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Sorry, but I found this article and since there’s a bit of topical interest involved…and since the Pope is a global leader…

The Vatican Is Now in Utter Chaos, As Was Foreseeable

Shortly after the death of Pope Francis, the Vatican was a hornet’s nest, in every sense of the expression. In other words, it was and is chaos. It could not be otherwise when those who are at the head of the most delicate mechanisms of the Church are useless people placed there at the whim of the tyrant.

 

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Since pachapapa decided not to live in the Apostolic Palace but in the Domus Sanctae Marthae instead, due to his “humility,”  the changes made to the Domus and the fact that large parts of the Domus are now blocked off because of his death, means that this space is no longer a location where the cardinals can stay during the conclave.  This was the usual modus operandi for a conclave.  Francis also broke canon law by not only assigning a nun to a job made for a Cardinal,  so there is no Cardinal in the governate of Vatican City to issue the commands necessary for this time.  He has literally made a royal mess of things. 

Pietro Parolin is possibly worse than Francis for traditional Catholics and for the Church in general.  He has been politicking for the office for some time now, against canon law and the conclave rules.  Francis also broke canon law by creating more cardinals than he was allowed.  This was his attempt to stack the deck to ensure a successor to finish what had been started.  And many of the names you are about to see are tied to various sexual, financial, or moral failures. These are the people that Francis liked to have around him. Remember that as you read more.

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My friends who wander around the Sacred Palaces insist that everything is chaos… The fact is that the pontificate of Pope Francis, strongly centralized and marked by drastic decisions, has created a polarized internal system and things will be hard.

 

…And the rest of the Argentines accommodated in the Vatican’s nooks and crannies are terrified. One of them is Gustavo Zanchetta, who had asked the justice of Salta for an extension until May to remain in Rome and not return to prison. He ran out of leaves of absence. And another one is Tucho Fernández. He knows, as everybody knows, that he will be the first one ejected from the curia, whether a conservative or a progressive is elected…
When the Church is in a vacant see, the offices must be very straightforward and clear. And so they always were. But Bergoglio had a heavy hand… Fortunately, he did not have time to reform the conclave. Consequently, by changing without legislating, chaos ensues, which increases when those in charge are useless.
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It seems that the men in charge of the conclave are not respected as effective leaders.  
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…The internal organization of the conclave is ultimately in the hands of the masters of ceremony. It will be dramatic chaos, they lament….
The improvisation and exceptionality of recent years are now taking their toll. The conclave that is looming on the horizon will be one of the most complex in history. Not only because of the logistical difficulties, but above all because of the spiritual and institutional legacy that Pope Francis leaves behind: a Vatican and a Church that is fractured, disoriented, and forced to face its deepest contradictions.

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45 responses to “Friday Not Brunette Open Comments”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Good Friday morning from Atlanta, here’s a shot of Centennial Olympic Park from last night. The clouds are so low this morning that you can’t see the top of the west (left) tower. I’m having a cup of coffee from the neat Keurig coffee service that is on a pull-out tray in the cabinet under the TV. I’ve not seen this set-up before but it’s a good idea. Oh and no Brunette Friday?! Oh well onward through the fog. 😉
    SO Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    About the O.C. piece, two takeaway’s first is EVERYTHING in Chaos? And it seems that Pope Francis was much more a tyrant than the Mean Orange Man.
    Oh and this caught my eye;

    …And the rest of the Argentines accommodated in the Vatican’s nooks and crannies are terrified. One of them is Gustavo Zanchetta, who had asked the justice of Salta for an extension until May to remain in Rome and not return to prison. He ran out of leaves of absence. And another one is Tucho Fernández. He knows, as everybody knows, that he will be the first one ejected from the curia, whether a conservative or a progressive is elected…

    SO! One of the Pope’s lackeys was a criminal?!?! We need a back-story on that! Was he molesting children?

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Fitting with the O.C.
    Meanwhile in Derby England it seems that these folks have chosen their own Pope, not waiting on the Vatican. 😀

    H/T The Dull Men’s Club.

  4. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    To be frank (pun intended) I would be surprised if the Vatican wasn’t in chaos after Pope Frankie. It seems that chaos always surrounds evil. Didn’t JugEars imbed lots of his flunkies into all the Executive agencies to act as saboteurs after his departure? It looks like Frankie did the same thing.

  5. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    A sober look at the turd, Jamie Raskin.

  6. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    My, aren’t we a bunch of chatty Kathy’s this morning. . . .

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It’s been hard to type this morning with a wiggly 16-month old in my lap who refuses to get down. Wheels On the Bus, Are We There Yet ? and Baby Shark are mandatory rituals for Ellie and me. I only let her watch a screen for 10 minutes at a time.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      OH Noo! Baby Shark will make you pull all your hair out! It makes the bus wheels seem almost normal. BUT good on-ya’ Life is Very Good in Your World. 😉

    2. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Baby Shark is torture and outlawed by the Geneva Convention.

    3. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      Picture of the darling? It’s good that you’re making memories with her. I lament that I am not able to spend as much time with Little Prince as I did with the granddaughters. I’m hoping that he remembers who I am on my next visit.

  8. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Dang Bones’ been done kilt tha’ blog! Son! Ya’ done good.

  9. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well that was fun. I rode the elevator up here from M4 to N16 in one swell foop, my ears popped twice. I went down to get our badges and scout out the venue and DAYAAM the World Conference Center is huge! I walked a ways, across the walkway, through the main hall down 3 escalators to level 1, (4 stories down from the street) then a few hundred yards to the main hall “B”. I came back to get my wife and I told her “well I’m done”! 😀

  10. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    If Dave went to the hospital. 😀

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Paxton better not blow it.

    I just came across this information from last fall after the election of the Trump/Vance ticket. Senators Chris Murphy D-Conn and John Cornyn R-Texas co-sponsored a bill in the Senate on November 14th to extend the existence of the Global Engagement Center at the State Department for 10 more years.

    The Global Engagement Center (GEC) was described by Elon Musk as the most invasive, destructive and unconstitutional of all the surveillance and spying operations of the dozens created by Obama and Biden.

    As far as I can tell, the GEC has been terminated, but you cannot rest with these SOBs like John Cornyn around.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      JUST SAY NO TO JOHN CORNHOLIO
      VOTE KEN PAXTON FOR SENATE
      I think the above makes a great bumper sticker.

      1. Adee Avatar
        Adee

        I agree. Simple to read common-sense message.

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Nobody kills this blog. It likes to take a rest now and then. More than I would like though.

  13. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good Morning, Hamsters

    Wow, intrigue in the Vatican, in DC, and various States over pure politics, never mind the obligations of holders of offices to which they have been appointed. Gipses, Tramps, and Thieves on the loose.

  14. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Do we need score cards?

  15. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    If you didn’t see this…watch the video.

    Parker Jensen got suspended from school for seven days because he asked why US flags weren’t displayed in each classroom as required by Maryland law.

    Parker is suing Baltimore Public Schools.

    Good. They broke the law and punished him for exercising his right to free speech.

    They not only suspended him. Parker is a teenaged high school student. They called the cops, three cars showed up, just because he rang the buzzer on the intercom and asked to speak to an administrator.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      He has a slam-dunk multi-million dollar lawsuit against the school district. In any reasonable court, he will win bigly.

  16. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Here we go again. Supply Chain problems are rearing their ugly head, once more. Professor Mercogliano has an informative analysis of the current situation.

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Finished my prayers and rosary making. My last visit tot he pro-life center almost cleared that stash out, so I’ve been focusing on my ‘quickies’ – rosaries that are simply strung, without a centerpiece. Not a lot of separator beads. I’ve also decided to start using the plastic string that a lot of my beads come on, used to hang them in the store. The bead stores will string their beads on plastic line, gather them together in bunches of 20 or so, put a rubber band around the top (makes and “octopus” of bead strings), and then hang that bunch over a hanger. When buyers select their strings, they are supposed to pull the string(s) they want out of the rubber band at the top of the hangar, leaving the rest of the “octopus” hanging for the next buyer. There are rows and rows of these strings.

    Sometimes, though, a buyer will pull beads and then change their minds and leave stray strings laying about. An octopus will have so many legs pulled that it falls to the ground without enough equal weight to hold it up (folks aren’t always as careful as I am about rehanging the bunches). A string might break, and the loose beads and partial strings are also laying on the floor. Or maybe there are just so few beads left in the bunch (or maybe there’s a whole bunch of that bead type coming in that they need the room) that the store will pull what’s left of that bunch off the hangar.

    Mays Beads started putting together “budget bags” of the odd beads (see previous paragraph) and I like to buy them. For $10 or $15, I can buy what would normally be at least twice that. I check the bag first, to make sure I can use them. Sometimes there are huge decorative beads that I just can’t put into a rosary. Recently, I took a bag that has a lot of small beads that I might normally put in as spacers, but the colors and luster were just too pretty to pass over. The beads are large enough to use as prayer beads, and if I limit the number of seed bead spacers, the string they come on is long enough to make a smaller rosary. I don’t have to mess with measuring and cutting string, and by using crimps instead of knots and avoiding the extra connector hassle that comes with a centerpiece, I’ve been whipping out 3-4 of those things during my morning bead time. They are still pretty, just smaller and easier to make.

    I’ve managed to replenish my pro-life stash, for the most part. I’m now mixing my designer rosaries with a few of the quickie ones. My house stash has also been depleted a bit lately. I gave away a lot over Holy Week, and tomorrow morning is our rosary procession, and I usually bring some to donate as giveaways. So….gotta keep working on rebuilding the stash.

  18. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    When I turned on the radio, I heard Clay and Buck discussing this judge, who’s been arrested for protecting an illegal.

    More of this, please.

    As Letitia James kept telling us, ad nauseam, no one is above the law. I do think that C&B are right though – she’ll be turned into a left wing hero.

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Several headlines at CFP regarding growing tensions between India and Pakistan.

    Like we need another war right now.

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’ve come across a useful word for this group:

    furcifer: (1) yoke-bearer, (2) rascal, scoundrel, rogue, (3) gallows-bird, (4) jailbird… (I’ve also seen “pest”)

    Since English is not an inflected language, I won’t go into how to adapt the word for different uses in sentences. This noun in the nominative single format will serve our uses nicely.

    Letitia James, Schumer, Pelosi, Tesla vandals, BLM – all furcifers.

  21. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Time for the C&C:

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Friday! Due to the press of events and demands of schedule, we have a quick roundup today: astonishing Atlantic article blows the lid off millions of injured Americans— but not like you think; and ActBlue gets Presidential attention and the investigation turns out be more like the serious kind of investigation and not just the talking about it kind of investigation.

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    First up, the Atlantic article about “evermaskers” – those that will never remove those face diapers. I see them in the store and just smh. Let them keep breathing their carbon dioxide and shorten their life spans. Darwinism will get them.

    The whole masking thing was stupid – virus particles weren’t stopped by them. Remember that analogy of using a chain link fence to stop mosquitoes? And that’s only if the mask was used properly. I saw a friend at my old parish, wearing not a cloth mask, but an N95 version. When I explained to her that I heard a doctor discussing those masks and their ineffectiveness, she just looked horrified at my disclosure and walked away quickly. BTW, the doctor explained that the “N” meant “non-oil” and “95” was the percentage of non-oil particles stopped by the mask. Since the virus was packaged in lipids (fats, aka “oils”), the vaunted N95 masks were totally ineffective: “like peeing in a pool” the doc said.

    The masks were a psyop, training the crowds to follow instructions and instill fear, the better to herd the sheep.

    ***

    So, of course, they lied and they fearmongered. They lied like dogs, or rugs, or paid Amazon reviewers. They lied about all of it, but mostly about masks, …

    /snip

    The article reported that according to a recent PEW poll, around four percent (4%) of Americans still regularly mask up…. about 14 million people. In other words, more than the population of eleven U.S. states put together.

    /snip

    he article predictably began with a tragic human-interest anecdote. Meet Dennis Rosloniac. Dennis, 44, is fit, healthy, and active. The Green Bay media tech enjoys mountain biking in his spare time, and he has no chronic health problems. But the idea of covid, Dennis said, “breaks my brain sometimes.”

    Dennis’s cerebral cortex is infected with a singular, unshakable fear. Or maybe it’s more of a fearful notion, an unrelenting conviction that compels him to continue strapping on the mask, even though he feels constant social anxiety about wearing it around other people….

    It’s a lonely life in the real world. But Dennis finds solace in seeking fellow evermaskers on online forums,…

    …A few years ago, these bizarre rituals and beliefs would have been called obsessive-compulsive disorders. In their “online communities,” evermaskers perfect N95 mask-fitting tips. They swap hacks for creative germ mitigations, …They congregate on Sundays (by Zoom) for covid church. They exchange lists of evermasker-friendly doctors…

    They don’t need shrinks. They already know who the crazy ones really are: Us. The no-maskers. We are the crazy ones. Dennis explained that the evermaskers never abandoned science. Science abandoned them.

    And worse yet, they are raising children in this environment. As Mr. C. says, their children will never experience fresh air.

    I think that raising a child in such a fearful environment is as bad as transing the kid. That child may never be a well-adjusted adult.

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Following a couple of stories of evermaskers and their tribulations, Mr. C. points this out:

    Following a shower of statistics and studies that mostly showed long covid rates declining, rather than increasing, the article finally got around to another common element the evermaskers shared, a highly suggestive joint quality that probably should have started the article: “In the U.S., at least, people’s sense of risk from COVID, in particular, also has a strong connection to their politics— many COVID-conscious people are progressives.”

    /snip

    It means the virus hates democrats.

    Haha, just kidding. It’s quite easy to mock these evermaskers —trivial, in fact, mere child’s play— but the fact is that fourteen million American evermaskers represent another giant group of victims— not victims of the virus, but of the government’s deceptive response to the virus. They are stuck in a perpetual state of fear, anxiety, and obsessive compulsion.

    It’s ruining their lives, their relationships, and what remains of their mental health.

    We really need to focus on helping our children adult properly.

  24. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I saw several headlines about ActBlue on various news sites, and Mr. C. discusses the panic on the left: Another money fountain may be running dry. O’Keefe broke the story and the House followed up with their own investigation.

    This could be the single most important development for the 2026 midterms. We’ve discussed a potential ActBlue investigation before, but now the problem is getting presidential attention.

    CNN even admitted that when President Trump signed an order yesterday targeting ActBlue, which is the Democrat Party’s main fundraising platform, he was “taking aim at one of the key pillars of the financial infrastructure for Democratic candidates.” …

    Trump is directing Bondi to go after the unlawful fundraising going on over there.

    I doubt it’s possible to overestimate the Gargamel-sized threat this poses to the Democrat money machine. … The best part is that the Democrats have gotten away with it for so long that they got addicted to it, and as Fury Road’s Immortan Joe warned his serfs about getting addicted to water, the danger is that, when the money is not around, “you will resent its absence.”

    I’m just a lawyer, neither a political consultant or an elections crimes prosecutor, but it seems to me the most politically damaging way forward is for DOJ to be very deliberate and take its time, making sure it is on all fours before arresting someone, and pushing the clock as close to the 2026 primaries as possible before pulling the plug. As I often say, this is only going to hurt for a very long time.

  25. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Interesting analysis on Autism and RFK.

  26. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    O’Keefe video at the link. It going to take more than a few months to rid ourselves of these jackasses in our government.

    Independent journalist James O’Keefe’s O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) just released yet another undercover video exposing either an egomaniac or a guy just lying to impress his date. Either way, Nicolas Turza — the alleged Branch Chief for the Department of Defense (DoD) — said what he said.

    Here’s Turza’s feelings on Trump:

    “The same guy [Trump] who tried to overthrow an election is just like, truly setting us down a path of dictatorship.”

    “He’s illegitimate. He’s terribly immoral, breaking every norm. We’re going to resist him. Everything he does.”

    A couple of particularly suspect comments Turza made came when the undercover reporter asked him whether DoD Secretary Pete Hegseth was his boss or not.

  27. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Posts-per-day over at CitizenFreePress are just amazing. What an invaluable service.
    I hope Kane has figured out a way get rich from it.

  28. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is actually a very big deal in cultural & social & entertainment categories of the world. Paramount Global is huge and other companies are watching closely.

    Paramount Global has reportedly agreed to terminate its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, which have included racial quotas for staff and writers.

    Along with its subsidiary CBS, Paramount was sued by America First Legal on behalf of script supervisor Brian Beneker, who worked on the show “SEAL Team,” a Paramount+ original series.

    A lawsuit in February alleged that the companies engaged in discriminatory practices that were in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Beneker claimed that Paramount and CBS implemented racial quotas for writers’ rooms. This claim was supplemented by public statements from George Cheeks, then-president and CEO of CBS, who said that he had set a goal for CBS’ writing rooms to have 40% non-white staff members. A reported 17 of 21 shows on the network met or exceeded the target, which was subsequently followed by a demand that “half of all writers will be non-white” by “the 2022-2023 broadcast season.”

    Cheeks was touted in public reports as CBS’ first black, biracial, and gay president.

  29. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Related to my 2:32 PM comment and CBS.

    Good riddance to this repugnant Bill Owens, an attack dog for the DNC.

    Shari Redstone has been very subtly asserting herself at CBS. It won’t be long now before Larry Ellison and his son take over Paramount and the shift will be to the Right while all the CBS hacks will be crying like babies.

    Paramount owner Shari Redstone in recent days sought to know which upcoming 60 Minutes stories were about President Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the situation — triggering a series of events that ended with the Tuesday resignation of the show’s longtime producer.

    Producer Bill Owens resigned abruptly this week, complaining that he no longer had the editorial independence to run the iconic Sunday evening news show.

    In a note first shared with The New York Times, Owens said that “over the past months, it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for ’60 Minutes,′ right for the audience.”

  30. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Video at the link.

    #BREAKING: A POLITICAL EARTHQUAKE JUST OCCURRED IN FLORIDA AS THE SENATE MINORITY LEADER LEAVES THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY…

    Ho-lee SHLIT.

    Jason Pizzo is the Florida Senate Democratic Minority Leader.

  31. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Mind-boggling.

    The Gucci Goddess stole $108 million from American taxpayers over 7 years and only got 15 years.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      150 years would be more appropriate; that or a rope. This revelation, the amount of the scam and the duration from within the Army, furthers my assertion that perhaps as much as 75% of all federal dollars are spent on waste, fraud, and abuse.

  32. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The real reason D judges and polititurds are fighting so hard to keep illegal alien invaders in the country. The reason is power. These people are psychopaths.

  33. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    People thought the Steelers were going to take Shedeur Sanders, but they chose defensive lineman Derrick Harmon instead. He made it to the hospital just in time.cc

    “He has Steelers DNA,” coach Mike Tomlin said after the pick. “For us, it starts inside and up front, and this is a guy that’s capable of dominating that space versus the run and the pass. So we’re really excited about having him.”

    and,

    So getting picked by the Steelers, signaling the possibility of a great NFL future ahead, was muted by the pain Harmon was feeling over his sick mother.

    “It was a little bittersweet – my mom wasn’t with me,” Harmon recalled as he told of the moment he was selected No. 21 overall. “She’s at the hospital right now on life support, so that was a little bittersweet man, because she worked as hard, just for me to get to this moment, but it was a once in lifetime experience. So, like I said, I’m very excited.”

  34. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Malone’s Friday Funnies.

  35. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    A disgraced US cardinal accused of covering up a clerical child sex abuse scandal was chosen to help seal Pope Francis’ casket and entomb his remains for his burial.

    Cardinal Roger Mahony, 89, the retired Archbishop of Los Angeles, is one of nine cardinals and dozens of other clergymen who will play a ceremonial role in closing the late pope’s coffin Friday ahead of the pontiff’s funeral Saturday morning in St. Peter’s Square, the Vatican announced Wednesday.

    Mahony, who was stripped of his administrative and public duties in January 2013, will also help oversee the pope’s interment at Rome’s Basilica of Saint Mary Major following the funeral.

    “Shame on him for participating in the public rite for Pope Francis, and shame on the College of Cardinals for allowing him to do so,” said Anne Barrett Doyle, a member of the Bishop Accountability group, which has tracked Catholic clergy abuse for decades.

  36. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well it’s been a long day and I must have walked 3 miles I can say this because my wife’s phone said she walked 1.8 miles and I started before her and she left the Convention floor 2 hours before I did. I had a good time and got to check out several new products from weapons to glass and range finder. Oh and some nice reloading equipment. I did see any important people except that I did get to meet John Lott and he’s giving a talk about “Gun Control Myths” in the morning and I may drop in if I have time. I’ve already voted for the director but we have 10 By-Law amendments to vote on at the annual meeting at 10 AM in the morning. BTW: They always have country entertainers do a show on Saturday night but I’m not big on those so I don’t usually go. Guess what? I bought 2 front row tickets to make my wife happy. And if you didn’t know this is the first time my wife has come with me and so far she has had a pretty good time. BTW; Daughter and her hubby went with me to one in Houston back in 2014 but they are both Life Members.

  37. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Oh and I found BSue’s Tee Shirt. 😉

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      LOL

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