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As a lapsed Catholic, it was with irony that I stumbled on Professor Kreeft's and Bishop Brennan's philosophy lectures created by Word on Fire. Whether on Marx or Foucault, the lectures are delivered with great explanations and without rancor or adoration, both of which arise in many other lectures on Neo-Marixists/post-modernists. While I deeply admire their faith, I am also weary of the Pope. Some time ago, the Children's Health Defense hosted an educational summit. One woman spoke about the Pope and warned of his globalist agenda. I thought she must be a kook but realized she spoke from direct experience at the Vatican. That the Pope didn't speak out against the lockdowns that devastated the truly poor and reduced humans to just "material" spoke volumes.

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As concerning is Bezos 20 million+ dollars engineering Vermont's population. One investigative reporter reported that the Bezos make mega contributions to LQBTQ groups. The 20 million seems to be Vermont's reward for rolling out the welcome mat big time to same.

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Three bodies have ruled the world for many years, The Vatican, The City of London, and Washington DC, all controlled by those who we do not see behind the curtains. It is not about religion or Christianity, but controlling the masses. Those of us who are just beginning to see this have been the naive ones.

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My take was the pope believes in communism pure and simple. The most evil form of all government’s.

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Francis is just another Anti-Christ, not THE Anti-Christ. He denies the entire purpose of his office, to spread the true Gospel of Jesus Christ, Yahweh the Son. The question is… is this man a Christian or just another false teacher who will suffer more greatly in the Lake of Fire for turning his flock to Satan? There is no office of Pope. There is an office Bishop of Rome. Francis abuses that offices and serves only mammon and destruction.

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"...appear lost on a naive Pope..." While the rest of your article is on point, with all due respect, I seriously doubt Pope Francis is naive in his role promoting these former heresies now called social justice. There is much more to it than those vatican usurpers will admit or publicize:

https://popehead.substack.com/p/my-interview-with-andrea-cionci

"... As is now well known, Pope Ratzinger was forced out of the way by the globalist powers and a lobby of unfaithful cardinals, the so-called St. Gallen group. Vatileaks also brought to light a plot to kill him. However, Benedict XVI did not "run before the wolves" and made sure that whatever pope was elected while he was alive was not a true pope, but an antipope, destined to be nullified.

He never really abdicated, but, mind you: he did not cheat, he always told the truth. The correct translation of the Declaratio in Latin is very different from the version that we have been handed, which is that of an abdication. That text, in essence, says "one of you will betray me." It is a self-fulfilling prophecy in which he announced that after 17 days he would renounce the ministerium, the power to administrate as pope, while retaining the munus petri (office of Peter), the "being Pope," the divine investiture as Pontiff. However, the Pope could never renounce only the ministerium while retaining the munus, because they are inseparable, as Cardinal Gerhard Mueller reminds us. The separation of ministerium from munus can only occur, however, by force majeure, by impeded see, that situation in which the pope is a prisoner, confined, exiled. It was precisely the 2013 conclave - illegitimate because it was convened by a Pope who had not abdicated - that constituted that coup d'état that placed Benedict in an impeded see, giving full consistency to what was announced."

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No disrespect taken whatsoever. As an attorney, I do not try to win a harder argument than necessary. That is, I here challenge what this Pope is doing regardless of his bona fides, or even his awareness (naivete). "Hate the sin and not the sinner," sort of. But 1) I am not a Catholic and appreciate that my Catholic brethren have a crisis in their midst. I don't purport to have an opinion on the Pope's legitimacy as I am Protestant. But I am familiar with these positions. 2) I don't want people to judge the theological shift based on the Pope's sincerity (intent versus naivete) because I don't need to establish it is deliberate in order to propose that it is errant. Thanks for commenting!! Important additional points. I have another piece in the works that examines the theology more directly.....

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My parents gave up the fight trying to drag us kids to Sunday mass after grade school. My eclectic reading material steered my interest to Vatican news by its parallels with the pervasive corruption of all the other major institutions, i.e. academia, media, the Fed, globalist NWO NGO's/non-profits and their corporate contractors, including the MIC.

I look forward to your next piece on theology. If it's in your wheelhouse, I would also love to hear your take on freemasonry. I know it's a big subject, but it looms rather large in the founding and architecture of our country.

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I'm not sure i dare. But your timing is eerie -- I am researching freemasonry today as part of another deep dig.....

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Ah, eerie timing, aka coincidences....

Happens to me all the time. I have learned to pay attention to them and have been rewarded in several different ways.

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Oswald Chambers wrote that God often speaks to us through circumstances. Nothing is cooincidence....

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If pursued, I think you will find the subject of freemasonry interconnected with just about everything else, and has been throughout history. Happy hunting.

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The only head of the church of Jesus is Christ himself. He needs no vicar. He is God Almighty, Yahweh the Son.

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Bravo, John. I will keep this information to share with my Catholic friends and relatives who think it is a scandal to say anything against the Pope.

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This Pope is a scandal for large numbers of Catholics.... I have more stuff in the pipeline about this.... Thanks for commenting.

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I’m going to pray for his hell-bound soul...only because it’s commanded.

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PS. I think he’s too stupid to be the false prophet. Just sayin’

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