Well, the mystery man has taken off his disguise. Like traumatized children who hope that their mama’s new boyfriend won’t beat them as much as the last one, Catholics greeted the new man called “Il Papa” with hope. And indeed Leo XIV is a big improvement in some ways over Pope Francis. Leo doesn’t seem to be a sociopath, and is probably even a theist.
But as we reported yesterday, Leo’s latest public statement has given away that he embraces one of the most detestable heresies in Church history since Marcion rejected the Old Testament: the “Seamless Garment” invented by Machiavellian Leftist Cardinal Joseph Bernardin. (That’s the bishop who personally wrote the check to send Barack Obama to study at a Saul Alinsky “community organizing” institute.)
Responding to the outrage of faithful, pro-life Catholics (including some faithful bishops) that the newest far-Left cardinal in Leo’s home town, Chicago, Blaise Cupich, was honoring partial birth abortion advocate Sen. Dick Durbin with a lifetime achievement award, Leo said (in a dig at MAGA Catholics):
Someone who says I’m against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life. Someone who says I’m against abortion but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro life.
This is the Seamless Garment, uncut and pure, in shrink-wrapped kilos ready for sale on the streets to addicts. I laid out yesterday how it’s inconsistent with historic Christian doctrine, and previous official Catholic teaching. Let me just reiterate why it’s incoherent and false, drawing on something I published here way back in 2016, “The Seamless Garment: A Poison Pill to Kill Off the Pro-Life Movement.” A poison pill
is something which you ask for, and pretend to desperately want, which is designed to throw your opponent off, make him back off on his other demands — to do whatever he needs to in order to avoid having to swallow that poison pill.
Seamless Garment advocates such as Cardinal Bernardin, Joe Biden, and Nancy Pelosi pretend that you can’t oppose killing children for our sexual convenience, unless you also think it was wrong to hang the Nazi war criminals after Nuremburg, and it’s wrong to deport illegal aliens. Who on this green earth actually believes all these claims at once? Virtually nobody. According to the Christian Post, this stance is held by less than 1% of Catholics surveyed — a number so small it vanishes into the margin of error.
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