Jimmy Swaggart's Wife Announces that Pope Is Promoting Witchcraft!!!!!

Last Week of course we had the horrible reporting om the "New Seven Deadly Sins". My local news station went along with the horrible reporting .Amy Welborn had a good overview here. in case you under a rock last week.

The Anchoress talks about how the media covered the story too here at Pews, Press, Prostitutes…whatever . She says in part:

Fr. Martin takes pains to say he doesn’t think the press’ bizarre reporting comes from a place of malice, but of ignorance. Okay. Maybe. But I am willing to bet when the stories broke as they did, many non-Catholics shook their head with a “there go those damn Catholics again,” and plenty of Catholics had a response similar to one here:

Once again I have to tell my Church to f*** off. I’m really getting tired of that.


How many of those folks will ever see any sort of correction following the sensational headline?

And if that’s not a malicious intent, it is certainly sloppiness that serves something other than truth. The press knows full well the power of a headline - what’s that old saying, “a lie makes its way around the world while the truth is still getting its pants on,” . The press knows full well that if it blares a sensational headline, that headline becomes part of the collective subconscious, and the inevitably buried corrections mean nothing. I think we saw such an example in the recent Rudy Giuliani campaign.

And these sorts of things always

seem to happen as we approach Holy Week - a little distraction from what we’re supposed to be doing, a little discrediting before the Vatican actually proclaims the Risen Christ. Never fails.

You know sometimes you have to laugh at things like this but it does have serious affects. I was traveling to Shreveport on Tuesday and I heard The Wife of Jimmy Swaggart pop off about this on their radio show that he co host through their radio network. On her show "Frances and Friends" with Francis Swaggart she was answering listener email. Well my attention was held because she just announced to the world that Tae kwon do was evil and not a good thing. The second email was "Francis can you please talk about these new "Social Sins the Pope has added?".

Well, One would think that Frances Swaggart of all people would be careful of how the secular media reports religion and Christianity. Needless to say they have been at the receiving end of that. However she was off to the races and read some news report that was of course false relating to all the stuff linked above.

Francis announced that Pope is talking about sins relating to the Environment and if you threw a wrapper down on the ground you could be damned!!! That the Pope was basically promoting witchcraft and that all this Pagan Mother Earth stuff was coming from the Vatican now. She ended her commentary by going " Well You Catholics know what your Pope is doing now!!!!"

Frances of the Swaggart Ministries failed to note of course what the Holy Father said earlier in the year.

The family needs a home, a fit environment in which to develop its proper relationships. For the human family, this home is the earth, the environment that God the Creator has given us to inhabit with creativity and responsibility. We need to care for the environment: it has been entrusted to men and women to be protected and cultivated with responsible freedom, with the good of all as a constant guiding criterion. Human beings, obviously, are of supreme worth vis-à-vis creation as a whole. Respecting the environment does not mean considering material or animal nature more important than man. Rather, it means not selfishly considering nature to be at the complete disposal of our own interests, for future generations also have the right to reap its benefits and to exhibit towards nature the same responsible freedom that we claim for ourselves. Nor must we overlook the poor, who are excluded in many cases from the goods of creation destined for all. Humanity today is rightly concerned about the ecological balance of tomorrow. It is important for assessments in this regard to be carried out prudently, in dialogue with experts and people of wisdom, uninhibited by ideological pressure to draw hasty conclusions, and above all with the aim of reaching agreement on a model of sustainable development capable of ensuring the well-being of all while respecting environmental balances. If the protection of the environment involves costs, they should be justly distributed, taking due account of the different levels of development of various countries and the need for solidarity with future generations. Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken, decisions aimed at strengthening that covenant between human beings and the environment, which should mirror the creative love of God, from whom we come and towards whom we are journeying.

and

The social community, if it is to live in peace, is also called to draw inspiration from the values on which the family community is based. This is as true for local communities as it is for national communities; it is also true for the international community itself, for the human family which dwells in that common house which is the earth. Here, however, we cannot forget that the family comes into being from the responsible and definitive “yes” of a man and a women, and it continues to live from the conscious “yes” of the children who gradually join it. The family community, in order to prosper, needs the generous consent of all its members.

I am not holding my breath on a retraction from "Frances and Friends" with Frances Swaggart