The liberal project almost destroyed Protestantism. Almost. But the church recovered. Because the liberals found themselves isolated among the Episcopalians, Presbyterians and methodists: the believers moved to the Anglicans, Orthodox Presbyterians and reformed, and the Pentecostals.

Our Roman Friends held off until Vatican II, but then the rot entered fully. They are now doing what every other church has had to do: reform and repent.

Herein lies the problem for the social activists: By their fruit they are known. They destroy churches, cause a falling away of faith, and are left not with the gospel, but with a series of slogans.

This papacy is done. Its reputation has imploded like a Central American military junta. It will be remembered as the Banana Republic Pontificate. It does not really matter – in the long term – for how long these buffoons will stay in power. It is now obvious that the Church has started to vomit Vatican II out of Her body, and whilst the process will be long and painful, I have no doubt it will end with a purification from the toxins of Vatican II.

Francis is the vomit of V II finally coming out of the drunken Church of the last 55 years. There is now no way the edifice of Vatican II can survive its bastard offspring. When sanity comes back, everyone will see what has caused all this: the Second Vatican Council and its work of doctrinal and liturgical demolition.

In a way, a disgrace like Francis is useful to help overcome the crisis. At least, this vomit wants out. With John Paul and Benedict the body was poisoned already, but no hope of getting rid of the toxins.

Francis and, perhaps, his successors will ruin V II so thoroughly, so completely, that the return to sanity after this crisis will be the most natural thing in the world. And if you ask me, I prefer having to go through Francis II Cupich, and then sanity, rather than through another dozen Benedicts still demolishing the church in pretty much the same way, but in slow motion, for the next who knows how many years.

Better a morning of vomiting than two weeks of drunkenness. At some point, everything will be vomited out.

al, direct, immediate relationship with Jesus Christ without communion with and the mediation of the church.” But Pope Francis’s recently pronounced that salvation is a reward for good works.

Well, this pope is wrong. The entryists, the communists, as Mundabor correctly have noted, attempted to enter the church, kill it, gut it, and then require that we worship the shell, not the Spirit of God. This is wrong, has always been wrong, and you don’t need to go very far to refute it.

Such churchmen should recall instead that Paul thought he was a good theologian, and persecuting the Church was a noble deed, until Christ confronted him, and asked him why he was persecuting God.

He equates “doing without others, without the Church,” “save yourself,” and “laboratory Christian.” I am reminded of a conference on collaborative (team) learning I attended where one of the questions from the audience was: “If we can have collaborative learning, why can’t we have collaborative assessment.” In other words, if we learn together, we should write exams together. Pass one, pass all; and hopefully fail no one – especially if they are nice people.

According to the Pope, God (in Christ) is mediated through the “Church,” defined by Roman Catholicism as the institution consisting of the Pope and his hierarchy. And we all know that institutions do not have one personal bone in their body. And it’s only through cleaving to this clerical institution via the “Vicar of Christ” that Christians are able to cleave to God. So, when Jesus knocks at a Christian’s door (no, he never knocks at an unbeliever’s door, because Jesus doesn’t knock on coffins) and asks to be invited in for supper, for a more personal relationship (“I stand at the door and knock – Revelation 3:21), the Pope would admonish, “What’s with this “more personal!” when “personal” itself is not only forbidden by the Church, but an impossible concept?

Contrary to Pope Francis, Augustine of Hippo writes in his Confessions:

“When I shall cleave unto You with all my being, then shall I in nothing have pain and labour; and my life shall be a real life, being wholly full of You. But now since he whom Thou fillest is the one Thou liftest up, I am a burden to myself, as not being full of You. Joys of sorrow contend with sorrows of joy; and on which side the victory may be I know not. Woe is me! Lord, have pity on me. My evil sorrows contend with my good joys; and on which side the victory may be I know not. Woe is me! Lord, have pity on me. Woe is me! Lo, I hide not my wounds; You are the Physician, I the sick; Thou merciful, I miserable.”

Is it possible to cleave to God? A Christian, as Augustine illustrates, certainly can. Such a God is personal, and if personal then surely one can cleave to God’s Person.

The Pope says above that it is “dangerous” to believe that one can have “a personal, direct, immediate relationship with Jesus Christ without communion with and the mediation of the church.” But Pope Francis’s recently pronounced that salvation is a reward for good works.

We prods need to pray for our papist brothers. For they are being persecuted. By those bishops and cardinals whom they should be shepherded by. Instead they are being left to be harvested by social activists, forgetting that the spirit of this world is opposed to Christ, and is prowling, angry, for it knows that the church will destroy it, and that its time is short.