The Council of Trent Cosplaying Catholic Ultra-Right Has Been Driven Out of Its Tiny Mind
Run for your lives. Catholics are running amok! From Reuters:
Ultra-conservative Catholic militants admitted they stole statues they consider to be Amazon pagan idols from a church near the Vatican on Monday and dumped them from a bridge into the Tiber River. A video posted on internet and given prominence on conservative Catholic media websites such as EWTN television and LifeSite News showed the four-minute episode, which police said they were treating as a theft. The statues were on display along with other Amazon artifacts at the Church of Santa Maria in Traspontina, several blocks from the Vatican. The three identical statues of a kneeling pregnant indigenous woman were replicas of one used during a tree-planting ceremony in the Vatican gardens in the presence of Pope Francis this month that conservatives found outrageous. Conservatives accused the Vatican of letting what they consider a likeness of a pagan goddess of Mother Earth known as Pachamama onto sacred Christian ground.
As the Reuters story relates, the Council of Trent cosplaying Catholic ultra-right has been driven out of its tiny mind because Papa Francesco has lined up with the people trying to fight the climate crisis, and also because of a synod he held in which, among other things, he raised the possibility of allowing elderly married men to become priests. If you happen to have an account of these events Tweeted into your timeline, read the comments. You will meet some completely strange people whom you will wonder about for the rest of your life. Try this Taylor Marshall guy on for size. From, forgive me, Lifesite News:
Why did Pope Benedict XVI resign the papacy on 28 February 2013? And why did lightning strike the Vatican in conjunction with these events? Was it prompted by scandal at the Vatican Bank? Was it a sex scandal blotting the highest cardinals? Was it a doctrinal crisis? All these questions and doubts coalesce when we acknowledge a substantiated and collaborated fact: Satan uniquely entered the Catholic Church at some point over the last century, or even before. For over a century, the organizers of Freemasonry, Liberalism, and Modernism infiltrated the Catholic Church in order to change her doctrine, her liturgy, and her mission from something supernatural to something secular.
I mean, I grew up with these people and I'll never understand why none of them seem to have read their gospels as far as the 16th chapter of Matthew.
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Given those assurances, I don't think a couple of Brazilian statues are any threat.
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