Running for pope

The Pope just appointed the singing Cardinal Tagle of the Philippines to a big important post in the Vatican.

Illustration: Craig Stephens SCMP

So why does this matter?

I often joke that Cardinal Tagle of Manila is running for Pope, because he is busy doing politicking in the internationalist cabal of the church rather than confronting the real problems of the Philippine church: i.e. he criticizes Duterte's drug war that is being pushed by the internationalists under the guise of protecting "human rights", never mind that is making the country safer for ordinary folks.

But why doesn't he tells off the well known "catholic" politicians who take bribes and even "off" their opponents, do something about the cover up of sexual abuse by clergy, and maybe ask why there is such a high rate of people leaving the church to join Pentecostal churches.

indeed, the dirty little secret is that Brother Mike, the founder of a Pentecostal type movement in Catholicism, might be more influential in the Philippines than the good Cardinal, who is busy politicking all over the world.

Rappler's analysis of the reasons behind this political move by Pope Francis.

part of it is the Pope's strategy to break up the church into "synods" where each area can destroy tradition make up it's own rules.
Tagle is being pushed as a wonderful missionary guy, a real mensch, but the real reason for his appointments can found deep in this story on the SCMP: That, like Francis, he sees Vatican II as a rupture and a "new beginning" rather than a reform of the church. More here.

translation: Francis is stacking the deck with bishops and Cardinals who will destroy the church by dividing it into many "synods", where the bishops can then "reform" the ancient dogmas of the Church and the rigid rules of the ten commandments into the church of nice.

Pope Francis always insists that Vatican II was merely a reform and was in continuity of the church, but the appointment of Tagle and others like him shows that he is using deception as usual:  he is "gaslighting" us by saying one thing and doing another (or saying something completely different at another time). 


Here is a video from the controversial Michael Voris about Tagle and where he fits into the Pope's long term plans to reform destroy the church.






So what's the Pope's agenda?

 CNN recently pointed it out:

The Pontiff's new cardinals have defended the commitment to fighting populism, supported the inclusion of gay Catholics, sought to improve inter-religious dialogue with Muslim communities, and expressed concern with the environment and youth issues, according to their biographies.

that sounds okay to me.

But the devil is in the details, as the saying goes:

and that part about "fighting populism" means fighting Trumpie boy and others (Brazil's Bolsonaro, the yellow vest movement in France, and the protesters in Hong Kong come to mind)
who represent ordinary folks rebelling against the NWO elites.

This also is a hint that the church will continue to fight for open borders and for refugees: which in reality often means unscreened mass immigration of young men to richer countries, not to work but to go on welfare on the taxpayers' dime.

Inclusion of gay Catholics doesn't mean what it meant in pre Vatican II days (if you kept quiet, go to confession a lot, and don't flaunt your sins, hey no problem) but now means looking the other way at clergy cruising gay bars or inviting seminarians to their beach house and of course not criticizing the radical agenda that demonizes the Salvation army or anyone else who follows the Bible's rules as homophobic.

Cooperating with Muslims is no problem (Catholic philosopher Peter Kreeft even has a book on this). 

 But the actual documents distort the idea from "you get a lot of things right and we have a lot in common (but we hold the real truth) so let's see each others as brothers... to "there is no such thing as absolute truth, so why fight about it?".

and I won't even get into the "environment" stuff, which is merely the latest reincarnation of Marxism telling people how to live a green lifestyle in poverty while those in charge get rich


which brings us back to the Philippines.

This article note Tagle's grandfather was Chinese, and that this might help in the Vatican's controversial agreement to normalize let the government take over the Catholic church in China. (just ignore the pope's silence about Hong Kong).

and what is not mentioned in most news reports: the average Filipino hates the Chinese because the economy here in the Philippines is run by the Chinese diaspora and their family connections.

Hence, most educated and ambitious folks can't find opportunities here and are forced to leave and work overseas, either as immigrants or OFW on short term contracts where they are vulnerable to exploitation.

Archbishop Villegas discusses this problem here, but blames the problem on "western corporations"... uh, then why are so many working in the non western Middle East and Saudi, Hong Kong and Singapore, and Korea?

and as I noted: the answer is to get rid of corruption and attract businesses here, especially as many businesses have started exiting China. This was discussed in the SP Podcast that I posted as a video yesterday.

The Pope talks nice, but he is stuck in the "liberation theology" Marxism of the 1960s, which has been proven wrong.
It's easier and more ego gratifying to support charity for the poor and tweet about your self righteousness than to tell rich people to be honest, or even (like JP2) promote the idea that capitalism works best when business follows ethical rules.

Despite it's flaws, capitalism and globalism has lifted millions out of poverty in the last 50 years, and that the global poverty rate is now down to ten percent, mainly in SubSaharan Africa and in war zones... and give China another 50 years, it might be China who will teach Africa how to get out of poverty.

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related item: against advice, the pope will meet with the president of Malta who is suspected of "offing" a pesky lady who leaked stories of money laundering and corruption among his cronies.

hmmm...wonder if he'll ask for his money back.