A touch screen blessing!

Francis has the strange notion in his head that a papal blessing takes place whenever he touches someone. We at Call Me Jorge... have only seen him make the sign of the cross once when conducting a blessing and even then it was to a video camera.  Below, Francis takes it to an all-new level.

Pope Francis blesses a photo of a child displayed on a mobile phone at the end of a special audience with members of the Christian Workers' Movement in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, January 16, 2016. (Photo by Alessandra Tarantino/AP Photo)

Two fine examples of a properly carried out papal blessing

Selfie Sunday #5 (the cardboard selfie)

Even when Francis isn't present for a selfie, his modernism is there in spirit for him.  This papal 'tradition' is spreading like wildfire.  How much longer until Suor Cristina finally gets a selfie with her hero?  One selfie and two almost selfies from a bookstore somewhere in Asia.

another novelty wrist band

Francis met with 500 poor children between the ages of 9 and 10 from Naples and Rome on Saturday 31 May 2014. Some of the children presented Francis with a rainbow colored loom bracelet and another in papal colors.  Remember when Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier of South Africa gave Francis a yellow bracelet for Lent? (click here to read, Jorge and His Love of Novelties)  The colors of the loom bracelet are the colors of the rainbow.  Since Francis has told us repeatedly that his brand of catholicism has jewish roots we take this to symbolize the noahide laws. (click here to read, Francis ❤'s balloons)  Recall that when Francis speaks of Judaism he is talking about the modern day conterfeit religion of the talmudic rabbis which maquerades as the Old Testament religion of Israel.  The act of children giving the rainbow color bracelet shows how commonplace the values & symbols of the Talmudists & sodomites have become in European culture.  We hear your objection that it represents God's promise to Noah after the flood.  There is only one problem,  these children are atheists or secularists.

Now that Francis  has accepted bracelets on two occasions, which we are aware of, is it now a papal tradition?  This meeting between the children and Francis was organized by none other than Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi.  In addition to being a rock 'n roll loving fan of Lou Reed, Amy Winehouse, and Suor Cristina, he is also the President of the Pontifical Council for Culture and controls the foundation, Courtyard of the Gentiles.  It was under the auspices of the Courtyard of Gentiles that Ravasi gathered these children to meet Francis.  For those who have no knowledge of the Courtyard of Gentiles the following is from the Vatican's website, What Is the Courtyard of Gentiles? :

In the year 20-19 BC, King Herod began a major renovation, almost a restructuring of the Temple of Jerusalem, the second, one that had been built after the exile. In addition to the areas reserved to the members of the people of Israel (men, women, priests) in this temple there was a space in which everyone could enter, Jews and non-Jews, circumcised and uncircumcised, members or not of the chosen people, people educated in the law and people who weren't. Here gathered the rabbis and teachers of the law ready to listen to people's questions about God, and to respond in a respectful and compassionate exchange. This was the Court of the Gentiles and pagans, in Latin the atrium gentium, a space that everyone could traverse and could remain in, regardless of culture, language or religious profession. It was a meeting place and of diversity. 

From such a place comes the inspiration for this initiative of the Pontifical Council for culture: 'the Courtyard of the Gentiles.' It deals with encounter and dialogue, a space of expression for those who do not believe, and for those who are asking questions about their faith, a window open to the world, to contemporary culture and to the voices that resonate.

For more information on the Courtyard of the Gentiles see the official website of Cortile dei Gentili. (click here) 

 The loom bracelets on Francis' wrist.

 What time is it?

 It is selfie time!

 Do you want a selfie too?

Don't grow up to be a rosary counter children!

Francis' day of sport

The Day of Sport took place at St. Peter's Square on Saturday 7 June 2014.  In the Novus Ordo church there is no Benediction, no praying all 15 decades of the Rosary, no confession, nothing traditional which even has a hint of Catholicism in it, therefore one can forget seeing Francis practicing any of these devotions on the First Saturday of the month publicly.  Instead, it is all fun and games to Francis.  This event had scantly clad gymnasts, women dressed immodestly, singing and dancing which looked to be from a Disney film, and lots of fancy sport tricks, all for Francis.  



If one is so inclined they can fast forward the time in the video above to 38 minutes to see what activities Francis devotes himself to.

Francis playing 'Il Basket'.

Taking the traditional Papal Seflie!

Francis & one-legged football team pose.

Francis loves t-shirts!

Humbleness in action.

Banner reads, "Pope Francis, you are our captain."

Posing with another banner.

More swag for Francis.

Francis thinking, "It's noon, when despicable Call Me Jorge... updates!"

Francis riding around and spreading his love of apostasy.

Francis the modernist

Francis keeps repeating the same modernist blather, droning on and on about the same old subjects he gave sermon after sermon about when he lived in Argentina.  Gossip, NGOs, neo-pelagians, interfaithness, unemployment, loneliness of the elderly, rigidness, change is good, ad nauseam...  Didn't we hear the same junk in the '70's?  Is Francis paying syndication rights fees for these tired ol' reruns?  Below are two of his latest sermons and an Angelus address where he drones on and on.

Gossip is the enemy of peace!

Rigid catholics don't appreciate 
the Holy Spirit!

A church without surprise is dying!

First Tony Palmer went to the Vatican...

...now, Joel Osteen meets with him!

who could have foreseen the trip to the Holy Land?

The Papal Pilgrimage (1964) British Pathé

 

A look back at Paul VI's trip to the Holy Land.

 

Francis' recent trip was in honor of the 50th Anniversary of Paul VI's historic journey in which he met with the (then) Greek Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople, Athenagoras.

Is it a tradition or innovation?

Another revealing article about John Paul II.  This time the reveals come from the Catholic News Service reporter Cindy Wooden in her article, Many of today's papal 'traditions' were Blessed John Paul's innovations.  As always the underlines are ours.  The article does a great job pointing out that what many in this day and age consider 'traditions' of the papacy are in fact innovations and some are even novelties.  Do Catholics today even know what their Novus Ordo religion is about?  Is their Novus Ordo religion a mere innovation some might say perversion of what the Faith is?  Is Francis an innovator or one who is safeguarding tradition?

Many of today's papal 'traditions' were 

Blessed John Paul's innovations

By Cindy Wooden

Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The first anniversary of Pope Francis' election brought stories highlighting the unique style he has brought to the papacy. Maybe people have forgotten how much of what passes today for papal "tradition" was actually an innovation of Pope John Paul II.

Frequent parish visits? Check. Joking with and leading a big crowd in a chant? Check. Sneaking out of the Vatican? Wait, that was Blessed John Paul who'd head out to go skiing or hiking. Pope Francis categorically denied in February that he had ever snuck out of the Vatican.

As John Thavis, the former Rome bureau chief of Catholic News Service once wrote: "If there's anything Pope John Paul II loved more than following traditions, it was inventing new ones."

The calendar of Pope Francis and of the universal church is filled with annual appointments established by Pope John Paul, who is scheduled to become St. John Paul April 27.

The day of the canonization is Divine Mercy Sunday -- an observance Pope John Paul decided in 2000 to put on the church's universal calendar the Sunday after Easter. The Polish pope was a longtime devotee of the Divine Mercy devotions of St. Faustina Kowalksa, whom he beatified in 1993 and canonized in 2000.

Presiding over the first universal observance of Divine Mercy Sunday in 2001, Pope John Paul quoted from his 1980 encyclical "Dives in Misericordia" ("Rich in Mercy"): The cross and resurrection of Christ speak and never cease "to speak of God the Father, who is absolutely faithful to his eternal love for man... believing in this love means believing in mercy."

Meeting in March with priests from the Diocese of Rome, Pope Francis said one of the greatest inspirations of Pope John Paul was his intuition that "this was a time for mercy."

"It is a gift he gave us, but one that came from above," Pope Francis said. "It is up to us as ministers of the church to keep this message alive, especially in our preaching and gestures, in signs and pastoral choices -- for example, in deciding to give priority to the sacrament of reconciliation and, at the same time, to works of mercy."

Pope John Paul also instituted the annual Feb. 2 World Day of Consecrated Life, the Feb. 11 World Day of the Sick and a World Meeting of Families every three years. But welcoming hundreds of thousands of young people to the Vatican for a special Palm Sunday celebration in 1984, Pope John Paul launched what has become the biggest international gathering on the church's calendar: World Youth Day.

Explaining to the Roman Curia the importance of World Youth Day and youth ministry in general, Pope John Paul said: "All young people must sense that the church is accompanying them, therefore the whole church in union with the successor of Peter increasingly must be committed, on a worldwide level, to the good of youth, their worries and concerns and their openness and hopes." At the end of the U.N.-declared International Year of Youth in 1985, he said young people were hoping for change in society and in the world; the church, which looks to youths with "hope and love," must help young people realize that change by communicating the Gospel truths to them, supporting them as they seek God's plan for their lives and educating them in living their faith.

Of course, Pope John Paul left a mark on more than the church's calendar. Surprisingly for many people, St. Peter's Square didn't have a Christmas tree or Nativity scene until 1982. Even after the College of Cardinals asked him to leave Krakow, Poland, and lead the universal church, he continued to keep Polish Christmas traditions; for years, he would invite fellow Poles to the Vatican on Christmas Eve to break "oplatek" (a Christmas wafer) with him and to sing Polish carols. He had been pope for four years when he asked the Vatican governor's office to put some Christmas decorations in the square under his window, thus a new tradition was born.

Some of Pope John Paul's innovations had a lot to do with the fact that he was a very outdoorsy, fit 58-year-old when elected to the See of Peter in 1978. He liked to ski and walk in the mountains and, apparently, didn't think that should change. As he grew older and weaker from Parkinson's, the physical activity diminished, but he and a few aides never stopped slipping out of the Vatican on the occasional Tuesday for a drive to the mountains and a sack lunch al fresco.

But he didn't just head for the hills. Pope John Paul made the nine international trips taken by Pope Paul VI seem like a trifle; Pope John Paul took his message on the road, visiting 129 countries -- several repeatedly -- on 104 trips and logging more than 700,000 miles in a papacy that lasted more than 27 years.