{"id":1339,"date":"2023-07-11T11:08:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T11:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/07\/11\/the-destructive-bergoglio\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T11:08:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T11:08:28","slug":"the-destructive-bergoglio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/07\/11\/the-destructive-bergoglio\/","title":{"rendered":"The Destructive Bergoglio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">At a time when we need our most venerable institutions to stand as bulwarks against the rising tide of wokery, what we find instead is capitulation.&#0160; When the head of the ancient Roman church abdicates, we are surely in for it. <a href=\"https:\/\/catholiccitizens.org\/views\/92937\/corruption-of-the-best-is-the-worst-the-jesuits-the-church-the-deep-state\/\">Corruptio optimi pessima<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Cardinal Pell vents his righteous fury at the Vatican&#39;s theological direction <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/cardinal-pells-righteous-fury-at-this-pontificates-theological-direction\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">What explains the stampede toward wokery? One causal factor is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verywellmind.com\/what-is-groupthink-2795213\">groupthink<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Horribile dictu<\/em>: the Girl Scouts have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/girl-scouts-offer-special-patch-to-girls-of-all-identities-who-attend-pride-parades-complete-lgbt-themed-activities\/ar-AA1cdM7r\">joined<\/a> the mad rush, offering a merit badge for LGBTQ+ awareness.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">&#39;Wokeassery,&#39; a coinage of mine, is another word for wokery, a word to be found in reputable dictionaries. It brings in the donkey theme, the jackass being the symbol of the Dementocrats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Related<\/em>: Heather Mac Donald on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/a-battle-for-cultural-survival\">cultural survival<\/a> and the Left&#39;s new default setting. Brilliant and deep analysis. But again just more analysis with nary a <em>concrete<\/em> suggestion as to what to do to restore sanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">UPDATE (7\/13)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Rod Dreher on Bergoglio&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/roddreher.substack.com\/p\/no-conversions-please-were-on-team\">consolidation<\/a> of his &#39;progressive&#39; revolution.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when we need our most venerable institutions to stand as bulwarks against the rising tide of wokery, what we find instead is capitulation.&#0160; When the head of the ancient Roman church abdicates, we are surely in for it. Corruptio optimi pessima. Cardinal Pell vents his righteous fury at the Vatican&#39;s theological direction &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/07\/11\/the-destructive-bergoglio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Destructive Bergoglio&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-corner","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}