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Opus Dei by John L. Allen

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Rome Reports’ propaganda on Opus (Ju)Dei

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• Talmudic praise for Justice Scalia

• Michael Voris’ Church Militant promotes the seven noahide laws

• Fake news from the lamestream religious media

• the head of the Vatican’s propaganda department talks about his boss

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• Opus Dei’s Bp. Arrieta expresses support to the idea of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X becoming a personal prelature of Francis

• What is a personal prelature?

a spoon full of sugar helps the revolution go down in a most delightful way!

gatekeeper John L. Allen, Jr. says don’t get bent out of shape with the media and Vatican changing the words of Francis...they have been doing this since John XXIII

Time Magazine, 5 October 1962

John L. Allen writes,

“In the past, the problem with this sort of thing was that it wasn’t always clear it was really the pope making the changes. Famously, an anonymous editor at l’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, admitted in a 1962 interview with Time to taking the edge off the words of Pope John XXIII’s speeches about the Second Vatican Council whenever the pontiff said something the editor worried might stir controversy.”

source: CruxNow, Let’s not get bent out of shape over ‘Transcriptgate’

Call Me Jorge... doesn’t have a subscription to Time Magazine nor do we want one to an official rag of the establishment. We did the next best thing though, and searched google books to see if any authors had cited this article. We found one author, Peter Hebblethwaite, who cited it in two separate books on John XXIII.

source: page 433, Pope John XXIII: Shepherd of the Modern World by Peter Hebblethwaite

source: page 223, John XXIII: Pope of the Century by Peter Hebblethwaite

So there you have it!  John XXIII’s un-Catholic remarks were cleaned up and changed to make it appear as if he were a staunch upholder of Catholic tradition in some of the medias and Acta Apostolicae Sedis (Official Acts of the Holy See) when with the benefit of today’s hindsight we know he was anything but this.  This has been done since the pontificate of John XXIII by the media and the Vatican bureaucrats who also have been sanitizing the the words of Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and now Francis.  Why would they perform this disservice to the world?  Are they also members of a revolutionary club?   What has changed with the advent of the internet, is that now anyone can compare what was said by Francis on video to what was published in the medias and official Vatican documents.  Often times these match up perfectly, sometimes they don’t.  How different would the world be today if what was said by the Petrine office (since John XXIII) had been honestly reported on?

Francis "is basically shock therapy for the church!"

...so says gatekeeper and the insider's insider of the Vatican, John L. Allen, Jr.

We've covered John L. Allen, Jr. on Call Me Jorge... before.  He is a Vatican reporter who even though he claims to be Catholic, is married to a Jewess whom is a big fan of pro-abortion Obama, has addressed the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) twice on the policies of the Vatican and told them they "basically won the lottery," with Jorge Bergoglio's election, informed his readers the Synod in 2014 was like a soap opera, and runs blocking for Francis as he consistently sends his readers down dead end roads leading to nowhere.

Seeing Pope Francis as shock therapy for the Catholic Church

Once again we would disagree with Mr. Allen.  Francis isn't shock therapy for the church, he is the undertaker hammering in the final nail of Noahidism into the coffin.


More on John L. Allen, Jr:

• Jews “basically won the lottery”

• 'FOBs' the Friends of Bergoglio

• a reader comments on 'FOBs' the Friends of Bergoglio

• Audio of Allen's speech to the ADL

• gatekeeper John L. Allen, Jr.'s important role in The Francis Revolution

• the circus at the Vatican

Francis puts on his sad face

According to the media Francis made a strong silent statement against abortion during his recent trip to South Korea.  Not trusting the media we went over to the Boston Globe to see what the Novus Ordo gatekeeper, John L Allen, Jr. had to say.  He wrote,

"(Francis) delivered perhaps his most dramatic anti-abortion gesture as pope, visiting a symbolic “cemetery for abortion victims” located in a field behind a church-run charitable center."

Well there you have it case closed!  Francis the man, who said Catholic obsession with abortion was driving people away from the faith is against abortion.  Or is he?  What does Francis' gesture symbolize?  For a well thought out take on this matter read,

• Public Vigil's, bergoglio puts on sad clown face at Korean abortion cemetery

Audio of Allen's speech to the ADL

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Call Me Jorge... covered this speech of John L Allen, Jr. to the Anti-Defamation League's National Executive Committee on 7 February 2014 under the entry Jews “basically won the lottery”.  Now we have what was actually said, not just notes from a reporter on the speech.  It is similar to the speeches Allen was giving while touring the world telling people who Francis truly is.  At the 16 minutes and 41 seconds Allen goes off his usual script and has a message just for the Jews.  He specifically mentions Abe Foxman a little after 22 minutes 16 seconds and tells him to assist the Vatican so Francis is coached in how to not accidentally offend the Jews during his (then) upcoming trip to Israel.

Less than 2 weeks later, listen to what Abe Foxman tells the media about Francis.

Looks like Foxman received all his wishes from Francis!

To see and hear Foxman in his own words say he is running a scam watch the excellent movie, Defamation by Yoav Shamir, below.

gatekeeper John L. Allen, Jr.'s important role in The Francis Revolution

 John L. Allen, Jr. and Saint John Paul II

 John L. Allen, Jr. and Benedict XVI

  John L. Allen, Jr. and Francis

Before we get to John Allen's talk, a little background on the man.  Allen is an insider's insider at the Vatican having covered the beat for 16 years.  He is currently an editor at the Boston Globe where he also writes about religion and Francis.  One can listen to Allen on NPR or watch him on television on CNN where he is the Vatican correspondant.  Allen has written, not one but two biographies of Benedict XVI, a book on New York's laughing cow Cardinal Timothy Dolan, and a puff piece on Opus (Ju)Dei.  Here is where it gets interesting.  John is considered an expert of Catholic/Jewish relations and for the past two years has been the headline speaker at the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith's National Executive Committee Meeting.  One other thing, John's wife is Shannon Levitt and yes she is a practicing Jew.  Notice on her necklace in the photo below a ✡.

Shannon Levitt a supporter of Obama!

So where is all this leading?  Sometime in September the Boston Globe is going to launch a Francis website.  The topics will be Francis, Catholicism, and the New Evangelization.  Mike Sheehan, CEO of the Boston Globe said, 

“Don’t think of this site as the place you go to buy statues you bury in the backyard.  It’s going to be news and analysis of all things Catholic.”

Joining John L. Allen, Jr. at this new website will be; Teresa Hanafin, San Martin, Michael O’Loughlin, and Christina Reinwald.  If we are to speculate, Call Me Jorge... and other Catholic websites have been so effective countering the lies told about Francis in the establishment media that they now need a full time website to tell you what to think about Francis.  We doubt if any of these stories will be covered by them:

• Francis' gluttony
• the King and Queen of Spain who support sodomy visit Francis
• his blasphemous jokes (as Francis) & (as Bergoglio)
• photo-op at Bethany beyond the Jordan
• Francis' reign is the end of the Medieval Papacy
• Francis hiding his pectoral cross so as not to offend rabbis
• papal ring designed by a freemason
• picking his nose (as Francis) & (as Bergoglio)
• receives the Maimonides Award for Inter-religious Dialogue
• lunches with sixteen rabbis
• significance of trip to the Kotel (aka Western Wall, Wailing Wall) 
• the blasphemy in Francis' favorite painting
• lunches with Evangelicals
• symbolism of Yad Vashem visit
• and many, many more!!!

 

If you haven't read the entry, a reader comments on 'FOBs' the Friends of Bergoglio, showing how Allen plays a very important role in framing the language and topics to be discussed about Francis, then  we urge the reader to do so.  Without further ado, here is John L. Allen telling the audience not to panic as Francis is catholic.  The problem is we just haven't ever had such a humble man in the papacy before and it's going to take some time to get used to it.

The Francis Revolution: The Papacy at the One-Year Mark

 

a reader comments on 'FOBs' the Friends of Bergoglio

Yesterday, we read some extremely insightful thoughts written by a reader of Call Me Jorge.... in the comments section of the entry, 'FOBs' the Friends of Bergoglio.  The writer's name is Michael and he has his own blog called, Public Vigil.  He expertly peels away the layers of propaganda in John L. Allen, Jr.'s article and shows the method which Allen uses to define not only the topic of what is to be debated but also the terms to be used.  Tomorrow, we will post some facts on Allen which are not well known and the special upcoming role he is to have as an uber-propagandist for Francis.  Thanks to Michael for his comments and allowing us to feature them!

Dear Call Me Jorge,

I have been suspicious of Allen for a long time. If you ask me he is some sort of high-level agent. I'm not quite sure who he is working for. He could be a double or triple agent like Malachi Martin.

Just the fact that he writes for the National Catholic Reporter is enough to raise suspicion of his real motives. He also seems to have unprecedented access to information which makes me think that he is being fed this "intelligence". IMO he is a very skilled and very subtle propagandist. He spins information by first stating enough facts to lower your guard and then inserting his carefully spun piece of public opinion swaying propaganda. He's a true master of the art of propaganda and no hack like most liberal/socialist journalists.

Anyway, any time I read one of his articles I'm on the watch for a subtle piece of propaganda. In the case of this FOB piece I think the propaganda lies in:
 

1) Implying that Bergoglio does not have "friends" among the Catholic hierarchy. He certainly does -- they are unofficially called "the gay lobby". I think "gay mafia" is a better term. And he has other modernist "friends" in the Catholic hierarchy as well.

2) This goes along with point 1. It is the idea that Bergoglio is a "lone wolf" as opposed to being part of a larger conspiracy which has infiltrated the Catholic church. If we don't know who our enemy is then we don't know who to fight. We should not waste too much time fighting the FOBs that Allen mentions. We need to concentrate on the conspiracy inside the Church. 

3) Referring to these heretic co-conspirators of Bergoglio as "friends" lowers your guard. "Oh, they are just 'friends'. How nice. Well, everyone should be allowed to have 'friends'-- even the pope." So anyone that attacks these "friendships" is automatically a bad guy. How can you be "anti-friend"? It's a case of establishing the language and definitions for the debate. Once you accept your opponents language and definitions you have already lost the debate. These guys are heretic anti-Catholic leaches that have attached themselves to Bergoglio -- and he welcomes this relationship because he is also a heretic anti-Catholic leach.

4) Specifically in this case Allen is launching a pre-emptive propaganda attack to prepare the way for the July 28 meeting with Traettino. This is necessary because this is going to be such a revolutionary act that Allen is attempting to "soften the blow" by saying that it's "not unprecedented". Actually it IS unprecedented and Allen knows it. That is why he must deny it. This is already setting the "talking points" for the way to spin this meeting in the media. Talking point 1 -- it's "not unprecedented". Even if it wasn't "unprecedented" that still does not make it OK for a pope to preach at a heretical non-Catholic church. By saying it is " not unprecedented " Allen is implying it is "normal". It is most certainly NOT normal. It is revolutionary. It is another step forward in the Modernist revolution. It is an attempt to establish a new "beach head". And once this becomes "normal" it is very difficult to turn back the clock.

5) What do you know about Traettino after reading this article? Allen makes him seem like a nice harmless guy. He's not. He is being financed specifically to attack the Catholic Church. This is also true of Tony Palmer. If you find out who is paying the bills for these guys then there agenda will become quite clear. Allen is the kind of journalist/agent with the kind of contacts and information sources to do that kind of research, but he doesn't. He's protecting these guys. Maybe after it is too late he will spill the beans to show us just what a super-journalist he is. Or at least some of the beans. The ones he wants us to know about while hiding the others.

Call me paranoid, but Allen is very dangerous IMO.

'FOBs' the Friends of Bergoglio

 

Call Me Jorge... had planned on an entry about John L Allen, Jr. today.  This changed yesterday when the column, ‘FOBs’ driving the train under Pope Francis Also: Christian fear in Gaza, controversy in Korea, and Allen Down Under, came across our screens.  An excerpt of this article is below and contains only the part about the friends of Francis.   In it are several startling revelations concerning how Francis runs the Vatican.  One thing which Allen forgot to mention (or maybe he doesn't know) is Francis keeps his own calendar.  On his person he has a small appointment book in which he organizes his days.  Francis only shares this schedule with one aide and sometime with his personal secretary.  One of the problems which has resulted from this is bishops and cardinals cannot set up appointments in advance if they want to meet with Francis.  Typically they show up in Rome and wait at his whim.  After one reads of Francis' circle of friends who are heretics and apostates in the article, ask yourself this: How can Francis call himself Catholic? 

‘FOBs’ driving the train under Pope Francis
by John L Allen Jr.

During the Clinton administration, American politics developed a new bit of argot: “FOB,” meaning “friend of Bill,” an intimate of the president who enjoyed access to the corridors of power and perhaps helped shape his agenda.

Today Catholicism has its own emerging “FOB” class, in this case standing for “friend of Bergoglio.” The reference is to those with personal ties to Jorge Mario Bergoglio, better known to the world as Pope Francis, who could be positioned to influence his papacy.

The degree to which those friends have the pope’s ear makes the Vatican’s official chain of command less revealing these days about who’s driving the train in the Catholic Church than, say, the pontiff’s Facebook account. (That is, it would be if Francis were actually on Facebook.)

The latest FOB to pop up is Giovanni Traettino, leader of the Protestant “Evangelical Church of Reconciliation.” The Vatican announced this week that Francis will travel July 28 to the southern Italian city of Caserta to see Traettino, who became friends with Bergoglio a decade ago while serving in Argentina.

In Caserta, Francis will join Evangelicals and Catholics for prayer at Traettino’s church. Though not unprecedented, it will mark one of just a handful of occasions when a pope has ventured into a Protestant church to pray.

The trip is part of a recent pattern of outreach from Francis to the Evangelical and Pentecostal worlds, in each case driven by people he knows.

In January, Francis sent a video message to a conference led by American Pentecostal Kenneth Copeland in which the pope offered a “spiritual hug.” That prompted a group of Evangelicals and Pentecostals to visit Rome, an event capped off when the pontiff and televangelist James Robison high-fived over the need for Christians to have a personal relationship with Jesus.

“God has begun the miracle of unity,” Francis said in his video, quoting Italian novelist Alessandro Manzoni that “God never begins a miracle he does not finish well.”

As it turns out, the video was a byproduct of a FOB. An Anglican Evangelical and charismatic named Bishop Tony Palmer, who had become friends with Bergoglio in Argentina, visited him in Rome earlier in January, and told him about Copeland’s gathering, prompting Francis to volunteer to send greetings.

As for Traettino, he got to know Bergoglio through an Argentine movement called “Renewed Communion of Evangelicals and Catholics in the Spirit.” In 2006, Bergoglio took part in a prayer service sponsored by the movement that drew 7,000 people to Luna Park in Buenos Aires, a venue ordinarily used for boxing matches.

At one stage, Bergoglio knelt and allowed himself to be prayed over by some 20 Protestant clergy. That act led disgruntled traditionalist Catholics to declare the see of Buenos Aires “vacant” on the grounds that it was occupied by a heretic, but the future pope was undaunted.

Francis’ tendency to set policy through friendships is clear across a range of issues.

On Catholic/Jewish relations, no one has more influence than Rabbi Abraham Skorka, rector of a Jewish seminary in Buenos Aires with whom Bergoglio co-authored a 2010 book and produced a 30-episode TV talk show. Similarly, with Islam, Francis relies on his friend Omar Abboud, former director of an Islamic center in Buenos Aires.

Friendship is also the heart of Francis’ media relations strategy, such as it is. The sit-down interviews he’s given haven’t been arranged through official channels, but have come either with friends or through friends.

Jorge Himitian, another Argentine Evangelical FOB, told the Globe’s Inés San Martín on Thursday that Bergoglio and his circle see friendship as the key to ecumenical progress.

“We’ve learned that the institutional road . . . always becomes a dead end because it runs into doctrinal and practical differences,” Himitian said.

“The dialogue we have is based on friendship and spirituality,” he said. “We hope that the rest will eventually fall into place.”

To be sure, this reliance on friendship has its down side.

For one thing, people who could help the pope on many issues find themselves at a significant disadvantage if they’re not already inside his circle. Deference to friends may also mean that Francis feels obliged to act on their suggestions, even if they’re half-baked, and it runs the risk that friends may oversell their access or misrepresent the pope’s intentions.

Twice, for instance, the pontiff has sat down with a 90-year-old Italian journalist, Eugenio Scalfari, whom Francis considers a chum, and twice the Vatican has had to distance Francis from the fallout. The latest case came July 13, when Scalfari hinted that Francis was about to jettison priestly celibacy and a Vatican spokesman had to walk it back.

For good or ill, however, relationships matter to this pope. The primary reason he opted to live in the Santa Marta hotel rather than the papal apartment, for instance, is because he craves the company of other people.

For those seeking progress on issues such as ecumenism and relations with Jews and Muslims, therefore, the good news is that Francis is not driven merely by abstract conviction. He’s fueled by friendship, which with this pope is akin to saying he’s “all in.”