The Bellarmine Forum Podcast

BFP We Are Being Gamed by the Synod

Last episode, we discussed game theory but never got to the point of it.  Now, we discuss that the Vatican had hired McKinsey & Co to "modernize communications".  McKinsey uses game theory to help their clients find the best path to navigate a market and uses consensus management to help companies move from point A to point B through competition and diverse market forces, especially to overcome reasonable criticism.  Well, that's what we see happening in the Synod.  We discuss the USCCB Synod Synthesis and see that we really are being gamed!

BFP The Church Mess Today is Deja Vu

Let's sit down and chat about this mess today, and how we've come to the end of the modernist climb and modernist normalization of the Church. The "listening church" of synodality appears to be nothing more than an enactment of Richard McBrien's Catholicism.  How the shock cycle of media today seems to feed the balkanization of Catholics, the use of "defending the pope" as brown shirts, the calumnies used to marginalize Catholics that just want to be left alone, the weaponized petitions, and how it all started.  Voices of the battles of the 80's had better analysis, but today's voices seem to miss a lot.  Much of the harshest things we hear about today were done already by American Bishops decades ago, back then there was recourse to Rome...  but what's different today is Rome isn't listening.  Our Lady told us at Akita...

BFP: Liturgical Battlefield: Are You a Victim or Combatant?

Pope Francis is reported to have said that we should not make a battlefield of the liturgy.  Because he complains of people hanging on to outdated things and old ideas, it is like he is saying that people who want a united and sacred liturgy disrupt the purpose of liturgy...  who are the real combatants?  why is this deja vu?  and what did Father Hardon say we can do about it?

Akita and Fatima Secret: Every Good Priest Must Be Nicodemus Today

Chapter Markers:

00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:50 - Synodality Participation and Crucify Him!
00:01:20 - Mission of the Church is Vertical to God, not horizontal
00:02:35 - Speech Expectations of the Scribes and Pharisees in the Passion Gospels
00:03:29 - The False Image of Jesus presented then and today
00:04:37 - Nicodemus had to watch his mouth and be secret
00:05:20 - Do you think priests are free to speak their minds today?
00:07:28 - Priests Removed for Speaking their mind (think perverting our nation)
00:08:10 - Nicodemus is our guy today - Good priests have to be like him or face the Stasi or Gulags
00:09:55 - Scribes and Pharisees (full of compromises): Jesus hated it then as He does today
00:11:07 - Judas Became the Wicked Betrayer By Compromise
00:12:34 - Compromise with the World, Get the Temple Destroyed
00:13:53 - Pressure from the Compromised Clergy Made people shout Crucify Him! (distorted synodality)
00:14:47 - The people shout at Vigano (we found him perverting our nation)
00:18:01 - Jesus replaced the Compromised Clergy Entirely
00:19:07 - Podesta, Soros, Catholic Springtime SWIFT payment used to remove Benedict
00:21:57 - Wait for Benedict to Die or Conclave now? Lightning Strike was good or bad portent?
00:23:15 - The Mix in the Church Includes Agents of Satan?
00:24:35 - The Current Situation and the Scenes of the Third Secret of Fatima
00:25:48 - Illusory reflection in the mirror - two popes?
00:27:21 - Soldiers in the Church - disappearing priests and religious
00:30:43 - we had the impression and Vigano's legitimate questions
00:31:52 - Something's not right! There's your sign: lightning stirking and the roof collapsing
00:32:53 - Our Lady's Remedy and Bishop Schneider
00:34:15 - The Laiety Are Joining in today (just like Holy Week)
00:34:59 - Asking Questions Should Always Be Encouraged (not Crucified)
00:35:34 - The Catholic Nomenklatura, Zampolit -- Scribes and Pharisees no doubt
00:36:27 - Freedoms in Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany, Just like in the Church Today
00:40:06 - Dealing with Problem People - the Apparatchiks are watching for deviations from the Party Line
00:42:34 - The Party Line is the unspoken rules - sort of like the Invisible/Hidden Black Sun 
00:44:56 - The two ways out of this mess
00:46:00 - Akita's warning against Soviet Kompromat in today's clergy
00:48:08 - Our Lady's Suffering at Holy Week is Like Today
00:50:32 - Outro

BFP - The Consecration is Nice But Not What Our Lady Asks of Us Today

This past Friday, on the Solemnity of the Annunciation, Pope Francis performed a Consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. While this is a laudable act, is it what Our Lady Asks of us today? Looking at the second secret of Fatima itself, actual history, and the message of Akita, it appears that we are not doing what she wants... and we are paying for it.

BFP Parish Closings! Codependant Chickens Come Home to Cincinnati

Cincinnati’s past ignoring heterodoxy and heresy have caught up to it as Archbishop Schnurr rolls out a PR consultant led “Beacons of Light” crisis communications program designed to steer public opinion, but there is a much better (and far cheaper) way he could be fixing the problem instead of papering it over.

BFP Media Mayhem on Mandates, Medical Surveillance, and Your Consent

Continuing the discussion on informed consent, Catholic morality, and medical "mandates" in the midst of media mayhem sowing fear and misinformation.

BFP Can Your Bishop Cancel Your Title VII Rights?

Part 2 of the discussion on Catholic moral teaching on medical treatments, your strict duty to avoid harmful/deadly activity, and Title VII protections of your religious beliefs.  How to express your religious exemption.

BFP Can Your Bishop Mandate You To Risk Death?

Bishops mandating their employees to undergo health procedures that have a risk of death are not following the USCCB directives on health care.  They cannot replace the voluntary informed consent of the patient.  Worse, they may be violating Catholic social teaching with regards to the duty of an employer to provide for the safety of their employees.

BFP Mary's Body, Mary's Choice - The Assumption and Our Bodies Today

Learn about what Mary's Assumption can tell you about your own assumption some day, the need to do penance and keep your body as God wants, following her example.  It can even influence your thinking about COVID and whether anyone should be "Forced" to charity,