The New Renaissance

Benedict XVI, Art is a door to the infinite: Aesthetic Theology for a New Renaissance

published by Fabrizio Fabbri Editore e Ars Illuminandi (2017)

“Tota Pulchra” or “All Beautiful”

“Some significant anniversaries occur around this time. It is ten years since the Letter to Artists by my venerable Predecessor, the Servant of God Pope John Paul II. For the first time, on the eve of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, the Pope, who was an artist himself, wrote a Letter to artists, combining the solemnity of a pontifical document with the friendly tone of a conversation among all who, as we read in the initial salutation, “are passionately dedicated to the search for new ‘epiphanies’ of beauty”. Twenty-five years ago the same Pope proclaimed Blessed Fra Angelico the patron of artists, presenting him as a model of perfect harmony between faith and art. I also recall how on 7 May 1964, forty-five years ago, in this very place, an historic event took place, at the express wish of Pope Paul VI, to confirm the friendship between the Church and the arts. The words that he spoke on that occasion resound once more today under the vault of the Sistine Chapel and touch our hearts and our minds. “We need you,” he said. “We need your collaboration in order to carry out our ministry, which consists, as you know, in preaching and rendering accessible and comprehensible to the minds and hearts of our people the things of the spirit, the invisible, the ineffable, the things of God himself. And in this activity … you are masters. It is your task, your mission, and your art consists in grasping treasures from the heavenly realm of the spirit and clothing them in words, colours, forms – making them accessible.” So great was Paul VI’s esteem for artists that he was moved to use daring expressions. “And if we were deprived of your assistance,” he added, “our ministry would become faltering and uncertain, and a special effort would be needed, one might say, to make it artistic, even prophetic. In order to scale the heights of lyrical expression of intuitive beauty, priesthood would have to coincide with art.” On that occasion Paul VI made a commitment to “re-establish the friendship between the Church and artists”, and he invited artists to make a similar, shared commitment, analyzing seriously and objectively the factors that disturbed this relationship, and assuming individual responsibility, courageously and passionately, for a newer and deeper journey in mutual acquaintance and dialogue in order to arrive at an authentic “renaissance” of art in the context of a new humanism.”

— Benedict XVI’s Address to Artists, 21 November 2009 —

Benedict XVI sitting in Paul VI Hall in front of the 
‘beautiful’ sculpture, The Resurrection by Pericle Fazzini.

Benedict XVI using the ‘beautiful’ papal ferula by Lello Scorzelli.

Benedict XVI wearing the ‘beautiful’ kabbalistic mitre by an unknown artist.

Benedict XVI’s renaissance restored ‘beauty’, just as Francis’ has restored ‘mercy’.

il Che GuePapa

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The Carnival of Viareggio featured a float named ‘il Che GuePapa’ created out of paper mâché by the brothers Vanni (Alessandro & Paolo).  As can be seen in the assortment of photos (above and below), Francis is wearing the revolutionary beret of the anti-Catholic communist, Ernesto "Che" Guevara Lynch, while holding a communist ‘hammer and sickle’ crozier and giving the communist clenched power-fist.  The paper mâché Francis is also surrounded by some of the worst communist ‘heroes’ — Mao Tse-tung, Karl Marx, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), and Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz — who are portrayed ironically as cherubim.  Recall, that Francis edited a book of dialogues between Fidel Castro and John Paul II many years ago, said in interview, “The Marxist ideology is wrong. But I have met many Marxists in my life who are good people, so I don’t feel offended”, and in another interview while laughing that, “I can only say that the communists have stolen our flag. The flag of the poor is Christian. Poverty is at the center of the Gospel [...] Communists say that all this is communism. Sure, twenty centuries later. So when they speak, one can say to them: 'but then you are Christian'”.  People dressed in the clothing of religious danced and gyrated in front of the float and wore giant necklaces which were a version of the ‘hammer & sickle crucifix’ presented to Francis in July 2015 by Juan Evo Morales Ayma, the socialist president of Bolivia.

Francis meeting with delegation from the Fondazione Carnevale di Viareggio, November 2016.

Interestingly, the plans for the float had to be submitted before and were approved by the Fondazione Carnevale di Viareggio back in August 2016.  Later that year in November, a delegation of forty people from the Fondazione Carnevale di Viareggio met with Francis after a general audience. They presented Francis with many gifts among them a was the hat of Burlamacco, the official mascot of the Carnival of Viareggio.   Francis joked that Burlamacco’s hat reminded him of a bishop’s mitre. He told the delegation that he had been to Viareggio before as he has a relative in nearby Pescia. The delegation invited Francis to the Carnival of Viareggio to which he replied, “Who knows?”  No word if the group informed him that he was to be one of the festivities.  Even if Francis failed to show up in the flesh at the Carnival of Viareggio, he was most certainly there in spirit!

Never one to let an opportunity to make a macabre jest of the Catholic Faith pass

by, Francis said the red hat of Burlamacco reminded him of a bishop’s mitre.

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The proposal sent in by the Vanni brothers and approved by the

Fondazione Carnevale di Viareggio in August 2016.

‘il Che GuePapa’ in the Carnival of Viareggio

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The delegation of forty people from the Fondazione Carnevale di Viareggio including the float drivers sit in Francis’ private box at his general audience and chat with him (12 November 2016).

the ‘il Che GuePapa’ float

Get your barf bags out...

...the she who became a 'he' is to publish a book about her encounter with 'humble' Francis

left to right: The fiancé, Francis, and Neria (Diego) the woman who styles 

herself a man, pose for a photo after their private meeting at the Vatican.

For those who don't remember Neria (Diego)  Lejárraga, a brief refresher.  Neria was a woman the first 40 years of her life but she has a mental sickness in which she doesn't like being a woman.  Since she didn't like herself the way God created her she decided to do something about it.  She had hormone treatment, surgeries, and plastic surgery so that she could identify as a 'he' and began to call herself 'Diego'.  Neria was upset when people didn't accept this diabolical change with open arms.   So she wrote Francis who invited her to the Vatican.  Not only did Francis invite her there with her 'fiance' but he also offered to pay the same-sex couple's way.  To top it off Francis told Neria, a genetic female, on the phone, “God loves all his children, however they are; you are a son of God, who accepts you exactly as you are. Of course you are a son of the Church!”

A teaser was released online the other day consisting of the cover and the first chapter of the book to garner interest in anticipation of the upcoming publishing date of March 2016.  The title of the book is 'El Despiste de Dios' which translates into English as 'The Mistake of God' The Spanish word despiste can also mean absentmindedness.    The first blurb on the cover reads, "En las criatura imperfectas es donde Dios encuentra toda su grandeza."  This translates into English as, "(it is) In the imperfect creature is where God finds his greatness."  This quote is from Pedro Almodóvar, who is a Spanish film director whose films are know for transgressing sexual morals boundaries.  Notice on the cover the hexegram mitre the two-faced bishop is wearing.  It looks just like the one Benedict XVI wore on 11 October 2009 for the canonization ceremony of five new saints.

Benedict's Magick Zionist Crusader Hat

It has all sorts of kabbalistic magic symbolism on it.  This is Talmudic Judaism exaltedly imposing its amoral sexual mores over Christianity.  Not only is the two-faced bishop a symbol of the two-faced double-minded God, Janus, but also it is a symbol of rabbinic Judaism's hermaphrodite god.  This, taken into account with Naria's sex transformation, is an example of Tikkun Olam being performed in the world as Neria is restored to the prefall hermaphroditic state with male and female reunited.  Neria's DNA says she is a female but she appears as a he on the outside.  This is the nightmare of a world which the rabbis and, their noahide buddy, Francis want to create.

When will Michael Voris and the crew over at ChurchMilitant report on this?

More on Neria & Francis:

• Francis' chesed

• Francis is the company he keeps