At the end of the year, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi waves his rod against critics of the Fiducia Supplicans pontificate
(Rome) Resistance to the Roman declaration Fiducia supplicans on homosexual blessings is internal. There is great indignation among the faithful, including in Italy, where the maxim of not wanting to be “more papal than the Pope” applies. Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, the chairman of the Italian Bishops' Conference, now threatened to use the rod to discipline the clergy and believers.
Today TV2000, the bishops' television station, is broadcasting an interview with the cardinal as a review of the year and an outlook. Zuppi, with his unmistakable Roman accent, belongs to the Community of Sant'Egidio. He was appointed archbishop of Bologna, Italy's left-wing stronghold par excellence, by Pope Francis and created a cardinal. Zuppi is very close to Francis and is used by him as a peace mediator in the Ukrainian war. In addition, the 68-year-old cardinal is considered the Bergoglian papabile in the next conclave.
A central content of the interview was distributed in advance by the Italian state press agency ANSA. The wish is that this part of the message in particular should reach people. According to ANSA, Zuppi first emphasizes:
“There is a good dialectical relationship between the Italian Church and Pope Francis.”
To then get to the actual message:
"If you're Catholic and you don't have good relations with the Pope, then maybe you've forgotten that you're Catholic, I think."
In other words, anyone who does not follow Pope Francis “is not Catholic.” In the current context, the statement is obviously aimed at contradicting Fiducia supplicans.
Of course, the cardinal continued, this applies in principle to “every pope,” but of course, “as always in life,” one can feel “closer to one pope than to others” because of one’s own history, “because of sensitivity, because of some words.” but it’s always about the Pope.” However, the rod that Zuppi wields is intended to discipline the clergy and believers not for just any pope, but for Francis.
In the context, there is also a reference to the Fiducia supplicans declaration, which is currently causing tempers to flare up. Zuppi packages his support for “Love is Love”, the slogan of irregular relationships, especially the gay movement, as follows:
“Sometimes the church also has a certain idea, which I think is distorted, to think that it has the copyright on love, 'the real one is ours, the other's is worth a little less'. Obviously we then understand that our Lord is much wider than our hearts, and he allows us to discover many beautiful, incredible testimonies, many examples. How can you have a master so great and yet be such a failure? The Church is not an NGO, it is much more.”
Such statements, with the approval of Pope Francis, have been known for years by the Viennese Archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn.
As a further example of the “dialectical relationship,” Zuppi cited the fact that Francis had asked the bishops’ conference “to be light, to do a lot with little, to help, but not to do it because we have the means, but to use the means, to do things.”
Because of his papal mission as a peace broker in the Ukraine conflict, the cardinal commutes between Kiev, Moscow, Washington and Beijing. So far, however, it has been largely unsuccessful. Regarding his commitment, he said with reference to Francis:
“We must do everything to achieve peace because war hurts, it kills, it is a pandemic.”
Edit: Saint Thomas suffered a posthumous martyrdom as Henry ransacked his shrine and declared veneration of Saint Thomas illegal. Despite Henry’s best efforts, and Cromwell’s, some 100,000 pilgrims a year come to pray at Becket’s shrine.
When Becket was martyred, the monks of his cathedral were saying Vespers with a large number of people present. How many churches, cathedrals or otherwise, host Vespers and Matins, even though it is called for by Vatican II?
Edit: It used to be a day of fasting and penance, but now it passes all but unnoticed in Christendom. This post is in remembrance of the lost, for all of the innocents trafficked even in the West, or who are murdered in their mother’s wombs, all of the waifs who are swept up by the dark souls who lurk on the roads and streets in lonely places.
The post-truth Robert Habeck method seems to be popular in Santa Marta
A few years ago the term “post-truth” came up. Is it really enough to say that something is not what it obviously is? Cardinal Tucho Fernández, Pope Francis' favorite protégé, seems to be of this opinion.
A statement by the German Economics Minister Robert Habeck from the Green Party became a popular example of post-truth thinking: When asked whether he expected a wave of bankruptcies this winter, he replied: “No, I don't. I can imagine that certain industries will simply stop producing and selling." Some church leaders seem to have a similar opinion, for example with regard to Fiducia supplicans, the new declaration of the Dicastery of Faith on the blessing of couples in irregular situations (remarried divorcees, homosexuals). When asked whether the Church now blesses homosexual sin, Santa Marta answers: No, it just looks like that, but it is not the case, because nowhere does it say that sin is blessed.
So is a simple denial really enough to deny the obvious and everything is clarified, cleaned up and good? If the prefect of the faith, Victor Manuel “Tucho” Cardinal Fernández, who has been in office since September, has his way, that is the case. He made three media appearances within a short period of time to defend Fiducia supplicans using the Habeck method. Such an approach apparently leads some believers to come to the conclusion that the much older Götz von Berlichingen method is actually being used towards them, which - at least everyone will agree on this - would be less than respectful.
One medium that gave Tucho Fernández an opportunity for his capers is the leading Spanish bourgeois daily newspaper ABC. The interview conducted by Javier Martínez-Brocal was published yesterday, St. Stephen's Day.
ABC: How can you respond to the reactions expressed against the document by various episcopal conferences, cardinals and bishops?
Cardinal Fernández: If you read the text calmly, you will see that it clearly and simply represents what has always been the Catholic teaching on marriage and sexuality. It is clear that these conferences or bishops cannot contradict this teaching.
ABC: What happens now? So why do they reject this blessing?
Cardinal Fernández: You point out the impropriety involved in carrying out blessings in your regional environment, which could easily be misunderstood as legitimizing an irregular association. Add to that the fact that there are laws in Africa that punish the mere fact of being homosexual with prison - so imagine a blessing. In reality, it is up to each local bishop to make this decision in his diocese or, in any case, to provide further guidance.
ABC: What element is not taken into account by those who oppose blessing gay couples?
Cardinal Fernández: I don't think it is clear that the central theme of the document is the value of "non-liturgical", "non-ritualized" blessings, which do not constitute a marriage, not even a "consent" or a marriage represent ratification of anything. They are simply a pastor's response to two people's request for God's help. And in this case the priest does not impose any conditions.
ABC: Can you give an example of where this blessing is given?
Cardinal Fernández: Imagine that, in the middle of a great pilgrimage, a divorced couple entering into a new relationship says to the priest: “Please bless us. We can't find work and he is very sick, life is becoming very difficult for us, God help us”. Would you refuse such a blessing?
ABC: I don't see a problem with that.
Cardinal Fernández: And if you were gay, would you reject it? You see, a blessing is neither an acknowledgment of the marriage, nor an affirmation of the life they lead, nor an absolution. It is a simple gesture of pastoral closeness that does not have the same requirements as a sacrament. We will have to get used to understanding that a priest who gives this kind of simple blessing is not a heretic, is not ratifying anything, nor is he denying Catholic teaching on marriage.
ABC: Some have celebrated this as a first step toward doctrinally legitimizing divorce or same-sex marriage. Is this view correct?
Cardinal Fernández: This view is completely wrong, and anyone who says so has either not read the text or has “mala leche” (with bad intention), if you will pardon the expression. The statement clearly states that these are non-ritualized blessings and therefore should not be interpreted as a marriage.
ABC: How should that be interpreted?
Cardinal Fernández: The declaration unequivocally affirms that there is only one marriage (male-female, indissoluble, exclusive, etc.) and that sexual intercourse is permissible only in this context. There is no more classic approach than this.
So much for the favorite of Pope Francis, who is also the new Prefect of the Catholic Church. Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former apostolic nuncio to the USA, described Fiducia supplicans as “hypocritical and deceptive”. The people affected would be “deceived and betrayed”. He contradicts Santa Marta's statement that the new declaration reaffirms the “teaching of all times,” as Tucho Fernández claims. In reality it is a “diabolical falsification” and a “blasphemous forgery”. He even sees an “intrinsically evil purpose” at work with the new document, as it deprives God of honor and exposes souls to the danger of damnation: “It prevents people from doing good and encourages them to do evil.
Text/translation: Giuseppe Nardi Image : Wikicommons/pixabay
Predator gazing at you from the panopticon of history
Edit: some people will remember the original series with the diabolical Francis Ewan Urquhart, a Tory with a family history of various reactionary connections, like the Jacobites. In the American version of this tale, the villain is played by the accused sexual predator, Kevin Spacey. Here’s an astonishing interview that for me, breaks the fourth wall and lets a strange not-so-fictional world pour into this one through the wonders of Tucker.
Edit: remember when ++Kasper attacked Africans? While Bergoglio continues to break a lance for his Preferential Option for Sodomy, the rest of the world has more important concerns than the immoral preoccupations of the decadent bourgeois class in the West.
Bergoglio’s pet sodomite adulates benders in publicity stunt
Meanwhile, Benders at NCR are prematurely celebrating, gushing and drinking champagne.
This is what the African Bishops think of all this faggotrie.
Edit: it’s almost like ++Cupich has found a new lease on life, but he still warns against “narcissistic elitism”. Projection? While there is evidence of Israeli collaboration with Hamas, Christians are being shot dead at churches in Gaza by Jewish snipers and children are being crushed by falling rubble and shelled by American-made cluster bombs, and Christians are being goaded to slaughter each other for Jewish gangster overlords in Ukraine, ++Cupich and the other McCarrick and Sankt Gallen mobsters are working overtime to shove globohomo down everyone’s throats.
Isn’t that nice? It’s all about priorities, you know!
The Madia House, where Enzo Bianchi founded his new "community of Bose".
Edit: wow, Madia house even has solar panels! How ecological!
One of Pope Francis' strange relationships is that with Enzo Bianchi, the founder of the Community of Bose, who left its foundation in 2020, was removed involuntarily.
The monastic community of the “false prophet”
In 1965, Bianchi founded the (basic) Community of Bose, an ecumenical, monastic lay community of both sexes that did not exist under canon law whose “prior” he called himself. For years the “project” was supported by the Italian Bishops’ Conference. From the beginning of his pontificate, Pope Francis also showed particular sympathy for this progressive flagship project and appointed Bianchi Consultor. Bianchi left no stone unturned to attract attention through provocation. He has done this even more since Francis took office.
In 2017, Bianchi, who was then approaching his 75th birthday, relinquished leadership of the Bose Community and appointed a new “prior” named Luciano Manicardi. However, Bianchi apparently imagined this change in such a way that he would still have sole say. This quickly led to internal conflicts and the formation of opposing camps. His successor wanted to have the community recognized under canon law and thus bring it into a regulated form. But Bianchi had always rejected that and continued to try to prevent it. He valued the “freedom of fools,” as a Roman canonist put it.
In order to change the mind of Bianchi, the false monk, false prior and false prophet, his Bose “project” was praised to all heavens and the proposal was put forward to make him a cardinal. He would become the first layman in the history of the College of Cardinals. Cardinals were originally deacons, priests or bishops, as is still expressed today in the three classes of the church senate, but never laymen. Today they are all bishops.
Alternatively, bishops discussed the possibility of ordaining Bianchi as a priest. Because Bianchi refused all flattery, it came to an ordeal that seemed impossible to solve without “patricide.” Serious mutual accusations and insinuations followed. It was about forgery of documents and something even more serious. All disputes revolved around questions of external form and therefore remained on the surface. It was never about questions of the content of the doctrine and Bianchi's heterodox views. Why not? Because everyone obviously agreed on this, including Rome.
The Roman intervention
In order not to let the progressive masterpiece sink in the disrepute, but to save it in time, the Holy See intervened and ordered Bianchi to leave the community.
Was this the overdue rejection of the “false prophet” from Bose? Not at all. Despite the request, nothing happened for a year. Bianchi's departure was not completed until 2021. On February 8th, the Pontifical Delegate ad nutum Sanctae Sedis, the Canossian Amedeo Cencini, appointed by Francis for the monastic community, issued a decree that he also consciously accepted. This was made public in order to increase the pressure on Bianchi. The “former prior,” as it says, had to leave Bose within a week and retreat to the former monastery of Cellole in San Gimignano. The Pope, to whom the decree was presented by Secretary of State Pietro Parolin in the sacristy of St. Peter's Basilica, approved it without even looking at it, saying: “Yes, yes, I approve”.
Father Cencini, just in passing, boasts that as the Pope's “executioner”, i.e. commissioner or delegate, he has closed more communities than kept them open. In Lombardy he is called in when seminarians are suspected of being homosexual, which naturally outrages homophile church circles per se. There are no statements available about his approach and decisions in the matter.
Enzi Bianchi with his “spiritual son” Pope Francis (archive photo)
Janus-faced approach?
Francis had also expressly approved the decree for Bianchi's removal, but at the same time he was pursuing his own “accompanying measures”. On February 9th, the Pope wrote a letter to the “false prophet”, which effectively reached him at the same time as the decree. In it, Francis effusively declared himself to be a “spiritual son” of the founder of the Community of Bose. It was the former dean of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifical Lateran UniversityMsgr. Antonio Livi, the editor of the collected works of Cardinal Giuseppe Siri, who had criticized Bianchi as a “false prophet.” Francis is a “spiritual son” of the “false prophet”?
The papal letter was intended to make it easier for Bianchi to leave. Francis pathetically compared Bianchi's situation to that of the Lord on the Cross. In this situation there is only “darkness”; you only have “three or four friends” who “cannot save” you. All that remains is “obedience, like that of Jesus”.
Francis had sent his delegate to nail Bianchi “to the cross” in order to stick to the image used by the Pope, but at the same time assured Bianchi of his personal closeness and friendship. It was as if Francis was telling him, there are inescapably dark forces at work in the Vatican, but I will secretly help you. A dialectical highlight or villain?
Is there a substantive discussion of Bianchi’s “teachings” in the writing? Not in the slightest.
Almost three years have passed since then. The Vatican seems to have had few concrete ideas about what should happen to Bianchi and the four loyal followers who had to leave Bose with him. However, Francis and Bianchi maintained frequent correspondence during this time. Francis asked several times about the health of Bianchi, now 80 years old, who had to undergo two heart operations last year. Francis also expressed his wish to meet Bianchi in person again.
Last Saturday, December 16th, the time had come. Bianchi came to Santa Marta and was blessed by Francis. He also gave the papal blessing to the Madia House, Bianchi's new project. Francis also continued the dialectical game from the beginning of 2021 by appearing surprised by the State Secretariat's measures.
Incidentally, Francis does not seem to see or quickly forget the wounds that he himself inflicts.
With the Madia House, a second Bose is being created
After several stops, each directed by the State Secretariat, Enzo Bianchi and his four companions reached Albiano d'Ivrea, a small community at the foot of the Alps, around 50 kilometers north of Turin, in the spring. There he founded a “second Bose” in an agricultural building, again as a monastic community, but without canonical recognition. He explained to the daily newspaper La Stampa:
“I am not founding a canonically recognized community, but I want to be a coenobitic monk and not live as a Hermit.”
Enzo Bianchi in the parish church of Albiano d'Ivrea in the monk's dress he created at the presentation of the Madia House in August 2022
As a result of the disputes and Bianchi's removal, the number of members in Bose has fallen dramatically. Without the “guru” the community was no longer the same for many people. Instead, Bianchi is building a new “Bose” with Madia House. The buildings have been largely prepared so that he can invite anyone who wants to live in a community to join him.
Madia, pronounced Màdia, from Latin magida, means baking trough in Italian. Madia House can therefore be translated as a house where bread is prepared.
Through the reception by Pope Francis on Saturday, Enzo Bianchi was rehabilitated by his “spiritual son”, not formally but in fact, just as Francis likes it. The Pope encouraged Bianchi to build his “second evil.” This should also ensure the continued influx of “brothers” and “sisters”.
Bianchi can live out his final days in “brotherly community”. So much for lifestyle. However, it is doubtful that Bianchi was urged by Francis to stop acting as a “false prophet”.
The “new Bose”, the house chapel in the old Camadio estate, which has been converted into the Casa della Madia.
Text: Giuseppe Nardi Image: Facebook/Youtube/VaticanMedia
Edit: some commentators, like Deacon and FatherZ are deeply and justifiably concerned about the aberrosexual activism inherent in this latest Bergogliade of Fiducia supplicans.
My hot take, inspired after thinking about FatherZ’s post, is that a minister asked to perform an Aberroblessing can use this as an opportunity for corrective action. After meeting with the aberrocouple or aberrothrupple (don’t judge!) in the rectory, offer the buggers some Turkish delight and a nice anisette, preferably a decent, refreshing Absinthe or on cold days, a Hot Toddie. Then get down to business and offer them a document to sign, and then quietly explain that the blessing is conditional upon a GOOD confession, stern penance, and a resolution to amend their lives. They should know the seriousness of their crimes, and realize that the wages of sin is death. Then proceed to the blessing, and maybe even an exorcism eventually, if you can get the diocesan exorcist to take stock.
Hopefully, your rectory has one of these
James Martin is very excited at the prospect of bestowing a faux blessing on sodomites
This is blasphemy that will only bring God's punishment on the minister of such a diabolical act and those requesting it
Msgr. François Touvet, the new coadjutor of Bishop Dominique Rey in Fréjus-Toulon, announced at the end of the inaugural Mass that he would soon admit some candidates to the Holy Orders.
The Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, France, has been in the unwanted spotlight in recent years. In mid-2022, Pope Francis surprisingly suspended all ordinations in the diocese. Then Bishop Dominique Rey became the object of one of the now infamous Apostolic Visitations. And recently, Francis provided him with a coadjutor with the right of succession. Yesterday the coadjutor took office.
The disempowerment of the tradition-friendly Bishop Rey is almost complete. The coadjutor, Msgr. François Touvet, announced yesterday, at the end of the Mass for his inauguration, on behalf of Cardinal Lazarus You Heung Sik, Prefect of the Roman Clergy Dicastery, that the decree prohibiting ordination issued by Rome on April 28, 2022, has now been repealed.
The humiliation for Bishop Rey is now complete. It was held under the noses of all the priests and faithful of the diocese that for Rome alone diocesan Bishop Rey was unsuitable to make decisions about the admission of candidates to be ordained. With the day the coadjutor takes office, everything is "good" again.
The announcement is, of course, good news for the diocese, the diocesan seminary and especially for the candidates for ordination, some of whom have had to wait for a year and a half.
It is said that Msgr. Touvet will soon admit several candidates for diaconate and priestly ordination. A first consecration is scheduled for Sunday 21 January 2024 in the cathedral of Toulon. The further timetable has not yet been determined.
It remains to be seen how many and which of the candidates Msgr. Touvet will admit to the ordinations. While the impression of a normalization is conveyed to the outside world, the question of approval continues to be a burdensome one. It is to be expected that some candidates for ordination, called "indietrists" by Rome, will not be admitted in the coming years, and even more so that they will not be admitted at all. Operation Fréjus-Toulon had certain objectives, most notably the removal of Bishop Rey from power, but not only.
It is becoming apparent that the undesirable candidates are not to be dismissed, but to be worn down. You want them to give up themselves. Should they go in search of a more generous ordained minister than Monsignor Touvet will be, they will face obstacles and difficulties. If we follow the script of the current pontificate, the situation will be as follows: if unwanted candidates do not leave the field themselves, they will be encouraged to look for another bishop in another diocese who is willing to receive them, while at the same time pressure will be put on this bishop with a serious warning to turn away knocking candidates from Fréjus-Toulon.
The candidates will need patience and grace and the prayers of the faithful.
