Pope accuses media of loving excrement, condemns 'fundamentalist' Catholics
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Summary
In shocking comments made in an interview with the U.S. Bishop's News Agency Catholic News Service on Monday, Pope Francis used the terms "coprophilia" and "poopilia" to describe the media and Catholic fundamentalists. Coming in a close second this week is San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy commenting on Holy Communion for President Joe Biden.
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We are truly living in a world where good is considered evil and evil good, where everything
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seems upside down and backwards, where Black Lives Matter is getting nominated for the
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Nobel Peace Prize, and John Kerry, who with his wife owns multiple states, cars, SUVs,
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and a jet, is now the Biden administration's climate czar, urging Americans to take public
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But nothing is so bizarre as Pope Francis' latest comments using scatological terms to
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describe the media and bashing Catholic fundamentalists.
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Coming in a close second this week is San Diego Bishop McElroy commenting on Holy Communion
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But at least Archbishop Vigano has a very Catholic message for the Feast of the Purification
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of Mary, also known as the Feast of the Presentation, which we celebrated just yesterday.
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In shocking comments made in an interview with the U.S. Bishop's news agency Catholic News
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service on Monday, Pope Francis used the terms coprophilia, which, according to Wikipedia,
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refers to, and I quote, sexual arousal and pleasure from feces, end quote.
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It's not the first time the Pope has used the term to the consternation of Catholics.
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He made similar remarks in 2016 using the same scatological term.
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The Pope's comments came as he described the four main sins of journalism.
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Perché il giornalismo ha principalmente quattro peccati.
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Desinformazione, calumnia, diffamazione e coprofiglia.
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Now, the Pope defined this use of this term as journalists, and I quote,
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always wanting to communicate scandal, to communicate ugly things, even though they may be true, he said.
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Well, in that same interview, the Pope went after what he called traditionalists in the
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United States, suggesting that they need healing.
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Now, from the transcript of his remarks at that meeting, which are posted at the Vatican website,
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you can read that he also came down very hard on what he called fundamentalists in the Catholic Church.
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All religions have fundamentalist groups, all of them.
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We do, too, he said, referring, of course, to the Catholic Church.
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And they destroy, starting from their fundamentalism.
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But these are small religious groups that have distorted and have sickened their religion,
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and as a result, they fight, they wage war, or they cause division in communities,
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But these are the fundamentalist groups we have in all religions, end quote.
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Now, of note, there was no similar condemnation of progressive groups inside the Church.
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President Biden's so-called Catholicism continues to be a major news item.
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Not only does he promote abortion in America, but also abroad.
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In fact, cartoonist Patrick Cross, who has been a contributor to LifeSite News in the past,
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has this awesome cartoon, which really encapsulates what's going on.
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In the cartoon, you'll see Biden is asked by a priest,
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the traditional baptism renunciation, do you renounce Satan and all his pomps and works?
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But despite his very evident lack of faith and scandalous promotion of abortion,
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many U.S. bishops have been insistent that Biden should not be denied Holy Communion.
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Speaking at Georgetown University Conference Monday,
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San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy said it would be,
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it really, he said, it would amount to weaponizing the Eucharist.
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I do not see how depriving the president or other political leaders of the Eucharist,
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can be interpreted in our society as anything other than a weaponization of the Eucharist
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and an effort not to convince people by argument and by dialogue and reason,
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but rather to pummel them into submission on the issue.
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McElroy, who is one of the most controversial figures in the U.S. episcopacy,
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has already advocated downplaying the Church's stance on abortion,
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altering its stance on homosexuality and also female clergy.
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He actually pointed to Pope Francis as an excuse for insisting that pro-abortion Biden
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Furthermore, many bishops are proposing that the conference take steps
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to publicly deprive President Biden of his ability to receive the Eucharist.
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In contrast to the direction advocated by this bloc of bishops,
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we have a pope who has placed encounter, dialogue, honesty, and collaboration
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at the heart of his approach to public conversation,
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and who is unlikely to endorse the deprivation of the Eucharist from the president.
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But faithful Catholics and pro-lifers are making their own voices heard,
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A Message for President Biden, The Unified Voices of Africa.
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It was released last week in response to the Biden administration's announcement
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which would restore foreign aid to organizations involved in abortion.
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Obianuju Ekyosha is a Nigerian-born human rights activist
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And I would like to use this opportunity to plead with the incoming U.S. President Joe Biden
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I stand against the funding of abortion in Africa.
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I stand against the funding of abortions in Africa.
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My name is Tmei, and I stand against abortions in Africa.
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Also, yesterday was the Feast of the Purification of Mary,
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more well known today as the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple.
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At LifeSite, we published a beautiful reflection on the feast from Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano,
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But he made this special appeal to priests and religious inside that reflection,
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Speaking of the troubled times in the Church and in the world today, he said, and I quote,
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In this supernatural battle, the contribution of religious men and women is fundamental.
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This is why it is more necessary than ever that consecrated souls rediscover the sacrificial
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dimension of their vocation, offering themselves in a holocaust as expiatory victims.
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This, after all, is the heart of the religious vocation and of being a Christian itself,
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becoming like Christ and following Him on the cross as to sit at His right hand in blessed
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I therefore invite those who have the privilege of having chosen the state of perfection to
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pray with renewed ardor, to fast with zeal, and to do penance.
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Finally, let us ask the Holy Spirit to touch the ministers and religious who have been led
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astray, granting them the gift of repentance and the grace of forgiveness, end quote.
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