Category: Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome

Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome IV: A counterblast to Rush Limbaugh on Evangelii Gaudium 54.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • December 4, 2013 • Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome

 

Now, what Mr. Lim­baugh had to say was long, so I’m going to be tak­ing out the key parts of it and giv­ing my own run­ning response. But as you will see, it’s sad — because he makes it very clear that he does not grasp Catholic social teach­ing. Nor (appar­ent­ly) did he read the pope’s words in their orig­i­nal con­text. In fact, he does not seem to have read them at all. At the bot­tom of the tran­script, he cites a sin­gle arti­cle from The Wash­ing­ton Post. So this was all very thor­ough show prep on Mr. Limbaugh’s part. His stack of stuff has grown small.

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Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome III: Illinois legislators co-opt pope to promote same-sex marriage.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • November 21, 2013 • LGBT Issues; Moral Theology; Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome

 

Rep. Lou Lang suc­cumbed to an ethe­re­al haze in his efforts to chan­nel six­ties’ croon­er Jack­ie DeShan­non: “It is incon­ceiv­able to me in a soci­ety that is so des­per­ate for love and so des­per­ate for close­ness and so des­per­ate for peo­ple to live peace­ably with one anoth­er that any­one can turn their back on this leg­is­la­tion. All this leg­is­la­tion pro­pos­es to do is to let peo­ple be togeth­er in peace and in love and make the world a bet­ter place.” Again, “love” and “peace” are good things. But Mr. Lang fails to explain why same-sex mar­riage is required to achieve them.

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Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome II: Wherein Bishop Bernard Fellay giveth a homily.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • November 4, 2013 • Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome

 

On Octo­ber 13, Protes­tant bish­op Bernard Fel­lay, of the Soci­ety of St. Pius X (SSPX), gave a homi­ly, of sorts, in which he insist­ed that he’s Catholic. (I think that nom­i­nal­ism is a mod­ernist error.) The occa­sion was the Pon­tif­i­cal Mass for the Angelus Press Con­fer­ence, at St. Vin­cent de Paul, in Kansas City. The whole thing was mean­der­ing and schiz­o­phrenic, and I have not yet decid­ed what was worst about it. It may have been the many occa­sions Good Bp. Fel­lay (GBF) took to dis­play his own brand of Pope Fran­cis Derange­ment Syn­drome.

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Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome I: John Bugay falls down a hole into Wonderland.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • October 5, 2013 • Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome

 

It is worse than irony, to pon­der. The very same lyser­gic, Fran­cis-bash­ing acid, which one can buy from Mr. John Bugay is also being sold by some Catholic blog­gers them­selves. Now, obvi­ous­ly, one expects all this from Mr. Bugay. I will dis­patch with him. But I don’t intend to con­clude my review of Pope Fran­cis Derange­ment Syn­drome in Pitts­burgh. PFDS is a men­tal fog — a hookah-inhaled hal­lu­cino­gen — that has put a lot of already stoned minds, and some sharp ones that should know bet­ter, into a tripped-out pur­ple haze.

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