Catholic Info
Traditional Catholic Faith => General Discussion => Topic started by: cassini on December 06, 2015, 09:16:15 AM
-
Vatican, World Bank partner to launch Year of Mercy with St. Peter’s ‘climate change’ light show
http://voxcantor.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/bergoglio-has-gone-mad-bishops-and.html?m=1
ROME, December 4, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) -- The Catholic Church, founded to shed the light of Christ on the world, has quite literally invited the world to shed its light on her. On December 8, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception as well as the opening of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, Pope Francis has invited climate-change partisans and population-control advocates to project a light show onto the façade and cupola of Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome — the most important church in the Catholic world — so as to “inspire change around the climate crisis.”
The show titled “Illuminating Our Common Home” will project onto St. Peter’s “images of our shared natural world” in order to “educate and inspire change around the climate crisis across generations, cultures, languages, religions and class,” states a press release about the event put out by one of the sponsors.
The Vatican’s spokesperson for the event, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the president of the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization, called the event “unique…for its genre and for the fact that it is being displayed for the first time on such a significant backdrop.”
“These illuminations will present images inspired of Mercy, of humanity, of the natural world, and of climate changes,” Fisichella said.
Fisichella said that the light show on the Vatican is meant to link Pope Francis’ environment encyclical Laudato si’ with the United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop21) currently underway in Paris. The Vatican has shown strong support for the conference. Having the show conclude the opening Year of Mercy celebrations also links the pope’s message about “mercy” to fighting “climate change.”
Life and family leaders around the world remain skeptical about the Paris conference’s alleged agenda of fighting so-called “anthropogenic” global warming, with some warning that “saving the Planet” in climate-speak translates to an anti-human enterprise that targets nations, societies, and families.
The event, billed as “contemporary public art,” is sponsored by organizations named after Greek and Roman pagan gods that push the climate change agenda and by an organization that directly funds abortions in developing countries.
Behind the show
The main financial backer behind the event is the US-led World Bank Group via its Connect4Climate initiative. The World Bank, created in 1945 to rebuild a war-torn Europe, has a long history (here, here, or here) of relentlessly funding abortion and contraception programs in developing nations under the banner of “ending extreme poverty” and “boosting shared prosperity.” Pro-life leaders have denounced the programs time and again as thinly veiled population control programs aimed at reducing populations considered by Western elites to be undesirable. The organization, through its World Bank Spiritual Unfoldment Society (SUS), also has ties to non-Christian religious practices where employees engage in transhumanistic “meditation sessions” that aim at “personal transformation through self-knowledge, understanding, and awakening higher consciousness.”
Vulcan Inc., founded in 1986 by investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen, is a private company based out of Seattle, Washington, that “strives to create a new kind of future” by “upend[ing] conventional thinking.” The company was deliberately named after the Roman god Vulcan, the deity of destructive fire, whose earliest known shrine existed in Rome at the foot of the Capitoline Hill, close by the Vatican.
Vulcan’s website states that its founder thought the name seemed fitting for a company “whose mission was to find smart solutions for some of the world’s biggest challenges.”
Another partner of the event is Okeanos, an environmentalist foundation begun in 2007 by Dieter Paulmann with the purpose of raising awareness “concerning the various threats our oceans are facing.” The foundation focuses on “planning, financing and implementation of projects that encompass positive change and make a difference.” It rails against what it calls the “sins against climate committed by…the present generation in particular,” which include “man-made environmental pollution (oil slicks, sewage, chemicals, CO2 production)” as well as “noise pollution (overly loud ships’ engines, sonar experiments).”
The foundation is named after the Greek and Roman Titan god “Okeanos” who was held to be the divine personification of the sea whose fish in one hand and serpent in the other signified his gifts of bounty and prophecy.
Obscura Digital, the San Francisco-based organization putting on the actual show, has its name derived from the Latin root meaning “dark.” The company specializes in creating “immersive experiences that will change the way you think about the world around you” using holographic projections, 3D animation, and dynamic visualization.
Obscura’s team of artists, coders, builders, and technologists are masters of manipulation through light and sound. The organization has in the past (here and here) worked on climate change projects with the UN to show the “effect of human enterprise on the environment” and to issue a “call for global solutions.” The organization’s clients include Apple, Google, Disney, Vulcan Productions, Nike, Nasa, Facebook, and UNESCO.
Dark and forbidding symbolism
There is much dark and forbidding symbolism behind the event and the organizations sponsoring it that is bizarrely connected to pagan occult practices, the worship of nature, and human sacrifice through abortion and population control.
The show is titled “Fiat Lux: Illuminating Our Common Home.” “Fiat Lux” is the first command issued by God at the beginning of creation: “Let there be light.” Instead of the Church presenting Jesus Christ as the light of the world, secular organizations named after pagan gods are literally “obscuring” the Church through their own dazzling light show. St. Paul warns the Corinthians to be on guard about Satan who he says “masquerades as an angel of light.” It’s as if through this phrase the organizers are symbolically taking the place of God and creating the world anew according to their own image and likeness.
The light show takes place on the most important Marian feast day for Catholics, the Immaculate Conception, in which Catholics celebrate Mary being conceived in the womb of her mother Anne without the stain of original sin. Mary has always been viewed by Catholics as an archetype of the Church since she carried Christ within her as the first tabernacle and then bore him into the world. The light show will project onto St. Peter’s, a building representative of Mary, images of earth and animals on her most important feast day. It is amounts to a crude dishonoring of Our Lady.
The World Bank with its hands bloodied by abortion and population control has no place working with the Vatican on a show that allegedly will reveal to the world images of what Archbishop Fisichella called “mercy, of humanity.” This is simply sick and twisted.
The show will certainly contain many “signs and wonders,” but Catholics must decide for themselves how to interpret them.
-
Sorry, just noticed, Let there be light I meant, not let their be light.' Then again maybe their light is correct.
They are about to light up St Peter's with the light of the world (all those masons now meeting pretending to control the weather of the world as they control everything else. Now Rome joins them, using the light to signify Francis's union with them. But whose light?
Another Francis, Francis Bacon : Went about the spreading of knowledge and the inauguration of ethics couched in allegory and illustrated by symbol. The word constantly on his lips was ‘‘light . . . more light.’’’
Ah, but whose light? To know this we go to Bacon’s ‘epoch-making’ book, the Advancement of Learning, written in 1605. This book reeks with Rosicrucian nuances and refers to their god, who in fact is Satan, as ‘the Father of Light,’ a metaphor of St James’s but twisted to comply with Hermetic, Gnostic and cabalistic tradition, to deprive Christianity of the light of Christ.
Lady Queenborough (Edith Starr Millar) in her Occult Theocracy quotes the infamous Albert Pike - founder and Grand Master of the New and Reformed Palladian Rite (Ancient Scottish Rite) and Sovereign Pontiff of Universal Masonry whose headquarters was in Charleston, USA – illustrating from a different source the deity and purpose of Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ. Lady Queenburough tells us that: ‘The theological dogma of Albert Pike is explained in the “instructions” issued by him on July 14 1889, to the 23 Supreme Councils of the world and have been recorded by A. C. De La Rive in the book La Femme et l’Enfant dans La Franc-Maconnerie Universelle from which we translate:
‘“That which we must say to the crowd is – We worship a God, but it is the God that one adores without superstition.
“To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General, we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st and 30th degrees – The Masonic religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the luciferian doctrine. If Lucifer were not God, would Adonay (the God of the Christians) whose deeds prove his cruelty, perfidy, and hatred of man, barbarism and repulsion for science, would Adonay and his priests, calumniate him?
“Yes, Lucifer is God, and unfortunately Adonay is also God…. Thus the doctrine of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure philosophic religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay; but Lucifer, God of Light and God of Good, is struggling for humanity against Adonay, the God of Darkness and Evil.”’
-
There have been two more threads on this same topic but they don't have all the material that cassini put in these first 2 posts.
NovusOrdoWatch has a few pages on it too, and they show a link to a not-unrelated page covering the Pope's in-flight interview on the way back from Cuba recently..........
(https://s16-us2.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Fs.newsweek.com%2Fsites%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Ffiles%2Fstyles%2Fcover%2Fpublic%2F2015%2F09%2F04%2F20150918cover1800-x-2400.jpg&sp=45faeb547d334d6cf5ae4c890a68dbb0)
Francis speaks on Antipope and Antichrist
One bit of news that was totally drowned out by Francis’ visit to the United States was the in-flight press conference he gave on leaving Cuba on September 22. A reporter from the Italian Corriere della Sera confronted Francis with the fact that more and more people, even secularists, are starting to ask themselves “if the Pope is a Catholic.” Instead of blushing for shame at such an embarrassing yet revealing phenomenon, Francis again showed his contempt for people who are beginning to detect that maybe he is not what he claims to be. See for yourself:
Gian Guido Vecchi, Corriere della Sera: Holiness, your reflections, also your denouncements of the inequity of the world economic system, the risk of self-destruction of the planet are also very uncomfortable, in the sense that they touch the powerful interests of arms trafficking, etc. Before this trip, there were some bizarre manifestations that came out. Also, very important world media picked them up and and sectors of North American society were even asking themselves if the Pope was Catholic. There have already been discussions about a communist Pope, now there are event those who speak of a Pope who isn’t Catholic. In the face of these considerations, what do you think?
Pope Francis: A cardinal friend of mine told me that a very concerned woman, very Catholic, went to him. A bit rigid, but Catholic. And she asked him if it was true that in the Bible, they spoke of an antichrist, and she explained it to him. And also in the Apocalypse, no? And, then, if it was true that an anti-pope, who is the antichrist, the anti-Pope. But why is she asking me this question, this cardinal asked me? “Because I’m sure that Pope Francis is the anti-pope,” she said. And why does she ask this, why does she have this idea? “It’s because he doesn’t wear red shoes.” The reason for thinking if one is communist or isn’t communist. I’m sure that I haven't said anything more than what’s written in the social doctrine of the Church. On another flight, a colleague asked me if I had reached out a hand to the popular movements and asked me, “But is the Church going to follow you?” I told him, “I’m the one following the Church.” And in this it seems that I’m not wrong. I believe that I never said a thing that wasn’t the social doctrine of the Church. Things can be explained, possibly an explanation gave an impression of being a little “to the left”, but it would be an error of explanation. No, my doctrine on this, in Laudato si', on economic imperialism, all of this, is the social doctrine of the Church. And if necessary, I’ll recite the creed. I am available to do that, eh.
(“Full transcript of Pope's in-flight interview from Cuba to US”, Catholic News Agency, Sep. 22, 2015)
----------- If necessary, Pope Francis will recite the Creed -- if necessary -----------
.
-
----------- If necessary, Pope Francis will recite the Creed -- if necessary -----------
But will he believe anything he recites the way a Catholic believes it? Modernists can recite the creed with no problem, but they have different ways of understanding all the words so reciting it doesn't really hold any meaning.
-
.
I neglected to post a link to the source page, above:
http://www.novusordowatch.org/wire/francis-antipope-antichrist.htm#at_pco=smlwn-1.0&at_si=56699c6aa88e8fba&at_ab=-&at_pos=0&at_tot=1
As for the OP, here, are some important words about the DAY chosen for this oddball light display at St. Peter's Basilica. I watched the very long video the Vatican has posted and nowhere in that hour-long thing was found any mention of December 8th or the Immaculate Conception or even of Our Lady in any regard whatsoever. It was entirely naturalist, pagan, secular -- not even humanist. The only image I saw of modern man was the shadowy figure of a man in a SCUBA outfit, suspended underwater, looking at some fishes. Only his external shape could be seen, and no facial features at all.
The light show takes place on the most important Marian feast day for Catholics, the Immaculate Conception, in which Catholics celebrate Mary being conceived in the womb of her mother Anne without the stain of original sin. Mary has always been viewed by Catholics as an archetype of the Church since she carried Christ within her as the first tabernacle and then bore him into the world. The light show will project onto St. Peter’s, a building representative of Mary, images of earth and animals on her most important feast day. It is amounts to a crude dishonoring of Our Lady.
The World Bank with its hands bloodied by abortion and population control has no place working with the Vatican on a show that allegedly will reveal to the world images of what Archbishop Fisichella called “mercy, of humanity.” This is simply sick and twisted.
The show will certainly contain many “signs and wonders,” but Catholics must decide for themselves how to interpret them.
.
-
----------- If necessary, Pope Francis will recite the Creed -- if necessary -----------
But will he believe anything he recites the way a Catholic believes it? Modernists can recite the creed with no problem, but they have different ways of understanding all the words so reciting it doesn't really hold any meaning.
True enough. Point well taken. Modernism is an enormous problem.
Additionally, it crossed my mind, would Francis be "available" to recite the Athanasian Creed? It's one of the 3 Creeds of the Church (Apostles' Creed, Athanasian Creed, and the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed).
If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say he probably doesn't know the Athanasian Creed by memory. He would have to hold a text to read, or follow someone's lead.
.