Is the Pope Catholic

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Paradise Lost.] Look about you on the distant mountains, on all thebalconies of the horizon; look at those panic-stricken heads, those millions of faces taking on expressions of horror and grief as soon as the Fall and the lost Paradise are mentioned. Here is the universal testimony of men’s consciences: the deepest, the most invincible testimony.

There is but one sorrow and that is to have lost the Garden of Delights, and there is but one hope and one desire, to recover it. The poet seeks it in his own way and the filthiest profligate seeks it in his. It is the only goal. Napoleon at Tilsit and a foul drunkard picked up in the gutter have precisely the same thirst.  They must have the water from the Four Rivers of Paradise. All know instinctively that it cannot be bought too dearly. The ditch digger and the tinker spend their fortnight’s salary on it, and Napoleon, four million men. Leon Bloy

Pope Francis posted on X the day the Olympics started, “The authentic Olympic and Paralympic spirit is an antidote against the tragedy of war and a way to put an end to violence. May sport build bridges, break down barriers, and foster peaceful relations.” Bishops and prominent prelates from around the world have joined the French Bishops’ Conference and U.S. bishops in criticizing the July 26 Paris Olympics opening ceremony for its depiction of the Last Supper, calling it a deeply deplorable derision of Christianity. The Pope stays silent.

The man he recently excommunicated for Schism on the other hand is not. 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗯𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗼 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗩𝗶𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗼̀ 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗢𝗹𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗰 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 https://exsurgedomine.it/240728-vade-retro-eng/

Then we have this commentary -also not from the Vatican: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-07-30/paris-2024-opening-ceremonies-were-they-intro-antichrist

Tuesday, Jul 30, 2024 - 8:54

For anyone who still doubts that Western societies are disintegrating, the opening of the 2024 Paris Olympics is proof enough. The French spent more than $1.5 billion (€9 billion total) to insult half the world and to disgrace a country known for its high culture. The Olympic movement ground to a screeching halt beneath what must have been a divine rain cloud hung over France’s iconic city.

The Missing Sulfur and Fire

The most criticized moment in the otherwise cursed event was the horrific treatment of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” acted out, featuring drag queens, a transgender model, and a naked singer made up as the Greek god of wine, Dionysus. No wonder Paris’ skies opened up to pour down hail and raindrops the size of baseballs. Arson attacks, stranded opening spectators and athletes, the heinous Paris 2024 spectacle was the sports world’s modern Sodom and Gomorrah. After watching some segments, I’m surprised Lady Gaga and other performers were not turned into pillars of salt. Emmanuel Macron’s country seemed to be trying to taunt the almighty as well as human morality.

I believe this excerpt I encountered studying Leon Bloy. I repost despite being unable to find my source because it seems to relate well to this moment.

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Catholic thought in the twentieth century has been precisely the fact that most of its eminent figures were converts. That men suckled in a creed outworn should grow up prepared to elaborate and defend it is not surprising. That brilliant keptics should ultimately be attracted to it is surprising. Ironically, even in France, the "eldest daughter of the Church," most of the great twentieth-century Catholic intellectuals - the Maritains, Etienne Gilson, Paul Claudel, Léon Bloy, Charles Péguy, Gabriel Marcel, Edith Stein - were onverts, either actually or in the sense of born Catholics who rejected  childhood faith but later returned to the Church with a passion. There were also the near-converts, like Henri Bergson and Simone Weil.

 England, where the Catholic population, other than poor Irish, was quite small, naturally needed convert thinkers even more, and a supply was always available: G. K. Chesterton, Christopher Dawson, Ronald Knox, Graham Greene, and Evelyn Waugh. Even Anglo-Catholicism gained its principal luminaries - T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis - from convert ranks.

 Modernism, treated for over fifty years like a minor and altogether uninteresting event, now returns to haunt Catholicism like a repressed desire, and it has become customary to say that the questions which the Modernists raised now constitute the present Catholic intellectual agenda. Also customary is the lament that condemnation of the movement cut off the Church's most promising effort to make its doctrines credible to modern skeptics. Yet the remarkable fact is that the distinguished converts of the twentieth century were attracted to the Church, not in spite of the condemnation, but almost, in some cases, because of it. What they found attractive and credible in it were precisely those things which Pius X sought to protect with his condemnation, and they found the characteristic doctrines of Modernism either false or uninteresting.

https://voegelinview.com/rosalind-murray-on-barbarization/

Murray contends that Western Civilization never fully lived up to the title of Christian and that it ceased to be Christian in any significant way when the anthropocentric view, or humanism, replaced the theocentric view, which, however, included an anthropology much richer than that deployed under humanism or socialism or the progressive order. The advocate of militant modernity will claim that Christianity has failed because of its intrinsic defects. Whatever afflicts society today, issues in his eyes from the essential inadequacy of the religious view of existence. The time thus presents itself as replete for the undertaking of the total project of modernity, which will demonstrate at last the marvelous perfectibility of the human being. Murray acknowledges, with no little subtlety, that indeed the age has witnessed “a failure of the half-established Christian culture,” but the waning of the Christian portion coincides with the waxing of the Pagan portion, which gained predominance two centuries ago at least and now governs ubiquitously and absolutely. If the West had disavowed the Gospel in a distant yesteryear, and if people saw about them pervasive failure, they could hardly place blame on the premises they had long since rejected. The search for a cause must direct itself elsewhere, toward the long-prevailing substitute premises. Murray puts in play one other consideration: Failure tends to persist; failure never vanishes instantaneously, but it lingers in a sickly way. “Our case is not,” she argues, “that because the good Pagan civilization has now failed it is therefore rightly finished, but rather that, in the whole manner of its failing, the falsity of its elements are revealed.” That for which the time makes itself replete is the post mortem examination of modernity, which has entered the phase of its extended morbidity. As the Good Pagan furnishes the type of modernity, and as the reconstruction of society on egalitarian lines stands rooted in his premises, he makes for a necessary beginning of that examination.

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