I hope you saved the callmejorgebergoglio blog because it's gone.

I archived almost everything on archive.org and archive.is

Just go to the archive sites and search for the original URL.

In any case, I can't help but think that the Holy Spirit often works slowly, "degree by degree" as the saying goes. Surely being brought to (or brought back to) Christianity, albeit perhaps an imperfect kind, is better than being left as an atheist in the devil's grip?

I agree with this, and that's actually one of the things I like about JP. He's not saying he found "the light", per se. Rather, he's showing others some of the places he believes the light can be found in--and he keeps pointing more and more towards Christianity.

I 100% agree with the first sentence especially in the case of a private individual. Yet what I have been trying to point out in several posts is that we are not speaking here of a private individual. In fact, "some of the places he believes the light can be found in" might be very dangerous places spiritually. 

I fully recognize that everyone's path is different, and if someone takes a more tortuous or foolish route toward the Truth, that is part of Divine Providence. If Mrs. JP is on this path, wonderful. If JP gets there on his own schedule, wonderful. (Hence your very relevant quote re Elisha.) But until they do, that's their private business with their families, close friends, mentors, and most importantly, their confessors.

Yet again, what I've been trying to point out in several posts is that we should be wary of ignorant feel-good cheerleading and condoning what may turn out to be false shepherds, especially if any impressionable ones in our private lives look to us for guidance. Even if these public figures are indeed sincere in their own hearts and souls, there still remains for them the temptation of pride, where the roar of the crowd will stall them in what the faithless and faceless mob wants to hear.

So much of what we see in the media is a curated reality show not intended for our spiritual good. If TV and the internet had existed back in the days of Saint Augustine and he had chronicled his own conversion process in real time, how many in the crowd would have wowed at his edgy Manichean phase and disappointed when he left that falsity behind for good?

Actually...this makes the 666 hand gesture way more significant.  Because it's the mark of the beast.

Let's not pretend this photo was some accident.

I just opened the photo for the first time now, and I'd have to concur regarding the 666 gesture.  That is not a natural way to hold something, as it takes deliberate exertion to hold the other 3 fingers up that way, and the fact that he's holding the "Beast" seems to confirm it.

Another Epic Fail in Taylor Marshall’s ‘Infiltration’ — Taylor Marshall write that Pope Saint Pius X was Polish in his book Infiltration: The Plot to Destroy the Church from Within. Does Marshall know how to do basic research much less use a search engine? How embarrassing!

I think that whoever wrote this needs to do a bit of research.  Pope St. Pius X's father was in fact Polish, born Jan Krawiec, the latter being the Polish word for "Tailor", which he translated to the Italian equivalent "Sarto".

He was born Giuseppe (Joseph) Melchiorre Sarto into a family of nine children on a small farm in the little village of Riese in the Province of Treviso, Italy near Venice on June 2, 1835 during the pontificate of Pope Gregory XVI. His father Giovanni Battista Sarto, a former postman and yet a cobbler by trade, died when Joseph was very young in 1852. Giovanni had been born Jan Krawiec in Wielkopolska, Poland, a tailor by trade. When Poland fell into Prussian hands, Jan and his wife sought political asylum in Italy. There he became a mailman first outside Treviso in Godero, Italy, and then settling in Riese. To offset any assimilation to his Polish roots for fear of reprisal, Jan translated his name to Giovanni Battista, still the same patron saint he was baptised under and adopted the Italian word for tailor - "sarto" as his new surname.

Should Catholics have followed St Augustine BEFORE he converted just because sometimes he said something Catholic?

What would be the analogy here in this situation?

I put the quote from him in my signature as a unique opinion of a non-Catholic, but perhaps someday it won't be from someone outside looking in.

He got that idea from Jung, IIRC because Jung thought the same.

Peterson is not even close to converting, he's a complete modernist, an insufferable sophist and hasn't even the tiniest bit of intellectual honesty, all of which can be easily seen in just this 50 second clip:

https://youtu.be/V0PWQylV7Ec?feature=shared

This is far from an isolated incident. Furthermore, Peterson admits he's not even right wing, he worked for the UN on some Marxist docuмent and his stated goal is to slow down the leftist revolution SO THAT THE RIGHT DOES NOT WAKE UP AND FIGHT.

I agree and think we have to be careful in who we look to as leaders or who we let influence us. Thus, "You will know them by their fruits," is wisdom to always keep in mind I think when trying to make those decisions.

Yes!

Opus Dei saint miracle:

https://tinyurl.com/ytf3w8zk

Thanks for pointing out this article, that shows Opus Dei involved
in this story.