The Pope Video — Season 3 Episode 2

Francis, ‘Corruption is the root evil’ so say ‘no’ to corruption.

Let’s start with Francis!

Vatican honors Martin Luther with stamp

& 

issues Joint Statement with Lutherans

Wow! The Vatican honors two heretical men, Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchton, on the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s nailing 95 theses to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg, Germany (October 31st, 1517). The stamp (see above) depicts Luther and Melanchton at the foot of the Cross at Our Lord’s Crucifixion as if they were faithful sons of Our Lord and of the Church He instituted! How can this be the same Church that condemned Luther’s errors in 1520 and excommunicated him in 1521?

Zenit writes of the new issue,

“The postage stamp issued by the Philatelic Office for the occasion depicts in the foreground Jesus crucified and in the background a golden and timeless view of the city of Wittenberg. With a penitential disposition, kneeling respectively on the left and right of the cross, Martin Luther holds the Bible, source and destination of his doctrine, while Philipp Melanchthon, theologian and friend of Martin Luther, one of the main protagonists of the reform, holds in hand the Augsburg Confession (Confessio Augustana), the first official public presentation of the principles of Protestantism written by him.”

Symbolically, this stamp is stating that Martin Luther’s condemned 95 theses are correct as well as the Augsburg Confession  — that Our Lord is in agreement with the two heresiarchs, Luther and Melanchton.  To have the nerve to replace the Blessed Mother and St. John at the foot of the Cross with the two heresiarchs takes chutzpah!  These are people who denied the presence of Our Lord’s Body and Blood for Melanchthon said, “Christ instituted the Eucharist as a memorial of His Passion. To adore It is therefore idolatry” and Luther, “It is, therefore, clearly erroneous and impious to offer or apply the merits of the Mass for sins, or the reparation thereof, or for the deceased. Mass is offered by God to man, and not by man to God.”  It also a sign that these Protestants and the Revolt they led away from the Church is part of the sacrifice of the Cross!  And to put Wittenberg, the infamous place where Luther’s movement started, in the background is another mocking jest that only the wicked would take delight in!

Simultaneously with the issue of the stamp many Novus Ordo churches had joint services with Lutherans marking the anniversary.  Below is video of one of these services in the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula in Brussels, Belgium which was interrupted by a few young Catholics who were saying a Rosary to Our Lady because of the atrocious joint celebration taking place.  Notice the police come and cart them away one by one.  Who called the police?  One of the Cathedral’s prelates!  When Francis told the youth to “make a mess” and cause “trouble” in “their dioceses” he didn’t mean for one to practice the Catholic Faith.






The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity also issued a Joint Statement with the Lutheran World Federation for the Conclusion of the Year of the Common Commemoration of the Reformation, 31st October 2017.  It begins by stating,

“we are very thankful for the spiritual and theological gifts received through the Reformation, a commemoration that we have shared with and with our ecumenical partners globally.”

And as if that isn’t bad enough states a little later that Lutheran-Novus Ordo commemoration is,

“[a] pilgrimage, sustained by our common prayer, worship and ecumenical dialogue,”

This document concludes with these gems,

“Again, it has become clear that what we have in common is far more than that which still divides us.”

[and]

“Looking forward, we commit ourselves to continue our journey together, guided by God's Spirit, towards the greater unity according to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Does this sound Catholic to your ears or Protestant?

Two stamps fitting of the heretic Martin Luther and his revolt

source for two psuedo-stamps: Opportune Importune, Nuova emissione filatelica - Edizione per il quinto centenario della Pseudoriforma Luterana - Francobollo da € 0,70 e da € 2,50

We will conclude this post with an observation.  Francis is an occultist.  In the Renaissance, occultists/alchemists were obsessed with two things: 1) the unity of opposites; and 2) the law of inversion.  Here we have Francis trying to alchemically unify two opposites — the Catholic Church & the Lutheran churches — as well as invert the teachings of Our Lord Jesus the Christ — through the issuance of the stamp.  This should come as no surprise from the man who has already inverted the hierarchy of the church, celebrated Martin Luther on the 99th anniversary of the sixth apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima, and is actively seeking to invert the Sacrament of Marriage.  It’s fitting all this is also happening on the secular holiday of Halloween which glorifies the hideous and wicked while inverting the Vigil of All Saints’ Day, with its fast and abstinence, as children gorge themselves on candy and adults drink alcohol to excess.  What more perverts the Feasts of All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day and the holy religious activities that surround them than Francis and his behavior?

Francis the chemist fittingly dressed as Martin Luther for 
Halloween and laughing at the macabre joke he pulled off.

Related:

• Francis & brother 'bishop' Tony

• the commemoration of Martin Luther’s Revolt

• Vatican to issue stamp commemorating Luther’s Revolt

occultism for children

This is our inaugural post on occultism in the Novus Ordo among its laity, religious, bureaucrats, and artwork.  For them occultism is just fun and games.  The are several dangers that the occult presents: man as God; all technology as good, regardless of its moral consequences; science as a demi-god; these and other dangers put one firmly on the road to perdition.  Below is a quote from J.K. Rowling about who she is and what Harry Potter is about — an alchemist and alchemy.

source: How Harry Cast His Spell: The Meaning Behind the Mania for J. K. Rowling's Bestselling Books by John Granger, page 32

The sisters can’t get enough of Harry Potter 

who they see as a Christ-like figure.

More on the love Sr. Rose speaks about:

• A Genealogy of Love Power...

The Alchemy of Psychographics

Move over Edward Bernays

solve et coagula

Related:

• What Glenn Beck Left Out, and Why

A Genealogy of Love Power...

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (middle) with Agnolo Poliziano (right) and Marsilio Ficino (left). The fresco is by Cosimo Rosselli in the Chiesa di S.Ambrogio of Firenze, Italia (part.) 1484 - 86.

An interesting piece by RCGentlemanScholar (published - 19 February 2017) on the transmission of the idea that the world could be transformed if we would only drop rigidity and rules from the Faith and instead ‘love’ other each in a non-judgmental way.  Beginning with Marsilio Ficino and ending with Francis, the RCGentlemanScholar shows this idea creeping up with more and more frequency.  Call Me Jorge... wonders if Marsilio Ficino was taught the power of ‘love’ by his teacher, the homosexual Judaic ‘convert’ Flavius Mithridates, who translated many Kabbalistic works into Latin?  Another investigation concerning where Francis and his Vatican lackeys get their Christ-less ideas from, such as this recent tweet below.

source: twitter @Pontifex, 20 February 2017

A Genealogy of Love Power: Marsilio Ficino, Jacques Maritain, and Gandhi with Special Guests: Tears for Fears and the God of Surprises

Dear Reader,

Do you believe in the power of love? Me neither. But once upon a time I did. I believed that humans could bring out a radical transformation of world society through the changing of the emotional state of grouchy reactionaries. If we moved from a hard hearted pharisaical and cruel society to a kinder, gentler, one the world would be a better place. We could shed our hang-ups about sexuality, religion, ethnicity, and even table manners, and be a happier freer people. This idea of returning to a Golden Age in which we were free from restraint is as old as Hesiod and is a recurring notion throughout Western history. Since the Renaissance or early modern period, humans have attempted to bring about this radical transformation, and one of the methods has been the idea of “love power” or the notion that if people just became nicer and gentler the world will be a better freer place. This method has even entered the Church through Pope Francis’s “revolution of tenderness” and is found not only in the sewers of 20^thcentury modernism and trashy pop culture, but also in the occult.

It should be no surprise that such ideas can be found in the notorious pseudo-Thomist, Jacques Maritain, who was even “outed” as a leftist in recent EWTN documentary on Maritain’s good friend Saul Alinksy. In his poisonous blueprint for Catholic liberalism Man and the State (1951), Maritain, the former adept of the vitalist philosopher Henri Begson, refers to a “vital energy” of the people (65).  Maritain writes that Christians would do well to draw from the wisdom of Hinduism, writing that there is an “order of means “of which our Western civilization is hardly aware, and which offers the human mind an infinite field of discovery—the spiritual means systematically applied to the temporal realm, a striking example of which has been Gandhi’s Satyagraha” (68). Thus one of the manifestations of this vital power for animating post World War II society will be a Hindu love magic. Christians in their process of transforming the world into the new political system that Maritain is peddling should employ Hindu spirituality as a “means of spiritual warfare.” As Maritain himself points out, “…Satyagraha means ‘the power of Truth.’ Gandhi has constantly affirmed the value of the ‘Power of Love,’ or the ‘Power of the Soul,’ or the ‘Power of Truth’ as an instrument or means of political and social action” (68). Thus we have an idea of love power, which instead of Catholic militancy and martyrdom, should be utilized in the war against the reactionary regimes that blight the earth.

Maritain does admit that “…Gandhi’s theory and technique should be related to and clarified by the Thomistic notion that the principal act of the virtue of fortitude is not the act of attacking, but that of enduring, bearing, suffering with constancy (68). This is a very ambiguous and misleading statement, and is not the only time that Maritain attempts to baptize incompatible ideas as being Thomistic. Maritain even goes so far as to say that Satyagraha can be used to aid Christians in their “struggle…to transform civilization making it actually Christian, actually inspired by the Gospel” (70). This is a radically variant idea from traditional Christianity. The idea of love power did not build Christendom: Christian fortitude and a zeal for souls did—not to mention this idea of “love power” is a pagan not Christian idea. Maritain’s notions of Christian politics as a subdued and gentle kindness contributed to the climate that produce Vatican II’s awful Dignitatis humanae and has crippled Catholic political thought for almost a century now. This effeminate idea of passive resistance has led to the erosion of Catholic influence in world politics and the destruction of any idea of the Catholic state. It is a thoroughly diabolical idea—even the pagans say so.

This idea of using love power to transform the world has an old pedigree. The idea of the transformation of the world into a new Golden Age is at least as old as the Roman poet Virgil who wrote of it in his Eclogues. It is also present in the tradition of Neoplatonic occultism.

In his work On Love, Renaissance Neoplatonist Marsilio Ficino writes, “the whole power of magic consists in love.” Ficino’s love magic involves a transformation of the world through science and philosophy and love to create a new, better world.  In this tradition, love is integrally tied to the magician’s craft of reforming the world and bringing about a new Golden Age. It is not surprising that such ideas would be found in Hinduism, but the same ideas were part and parcel of Maritain’s blueprint not only in Man and the State but in Integral Humanism, The Person and the Common Good, and other writings in which Maritain attempted to craft a new political Pentecost in the ruins of World War II that would transform the world.

Well, dear reader, where does 80s pop group Tears for Fears fit in this alchemical stew of lies, heresy, and Satanism? I would like to direct your attention to the band’s 1989’s “Sowing the Seeds of Love.” The video has been analyzed several times, but I want to take a quick look at it again, for it provides us with a visual of how pervasive this ideology of love power is. The video begins with a rocky man with his eyes closed–an obvious symbol of a hard stoic or serious Christian whose heart has not been warmed by the love power of Ficino, Maritain, and Gandhi. The man’s eyes open and a door to his head also opens. On the doors of the man’s head are the alchemical symbols of a sun and moon. As viewers, we enter into the mind of the man that is now a bright sky with Tears for Fears singing about love. The video is loaded with occult symbolism tied to the idea of world transformation through magic. We an eye of Horus on top of a pyramid, a clear reference to the return of Saturn and the creation of a new Saturnalial age of love and freedom. There are levitating bodies in some sort of trance—the body of Roland Orzabal floats near his girlfriend’s in a clear reference to sex. There is also a peacock and sea shell—clear homages to the mother goddess Juno and the goddess of love Venus who road on a sea shell. We also see the Egyptian Ankh, the symbol of life as well as the symbol of world transformation in addition to Buddhas, but, sadly, there is no Gandhi. The lyrics of the song also are loaded with a clear attacks on Christianity and the idea of a transcendent God. Roland Orzabal ridicules the idea that those who are hungry “Look to the sky for some kind of divine intervention.” He laments that the people are without a “love and a promised land.” Orzabal and Curt Smith also urge the viewer’s to read about it in a book that appears containing the alchemical sun and some jumbled modernist paintings. The video ends with Orzabal planting a seed, which grows into a giant sunflower that is imposed over the entire world. Thus the alchemical transformation from a hard hearted and serious world.

It is perhaps not strange that the same occult ideas can be found in Ancient Greek and Roman poetry and in 80s pop. What is strange but not so strange is that these same ideas are contained in the writings of one of the most influential Catholic philosophers of the 20^th century, Jacques Maritain, an architect of the United Nations declaration of Human Rights. The height of weirdness is that these ideas are now the MO of our current pontiff, Pope Francis, who spends his days sowing the seeds of love power.

Francis tweets about the Talmudic concept of the “Other”

source: twitter@Pontifex, 20 Sept 2016

Francis tweeted the above before he went to Assisi, Italy for the final day of the Assisi V — Interreligious Prayer Meeting for World Peace.  Many on social media were confused by this tweet and thought it out of place and odd.  This is far from the case.  Francis is practicing alchemy on his church and  putting the finishing touches on the transformation of it.  We previously covered the Talmudic concept of the “Other” on this blog in the entry, the hermeneutics of talmudic alchemical continuity — John Paul II, Levinas, and Francis, which explains how this Talmudic idea took root in Francis’ brain and what the “Other” is.  We further demonstrated how the rabbis and church officials are adopting the “Other” in the following post, Catholics don’t understand their faith so the Talmudic Jews explain it to them.  One can be certain that when Francis and his associates are finished with their alchemical magic, the people in the pews of the Novus Ordo churches will have adopted a noahide attitude and will not recognize Jesus the Christ as the Messiah.

“But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?”

— the Gospel According to Saint Luke 18, 8 —

Every encounter with the other is a seed which can grow into a flourishing tree, where many will find rest and nourishment.

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) September 20, 2016

Elie Wiesel, Hasidic High Priest of Holocaustianity, passes away at the age of 87

Elie Wiesel died yesterday at the age of 87.  He was a master manipulator of Christian minds.  An excellent book on his life including his chasidic upbringing, sexual abuse, and his career as chronic liar is, Holocaust High Priest by Warren B. Routledge.  Little known to Catholics (and covered in the book) is the role the Catholic homosexual, François Mauriac, played in transforming Wiesel from a run of the mill hasidic con-man into the high priest of Holocaustianity and how further Catholic ‘intellectuals’ piggy backed onto this bandwagon in order to advance their careers.  May God have mercy on this blasphemer and liar’s soul and the souls of all those who enabled him.

Contents & sample pages of book.

To purchase Holocaust High Priest, click here.

Related:

• the company Francis keeps

• the hermeneutics of talmudic alchemical continuity — John Paul II, Levinas, and Francis

Catholics don’t understand their faith so the Talmudic Jews explain it to them

How the Moslems invade Europe with help from the Talmudists and the Noahide Novus Ordo

The International Catholic-Jewish Liason Committee (ILC) Meeting just concluded in Warsaw, Poland. It was held over four days and the theme was “The ‘Other’ in Jewish and Catholic Tradition: Refugees in Today’s World”.  Read our recent post, the hermeneutics of talmudic alchemical continuity — John Paul II, Levinas, and Francis, to get a better understanding of the Talmudical concept of the ‘Other’.  There is no Catholic tradition of the ‘Other’.  Below is the text of the Joint Declaration issued by the ILC.  The bold was added to the text by Call Me Jorge... for emphasis. 


The underlying themes of the Joint Declaration are:

• How great the Second Vatican Council and its Nostra Aetate document is, 

• How the concentration camps of World War II should never be forgotten ergo Europe needs to take in Moslems because they wouldn't want more blood on their hands and they still need finish washing off the blood from the Second World War.  It's a new form of reparations!,

• Do what the Talmudic Jews want and they will honor you by making one a “Righteous Among the Nations”,

• Read the Bible through a Talmudic lense, as opposed to the Church & Catholic tradition, to understand the ‘refugee crisis’,

• Fight ‘anti-semitism’,

• Don't ever forget the ‘Shoah’—business, and

• Lastly, dialogue with and welcome the Moslem invaders!

THE 23rd INTERNATIONAL CATHOLIC-JEWISH LIAISON COMMITTEE MEETING
Warsaw, April 4-7, 2016

JOINT DECLARATION

The 23rd meeting of the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee (ILC) took place in Warsaw, 4-7 April 2016. The ILC is the entity, created in 1971, formalizing the establishment of the official relationship between the Holy See and the worldwide Jewish community. The ILC is the official forum for ongoing dialogue between the Holy See´s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews and the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC). Jewish and Catholic representatives from five continents attended the gathering. Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Holy See’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, and Mr. Martin Budd, Esq., Chair of IJCIC, co-chaired the meeting.

This meeting was convened at an important time in history. The ILC emerged directly out of the Second Vatican Council and its profound transformative document, Nostra Aetate, the 50th anniversary of which has been celebrated and commemorated throughout the world. At the same time, there are challenges to interreligious and intercultural relations being felt by many millions in the world, not excepting Roman Catholics and Jews in many lands.

Poland was an appropriate setting for this meeting. It has been a venue for some of the most important and productive developments in both Catholic and Jewish culture and self-understanding, and also, in the 20th century, the scene of some of the most abhorrent events in world history. The ILC participants and the institutions they represent are fully cognizant of the dynamic tension that these two extremes represent and the noble challenge involved in developing contemporary understandings built on the lessons of the past. The participants are no less aware of how contemporary political dynamics have a direct impact on the human and social weal of both Catholics and Jews in Poland and elsewhere in the world.

The meeting opened with a public event attended by leaders of both communities, civic and government leaders from Warsaw and Poland, and representatives of the Vatican, the Polish Church, and the State of Israel.

The co-chairs of this ILC meeting, Cardinal Kurt Koch and Mr. Martin Budd, each gave a presentation establishing both the historic context and the emerging challenges. Cardinal Koch stressed that over the years one of the welcome products of these meetings has been the development of real friendships between the participants and a genuine sense of partnership between the communities they represent. Mr. Budd underscored the symbolic significance of meeting in this place, Warsaw, with its freighted history, and at this time, in the aftermath of the 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate and in this moment of moral challenge for people of faith. The evening culminated with a presentation by the Ambassador of Israel to Poland. On behalf of Yad Vashem, three Polish Catholics were posthumously recognized by the ambassador as “Righteous Among the Nations” for saving Jewish lives during the Shoah, embodying the noblest realization of Catholic-Jewish relations.

The agenda of the biennial dialogue had as its theme “The ‘Other’ in Jewish and Catholic Tradition: Refugees in Today’s World.” To provide a religious and academic basis for subsequent discussions, the sessions began with in-depth analyses of how both the Jewish and Roman Catholic traditions and sources view “the other.” In keeping with the scholarly nature of these presentations, each speaker acknowledged the internal dialectic tension of the particular vs. the universal in each tradition, and emphasized the importance and moral integrity of accepting“the other” as an essential component of each tradition’s self-understanding. The presentations and the discussion that followed pointed out that our respective Scriptures provide us with a framework for addressing pressing social issues such as the refugee crisis of today. Responding to religious imperatives of Christians and Jews, the conference assessed the current refugee crisis overwhelming much of Europe, recognize the tensions between the obligations of love of strangers and the dignity of their creation in God’s image, with concerns for security and fear of change.

Although the last 50 years have largely seen unprecedented openness between our two communities in many places, not least on the international level, the last few years have witnessed a surge of problematic developments impacting both. After addressing how our respective traditions encourage us to help the other, we focused on how our two communities now find themselves in the position of being “other.” Anti-Semitism in both speech and action has resurfaced in Europe and elsewhere, and persecution of Christians, most notably in much of the Middle East and parts of Africa, has reached levels not seen in a long time.

Participants emphasized that antisemitism is real and takes many forms. It is a danger not only to Jews but also to democratic ideals. Improved and revitalized educational programs are necessary to combat it.

The participants noted that the persecution of Christians has increased every year between 2012 and 2015. They recognized the obligation to raise the consciousness across the world regarding this problem and acknowledged the moral responsibility to be a voice for the voiceless.

In recognition of the indisputable historic significance of the Shoah, the participants visited the Treblinka death camp. In a commemorative memorial, the leaders affirmed their commitment never to allow the tragedy to be forgotten, nor to allow the world ever again to permit such negation of the humanity or dignity of any human being, no matter his or her race, religion, or ethnicity.

Their visits to a Catholic social service agency and to the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews underscored the critical role of Jewish and Catholic communities in contemporary Polish life. The meeting celebrated the Polish experience of transition from Communism, with its repressions, to the freedom of study and expression of religious faith in a new society.

In keeping with the significance of the ILC since its inception 45 years ago, the representatives reiterated their continuing commitment to open and constructive dialogue as a model for interreligious and intercultural understanding in the world, most especially with religious leaders of the Muslim community. They also reiterated the commitment to collaborate in addressing the emerging needs of their communities wherever they may be, and to convey their transcendent messages to a world so much in need of authentic and caring affirmation represented by their two religious traditions.

the hermeneutics of talmudic alchemical continuity — John Paul II, Levinas, and Francis

Not many know who Emmanuel Lévinas is nor his influence.

Emmanuel Lévinas was a Litvak (Lithuanian Jew) who immigrated to France where he became a philosopher.  He was a pupil of ‘Monsieur Chouchani’ (aka ‘Shushani’) under whom he studied the Talmud.  ‘Monsieur Chouchani’ also taught Elie Wiesel as well as abused him.  According to Michael Morgan of Indiana University, “Levinas advocates a reading of the Bible through talmudic lenses”.  Saint John Paul II was an avid student of Lévinas while Jorge Mario Bergoglio's mentor, Juan Carlos Scannone was strongly influenced by Lévinas.  Scannone adopted Lévinas’ concepts of ‘the other’ and ‘face-to-face’ into his ideas which we see reflected in the words and action of Francis.

Juan Carlos Scannone, S.J.

ZENIT spoke with Nigel Zimmermann about his book, Levinas and Theology, published by Bloomsbury in September 2013. Zimmermann teaches theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Sydney.

ZENIT: Tell us about your inspiration for the book.

Zimmermann: I first discovered Levinas through reading John Paul II, especially his interview, Crossing the Threshold of Hope (1994). There, His Holiness called Levinas’ thought a ‘testimony for our age’, and paralleled his philosophy of the other with the ‘radical solidarity’ that the Christian Gospel maintains with every human person. The points of convergence between John Paul II — and especially his earlier writings before becoming Bishop of Rome under the penmanship of Karol Wojtyla — with Levinas, were remarkable. In fact, Wojtyla and Levinas had begun a dialogue and friendship which has largely been overlooked.

Out of this, I developed an interest in both thinkers which took hold as I completed my doctorate at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. I recall my supervisor (the recently departed Rev Dr Michael Purcell) joking that one of my problems is that people who like John Paul II don’t read Levinas, and that people who like Levinas don’t read John Paul II…but in fact they had read each other’s work with great interest! A challenge for a Catholic theologian is to read both charitably and critically.

source: Zenit, Learning From a Jewish Philosopher Admired by John Paul II

page 2 

 page 3

source: For You Alone: Emmanuel Levinas and the Answerable Life By Terry A. Veling

source: The Meaning of Scriptures in the Thought of Emmanuel Lévinas

source: Not Just One Face: Levinas’ Talmudic Philosophy as Textual Reasoning (A Review Essay) 

source: The Preaching Church, the poor as Sacra Praedictio by Vincent J. Pastro, p.116

First of all, Pope Francis shows his appreciation for the French Jewish philosopher, Emmanuel Lévinas, when he says: “Emmanuel Lévinas has founded his philosophy on the encounter with the Other.” In the pope’s eyes, “the Other has a face. One has to leave oneself in order to be able to contemplate it.” Pope Francis also stresses his appreciation of the periphery from whence he looks upon the world: “Since [the time of] Magellan, one has learned to look at the world from the standpoint of the south. That is why I say that the world should better see itself from the periphery than from the center; and I understand better my Faith from the standpoint of the periphery. But the periphery can be human – i.e., linked to poverty, health, or to a feeling of existential periphery.”

source: One Peter Five, Pope Francis Reveals His Mind to Private Audience 

 source: Emmanuel Levinas: Levinas and the question of religion 

by Claire Elise Katz, Lara Trout, p. 202

source: The Cambridge Companion to Levinas 

by Simon Critchley, Robert Bernasconi, pp. 16-17

Usury and the prison of Time

This isn't the usual post on Francis but does pertain to him.  Francis is always lamenting about how greedy hoarders not sharing their possessions is the cause of all poverty.  This is done usually in his homilies, general audiences, and interviews.  His behavior however betrays him as he has usurers, moneylenders, and bankers alike as personal guests at the Vatican City State.  Francis himself is a moneylender being that he is in charge of the Vatican Bank (IOR) and is also an advocate of micro-usury.  Not only are Francis’ words hypocritical, they ring hollow.

The blog Psalmistice recently put up a post which uses a modern day television show named, Once Upon A Time, to demonstrate how the evils of debt money and usury enslave one in the prison of Time.  A very interesting entry as well as a must read.  Our kudos to Mr. McKay for his work!

• Once Upon A Time – An Allegory For Usury On Primetime American TV by Colin McKay

usury comes with a very steep price

For more on usury see:

• Time, Alchemy, Usury, Debt, Slavery, and the Catholic Church

television as an alchemical change agent

An excellent essay on how television didn't become a cesspool overnight instead like a sinner it gradually came into being.  Covers how television is used as a medium to change people's moral values into immoral vices.  Found over at the always interesting blog, Introibo Ad Altare Dei.

• One Sin At A Time

update on the White Crucifixion

(Francis admiring his favorite painting*)

* Thanks to Jim Smith of NoSacredCows for this computer manipulated photo of Francis gazing upon his favorite painting.

It was recently brought to our attention by Pedro, a reader of Call Me Jorge..., that the National Catholic Reporter published a story, Pope's favorite painting returns to Chicago after seven-month exile, which contains some interesting revelations in it.

For those unfamiliar with the White Crucifixion, Jorge Bergoglio remarked about it in Pope Francis: His Life in His Own Words in two places.  The first, on page 27, was when he was discussing what he believes Our Lord's Crucifixion represents.  Jorge says, "White Crucifixion by Marc Chagall, who was a Jewish believer, is not cruel but hopeful. Pain is depicted there with serenity. To my mind, it's one of the most beautiful things he painted."  Later in the book on page 153 he is asked by the author what his favorite painting is.  Jorge replies, "White Crucifixion by Marc Chagall."

The best source on Francis' favorite piece of art, the White Crucifixion, is the excellent Maurice Pinay Blog.  Some of his most interesting posts on this topic are linked to at the bottom of this entry.

Now onto the reveals from the National Catholic Reporter article by Menachem Wecker. (Click here to read full article)  As usual, the underlines and bold are ours.

...Under newly consistent light and amid the slick renovation, Chagall's Jesus wears a sort of turban on his head, and instead of a loincloth he dons a Jewish prayer shawl, or a tallit. Surrounding the central crucifixion scene, a synagogue burns to the right, rabbis fly in the air above (where one might expect angels), and a pogrom ensues to the left. Above Jesus' head, on the titulus, Chagall writes the Latin acronym "INRI" and, in jumbled Hebrew and Aramaic, "Jesus the Nazarene, king of the Jews."

Whether Chagall, who grew up with extensive Jewish instruction despite the multitude of errors in many of his Hebrew inscriptions, knew that the way he spelled Jesus' name in Hebrew also doubled as the rabbinic acronym "May his name and his memory be wiped out" is debatable. But it's certainly clear that the work "owns" Jesus as a Jew. And as the Art Institute website observes, it aims to "dramatically call attention to the persecution and suffering of the Jews in 1930s Germany."

..."In this painting, Jesus is at the center of some of the most horrific suffering Chagall can imagine," she said. "And he is not just among the suffering, but truly identified as one of the suffering."

..."The appropriation of Jesus as a Jew is an implicit criticism of Catholicism for viewing the Jew as other, for not recognizing one's own suffering in that of the Jews. Taking over Christian iconography is a critical move," she said. "For the pope, the Jewish Christ may be enough to make the point about the failure of the church, and this might well speak to him."

..."The painting comes out of the movement, particularly among Yiddish-speaking, nonreligious Jews, to see Jesus as sharing in the sufferings of Jews at the hands of Christians. However, few, if any, Christians are really aware of this movement," he said.

Most Christians will interpret the painting as displaying a direct link between Jesus' suffering and Jewish persecution during the Holocaust, according to Pawlikowski. But that can lead Christians to identify "themselves as victims, especially of the Nazis, rather than as a community of faith that contributed to Jewish suffering over the centuries," he said. "The painting, as moving as it is, can send an inaccurate message."

Dear reader, did you catch all that? 

Marc Chagall grew up in the Hasidic community of Liozna near Vitebsk.  His family was ultra religious and Vitebsk was a Hasidic center which derived its culture from the esoteric Kabbalah.  Throughout his life, Chagall sought out the advice of Lubutavicher rabbis.  Here in this work, Chagall writes the rabbinic acronym found in the Talmud for Christ which means,

"May his name and his memory be wiped out"

It is fitting Francis has said this is his favorite painting as everything Francis says he is doing for Christ turns in the end to result in the denigration of Christ.  It is just like the White Crucifixion.

The rabbis that visited Francis on 13 February 2014 as part of the American Jewish Committee are in on this.  As Rabbi Noam E. Marans recollects,

"When representatives of the American Jewish Committee met recently with Pope Francis at the Vatican, we presented him a copy of the Jewish Museum exhibit book inside an artistic and inscribed box. We showed him page 105, where a print of “White Crucifixion” is included because of its relevance to the exhibit.The pope was moved by our recognition of his emotional connection to the painting, and responded with a joyous smile."

Chagall through the White Crucifixion is performing alchemy.  Swapping Christ for the counterfeit jewish people and the counterfeit jewish people for Christ.  Not only does Chagall do this but he also substitutes the degenerate hasidic values for catholic values.  A feat any Renaissance era alchemist would have been proud to have performed.  This is the same level of alchemy practiced by Freud and his fellow compatriots with the then new field of psychotherapy.

Don't think the Novus Ordo church is ignorant of this.  It has adopted the rabbinical sorcery and the saintings of John Paul II and John XXIII are the most recent practice of this magic.  With a sleight of hand and an assist from the rabbis, the Vatican hierarchy has made the Novus Ordo church's faith start with the poisonous Second Vatican Council.  Now through this infallible act catholics throughout the world are commanded to pray to two heretical saints. 

By the time Francis gets finished with his reign in the Vatican, the Novus Ordo church will resemble a synagogue and the Vatican a shtetl.

"But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?"

- Luke 18 : 8 -

Please say take a moment to say the Act of Reparation for Blasphemies Uttered Against the Holy Name or one of these prayers (click here) in reparation for this most grievous sin against the Most Holy Name of Jesus the Christ.

Act of Reparation for Blasphemies Uttered Against the Holy Name

“O Jesus, my Savior and Redeemer, Son of the living God, behold, we kneel before Thee and offer Thee our reparation; we would make amends for all the blasphemies uttered against Thy holy name, for all the injuries done to Thee in the Blessed Sacrament, for all the irreverence shown toward Thine immaculate Virgin Mother, for all the calumnies and slanders spoken against Thy spouse, the holy Catholic and Roman Church. O Jesus, who has said: “If you ask the Father anything in My name, He will give it to you,” we pray and beseech Thee for all our brethren who are in danger of sin; shield them from every temptation to fall away from the true faith; save those who are even now standing on the brink of the abyss; to all of them give light and knowledge of the truth, courage and strength for the conflict with evil, perseverance in faith and active charity! For this do we pray, most merciful Jesus, in Thy name, unto God the Father, with whom Thou livest and reignest in the unity of the Holy Ghost world without end. Amen.”

- NOTES -

 The Talmudic acronym YESHU for Jesus Christ which means 

"may his name and his memory be blotted out."

No crown of thorns for Our Lord, instead a turban and blasphemous YESHU above his head.

Close-up of Chagall's painting in which YESHU can clearly be seen.

- Maurice Pinay's posts on the importance of the White Crucifixion -

• Pope Francis' Favorite Painting
• Pope Francis' 'Modernist' Hasidism
• Why Does Pope Francis Promote the Hasidic Painting, "The White Crucifixion"?
• Counterfeit Israel's Counterfeit Jesus
• More on Hasidic Painter, Marc Chagall's Golem 'Jesus' Resurrected by Pope Francis
• Wrapping Up Bergoglio's Love and Promotion For Chagall's Hasidic 'Christ'