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A respected Italian reporter who has covered the Vatican for more than 40 years made an assertion that would have astounded Catholics around the world as little as five years ago.
“The battles that Pope Francis has given up fighting are those in defense of the unborn, of the Christian vision of procreation and the family,” Sandro Magister wrote Sept. 12 on his blog. “Of course, he does not fail to condemn abortion or gender ideology, sometimes with words even cruder – “hitmen,” “murderers” – than those of his predecessors, but these condemnations of his get very little media coverage, and it is as if he reconciles himself to this silence.”
Magister’s basic thrust is right but he misses two big points.
First, such major outlets as Associated Press and Reuters have covered Francis’ critical remarks. More importantly, surrender means nothing when the capitulating side never chose to fight seriously in the first place.
As those who follow FrontPage Magazine’s coverage of this pope know, Francis has no interest in preserving, let alone defending, historic teaching on abortion, marriage and sexuality. Instead, he uses his words as cover for a long campaign to sabotage that teaching subtly and through others.
But why? Because Francis, as FrontPage also reported, is committed to the papacy’s globalist vision of materialist utopia, a vision the Second Vatican Council forged and ensuing papal encyclicals amplified. The United Nations’ Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals express that vision — which leaves no room for traditional Catholic teaching, despite the Vatican’s public commitment to both programs.
Look at gender theory. Though Francis calls it “ideological colonization,” nobody fights it by promoting and supporting clerics who promote it. The most prominent include The Rev. James Martin, a papal communications advisor. Martin, a fellow Jesuit, not only uses his social platforms to advocate LGBTQ ideology. He publicly opposes biblical views on homosexuality, as FrontPage often reported.
Nobody fights gender theory by appointing to a group of papal advisors a cardinal who states that Catholic teaching on homosexuality is wrong. Yet Francis did just that when he selected Luxembourg Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, as FrontPage reported.
Nobody fights gender theory by staying silent when a major American Cardinal, San Diego’s Robert McElroy, demands “radical inclusion” for LGBTQ Catholics, regardless of their sexual behavior or their adherence to church teaching on homosexuality, which demands abstinence. Nobody fights by staying silent when another American prelate, Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Ill., responds by calling McElroy a heretic unfit for church office, as FrontPage reported.
Nobody fights gender theory by promoting a minor Italian prelate, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, who commissioned a homoerotic painting for his cathedral. That painting included a scene of the semi-nude Paglia embracing a semi-nude male, as FrontPage reported.
Now look at abortion. Though Francis equates procuring one to “hiring a hitman,” nobody fights it by staying silent when the head of a pontifical body created to oppose it — the aforementioned Paglia — calls a 45-year-old Italian law permitting it under certain conditions “a pillar of our social life,” as FrontPage reported.
Nobody fights abortion by encouraging American prelates to violate both the Catholic catechism and canon law by giving communion to Catholic politicians who support legalized abortion — such as Joe Biden, America’s virtual president, and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the House. But the former head of the Vatican’s highest theological body did just that in 2021, as FrontPage reported.
Nobody fights abortion by honoring those who promote it. But Francis did just that by calling Emma Bonino, a former member of the Italian and European parliaments, “among the greats of today’s Italy.” Bonino performed illegal abortions and supported its legalization in Italy, as FrontPage reported.
Nobody fights abortion by appointing an internationally known advocate as a papal advisor. Yet Francis did just that by making Columbia Professor Jeffrey Sachs his environmental consultant. Sachs, an economist who wrote the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, also wrote a book advocating abortion to control population, as FrontPage reported.
That appointment exposes Francis’ true priorities.
Since replacing Pope Benedict XVI in 2013, Francis has made environmental sustainability and economic redistribution the hallmarks of his tenure, as FrontPage often reported. After publishing his encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si, in May 2015, Francis aggressively pursued his utopian globalist agenda.
Four months after that encyclical, Francis told the UN’s General Assembly that Agenda 2030, which the UN adopted that June, “is an important sign of hope,” and that the Paris Conference on Climate Change “will secure fundamental and effective agreements.” In 2019, Francis said, “the nation-state cannot be considered as an absolute” and must yield to a “specific, legally and concordantly constituted authority” to ensure “a supranatural common good.”
In April 2020, the Vatican released a letter in which Francis advocated a universal basic wage so the poor could enjoy “the benefits of globalism.” That October, Francis wrote his encyclical on economics, Fratelli Tutti. Two months later, he helped create the Council for Inclusive Capitalism “to harness the potential of the private sector to build a fairer, more inclusive, and sustainable economic foundation for the world,” as the group’s website stated.
In May 2021, three projects dominated the agenda. First came a conference on health care and COVID-19. Speakers included Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, known for “initiatives to create a sustainable, low-carbon future for all.” Benioff discussed “how businesses can drive sustainable financial performance while equitably serving the needs of all stakeholders.”
Benioff also belongs to the World Economic Forum’s board of trustees.
Also speaking was Chelsea Clinton, vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, on “Building a More Equitable Health Care System for All.” Despite her outspoken support for abortion, Francis has forged an alliance with the Clintons, which became obvious this year.
Next followed a one-day conference, “Dreaming of a Better Restart,” on economic and environmental issues. The first part addressed cancelling foreign debt, with Sachs as a speaker. The second part discussed modifying food and energy production to reduce global warming. Among the speakers was John Kerry, the Biden Administration’s climate envoy.
Eleven days later, Francis announced the Laudato Si Platform, a seven-year campaign to implement the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Francis described it as part of a broader effort toward what he called “green economics,” “green education” and “green spirituality.”
In July, Francis privately met former President Bill Clinton and George Soros’ son Alexander at the Vatican, as FrontPage reported. Alexander Soros replaced his father as chairman of the Open Society Foundations. In September, the pope addressed climate issues as the keynote speaker for the Clinton Global Initiative’s two-day conference, held during the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Summit.
But by trying to save humanity through Agenda 2030, Francis risks destroying Catholicism.
The UN’s goal of “Gender Equality” contradicts historic Catholic teaching on abortion, birth control and homosexuality. The six targets for meeting that goal include securing “universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights.” That would involve encouraging “adolescent girls and young women aged 15-19” to “make their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care.”
Moreover, the UN created an “LGBTI Inclusion Index” as part of Agenda 2030. The index would “measure development outcomes for LGBTI people and inform policies, programs and investments for strengthening LGBTI inclusion and rights.”
Yet Francis’ support for Agenda 2030 contains ramifications that extend far beyond Catholic teaching.
The Council on Inclusive Capitalism’s emphasis on equity, sustainability and transparent governance (ESG) fits Klaus Schwab’s goals of using “the top-down power of the public-private partnerships to force ESG in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals into the corporate world, into the institutional world, into the nonprofit world,” said James Lindsay, a cultural critic who opposes the “woke” ideology Schwab and his World Economic Forum promote.
Perhaps the most ominous implications concern the UN’s first two goals: “No Poverty” and “Zero Hunger.”
Agenda 2030 wants to “end poverty in all its forms everywhere” and to “end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.” Benedict’s encyclical Caritas in Veritate, as FrontPage reported, mentioned food security as one of the objectives of “a true world political authority” that would “establish the common good,” he wrote.
But if sustainable agriculture means prohibiting nitrogen fertilizers or any methods that cause carbon emissions, Lindsay foresees disaster.
“It means people are going to starve,” he said. “You can’t have food security and sustainable agriculture, at least not under the present population. Somehow, they’re going cut back on lots of agriculture to make it sustainable but somehow achieve food security for all 8 billion-plus people on the planet.” (emphasis added)
For Lindsay, the implications are obvious.
“It’s going to be an excuse for grabbing tons of power to redistribute wealth according to their designs,” he said. “It’s going to be another excuse to impoverish all of the world except for the technocratic elite, the stakeholders who are going to run this show, as a kind of oligarchy of experts who know how to run everything.”
Note well that in Caritas in Veritate, Benedict’s hypothetical “world political authority” would harness globalization to “open up the unprecedented possibility of large-scale redistribution of wealth on a world-wide scale,” he wrote.
But unlike the late pope, Linsday views such a hypothetical body as dangerous, especially given the UN’s goal of creating a digital ID connected to bank accounts and payment platforms, as FrontPage reported.
“This is meant to be a sustainable regime,” Lindsay said. “That’s what ‘sustainability’ really means: not just a sustainable economy or a sustainable capitalism, but in fact a sustainable regime that can’t be deposed.”
So by aligning the Vatican with Agenda 2030, thus culminating six decades of papal policy, Francis risks turning the Catholic Church not just into a globalist tool. He risks making it an accessory of potentially the most repressive form of governance in human history.
Gods WRATH UPON THE VATICAN
Fr Altman recently stated that Francis/Jorge is not the Pope. How can a non-Christian be a Pope? he asked. I think there is an even greater question. “Can a Church with this much evil still be the Church Christ founded?” The answer (not at all questioning the devotion of many Catholics to Jesus Christ) must be NO.
Correct…
The satanic catholic fake church was NOT founded by Christ Jesus… or Peter, Paul or Polycarp…
The satanic catholic fake church was created 300+ years after the Crucifixion…
The Catechism describes what is taking place in these end times: “Before Christ’s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will unveil the “mystery of iniquity in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh. The Church will enter the glory of the kingdom only through this final Passover, when she will follow her Lord in his death and Resurrection. The kingdom will be fulfilled, then, not by a historic triumph of the Church through a progressive ascendancy, but only by God’s victory over the final unleashing of evil, which will cause his Bride to come down from heaven. God’s triumph over the revolt of evil will take the form of the Last Judgment after the final cosmic upheaval of this passing world (Catechism 675-677). The progressive ascendency spoken in the catechism is what this article describes, the church aligning with the globalists, which is leading to the revelation of the antichrist. The antichrist is described not to come out acting like a “devil” but a great humanitarian speaking peace and prosperity and what Agenda 2030 speaks. As described in the catechism, God will intervene for his elect, that is, the faithful and the Bride will come down from heaven to destroy the globalist new world order and create a New Heavens and New Earth, “on earth as it is in Heaven.
And Francis is promoting that deception along with his sycophants in the hierarchy and Catholic media. That deception, as I wrote in the piece above, received its impetus in the Catholic Church at Vatican II.
Well,
Christ is the head of the church; let’s start there.
If you asked someone if something was a sure thing, he might respond
with “Is the Pope Catholic?” Not anymore. Today the response must be
“Is the Pope Communist?” The infiltration of the Catholic Church by
Communists has reached its zenith.
Clare Lopez has appeared on the Glazov Gang and spoken about Pope
Francis’ writings on Marxism as he rose through the ranks of the Church.
Paul Kengor’s book “The Devil and Bella Dodd” addresses her assertion
that over a thousand Communists were planted among seminarians for
the priesthood. Kengor has also addressed the huge Communist
infiltration into the major Protestant denominations as well.
When Bella Dodd was asked who was the actual head of the post WW II
Communist party, she answered that it was Lucifer. Because she said,
quite rightly, that the war against Communism is a spiritual one. Why is
Francis placing the Catholic Church at the service of utopian globalists?
Because he is an actual Communist now occupying the throne of Peter.
He isn’t “risking” making the Catholic Church an accessory to potentially
the most repressive form of governance in human history. He is whole-
heartedly serving his master by doing so.
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting” (Galatians 6:7-8).
I don’t see the Vatican spending 8ts own money to feed the hungry…
May the Lord soon embrace the Pope in the hereafter…
The false pope Francis is doing a magnificent job destroying the Catholic Church and bringing about world communism. May God quickly replace him with a man of God.
I attended evensong at York cathedral tonight, it was beautiful.
However the final prayer said something like “let those who have too much help those who don’t have enough”
Whilst I have no objections against helping those who deserve our help, I ask, who decides what “too much is?”
Be watchful: He may be replaced by the Anti-Christ.
In MX culture very often a person named “Francisco or Francisca”, is called Pancho or Pancha as appropriate. A relative was given, “Francisca” and she is commonly known as “Pancha.” Therefore, this communist political dude sitting in the Vatican is Pope Pancho. The timing of the real Pope Benedict and his retirement to allow this fellow the seat has always been “interesting” because it was nearly the same time Barry Soetoro was anointed to office celebrated with Roman Columns in Denver.
I’m with Archbishop Vigano in his criticisms of Bergolio. As a Catholic I am dismayed by his destructive pronouncements and ideas. Sure miss John Paul II.
Agreed. Bravo.
Anyone of the CATHOLIC indoctrination out there that can show me in a REAL BIBLE where a ‘POPE’ of ANY KIND is mentioned? “Sacraments’? Baptism by water?
I WAS A CATHOLIC…communion and confirmation. Today I have read the Bible more than a dozen times since (2013) the Lord lifted me up out of life’s mire. I am His today, but took THREE YEARS reading His word to come to being a part of the Body of Christ…and then this ‘man’, who BECAME POPE, because a bunch of other child molesters ELECTED HIM to the position and ever since he is an ABOMINATION to the WRITTEN WORD OF GOD, even said there was NO JESUS…he will ‘see’ when he is about to learn his EVERLASTING FATE. (DOOM).
Can anyone show me where in the Bible it says that the Bible is the ONLY source or authority for faith and morals? (Hint: It doesn’t)
Can anyone show me where in the Bible there is an “official” list of books that make up the Bible? (Hint: It doesn’t; the Catholic Church decided which books go into the Bible–until Luther removed a few that conflicted with his fabricated religion)
Can anyone show me where in the Bible it mentions the Trinity? (Hint: It doesn’t)
Can anyone show me where in the Bible the day of worship was changed from Saturday to Sunday? (Hint: It doesn’t)
A person can read the Bible a hundred times, but interpreting it incorrectly will always land them in the same place: chaos and confusion. Like the 30,000 Protestant sects who all have their own interpretations of the Bible.
The Catholic Church has withstood bad CHURCHMEN before, as it is today. But it is the ONLY Church still standing after 2 millennia of unrelenting attacks. That itself is one of many proofs of its Divine nature.
“The Catholic Church has withstood bad CHURCHMEN before, as it is today. But it is the ONLY Church still standing after 2 millennia of unrelenting attacks. That itself is one of many proofs of its Divine nature.”
I bring to your attention these words Malachi Martin said nearly 30 years ago to a Catholic interviewer in Canada:
“There was this consecration, this enthronement of Satan within the Vatican, of Lucifer by the way. It’s a historical fact. It was done one particular day by a certain group of people representing Luciferians all over the world, especially American Luciferians. It was done. Therefore, in a certain sense, Lucifer has power. He doesn’t own yet, but I’m sure he hopes to own some Pope as his man.”
“The organization, the Roman Catholic Organization, as an organization, that is composed of Cardinals, Bishops, Priests, Religious, Nuns, with schools and academies, and institutions, parishes and dioceses and everything that goes along with this, that this, as an organization, is in apostasy.””At the present moment a sizable majority of people are in apostasy, have been led into apostasy, and a sizeable minority of Cardinals, Bishops, Priests, and Religious are in apostasy. They no longer profess the basic truths of Christianity – forget Catholicism.”
“They simply do not believe that Jesus is in the Blessed Sacrament. They don’t believe that Jesus knew He was God – or was God. He became God.”
Martin said this during the pontificate of John Paul II, one of the most respected and beloved popes.
I also call to your attention the vision Pope Leo XIII had that motivated him to write the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel. In that vision, Jesus gave Satan permission to destroy the Catholic Church within a century. Now, why would Jesus do that unless he was judging the church and finding it wanting?
Mere longevity proves nothing. Many empires lasted centuries but became rotting hulks with lovely facades toward the end of their tenure.
The Catholic Church is the church that forgot Christ. This pope is a Peronista/Marxist and a criminal. Sad.
“Surrendering the Church Without a Fight?” Nonsense. Check out the Catholic resistance to Pope Francis and his regime of reprobates at, The Remnant, Lifesite News, Church Militant, and even Raymond Arroyo and the Papal Posse at EWTN.
If you actually read the article, you will have noticed that it is Pope Francis, who is doing the surrendering, not any of the outlets you mention.
If anything destroys the Catholic Church, it will be the collective arrogance of its members, who somehow believe that they are above judgment from the holy, righteous God.
Pope Francis didn’t surrender the Church to globalists and other malignant ones. Rather, it was these pests who indoctrinated & prepped him and manipulated his election. His determination to undermine the church and leave it devoid of any substance was clear from the get go – and by the way, what are we to think of Pope Benedict XIV who resigned in 2013 (the first pope to do so since 1415 AD), officially due to health problems, yet lived for another 9 years?
Read the fifth and sixth paragraphs of the piece. You will have your answer. As the author said, “surrender means nothing when the capitulating side never chose to fight seriously in the first place.”
Francis is implementing the papal policy of globalist, humanist, materialist utopia. That implementation is a choice that not only he made but most of his predecessors made over the past six decades.
contrary to popular opinion and the articles in front-page , the catholic church is not christian . so its collapse will be no great loss . but babylon the harlot will be around for a little longer . its collapse will come during the 7 yr. tribulation in conjunction with the reign of the antichrist and the one world govt. the so called representative of christianity will be the antichrists VP . the world is in for a wild ride , best to get your house in order while you can .
This isn’t about Catholic theology but the collective sellout of the church by its leadership. I assure you that many devout Catholics are upset by all of this and think Pope Francis betrayed them, Christ, and the faith. On that front, they’re not wrong. Not by a long shot.
When St. John Paul the Second passed, I felt as if the heart of Christianity had been torn out of our souls! Now I see clearly that that is what happened! He was the last true emissary of Christ! These others are like “snake oil “ salesmen who only give you the “illusion” while they quietly steal bits & pieces of your soul!
The heart of Christianity is and always has been Jesus himself. Nobody, no matter how devout or popular, can change that.
This is an excellent summary of the (anti) Church’s misdeeds. I must quibble with two of the author’s characterizations. First, Bergoglio is not surrendering the Church. He actively seeks its destruction. Second, he isn’t trying to save humanity with Agenda 2030. He seeks its ruin.
The fourth paragraph of the article makes your first point. As far as “trying to save humanity“ is concerned, that’s what Francis *thinks* he’s trying to do. Remember, the whole purpose of the wEF/NWO/etc. is to “save“ humanity. It’s propaganda to hide perhaps the biggest worldwide power grab in history.