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Offline Ladislaus

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Ann Barnhardt : Narcissist
« on: January 16, 2023, 02:24:07 PM »
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  • So, my wife was listening to Barnhardt's last podcast, and I would catch parts of it here or there, and her hubris and narcissism are quite striking.  No wonder she spends so much time ranting about narcissism.  Not only does she posture as having knowledge of Catholic theology and Canon Law ... of which she is entirely bereft, but if anyone ever disagrees with her, even on the slightest point or tiny detail, she ruthlessly excoriates them, and also spread various slanders based on anonymous sources that she accepts as being completely factual.  She slurs them by questioning their masculinity (a quality which Ann Barnhardt has much of).  Then she has the temerity to accuse them of being mean and nasty ... when her own nastiness against others remains unrivalled (see post cited below from Brother Bugnolo).

    She was completely ripping on the "1958 sedevacantists", calling them like тαℓмυdic Jews because "they're in and everyone else is out".  That's utter hogwash, and a slanderous strawman.  No, Ann, they think they're right while you're wrong, just as YOU think you're right (and have THE answer) and they're wrong.

    Barnhardt wouldn't last 5 minutes in an actual debate against sedevacantists ... or anyone else really.  So she just has her yes-man peanut gallery on there patting her on the back and nodding in agreement with every point she makes, no matter how stupid ... and, trust me, the majority of her comments are downright stupid, if not at times slanderous.  She's a total hot mess where it comes to Catholic theology and Canon Law, and yet postures as some kind of Doctress of the Church.

    At one point she was ripping on Brother Bugnolo (also a Bennyvacantist) ruthlessly, and so I told my wife, I bet it's because Brother Bugnolo distanced himself from Barnhardt.  No sooner did I say this than my wife found this with a Google search on "Bugnolo Barnhardt".

    https://www.fromrome.info/2022/06/21/br-bugnolo-i-want-to-distance-myself-entirely-from-ann-barnhardts-horrendus-modus-operandi-which-poses-as-catholic/

    Here is Brother Bugnolo's distancing from Ann Barnhardt, the exact word I had used in my speculation against Barnhardt.  I happen to agree with every word of this (except his theories about Ratzinger having been the pope).  People need to stop supporting Barnhardt, and she needs to be completely silenced.

    Oh, before I quote Brother Bugnolo, I have to point out the hubris of coming up with her own replacement for "A.D." or "Anno Domini" for dating.  She uses this ridiculous "ARSH".  See, the expression "Anno Domini" which has been used throughout Church history, by Fathers, all the Doctors, all the theologians, all Catholics, which appears in every single papal docuмent or decree or publication from the Holy See and every bishop in the world, and was good enough for them ... it is not good enough for the Narcissist Ann Barnhardt, so she has to improve upon it.  Reminds me of Wojtyla's improvement upon the Holy Rosary.

    So here's Brother Bugnolo --
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    I used to admire Ann Barnhardt a great deal, for her cold logic. But as the years have passed, I realized that there was a lot more coldness than logic. Barnhardt showed this the other day with her vicious personal attack on Andrea Cionci, who has ever been the perfect gentleman calling her to give her reasons why she thinks Benedict XVI is the infallible pope but in total error, so obvious that Ann Barnhardt alone, without any knowledge of what is going on in the Vatican, and with no knowledge at all of Pope Benedict XVI’s statements in German — a language which she cannot even read — can see it, and she alone.

    I am reminded of the Lollards of medieval England who hated us religious for taking vows and believed that the Catholic notion of just war was bunk.  That is, some people pretend to be Catholic, but really advance their own prejudices.

    I am also reminded of the words of Ann Barnhardt that those who support Bergoglio cannot respond to the data-set. And I wonder what she sees in the morning when she looks into the mirror of her soul…

    Cionci has gathered together a huge data set, which shows that Benedict XVI knows he is the only pope, that he knows there are not two legitimate popes. Barnhardt insists that he, Pope Benedict XVI, believes there are two legitimate popes.

    To respond to Cionci’s invitations and open letters by insulting his masculinity is the sign of a true feminist and a fake Catholic. It is also the most vile form of ad hominem from a woman who cannot face the data-set, let alone rationally respond to the evidence that her accusation against the person of the Roman Pontiff is made entirely of the straw of her own prejudice.  And evidently it is a deeply seated prejudice against Catholic men.

    Ann, you have to recognize some day, that you are not the infallible Popess of the Catholic Church and that if you did convert to our Holy Religion it was not at all valid unless you recognized that you were in error, rather than that you were being enthroned as our Oracle of Truth. —  Unless you recognized that you were in error, and thus, that you can err. The grace of being a Catholic does not wipe away that possibility, of being in error.

    I therefore wish to publicly distance myself from Barnhardt’s vile comments and perverse spirit of mind, which no Catholic who is honest could ever tolerate.  And I call upon Catholics everywhere to publicly remonstrate and denounce her for it.


    Offline Ladislaus

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    Re: Ann Barnhardt : Narcissist
    « Reply #1 on: January 16, 2023, 02:32:34 PM »
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  • Obviously I don't agree with Andrea Conci OR Ann Barnhardt, but the issue here is Barnhard's refusal to make a rational response or rebuttal, but instead slurring Conci's masculinity.


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    Re: Ann Barnhardt : Narcissist
    « Reply #2 on: January 16, 2023, 02:49:40 PM »
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  • Nailed it. Ann Barnhardt has an aura of very heightened self-importance; almost as if she thinks she's Pope Barnhardt. The stupid and narcissistic ARSH is a big indicator of that as well. 

    Someone like her must be avoided at all costs.
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    Re: Ann Barnhardt : Narcissist
    « Reply #3 on: January 16, 2023, 02:49:45 PM »
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  • Here's another one entitled "Barnhard's Thesis of Hate" --
    https://www.fromrome.info/2022/06/01/barnhardt-confusing-ganswein-for-benedict-misses-the-point-about-who-is-the-pope/

    So the two are arguing about whether Benedict continued to consider himself the only pope (Bugnolo and Conci) whereas Barnhardt holds that he believed in a split (two-man) papacy, thus leading to her absurd "substantial error" theory.  She completely misconstrues "substantial error", which is a reference to error of fact, not some alleged theological error by Ratzinger in believing that the papacy could be split between two people.

    Patrick Coffin also published a series of posts about the "Myth of Substantial Error" --
    https://www.patrickcoffin.media/his-holiness-benedict-xvis-declaratio-and-the-myth-of-substantial-error-part-i/

    So it appears as if we already have 3 groups of Bennyvacantists fighting amongst themselves.

    But the fact that this argument continues after the death of Ratzinger is utterly absurd.  Whatever nuances they disagreed on before, they're all in agreement that Bergoglio is an Antipope (not the Catholic pope).  So that shared opinion is all that remains of their former disagreements.  And yet the battle continues.

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    Re: Ann Barnhardt : Narcissist
    « Reply #4 on: January 16, 2023, 02:51:04 PM »
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  • Nailed it. Ann Barnhardt has an aura of very heightened self-importance; almost as if she thinks she's Pope Barnhardt. The stupid and narcissistic ARSH is a big indicator of that as well.

    Someone like her must be avoided at all costs.

    Yeah, that ARSH thing has rubbed me the wrong way for years now.  "Anno Domini" is what the Church has always used.


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    Re: Ann Barnhardt : Narcissist
    « Reply #5 on: January 16, 2023, 02:57:22 PM »
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  • This part of her FAQ never sat right with me:


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    7.  What’s the deal with your crazy eyes?

    It’s lucidity coupled with ferocious charity.  I realize that the glazed stare of total indifference is considered attractive and virtuous these days, but indifference is the opposite of true charity, and thus is a sin.  I don’t respect people who can’t or won’t meet and hold my gaze.  Especially men.  Watch the eyes.  ALWAYS watch the eyes.
    There were many male saints who would never look a woman in her face
    If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you [John 15:108

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    Re: Ann Barnhardt : Narcissist
    « Reply #6 on: January 16, 2023, 03:43:10 PM »
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  • This part of her FAQ never sat right with me:

    There were many male saints who would never look a woman in her face

    Perhaps her hidden purpose is to hypnotize her viewers… especially men. 

    ”LOOK INTO MY EYES”

    😊
    "Some preachers will keep silence about the truth, and others will trample it underfoot and deny it. Sanctity of life will be held in derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a true Pastor but a destroyer."  St. Francis of Assisi

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    Re: Ann Barnhardt : Narcissist
    « Reply #7 on: January 16, 2023, 03:51:27 PM »
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  • So it appears as if we already have 3 groups of Bennyvacantists fighting amongst themselves.

    But the fact that this argument continues after the death of Ratzinger is utterly absurd.  Whatever nuances they disagreed on before, they're all in agreement that Bergoglio is an Antipope (not the Catholic pope).  So that shared opinion is all that remains of their former disagreements.  And yet the battle continues.
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    We're still in the early days of the post-Ratzinger world, and these people are still trying to process where they are in the world right now. I'm very curious where these people are going to be, intellectually speaking, a year from now or two years from now. I think the absurdity of their position might gradually start to dawn on some of them over time.



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    Re: Ann Barnhardt : Narcissist
    « Reply #8 on: January 16, 2023, 04:17:50 PM »
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  • Yes- it bothered me that she said the sede's were filled with hate and held a "na-na-na-na-na-na" stance of "We are in the Church and you're not". It's obvious she needs to smear all sede's so that her audience would be discouraged in investigating the true sede position and how logical and Catholic it is. She treats sedevacantists with disdain like they are Jonestown cult members or something.
    It's even hard to believe that she is being "harassed "by sede's. I don't know a sedevacantist that really cares about who Ann Barnhardt is or what she is pushing to bother contacting her.



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    Re: Ann Barnhardt : Narcissist
    « Reply #9 on: January 16, 2023, 04:26:15 PM »
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  • So, my wife was listening to Barnhardt's last podcast, and I would catch parts of it here or there, and her hubris and narcissism are quite striking.  No wonder she spends so much time ranting about narcissism.  Not only does she posture as having knowledge of Catholic theology and Canon Law ... of which she is entirely bereft, but if anyone ever disagrees with her, even on the slightest point or tiny detail, she ruthlessly excoriates them, and also spread various slanders based on anonymous sources that she accepts as being completely factual.  She slurs them by questioning their masculinity (a quality which Ann Barnhardt has much of).  Then she has the temerity to accuse them of being mean and nasty ... when her own nastiness against others remains unrivalled (see post cited below from Brother Bugnolo).

    She was completely ripping on the "1958 sedevacantists", calling them like тαℓмυdic Jєωs because "they're in and everyone else is out".  That's utter hogwash, and a slanderous strawman.  No, Ann, they think they're right while you're wrong, just as YOU think you're right (and have THE answer) and they're wrong.

    Barnhardt wouldn't last 5 minutes in an actual debate against sedevacantists ... or anyone else really.  So she just has her yes-man peanut gallery on there patting her on the back and nodding in agreement with every point she makes, no matter how stupid ... and, trust me, the majority of her comments are downright stupid, if not at times slanderous.  She's a total hot mess where it comes to Catholic theology and Canon Law, and yet postures as some kind of Doctress of the Church.

    At one point she was ripping on Brother Bugnolo (also a Bennyvacantist) ruthlessly, and so I told my wife, I bet it's because Brother Bugnolo distanced himself from Barnhardt.  No sooner did I say this than my wife found this with a Google search on "Bugnolo Barnhardt".

    https://www.fromrome.info/2022/06/21/br-bugnolo-i-want-to-distance-myself-entirely-from-ann-barnhardts-horrendus-modus-operandi-which-poses-as-catholic/

    Here is Brother Bugnolo's distancing from Ann Barnhardt, the exact word I had used in my speculation against Barnhardt.  I happen to agree with every word of this (except his theories about Ratzinger having been the pope).  People need to stop supporting Barnhardt, and she needs to be completely silenced.

    Oh, before I quote Brother Bugnolo, I have to point out the hubris of coming up with her own replacement for "A.D." or "Anno Domini" for dating.  She uses this ridiculous "ARSH".  See, the expression "Anno Domini" which has been used throughout Church history, by Fathers, all the Doctors, all the theologians, all Catholics, which appears in every single papal docuмent or decree or publication from the Holy See and every bishop in the world, and was good enough for them ... it is not good enough for the Narcissist Ann Barnhardt, so she has to improve upon it.  Reminds me of Wojtyla's improvement upon the Holy Rosary.

    So here's Brother Bugnolo --

    The first time I heard her speak, I immediately knew she was a full blown nut job. 
    For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?

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    Re: Ann Barnhardt : Narcissist
    « Reply #10 on: January 16, 2023, 04:31:18 PM »
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  • Here's another one entitled "Barnhard's Thesis of Hate" --
    https://www.fromrome.info/2022/06/01/barnhardt-confusing-ganswein-for-benedict-misses-the-point-about-who-is-the-pope/

    So the two are arguing about whether Benedict continued to consider himself the only pope (Bugnolo and Conci) whereas Barnhardt holds that he believed in a split (two-man) papacy, thus leading to her absurd "substantial error" theory.  She completely misconstrues "substantial error", which is a reference to error of fact, not some alleged theological error by Ratzinger in believing that the papacy could be split between two people.

    Patrick Coffin also published a series of posts about the "Myth of Substantial Error" --
    https://www.patrickcoffin.media/his-holiness-benedict-xvis-declaratio-and-the-myth-of-substantial-error-part-i/

    So it appears as if we already have 3 groups of Bennyvacantists fighting amongst themselves.

    But the fact that this argument continues after the death of Ratzinger is utterly absurd.  Whatever nuances they disagreed on before, they're all in agreement that Bergoglio is an Antipope (not the Catholic pope).  So that shared opinion is all that remains of their former disagreements.  And yet the battle continues.


    Wait, I thought it was only the sedevacantists who had schisms? 😂
    For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?


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    Re: Ann Barnhardt : Narcissist
    « Reply #11 on: January 16, 2023, 05:50:33 PM »
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  • Yes- it bothered me that she said the sede's were filled with hate and held a "na-na-na-na-na-na" stance of "We are in the Church and you're not". It's obvious she needs to smear all sede's so that her audience would be discouraged in investigating the true sede position and how logical and Catholic it is. She treats sedevacantists with disdain like they are Jonestown cult members or something.
    It's even hard to believe that she is being "harassed "by sede's. I don't know a sedevacantist that really cares about who Ann Barnhardt is or what she is pushing to bother contacting her.

    What's really annoying is the hypocrisy of condemning "1958 sedes" (she's had to qualify that now, realizing she too is a sede) by nastily deriding them ... for being nasty.  In fact, I'd put money on it that the worst of what she got from the sedes didn't rise to the level of what she was dishing out against them.  She compared them to тαℓмυdic Jews at one point, and acting as they alone had it right ... which is absurd, in that she alone thinks she's right while everyone else is wrong, and is bitterly feuding with other Bennyvacantists.  But everyone who has a position on the crisis thinks that they're position is right (and the others wrong) ... which is why they hold the position.

    Here's a screenshot of the nasty sedevacantist e-mail that I sent her ...


    She always tries to act so tough and manly and has no problem dishing out the most vulgar insults, some of them based on flimsy evidence, or just straight ad hominems, but then whines like some kind of victim when people go after her.  She's playing victim here that she's being savaged by all these nasty SVs.

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    Re: Ann Barnhardt : Narcissist
    « Reply #12 on: January 16, 2023, 06:07:51 PM »
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  • Here's a screenshot of the nasty sedevacantist e-mail that I sent her ...


    Your email was civil, but who knows what kind of vitriol her other communications with sedes may or may not have contained.

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    Re: Ann Barnhardt : Narcissist
    « Reply #13 on: January 16, 2023, 06:19:59 PM »
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  • Your email was civil, but who knows what kind of vitriol her other communications with sedes may or may not have contained.

    I seriously doubt it.  I think it's made up and exaggerated in the interests of smearing sedevacantists.  She has yet to produce any examples of these nasty letters.  I'll bet that if she received 100 e-mails, maybe 1 of them comes clos to the "kind of vitriol" to which she subjects the sedevacantists on a regular basis.

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    Re: Ann Barnhardt : Narcissist
    « Reply #14 on: January 16, 2023, 06:58:59 PM »
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  • Are there any other female personalities that Catholics look to for answers?  I can't think of any.