The Marxists, leftists, communists have infiltrated almost every aspect of society. That includes much of world religion. The goal is to undermine religion, cause a loss of faith and trust, and eventually the abandonment of religion by the masses.
I’ll say right up front, I’m no holy man, not a churchgoer. I do have strong beliefs and great respect for God and his word. I’m just not holding my breath, not waiting for a heavenly reward.
I DO become incensed when religion is attacked and especially so when it is RELIGIOUS LEADERS that mock and insult the god that they profess to worship. After all, our nation was great because of the Judeo-Christian beliefs and traditions on which it was founded. As religion fades from America, so fades America’s greatness.
And that brings me to the Catholic Pope. I was raised Catholic, though I’m no longer an adherent. Much of my family are Catholics. I have respect for many devout and sincere Catholics.
However, I wonder about Pope Francis. He has been described as “Marxist/Socialist Pope Francis”.
According to The American Spectator:
Understanding the adage that personnel is policy, Pope Francis has been planting Marxists throughout the Church, including at the top of the troubled religious order to which he belongs. In 2016, the Jesuits, with the blessing of Pope Francis, installed as its general superior a Venezuelan, Fr. Arturo Sosa Abascal, whose communist convictions have long been known.
Turn down any corridor in Francis’s Vatican, and you are likely to run into a de facto communist: Francis has a communist running his order, a communist running his Council of Cardinals (the Honduran cardinal, Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga), a communist running the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (Margaret Archer, a British sociologist who has said that she represents the “Marxian left”), and communists such as the renegade Brazilian liberation theologian Leonardo Boff and the Canadian socialist Naomi Klein drafting his encyclicals.
Research Francis’ history, his appointments and his actions, speeches and writings since becoming pope.
Pope Francis has received a rather unusual gift from Bolivia’s first indigenous president Evo Morales during his visit to Latin America: a crucifix carved into a wooden hammer and sickle, the Communist symbol of the union of labour and peasants.
The latest revealed travesty is that “the Vatican’s own newspaper reveals Pope Francis recently hung an image behind his desk depicting a naked Jesus Christ caressing his dead apostle Judas Iscariot.” (as reported in WND)
I’m not posting the portrait here. If you want to see it, go to the WND news site. Suffice it to say it’s very disrespectful.
Also, a link to the portrait is here, along with comments: The Catholic-defense group Tradition in Action
https://traditioninaction.org/RevolutionPhotos/A930-Jud2.htm
The other side of it is that Bible History is being rewritten. That should be no surprise, Marxists constantly rewrite and then teach false history in order to support their ideologies.
The editor (of the vatican’s newspaper)– probably obeying an order of Pope Francis – chose to post on its front page the reproduction of a picture, above and below first row, that presents a naked Jesus bending over and tenderly ministering to a dead Judas.
In the last several decades, this is the first time – as far as we know – that L’Osservatore Romano has promoted Judas Iscariot on its first three pages. It seems the inauguration of a new saint and the official launching of the “Church of Judas”
Are we far from the day when the same mercy will be applied to another Great Traitor, Satan? Does it not appear that the Vatican’s semi-official launching of the “Church of Judas” is the prelude to the coming “Church of Satan”?
So Judas was really a good man? Forgiven? I don’t know if the above comments are a stretch, but it does highlight the worry of traditional Catholics and their distrust of their pope.
It’s just another jenga block being pulled, and the tottering tower is wobbling, its collapse is imminent.