This woman think she is a priest.

According to her website, “Fr” Anne offers a range of “sacraments” including confession – but not Mass apparently. No doubt she does, but even demons have limits on what they are allowed to say in public.

Unsurprisingly, along with her other work, she supports LGBTIQ+ persons. Poor deluded woman.

At least she doesn’t identify as a man. And I s’pose we should be grateful that she wears clerics, which is more than most Jesuits are doing these days. Speaking of Jesuits, Anne is a fan of Ignatian spirituality and has run a Jesuit parish as a pastoral assistant.

Susan one day. Fr Anne the next.

The reverence. The decorum. The gravitas.
Anne at her “ordination”.

Here’s what Anne says about her sacrilegious vocation: “The exclusion of women from the priesthood is rooted in an unjust law propped up by sexist theology. It’s really that simple.  There is ever-increasing historical, archeological, theological and scriptural evidence that supports the ordination of women in the Catholic Church. After many long years of discernment, struggle, sacrifice and prayer, I had to finally obey God’s ask of me. Though some interpret my ordination as a sign of disrespect for the institutional Church, it is actually a great act of love for the Church I adore.

Anne is involved with the wacky Women’s Ordination Conference. They seem to think that if they just keep nagging, God will let them be ordained – or at least that the bishops will let them. Here one suggestion from their website. It’s all very inclusive, and note that the Jesuits are singled out as being amenable to their requests:

There’s much more on their website, and it’s all rather tedious. Not the kind of thing any of us want to spend much time on.

EXCEPT that women like these are gaining influence in the Church and have the ability, as we saw at the recent Plenary Council, to throw a tantrum and gain a lot of sympathy and attention. Not to mention that they have bullied the bishops into rewriting the Australian lectionary in inclusive language. Which just might have been their goal all along.

Once they have that, a few of those new preaching positions, and a female diaconate, there will be no holding them back and “Fr. Anne’s” might start popping up all over the place. Lord have mercy.

Occult symbols in the Jubilee 2025 logo?

Readers have perhaps come across the logo selected by the Pope for the Vatican’s 2025 Jubilee “year of hope”. Like most artwork coming out of Rome these days, there’s nothing remotely Catholic about it, and like many of those ecclesial projects which should be prayerfully and solemnly thought out, the logo was the result of a competition which was open to anyone at all.

Some say it reminds them of Happy Hour at a gay bar, which is perhaps unsurprising as its creator is a gay masseuse. After being contacted by a Vatican official, who told him he had won, the creator uttered an ambiguous compliment about the prelate, saying that he had “felt the human closeness of Monsignor Fisichella.”

Very disappointed in the result and its use of LGBTI rainbow colours, one Catholic art historian remarked: “The Vatican presents its emblem of hope as a badge of ‘pride.’ And pride comes before a fall.”

The artist apparently had no clear idea in mind for his artwork but believes that is no impediment to its influence: “I think my work will have a great effect, I hope so but I really believe it because I have never given it a connection, a single label, I have never framed it. In a basic concept, I left it open to everyone and gave it to the world.

Fr Z shared the little gem (at right) on his website. Note the similarity with the logo’s colours? Proof that the logo will please the entire spectrum of toddlers from ages two to three.

A friend of mine has a somewhat different take of the logo, however. He is someone with an interest in occult symbology and is experienced at ‘seeing through’ what most of us overlook or simply take for granted. He believes that the emblem represents a sinister agenda being played out at the Vatican, one that mocks faithful Catholics by hiding in plain sight:

The logo is coded numerically and by colours, and the elements and colours are quite common in New Age art.

One of their favourite wiccan/masonic occult codes is what they call “functions of four”, “four cubed” being a prime example. 4 coloured heads x 4 coloured bodies x 4 symbol (the pagan equal-armed cross) = 4x4x4 = 4 cubed = 64.

4 cubed: the number of the goddess, Mother Earth, Satan in a skirt.

The colours blue, green, yellow, red represent earth, air, fire and water, that is, the pagan elements of Mother Earth, alchemy and magic(k). (For more on magick, see here: “Magick, Liber ABA, Book 4 is widely considered to be the magnum opus of 20th-century occultist Aleister Crowley.”)

They love the equal-armed cross – it’s an old pagan symbol. I see the gay theme as secondary to the numerology and maybe the colours. This logo is, numerologically and by colours, above all a tribute to Mother Earth, alchemy and magick, with of course a gay twist as you have identified.

Fiona Foley (the indigenous artist whose occult-inspired works were used in the Brisbane Cathedral) would have loved this.

Little wonder Pachamama Papa Francis wants people to know he personally chose this design.

Is Rome disappointed about the end of Roe vs Wade?

After the Roe vs wade was momentously overturned in the united states, The Pontifical Academy for Life issued a very strange statement.

Perhaps this is not so surprising when we remember that the Academies are no longer Catholic, being comprised of globalists, abortion advocates, sodomites and so on. The Pontifical Academy for Life is headed up by the pro-sodo Archbishop Paglia.

Some of the more questionable sections – apart from only one mention of the word, “abortion”: “After 50 years, it is important to reopen a non-ideological debate on the place that the protection of life has in a civil society to ask ourselves what kind of coexistence and society we want to build.” Hmmmm. A “non-ideological debate”? The Vatican doesn’t want those nasty prolife ideologues always insisting on sticking to Church teaching?

And this in direct violation of traditional Catholic teaching, “….adequate sexual education” and what is perhaps a nod to climate-driven depopulators:

” … a powerful invitation to reflect together on the serious and urgent issue of human generativity…”

I may have missed it, but did Pope Francis bother to mention this wonderful pro-life development at the World Meeting of Families?

“It is a time for healing wounds and repairing social divisions; it is a time for reasoned reflection and civil dialogue, and for coming together to build a society and economy that supports marriages and families, and where every woman has the support and resources she needs to bring her child into this world in love.”

The Court’s opinion shows how the issue of abortion continues to arouse heated debate. The fact that a large country with a long democratic tradition has changed its position on this issue also challenges the whole world. It is not right that the problem is set aside without adequate overall consideration. The protection and defense of human life is not an issue that can remain confined to the exercise of individual rights but instead is a matter of broad social significance. After 50 years, it is important to reopen a non-ideological debate on the place that the protection of life has in a civil society to ask ourselves what kind of coexistence and society we want to build.

It is a question of developing political choices that promote conditions of existence in favor of life without falling into a priori ideological positions. This also means ensuring adequate sexual education, guaranteeing health care accessible to all and preparing legislative measures to protect the family and motherhood, overcoming existing inequalities. We need solid assistance to mothers, couples and the unborn child that involves the whole community, encouraging the possibility for mothers in difficulty to carry on with the pregnancy and to entrust the child to those who can guarantee the child’s growth.

Archbishop Paglia said: “in the face of Western society that is losing its passion for life, this act is a powerful invitation to reflect together on the serious and urgent issue of human generativity and the conditions that make it possible; by choosing life, our responsibility for the future of humanity is at stake”.

Vatican City, June 24, 2022

The Vatican’s music choices leave much to be desired

Someone in the Curia has a very sick sense of humour: whoever it is thought Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah would be an appropriate way to begin the tenth World Meeting of Families in Rome.

Now, in case you’re labouring under the false assumption that Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah has some redeeming Christian qualities to it, please study the lyrics. The melody is, of course, very soothing and beautiful, but the title does seem to have fooled many Catholics into thinking this is some kind of statement of faith on the part of Cohen.

On the contrary, Cohen, who died in 2016, rejected the idea of formal religion, presumedly because its demands were too high. Cohen said of Hallelujah:

“This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can… reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that’s what I mean by ‘Hallelujah’.

The song explains that many kinds of hallelujahs do exist, and all the perfect and broken hallelujahs have equal value. It’s a desire to affirm my faith in life, not in some formal religious way but with enthusiasm, with emotion.”

If you’ve never read the lyrics to Hallelujah, then scroll to the bottom of the page.

However, the performance of that song pales into insignificance beside the presence of a very strange choir who entertained Francis earlier in June.

A group of women known as the F*** Cancer choir performed for the Pope at a General Audience. Their t-shirts were emblazoned with “F*** Cancer” (yes, the entire word) surmounting a clenched fist.

The Pope smiled his way through the performance, telling the choir-members afterwards that they were “good” and “poets.” As Reuters exclaimed, “The F-word made its debut” at the Vatican. Charming. Another first for Francis.

HALLELUJAH

I’ve heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don’t really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah x 4

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah x 4

Baby I have been here before
I know this room, I’ve walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you.
I’ve seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah x 4

There was a time when you let me know
What’s really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
The holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah x 4

Maybe there’s a God above
But all I’ve ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
It’s not a cry you can hear at night
It’s not somebody who has seen the light
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah x 4

You say I took the name in vain
I don’t even know the name
But if I did, well, really, what’s it to you?
There’s a blaze of light in every word
It doesn’t matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah x 4

I did my best, it wasn’t much
I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch
I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I’ll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

Hallelujah x 17

Leonard Cohen, found here:

Handing out the Eucharist like Bratwurst.

Those Germans really are outdoing themselves in Making Heresy Great Again at their Katholikentag (“Catholics Day”) event.

“Catholics Day” is organized by the local diocese together with the Central Committee of German Catholics, a lay organization supported by the German bishops’ conference. According to the Catholic News Agency, at least one Protestant and one Muslim, both politicians, received Holy Communion – one straight from from the hands of German bishop Georg Bätzing.

At least in Victoria, the Archbishop has started hiding his Eucharistic indiscretions by ensuring livestreams no longer show communicants at the funerals of celebrities. Case in point: while Bert Newton’s funeral received much attention due to the reception of Communion by apostate pro-abort, Daniel Andrews, Archbishop Comensoli learned his lesson by the time Kimberly Kitching’s funeral came around. Very convenient that the cameras were pointed away while Bill Shorten’s protestant wife received Holy Communion…

The Bishop’s spokesman later said that although there is “not yet full church Communion between the Protestant and Catholic churches and therefore no general communion. A Protestant Christian who has examined himself, shares the faith in the presence of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist, and comes to the Lord’s Table may receive Holy Communion on a case-by-case basis.”

Not sure that’s in my version of the Bible. Here’s what mine says: Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord. (I Cor 11:27)

Organisers had previously stopped a pro-life group from having a stall at the event because they were  “unable to determine that their organization was clearly Christian.”

Apparently this Bishop is notorious for his heterodox views on intercommunion and has been chastised by the CDF in the past. Undeterred, he has pressed on regardless, although one wonders if he has noticed any good fruits from his little experiment. The CNA article tells us that its German counterpart reports “Despite the controversies, a survey showed that most Catholics are not interested in the event. Attendance numbers are dwindling … “

Here a tweet by someone favourable to intercommunion. I guess they just don’t know what they don’t know.

(English translation: Signs of ecumenism… The President of the German Evangelical Church Congress 2023 in Nuremberg, Thomas de #Maizière , also received communion at the #Katholikentag closing service from Bishop Bätzing. “Just do it” is sometimes said. #kt22)

The Marx brothers being synodal.

The image at left was taken from the Katholikentag Twitter account. The English translation: “Cardinal #Marx criticizes “convoluted” church language – also in #Vatikan . For example, with the no from Rome to the blessing of homosexual couples in 2021: That was “not only theologically poor, but also wrong in the language”, says Marx: “You really put your mind to it!”

Main image credit: Marijan Murat

Davos – even the nuns were invited

Well, I must say that I’m starting to feel a little miffed about not being asked to join our betters at Davos. It’s hard enough missing out on being wined and dined by Klaus Schwab, and my revolutionary spirit rises at the thought of being accosted by the WEF Police. But to hear that The Nuns were on the invitation list while traditional Catholics missed out? That really is a blow.

Vatican News reports:

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, members of the “Sister Project” participated in a public debate with business people and human rights activists. The world needs “courageous leaders,” including women, said Sr. Patricia Murray of the UISG International Union of Superiors General.

For those who may not remember, the UISG was at the forefront of schismatic toil and trouble at the Pachamama Amazon synod a few years ago. It is full of feminists and would-be priestesses, so it’s hardly surprising to see them pop up at Davos to assist with plotting the Church’s demise.

The Sisters’ specific focus at Davos is Goal 17 of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals – to “Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development‘. That’s code for stealing from the rich to indoctrinate the poor.

Sr Murray obviously underwent her formation at the Pontifical Academy of Bergoglian Doublespeak: “Courageous leadership requires humility, openness to new things, acceptance of the risk of failure and new beginnings.” That sounds very familiar.

And why not? The Sisters rightly point out that Pope Bergoglio has made a huge impact on the business world by telling the atheistic communists at the WEF exactly what they want to hear – “We are talking about alternative economies. We are saying that we need change, transformation. We are saying the old models are not working. So, let’s try something together, the business world with the faith-based world.”

Gee, it’s almost like the Church and Big Business are getting ready some kind of revolution. Somehow, I don’t think they’ll forget our invitations to that one.