The (re)branding of the SSPX

“So they organize the meeting in Menzingen, and Father Wegner told me that the man went there and asked one hundred and fifty questions to Bishop Fellay, and Bishop Fellay answered all of these questions, and it lasted six hours! For six hours! And, at the end, that man said: “Okay, I will take the contract of the Society, and I will do your branding.”

So I don't know exactly how long this took... A few months... And I don't know how much it cost, but... I talked with some people, and they think it was a bundle of money, and I wish they would have given it to us, so we could have a nice church by now! And afterwards he gave the conclusion to Father Wegner and to Bishop Fellay, the conclusion of the whole survey of the branding, and he said to Father and Bishop Fellay: “Bishop Fellay, the result of my survey, is that for the last fifteen years, you had it all wrong! You will never get more faithful and more people to come to your churches if you continue this way, because right now, the Vatican II Church is like an old man dying, and it's like dying flat on the street. Like they lose their seminaries, they lose their monasteries, they sell their churches, and it is a dying church! And you are really looking bad when you continue to fight that Church! It makes you look like a cruel... or like you exaggerate, or like you are kicking somebody who is already dying! So your new branding has to change you completely! You have to stop arguing; you have to stop fighting; you have instead to go on the positive side, and to show the beauty of the traditional liturgy, the beauty of the traditional theology, and that way people will not see you as cruel, or bitter, or things like that.”

And this is why, since the branding of the society, DICI has changed; the SSPX websites have changed; the Angelus has changed. And in fact, interestingly enough, if you go back to the first issue of the new Angelus, what does Father Wegner say? Go back if you have it, and read it. He says: “We will not anymore put the emphasis on the battle and the fight, but we will put the emphasis on the beauty of the Gregorian chant, the beauty of art...”

Fr. Patrick Girouard  

Solemnity of Corpus Christi 

2 June 2013

“[The FSSPX] has forgotten its role of explaining 
the truth and battling against error.”

(begins at 13:15 and finishes at 26:14)

— Fr. Jürgen Wegner —

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source: The Angelus Magazine, January/February 2012, Last Word by Fr. Jürgen Wegner - SSPX, page 83.

source: Ecclesia Militans website, 13 May 2012 sermon of Fr. Jürgen Wegner at the Church of the Transfiguration in Toronto, Canada

L’Osservatore Romano recommends Daf Yomi (Daily Talmud Lessons)

source: L’Osservatore Romano, Anno CLIII n. 96 (46.340), venerdì 26 aprile 2013, Il Talmud giorno per giorno, pagina 6.

One that slipped through the cracks and we at Call Me Jorge... just came across is that the L’Osservatore Romano published an article on 26 aprile 2013, Il Talmud giorno per giorno.  Here we have one of the instruments of the Vatican press extolling that the anti-Christian Talmud is available online and further praising the same website for offering daily lessons (which take seven years in total) which supposedly demonstrate that the Talmud is ‘biblical’ when it is if fact the opposite as the Talmud seeks to nullify the word of God whenever possible and substitute it with the man-made delusions of the Talmudic/Kabbalist rabbis.  The Talmud accomplishes this by commenting on much from the Tanakh pretending as if it is the word of God instead of the contrivances of 10th century and Renaissance rabbis. That this article was published a little less than one month and a half after Jorge Bergoglio was elected to the office of the papacy is no mere coincidence.



Related:

• New printing of Babylonian Talmud - Tractate Berakhot extolled in L’Osservatore Romano

Will those that complete all the Daf Yomi celebrate 

Siyum HaShas at Stadio Olimpico in Rome?

Frankly speaking — Francis can’t keep his story straight!

Which one is it?

Francis on 7 September 2017,

“Vulnerability is the essence of the human person. We are all vulnerable except for the Lord himself.”

contra

Francis on 24 December 2013, 

“let us pause before the Child...We bless you, Lord God most high, who lowered yourself for our sake. You are immense, and you made yourself small; you are rich and you made yourself poor; you are all-powerful and you made yourself vulnerable.”

Did Francis get this confusing idea from his female Jewish psychoanalyst?  Perhaps, a doctor could administer tests on him to see if he is suffering from dementia or Alzheimer’s.    Better yet, a Catholic could give Francis an exam on the catechism for children to see if he has ever had a basic grasp of the Faith.

More fun Catechism lessons with Francis:

• Making it up as he goes along... Francis' grandmother would be ashamed of him.

• Francis' compassion or indifference to a little girl in the Philippines?

• Francis must be talking about his sister ...Maria Elena Bergoglio

• Francis fails basic catechism once again

Only two days on the job and Francis says, ‘Holy Ghost is almost an Apostle of Babel’

The first and only time Francis used the papal throne.

Francis has been making headlines on only a select number of Catholic blogs with his recent blasphemies and heresies against the Holy Trinity, St. Peter, and Jesus the Christ.  Why are the rest of the Catholic media ignoring Francis’ words, pretending as if he never said them?  This has been going on for quite some time.  It turns out that Francis in only his second day on the job spouted off more blasphemous trash — the Holy Ghost is responsible for the differences between the churches (and by this Francis means Protestants, Orthodox, Catholic, etc...) and one would not be mistaken if they thought that the Holy Ghost was an Apostle of Babel.  Thanks to nazareusrex for bringing this to our attention.

The Pontifical University of Chile’s magazine, Humanitas, published these words,

Humanitas, No. 70 Ano XVIII, HOMENAJE AL NUEVO PONTÍFICE, PAPA FRANCISCO,Y AL PONTÍFICE EMÉRITO BENEDICTO XVI QUE CONDUJOLA BARCA DE PEDRO EN LOS PASADOS OCHO AÑOS, page 237

Thanks to the anonymous reader who pointed out that “si fuera un apóstol de Babel” translates into English as “like an apostle of Babel”.

In the original Italian statement, on the Vatican’s official website, which Francis is reading from it says, “e sembra che sia un apostolo di Babele” which translates into English as, “and it seems that he is an apostle of Babel”.


The Vatican’s official website, (underlines are ours for emphasis), English translation,

Dear brother Cardinals, this meeting of ours is intended to be, as it were, a prolongation of the intense ecclesial communion we have experienced during this period. Inspired by a profound sense of responsibility and supported by a great love for Christ and for the Church, we have prayed together, fraternally sharing our feelings, our experiences and reflections. In this atmosphere of great warmth we have come to know one another better in a climate of mutual openness; and this is good, because we are brothers. Someone said to me: the Cardinals are the priests of the Holy Father. That community, that friendship, that closeness will do us all good. And our acquaintance and mutual openness have helped us to be docile to the action of the Holy Spirit. He, the Paraclete, is the ultimate source of every initiative and manifestation of faith. It is a curious thing: it makes me think of this. The Paraclete creates all the differences among the Churches, almost as if he were an Apostle of Babel. But on the other hand, it is he who creates unity from these differences, not in “equality”, but in harmony. I remember the Father of the Church who described him thus: “Ipse harmonia est”. The Paraclete, who gives different charisms to each of us, unites us in this community of the Church, that worships the Father, the Son, and Him, the Holy Spirit.

source: Vatican, Audience with the College of Cardinals, Address of Francis, Clementine Hall Friday, 15 March 2013

So exactly how is the Holy Ghost almost an ‘apostle of confusion’?  The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of Wisdom.  It is the third person of the Blessed Trinity, proceeding from the Father and the Son and co-equal with Them — to equate confusion with the Holy Ghost is not only blasphemy but it is also heresy!  And to say that the Holy Ghost creates all the difference among churches — everyone should know by now that Francis includes all sorts and manner of heretics as members of the Novus Ordo church — wow, does this man have no shame? 

As we wrote some time ago about this day, Jorge trips over the papal throne or a modernist trips over tradition?,

The only use we can find of Jorge using the Papal Throne took place in Sala Clementina at the Vatican City when he was introduced to the College of Cardinals on 15 March 2013.  Upon getting off the throne Jorge stumbled but caught himself.  The throne was gone the next day and replaced by a papal chair.  God often speaks in signs is this one of them?  Does it foreshadow what this papacy will bring, namely traditions which are inconvenient will be replaced with something new, novel, and easy but not necessarily Catholic?

Since then looking at Francis’ behavior and words we at Call Me Jorge... can conclude that Francis is replacing the Catholic Faith with a mixture of Hasidism and Gnosticism and transforming the Novus Ordo into a loyal Noahide servent of Talmudic Judaism.  For as we have written before, “By the time Francis gets finished with his reign in the Vatican, the Novus Ordo church will resemble a synagogue and the Vatican a shtetl.”

Francis meets with the College of Cardinals — 15 March 2013

(begins at 6 min 20 sec — says at 6 min 58 sec — ends at 7 min 12 sec)

Francis’ crowd on Palm Sunday

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24 March 2013

29 March 2015

9 April 2017

Four years ago today...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio takes his oath at the conclave

starts at: 1 hr 2 min 19 secs & ends at: 1 hr 2 min 39 secs

According to Cardinal McCarrick, in 2013 six months after the conclave, ‘Francis is the Pied Piper of Hamelin’

 “Yeah, five years. If we had five years, the Lord working through Bergoglio in five years could make the Church over again.”

 “He will walk across the stage and people will follow him. They will find in him like they found in the ‘Pied Piper of Hamelin’ they will find in him a certain charism that this is what God’s love is all about and this is what Francis is all about.”

“The longer he is in the more I think it is likely we could see that he has changed the papacy.” 

 
More on the disturbing conclave which elected Francis:

• How Bergoglio received Mahoney's vote

• What role did Venezuela play in Francis' election?

• Bergoglio's pre-conclave remarks

• meditation before the conclave

• Seagull at the conclave

• FLASHBACK: A talmudic rabbi chimes in on the election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio

Where did Francis get his name?

Flashback to 2013...

Claudio Hummes, the little voice in Jorge’s ear.

When Jorge appeared on the balcony after being named as Pope Franciscus, he was standing next to Cardinal Claudio Hummes of Brazil. This was a break with Vatican protocol as Cardinal Angelo Sodano should have been next to Jorge as he is the Dean of the College of Cardinals. Cardinal Hummes and Jorge have long been good friends. After Jorge was elected Pope in the conclave several of the Cardinals jokingly suggested he take on the name Clement XV to rebuke Pope Clement XIV who suppressed the Jesuits. Instead Jorge remembered how his friend Hummes helped him in the conclave and gave advice.

“During the election, next to me was Cardinal Claudio Hummes, a great friend. When the'danger' grew, he would comfort me. And when we reached two thirds, Cardinal Hummes hugged me and kissed me saying, ‘Do not forget about the poor,’ so then in my mind I immediately thought of Francis of Assisi.”

Was this divine inspiration or has Jorge , his entire life, harped on and on about the ‘poor church’? Jorge sharing this story about the conclave, which isn’t supposed to be talked about, leaves one to guess he trying to put on a false public demonstration of humbleness? Someone who is truly humble wouldn’t have done this. Interestingly Cardinal Hummes said in an interview, “the fact that he has recently chosen the name Francisco. I am a Franciscan, so it involved me very personally.”

Hummes go on to say,

“Not only in the Curia are many other things: the way we do Mass, to evangelization, the new evangelization needs new methods. The pope spoke at the meeting with the cardinals on new methods, we need to find new methods.

But they spoke mostly of the Roman Curia, which needs to be reformed structurally. It is very large, but all this needs study, we do not have many coordinates…

…The church no longer works. The issues which have happened lately show how it does not work. And then, once this new design is finished, you have to look for suitable people to fill these positions, these services.”

What has then happened? Francis appointed eight Cardinals to an Advisory Panel who will advise him and reform the Vatican. Who is Cardinal Hummes? Hummes perceives Catholicism as a personal encounter with Christ. Hummes sheltered the Basic Christian Communities (BCCs) in Brazil which were a product of liberation theology. He gave Frei Betto and Leonardo Boff (the two creators of liberation theology) a safe place from which to disseminate their ideas. He encouraged the BCCs to spread among the poor and sees this as a new model for the Church. This growth of BCCs was responsible for the creation of socialist parties and the elections of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff in Brazil. In a 2006 interview with Brazilian newspaper O Estado de Sao Paolo, Hummes said, “even though celibacy is part of Catholic history and culture, the church could review this question, because celibacy is not a dogma but a disciplinary question.”

A joke told by the then President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff after meeting with Francis was, “the Pope is Argentinian but God is Brazilian.”  This joke certainly has the ring of truth to it.  Dilma Rousseff is a Marxist-Communist who is pro-abortion, pro civil unions, and against the death penalty.  As a Marxist she was a member of Comando de Libertação Nacional a terrorist organization financed by Fidel Castro which was responsible for at least:  four bank robberies, two bombings, the murders of American Captain Charles Rodney Chandler, British sailor David Cuthberg, and dozens of Brazilians including two policemen.  Dilma Rousseff is a Roman Catholic in good standing with the Church. Back in 2010 before she was elected President, Dilma signed a pledge, with evangelical protestant religious leaders, if she was elected she would not sign or pass new abortion legislation.  Abortion legislation was signed into law 1 August 2013 by President Dilma.  During Francis’ trip to Brazil for World Youth Day 2013 he met with President Dilma but didn’t mention abortion.

FLASHBACK: A talmudic rabbi chimes in on the election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio

The Cardinal Conclave and the Sanhedrin, A New Pope and A New Nasi - March 16, 2013

The institution is old and venerable, historic and important. Adherents of the faith turn to it for guidance. 

But there are concerns that it is not responsive to changes in the world. 

Part of the problem is the people running it. Is the group making the decisions too insular? Can fresh thinking of new people break through? Is the current leadership too tied to the past in order to embrace a new future? Are they too resistant to change for the institution and the religion's own good? 

Perhaps a fresh face and a different perspective would be just what the institution needed to bring it into the new world! 

I am not talking about the Papacy and the Roman Catholic Church. Rather, I am talking about the Nasi, Rabban Gamliel, who was the head of the Sanhedrin. 

The single most famous story in the Talmud about the renewal of religious leadership and the impact that has on the creation of a different kind of religious community comes from Berakhot, 27B. Rabban Gamliel, dynastic head, stuck in his ways, ended up disserving the institution that he loved. His colleagues fired him and put in a fresh new face, Rabbi Elazar ben Azaryah (of the Haggadah fame, "Verily I am like a man of seventy." He was 18 when he was made head of the Sanhedrin.) 

How do these two stories of old institutions trying to find new leadership reflect on each other? The Vatican and Jerusalem. The Cardinal Conclave and the Sanhedrin. The Pope and the Nasi.

A community of the faithful trying to preserve and to renew. 

source: Temple Emanuel, The Cardinal Conclave and the Sanhedrin, A New Pope and A New Nasi - March 16, 2013

Attendance at the Christmas Message and Urbi et Orbi Blessing

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Do you notice a trend?

Greg Burke gets promoted!

Burke an Opus Dei numerary is now the new vice director of the Holy See Press Office.

Above is Burke in 2013 discussing his role as senior communications adviser at the Secretariat of State and the upcoming planned reforms in communications at the Holy See.  This position was a behind-the-scenes role in which Burke was responsible for the Holy See’s media strategy and improving the public image of the reigning pontiffs.

Francis named PETA's Person of the Year

...is PETA as dense as Francis?

The first pope to take the name of St Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals, is also the first to be picked as PETA’s Person of the Year.

Pope Francis earned the title for asking all citizens of the world to reject domination over God’s creation, treat animals with kindness and respect the environment – something that seems to us can only be interpreted as a subtle call to go vegan, given the well-established role of animal agriculture in climate change.

In his 2015 treatise, Laudato Si’, Pope Francis stressed the importance of treating animals with kindness, writing the following:

We have only one heart, and the same wretchedness which leads us to mistreat an animal will not be long in showing itself in our relationships with other people. Every act of cruelty towards any creature is ‘contrary to human dignity’.

It is contrary to human dignity to cause animals to suffer or die needlessly. #LaudatoSi

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) June 19, 2015

He also included these important words to live by:

We are not God. … [W]e must forcefully reject the notion that our being created in God’s image and given dominion over the Earth justifies absolute domination over other creatures.

Pope Francis is also known for his focus on environmental stewardship – a concern that PETA shares through our vegan advocacy, as, according to the United Nations, a global shift towards vegan eating is necessary in slowing the most dangerous effects of climate change, including the extinction of wildlife.

With more than a billion Catholics worldwide, Pope Francis’ animal-friendly teachings have a massive audience. His Holiness is PETA’s Person of the Year for spreading the message of kindness to all, regardless of their religion or species, and we hope people will hear his message and choose a compassionate vegan lifestyle.

 source: PETA UK, Pope Francis: PETA’s 2015 Person of the Year

PETA turned a blind eye towards Francis' advocating for kosher slaughter back on September 2nd, 2013 when he met with officials from the World Jewish Congress.

The pope specifically expressed concern about the bans on kosher slaughter in Poland and directed Cardinal Kurt Koch, the president of the Vatican’s Commission for Relations with the Jews, to investigate and host a follow-up meeting as early as next week.

Francis reiterated a statement made last June that “a Christian cannot be an anti-Semite” and said that “to be good a Christian it is necessary to understand Jewish history and traditions.”

Francis discussing Poland's ban on Jewish 'shechitah' and Muslim 'halal' slaughter.

Many of the mainstream media websites said that Francis considered the kosher and halal methods of ritual slaughter a matter of religious freedom.  After being pressured by the world, Poland overturned the ban on kosher and halal slaughter of animals in December 2014. 

A short clip of kosher slaughter from a film made by PETA.

**** WARNING A GRUESOME VIDEO ****

CLICK HERE to view the film in it's entirety.

PETA's website says, “Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way.”  So how does PETA figure naming Francis their person of the year, when he being an advocate for 'shechitah' (kosher) slaughter, was a good idea?

Maybe we at Call Me Jorge... should look at the bright side.  At least Francis wasn't named person of the year by a sodomite magazine again! 

the New Evangelization, Berkeley style!!!

Francis meets with fellow usurer & numerologist, Christine Lagarde

Francis is always droning on and on about the poor, unemployment, starvation, and a whole slew of pet causes.  One thing you'll never hear out of his mouth is that usury is evil.  All those pet causes Francis loves to push are symptoms of usury.  At least some in the "peace loving" religion of Islam still understand this.  When Lagarde visited Egypt to further indebt the country to the IMF, politician Younis Makhyoun of the Salafi Nour Party said,

“God will never bless an economy based on usury.”

If only there were people in the West who understood this simple fact.  Instead we have Francis listening to Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi Moslem, who is a proponent of micro-usury and fittingly also a supporter of sodomy.  And the Vatcian through its IOR and related foundations urges usury for the poor as a solution.

Just so the readers of this blog can see how different the head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde is from the run of the mill Roman Catholic, one can watch this excerpt from her speech at the National Press Club on the magic number “7” and numerology.

The Magic number “7” references:

1:22 – “Now I’m going to test your numerology skills by asking you to think about the magic seven”
1:34 – “Most of you will know that seven is quite a number
2:24 – “2014, you drop the zero, fourteen, two times, seven”
4:08 – “It will mark the 70th anniversary, 70th anniversary, drop the zero, seven, of the Bretton Woods Conference that actually gave birth to the IMF” (7 + 0 = 7)
4:22 – “And it will be the 25th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall, 25th..” (2 + 5 = 7)
4:38 – “It will also mark the 7th anniversary of the financial market jietters”
5:08 – “After those seven miserable years, weak and fragile”
5:14 – “We have seven strong years”
5:43 – “Now I don’t know if the G7 will have anything to do with it” (G is also the 7th letter of the alphabet)

“2014” references:

1:18 – “The global economy and what we should expect for 2014″
2:19 – “So if we think about 2014″
2:24 – “2014, you drop the zero, fourteen, two times, seven”
3:54 – “So 2014 will be a milestone and hopefully a magic year in may respects”
5:05 – “So my hope and my wish for 2014″

If the reader is so inclined they can watch the whole presentation at the National Press Club below.



Numerology has long been significant to the Cryptocracy and we don't think it is very much of a stretch to guess Francis is into this as much as Christine is. 

Francis & the number “13”

13 December 1969 ordained a priest by Archbishop Ramón José Castellano,

31 July 1973 appointed Provincial of the Jesuits in Argentina,

room #13 was being held for him on the ground floor of the clergy retirement home on calle Condarco 581 where he planned to retire to, once the conclave was finished and he returned to Argentina

13 March 2013 elected to the papacy,

8:13 PM the official time of the election of Francis,

or 20:13 in 2013 A.D on the 13th.

Related :

• The SSPX Money Manager and "The Power of 72"

Will Francis attend the 22nd Edition of the Christmas Concert?

The Christmas Concert (Concerto di Natale) began life as Christmas at the Vatican (Natale in Vaticano) in 1993.  For its first thirteen years it was held in the Paul VI Hall.  This changed in 2006 with Benedict XVI as he no longer considered the concert acceptable.  Why he didn't shut the concert down if it was inappropriate is another question.  The Christmas Concert bounced around from venue to venue until 2011 when it found its present home at the Auditorium Conciliazione of Rome (Auditorium della Conciliazione di Roma) which is right down the street from St. Peter's Basilica.

Each year the concert has been held the proceeds go to benefit one cause or another.  This year the tickets start at € 75.00 and go up to € 250.00 and the cause the Worldwide Don Bisco Foundation is pushing is called "NIÑOS DE PLOMO" or "Children of Lead".  The "Children of Lead" project will educate children and adolescents about the dangers of lead in the Peruvian slums of Puerto Nuevo, in Callao, the port of Lima which happens to be heavily contaminated with lead.

As you peruse the list of musicians below consider that Francis approves of all of them by letting this concert take place.  Don't think for an instant Francis couldn't put a stop to Suor Cristina singing at this Christmas Concert or Patti Smith or dance music DJ Bob Sinclar or the concert being canceled entirely all-together.  Sadly, the show will go on.

Singing at this year's Christmas Concert are the following musicians:

• Patti Smith (USA)
• Bob Sinclar (France)
• Steve Edwards (UK)
• Ce Ce Rogers (USA)
• Renzo Arbore (ITALY)
• Alessandra Amoroso (ITALY)
• Sugarpie & The Candymen (ITALY)
• Imany (FRANCE)
• Dolcenera (ITALY)
• Chiara Galiazzo (ITALY)
• Sister Cristina (ITALY)
• The Winx Club of the Winx Musical Show (ITALY)
• Mariella Nava (ITALY)
• Alice Mondia (SWITZERLAND)
• Ronda (ITALY)
• Every Praise  Gospel Choir featuring David Bratton
• Voice Art Academy
• Children's Choir of the Theater of Opera of Rome, conducted by Maestro Sciutto

As one can see the musicians come from all disciplines ranging from punk rock to gospel music to dance club disc jockeys.  The Winx Club is an Italian animated cartoon with witches, fairies, and wizards.  We believe the regular readers of Call Me Jorge... are already familiar with Suor Cristina so if you are not familiar search this blog for her.  We predict Suor Cristina will sing her rendition of Madonna Ciccone's "Like A Virgin" at this show.  The choice of a musician that interests us for this concert is someone who also sang at the 2013 Edition and was asked back.  This is none other than the "Godmother of Punk", Patti Smith.  See dear reader, Patti has an interesting past and like Elton John, she is a huge fan of Francis.  She can remain as radical and anti-Catholic as she wants and still be a guest of the Novus Ordo church and get to visit with Francis.  Here is what we posted about Patti in our entry, Jorge meets punk-rocker Patti Smith,

Jorge had punk-rocker Patti Smith in his V.I.P. area at his general audience with the public at St. Peter’s Square. She is famous for singing a poem at the beginning of the song Gloria. The lyrics are as follows:

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine
Meltin' in a pot of thieves
Wild card up my sleeve
Thick heart of stone
My sins my own
They belong to me, me

It is not known what the two discussed but Patti said she, “liked him a lot" and found him "very interesting.” The blasphemous pop star Madonna has referred to Patti as a major inspiration in her career. Patti is currently on tour singing and has a museum display, at the Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati, USA , which is a tribute to the life and death of the pedophile homosexual Robert Mapplethorpe.

Is this what Jorge means when the church should go out among the poor and those on the fringes?

A little on Patti's background, she was raised a Jehovah Witness and said,

"My sister is still Jehovah's Witness. We talk all the time. I like to keep abreast of what she's doing and what she believes in. I believe there is good in in all religions. But religion, politics and business, all of these things, have been so corrupted and so infused with power that I really don't have interest in any of it – governments, religion, corporations. But I do have interest in the human condition." 

According to author Steven Lee Beeber in The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB’s:  A Secret History of Jewish Punk, Patti flirted with Talmudic Judaism and seriously considered converting.  Beeber also said "no holocaust, no punk" and "that many of the early punks were influenced by the Jewish humor tradition as revolutionized by Lenny Bruce, and that quite a few of them, Jewish or not, had a striking interest in…the Nazis."

Recently, Patti wrote and sang the theme to the movie Noah by Darren Aronofsky.  This movie cavalierly tosses aside the Biblical Genesis and replaces it with a witches brew of Gnosticism, Kabbalah( Zohar), and Rabbinical Jewish myths.  Patti said she was qualified because, "I felt that between my biblical knowledge and my love of lullabies, I could do it."



We at Call Me Jorge... believe that the above information about Patti Smith even though it only scratches the surface is more than enough to make a judgement call about whether or not she should be invited to sing at a concert in honor of the Birth of Our Savior.  Without further ado here are the songs she sang at the 2013 concert.  Were they befitting for this evening?

"Because the Night" Patti Smith  

"People Have the Power" Patti Smith  

"O'Holy Night" Patti Smith  

If one so wishes to see the concert in its entirety, click this link which you take you to the playlist of the concert on youtube.

We wonder will Suor Cristina and Patti Smith sing a duet?  Will Suor Cristina's dream of meeting Francis come true?  There is no word yet, if Francis will show for the Christmas Concert.  Considering his past history of skipping two concerts at the Vatican's Paul VI Hall and the canceling of another concert due to embarrassment of him not showing for the previous mentioned concerts in his honor, we doubt if he will attend.  Oh, and we forgot to mention he didn't show up at last year's Christmas Concert either.  One will either have to attend the 13 December 2014 Christmas Concert or wait until Christmas Eve when is it broadcasted on television to find out.

What religion is being practiced at the Vatican?

The table is set for dinner 27 May 2013 at the Domus Sanctæ Marthæ for humble Francis of the 'poor' Novus Ordo church. (facebook link)

Lunch lasted for more than five hours 30 May 2013 with Francis and his guests including Rabbi Daniel Goldman. (facebook link)