Originally published at: ARCHBISHOP VIGANO SUES THE VATICAN BANK
This has been one of those weeks that has seemed virtually impossible to keep up with the flood of news - and hence articles that people have sent - clogging my email “inbox.” From the latest scuttlebutt on the war between Russian and The Ukraine, or the outbreak of hostilities (again) between India and Pakistan…
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Personally, I see Vatican Bank(VB) commotion in different light. Trump administration will use its “questionable misappropriations of funds” as a tool to discredit that institution. Why? maybe because it is the only one that stands against “new digital money” in whatever form they will try to introduce it to us.
Trial balloons are undergoing right now in Iraq with digital dinar. Trump America First is all in it.
TPTB need to urase American deficit and trillions of missing money. What better way than blips on computer.
Besides CBDC are need for new digital Grid of the Gods and Vatican Bank fallible as it may be, maybe the only institution that stand in their way.
I am maintaining my position until proven otherwise, that Vigano is a plant of CIA or other American, or globalist intel agency.
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Well, here’s another tidbit, Dr Farrell - this came up on my X/Twitter feed I believe -
New pope's Black, Creole roots illuminate rich multiracial history of U.S.- Detroit Catholic.
The Traditional Catholics are not entirely down & out. My sister-in-law attends Tridentine Masses regularly at an Institute of Christ the King church in Columbus OH’s German Village - for whatever cosmic reason, it has always been called St Leo. It has grown significantly in the past 10 years. We know two men in their late 60’s or 70’s who grew up in that church. (I am not a Catholic - I remain connected to my parents’ Protestant ancestry, albeit distantly. But I do love the music of High Masses, particularly when the choir director performs 13th century chants. Early church music is so much more spiritually nourishing than Protestant music.)
I never had a fondness for Bergoglio; however, I was pleased for the moment at this election because it counters what is to me a greater danger - Peter Thiel’s current power in the U.S. government and his masquerade of being Catholic simply because he loved philosopher Rene Girard’s theory of mimetic violence ever since he read about it, and his devoted servant J.D. Vance is our Vice President, perhaps more truthfully calling himself Catholic, although I think he converted to please Thiel.
I am waiting for the pro-life community to call out transhumanism as a danger as great as abortion, for the religious faithful.
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I agree - nor are people who practice other faiths down & out either.
In Canada, there seems to be some kind of weird “thing” against religions, and Catholic churches have been targetted for burnings and vandalism.
We know good people who are Catholics, and good people who practice other faiths and religions, and even if there are machinations going on in the executive branches of some religions, we know that some people do need to choose a religious practice or faith to ground themselves, especially in these dark times, and religious and spiritual practices help people cope with life. Some people can separate the “faith” from the “leader” (if the “leader” has gone astray). And like you suggest, the music of High Masses is divine, and so there are many aspects of religious practice that are worth valuing, even in religions that are outside our own practice.
As for the new pope – “it’s early days” – will be interesting to see what transpires, and also with Archibishop Vigano…
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… interesting that you mention the idea of “mimetic violence”. It would be interesting to know the nature of Thiel’s “infatuation” with Girard.
For a different “philosophical anthropology” see Milton Singer’s - Man’s Glassy Essence: Explorations in Semiotic Anthropology … and for another view on Mimesis see Bruce Wilshire’s - Mimetic Engulfment and Self Deception (pp. 390-406) Chapter 18 in Perspectives on Self-Deception (ed. by McLaughlin and Rorty) … there are several chapters in this volume worth a read.
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I looked up critiques of Girard’s theory and found such articles as this - Where The Mimetic Theory by René Girard Fails - Curious Maverick.
I am not at all a philosophy maven, didn’t study it, but I have never believed in academic theories right or left that said “all people do this or do that.” The speaker usually has a bias. Thiel definitely does.
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