Fake Site News promotes Fr. Gerald Murray’s latest fit against the pope on Warmed Over With Raymond Arroyo. Murray and Fake Site are huge promoters of what they call “anti-sodomy laws.” They don’t say they want gays to be executed. They don’t say they don’t want gays to be executed. They don’t bring it up at all, as though it wasn’t the context of the pope’s remarks in his interview with the Associated Press. But it was the context. I confess I don’t know how you can neglect that context when discussing the pope’s insistence that homosexuality is “not a crime.” But they don’t mention it. At best this is sloppy.
All Pope Francis said was: Don’t execute gay people. FaithfulCatholics™ went nuts. (Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome Vol. XXXIII.)
BY: Scott Eric Alt • February 3, 2023 • LGBT Issues; Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome
“Another month, another papal interview, another spate of confusion,” Mr. Lawler writes at his usual platform, Catholic Culture. There’s not a papal statement under the sun that doesn’t befuddle him. Some people are addicted to anger, some to confusion. This time, the pope’s words were a model of clarity. “It’s not a crime,” Francis said (referring to homosexual acts). “Yes, but it’s a sin. Fine, but let’s first distinguish between a sin and a crime.” In fact, this is so simple it’s banal. If I cheat on my wife with the next-door neighbor, I’ve committed a sin. But no one’s going to arrest me for it. This everyday concept confuses Mr. Lawler. Read his article; you will marvel, not at how confusing the pope is, but at how much effort Mr. Lawler makes to be confused.
Critics of Pope Francis claim to love tradition while time and again tradition turns out to be utterly foreign to them. And thus, in just the most recent example, the traddies decide that a Marian title from a Byzantine hymn that dates to before 1000 A.D. — well-known among Eastern Catholics and Orthodox Christians — must be a reference to Pachamama and proof of the heresies of Pope Francis. The irony is that genuine Catholic tradition also teaches that the pope is protected by God from leading the Church into error and that Catholics owe the pope religious submission, not rebellion (or as demon consultant Taylor Marshall puts it, “recognize and resist”).
Mr. Steve Skojec, formerly of One Luther Five, is no longer bothering to hide his dissent from the dogma of papal infallibility. He’s not trying to nuance a distinction out between the rare occasions when an infallible statement is made and everything else a pope says. Anyone who tried to do that would need to explain why they worry themselves over what Pope Francis says at all, since he’s not exercised that charism as far as I can tell. But Mr. Skojec has integrity, casts nuance to the winds, and says that the dogma itself is a sham. Let’s peer — briefly, for it is painful — into his Twitter feed
Chaput, writing at First Things, is all wrought up by the thought that Pope Francis has surounded himself with toadies and therefore can’t handle constructive criticism from his loyal servant Raymond Arroyo. He would impress upon our minds a “little wisdom” from St. Bernard of Clairvaux. Bernard wrote: “The most grievous danger for any pope lies in the fact that, encompassed as he is by flatterers, he never hears the truth about his own person and ends by not wishing to hear it.” I suppose, though Chaput does not mention a little wisdom from St. Catherine of Siena.
Gay Catholics apparently have a remarkable ability to keep being shocked by what they’ve heard over and over, as though they’ve been cruelly misled. “Everyone already knows,” we always hear, “that the Church is against abortion and gay sex.” I’ve had occasion to say these words myself to a certain faction of heavy-handed Reminders. But articles like today’s in the Washington Post make me sympathize with Catholics who spend their days and nights reminding. The pope says the Church can’t bless same-sex unions and gay Catholics wail that their “hopes” have been “dashed.” 
Steve Ray is a Baptist convert to Catholicism who likes to wear a bush hat and call himself “Jerusalem Jones” because he’s gone on pilgrimage to the Holy Land, by his count, “almost 200 times.” He leads tours. But he’s really worried that Pope Francis is changing the deposit of faith; and sad to say, such a worry contains its own contradiction. (I’ll get there.) Back in the day, when he was a newly-minted convert, Mr. Ray wrote a book entitled Upon This Rock: St. Peter and the Primacy of Rome. Converts seem always to be rushing out and writing books in a fervor of having Found Truth.
Loyal defenders of the Church Raymond Leo Burke 
One would think that the purpose of the homily at Mass is to shed light upon the text of Scripture. So here’s something worth a real complaint: At EWTN’s daily Mass on Monday, Fr. Matthew Mary read Christ’s prayer for his disciples in John 17, and thereafter had nothing to say aobut it; instead, he used the occasion of the homily to promote a faction in the Church that promotes schism against Pope Francis. So let’s be clear that that’s a scandal — an abuse of the sacred liturgy; treating it as an occasion to promote dissent against the Holy Father.
The Vatican is implementing the Abu Dhabi statement, and the Faithful Catholic™ freak-out continues apace, Athansius contra Magisterium. “The spread of this document in its uncorrected form,” Fake Site writes, quoting ACM, “will ‘paralyze the Church’s mission ad gentes’ and ‘suffocate her burning zeal to evangelize all men.’ ” ACM went on and said that if the pope does not correct the “erroneous affirmation on the diversity of religions,” then “men in the Church not betray Jesus Christ as the only Savior of mankind.” That’s wild.
Those FaithfulCatholics™ who have been swallowing whole pharmacies of red pills over Pope Francis have a real problem. They want to reject his Magisterium, but deep down they know that’s not really consistent with their chest-thumping insistence on their own faithfulness. But if the conclave was illicit, if it broke the rules, if the pope’s not really the pope, then we have a license to throw all that out. We can get rid of Evangelii Gaudium, we can get rid of Laudato Si, we can get rid of Amoris Laetitia. And we can get rid of that pesky Bergoglio and call another conclave. 
