A pope with "close psychological control"

Popes are mere human after all, and this pope's psychology can easily be transferred to a number of people, inducing ordinary ones - some quite close to us.

I would also add to the article posted here that the pope shows a particularly Latin American type of psychology perhaps making it difficult for non-latinos (Europeans and Americans especially) to discern this behaviour early on before it became such an ecclesiastical issue.

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Jealous Jorge
From: The Thinking Housewife
April 28, 2018

“BERGOGLIO was not at ease with people who were in a position to overshadow him psychologically, intellectually, or socially. He was a recruit from a lower social level than many of his companions in the Society of Jesus, and in the class-conscious society that is Argentina’s legacy from its oligarchic past this was always a visible handicap. He dealt with it by affecting an exaggerated vulgarity (thus leading to the complaints about coarse language mentioned in the Kolvenbach Report), while at large gatherings he would make a point of ignoring the bigwigs and spending time chatting genially to the cleaners and manual workers. One can see a similar defense mechanism in his assumption of a simple, retiring persona which was in fact a cover for close psychological control.”

—- Marcantonio Colonna, The Dictator Pope: The Inside Story of the Francis Papacy [Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2018], pp. 36-37

A video interview with the author of The Dictator Pope has been posted at Novus Ordo Watch. Unfortunately, despite his important revelations about “Pope” Francis, the author, whose real name is Henry J.A. Sire, accepts Francis as a true pope. See the perceptive comments with this post.
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Jews and Death

Julia Samuel "psychotherapist specializing in grief" on TVO in soft pink and gold,
whose job is to help ease the pain of grief

The erudite and smart Steve Paikin of Television Ontario's The Agenda had on a "psychotherapist specializing in grief" as his main guest this evening. The full interview is below, or online here.

There was a fascinating discussion on death and grief which Paikin's guest, Julia Aline Samuel, adeptly maneuvered. But not once, not once, in her discussion did God feature.

How can one discuss death and grief without mentioning God? How can one discuss death and grief without God being the center, the axis, of the discussion?

Incredible.

I looked up Samuel, and through various associations she is clearly a Jew (by marriage).

Here are the brief details:

- Hon. Michael John Samuel was born on 2 November 1952. He is the son of Peter Montefiore Samuel Samuel, 4th Viscount Bearsted and Hon. Elizabeth Adelaide Cohen.

- He married Julia Aline Guinness, daughter of James Edward Alexander Rundell Guinness and Pauline Vivien Mander, on 6 March 1980.

- Children of Michael John Samuel and Julia Aline Guinness:

Natasha Vivienne Samuel b. 25 Jun 1981
Emily Elizabeth Samuel b. 11 Jul 1983
Sophie Alexandra Samuel b. 1986
Benjamin Peter Marcus Samuel b. 1989

- The last child (a son) of Michael's and Julia's has the first name Benjamin (as in the youngest son of the Biblical Abraham).

Nowhere is the full religious and cultural background of the Samuel family disclosed, but their backgrounds can be clearly surmised through these associations.

Therefore, Julia Aline Samuel (nee Guinness - aristocratic Anglo-Irish Protestant family in brewing, banking, politics, and religious ministry.) clearly had to convert to Judaism for this marriage to be sanctified by Jewish religious and legal procedures.

But like all Jewish families who have mixed (converted) members, their affinity to the religious side of Judaism is minimal, while they may follow cultural and societal rules and regulations of the religion.

They can for all practical purposes be called "atheist" Jews. (This is a profound oxymoron, to be discussed at a later date. Without God, Jews are nothing. They cannot profess to be Jews and NOT believe in God).

Therefore Samuel "counsels" people who are plunged into the abyss of grief with psychological props to handle their grief, and not once does she ease the terrible burden off people's shoulder's by saying: There is God. He will help you.

The iniquities of the modern world are beyond belief.

Paikin is not to blame for the discussion, nor the direction of the discussion. He makes himself vulnerable by telling Samuel a personal anecdote. He was asking her for help. But the callous Samuels simply smiles and gives "advice" in her voice softened, and trained, for therapy. (The section is around the 23 minute point - full video is below).

Samuel is part of the great failed Jewish tradition of psychoanalysis. How many Woody Allen movies show a man who goes his whole life sitting (lying) on a psychiatrist's couch with no personal improvement to show for it? It was simply a narcissistic addiction which served patient and doctor.

You can watch the full TVO interview here.