“I find that it is rather a kind of fashion [in Czech: 'móda']. And if it is a fashion, therefore it is a matter that does not need that much attention. It is just necessary to show some patience and kindness to people who are addicted to a certain fashion.
“we can affirm with certainty and with magisterial authority that the liturgical reform is irreversible.”
So much for Francis ‘honoring his elders’ by transmitting the Faith entrusted to him from previous pontiffs. Instead Francis brainwashes his pewsitters with a man-centered humanistic Noahidism, honoring the type of elder which Jesus warned us not to follow.
Pope Francis told Father Spadaro he wonders why some young people, who were not raised with the old Latin Mass, nevertheless prefer it.
“And I ask myself: Why so much rigidity? Dig, dig, this rigidity always hides something, insecurity or even something else. Rigidity is defensive. True love is not rigid.”
Alessio was a favorite of Francis and always standing next to him in press photos.
Some time ago Loyola Press released a book in which Francis answered questions sent from children all around the world. This book was titled, Dear Pope Francis: The Pope Answers Letter from Children Around the World, in the United States of America. The Italian edition is L’amore prima del mondo: Papa Francesco scrive ai bambini (Love before the world: Pope Francis writes to children).
What makes this book very interesting, besides Francis’ off the wall un-Catholic answers to the children’s questions, is that one letter from Alessio which is in the Italian edition of the book is missing from the English language version. This nine year old Italian boy, Alessio, was the darling of the Italian media and Francis’ favorite child in the many videos we at Call Me Jorge... have watched on this topic. Doesn’t it make you wonder why the English language edition does not contain the letter and answer? We believe it is because Americans still have a small sense of what being Catholic means and would have been outraged by Francis’ answer. While elsewhere around the world, the Faith has declined to such a degree that people wouldn’t even blink if they read Francis’ answer much less be upset.
This isn’t the first time that an English language edition of a book by Francis has been censored. Pope Francis: Conversations with Jorge Bergoglio: His Life in His Own Words is missing a blasphemous joke about Our Lord which is in the original Spanish edition, El Jesuita: Conversaciones con el cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, s.j.. (See, Jorge jokes about Our Lord's Crucifixion, for more deatils.)
Another interesting thing concerning Alessio’s letter and Francis’ reply is that Call Me Jorge... came across this in Italian on twitter in a post from a reporter who worked in the Vatican’s press pool and on the Tridentine Judaism blog, Rorate-Caeli. We write that Rorate-Caeli is Tridentine Judaism as they promote Talmudists as the eternal victims instead of the unbelieving sinners and blasphemers that they are among other things. Well, Rorate-Caeli exposed this letter and answer on 28 Febraury 2016 in Pope Francis served the traditional Latin Mass! and on 10 December 2016 in Dear Sycophants of Pope Francis: If you truly love him, don't let the world see his nakedness, said that Francis is like a senile relative who needs to have his nakedness covered out of love, less more damage be done to the papacy! This brings to mind Michael Voris’ group Church Militant and their post, ChurchMilitant.TV Will Not Engage in Public Criticism of the Pope, which explains their position of not criticizing “naked Noah” Francis while naming those who expose Francis for who he is as “pornographers”. How Talmudic to twist the word of God to suit one’s agenda. We wonder is there a blanket big enough in the world to cover the nakedness of Francis? Perhaps, ChurchMiltant.TV & Rorate-Caeli could solve one Francis’ pet peeves, unemployment, by having the people of Italy sew one for this unworthy cause.
Below, Call Me Jorge... provides three screenshots of Francis’ reply to Alessio and part of Alessio’s letter to Francis from L’amore prima del mondo: Papa Francesco scrive ai bambini as well as video of Alessio promoting the book. Also, are the transcript of the original Italian of the Q & A and the English translation of the Q & A. Lastly, we include a video from Fr. William Jenkins which contains the best commentary we found on the topic, we highly recommend it and it is worth nine minutes of your time. So scroll on down and read Francis’ answer to the nine year old Alessio which shows who the real Francis is.
Cover of the English language version (for North America) of Dear Pope Francis.
Cover of the Italian edition of L’amore prima del mondo: Papa Francesco scrive ai bambini.
Caro Papa Francesco, sei mai stato accanto al sacerdote come chierichetto? Saluti da Alessio(Italia, 9 anni) Caro Alessio, sì che sono stato chierichetto. E tu? Quel chierichetto del disegno sei tu? Ma, senti, adesso è più facile. Devi sapere che quando ero bambino io la messa si celebrava in maniera differente da come si fa adesso. Il prete intanto guardava l’altare, che era accostato al muro, e non le persone. Poi il libro col quale diceva la messa, il messale, era messo sull’altare nella parte destra. Ma prima della lettura del Vangelo si spostava sempre sul lato sinistro. Questo era il mio compito: portarlo da destra a sinistra e da sinistra a destra. Ma che fatica! Era pesante! Io lo prendevo con tutta la mia energia, ma non ero robusto: lo sollevavo e mi cadeva, e così il prete mi doveva aiutare. Era un’impresa! Poi la messa non era in italiano. Il prete parlava ma io non capivo niente. E così anche i miei compagni. Allora poi per gioco imitavamo il prete storpiando un po’ le parole per fare strane frasi in spagnolo. Ci divertivamo. E ci piaceva tanto servire la messa.
ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF ALLESIO’S QUESTION & FRANCIS’ ANSWER
Dear Pope Francis, Were you ever near the priest as the altar boy? Greetings from Alessio (Italy, age 9)
Dear Alessio, yes, I was an altar boy. And you? What part among the
altar boys do you have? It’s easier to do now, you know: You might know
that, when I was a kid, Mass was celebrated different than today. Back
then, the priest faced the altar, which was next to the wall, and not
the people. Then the book with which he said the Mass, the missal, was
placed on the right side of the altar. But before reading of the Gospel
it always had to be moved to the left side. That was my job: to carry it
from right to left. It was exhausting! The book was heavy! I picked it
up with all my energy but I wasn’t so strong; I picked it up once and
fell down, so the priest had to help me. Some job I did! The Mass wasn’t
in Italian then. The priest spoke but I didn’t understand anything. and
neither did my friends. So for fun we’d do imitations of the priest,
messing up the words a bit to make up weird sayings in Spanish. We had
fun, and we really enjoyed serving Mass.
The highly recommended video by Fr. William Jenkins
— more on Francis’ book for children —
Francis examining the letters from children presented to him by Antonio Spadaro.
Francis reading another letter to him on his floors in Casa Santa Marta.
Antonio Spadaro filming Francis reading William’s question
a video promoting the book with Alessio in it
***** UPDATE 20 DECEMBER 2016 ****
Thanks to the reader who sent us this information!
Alessio’s letter & Francis’ reply is also in the Spanish edition.
Cover of Spanish language edition of Querido Papa Francisco: El Papa responde a las cartas de niños de todo el mundo (Dear Pope Francis: The Pope responds to letters from children around the world)
El Papa contó la anécdota al responder a Alessio, un niño italiano de 9 años de edad, quien le preguntó si "¿alguna vez estuvo cerca del sacerdote como monaguillo?"
Esta fue la respuesta del Papa:
"Querido Alessio, sí, fui monaguillo. ¿Y tú? ¿Qué tarea cumples entre los monaguillos? Es más fácil ahora, ¿sabes? Debes saber que, cuando yo era niño, la Misa se celebraba de forma diferente a ahora. Entonces, el sacerdote miraba hacia el altar, que se encontraba junto a la pared, y no a la gente. El libro con el que decía la Misa, el misal, se colocaba al lado derecho del altar. Pero antes de la lectura del Evangelio, siempre tenía que llevarse hacia el lado izquierdo. Ese era mi trabajo: Llevar el libro de derecha a izquierda y después de izquierda a derecha. ¡Era agotador! ¡El libro era pesado! Lo llevaba con toda mi energía, pero yo no era tan fuerte: en una ocasión lo recogí y me caí, así que el sacerdote tuvo que ayudarme. ¡Qué tal trabajo que hice! La Misa no era en italiano en aquel entonces. El sacerdote hablaba pero yo no entendía nada, y mis amigos tampoco. Así que para divertirnos hacíamos imitaciones del sacerdote, mezclando un poco las palabras para inventar frases extrañas en español. Nos divertíamos, y realmente disfrutamos mucho sirviendo en Misa".
Cover of Brazilian-Portuguese language edition of Querido Papa Francisco - o Papa Responde Às Cartas de Crianças do Mundo Todo (Dear Pope Francis - Pope Responds to Children's Letters from Around the World)
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel & Cardinal Augustin Bea plotting.
This is a follow-up post to Catholic Family News entertains readers with fairy tales while continuing to ignore the truth. The Talmudic Jews and their rabbis didn't have to meet in secret places on the hush-hush with bureaucrats from the Holy See. Instead, the reality was the Christ-deniers were the honored guests at the Vatican, which hosted several discreet meetings before the Second Vatican Council began on what they would like to make happen at the Council. This was even reported on by Il Giornale d'Italia at the time much less a handful of other outlets of the conservative European press. Below are scanned in documents from the American Jewish Committee's website (link to .pdf). The first two pages are a letter from Louis Caplan, the President of the AJC, to Cardinal Bea thanking him for a meeting which took place at the Vatican on 13 July 1961 and the upcoming planned meeting of 26 November 1961. Caplan also included the paper, Anti-Jewish Element in Catholic Liturgy: A Memorandum to the Secretariat for Christian Unity, which is part two of the scanned documents below. The memorandum focuses on the Paschal Triduum. We challenge readers of Call Me Jorge... to find anything in the memorandum which has subsequently not been adopted by the Vatican.
Louis Caplan's letter to Cardinal Bea
- 17 November 1961 -
Anti-Jewish Element in Catholic Liturgy:
A Memorandum to the Secretariat for Christian Unity
13 November 1964, Blessed Paul VI surrendered the papacy's claim to temporal power among other things
(left to right) Cardinal Ottaviani and Paul VI at ceremony in which Paul VI abandoned the
papal tiara on 13 November 1964 during the Second Vatican Council.
Today is the 50th Anniversary of the fateful day Blessed Paul VI renounced the papal tiara. This momentous day was one year and twenty five days before the Second Vatican Council ended. Paul VI announced officially he was giving up his coronation crown as a gift to the
poor. This was done ostensibly to help the world fund a drive to fight
poverty. The triple tiara was a gift to Paul VI from the people of
Milan where Paul VI had served as archbishop and was valued (in 1964 US Dollars) at
$12,000. It weighs 3 lbs and is made of gold, silver, and studded with
jewels. The tiara resembles a bullet. Paul VI's action took place at the end of Byzantine Hierarchical Liturgy he had celebrated in St. Peters. This liturgy was taking place because Paul VI wanted to stress the unity between eastern and western Catholics. As can be seen in the video below, Paul VI abandoned his tiara on the altar as a symbolic gesture which spoke volumes.
Abandonment of the Tiara
When Paul VI left St. Peter's Basilica, the members of the Holy See's
diplomatic corps as well as delegates to the Second Vatican Council
broke out in spontaneous applause and shouted,
"Viva Il Papa povere!"
or
in English,
"Long live the Pope of poverty!"
Vatican
spokespeople also said that Paul VI intended the abandonment of the tiara as a
gift to the poor. It was to be the first donation to a world collection to help the poor
as suggested by two members of the Council. One James J. Norris and
the other Cardinal Raul Silva Henriquez the archbishop of Santiago,
Chile. Mr. James J. Norris on 5 November 1964 addressed the Council
with a speech titled, World Poverty and the Christian Conscience. The speech which prompted Paul VI to action can be read below towards the end of the entry. This symbolic gesture of abandoning the tiara made such an impression on one order of religious sisters (Religious of the Sacred Heart)
in the United States of America that they collected their gold rings of
consecration, the only article they possessed of any monetary value, and
had them melted down. Nothing like melting down one's wedding ring to Christ! After selling the gold they sent Paul VI the
$20,000 they had received for them.
Instead of being auctioned off as
Paul VI intended, Cardinal Spellman of New York City made a private arrangement with Paul VI to bring the tiara to the United States. Publicly, Spellman said it was a gift from
Paul VI to the United States for all the work its Catholics had done in
helping the poor. Citing Catholic relief services which over the
previous twenty years had distributed over 1.3 billion dollars of of
food, clothing, and medicine.
A postcard from 1964/5 World's Fair in New York City showing
papal tiara on display in the Vatican Pavilion.
After arranging for the acquisition of the tiara, Francis Cardinal Spellman said it was to be displayed in St.
Patick's Cathedral in New York City for a time, then be put on display
in the Vatican Pavilion at the World's Fair, before making a tour of the
United States of America, after which it would be permanently displayed
at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.
A medal bearing the image of Paul VI being crowned with the Papal Tiara by the Cardinal Protodeacon, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani.
We can hear some people question,
"What's the big deal?"
or state,
"Paul VI was such a humble man who cared for the poor!"
What does the Tiara represent? According to the Vatican's website (bold is ours for emphasis),
The Triregnum (the Papal Tiara formed by
three crowns symbolizing the triple power of the
Pope: father of kings, governor of the world and
Vicar of Christ) from the XVIII Century, with
which the bronze statue of Saint Peter is
crowned every June 29th, the feast
day of the Saint.
Use of the Tiara, a ritual during solemn
ceremonies, was abandoned during the Papacy of
Paul VI.
The Tiara is a headdress ending in an ogive
and made of silver, and during the times of
Boniface VIII two crowns were added, and from
1314 three crowns (the reason it is called the
triregnum), topped by a small globe with a
golden cross.
Among the various interpretations, we shall
mention the one that says that the three crowns
represent the militant, the suffering and the
triumphant Church.
The shape of the Triregnum varied throughout
the years. We may find it represented as more or
less rounded, in some cases without the globe
and the cross. At times there is a modified
position of the ribbons (two ribbons with a
patent cross hanging).
Symbolically it is safe to say Paul VI gave up all being the father of kings, governor of the world and Vicar of Christ. What then was he Pontiff of? Why would one claim to be doing something in the name of the poor when it was detrimental to the end goal of life? To get to heaven. How do material possessions help one achieve this goal?
Recall Christ's words from Matthew 26, 7-15:
[7] There came to him a woman having an alabaster box of precious ointment, and poured it on his head as he was at table.
[8] And the disciples seeing it, had indignation, saying: To what purpose is this waste?
[9] For this might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
[10] And Jesus knowing it, said to them: Why do you trouble this woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me. [11]For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always.[12]For she in pouring this ointment upon my body, hath done it for my burial.[13] Amen I say to you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the
whole world, that also which she hath done, shall be told for a memory
of her.[14] Then went one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, to the chief priests,
[15] And said to them: What will you give me, and I will deliver him unto you? But they appointed him thirty pieces of silver.
[11]Me you have not always: Viz., in a visible manner, as when conversant here on earth; and as we have the poor, whom we may daily assist and relieve.
Christ said the poor shall always be among us. When he abandoned his tiara how was this helping the poor? Recall earlier that Paul VI and the Vatican said he was abandoning the Temporal Powers of the papacy. Cardinal Manning, of the First Vatican Council's "De Fide" committee which passed the decree on Papal infallibility said in a speech, which was latter written down in a pamphlet form, these prophetic words about what would happen to the Church if the Pontiff were to loose his if Temporal Power.
"All
I can do is to touch the mere outline of what would follow upon the
dissolution, if that could be, of the Temporal Power of the Pontiffs.
But first let me once for all, or rather once more for the thousandth
time, sweep away the absurdity imputed to us, day by day, that we make
the Temporal Power a part of Christianity, and that if it were
overthrown Christianity would fall with it. This surpasses even the
extravagance of controversy. We do believe, indeed, that the dissolution
of the two-fold authority of the Pontiff would strike out the key stone
of Christendom ; that is, of the two-fold order of Christianity and
civilization which for a thousand years has sustained the commonwealth
of Europe. We believe that then Christianity would stand alone, on its
own divine and imperishable basis ; and that civilization without
Christianity would return to the natural order, and to the spiritual
death out of which Christianity raised it to life." (pp. 19-20 of "The Temporal Power of the Pope in Its Political Aspect", 1866)
Those words of Cardinal Manning are very cut and dry. Dear reader, doesn't this describe the whole of Europe today? As if abandonment of the tiara wasn't symbolic enough the bizarre behavior continued when on 4 October 1965 Paul VI visited the United Nations in New York City during the 4th session of the Second Vatican Council. There Paul VI said the United Nations was mankind's last hope of a universal organization which could bring about world peace! Unbelievable? Wait there's more! Paul VI then gave his papal cross and papal ring to Mr. U Than, the General Secretary of the United Nations. Why did he do this? To help the poor of course by auctioning them off!
Paul VI had no more need for any of the symbols of his office!
A few years after his visit to the United Nations Paul VI in 1969 promulgated the Novus Ordo Missae and suppressed the traditional Tridentine Latin Mass (one could even argue he outlawed it). This caused much confusion and consternation among the faithful. To top it all off, Paul VI then began wearing at religious ceremonies an ephod! Why
he gave the tiara up and used the breast-plate of the Ephod, (a.k.a. the
rational of Judgment) when Christ had superseded the old priests is beyond perplexing. Symbolically, Paul VI no longer appears as pontiff of the Catholic Church, the successor of Peter, the Vicar of
Christ, but as a Levitical high priest, the successor and representative of Caiphas.
Let's recap;
Vatican II is in session and Paul VI abandons the papal tiara,
Vatican II still in session Paul VI visits United Nations and gives away his papal cross and papal ring while telling the U.N. they are world's hope for peace,
Vatican II proclaims the end of the triumphal Constantinian Church and the
beginning of the Church of the poor,
Paul VI suppresses the Tridentine Latin Mass which ends up becoming in effect a ban,
Paul VI wears an ephod the symbol of a Levitical high priest.
We at Call Me Jorge... have no doubt that the Blessed Paul VI will in the future be declared by Francis to be a saint. Francis like Paul VI seems hell-bent on constantly transforming everything but papal infallibility and authority.
Mr. HOWARD. Mi-. Speaker, we are all aware of the very fine work done by the Catholic Relief Services-National Catholic Welfare Conference in New York. It is my great pleasure to have Mr. James J. Norris, assistant to the executive director of that organization as one of my constituents.
Mr. Norris, who lives at the Avenue of Two Rivers in Rumson. N.J., is well known for the fine work he has accomplished. Mr. Speaker, on November 5, 1964, Mr. Norris gave a statement to the bishops assembled in the Vatican Council in Rome. This is historic in that for the first time in history an American layman so spoke to the bishops of the world in a council of the church.
At this time I would like to include that speech in the Record:
World Poverty and the Christian Conscience
By James J. Norris
(at Vatican Council II November 5. 1964)
In the last decade the problem of poverty—one of the oldest and deepest that confronts the Christian conscience—has taken on a new shape, new dimensions, and new urgency. “The poor you have always with you"—yes, but today the poor are with us in a new and revolutionary context, because modern science, medicine, and technology have helped to bring about a single economy, in neighborhood that Is interdependent, but largely lacking the institutions and the policies that express solidarity, compassion, and human obligation.
In this lopsided community, one small group of nations have become immensely wealthy. These nations represent 16 percent of the world's peoples, and they own 70 percent of its wealth. They are the nations grouped around the North Atlantic, which are Christian by tradition, if not always in practice. For the first time in history they foresee rising prosperity—rich today they will be richer tomorrow. Meanwhile, three-quarters of the human race live In a state of poverty bordering on or below the subsistence level.
The gap between the rich and the poor is rapidly widening—side by side the rich grow richer and the poor grow poorer, in a single world community. This is a wholly unprecedented historical fact, and it presents the Christian conscience of the Western nations with a challenge, because for the first time in history it is accepted as a fact that, given time, they have the means to wipe out poverty in the rest of the world.
There will be no meaning to their Christian profession or humane traditions if they forget that wealth is a trust and that property carries social obligations and that riches on the scale of the West’s modern riches must be redeemed by generosity.
A number of church, private, governmental, and international agencies have been attempting to alleviate the problems of poverty and hunger in the world; nevertheless, the constantly widening gap between the rich and the poor demands now a sustained, realistic dedicated campaign to bring full Christian activity to bear upon these problems.
All Christian communions are involved and therefore the opportunity is offered to all to unite in these efforts and bring Joint influence to bear to encourage governments to continue and expand their policies for providing capital and technical assistance. No other group is likely to have the staying power needed for this long, arduous and often disappointing work. World poverty will not be wiped out speedily. nor will the problem of development be solved in anything short of several generations. Our Christian peoples must not become weary of well doing.
But the goal will be reached if in each wealthy country there is brought into being a strong, committed, well-informed, and courageous group of men of good will who are prepared to see world poverty as one of the great central concerns cf our time and press steadily and vocally for the policies in aid, in trade and in the transfer of skills that will lessen the widening gap between the rich and the poor.
This problem is not only the concern of the wealthy nations. In our complex 20th century world, the developing nations, to progress effectively, need the capital, the knowledge, and the technical assistance of the more economically developed countries, but as wise leaders in those countries insist, the development must come from the local resources, both material and human, which God has given these lands.
Recently, a bishop from one of these lands said to me, "My people live not only in poverty but in permanent misery.” Tills type of utter poverty brings with it other human sufferings. The first is hunger—a constant, gnawing hunger that is never satisfied day or night. Poverty brings diseases that cannot be cured because there are no medical services. Poverty brings illiteracy in lands where the great majority of people cannot read or write. Poverty brings bad housing slums that breed crime and sin. Poverty means that a mother looks at her newborn infant knowing that it will probably die before the year is out. For millions of people, living in this kind of poverty, death is a sweet release.
A loving human family does not permit its members to suffer in this way. When all the members of our Christian family become aware of the extent of suffering and privation among the poor of the world, surely they will make certain that their wealthy lands will not fall to respond to their Christian obligation.
From this ecumenical council could come a clarion call for action which would involve the creation of a structure that would devise the kind of institutions, contacts, forms of cooperation and policy, which the church can adopt, to secure full Catholic participation in the worldwide attack on poverty. This great gathering of bishops represents every continent and every country on earth.
Since world poverty affects all humanity the great contribution of our universal church can be a world-encircling manifestation of brotherly love, bringing effectively to bear the social teaching of the church on the problem which our beloved Holy Father discussed in his Christmas message last year when he said that hunger is the principal problem in the world today and concluded with these words: “Unless this heart-rending situation is relieved, we must foresee that It will grow worse, not better. • • *
Even though we are not given Christ's miraculous power of materially multiplying bread for the world’s hunger, still we can take to heart the plea that rises from the masses, still oppressed and languishing with misery, and to feel It vibrate in us with the very pity which was felt by the heart of Christ which Is both divine and completely human: Misereor super turbam—‘I have compassion on the multitude. • • •
They have nothing to eat.’ We make our own the sufferings of the poor. And we hope that this our sympathy may itself become capable of enkindling that new love which, by means of a specially planned economy, will multiply the bread needed to feed the world.''
Photos of the tiara at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the
