[WilliamJenningsBryan]

The Vatican's Vicar of Satan is a busy man, and while the usual papist pederasty is a continuing saga, these days it barely risies above the noise level created by priviledged soy boys like the Canada's Justin Trudeau donning an afro wig and black face to sing the Banana Boat Song.

Today's turgid tabloid tale involves the land of the dot-heads and the Bollywood musical, and raises hindaloo havoc and cathylick outrage. As well as disturbing to Christians every where, the Bergoglio appointed Bishop is the latest example of cathylick multicultural ecumenicism run amok.

Bishop Dons Hindu Robes for Mass Before Ritual Genitalia of Pagan Gods
by Jules Gomes - ChurchMilitant.com - September 18, 2019

Catholic church has tabernacle in the form of the phallus of a Hindu deity

DESHNUR, India (ChurchMilitant.com) - An Indian bishop has provoked a backlash from Catholics and Hindus after he celebrated the Holy Eucharist using saffron robes worn by Hindu priests before a tabernacle in the form of a Shivalinga - the phallus of the Hindu god Shiva.

Bishop Derek Fernandes and his concelebrating clergy were photographed at Mass wearing Hindu clerical vestments and sporting rudraksha malas — a necklace of Hindu beads.

The clerics had also smeared their foreheads with a sacred vermillion paste called tilak — one of the most visible symbols of the Hindu religion.

Fernandes, who was appointed bishop of Belgaum in May by Pope Francis, was photographed in the offending attire on Aug. 29 while on a pastoral visit to a church in Deshnur, 28 kilometers from Belagavi in the state of Karnataka.

Journalist Savio Rodrigues, who is producing India's first docu-film on sex abuse in the Indian Catholic Church, released the pictures on social media last Friday, accusing Fernandes of "saffronisation of Christianity."

Catholics reacted with indignation, assuming that Bp. Fernandes was celebrating Mass with Hindu swamis (holy men) and desecrating the Holy Sacrament.

There was further outrage over the explicit Hindu theological content exhibited by the symbols used.

"Saffron is synonymous with Hinduism. It represents Agni, the Hindu god of fire. It also symbolizes Surya, the sun god, who is the source of truth. More recently, it has come to symbolize the terror of militant Hinduism — mercilessly persecuting Christians," an Indian Catholic university lecturer, who has written a book on world religions, told Church Militant.

"We don't worship the sun god but the Son of God and Jesus, who is the way, the truth and the life," she said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

"Rudraksha malas are associated with the Hindu deity Lord Shiva and are commonly worn for protection by his devotees. The tilak is a mark of Hindu Sanatan Dharma — the eternal Hindu religion," she explained. "It is smeared on a person's forehead because it is the location through which one can channel Divinity, thus enhancing the spiritual character of an individual."

"However, what is most shocking is that the tabernacle which houses the real presence of Our Lord's Body and Blood, should be shaped like a Shivalinga — which is the phallus of the god of fertility and destruction, Shiva, inserted into the female genitals of his consort Parvati," she pointed out.

Father Nelson Pinto, a priest of the diocese, defended the "inculturation" by explaining that when the first Jesuit priests went to Deshnur, in a predominantly Lingayat (a Hindu sect worshipping Shiva) region, they adopted the local culture.

"The Jesuit priests became vegetarians and embraced other local practices," Pinto said.

"They did not do it to convert the people who lived there," he clarified.

However, Hindus have interpreted the act as a covert attempt at conversion and a desecration of Hindu symbolism.

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https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/...-of-pagan-gods

[Basilissa]

Thank you, Brother, for bringing this to our attention. It is "So Catholic™" on so many levels, I don't even know where to begin.

1) Catholic priests' obsession with phalli - check.
2) Pagan rituals disguised in a supposedly Christian event - check.
3) Complete disrespect towards followers of the pagan religions whose rituals are being ripped out of their original context - check.
4) Doing all that to cheat gullible people into giving the church money - check.
5) Not caring whether these gullible people know the difference between Christianity and the pagan religion which rituals are being appropriated - check.

[Dennis Lukes]

More of Pope Francis's interfaith debauchery, no doubt. He should've just called himself Pope Ecumenicus, or more accurately, Pope Sodomiticus or Pope Lucifer.