Even the Vatican itself doesn't know what Francis said!

Nor does Michael Voris!

According to Michael Voris and ChurchMilitant.TV the nonsense about Francis has to STOP!  And NOW!  In one of their latest Vortex videos, Voris laughably says Francis is ill quoted and misrepresented!  Do any readers of Call Me Jorge... think we do this?  Voris insists one should ignore the media and blogs until the Vatican and/or Voris can clarify what Francis really meant to say.  In other words don't believe the conclusions you have reached (with your ears, eyes, Catholic morals, and your brain) but wait for the gatekeepers to explain away all that heretical behavior of Francis.  The first misleading point Voris makes in his video is what the term civil union in Italy means.  The definition of civil union in Italy is when two people of the opposite sex get married in front of a government official with two witnesses.  We will say more on this in a moment.  Next, Voris makes his listeners think Italy is different from the United States if one is a Catholic when it comes to marriage but this simply isn't true.  See he leads the listener to believe if you are Catholic one needs to have a civil marriage before one has a marriage in the church.  This is only the case for non-Catholics.  From the United States Diplomatic Mission to Italy, 

Religious Ceremony: A religious ceremony is considered valid if performed by a Roman Catholic priest.  A separate civil ceremony will not be necessary, as the priest will register the marriage with the civil authorities.

...A religious ceremony performed by non-Roman Catholic clergy requires that a civil ceremony be performed prior to the religious one to ensure the legality of the marriage.  If you are planning such a religious ceremony, you should consult with the priest, minister, or rabbi far in advance of the actual ceremony.

See how Voris plays fast and loose with the facts?  He is as guilty of the same thing he is accusing others of!  Not to mention back in Argentina, Cardinal Bergoglio was against same-sex marriage under the auspices of the church but for same-sex civil union contracts by the Argentinian government!   Pro-sodomy activist, Marcelo Marquez wrote a letter to the Argentinean church leaders upset about them not supporting same-sex marriage.  Less than one hour later his phone rang and on the other end was Cardinal Bergoglio.

"He told me. ... 'I'm in favor of gay rights and in any case, I also favor civil unions for homosexuals, but I believe that Argentina is not yet ready for a gay marriage law.'"

Voris then informs everyone how ill informed they are about same-sex civil unions as if in Europe the countries which have them are rare.

European Countries which recognize same-sex civil unions:

• Belgium
• France
• Denmark
• Iceland
• Portugal 
• Netherlands
• Luxembourg *
• United Kingdom
• Sweden
• Spain

* enacted in 2014 and will become law 1 January 2015

Voris ignores these facts on same-sex civil unions in Italy:

• 155 municipalities  that have approved the register of same-sex civil unions
• 5 municipalities issue same-sex couples the certificate of a registered family
• 8 district councils which have approved  the register of same-sex civil unions

Mike also fails to mention troubling recent behavior:

• Francis kissing the hand of Don Michele De Paolis (supports same-sex marriage)
• publicly holding hands with and hugging don Luigi Ciotti (supports same-sex marriage)

Voris also turns a blind eye to the past behavior of Francis.  According to Leonardo Boff in a Der Spiegel interview, 

For example, a few months ago he explicitly permitted a homosexual couple to adopt a child. He kept in touch with priests who were expelled from the official church because they had gotten married. And no one could ever persuade him to change his position, which was: we have to be on the side of the poor, even if it means opposing the powerful.

Did you catch that?  He permitted a child to be adopted by sodomites when he was Archbishop of Argentina!  This is clearly against Catholic teaching.  Has Francis changed since moving to the Vatican?  Nope!  Did you hear a peep from the Vatican when on 5 April 2014 two lesbians had their daughter baptized at Cordoba Cathedral?  Sources in the church said, 

"if Jorge Bergoglio were not Pope, it would have been more complicated."

Once again this is against Catholic teaching.  Children are to be raised in a Catholic home and bishops as well as priests are instructed to forcibly remove the child from the home if this isn't the case.  Sodomy, lesbianism, whatever you want to call it, it isn't Catholic.  Don't believe us, then look it up  in a commentary on Canon Law.  We haven't even mentioned, this same couple was married in an Argentinian civil union because of a law Francis supported! 

Back to Voris and his Vortex of distortion.  Here is the quote from the interview of Francis by Ferruccio de Bortoli which Voris refers to but doesn't provide the viewer with.

Many countries have regulated civil unions. Is it a path that the Church can understand? But up to what point?

Francis: Marriage is between one man and one woman. The secular States want to justify civil unions to regulate different situations of coexistence, spurred by the need to regulate economic aspects between persons as, for instance, to ensure healthcare. Each case must be looked at and evaluated in its diversity.

It is clear from the above quote Francis differentiates between marriages and civil unions however he doesn't differentiate between civil unions between heterosexuals and same-sex civil unions.   Francis doesn't come out and condemn this sinful behavior of same-sex civil unions instead he leaves the door open.   Before one believes the official what he really said look at the words above "different situations of coexistence" and "diversity".  Notice Voris in the video makes you think the question is about Italy when the interviewer said, "many countries."  Voris on the other hand says everyone got what Francis said wrong and sets up a straw man which he can attack to make himself look good.  Does Voris' behavior remind you of anyone?  Francis perhaps?  

It's not in this video but in others Voris has said the reason for this quote getting explosive play in the media is also due to it being mistranslated!  He tells listeners the Vatican translations are atrocious and at fault for making Francis seem un-catholic.  Who buys this hooey?  We compared the translation above to the original Italian and while it is not a literal translation it does say the same thing.  

What is growing old is the same old monotonous excuses Voris comes up for Francis' behavior as well as his ostrich-like response, where he sticks his head into the ground, when he doesn't want to address Francis' behavior because he cannot defend it.  If you don't like the "3rd rate chatter" of this blog and believe Francis is misunderstood and want to hear excuses for Francis instead, sign up for Voris' Retreat at Sea and tell him Call Me Jorge... sent you!

A more fitting name for churchmilitant.tv is churchdilettante.tv

And now onto Michael Voris and the Vortex...

Even the Vatican Itself Doesn't Know what Francis Said!

Remember to chill out and wait for the official word from the Vatican unless you are Voris mis-reporting that Francis is about to take a broom to the Curia and sack them all!

six hands kissed for six million!

The hand kissing starts at 4 minutes and 

continues until the video finishes.

Francis kissed  the hands of six holocaust survivors at the Yad Vashem memorial.  According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, a holocaust survivor is "any Jew who lived for any period of time in a country that was ruled by the Nazis or their allies."  This means one need not have been in a concentration camp during the second world war to be a holocaust survivor.  Did you know that dear reader?  You could have been a Jew living in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast of Russia or one of Hilter's Jewish soldiers and still have been a holocaust survivor.

So why did Francis kiss the hands of six Jews?  The significance of this number comes from Gematria a system of numerology used by Jews.  Its practitioners are most often but not always steeped in the esoteric Kabbalah.  According to Rabbi Geoffry W. Dennis, in The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic, and Mysticism on page 104, gematria "is a complex hermeneutic technique in which numbers are used to reveal messages in texts and thereby derive insight into the order of the universe."  As Rabbi Benjamin Blech relates in the last two pages of his book, The Secret of Hebrew Words,  the word TaShuVU (in English this translates as, "you shall return") is misspelled in the Torah. This has been done for a very important reason by God.  For when one adds up the numerical value of misspelled TaShuVU one gets the year 1948 AD (5708 jewish date). This is the year the state of Israel was founded!  Are you sitting down?  When you take the value of the missing letter, vav,  from the misspelled TaShuVU one comes up with the number six.  So the Rabbi Blech tells us this predicts the Jews shall return to Israel without six!  He then take a further leap of insanity and multiplies this by 1,000,000 to get the 6,000,000 who perished in the holocaust.  This is the religion Francis esteems so much!  We couldn't in our  wildest imaginations make this stuff up!

Once again we see Francis turning papal protocol on its head.  The last time we saw Francis kiss a hand, it belonged to the 93 year old Salesian priest Don Michele De Paolis who believes sodomy is a gift from God and the Church is in error.  (click here to read about Don Michele) At Yad Vashem, Francis kissed the hands of six people of both sexes.  Is he the sovereign of the Holy See or not?  Kissing another person's hand in Church protocol is a gesture of formal submission.  Are these six people somehow living saints or examples to be revered by members of the Novus Ordo church?  Any way we try to spin it, to us at Call Me Jorge... it seems like Francis is groveling towards his Talmudic brethren.  In interview number ? (who knows we've lost track of which interview he is currently granting) Francis said, "But my gestures were not pre-planned, I just do what comes to me spontaneously."  Maybe Francis' inner Jew, recognized a kindred spirit in those six people and spontaneously moved him to action? 

So dear reader to recap, Francis kissing the hand has a triple meaning:

• subservience to the modern day religion of Talmudic Judaism,
• recognizing the magical number '6' & the power of Kabbalistic numerology,
• demonstrating to his puppet masters he is on board with the program.

And to think, we haven't even gotten around 

to what Francis said!

Notes :

(The Secrets of Hebrew Words by Rabbi Benjamin Blech)

(Copyright page of The Secrets of Hebrew Words)

(page 214 of The Secrets of Hebrew Words)

(page 215 of The Secrets of Hebrew Words)

Yes Jimmy, he did!

Francis never ceases to amaze us. On 6 May 2014, the 93 year old Salesian priest, Don Michele De Paolis was kissed on the hand by Francis!  We can hear Jimmy Akin of Catholic Answers saying,

"What's the big deal?"

or

"Pope Francis shows respect to someone who has given his life to the service of God!"

or

"Ten things you need to know about Pope Francis kissing hands."

or

"Did Pope Francis really kiss a priest's hand?"

In the style of Jimmy, let's recount the day!

Don Michele is given the honor of reading the gospel at a Novus Ordo Missae Mass he concelebrated with Francis at the Chiesa di Santa Marta in the Vatican on 6 May 2014.

Don Michele presents Francis with a hand carved Franciscan cross made from the wood of an olive tree.

Don Michele also gave Francis a hand carved chalice and paten made of olive wood.

Don Michele asks Francis to pray for a childless couple.

Don Michele presents Francis with a copy of his book, Caro don Michele…Domande a un prete scomodo. Translated into English as, Dear Father Michael ... Questions for an uncomfortable priest.

 The cover of Don Michele's book, which is set up as a dialogue between Don Michele and his three co-authors.  It includes passages from Don Michele's diary he kept while a Silesian missionary in Central America, tells of his move to Foggia, Italy with the spread of the Salesian presence, and the birth of the Emmaus Community.  The book also delves into iconographic moments in his life and the final chapter covers the pastoral care of youth, the celibacy of priests and the phenomenon of coexistence between people of different cultures.

And so we get to Francis kissing the hand of Don Michele, another example of how humble Francis is!

Is there video which can confirm Don Michele was actually at the Mass?

One can see Don Michele sitting at the 1 minute 19 seconds mark in the video.

So far, so good.  Did Don Michele have anything to say about his encounter with Francis?

According to Foggia Today, Don Michele recounted,

"I concelebrated with the Pope Francis. I read the gospel. After the celebration, the Pope receives the presents in another room. I, with my companion, we were the last (in the line).

I spoke of the "the rejected stones", with which I live; I presented him with the gifts (a crucifix, a chalice and a paten in olive wood, beautiful); I communicated our ongoing initiatives for immigrants in Lampedusa.

It was very happy. I told him: "All of us, we would love to have an audience for us, of Emmaus. Is this possible? "" Everything is possible. Discuss this with Cardinal Maradiaga and update him on each of these things." Next, he kissed my hand!  I hugged him and I cried."

So is there anywhere else we can look to find out more about this 93 year old priest?

Great idea!  Let's start off with the header Don Michele has on his facebook page. (Click here for Michele De Paolis' facebook) Wow, he must be  cutting edge if he has a facebook page!

This translates into English as the following:

I am a layman, a humble believer, always in search,
a priest available for service, disinterested,
free within the Christian community and in society, the next to the last.
Anticlerical, that you do not belong to a caste, to a category;
no official religion. Trying to give peace and joy to people
who are living in the most dramatic situations of existence:
the non-believers, the separated, the divorced, those who have stumbled with abortion,
the sodomites, the desperate, the multitude of the excluded.
Searching for light in the Gospel on the topics discussed in the Church,
such as the celibacy of the priesthood, the priesthood of women,
the pedophilia, the sick and the dying.

Any alarm bells going off yet?

Let's look at his life as a priest.  Is there anything which he is noted for?  A good confessor, performing miracles, solving problems, piety, anything?

Why yes, we are glad you asked, Jimmy!  Don Michele has co-founded two interesting groups in his long career as a priest, Comunità sulla Strada di Emmaus and Agedo Foggia. These are two of the things he is noted for.

The Comunità sulla Strada di Emmaus (click here for website) was founded in 1978 by Don Michele Mongiello, Don Nicola Palmisano and Don Michele De Paolis. It was established in the spirit of St. Don Bosco in the parish of the Sacred Heart which is located on the outskirts of Foggia in the slums.  It  pursues a number of objectives, including the recovery and social reintegration of drug addicts, give educational responses to various forms of adolescent awkwardness and the youthful in spirit, and is addressed especially to the marginalized (code word for sodomites), as well as encourages participation in the life of the area by promoting forms of active and responsible citizenship.  It is a voluntary commune.  Sounds like one of don Luigi Ciotti's groups doesn't it?  Don Michele is well known for the Bible study class he teaches there.

Agedo Foggia is the acronym for Assosciazione Genitori & Amici Di Omosessuali di Foggia.  This translates into English as the Association of Parents & Friends of Homosexuals of Foggia.  The Foggia chapter of Agedo was founded by Don Michele and the late Gabriele Scalfarotto in 2010 under the larger umbrella group of Agedo Nazionale.  A great thing right?  All sodomites should have friends who pray for them and help them get out of their sinful life.  Only, that's not what Agedo does.  Instead it organizes marches demanding special rights for sodomy and encourages these perverts to change the laws to accept & reward their same sinful behavior. (click here for Agedo Foggia's website) or (here for Agedo Nazionale's)

Maybe, he did this with the best of intentions and the groups went off the rails so to speak?  Well, first off, he is still with both groups being the honorary president of Emmaus and a regular speaker at Agedo.  To answer your second claim, let's examine some of Don Michele's words and actions.

In September 2011 Don Michele excited the audience of the Democratic Party in a question and answer session with Tommaso Pasqua.  He told how his positions are often at odds with the Church's. Further he added he does not think he is in the wrong concerning these positions.  One day he believes the Church will correct their mistaken beliefs on the role of women, homosexuality and unmarried couples.

But you are just paraphrasing one article and there are no quotes, it could be a smear piece.

You want quotes, we got quotes, just remember you asked for them, Jimmy!

Here are a few gems of wisdom Don Michele De Paolis shared in an article, Omosessualità e Fede, he wrote for Agedo Lecce, a sister organization of Agedo Foggia.  The underlines and bold for emphasis are Don Michele's and in the original.

..."Instead of wasting energy in endless controversy the ecclesial aims to build a Christian spirituality of joyous acceptance of self, gratitude to God in the knowledge that homosexual love is a gift from Him no less than heterosexual."

..."The boy or girl homosexuals can say to God: "You have made ​​us like this!" Connotations of the individual and that each of us come from nature, are a fact, such as height, skin color, shape of the nose, pigmentation of the pupil; we do not have a choice. And even sexual impulses: are the components of the identity of each; are not diseases, they are not sin. does not have anything to do with the will and the free choices of the individual and therefore ethics, good or bad.

In fact every person should love and protect their identity, should enhance all parts of his being, to grow in love, in friendship, in the pleasure of being themselves and reach their maturity. This is the will of God, because God wants happiness for each of his children."

..."To conclude: Pope Francis, a true gift from God to the Church, not only said that sentence reported by many newspapers, "Who am I to judge a homosexual?", Which already presupposes respect for the identity of each, which is a mystery ; but in his apostolic exhortation "The joy of the Gospel," he writes: "... we need to recognize that every person is worthy of our consideration. Not for its physical appearance, its ability pearls, for his mentality ... but why is the work of God, his creation ... Every human being is the subject of the infinite tenderness of God ... each is immensely sacred. "

I invite my homosexual brothers and sisters to enjoy this tenderness of God and to go on their way."

What!? 

Wait there is more!

The following quotes are taken from an address Don Michele gave to Agedo Foggia,

"Today, the attitude of the Church against homosexuals is severe, inhumane and creates so much suffering, by saying that homosexuality is a sin . (...) Some people in the church say: "It's okay to be gay but you shall not have intercourse, they can not love each other! "This is the greatest hypocrisy. It's like saying to a plant that grows: "Thou shalt not flourish, it (the plant) must bear fruit." That yes, it is against nature."

..."I'm sick of homophobia . It's not true that you are in sin, because God loves you and He has put you in this inclination; it is his gift. This is your 'nature', which must be accepted and respected. You're not sick; you do not have to "heal" from this inclination.

And we have to have patience with our Mother Church. Her attitude towards homosexuals will change. Already, numerous initiatives have been born in this regard."

"At Emmaus nobody is dismissed or removed from communion with Jesus . Peace and joy"

Hold on we are not done yet.  Here is what one of his peers said about him,

(The late Gabriele Scalfarotto, one year before his suicide.)

Gabriele Scalfarotto one of the co-founders of Agredo Foggia two years before he committed suicide said the following,

"Don Michele and Don Dino, (are) two uncomfortable priests beloved by the most humble. Surrounded by marginalized decent (persons) and by volunteers, you immediately made available support to this atheist with respect, intent on an uphill battle for the rights of LGBT people, and were with him to fight and win."

This past year Don Michele addressed the city of Foggia with a conference speech titled, "Homosexuality and transsexuality: a dialogue between faith, science and the law is that possible?"

(Don Gallo, the late sodomite and communist priest.)

Is it any wonder Don Michele is referred to in Italy as the Don Gallo of the South?

Let's recap the recent news, Francis' Curia made a bunch of noise about priestly sexual abuse while doing nothing again, the FSSPX is still suspended, the LCWR receives a few blunt words, the Franciscan Friars Immaculate founder is still under house arrest, Francis isn't concerned with the heresies contained in Cardinal Kasper's book, Suor Cristina sings lewd songs on The Voice, and Francis pays homage to sodomy by kissing De Paolis on the hand.  Don't worry we are told the Novus Ordo church has the medicine to cure this, more implementations of Vatican II but in the correct spirit this time.  Now get to your man made vernacular Novus Ordo Missae!  Seems a bit odd, no?  It is as if...

(Francis making his usual mess wherever he goes.)

Is Jimmy Akin a bagger for the Modernist Shopping Mart?  His boss Francis just made another big mess!  We can hear it being announced over the PA system "Clean up in aisle #6"

Jimmy and his fellow apologists will most likely tell you, Francis didn't know about these things.  He didn't?  Please!  Guess those two new saints didn't know either or maybe they are looking at this from the wrong perspective?  Why not approach it from a different angle?  They all condone this type of behavior.  Oooo, that's scary!  It might lead one to conclude sodomy is rife in the Novus Ordo church and goes to its very core.  What did Christ have to say in the Sermon on the Mount?

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.  By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?  Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit.  A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit.  Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire.  Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them. 

~ Matthew 7 : 15-20 ~

The last time Francis was hand holding with don Luigi Ciotti.  This time we have the hand kissing of Don Michele De Paolis.  We fear to guess what Francis will do next.  Don't worry, Jimmy the bagger tells us we haven't heard any official word from the Vatican so we will have to withhold our judgement because we couldn't possibly know what motivations were going through Francis' brain or heart.

Breaking news!  This just in from Michael Voris & the crew over at ChurchMilitant.tv, "no comment" ...and what's that?  If you are reading Call Me Jorge... you are consuming spiritual pornography!  Are you serious Mike? (see ChurchMilitant.TV Will Not Engage in Public Criticism of the Pope)

With priests and apologists like these calling themselves Catholic is it any wonder the Novus Ordo church is confused?

Well Jimmy, do you know who Don Michele is now?


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