Vatican rules that appearances of Jesus in Normandy in the 1970s were not genuine in part because his predictions of the end of the world by the year 2000 didn't pan out lol

 

Vatican Finally Shuts Down French Town’s Decades-Long Jesus Claim

 ... The instruction also noted that the reported appearance of Jesus had said the world would end before the year 2000. “Clearly, this purported prophecy was not fulfilled,” it said.

Um . . . 

I am coming soon.

-- Revelation 3:11; 22:7, 12, 20 

This puff piece in Crisis Magazine about the Catholic Steve Bannon never mentions that Bannon is an ex-con who advocates Trump 2028, which is unconstitutional

The Catholic Case for Steve Bannon’s America

John Mac Ghlionn, Crisis 

 

... his sentiments spring from conviction, not contempt ...  

 

I mean, holy cow, he was convicted of contempt.

 

Steve Bannon loses his appeal of his contempt of Congress conviction

 

Steve Bannon fuels latest talk of third Trump term

 

When the gales of November come early

 

Does anyone know where the love of God goes

When the waves turn the minutes to hours? 

Well, Mr. Pope, sir, the ladies aren't going to shut up about that Mary co-redeemer of the world stuff lol

 

Mary Helped Jesus Save the World

Monica Miller, Crisis 

 

Monica Miller must have had this essay in her desk drawer ready to go, just waiting for this moment to arrive. She begins right out of the gate reminding the pope, an Augustinian, that none other than St. Augustine had said

Two parents have generated us for death; two parents have generated us for life. 

The observation is as true as the comparison is false. Adam and Eve were husband and wife. Mary and the Holy Ghost were not.

Yes, St. Augustine's mother was also named Monica.

Later in her essay our Monica reminds the pope that Mary instigated her son's mission at the Wedding at Cana, dontchaknow.

She is the New Eve, the true and effective helpmate of the New Adam. 

Apart from how this is creepy connubial Christ talk, our Monica apparently sees herself in a similar light, trying to move her son the pope along in the right direction.

But kinda more like the old Eve than St. Monica, to be perfectly frank, our Monica finds her "hath God said" opening:

The [pope's] Note doesn’t say that the Co-redemptrix title for Mary is heretical but, rather, “inappropriate” and is discouraging its use for the reasons indicated. It is important to note that the document certainly acknowledges that Mary is “the first and foremost collaborator in the work of Redemption and grace.”

Doesn't say?

This is absolutely comic.

But wait! There's more:

My purpose here is to clarify and highlight that while, thus far, the Vatican has rejected the Marian title “Co-redemptrix,” nonetheless, Mary was and is God’s chief co-worker in the salvific mission of her Son.       

Thus far?

Monica is nothing if not hopeful about the future for Mary, Co-Redemptrix. And subversive:

And while the Church, for now, will not honor Mary formally under the title of Co-redemptrix, this doesn’t necessarily mean that the faithful cannot, in our private devotions, honor her in this way. 

For now?

You see what I mean. 

But our Monica rightly has every reason to be hopeful, because she understands the logic of her position, a logic which was born when the early followers of Jesus decided that their crucified master wasn't dead but was a resurrected god.

Once you introduce that first novelty, however, you have to explain where this god came from, hence the virgin birth idea, which is totally absent from Mark's Gospel, and under attack in John's. From there the novelties just multiplied.

It took a long time for that logic to do its work to elevate Jesus' mother, although our Monica highlights it already acting upon the imaginations of early Christian luminaries like Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Irenaeus, and others.

We did not get, formally, the Immaculate Conception of Mary until 1854, and the Assumption of Mary until 1950. These are modern age developments! Papal infallibility dates to 1870, Daily Reception of Holy Communion to 1905.

Mary The Co-Redeemer in 2052 anyone?

The Reformation tried, not entirely successfully, to rescue the church from this line of thinking through its rediscovery of Paul, whose thinking was nowhere Marian but Christ-centered.

The first Adam, completely counter trend, was the only man not born of woman until the last Adam. Of course Paul was not thinking this through when he said that Jesus was "born of a woman" in Galatians 4:4.

Well how did Jesus escape original sin then?

We are not told, only that as Paul's theology developed Paul plainly said that Jesus "knew no sin" (II Corinthians 5:21), and was made of different stuff:

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

-- Romans 5:14

For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. ...

And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. ...

The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

-- I Corinthians 15: 22, 45, 47.

The answer of Matthew 1:18, 20 and Luke 1:35 is that that different stuff was "of the Holy Ghost". And that pretty much explains how the fourth and fifth centuries came to be spent, not on Marian concerns, but Christological.

The Marianists major in the minors. 

Pope Leo attempts to put an end to all that Mary "co-redeemer" jibber jabber

 

 Jesus, not Virgin Mary, saved the world, Vatican says

... In a new decree approved by Pope Leo, the Vatican's top doctrinal office instructed the world's 1.4 billion Catholics not to refer to Mary as the "co-redeemer" of the world.

Jesus alone saved the world, said the new instruction, settling an internal debate that had befuddled senior Church figures for decades, and even sparked rare open disagreement among recent popes.

"It would not be appropriate to use the title 'co-redemptrix'," said the text. "This title ... (can) create confusion and an imbalance in the harmony of the truths of the Christian faith." ...

Those, His brethren, all died, the coup de grâce for the parousia

 

Firm grasp of the obvious

 

MI Church Shooting, Fire was Motivated By Anti-Religious Beliefs

NBC News

Because he's insane?

 

Why is Peter Thiel Talking So Much About the Antichrist?

Valerie Hudson, Deseret

The Gospel According to St. James Johann David Donald Bowman Hamel Gambolputty Vance 6:31

 Do unto others, good and hard, before they do unto you.

The heart of man looks fair . . .

 The heart of man looks fair, but when we come to lay any weight upon't, the ground is false under us.

 

-- Roger L'Estrange 

Birthed by Henry VIII's sexual sins, the Anglican Communion splits over its latest ones

 

The seeds of Anglicanism's destruction were sown in its own beginning, but no one ever talks about that anymore. A not little original leaven has nearly leavened the whole lump.

The Anglican Communion Is Coming Apart

Not even two weeks after the Church of England unveiled Sarah Mullally as the incoming Archbishop of Canterbury, a network of conservative Anglicans has exploded what fragile harmony or consensus existed.

... “We cannot continue to have communion with those who advocate the revisionist agenda, which has abandoned the inerrant word of God as the final authority,” [Archbishop of Rwanda Laurent] Mbanda wrote.

... Nobody expected Gafcon to approve of the choice of Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury. The former senior nurse turned bishop previously led the project to introduce gay blessings and also represents the first woman to ascend to the throne of Saint Augustine in Canterbury Cathedral, an issue for certain Gafcon provinces that do not ordain women as priests or bishops.

... Mbanda said the Global Anglican Communion was closer to a rebrand than a new organization and that it was the revisionist Anglicans in the UK and North America who were the true schismatics. 

... Felix Orji, a Nigerian bishop who leads an ACNA diocese in Texas, said some provinces which have had a foot in both camps will have “an intense battle over this issue.”

... “We’ve been pleading for repentance, for rapprochement, and now you have a woman, and this woman is in favor of everything we’re against,” the ACNA bishop said. “And so there is no hope. If the Church of England had chosen a male who is evangelical, I don’t think that this decision would have been made.” 

... “It is important that the primacy of England should not take precedence over the primacy of Scripture,” he said. “We cannot allow our affection for England to trump affection for Christ and his Word.” 

OMG The Week says Peter Thiel is a devout Christian ...

 He is most certainly not a Christian, devout or otherwise.

... neither adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind ...  shall inherit the kingdom of God.

-- I Corinthians 6:9f. 

And why did Thiel's boyfriend, with whom he was cheating on his so-called spouse, die just like all the people die who cross Vladimir Putin? On which see below. 

Meanwhile The Week here adds to this decidedly not Christian horror show by quoting a fornicating Episcopal priest who has the gall to call Thiel . . . heretical!

As an Episcopal priest, “I find Thiel’s warnings heretical,” said Kevin Deal in the San Francisco Standard. In the Bible, the Antichrist represents “a foil to Christ,” not “a tool to sow fear or division.” Thiel is cynically weaponizing “the language of faith” to serve his own ends. 

Mr. Deal, formerly Mr. Neil, adopted his girlfriend's surname when they married after living together for over a year, including while at seminary. They were married, of course, by a female Episcopal priest. All of which was celebrated, of course, by The New York Times.

Thiel is heretical to these people because he is Republican, not because he is a faggot.

The UK Daily Mail here. 

If you're looking for the Antichrist, look no further than these principals. Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the antichrist is in your midst. 

 

 

Callimachus the grammarian used to say that a big book is a big pain

Καλλίμαχος ὁ γραμματικὸς τὸ μέγα βιβλίον ἴσον ἔλεγεν εἶναι τῷ μεγάλῳ κακῷ. 

-- Athenaeus, Dining Sophists 72 A

 

Samuel Johnson once used one to clobber the bookseller Thomas Osborne, who had insulted him:

... John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, vol. VIII (1814), p. 446, reports:

The identical book with which Johnson knocked down Osborne (Biblia Graeca Septuaginta, folio, 1594, Frankfort; the note written by the Rev. ----- Mills) I saw in February 1812 at Cambridge, in the possession of J. Thorpe, Bookseller; whose Catalogue, since published, contains particulars authenticating this assertion.

W. Jackson Bate, Samuel Johnson (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977), p. 225, accepts the identification of the folio with a Greek Bible.    

Noted here. 

 

The first Septuagint, an ancient translation of the Old Testament into Greek, to be printed in England dates to 1653. 

Meanwhile if AI can think at all, it thinks like an imbecile, trifling over an incorrect alternate spelling and confidently ignorant of the latest scholarship, and of Bate from decades ago, perhaps the foremost biographer of Johnson. It says there is no evidence Johnson used a Septuagint as a weapon lol.

We must not let AI win the day. Find the equivalent of the biggest book you can and have at it. 

 

And it wasn't Osborne's library. It was Harley's lol.

 

Don't stare Rod Dreher lolol

 

The Unidentified Flying Objects in the air over New Jersey a year ago were supernatural only to the impressionable

 

 New Jersey drone and ‘UFO’ scare solved? Private contractor unveils strange aircraft, takes credit for sky mystery 

 A private company at a high-powered Army conference demonstrated a unique aircraft at the event — and allegedly took responsibility for setting off last year’s drone and “UFO” pandemonium in New Jersey, a source told The Post. ...

“You remember that big UFO scare in New Jersey last year? Well, that was us,” an employee of the unnamed contractor claimed to a small group after the demonstration, according to the source who was invited to the summit. ... 

The rash of supposed drone sightings in New Jersey began on Nov. 13, 2024 over Army base Picatinny Arsenal in Morris County and continued across the state through early December. ...

Mystery behind New Jersey UFO scare last year solved by private company

...The drone sightings have sparked online conspiracy theories that they might be connected to 'Project Blue Beam.' This outlandish theory proposes that NASA plans to establish a new world order through a fabricated religion led by the Anti-Christ. To make this believable, supporters claim a technological simulation of the 'Second Coming' would be orchestrated....

Just as Christ came but the world didn't end, the Antichrist already came, too, and the world didn't end then either

 

Children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come; therefore we know that it is the last hour.

-- I John 2:18

When The Devil makes a deal with Hamas, this is what you get

 

The Devil, flanked by Famine and Death

 A Devilish Photo of Trump Sparks an Online Firestorm

Should he not know better by now?

 

I mean, the gaudy gold ornamentation above the "horns" in the current photo from the Cabinet Room is new. It is missing in the 2020 photo, so he's aware of this setting and what happened to him last time, isn't he lol?

 

The Devil has only himself to blame.

 

October 9, 2025

July 9, 2020

Doug Wilson inverts the reasoning of Paul the Apostle in alignment with the reasoning of his secular opponents who believe reason and science are making the world a better place

 

Doug Wilson practices a casuistry worthy of a Jesuit when he says that the world is gradually getting better because of the leaven of the gospel, whereas the originator of the leaven analogies, Paul, argued that the world is already very bad and getting worse because of the leaven of sin.

 

In fact, Paul says that enthusiasm for the Jewish law, which is basically what Doug Wilson's "theocracy" is all about, is itself an insidious leaven which speeds up the ruination of the whole lump. 

 

This is because Paul's main objection to enthusiasm for the Jewish law is that it revives sin and kills us.

 

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. 

 

-- Romans 7:8ff.

 

Doug Wilson and his ilk are basically the equivalent of Paul's opponents, the Judaizers. 

 

What is more, Paul is also an apocalyptic and eschatological thinker still emphasizing imminent divine judgment, and Doug Wilson is most certainly not that, either. Paul is concerned with keeping the Christian community in Christ under those dire circumstances, not with making the world a less offensive place for your children's children. 

  

 Doug Wilson’s political project to “stop making God angry.”

  

... Basically, what I want to do is agree with you about the part where the Kingdom of God is like yeast that is dropped into the loaf, and it gradually works through the whole loaf, permeating the whole. So when Paul preached the Gospel in Rome, the gladiatorial games didn’t end the following week — it took centuries. But the yeast worked through the loaf, such that the gladiatorial games were ended eventually, slavery was ended eventually, concubinage was ended eventually — all of which was good Gospel progress and postmillennial. That’s the way it works. ...

 

Yeah, none of that is from Paul, obviously.

 

Paul's view of living in the world is extremely negative. Wilson's is optimistic, like any good American's, which is the main problem with Doug Wilson.

 

To Paul, both Judaism's enthusiasm for the law and the world's enthusiasm for sin are dangerously infectious but are made obsolete because of Christ's victory over sin, death, and the Devil. But because human nature remains evil even Christian people are still susceptible to both leavens at the same time. And so Paul is vigilant against the corrupting leaven of them both.

 

Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators ... them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. 

 

-- I Corinthians 5:6ff, 13 

 

But this I say, brethren, the time is short ... the fashion of this world passeth away.

 

-- I Corinthians 7:29, 31  

 

Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. 

 

-- Galatians 5:7ff.

 

And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. 

 

-- Romans 13:11f. 

 

See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 

 

-- Ephesians 5:15f.