“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
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