A Week Late, Vatican Releases Milquetoast Statement on Olympics Blasphemy

Brief, lackluster press release issued…

A Week Late, Vatican Releases Milquetoast Statement on Olympics Blasphemy

A week after the shameful, abominable, and deliberately blasphemous performance mocking the Last Supper as part of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris on July 26, 2024, the Vatican has finally also weighed in by releasing a press statement of sorts.

A statement ‘of sorts’ is really all one can call it, for the text released does not even try to be anything so serious as a condemnation. The following three sentences is all the Vatican Press Office had to offer:

The Holy See was saddened by certain scenes during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games and can only join the voices that have been raised in recent days to deplore the offence caused to many Christians and believers of other religions.

At a prestigious event where the whole world comes together to share common values, there should be no allusions ridiculing the religious convictions of many people.

The freedom of expression, which is clearly not called into question here, is limited by respect for others.

(Holy See Communiqué, Aug. 3, 2024)

This is indeed a lackluster text because not only does it not communicate any serious outrage, it actually fails to identify the offensive act in the first place, issues only a ridiculously mild reproof, and then bases its disapproval only on reasons that are either insufficient or simply wrong altogether.

A Critical Analysis of the Statement

Right away we notice the soft language, which will only serve to embolden the transvestite Satanists of Paris further. The Holy See claims to have been “saddened” by the event — not outraged or even offended, just “saddened”. So a blasphemous mockery of Jesus Christ, His holy Apostles, and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass causes mere sadness in Rome! No doubt the enemies of Christ will now retreat in shame and confusion!

Next, we observe that the timid press release does not even mention the blasphemous act in the first place! It speaks merely of “certain scenes during the opening ceremony”. Right away one must ask, WHY? What could possibly be a good reason for refusing to make clear what one is ‘sadly’ disapproving of?

Then, the statement tries to piggyback a bit on the many other condemnations that were made during the time the Vatican remained shamefully silent. Nevertheless, even there it does not speak of condemnation but merely of “voices that have been raised … to deplore”. And what is it that is being deplored? Is it the offense caused against God, Our Lord Jesus Christ, the holy Apostles, or the Catholic Church? Oh no! Rather, it is “the offence caused to many Christians and believers of other religions.” In other words, certain people were offended!

But it gets worse as the press release then, in the context of a world appreciating “common values”, positions itself against “ridiculing the religious convictions of many people.” Once again we see that what is being disapproved of is not per se the objectively sacrilegious and blasphemous act against God, the Saints, and the only true religion, it is merely the act of mocking what “many people” hold dear in matters of religion, regardless of whether these things are true or false, sacred or profane, pleasing to God or pleasing to the devil.

In other words, for the Vatican, mocking the false beliefs of Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews, Muslims, or Voodooists is no different than mocking the true God, the true Faith, the holy sacraments, or the Saints. It’s all the same to the Vatican Modernists because for them it’s really not about God and His truth at all but about man. Man is being offended, his dignity is what’s being attacked — and, as we learned earlier this year, man’s dignity is now “infinite”!

Therefore, when it comes to religious matters, all religions, according to this perverse ideology, are “more or less good and praiseworthy, since they all in different ways manifest and signify that sense which is inborn in us all, and by which we are led to God and to the obedient acknowledgment of His rule”, an idea Pope Pius XI castigated as “distorting the idea of true religion” and leading to complete apostasy (Encyclical Mortalium Animos, n. 2).

Such Indifferentism had already been roundly condemned by Pope Gregory XVI in 1832:

Now We consider another abundant source of the evils with which the Church is afflicted at present: indifferentism. This perverse opinion is spread on all sides by the fraud of the wicked who claim that it is possible to obtain the eternal salvation of the soul by the profession of any kind of religion, as long as morality is maintained. Surely, in so clear a matter, you will drive this deadly error far from the people committed to your care. With the admonition of the apostle that “there is one God, one faith, one baptism” [Eph 4:5] may those fear who contrive the notion that the safe harbor of salvation is open to persons of any religion whatever.

(Pope Gregory XVI, Encyclical Mirari Vos, n. 13)

Lastly, the Vatican press statement fills up the measure of its iniquity by endorsing the freedom of expression, an idea firmly rooted in the Masonic tradition and likewise rejected by Pope Gregory XVI:

Here We must include that harmful and never sufficiently denounced freedom to publish any writings whatever and disseminate them to the people, which some dare to demand and promote with so great a clamor. We are horrified to see what monstrous doctrines and prodigious errors are disseminated far and wide in countless books, pamphlets, and other writings which, though small in weight, are very great in malice. We are in tears at the abuse which proceeds from them over the face of the earth. Some are so carried away that they contentiously assert that the flock of errors arising from them is sufficiently compensated by the publication of some book which defends religion and truth. Every law condemns deliberately doing evil simply because there is some hope that good may result. Is there any sane man who would say poison ought to be distributed, sold publicly, stored, and even drunk because some antidote is available and those who use it may be snatched from death again and again?

(Pope Gregory XVI, Encyclical Mirari Vos, n. 15)

Although the Vatican statement emphasizes that liberty of expression is “limited by respect for others”, the concept is still false, as is the idea that “respect for others” is the highest standard governing what we may say or do. That is clearly not the case, as can be seen, for example, when our Blessed Lord referred to King Herod as “that fox” (Lk 13:32), or when He excoriated the scribes and Pharisees with some very choice words on various occasions (for example, see Mt 15; Mt 23; Mk 7).

Yes, we must have respect for others, but that respect must be subordinated to respect for God, whom we must love before, and more than, anyone else: “And thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind, and with thy whole strength. This is the first commandment” (Mk 12:30); “The world has heard enough of the so-called ‘rights of man.’ Let it hear something of the rights of God” (Pope Leo XIII, Encyclical Tametsi, n. 13).

In fact, some people consider it disrespectful to preach the Gospel to them, when in actual fact it is an expression of the highest respect!

As Pope Leo XIII warned in 1892, all Catholics must

avoid familiarity or friendship with anyone suspected of belonging to masonry or to affiliated groups. Know them by their fruits and avoid them. Every familiarity should be avoided, not only with those impious libertines who openly promote the character of the sect, but also with those who hide under the mask of universal tolerance, respect for all religions, and the craving to reconcile the maxims of the Gospel with those of the revolution. These men seek to reconcile Christ and Belial, the Church of God and the state without God.

(Pope Leo XIII, Encyclical Custodi di Quella Fede, n. 15)

The Mason-infested Vatican is once again preaching human dignity as the gold standard, rather than God and the Holy Gospel.

Michael Lofton Oversells Vatican Statement

The Vatican’s Aug. 3 press communiqué came only two days after Recep Erdogan, the Muslim president of Turkey, phoned Francis and “urged a collective condemnation of what he said was the ‘ridicule’ of moral and religious values at the Olympic opening ceremony.”

The statement released noticeably conveys all the energy and enthusiasm of a sleeping pill, and the overall message is one of, “Oh yeah, we oppose this too, by the way.”

While professional Francis defender Michael Lofton tries to sell this as “Pope Francis Condemns Paris Olympics Last Supper!”, the attentive reader quickly finds that that is quite an overblown headline.

First of all, the statement does not even bother to mention (the man falsely claiming to be) the ‘Vicar of Christ’ by name and merely speaks of the ‘Holy See’. This phraseology is not wrong and usually implies ‘the Pope’, who is the monarch of the Holy See, after all; however, in this particular instance, it would certainly have lent a lot greater weight and credibility to the message if it had mentioned ‘Pope Francis’ by name.

We are, after all, talking about blasphemy against the One who is the founder of the Roman Catholic Church, and since Bergoglio claims (albeit falsely) to be His Vicar, it would have behooved him to have his own name included in that taciturn statement.

If nothing else, the Vatican could simply have claimed that “Pope Francis has been saddened….” or “Pope Francis, saddened by the incident, has directed the Holy See to issue a statement….” After all, we are constantly told by the Vatican Press Office that “Pope Francis has appointed so-and-so bishop of such-and-such a diocese”, etc. We are not told that “the Holy See” has done so. It seems that for this particular matter, the name of ‘Pope Francis’ has been deliberately omitted, leaving the statement impersonal.

Secondly, the text is simply not a condemnation, it is merely a declaration of disapproval amidst being “saddened” that some people were offended.

Thirdly, the press release makes no explicit mention of the Last Supper travesty. Granted, we can all legitimately infer that that’s what the communiqué is in reference to, but it is significant that the text fails to make this clear. Again we must ask, WHY? What could possibly be a good reason for not mentioning this?

Thus, it is clear that Lofton’s enthusiastic headline is overblown on all three counts: “Pope Francis” does not appear in the statement; it is not a condemnation; and it is not, explicitly, about the blasphemous Last Supper parody.

Not unexpectedly, the Vatican press release deals with the whole matter entirely subjectively. It only speaks of people being offended on account of their convictions. Nothing there about God. Nothing about objective reality. Nothing about what is good, holy, sacred. In fact, God, who was directly mocked, is not mentioned in the statement at all.

It is a text compatible with the principles of Freemasonry, promoting and defending not the true God and the true religion but man and his dignity.

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