Déjà vu

John Paul II meets the Buddhist Patriarch of Thailand

35 years later....

Francis meets the Buddhist Patriarch of Thailand

Keeping up the fine tradition of Novus Ordo apostasy.

Is Benedict XVI still in touch with John Paul II?

Benedict XVI being interviewed in the Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo.

Benedict XVI was interviewed by Polish television on 16 October 2005.  It was his first television interview after his election.  During the interview the reporter asked Benedict XVI about his first homily which he gave to the College of Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel on 20 April 2005, specifically when he said, (underlines are ours for emphasis),

“Dear friends, this deep gratitude for a gift of divine mercy is uppermost in my heart in spite of all. And I consider it a special grace which my Venerable Predecessor, John Paul II, has obtained for me. I seem to feel his strong hand clasping mine; I seem to see his smiling eyes and hear his words, at this moment addressed specifically to me, "Do not be afraid!".”

Benedict XVI answered explaining,

“The Pope [John Paul II] was always very close to me through his writings [texts]: I see him and hear him speak, and I can be in a continuous dialogue with the Holy Father because he always speaks to me through these words; I also know the origin of many writings, I remember the conversations we had about one text or another. I can continue the dialogue with the Holy Father. Of course this proximity through the words is not just a proximity purely with the writings but also with the person; behind the writings I feel the Pope himself. A man who goes to the Lord does not leave; more and more I feel that, being with the Lord, he [John Paul II] is close to me also. Insofar as I am close to the Lord, I am close to the Pope and he helps me now to be close to the Lord. I try to enter into his ambience [atmosphere] of prayer, into his love for the Father, his love for the Mother of God, and I entrust myself to his prayers [intercession]. It is thus a continuous dialogue and a being-close-to-one-another — although in a new, yet also very profound, way.” (English translation is CMJ’s)

After reading this a few questions spring to mind:

• Was John Paul II holding Benedict XVI’s hand when he resigned?

• Did John Paul II whisper the incorrect Latin into Benedict XVI’s ear as he read his resignation?

• Did the deceased spirit of John Paul II help Benedict XVI clean up ‘gay lobby’?

• Did he tell him to have Wande Abimbola, head of the Yorùbá voodoo, come to Assisi?

• Is Benedict XVI in his retirement still in contact with this saint?

• Is this what is meant by the hermeneutics of continuity?

• Did he congratulate Benedict XVI for revealing the “Third Secret of Fatima”?

• Etc...

John Paul II in touch with Cardinal Ratzinger.

Cardinal Josef Ratzinger touching John Paul II.

Maybe they will touch hands again, one day soon...

Francis contra Michael Voris

Francis & Amazing Grace

contra....

Michael Voris on Amazing Grace

Has the cat got your tongue today Mike?




*Amazing Grace was written by John Newton who was a slave trader, a tax collector, an Anglican priest, a husband, a writer, an abolitionist, and a hymnist among many things.

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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