top ten times i agreed with pope francis

 

1. Pope Francis has spoken against the notion that the Blessed Virgin Mary should be accorded the title "co-redemptrix," which would deem her co-redeemer of the human race alongside Jesus. In my assessment Pope Francis is correct in this and has committed no error in the matter. Nor has he contradicted any of the binding traditions of the Church or the more authoritative teachings of her saints and church fathers. The title has never been formally accorded by the Catholic Church to Mary who is understood by us to be the highest saint of heaven. As I see it, those seeking to call her "co-redemptrix" may be genuinely motivated, or they may be motivated by adventurism, or by an ideologically feminist desire to apotheosise Mary to a person of the Godhead, or by a deliberately and manifestly evil intent to spread vexation and chaos among believers, and thence to ridicule the Christian understanding of Deity. Freemasons, devil worshippers or Wiccans would do it for a day out.

2. Pope Francis is reported to have stated recently that Judas may not be in hell. I believe the Pope is correct in this opinion. It all gets back to the limitless power of God's love. It may save anyone. And we have been warned in words attributed by the gospel witnesses to Jesus, not to judge lest we ourselves be judged. Judgement belongs to God and God alone.

3. Er that's it.

Copies to: John Henry Westen and the Life Site News website. Stop criticising him for frivolous reasons lads. You're starting to make yourselves look bad.

an open letter to the editor and staff of the bankrupt irish times newspaper

 

Sirs.

Imagine my bemusement on reading one of your recent editions to find your staffers rather gleefully engaged in the serious work of trying to vilify the reputation Werenfried Van Straaten.

You had waited 17 years after his death to begin your attempts to ruin him.

Another posthumous assassination attempt on a Catholic priest by the heroes of the Irish Times.

Classy.

Your slander consisted in its entirety of the unquestioning uncritical repetition of an unverified suggestion that in 1973 Werenfried made a pass at a woman.

You deemed this unverified claim about Werenfried to which no one has so far been willing to publically set their name, as attempted rape.

That's some investigation right there.

That's some level of journalism.

That's some show trial.

Never reported to the police. Never professionally investigated. Anonymously sourced. The man being impugned has been dead 17 years. And the unspecified unverifiable anonymous claim has been posited back on some undetermined date in 1973.

Classy, classy, classy, classy Irish Times.

Who needs discernment, fairness or due process when we've got you, eh!

I ask you.

If this is to be the standard, who can stand?

What I found most curious in your reportage was the lack of anything beyond superficial knowledge about the life of Werenfried Van Straaten as evinced by your writers and editorial staff.

Although you were all clearly viscerally intent on  murdering him from beyond the grave, ie destroying his name, his historic legacy and his reputation, you hardly seemed to know who he was.

You knew he was a priest of the Catholic Church alright and that was enough for you.

That was, as per your usual MO, sufficient for you to target him for reputational destruction.

Let me tell you who Werenfried Van Straaten was.

After World War Two, a devastated Europe was full of bombed out cities, ruined factories, smashed roads, and desolate fields, with millions of displaced  starving people wandering around looking for something to eat and somewhere to sleep.

Werenfried Van Straaten went down on the streets and fed them

That is who he was.

Now tell me.

Who are you.

James Healy

TINTINNABULATIONS

(the poet is inadequate)

glistening midnight opacities

take the soul

on a freewheeling celestial jaunt

vocabularies of time and motion

jostle aroint avaunt

stars planets meteors

incandesce coalesce caress

descrie the indescribable

nae laddie ye cannae do it

not even with a scottish accent

GOUTMAN TRIUMPHS

 

The Chief of police sat at his desk in his private office on the tenth floor of headquarters.

He'd been looking forward to this moment all day. From his desk he drew a Cadbury's Buttons Chocolate Egg which he'd saved from Easter.

There was a sound as of a silk cape rustling. The Chief looked up and recoiled in surprise.

Goutman was standing directly in front of him all bulging biceps, flapping cape (ah indeed, from thence the rustling sound), and intriguing face mask which managed to show more than it concealed yet somehow remained intriguing.

"Er Goutman," said the Chief. "Er hello, I suppose. Ummm. I thought I asked you to stop showing up in my private office without a prior appointment. Any point in asking how you got in here? No? Alright. Since you're here now. What have you discovered?"

Goutman's answer came in that hoarse dangerous rasping half whisper which has made him the terror of gangland.

"The Glensallagh brand of meats at Lidl supermarket is a very good product, particularly the thich cut rashers and the crumbled ham. Also their own brand chocolate digestive biscuits. Their oatie biscuits. Their shortbread. Oh, and their toilet rolls. But I don't eat the toilet rolls."

The Chief's brow narrowed.

"Er okay."

"There are good pepper steaks at Tesco, two for a fiver and pork chops at six for a fiver. They also have good special offers on mint aeros from time to time, and on dog chewies."

"Goutman I was thinking more of..."

"Derek Nolan meats have specials on their stuffed pork, meat balls and potato au gratin. You can get three of your choice for a tenner. That's effectively three full dinners."

The Chief nodded thoughtfully.

"I think I'm beginning to understand how you got gout." 

"I was bitten by a radioactive pork chop and then my laboratory exploded completing the process. Now whenever I become angry a terrifying metamorphosis occurs."

"Ri-i-i-ght. It's always the radioactive pork chops and the exploding laboratory. Goutman! Goutman? Where did he go? It's very frustrating when he disappears like that. Almost as frustrating as when he appears."

The chief looked around his office.

No sign of entrance or egress.

But on the wall someone had spray painted in large letters:

TRUTH NOW

JUSTICE ALWAYS

GOUTMAN FOREVER

The Chief sighed.

"Now who the heck did that?" he wondered, then turning back to his desk exclaimed: "Hey! Where's my ****ing Easter gug?"

POPE FRANCIS INTENTIONS FOR MAY

 

Sow dissension within the Catholic Church and among believing Christians by proposing to alter the wording of the Our Father prayer thereby implying that there has been something wrong with the prayer as prayed by all previous generations since its inception. The richness of this strategy is that some people of goodwill will assent to it and some people of goodwill will oppose it, creating a most edifying chaos of conflict.

POPE FRANCIS INTENTIONS FOR APRIL

 

Subvert the Catholic Church from within in order to turn it into a socialist adjunct of Freemasonic, Marxian, Satanist cabals intent on propagating worldwide dictatorship through the United Nations organisation.