

And Who are
YOU
backing for Pope?
What
is this nonsense?
“I back Cardinal-so-and-so
for the Papacy!”
“I’m rooting for O’Malley!”
“We need an African!”
“No, no. We need an Asian!”
“You are all wrong. What
we need is a South American Pope!”
“We need reform! Women priests, male nuns, more centralization, less
centralization, more power for women, “power to the laity!”, this is
the fix needed! And a democratic church, as well!
The news outlets daily tout this one and the other as the “front
contender” — as though the holy conclave assembling
in Rome this week were the World Wrestling Federation or the NFL in
the playoff season. We are told of “warring factions” within the Vatican
and power struggles between “progressive” and “conservative” cardinals,
and all against a shadowy backdrop of conniving cabals and scandalous
coteries.
Conspiracy! Collusion! Corruption! — anti-Catholics cry
… and even some Catholics … yes, even some priests! The news outlets
will always find an oddball, a dissident, a “specialist”, a de-habited
“nun”, and “so-and–so who has astutely followed these things for 25
years”, this “expert” and that to predict the likely outcome
and the bitter infighting preceding it.
“Stupidity” in the Face of God
“Sapientia
hujus mundi, stultitia est apud Deum” … “The wisdom of this world
is foolishness [stupidity] before God,” Saint Paul forewarned
us. (1 Cor. 3.19) And time and again God has proved His point. And still
we clamor for pundits, for sages, for those who best and most vociferously
represent our views, our choices.
The Holy Who?
We forget that while men are the
means to nominate the next pope, they do so under the guidance of the
Holy Ghost — Who ultimately makes the choice — often flying
in the face of our own expectations or predilections. In the present
papacy of Francis — admittedly engineered by the Sankt
Gallen Group (a.k.a. the Sankt Gallen Mafia) which sought to abolish
the vestiges and remnants of authentic Catholicism in order to make
Holy Mother Church more acceptable to, and indistinguishable from, Protestantism
and Paganism — this is nearly impossible to discern. However, we must
keep the Babylonian Captivity in mind: it was a punishment from God
for idolatry and disobedience. It was 70 years before
the Temple was restored to the Jews who were subsequently allowed to
return to Israel by Cyrus the Great. It is at least of interest that
quite nearly 70 years have now since Vatican II and its culmination
in Pachamama idolatry... This gives pause for thought.
So What Should we Pray?
What Christ taught us to pray!
“Thy will be done — on earth as
it is in Heaven!” Not “my will” or “your will”! To cooperate
with, and not contend against, the Holy Ghost — that is our duty at
this time and at all times: to pray that the Father’s will be
done, in the Name of Jesus Christ, and through the power of
the Holy Ghost.
So cease with this madness, this insolence, this stultitia, this
“stupidity”. Is not willing against God the very nature of sin?
Is not the conflict of your will with the will of
God the radix malorum, the root of all evil in your life?
And still you persist!
He will choose whom He wills, not whom you
will, foolish man … and this despite your “outrage” or “disappointment”
as you summarize your own wisdom before the media as either the “expert”
or "the man in the street”… which, you will recall, is stupidity before
God.
Perhaps you cannot cease from being a fool — stupid — but restrain yourself
before the world, for as the old proverb goes: “It is better to be
silent and thought fool, than to open ones mouth and remove all doubt.”
Geoffrey K. Mondello
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal
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“Scio
opera tua ... quia modicum habes virtutem, et servasti verbum
Meum, nec non negasti Nomen Meum”
“I
know your works ... that you have but little power, and
yet you have kept My word, and have not denied My Name.”
(Apocalypse
3.8)
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