At the conclusion to his address given at the “Welcoming Ceremony by the Young People of World Youth Day,” Francis asked the youth (which according to organizers includes persons up to 35 years of age; old enough to be elected President of the United States) to join him in prayer.
Among the petitions made to the Lord therein was the following plea:
“Launch us on the adventure of helping the poor.”
The previous day, at a “Meeting with the Authorities, the Civil Society and the Diplomatic Corps” that included Polish President Andrzej Duda, Francis struck a similar chord.
“I invite the Polish nation to look with hope to the future and the issues before it,” Francis said as he encouraged the leaders present to institute social policies “assisting underprivileged and poor families.”
If nothing else, he’s consistent.
Just three days after being chosen by “conclave” [sic] 2013 to fill that portion of the Chair of Peter that was left “vacant” [sic] after Benedict scooted over, the Argentinian Jesuit said:
“How I would like a church that is poor and for the poor.”
Four months later, Yasmine Hafiz, an Associate Editor at the Huffing & Puffington Post, opined:
Now here’s a Pope who practices what he preaches. Pope Francis arrived at the papal summer home, Castel Gandolfo, in a humble Ford Focus which was a far cry from the luxury cars of his predecessor … In contrast, Pope Francis isn’t even spending the summer in the luxurious retreat of Castel Gandolfo, preferring more modest accommodations in Rome.
Three years later, Ms. Hafiz may or may not feel differently, but one thing is certain: World Youth Day 2016 testifies to the fact Francis does not practice what he preaches; indeed, far from it.
His near endless pleas on behalf of the poor and his penchant for displays of simplicity (so often carried out before the lens of the ever-present Humblecam) are little more than propaganda.
Not long after Francis officially announced that Krakow had been chosen as the site for WYD 2016 (at the conclusion of WYD 2013 in Rio), members of the Polish political party, “Together,” along with secular social advocacy groups, balked at the huge amount of public funding required to host the event.
According to news reports, the Polish government spent more than $25 million (U.S.) in preparation for World Youth Day, money that critics insist would have been better spent on such things as the construction of public housing (or to quote Francis, “assisting underprivileged and poor families”).
Now, I’ll be the first to argue that the State should support the Catholic Church in ways that will assist her in carrying out her God-given mission, including financially, but make no mistake about it – that’s not what happened at WYD in Krakow.
For an example of what did happen, check out excerpts from the homosexualized bastardization of the Stations of the Cross that was created specially for the event.
While the total revenues spent on WYD 2016 between the Polish government, the Holy See, Catholic dioceses around the globe, sponsors and individuals is difficult to ascertain, there can be no doubt that it’s in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
To my mind, this qualifies Francis – the alleged champion of the poor – as a stunning example of hypocrisy if ever there was one.
Be that as it may, you have hand it to him – this is a man who knows how to get what he wants. He told us over three years ago that that he desired a “poor Church for the poor,” and damned if that isn’t precisely what he has gotten.
Provided, of course, one understands that it’s a poverty born of a lack of confidence in Catholic doctrine, in the Church’s identity, and ultimately in her divine Founder.
Right on target, Mr. V.
I’ve faced the disgusting fact that Francis is temporarily the most-heard spokesman on earth for Vatican II’s indifferentist, false ecumenism. He’s continually denying that false religions are harmful, and blaming the world’s evils on lack of justice and material goods. Only “evil fundamentalists” like me still believe the nations need the teachings of Christ and Baptism into His Church to be saved; or that a genuine time of peace on earth (such as Our Lady promised) could only result from that.
I see on the plane back from Poland, he again blamed the growth of ISIS and its violence on poverty, denying it practices true Islam -as it’s only a “fundamentalist group”, just “like those in Catholicism who murder with their tongues.” while claiming his friends in true Islam only ” look for peace, encounter,..”.
“.. in the case of European youth, many have been left “with no ideals, no work, that end in the hands of drugs and alcohol, and then go over there.. ” it’s not true, and it’s not fair, that Islam is terrorist,” ” terrorism grows where “there’s no other option.” “As long as the god of money is at the center of the global economy and not the human person…. (yada yada yada….)
ISIS just published the 15th issue of their propaganda magazine “Dabiq” entitled “Break the Cross”, which includes an editorial called “Why we Hate You”, and an article on Pope Francis and the “Islam-is-a-peaceful-religion crowd”, claiming the ” ignorant masses continue believing the false narrative.”
How ironically sad to realize how right they are about that.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/08/01/isis-details-why-hate-in-new-magazine.html
Helping the poor these days is a sure-fire money-making racket.
Poverty has been globalized and capitalized. The dollars flow in, but the poverty never ends. And why should it? If poverty ended then all the money-raisers and organizations would be out of a job and lose their six-figure salaries!
The trick therefore is to alleviate them only so much that they continue to live long enough to be the ‘product’ you are selling, but never so far out or independent that you cannot depend on them for the proceeds.
St Peter Damian, pray that we be delivered of spandex covered bulges.
Oh my flaming eyes! Someone, please….please help those witless saps! Louie, you really should warm people, and not just throw such, such….grody imagery before our unsuspecting opticals!
Someone, in your charity, get those guys a pair of jeans or something.
Our Lady Of Fatima , Ora Pro Nobis! Total Impurity ! Precious Blood Of Jesus Christ, please save us and the whole world.
Amen.
Some of the richest people, drive the crappiest cars. Dear Poor Holy Father, turn your precious Vatican Bank over to an independent audit. Gotcha!
Dear Pope Francis
25 million dollars will buy 9.65 MILLION McDonald’s 6 piece McNugget meals in Krakow, Poland –
– but Huurrrry – they are running a special right now for 10.00 zl ($2.59) each ! Here are the locations: Szewska 2, Florianska 55 ,Wielickaa 85
Mark 14:3-9
3And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of precious spikenard: and breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out upon his head. 4Now there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said: Why was this waste of the ointment made? 5For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her. 6But Jesus said: Let her alone, why do you molest her? She hath wrought a good work upon me. 7For the poor you have always with you: and whensoever you will, you may do them good: but me you have not always. 8She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body for burial. 9Amen, I say to you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which she hath done, shall be told for a memorial of her.
The practical divination of “the poor” is a problem. They have in effect become an idol to be worshiped and bowed down to, no matter if they deserve it or not.
What is another persistent problem is the institutionalization of charitable works. One only has to look at the dirt the Lepanto Institute is regularly digging up on Catholic Relief Services. We drop money in the bucket to give to some stranger to give to another stranger in Africa, yet we ignore the broken, lonely ,and suffering person sitting in the pew next to us. Why? It breaks the bonds of Christian brotherhood to separate the giver from the receiver.
Michael F Poulin
This picture is scandalous….it will leave lasting scars on my memory and
sorrow in my heart.
When is that Armageddon comet going to be here? Next week?
This is typical of the vatican 2 church. I dont attend novus ordo masses anymore but I remember when I did….and I dreaded what I would see, mainly from the females, during the summer months. Immodesty is the name of the novus ordo game. There is no sense of morality among the the modern Catholic.
This (homosexual) pornographic display which is linked above doesnt even make me blink….its been this way for quite some time in novus ordo land.
The imagery burned in our eyes just now was nothing compared to the ” sex ed” program introduced to our young Catholics at WYD.
The Pontifical Council For the Family has decided that certain secular movies are super cool to educate our children. Educate them in filth that will SHOCK YOU, I guarantee it.
Here is one of the movies recommended by Rome, with a run-down of the smut provided by the excellent Kids In Mind site. I warn you, it makes the writhing men in shiny suits above look tame.
http://www.kids-in-mind.com/l/love&otherdrugs.htm
And here is Rome’s official lessons in smut:
http://www.educazioneaffettiva.org/?lang=en
Poor, indeed.
Amen in deed. These dancing princesses in Poland, though disgusting, are the least of the problems we are dealing with. Vatican 2, in all of its evilness, is applying the full-court press (thats a basketball term if you were unaware). The vatican 2 religion is attacking Catholicism from all angles.
Ann Barnhardt believes Benedict’s actions explain what we’re going through:
http://www.barnhardt.biz/2016/08/02/yes-antipope-bergoglio-is-maneuvering-to-set-up-a-one-world-religion-with-himself-as-the-head/
Each WYD I am more saddened and appalled then the time before. 🙁
Julie, I’ve found this advice from St. Alphonsus very helpful in these times:
“Ask a soul who really loves God. He will tell you that he has no greater relief for the sorrows of life than in conversing lovingly with God. It does not require your mind’s continual application. You need not become oblivious to your work and your recreation. Rather you must act towards God as you act on occasion towards those whom you love and by whom you are loved.
Your God is ever near you. He is even within you. In Him we live and move and have our being. There is no barrier to stop those who want to talk to Him. He wants you to treat Him with confidence—to tell Him of your work, your plans, your griefs, your fears—of all that concerns you. Above all, do so trustingly with an open heart.
God is not likely to speak to a soul that doesn’t speak to Him.”
http://www.etverbum.com/2011/05/how-to-talk-to-god-st-alphonsus-liguori.html
It also helps me to keep in mind that blogs like this one are intended to help inform those who might unwittingly put their trust in the wrong people and ideas, and be mislead. So in these times they have to be negative. But God is outside of time, and our salvation depends on our response to Him, including our refusal to despair.
God Bless you.
Thank you so very much for those words of incredible encouragement. I needed to hear that today.
God bless you!
Awesome!
Thank you, helpusLord.
Archbishop Lefebvre:
“…our adversaries are precisely those who proclaim independence and revolution against God and who wage war against all dependence on God, against all the laws of the Good Lord, against all the laws, supernatural and natural. They want to destroy everything. By the mere fact that something has been made by God, it is to be destroyed! The natural laws of marriage, all the natural laws even of simple material nature, even the ways of cultivating the earth, even the manners of behaving oneself everywhere, everything that recalls God, all that reminds us of a dependence upon God must be broken, must be changed. The revolution must be carried out in all domains: liberation – liberty! liberty! liberty! – to free oneself from God, to free oneself from dependence upon God in all domains, that is the revolution. Now that is the spirit of Satan. That is hell. Hell is independence in regard to God. “Non serviam!” “Nolumus hunc regnare usper nos – we do not want this One to rule over us!” This is the cry of hell!
“…All those bad laws that have been passed: abortion, contraception, divorce, are the destruction of the laws of God and, therefore, destruction of dependence upon God…
…Now liberalism makes a pact with the satanic ideas of the world, in revolt against God, and against all the laws that the Good Lord has made, natural and supernatural. Liberalism wants to join forces with those people and therefore admits these principles. So we who want to save and reorganize this dependence upon God and on Our Lord Jesus Christ in ourselves, around us, by the intercession of the Most Holy Virgin Mary, with the reign of the Most Holy Virgin Mary, well, we rebel against those who do not want dependence upon God, dependence upon Our Lord Jesus Christ, and against those who are ruining the dependence on Our Lord Jesus Christ.”
This performance would be obscene and indecent in any context. Presented as a meditation on The Stations of the Cross, the Passion and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ, at a purportedly Catholic and pontifical worship event, it is a heinous sacrilege and an outrageous evil act of contempt for Almighty God. The evil being visited on souls who attended the scandalous WYD is unfathomable. Lord, have mercy. Save us from these wicked servants of Satan who have control of the earthly Church. This is the face of Satan unchained. Did no one cry out in defence of God? Where is the outrage – have they all lost the Faith and basic moral sense? This is how much Francis and many such evil bishops and priests have corrupted the morals and faith of the once-Faithful.
Well said indeed.
Great post Louie! A little antidote 🙂 sent from a friend from the FSSP parish in Rome.
https://www.facebook.com/fssp.roma/videos/vb.188372121364174/496638247204225/?type=2&theater
Thank you Maximus X
How refreshing. Vast difference. Black, white. Heaven, hell
Thank you again for the quote and solid theology. Archbishop Lefebvre: saint-in-waiting
Thank you Cortez! Yes, certainly a vast difference. This thing is so wrong on so many levels I don’t know where to begin! Kyrie eleison!
Maximus X, I’m fairly sure many who cherish the Faith feel as you do.
I saw this quote on another blog, (Ann Barnhardt’s) and it struck me as pretty much summing it all up:
“The great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of legalized cunning and force, and the oppression of the weak, and of all those who toil and suffer. […]
Indeed, the true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators: they are traditionalists.
-Pope St. Pius X
The Vatican 2 “church” gets more disgusting by the minute. Anyone who can not see that is brain dead.