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Pope Francis: Christ “Made Himself the Devil”

Steve Skojec

April 10, 2017

Francis is a sly and cunning liar.  He knows how to spin the tiniest bit of truth and cause you to be deceived.   You don’t have to worry, God loves everyone, He is the God of everyone no matter what idols you worship.  You don’t need Christ, everyone is going to heaven.  Even if you miss heaven there is no Hell, there will be no suffering, you just disappear.   These are just some of his horrendous blasphemous lies.  THE FOLLOWING ONE may top them all…   FRANCIS wants you to believe that JESUS CHRIST/ YAHUSHUAH HAMASCHIAH  BECAME SIN, BECAME THE FATHER OF LIES, BECAME THE DEVIL/the SERPENT on the the Cross!!  WHAT A PERVERSION OF GODS TRUTH AND PRECIOUS AND WONDERFUL PLAN OF SALVATION!

As a result of H. Reed Armstrong’s recent article on the influence of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Henri de Lubac on the thinking of the contemporary Church, I found myself perusing an analysis of von Balthasar’s “Delirious Hope that All be Saved” by Dr. Christopher Malloy, professor of theology at the University of Dallas.

In the midst of that essay, one particular paragraph stood out, because it jogged my memory about something almost entirely unrelated:

And as for the related claim that Jesus took on our sins themselves – not simply the punishment due to them – here we have Balthasar coming very close to supporting, if not outright supporting, the notion of penal substitution. Perhaps Balthasar avoids claiming the Christ truly became guilty, thus freeing himself from Luther’s blasphemy on this matter. But his assertion that Christ takes on damnation itself cannot square with the truth of hell. Hell is a place of sinful alienation, a place of aversion from the divine good. But Christ cannot become averse to the divine good. (On this topic, see Thomas Joseph White, “Jesus’ Cry on the Cross and His Beatific Vision” Nova et Vetera 5 (2007): 573-581.) The Catholic view regarding Christ’s act is that it was atonement, a vicarious act of satisfaction. By his loving obedience, Christ offered the Father a satisfaction sufficient for the forgiveness of infinitely many persons. Thus, he died for all. However, one must receive the fruit of this redemption by being justified in order to benefit from it. [emphasis added]

I went immediately and began searching the Internet to find Francis’ own words on this topic, which I recalled reading near the beginning of his papacy. I found the first instance here, at Vatican Radio, from June, 2013:

What is reconciliation? Taking one from this side, taking another one for that side and uniting them: no, that’s part of it but it’s not it … True reconciliation means that God in Christ took on our sins and He became the sinner for us. When we go to confession, for example, it isn’t that we say our sin and God forgives us. No, not that! We look for Jesus Christ and say: ‘This is your sin, and I will sin again’. And Jesus likes that, because it was his mission: to become the sinner for us, to liberate us. [emphasis added]

Further searching turned up another instance at the invaluable website, The Denzinger-Bergoglio (TDB),taken from the pope’s morning meditation on March 15, 2016:

And this is the Mystery of Christ. Paul, when speaking about this mystery, said the Jesus [sic] emptied himself, humiliated himself and destroyed himself in order to save us. And (what’s) even stronger, ‘he became sin’. Using this symbol, he became a serpent. This is the prophetic message of today’s reading. The Son of Man, who like a serpent, ‘became sin,’ is raised up to save us. […] the story of our redemption, this is the story of God’s love. If we want to know God’s love, let us look at the Cross, a man tortured, a God, emptied of his divinity, dirtied [stained] by sin. But at the same time, he concluded, a God who through his self-annihilation, defeats forever the true name of evil, that Revelation calls ‘the ancient serpent’.

Sin is the work of Satan and Jesus defeats Satan by ‘becoming sin’ and from there he lifts up all of us. The Cross is not an ornament or a work of art with many precious stones as we see around us. The Cross is the Mystery of God’s annihilation for love. And the serpent that makes a prophecy in the desert is salvation, it is raised up and whoever looks at it is healed. And this is not done with a magic wand by a God who does these things: No! This is done through the suffering of the Son of Man, through the suffering of Jesus Christ.

This strange imagery was therefore already fresh in my mind when it came to my attention that the pope had revisited this theme yet again in his morning meditation on Tuesday, April 4, 2017. The following excerpts are taken from a larger translation by Andrew Guernsey of a text as published in L’Osservatore Romano, which I will include in full below:

[T]he Pope stated, referring to the passage from the Book of Numbers (21:4-9), “Jesus reminds us of what happened in the desert and which we heard in the first reading.” It is the moment when “the weary people, the people who cannot endure the path, turns away from the Lord, speaks evil of Moses and of the Lord, and encounters those serpents which bite and cause the death.” Then “the Lord says to Moses to make a bronze serpent and raise it, and the person who suffers a wound of a serpent, and that looks at the one of bronze, will be healed.”

“The serpent,” the Pope continued, “is the symbol of wickedness, is the symbol of the devil: it was the most cunning of the animals in earthly paradise.” Because “the serpent is the one that is able to seduce with lies”, he is “the father of lies: this is the mystery.” But then “we have to look at the devil to save us? The serpent is the father of sin, the one that made humanity sin.” In reality, “Jesus says, ‘When I am lifted up, everyone will come to me.’ Obviously this is the mystery of the cross.”

“The bronze serpent healed,” said Francis, “but the bronze serpent was a sign of two things: the sin done by the serpent, the seduction of the serpent, the cunning of the serpent; and it was also the sign of the cross of Christ, it was a prophecy.” And “this is why the Lord tells them: ‘When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am.’ “So we can say,” the Pope affirmed, that “Jesus ‘made himself the serpent,’ Jesus ‘made himself sin,’ and he took upon himself all the filth of humanity, all the filth of sin. And he ‘made himself sin’, he made himself to rise up so that all the people might look at him, the people wounded by sin, us. This is the mystery of the cross and Paul says it: ‘He made himself sin’ and he took the appearance of the father of sin, the cunning serpent.”

“Those who did not look at the bronze serpent after being wounded by a snake in the desert,” the Pontiff explained, “died in sin, the sin of murmuring against God and Moses.” In the same way, “those who do not recognize the strength of God, who made himself sin to heal us, in that man who is lifted up, like the serpent, will die in their sin.” Because “salvation comes only from the cross, still from this cross on which God made himself flesh: there is no salvation in ideas, there is no salvation in good will, in the desire to be good.” In reality, the Pope insisted, “the only salvation is in Christ crucified, because only he, as the bronze serpent signified, was able to take all the venom of sin and he healed us there.”

“But what is the cross for us?” is the question posed by Francis. “Yes, it is the sign of Christians, it is the symbol of Christians, and we make the sign of the cross, but we do not always do it well, sometimes we do it so so … because we do not have this faith in the cross,” emphasized the Pope. The cross, then, he stated, “for some people is a badge of belonging: ‘Yes, I carry the cross to show that I am a Christian.’ ” And “It’s fine,” but “not just as a badge, as if it were a team, the badge of a team’; but [rather], said Francis, “as the memory of the man who made himself sin, who made himself the devil, the serpent, for us; he debased himself up to the point of totally annihilating himself.” [emphasis added]

Christ made himself the devil? 

The odd thing here is how close Francis actually is to the traditional teaching on the matter, but with a gut-wrenching twist. In the above-cited post at TDB, the Church’s understanding of this mystery is perhaps best explained in these excerpts from St. Thomas Aquinas…

– ‘He made him to be sin’, that is, ‘the victim of sacrifice for sin’
– ‘He made him to be sin’: that is, ‘he made him assume mortal and suffering flesh’
– ‘He made him to be sin’: that is, ‘made him regarded a sinner’

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– In Christ there was no proneness towards evil, much less could there be sin

And St. Augustine:

What are the biting serpents? Sins, from the mortality of the flesh. What is the serpent lifted up? The Lord’s death on the cross. For as death came by the serpent, it was figured by the image of a serpent. The serpent’s bite was deadly, the Lord’s death is life-giving. A serpent is gazed on that the serpent may have no power. What is this? A death is gazed on, that death may have no power. […] Meanwhile brethren, that we may be healed from sin, let us now gaze on Christ crucified; for ‘as Moses,’ says He, ‘lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up; that whosoever believes in Him may not perish, but have everlasting life.’ Just as they who looked on that serpent perished not by the serpent’s bites, so they who look in faith on Christ’s death are healed from the bites of sins. But those were healed from death to temporal life; while here He says, ‘that they may have everlasting life.’ Now there is this difference between the figurative image and the real thing: the figure procured temporal life; the reality, of which that was the figure, procures eternal life. (Saint Augustine of Hippo. Tractates on the Gospel of Saint John, XII, 11)

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This Word of God made flesh and dwelt amongst us. […] This was the way in which, though immortal, he was able to die; the way in which he chose to give life to mortal men: he would first share with us, and then enable us to share with him. Of ourselves we had no power to live, nor did he of himself have the power to die. In other words, he performed the most wonderful exchange with us. Through us, he died; through him, we shall live. The death of the Lord our God should not be a cause of shame for us; rather, it should be our greatest hope, our greatest glory. In taking upon himself the death that he found in us, he has most faithfully promised to give us life in him, such as we cannot have of ourselves. He loved us so much that, sinless himself, he suffered for us sinners the punishment we deserved for our sins. How then can he fail to give us the reward we deserve for our righteousness, for he is the source of righteousness? How can he, whose promises are true, fail to reward the saints when he bore the punishment of sinners, though without sin himself? Brethren, let us then fearlessly acknowledge, and even openly proclaim, that Christ was crucified for us; let us confess it, not in fear but in joy, not in shame but in glory. (Saint Augustine of Hippo. Sermon Guelf 3 from the Office of Readings, Monday of Holy Week)

The shift is subtle, but perceptible. Christ did not literally become sin, or a sinner.Christ bore the punishment for our sins, taking on mortal flesh so that he could redeem us from sin. Christ did not literally become the devil, or even take on the form of the serpent. In Numbers 21:5-9, we see the origin of this imagery:

And speaking against God and Moses, they said: Why didst thou bring us out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, nor have we any waters: our soul now loatheth this very light food.Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which bit them and killed many of them. Upon which they came to Moses, and said: We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and thee: pray that he may take away these serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. And the Lord said to him: Make brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: whosoever being struck shall look on it, shall live.Moses therefore made a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: which when they that were bitten looked upon, they were healed.

Christ, like the bronze serpent of Moses, took the form of that which brought death to his people — the form of Adam. He was then raised up in the form of that which caused the evil, like the bronze serpent was raised up, to heal us of our sins. TDB cites Theophylus of Antioch as quoted by St. Thomas on this theme:

See then the aptness of the figure. The figure of the serpent has the appearance of the beast, but not its poison: in the same way Christ came in the likeness of sinful flesh, being free from sin.By Christ’s being lifted up, understand His being suspended on high, by which suspension He sanctified the air, even as He had sanctified the earth by walking upon it. Herein too is typified the glory of Christ: for the height of the cross was made His glory for in that He submitted to be judged, He judged the prince of this world; for Adam died justly, because he sinned; our Lord unjustly, because He did no sin. So He overcame him, who delivered Him over to death, and thus delivered Adam from death. And in this the devil found himself vanquished, that he could not upon the cross torment our Lord into hating His murderers:but only made Him love and pray for them the more.In this way the cross of Christ was made His lifting up, and glory. (Theophylus of Antioch quoted by Saint Thomas Aquinas. Catena Aurea on Jn 3:14–15)

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Romans 3:10-12  ¹⁰As it is written:

“There is no one righteous, not even one; ¹¹ there is no one who understands;there is no one who seeks God.
¹²All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”^[a]
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Jeremiah 17:9

⁹ The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

¹⁰ I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

Jeremiah 9

9 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

² Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

³ And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil,and they know not me, saith the Lord.

⁴ Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

⁵And they will deceive every one his neighbour,and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

⁶Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord.

⁷ Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

⁸ Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

⁹ Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

¹⁰ For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

¹¹ And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

¹² Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?

¹³ And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;

¹⁴ But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

¹⁵ Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

¹⁶ I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

heathen  Old English hæðen “not Christian or Jewish,” also as a noun, “heathen man, one of a race or nation which does not acknowledge the God of the Bible” (especially of the Danes), merged with Old Norse heiðinn (adj.) “heathen, pagan,” from Proto-Germanic *haithana- (source also of Old Saxon hedhin, Old Frisian hethen, Dutch heiden, Old High German heidan, German Heiden), which is of uncertain origin.

Strong’s Concordance defines heathen in this manner:

gentile (n.) “one who is not a Jew,” c. 1400; earlier “one who is not a Christian, a pagan” (late 14c.), from Late Latin noun use of Latin gentilis “of the same family or clan, of or belonging to a Roman gens,” from gens (genitive gentis) “race, clan” (from PIE root *gene- “give birth, beget,” with derivatives referring to procreation and familial and tribal groups).

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Psalm 2

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

 

Isaiah 59

59 Behold, the Lord‘s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:

² But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

³ For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

⁴ None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

⁵ They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

⁶ Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

⁷ Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

⁸ The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings:they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

Genesis 6:5&6

⁵ And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

⁶ And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

 

Romans 3:23

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Romans 5:12

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Ezekiel 37:23

Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions:but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them

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NOW you KNOW, that without GOD ALL HUMANS ARE EVIL.  Their heart is full of evil.  Every thought of humans without God is only evil all day long.  They cannot discern what is right and good.  They are slaves to SIN and DEATH.  

Listen to the Pope at the beginning of this next video.  He will tell you that all people are GOOD.  Their hearts are GOOD.  THIS IS A LIE!!   He will also tell you that everyone is a child of God and that all religions lead to the same GOD.   THIS IS ALSO A LIE!!  

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Pope Francis Reveals the Antichrist!!! – Jason A.

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Pope Francis Reveals the Antichrist!!! – Jason A. on October 20th, 2024. UTL COMMENT:- Sorry to all Catholics out there but your Pope is without question an agent of Satan. So….what will YOU do about that? Sit there and do nothing? Speak up with your church community….then approach en masse your church leaders…..start a rebellion!!! Too many pedo’s in your church and many other non-Catholic churches for that matter. Get your local church cleaned out then the entire Vatican cleaned out!!!! (Note – I am seeing other church denominations to be agents of the NWO as well….the Uniting church, Baptist church, Lutheran Church and many others!!! Just look at the dumb signs sometimes outside these churches!!). ————————————————- Source: “Jason A” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm4kXmCFxCw ———————————————— Mirror From “:” UNDERSTANDING THE LIES https://old.bitchute.com/channel/right_wing_nuclear_armed_aussie/

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The Pope tells the world they do not need JESUS to be included in the family of God and granted salvation.  At the same time he says they need MARY, and exalts her to the level of MOTHER OF GOD and calls her the ROAD TO GOD.

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Mary as the road that we must travel in order to reach God?

According to Pope Francis:

Mary is not only the bridge joining us to God; she is more. She is the road that God travelled to reach us, and the road that we must travel in order to reach him.

Yes, Pope Francis has said that Mary is a key figure in salvation, and that she is the “Woman of salvation”:

• The road to Jesus

  Pope Francis has said that Mary is the road that God took to reach us, and the road that we must take to reach Him. He has also said that Mary is an example of how to keep our hearts pure and cultivate our prayer.

• The Mother of the Church

  Pope Francis has said that Jesus entrusted Mary to us as a mother, and that we are all gathered under her mantle. He has also said that Mary is the Mother of the Church, and that her maternal tenderness reaches out to all people.

• The Sorrowful Mother

  Pope Francis has said that Mary is the Sorrowful Mother, and that her maternal tenderness reaches out to all people. He has also said that Mary is always present at the bedside of her children when they depart this world.

• The mother of forgiveness

  Pope Francis has also referred to Mary as the “mother of forgiveness”.
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MARY AS THE HODEGETRIA /SHE WHO GUIDES THE WAY
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The word “Hodegetria” is Greek and means “She Who Shows the Way“. It refers to a type of icon that depicts the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child and gesturing toward him, guiding the viewer to Jesus. 

The term comes from the Greek word odēgoí, which means “guides”. The original Hodegetria icon was kept in the Hodegoi monastery in Constantinople, named after the Greek word for “guides”. The icon was destroyed in 1453 when the Ottomans took Constantinople. 

Here are some other facts about Hodegetria icons: 

• The earliest surviving example of a Hodegetria icon is probably from the 7th century. 
• The icon’s model is considered miraculous and belongs to the Hodegon Monastery of Constantinople.
• Over time, artists created many variants of the icon, changing the position of the hands and softening the position of the figures. 
• The Italian tradition of Hodegetria icons spread to Malta in the 16th century.
• The church of Santa Maria Odigitria al Tritone in Rome is named after the Hodegetria

 excerpts from:
What Catholics Must Believe About the Blessed Virgin Mary

As we explore Marian doctrine, we will look to this single deposit to see what the Church infallibly teaches.

Dogma and Doctrine – What’s the Difference?

Some of the doctrines contained in the deposit of faith are dogmas. A dogma is a truth proclaimed by the Church to which the Christian owes “an irrevocable adherence of faith.” (CCC, 88) In other words, dogma is not up for debate; it is something a Catholic must believe. Dogmas are essential. They serve as “lights along the path of faith; they illuminate it and make it secure.” (CCC, 89) Without them, we wouldn’t know what to believe; we would be left in darkness and in error.

That said, not everything in the deposit of faith, nor everything a Catholic believes about the Blessed Mother, is dogma. We must also bear in mind that, “in Catholic doctrine there exists a ‘hierarchy’ of truths, since they vary in their relation to the fundamental Christian faith.” (CCC, 90) Simply put, some truths of the Faith are more important than others. This applies to Marian doctrine as well; some teachings are dogma, but other truths exist lower in the hierarchy and therefore do not require the same assent of faith.

The Four Marian Dogmas

With that clear, let’s return to the question posed earlier: what must a Catholic believe about the Blessed Virgin Mary? There are four Marian dogmas: Mary’s Divine Motherhood, Immaculate Conception, Perpetual Virginity, and Bodily Assumption. Holy Mother Church says that these are divinely revealed truths to which the faithful must adhere.

Before diving into each dogma individually, it’s natural for one to ask how it is that the Church pronounces these four Marian dogmas, especially here in East Texas where many of our dialogue partners will be approaching the issue and weighing our evidence from a sola scriptura perspective. I find the following paragraph of the Catechism critical: “What the Catholic faith believes about Mary is based on what it believes about Christ, and what it teaches about Mary illumines in turn its faith in Christ.” (CCC, 487) Even in the structure of the Catechism we see this: in order to find the teachings on Mary, one must look in the Christology section. What we know about Mary is informed by what we know of our Lord Jesus Christ from Scripture and Tradition, and as taught by the Magisterium.

Divine Motherhood: Mary is the Mother of God

The first Marian dogma to be promulgated is that of Mary’s Divine Motherhood. The Council of Ephesus said in AD 431: “If anyone does not confess that the Emmanuel (Christ) in truth is God and that on this account the Holy Virgin is the Mother of God (Θεοφόρος) since according to the flesh she brought forth the Word of God made flesh, let him be anathema.”¹

The council bestowed upon Mary the Greek title Theotokos, which translates into English as “God-bearer.” To understand this dogma, it helps to refer back to the Catechism, paragraph 487, to reiterate that our Catholic understanding of Mary is formed by what we know about Christ. All Christians profess Jesus Christ to be the Divine Second Person of the Holy Trinity: Jesus is God. Mary is the mother of Jesus. Therefore, it logically follows that “as the Mother of the Son of God, Mary is the Mother of God.”²

The Immaculate Conception: Mary is Without Original Sin

The dogma of the Immaculate Conception refers to the conception of Mary without the stain of original sin. Pope Pius IX’s Ineffabilis Deus solemnly defined thisteachingon December 8, 1854. We read the following from the apostolic constitution:

We declare, pronounce, and define that the doctrine which holds that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instance of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin, is a doctrine revealed by God and therefore to be believed firmly and constantly by all the faithful.

This infallible pronouncement by Pius IX dogmatized what was already a widely-held belief by the faithful since the early Church—a textbook example of the sensus fidelium, that is, the “supernatural appreciation of faith” possessed by the whole body of the faithful. (CCC, 92) With this unique and singular grace given to Mary, God “stacked the deck” for her particular vocation to be the mother of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Sacred Scripture does not explicitly reveal the Immaculate Conception. It is, however, understood to be implicit in the Protoevangelium (Gen. 3:15) and the Angelic Salutation and Elizabeth’s greeting to Mary in St. Luke’s Gospel.³

Perpetual Virginity: Before, During and After the Birth of Jesus

The dogma of Mary’s Perpetual Virginity maintains that Our Lady was a virgin ante partum, in partu, et post partum (before, during, and after the birth) of Jesus. Scriptural accounts of Sts. Matthew and Luke inform us that a virgin named Mary conceived and bore a child Jesus by the Holy Spirit. The virgin birth was believed by the earliest Christians and professed up and down the centuries in the various creeds of the Church. Since the Scriptural accounts directly attest to this truth, no Christian—Protestants included—questions the virgin birth.

The part that meets resistance is the Catholic understanding that Mary also remained a virgin her entire life. There was some disagreement over this belief among the early Church Fathers, although it was held by many, such as Origen, St. Ambrose, and St. Augustine.⁴ The Second Council of Constantinople in 553 defined the dogma and settled the matter once and for all by bestowing upon Mary the title Aeiparthenos, or, Perpetual Virgin.

Mary remaining a virgin during the birth of Jesus simply means that her physical integrity and purity remained intact: Mary did not suffer harm to her body when giving birth. As put by the Church Fathers, the miraculous virgin birth was like light passing through glass. In Lumen Gentium  we read that Jesus’ birth  “did not diminish his mother’s virginal integrity but sanctified it.” (Lumen Gentium, 57)

The Assumption: Mary was Assumed Body and Soul into Heaven

The most recent Marian dogma is the Assumption, promulgated in 1950, by Pope Pius XII in his apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus: “We proclaim and define it to be a dogma revealed by God that the immaculate Mother of God, Mary ever virgin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into the glory of heaven.”⁵

We can understand this belief by considering the entirety of Mary’s life and in light of the dogmas previously expounded upon. Free from sin, graced with divine motherhood, and bodily pure and entirely for the God-man, Mary is uniquely elevated above all other creatures. It’s fitting that, at the end of her life, she would not be subject to the same bodily corruption as everyone else.

There remains some debate as to whether or not Mary first died a normal human death. The Eastern Churches celebrate the Dormition of the Mother of God, the “falling asleep” of Mary before her Assumption.  However, what is important—and what must be believed—is that Mary was assumed, body and soul, into heaven to be at the right hand of her Divine Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.

Devotion to the Blessed Mother

Mary’s essential role in Christianity is made clear by the dogmas of her Divine Motherhood, Immaculate Conception, Perpetual Virginity, and Bodily Assumption. To our friend who wants to know the minimum he must believe about Mary, it is those four things. And from even a cursory glance at these dogmas, it should be abundantly clear that we need Mary. (She is like the ice cream, not the unnecessary cherry, of a sundae.)
SOURCE: What Catholics Must Believe About the Blessed Virgin Mary
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The following post will help you to understand where POPES come from as well as the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.

REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE – As Prophesied – Part 1

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UNDERSTANDING THE LIES

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Portrait of Pope Paul VI which he himself approved.

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staff (n.)

Middle English staf, “stick or pole,” especially one about 5 or 6 feet long and carried in the hand, from Old English stæf (plural stafas), “walking stick, strong pole used for carrying, rod used as a weapon, pastoral staff,“ probably originally *stæb, from Proto-Germanic *stab- (source also of Old Saxon staf, Old Norse stafr, Danish stav, Old Frisian stef, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch staf, Old High German stab, German Stab, Gothic *stafs “element;” Middle Dutch stapel “pillar, foundation“).

This is reconstructed to be from PIE root *stebh- “post, stem, to support, place firmly on, fasten”(source also of Old Lithuanian stabas “idol,” Lithuanian stiebas “staff, pillar;” Old Church Slavonic stoboru “pillar;” Sanskrit stabhnati “supports;” Greek stephein “to tie around, encircle, wreathe,” staphyle “grapevine, bunch of grapes;” Old English stapol “post, pillar”). It is thus thought to be not connected to stiff.

Many extended senses are from the notion of “that which upholds or supports, that which sustains” such as staff of life “bread,” from the Biblical phrase break the staff of bread meaning “cut off the supply of food” (Leviticus xxvi.26), translating Hebrew matteh lekhem. As “pole from which a flag is flown,” 1610s. In reference to the horizontal lines in musical notation, from 1660s.

Sense of “group of military officers that assists a commander but are not in charge of troops” is attested from 1702, apparently from German, from the notion of the baton that is a badge of office or authority (a sense attested in English from 1530s); hence staff officer (1702), staff-sergeant (1811). In this sense staffs is the usual plural. The meaning “group of employees (as at an office or hospital)” is attested by 1837.

Old English stæf, in plural, was the common word for “letter of the alphabet, character,” hence “writing, literature,” and its use in Old English compounds having to do with writing, such as stæfcræft “grammar,” stæfcræftig “lettered,” stæflic “literary,” stæfleahtor “grammatical error,” with leahtor “vice, sin, offense.”
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Stang

sting (v.)

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The Witches’ Stang

The stang is the central tool and main altar of our tradition.A stang, in its most basic form is simply a forked stick set with its long end into the ground. It acts as an axis on which magic can turn, and as a pole that can be “ridden” by the shaman or witch into different realms.Its forks represent the horns of the Witch Lord.

The stang entered modern Craft by the hand of Robert Cochrane, who called it as “sacred to the People as the Crucifix is to the Christians.”I’ve written about Cochrane’s use of the stang in my July 2011 post on Treading the Mill.

The stang is sometimes represented by a iron-tined pitchfork or a pole with the skull of a horned beast on it.Often in these configurations there will be a candle or torch lit between the two horns or tines, in the style of the icon of Baphomet, or as is shown in this woodcut from 1594 of a sabbat at Treves.

The Horned God with the cunning light between his horns.

Any wood is suitable for use as a stang, although ash, with its connections to Yggdrasill, the tree on which Odin was hung shaman-like for nine days, is a popular choice. Our own stang is based on Him that we honor as the Witch Lord, T’Qain. It is therefore represented by a ram’s skull.  It represents both His presence and the Spiral Castle.

Although not as popular as motif as, say, riding a broomstick, there are many examples of witches using the stang to fly in early woodcuts as is shown by the examples below.

Using the stang to carry a cauldron while riding backwards on a goat. It has all the things. 😉

A masked family flies out on their stang.

A witch and her demonic familiar fly to the clouds on a stang.

The stang has antecedents in the Yggdrasill of Norse lore, the Poteau Mitan of Haitian Voudon, and the ascending-pole birch tree of the Yakut shamans.  It is both a world-pillar on which the cosmos (represented by the witches compass) turns and a gandreigh.

The Gandreigh A gandreigh is a riding pole used to fly out astrally to access different realms.  The gandreigh can be a broom, a staff, a stang, or even a wand that the rider uses to send forth a fetch for the astral body to inhabit. The gandreigh is not used for physical flight through consensus reality, rather it acts as a world tree by which we can access levels of being through “flying” (or climbing) up and down the pole. In our tradition the world tree is symbolized by the Spiral Castle, although the stang, staff, or broom is a personal tool which acts as an expression of this energy.  It is the witches most personal tool and is usually destroyed upon a witch’s death or given as a kuthun.

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witch (n.)

Old English wicce “female magician, sorceress,” in later use especially “a woman supposed to have dealings with the devil or evil spirits and to be able by their cooperation to perform supernatural acts,” fem. of Old English wicca “sorcerer, wizard, man who practices witchcraft or magic,” from verb wiccian “to practice witchcraft”(compare Low German wikken, wicken “to use witchcraft,” wikker, wicker “soothsayer”).OED says of uncertain origin; Liberman says “None of the proposed etymologies of witch is free from phonetic or semantic difficulties.” Klein suggests connection with Old English wigle “divination,” and wig, wih “idol.”Watkins says the nouns represent a Proto-Germanic *wikkjaz “necromancer”(one who wakes the dead), from PIE *weg-yo-, from PIE root *weg- “to be strong, be lively.”Thatwicce once had a more specific sense than the later general one of “female magician, sorceress” perhaps is suggested by the presence of other words in Old English describing more specific kinds of magical craft. In the Laws of Ælfred (c. 890), witchcraft was specifically singled out as a woman’s craft, whose practitioners were not to be suffered to live among the West Saxons:

Ða fæmnan þe gewuniað onfon gealdorcræftigan & scinlæcan & wiccan, ne læt þu ða libban.

The other two words combined with it here are gealdricge, a woman who practices “incantations,” and scinlæce “female wizard, woman magician,”from a root meaning “phantom, evil spirit.”

Another word that appears in the Anglo-Saxon laws is lyblæca “wizard, sorcerer,” but with suggestions of skill in the use of drugs, because the root of the word is lybb “drug, poison, charm” (see leaf (n.)).Lybbestre was a fem. word meaning “sorceress,”and lybcorn was the name of a certain medicinal seed (perhaps wild saffron). Weekley notes possible connection to Gothic weihs “holy” and German weihan “consecrate,” and writes, “the priests of a suppressed religion naturally become magicians to its successors or opponents.” Whatever the English word’s origin, the use of a “poisoner” word for “witch, sorceress” parallels that of the Hebrew word used for “witch, sorceress” in the Levitical condemnation.

In Anglo-Saxon glossaries, wicca renders Latin augur (c. 1100), andwicce stands for “pythoness, divinatricem.”In the “Three Kings of Cologne” (c. 1400) wicca translates Magi:

Þe paynyms … cleped þe iij kyngis Magos, þat is to seye wicchis.

The glossary translates Latin necromantia (“demonum invocatio”) with galdre, wiccecræft. The Anglo-Saxon poem called “Men’s Crafts” (also “The Gifts of Men”) has wiccræft,which appears to be the same word, and by its context means “skill with horses.” In a c. 1250 translation of “Exodus,” witches is used of the Egyptian midwives who save the newborn sons of the Hebrews: “Ðe wicches hidden hem for-ðan, Biforen pharaun nolden he ben.”

Witch in reference to a man survived in dialect into 20c., but the fem. form was so dominant by 1601 that men-witches or he-witch began to be used. Extended sense of “old, ugly, and crabbed or malignant woman” is from early 15c; that of “young woman or girl of bewitching aspect or manners” is first recorded 1740. Witch doctor is from 1718; applied to African magicians from 1836.

At this day it is indifferent to say in the English tongue, ‘she is a witch,’ or ‘she is a wise woman.’ [Reginald Scot, “The Discoverie of Witchcraft,” 1584]

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This first two images are of what seems to be Francis’ favorite cross to carry.  It always struck me as being a very dark, ugly, humiliating image of our Lord and the “cross” itself is misshapen, bent and crude.
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This second one I have not seen him carry but the image came up in my search.  I post it here because of the imagery.  First of all Francis is wearing the miter hat of the fish god DAGON.   The cross itself is once again misshapen/bent.  It is two toned  blue/beige or gold.  The front of the cross bar is painted in two tones white an blue with a fish at each end.  The heart in the middle straddles the line formed where the two colors come together at a slant.  Representing duality as in the ying and yang.  The theme of the hat and the cross is Marine/Sea/Dagon.
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This next image is of the staff mentioned in the video.  Given to Francis by some women/wiccans.  Apparently he has been carrying it for years at his Synods.  It is CLEARLY a Witches STANG.  For spell casting and connecting with other realms and demonic spirits.   Note the nail piercing the two horns at the top.   And what does the carving just beneath where the two horns come together represent?  Is that a Madonna and child?    And what is the emblem on his shoulder in both photos?  Is that a crosshair (sign of MAMMON) with an arrow going through it?
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Wouldn’t that be wonderful…if the whole world came to know the TRUE FAITH and received the wonderful GIFT OF SALVATION!!   Sadly, that is not the RELIGION that POOP FRANCIS TEACHES.  He is after all the POPE OF ROME. He is not looking to HEAL the BODY OF CHRIST, he is looking to heal the deadly … Click Here to Read More

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