Regime media sparked a new outbreak of Francis Derangement Syndrome on X yesterday. The molehill the lying press hyped into a mountain was a recent document from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. And the shovels they used to pile BS on it were fake news stories alleging that Francis greenlit priests blessing gay unions.
The DDF document, Fiducia Supplicans, which Pope Francis signed off on, became the subject of shameless slander from the media. Extremely online atheists, pagan, protestants, and even a vocal minority of hyper-traditionalist Catholics used the fake news as a handy club to beat their favorite effigy, Straw Francis.
As is too often the case, the lie made it ’round the world before the truth could get its boots on. But faithful Catholic theologians and commentators sprang into action setting the record straight; in some cases, beating the Vatican and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to the punch in issuing clarifications.
Top apologetics Zoomer Pinesap cited the controversial doc’s own forbiddance of blessing same-sex unions and its condemnation of gay “marriage”:
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Even this writer took time away from reinventing the dark adventure genre to issue some fraternal corrections.
Official Church outlets did manage to get corrections out, as well.
Rome Reports gave great coverage of the document pic.twitter.com/3AJxwVv98B
— Pinesap🌲✝️☦️🇻🇦 (@Pinesap3wasc) December 18, 2023
By the end of the day yesterday, the truth got out, and the FDS sufferers playing crazy cookout uncle got ratioed off X.
Walking theology manual Classical Theist summed up the FDS crowd’s rout in this pithy post:
CT also referred back to a post of his from October, in which he correctly predicted the DDF document’s contents.
Whatever one’s opinion on the DDF document, its pastoral guidance falls far short of the dogma changes and manifest heresy that Church critics expected from October’s Synod on Synodality.
With yet another calumnious attack on Pope Francis fizzled, one can only wonder when the FDS heads and crazy cookout uncles will stop swallowing the corrupt media’s fake news.
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