The Joke's on Those Who Think That Blaspheming Bergoglio is a True Pope, part one

The blaspheming heretic from Buenos Aires, Argentina, has, as noted last month in The Argentine Anti-Apostle’s Biennial Election Interference Campaign Has Begun, has commenced his biennial election interference campaign in earnest.

Yes, shortly before he gave the pro-abortion, pro-perversity Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., a very cordial greeting as the two reprobated apostates put their foreheads together while they smiled at each other (isn’t senior “love” wonderful?—not!) at the G-7 meeting hosted this year by the anti-globalist Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Melloni, “Pope” Francis gave an address to pro-abortion, pro-perversity “comedians,” including Americans who have blasphemed God, taken Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ’s Holy Name in vain, and have been outspoken in their obsessive hatred and disgust for former President Donald John Trump and their obsequiously breathless support for the serial plagiarist, womanizer, senile fabulist and demagogue, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. Anyone who thinks that Senor Jorge’s invitation to these truly sick public figures who are lapdogs of the totalitarian civil state of Modernity is living in world of pure fantasy.

Among those invited were the notorious pro-abortion and mocker of consecrated religious life, Caryn Elaine Johnson (aka “Whoppi Goldberg), who said the following after the draft of Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion in the case of Thomas Dobbs, Mississippi State Health Officer v. Jackson Women’s Organization was “mysteriously” leaked (Chief Justice John Glover Roberts, Jr., conducted an “internal” investigation and concluded that the leaker could not be identified):

Whoopi Goldberg is going all in.

“The View” moderator has delivered a withering minutelong monologue slamming the Supreme Court’s draft ruling which would overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that legalized abortion nationwide.

The 66-year-old — who has previously discussed an illegal abortion she had as a teenager — became enraged after broaching the topic on Tuesday’s edition of the women-helmed talk show.

“You got people telling me I gotta wear a mask, or don’t wear a mask, or do this,” Goldberg raged, raising her voice and taking over the conversation from her co-hosts. “Everybody wants to tell me what to do! This is my body!”

“My doctor, and myself, and my child — that’s who makes the decision [about abortion],” the EGOT legend defiantly declared, appearing to hold back tears.

“Women, when they decide something is not right for them, they’re going to take it into their own hands,” she further fumed. “We got tired of tripping over [other] women in public bathrooms who were giving themselves abortions because there was nowhere safe, nowhere clean, nowhere to go.” (Whoopi Goldberg explodes over abortion: 'This is my body!'.)

Caryn Elaine Johnson defended baby butchery two months ago when former President Donald John Trump reiterated (see his amoral, utilitarian support for the slicing and dicing of preborn children in the supposedly “hard cases” and for the immoral practice of in vitro fertilization that makes a mockery of the means ordained by God for the continuation of the species solely in the context of Holy Matrimony, and his ignorant belief that the “people” can “decide” that whether to permit, restrict, or prohibit the genocide of babies (please see Your "Pro-Life" President is At It Again, Another Memorandum to Clueless Don from Queens: Catholics Do Not Compromise on Truth, and Pontius Trump Washes His Hands of the Blood of Innocent Babies):

"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg said Monday that abortion was not included in the Ten Commandments and argued it couldn't be included under "Thou shalt not kill."

The co-hosts were discussing Trump's abortion stance, which he posted to social media on Monday. Trump explicitly affirmed his support for in vitro fertilization (IVF) and emphasized his support for states determining their own laws for abortion so long as there are exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother.

"No one is obligated to have an abortion. You never have to have one, and I hope no one ever has to have one," Goldberg said. "I want to make sure that if you decide this is what you need to do, I’m going to get behind you because I don’t know your life, and if you say this is what you need, that’s what I’m going to do."

Goldberg offered a range between 50 weeks and 75,000 weeks and argued it was nobody's business.

"It’s you, your doctor, and God. That’s who you have to be conversational to, and it’s not mentioned in the big 10, I’m just going to say," she continued, referring to the 10 Commandments. 

Hostin agreed, but said evangelical Christians would apply it to "thou shalt not kill," the F

"I think ‘thou shall not kill’ cannot be used as the block because we allow wars all the time," Goldberg said. 

Hostin, who is personally opposed to abortion but doesn't favor its abolition as a matter of policy, noted the existence of the death penalty and said, "we allow guns." (Whoopi Goldberg says abortion isn't included in the Ten Commandments: 'It’s you, your doctor, and God'.)

Here is a memorandum to Caryn Elaine Johnson: There is nothing in the Ten Commandments that says you can any innocent human being. There are no “decisions” to made, only unconditional love to be given to a distinct human being with a rational, immortal soul whom God intends to give Him honor and glory in this life as a member of His Catholic Church and to live in such a way as to ready at all times to die in a state of Sanctifying Grace and thus enjoy citizenship with in Heaven as a member of the Church Triumphant.

There is nothing funny in being ignorant about the fact that the Fifth Commandment forbids all direct, intentional killing of innocent human beings from the moment of conception through all subsequent stages of life.

There is also nothing funny in failing to recognize that police officers might have to employ deadly force to subdue a criminal who is a direct and immediate threat to their own lives and those of innocent civilians nor in failing to recognize that the civil state may impose the death penalty after the exhausting of the due process of justice (arrest, indictment, arraignment, trial, and appeals) upon those who are adjudged guilty of heinous crimes, and there is nothing funny in being oblivious to the fact there are just wars that are undertaken only after a due consideration of the wound to justice giving rise to a conflict and giving weight to the foreseen but unintended evil consequences of waging a just war while doing everything possible to indemnify innocent civilians and to observe the moral law in its prosecution with the understanding that the binding precepts of the Divine Positive Law and the Natural Law is never
“suspended” at any time, no, not even in the time of war (see the appendix below for a review of the principles underlining the Just War doctrine).

Another invitee to Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s audience with “comedians” is a supposedly “devout” Catholic, Stephen Colbert, who describes himself as “pro-choice” (pro-death”) but is also a supposedly “ordained minister” for something called the Universal Life Church, which, according to its own description exists to promotes religious indifferentism, religious syncretism, and pantheism:

The Universal Life Church was founded on the basic belief that we are all children of the same universe and, derived from that basic belief, has established two core tenets by which it expects its ministers to conduct themselves:

1. Do only that which is right.
2. Every individual is free to practice their religion in the manner of their choosing, as mandated by the First Amendment, so long as that expression does not impinge upon the rights or freedoms of others and is in accordance with the government’s laws.

We have made it our mission to actualize these tenets in the world by empowering millions of ministers to speak their own truth to power, whether they come to us from a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, Shinto, Agnostic, Atheist, Pagan, Wiccan, Druid, or any other spiritual tradition.

Unlike other large international churches, we do not require our ministers or congregants to show deference to any central leadership or hierarchy, and we believe in equality among all members.

We work tirelessly to ensure that anyone can get ordained online at the ULC Monastery and we seek to fulfill the spiritual needs of as many different groups as we can by offering plenty of information, a wide variety of services, and networking opportunities. The communication and fellowship of our scattered millions of ministers, we believe, is just as valid a form of worship as the weekly services held in some of the world’s more segregated and elitist religious institutions. (Universal Life Church.)

The Universal Life Church, therefore, is a global exercise in religious syncretism that is more or less synonymous with the counterfeit church of conciliarism’s doctrines of false ecumenism, “human fraternity and solidarity,” and inter-religious “prayer” services. I did not say entirely synonymous, just “more or less.”

How can a baptized member of the Catholic Church be an “ordained minister” in a “church” that is religious syncretistic?

How is this not formal apostasy?

Then again, the only thing that is truly “apostate” in the warped mind of Jorge Mario Bergoglio is an adherence to authentic Catholic Faith, Worship, and Morals.

Ah, but that is not all.

The Universal Life Church of which Stephen Colbert is an “ordained minister” also supports each of the prevailing moral evils of the day:

The Universal Life Church will continue to ordain and empower hundreds of ministers every day. The ULC is committed to fight for the rights of its ministers on a daily basis — ensuring that all individuals have the freedom to take control of their own religious/spiritual life.

In addition to its continued provision of assistance to charitable organizations, the Universal Life Church Monastery will also continue to provide a voice to and fight for the rights of those whose freedoms are being violated around the world. We continue our battle to ensure that residents of all 50 states are permitted to become ministers under often antiquated and biased legal systems. We are proud of our past achievements, such as fighting for religious freedom and the legalization of same-sex marriage. For a more in-depth look at the ULC’s ongoing efforts to defend the rights of its ministers – including summaries of the most important cases we’ve been a part of – please visit ULC Case Law. We also offer a Find a Minister tool on Get Ordained™ that will allow people in need of a minister's services to find one that can perfectly suit their wishes.

There’s no escaping the fact that these legal battles are expensive. To ensure we have enough resources to continue our important efforts in the court system, we’ve set up the ULC Legal Defense Fund to collect donations for the cause. All funds donated to the cause go directly to helping secure and protect the rights of ULC ministers. We greatly appreciate whatever support you are able to offer!

We are also worried about humanity’s long term impact on the planet. Issues such as climate change and population growth trouble us greatly. We must work together to address critical challenges such as mass migration, starvation, and global pandemics. A worldwide United Nations Planetary Defense System should also be considered to protect the Earth against threats such as asteroids and comets. (Universal Life Church.)

I suppose that Stephen Colbert’s serving as “ordained minister” is meant to further the Universal Life Church’s mission statement, part of which bears a great similarity to the agenda of the Argentine Apostate himself, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, which is why I, supposed, that Mr. Colbert’s association is no impediment to his “good standing” with Senor Jorge’s own false religious sect.

Another invitee to Bergoglio’s shindig prior to the blathering he did at the G-7 meeting several hours later was a man named Jimmy Fallon, about whom I know very little except for the fact that he is such a militant pro-abortion Catholic that he encouraged a guest on his version of The Tonight Show to use a vulgar phrase that, most sadly, Donald John Trump and New York Mets first baseman Peter John Alonso have used openly in the past decade, to disparage the Supreme Court of the United States of America’s decision in the aforementioned case of Dobbs. v. Jackson Women’s Organization, June 24, 2022. The published reports on the matter are so graphic that I will not provide the readers of this site with any links thereto.

These are the sort of “comedians” to which Jorge Mario Bergoglio made the following remarks on Friday, June 14, 2024, the Octave Day of the Sacred Heart of Jesus:

It is my pleasure to welcome all of you, and to express my gratitude to those in the Dicastery for Culture and Education who have organized this meeting.

I hold you in high esteem as artists who express yourselves through the language of comedy, humour, and irony. Among all the professionals working in television, cinema, theatre, print media, with songs, and on social media, you are among the most loved, sought after, and popular. Certainly, it is because you are very good at what you do, but there is also another motivation: you have and cultivate the gift of making people laugh.

In the midst of so much gloomy news, immersed as we are in many social and even personal emergencies, you have the power to spread peace and smiles. You are among the few who have the ability to speak to all types of people, from different generations and cultural backgrounds.

tInterjection Number One:

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen defined laughter as the “juxtaposition of two unrelated concepts.” He used humor very effectively in his sermons, his addresses, retreats, and in his radio (The Catholic Hour) and television programs. The then Bishop Sheen said the following when he accepted an Emmy Award for his television program Life is Worth Living:

“I feel it is time I pay tribute to my four writers – Matthew, Mark, Luke and John." (Fulton J. Sheen.)

Although there is much to criticize him for, especially for his ecumenism and for his tenure as the conciliar bishop of Rochester, New York (1966 to 1969—see Alinsky's Sheen) Archbishop Sheen, of course, never used blasphemy, and he was a firm opponent of all the evils supported by alleged comedians Jorge Mario Bergoglio addressed two days ago:

There are sob sisters; there are the social slobberers who insist on compassion being shown to the muggers, to the dope fiends, to the throat slashers, to the beatniks, to the prostitutes, to the homosexuals, to the punks, so that today the decent man is practically off the reservation.” (Fulton J. Sheen.)

Archbishop Sheen used humor to evangelize. The smut artists and supporters of evil invited by Jorge Mario Bergoglio use what they believe is “humor” to evangelize in behalf of evil and against the man they think is a mortal threat to their own lives, Donald John Trump, and that is the real reason why they were invited to the Vatican to have Jorge tickle their itching ears with undeserved praise for making light of evil and even for “laughing” at God Himself.

Popularity is not a sign of doing that which is good nor of pleasing the true God of Divine Revelation, the Most Holy Trinity, and most of those who are “popular” today curry favor with base passions and are as demagogically hateful as Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., himself. Popularity carries no weight with the Divine Judge, Christ the King, at the moment of one’s Particular Judgment:

7. "Weight and balance are judgments of the Lord"--Prov., xvi. 11. In the balance of the Lord, a holy life and good works make the scale descend; but nobility, wealth, and science, have no weight. Hence, if found innocent, the peasant, the poor, and the ignorant, shall be rewarded. But the man of rank, of wealth, or or learning, if found guilty, shall be condemned."Thou art weighted in the balance", said Daniel to Balthassar, "and art found wanting"--Dan., v. 27. "Neither his gold, nor his wealth", says father Alvares, "but the king alone was weighed."

8. At the divine tribunal, the poor sinner shall see himself accused by the Devil, who, according to St. Augustine, "will recite the words of our profession, and will charge us before our face with all that we have done, will state the day and the hour in which we sinned"--Con. jud., tom. VI. He will recite the words of our profession; that is, he will enumerate the promises which we have made to God, and which we afterwards violated. He will charge us before our face; he will upbraid us with all our wicked deeds, pointing to the day and hour in which they were committed. And he will, as the same saint says, conclude his accusation by saying: "I have suffered neither stripes nor scourges for this man." Lord, I have suffered nothing for this ungrateful sinner, and to make himself my salve, he has turned his back on thee, who hast endured so much for his salvation. He, therefore, justly belongs to me. Even his angel-guardian will, according to Origen, come forward to accuse him, and will say" I have laboured so many years for his salvation; but he has despised all my admonitions. "Unusquisque angelorum perhibet testimonium, quot annis circa eum laboraverit sed ille monita sprevit"--hom., lxvi. Thus, even friends shall treat with contempt the guilty soul. "All her friends have despised her"--Lamen., i. 2. Her ver sins shall, says St. Bernard, accuse her. "And they shall say: You have made us; we are your work; we shall not desert you"--Lib., Medit., cap. ii. We are your offspring; we shall not leave you; we shall be your companions in Hell for all eternity. ("On the Particular Judgment," Sermon for Eighth Sunday after Pentecost," as found in Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, The Sermons of Saint Alphonsus Liguori For All the Sundays of the Year, republished by TAN Books and Publishers in 1982, pp. 279-287.)

No, popularity counts for nothing, and today’s “comedians” reach for the gutter to win the scornful laughter of their multitudes. They are a breed apart from the true comedians of the past, men and women who were funny and quick witted on the natural level without resorting to the vulgar, profane, indecent, and impure (George Gobel, Jonathan Winters, Henny Youngman, Jackie Gleason as the monologist and not the film actor noted for some characters that spewed blasphemies and profanities,  Garry Moore, Jack Paar, Bob Newhart, Fred Allen, Bob and Ray (Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding), Jack Benny, Bill Cosby (at the beginning of his career), the Irish comedian Hal Roach, et al. I have not included Bob Hope and Johnny Carson as they used innuendo and suggestiveness in their acts even though both were very quick witted. A quick wit is not redeemed by innuendo and suggestiveness, and Carson became pretty scatological by the time he left the air in 1992, and Milton Berle, who was very funny, did help to popularize cross dressing and used tasteless vaudeville jokes). Bergoglio’s advertence to “popularity” to praise the sick puppies he addressed speaks for itself.

To the next part of Bergoglio’s address:

In your own way, you unite people, because laughter is contagious. It is easier to laugh together than alone: joy opens us to sharing and is the best antidote to selfishness and individualism. Laughter also helps to break down social barriers, create connections among people, and allows us to express emotions and thoughts, contributing to building a shared culture and creating spaces of freedom. You remind us that homo sapiens is also homo ludens! For playful fun and laughter are central to human life, to express ourselves, to learn, and to give meaning to situations. (Pope Francis meets figures from the world of comedy from various parts of the world.)

Interjection Number Two:

Once again, Jorge Mario Bergoglio shows how much of ideologue he is as the “comedians” he addressed are known to divide people on the basis of rank political partisanship and to deride as “bigoted” those who opposed Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetro, Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, and Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., while deriding Republicans and those who oppose abortion and sodomy as beneath contempt. These tools of the adversary erect barriers and foment hatred by means of their alleged “humor.”

We return now to Bergoglio:

Your talent is a precious gift. Together with a smile, it spreads peace in our hearts and among others, helping us to overcome difficulties and cope with everyday stress. It helps us find relief in irony and go through life with humour. I like to pray daily with the words of Saint Thomas More: “Grant me, O Lord, a good sense of humour”. I ask for this grace for every day because it helps me approach things with the right spirit. (Pope Francis meets figures from the world of comedy from various parts of the world.)

Interjection Number Three:

Caryn Elaine Johnson (Whoopi Goldberg), Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Rock and rest promote “peace” and help “us to overcome difficulties and cope with everyday stress.”

These people do not promote “peace,” and the way to “cope” with what Jorge Mario Bergoglio calls “stress” is to love Our Lord and to bear our crosses each day with joy and genuine good humor while relying upon the graces He won for us during His Passion and Death on the wood of the Holy Cross on Good Friday which He sends us through the loving hands of His Most Blessed Mother, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces.

The “good sense of humour” for which Saint Thomas More prayed was that of laughing at himself and accepting whatever befell with self-effacing humor and joy, and it should be pointed out that the “comedians” to whom Jorge Mario Bergoglio addressed would have been making fun of Saint Thomas More endlessly for refusing to sign the oath of allegiance to King Henry VIII as the “supreme head of the church” in England and they also would have joking about his execution had they lived five centuries ago.

Wait, it gets worse:

You also succeed in bringing about another miracle: you manage to make people smile even while dealing with problems and events, large and small. You denounce abuses of power; you give voice to forgotten situations; you highlight abuses; you point out inappropriate behaviour. You do this without spreading alarm or terror, anxiety or fear, as other types of communication tend to do; you rouse people to think critically by making them laugh and smile. You do this by telling stories of real life, narrating reality from your unique viewpoint; and in this way, you speak to people about problems, large and small. (Pope Francis meets figures from the world of comedy from various parts of the world.)

Interjection Number Four:

Translation: “Keep up your good work attacking Donald Trump and those who support him.”

The next part is where the Epic Argentine Apostate employed some of the worst blasphemies that have come forth from the open sepulcher that is his dirty mouth since his “elevation” to be the universal public face of apostasy on March 13, 2013:

According to the Bible, at the beginning of the world, while everything was being created, divine wisdom practiced your form of art for the benefit of none other than God himself, the first spectator of history. It is described in this way: “I was beside him, like a master workman; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the sons of men” (Prv 8:30-31). Remember this: when you manage to draw knowing smiles from the lips of even one spectator, you also make God smile. (Pope Francis meets figures from the world of comedy from various parts of the world.)

Interjection Number Five:

Blaspheming heretic.

God is not a comedian, and He is no “spectator of history,” first or otherwise.’

The Most Blessed Trinity is Omnipotent, Omniscient, Infinite, Eternal, and Omnipresent. He lives outside of time and space and sees everything from the beginning of the world to the end in an instant “now,” something which is incomprehensible to us with such finite, puny minds. His Omniscience coexists with but does not interfere with human free will, a mystery about which Holy Mother Church has taught can explained by various schools of theology a legitimate matter of open theological discussion and reflection.

The fact remains though, that the true God of Divine Revelation is not the god of deism, which contends that a “god” created the world and it put in motion and has stepped aside just as a watchmaker has no further involvement with the watch after he makes it. The true God of Divine Revelation is no “spectator” in human events as He hears our prayers and seeks to win us for Him with every beat our hearts, consecrated as they must be to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

God does not “smile” at the “humor” of those who support evil and celebrate sinful behavior with a ready abandon.

Try as he does, Jorge Mario Bergoglio can never turn the Most Blessed Trinity into an image of his own creation that shares with him a joy of the profane, obscene, impure, indecent, and mean-spiritedly divisive derision of supposed “reactionaries”.

It is my most unfortunate duty to return to the text of Bergoglio’s June 14, 2024, address to “comedians”:

You, dear artists, know how to think and speak humorously in different forms and styles; and in each case the language of humour is suitable for understanding and “feeling” human nature. Humour does not offend, humiliate, or put people down according to their flaws. While communication today often generates conflict, you know how to bring together diverse and sometimes contrary realities. How much we need to learn from you! The laughter of humour is never “against” anyone, but is always inclusive, purposeful, eliciting openness, sympathy, empathy. (Pope Francis meets figures from the world of comedy from various parts of the world.)

Interjection Number Six:

Hey, Jorge, in what universe do you live?

Are you that detached from reality as to be ignorant of the fact that the “comedians” you praise revel at humiliating the “backward oafs” who are so “ignorant” as to oppose baby butchery and sodomy, those who recognize that the hysteria over “global warming” and the “existential danger” of this or that pestilential disease are hoxes perpetuated upon the mases to delude them into behaving as their masters desire?

Evidently so.

What a surprise.

To the next passage from Bergoglio’s address:

I am reminded of the story in the book of Genesis when God promised Abraham that within a year he would have a son. He and his wife Sarah were old and childless. Sarah listened and laughed inwardly. Abraham must have done the same. However, Sarah conceived and bore a son in her old age, at the time that God had set. Then Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; every one who hears will laugh over me” (Gen 21:6). That is why they named their son Isaac, which means, “he laughs”. (Pope Francis meets figures from the world of comedy from various parts of the world.)

Interjection Number Seven:

This is a misrepresentation of the conception of Isaac in Sarah’s old age.

Although the name Isaac means “he who laughs, he who rejoices,” Sarah was rejoicing with joy at the conception of a son in her old age. There is a laughter that comes with rejoicing frequently, but it should be pointed out that such genuine laughter with rejoicing has nothing at all to do with the “work” of Caryn Elaine Johnson (Whoopi Goldberg), Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Rock and the rest.

God does indeed want us to experience joy. We are not Puritanical Calvinists. Far from it. We must laugh at ourselves and the situations that we might face on a daily basis, something that is part of the particular nature of New Yorkers, which I will always be even though I have not lived there in the past twenty-one years and to which I hope never to return even for a visit given what the place has become. (I learned when teaching at Illinois State University for the first time in the Fall of 1977 that what is particular to New Yorkers is not necessarily appreciated by Midwesterners.)

Some of old television programs from the 1950s, including The Honeymooners, were hilariously funny, especially when Jackie Gleason forgot a line or two and had to ad lib with Art Carney, and many others, such as Car 54, Where Are You?, were well-written narratives about how many times what one says or does may be misinterpreted by others.

However, be that as it may, what passes for contemporary “humor” is frequently blasphemous, not infrequently profane, commonly impure, and it is designed to “evangelize” in favor of ideological “truths” that only “fools” can deny, and it is those “fools” who must derided without mercy and without cease.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio outdid himself with blasphemy in the next passage of his address:

Can we laugh at God? Of course, we can, just as we play and joke with the people we love. The Jewish wisdom and literary tradition is a master in this! It is possible to—do this without offending the religious sentiments of believers, especially the poor. (Pope Francis meets figures from the world of comedy from various parts of the world.)

Interjection Number Seven:

Laugh at God?

Never!

Can we laugh at how God’s Holy Will manifests itself in our lives despite our own plans and expectations?

Of course.

Many saints were noted for their self-effacing good humor.

The founder of the Oratory, Saint Philip Neri, was filled with joy and urged Catholics to live with laugher and joy, and he was especially good at making fun of himself.

Famously, Saint Teresa of Jesus, who was canonized on the saint day as Saint Philip Neri, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, and Saint Francis Xavier March 12, 1622) by Pope Gregory XV, had a sense of her that reflected her own indomitable spirit, including one famous episode that is recouted as follows:

As the hagiographic accounts relate, as St. Teresa (1515–1582) also called St. Teresa of Jesus, made her way to her convent during a fierce rainstorm, she slipped down an embankment and fell squarely into the mud. The irrepressible nun looked up to heaven and admonished her Maker, "If this is how You treat Your friends, no wonder why You have so few of them!" Only a true friend of God could speak with such familiarity and temerity.  ("If This is How You Treat Your Friends…".)

Would anyone dare say the likes of Caryn Elaine Johnson, Stephen Colber, or Jimmy Fallon are true friends of God who are respectful of His Holy Name and ever mindful to keep His Holy Commandments as was Saint Teresa of Jesus?

Laugh at God!

Never!

Jorge Mario Bergoglio thus encouraged blasphemers to continue to blaspheme with his “papal” “benediction.”

Finally, we reach the Argentine Apostate’s concluding paragraph:

Dear friends, may God bless you and your art. Continue to cheer people up, especially those who have the hardest time looking at life with hope. Help us, with a smile, to see reality with its contradictions, and to dream of a better world! With heartfelt sentiments, I bless you; and I ask you, please, to pray for me. (Pope Francis meets figures from the world of comedy from various parts of the world.)

Final Interjection:

Jorge Mario Bergoglio is obsessed with “dreaming” about a “better world” without mentioning the fact that the “better world” can never be built upon a web of blasphemies, profanities, obscenities, impurities, indecency, immodesty, and the public, unapologetic celebration defense of baby-butchery and sodomy.

Did Jorge Mario Bergoglio warn these “comedians” against using the Holy Name of Jesus in vain using profanity or speaking impurely by joking about sins against the Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth Commandments.

Of course not.

How can one obscene blasphemer admonish others?

Permit me to refer you yet again to the following words of Pope Pius XI in Mit Brenennder Sorge, March 17, 1937:

20. Every true and lasting reform has ultimately sprung from the sanctity of men who were driven by the love of God and of men. Generous, ready to stand to attention to any call from God, yet confident in themselves because confident in their vocation, they grew to the size of beacons and reformers. On the other hand, any reformatory zeal, which instead of springing from personal purity, flashes out of passion, has produced unrest instead of light, destruction instead of construction, and more than once set up evils worse than those it was out to remedy. No doubt "the Spirit breatheth where he will" (John iii. 8): "of stones He is able to raise men to prepare the way to his designs" (Matt. iii. 9). He chooses the instruments of His will according to His own plans, not those of men. But the Founder of the Church, who breathed her into existence at Pentecost, cannot disown the foundations as He laid them. Whoever is moved by the spirit of God, spontaneously adopts both outwardly and inwardly, the true attitude toward the Church, this sacred fruit from the tree of the cross, this gift from the Spirit of God, bestowed on Pentecost day to an erratic world. (Pope Pius XI, Mit Brennender Sorge, March 17, 1937.)

Yes, we must reform our own lives with every beat of our hearts, consecrated as they must be to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. In order to do this, of course, we love God as He has revealed Himself to us exclusively through His Catholic Church with our whole mind, our whole soul, our whole body, our whole heart and our whole strength. We must love others for love of Him, Who wills the good of all men, which is the salvation of their immortal souls as members of the Catholic Church.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio did not exhort the alleged "comedians" to strive for holiness nor to remember that the words they speak must never in offend the Divine Redeemer, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Christ, as it is a dreadful to offend Him and thus to lead others over whom one has influence into doing so habitually.

Then again, how can Jorge Mario Bergoglio exhort anyone to do this when he has more in common with the "comedians" than with the lives of the saints.

To love God, therefore, we must hate what he hates.

God hates sin. So must we.

God hates heresy. So must we.

God hates falsehood any kind. So must we.

God hates false religions and has nothing to do with them. So must we.

To hate sin is not to hate the sinner.

To hate heresy is not to hate the heretic.

To hate falsehood is not to hate those who propagate it.

To hate false religions is not to hate those to adhere to them.

Catholics know all of this.

Granted.

Unfortunately, we live in a topsy-turvy world that is suffering the effects of the overthrow of the Social Reign of Christ the King wrought by the Protestant Revolution and the subsequent rise and triumph of Judeo-Masonry and its multiplicity of "ideas" that have enshrined naturalism as the foundation of personal and social life. Men fall prey to sentimentality and emotionalism, illogic and passion. They are prone to believe everything except the true religion, prone to make excuses for their own sins and to seek to enable family members and friends who are living lives of unrepentant sin.

As the devil hates God but knows that he cannot destroy Him, he wants to do the next best thing: to convince men to hate God and His Holy Church and the binding precepts of the Divine Positive Law and the Natural Law so that they will wind up hating themselves and their fellow men, becoming instruments of disorder and violence in the world.

Catholicism is not a panacea for personal and social order. Each of us is wounded by the vestigial after-effects of Original Sin and our own Actual Sins. The Middle Ages of Christendom was marked with various episodes of wars among Catholic kingdoms and even against popes themselves, The fact that individual Catholics fail to cooperate with the graces won for them on the wood of the Holy Cross by the shedding of every single drop of the Most Precious Blood of Christ the King, Our Divine Redeemer, and that flow into our hearts and souls through the loving hands of Our Lady, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces, is to the discredit of individual Catholics who added to social disorder by means of their sins, not to the discredit of the Faith or any of Its immutable doctrines, including the Social Reign of Christ the King.

Pope Pius XII made this point in his first encyclical letter, Summi Pontificatus, October 10, 1939:

It is true that even when Europe had a cohesion of brotherhood through identical ideals gathered from Christian preaching, she was not free from divisions, convulsions and wars which laid her waste; but perhaps they never felt the intense pessimism of today as to the possibility of settling them, for they had then an effective moral sense of the just and of the unjust, of the lawful and of the unlawful, which, by restraining outbreaks of passion, left the way open to an honorable settlement. In Our days, on the contrary, dissensions come not only from the surge of rebellious passion, but also from a deep spiritual crisis which has overthrown the sound principles of private and public morality. (Pope Pius XII, Summi Pontificatus, October 10, 1939.)

The errors of pluralism have divided people needlessly into warring camps as a permanently established political class, composed of competing sets of naturalists, each of which believes that the Incarnation of the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity in the Virginal and Immaculate Womb of His Most Blessed Mother by the power of the Third Person of the Most Blessed Trinity, God the Holy Ghost at the Annunciation is, at best, a matter of complete indifference to personal and social order. So many Americans live from election to election, always believing that "change," whether it be in the direction of "progress" for naturalists of the "left" or in the direction of "constitutionalism" or "liberty" or "limited government" for naturalists of the "right." Paganism and barbarism have risen to the forefront as people still fight battles on a purely natural level that call to mind once again the following words of Pope Pius XI in Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio, December 23, 1922:

Men today do not act as Christians, as brothers, but as strangers, and even enemies. The sense of man's personal dignity and of the value of human life has been lost in the brutal domination begotten of might and mere superiority in numbers. Many are intent on exploiting their neighbors solely for the purpose of enjoying more fully and on a larger scale the goods of this world. But they err grievously who have turned to the acquisition of material and temporal possessions and are forgetful of eternal and spiritual things, to the possession of which Jesus, Our Redeemer, by means of the Church, His living interpreter, calls mankind.

22. It is in the very nature of material objects that an inordinate desire for them becomes the root of every evil, of every discord, and in particular, of a lowering of the moral sense. On the one hand, things which are naturally base and vile can never give rise to noble aspirations in the human heart which was created by and for God alone and is restless until it finds repose in Him. On the other hand, material goods (and in this they differ greatly from those of the spirit which the more of them we possess the more remain to be acquired) the more they are divided among men the less each one has and, by consequence, what one man has another cannot possibly possess unless it be forcibly taken away from the first. Such being the case, worldly possessions can never satisfy all in equal manner nor give rise to a spirit of universal contentment, but must become perforce a source of division among men and of vexation of spirit, as even the Wise Man Solomon experienced: "Vanity of vanities, and vexation of spirit." (Ecclesiastes i, 2, 14)

23. The same effects which result from these evils among individuals may likewise be expected among nations. "From whence are wars and contentions among you?" asks the Apostle St. James. "Are they not hence from your concupiscences, which war in your members?" (James iv, 1, 2)

24. The inordinate desire for pleasure, concupiscence of the flesh, sows the fatal seeds of division not only among families but likewise among states; the inordinate desire for possessions, concupiscence of the eyes, inevitably turns into class warfare and into social egotism; the inordinate desire to rule or to domineer over others, pride of life, soon becomes mere party or factional rivalries, manifesting itself in constant displays of conflicting ambitions and ending in open rebellion, in the crime of lese majeste, and even in national parricide.

25. These unsuppressed desires, this inordinate love of the things of the world, are precisely the source of all international misunderstandings and rivalries, despite the fact that oftentimes men dare to maintain that acts prompted by such motives are excusable and even justifiable because, forsooth, they were performed for reasons of state or of the public good, or out of love for country. Patriotism -- the stimulus of so many virtues and of so many noble acts of heroism when kept within the bounds of the law of Christ -- becomes merely an occasion, an added incentive to grave injustice when true love of country is debased to the condition of an extreme nationalism, when we forget that all men are our brothers and members of the same great human family, that other nations have an equal right with us both to life and to prosperity, that it is never lawful nor even wise, to dissociate morality from the affairs of practical life, that, in the last analysis, it is "justice which exalteth a nation: but sin maketh nations miserable." (Proverbs xiv, 34)

26. Perhaps the advantages to one's family, city, or nation obtained in some such way as this may well appear to be a wonderful and great victory (this thought has been already expressed by St. Augustine), but in the end it turns out to be a very shallow thing, something rather to inspire us with the most fearful apprehensions of approaching ruin. "It is a happiness which appears beautiful but is brittle as glass. We must ever be on guard lest with horror we see it broken into a thousand pieces at the first touch." (St. Augustine de Civitate Dei, Book iv, Chap. 3)

27. There is over and above the absence of peace and the evils attendant on this absence, another deeper and more profound cause for present-day conditions. This cause was even beginning to show its head before the War and the terrible calamities consequent on that cataclysm should have proven a remedy for them if mankind had only taken the trouble to understand the real meaning of those terrible events. In the Holy Scriptures we read: "They that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed." (Isaias i, 28) No less well known are the words of the Divine Teacher, Jesus Christ, Who said: "Without me you can do nothing" (John xv, 5) and again, "He that gathereth not with me, scattereth." (Luke xi, 23)

28. These words of the Holy Bible have been fulfilled and are now at this very moment being fulfilled before our very eyes. Because men have forsaken God and Jesus Christ, they have sunk to the depths of evil. They waste their energies and consume their time and efforts in vain sterile attempts to find a remedy for these ills, but without even being successful in saving what little remains from the existing ruin. It was a quite general desire that both our laws and our governments should exist without recognizing God or Jesus Christ, on the theory that all authority comes from men, not from God. Because of such an assumption, these theorists fell very short of being able to bestow upon law not only those sanctions which it must possess but also that secure basis for the supreme criterion of justice which even a pagan philosopher like Cicero saw clearly could not be derived except from the divine law. (Pope Pius XI, Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio, December 23, 1922.)

That last paragraph, number twenty-eight, says it all. The gist of the two hundred thirty-seven articles linked at the top of this article can be summarized in the following words written by Pope Pius XI nearly eighty-eight years ago:

They waste their energies and consume their time and efforts in vain sterile attempts to find a remedy for these ills, but without even being successful in saving what little remains from the existing ruin. (Pope Pius XI, Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio, December 23, 1922.)

The joke is one those who think that Jorge Mario Bergoglio is a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter.

Yes. It is  Catholicism or the abyss.

Behold the abyss.

We need Our Lady’s help now more than ever, especially by remaining faithful to her Most Holy Rosary on a daily basis and by distributing blessed Miraculous Medals and Green Scapulars to the souls God sees fit in His Holy Providence to place within our lives.

Viva Cristo Rey! Vivat Christus Rex!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us. 

Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, pray for us.

Saint John Francis Regis, pray for us.

Appendix

War Must be Just, and to be Just There Must be a Casus Belli

As has been noted so many times before on this website, the Just War Theory, which was expounded at first by Saint Augustine and then by Saint Thomas Aquinas eight centuries later with variations of it having been formulated over the centuries, requires a reason for engaging in armed conflict. What follows is an attempt to apply the principles of the Just War Theory to the present circumstances in Ukraine.

1. There must be a wound to justice that poses a real and imminent threat to the good order of nations and/or to the territorial integrity or well-being of innocents by an aggressor. The threat must be real, not imaginary, not concocted for political purposes. In this instance, there was no real and imminent threat to the good order of nations nor to the territorial integrity of the Russian Federated Republic. Russia had already annexed Crimea in 2014 and two breakaway regions, Donetsk, and Luhansk, had declared themselves to be “people’s republics.” International agreements in 2015 let the situation in these two regions stay as they were, and there was no immediate reason for Russia to invade Ukraine, admitting that Ukraine stands accused of shelling Donbas, a Russiophilic part of Urkiane near the country’s borders with Russia. There was, however, absolutely no wound to justice to justify a massive invasion of a sovereign nation that posed no threat to Russia’s legitimate national security to the extent that required the sort of invasion that has been taking place for the past five days.
2. All peaceful means to avoid armed hostilities must be exhausted. Diplomatic efforts to avert war must be genuine. It was the authority of the Vicar of Christ himself during the Middle Ages and various times thereafter who attempted to broker disputes in order to avoid war. In the Ukrainian tragedy, there were no serious negotiations undertaken to prevent the use of armed force, and it is clear that Vladimir Putin simply wanted to install a regime in Kiev that would not be enticed to joining the useless, moribund collection of woke globalists in the North American Treaty Organization, which he believed had crossed a “red line” by erecting military bases near his country’s border. However, it is quite immoral to appear to open to negotiations when one’s only goal is to wage an full-scale war upon a sovereign nation and thus put innocent civilians in harm’s way.
3. A duly constituted authority must make the determinations concerning the waging of war. This means that a legitimate governing authority guided by right intentions and right principles must be in charge of the decision-making process, one that has not usurped power, or as is happening at this time in Ukraine, by a governmental leader, Vladimir Putin, who has sought war unjustly as a first means to prosecute plans of territorial expansion and/or nationalistic or geopolitical ends.
4. The goals of a war must be well-defined and have a reasonable chance of being realized. In other words, there must be a reasonable chance for success in the pursuit of narrowly defined goals. Goals are to be defined narrowly so as to limit the harm caused by a needlessly protracted war, yes, even when a nation is prosecuting a just cause. Such is not the case at all with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
5. The good end being sought must not be outweighed by the foreseen evil to be done. This is known as the Catholic principle of proportionality, which states that a good end can be rendered unjust to pursue if a judgment is made that the amount of the foreseen evil to be done in the prosecution of a just war will cause greater evils than the one the war is being waged to eradicate. Putin cares about none of this.
6. As far as is possible, noncombatants must never be deliberately targeted in warfare. The United States has a mixed record when it comes to the realization of this part of the Just War Theory. Our military forces have tried to use remarkable restraint in many instances. Other times, however, they have not. William Tecumseh Sherman used raw terrorism against civilian population centers as he cut a swath of fiery destruction from the Atlantic Ocean to Atlanta during the War between the States. The government of the United States of America aided the anti-Catholic Masonic revolutionaries in Mexico. Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki (the latter two of which were known to contain the highest concentrations of Catholics in Japan) were bombed during World War II. Something less than laser precision caused thousands of civilian casualties during the Gulf War and during our long and immoral presence in Afghanistan, which commenced on October 7, 2001, and during and after the American invasion and occupation of Iraq on March 20, 2003. In the present instance, although Russian military forces are encountering fierce resistance from Ukrainian military forces and armed civilians, they do not have any scruples about mowing down unarmed civilians or bombing heavily populated centers of civilian population.
7. A just cessation to hostilities must be realized as soon as possible. Once again, the record of the United States’ own record in this regard is very mixed. The dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was done so as to force an unconditional surrender from Japan, something that the Soviets insisted on in the Potsdam Conference as their condition for entering the war against Japan (so that they could recover claims lost in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05.) Japan was willing to surrender conditionally. Those who are convinced of their absolute moral and racial superiority over others, though, cannot consider ending hostilities even if it is possible to conclude a peace that is just without having humiliated one's enemies. Vladimir Putin wants only one thing: for victory on his terms, something that will serve as a warning to other countries neighboring Russia, especially Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, as well as all other former “republics” under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic, whose leaders want to become a stooge of American and globalist interests while pretending to be “democracies” when they are anything but.