Francis, “I do not go to the witch” for strength and energy

...they (the witches) come to him!

A visiting female shaman performing an incantation on Francis in the Vatican.

Earlier this week...

On the airplane flight from North Macedonia to Rome... 

Peter Nanev, BTV: Good evening. Peter Nanev, BTV Bulgaria. [In English] It is more of a personal question, as Your Holiness, you’re like a human being, from where do you find strength in your body, in your spirit in cases when you have to give even more strength for a heavily sick child?

Francis: First of all I would like to tell you that I do not go to the witch... [laughs]. I do not know. I do not know, really. It is a gift from the Lord. When I am in a country, I forget everything, but not because I want to forget it, I forget it, and I am only there. And then this gives me perseverance, I don't know, but [when] I am on the trip I am not tired! Then I am tired! After! But where do I take the strength from? I believe that the Lord gives it to me, there is no explanation. I ask the Lord to be faithful, to serve him in this work of travels, that the trip will not be tourism. I ask. All is his grace. Nothing else comes to me to say. But then I do not do so much work, huh? Thank you.

Full text of Pope Francis' in-flight press conference from North Macedonia, Catholic News Agency, 7 May 2019.

Contrast that what Francis said in 2018...

On the papal airplane from Rome to Chile... 

“Loud laughter accompanied the joke Francis made in response to the query asked by Cristiana Caricato, a journalist of TV2000, who, (upon) greeting him, had asked him: “We want to know what the doctor gives you so that we can take it too, we who struggle just as you do” — a reference to Bergoglio’s stamina during these trips. “But I do not go to the doctor, I go to the witch!”, he said, laughing with gusto.”

Che medicine prendo? Vado dalla strega!, La Stampa, Vatican Insider, 15 January 2018, (English translation CMJ).

Liu Ming, Francis' personal witch since 2004, who practices Reiki energy on him.

More on the witches:

• A shaman visits Francis at the Vatican and works her sorcery during a private audience

• Francis candidly jokes that ‘witch doctor’ is behind his stamina

Francis candidly jokes that ‘witch doctor’ is behind his stamina

Francis on his way to Chile.

On the papal airplane from Rome to Chile, Francis offered his latest off the cuff quip.

“Loud laughter accompanied the joke Francis made in response to the query asked by Cristiana Caricato, a journalist of TV2000, who, (upon) greeting him, had asked him: “We want to know what the doctor gives you so that we can take it too, we who struggle just as you do” — a reference to Bergoglio’s stamina during these trips. “But I do not go to the doctor, I go to the witch!”, he said, laughing with gusto.”

source: La Stampa, Vatican Insider, Che medicine prendo? Vado dalla strega! (English translation CMJ)

As is usual with Francis’ jokes there is always a grain of truth to his answers.  In the past Francis has:

• told several blasphemous jokes about Our Lord (see #1, #2, #3),

• told a blasphemous joke about the Holy Trinity,

• blasphemously joked about St. Peter’s crucifixion,

• mocked an altar boy for his piety,

• mocked the confirmation ceremony with a joke,

• joked about breaking papal protocol,

• taught his Godson how to swear and laughed as this Godson swore in the middle of his Novus Ordo mess,

• joked to his rabbi handler that he was trapped in Rome when elected,

• mocked the account of God creating Eve in Genesis,

• joked that bishop’s mitres resemble Burlamacco the clown’s hat,

• mocked theology,

• joked that he is a Jew,

• routinely makes fun of the Church,

• said jokingly he is a devotee of the broom, and

• we could go on but we think one gets the point.

All of these ‘jokes’ reveal facets of Francis’ inner-Jew.  Francis publicly maintains that, “One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people’s faith, one cannot make fun of faith.”  Notice what he never jokes about Talmudic Judaism, the Holocaust, or noahidism — a synthesis of all heresies.  All these are strictly off limits while the Catholic faith is open to mocking jests.  We are digressing, returning to Francis reply, Francis does see witch doctors — typically they come to visit him.  Below are two of the witch doctors whom have visited Francis in the Vatican.

Liu Ming is a Taoist monk (aka witch) who has been Jorge Bergoglio’s
doctor since 2004.  He disturbingly practices Reiki energy on Francis.

A shaman (aka witch) performs an incantation on 

Francis (15 February 2017) in the Vatican.

So one can see the truth in Francis’ latest joke.  The question arises whom is Francis mocking when he jokingly but truthfully replies that ‘visits from witch-doctors give him stamina’?  Simply, the answer is the typical pewsitter that thinks Francis is a practicing Catholic.  Francis has nothing but contempt for these people as his mocking jests and  candid jokes reveal.