In his new autobiography, “Hope,” Francis accuses traditional Catholics of “rigorism” and a culture of “backwardism” wherein young traditional priests “dress up” in “elegant and costly tailoring, lace, fancy trimmings, rochets” to “conceal a mental imbalance, emotional deviation, behavioral difficulties, and a personal problem. . .”
Can you imagine the Dalai Lama launching these obnoxious public attacks on the sanity of his own Tibetan monks, calling them “backward and rigid,” publicly dressing them down for how they dress? The idea is preposterous! And yet when it comes to Francis it’s par for the course, his anger management issues having become part and parcel of who and what the man is.
This is the same pope, by the way, who would have the world believe that he is deeply concerned about preserving unity in the Church. The Latin Mass, he insists, is “disunifying” but his personal and very public attacks on faithful Catholics and their young priests somehow serves the holy cause of Christian Unity. How does this mesh? It doesn’t unless your mind is as warped and angry as his is.
In any case, this papal hate speech is out of control, and in the new Remnant Underground we encourage lawyers to begin building a case again him:
Why is this necessary? Well, for one thing, we’ve already seen traditional Catholic priests gunned down by unhinged and mentally disturbed assailants. How many more have to be killed before Francis stops his hateful rhetoric against priests and faithful whose only “crime” is an earnest desire to worship God according to the same liturgy that Padre Pio used every day.
For that matter, Francis’ own predecessors learned to offer the same Mass when they were in seminary. In fact, every pope from John XXIII to Benedict XVI offered the same Latin Mass as a young priest and, incidentally, dressed in the exact same way that Francis now condemns as a telltale sign of mental imbalance. Was Padre Pio mentally imbalanced, too?
We’ve already seen traditional Catholic priests gunned down by unhinged and mentally disturbed assailants. How many more have to be killed before Francis stops his hateful rhetoric against priests and faithful whose only “crime” is an earnest desire to worship God according to the same liturgy that Padre Pio used every day.
Now, of course, this papal condemnation of how Catholic priests worshipped and dressed just a few years ago is not something Francis came up with on his own. This is all part of the foundational event on which Francis patterns his entire pontificate – the 1965 Pact of the Catacombs, which took place in the Domitilla Catacomb on the eve of the close of Vatican II and was a de facto declaration of war on the traditional Catholic liturgy, practice, and theology. (For more on the Pact of the Catacombs, see this Underground video.)
In any case, given how paranoid and obsessed (with us) Francis has become, it seems safe to surmise that the one suffering from mental imbalance here is the 87-year-old pontiff himself, and perhaps it is time for someone in his entourage to take pity on this pathetic old man and muzzle him – for his own good and for the good of the Catholic Church.
Please God, shut Francis up!
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