NCRegister Armstrong's Blasphemy on Naked Pachamamas: "There is a Strong case to be made that they Represent the [Naked] Blessed Virgin Mary" against the Words of Francis
Back on October 25, 2019, LifeSiteNews reported the words of Francis:
"I would like to say a word about the pachamama statues that were removed from the Church of Traspontina."
(LifeSiteNews, "Full transcript of the Pope's comments on pagan 'Pachamama' statues," October 25, 2019)
The National Catholic Register's contributing writer Dave Armstrong
(according to the journalism website muckrack.com) is in a dilemma
because either he is calling his beloved Francis a liar or he is saying
statues which Francis called "the pachamama statues" are not what he
called them, but instead "a strong case can be made that the naked
images "represent the [naked] Blessed Virgin Mary":
"There is a strong case to be made that they [the naked images Francis
called "pachamama statues"] represent the [naked] Blessed Virgin Mary."
(patheos.com/blog/davearmstrong, "'Pachamama' [?] Statues: Marian Veneration or Blasphemy Idolatry?," November 5, 2019)
How dare the so-called pro-family National Catholic Register have a
writer who claims the naked images Francis called "pachamama statues"
can by "a strong case to be... [naked images of] the Blessed Virgin
Mary."
Maybe someone needs to organize a Catholic boycott of the National Catholic Register.
The Catholic Monitor commenter Richard W Comerford had this to say about Armstrong and his collaborator Mark Shea:
Unknown said…
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.
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Once Mr Mark Shea (who was booted by the Register) and Mr Armstrong both wrote inspiring Catholic works. Both were unflinchingly pro-life. Then something happened?
Messrs. Shea and Armstrong now appear to hold the ordinary per-sitters in contempt. Mr Shea, once my hero, seems to have adopted the Democrat party platform.
What a waste! Hopefully i have misjudged the situation and am wrong.
God bless
Richard W Comerford [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/11/ncregisters-armstrongs-blasphemy-on.html]