Fascinating (Facts?): "...Our Lord Jesus Christ Was Crucified On The Exact Site Where Adam Was Buried!

 After you read and listen to the contents of this article from lifesitenews.com and written by John-Henry Westen, I think you'll agree that these data are more than mere speculation or conjecture!

It should be noted that even the secular media is picking up on this, e.g., Turley Talks | turleytalks.com | turleytalks.com by Dr. Steve Turley...

Here is the link to the lifesitenews.com article/video...

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"(LifeSiteNews) — Catholic filmmaker Mel Gibson, in his recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, claimed that our Lord Jesus Christ was crucified on the exact site where Adam was buried.

Where did Gibson get that claim from, and is it true?

In this video, I draw on the writings of Church Fathers like Origen, St. Jerome, and St. Epiphanius, as well as the mystical visions reported by Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, to explain the connection between Calvary and the burial site of our first parent.

Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich vividly describes in her visions the connection between the crucifixion of Jesus and the burial place of Adam. Below are relevant quotes from her writings, particularly The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. These excerpts align with her mystical revelations but may not be verbatim due to differences in translations and editions: 

1. Connection between Calvary and Adam’s burial

“I saw the place where Adam was buried. It was directly beneath the spot where the Cross of Jesus stood. I saw Jesus’ blood trickling down and falling upon Adam’s bones, cleansing them.” 

2. Symbolism of redemption

“The Redeemer died in the very place where death first entered the world. Golgotha, the hill of the skull, was named for Adam, whose skull lay buried beneath.” 

3. Jesus’ blood and Adam’s redemption 

“The blood of the Savior ran down through the cracks in the earth, reaching the grave of Adam. I saw this as the profound fulfillment of redemption, the cleansing of mankind beginning at its source.” 

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Origen of Alexandria (c. 184–253 AD) is one of the earliest theologians to mention the tradition linking Adam’s burial with the site of Christ’s crucifixion at Golgotha. While Origen’s writings do not explicitly contain a systematic account of this tradition, his commentaries and teachings allude to it in a symbolic and theological context. Below are relevant excerpts and references attributed to Origen: 

1. On Adam’s skull at Golgotha

“The place of the skull is named so because it is said to contain the skull of the first man, Adam, and thus where Christ, the second Adam, conquered death.” (Homilies on Numbers or fragments in related texts) 

2. Theological symbolism of Golgotha

“Christ’s blood shed on the cross sanctified the earth, and in particular, the place of the skull, symbolically bringing life where death reigned through Adam.” (Paraphrased from Homilies on Exodus and other writings) 

3. Spiritual renewal

“The location of the crucifixion is no accident but a sign that the salvation offered by Christ reaches back to the beginning of humanity, redeeming Adam’s fall.” (Commentary on the Gospel of John) 

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Epiphanius of Salamis (c. 310–403 AD), a prominent early Church Father, addressed the tradition that Jesus was crucified at Golgotha, the very site where Adam was believed to be buried. In his work Panarion, he states: 

“Our Lord Jesus Christ was crucified on Golgotha, nowhere else than where Adam’s body lay buried. For after leaving Paradise, living opposite it for a long time and growing old, Adam later came and died in this place, I mean Jerusalem, and was buried there, on the site of Golgotha.”  

This passage reflects the early Christian tradition that connected the site of Christ’s crucifixion with Adam’s burial place, symbolizing the redemption of humanity from the original sin introduced by Adam. 

Additionally, Epiphanius mentions: 

“Adam died there and was buried there, and Adam’s remains are pointed out in Golgotha… And Jesus Christ rose from the dead in this place, Adam’s resting place.” 

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St. Jerome (c. 347–420 AD), one of the most influential Church Fathers, also referenced the tradition that Golgotha, the place of Jesus’ crucifixion, was the burial site of Adam. His writings incorporate this tradition, tying it to theological reflections on redemption. Below are relevant references attributed to Jerome: 

1. On Adam’s burial at Golgotha

“Golgotha, the place of the skull, is called so because the skull of the first man, Adam, is said to have been buried there. And thus, as Christ died for all men, His blood fell upon the place of Adam’s grave, symbolizing the redemption of all mankind from the sin of Adam.” (Commentary on Matthew 27:33) 

2. Theological symbolism of the crucifixion

“Christ was crucified on the very site where death first entered the world, so that as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.” (Epistle to Eustochium) 

3. The Place of the Skull

“The name Golgotha derives from the skull of Adam, buried there according to ancient tradition. Christ’s sacrifice fulfilled what was begun in Adam, reversing the curse and restoring grace.” (Letter 46) 

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The Place of the Skull (Golgotha)

“They came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of the Skull).” (Matthew 27:33, Mark 15:22, Luke 23:33, John 19:17)

From “The Place of the Skull: Memory and Myth in the Chapel of Adam” by Theresa May:

Last spring, entering the Holy Sepulcher for the first time, I felt none of that tumultuous thrill of recognition as I stepped into the quiet, unadorned, and unfrequented chapel that claims to house the bones of that “blood relation.” As crowds of pilgrims hurried to venerate the rock of Golgotha in the chapel above, I gazed at the crack in the wall where a reddish hue lingers from the blood that ran down from a Cross and onto the skull of the first created human being—or so the legend goes.

Dating in some form to the seventh century, the Chapel of Adam lies directly beneath Golgotha, built into and around the cracked stone that forms the hill where the Gospels record the crucifixion and death of Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews.  

 

From Bein Harim Tourism Services:

Adam’s Skull 

The name Calvary or Golgotha means “Place of the Skull” which could refer to the shape of the hill, the execution site, or Adam’s skull buried below. This location inspired the liturgical image of a skull at the foot of Christ’s cross. The skull at the foot of Christ’s cross reminds us that man’s redemption was brought by Christ’s death and resurrection. Jewish tradition also holds that Adam’s skull was buried here. According to Exodus 14:18, Noah passed the skull to his son, Shem, and then to Melchizedek, the priest-king of Jerusalem who buried Adam’s remains at the foot of Golgotha.  The tomb of Melchizedek once lay in the cave but was destroyed by fire in 1808. The site is sometimes called the Chapel of Melchizedek.

Hill of Golgotha Above and The Cave of Adam Below 

Today the Cave of Adam and the Hill of Golgotha are within the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and no longer resemble a cave or a hill. Since the 4th century, chapels have marked these sacred locations. Fission in the rock of Golgotha runs vertically directly down to the Chapel of Adam below.  Tradition holds that when Christ was crucified at Calvary there was an earthquake (Matthew 27:51) that split the Rock of Calvary.  Christ’s blood then trickled down the rock along the crack onto Adam’s remains buried below. The blood of the Savior redeeming Adam from original sin, as it redeems all mankind. This site connects the First Adam with the second or New Adam (Jesus)."

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John-Henry is the co-founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of LifeSiteNews.com. He and his wife Dianne have eight children and they live in the Ottawa Valley in Ontario, Canada.

He has spoken at conferences and retreats, and appeared on radio and television throughout the world. John-Henry founded the Rome Life Forum, an annual strategy meeting for life, faith and family leaders worldwide. He is a board member of the John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family. He is a consultant to Canada’s largest pro-life organization Campaign Life Coalition, and serves on the executive of the Ontario branch of the organization. He has run three times for political office in the province of Ontario representing the Family Coalition Party.

John-Henry earned an MA from the University of Toronto in School and Child Clinical Psychology and an Honours BA from York University in Psychology.

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Our faith is amazing, isn't it!!

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Study: Nearly 400 Million Christians Persecuted Globally, Islamism And Communism Main Drivers!!!

 We are talking about a real red martyrdom here...

With all the complaining about public and private issues affecting our country, we have, so far, escaped a Jihad (holy war) against those of us who are Catholic/Christian.

We can go to Mass/Church.  We can pray in public if we wish.  We can worship our good God and Lord the way He wants to be worshiped without being subject to state interference (so far, that is).  We can attend the traditional Latin Mass of the ages (but that is being severely restricted by the enemies from within).  We hope and pray that our new leaders will be more God-fearing than the last anti-Christ apostates who have occupied the Oval Office over the past four years, etc...

With being said, we also must acknowledge that attacks on churches including vandalism, and outright destruction is not unheard of in the land of the free and the home of the brave, and the lack of arrests and trials further emboldens those responsible for such crimes.

In various parts of the Islamic and communist dominated countries -- especially Red China and North Korea -- Christian persecution and martyrdom has been increasing as this report from the Christian aid organization Open Doors published its annual World Watch List, sadly indicates.

From an article from breitbart.com and written by Frances Martel

Study: Nearly 400 Million Christians Persecuted Globally, Islamism and Communism Main Drivers

"The Christian aid organization Open Doors published its annual World Watch List – a ranking of the most dangerous places in the world to practice the Christian faith – on Wednesday, which found that 380 million Christians around the world face severe persecution.

Christian persecution – which Open Doors defines as “any hostile action toward a person or community motivated by their identification with the person of Jesus Christ” – is particularly prevalent in countries with widespread Islamist terrorism or run by communist regimes. Of the top ten countries on the World Watch List, Islamic radicalism is the driver of persecution in eight of them, while the other two, North Korea and Eritrea, are under the yoke of communist regimes.

Of the 380 million Christians facing persecution, in many cases including deadly attacks, 310 million of them are in the top ten nations on the list. Half of these countries are in Africa and three are in the Middle East. Afghanistan is in South Asia; North Korea is an outlier in the Far East region, though bordering the number 15 country on the list, its longtime patron China.

The number of Christians facing violence, displacement, arrest, sexual violence, or other persecution around the world has steadily increased throughout the 2020s. This year’s tally is 20 million more Christians than the total Open Doors identified in the 2022 edition of its study. In 2020, Open Doors estimated that 260 million Christians faced “high levels of persecution.”

The 2025 edition of the World Watch List covers the events of 2024 – which included a rapid increase in radical Islamic terrorism in the African Sahel region, the spread of Chinese influence in several top repressor countries, and the seizure of power in Syria by the al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).

Map courtesy of Open Doors

North Korea has been the most dangerous country in the world to practice Christianity on the Open Doors list 23 times since the organization began publishing its annual study in 1991. It has taken the top title in most years of the past decade with the notable exception being the 2022 list – which covers the events of 2021, when the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan. The country is run by a totalitarian communist regime in which citizens are forced to worship the ruling Kim family as gods.

“If your Christian faith is discovered in North Korea, you will either be immediately executed or deported to a horrendous labor camp that few survive,”  Open Doors detailed. “The Kim regime relies on tightly controlling people’s behavior and beliefs. In early 2024, they announced stricter regulations against outside influences. It has been reported that about 30 teenagers were executed just for watching a South Korean drama last year.”

Despite this, Open Doors estimates that as many as 400,000 people persist in worshipping Jesus in North Korea.

Africa has surfaced as a major focal point in the fight against religious intolerance.

“According to Open Doors research, over 90% of Christians killed for their faith last year were in sub-Saharan Africa, and 3,100 believers were killed in Nigeria alone,” the organization noted, adding that many of the countries facing the most intense persecution are also home to large Christian populations.

“Nigeria, for example, has the biggest church auditoriums in the world. But that is in the south,” Open Doors observed. “In the north (and increasingly, the central) regions, Christians are in a minority, and radical Islamic groups, like Boko Haram, and Fulani militants can create havoc.”

Almost half, about 46 percent, of Nigeria is believed to be Christian.

The Sahel region, where several governments have fallen to sudden military coups under pressure from Islamist terrorists, has also seen an increase in Christian persecution. Chad appeared on the World Watch List this year for the first time, and countries such as Burkina Faso and Mali have become focal points of jihadist attacks on Christians.

In several Muslim countries on the persecution list, including number two Somalia, persecution takes the form not just of state oppression or terrorist violence but violence and isolation by Muslim families against Christian converts.

“Even at home, any suspicion you have come to faith in Christ can result in house arrest, forced marriage or threats to your life from your own family,” Open Doors observed on Somalia.

An outlier in Africa is Eritrea, where communism, rather than Islamism, is responsible for top-down repression of Christianity. In 2024, Open Doors noted, “government security forces have conducted house-to-house raids, sending hundreds of Christians to the notorious, inhumane prisons.”

“Eritrea is often called the ‘North Korea of Africa’ – phone calls and internet usage are heavily monitored, and Christians suffer the most,” it added.

Eritrea is run by a one-party Marxist dictatorship under the People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ) party. The country works closely with communist China, which has helped it expand its repressive technology and surveillance apparatus used to persecute Christians.

China itself appeared as number 15 on the list, slightly lower than other states due to the absence of Islamist violence and the existence of an “official” Christian church that only offers communist propaganda. Other notable countries on the list include India at number 11, where Hindu nationalism fuels repression; Iraq and Syria at 17 and 18, where Turkish jihadist proxies threaten Christians in Kurdish areas; and Yemen at number three, where the expansion of Houthi terrorism has made practicing the faith nearly impossible."

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Historic Survey Of Almost 16,000 Catholics On Real Presence Was Ignored By US bishops: Pollsters. This Time The News Was Good!!

 Wha a difference five years makes!!

From lifesitenews.com and written by LifeSiteNews staff

Tue Jan 14, 2025 - 11:36 am EST

"The results, released October 15, 2024, are fascinating. First, there were nearly 16,000 respondents, and 80 percent of the surveys were completed. More than 97 percent of those who responded attended Mass at least once a week, and 79 percent primarily attended the Mass of Paul VI (Novus Ordo) Mass. Also, 97 percent of those surveyed stated that they personally believed that Christ’s Real Presence is in the Holy Eucharist. This was in startling contrast to the 2019 Pew poll that found that only a third of professed Catholics believe in the Real Presence and fewer than half attend Mass every week."

Finally, some good news!  Real good news!

Historic survey of almost 16,000 Catholics on Real Presence was ignored by US bishops: pollsters - LifeSite

"(LifeSiteNews) — The Catholic organization that commissioned a historic survey of U.S. Catholics’ beliefs about Holy Communion is lamenting that American bishops have taken little interest in it.

In October 2024, when the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) were conducting two campaigns, the Vatican’s sponsored Synod on Synodality and their Eucharistic Revival, the Real Presence Coalition (RPC) published what it said was the single largest survey of lay Catholics ever completed in the USA.

“One would think that the ‘listening Church’ would be bending over backwards to ‘listen’ to the voices of thousands of lay Catholics on why they felt there had been a loss of faith in the Real Presence and their recommendations on how this problem could best be addressed,” said a member of the Coalition, who preferred to remain anonymous.

“One would think that the leaders of the Eucharistic Revival would be beating down the doors of the RPC to understand the thoughts of those who had been surveyed. But, alas, this was not the case. If fact, it seemed the bishops went out of their way to avoid hearing about the survey results.”

READ: Largest ever survey of US Catholics shows faithful want an end to Communion in the hand 

The results, released October 15, 2024, are fascinating. First, there were nearly 16,000 respondents, and 80 percent of the surveys were completed. More than 97 percent of those who responded attended Mass at least once a week, and 79 percent primarily attended the Mass of Paul VI (Novus Ordo) Mass. Also, 97 percent of those surveyed stated that they personally believed that Christ’s Real Presence is in the Holy Eucharist. This was in startling contrast to the 2019 Pew poll that found that only a third of professed Catholics believe in the Real Presence and fewer than half attend Mass every week.

The top five reasons those surveyed by the RPC believed were responsible for loss of faith in the Real Presence were the relatively new practice of receiving Holy Communion on the hand while standing, the scandal of Holy Communion being given to public sinners, lack of reverence toward the Eucharist on the part of both faithful and clergy, some clergy’s “casual attitude” toward the Blessed Sacrament, and a failure of catechesis, i.e. priests simply don’t teach the faithful about the Real Presence.

Those surveyed also chose their one preferred piece of advice for bishops to foster belief in the Real Presence. The most popular (29%) was encouraging the older practice of receiving Holy Communion on the tongue while kneeling. The runners-up were “Catechize the faithful” (24%) and “Encourage greater reverence for the Eucharist” (10%).

The RPC sent LifeSiteNews a timeline of their attempts to share this information with the USCCB:

• September 17, 2024: RPC members decided to publicly release the survey findings on October 15, 2024. RPC sent email to Bishop Andrew Cozzens, head of the USCCB Eucharistic Revival, offering to review the survey results with him personally prior to the public release.
• September 23: Bishop Cozzens responded to the email but declined the offer to review the survey results with him and suggested trying to schedule a discussion with Jason Shanks, the CEO of the National Eucharistic Congress.
• September 24: Jason Shanks declined the offer to review survey results prior to their publication, stating that he would review the findings once they were publicly released on October 15.
• October 5: RPC sent a message to Archbishop Timothy Broglio, head of the USCCB, offering to delay the public release of the survey findings if Archbishop Broglio would prefer for RPC to present the findings at the USCCB November Fall Meeting scheduled for November 11-14 in Baltimore. This would have given the bishops the opportunity to see the results prior to their public release.
• October 12: Archbishop Broglio contacted the RPC requesting the findings be emailed to him. The results were immediately sent to the archbishop, and he confirmed receipt. The email to Archbishop Broglio confirmed the results were scheduled to be publicly released on October 15 unless he specifically requested a delay in order to present the findings at the USCCB November meeting.
• October 15: Having received no further response from Archbishop Broglio, RPC released the results to the public. An open letter was also sent to all U.S. bishops reiterating the offer made to Archbishop Broglio to present the findings at the USCCB November meeting.
• October 24: Having received no response to the offer of presenting the survey findings at the USCCB meeting, RPC decided to organize its own private event in Baltimore across the street from the USCCB meeting on November 11. An invitation to the private event was sent to all 200 ordinary bishops in the United States. The event included cocktails, dinner, and a presentation by the pollster hired by RPC to assist with the study.
• November 8: Archbishop Broglio responded to the message sent to him on October 15, thanking us for sending him the survey and apologizing for not responding sooner. He sent his regrets for not being able to attend our private event on November 11.
• November 9: After sending a series of 3 emails and a facsimile message to 200 U.S. bishops, the results were as follows:
  • 5 bishops responded stating they planned to attend (2%),
  • 35 bishops responded by saying they would be unable to attend (18%), and
  • 159 bishops did not respond (80%).
• November 10: RPC sent a message to Archbishop Broglio offering to provide printed copies of the survey presentation to all bishops attending the general meeting.
• November 11: RPC received a message from Archbishop Broglio declining the offer of printed copies.
• November 11: A total of 5 bishops and 2 priests attended the RPC private event. Attendees asked good questions during the presentation and were highly complementary of the results.
• December 3: RPC sent a message to Bishop Andrew Cozzens offering to meet with him in person to review the survey findings as well as debrief the bishop on the comments made by the bishops who attended our November 11 event in Baltimore. There was no response from Bishop Cozzens as of January 1, 2025.

Vicki Yamasaki, Coalition member and chair of Corpus Christi for Unity and Peace, told LifeSiteNews that she “can’t begin to guess” why the USCCB isn’t enthusiastic about the survey. However, she hasn’t given up hope of collaborating with them to renew belief in the Real Presence.

“I want to emphasize our commitment to fostering open and respectful dialogue within the bishops,” Yamasaki said by email.

“Our Real Presence Survey, completed in July 2024, represents the voices of thousands of lay Catholics who are deeply concerned about the loss of faith in the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. We genuinely believe that the insights and recommendations from this survey can contribute positively to the ongoing efforts of the Synod on Synodality and the USCCB Eucharistic Revival.”

“While it has been challenging to engage with the leadership directly, we remain hopeful and steadfast in our desire to collaborate. We are grateful for any opportunity to share the findings and work together to find solutions to renewing belief in the Real Presence.”

Michael Hichborn, Coalition member and president of the Lepanto Institute, believes, however, that the USCCB have been “embarrassed” by the survey results, which suggest their recent Eucharistic revival efforts were based on a misunderstanding.

“Imagine spending tens of millions of dollars on an event predicated on misinformation,” he said to LifeSiteNews by email.

“The National Eucharistic Congress last summer was convened because of the false impression that the majority of Mass-attending Catholics do not believe in the True Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. What our survey shows is that this is not the case. The reality is that Mass-attending Catholics DO believe in the true presence of Christ in the Eucharist, while those who have stopped practicing the Faith are the ones who do not.”

“Furthermore, our survey provides real context for why those no longer practicing the faith no longer believe. As our survey shows, Communion in the hand, lack of Eucharistic reverence by clergy, the provision of Communion to pro-abortion politicians and other similar acts have been the primary factors in diminished belief. Given this, corrective measures by the bishops would require them to reverse long-standing permissions, which would be met with heavy resistance.”

Hichborn believes that the Eucharistic Congress was “a very expensive form of preaching to the choir” and what is needed is some old-fashioned missionary work.

“Sadly, an attitude of what I call ‘event Catholicism’ has overridden common sense,” he told LifeSiteNews. “Rather than spending tens of millions of dollars on big ‘flash in the pan’ events and campaigns, the bishops ought to be following the model of their predecessors: going into the communities themselves to preach, to teach, and to convene processions of their own. The restoration of the faith begins with zealous reverence for our Eucharistic Lord and the routine and public exposition of His Glory.”

The anonymous Coalition member who first alerted LifeSiteNews to the bishops’ lack of interest in the survey compared their reaction with Cardinal Blase Cupich’s recent attempt to stop Chicago Catholics from kneeling to receive the Blessed Sacrament.

“Catholic commentator Dr. Larry Chapp nailed it in his column reacting to Cardinal Cupich’s ban on kneeling to receive communion said it well,” he remarked and quoted Chapp’s opinion that the “letter from the Cardinal shows us is that for all the talk about a more ‘inclusive’ and ‘listening’ and ‘synodal’ Church, and for all the agitprop pontifications from folks like Cupich about how in a synodal Church the ‘people of God’ are ‘finally’ getting their say, all the rhetoric surrounding the Synod about listening to all voices is an empty sham.”

He believes that there are a number of reasons why the bishops have not responded to the survey: a lack of interest in “faithful Catholics who actually practice their faith”; not liking that the findings are contrary to modernist beliefs; not wanting to divert attention from their own Eucharistic Revival, or not wanting to “to legitimize a survey which exposes their knee-response to the 2019 Pew Study, resulting in a multi-million-dollar campaign that targeted the wrong people.”

LifeSiteNews reached out to the USCCB and to Shanks for comment but has not yet received a response."

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Now, why wouldn't the USCCB bishops take the advice of those surveyed, re-install communion rails, and have the faithful be allowed to receive the Holy Eucharist, kneeling and on the tongue?

Do you have the answer for that question??   I do...

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St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

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Unbelievable! A Stunning Rejection Of Church Teaching Regarding The Sin That Cries To Heaven For Vengeance: Pope Francis Says God Loves Homosexuals ‘As They Are’ In New Memoir

  Can Bergoglio actually believe this?? 

Unbelievable!  A Stunning Rejection Of Church Teaching Regarding The Sin That Cries To Heaven For Vengeance: Pope Francis Says God Loves Homosexuals ‘As They Are’ In New Memoir

I ask you to read this article from Francis' memoir and decide for yourself just what is going on here.

Why does he dwell on this un-natural sin -- opposite of what the Church teaches -- that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah?  Why does he favor those afflicted with this grievous sin?  Why does he support and encourage the likes of the "Jesuit", J. Martin, and his -- condemned -- "New Ways Ministry"?  Why doesn't he admonish and call to repentance those living in such disastrous relationships??

He never does...

Where there is smoke there is usually fire...

From lifesitenews.com and written by Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent

Tue Jan 14, 2025 - 2:29 pm EST

Pope Francis says God loves homosexuals 'as they are' in new memoir - LifeSite

"VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Expanding defense of the 2023 document approving blessing of same-sex couples, Pope Francis attested that such blessings are for “people” but “not the relationships.”

“It is the people who are blessed, not the relationships,” Pope Francis said of the blessings authorized by the controversial document Fiducia Supplicans.

Francis’ comments, found in his newly released memoir Hope, expand on his prior defense of the highly controversial document he signed that stated priests could offer blessings to couples of the same sex.

“Receptiveness, and certainly not relativism, nor any change of doctrine, is the spirit and heart of Fiducia supplicans,” Francis said.

Released in December 2023, the document caused widespread consternation throughout the entire Church and notable numbers of bishops rejecting the text. Demonstrating such resistance, emeritus prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) Cardinal Gerhard Müller wrote that “blessings” of homosexual couples constitute “blasphemy” and that the document is “self-contradictory.”

Indeed, only two years before in 2021, the CDF stated clearly that the Church does not have “power to give the blessing to unions of persons of the same sex.” The CDF wrote that it is “not licit to impart a blessing on relationships, or partnerships, even stable, that involve sexual activity outside of marriage (i.e., outside the indissoluble union of a man and a woman open in itself to the transmission of life), as is the case of the unions between persons of the same sex.”

But according to Francis in his memoir Hope, Fiducia’s approval of same-sex blessings “arises from the wish not to ascribe one situation or one condition to the entire life of those who seek to be illuminated and accompanied with a blessing.”

“Everyone in the Church is invited, including people who are divorced, including people who are homosexual, including people who are transgender,” he added, drawing on his now regular encounters with groups of transgender individuals at the Vatican. “The first time that a group of transgender people came to the Vatican, they left in tears, moved because I had taken their hands, had kissed them … As if I had done something exceptional for them. But they are daughters of God!”

It is unclear if Francis was referring to biological women or men who live as “transgender women” when he made this remark.

Francis has made similar defenses of Fiducia Supplicans on previous occasions, leading commentators to question how a differentiation can be made between blessing two people who present themselves for a blessing together as a couple and blessing the couple as a couple.

The Catholic Church teaches that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered” and “contrary to the natural law.” The Catechism is very clear that homosexual activity can never be approved and repeats that “(h)omosexual persons are called to chastity.”

But for Francis, such blessing of homosexual couples is an example of “pastoral open-mindedness”:

It is strange that nobody worries about the blessing of an entrepreneur who exploits people, and this is a grave sin, or about someone who pollutes our common home, while there’s a public scandal if the pope blesses a divorced woman or a homosexual.

Opposition to pastoral open-mindedness often uncovers these hypocrisies.

God loves you as you are

Shortly before Fiducia Supplicans’ release, Francis issued another document with his CDF prefect, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, about transgender individuals. In an apparent violation of canon law and established Church teaching, the pair wrote that transgender people who had undergone a “sex change” could be godparents at baptism.

READ: Pope Francis says ‘trans’ people can be godparents, homosexual ‘parents’ can have children baptized

Alluding to this text, Francis wrote in Hope that transgender individuals “can receive baptism on the same conditions as other believers and can perform the responsibilities of godparents on the same conditions as others, and likewise be witnesses to a marriage.”

“No provision of canonical law forbids it,” he claimed.

READ: Pope Francis’ ‘transsexual’ baptisms document is even more radical than it seems

Decrying laws against homosexuality, which are particularly prevalent in African nations, Francis said that homosexuality “is a human fact” to which the Church must not respond “faintheartedly.”

The Pope also appeared to suggest that there is no need for conversion away from the homosexual lifestyle because God “loves them as they are”:

God the Father loves them with the same unconditional love, He loves them as they are, and He accompanies them in the same way that He does with all of us, being close by, merciful, and tender.

Sexual sins

In 2016, Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia infamously contained a passage allowing for the divorced and “remarried” to approach and receive Holy Communion. After widespread consternation and requests for clarification from leading lay theologians and cardinals, Francis then affirmed to the bishops of Buenos Aires that this was indeed the intention of the document and that there were “no other interpretations.”

This was condemned by theologians and then the four dubia cardinals as being in direct opposition to the Catholic faith.

READ: EXCLUSIVE: New cardinal says banning divorced, ‘re-married’ from Communion an ‘enormous injustice’

Writing in Hope, Francis decried “resistance” to the text as based on “inadequate knowledge or some form of hypocrisy.”

He described the document as simply opening “the doors for new pastoral challenges in regard to the family and that note on the possibility of divorced people having access to the sacraments.”

“Sexual sins,” he said, “tend to cause more of an outcry from some people. But they are really not the most serious. They are human sins, of the flesh.”

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On the contrary, he continued, “the most serious … are the sins that have more ‘angelicity,’ that dress themselves in another guise: pride, hatred, falsehood, fraud, abuse of power.”

Though Francis has claimed that Fiducia Supplicans and Amoris Laetitia “opened the doors” of the Church, they have led to numerous Catholics – lay and clerical – to accuse the Pontiff of endangering the faith and of promoting heresy. Notwithstanding this, Francis has remained committed to his agenda as he now approaches his 12th anniversary of being pope."

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Yes, what are those motivations????

Pray for the conversion of Francis and for strength and honor!

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Gene DeLalla