THIS IS MY SOLEMN VOW

You would be hard pressed to find a news source, digital, print, or broadcast, where you will not be bombarded with news of a demented, flaccid-phallused scum who sought notoriety by slaughtering nine innocents inside a church. The left is basking in the horror as they try to make political hay is as predictable as night following day.
My pledge to you is that, at least for this day, you will not read about it on this post. Nor will you read of the GOP’s conspiracy to help the Preezy amass even more power to destroy American jobs or the normal brigand of liars and malcontents who seem to dominate normal news cycles. What you WILL get is a mishmash of abnormal tidbits demonstrating that there are people who are even sicker than I am that remain uninstitutionalized. I don’t even know if that’s a word. I don’t even care. Relax and enjoy life.

BE NICE TO YOUR KIDS…THEY’LL DECIDE WHAT NURSING HOME YOU’LL BE STUCK IN.

WHAT AWESOMELY AWESOME STEAK KNIVES!

CTH: My guy would try to use the wrench ends and end up in the ER. :o/

CTH: Fave part of this photo …. NO TP.  LOLOL  So male.

CTH: Bwahahahaha!!  Grammy-of-the-Potty-Brigade is sending this one to a couple of people.  ::snork::

CTH: This happened to me twice.  Thankfully, the time it was a cat (who left the window open?!), it was on the foot of the bed, not on me, and the time it was a groundhog (who left the DOOR open?!), it was on the floor … but so was I.  I mean my mattress was.  We were moving and I needed a nap.  Nothing to lie down on but a mattress on the floor.  Everyone else left to take a load to the new house, I woke up to see a groundhog staring me in the face.  GAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

The Left is giddy … but

The eco-encyclical is out … all 184 pages of it. And, sad to me, Pope Francis did say he thinks climate change should be of grave concern. Pbltt.

I gotta say, I’m not entirely surprised that Satan has managed to use him to make a non-doctrinal statement that will help Anti-Christ become dictator of the world.

But let me reiterate in the strongest terms. It’s NON-DOCTRINAL.

We were only promised that the Holy Spirit would protect the teaching authority of the Church on issues of faith and morals.

The Pope has no more authority or expertise in climate science than does Al Gore.

Consider how very, very helpful the U.S. Bishops were in shoving Obamacare down our throats.  WE WARNED THEM the Left would use it to violate our religious freedoms, but they patted us on the head and told us we were just being so, so silly.

But back to the encyclical. Predictably, the Pontiff’s opinion about climate change is the ONLY thing the Left is interested in discussing.

Pope Francis said the following in his encyclical as well.

“It is enough to recognize that our body itself establishes us in a direct relationship with the environment and with other living beings. The acceptance of our bodies as God’s gift is vital for welcoming and accepting the entire world as a gift from the Father and our common home, whereas thinking that we enjoy absolute power over our own bodies turns, often subtly, into thinking that we enjoy absolute power over creation. Learning to accept our body, to care for it and to respect its fullest meaning, is an essential element of any genuine human ecology. Also, valuing one’s own body in its femininity or masculinity is necessary if I am going to be able to recognize myself in an encounter with someone who is different. In this way we can joyfully accept the specific gifts of another man or woman, the work of God the Creator, and find mutual enrichment. It is not a healthy attitude which would seek ‘to cancel out sexual difference because it no longer knows how to confront it’.”

And,

Since everything is interrelated, concern for the protection of nature is also incompatible with the justification of abortion. How can we genuinely teach the importance of concern for other vulnerable beings, however troublesome or inconvenient they may be, if we fail to protect a human embryo, even when its presence is uncomfortable and creates difficulties? ‘If personal and social sensitivity towards the acceptance of the new life is lost, then other forms of acceptance that are valuable for society also wither away’.”

Sooooo … if somebody tries to heap Pope Guilt on you for being a Catholic Climate Skeptic, explain that Pope Francis has zero teaching authority on the issue of climate science and, oh by the way, on those issues of FAITH AND MORALS where he DOES have authority?  He upheld Catholic Tradition about sexual differences and abortion.

ENCYCLICAL LETTER
LAUDATO SI’
OF THE HOLY FATHER
FRANCIS
ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME
http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html

The Final Pope?

I’ve been surfing the internet for hours, reading stuff pro and con about the prophetic vision St. Malachy is alleged to have had about how many popes were left before Jesus returned.  The tone of the articles range from “Phooie, nobody ever heard of this supposed prophecy until 400 years after Malachy was dead” to “Wowiekazowie, it’s all true.”

I decided to do my own research.

I’m inclined to think there may very well be some validity to the prophecies, if only because Pope John Paul I’s motto is so weird and so BANG ON the money.

But the explanations I found for Pope Benedict XVI didn’t hold up to scrutiny.

I can’t help wondering if “glory of the olives” has something to do with the Rapture. Jesus ascended from the Mount of Olives and the angels told the apostles, “This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will return in the same way as you have seen him going into heaven.” Soooo … like maybe he’ll get Raptured, but Pope Francis will have to stay here and guide the church through the End Times?

Sources:

• http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/st-malachy-predicted-pope-benedicts-successor-will-be-last-pope-190715001-237789421.html
• http://www.catholic-pages.com/grabbag/malachy.asp
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XV
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_XI
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_XII
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_XXIII
• https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Pope_Paul_VI
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Pope_Paul_VI.svg
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_I
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetans
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velletri#Climate