“the Amazonian Breast”
Francis, apparently, isn’t the Only Weasel in the Amazon
Yes
— an Amazonian woman breast-feeding a weasel
... while inattentive to her own child. The analogy could not be
more apposite ... or more clear.
If not entirely
“the Amazonian Face”, this photograph standing in front of the
Church of Santa Maria in Traspontina in Rome — and
within it — may be very appropriately called the Poster-Weasel
of the Amazon Synod. This is not merely the depiction of a woman
in an incomprehensibly primitive and behaviorally regressive society
— for women, by and large, in any culture, any civilization,
any minimally-construed society do not breast-feed
wildlife, let alone large rodents. It is an analogy for Francis
as the proto-naturalist of the papacy for whom God is an aside to
nature.
Nature — not God — is our teacher and the
enchiridion of all things moral. We must delve into nature
in its myriad facets as a sorcerer delves into alchemy, seeking
to extract a wisdom wiser than God, a narrative closer to man than
his Creator. It is perhaps possible (Photoshop aside) that such
things happen and are considered as normal as copulating with an
animal. In the dark corners of the world and the most perverse recesses
of the human psyche such things possibly happen. But, thankfully,
they are not normative, let alone paradigmatic. We recoil in disgust
from this image.
This is the result of Francis’s pathological
obsession with nature-in-any-form-or-state-other-than-recognizably-human;
an obsession that is integral to an ideology which
cannot be reconciled with any coherent concept of civilization
— an epithet in Francis’s lexicon — let alone Catholicism
(even if it is nominally somewhere in his job-description).
It is the exaltation of nature (The Amazonian Face
— or Breast, as the case may be) to the exclusion of grace, and
quite possibly sanity. It is the child — not the weasel
— that belongs on his mother's breast, deserves her attention, needs
her nourishment — but she is as careless of the child entrusted
to her as Francis is of Catholics entrusted to him.
The poster above is the emblematic reductio ad
absurdam of Francis’s pontificate — a pontificate that must
be understood as the ineluctable Post-Catholicism of the
Post-Conciliar (Vatican II) Church: a descent into madness.
The abjuration of God and the capitulation to the World seldom ends
in anything less than madness — except (and much to the point) in
eschatological terms, where the result is something far worse and
lasting.
Geoffrey K. Mondello
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal
October 20, 2019
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