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There appears to be some Catholics and conservatives who are recently claiming that Donald Trump is the same as Hilary Clinton and Joe Biden in the same way that there are some Catholics who say that Francis is the same as Pope Benedict XVI and Pope John Paul II.
Is this true?
First, we'll look at Francis vs. Benedict and John Paul II:
In 2019, The Remnant newspaper appeared to be saying that Francis is the
same as Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI which I will attempt to
show is inaccurate. However, the newspaper is right in saying that the
Vatican II's ambiguities which were a forerunner of Amoris Laetitia's
ambiguity lead to false ecumenism within the Church and outside.
Strangely, the non-traditionalist conservative Matthew Schmitz put it best:
"[T]he post-Vatican II settlement [of]... Upholding Catholic teaching
on paper but not in reality as led to widespread corruption... a culture
of lies... that allowed men like McCarrick to flourish."
It
allowed the Church of John Paul II and Benedict XVI to keep heretics and
homosexual predators in the hierarchy such as McCarrick and others like
him to flourish and to promote neo-sacrilegious media productions such
as the Assisi fiasco and the kissing of the Koran.
This was
wrong and God will judge them for their failures to be good fathers
(popes) in allowing evil men into God's Church to abuse and to lead many
to indifferentism and away from salvation which is only in Jesus
through His Church.
Both sincerely in my opinion because of
false philosophical personal ideas while not totally abandoning Thomism
tried to do the practically almost impossible task of being loyal to the
infallible teachings of the Church while holding on to neo-modernist
Personalist versions of Kantian and Hegelian philosophy as well as the
ambiguities of Vatican II.
Benedict if you read his later writings finally rejected Kantianism, but apparently couldn't completely give up Hegelianism.
However, he realized in a vague way that the ambiguity of Vatican II
was destroying the Church so he brought back the Traditional Latin Mass
and attempted to fight against sex abuse, the Vatican gay lobby and
reform the finances to the Church.
Unfortunately, in my opinion,
these efforts united the financially corrupt old guard of Cardinal
Angelo Sodano and the Vatican gay lobby which brought about Vatileaks
and other pressures against Benedict that eventually lead to the
Benedict resignation and the papacy of Jorge Bergoglio whose pontifical
validity has been questioned by many even in the hierarchy from the
beginning to this day.
As Bishop René Gracida has said there was never universal acceptance of Bergoglio by the Church.
But even more importantly, there are reasonable doubts about the
validity of Benedict's resignation and Bergoglio's lawful election to
the papacy which were never present with the other two papacies which Bishop
Gracida declares must be investigated and interpreted by the cardinals
as John Paul's conclave constitution explicitly states.
This is one reason that Francis is not the same as Benedict and John Paul.
The other reason that The Remnant is wrong in apparently saying Francis is the same as Benedict and John Paul can be put simply
in an analogy:
John Paul and Benedict were sincere doctors with medicine that was getting the patient sicker.
Benedict realized the medicine was bad and slowly started giving good medicine.
But in my opinion, Francis is a doctor who is trying to kill the patient by slow poisoning.
In my opinion, it is obvious that Francis doesn't have even a remnant
of Thomism. Nor does he apparently care about being loyal to the
infallible Church teachings. He appears to be a nihilistic postmodernist
like his favorite theologian Michel de Certeau.
Francis's only
grasp of reality or meaning appears to be leftist and Peronist ideology
as well as his close friend the kissing bishop's Bernard Haring
Hegelian situation ethics all dressed in religious language.
While Benedict and John Paul upheld Church teachings on paper while not
always in reality, Francis with Amoris Laetitia, the Argentine letter,
the death penalty Catechism change and the latest indifferentism papal
statement isn't even upholding the infallible teachings on paper.
George Gilder wrote a book called "Sexual Suicide" which helped me
return to the Church because it showed that the Catholic teachings on
sexuality were true and those outside those teachings were committing
slow suicide.
Francis in my opinion is trying to kill the Church by slow suicide.
He will not succeed because Jesus promised the gates of Hell will not prevail.
Those who don't oppose him in my opinion are his accomplices unless they are in invincible ignorance.
I think the above analogy holds for Donald Trump.
Trump was a sincere doctor with medicine that was getting the patient sicker in some ways especially in his compromises with the LBGT agenda, his weak choices for the Supreme Court to overturn abortion as well as uphold the United States Constitution and other issues.
Trump realized the medicine was bad and started giving good medicine in the sense of being more and more openly pro-life, anti-war, pro-family and anti-Socialist/Communist. He slowed as well as stopped some of the worst pro-abortion/LBGT and Socialist lawless agenda from being forced down the throats of Christians and all who believe in the law.
But in my opinion, lawless Biden, like Hilary Clinton, is a doctor who is trying to kill the patient by slow poisoning like Francis.
Those who didn't oppose Clinton and don't oppose Biden as well as Francis in my opinion are their accomplices unless they are in invincible ignorance.
Constitutional attorney Scott Lively shows below what a "Hilary administration" would have look like and what the Biden regime currently looks like in his post "Scott Lively Gets Angry With Trump Critics":
Scott Lively Imagines the Hillary Administration
The American public is a fickle beast with a short memory. One minute we’re gushing with sycophantic praise for “first responders” and the next we’re debating whether they’re all just racist brutes unworthy of public employment. One minute we’re overcome with relief that Donald Trump’s election saved us from an unsurvivable plunge into Marxist hell and the next we’re condemning him as a sellout because he won’t trash the constitution and deploy the military on American streets against the wishes of Democrat governors (who are doing everything in their power to provoke him into over-ruling them so they can transform what is presently only media-exaggerated Dem on Dem street theater into an outright “Socialist vs Fascist” civil war). Thank God Donald Trump is a lot smarter than Tucker Carlson and the Hillary-supporting Murdoch children now running Fox News.
Just to put things back into perspective for the conservatives, I’d like to take a few minutes to ponder where we’d be today if Hillary had beaten Trump in 2016.
First of all, on the positive side, we wouldn’t have the utter chaos that is presently on display. There would have been no Russian Collusion Hoax, Impeachment Scam, Covid 19 Plandemic, or BLM/Antifa rioting, because these were all designed to overthrow Trump. Our intelligence agencies would not be tarnished with shame for staging an attempted coup. Our media would not have abandoned its pretense of objectivity and become blatant partisans. Our Democrat governors and mayors would not have been granted dictatorial powers over the citizens. Religious liberty would not have been officially deemed a “non-essential” service.
None of those things would have been orchestrated by the deep state because their champion Hillary would be at the helm. With no serious opposition to globalism, there would be relative peace and order and all that corruption would stay hidden. We’d be full speed ahead with the left’s agenda, spurred by non-stop media praise for her progress in “social justice” and the astonishing unity of vision among corporate America, academia, NGOs, labor unions, and foreign heads of state. There would possibly be some street protests by the “deplorables” – an occasional pro-life demonstration, perhaps a few pickets of Drag Queen Story Hour — but they’d be largely impotent and ignored by the media. Then again, the First Amendment might no longer protect “hate speech” and vigorous criminal prosecutions and non-profit dis-establishment for such “anti-social activities” could be a Hillary priority. The Hillary IRS would gladly help with that.
By now, both houses of Congress would be controlled by a super-majority of Democrats, the fruit of a fully-implemented “open borders” strategy and the perfection of “ballot harvesting” and other “voter franchise protections” by the DNC. The Bush Dynasty would control the GOP and offer token resistance while selling out for a share of the plunder and some plum gatekeeper positions for key agents such as Mitt Romney (on the condition they keep the conservatives suppressed – much like the Dems agreement with RINO Governor Charlie Baker in Massachusetts).
The courts would no longer protect us. There would be 150+ new Hillary federal judges. None of the federal circuits would have been flipped conservative. At SCOTUS, in the place of occasional “conservative” weasels like Gorsuch and Kavanaugh (blame the Heritage Foundation for them) we’d have jurists in the mold of Gloria Allred and Maxine Waters. Ruth Bader Ginsberg would resign to allow Hillary to replace her with Obama, for whom the groveling John Roberts would relinquish his role as Chief Justice. Never again would SCOTUS issue a conservative ruling as it finished jack-hammering the Bill of Rights into rubble, starting with the 2nd Amendment.
The biggest difference we’d see is a globe dominated by Communist China (and prominent Chinese representation in Hillary’s inner circle). The US would have continued to transition to Obama’s “lower expectation” economy and our manufacturing base would have shrunk further. There would be no economic boom, no employment miracle for Blacks and Hispanics, no shredding of bureaucratic red tape and over-regulation, but instead a vast expansion of government, including the total nationalization of our health industry, modeled on Obamacare.
Our military, while fully homosexualized, would not be rebuilt, and our capabilities would be greatly diminished. Taiwan, Hong Kong and the South China sea would likely be fully under Chinese control. South Korea would possibly be under Northern control. Iran would have nuclear weapons and control of Yemen, Syria and perhaps Lebanon. Netanyahu would have been ousted by a pro-Clinton leftist and Israel would be in some form of civil war over surrendering land to the Muslims with no friends outside its own borders. Brexit would never have been implemented in the UK and the European Union would have consolidated its power as the model for global government, crushing all nationalist opposition.
The United Nations would have a much expanded role in the United States and its “2030 Agenda” would be the “Roadmap for World Peace” pushed in our public schools, media, government agencies, and liberal churches (led by the RCC under Pope Francis).
Speaking of public schools, they would by now be openly and overtly teaching Marxism. There would be Planned Parenthood “health clinics” in the bigger high schools and middle schools, and new government agencies tasked with educating parents on LGBT “realities” and removing children from “unsafe” homes where Queer Theory is not fully embraced. Home-schooling would be banned.
Bill Clinton would be Ambassador to Epstein Island (where pal Jeff would still be alive), but the worldwide crackdown on pedophilia and sex trafficking would never have begun.
This is just a quick, incomplete glimpse into the parallel-world Donald Trump saved us from. If he did nothing else but play golf every day and left it to us citizens to take back this country for ourselves, we’d all still owe him a massive debt of gratitude. But instead he’s fighting tooth and nail for every inch of ground he can take, against the most intense political blitzkrieg ever seen in America. Next time you fair-weather friends of our president feel the urge to gripe about his supposed flaws, take a moment to consider how you personally would be affected today if we’d gotten Hillary instead. [https://www.scottlively.net/2020/06/23/scott-lively-gets-angry-with-trump-critics/]
Francis Notes:
- Doctor
of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt
the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church
in such a situation:
"[T]he Pope... WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See."
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said "the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church."
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- "If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html
- "Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html
- LifeSiteNews, "Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial
weight behind communion for adulterers," December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows "sexually active adulterous couples
facing 'complex circumstances' to 'access the sacraments of
Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'"
- On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
"The AAS statement... establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia
has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense."
- On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
"Francis' heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the
Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters
magisterial documents."
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
Election Notes:
- Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: "212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted...Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden" [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]
- Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times "Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003": http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html
Pray an Our Father now for the grace to know God's Will and to do it.