WOW! THIS IS REALLY EMBARRASSING FOR THE POPE AND CARDINAL GAMBETTI: THIS IS A POWERFUL SYMBOL OF THE LAST GASPS OF THE 1960’S GENERATION AND THEIR BACKWARDISM TO THEIR HEADY, YOUTHFUL DAYS OF THE 1960’S CHURCH—IT IS THE DEATH RATTLE OF THE CURRENT VATICAN MAGISTERIUM—POWERFUL SYMBOL OF THAT!

Extremely low turnout for the Human Fraternity - Fratelli Tutti Event. Judging by the chairs put out, the Vatican was expecting a much bigger crowd. The pope was to attend this event, but he too called in sick.

As a disclaimer, a part of my many anxiety disorders, is this anxiety that I would invite someone to the parish for a mission or some other event and no one would come. Often my anxieties have proven wrong, but not always and for multiple night talks, the dwindling congregation was a bit too much for me, but I digress.

On Saturday, the Vatican put on a Fratelli Tutti or Tutti Amici, Tutti Fruiti, whatever you want to call it, but it was about human fraternity.

I certainly did not watch the five hours of this crap, excuse me, this event, but the first part with Cardinal Gambetti spouting off about how wonderful human fraternity is, I found it so secular that not even secularists would be inspired. It was just plain boring. But even more tragic than the small crowd, is that Jesus Christ, the Most Holy Trinity, the angels and saints seem to be absent from this introduction not only in the words of the good Cardinal but in reality. 

And on the Eve of Corpus Christi which I think is celebrated on Sunday in Rome now, there was no Eucharistic experience, just entertainment, which everyone in Rome could have found someplace else in Rome on Saturday. 

Evidently, the crowd the Vatican was expecting was not what they were expecting. It was embarrassingly low and the whole thing took almost five hours! Yes, you read that correctly, five hours!!!! I suspect the small crowd got smaller as the hours ticked off and most were more than likely ticked off. 

This is only a five hour video, but watch the first part with the drone overlooking the vast crowds outside Saint Peter’s Basilica. 

The cover-photo for this 5 hour video says it all about the backwardness of the current Vatican Magisterium. It’s all about going back to the heady days of the 1960’s and holding hands and singing Kumbaya. Back in the 60’s radical hippie Catholics ate this up and loved communal life of sex and drugs. They brought Fratelli Tutti to new heights, literally. 

But even those 1960’s long-haired hippie types, who now are bald old geezers, don’t like this crap. And certainly young Catholics, who still practice their faith, find this a not groovy turn-off, not turn-on. 

But if this Fratelli Tutti, Human Fraternity event had been a TLM experience with all its Eucharistic Devotions, like the Paris-Chartres Pilgrimage of Tutti Fratelli, Saint Peter’s Square would have been packed, especially if the pope had not called in sick.