patrick.net

Looks like he betrayed Chinese Catholics too:

https://spectator.us/topic/pope-chinese-communist-party-asset-church/

I’m not reading same between the lines as that website. It sounds like just a nice message.

Hard to tell what’s real. When Pope said church will not bless gay marriage because god does not bless sin, all those shitty websites said “pope opening door to gay marriage”. There is a lot of Anti-church targets propaganda there too. And I don’t know why, but it’s deception, and deception isn’t good.

I'm not anti Church FW, but I am anti Evil Commie Pope Francis.
This guy has thrown Christians under the bus time and time again over the last 5 years, and demands his followers submit to every oppressive policy the Socialist and Communist countries does Catholic followers. China is brutal on most all religions, they stamped out Christianity before they started attacking the Ugyrs.
Pope was confronted by a Chinese lady begging him to do something about the Chinese Government a few years back. The sheer Evil scorn and dismay of that woman even daring to touch him and beg for his help. Was the most evil thing I've ever seen. He's more evil than Nas' Satanic Nike shoes.

It's in his soul and projects through his face and actions.

He vacillates every now and then to push back a little, because the Church leaders around the world are getting totally fed up with him.

John Paul II was at least a real man.

Just reading about the Dark Ages, when Luitprand the Lombard converted everybody from Arianism to Catholicism, restored Church property, defended Rome & Italy from Avars and other assorted Tribes, and took Ravenna from the Emperor.

His reward? To be declared anathema by the Gregory II & III who begged Pippin and later Charles to invade Lombardia (Northern Italy).

Another interesting story is the Isaurian Emperors, who beat back the Muslims and did a reconquista of Asia Minor. Gregory I-III heaped cursed on him because he was, correctly, an Iconoclast - the worship of Icons had gotten so Pagan out of hand, people were peeling little pieces of paintings off to use in baptismal water.

@Patrick, you might be interested to know it was a Female Empress, Irena, who almost undid a century of the Isaurian's good management and Reconquest from Muslims. She was an Iconodulist (Painting Worshipper) in secret, and she had her own war hero son blinded in both eyes by her two little Eunich Personal Attendants while he was in the bath recovering from battle wounds against the Bulgarians.

Most female rulers suck. For every Elizabeth I, there are many Marys and Irenas. Mary Queen of Scots, in typical dumb chick behavior, married a real cocky widely-hated (but handsome) asshole who, the day after the wedding, locked her ass up in a tower and tried to strongarm the whole of Scotland back to Catholicism.

Thanks @MisdemeanorRebel I enjoy stories like those because I think you can see patterns that apply to current situations.

When the corpse stops breathing and the whore takes over, everything is set to get 100x worse. But she's not too bright and so is not likely to last long, imho. Someone smarter will quickly take over from her. Sadly, we live in interesting times.

In my retirement I plan to do a ton of reading, especially history and the classics. Starting next week!

Kicked out of scores of countries? That was the Jesuit Order. Including Catholic ones, over and over again for their meddling in politics and policy.

Or that "Liberation Theology" of Jesuits was what spread Marxism in South America for the past Century.

From the horses' mouth:

https://jesuitmigrantsolidarity.org/

https://en.comunidadesignacianas.org/news

https://ignatiansolidarity.net/blog/2018/10/16/caravan-jesuit-migrant/

https://www.catholicsun.org/2021/11/12/jesuit-schools-join-faith-based-voices-on-immigration-environment/

About a decade old, but explains why Jesuits and Leftists loathed Ratzinger: https://www.ncronline.org/news/jesuit-liberation-theology-will-endure-and-grow

There's a reason CHURCH MILITANT and other Catholic Orgs dislike Jesuits and have for centuries. Why Jesuits are often called Atheists and Socialists.

CaptainHorsePaste says

Why Jesuits are often called Atheists and Socialists.

Jesuits pursue scientific knowledge, and believe me, the more you have of it, the harder it is to have faith - of any kind. I can never believe in any sort of dogma again. I could probably entertain the concept of god existing again, but not through any religion.