Pope Francis’ Simple Guide to Diagnosing Mental Illness

 A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him saying, ‘You are mad, you are not like us.’ – St. Anthony the Hermit.

Thank God the mentally ill finally have a place to call their own. For decades, mentally ill Catholics struggled to find their place within the Church after the Second Vatican Council swept away all that was comforting and familiar to them, replacing it with a newness that many found disorienting.

Now that Pope Francis, the Papa of Psychology, has renewed his pronouncement that those attached to the traditional liturgy suffer from a kind of mental impairment, the news is sure to be met with gratitude by the thousands of traditional Catholics worldwide who operate under the delusion that the Novus Ordo Missae isn’t able to provide the nourishment their minds and souls require.

Pope Francis might lack the qualifications the secular world finds necessary to diagnose mental competence, but that hasn’t stopped him from going to the peripheries of Catholicism to dig out anyone displaying symptoms of Tradition.

A mentally-ill priest faces the wrong direction
Completely normal priest

His simple method of evaluating the precise mental illness based on just three criteria means a diagnosis comes quickly and easily, because fortunately, every single traditional Catholic suffers from exactly the same condition!

The Pope outlined his ground-breaking method in his recently-released third papal auto-biography, which like the others, he didn’t actually write. Here it is in simplified form so that anyone can use the Pope’s method on their family and friends.

Just answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to the three questions below to find out if you are one of those ‘special’ Catholics who suffer from a mental illness.

NB: it should be noted that encouraging/discouraging others from taking part in these activities leads to the same score.

Pope Francis’ Simple Guide to Diagnosing Mental Illness 1

  1. Do you wear lace vestments? Y/N
  2. Do you attend the Traditional Latin Mass? Y/N
  3. Do you breed like a rabbit? Y/N

With the Pope’s new method, the days of careful, time-consuming analysis are over: gone are the days of making tedious physical checkups and taking expensive lab tests to check for chemical imbalances.

This innovative method, from the same ideology that brought you ecumenism and synodality, is sure to revolutionise the mental health industry as well as clear out the detritus from the pews. It’s faster than a RAT-test and far more fun. If you make a mistake, just find a sympathetic confessor and you’re good to go again. It’s that easy.

The best news is that if you want to be cured of your mental illness, there are many great programmes being offered by the Synodal Church to help you get back into the Post-Conciliar groove!

Recovering Traditional Catholics in behavioural therapy

  1. 3 x Y = MENTALLY ILL
    3 x N = COMPOS MENTIS
    Mixed result = ATTEND MORE PRIDE MASSES ↩︎

2 thoughts on “Pope Francis’ Simple Guide to Diagnosing Mental Illness

  1. Wonder when he is going to modernise the Swiss guards uniform,since by his definition of mental illness ,they have problems 🤔

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