Italy’s National Soccer Team Manager: Pope Francis Told Me Not To Make Sign Of The Cross on the Field (Video) Roberto Mancini, a former football star and manager of Italy’s national soccer team, told Italian TV that Pope Francis told him not to make the sign of the cross on the field. Mancini, a devout Catholic, said Francis asked him, “Don’t you have other thoughts in this moment?” Pope Francis is widely regarded as the first anti-Catholic pope. Francis convinced the former football player and current manager of Italy’s national team Roberto Mancini, 57, not to make the Sign of the Cross on the football field, Mancini told Italian television TG5 (December 20, Italian video sequence below). Mancini told TG5 that he is a lifelong Catholic and that he was lucky to grow up next to a parish, “My life was school, house, and parish.” He also visited Medjugorje a couple of times. To the question whether it happens that he prays on the pitch, Mancini quickly replied, “No, on the pitch not.” “Many make the sign of the cross,” a slightly surprised reporter interjects, and Mancini explains, “I used to do that too, you know, hoping nothing happened during the game, then we went to the pope. Pope Francis said, ‘Why are you making the sign of the cross, don’t you have other thoughts in this moment?’ So since that time I don’t do it anymore. I don’t want the pope to get angry.” https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...to-make-sign-of-the-cross-on-the-field-video/
Brian, I have to concede that Pope Francis fully understands that his words appeal mostly to what used to be mainstream Protestant churches. Perhaps charismatic churches might join in, also. But evangelicals and Baptists are readily using Pope Francis as a justification for attacking the Catholic Church. Like Francis, the liberal, liturgical Protestants also seem to be unconcerned to hobnob with the NWO elites. Lord have mercy!
Got this email: Dear friends and supporters of the St. Boniface Institute, A lot has happened since the day we first set up our Institute. The video showing the removal of the Pachamama statues from Santa Maria in Traspontina church in Rome has made many Catholics the world over aware of the events surrounding the Amazon Synod. The wave of support we received after this was overwhelming. It gave us the idea of founding our Institute. From the beginning of the new year, we will have a secretary to work for us, and we are in the process of building up a research team to collect the information and data that will enable us to start publishing independent analyses of the current situation in the Church and in the world. We are currently working on organising a conference entitled "The Church and the UN" which will take place in Vienna on 13 May 2020. On the same day, there will be a high mass with a sermon by His Eminence Cardinal Gerhard Müller, followed by a rosary procession through the historic centre of Vienna. At this conference, we want to highlight the disturbing links between the Vatican and the United Nations, and analyse the role of the current leadership of the Catholic church in propagating climate change hysteria, mass migration into Europe, and the abandonment of national sovereignty. We also want to draw the attention of Catholics the world over to an important event that will be taking place in Rome at that time. In a ceremony to be held in St. Peter's Square, in the presence of senior UN representatives, the so-called "Global Compact on Education" is to be adopted. There is reason to expect that one of the aims of this Compact will be to make the 216,000 Catholic schools worldwide with their 60 million students and the 1,750 Catholic universities with their more than 11 million students into tools of the new UN agenda. We thank you for your loyal support, especially for your prayers. You will receive an invitation to the conference in the near future. We wish you and your families a happy and blessed Christmas. May the feast of the birth of the Lord bring many graces to you, to your loved ones and to our holy Mother Church. May the Immaculate Heart of Mary triumph! Alexander Tschugguel (emphases in bold are mine - SgC) +
Our Lady said at Medugorje that these were her last apparitions on Earth. I have often wondered.....exactly what this means.... I was praying about the future the other night and felt the Lord ask me if I really would like to see the future? I thought about it for a minute or so, then said, 'No' and rolled over to sleep. I find the present at the moment just about all I can handle.
Cardinal Muller's endorsement is a mighty one indeed. It needs to be asked of Pope Francis why he supports moving millions of people from warmer climates to colder ones where much more fossil fuels will have to be expended in order to keep them warm. Perhaps another example of 2+2=5, or time is greater than space or somesuch. Anyway, Happy Christmas to all on here and your loved ones.
Is this the 'unconditional love' that Bergoglio is talking about lately (the conditions-the Ten Commandments-having been systematically dismantled by Bergoglio)? As McGee the Merciful shows, unconditionality does not apply to Catholics.
It seems that they more or less excommunicated themselves in their statement, giving the Bishop an excuse to make it official. Now that they are officially part of the periphery, we can look forward to the Pope and his entourage making an official visit to their hermitage, putting a statue of them in St. Peter's and instructing the Holy See''s postal service to issue a postage stamp in their honour. Don't worry. If Grim Greta can be a hailed as a prophet, there's every reason to expect that the hermits' low carbon footprint will see them reinstated by Easter.
This is the link to the trumpeter.co.uk article mentioned in that tweet by Nick Donnelly: http://www.trumpeteer.co.uk/the-hermits-blog/4594613512/Everything-is-falling-into-place/11409599 +
A Christmas Marked by Desecration, with Bergoglio as Chief Desecrator Antonio Socci December 23, 2019 https://onepeterfive.com/christmas-bergoglio-desecration/ I had not yet seen HERE the celebration of the Pachamama with Bergoglio in front of the altar at Saint Peter’s Basilica last October 4 at the opening of the Amazon Synod. It is stunning. Now I understand why people are talking about idolatrous profanation and of the need to reconsecrate Saint Peter’s Basilica. Perhaps it is not “the abomination of desolation in the holy place” (Mt 24:15) prophesied by Jesus, but it certainly raises many concerns. * * * It is a sad Christmas for Christians if we think about the many “desecrations” that have recently occurred, which would never be tolerated against any other religion. It’s enough to just look at a few recent headlines. Two weeks ago, there was the event at the University of Bologna, “Immaculate Con(tra)ception.” Il Giornale ran the headline: “Collective Shock: A Blasphemous Vigil. The Madonna surrounded by condoms.” Ten days ago, there was the case of the poster displayed in Rome about which the indignant Vittorio Feltri wrote fiery words. The headline of Il Tempo: “Jesus excited with a child. A storm against the Macro [Contemporary Art Museum] for [a blasphemous depiction of Christ as a child molester]. The denunciation made by [political party] Fratelli d’Italia: For shame, [Mayor Virginia] Raggi intervenes.” There is still more. On Thursday Il Messagero ran a headline: “Netflix, the Gay Jesus satire. [The political party] Fratelli d’Italia calls for the recall of the film. ” In each one of these cases, the voice of protest does not come from the Vatican, nor from the Italian Bishops’ Conference, but from the party of the center-right, along with lay Catholics (abandoned by their pastors) and a few journalists with good sense. And finally some clergyman says some timid and insipid words. The clerical apparatus does not have time to defend Jesus Christ, the Blessed Mother, and the faith of simple Catholics from these blasphemous efforts because today it is entirely occupied with the glorification of the Argentine pope, who is now a worldly media commodity who is celebrated by secular culture. Even with the Netflix film The Two Popes, in which — far surpassing the ridiculous — Benedict XVI is depicted as a pope in search of someone to lead him and Bergoglio as the one who obtained this role without ever having sought it, one needs only a minimal awareness of reality to know that the exact opposite is true: In fact it was Ratzinger who resigned, while Bergoglio struggled for years to climb to the top (even failing to receive the vote of his brother Jesuits). But — returning to these “provocations” against Catholicism — it is not just surprising that the clerical world is in hiding. There is still worse. Bergoglio’s own magisterium is studded with demonstrations and actions that leave the faithful bewildered, like when he exhibited the hammer and sickle with a crucifix attached, given to him by former Bolivian president Evo Morales. Or when he said that, in the Gospel story of the woman caught in adultery, “Jesus was a bit of a fool” (June 16, 2016) or when, on May 16, 2013, he denied the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves done by Jesus (“They were not multiplied. No, that is not the truth”) or when (on December 21, 2018) he denied the fact of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary. The case of the recent Synod on the Amazon caused scandal when — according to Corrispondenza Romana — “on October 4 Pope Francis participated in an act of adoration of the pagan goddess Pachamama in the Vatican Gardens,” provoking the “protest of one hundred scholars” who signed a document that began as follows: “We the undersigned clerics, scholars, and Catholic intellectuals protest and condemn the sacrilegious and superstitious actions committed by Pope Francis.” The list gets longer. During these weeks of preparation for Christmas there have been more outrages. On December 12, for example, Bergoglio affirmed that the Blessed Mother “is a mestiza,” and even said, “she ‘mestizoed’ God.” His obvious intention to politically exploit God and the Mother of God to legitimize his very debatable ideas about migration could be combined — for depth of thought — with the affirmation of the cartoonist Vauro [Senesi], which says, “Jesus is Palestinian.” (He went on to target even poor Santa Claus with incredible words.) But Bergoglio’s statement on “God mestizoed,” whether he knows it or not, falls into “the heresy of Eutyches (378–454),” as Professor Roberto De Mattei has observed. Moreover, his intention to use sacred symbols to spread his political ideas is obvious in many of his gestures. In recent days, for example, he announced on Twitter that he had “decided to expose this ‘life-jacket crucifix’” in order to call for open ports for mass migration. We can also be certain that this year — as in past years — he will not hesitate to politically exploit Christmas to spread the idea — so dear to the hearts of the powerful promoters of globalization — of a worldwide immigration crisis. Furthermore, within his own establishment they are seeking to give him a hand by even “rewriting” the Bible. In recent days the Pontifical Biblical Commission has published a volume called “What Is Man?” According to the Catholic website The Daily Compass, this text “maintains that Sodom was destroyed not because of the homosexual acts of its inhabitants but because of their lack of hospitality. The immigrationist obsession becomes the exegetical criteria of the sacred text.” The confusion of the sacred and profane goes far beyond the ridiculous in the clerical world. So there is little to be scandalized by in secular desecrations. The president emeritus of the Italian Senate, Marcello Pera, a secular intellectual, has said in an interview: “This pontificate is a scandal in the Biblical sense, it disorients the faithful and makes them fall, it does not bear fruit, on the contrary it makes them diminish in number[.] … As far as what pertains to the fundamentals of the Catholic faith, this pontificate is an outrage to reason.” This article was first published in Libero on December 22, 2019. It is reprinted here with Antonio Socci’s permission and translated by Giuseppe Pellegrino. Antonio Socci +
This really sickened me when I first saw it If anyone needs to be excommunicated, it is Bergoglio first. The Cross, the life jacket, and the dangers of idolatry The recently unveiled cross carrying the life jacket of an unknown migrant, now hanging in the Vatican, raises serious questions and concerns, as the Crucifix for Christians knows only one occupant: Jesus Christ. December 22, 2019 Ines Angeli Murzaku The Dispatch 21 (Image: Twitter @pontifex, December 20, 2019) Read the rest at https://www.catholicworldreport.com...-the-life-jacket-and-the-dangers-of-idolatry/ +
