Chris Matthews Did Not Interview Pope Francis

I recently received a chain email about an alleged interview with Pope Francis prior to the papal conclave by Chris Matthews of MSNBC fame. The email contains the compelling and well written interview, yet is completely fictitious. 

Here is a sample.

REPORTER: Welcome Cardinal.

BERGOGLIO: Thank you. Happy to speak with you.

REPORTER: Well, let me get into it directly. Last conclave, you were almost elected Pope. Can this happen again?

BERGOGLIO: What? That I will almost be the Pope, again?

REPORTER: No. Will you be the next Pope?

BERGOGLIO: Friend, I’m only jesting with you. I understand the question. I will not be the next Pope.

REPORTER: Why not?

BERGOGLIO: I chose not to. God has someone else in mind I’m certain.

REPORTER: But you would take the job if it were offered.

BERGOGLIO: I think not.

REPORTER: Why not.

BERGOGLIO: I believe I’m too embroiled in the secular fiasco. It is a spiritual job and I’m a soldier. Look at the nature of power. In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power. I’ve been a keen observer of the effect this has on the people, especially the poor. They are very good at creating poverty where there is no reason to explain it. My job is try to alleviate poverty and if that means to oppose the ‘cause then I will not be Pope.

REPORTER: But you are worried you would be a spend thrift pope? 

BERGOGLIO: Friend. Where did you go to school?

REPORTER: La Salle College High School in Pennsylvania and….

BERGOGLIO: And after that?

REPORTER: College of the Holy Cross.

BERGOGLIO: They told me you were Catholic. Once elected the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope. I’m just saying I’m not that man.

REPORTER: So what is your job?

BERGOGLIO: My job is to ask you, “why are men creating poverty?”

REPORTER: What do you mean?

BERGOGLIO: I mean that poverty is part of the natural condition and that is bad enough. But my task is to prevent the aggravation of this condition. The ideology that adds to the poverty must be denounced. I have and this is the reason I will not be Pope. I have a saying for myself, “No more poverty than God originally intended in the fall from Grace.”

REPORTER: Oh.

BERGOGLIO: It is a spiritual choice and I’m a political person. I’m sorry. I know you will make more money from this interview if I’m Pope. Or want to be Pope. But I’m sorry. I can’t help you. God has already chosen someone anyway. Right? You learned this in school? 

Link (here) to the full fictitious piece

This is an except from a website entitled, Truth or Fiction

TruthOrFiction.Com has found no evidence of this being true. A search of the MSNBC website found no such interview in the archives and inquiries sent to Matthews have yet to be responded.  According to a March 24, 2013 article in London's Telegraph, the transcript of the interview was published on the website of the Roman Catholic diocese in Salford but was later taken down because it could not be verified. Salford is a city in England that is East of Manchester. There are indications in the transcript that this may be a hoax.
Matthews is a Roman Catholic as well as a professional interviewer. A professional would not have begun an interview by addressing a Catholic Cardinal with "Welcome Cardinal." The correct protocol when addressing a Catholic Cardinal is "Your Eminence," according to "How to Address Church Officials" found posted on the website Catholiceducation.org. Cardinals may also be addressed by "Your Lordship" but it would be considered bad form to say "Welcome Cardinal" without including the clergyman's last name. Another clue that this could possibly be a hoax is that the spelling of Matthew's name is incorrect in the transcript of the forwarded email.

Link (here)

Wet Willie At St. Joseph's Prep

Wet Willie

I guess the first thing to say is my kid would be in huuuuuuuuge trouble for doing this. But it's still kinda' awesome. Right after the election of the pope, NBC 10 in Philly wanted to interview a Jesuit so they set up an interview with the Jesuit president of St. Joseph's Prep in Philadelphia. The president of the school lined up a bunch of students around him for the interview. Big mistake. One of the kids gives possibly one of the greatest wet willies to another kid RIGHT ON CAMERA. It's completely inappropriate and kinda' awesome. I know it's the eight year old in me but it's pretty funny. There's talk that the kid might get suspended. Here's the thing - I don't see these two things as mutually exclusive. Yes it's awesome but that doesn't mean the kid shouldn't be punished. In life you make tradeoffs. It's for the kid to decide whether it was worth it. This is one of those things that you punish them for and then when nobody can see you, you just laugh. Just a little.

Link (here) to watch the video at Creative Minority Report

Hugh Jackman Is Rescuing My Mother After Jesuits Teleported To Her To North Korea

Gail Chord Schuler AKA "Gabrielle Chana" is obviously not playing with a full deck of cards. Gabrielle has posted a homemade video (here). She does need our prayers. With all of that said, the video is absolutely hilarious to watch. Gabrielle states in her Youtube video that Matthew Mcconaughey is flying to north Korea to rescue Hugh Jackman the Wolverine star to deliver flying robots behind enemy lines at the Jesuit Base were the Jesuits are holding her mother.
Link (here) to GabrieleChana.com

Fr. Norris Seenivasen, S.J. On Liberals And Conservatives

Hans Kung, Jacques Dupuis, and Joseph Ratzinger died and stood before the pearly gates of heaven. Before they can enter heaven, they must be cross-examined by Jesus.

“The first one to go was Hans Kung, the theologian who questioned Papal Infallibility. Jesus and Kung talked for 12 hours. Then Kung came out and said, ‘Jesus convinced me that my way of thinking was not right.” And he entered heaven.

The second one to go was Jacques Dupuis, the theologian who says that all religions are equal paths to God. Jesus and Dupuis talked for 24 hours. Then Dupuis came out and said, “Jesus convinced me that my way of thinking was not right.” And he entered heaven.
 

Joseph Ratzinger was listening to the debates between Jesus and Kung and Dupuis. He has his briefcase of notes. Then his turn came. Jesus and Ratzinger talked for 48 hours. Then Jesus came out and said, “Ratzinger convinced me that my way of thinking was not right.”

Link (here) to read the full piece at The Monks Hobbit.

Millions Of Jesuits Working Undercover

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows:

On December 9, the Catholic League filed a formal complaint against attorney Rebekah Nett for the anti-Catholic comments made by her and her client, Naomi Isaacson. Subsequently, Isaacson, who is also a lawyer, has made more Catholic-bashing remarks. We are now filing a complaint with the Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility against her. Below is an excerpt of her bigoted comments as reported in the Pioneer Press.

• She calls U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Nancy Dreher "Popess Dreher" and "a secret Catholic Knight Witch Hunter."
   
• She calls U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis O'Brien a "dastardly Jesuit."
   
• She calls the court-appointed bankruptcy trustee a "mindless numbnut [who] would follow church orders with a vengeance."
   
• She accuses judges and trustees of conspiring to liquidate the company's assets "for pennies," saying the proceeds will go "to members of the Catholic Church."
   
• She refers to a contempt-of-court order by Judge Dreher saying, "We may as well flush her papal bull order down the toilet."
   
• She says the court "is an arm of the church to force the minority to be converted or face the consequences just like during the Dark and Middle Ages."
•  She calls one trustee "Grand Inquisitor."
   
• She calls the attorney representing the U.S. Trustee Program a "Papal Drummer."
   
• She says Judge O'Brien converted the case to Chapter 7 "on papal orders."
   
• She accuses the Church of bringing illegal immigrants to America "so their population can outrun that of the Protestants and they can turn the country into another Spain."
   
• She says: "The Catholic Church has millions of Jesuits working undercover around the country to fulfill the church's agenda. They give orders, pull the strings, and their puppets like Nancy Dreher jump like zombies."

Both Rebekah Nett and Naomi Isaacson are unrepentant bigots. They should be disbarred.

Link (here)

The Jesuit With Laser Eyes

There was also a Jesuit, who looked so forbiddingly intelligent that we schoolchildren scattered like sparrows when he passed silently through the schoolyard, because rumour had it that Jesuits had the gift of laser eyes and could kill sparrows by staring at them hard, but most of us thought this was silly, although all of us flittered away from the Jesuit right quick.

Link (here) to read the full  story at CathNews

A Jesuit Joke

At a conference about religious obedience, the Jesuit representative is asked, "Your Order places great emphasis on the vow of obedience. How do you ensure that Jesuits remain faithful to this vow?" He replies, "It's simple. Our superiors first ask us what we want to do, and then they mission us to do it. Thus, we never have any problems with obedience." Another conference participant then a sks the Jesuit, "But aren't there some members of your Order who don't know what they want to do? What do you do with them?" The Jesuit replies, "We make them the superiors!"

Link (here) to a whole site full of Jesuit Jokes

Tuition For The Holy Family

THE LIGHTER SIDE. 

Three friends — a Franciscan, Jesuit, and SVD — paid homage to the Christ Child in Bethlehem. The Franciscan was interested in the manger to serve as reminder of the strict poverty their order professed. 

The Jesuit was more interested to have Jesus enrolled at the Ateneo. Knowing of the Jesuit’s intention, Mary whispered to Joseph, “Can we afford their tuition?” 

When they looked around for the SVD, he was nowhere to be found. They discovered later he had run after the 3 Kings … soliciting donations for the mission!

Link (here) to Father Bel R. San Luis, SVD 

He Was Really A Jesuit

Cristoforo Barbato

For some years Cristoforo Barbato was editor in charge in Rome for some Italian magazines, as Stargate, Extra Terrestrial and Stargate Magazine. During that period he wrote on the magazine "Stargate" many reports about Fatima Apparitions and the famous "Third Secret". After the publication of those reports, precisely in the year 2000, he received several e-mails from a person who qualified himself as a Vatican insider. From those e-mails rose up the story of a presumed Vatican Intelligence Agency, whose code would be S.I.V.: "Servizio Informazioni del Vaticano", which in Italian means "Vatican Information Services". In short the Vatican Secret Services. Barbato, at the beginning, was very skeptical and did not rely on him. After one year of such an epistolary contacts (in the meantime the insider revealed himself as a S.I.V. membership, belonging to the Jesuit Order and working by the Holy See), the Italian freelance demanded a meeting with him, as a necessary condition to carry on the contacts. In spite of the risks the Vatican insider accepted, and I suppose he was aware it was necessary considering his baffling revelations. Two meetings took place in a public space in Rome in 2001. After that at least his identity was clear: he was not a mythomaniac; he was really a Jesuit  working by the Holy See.

Link (here) Alien-UFO.com 
Blogger Note: This post is not serious and should not be taken as credible, but as a curiosity of the internet. 

Jesuit Ghost

The gothic Manresa Castle (www.manresacastle.com) in Port Townsend was built in 1892 as a mayoral manor, then became a Jesuit monastery between 1927 and 1968. Two ghosts, in particular, have been associated with the Victorian-style inn. 

A severely depressed priest hung himself from the ceiling of the tower room. Guests have reported hearing footsteps or the sound of a strained rope, and one claimed to have seen a man in a black hooded robe standing over his bed. 

A young woman leaped from a window to her death, after learning that her lover had been lost at sea. Guests in her room insist they have perceived a woman dressed in early-20th-century wear, staring out toward the waterfront. “These are the two main ghosts that everybody knows about,” said Ashley Con, a night-shift desk clerk. “We had a psychic from Virginia who came here on vacation, so she was ignoring the ghosts, but they wouldn’t let her. She said they told her other spirits pass through the Manresa Castle all the time, almost like it’s a hotel for ghosts.”

Link (here) to read the full blog post at John Gottberg's Blog

Can You Name That Jesuit Institution?

Can you name the Jesuit Colleges and Universities?
To play the game, go (here)

Jesuit On Luke Skywalker

....back to my old Star Wars, Episode IV, inside the Millenium Falcon faith.  Early in the original Star Wars, Luke's in the Falcon with Obi-Wan, trying to use his light saber to block the floating globe's little laser beams, and failing miserably. Then, Ben has Luke put down the blast shield on his helmet, rendering him blind.  And he does fantastic. 

Link (here) to Gone Walkabout by Fr. Jim McDermott, S.J.

Funny Pictures

At Santa Clara University, Dan Dion was the comedy director. He had an annual budget of $10,000 but always spent $15,000 flying in the likes of P.J. O'Rourke and Second City to perform on the Jesuit campus.

Link (here) to read the full story then you will get the title.

Play Jesuit Hangman

 

Newly ordained Jesuit priest of the New Orleans Province 

Fr. Anthony Barrow, S.J.  

has a personal website he a game on the site called "Jesuit Hangman".

You can play it (here).

Boston College Jesuit On Obama

Cyril Opeil, a Jesuit priest and a Boston College physicist who is working on a solar project with one of the centers at MIT, said he feels Obama's speech at MIT signals the president's understanding of how important scientific research is to fixing the nation's environmental problems.

"He knows that in the past great things have come out of MIT,

and I think what he is doing is called upon people who know the challenges, who know the possibilities," Opeil said.

Link (here)

Photo is photoshopper of course, to funny!

Fiction Book Contains "Battle Jesuits!"

"With 'Vampire A Go-Go,' I wanted to take a playful poke at two genres at the same time: The horror genre, especially vampire books ... and the Dan Brown, Clive Cussler search-for-the-ancient-artifact type of book," said author Victor Gischler. The story is about a graduate student on a research trip to Prague who discovers the existence of an ancient device that can resurrect the dead.

While questing for it, he runs into a cast of characters including machine-gun-toting priests known as the Battle Jesuits

and the omniscient ghost of Sixteenth Century alchemist Edward Kelley. This is the kind of berserk storytelling to be found in Gischler's other series for Marvel Comics

Link (here) to the full story.

America Blogger Vs. America Blogger

Michael Sean Winters writes.

The news keeps getting in the way of a blogpost I have been meaning to write in response to my colleague Father Jim Martin’s request for civility in the blogosphere. (Unfortunately, I can’t find his original posting in the archives.) Father, we love you to death, but have to give you a noisy, blatty, Bronx cheer on this one.

I think the blogosphere has restored happily some of the rough-and-tumble esprit of democracy, buried so long under Victorian notions of propriety. Surely, the nastiest election in American history remains that of 1800, when John Adams accused Thomas Jefferson of being a radical and an atheist and Jefferson charged Adams with being a closet monarchist and worse. The attacks were ad hominem as well as political, and vicious in the extreme. Link (here) to the full post

Fr. James Martin, S.J. responds.

Dear Michael,
Gunning for me? Uh oh. I guess I agree with you that we should not be afraid of controversy, or calling people to account for their actions or words. But by the same token, the blogosphere often seems to elicit the worst from us, Catholics included-snotty, unfounded, mean-spirited, anonymous, ad hominem attacks that call people's faith and humanity into question. I'm all for playful, but when's the last time you saw playful in the blogosphere? Vicious is more like it: you should see the comments we delete before they're posted! Anyway, I take your point, but, on the other hand, I reserve the use of the Bronx cheer only for those who live within a subway ride of the Bronx.
James Martin, SJ

Link (here)

Now Father Martin you can get a little rough and tumble yourself.

Remember your comments regarding Diogenes at DotCommonweal?

An excerpt.

Best of luck in your noble hunt for the hate-spewing Diogenes, one of those people who seems to have forgotten that being Catholic also means being Christian.

Link (here) to the Fr. James Martin's full statement down in the combox.

Father Zoltach?

Potter has brought aboard a 'transmedium' to communicate with any boogeymen and get some answers.

That would be Sayge Flannigan of St. Catharines, who for six years has gone into paranormal hot zones and channeled what he believes is an 18th-century Jesuit priest named Zoltach.

He doesn't care about doubters. He simply lets Zoltach do the talking.

"I let the information I channel speak for itself," he says. "The info will either resonate, or it won't."

He claims Zoltach warned one family there would be a fire in their home soon. For four months, the children slept in their clothes, ready to flee at the first whiff of smoke. Sure enough, four months later, there was a blaze and they all escaped.

"My body acts like a lightning rod," says Flannigan, who has no recollection of each session. "I become the voice for the spirit."

Potter knows the hazards of a show like this - if nothing happens, it's a boring episode. There's also the temptation to stage things for the cameras.

None of that will happen, he insists. Keeping it real is key to History of a Haunting.

"We don't want to go in there and start making up things," says Chamberland, who recently won a Niagara Music Award and will also compose the show's score. "People who are dedicated to these kinds of things - and there are a lot of them -will appreciate that. As soon as they start seeing that things are fake, they'll turn it off."

"What sells is the fear of the unknown," adds Welland's Todd Brown, another executive producer. "Once it's known, it's not fearful any more."

The show's teaser trailer can be seen at www.historyofahaunting.com.

Link (here)

Blogger Note: The subject of this story Zoltach and Sayge in no way Christian, Catholic, nor Jesuit and must be viewed as occultic. In the best light, this story is showbiz at its best and at it's worst.......

The League Of Extraordinary Jesuits

Some Boston College students made this extremely low budget film on location at BC. It is funny and nothing offensive (I hope those flying pitas were unconsecrated!). Go (here) to watch the 8 minute film.

Happy Face, Sad Face

Ryan Rallanka, SJ wins an Academy Award for this hilarious 7 minute short film, watch it (here)