Italian bishops’ newspaper — Avvenire, publishes another blasphemous cartoon

Sergio Staino drawing a cartoon.

The Avvenire, a Roman Catholic newspaper published in Milan, Italy, has an ongoing cartoon, la domenica di Staino, which depicts the life of Our Lord Jesus the Christ.  La domenica di Staino translates into English as the Sunday of Staino.  The Staino in question is one Sergio Staino the cartoonist and writer responsible for the comic strip.  Often times the strip is sacrilegious and blasphemous but this particular cartoon of was so terrible we at Call Me Jorge... had to comment on it.  Not surprisingly, Mr. Staino is a card-carrying member of the Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics.  Keep in mind that this paper is owned by Italian Episcopal Conference, so it is de facto the official mouthpiece of Italy’s bishops.

— English translation —

Jesus: Oh, hi Magdalena!

Mary Magdalene: How do you like it? …Isn’t my headdress nice?

Jesus: Oh my God, let me say yes… Say yes! …Say yes!

Mary Magdalene:  Well?

Jesus: It’s horrible!

Mary Magdalene: [SLAP!!]

Jesus: Father, Father… Why am I condemned to always have to tell the truth?

The whole vignette above sows heresy. The cartoon portrays Jesus and Mary Magdalene as husband and wife having a marital spat.  What happened to the Chasity of Our Lord?  Why would Mary Magdalene slap her Savior?  Why would Jesus question His Father?  Why is Christ reduced to the role of a cuckold with a vain and overbearing wife?  This particular cartoon not only mocks Our Lord but also profanes Him as it inverts and perverts the story of Mary Magdalene.

We imagine that if Francis saw this cartoon, he would laugh heartily, thinking it good fun along with the bishops responsible for its printing.  After all, Francis not only relishes telling blasphemous jokes about Our Lord, he loves doing this.  That this strip was published by the official organ of the Italian bishops should send chills down those who believe the Novus Ordo is Catholic.

Francis’ gnostic ‘gospel’

“the memory of him [Jesus] who has made himself sin, who has made himself the devil, the serpent, for us; he has humbled himself to the point of complete annihilation.”

— Francis’ homily, 4 April 2017 —

(English translation - NovusOrdoWire, Bergoglio blasphemes again: Jesus Christ “made Himself the Devil”!)

“come memoria di colui che si è fatto peccato, che si è fatto diavolo, serpente, per noi; si è abbassato fino ad annientarsi totalmente” 

— Francis’ homily, 4 April 2017 —

(Original Italian - News.va, Nel segno della croce (4 aprile 2017))

Antonio Socci’s front page article on this blasphemy in Libero newspaper 6 April 2017.

For further commentary on Francis’ latest blasphemy see:

• NovusOrdoWire, Bergoglio blasphemes again: Jesus Christ “made Himself the Devil”!

• Lo Straniero - il blog di Antonio Socci, Bergoglio arriva ad affermare chiesa Gesu si diavolo tutti fanno finta nulla la sua strategia

Another homily, another heresy from the lips of Francis!

The heresy Francis teaches:

“To this people Jesus, because he knew temptation in Himself, reproaches: ‘You traverse half the world to have one proselyte, and when you find him, you make him a slave.’ This people thus organized, this Church so organized, makes slaves – and so it is understandable how Paul reacts when he speaks of slavery to the law and of the liberty that grace gives: a people is free, a Church is free, when it has memory, when it makes room for prophets, when it does not lose hope.”

— Francis’ Monday homily, 30 May 2016 —

source: News.va, Pope Francis at Santa Marta: memory, prophecy, hope

What the Catholic Church teaches:

source: A Tour of the Summa: A Journey Through St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Paul J. Glenn, Ph.D., S.T.D. (1931)

This isn’t difficult, it is basic stuff a Catholic should know. 

Francis, “Studying fundamental theology is one of the most boring things on earth.”

"Faith should not be mocked!"

...unless you are Francis!

"One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people’s faith, one cannot make fun of faith."

- Francis' in-flight interview Colombo-Manila -

Below are some of the jokes Francis has made about the Catholic Faith. It is not an extensive list but should give the dear reader a general sense of the hypocrisy of Francis. One never sees or hears him mocking Talmudic Judaism, Mohamadism, Hinduism, Buddhism, or paganism. Francis reserves his invectives only for the Faith instituted by Our Lord, Jesus the Christ.



- Francis mocks an altar boy's faith -

"Are your hands bound together? It looks like they're stuck."

- Francis tells blasphemous joke to rabbis -

"a priest that over weeks gives antisemitic talks until Jesus, on the cross, looks at the Virgin,

who was at his side, and says to her,  'Mom, let's go since they don't like us...'"

- Francis on 17 January 2014 -

- Jorge tells a blasphemous joke about Our Lord's Crucifixion -

"It is about a Jewish boy who thrown out of all schools for being unruly until another Jew recommends to the father a "good Catholic school." And it encourages him that, surely, there (they) are going to straighten (him out). The father takes the advice. Thus passes the first month and the boy is very well behaved, without warning (surprisingly). Nor has he behavior problems in the coming months. The father, won by curiosity, goes to the rector to know how he managed this transformation. “It was very simple," replied the priest. "On the first day I took him by the ear and said pointing to the crucifix, ‘That was a Jew like you, if you misbehave, you will end up the same.’"

- from page 42 in the book, El Jesuita: Conversaciones 

con el cardinal Jorge Bergoglio -

- Jorge makes a mockery of confirmation -

"In fourth grade I asked my teachers to take communion with my uncle and they accepted," he says pointing to the only picture he has of them from that moment (first communion). I I also had my confirmation with him, and when he gave me the slap (which is part of the ceremony) gave me such a strong smack, my face turned. He looked at me, winked and laughed. It was one of the many jokes that he played on me" 

- Francis' nephew José Ignacio Bergoglio -

Why is Jorge Bergoglio kissing confirmands on the check instead of slapping the daylights out of them like he did to his nephew?

For it is impossible for those who were once illuminated, have 

tasted also the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the 

Holy Ghost, Have moreover tasted the good word of God, 

and the powers of the world to come, And are fallen 

away: to be renewed again to penance, crucifying 

again to themselves the Son of God, 

and making him a mockery.

- Hebrews 6: 4-6 -

a prophecy about the papacy by a saint

The other day we posted a Catholic saint's letter to his son.  Today we post a prophecy by a Catholic saint, whose name Jorge Mario Bergoglio coincidentally choose to take after he was elected to the papacy.  When asked why he chose the name, Francis, at his Audience with the Representatives of the Communications Media on 16 May 2014 in the Paul VI Audience Hall, Francis said,

Some people wanted to know why the Bishop of Rome wished to be called Francis. Some thought of Francis Xavier, Francis De Sales, and also Francis of Assisi. I will tell you the story. During the election, I was seated next to the Archbishop Emeritus of São Paolo and Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Clergy, Cardinal Claudio Hummes: a good friend, a good friend! When things were looking dangerous, he encouraged me. And when the votes reached two thirds, there was the usual applause, because the Pope had been elected. And he gave me a hug and a kiss, and said: “Don't forget the poor!” And those words came to me: the poor, the poor. Then, right away, thinking of the poor, I thought of Francis of Assisi. Then I thought of all the wars, as the votes were still being counted, till the end. Francis is also the man of peace. That is how the name came into my heart: Francis of Assisi. For me, he is the man of poverty, the man of peace, the man who loves and protects creation; these days we do not have a very good relationship with creation, do we? He is the man who gives us this spirit of peace, the poor man … How I would like a Church which is poor and for the poor! Afterwards, people were joking with me. “But you should call yourself Hadrian, because Hadrian VI was the reformer, we need a reform…” And someone else said to me: “No, no: your name should be Clement”. “But why?” “Clement XV: thus you pay back Clement XIV who suppressed the Society of Jesus!” These were jokes. I love all of you very much, I thank you for everything you have done. I pray that your work will always be serene and fruitful, and that you will come to know ever better the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the rich reality of the Church’s life. I commend you to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Star of Evangelization, and with cordial good wishes for you and your families, each of your families. I cordially impart to all of you my blessing. Thank you.

Without further ado here is the prophecy of St. Francis of Assisi, great Schisms and Tribulations in the Church.  It is up to the reader/listener to decide if this is about the current papacy.  Thanks to Fiel al Evangelio over at Gloria.tv for posting these two videos. 

English language version (link)

Spanish language version (link)

Scanned in pages of the book

 title page of Works of St. Francis of Assisi

 imprimatur page of Works of St. Francis of Assisi

page 248 of Works of St. Francis of Assisi

page 249 of Works of St. Francis of Assisi

page 250 of Works of St. Francis of Assisi

A letter from a Catholic saint to his son

We can only pray to God that he will send us leaders like this soon.  We instead have ineffectual effeminate politicians, which we so deserve for casting God out of our countries and religion.

St. Louis' letter to his son, Philip

1. To his dear first-born son, Philip, greeting, and his father's love.

2. Dear son, since I desire with all my heart that you be well "instructed in all things, it is in my thought to give you some advice this writing. For I have heard you say, several times, that you remember my words better than those of any one else.

3. Therefore, dear son, the first thing I advise is that you fix your whole heart upon God, and love Him with all your strength, for without this no one can be saved or be of any worth.

4. You should, with all your strength, shun everything which you believe to be displeasing to Him. And you ought especially to be resolved not to commit mortal sin, no matter what may happen and should permit all your limbs to be hewn off, and suffer every manner of torment , rather than fall knowingly into mortal sin.

5. If our Lord send you any adversity, whether illness or other in good patience, and thank Him for it, thing, you should receive it in good patience and be thankful for it, for you ought to believe that He will cause everthing to turn out for your good; and likewise you should think that you have well merited it, and more also, should He will it, because you have loved Him but little, and served Him but little, and have done many things contrary to His will.

6. If our Lord send you any prosperity, either health of body or other thing you ought to thank Him humbly for it, and you ought to be careful that you are not the worse for it, either through pride or anything else, for it is a very great sin to fight against our Lord with His gifts.

7. Dear son, I advise you that you accustom yourself to frequent confession, and that you choose always, as your confessors, men who are upright and sufficiently learned, and who can teach you what you should do and what you should avoid. You should so carry yourself that your confessors and other friends may dare confidently to reprove you and show you your faults.

8. Dear son, I advise you that you listen willingly and devoutly the services of Holy Church, and, when you are in church, avoid to frivolity and trifling, and do not look here and there; but pray to God with lips and heart alike, while entertaining sweet thoughts about Him, and especially at the mass, when the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ are consecrated, and for a little time before.

9. Dear son, have a tender pitiful heart for the poor, and for all those whom you believe to be in misery of heart or body, and, according to your ability, comfort and aid them with some alms.

10. Maintain the good customs of your realm, and put down the bad ones. Do not oppress your people and do not burden them with tolls or tailles, except under very great necessity.

11. If you have any unrest of heart, of such a nature that it may be told, tell it to your confessor, or to some upright man who can keep your secret; you will be able to carry more easily the thought of your heart.

12. See to it that those of your household are upright and loyal, and remember the Scripture, which says: "Elige viros timentes Deum in quibus sit justicia et qui oderint avariciam"; that is to say, "Love those who serve God and who render strict justice and hate covetousness"; and you will profit, and will govern your kingdom well.

13. Dear son, see to it that all your associates are upright, whether clerics or laymen, and have frequent good converse with them; and flee the society of the bad. And listen willingly to the word of God, both in open and in secret; and purchase freely prayers and pardons.


14. Love all good, and hate all evil, in whomsoever it may be.

15. Let no one be so bold as to say, in your presence, words which attract and lead to sin, and do not permit words of detraction to be spoken of another behind his back.

16. Suffer it not that any ill be spoken of God or His saints in your presence, without taking prompt vengeance. But if the offender be a clerk or so great a person that you ought not to try him, report the matter to him who is entitled to judge it.

17. Dear son, give thanks to God often for all the good things He has done for you, so that you may be worthy to receive more, in such a manner that if it please the Lord that you come to the burden and honor of governing the kingdom, you may be worthy to receive the sacred unction wherewith the kings of France are consecrated.

18. Dear son, if you come to the throne, strive to have that which befits a king, that is to say, that in justice and rectitude you hold yourself steadfast and loyal toward your subjects and your vassals, without turning either to the right or to the left, but always straight, whatever may happen. And if a poor man have a quarrel with a rich man, sustain the poor rather than the rich, until the truth is made clear, and when you know the truth, do justice to them.

19. If any one have entered into a suit against you (for any injury or wrong which he may believe that you have done to him), be always for him and against yourself in the presence of your council, without showing that you think much of your case (until the truth be made known concerning it); for those of your council might be backward in speaking against you, and this you should not wish; and command your judges that you be not in any way upheld more than any others, for thus will your councillors judge more boldly according to right and truth.

20. If you have anything belonging to another, either of yourself or through your predecessors, if the matter is certain, give it up without delay, however great it may be, either in land or money or otherwise. If the matter is doubtful, have it inquired into by wise men, promptly and diligently. And if the affair is so obscure that you cannot know the truth, make such a settlement, by the counsel of s of upright men, that your soul, and the soul your predecessors, may be wholly freed from the affair. And even if you hear some one say that your predecessors made restitution, make diligent inquiry to learn if anything remains to be restored; and if you find that such is the case, cause it to be delivered over at once, for the liberation of your soul and the souls of your predecessors.

21. You should seek earnestly how your vassals and your subjects may live in peace and rectitude beneath your sway; likewise, the good towns and the good cities of your kingdom. And preserve them in the estate and the liberty in which your predecessors kept them, redress it, and if there be anything to amend, amend and preserve their favor and their love. For it is by the strength and the riches of your good cities and your good towns that the native and the foreigner, especially your peers and your barons, are deterred from doing ill to you. I will remember that Paris and the good towns of my kingdom aided me against the barons, when I was newly crowned.

22. Honor and love all the people of Holy Church, and be careful that no violence be done to them, and that their gifts and alms, which your predecessors have bestowed upon them, be not taken away or diminished. And I wish here to tell you what is related concerning King Philip, my ancestor, as one of his council, who said he heard it, told it to me. The king, one day, was with his privy council, and he was there who told me these words. And one of the king's councillors said to him how much wrong and loss he suffered from those of Holy Church, in that they took away his rights and lessened the jurisdiction of his court; and they marveled greatly how he endured it. And the good king answered: "I am quite certain that they do me much wrong, but when I consider the goodnesses and kindnesses which God has done me, I had rather that my rights should go, than have a contention or awaken a quarrel with Holy Church." And this I tell to you that you may not lightly believe anything against the people of Holy Church; so love them and honor them and watch over them that they may in peace do the service of our Lord.

23. Moreover, I advise you to love dearly the clergy, and, so far as you are able, do good to them in their necessities, and likewise love those by whom God is most honored and served, and by whom the Faith is preached and exalted.

24. Dear son, I advise that you love and reverence your father and your mother, willingly remember and keep their commandments, and be inclined to believe their good counsels.

25. Love your brothers, and always wish their well-being and their good advancement, and also be to them in the place of a father, to instruct them in all good. But be watchful lest, for the love which you bear to one, you turn aside from right doing, and do to the others that which is not meet.

26. Dear son, I advise you to bestow the benefices of Holy Church which you have to give, upon good persons, of good and clean life, and that you bestow them with the high counsel of upright men. And I am of the opinion that it is preferable to give them to those who hold nothing of Holy Church, rather than to others. For, if you inquire diligently, you will find enough of those who have nothing who will use wisely that entrusted to them.

27. Dear son, I advise you that you try with all your strength to avoid warring against any Christian man, unless he have done you too much ill. And if wrong be done you, try several ways to see if you can find how you can secure your rights, before you make war; and act thus in order to avoid the sins which are committed in warfare.

28. And if it fall out that it is needful that you should make war (either because some one of your vassals has failed to plead his case in your court, or because he has done wrong to some church or to some poor person, or to any other person whatsoever, and is unwilling to make amends out of regard for you, or for any other reasonable cause), whatever the reason for which it is necessary for you to make war, give diligent command that the poor folk who have done no wrong or crime be protected from damage to their vines, either through fire or otherwise, for it were more fitting that you should constrain the wrongdoer by taking his own property (either towns or castles, by force of siege), than that you should devastate the property of poor people. And be careful not to start the war before you have good counsel that the cause is most reasonable, and before you have summoned the offender to make amends, and have waited as long as you should. And if he ask mercy, you ought to pardon him, and accept his amende, so that God may be pleased with you.

29. Dear son, I advise you to appease wars and contentions, whether they be yours or those of your subjects, just as quickly as may be, for it is a thing most pleasing to our Lord. And Monsignore Martin gave us a very great example of this. For, one time, when our Lord made it known to him that he was about to die, he set out to make peace between certain clerks of his archbishopric, and he was of the opinion that in so doing he was giving a good end to life.

30. Seek diligently, most sweet son, to have good baillis and good prevots in your land, and inquire frequently concerning their doings, and how they conduct themselves, and if they administer justice well, and do no wrong to any one, nor anything which they ought not do. Inquire more often concerning those of your household if they be too covetous or too arrogant; for it is natural that the members should seek to imitate their chief; that is, when the master is wise and well-behaved, all those of his household follow his example and prefer it. For however much you ought to hate evil in others, you shoud have more hatred for the evil which comes from those who derive their power from you, than you bear to the evil of others; and the more ought you to be on your guard and prevent this from happening.

31. Dear son, I advise you always to be devoted to the Church of Rome, and to the sovereign pontiff, our father, and to bear him the the reverence and honor which you owe to your spiritual father.

32. Dear son, freely give power to persons of good character, who know how to use it well, and strive to have wickednesses expelled from your land, that is to say, nasty oaths, and everything said or done against God or our Lady or the saints. In a wise and proper manner put a stop, in your land, to bodily sins, dicing, taverns, and other sins. Put down heresy so far as you can, and hold in especial abhorrence Jews, and all sorts of people who are hostile to the Faith, so that your land may be well purged of them, in such manner as, by the sage counsel of good people, may appear to you advisable.

33. Further the right with all your strength. Moreover I admonish you you that you strive most earnestly to show your gratitude for the benefits which our Lord has bestowed upon you, and that you may know how to give Him thanks therefore

34. Dear son, take care that the expenses of your household are reasonable and moderate, and that its moneys are justly obtained. And there is one opinion that I deeply wish you to entertain, that is to say, that you keep yourself free from foolish expenses and evil exactions, and that your money should be well expended and well acquired. And this opinion, together with other opinions which are suitable and profitable, I pray that our Lord may teach you.

35. Finally, most sweet son, I conjure and require you that, if it please our Lord that I should die before you, you have my soul succored with masses and orisons, and that you send through the congregations of the kingdom of France, and demand their prayers for my soul, and that you grant me a special and full part in all the good deeds which you perform.

36. In conclusion, dear son, I give you all the blessings which a good and tender father can give to a son, and I pray our Lord Jesus Christ, by His mercy, by the prayers and merits of His blessed Mother, the Virgin Mary, and of angels and archangels and of all the saints, to guard and protect you from doing anything contrary to His will, and to give you grace to do it always, so that He may be honored and served by you. And this may He do to me as to you, by His great bounty, so that after this mortal life we may be able to be together with Him in the eternal life, and see Him, love Him, and praise Him without end. Amen. And glory, honor, and praise be to Him who is one God with the Father and the Holy Spirit; without beginning and without end. Amen.

From Saint Louis' Advice to His Son, in Medieval Civilization, trans. and eds. Dana Munro and George Clarke Sellery (New York: The Century Company, 1910), pp. 366 -75.

sodomite Elton John is a fan of Francis!

Francis' words & actions are garnering him fans left and right with the sodomites.  His newest fan is Reginald Kenneth Dwight aka Elton Hercules John. Listen to him umm, umm, umm share his perverted umm, mind.

Sodomy is a Civil Right

Highlights

7:14  "I will fight for people's rights. Anybody whose human rights uh are wronged or taken away I will try and fight for them. I will go to Russia.  I'm going to Russia in December or November and I will try to me Putin on I will try to talk to him.  I don't know what good it will do but unless you build a bridge ahh, it's no good putting up a wall saying I'm not talking to these people the only thing that gets solved is by talking to people umm"

7:58  "As an AIDS organization we support the marginalized as well umm, you know the very very poor people that are getting left behind, the drug users, the people in prison.  Umm you know if we leave people behind in society, then society is going to crumble.  We have to do on this journey of aids and of human rights we have to try and take everyone with us and uh, I deeply believe that and umm many people might disagree with me but I'm certainly you know if anyone doesn't have their basic civil rights I get crazy!"

8:46  "The new Pope has done wonderful.  I mean he's excited me so much by his humanity and taking everything down to the humility of faith no matter what it is, what faith you have, what religion you have, who you believe in, what you believe in he stripped it down to the bare bones and said it's all basically about love and taking everybody in inclusiveness umm"

9:29  "Of course and and and I don't see why Catholic priests have to be celibate. That's crazy!  You know these are old and stupid things umm and the church hierarchy might be you know uhh, up in arms about it the traditionalists but the times have changed we live in a different time.  If Jesus Christ was alive today, I cannot see him as the christian person he was and the great person he was saying this could not happen umm.  He was all about love and compassion and forgiveness and and trying to bring people together and that's what the church should be about."

"Who am I to judge?"

Netanyahu and Francis 'spar' over the language of Jesus the Christ

Another interesting insight from the Maurice Pinay Blog.  Writing about the recent verbal exchange between, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu & Francis, Maurice gives the reader an understanding of how 'pilpul' functions.  Not only in Talmudic circles but also in the Novus Ordo church.  The Vatican has adopted many of its values and laws from their so called "Elder Brothers" and with every day that passes by it resembles Christianity less and less.  Francis shows he is an adept practioner of 'pilpul' and uses this Talmudic trick with regularity in his dealings.  We here at Call Me Jorge... wonder if Netanyahu and Francis both studied at the same yeshiva?

read Maurice Pinay's Blog entry :

• Francis and Netanyahu's Counterfeit Jesus Pilpul

What is "Pilpul"?  According to David Shasha, Director of the Center for Sephardic Heritage, in an article he wrote,  What Is Pilpul, And Why On Earth Should I Care About It?

..."As Soloveitchik states, the Ashkenazi rabbis were less concerned with promulgating the Law transmitted in the Talmud than they were with molding it to suit their own needs. Pilpul was a means to justify practices already fixed in the behaviors of the community by re-reading the Talmud to justify those practices."

..."As if this was not enough, the Tosafists instituted one more pilpul principle into Talmudic discourse. This was called the Lav Davqa method. In English we might call it the "Not Quite" way of reading a text. When a text appeared to be saying one thing, the Tosafot -- in order to conform to the already-existing custom -- would re-interpret it by saying that what it seemed to mean is not what it really meant!"

..."What this means for contemporary Jewish discourse is critical: Even though many contemporary Jews are not observant, pilpul continues to be deployed. Pilpul occurs any time the speaker is committed to "prove" his point regardless of the evidence in front of him. The casuistic aspect of this hair-splitting leads to a labyrinthine form of argument where the speaker blows enough rhetorical smoke to make his interlocutor submit. Reason is not an issue when pilpul takes over: what counts is the establishment of a fixed, immutable point that can never truly be disputed.

In this context, the Law is not primary; it is the status of the jurist. Justice is extra-legal, thus denying social equality under the rubric of a horizontal system. Law is in the hands of the privileged rather than the mass.

What is thought to be the Jewish "genius" is often a mark of how pilpul is deployed. The rhetorical tricks of pilpul make true rational discussion impossible; any "discussion" is about trying to "prove" a point that has already been established. There is little use trying to argue in this context, because any points being made will be twisted and turned to validate the already-fixed position. 

Pilpul is the rhetorical means to mark as "true" that which cannot ever be disputed by rational means."

Watch the two masters of Pilpul play their game. 

***** UPDATE 05 June 2014 *****

Thanks to Maurice Pinay for pointing out this previous entry of his on what a 'Jewish genius' is.  Straight out of the mouth of a rabbi of Reform Judaism,

• Benedict's "Hermeneutic of Continuity" and the Rabbinic "Genius"

turning Our Lord's Baptism into a photo-op

 

Here's a video of the photo-op watch the first 12 minutes.

One thing which stands out about Francis' trip to Jordan, the occupied Palestinian territories, and Israel is everywhere he went it was showtime!  Everything was done for the adulation of the crowd, the media, or his puppet masters.  Francis treated Christ as if he were a backdrop/extra on a movie about humble Francis.  Not wanting to spread the word as commanded by Jesus the Christ, 

"And he said to them: Go ye into the whole world, and preach the gospel to every creature." 

-  Mark 16 : 15  -

"Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." 

-  Matthew 28 : 19  -

Instead, Francis chose to have 'faith experiences' and participated in the 'culture of encounter.'  Whether it was praying with a Moslem and Jew at the Kotel, placing flowers on the grave of Theodor Herzl, praying with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, kissing six hands at Vad Yashem, or his visit to the al-Aqsa Mosque, Francis neglected not only Christ's command but helped spread apostasy through his actions.  We guess, old Church laws like communicatio in sacris no longer apply.  The warmup act which happened before all this was his visit to Bethany beyond the Jordan.

Some photos below with Call Me Jorge...'s comments.  Please, bear with us the payoff is at the end.  So without further ado...

Francis visits Bethany Beyond the Jordan 

with the King and Queen of Jordan

King Abdullah II al-Hussein driving Francis to the baptismal pool.

They arrived at the spot where John the Baptist, baptized his cousin Jesus the Christ.

Far away shot of the pool, it is very large.

Francis humbly bends over to dip his hand into the pool.

Francis gets his hand wet.

Francis makes sign of the cross for his photo-op.

Rubbing his face for the camera as if he is agonizing over something.

The narcissist, Francis, looking at his reflection in the water.

Francis doing his best to act humble while he thinks about how

he will soon put a wreath on Herzl's grave.

The king driving Francis back to the tourist guest center.

So we can hear you, what's the big deal? 

Aerial satellite map of the area in Jordan where Bethany beyond the Jordan is located.

The Church of St. John the Baptist was only 're-discovered' in 1994 along with Elijah's Hill and John the Baptist's Cave.   It was located on the River Jordan and the river washed out the churches built there many times.  In fact there have been five churches built one on top of another.  The Church of St. John the Baptist was the only church to have a cruciform baptismal pool which used river water overflow.  Problem is the Jordan River has long since changed its course.  It is now 9 kilometers inland!  In order for there to be water in the baptismal pool, a crew pumped water into it with fire hoses and watered down the hill sides with garden hoses.

A computer model of the Church of St. John the Baptist and the 
Baptismal Pool where John the Baptist baptized his cousin, Jesus the Christ.

The Daily Mail wrote, "Fill her up: The Bethany beyond the Jordan before the Pope arrived as workers use hoses to fill it up."

Two workers filling the Baptismal Pool up with water before Francis' visit.

Haaretz said, "Before the Pope's visit, filling the Baptism Site, Jordan yesterday."

Is this a sign from God?  Does it symbolize the spiritual dryness of the Novus Ordo and the emptiness of Francis on the inside?  Oh that's correct dear reader, we forgot Francis isn't empty on the inside, instead he is filled with an inner Jew.  You can't make this stuff up!  

A very interesting film on the history of Bethany Beyond the Jordan named, The Baptism of Jesus Christ: Uncovering Bethany beyond the Jordan, can be watched by (clicking here).

John XXIII & John Paul II, saints of the modernist revolution

And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, they crucified him there; and the robbers, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.  And Jesus said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. But they, dividing his garments, cast lots.  And the people stood beholding, and the rulers with them derided him, saying: He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the elect of God.  And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,  And saying: If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.   And there was also a superscription written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew: THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.  And one of those robbers who were hanged, blasphemed him, saying: If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.  But the other answering, rebuked him, saying: Neither dost thou fear God, seeing thou art condemned under the same condemnation?

---  Luke, ch. 23 v. 33-40  ---

(Canonizing the modernist revolution and the 2nd Vatican Council.)

Letter of Saint Athanasius to His Flock

"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; you who remain within the Church by your Faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of the Faith which has come down to you from Apostolic Tradition. And if an execrable jealousy has tried to shake it on a number of occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis. 

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." 

(Taken from: Coll. selecta SS. Eccl. Patrum, Caillau and Guillou, Vol. 32, pp. 411-412; See also: Letter XXIX, Fragment 7,  in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Athanasius, Vol. 4, Edited by Philip Schaff, Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, Mass., Second Printing, 1995, pp. 550-551)

 

(Saint Athanasius the Great)