Welcome to the Weekend Roundup! – News & Views – 9/10/22

• Pope declares ‘zero tolerance’ for Catholic Church abuse, saying he takes personal responsibility for ending it

Pope Francis was elected pope in 2013. Why did it take him nine years to finally declare “zero tolerance” for pedophile priests? Because the Catholic clergy is a good ol’ boys club filled with S&G-ites who always took care of their own before they would protect children. See here for my review of a revealing exposé of the Brokeback Vatican.

• Catholic icons create church, state collision in Santa Rosa

The proposed installation of a painting of Saint Rosa and a 20-foot-tall monument to Our Lady of Guadalupe on government property in Santa Rosa, New Mexico is an excellent example why public-funded government has zero business endorsing ANY religion. I wouldn’t want one penny of my tax dollars going towards those idols.

• Pope Francis Beatifies His Predecessor Pope John Paul I

Pope Francis has moved pope John Paul I aka Albino Luciana a step closer to canonization and “sainthood.” Beatification, the step before “sainthood,” is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a deceased person’s alleged entrance into Heaven and their alleged capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in their name. John Paul I was pope for only 33 days before suffering a (probable) fatal heart attack on 29 September 1978 at the age of 65. JPI will be the fifth 20th-century pope to be canonized. Pope Pius XII (d. 1958) was beatified in 2009, but his now-documented collusion with Adolf Hitler (see here) guarantees he will never be declared a saint. RC-ism’s saint-making process is un-Biblical from top to bottom.

• Pelosi calls restricting abortion ‘sinful’

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!” – Isaiah 5:20

• Vatican, for first time, says Russia initiated war with Ukraine

The Russian invasion has been going on for six months and only now the circumspect Vatican says Russia initiated the war? Shame on Francis and his underlings. After six-months of bloodshed, mass-murder, and unimaginable devastation, are there any American evangelicals left who still laud Vladimir Putin as a champion of “Christian values”?

• Jesuits Struggle to Raise $100 Million to Atone for Slave Labor

Few are aware that the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) was the largest institutional slaveholder in the antebellum South.

• Mel Gibson Introduced ‘Close’ Friend Shia LaBeouf to Traditional Latin Mass Services for ‘Padre Pio’

Last week, we noted that popular actor, Shia LaBeouf, had converted to Roman Catholicism. We’ve since learned that LaBeouf actually converted to the radical-traditionalist brand of Catholicism propagated by his friend, Mel Gibson, a sedevacantist who believes all popes after Pius XII (the Hitler ally, see above) were/are invalid. Many evangelicals misguidedly supported Gibson and his 2004 film, “The Passion of Christ,” which portrayed Mary as the Catholicized co-Meditrix and co-Redemptrix.

• Meet the Scholar-Activist Who Changed Baptist Minds on Race

This book about Southern Baptist theologian, T. B. Maston (1897-1988), looks interesting. Maston’s devotion to overcoming racism and bigotry within the church was met with great opposition. There’s always a temptation to turn the Gospel into a social project, but the church in America was so wrong about race that correction was needed. See my 2021 post on the topic here.

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