“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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