Month: January 2020

Something vaporous from the Holy Father, This week: a surprise in his ‘State of the World’ address

Joy to the world . . .

Sunday sermons, weekday observations

His surprise:

The Holy Father devoted more attention [than to
U.S. actions in the Middle East, about which he was “clearly distressed] to his own proposal for a “global compact on education”—an initiative that will be launched at a “worldwide event” on May 14. The Pontiff described this effort as a bid “to rekindle our commitment to and with young people,” to provide for “a process of education and the creation of an educational village capable of forming a network of open and human relationships.”

Something for the United Nations, maybe. Equally vaporous.

There he goes again, working to make the Church one big one-world social services provider — with a dollop of Catholicity, not enough to offend anybody.

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Wash Post at service of Dems but also of DC regulars . . .

Something I hear called the Deep State? I think that’s it.

At Power Line, we sometimes refer to the Washington Post as an adjunct of the Democratic Party. To an even greater degree, the Post is an adjunct of official Washington — the cadre of career bureaucrats and former officials who consider it their God given right to set policy, regardless of what elected officials desire. (There is, of course, considerable overlap between official Washington and the Democratic Party).

Thus, it’s not surprising that a few minutes after I read Steve’s post called “Trump’s sin: Conducting foreign policy without permission,” I read this Washington Post story called “Trump is short on advisers, allies as he faces Iran crisis.” In this article, the Post argues, is essence, that Trump is committing the sin of conducting foreign policy without permission.

Who or what does he think he is, anyhow?

The Jesuit who never did come out of the cold

But stayed within the leftist cocoon where he found a lot of other Jesuits, embracing the elusive “option for the poor” and other seductive Marxist initiatives. Alas, this meant certain activities or inactivities which ignore the plight of the oppressed, as is observed in this NC Register article about a questionable jubilee:

An emphasis on social reform becomes a slippery thing, as the preferred means of social reform — political action — can displace the gospel itself. Consider Father Sosa, who is from Venezuela.

Venezuela’s Maduro regime is the leading violator of human rights in Latin America, the cause of starvation levels of poverty in what should be a rich country, and the largest producer of refugees in the world.

Yet Father Sosa is largely silent about all of this, embracing instead a politics that prefers not to criticize leftist regimes. Politics here trumps social justice.

That would be Father Arturo Sosa, the Jesuit superior general, who was on hand for the celebration in Rome of a major Jesuit social-action initiative.

He also “denies the historicity of the gospels” and “doesn’t believe that the devil exists.” Or didn’t until changing his mind three months later.

Wot the hell? Wot the hell, Archie?