The US Constitution Is under Attack and Pope Francis Drags the Church into the Progressive Battle to Destroy Human Values

I don't often blog about religion because we are together here principally for political news and commentary. But, the events and struggle of wills now playing out in the Roman Catholic Church is so reminiscent of the struggles in America that it seems useful to consider what is going on in the Vatican and how it mirrors us all politically. • POPE FRANCIS COMPARES TRUMP TO HITLER. The Remnant, a 50-year-old American traditionalist Catholic newspaper, on January 24 published an article titled "The Humble Pope Likens Trump to Hitler, Praises 'Freedom of Worship' in Communist China." It was written by Christopher A. Ferrara, who suggests that Pope Francis, now 80, gives "rambling, semi-coherent replies to leading questions from reporters [that] are routinely dropped like bunker-busters by the mediatic bombardiers of the New World Order that Bergoglio [the Pope's family name] serves so well." This time, in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Pais (El Pais English translation), "the endlessly loquacious man from Argentina, with a little coaxing, obligingly likened the duly elected Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler." El Pais asked Pope Francis : "Both in Europe and in America, the repercussions of the crisis that never ends, the growing inequalities, the absence of strong leadership are giving way to political groups that reflect on the citizens' malaise. Some of them -- the so-called anti-system or populists -- capitalize on the fears in face of an uncertain future in order to form a message full of xenophobia and hatred towards the foreigner. Trump’s case is the most noteworthy, but there are others such as Austria or Switzerland. Are you worried about this phenomenon?" Pope Francis answered : "When I started to hear about populism in Europe I didn't know what to make of it, I got lost, until I realized that it had different meanings. Crises provoke fear, alarm. In my opinion, the most obvious example of European populism is Germany in 1933. After [Paul von] Hindenburg, after the crisis of 1930, Germany is broken, it needs to get up, to find its identity, a leader, someone capable of restoring its character, and there is a young man named Adolf Hitler who says: 'I can, I can.' And all Germans vote for Hitler. Hitler didn’t steal the power, his people voted for him, and then he destroyed his people. That is the risk. In times of crisis, we lack judgment, and that is a constant reference for me. Let’s look for a savior who gives us back our identity and lets defend ourselves with walls, barbed-wire, whatever, from other peoples that may rob us of our identity....But the case of Germany in 1933 is typical, a people that was immersed in a crisis, that looked for its identity until this charismatic leader came and promised to give their identity back, and he gave them a distorted identity, and we all know what happened…." [Obviously, Francis thinks Trump, like Hitler, is prepared to declare war on Western civilization in the name of populism...how sadly uncomprehending Francis is about the world in which he is supposed to be a major leadership figure.]. • This is the same Pope, noted Ferrara, who fawned over Fidel Castro, a communist dictator who (together with his henchman brother) "seized and maintained power by force for over half a century before his death, committing war crimes and genocide against Catholics who resisted his tyranny or attempted to escape the island prison he created." Ferrara says "one could pray for the miracle that he will keep his opinion to himself, but perhaps there are weightier petitions with spiritual priority, such as the merciful end of this pontificate." Accusing the Pope of having an opinion "on all manner of political subjects about which he knows little or nothing, including even the Scottish independence movement, which he opposed with dreary predictability, being a reliable ally of EU and globalist elites." • With characteristic self-contradiction, Francis went on to tell El Pais that “each country has the right to control its borders, who comes in and who goes out, and those countries at risk -- from terrorism or such things -- have even more of a right to control them, but no country has the right to deprive its citizens of the possibility to talk with their neighbors.” But how, asks Ferrara, does a country control its borders without a physical barrier of some kind, like that behind which Bergoglio himself resides in the sovereign Vatican City State whose borders are impenetrable? And what does talking with one’s neighbors have to do with border control? [The answer is that Francis, eidently unaware of reality, suggests that border walls or fences literally prevent international conversation, but important conversations can exist among nations only when terrorists are not flooding over open borders and dominating all conversation.]. The Pope, humble though he says he is, in fact lives safely in luxurious surroundings behind the high walls of the Vatican, surrounded 24/7 by armed guards. He has nothing in common with ordinary people who, says Ferrara : "have to live with the effects of Moslem immigration, including mass murder, and who favor 'erect[ing] walls, barbed-wire, whatever, [to prevent the entry of] other people 'who may rob us of our identity.' It took a Protestant politician, Mike Huckabee, to remind Bergoglio that God Himself told Nehemiah to build a protective wall around Jerusalem to protect His people from invasion and a loss of identity in the midst of the Persian Empire. Portions of the very walls protecting Bergoglio and his collaborators from what [the rest of] Italy has to endure were built by Leo IV for the very purpose of preventing another Moslem sack of Rome after the one in 846." • • • POPE FRANCIS, THE PROGRESSIVE. He is a reliable friend of communist and socialist dictators, and even went so far as to declare that in Communist China “the churches are packed. In China they can worship freely.” Pope Francis was blithely betraying the persecuted members of his flock in China, who have been driven underground because they refuse to worship in the fake Communist-managed churches of the schismatic, government-controlled, pseudo-church called the “Patriotic Catholic Association.” But, never mind, Francis lives in his elitist Progressive bubble where the world is as he describes it and not as it is in reality. Ferrara describes Bergoglian demagoguery as a seamless joining of the narrative of the globalist Left that always insists : "the frightened, ignorant, 'fundamentalist' Christian masses are being stirred up by radically nationalist, crypto-neo-Nazis who are inciting them to kick against the goad of the established order of state secularity, pluralism, multiculturalism, ultilateralism, 'free trade,' 'open borders,' environmentalism and world government under the United Nations, with whom Bergoglio’s Vatican is intimately allied." [Need we add that the December UN anti-Israel resolution is the perfect example of what Ferrara accuses the Left of doing.] • Dear readers, we talked about Geert Wilders, the populist Dutch leader on Monday, and Ferrara uses him as the example of "Bergoglio’s endless rhetorical assault upon his own subjects [that] also helps pave the way for governmental persecution of their 'fundamentalism' on grounds that it constitutes 'hate speech.' A prominent recent example is the conviction of the Dutch politician Geert Wilders (raised a Catholic, though now lapsed) merely for advocating a restriction on Moroccan immigration in the Netherlands." • The Ferrara conclusion is breathtaking for its attack on a sitting Pontiff : "According to Bergoglio, those who are actually defending today what the martyrs died for centuries ago -- the truth of Christ, including the indissolubility of marriage -- are to be condemned because they will not listen to “strange sermons” that contradict what the martyrs died for! In the mind of Bergoglio, then, the faith would seem to be an endless series of “strange sermons” based on the latest gnostic inspiration concerning what the Gospel means today as opposed to what it meant before. Are we dealing with an increasingly addled octogenarian, a deluded visionary, a cunning change agent bent on willful destruction, or some combination of these? Who knows the mind and heart of the man? Only God knows. But this much we do know to a certainty : Seated in the Chair of Peter, Pope Bergoglio, unlike any Pope before him, has served as the ultimate useful dupe of the powers that be. And the more he speaks, the more apparent it becomes that his pontificate is a clear and present danger not only to the common good of the Church but also the common good of civil society, in whose affairs he selectively meddles with an effect that seems always to favor the movement of our once Christian civilization toward what Pope Leo XIII, in his encyclical on “evils of society,” called “final disaster.” [very much in the mold of Baarack Obama's lip service to Christianity while systematically taking steps to destroy in in America.] • • • THE BERGOGLIAN WRECKING BALL. If that isn't enough to make your head shake in bewilderment at what is going on in the Church, consider another article from The Remnant, published on December 30, 2016. Its title is "Sawing Off the Branch" and it was written by Hilary White, who lays out in black and white the divide that has formed in the Church since the arrival of Pope Francis. White writes : "Two years ago, using the term “schism” in reference to the antics of the Vatican would have got you automatically labeled a sedevacantist or schismatic. Now it is used commonly by nearly everyone, including highly placed prelates in Rome. This is not because the Church is falling apart. It is not because Catholics are losing their Faith. It is because they are finding it. Because the realities have at last begun to overcome the false propaganda of the last five decades. As the mayhem and destruction of the Bergoglian Wrecking Ball continues, and continues to escalate almost daily, we are seeing more and more examinations of canon law and theology around the question, 'Is it possible for a reigning pope to be a schismatic?' Now, I’m not a canonist or a theological scholar. I’m really just someone who knows how to ask people questions. So I don’t pretend to have the answers to that question and all the other related questions that grow logically from it. But I am a baptized and confirmed Catholic, and I know what the Faith is and what it isn’t." [The Progressive Democrat push, culminating with Obama, to bury the Constitution under a mountain of unconstitutional laws and orders, while real Americans were kowed but finallly awakened when Trump called them to arms to defend their country and Constitution from the thieves who were in charge.]. White goes on : "So, I’m afraid I become somewhat impatient with people who are panicking. What is there to panic about? We know the Faith. We know what reality is. We know that God does not abandon those who remain faithful to Him, though all the world are against them. None of that matters. Equally, it doesn’t matter what it will look like. What will it look like, this schism that Bergoglio and his friends are currently helping to bring to final fruition -- the same that has been bubbling away for 50 years? What will the world say when a tiny group of recalcitrant 'ultraconservatives' call a press conference to declare that Jorge Bergoglio has lost the charism of the papacy and that anyone who follows him is no longer in union with the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church? It will look very much like what it does now. The Bergoglian sect, as we must then call it, will continue to dress and look to the world like Catholic churchmen. They will continue to occupy all or nearly all of the properties, from the Vatican to the local parish. All the world and its institutions, the media, academia, international finance and law, organisations like the EU and the UN, all the nations that currently have diplomatic relations with the Holy See, will call the Bergoglian sect the Catholic Church." White's picture of the Church after the schism is haunting : "Many, many Catholics who will refuse to jure, who will not pinch even a single grain to a false god, will have to find other places to go to Mass. They will have to find other convents and monasteries to live in, or will have to leave religious life altogether. Those who are unwilling to give up religious life will have to carry on without habits in rented houses. Seminarians will have to find other living and study arrangements. Many priests will have to find ways to make a living while carrying on their priestly duties. These will be difficult things to do, they will be real privations and losses, no mistake. But for these losses we have already been promised eternal glory. And for every person in these kinds of difficulties, there is an opportunity for grace for someone else. The more difficulties we all face, the more we can step in and help each other in real and concrete ways. And the more we will be drawn together in authentic Christian solidarity." [White poses a doomsday picture but it mirrors the picture conservative constitutionalist Americans see when they look at Washington elites, the mainstream media and those who have now moived beyond civil disobedience into insurrection in their frenzy to bring down Trump and America with him.]. • • • CHURCH DOGMA AND THE US CONSTITUTION. If the scenarios painted by Ferrara and White do not remind you of the divide and "last disaster" playing out in America right now, then you have not been very observant, and at least not a long-term reader of this blog. • White maintains that Francis's pontificate of destruction is not destroying the Catholic Church : "it is destroying these false conceptions, these false syllogisms, that have grown up since the First Vatican Council and were corroding everyone’s faith. We all looked to the “orthodox” John Paul II to pull us out of the Church’s tailspin. And for many, faced with blatantly heretical and often evil bishops, Pope John Paul II became the first and last guarantor of the Faith. It is easy to see how this problem grew. But here it stops. And for the good of souls. • Dear readers, compare this to the Progressive ascendancy that began in America with President Woodrow Wilson, was spiked into high gear by Franklin Roosevelt, and has been systematically destroying the Constitution and the voices of American citizens ever since. The political "heretics" who turned the Founders' vision on its head in order to promote globalist Progressive theories were momentarily stopped by President Reagan, but his successes were just a beginning and too timid to survide his presidency, as John Paul II's successes were too timid to survive him and his chosen successor, Benedict XVI. WhereWhite says "But here it stops. And for the good of souls," Americans are now saying "But here it stops. And for the good of constitutional liberty." We do not yet know who will save the Church, for it will surely be saved from heresy as it has been several times in the last 2,000 years. But, we do know who will save America from Progressive "heresy" -- President Donald Trump. And, if Trump fails to "save" all of America from its political heretics, then we know that if we as Americans "will have to carry on in smaller 'houses' " until we take back all our God-given liberties and our country. • White quotes St. Athanasius and if you change the religious phrases and words for politically conservative words, it applies to America as much as it applies to the Church : “May God console you!...What saddens you...is the fact that others have occupied the churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises -- but you have the Apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith? The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in the struggle -- the one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith? True, the premises are good when the Apostolic Faith is preached there; they are holy if everything takes place there in a holy way....You are the ones who are happy...who hold firmly to the foundations of the Faith which has come down to you from Apostolic Tradition....No one, ever, will prevail against your Faith, beloved Brothers. And we believe that God will give us our churches back some day. Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate themselves from the Church. They claim that they represent the Church; but in reality, they are the ones who are expelling themselves from it and going astray. Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ.” • • • DEAR READERS, as we watch, often feeling helpless, while President Trump and his team fight for us against all odds, we Americans who will not accept a Progressive destruction of the Republic, wonder if we are up to battling the well-funded global forces trying to bring it down -- Progressive federal judges, Democrats in Congress who cannot win but will not step aside to the people's will, ELizabeth Warren spewing malice against anyone who dares to disagree with her Pregressive lies, a media that refuses to say one word in favor of the constitutional United States that Americans voted into power. We often are reduced to asking : what must we do? The Constitution has for us the same answer that Faith has for the Church -- "instruct the ignorant; counsel the doubtful; admonish sinners; bear wrongs patiently; forgive offenses; console the afflicted; pray for the living and the dead," says White. In other words, keep doing the thing we’ve always known we should do. We have a leader whose determination gives him both strength and a sense that he is called to help us succeed. We have all the modern electronic means of communication to keep ourselves and our friends informed. We have a Supreme Court that will soon be conservative. We have the Constitution. We must be faithful to it. • Tomorrow, the practical politics of these divides that shake civilization's foundations.