I do not consider that the bloggers of this generation can hold the penknife to earlier generations. The modern catholic controversialists can look to great ones: Belloc and Chesterton. On my side of the Tiber, we have C.S Lewis, Francis Schaeffer. The Orthodox have Alexandr, who confessed his faith as he documented the church in the Gulag.
We are more akin to mewling babes. We concentrate too much on politics, and not enough on spiritual foundation. The level of erudition is decreasing. But then, our enemies have become crude, and lack intelligence.
On noticing that the message was causing widespread resistance, a smarter guy would have toned down the rhetoric a lot, being content to only disseminate an error here and there amidst many episodes of orthodoxy.
Francis is, sadly for him and luckily for us, not a smart guy. He is stubborn, petty, childish and, most of all, stupid. Therefore, as he saw his Pontificate deflate like a soufflé gone wrong he did not put his foot on the brake, but on the gas pedal, showing the typical attitude of the three-years-old who wants to impose new ball game rules on his companions because he has the ball.
Interview followed interview. Outrage followed outrage. Insult followed insult. Heresy followed heresy. As Francis saw his initial patrimony of good will evaporate he reacted like an idiotic child would: more logorrhoea, more outrage, more insults, more heresy.
Well done, Evil Clown! You have managed to let even the slow-witted understand what an enemy of Christ you are.
I am afraid we might not be so happy with the next V II job holder. But one can always hope that after this unmitigated disaster the Cardinals will be inspired to go with a safer pair of hand; and, by God’s grace and a bit of conversion….
The lies of this time are printed and in social media. But the truth needs no such promotion. The truth is its own defence. Christ rose: the grave is empty. All else is commentary.
1When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to you in lofty words or wisdom. 2For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 3And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. 4My speech and my proclamation were not with plausible words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.
6Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to perish. 7But we speak God’s wisdom, secret and hidden, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. 8None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9But, as it is written,
“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the human heart conceived,
what God has prepared for those who love him” —
10these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11For what human being knows what is truly human except the human spirit that is within? So also no one comprehends what is truly God’s except the Spirit of God. 12Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God. 13And we speak of these things in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual things to those who are spiritual.
The Unitarians say they have no creed, but their lies increase, for they are converged. They are against restrictions on sexuality, the idea that we were created in two sexes, they believe in global warming: there is not a fashionable cause they do nto stand behind.
They reject Christ, because he says these are wrong, and they reject the truth, because it limits them.
And they are converged to the point of irrelevance. No one cares. Their positions are foolish, though the world praises them.
Evil, you see, makes you stupid. You lose any discrimination. Consider Don Juan: he loved women — and thus seduced anyone. He did not love a woman, because to do that is to discriminate, and choose her alone.
Christ chose us. Individually.
Do not let the narrative of this age remove your salvation and give you instead virtue signals, as if you have a decent meal taken from you for the sake of a McDonald’s Happy Meal Toy.
Christ rose from the grave. Simpler. True. And in him there is wisdom.