{"id":3693,"date":"2019-06-30T15:51:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/06\/30\/bergoglio-the-secularist-on-the-miracle-of-the-loaves-and-the-fishes\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T15:51:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:51:52","slug":"bergoglio-the-secularist-on-the-miracle-of-the-loaves-and-the-fishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/06\/30\/bergoglio-the-secularist-on-the-miracle-of-the-loaves-and-the-fishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bergoglio the Secularist on the Miracle of the Loaves and the Fishes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Vito Caiati reports:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Something that the Argentinian did this week really annoyed me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Specifically, in his homily on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, Bergoglio continued his devious discouragement of belief in miracles, flagitiously denying the great nature miracle by which Christ fed a multitude with just five loaves of bread and two fish. <\/span><\/p>\n

As you know, the Gospel of Mathew describes the miracle as follows: \u201cThen he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass; and taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.  And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken pieces left over.  And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children\u201d (Mt 14:19-21; cf. Mk 6:40-44 and Lk 9:14-17, which have essentially the same wording, and Jn 6:10-14, which diverges only slightly). <\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever happened here, it is quite clear that the very small quantity of matter contained in five loaves and two fish, was exponentially enlarged after Christ\u2019s \u201cblessing.\u201d Thus, something miraculous occurred.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, here is Bergoglio\u2019s exegesis of this event: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJesus.., .after having recited the blessing, gave<\/em> the bread to be distributed, revealing in this the more beautiful significance: bread is not only a product of consumption: it is a means of sharing. In fact, surprisingly, in the telling of the multiplication of the loaves, multiplication is never mentioned. On the contrary, the verbs utilized are \u201cbreak, give, distribute.\u201d (cf. Lk 9:16)  In short, the act of sharing rather than the multiplication is emphasized. This is important: Jesus does not perform an act of magic; he does not transform the five loaves into five thousand loaves and then day: \u201cNow distribute them.\u201d No, Jesus prays, blesses those five loaves and begins to distribute then, trusting in the Father. And those five loaves never finish. This is not magic; it is faith in God and in his providence\u201d https:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/homilies\/2019\/documents\/papa-francesco_20190623_omelia-corpusdomini.html<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

Notice that the concept of miracle nowhere enters into this analysis; rather, Bergoglio engages in a sleight of hand, counterpoising the notion of \u201cmagic\u201d with that of \u201cfaith in God.\u201d His deprecation of multiple loaves, of which none of the Gospels in fact speak, insinuates that such a multiplication, certainly within the powers ascribed to Christ by the Evangelists, would have to be magical rather than miraculous. Now, magic is defined in the Catechism of the Catholic Church<\/em> as \u201cAll practices . . . , by which one attempts to tame occult powers, so as to place them at one's service and have a supernatural power over others.\u201d Jesus was, of course, accused of magic (as in Mt 12:24 or Lk 11:15),  but the Gospels reject this falsity and instead proclaim that \u201cJesus accompanies his words with many \u201c\u2018mighty works and wonders and signs\u2019, which manifest that the kingdom is present in him and attest that he was the promised Messiah\u201d (Catechism of the Catholic Church<\/em>, 547). In other words, when personally present here on Earth, Christ revealed His divine power through miracles. It is precisely this power that is denied in turning the feeding of the five thousand with five loaves and two fish into a simple \u201cact of sharing.\u201d Here, we have the Incarnation filtered through the decadent left-wing \u201chumanist\u201d ideology that is the hallmark of this pontificate.  <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Vito Caiati reports: Something that the Argentinian did this week really annoyed me. Specifically, in his homily on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, Bergoglio continued his devious discouragement of belief in miracles, flagitiously denying the great nature miracle by which Christ fed a multitude with just five loaves of bread and two fish. As … Continue reading “Bergoglio the Secularist on the Miracle of the Loaves and the Fishes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,486],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-corner","category-miracles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693","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=3693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}