Is Pope Francis' New Pandemic Ecology Cause for Alarm？
Summary
In the old way we did the Mass for the pandemics, we prayed, yes, for health and safety, and so on, but also recognizing that man s sin is what has caused all the evil in the world. The Vatican rejoiced in the pandemic, despite people dying and whatnot. They said it was wonderful for the environment. We have a woke Pope Francis.
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In the old way we did the Mass for the pandemics, we prayed, yes, for health and safety and so on,
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but also recognizing that man's sin is what has caused all the evil in the world.
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The Vatican sort of rejoiced in the pandemic, despite people dying and whatnot.
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They said it was just wonderful for the environment.
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We have a woke Pope Francis. Woke in the worst sense of the word.
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I'm not talking woke in the sense of being awake to being red-pilled to see what's actually going on.
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No, no, no, no, no. Woke in that other sense of the word.
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It couldn't be that Pope Francis was as mean and nasty as Tony Fauci, bashing people and just making fun of them.
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Do you know that Pope Francis went after those who were complaining about vaccination,
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forced vaccination, masking, forced masking, and everything else?
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This is John Henry Weston for LifeSite News, bringing you breaking news from Rome.
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Pope Francis lashes out at lockdown protesters saying they'd never protest children lacking water.
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In a rant by Pope Francis where he lets down his guard and allows his leftist colors to show more than in the past,
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the Pope said of anti-lockdown protesters, quote,
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you'll never find such people protesting the death of George Floyd or joining a demonstration
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because there are shanty towns where children lack water or education, end quote.
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But if that's not enough, the new cardinal Pope Francis just named,
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D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory, has just said in an interview that he will not deny Joe Biden Holy Communion.
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That's the same Joe Biden who is for abortion on demand to the tune of one million American children every year.
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Speaking from Rome via Zoom with Catholic News Service, which is the news agency of the Catholic bishops,
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Gregory said that Biden has been receiving communion for the last eight years,
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quote, I'm not going to veer from that, end quote.
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But the news from Pope Francis is quite explosive.
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His comments come in a teaser for the Pope's new book-length interview with leftist Vatican journalist Austin Ivory.
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The Pope lashes out at anti-lockdown protesters of whom he says, and I quote,
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quote, you'll never find such people protesting the death of George Floyd
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or joining a demonstration because there are shanty towns where children lack water or education
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or because there are whole families who have lost their income, end quote.
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quote, those who claim, for example, that being forced to wear a mask is an unwarranted imposition by the state, end quote.
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victims only in their own imagination, end quote.
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And I actually went and made sure of this news because it's so explosive, so weird, you'd think,
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But sure enough, it's right there in the book by Austin Ivory.
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It's also covered by America Magazine, which is the Jesuit magazine,
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with the editor to whom the Pope has often gone.
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But, you know, with all the virtue signaling that is painfully evident in the book,
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Pope Francis himself is not all that concerned about mask-wearing in his own house,
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Just yesterday in the Vatican, he met with NBA players and officials
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from the National Basketball Players Association.
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The meeting took place indoors without masks and also without social distancing,
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as you can clearly and plainly see in this video of the event.
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The Pope apparently requested the meeting in which they discussed NBA efforts to promote
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Now, recall that the NBA painted Black Lives Matter on the court along their sideline
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and donned equality and other sayings on their jerseys.
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So, naturally, they did not need to worry about COVID regulations because,
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as we all know, COVID knows COVID, coronavirus is able to distinguish between lockdown protests
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Whereas with lockdown protests, police need to intervene because of the danger of coronavirus.
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With the Black Lives Matter protests, COVID knows.
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But in all seriousness, what we have to focus on here is these taunts,
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and unfortunately, I think there really are taunts by the Pope himself.
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They're meant, well, perhaps not meant, but they can engender a lot of anger, a lot of frustration.
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These comments that are very hurtful are, though, not the most serious errors of Pope Francis.
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They're not the ones that really deserve our ire, our real, real concern.
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But they will serve to wake up more people to the very dangerous thing that's going on with Pope Francis.
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You have to remember, this is the real danger with the Pope is where he's gone off in terms of doctrine.
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When he decides to allow for divorce, remarried communion, when he says things about homosexual civil unions,
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when he says things about cohabitation, when he says things about contraception
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and meets transgendered couples and says that they're married and happy,
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those are the things that are truly dangerous for the faith.
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But let's hope that these new comments, with all of the anger and the frustration that they generate,
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might cause people to do what they really need to do.
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Bishop Athanasius Steider, probably one of the, not only most courageous bishops in the church today,
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one of the most, nor most outspoken bishops, one of the most holy bishops in the church today,
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who really wants to be at the service of the Pope.
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He is being at the service of the Pope by pointing out the errors which the Pope has done,
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has gone to the Pope himself directly over the Pachamama scandals and about the Abu Dhabi scandals,
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and begging for the faithful to pray for the conversion of Pope Francis.
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Let's take these shots that we've received directly from the Pope for, remember,
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he called all sorts of names about rigidity and all sorts of things against traditional Catholics
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And so we can take all the shots, but we'll do so offering up all of that hurt.
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It's hurtful when people say bad things about us, nasty things about us.
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Offer that up in union with all of your prayers, the holy sacrifice of the mass for the conversion
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That, I guess, is not that surprising when you know where Pope Francis is coming from.
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Well, Pope Francis is coming from a very strange place.
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You know that right at the pandemic, when everything was being shut down,
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and of course they shut down the masses, they actually did something else.
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The redo was all about removing any reference to God's wrath.
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So it used to be, in the old way we did the mass for the pandemics, we prayed, yes, for
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health and safety and so on, but also recognizing that man's sin is what has caused all the evil
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And so there was, Lord, turn away thy wrath from us.
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You might think that almost all of the Catholic churches of the world locked tight at this
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most sacred time of the year, with no public Easter celebrations, even at the Vatican.
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With donations from the church in free fall, and with much of the world in fear and dread,
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the Pope would concentrate on calling the world to repentance to appease the just anger of God.
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In fact, what did happen was quite the opposite.
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The Vatican put out a new mass last week, changing the original mass for times of pestilence
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As LifeSite reported, the Congregation of Divine Worship, invoking the authority delegated to
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it by Pope Francis, has issued a text for a special votive mass for pandemics that departs
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from ancient liturgical tradition by omitting any reference to divine wrath and chastisement
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The new mass in time of pandemic was issued in response to popular requests during the
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And unlike the traditional Latin mass, which includes a votive mass for the deliverance
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from death in time of pestilence, the new mass in time of pandemic seeks the mercy of God,
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asking for various forms of aid for those who are suffering from illness, those who have
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already died, their families, medical staff, and government officials.
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The traditional mass for deliverance from death in times of pestilence also asks for God's
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mercy and aid, but in addition asks for the pardon for sins and speaks of the scourge of
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The entrance hymn of the traditional Latin mass, last issued in 1962, implores God, and
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quote, to be mindful of thy covenant and to say to the destroying angel, now hold thy hand
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and let not the land be made desolate and destroy not every living soul, end quote.
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However, the new version gives a brief entrance antiphon that merely states, truly the Lord
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has borne our infirmities and has carried our sin sorrows, end quote.
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The special collect or the opening prayer of the traditional version states, quote,
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O God, who does not want the death of the sinner, but that he should repent, welcome with
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pardon thy people's return to thee, and so long as they are faithful in thy service, do
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thou in thy clemency withdraw the scourge of thy wrath, through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son.
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The new version's collect instead asks for help, but without reference to sin or punishment.
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And while all the world is distracted with the coronavirus, the liberal agenda being played
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out in the Vatican has not slowed down one bit.
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During Holy Week, Pope Francis appointed another commission to look into the possibility of women's
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On April 8th, the Vatican released a memo stating that the pontiff had decided, during a recent
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audience granted to his eminence Cardinal Louis Ladaria, prefect of the Congregation of the
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Doctrine of Faith, to appoint a new commission on the study of the female diaconate.
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But beyond that, LifeSite reported April 2nd that Pope Francis, in a surprise move, dropped
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the historic and essential title, Vicar of Christ, from the 2020 Pontifical Yearbook, the
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Holy See's Annual Directory, relegating the title to a footnote, calling it a historical title.
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While previous yearbooks listed the title Vicar of Christ and the name of the reigning Pope
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under that title, this year's Annual Directory simply lists the name Jorge Mario Bergoglio,
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the name of the man who became Pope Francis in 2013.
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The title Vicar of Jesus Christ stems from the Holy Scripture, where Jesus granted St.
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I hate to say that, but it actually gets worse.
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The Vatican sort of rejoiced in the pandemic, despite people dying and whatnot.
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They said it was just wonderful for the environment.
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We've got that still in LifeSite for you to look at.
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But Pope Francis was there himself, talking about how this is nothing to do with God.
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And his solution, of course, is to deal with climate change.
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Speaking of the Vatican's take on ecology, we got a very revealing glimpse into that last
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week, too, as Vatican News unbelievably published an article by a Jesuit priest that looked at
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the coronavirus positively because it had environmental benefits.
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At LifeSite, you'll read that Vatican News, the Holy See's official news service, published
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the article calling the deadly coronavirus an ally of planet Earth.
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The article, written by Jesuit priest Father Benedict Mayaki, was entitled, quote,
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Coronavirus, Earth's Unlikely Ally, and the secondary headline read, quote, The changes
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in human behavior due to the COVID-19 crisis pandemic are yielding unintended benefits to
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The author, the priest, actually made no references to the tens of thousands of deaths attributed
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to the virus, except to say that the pandemic is a global health concern.
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He said, Earth is healing itself as a result of the reduction in human activity.
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He said, quote, In Italy, fish have returned to the canals in Venice.
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Less tourism and water transport have allowed the murky waters to settle.
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He wrote, I quote, again, Migratory birds, including swans, have been sighted gliding through
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He also added, quote, The global reduction in air, land, and sea travel is yielding benefits
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for the planet by reducing carbon emissions, he said.
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Well, after much criticism, the Vatican actually pulled the article, but it was still up there.
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And if you want to see the whole article, we, of course, saved it at LifeSite so you can
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The news article's statements follow, actually, Pope Francis's own statements along this very
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In my show on October 31st, Assessing the Pope's Responsibility in the Chastisement of Coronavirus,
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I spoke of the Pope saying that coronavirus was not God's punishment, but nature was having
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a fit because we failed to take care of the environment.
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Since then, several cardinals and bishops have condemned such an approach, but the Pope
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He told the tablet in an interview that, quote,
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We did not respond to the partial catastrophes.
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Who now speaks of the fires in Australia or remembers the 18 months ago a boat could
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cross the North Pole because the glaciers had melted?
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I don't know if these are the revenge of nature, but they are certainly nature's responses.
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That was Pope Francis saying again, doubling down on this notion that coronavirus is sort
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of nature's response to our not caring for the planet.
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You know, there's an old saying in the scriptures.
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Jesus, when he is confronted by people, he's going, story goes this way.
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Jesus is going into Jerusalem on the donkey for the last time.
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And the people are yelling, Hosanna to the son of David.
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They're putting down their cloaks and branches from trees so that the donkey that steps by
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them, they can take home the cloak and revere it.
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He was criticized by some of the Jews at the time who said, hey, why don't you shut them
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If they would not do it, the rocks themselves would shout out.
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When Pope Francis and it appeared all the leaders of the church were not recognizing the need
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to call out to God for the pandemic, rejoicing in the pandemic for doing population control
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Not so much a rock star, but a star nonetheless, really did speak out in the way the bishops,
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Christians and non-Christians alike are turning to the Bible and religion as the crisis continues,
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And if that's not enough, famed wrestler and movie star Hulk Hogan encouraged his 2.2 million
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Believe it or not, if it's like our Lord's thing when he entered into the city of Jerusalem,
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if the people wouldn't shout Hosanna, then the rocks themselves would shout.
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Well, in this case, it's Hulk Hogan, not quite a rock star, but definitely a movie star and
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LifeSite reported that Hogan called the coronavirus, and I quote,
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one of the most powerful gifts to our human race.
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As powerful as it gets here on earth, thank you God, he said.
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He added an image of 2 Chronicles 7.13-14 to the tweet.
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The famous wrestler reiterated the call to penance later in the week, saying,
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In three short months, the message reads, and that's the message of Hulk Hogan reads,
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In three short months, just as he, with a capital H, he did with the plagues of Egypt,
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I will shut down the economy and collapse the stock market.
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Well, I will make it where you can't go to church.
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He says, this is Hulk Hogan quoting from Hulk Hogan, the famous wrestler.
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If my people who are called by my name, and of course, he's quoting the scripture there,
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will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways,
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then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
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Hulk Hogan concludes, maybe we don't need a vaccine.
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Maybe we need to take this time of isolation from the distractions of the world and have
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a personal revival where we focus on the only thing in the world that really matters,
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Even after all the masses were canceled at Easter, whatever happened?
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The Pope wasn't going to cancel masses at Christmas.
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Pope Francis has canceled public Christmas celebrations at the Vatican this year,
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just after having participated himself in a huge Roman ecumenical extravaganza.
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In the name of the Father, Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
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Catholic News Agency is reporting that it is seen a letter from the Vatican's Secretary of State
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noting that Pope Francis' Christmas liturgies at the Vatican will be offered
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The letter sent by the Secretary of State to Vatican embassies
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said that Christmas Mass would be celebrated, quote,
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in a private form without the presence of members of the diplomatic corps.
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Now, members of the diplomatic corps usually attend those mass celebrations.
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The letter said the liturgies will be streamed online.
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This letter, believe it or not, was sent the very day that the Vatican hosted an award ceremony
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in the Vatican Gardens for that controversial filmmaker who did the film Francesco,
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which has now caused all this hoopla around the Catholic world over the Pope's push for homosexual civil unions.
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Moreover, it came just two days after the Pope took part in that Rome ecumenical gathering
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with Buddhists and Sikhs and Muslims and other religious leaders.
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The international meeting of Prayer for Peace was actually called, quote,
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No One is Saved Alone, Peace and Fraternity, and it took place on October the 20th.
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The two halves of the event were simultaneous prayer services in various locations near Rome's Piazza del Campadillo.
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And Pope Francis presided first over the Christian prayer service in the Basilica of St. Mary of the Altar of Heaven.
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Now, Archbishop Vigano actually predicted that this would be the case.
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And he gave a commentary on it to LifeSite News that I encourage you to go and read the full thing.
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But I'm going to give you here the highlights of what he said.
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The Holy See wants to replicate the unfortunate lockdown of the past months,
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which deprived the faithful of the Mass and the sacraments even on Easter, end quote.
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This action of the Pope, that is, he said, would confirm the Holy Seas, that is the Vatican's,
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intention to support the pandemic media narrative.
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Yet, according to recent statements made by Italy's Higher Institute of Health,
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the pandemic has a mortality rate equal to the normal seasonal flu, end quote.
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Now, Archbishop Vigano also says that this latest news has left the faithful bewildered,
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scandalized, and abandoned by a hierarchy that found a way to gather in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Araceli,
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for a syncretistic rite presided by Jorge Mario Bergoglio,
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but which does not hesitate to suspend the celebration of Holy Mass
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on the night in which the Church celebrates the birth of the Savior.
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