Pope Francis hates the Catholic faith - Louie Verrecchio

[Michael]

From the very earliest moments of his pontificate, hardly a week has passed without Pope Francis, at the very least, causing great confusion among many of the faithful. Often, his words and his deeds have been outright scandalous.

The papal improprieties of the past twenty-seven months are so numerous and so well-known that there is little need to list them here.

Besides, doing so will be of no avail for those who welcome the church-of-man, or who choose, as a deliberate act of the will, to bury their heads in the neo-conservative sandbox.

Looking ahead, all indications are that Pope Francis is about to outdo himself with the promulgation of an encyclical on the environment.

In the more distant future, should the Lord choose to allow the Franciscan scourge to continue for another two years, the eyes of the world will witness the Successor to St. Peter celebrating the protestant revolt; the same that ushered in a pseudo-Christianity that dares to promote homosexual mock-marriages, divorce, contraception, abortion, female “priests” (practicing lesbians, included), and any number of other abominations, all in the name of Christ.

What can one say about such a pope?

Why does he do such things?

What is he thinking?

Numerous theories attempting to explain the man abound.

For example, some wish to believe that Pope Francis (who, after all, is a “son of the Church” – he said so himself) is the smartest guy in the room; a brilliant tactician employing a strategy for converting the world to Christ that is so masterful in its subtlety that we, his subjects, cannot even begin to comprehend it.

On the flip side are those who say that the man is just plain stupid.

Others are more Benedictine in their “interpretation” of Francis’ more disturbing words and deeds; twisting themselves into knots in an attempt to wring “continuity” out of whole heretical cloth.

Others still, having long since taken up membership in the church-of-man, see Pope Francis as a breath of fresh air in spite of the Holy Catholic Church’s near complete suffocation.

For my part, it seems that if nothing else is clear, it is entirely obvious that Pope Francis isn’t the least bit serious about performing the duties of the Office of Peter, at least not as they have been understood for nearly 2,000 years.

He’s also a walking “do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do” operation in hypocrisy.

He is a man who speaks rather often of “unity” while dividing like none other, who promotes “humility” while staging magnificent displays that call attention directly to himself, who trumpets collegiality while enforcing his will on the majority, who decries gossiping and name-calling while offering homilies with material that would make an insult comic blush, and so on.

At the end of the day, I think the most accurate explanation for his unseemly behavior is simply this:

Pope Francis hates the Catholic faith.

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen once famously remarked:

There are not more than one hundred people in the world who truly hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they perceive the Catholic Church to be.

I’m not so sure he had this right, but in any case, let’s be perfectly clear; as it concerns the hatred that lurks within Pope Francis, it’s not a matter of knowing not of what he despises.

Pope Francis knows the Catholic faith, he “gets” the Catholic faith, he is well aware of the Catholic faith; he simply hates it.

No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. (Matthew 6:24)

What is mammon?

Mammon is typically considered to mean “riches,” and what’s more, riches in which one puts undue stock; even to the point of devoting oneself to them.

Though “mammon” most often calls to mind money, it need not be so exclusively.

In the verses preceding Mt. 6:24, Our Lord gives a lengthy discourse wherein He offers three examples of “hypocrites” who have “received their reward;” namely, men who practice piety, give alms, and fast in such way as to win the acclaim of others.

With this understanding in mind, can there be any doubt that Pope Francis loves him some mammon?

I suppose one might argue that it’s not so much that Pope Francis seeks mammon so understood, much less loves it, but even if this be so, there can be no arguing against the fact that mammon has been heaped upon this man and his pontificate unlike any other.

Pope Francis enjoys immense, indeed unprecedented popularity among heathens, homos and heretics, and not without reason.

And let’s not be naïve; it most certainly isn’t because he strikes an image of Christ so clear and compelling as to be irresistible.

No serious observer of this pontificate will contend that Pope Francis is so loved for his intrepidness in teaching the one true faith.

Rather, it is most certainly the case that he is loved by so many for the exact opposite reason; he hates the one true faith.

This much is entirely evident if one simply allows the man to speak for himself.

A supposed soundness of doctrine or discipline leads instead to a narcissistic and authoritarian elitism…

In some people we see an ostentatious preoccupation for the liturgy, for doctrine and for the Church’s prestige…

I believe in God, not in a Catholic God, there is no Catholic God…

I would not speak about “absolute” truths, even for believers…

Do you need to convince the other to become Catholic? No, no, no!

To those sincere souls who still feel compelled to “figure out” the complexities of Pope Francis vis-à-vis his deeply disturbing words and deeds; do yourself a favor and just stop.

The impetus for the current papal program is at once exceedingly simple, and immensely tragic:

Pope Francis hates the Catholic faith.

 

Pope Francis hates the Catholic faith - Louie Verrecchio

[David Kaftal]

I'm afraid I must disagree with Mr. Verrechio once again. He claims that Francis believes in God (I believe in God, not in a Catholic God, there is no Catholic God…), but in a sermon he gave last fall, he said that God does not exist:

The sermon appears here, on YouTube: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmCaXr7m4_Q

The relevant part begins at 2 minutes 4 seconds in.

Here is the official translation according to the Vatican Radio website (

http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2014/10/09/pope_at_santa_marta_what... ). The ellipsis (...) indicates a pause, not missing text:

So often [people ask]: 'But do you believe?': 'Yes! Yes! '; 'What do you believe in?'; 'In God!'; 'But what is God for you?'; 'God, God'. But God does not exist: Do not be shocked! So God does not exist! There is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, they are persons, they are not some vague idea in the clouds ... This God spray does not exist! The three persons exist! (Emphasis mine.)

I grew up in aan Italian-speaking household, and had no trouble understanding the relevant part of the sermon. 

Simply unbelievable. A pope who gives a sermon asserting that God doesn't exist!!

[Michael]

David, thank you for your insight into this.  This is far worse than what has been publicized by the press and the Vatican.

[Alley]

This makes me crazy.. this is why I have a difficult time believing that the recent

Popes (since John 23rd) have had NO idea what they were truly doing. They (all) had

to have been taught the truths of the Catholic Faith or at least looked at the catechism

maybe once. Right? 

They obviously knew enough to change what they didn't like.  And they all had a hand in these

changes that offend Our Lord so much.

Please forgive me for ranting.   

[David Kaftal]

So the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost exist, but God doesn't? Or is it that even the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost don't exist, and Francis was wrong in implying that they do? This is making no sense at all to me. What philosophical system holds that God has no being, anyway? Or rather, that he doesn't be, just does? Do ... be ... do ... be ... do .... sounds like a Frank Sinatra song! Or the ravings of Yoda the Jedi Knight. And do you mean to say that Francis is so theologically and philosophically insightful that he can split ontological hairs like this while simultaneously not having a clue about what the catechism says or what the teachings of the Church are? That's just insane!

[Alley]

LOL

[Dawn Marie]

I can understand the EC's Conciliar Popes I and II up to and including Benedict.  But I can't put Francis in that category.  He just doesn't fit.

He doesn't fit because his actions scream of an agenda to purposefully confuse the faithful, destroy whatever remnants of Catholicism are left in the conciliar church and all the while he does so with a smug smile on his face. I've said it before several times and I still believe he gives every indication that he is the pope of the Alta Vendita. 

[Alley]

"Francis the Destroyer" 

Dawn Marie said:

I can understand the EC's Conciliar Popes I and II up to and including Benedict.  But I can't put Francis in that category.  He just doesn't fit.

He doesn't fit because his actions scream of an agenda to purposefully confuse the faithful, destroy whatever remnants of Catholicism are left in the conciliar church and all the while he does so with a smug smile on his face. I've said it before several times and I still believe he gives every indication that he is the pope of the Alta Vendita. 

[Elsa Matilde Zardini]

God is; God does not exist because “exist” means that it had a beginning, that it was created, and hence, that it will have an end. That is why the Bible says “I am”; “I am that I am”

[David Kaftal]

Sorry guys, but this is pure sophistry. St. Thomas Aquinas gives five proofs for the existence of God in the Summa Theologia. One of them, the cosmological argument, concludes that God is self-existent; i. e., was not created. Self-existent, not nonexistent. Please, let's not have any more of this nonsense.

[Elsa Matilde Zardini]

Exist, from latin existere: to step forth, emerge, come into being.

Where is the sophistry? Where is the non-sense? I don't understand. Did Saint Thomas use the latin verb existere or it was translated as such?

[Elsa Matilde Zardini]

I agree, Matthew. If Pope Francis hates God, then he is the Anti-Christ, then we are in the 7^th Church which we are not in as clearly explained by Monseñor Williamson in several ECs and which I personally believe. So, if this is correct, which I obviously don’t know for certain, what is the agenda of all these neo-Trads? Are they by any chance trying to convince us that former Pope Benedict XVI is still Pope, albeit “Emeritus”, while Pope Francis is not? That would be interesting to witness. The father of Vatican II who designed it, “his child”, and implemented it and never repented of it, Father Ratzinger, ends up being the Traditional Pope. Or, are we going to have a third simultaneous Pope?      

[Dawn Marie]

It is sophistry Matthew.  A person can crack the books out and speak of the great Saint Thomas and split hairs on what Francis said but the bottom line; the average man in the pew doesn't study Saint Thomas and probably would not get into legalistic wording over this.  And what about the children or those who do not hold such a high intellect for the study of the great Saint Thomas?  They will take Francis at what he said, which is what people should be able to do. 

The fact: is Francis said there is no Catholic God.

And the fact is Francis also said " So often [people ask]: 'But do you believe?': 'Yes! Yes! '; 'What do you believe in?'; 'In God!'; 'But what is God for you?'; 'God, God'. But God does not exist: Do not be shocked! So God does not exist! There is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, they are persons, they are not some vague idea in the clouds ... This God spray does not exist! The three persons exist!"

This kind of speaking from a supposed POPE is neither Catholic nor good.  It is the kind of speaking that leads souls to hell.  And this is only addressing what he said on these 2 particular issues.  We aren't even addressing the hundreds of other issues Francis has said and done that show he does indeed give every sign of despising the Catholic Faith.  Just off the top of my head the Franciscans of the Immaculata come to mind.  Francis wasted no time in dismantling them.  And why?  Because he loves the Catholic Faith?  Or because he despises it?

One thing Francis is not, and that is lukewarm.

And here's a question, Francis says: "So often [people ask]: 'But do you believe?' What do you believe in?

Who are these people who so often feel compelled to ask the Pope if he believes in God?  If you would have occasion to speak to the pope is that really the question that would come to mind or should come to mind?  Who asks the pope if he believes in God?  Just wondering since Francis says "So often" people ask him this.