Juan Peron as Argentina's Dictator, was one who spoke differently to two or more groups, saying what one wants to hear. And the Young Jorge Mario Bergoglio may have been impressed by this method of spreading the message. It is why we hear the current Pope uttering his Opinions which are often sheer nonsense.
Dear "Neo-Catholics", We want Church Doctrine taught Clearly, not in Vatican II "Pastoral" Gobdelygook, which follows the Peronista Pattern of "You're Right & You're Right."

Francis may well be just the beginning, just paving the way for a much worse situation.

Does anyone think God may interevene directly and drmatically soon to fix this mess?

Chris Ferrara and the Remnant are edging closer and closer to the objective reality that, in fact, the NO Church is NOT the Catholic Church. In fact as the name “The Remnant” would suggest, the Catholic Church subsists now only in those who hold to the eternal teachings of Christ’s Church as it was taught from His hands before the VII heresy descended upon her.

I believe this is worth noting (the Orthodox Church's view): "Concerning the original—or “first”—sin, that committed by Adam and Eve,
Orthodoxy believes that, while everyone bears the consequences of the
first sin, the foremost of which is death, only Adam and Eve are guilty
of that sin. Roman Catholicism teaches that everyone bears not only the
consequence, but also the guilt, of that sin." This seems more logical as how can a person bear real guilt unless his or her will was involved. The guilt from Adam and Eve is more a guilt complex where one is accused of someone else's actions but nonetheless ends up feeling guilty along with the perpetrator. This could befall someone who grandfather did something very wicked which led to his imprisonment,etc. Or a bad brother. People go to psychotherapists to get free of this guilt. I wonder if many Catholics really ever think about the matter? Probably not as it is pretty far removed and a bit abstract. Still . . .

Always love Chris Ferrara.

First, and foremost, Bergoglio is a Modernist (a Leftie) with that primary trait of foisting onto others what they, in their heart of hearts, either are or believe. 'Projectionism'
is an important part of their game.

Thank you for clearing up what Pelagianism actually is. It always annoys me when he calls me names and I don’t know what they mean! Feeling pretty silly when I could have looked it up and seen his error but I probably would have just gotten more confused because I keep forgetting that he doesn’t play by the rules and just makes stuff up; including redefining using an opposite meaning! It’s hard to figure it all out! Except for the Baptism errors; those were obvious to me at least! I’m just thankful Matt can keep a clear head & analyse this stuff so that I can emerge understanding what the enemy actually said or did now and why he might do that!!

Here is an article in Crisis magazine which explains why only the baptized are sons of God and heirs of His kingdom, meaning those who will be saved if they persevere. (Trent declares that baptism or the desire for same are necessary for salvation.)

Francis obliterates the radical distinction between the baptized and the unbaptized, in keeping with his universalism.

https://www.crisismagazine....

I guess I don't understand the answer in the same way you do. I take it to mean that BOTH because we are made in God's image.... AND by an act of special benevolence.... we are adopted by baptism into the family of God. At least that was always my understanding of this answer. Can anyone offer the official Church teaching on this question and answer, please?

The answer is to be found in the First and Second Readings from Mass tomorrow (Fourth Sunday of Easter). How providential

Second Reading:

"Beloved:

See what love the Father has bestowed on us

that we may be called the children of God.

Yet so we are.

The reason the world does not know us

is that it did not know him.

Beloved, we are God's children now;

what we shall be has not yet been revealed.

We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him,

for we shall see him as he is"

(1 John 3: 1-2)

"Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said:

"Leaders of the people and elders:

If we are being examined today

about a good deed done to a cripple,

namely, by what means he was saved,

then all of you and all the people of Israel should know

that it was in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean

whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead;

in his name this man stands before you healed.

He is the stone rejected by you, the builders,

which has become the cornerstone.

There is no salvation through anyone else,

nor is there any other name under heaven

given to the human race by which we are to be saved."

(Acts 4: 8-12)

Thank you, Martin. In reading this, my understanding was only reinforced, so I looked it up in the Basic Catechism of Christian Doctrine, based on the original Penny Catechism.
147. In the Lord's Prayer who is called 'our Father'?
In the Lord's Prayer God is called 'our Father'.
148. Why is God called 'our Father'?
God is called 'our Father' because he is the Father of all Christians, whom he has made his children by Holy Baptism.
149. Is God also the Father of all mankind?
God is also the Father of all mankind because he made them all, and loves and preserves them all.
And thank you, Crypto Catholic, for causing me to look up the correct answer. 149 makes it crystal clear.

People who change the rules to benefit themselves are spoil sports (in games and sports). I am not sure if there is a label for individuals who change rules of religions and the like. No one wants to play with a spoil sport. 'Since I own the baseball bats, I get four strikes.'
We are dealing with a world wide phenomenon now. The return of a kind of Nazism in the EU. A kind of mass hysteria on the left in the USA.. Emotion not reason and facts. Yelling and shouting not dialogue and argumentation. Not truth but the fulfillment of desire.
A tremendous impulse to tell lies and do whatever seems shocking to traditional thinking. A Pinocchio world!

Fantastic piece. devastating to the "conservatives" who continue to defend this perfidious papacy

The little boys hands are in the immemorial posture of reverence for the Chair of Peter. A sentiment the Pope himself does not seem to share.

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Father Harrison has noted that his article states that the exclusion of infants from the Beatific Vision was Catholic doctrine, not precisely Limbo as such. The theological opinion on Limbo regards the fate of unbaptized infants excluded from beatitude. I have corrected the article accordingly.

Regarding the abuse of the altar boy, my wife notes "He [Francis] apparently did not have his Virtus training."

This man is really (probably incurably) sick......

Another example of this Pope's all too frequent disregard of irrefutable catholic dogma.It is just so tiresome. Thank you Chris for continuing to expose these heresies with insightful critical analysis.

What comes around comes around.

Pope Francis recounted the little boy's whispered conversation much the same as a certain Italian editor rehearsed his interview with the pope.

Except, the little boy could not (dare not) correct the mighty one in department store white, while Francis, the Vicar of Christ and sovereign of Vatican City, could have taken the newspaperman to task for falsely remembering their conversation. And didn't.

The poor boy shoulda said, "You've shown me how to hold my hands properly, now I can show you how to kneel in the presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament!" (re: second video clip)

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Catholics should avoid citing Fr. John Hardon. Bing these four words: john hardon donald mcguire.

"...deep down they tend to give the idea..."

There was a time that heretics were judged by their WORDS--what they actually said. Now Bergoglio judges people to be heretics because "deep down they tend to give [an] idea" he does not like.

That's exactly the sort of criterion one would expect a dictator to use.

It never ends! This constant denying of Divine Law by one who is the "vicar" of Christ! You would think we would get a break but never a week goes by without scandal and upset and almost daily even. Oh, could not this pontiff shut up for a week or two! Could he not do without constantly "making a mess", being the center of attraction, and orchestrating spectacles such as this one with the children? We must obey Divine Law as comes to us through divine revelation. It is above the pope's caprices.

I'm with you on Pope Francis giving us a break and just shutting the heck up for awhile. I think he craves being the center of attention. There was a picture of him surrounded by young people who were all taking selfies and the man was just beaming at being the center of it all. It's all very wearying.

I maybe going too far on this one but what you write about Pope Francis surrounded by trusting innocent children taking selfies with the great Papa of the Catholic Church dressed in white, seeming just says so very little for all the trusting children in Chile who were affronted and ravaged by the horrors of sexual abuse by clergy members they trusted. Strangely odd how such a calamitous story gets so easily forgotten when children are involved. Life goes on as they say.

As Michael Matt observed in that wickedly funny video in respect to this highly questionable "Synod of Youth"....the Vatican should be holding a press conference urging all parents to keep their children as far away from the Vatican as possible!

This pope sows confusion everywhere he goes. He speaks to all sides of an argument so that people can say things like, "oh see, this is where he talked about hell previously" when he's challenged.

But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil. (Matthew 5:37)

"It would seem that for Francis, even atheists who are 'good people' enter directly into beatitude - to adore a God in whom they never believed".

Best line of a great article!

Poor Pelagianism! To be so poorly understood and applied by Pope Francis.

As a (fairly intelligent) observer of the ecclastical landscape, one feels almost cheated. For when properly interpreted Pelagianism can be used to clarify what one is observing.

Such as, maybe (could it be) that Pope Francis is, himself, more Pelagian than those he tags?

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Another revealing example of Bergoglio's treatment of young people: the famous mocking of the altar boy, whom he cavalierly lays his hands on to make his "humble" point: https://youtu.be/2QgP0YaOLT...

If I were his father I would have said: "What gives you the right to put your hands on my son and humiliate him before the whole world? He is not a prop for you to demonstrate your so-called humility."

If I were his father I wouldn't let that man touch my child! Or any of his minions if it comes to that. The thought gives me the chills!

I would ask all of our " Neo Catholic"s", papal idolators this question:

Would you let this man, Bergoglio, teach your child CCD?
yes or no
Let's put that question to a weak, or confused priest or bishop right now?
Would you let this man, Bergoglio, teach your niece or nephew CCD?
yes or no
Let's put this that question, again to our cardinals:
Would you Cardinal Burke, Cardinal Sarah, etc., let this man, Bergoglio teach your niece or nephews CCD?
yes or no

That's my one question I ask of all of you.

And so, if your answer is "yes"; may God have mercy on you and grant the graces.
And if your answer is " no", and you remain silent, especially those of religious authority to protect the flock......than you ARE either the hirelings or the wolves in sheep clothing and may God render unto you what you deserve.

My five children, I meant to say!

No, I would not let him teach my fine children anything.

I used to think that the papacy was an important component of Catholicism. Now I know that it isn't. Catholics are better off ignoring what the successor of St. Peter says.

It is important to remember that the Greek word “Petra” means rock but also carries the meaning of stumbling block. Bergoglio is definitely a stumbling block who exhibits not one ounce of humility. In the two thousand year history of the Church there were many evil popes ; the pope is human therefore liable to both moral and corporal corruption.

Patrick is more right - Catholic belief is just that: that which is believed by Catholics by the light of the gift of Faith.

Those Catholics who retain the gift of Faith are better guides to the truths of the Faith than ecclesiastics and popes for most of the history of the church.

The gathering of power that has developed into the contingent rules for the modern 'magisterium' should never have happened. The 'magisterium' is a monster of lies. Politician popes and bishops talk and write rubbish, heresy and lies morning noon and night - and always will.

Of course you are correct. I was being facetious, but Pope Francis is one to make a guy think that way once in a while. If there is to be a great victory of Our Lady, part of that triumph would seem to have to include a reestablishment of love for and trust in the papacy.

I think Fr. Z is dead on. He recommends that the next Catholic Pope should make so few public appearances and issue so few "statements" that "there will be persistent rumors that he has died."

The next Pope (if a Catholic) should spend considerable time praying, and most of the rest of his time removing bishops and appointing saintly, orthodox bishops.

A bit like the Young Pope!

Pope Saruman, the traitorous wretch.

"Our list of allies grows thin"

Say a rosary for the poor boy....

Mr. Ferrara, thank you for your articulate defense of The Faith. You make this seemingly incomprehensible pontificate comprehensible. The Remnant is like The Rosetta Stone for deciphering Modernism.

Keep resisting the revolutionaries. Keep shining a light on the darkness. Keep fighting error with Truth!

Virgin Most Powerful, purify The Holy Catholic Church.