His Eminence Juan Luis Cardinal Cipriani Thorne (b. 28 December 1943: 79 years old), from Peru, was created and proclaimed Cardinal by the Saint John Paul II in the Consistory of 21 February 2001.
About a month or so previous to his being added to the list for that Consistory, the good archbishop said something rather quotable, words which were repeated for a day right around the world, including France, where headlines taking up the entire front pages exclaimed to the world:
- “Les droits de l’homme: C’EST DE LA MERDE!”
- “The rights of man: it is s#|t!”
French linguistics always amaze, so that plural or singular receive the same singular treatment in exclamations of violent incisiveness: C’est de la merde!
The backstory is instructive. Some idiot priests were trying to force the Opus Dei Archbishop say that they, these Marxist-priest guerrillas, had all the rights of man to take up arms and just start killing all and sundry, you know, to make it all a verifiable classless society, everybody dead. He, instead, had it that: “Les droits de l’homme: C’EST DE LA MERDE!” Good for him!
Apparently, that’s what encouraged Saint John Paul II to make him a Cardinal. :-) Cipriani might not be voting in the next Conclave, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have another South American Pope, right?
Anyway, you have heard from the clowns and thugs and buffoons that there is such a thing as…
… “the Magisterium of Pope Francis”, and that it is heretical, schismatic, throwing one into outright apostasy if one does not fully embrace…
… “the Magisterium of Pope Francis.”
But what is that, exactly? Fanfare is needed to introduce properly such a topic:
The Magisterium of Pope Francis: c’est de la merde!”
- “But Father George! Father George! You’re such an old meanie! You insult the Magisterium of Pope Francis, and in doing so, you insult the very person of the Pope! For shame, Father George! You’re an extremist! You make the rest of us look bad! We MUST be polite, soft-spoken, all of us the same!”
Well, I must say, I absolutely have the greatest respect for the measured words of, say, Cardinal Burke or Bishop Strickland, both so humble, so joyful. But I have a different personality. And it’s all about personality, right? So, I’m gonna be all entitled about that, something akin to, say, Peter Abelard.
But even a knucklehead like me can say…
Instead, I insult no Magisterium of any one person, for there is, in reality, no Magisterium of any one person, even if that person is the successor of Peter, the bishop of Rome, the Supreme Pontiff. There is only the Magisterium of the Church, with constant, consistent teaching through the centuries, always respectful of Sacred Revelation. Any ex-Cathedra proclamation is not that of any one person, but has the guarantee of Christ Jesus Himself.
To assert that the non-ex-cathedra, non-infallible-mere-opinion of one man, albeit the Pope, can be pitted over against all that which is Judeo-Catholic, all that which is the Truth of Christ Jesus, is to assert heresy in the midst of apostasy, and is entirely schismatic. To put it simply and in words that even the thugs and buffoons can understand: C’est de la merde!
When Pope Francis encourages priests to make their own decisions about blessings of same-sex couples, or when he promotes Pachamama, etc., it is Pope Francis who brings upon himself his own coprophagia.
And as far as insulting Pope Francis goes, that simply is not the case. Am I somewhat strident in trying to get my brother Francis back to Jesus? Sure. Very few others in the entire world are trying to assist him to come back to Jesus. Let’s recall that Paul was “strident” in bringing Peter back to Jesus because Peter stood condemned. See Galatians 2:11. Is Paul to be condemned for stridently helping Peter when Peter was in need of the strident-esque approach?
Thanks be to God that Paul had the fortitude to make that correction. I mean, one might imagine the cowardice today:
- If I correct Pope Francis…
- I might be removed from my ministry
- I might lose my residence
- I might lose my salary
- I might look like I’m not a team player
- I might lose my… power… [Noooooooooooooo!!!!!!!]
But, it works the other way as well…
- If one does NOT make the correction:
- One might be removed from the Book of Life, and that about sums up everything else.
Here’s the way it is: There is one Magisterium. It is that of Jesus, the Way, the Truth, the Life. NO ONE goes to the Father except through, with and in Jesus. He is the Alpha and Omega, the First and Last, the Beginning and End, the Omnipotent. He is King of kings, Lord of lords, Prince of the Most Profound Peace.
How to say it? Oh, I know, out of the mouths of babes: