Video: Pachamama Idols Taken From The Vatican And Thrown Into The River Tiber

Intriguing video on You Tube  shows Pachamama idols being thrown into the river [1].  "Pachamama is a goddess revered by the indigenous people of the Andes. She is also known as the earth/time mother." [2]

Comment:  There are many good people who were never baptized and many bad ones who were.  This blogger believes that baptism alone is not a guaranteed admission into Heaven.  "For many are called, but few are chosen." [3]  Who gets to enter Heaven is for God to decide.  This comment is not  an endorsement of idolatry.


[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfQYHbX38ig
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachamama, quoted without emphasis, hyperlinks and footnote.
[3] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+22%3A14&version=KJV

Proof That The Vatican Is A Shady Secular Institution

On October 21, 2019, CatholicCulture.org  reported as follows, quoted in part [1]:

Using leaked Vatican documents, the Italian journal L’Espresso has revealed details of unauthorized financial transactions, concluding that “the Holy See is facing a scandal that has few precedents in recent history.”

The Vatican Secretariat of State engaged in “reckless speculative operations,” using over $700 million that was taken from the worldwide Peter’s Pence collection, L’Espresso reports. The off-books investments eventually led to an October 1 raid by Vatican prosecutors on the offices of the Secretariat of State.

A memorandum from those prosecutors, which was obtained by L’Espresso, reports “serious indications of embezzlement, fraud, abuse of office, money laundering, and self-money laundering.”

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During the period under investigation, the Secretariat of State apparently managed over $700 million brought in by the Peter’s Pence collection, without oversight. The Peter’s Pence collection, taken up each year in Catholic churches around the world, is intended to fund the Pope’s charities.

“Hundreds of millions of Euro destined for the least and the poor are still administered opaquely and with no transparency, as if the Vatican were a merchant bank in an offshore country,” the report claims,” L’Espresso reported.  [Emphasis  added.]

Is anyone not ashamed to be Catholic these days?

When will Catholic clerics around the world stage a protest?  It is not likely it will happen any time soon.  They are smart enough not to bite the hand that feeds them.  Is it not always easier to serve Satan than to serve Christ?

Story Behind The Supposed Resignation Of Vatican Police Chief Domenico Giani

Catholic Herald  reported as follows on October 10, 2019 [1]:

The Vatican police “raided” offices in the Secretariat of State and the financial oversight office known as the Financial Information Authority (AIF) last week [on October 2, 2019, by "Giani's men" [2]]. Five officials were suspended: four lay people and one monsignor. The incident made headlines, and then fell off the radar pretty quickly. Why?

Part of the reason is that it has been tough to get details regarding the case. L’Espresso reported that the seizure of documents and hardware from the Secretariat of State and the suspensions were in connection with a series of operations related to a €200 million (£178 million, $247 million) real estate deal in London gone sideways. Beyond saying that the Vatican police took documents and hardware in connection with an ongoing investigation and acknowledging the reported suspensions, the Vatican has offered no details regarding the case.

There is an inconsistency between the Catholic Herald  and Catholic News Agency (see below) and between the Catholic Herald  and Life Site News (see below) as to the currency but not the amount of the real estate investment.  It is therefore unclear whether the 200 million is in US dollars or Euro.

Since the Vatican has so adeptly obscure the facts, nobody outside of it knows the whole truth, but the sense is that this investment has not panned out as expected.  Here is a peek at the nature of the investment from Catholic News Agency [3], quoted without hyperlink:

According to Financial Times, Vatican police and prosecutors are investigating the possibility of improprieties in a 2014 $200 million investment made through Athena Capital, a Luxembourg investment fund, which financed a stake in the development of a luxury apartment project in London. That investment, along with a nearly $50 million 2018 investment in the same property, has raised questions about the internal control of Vatican money held in international banks and investment vehicles, especially after repeated efforts to bring financial practices into line with international practices and standards.

and from Life Site News [4]:

The Financial Times  reported yesterday that the Holy See became involved in the London real estate project, which involves the development of 45 luxury apartments, when “$200m held in Swiss bank accounts controlled by the Secretariat of State was transferred to a Luxembourg investment fund called Athena Capital.”

 “Athena is owned by the Italian London-based financier Raffaele Mincione through his company WRM,” FT continued.

“Athena had bought the Chelsea building for £129m in 2012 and then sold a minority stake in the project in 2014 to a fund it managed on behalf of the Vatican as a sole client. In 2018, the Vatican bought out the remaining equity in 60 Sloane Avenue from Athena. Mr Mincione’s vehicle earned around £130m from the project overall.”

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Mincione is believed to have made a £128 million profit when the Vatican bought his share in the London property for £168 million.

At the center of this complicated mess was "Cardinal Giovanni Becciu, who was from 2011 until 2018 the second-ranking official in the Vatican’s Secretariat of State, and was in 2018 appointed to head the Congregation for the Causes of Saints." [5]

Quoted below is from another article with a bit of information on Giovanni Becciu [6]:

Libero Milone, selected by Francis to be the first auditor general, was unceremoniously kicked out of the Vatican in 2017 by the gendarmerie before he was able to finish his work for alleged double-dipping on expenses amounting to $33,000. All charges against him have since been dropped, and Milone, who had accused a former papal chief of staff, now Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, of financial malfeasance, has said his ouster was politically motivated.

There is so much that is wrong with the Vatican, but this is to be expected.  May Pope Francis live a very long and healthy life to witness the fulfillment of Saint Malachy's prophesy [7]:

The prediction in full is: "In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church there will reign Peter the Roman, who will feed his flock amid many tribulations, after which the seven-hilled city will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people. The End.”

What the quoted prediction is unclear on is what will Peter the Roman feed his flock?  Baloney, maybe?  What is also unclear is whether the destruction will be a physical crumbling, a bankruptcy or a dwindling of the number of Catholics [8], [9] (except in Sub-Saharan Africa [10]), or some other kind of destruction, like a schism or an invasion.  It is clear that there will be a Judge, but unclear as to when the Judge will start judging.


[1] https://catholicherald.co.uk/magazine/a-vatican-money-mystery-that-leads-back-to-london/
[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vatican-raid-resignation/vatican-security-chief-resigns-after-uproar-over-leak-idUSKBN1WT1PI
[3] https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/cardinal-becciu-at-center-of-vatican-financial-investigation-63504
[4] https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/financial-times-top-cardinal-implicated-in-vatican-financial-corruption-scandal
[5] https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/cardinal-becciu-at-center-of-vatican-financial-investigation-63504
[6] https://religionnews.com/2019/10/07/making-sense-of-the-vaticans-looming-financial-scandal/
[7] https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/st-malachy-prophecy-pope-francis
[8] http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/2019/10/18/%e2%80%9cdis-evangelized%e2%80%9d-amazon-the-numbers-of-a-catholic-church-reduced-by-half/
[9] https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace/
[10] http://graphics.wsj.com/catholics-world/

Pope's Own Words On Hypocrisy

The paragraph quoted below is from an October 15, 2019, article published by Vatican News [1]:

In his homily at Mass on Tuesday, Pope Francis says that Jesus does not tolerate hypocrisy. “We must be cured of hypocrisy,” he said, “and the medicine is knowing how to point the finger at ourselves before God”, since whoever is unable to do so is “not a good Christian”.

The medicine that cures hypocrisy prescribed by the "holy" Father begs these questions:

1.  Are there good Christians who are not hypocrites in the world?

2.  If there are, who are they, and where can they be found?

3.  Is the pope himself a good Christian who can admit before God that he is not and has never been a hypocrite?

4.  When one points one's finger at oneself and senses remorse, does one automatically become a good Christian who can resist the Devil and who will never again be hypocritical?

5.  How many times can one point one's finger at oneself and regret being hypocritical before the very act of finger-pointing at oneself is itself an act of hypocrisy?

6.  How many Catholic priests point their fingers at themselves?

7.  Who are the non-hypocritical Catholic priests who really walk in the footsteps of Christ to the point of willing to die on a cross for Christ?

Furthermore, the article also reported as follows [2]:

He goes on to explain that “a hypocritical attitude stems from the great liar, the devil”. The Pope says the devil is the “great hypocrite”, adding that all other hypocrites are his “heirs”.

Based on the above statement, that being a hypocrite seems to be the Devil's fault and that having been a hypocrite, one has irrevocably become the Devil's "heir" as if Free Will no longer exists.

And why not blame the Devil, just as Eve blamed the Serpent, and Adam blamed Eve?


[1] https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope-francis/mass-casa-santa-marta/2019-10/pope-francis-mass-santa-marta-homily-hypocrites.html
[2] Ibid.

Interesting Observation By Bishop Johnny Eduardo Reyes of Puerto Ayacucho

"A Venezuelan bishop, speaking at the Amazon Synod, has remarked that at a time when the Amazon region (among others) suffers from a severe shortage of priests, there is an enormous number of priests now living in Rome. 'It cannot be that they’re all studying in Rome,' said Bishop Johnny Eduardo Reyes of Puerto Ayacucho." [1]

Hypocrisy aside, is this not human nature?  How many priests (shepherds) deep down really want to work among "sheep" in the Amazon region and smell like "sheep" when they can live in Rome and smell like a rose?


[1] https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=43803

No Mercy For Bergoglio's Bodyguard

When one reads the paragraphs quoted below [1], does one really believe that the resignation was not coerced but voluntary?

Pope Francis' chief bodyguard has resigned over the leak of a Vatican police flyer identifying five Holy See employees who were suspended as part of a financial investigation.

The Vatican said Monday that Vatican police chief Domenico Giani bore no responsibility for the leaked flyer but resigned so as not to disrupt the investigation and "out of love for the church and faithfulness" to the pope.

Perhaps the truth is hidden in two of the final paragraphs of another article dated October 14, 2019, quoted below [2]:

Francis met with Giani in recent days and thanked him for his service, professionalism and willingness to step aside as "an expression of freedom and institutional sensitivity," the Vatican said.

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Giani said he was leaving at a difficult time, but was looking forward to spending more time with his wife and two children.

Giani is now without a job and salary.  He needs both to support himself and his loved ones.  Perhaps he can take comfort in these words of his former boss from an article dated July 14, 2019 [3]:

“Mercy towards a human life in a state of need is the true face of love” Pope Francis said, explaining that it is by loving the other that one  becomes a true disciple of Jesus and that the face of the Father is revealed.

Was "the face of the Father" being revealed to Giani when Bergoglio "thanked him for his service..."?  Many would probably be curious to see a photograph of that face.  Perhaps it would be similar to the photograph that appeared in one of the articles quoted above [4].  Is that the universal face of kindness, mercy and love?  Or, it is more like the image below?

pinrest.com

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/popes-bodyguard-resigns-over-new-financial-leaks-scandal/ar-AAILsDx
[2] https://www.yahoo.com/news/popes-bodyguard-resigns-over-financial-132403706.html
[3] https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2019-07/pope-angelus-catechesis-good-samaritan-mercy.html
[4] https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/popes-bodyguard-resigns-over-new-financial-leaks-scandal/ar-AAILsDx

Science Or Something Satanic?

"Human-animal hybrids, also known as ‘chimeras’, are creatures with a mixture of human and animal cells. They are created by injecting human stem cells into the embryo of another animal." [1]

"Researchers led by Spanish scientist Juan Carlos Izpisúa have created for the first time a human-monkey hybrid in a laboratory in China – an important step towards using animals for human organ transplants, project collaborator Estrella Núñez confirmed to EL PAÍS." [2]

"[A]ccording to El País, Izpisúa Belmonte may have collaborated with monkey researchers in China to circumvent legal issues in the US and Spain, where research with primates is heavily regulated." [3]

"Under the new Japanese guidelines, a Japanese scientist, Dr Hiromitsu Nakauchi, is the first to receive government approval to produce animal embryos that have human cells and transplant them into surrogate animals...." [4]

"Hiromitsu Nakauchi, who leads teams at the University of Tokyo and Stanford University in California, plans to grow human cells in mouse and rat embryos and then transplant those embryos into surrogate animals. Nakauchi's ultimate goal is to produce animals with organs made of human cells that can, eventually, be transplanted into people." [5]

Is this where science is headed? [6]

Detail of Satan from The Last Judgment (c. 1583) by Jacob de Backer

[1] https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/human-animal-hybrids-can-we-justify-the-experiments/
[2] https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/07/31/inenglish/1564561365_256842.html, quoted without hyperlinks.
[3] https://singularityhub.com/2019/08/13/wait-what-the-first-human-monkey-hybrid-embryo-was-just-created-in-china/
[4] https://www.bionews.org.uk/page_144752, quoted without hyperlinks.
[5] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02275-3
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satan