Trick or Treat! (We think it’s a trick…)
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Category Archives: Rude & Amusing
WoW, SoyBoys Can Really Dance!
Who knew that Marxists and anarchists could be such great dancers? Watch these Lefties bust out some moves for the benefits of bystanders and policemen protecting their right to free speech…
A Viri Probati Wedding
Married jungle priests are coming! Once the Amazin’ Amazon Synod does its work, tribal elders (so-called viri probati) will be taking on priestly duties…like weddings!
Hey, Hey! Ho, Ho! That Tradition’s Gotta GO! — a VATITOONS Exclusive
The Boss addresses participants at the 21st general assembly of Caritas Internationalis, and gets an unexpected question from the audience…
Vati-Toons: Chinese Takeout
Bergolio goes on about “mercy,” even accusing his predecessors of lacking sufficient mercy when it comes to interpreting capital punishment.
No such mercy for the Underground Church in China, however…
Any Questions?
Cup-o-Ramen and a full course Thanksgiving turkey dinner are both physically nourishing. The Novus Ordo and Traditional Latin Masses are both nourishing. But there are differences…
Badges???
Vatican observers did a double-take when they read Paragraph 146 of the final approved Youth Synod document. While there’s plenty to be found in the document which will curl the hair of most traditional/orthodox Catholics, Paragraph 146 is a whopper in its own right. It speaks to the need for creating “certification systems for Catholic websites, to counter the spread of fake news regarding the Church.”
Say what, now?
You mean something like the electro-magnetic web-based Internetty version of a Imprimatur or Nihil Obstat kind of thing for web content?
Sounds like a swell idea…what could possibly go wrong?
It’s one thing for the Church to put her seal of approval on Catholic publications advising readers that they’ll find nothing doctrinally offensive or heretical in a book or some such. The Church should have been doing more of that…assuming, of course, that it would be the heretical or quasi-heretical stuff that would get the flashing red warning light associated with it. These days, you’re probably more likely to get clotheslined by a Vatican theologian for actually supporting the Magisterium as it existed prior to this pontificate.
I think most of us can imagine what’s really behind the Synod’s report calling for ‘badges of approval’ for Catholic websites: they want to suppress dissent.
Well, I don’t know many of my fellow Catholic internet dudes/dudettes who are thrilled with that idea. It’s not hard to imagine that outfits like Church Militant, LifeSite News, the Lepanto Institute and The Remnant would be early targets of such a “certification process.”
Dear Youth Synod Document writers/ghost-writers/stooges, we have a message for you:
Read more about it here–> https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/vatican-looks-to-censor-lay-catholics
What’s That Stang Thang?
Yeah, today’s Halloween. It’s a special time of the year (except for the raccoons who come to visit me throughout the year; they show up each night expecting treats, and they’re always wearing masks, so every night of the year is Halloween for them, I guess…)
And apparently, even the folks in the Vatican are into dress-up this October. During the Youth Synod, Pope Francis was seen walking around looking like he was preparing to play Quidditch. His staff (called a Papal ferula) looked nothing like a traditional bishop’s crozier, and certainly nothing like the trademark Crucifix which adorned the top of St. John Paul II’s ferula.
Observers can be forgiven if they sensed some sort of Wiccan flavor to the staff he was carrying. It looked far more like a stang of the type favored by those practiced in the dark arts than it resembled anything Christian. “Not so!” we were assured by Vatican staff (the administrative sort of staff as opposed to the ceremonial walking stick sort of staff). The new, avantgarde and oh-so-fashionable staff was a gift from “the youth.” If you look closely (really, really closely) you can almost–if you squint just right–see what might look like a Y-shaped Crucifix.
Taking a shot or two of the local chianti might aid the identification process.
Not only are we laity having trouble with the funny-looking staff, the Papal staff is having trouble with the staff as well…
Comrade Cupich
Excuse me, Cardinal Cupich. Josef Stalin called. He wants his police state back…
Francis, Chairman Mao, and King Henry VIII
It’s hard to keep up with all the moves being made during this pontificate. Many of the pronouncements coming from the Vatican seem to be intentionally ambiguous, allowing for the faithful to fib to themselves that nothing’s changed, and allowing the less heterodox among us to exploit the carefully constructed loopholes in documents like Amoris Laetitia. No doubt the end product of this month’s synod will produce whoppers of equal magnitude.
Then, of course, there are the outright moves of betrayal, such as the stunning agreement with the Red Chinese which effectively throws the Underground Church in China under the bus.
Even though many faithful Catholics are confused, perplexed, disturbed, and perhaps even outraged by the Pontiff’s moves, there are those whom we suspect would be quite pleased…