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Fishwrap (aka the National Sodomitic Reporter) has been too creepily disgusting lately even to peruse lately, what with the list of for the upcoming consistory.

However, a friend did some toxic-waste diving and came up with an observation about one the hierophants of the cult of Francis, Austen Ivereigh.

Ivereigh, fully adept now in the gnostic ways of Francisism gave a talk somewhere to someone we don’t care about which wound up for obvious reasons in Fishwrap.   I suppose it was greeted with the usual bark of approval and automatic hand clapping, a la the Great Hall of El Pueblo.

Apparently one of the points of the talk was to show how horribly repressive the previous papal regimes were – interesting that is on the heels of the death of Sodano – and how wonderfully free and open all things are now in these halcyon days of transparency, freedom and synodical (“walking together”) consultation.

So, my friend the toxic-bin diver – thank you, dear friend for making it unnecessary to go there – points out something that perhaps resonates with you.  Some of the details in this excerpt are not relevant.  You’ll see it when you see it.

From the Ivereigh talk to whatever Red Guard squad it was [my emphasis]:

Maccise in 2003 indicted the way documents flooded out of the Vatican that touched directly on the lives of the faithful yet who were never consulted in their drafting: Not one of the 775 convents of the Discalced Carmelites was consulted during the preparation of Verbi Sponsa, the 1999 document on contemplative life and enclosure. Sodano’s Curia also exercised “habitual forms of authoritarian violence”: using anonymous delations (accusations) to Rome to denounce “heterodox” people, and famously hounding theologians accused of heresy by curial officials who cloaked themselves in sacred power.

Among these “habitual forms” of violence, Maccise wrote, was “a dogmatism that refuses to admit that in a pluralist world it is not possible to impose single religious, cultural and theological standpoints,” confusing what is essential in doctrine and its relative theological expressions. The Maccise article also called out the attempt to eliminate tensions and conflicts in the church by suppressing dialogue, creating a climate of fear that permitted a rigid uniformity to be imposed in the name of a false idea of unity.

Francis’ Curia is barely recognizable from this description. Vatican documents, vastly reduced in number, are (generally) these days the fruit of painstaking and lengthy consultations. The days of anonymous denunciations and heresy trials are long gone.

Uh huh.

Some comments from the friend in the haz-mat suit:

What sad irony, through and through.

Were the hundreds of traditional parishes and TLM communities consulted for TC?  Mine wasn’t.  Those parishes where my friends attend Mass were also not consulted.

The annulment procedural reforms of 2015?  No one was consulted on that either — PF just said “the Synod (2014) Fathers wanted it,” and it appeared the next summer.

Both are similar:  It seems just to be Francis channeling whatever frustrations he encountered in his time in Buenos Aries, frustrations toward things he did not understand and/or could not wield control over.

It reminds me of the guy who, having only a 4 lbs club hammer, has undertaken to fit some delicate interwoven lattice work.  After due consideration, hence no consultation about possible alternative tools, he just beats the hell out of it.

We’ve entered into a kind of fantasy stage, wherein people still know the truth, but the Ministry of Truth is gaining ground and the governing sector of the Church has almost reached its Omega Point and transmogrification into a global population control NGO.

What will stop this?

I pray that the Lord will return.  Please, Lord, now.

In the meantime, Lord, is it out of the question to ask that you raise up for us a few great epoch-defining saints, capable of moving people back to the Catholic Faith against all the odds and obstacles?   Decades of brain numbing education systems… though enervating screens… entertainment industry that has worked to reduce about half the population to disrespected objects and the other half to distracted game players?

What will it take, Lord?

In times past, reform, though hard, must have been easier because people weren’t as… well… numb and vacant, so inured to immediate satisfactions.

This age is unlike any we have ever seen in history, which makes it more dangerous and more likely that katechon will stop katechoning.