indianapolis and in the suburbs, when they’re not. They’re from out of state. Ten people. I don’t know in this case if it’s 10. I know in my case it is. We’ve researched it. We spent a lot of time finding out about this.

Just to see this all happen is mind-boggling to me. And to look at how effective it is, because it literally — if you’re a mom-and-pop business, and you think thousands of potential customers are sending these. And the message, they’re all, by the way, worded almost identically, almost like form letters. There’s some differences in them, but they’re all threatening, some to a greater degree than others. But the bottom line is, that if you’re a local mom-and-pop business, and you do something in the process of running your business one day, and the next day you’ve got thousands of supposedly angry people breathing down your neck because you’re a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe or you’re supporting racists, sexists, bigots, homophobes, whatever, you get scared.

These people shut down the bakery. In Oregon, the same thing happened and it cost ’em 150 grand in addition to losing the bakery. This is all bought and paid for in one way or another by George Soros and the Democrat Party. Now, the thing about this is, none of what I’ve told you is news to people who’ve investigated this. It’s striking that even though all of this is known — and we’ve taken our research and documented research and we’ve shown it to people. And it’s still, for some reason, showing them the truth, it’s kind of like global warming: You show people the truth about the lies and the totally made-up science of global warming, and they still have are trouble rejecting it because they’re still getting all those threats on their computer from Twitter, from Facebook or wherever else it’s coming from.

No business owner wants to get that kind of stuff routinely thrown at him. The Republican Party, they’re all victimized this way. And it’s just stunning to me that people have not come up with a way to fight back and deal with this. But the take-away, the thing you need to know, the thing you need to understand is that it’s a safe bet in practically every one of these cases, Twitter doesn’t erupt. It’s not thousands upon thousands, tens of thousands, in some case millions of people. It’s a very few, it’s a handful making themselves look like a mob.

And it seems to me that there would be, at least at the Republican Party level, some way of being able to deal with this, since you know exactly what it is, and you know when it’s coming. You know what you say and how you say it, you know what kind of reaction it’s gonna cause from the left. And to continually act shocked and surprised by it is a bit curious to me. I know there’s a term, it’s astroturfing, made famous by David Axelrod who practically invented this whole concept, online astroturfing. The Obama campaign and the radical left have been using this for years to not only mislead the public, but to intimidate people.

My point is, they are not gigantic in numbers. They are not a majority of people. It’s not a majority of people ticked off at the state of Indiana, folks. It’s not the whole country outraged over what’s happening in Indiana. It’s made to look like that. And the media, of course, is part of the game, so they go right along with this. They know this whole thing is ginned up. You can tell them the truth, just like the story on global warming that I just had here: “Scientists Say New Study Is A ‘Death Blow’ To Global Warming Hysteria.” No, it’s not, because it isn’t about global warming.

The global warming proponents are not gonna be stopped by science that disproves their claims ’cause it isn’t about the science in the first place. There isn’t any science. Everything that you think is true about global warming has only been established to exist in a computer model. There isn’t one shred of data anywhere that can conclusively predict what the climate is gonna be next year, much less in the next 50. The only way that they can do that is computer models, and those are only as good as the input data. There is no scientific data. All there is is a so-called consensus of scientists. Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree. Well, science is not a consensus.

But here’s the point. You can respond to all of this with fact after fact after fact after fact that destroys claim after claim after claim after claim, and it’s not going to stop because the agenda is not about global warming. Global warming is the vehicle, just like Obamacare was not really about health care. It’s about something much larger and much more insidious, as is all of the left-wing agenda. And because they still remain a minority, a true minority, a numerical minority because they are not the majority of people in this country, and they are not the majority of thinking, but they have captivated certain elements of pop culture media, and these tricks they play on Twitter and elsewhere to make themselves look like they are so numerous and so large that you and everybody like you ends up thinking you’ve lost your country and there’s only 10 or 20 of you left, and there’s no way to beat ’em back.

It’s a total psychological ploy. They are not a majority. They’re nowhere near a numerical majority, and this is the only way that they can hope to have any success with their agenda is to impugn the opposition, intimidate, and defame, frighten, and paralyze the opposition. That is exactly what they’re engaged in. And that’s how they seek to win, because they can’t win in the arena of ideas. They are nowhere near enough people to win.

RUSH: Another favorite trick in all of this: “Why are you so upset just because of who people love?” You’ve seen that phrase bandied about in this. “It’s discriminatory to care about who people love, and love is a great thing. Why are you objecting to it?” Well, I can tell you right now, I could mention I love somebody, and it wouldn’t be accepted. I would be called a bigot and any number of other bad names. All I would have to do is say, “I love, Jesus Christ.”

That is not permitted.

That makes you a bigot and whatever else, because that’s what the left is scared to death of. All of this, every bit of this is about the left’s visceral fear of religion. So the next time you get caught up in this argument and they accuse you of being a bigot or a discriminator because, “What’s wrong with this? What’s it matter who loves who?” say, “Yeah, you know, I love Jesus Christ,” and that’s like — oh, my! — showing Dracula the cross.

You’re not supposed to say that; that doesn’t count. You are not permitted. That says bad things about you. So it’s not about that, either. That’s just another one of these arguments that’s designed to make you shut up, and to agree with the notion that, “Yeah, I’m a bigot if I have a problem with who people love.” Tell ’em you love Jesus next time and see what they do.

Here’s Sheryl in Newport Beach, California, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Speaking of Jesus, happy Easter to you.

RUSH: Thank you very much. I appreciate that.

CALLER: I just wanted to bring up a point that I think everybody seems to be missing when they’re screaming about cakes. This law has nothing to do with discriminating against anybody. All it provides for — whether you’re gay, a person of faith, or anybody else — is that you have standing in court to prove your case. Whether you’re the plaintiff or the defendant in the matter. It has nothing to do with somebody… You’ve got to go through people due process on whatever side of the equation you’re on. I think everybody conveniently forgets that, that’s screaming about wedding cakes.

RUSH: Yeah, that’s true, but this argument… See, they don’t accept that, because they say that your refusal to serve a cake, bake a cake for a gay couple getting married, that’s discrimination. To you, you are simply behaving according to your religious beliefs, and you do not want to violate them, and you do not want to behave immorally. But you do not have that right. They call that… Fealty, devotion, loyalty, whatever — devotion to your religion — in this context, equals discrimination. Ergo, religion is bad, and it’s for closed-minded bigots and fruitcakes.

That’s what they want you to believe.

RUSH: I think people have to understand what this is, and only then can you properly object to it and fight back against it. This is being driven by anti-Christianity, essentially. It’s an anti-Christian, anti-religion overall movement that is driving every bit of this.

RUSH: You know, one of the greatest casualties of this whole thing is a public impression that has been created, which is this, that Indiana is filled with businesses that will not serve gay people, will not provide their service, will not provide their product, will not sell their product. Indiana’s just loaded with ’em. That’s why we need to be vigilant.

The fact of the matter is, the media, in order to find some of these businesses practically have to go walking down the street knocking on doors, because it’s not an issue! If there is an issue, it is the other way around. It is the businesses being discriminated against.

But nevertheless, the idea here that Indiana is all of a sudden populated overwhelmingly with anti-gay zealots is a story that is false on its face but is a circumstance and a situation that is being created here right in front of everybody’s eyes. When the absolute truth is that the media is having to work very hard to find any businesses that do refuse to serve gays or gay weddings or whatever is on the table.

The rest of the post can be read here.

T -191: Failure Is Not An Option

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Today this blog will continue to flog one of its rhetorical “dead horses”, since others are beginning to get in on the act. A favorite “dead horse” of this blog, as my loyal readers no doubt can attest to, is the concept of OBJECTIVE REALITY.

In the last post, I pointed out another post that appeared on the Rorate Caeli blog which I found to be of particular interest. This Rorate post is a response to the preparatory document, the infamous Lineamenta, on the Stealth Sex Synod on the Family, submitted by a priest in Denver, the Rev. James W. Jackson, FSSP. The post appeared on the Rorate Caeli blog and can be found here.

Before I get into the meat of the matter, I would like to start with a definition that loyal readers are very familiar with, and will be of use to understand the issue at hand:

Gibberish or gobbledygook refer to speech or other use of language that is nonsense, or that appears to be nonsense. It may include speech sounds that are not actual words, or forms such as language games or highly specialized jargon that seems non-sensical to outsiders. Gibberish should not be confused with literary nonsense such as that used in the poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll.

The word gibberish is more commonly applied to speech, while gobbledygook (sometimes gobbledegook, gobbledigook or gobbledegoo) is more often applied to writing. “Officialese”, “legalese”, or “bureaucratese” are forms of gobbledygook. The related word jibber-jabber refers to rapid talk that is difficult to understand.

Now to the subject at hand. The first thing that struck me reading Fr. Jackson’s post was the following point: [emphasis added]

1. In the Preface the desire is expressed to “find concrete solutions to so many difficulties and innumerable challenges that families must confront.” I suggest concentrating on one or two difficulties, and trying to solve those.

For example, if the Universal Church tried to stop cohabitation of couples, and was at all successful, then many other problems would improve. This would mean a united effort, with at least the Pope and the bishops working together. But trying to address all the numerous problems outlined in the Relatio at the same, time is not realistic.

Yes, very wise words indeed. Providing that there is no HIDDEN AGENDA at work.

The concept of “reality” introduced by Fr. Jackson is key to this response document since this theme runs through the entire document in a “no nonsense” sort of way.

Furthermore, the priest actually came at this preparatory document in a very serious and well thought out manner. One can even use the term Thomistic. Here is one excerpt I found particularly prescient:

9. Beginning with #33, a list of solutions is proposed.

“Proclamation…in espousing values,” “…a more positive approach to the richness of various religious experiences,” and denunciations of poverty stemming from “market logic.”

I have no idea what these mean.

Exactly right!

Neither did the pew sitters over the last 50 years, and that is why they stopped coming. But I digress…

Here is another example:

3. Many of the statements were too vague to understand.

For example, “…a reflection capable of reframing the great questions about the meaning of human existence, can be responsive to humanity’s most profound expectations.” I do not know what this means. And there seems to be little in the document about our obligation to be responsive to the expectations of the Lord.

The reason that the good father doesn’t know what the two above passages means is that these passages don’t mean anything. They are pure unadulterated gibberish.

Here is another example of gibberish:

2. The language of sin and redemption was missing from the documents.
Instead, we were treated to sentences like “The challenge for the Church is to assist couples in their emotive maturation and affective development.” This is an example of substituting sociology and psychology for the Word of God and the teaching of the Church, examples of which may be found throughout the document.

In point number 2. Father Jackson makes another prescient observation. However, a much, much larger point can be made. What Fr. Jackson has in essence described is the entire bankrupt philosophical underpinning, or rather the lack there of, that is neo-modernism.

Here I will drag out another hobby horse of this blog and flog it a bit. In another Rorate Caeli blog, John Lamont writes the following: (see here)

Neo-modernism, however, on a religious level is a purely negative thesis. (emphasis added) 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.

In point 2. of the response, Fr. Jackson hits on exactly this above issue. Since the neo-modernist religion has no “attractive force of its own” it needs to tap into other sources. In the case of Francis, he finds HIS “attractive forces “ in evangelical Pentecostalism (see here) while card. Reinhart “Bling” Marx finds HIS “attractive forces” in business theory and political philosophy (see here). The authors of the Lineamenta in turn reached into the grab bag of “sociology and psychology “ terminology to find their “attractive forces” since their neo-modernist “theology” cupboard is bare.

Where Fr. Jackson to investigate point 2. further, he might have uncovered that which Archbishop Hoser uncovered and explained in the following interview: (see here)

-[Interviewers] This is digital photo of the family – is how the Archbishop [Hoser] replied to the questionnaire circulated before the Synod of the family. What do you see in this picture?

– ABHH The survey had a universal range , it was a collective picture. Therein lies its great value, although it was a bit vague, since it was not performed with a sociological research methodology. Questions were open, and the answers were subjective views, some approximation of the positions. There is a lack of clarity, some problems were either undervalued or overvalued. This is how it was explained by the Secretary of the Synod, Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri.

So what we are left with is not even a “an example of substituting sociology and psychology for the Word of God and the teaching of the Church” but rather “speech or other use of language that is nonsense, or that appears to be nonsense. It may include speech sounds that are not actual words, or forms such as language games or highly specialized jargon that seems non-sensical to outsiders.” And from what Fr. Jackson wrote and Archbishop Hoser published, it is evident that the “highly specialized jargon” lacks clarity at best and most likely is “non-sensical” to insiders as well.

And finally, we get to the most important part of the response, in this truely humble bloggers opinion, which can be found in point :

8. In the same paragraph we read “…the crisis of faith has led to a crisis in marriage and the family…”

I could not find a definition of this crisis of faith, nor what the causes of it are, in this document. Unless this is clarified, there will be business as usual, with no indication of how we can assess progress. The paragraph further states, “In the face of a strong faith, the imposition of certain cultural perspectives which weaken the family and marriage will cause no harm.” This too is undefined, and in my opinion, naive.

It is these words, i.e. “Unless this is clarified,[…] no indication of how we can assess progress” that are key.

The reason that this sentence is by far the most significant of the responses written by Fr. Jackson is that it demonstrates that it is beginning to dawn on the clergy of the Catholic Church in the West, that “objective” standards are needed to assess progress or the lack there of.

It has taken 50 years and the complete destruction of the Catholic Church in the West to finally begin to sound the clarion call that things must change. And what needs to change is that the Church as an institution has to revert back to a philosophy that is underpinned by natural law and objective reality. This is exactly the point that John Lamont was making in the above cited post.

Concluding, the implications of what Fr. Jackson is putting down on paper are quite revolutionary… in a non-“new springtime of the spirit of Vatican II” sort of way. With the introduction of objective standards to measure performance into the Universal Church, such as the ones that Archbishop Hoser has introduced in the Polish Episcopate Conference, it will be much harder for the snake oil salesmen neo-modernist clerics to attain positions of prominence in the Catholic Church.

I will leave off this post with one hypothetical example. If bishops were assessed according to objective measurement criteria, what are the chances that a Archbishop Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, with a seminary of no more than 30 would be elevated to cardinal over someone like Bishop Livieres (see here) whose seminary had 230+ seminarians.

Snowballs chance in hell would be my off the cuff reply.

T -192: Revolt of the Sheep

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Before we start, just a side note. I have not been able to write much lately since my 5-year-old ended up in the hospital with a serious viral infection. He is doing well, and hopefully he and his mother will be out within days. Being the good father and husband, most of my free time has been spent either at the hospital or driving to and from. Therefore, in the infamous words of the corrupt priest from the Dirty Harry movie, “sacrifices had to be made”and therefore this blog had to be sacrificed during this time.

And on pleasant note, thanks for all the prayers. They were appreciated on this end.

Friday, the 27th of March 2015 is 192 days from the beginning of the Stealth Sex Synod of 2015. I will pick up with the “reality” theme today. I have been sporadically following the events over this past week, and have been amazed how objective reality is reasserting itself in the Catholic Church. I will write more about these occurrences in future posts, but just to identify them, here is a chronological list: 1) Polish Episcopate rebukes “Bergoglian/Kasperian theology done on the knees”, 2) German Card. Cordes rebuked Card. “Bling” Marx, 3) FSSP priest calls Lineamenta instructions “vague, secular, naive and sentimental. It was discouraging to read.” (see here), 4) 500 UK Priests open letter confirming Church teaching, 5) Card. Burke interview, 6) German Card. Koch rebukes Cards. “Bling” Marx and Kasper.

From the above, it is clearly evident that something has changed in the Western Church. Of particular note is point 3) and 4). What we are seeing is clergy who “smell like sheep” rebuking their delusional ordinaries who “only imagine that they themselves smell like sheep”.

To cap off this watershed week, I reproduce below a post from the Rorate Caeli blog. (see here) This post is a “for the record” response of the SSPX to an interview that another delusional cleric, namely Archbishop Pozzo of the Ecclesia Dei Commission, provided regarding the canonical status of the SSPX and commentary from the French university professor Luc Perrin.

When reading the below, please keep in mind the reality theme that this blog has been pursuing and how the “happy-clappy” “new springtime of the spirit of Vatican II” silliness has become the source of mockery among the intelligent Faithful.

FOR THE RECORD

Rapprochement between Rome & the SSPX close? Depends on who you ask

We post this for the record, from the FSSPX:

In response to some interview answers made by Archbishop Pozzo of the Ecclesia Dei Commission about the SSPX’s relations with the Holy See, DICI has offered the commentary below to clarify the reality of the situation.

The SSPX’s relations with Rome, according to Archbishop Pozzo

After the consecration of Fr. Jean-Michel Faure by Bishop Richard Williamsonon March 19, 2015, at the monastery of Santa Cruz de Nova Friburgo (Brazil), the Roman press agency I.Media questioned Archbishop Guido Pozzo, secretary of the Ecclesia Dei Commission. The latter took advantage of the opportunity to make a statement on the state of the relations between the Society of St. Pius X and Rome, declaring that beyond the doctrinal difficulties that exist, the problems are “within the Society”.

According to the Roman prelate quoted by I.Media: “The pope expects the Society of St. Pius X to decide to enter [the Church—Ed.], and we are ready at any time with a canonical plan that is already known,” namely the creation of a personal prelature. “It will take a little time for things to be clarified internally and for Bishop Fellay to be able to obtain a broad enough consensus before making this step.”—It is we who put this claim in bold.

At the Society of St. Pius X’s General House, they are wondering about Archbishop Pozzo’s intention in the last statement, which does not correspond to reality: Is this his view of the situation? A personal wish? Or an attempt to introduce division within the Society?

Bishop Fellay has already responded to the Ecclesia Dei Commission several times, orally and in writing. What makes canonical recognition in the form of a personal prelature impossible at this time is essentially the “doctrinal difficulties”, namely, Rome’s demand that we accept Vatican Council II and the reforms that followed it in a “hermeneutic of continuity”.

The informal meetings between the members of the Society of St. Pius X and several bishops, requested by the Ecclesia Dei Commission, are taking place within this specific context; they are supposed to help make the Society and its apostolate better known, but above all its doctrinal positions. In fact, these meetings render the doctrinal differences ever more clear. And the Society’s Roman interlocutors are obliged to acknowledge that many questions remain “open”, which is a way of acknowledging that our objections are far from being resolved.

Because of this observation, the Superior General maintains that it is necessary to present to the Roman authorities the Society’s positions in their entirety, and not to waver on these positions, which are merely the positions of all the popes before Vatican II.

The French university professor Luc Perrin shared his thoughts on the matter on the Forum Catholique on March 20, claiming that it is no use “pretending that all is well in the best possible Roman heaven.” He wrote realistically:

(Archbishop Pozzo) has been saying exactly the same thing ever since the illusions of a speedy agreement that the boiling Cardinal Castrillon-Hoyos entertained in 2000. John Paul II was just as convinced in 1978-1979 that full communion was right around the corner: we know what came of that, but in Rome, Teilhardian or silly 1962-John XXIII-style optimism seems still to be in style.”

One must not discourage Billancourt or the different prelates of the Ecclesia Dei Commission—far be it from me to suggest such an idea—and it is good to see that a Roman authority has a faith solid enough to resist the wear of time, but… it is not very useful to play the enraptured insider, levitating above St. Peter’s dome surrounded by smiling little angels playing their lyres…, this heavenly choir chanting an In Paradisum: ‘the agreement, the agreement, soon the agreement, the agreement is here.’

To begin with, if the different stupidities committed in Rome throughout this long affair were pointed out, it would bring us back down to earth. A short list for His Eminence Cardinal Muller and Archbishop Pozzo:

a) thou shalt be distrustful of silly optimism, but with a supernatural hope in the promises of unity in veritate;

b) thou shalt abandon a botched discussion and shalt not count the time: why not resume the discussions brusquely and intemperately interrupted by Rome in 2011? Or at least work towards resuming them;

c) thou shalt construct a full communion step by step: rather than a preconceived and not necessarily very good ‘canonical solution’—a personal prelature has plenty of flaws—today, it seems to me more realistic to solve certain practical problems step by step…, (given) the fragility of the motu proprio, Summorum Pontificum since the election of Pope Francis who, while confirming it, has already made a serious dent in it with the Franciscans of the Immaculate, and is eroding it with little phrases that cannot but arouse worries.”

Regarding these “practical problems” that could be resolved by concrete gestures, allow us to recall that when the teaching Dominicans of Fanjeaux made their pilgrimage to Rome—from February 9 to 14, 2015—200 religious, and 950 students accompanied by a hundred teachers and parents, were not able to have a church in which one of their chaplains could celebrate the traditional Mass… because they belong to the Society of St. Pius X. Soothing words are volatile; the concrete facts are far more eloquent.

T -194: Francis and the race against time.

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This post is a partial response to the some of the gloom and doom that I sense creeping into the Catholic psyche of late.

There was a post on one blog (that has subsequently been removed) that suggested that “the neo-modernists” feel that they have captured the levers of power to the point that they can finalize the Bologna School agenda of declaring that Vatican II was a break with the past.

From where this blogger sits, I would take issue with this opinion. The picture looks like one of neo-modernist desperation more than anything else. The neo-modernists are in a race against time since their institutions are collapsing on top of their heads. The second problem that they have is that the younger generation of priests are returning to Catholicism and ditching the “religion of man”. If the neo-modernists can’t reverse this tide, i.e by closing Catholic seminaries, free no-fault divorces, communion to serial adulterers, aberro-sexual unions, dangling the elusive “catholic/protestant/orthodox union” and any other “bones” that the bishop of Rome can think of throwing at the “lapsed dogs” in a desperate attempt to lure them back to the neo-modernist kennel, they will soon be “dead meat”.

And from all empirical evidence that has appeared since the ascent of Francis, the trend against them is accelerating.

So “chin up ole boy” as the Brits would say and keep the full court press on! Remember, every dog has his day, to finish the metaphor properly

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Monday brings good news.

New Catholic (Rorate Caeli) provides more insight into the Eponymous Flower post pertaining to the dying N.O. church in France (that DeM has wrote about here) and the success that the Catholic restoration forces are having not only in French church circles, but also at the wider social level.

New Catholic, in his post focuses on church “geopolitics” of the “Rhineland Alliance” (Germany, Benelux and France) which subverted the II Vatican Council transforming the Catholic Church into the present “church of man”. This transformation is bearing unintended consequences for the Western European churchs, the most notable of which is the “near” total destruction of the church in France.

In the blog post, New Catholic writes:

The comparison between Catholicism in France and Germany is one we have been considering for some time. The three lands that “made” the Second Vatican Council (the Rhine lands)…

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T -195: How to survive a calamitous Pope!

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It’s been a rough week for your friendly neighboorhood blogger. Without going into detail, one of the little Armaticii ended up in the hospital. Nothing serious, but any prayers that would come his way would be much appreciated.

Therefore, this humble blogger is forced to publish re-blogged posts. I have tried to maintain a coherant threat through this period. Today we continue with a re-posting about how to “survive a calamatous pope”.

I would also highly recommend visiting Louie Verrecchio’s Harvesting the Fruits blog. He has been exploring a similar thread to this.

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Over at Rorate Caeli, New Catholic writes as follows (link here):

Now, no Catholic wants to live through a calamitous pontificate, but it can happen at any age . We can hope we will not have to live through one in our lifetime, but just in case it happens (this is merely a hypothetical possibility, naturally), it is good to read the wise advice coming from another Spaniard.

Now as New Cathlolic writes, we are speaking hypothetically that the See of St. Peter is occupied by a “calamitous pope”, not that there is anything wrong with a “calamitous pope” mind you, and hell could be populated by Hitler and mafia bosses, with a special place reserved for “Dubya”. But just in case the former is true, and the later false, New Catholic provides an article written by one Dr. Francisco Jose Solar Gil, a very clear thinking Spaniard who…

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Context: How to survive a calamitous Pope!

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Over at Rorate Caeli, New Catholic writes as follows (link here):

Now, no Catholic wants to live through a calamitous pontificate, but it can happen at any age . We can hope we will not have to live through one in our lifetime, but just in case it happens (this is merely a hypothetical possibility, naturally), it is good to read the wise advice coming from another Spaniard.

Now as New Cathlolic writes, we are speaking hypothetically that the See of St. Peter is occupied by a “calamitous pope”, not that there is anything wrong with a “calamitous pope” mind you, and hell could be populated by Hitler and mafia bosses, with a special place reserved for “Dubya”. But just in case the former is true, and the later false, New Catholic provides an article written by one Dr. Francisco Jose Solar Gil, a very clear thinking Spaniard who has some very prescient advise for you dear readers.

The Top 10 Things to do when living under a calamitous pope. [with Comments]

10) Keep calm. [First and foremost.]

9) Read good books on the history of the Church and the history of the papacy. [… and successfully suppressed heresies. Torquemada is a good starting point.]

8) Do not give in to apocalyptic warnings. [The gates of hell shall not prevail!]

7) Do not stay silent, nor look away. [Blog and Tweet til you drop.]

6) Do not generalize. [Not ALL Jesuits are bad, ….rumor has it that there is one that’s relatively orthodox.]

5) Do not help initiatives for the greater glory of the calamitous pontiff. [Social Justice initiatives VERBOTEN.]

4) Do not follow the instructions of the Pope in that which deviates from the treasure of the Church. [The literary plot device of deus ex machina can help: learn it, love it, identify it.]

3) Do not financially support collaborationist dioceses. [With modernists, it’s always about the money.]

2) Do not support any schism. [Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus]

1) Pray.

I think the good Dr. has hit the proverbial nail on the head.

One other passage also needs to be mentioned here. Dr. Solar Gil writes the following:

Because a Pope, as any other man, will necessarily ignore many matters, and have erroneous convictions on many others. And therefore it could happen that a Pope who is an aficionado on stamp or coin collecting could make grave mistakes regarding the value or date or certain stamps or coins. When rendering his opinion on matters that are not of his competence, a Pope has greater possibilities of erring than of being right. Exactly like you and me, dear reader. Therefore, if a Pope showed some inclination on making public his opinions on the art of pigeon-breeding, ecology, economy, or astronomy, the Catholic expert on such matters would do well in enduring patiently the outlandish blurbs of the Roman pontiff on matters that, naturally, are alien to his Cathedra.

I agree. Every man needs to be cognizant of his limitations. If say a pope, hypothetically speaking of course, has very little competence on matters of… say theology, an area that is obviously alien to the present bishop of Rome, then sound advice would be that he should never “pass up the opportunity to remain silent”. 😉

Of Interest: In Support of Anatomically Correct Marriages.

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