To The Age In answer to Michael Mansell (25/6) I suggest that, while the national anthem is a white people's production, it can still be shared today in 2019 by all Australians. Australia, as a nation, is certainly young by world standards; and our relative freedom is one of our greatest treasures. There is no "slight on Aboriginal people" in it; and no living Australian has "been here thousands of years." Aboriginals who "don't feel at all free" are surely a minority among their own people. It is not the anthem that is "divisive" but obsessed activists like Mansell whose actual words suggest that he wants indigenous separatism rather than a united Australian people. The great majority of Australians will never buy that and are happy to be part of a "euro-centric" country.
Nigel Jackson, Belgrave
Recently a revealing Tweet was made by the Democrat Senator Kamala Harris about Trump’s no doubt illusory claim to remove, maybe three illegals from Americas, while he of course is allowing the greatest invasion in US history to happen at the border. The Senator Tweeted in a sweet birdie voice:
“Let's call this what it is: an attempt to remake the demographics of our country by cracking down on immigrants. That this threat is coming from the President of the United States is deeply reprehensible and an affront to our values. We will fight this.”
I hate high tech with a passion, and all of this computer bs, and now do not have any phone at all, and feel much better for it too. Unfortunately, I still have to use a computer, the internet, to type up these diatribes, you know. But all of the technology, the mobile phones and everything that I do not know or care about, it is from the devil. Straight from hell; I kid thee not. And, why Mr Fanatic Reed, is that so? Because people are growing horns, and why else would they do that if not because they were becoming demons? I mean to say, how else could horns grow? I rest my case, for the proof of the devil’s pudding is in the eating, or the horns!
https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/human-body/younger-generations-are-growing-horns-in-the-back-of-their-head/news-story/246c5dfb45d39c8200c9052b4a841c6e
“Younger generations seem to be developing horns in the back of their skulls due to the extended use of technology like smartphones and tablets. Two Australian researchers made the bizarre discovery while examining hundreds of X-rays of people aged between 18 and 30, finding almost half had developed bone growths. They’re the kind of spurs normally seen in hunched-over elderly people who’ve subjected their bodies to long-term poor posture and significant stress loads on their bones. But the presence of the “horn-like” skull growths raise serious concerns about what extended use of phones is doing to young people’s bodies. The findings by Dr David Shahar and Associate Professor Mark Sayers at The University of the Sunshine Coast flew under the radar when they were published at the end of last year, two years after their initial warning about the trend. But a BBC article last week about how tech is changing the human body cited their research and saw an explosion in interest in the work. Dr Shahar said the study looked at 218 X-ray images of people aged between 18 and 30 and found 41 per cent had developed a “horn-like” bony lump at the back of their heads, ranging in size from 10 millimetres to 30 millimetres. Additional testing, including MRI scans, ruled out the possibility that the bone growths were the result of genetics or injury.”
There has been a lot published about a US bakery that scored a massive victory against a university. Here is the story summarised with most, but not all details:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-10/local-bakery-wins-11-million-after-oberlin-college-students-labeled-it-racist
“Ohio's Oberlin College has been a bastion of liberal activism virtually since its founding in 1833. It was the first interracial and first coeducational college in the US, and was once even home to a stop on the Underground Railroad. But in the heady modern political climate, Oberlin is known less for helping ferry runaway slaves to freedom in Canada, and more for an activist community that has condemned cafeteria food offerings as racist (because they're not authentic), questioned the value of teaching the western canon and pushed the necessity of safe spaces. One black female professor provoked a controversy in 2016 after she was fired for making incendiary statements like blaming Israel for 9/11. Soon, the school's black student union was condemning the school as an "unethical institution" and demanding that the professor be given tenure.
I have always admired the Japanese, and visited Japan a number of times to study karate and judo in the 1980s. I was treated poorly being white, and I hold no resentment against them whatsoever, for it was me who was the cultural invader, not them. Having a bit of money at the time (1980s) I obtained a first-class katana (Samurai sword) which I sold to a friend in Queensland, since swords in Victoria have been banned, showing how enlightened we are compared to the highly cultured Japanese. Anyway, things look bad for these noble folks too:
https://japantoday.com/category/national/nearly-50-of-japan's-singles-have-no-dating-prospects-gov't-survey
“Almost half of singles in Japan who wish to get married are unable to find a suitable partner, with 61.4 percent of the group stating they are not doing anything to change the situation, a government survey showed Tuesday. A lack of opportunity to meet an appropriate partner, or not having enough financial resources or ability to get along with the opposite sex are cited as major reasons in the outcome of the survey included in its annual report on Japan's declining birthrate that was approved by the Cabinet in the morning. The Cabinet Office online survey of around 4,000 men and women aged between 20 to 40 years old, conducted last December, found that 46.8 percent of respondents say they cannot find a suitable partner despite a desire to tie the knot. The outcome prompted the government to recognize the need to continue measures supporting marriage amid the country's rapidly aging population. A separate government survey released earlier this month showed the number of newborns in Japan hitting a record-low 918,397 in 2018, staying below the 1 million mark for the third year in a row. On Tuesday, the cabinet also approved an annual report on children and young people, in which it showed that 48.5 percent of 13- to 29-year-olds disagree that men should be the breadwinner while women stay at home, while 14.6 percent agree. The results of an online survey with 1,134 respondents, carried out last November and December, reflect a shifting mindset among Japan's youth. The same study conducted five years earlier showed 38.7 percent in disagreement and 22.3 percent in agreement."
The United States is undertaking cyber-attacks upon the Russian IT infrastructure, such as the power grid, threatening the stability of the nuclear industry, as well as hospitals and other crucial services. This is being done by malware.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/15/us/politics/trump-cyber-russia-grid.html
The “justification” for this is that Russia has done the same to the US, as well as working to prevent Queen Hillary from becoming president, the worst sin imaginable, even if it is not true. But, while every country does spying, there has never been evidence presented that Russia has inserted malware into US computer systems, to bring them down. Clearly this is technically an act of war, and could we blame Vlad the lad Putin for launching an arsenal of Satan II missiles on the US? Sure, he would be condemned if any one survives to condemn him, because this is insane clown world now, where nothing makes sense except the rush to extinction. I hope that the Deepers like to enjoy life in a radioactive wasteland, as Vlad has said that the Russians are quite willing to die if necessary, and go to Heaven, while most of the West will die and rot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmfMf4P0xTM
One of the issues never touched by nationalist groups is the survival of sub-racial groups within the white race, such as Nordics, although Alpines/Slavs and Mediterraneans are given more freedom to support their kind. This is seen to create a “division.” Yet, if races are worth preserving, then sub-races are as well and all of the arguments used to defend races can be applied to the sub-racial nihilists, seeking to create their oppressive form of homogeneity. This follows from a general critique of diversity:
http://www.amerika.org/politics/why-is-diversity-a-problem/
Nordics are most under attack, and in fact most of the pc bs we encounter is designed to bring down Northern European people and their descendants, who lack racial immunity to the disease of modernity. One aspect of fighting back, and tribal survival, is to re-establish historical links. Thus, it was once held that ancient civilisations such as Egypt, Greece and Rome had a Nordic foundation. This idea was attacked by the same group of equalitarian “intellectuals” who attacked the idea that races existed, screaming “racism.” Still, even though the politically correct now rule the institutions, some counter-elements still sometimes reach the surface:
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/785527/Tutankhamun-great-grandmother-coffin-ancient-Egypt-bombshell-blonde-hair-video
Sure, there has always been immigration, but before the era of political correctness, it was called what it really is, invasion:
https://vdare.com/articles/the-fulford-file-actually-there-has-always-been-migration-but-in-those-days-they-called-it-invading
A powerful article by Dissent Right journalist Ann Coulter along these themes, compares present day America to Ancient Rome and notes that the decline and fall of America is now well advanced:
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2019-05-22.html
Google has now exceeded itself in censorship banning use of the word “honk”:
https://summit.news/2019/06/10/facebook-says-using-the-word-honk-violates-its-community-standards/
“Facebook removed a post which consisted simply of the word “honk,” asserting that it was a violation of their community standards. Yes, really. The use of the word stems from the ‘clown world’ meme – a nihilistic position many on the right are taking in light of a society in the grip of ‘progressive’ degeneracy run amok. Apparently, it’s now verboten to even allude to the meme on Facebook. The fact that Facebook is now ruthlessly enforcing its far-left ideology across its own platform cannot be denied. Over the weekend, the Silicon Valley giant banned Natural News, which had 2.5 million followers on the platform, just hours after leftist website the Daily Beast published a hit piece against its owner Mike Adams. Last month, Facebook banned yours truly along with a number of other conservative commentators for no specific reason whatsoever. Facebook is now clearly operating as a publisher not a platform in violation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and is engaging in flagrant election meddling. Will the Trump administration do anything about it or will his base continue to be placated by meaningless tweets which aren’t followed by any real action?”
I am in such a state of mental decline due to psycho-political psychosis that I even typed my own name wrong, but I really like “Jammers,” so let it stay for today. I will even wear my baseball cap sideways, not back-to-front, starting a new trend, yeah, cool and other buzz words, like “global warming.” And speaking of buzz and fuzz, what’s new with the climate change hokum? Glad you asked:
https://www.2gb.com/alan-jones-hits-back-at-qa-climate-change-attack/
“Alan Jones has responded after being attacked on the ABC last night. Q and A featured a stacked panel of climate change scientists who went after Alan, despite him not even being on the panel. A question was asked by a television viewer, with CSIRO scientist Professor David Karoly responding with, “Not everything Jones says is factually accurate.” Despite admitting that many of Alan’s statistics are in fact correct, Professor Karoly continued the attack. “I am a climate scientist, and Alan Jones is wrong.” Alan has defended himself, saying it was a “stacked outfit” on the program, not designed for debate but to further their agenda. He also spoke with Swedish climate scientist Dr Nils Axel-Morner who says it’s “completely nonsense” to claim sea levels are rising and carbon is bad.”
Well, it was only a matter of time; Madonna the ageing popstar, wants to meet the Pope to convince him that Jesus would have supported abortion on demand. Perhaps the Pope would agree? Who knows, least of all him.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7153859/Madonna-says-shed-like-meeting-Pope-Francis-discuss-womans-right-choose.html
“Madonna revealed she would like a meeting with Pope Francis in a wide-ranging interview with Andrew Denton, which aired on Tuesday night. In a candid episode of Andrew Denton's Interview, the 60-year-old told the Australian journalist that she'd be interested in sitting down with the head of the Catholic Church at the Vatican to discuss what Jesus thought about women's rights. If she had a chance to speak to the pope, Madonna said she'd ask: 'Let's talk about Jesus' point of view about women. Let's talk about it.'”
Pigs worry me, not to upset any pig farmers out there; indeed, I grew up on a Victorian piggery, and love pigs, the smell is not so bad. I have even been known to eat a meat pie with sauce while at the old-style abattoirs markets. But there are a lot of diseases that can jump from pigs to humans, especially in China. Pigs are also highly vulnerable to disease in the tight living conditions they are put in:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-11/biggest-animal-disease-outbreak-ever-has-already-killed-millionsand-theres-no-way
“We have never seen an animal disease outbreak like this before, and it is rapidly getting worse. African Swine Fever, also referred to as “pig Ebola”, has already wiped out millions upon millions of pigs and it continues to spread to even more countries. There is no vaccine and there is no cure, and so essentially we don’t have any way to stop this disease. At this point, the only solution is to kill all the pigs wherever the virus is found and desperately hope that it doesn’t spread anywhere else. But that approach clearly hasn’t been working, and according to a recent Fox News report this epidemic has now become the “biggest animal disease outbreak we’ve ever had on the planet”… “This is the biggest animal disease outbreak we’ve ever had on the planet,” Dirk Pfeiffer, a veterinary epidemiologist at City University of Hong Kong and swine fever expert, said. “It makes the foot and mouth disease and [mad cow disease] outbreaks pale in comparison to the damage that is being done. And we have no way to stop it from spreading.”
China is the epicenter for this outbreak, and it is also home to half of all the pigs in the world. Actually, to be more accurate, I should say that it used to be home to half of all the pigs in the world. In a normal year, China slaughters approximately 700 million pigs. But according to Rabobank, that number will be down 30 percent this year due to this outbreak… Researchers at Rabobank are estimating that this year China will suffer a 30% loss in pork production as a result of ASF. To put that into perspective, that 30% loss in production is equivalent to Europe’s entire annual pork supply, and almost 30% larger than U.S. annual pork production. So let’s do some quick math. 30 percent of 700 million is 210 million. Let that sink in for a moment. 210 million pigs will be lost in China alone in 2019, and when you throw in the rest of the world we are talking about cataclysmic losses already and the outbreak is still getting worse. One of the primary reasons why this virus is so fearsome is because it survives just about anywhere and it is incredibly hard to kill…
The germ is hardy, capable of remaining active in water for a month, in meat and blood at room temperature for several months and for six years in cold, dark conditions. It’s resistant to temperature extremes, and can survive a day in vinegar-strength acids. Even if we had an effective treatment, attempting to eradicate this disease would be a complete and utter nightmare. But as I stated earlier, there is no vaccine and there is no cure. All we can do is keep killing pigs. But of course global demand for pork just continues to grow as the global population increases. So with increasing demand and rapidly falling supply, it was inevitable that pork prices would begin to rise substantially…
The implications of the outbreak are already being felt beyond Asia. Global pork prices have risen by almost 40%, and long term it is likely to lead to more pork imports from Europe and America to meet demand, which will also push up global meat prices. And what we have seen so far is just the beginning. In fact, China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs is now telling us that the price of pork is likely to rise 70 percent by the end of 2019. Of course if this disease continues to spread, we could be talking about an epidemic that could literally end the global pork industry as we know it today. Already, there is a tremendous amount of paranoia about the spread of this virus, and for good reason. In fact, the virus has been found “in Chinese pork products that were confiscated by customs officials in Japan, South Korea and Australia”…
But the virus has been in Chinese pork products that were confiscated by customs officials in Japan, South Korea and Australia, suggesting that the virus has permeated the food chain in China. And could it be possible that pork products tainted with the disease were able to slip through the inspection process in various countries? We don’t know. But what we do know is that African Swine Fever has been spreading all over Asia. It has now spread to Mongolia, Cambodia, Hong Kong, North Korea and Vietnam. In fact, it is now being projected that Vietnam will lose 10% of its pork production this year…
Rabobank is projecting that Vietnam, which in May mobilized its military in the fight against the disease, will lose 10% of its pork production. Today, pork accounts for three-quarters of all meat consumption in the nation of Vietnam. This disease is already a major national crisis in that country, and we are still in the very early stages of this outbreak. Meanwhile, this virus is starting to pop up in Europe as well. According to one report, the disease was just identified at a major pig farm in Poland…
A farm with more than 8,000 pigs in Poland has broke with African swine fever. According to the World Organization for Animal Health, the farm is located in Bielsk Podlaskie near the border with Belarus. And in Denmark, they have actually constructed a 43-mile border fence in order to keep out wild boar. It is a good thing that they are taking this threat so seriously, because African Swine Fever is incredibly deadly. Up to 90 percent of the pigs that catch the virus end up dead, and once it starts spreading on a pig farm it is inevitable that all of the survivors will have to be killed as well in order to help prevent the spread of the disease. Unfortunately, most people in the western world still don’t seem to understand the seriousness of what we are facing. Essentially, what we are dealing with is an existential threat to the entire global pork industry. And considering the fact that we really struggle to produce enough food for the entire planet in a good year, this should be a major wake up call for all of us.”
If pig Ebola does a species jump, as happens, we will have on hand an already distributed pandemic, resulting in the arrival of the long-awaited zombie apocalypse. After all, most people today are little more than slightly sophisticated pigs, or even battery chooks, living in the pens of modernity, I am sorry to say. Humanity would die like the pigs:
https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/healthprotection/fieldupdates/winter-2017/why-it-matters.html
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181101-the-mystery-viruses-far-worse-than-flu
First, listen to this song which celebrates the feminist revolution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drGx7JkFSp4
Now consider the real world:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7108281/Woman-reveals-shocking-toxic-femininity-shes-experienced-work.html
On a cold and miserable winter’s day, nothing beats a hot drink, a plate of bacon with eggs smeared over them, a cooked tomato sitting on the side of the pool, coy about diving intro to the gooey yellow protein joy … and a good UFO story. So, let’s go!
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-22/mystery-orbs-turn-out-be-top-secret-darpa-experiment
https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/ex-defense-official-ufos-pose-a-vital-national-security-threat_06032019
https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-05-23-pentagon-investigating-ufos.html
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-27/navy-pilots-describe-stunning-ufo-sightings-hypersonic-speeds-no-exhaust-plume
“After upgrading the radar systems on F/A-18 fighter jets, several Navy pilots operating from the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt began to see unidentified flying objects that appeared to defy the laws of physics.
Between 2014 and 2015, the strange objects - one of them spinning like a top as it travelled against the wind, appeared almost daily in the skies above the East Coast. The crafts had "no visible engine or infrared exhaust plumes," and "could reach 30,000 feet and hypersonic speeds" according to the New York Times. To be clear, these craft were reported in March of 2018 so this is not a new report, however the accounts of five pilots who witnessed them have never been published until now. "These things would be out there all day" said Lt. Ryan Graves, an F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot who has been in the Navy for a decade. Graves reported his sightings to the Pentagon and Congress. "Keeping an aircraft in the air requires a significant amount of energy. With the speeds we observed, 12 hours in the air is 11 hours longer than we’d expect." In late 2014, a Super Hornet pilot had a near collision with one of the objects, and an official mishap report was filed. Some of the incidents were videotaped, including one taken by a plane’s camera in early 2015 that shows an object zooming over the ocean waves as pilots question what they are watching. “Wow, what is that, man?” one exclaims. “Look at it fly!” -New York Times.”
I have not done a job on Germany’s Merkel for a while, so let’s go. It seems that Merkel has had the shakes recently, something we saw Hillary Clinton do, but on a grander scale during the 2016 election. The mainstream media has reported this, without much reflection of why. Surely, she is shaking with joy at the thought of totally destroying traditional Germany and ending the life blood of a people? What else could make globo-commos dance to the beat of migration?
https://www.rt.com/news/462140-merkel-zelensky-shaking-ill/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48680623
Even though way back in 2010 Murky Merkle said that multiculturalism had failed, she decided to test it out one more time. By failed, she probably meant, “did not polish of a country quickly enough.”
https://www.technocracy.news/merkel-admits-german-multiculturalism-has-utterly-failed/
Look, this is relevant to the cultural decline thesis, nobody else here would write on it, since it is a bit embarrassing, but the message is clear; we really do live in the tragicomedy of the theatre of the absurd; clown world:
https://www.news.com.au/sport/football/vagina-stadium-revealed-ahead-of-2022-football-world-cup/news-story/a7e3ab9f4fefc6b639a7a36dea2e5219
“A football ground in Qatar dubbed the “Vagina stadium” has finally been unveiled ahead of the 2022 World Cup. Fans ridiculed the Al Wakrah stadium, which will host matches up to the quarter-finals and contains innovative cooling technology, The Sun reports. It was designed by the late British-Iraqi architect, Dame Zaha Hadid, who reacted furiously when supporters suggested it looked like a lady’s private parts. Back in 2013, she fumed: “It’s really embarrassing they come up with nonsense stuff like this. What are they saying? Everything with a hole in it is a vagina? That’s ridiculous.” Dame Hadid’s plans were first released in 2013 and were said to have been inspired by the flowing shape of a dhow boat, a traditional Arabian pearl diving and fishing vessel. The drawings were topped with a structure resembling the sails of a dhow. Iraqi-born Hadid — whose other works included the Aquatics Centre at the 2012 London Olympics, the MAXXI Museum in Italy and the Guangzhou Opera House in China, previously said of the stadium’s criticism: “If a guy had done this project there wouldn’t have been the same level of criticism.”
So out-of-control has US border insecurity become that even African illegals are coming in record numbers. Go figure; they must get on planes to South America, and then get taken to the US border by our friendly neighbours. Where is the money coming to fund this invasion? Guess who?
https://www.breitbart.com/news/record-number-of-african-migrants-coming-to-mexican-border/
“Undaunted by a dangerous journey over thousands of miles, people fleeing economic hardship and human rights abuses in African countries are coming to the U.S.-Mexico border in unprecedented numbers, surprising Border Patrol agents more accustomed to Spanish-speaking migrants. Officials in Texas and even Maine are scrambling to absorb the sharp increase in African migrants. They are coming to America after flying across the Atlantic Ocean to South America and then embarking on an often harrowing overland journey. In one recent week, agents in the Border Patrol’s Del Rio sector stopped more than 500 African migrants found walking in separate groups along the arid land after splashing across the Rio Grande, children in tow. That is more than double the total of 211 African migrants who were detained by the Border Patrol along the entire 2,000-mile (3,200-kilometer) U.S.-Mexico border in the 2018 fiscal year.
Will Australia and the rest of the West end up like California? Yes, it is only a matter of time given existing trends, so we need to be prepared for the inevitable crash, as occurred right throughout history. Yes, it is sad, but that is what happens when a people embrace decadence and the diversity mania, and California is the leading edge of this madness. Individuals can be insane, raving lunatics in fact, but until recently we would not have thought that entire states and countries could be clinically insane. But, California is stark raving mad. Thus, while native Californians are homeless in record numbers, while the streets are littered with human excreta, this bankrupt state now is giving health benefits to illegals, dragging the state further into the economic cesspool, and of course, becoming a magnet for infinity illegals.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/california-lawmakers-agree-health-benefits-immigrants-63595993
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-11/californias-staggering-homeless-count
Still, some liberals (boomers) are “happy” seeing white people hungry, until, of course, they are the ones going hungry too:
http://archive.is/2cRrM
For any association or secular institution to reach its first century is noteworthy and, in our times, remarkable enough in itself. That alone would be sufficient reason for us to join together tonight in this celebration of the centenary of the Fabian Society, brought into formal existence in London a hundred years ago this month. And, incidentally, I trust it will be noted in the appropriate quarters that those of us here tonight associated with the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Labor Government have been so far able to overcome our notorious prejudices as to celebrate a British institution - indeed in many respects a quintessential British institution.
The Pope is in full political correctness overdrive, saying that Trump’s wall is evil and basically that God will destroy it (it is never going to be built, but is a useful foil for the chattering class). Also, that there should be penalties for those with a high carbon footprint because global catastrophe waits from climate change. Yes, all this from a typical jet-setting member of the praying class who probably has 500 times our carbon use, but expects the ordinary deplorables to bare the cost, as with the illegal invasions. Wow, all I can say is I hope that he is right about climate change because we really need some Darwinian catastrophe to turn off the mined control machine that has been feeding zombie memes into the brains of Western man.
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2019/06/14/pope-francis-urges-carbon-penalties-to-avert-climate-catastrophe/
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019/05/28/pope-francis-compares-trumps-border-wall-to-berlin-wall/
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019/06/13/pope-francis-god-will-destroy-walls-between-nations/
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019/05/15/pope-francis-human-history-marked-by-mysterious-evil/
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019/05/23/pope-francis-church-must-learn-abandon-old-traditions/
“Critics of the pope have often complained that he intentionally sows “ambiguity,” and the pontiff’s words Thursday would seem to suggest that he owns this criticism as a badge of honor because he sees a desire for doctrinal clarity as anti-evangelical. Francis famously refused to answer four cardinals who presented him with five questions or “dubia” to clarify certain purportedly unclear teachings in his 2016 teaching letter, Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love). In 2017, the former doctrinal chief of the U.S. Bishops Conference (USCCB) wrote a powerful letter to the pope, criticizing his “intentionally ambiguous” teaching, derision of conservatives, and resistance to constructive criticism. The Capuchin priest, Father Thomas Weinandy, whom Pope Francis himself named to the Vatican’s International Theological Commission in 2014, listed five points that illustrate the “chronic confusion” that seems to characterize the Francis pontificate, namely, intentional ambiguity, disdain for doctrine, the naming of heterodox bishops, sowing division in the Church, and vindictiveness in the face of criticism. The Pope’s guidance “at times seems intentionally ambiguous,” the theologian stated, leaving the faithful confused and spiritually adrift. “To teach with such a seemingly intentional lack of clarity inevitably risks sinning against the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth,” the priest said. While the pope accuses his critics of making doctrine into an ideology, “it is precisely Christian doctrine that frees people from worldly ideologies and assures that they are actually preaching and teaching the authentic, life-giving Gospel,” Weinandy said. Other observers have attributed the Pope’s habitual vagueness to his training in the Jesuit order. “For those unfamiliar with Jesuits,” wrote Dominic Lynch in The Federalist, “vague and porous doctrine is almost their raison d’être. Indeed, it is so baked into the order that finding a conservative Jesuit is more difficult than finding a liberal in West Texas.”
