Pope Francis Assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand

 ... Church factions mobilize for war.

I couldn't help generating a fake newspaper for the occasion.

The Jesuits are calling up their reserves.

On the other side, the response of the bishops of Cameroon is typical of the fury consuming the African Church.

Statement of the Bishops of Cameroon on homosexuality and the blessing of "homosexual couples" 

In the face of semantic abuse designed to distort the value of the realities and true meaning of family, couple, spouse, sexuality and marriage. 

In the face of the wave of indignation, questions, and concern that the Declaration Fiducia supplicans on the question of the blessing of homosexual couples has aroused among the People of God. 

In the name of the truth of the Gospel and for the sake of human dignity and the salvation of all humanity in Jesus Christ. 

We, the Bishops of Cameroon, on the subject of homosexuality and the blessing of "homosexual couples", unanimously declare the following: 

1. In conformity with our 2013 Declaration on Homosexuality, we firmly reaffirm the truth of the Church, Mother and Teacher, which teaches the sacredness of the sexual identity of man and woman created in the image of God (Gen. 1: 26), the dignity of their sexuality and of marriage which is the foundation of the family. The human person is created male and female: "Male and female he created them" (Gen. 1:26). This immutable difference, which is the foundation of their relationship and complementarity, is fulfilled in the bonds of marriage. 
2. Homosexuality falsifies human anthropology and trivializes sexuality, marriage and the family, the foundation of society. In African culture, this practice is not part of family and social values. It is a flagrant violation of the heritage bequeathed to us by our ancestors. In the history of peoples, homosexual practices have never given rise to societal evolution, but are clear signs of the implosive decadence of civilizations. In fact, homosexuality sets humanity against itself and destroys it. 
3. The profound identity of sexuality is misunderstood, hijacked and perverted outside the conjugal relationship between man and woman. Consequently, homosexual acts are not "sexual" but "relations against nature" (Rom. 1:26). 
4. Marriage is an institution that legitimizes sexual relations and filiation for the foundation of a new family. It is the union of one man and one woman who commit themselves to a life as a couple, to found a family and to live together in love. Homosexual unions are not marriages. It distorts the meaning of marriage by reducing it to a sterile, hedonistic and perverse bond: "the infamy of man to man" (Rom. 1:26). 
5. Men and women each have the natural right to assume the specificity of their nature. This right is unchanging, irreducible and structuring, and is to be considered in the context of the couple, sexuality and the family, as the basis of paternity in the case of a man, and maternity in the case of a woman. The free orientation of sexuality brandished by the promoters of homosexuality is a negation of this right. 
6. Homosexuality is not a human right Rather, it is an alienation that seriously harms humanity, because it is not based on any value proper to the human being: "it is an abomination" (Lev. 18:22). Rejecting it is in no way discrimination, but a legitimate protection of the constant values of humanity in the face of a vice that has become the subject of a claim to legal recognition and, today, the subject of a blessing. 
7. In a literal sense, "to bless is to speak well of". And to speak well of a "homosexual couple" by an act of blessing would be to encourage a choice and lifestyle that cannot be recognized as objectively ordered to God's revealed purposes. We therefore declare any form of blessing that tends to recognize "homosexual couples" as a state of life to be not in conformity. 
8. Faithful to the constant teaching of ecclesial Tradition, which declares acts of homosexuality to be intrinsically disordered and contrary to natural law (Catechism of the Catholic Church n. 2357), We, the Bishops of Cameroon, reiterate our disapproval of homosexuality and homosexual unions. 
9. Consequently, we formally prohibit all blessings of "homosexual couples" in the Church of Cameroon. 
10. Since God does not desire the death of the sinner, but his conversion to eternal life, we recommend those inclined to homosexuality to the prayer and compassion of the Church, with a view to their radical conversion. We also invite them to leave behind their mentality of victimization, in which they take pleasure in seeing themselves as "victims", "weak", "minorities" in order to seize the opportunity for conversion that God gives them in the multiple interpellations of his Word. 

Given in Yaounde, December 21, 2023 

That's going to leave a mark. It looks like the Camerooniks are loading their artillery onto trains heading for the front. Those are some pretty big howitzers right there.

There is a bigger truth playing out in all of this, but I'll leave that for a future post. For now, let me just observe that the pope who constantly drools about listening, acceptance, forgiveness and love has managed to start a world war within the Church. If it hadn't been brutally predictable, it would have been ironically hilarious.

For Those Who Don't Quite Get The Point Of The War

This video is worth watching. It perfectly describes what is at stake here. I put the scrub head at a spot that summarizes what is happening in case you don't want to watch the whole thing.