Pope Benedict XVI, in Today's News 10.02.09

Pope Benedict XVI. Benedict, in accepting the credentials of the new US Ambassador to the Holy See, made the following quote, which is representative of his thought.

"The continuing international economic crisis clearly calls for a revision of present political, economic and financial structures in the light of the ethical imperative of ensuring the integral development of all people. What is needed, in effect, is a model of globalization inspired by authentic humanism, in which the world's people are seen not merely as neighbors but as brothers and sisters."

Several comments:

1. "continuing international economic crisis." This phrase tends to buy into the false consciousness about reality and the economy developed by the cryptocracy's spokesmen. The myth that the cryptocracy wants everyone to believe is that these crises are just part of the normal swings in the economic life of the world. The reality is different. The cryptocrats are manipulators before anything else. The current economic crisis was precipitated by the cryptocracy to establish an atmosphere where they could make a number of economic and political changes to enhance their power.

The Pope's words tend to gloss over the reality of the conspiracy by the cryptocracy to gain unchallenged world power. The world's faithful and the rest of the population need to know the truth about their world, especially the truth of who is ruling the world and for what purpose. It seems one ought to have the expectation that the Pope would help educate on what is actually occurring in the world. For the Pope to just throw in a phrase about the continuing crisis without explanation, doesn't do it.

2. "revision of present political, economic and financial structures."  Everyone in the world is for such changes. The problem is the Rothschilds also have this program. And the Rothschilds are the ones who have predominant power in the world today. If one calls for revision of structures without specifying exactly what is meant, one's position naturally becomes associated with the position of the cryptocracy. The changes the Rothschilds desire are not in the interests of the world's population or of the faithful.

3. "ethical imperative of ensuring the integral development of all people." This is just Vatican II gobbledygook. Just what is an 'ethical imperative?" And were did Jesus ever call for "integral development?" 

4. "model of globalization." The Pope has clearly approved of globalization many times before. Here he is assuming globalization will occur and is looking for the proper model for the transformation. But in focusing on what kind of globalization, he dodges the questions of why globalization, who is behind it, and what do they want to accomplish. Globalization is the Rothschilds' baby. There is no way to sort of out-smart them by being for globalization with qualifications. Once you approve of globalization you are in their play pen.

5. "inspired by authentic humanism." Not humanism, but "authentic humanism." Again, it is important to return to the teachings of Jesus which nowhere mentions humanism, authentic or not. If questioned, the Pope would undoubtedly say that authentic humanism is Jesus' thought. But if that is the case, why not just say so. Why not declare for the reign of Christ the King, in which humanity would experience the most profound humanism ever known. But, of course, the Church leaders seem to develop a bad case of stutters when the possibility of mentioning the reign of Christ the King comes along.

6. Cardinal Ratzinger, now Benedict, often used formulations in his writings that on the surface seemed sound and correct, but ambiguous. His formulations could often be interpreted different ways orthodox and not. The same occurs with the statement discussed here. 

The evolution of the Church is at the stage of euphemisms. Those who would change the centuries-old teachings of the Church do not have the strength or courage to say clearly what they intend. Instead they produce wordage that can lead in different directions.

7. Traditionalists, for the most part, look to a restoration of the Latin mass, and a return to the glory days prior to VII. But the battle to determine the post-VII orientation is done. That war is over, and the good guys lost. Any military expert will tell you that a sure way to lose is to attempt to re-fight the previous war. Fighting for the Latin mass and return to the good old days is precisely fighting the last war.

There is a strong current in the Church who want to change the Church dramatically. Their continual pressure is bringing the next war that will determine the health of the Church. The key to this war for those who want Church based on the teachings of 2000 years, is to concentrate on the big picture of the direction of the Church. In general, as Benedict's statement demonstrates, the direction is toward finding a way to agree with the cryptocracy but with certain reservations. This strategy has led to all kinds of disasters, such as the enshrinement of the holocaust, multiple attempts to appeal to the zionists, failure to defend a priest under world-wide attack for his views, etc.

The traditionalists would be well-advised to pay attention to the general 'political' approach of the Church leaders and where that approach is taking things.

Crisis

A friend sent in the following table.  I don't know its source and therefore its accuracy, but the statistics seem reasonable.

Number of Seminarians in the United States:

Congregations, 1965, 2000,  %  Decline

Jesuits 3,559, 389, 89%

Franciscans 2,551, 60, 97%

Christian Brothers 912, 7, 99%

Benedictines 1,541, 109, 93%

Redemptorists  1,128, 24, 98%

Dominicans 343, 38, 89%

Maryknoll 919, 15, 98%

Oblates of Mary Immaculate 914, 13, 99%

Vincentians 700, 18, 97%

OFM Conventual 511,  49, 90%

Passionists 574, 5, 99%

Holy Cross Fathers 434, 132, 70%

Augustinians 483, 14, 97%

Capuchins 440, 39, 91%

Precious Blood Fathers 521, 27, 95%

La Salette Fathers 552, 1, 99%

Carmelites 545, 46, 92%

Holy Ghost Fathers 159, 9, 94%

In any organization in the world such declines in the key component of the organization would be the cause for heads to roll and for the most fundamental assessment of what the organization was doing.  Any organization except the Catholic Church that is.  The Catholic Church, faced with this disaster, just rolls bureaucratically along, seldom mentioning the problem, conducting business as usual.

Well, business as usual will result in the near-destruction of the Church, at least in the United States and Europe, and most likely within a decade.  I am very familiar with a monastery in my area.  They are now down to 12, and the average age is well past 60.  It is easy to see that within 10 years or so the monastery will be unable to continue.  And it is easy to generalize from this particular to the Church institutions as a whole.

Anyone of minimum intelligence and foresight can see where the crisis in the seminaries is leading.  So why is there such a lack in concern and corrective action among the Church hierarchy?

The inability of the Church to do anything meaningful about this crisis, leads one to look for a reason for such paralysis.  Many commentators point to accommodation to modernism initiated at Vatican II.  And certainly that factor is key.  But, the issue in recent years has become a lot more concrete that just generalized modern-ism. From the papacies of John Paul II and Benedict XVI at least, the evolving central direction of the Church has been toward pleasing Judaism.  This stance disarms the Church completely and sets the stage for all the things the Rabbis would want from the Church  -- namely to become more "tolerant", to evolve toward a Catholicism that more reveres the Holocaust than the 2000-year-old teachings of the Church, and to become a Church that is in reality based on the Noahide principles promoted by the Rabbis.

A revival of the seminaries will probably take an act of God to completely shake up the existing bureaucratic inertia and fundamental disorientation.  Oh, that it would come soon.  In the meantime, one must fight to recreate the Church.  What we need is a modern-day Joan of Arc who can hear the word of God and act uncompromisingly on it against the Church's enemies to reorient the Church.  A Joan of Arc who can rally the forces who stand on the timeless teachings of Christ and the Church.

Michael Matt and his traditionalist current believe that the revival in the Latin Mass will lead to a revival of the Church, including the seminaries.  This belief is naive, to say the least.  Benedict himself knows that a re-institution of the Latin Mass will not stand in the way of his "reform of the reform", and his steady development of philo-Judaism in the Church, a trend to which Matt is evidently completely blind.