Damion Thomson (it's Damiun Thomspon. Ed.), who is an associate editor at the Spectator, is a brilliant and wonderful writer, whom we admire very much. However, he has written a piece that is wrong from beginning to end.
Mike (R) and Bernie Winters.
Damyan correctly points out that Pope Francis is a Jesuit: most people don't know this, because they don't read the Fishwrap, where all the newest versions of Catholic belief are written about in sympathetic terms by our own tame Jesuit, Fr Thomas Reese.
Damain claims that Pope Francis isn't a Marxist-Leninist with Stalinist tendencies, as we at the Fishwrap devoutly hoped. Indeed, he says that Francis is not going to change Catholic doctrine in any significant way: for example, Damein thinks that there is no chance that blood-drinking lesbian lizards will be ordained to the priesthood within the next five years. Instead, Damoin claims, the pope's priority is to reform the Roman Curia, forcing all those fat lazy bureaucrats to renounce evil or be fired.
Pope Francis hands out specially blessed P45s (pink slips) to the faceless bureaucrats.
We know better. The pope has previously warned, correctly, about neo-pelagianism and new forms of gnosticism. These are heresies we associate with conservatives - they grow from the same spiritual soil as orthodox beliefs and practices. So we should reject orthodox practices in order to avoid heresy. Er, this doesn't make a lot of sense does it? Never mind, let's skip on to a METAPHOR.
Reforming the Curia, and rewriting Catholicism in the process, are not small beer. But whether they are small or large beer - and mine's a large gin, if you're buying - the pope has reminded us that old wine should not be put into new wineskins, and that work is the curse of the drinking classes, while candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.
"We said we'd sue Him if He didn't change water into wine at our same-sex wedding."
These facts are as true as they were two thousand years ago, when the apostles went to the tomb and found that Christ was not there. We are proud to say that, since then, many readers have gone to the pages of the Fishwrap and also found that Christ was not there.
(After 3 months they still haven't corrected the spelling of "Damian". Looking at the original article might have given them a clue. E.)
I don't think this article was written by Mike Winters pictured here http://ncronline.org/authors/michael-sean-winters - but by Bernie's other comedy partner Schnorbitz, seen here http://www.sarahmyerscough.co.uk/galleries_of_work/blackpool_pleasure_beach_gallery/Images/Photo_Schnorbitz_Litter_Bin_06_Newspaper_Article_Richard_de_Vere.jpg in happier times with Tina BT, Ma Peppermint, and two Redemptorists from Dublin, who are about to disrobe for a drag act.
ReplyDeleteI think that the Cardinal pictured, who is scratching his head, speaks for all of us at this time. I also like the picture of the sad, unsmiling neo-Pelagian alongside the cheerful fan of Francis (a bishop from the south coast judging by the cut of his jumper and the full head of hair). Ah the empty tomb, as we on team Francis say, it all depends what you mean by 'empty'.
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