F: It's going well. Burke is now an unperson, Pell has been framed, we're sacking Müller today. Next on the list is Sarah - I wonder what we can do about him?
"Poison his beer, O Infallible Master."
There is a knock on the door, and Spadaro goes to welcome Cardinal Müller to his morning audience. Müller enters, kisses the Pope's ring, aims a kick at Spadaro, etc.
F: Welcome, my son. What is ailing you?
M: Holy Father, I think we must finally do something about Fr James Martin. The man's heresies are so absurd that even the Lutherans say "I wouldn't go that far!" Also, he is bringing the Church into disrepute by celebrating "gay" Masses dressed in a rainbow loincloth.
The Pride of the Vatican.
F: I have news for you my son. Guess who runs the Inquisition?
M: The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith? I do, surely?
F: No, you're fired. I'm appointing your Deputy, Luis Ladaria. So from now on, we've got a Spanish Inquisition.
M: I wasn't expecting a Spanish Inquisition!
Archbishop Ladaria bursts in, with two other cardinals, and they recite lines from the well-known Monty Python sketch.
Nobody expects...
L: Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our two main weapons are fear and surprise. Surprise and fear. And discernment. Three main weapons.
F: All right, all right, you can finish this later. Don't forget the bit about "An almost fanatical dedication to the new Magisterium of Amoris Laetitia".
L: I have to go, Holy Father: we are planning a midnight raid on a bunch of Catholic priest-bloggers who insist on pre-2013 teaching. Finigan, Blake, Zuhlsdorf, ... all the usual suspects. (Exit.)
F (mutters): "Discernment" is good. Little Austen Ivereigh says that only Jesuits can do discernment. The fact is, it just means "make it up as you go along". Mind you, only Jesuits know that.
Oh, by the way, Müller, you've lost your other jobs too - Pontifical Biblical Commission, Ecclesia Dei, International Theological Commission. Now get out!
M: I'll send you some Dubia, Holy Father! (Exit.)
At least it wasn't Schönborn. Balloons all round!
Is the present pope an ultramontanist like Pius IX or The "first witness to tradition" like Benedict XVI?
ReplyDeleteYou are right about 'Pell has been framed.'Disgraceful.
ReplyDeleteI know this is not an acceptable Catholic response but I would like to slap the people responsible for this with those balloons.
A Reading from St Pooh, Chap. 1
ReplyDelete“It’s like this,” said Pooh.“When you go after honey with a balloon, the great thing is not to let the bees know you’re coming.Now, if you have a green balloon, they might think you were only part of the tree, and not notice you...”
“Isn’t that fine?” shouted Pooh.“What do I look like?”
“You look like a Bear holding on to a balloon,” you said.