As no one who works closely with this website is an expert on Catholic doctrine, we will post this video on the hopes that those who are, and if not expert, at least practicing Catholics, will offer their opinions.
All we have are questions. Like how a Pope can go what certainly appears to be 180 degrees away from Catholic doctrine and dogma and still be a Catholic or represent its values.
Also the image of this pope accepting with appreciation, a sculpture of Jesus being Crucified on a communist, Hammer and Sickle by a communist national leader haunts us.
Might help if we had a few other opinions as well as some of Francis’ own words on his views.
Starting with Bernie Sanders:
The following video is of Francis a week after brutal and deadly Islamic attacks in Paris where he justifies the attack due to criticism of Islam. Still looking for the original date of this event.
Eric Zemmour on the Pope’s encyclical on mass migration to the West
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano has a darker view of the Pope and his intentions.
2017 14 minute video on Pope Francis the Heretic on french TV. This has a few components, Immigration is the first one. And to be clear, immigration is by far the biggest weapon being used to negate the existence, culture, history, language, religion and all other attributes or our identities. And those immigrants who come to the West thinking they will get to keep theirs, historically this was never true in total, but was to an extent. But now there is no escape. Except possibly by Muslims. Because Muslims generally cannot be convinced that a man is a woman just by saying so, and will apply force to not just preserve their own identity, (an argument could be made that this is something probably everyone should do frankly), but apply force to impose an Islamic identity on all the rest of the world’s people.
Perhaps there are excellent counter-arguments to be made showing that the Pope is in fact truly faithful to Catholic doctrine and tradition. If so please leave it in the comments.
Benedict XVI’s resignation – the first in 800 years – was surrounded by intrigue. There were reports of coercion, and that the resignation itself was invalid (he only resigned the ministry, not the office of pope. This is why he continued to dress in white, confer papal apostolic blessings, and referred to himself as pope “emeritus”. A real resignation would have him revert to a bishop emeritus). Also, for weeks leading up to it, international financial transactions were blocked (the SWIFT system). Magically, the day after he announced he’d resigned, the SWIFT system was restored. Something was going on.
So, there is much to investigate as to whether Francis is a legitimate pope in the first place. However, no Cardinals have made efforts to do this. Dogmatically and doctrinally, he is the worst pope in history. Yes, many Renaissance popes were morally bankrupt (we are all sinners, btw), but they never touched Catholic doctrine. Francis is different, undermining Catholic doctrine at every turn without actually crossing the line into apostasy.
Francis’s heresies are legion, but the Catholic “sensus fidei” is largely destroyed due to the innovations of Vatican II. Most baptized Catholics are poorly catechized, and less than 5% attend Mass, except for weddings and funerals. The one area of growth is in so-called “traditional Catholicism”, which was Catholicism practiced by all Catholics up to Vatican II. Francis has allowed all kinds of blasphemies to occur but the one area he cracks down on is traditional Catholicism, specifically the Latin Mass, which was largely unchanged for 1500 years until a completely new Mass was introduced in 1970.
I’ll have to stop there. Francis has stacked the Colleges of Cardinals so the next Conclave will likely give us a Francis II. That said, the Lord works in mysterious ways.
As evidence of the assertion of the rise of traditional (Authentic) Catholocism:
https://x.com/RaymondArroyo/status/1792260412391444847
We will be publishing a verified claim that much of Vatican II materials were supplied by Frankfurt School members. If memory serves on that one. I have to go over a 3 hour video to get the details right, but it was very much similar if not exactly that.
Some reference to it here. But this is not what we are putting out in the next few days.
https://www.ncregister.com/interview/remi-brague-ratzinger-s-progressivism-during-vatican-ii#:~:text=Classified%20as%20a%20conservative%20and,due%20to%20his%20reforming%20audacity.
The Second Vatican Council: Starting Shot For Manifest Global Apostasy
The Contemplative Observer – May 15, 2021
https://thecontemplativeobserver.wordpress.com/category/the-second-vatican-council/
Folks, Evidence And Truth No Longer Matter, You are living under a satanic tyranny that Luxuriates in lies and mendacity.
by Ann Barnhardt – September 3, 2020
https://www.barnhardt.biz/2020/09/03/folks-evidence-and-truth-no-longer-matter-you-are-living-under-a-satanic-tyranny-the-luxuriates-in-lies-and-mendacity/
In her article, Ann mentioned Cardinal József Mindszenty.
Venerable Mindszenty and the battle for the Church under Communism
by Dawn Beutner – May 6, 2024
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2024/05/06/mindszenty-and-the-battle-for-the-church-under-communism/
With regards to Pope Francis, (I consider myself a traditional Catholic), he’s not as careful with his words as previous Pope’s have been, and they can be open to misinterpretation.
He’s a people person (as was Pope John Paul, and in a more reserved way Pope Benedict), but not as concerned with Doctrine, and I think that sometimes makes him go too far. His last words that: “The Lord forgives everything” is true, “It is we who get tired of asking for forgiveness.” Also true. But I think it would be helpful if he mentioned the word repentance. Jesus did say, “I will never turn away anyone who comes to me.” But I think that means we come to him repentant. The Gospel message is “The repentance and forgiveness of sins.”
As they mention in the video, he’s the son of immigrants, and he says it was hard for his family. That may account for why he speaks so often on behalf of migrants. (As did Pope John Paul and Pope Benedict, and previous Popes, for instance Pope Pius Xll during and after WWll) . But they took into account the necessity of not destabilizing the country receiving immigrants and migrants. Pope John Paul especially was very proud of Poland and Polish culture. In one of his documents he says (quoting from memory) that immigrants have an obligation to accept the customs and laws of the countries they are immigrating to.
Pope Francis said no to women Deacons and Priests. No to surrogacy. No to blessing same sex couples.
He spoke against anti Semitism.
He spoke for negotiation instead of war. He spoke for peace. All of which Popes have been speaking for for a long time. (Except surrogacy which is new). It sounded very traditional to me.
Pope John Paul and Pope Benedict also spoke about the environment. Not as much as Pope Francis, true, and I don’t think they would have associated with some of the people Pope Francis does.
(Just an aside. Pope Francis mentioned plastic bottles in the ocean. According to Boyan Slat, the young man who’s cleaning up the Pacific Garbage patch, and placing filters at the mouth of several rivers to catch the pollution. The vast majority of pollution in the oceans comes from the developing countries. Most western nations have strict environmental laws against polluting waterways).
As a matter of fact, I was pleasantly surprised by the interview.
With all the controversy that surrounds Pope Francis, inside and outside the Church, I feared the worst. Which just goes to show, don’t believe everything you hear in the news.
Thank you very much for your perspective.
Yes, thank-you EW.
So much media is so lousy, we tend project our own opinions onto whatever we consume. That’s especially fraught for expressions of religious doctrine.
I’m not Catholic but I’ve explored it as well as some of the Protestant Christian denominations. In a Catholic church a couple years ago I observed a Catholic deacon and a member of the congregation happily discussing the beauty of Islam so I entered the conversation and brought out a Koran and quoted a few of the parts that didn’t fit their narrative.
As far as I can tell, the churches that follow Vatican 2 are communist.
I think there must have been a fatal flaw in the theology from the beginning or churches would not have decayed to this point.
Israel Anderson has a website for his interpretation of the bible. He believes Jesus spoke in a way that would conceal his message from the wrong people. He claims the message of Jesus was misunderstood until the right time, which is now.
And no, Israel Anderson is not a Gnostic.
The lawless one has been revealed.
“3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. 5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? 6 And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,10 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.”
—2 Thessalonians 2:3–10
A post from his Twitter X account below sums up his findings:
https://x.com/IsraelAnderson/status/1791557400690069521
His website https://andersondiscoveries.com/
Yes the Pope is communist. Perhaps there is solace to be found in another way…
As a born and raised.. TLM Catholic.. I would suggest, to those who have an interest, to investigate.. Return to Tradition, Joe McLane, Michael Matt… and of course.. John Henry Westen.. Lifesite News.. and many, many others.. these wonderful people.. have a wealth of knowledge regarding the history of our beautiful Roman Catholic Church… pre and post Vatican II. I “pray without ceasing” for poor Pope Francis.. I can barely look at that man, let alone listen to anything he says.
has audio and video, timestamped, with answer to at least 1 question
https://www.catholic.com/audio/cal/tbd-71