The Deus Ex Machina Blog ~ A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ" This Is YUGE: A Faithful Priest Knocks Out Francis … 01 Wednesday Nov 2017 POSTED BY S. ARMATICUS IN NORMALIZATION PROCESS™ ≈ 12 COMMENTS Tags chastity belts, Chlamydia trachomatis, Cryptosporidium, Cultural Marxism, Deconstructionism, Dr. Curt Doolittle, Father Anthony Cekada, Fox News, Francis Effect, FrancisChurch - In Liquidation, Frankfurt School, FSSP, Genderism, George Soros, Germany, Giardia lamblia, Gonorrhea, Great Cardinal, Havana, Hemorrhoids, heretical pope, Herpes simplex virus, hippies, HIV, Holy Year of Mercy, Human immunodeficiency virus, Human papilloma virus, Humanism, Isospora belli, Jacque Derrida, James O'Keefe, Jesuits, Jesus Christ, Joseph Ratzinger, Jozef Pilsudski, Keynes, Keynesian Economics, Kirill I, Krakow, Law of Unintended Consequences, messeging, Mexico City, Microsporidia, Miracle on the Vistula, Modernists, MSM, narratives, Nassim Taleb, neo-modernism, Neo-Pagan, Net Neutrality, new springtime, New York Times, Nigel Farage, Pagan Christians, pathological, Poland, Polish Bolshevik War 1920, Pontifical High Mass, Pope Pius VI, President Andrzej Duda, Project Veritas, r/K Selection Theory, Raymond Burke, Refugee Resettlement Watch blog, Republic of Poland, retained foreign bodies, risk event, Roman Curia, s "c"atholicZombie, s "theological structuring", s ABC News, s ABERRO AGENDA, s aberro-sex agenda, s AIDS, s Ambiguity, s Anal Cancer, s Ann Corcoran, s anorectal traum, s Archbishop of Warsaw- Praga, s Associated Press, s Austria, s Benedict XVI, s Bergoglio, s Big Gender, s Bio-History, s Boris Johnson, s BREXIT, s Card. Muller, s Cardinal Burke, s Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz, s cardinal Walter Kasper, s Catholic Church, s Chapel of the Holy Trinity, s Pope Francis, Saul Alinsky, sCatholic Church in Poland, Sexually transmitted diseases, spirit of Vatican II, SSPX, St Thomas Aquinas, sustainability, Synod 2014, Synod of Filth, Syphilis25, Tags anal fissures, Tags Black Lives Matter, Team Bergoglio, The Remnant, The Scholasticum, theological deconstructionism, Thomism, Tradition, TransRational, Truth, Unjust ruler, Vatican II, Work of Human Hands, Zombie, ZombieBishop, ZombieChurch i 4 Votes Today on the Feast of All Saints, I am republishing a post from Sandro Magister’s blog. In that post, Sandro introduces us to Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy, a Capuchin Friar and one of the “most eminent” living theologians. Fr. Weinandy in turn, wrote a letter to Francis, the bishop of Rome. What is significant about this letter is the FRAMING. Framing is the manner in which one structures an argument. It is used as a common persuasion technique since a proper framing of an argument can leave the opponent without any good “avenues of escape”. I don’t want to go into the finer points of FRAMING in this post, but a good way to look at it is as follows: Meaning depends on context. So control the context. Notice those words? So the manner in which Fr. Weinandy masterfully framed his position can be seen in the following passages: 1. Our first observation is that Francis has adopted a post-Modernist strategy whereby he disregards the OBJECTIVE MEANING OF WORDS AND THEIR COMMON USAGE. And Fr. Weinandy calls him out. Fr. Weinandy offers us this gem of a passage wherein he sets out his position by incorporating the formula: clarity=truth=work of the Holy Spirit. To teach with such a seemingly intentional lack of clarity inevitably risks sinning against the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth. The Holy Spirit is given to the Church, and particularly to yourself, to dispel error, not to foster it. Now who can argue with this. No. The better question is “How can Francis argue against that?” He can’t say: “With a little less clarity, we get more truth”, now can he? This framing also hurts Francis on a deeper level. Since it is Francis’ “god of surprises”, in fact his alter-ego, that is used as a proxy for the real Holy Spirit, under this framing, the clear distinction is drawn. And that distinction is that the attribute of CLARITY provides the distinguishing feature for why: “god of surprises” ≠ the Holy Spirit. This “god of surprises”, who was being used as the justification for all of Francis’ heretical (material) and false musings, will now be juxtaposed against clarity=truth. In other words, every- time now that Francis brings out the “god of surprises”, the listener will automatically think: no clarity = not truthful = not Holy Spirit. 2. Next, Fr. Weinandy takes the baseball bat to the allusions to the “Pharisees” and “rigidity”. In this respect, he makes a very simple and straightforward observation: Moreover, only where there is truth can there be authentic love, for truth is the light that sets women and men free from the blindness of sin, a darkness that kills the life of the soul. Yet you seem to censor and even mock those who interpret Chapter 8 of “Amoris Laetitia” in accord with Church tradition as Pharisaic stone-throwers who embody a merciless rigorism. This kind of calumny is alien to the nature of the Petrine ministry. Some of your advisors regrettably seem to engage in similar actions. Such behavior gives the impression that your views cannot survive theological scrutiny, and so must be sustained by “ad hominem” arguments. I say again: Such behavior gives the impression that your views cannot survive theological scrutiny, and so must be sustained by “ad hominem” arguments. Notice the framing here: mocking those who adhere to Traditional interpretation = inability to survive theological scrutiny = use of ad hominem (logical fallacy) arguments . A head shot if there ever was one. From now on, each and every time Francis uses another one of his epithets at the Domus Sanctae Marthae, his listeners will automatically think that he is using them because his arguments can’t survive theological scrutiny. And Francis will know what those FrancisFolks are thinking! Brilliant! On a deeper level, what Fr. Weinandy further implies in this passage, and for all to see, is that Francis’ JunkTheology™ is nothing more than gobbledygook, at times rising to psycho babble at best. 3. Most importantly though, Fr. Weinandy completely crushes the Francis “IDEOLOGY NARRATIVE”. Again and again you portray doctrine as dead and bookish, and far from the pastoral concerns of everyday life. Your critics have been accused, in your own words, of making doctrine an ideology. But it is precisely Christian doctrine – including the fine distinctions made with regard to central beliefs like the Trinitarian nature of God; the nature and purpose of the Church; the Incarnation; the Redemption; and the sacraments – that frees people from worldly ideologies and assures that they are actually preaching and teaching the authentic, life-giving Gospel. Those who devalue the doctrines of the Church separate themselves from Jesus, the author of truth. What they then possess, and can only possess, is an ideology – one that conforms to the world of sin and death. Here the framing is as follows: (JESUS + TRUTH) = DOCTRINE ≠ IDEOLOGY. By inserting truth, and it’s origin, i.e. JESUS into the DOCTRINE v. IDEOLOGY equation, Fr. Weinandy makes the proper distinction between these two (meanings) terms and places them in the proper CONTEXT. What makes DOCTRINE DOCTRINE, is that doctrine contains TRUTH. IDEOLOGY has no such requirement. And that is by definition. Another way to look at this passage is that Fr. Weinandy is telling Francis here “I know Catholicism, I am setting out Catholicism on these three pages, and your not Catholiclism”. This is the knockout blow, folks! 4. And for desert, Fr. Weinandy goes after Francis’ violations of the Law of Non-Contradiction (LNC). Here is that part: (…) you are commissioned by the Lord himself to promote and strengthen her unity. But your actions and words too often seem intent on doing the opposite. Encouraging a form of “synodality” that allows and promotes various doctrinal and moral options within the Church can only lead to more theological and pastoral confusion. Such synodality is unwise and, in practice, works against collegial unity among bishops. Wow… After reading this letter, I will go as far as saying that this is a game changer. There is no coming back for Francis from this letter. Even if Francis doesn’t care for, or acknowledge this letter’s existence, the framing of the “FrancisJunkTheology™“ in this letter is so masterful, that any reader or listener who comes into contact with it, will not be able to take Francis seriously, ever again. WOW! Concluding, in three paragraphs, or approximately 450 words, Fr. Weinandy lays waste to Francis’ Alt-bishopric of Rome. It is down for the count. After this letter, the only question is: when will the College of Cardinals throw in the towel? I will stop here. Please read the entire Magister post HERE. (emphasis added) Below is Fr. Weinandy’s letter to Francis, the Alt-bishop of Rome. I am posting it… FOR THE RECORD! Wow, what an All Saints Day this has turned out to be! ******* July 31, 2017 Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola Your Holiness, I write this letter with love for the Church and sincere respect for your office. You are the Vicar of Christ on earth, the shepherd of his flock, the successor to St. Peter and so the rock upon which Christ will build his Church. All Catholics, clergy and laity alike, are to look to you with filial loyalty and obedience grounded in truth. The Church turns to you in a spirit of faith, with the hope that you will guide her in love. Yet, Your Holiness, a chronic confusion seems to mark your pontificate. The light of faith, hope, and love is not absent, but too often it is obscured by the ambiguity of your words and actions.