{"id":4473,"date":"2021-01-11T20:24:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T20:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=4473"},"modified":"2023-11-19T07:05:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T07:05:09","slug":"the-pope-wasnt-arrested-or-im-not-making-this-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/the-pope-wasnt-arrested-or-im-not-making-this-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pope Wasn&#8217;t Arrested (or) I&#8217;m Not Making This Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/mothers-day-and-mary\/#may\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20170501ff\/20170513-Udo_J-Keppler_The_American_Pope_1894_-658.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A weekend rumor may help explain why some of my social media was very sluggish yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Briefly:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pope Francis <strong>wasn&#8217;t<\/strong> arrested<\/li>\n<li>The Vatican <strong>wasn&#8217;t<\/strong> blacked out<\/li>\n<li>Military officers and\/or the FBI <strong>haven&#8217;t<\/strong> put the Pope in a secret prison<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, while I&#8217;m at it, I&#8217;ll speculate that shape-shifting space-alien lizard-men have not taken over Des Moines, Iowa. Bear in mind that I&#8217;m one of those folks who believe that the Illuminati are <strong>not<\/strong> really a front for the Leprechaun-Pixie cabal. Which doesn&#8217;t exist. &#x1f609;<\/p>\n<p>And I figure that the Catholic News Agency, CNA, isn&#8217;t secretly plotting to enslave humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s what CNA said this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/why-is-the-internet-abuzz-with-false-claims-of-a-vatican-blackout-a-cna-explainer-39702\">Why is the internet abuzz with false claims of a \u2018Vatican blackout\u2019?: A CNA Explainer<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\nCNA Staff (January 11, 2021)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;The website claimed that Pope Francis was arrested on Saturday, Jan. 9 &#8216;in connection with an 80- count indictment of charges including possession of child pornography, human trafficking, incest, possession of drug paraphernalia and felony fraud.&#8217;&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8230;<strong>Has Pope Francis said anything about &#8216;fake news&#8217;?<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Yes. He dedicated his 2018 message for World Communications Day to the topic, arguing that &#8216;fake news&#8217; dates back to the temptation of Adam and Eve by the serpent in the Garden of Eden.<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8216;The strategy of this skilled &#8220;Father of Lies&#8221; (John 8:44) is precisely mimicry, that sly and dangerous form of seduction that worms its way into the heart with false and alluring arguments,&#8217; he wrote&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More seriously, the CNA article is a reality check for the weekend&#8217;s rumors: including what they were and where they came from.<\/p>\n<p>Since they follow my culture&#8217;s familiar &#8216;the Catholic Church is a terrorist organization&#8217; pattern, I figure we&#8217;ll be running into this for quite a while. And, maybe it&#8217;ll be running into us. And that&#8217;s almost another topic.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I&#8217;d better get back to the day&#8217;s tasks.<\/p>\n<p>After sharing my usual list of not-entirely-unrelated posts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/fog-frost-feelings-and-another-washington-snafu\/\">Fog, Frost, Feelings: and Another Washington SNAFU<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(January 9, 2021)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wheat-tares-fear-of-the-lord-and-working-on-wisdom\/\">Wheat, Tares, Fear of the Lord and Working on Wisdom<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(December 19, 2020)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/covid-19-cells-viruses-and-mrna-vaccines\/\">COVID-19, Cells, Viruses and mRNA Vaccines<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(December 5, 2020)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/floyd-signs-and-statues\/\">Floyd, Signs and Statues<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(June 28, 2020)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/pandemic-perspectives\/\">Pandemic Perspectives<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(March 31, 2020)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A weekend rumor may help explain why some of my social media was very sluggish yesterday. Briefly: Pope Francis wasn&#8217;t arrested The Vatican wasn&#8217;t blacked out Military officers and\/or the FBI haven&#8217;t put the Pope in a secret prison And, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/the-pope-wasnt-arrested-or-im-not-making-this-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,192],"tags":[52,7,234],"class_list":["post-4473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discursive-detours","category-journal","tag-culture","tag-getting-a-grip","tag-pope"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Dwtw-1a9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4473"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4478,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473\/revisions\/4478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}