What is truth? Orwellian language rant

The Pope just blasted those who "midunderstand" his blessing of irregular sexual relationships, and cites the parable of the wedding feast.

saying that 

“the Lord blesses everyone, everyone, everyone, those who come. Every person.”

true, but he didn't approve of everyone's behavior...I sort of remember something about millstones and brood of vipers, and the cheating merchants got a bit of a lashing,

 but never mind. presumably Francis is one of those Catholics who never reads the bible, as the protestants are always telling us...

And then Francis goes on to defend his position by distorting a famous parable taught by Jesus:

The Pope argued that the Church’s “cordial dimension” comes from the Gospel parable of the missing wedding guests:...This is what the Lord says, not what I say. The problem is when we make selections: this one yes, this one no… Let Him do it.

silly me. The missing wedding guests were missing because they were busy doing their thing and refused to come. This refers to those who reject religion as a waste of time or nothing to do with their lives. Since these good people don't want to serve God, the poor and travelers and street people were invited to come in and eat the free food.

but not everyone was left in: Some who refused to dress properly (the garments were provided for them) were thrown out. In other words, they wanted the freebies but wanted to do their own thing.   they wanted the food but didn't want to show respect for the king...

The special wedding garments were provided by the king himself. A feast filled with appropriately dressed guests would be an honor to the king. A person inappropriately dressed would bring dishonor upon the king and cause a shame to the happy occasion.

the entire episode of the Pope and his minion pushing blessings of unmarried couples (this includes divorced and polygamous couples, not just those who are gay or who have open marriages) is about distorting language to confuse people, in order to push the agenda of sexual liberation on them. 

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Why not do as pre Vatican II Catholics always did: tell them about God's mercy, encourage them to follow God's rules, but if they cannot to go to church and pray for God's mercy without receiving the Eucharist, which even Paul notes can not be taken if one is living in sin.

This is just one more step by the same modernist clergy and theologians who destroyed Vatican II's ideas with ideas that led to many Catholics leaving the church. 

And nowadays, we see this type busy destroying not just Catholicism but a lot of good churches by pushing an agenda that goes against not just the Bible but the ideas of the good pagans (Confucius anyone?) on how to live a life of goodness and duty instead of a life of manipulative narcissism.

and so Francis, instead of answering his critics in clear language, is again calling them names and manipulating language to confuse matters and not correcting the pornographer who wrote the decree or criticizing the PC who openly bless gay relationships and tell the press gay marriage is the next step. 

First throw out thou shalt not commit adultery, then throw out Thou shalt not steal (Vatican bank scandals) and don't forget thou shalt not kill (praise communism and let communist countries like China take over the church because communists talk nice and are so idealistic, and just ignore the 100 million deaths from communism).

There is a reason that the word Jesuitical is used to describe such manipulation,

in the meanwhile, Maureen Mullarchey notes this is just one more way language is being distorted to push an agenda:

Self-justified worthies gerrymander realities without apology. They confer high awards on finesse in dissembling. Language obfuscates; clarity is penalized. Two contemporary parallels come to mind, one ecclesial, the other secular.

During the COVID-19 panic, the CDC gave the word vaccine a makeover. It tweaked language in order to sell the public on an inadequately tested gene therapy being used as if it were a vaccine in the traditional sense that Edward Jenner might recognize. The definition of vaccination was renovated—”repurposed” chirped one medical expert—to accommodate an update in technology.

True. Of course, some of the vaccines were vaccines: I took the AZ vaccine, which uses old fashioned adenovirus technology. Ironically, it causes the blood clots, something that seems to be related to the spike protein of all vaccines and the disease itself.

She then goes on to say:

As with vaccine, the noun blessing has been repurposed. Updated to reflect change in Vatican weather, it has been divided. One half, reserved for sacramental marriage between a man and woman, is the sole existing liturgical act. The other half—an informal subdivision but nonetheless hallowed—can be openly granted to same-sex couples.

Fiducia supplicans: On the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings formalizes the bifurcation. It opens our clouded eyes to previously unseen distinctions within the concept of blessings. To facilitate this taffy-pull, FS separates the term couple from its established role as a signal of a sexual relationship.

but of course this is not the end of the church's support of evil: She also cites the defense of Hamas by certain bishops. Like the praise of communism, it is praise for the propaganda that sees them as liberators and defenders of the poor, while overlooking their atrocities, lies and propaganda. 

Crowning the indecency of Pizzaballa’s suggestive parade was a mendacious, historically ignorant manger scene. Constructed in Manger Square, it was a politicized propaganda piece that usurped traditional, theologically-infused depictions of the newborn Jesus. Note what substituted for an infant in swaddling clothes: the corpse of an infant covered face to toe with a winding cloth and ready for burial. Razor wire around the scene concretizes the meme that Gaza is “an open-air prison.” The Star of Bethlehem appears as a rocket crater through a roof—a Gazan roof in this context. The blackened assemblage is hardly a non-partisan plea for peace. It is more sly than that. It conveys a parallel between the Holy Family and the Palestinians. Israel’s genocidal bombing kills babies, you see. Hint, hint: Jews are murdering Christ again.

A more up-to-date and politically honest manger scene would show a Hamas weapons cache under the crèche.

yes. That part is always ignored by the Hamas lovers who prefer the illusion to the facts. 

Mullarkey then notes that there is a common thread in this:

Francis’ hostility to the West—and the orthodoxy that nourished it?—is palpable. There is no way around the fact that both cardinals were chosen to reflect Pope Francis’ ultimate aims.

and not just the west of course. Hatred of Christianity and hatred of truth.

oh, it's not truth: Francis echoes Pilate in saying What is Truth?  He insists it is merely ideology.

and then, voila, he morphs into his usual "look squirrel" mode says: look at the poor.

But of course, the war against the sacrament of marriage will weaken the family and make it harder for the poor to exist.

And his rants against capitalism ignores that it is capitalism, with all it's faults, that lifted the majority of the world out of dire poverty over the last 50 years.

I would like to add to her rant: don't forget how he makes nice with China (some report he sold the church there for oodles of money something that is believable since McCarrick was involved in the deal).

And the result? he is ignoring the persecution of believers in that country that is busy rewriting church dogmas and the Bible so that people worship the state, not God. (add Thou shalt have no other gods before me to the list of cancelled commandments).

And not just for Catholic of course.

The CCP sees itself as possessing absolute authority over religion in China. For example, in 2018, the Vatican compromised with the CCP on the prerogative to appoint Roman Catholic clergy in China. Multiple sources have warned that the CCP aims to select the next Dalai Lama—the supreme leader of Tibetan Buddhism.

Thus, the CCP forcing the church to be subservient to the state infringes the Western conception of religious liberty, which is founded on the Christian understanding of the church and the state as distinct institutions ordained by God.

so the Pope will condemn this? Well, not so far:

Relations with China An important question that Francis has to decide on by October 2024 relates to the Sino-Vatican provisional agreement that was signed in Beijing on Sept 22, 2018, regarding the nomination of bishops in mainland China. The Holy See and China renewed this agreement in 2020 and 2022. This year, the two sides will have to decide whether to renew the agreement for another two years, to make it permanent or to introduce changes to it.

Sigh.

So much damage in so little time.

And although some bishops are trying to draw the line here, none of them has the courage to say: this guy is destroying the church. Kick him out.

sigh.

Looking forward to bishops - especially those online - engaging with this latest...development. "Principal teacher of his diocese" and all that.
Here's the thing - if you don't want the Big Bad Laity to dominate the discourse on these matters...speak up. Do your jobs.

— Amy Welborn (@amywelborn2) December 18, 2023

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Update

On review, I am a bit aghast that I seem to be rigid and have no mercy.

But one only has to see how the sociopaths, greedy, hateful, and narcissists manipulate the idea of mercy to get away with destroying those rigid rules that keep their behavior under a bit of control.

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