The Vatican has just designed a new Mascot…. I know, I know, you would think that Jesus Christ would be sufficient, but no. No, what the Pope decided they really needed right now was a blue haired, pre pubescent, anime waif in a raincoat named ‘Luce’…which means “Light” or “Lightbearer”. Houston, we have a problem! The Vatican has announced the official mascot of the Holy Year 2025. It’s an anime character they call “Luce” for light. Featuring a blue haired, pre pubescent waif in a raincoat might not be the most edifying image at this moment for the church. Nor is this photo. Thoughts?! pic.twitter.com/pQAVTd1x7W — Raymond Arroyo (@RaymondArroyo) October 28, 2024 The comments are NOT very charitable towards the Pope or the Vatican: I know the Bible says: “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’” (John 14:6, ESV) And: “He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.” (Colossians 1:17-18, ESV) And: “For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.” (1 Corinthians 2:2, ESV) But the Catholic Church has decided Jesus Christ is out and “Luce the Lightbearer” is what we need now! Nevermind that it looks like a character from Inside Out 2, and has those big Disney pedo eyes, don’t worry about any of that. We need Luce! Oh, did I mention that the designer and his company are closely tied to Pride Month? Because….of course they are: NEW: Vatican unveils the official mascot for 2025 Jubilee year, as prep increases & pre-Jubilee events approach. It’s designed by Tokidoki creator Simone Legno, who highlights his Italian Catholic heritage. His company promotes Pride month. pic.twitter.com/9NM5IV6MtK — Michael Haynes (@MLJHaynes) October 28, 2024 It’s actually a full set of characters…. Collect them all! ERM bros we have more characters.https://t.co/3CY5FVcveH https://t.co/zkmN9mHBmr pic.twitter.com/LJ7NztX692 — Jaster Arroyx (@PapistCourier) October 28, 2024 The Church claims this will allow them to “live even within pop culture”, which I know was Jesus’ final commandment before he ascended back into Heaven, right? It’s straight out of Matthew 28: “And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.’ Oh and make sure you create graven images of an anime waif named Luce and make that your focus for 2025.“ What….the red part isn’t in your Bible? The Vatican has unveiled the official mascot of the Holy Year 2025: Luce (Italian for Light). Archbishop Fisichella says the mascot was inspired by the Church’s desire “to live even within the pop culture so beloved by our youth.” pic.twitter.com/hVU2CmYA3O — CatholicTV (@CatholicTV) October 28, 2024 CatholicNewsAgency confirms: Ahead of the 2025 Jubilee, the Vatican has launched a cartoon mascot unveiled Monday as the cheerful face of the Catholic Church’s upcoming holy year. The mascot, named Luce — which means “light” in Italian — is intended to engage a younger audience and guide visitors through the holy year. Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the Vatican’s chief organizer for the jubilee, described the mascot as part of the Vatican’s goal to engage with “the pop culture so beloved by our young people.” The mascot will debut this week at the Lucca Comics and Games, Italy’s celebrated convention for all things comics, video games, and fantasy, where the Vatican’s Dicastery for Evangelization will host a space dedicated to “Luce and Friends.” It will be the first time that a Vatican dicastery participates in a comics convention. Fisichella, who serves as the the pro-prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization’s section for the new evangelization, said he hopes taking part in the convention “will allow us to speak to younger generations about the theme of hope, which is more central than ever in the evangelical message.” Clad in a yellow raincoat, mud-stained boots, and a pilgrim’s cross, Luce’s mission is to guide young pilgrims toward hope and faith with her trusty dog Santino at her side. Shells glimmer in her eyes, recalling the scallop shell of the Camino de Santiago, an emblem of the pilgrimage journey. Speaking at a Vatican press conference on Oct. 28 next to a plastic figurine of Luce, Fisichella described Luce’s shining eyes as “a symbol of the hope of the heart.” Luce, he said, will also be the face of the Holy See’s pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan, where she will represent the Vatican’s pavilion theme, “Beauty Brings Hope,” alongside Caravaggio’s “The Entombment of Christ,” a painting that will be temporarily on loan from the Vatican Museums for the expo. Simone Legno, the Italian co-founder of the pop culture brand tokidoki, designed Luce and her “pilgrim friends” — Fe, Xin, and Sky, each outfitted in brightly colored jackets. Luce’s yellow sailor’s raincoat is a nod to both the Vatican flag and to journeying through life’s storms. The mascot’s muddy boots represent a long and difficult journey, while her staff symbolizes the pilgrimage toward eternity. Legno, who admitted a lifelong love for Japanese pop culture, said he hopes that “Luce can represent the sentiments that resonate in the hearts of the younger generations.” “I am extremely grateful to the Dicastery for Evangelization for opening its doors to pop culture as well,” he said. A jubilee is a special holy year of grace and pilgrimage in the Catholic Church. It typically takes place once every 25 years, though the pope can call for extraordinary jubilee years more often, such as in the case of the 2016 Year of Mercy or the 2013 Year of Faith. Look, I know the Catholics get all mad at me whenever I dare criticize something they do, but what do you all think about this? Good move? Or has the Catholic Church lost its way? RELATED REPORTS: MEMO TO THE CATHOLICS: Please Stop Praying To Mary and Angels HERESY: Pope Francis Says “All religions are paths to reach God!” HERESY: Pope Francis Says "All religions are paths to reach God! (and Luce will guide you there!)" I've never actually been to Seminary, but I'm pretty sure on Day 1 the first thing you learn is Jesus is the way to God. Right? I mean, is that basically Christianity summed up in one sentence? Or if it's not that sentence then it's this sentence from John 14:6: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Yet somehow the Pope missed that day in school and missed that verse in his Bible -- probably because it becomes more apparent with every passing day that he hasn't actually READ a Bible in years! The man is creating his own faith instead, in his own likeness, the way HE wants the world to be. That never ends well. Here's the latest heresy from the Pope, telling children in Singapore that, quote: ""All religions are paths to reach God," said Pope Francis. "They are—to make a comparison—like different languages, different dialects, to get there. But God is God for everyone." Pope Francis to children in Singapore: "All religions are paths to reach God. They are—to make a comparison—like different languages, different dialects, to get there. But God is God for everyone. If you start to fight saying 'my religion is more important than yours, mine is… pic.twitter.com/oR1Qpm9cb9 — Catholic Sat (@CatholicSat) September 13, 2024 From VaticanNews: The Holy Father went on to invite those gathered to join him in praying together for one another. "May God bless all of us, and when time passes and you are not young people, but older, and become grandparents," he urged. "Pass this on." God for all "God is God for all, and if God is God for all," he said, "then we are all sons and daughters of God." "All religions are paths to reach God," said Pope Francis. "They are—to make a comparison—like different languages, different dialects, to get there. But God is God for everyone." The Holy Father thanked the young people for engaging in interreligious dialogue, for respecting one another, and reassured them of his prayers. Here's the video: I gotta say, Pope Francis is emulating his father, Satan, in all that he does. He takes a portion of the truth and then twists it. Isn't that what Satan has done since the Garden of Eden? Oldest trick in the book. And it's one of Pope Francis' favorite tricks too. He starts off with truth: we are all children of God, all sons and daughters of God, all created in his image.  True! But then the Bible talks about this little thing called "sin" that Pope Francis and people like Joel Osteen NEVER want to talk about. And since they never talk about the sin problem, they never have to SOLVE the sin problem. So it's easy for them! Since there's no real problem to deal with, it's easy to just say "all religions lead to God!" Kum-bay-yah! Isn't this great?! The only problem is, it's not great if it's not true. If it's not true, you're actually doing a lot of eternal damage to a lot of people teaching that. It's also a problem because not even all the other religions of the world believe this. Pope Francis' statement would be deemed offensive by many religions around the world. Muslims, for example, do not believe that both Islam and Christianity lead to the same God.  It's why they're constantly blowing people up, throwing them off buildings, burning them alive in cages....because they don't believe that at all!  They call us the "Great Satan". Buddhists aren't violent, but they wouldn't agree with the statement either.  Their goal is not to get to God, their goal is to eventually fade away to "Nirvana"....basically to a point where they no longer exist. So basically......?  This Pope is a DOPE! And as luck would have it, Jonathan Cahn just recently posted a video completely exposing Pope Francis and showing how all power was stripped from him a few years ago. Check this out: FULL TRANSCRIPT: On December 17th, Pope Francis was preparing to issue a decree that would open the door to homosexuality in Catholic doctrine, practice, and life. Catholic doctrine states that the Pope sits in the chair, or the office, of Peter. That’s a whole other issue, but that is the Catholic belief and claim. According to that belief, Pope Francis sits in the succession, office, and authority of the Apostle Peter. There is a statue of Peter, the office of which Francis claims. It stands in South America, the land from which Francis comes. Furthermore, the statue of Peter stands in Argentina, the homeland of the Pope. The statue is located in the province of Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires is where the Pope comes from; he was over it before he became Pope. So, the statue is of the office that the Pope claims, in the land that the Pope is from, in the nation that is the Pope's nation, in the province of the city in which the Pope was presiding over. So, what happened? It didn’t happen long ago. What happened was a bolt of lightning came down and struck the statue. Does every lightning strike mean judgment? No, but this one is too much. It strikes the sign of the office in the land, in the nation, in the province of the Pope. And it turns out there are major lightning rods around the statue to prevent this, so this shouldn’t have happened, but it happened anyway. But it’s not only where the statue was and where the bolt of lightning came—it was when it all came. When the lightning struck the statue, it was on December 17th, 2023. Anything significant about that date? Well, yes. December 17th happens to be the birthday of the Pope. So, you have the office, the land, the nation, the province, the time, the birthday—all pointing to the present Pope. But something else: it struck the statue on December 17th. On December 17th, Pope Francis was preparing to issue that decree that would open the door to homosexuality in Catholic doctrine, practice, and life. So, the lightning bolt struck the statue of Peter not only on the Pope’s birthday, December 17th, but the very day the Vatican was planning to release that colossal decree that would change everything. It wasn’t just that the lightning bolt struck the statue—it’s what it did. I want you to see the statue, the head of the statue, before the lightning. Now, that’s a halo around the head. What does a halo symbolize? It symbolizes holiness—the holiness of the person around whom is the halo. Now, this is what the lightning did. Look at the image: the lightning bolt removed the halo from the statue. It removed the sign of holiness on the statue that points to Pope Francis. The sign would say there is no holiness. The act of blessing homosexual couples was an unholy act. And that was not all. I want you to look at the hand of the statue before the striking of the lightning bolt. The hand is holding the keys, as in the keys of Peter from the scripture when the Lord says, "I will give you the keys to the kingdom. What you bind on Earth shall be bound in heaven, what you loose on Earth shall be loosed in heaven," saying that Peter and the authority of the Church believers are given authority, access, power, and a connection to heaven and the will of God. What did the lightning bolt do? I want you to see this now: the lightning bolt removed the keys. It melted them away, removed them. And what is that a sign of? The keys are a sign of authority, saying the authority is gone. No spiritual authority. The authority of God only comes inside the will of God. If you go outside the will of God, you can’t wield the authority of God. If you disobey the ways of God, you have no authority. And if any man goes against the will of God and instructs others to do the same, they have no authority at all. But a key is also about access—a link to heaven and a link to the things of God. The key is removed; there is no more access, or there is no access at all—it’s a closed and locked door. In the Bible, the right hand is a symbol of strength and power. Now, look at the statue—the hand of the statue before the lightning bolt. Now look at what happened to that hand after the strike of the lightning bolt. No power, no strength. In the Psalms, it’s written: "If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its cunning." In other words, if I forget the purposes of God... well, the Pope forgot the purposes of God. The right hand was destroyed. In the Book of Kings, there’s a king named Jeroboam, an evil king. He builds a pagan shrine and an altar. He’s about to sacrifice on it when a prophet of God comes and rebukes him. Jeroboam orders his men to seize the prophet. He lifts up his hand as he orders the prophet's arrest. It goes against the will of God. Immediately, God strikes his hand so that his hand withers up. So, here is the hand of the statue here, all pointing to the Pope. It was struck and destroyed. The Pope had instructed this decree against the will of God. And so, this is not a sign of good; it’s a sign of evil. The Pope ordered that the Catholic Church may now bless homosexual unions. According to Catholic practice, blessings are given through the right hand. The officiant is to extend his right hand and bless. So, what happened? The very day before that decree to issue the go-ahead on the Catholic Church and priest blessing with their right hand homosexual unions, the lightning struck the right hand, the hand of blessing. It eviscerated it. Look at it, meaning there is no blessing; there can be no blessing—all blessings are nullified. You know, the previous head of the doctrine office said, "God cannot bless sin." The Pope said, in effect, "God can bless sin. The Catholic Church can bless sin." And so, the hand that blesses was struck down, in effect destroyed. In other words, God cannot bless, and there is no blessing—only a curse, and a curse on those who would bless what God has declared to be sin. Those of you in any church or ministry that blesses this—that which God clearly calls sin—do not in any way raise your hand to bless such things. The hand that is raised to bless that which God calls sin is the hand that is raised against God. It will be cut off. If you are in any church that blesses such things, talk to them that they might change. Pray for them. Show them this video. Give them the link. If they don’t, then leave because a curse rests upon that place. Whether you're Catholic, Protestant, or anything else, you cannot entrust your salvation to any man, any organization, anything except God. Man can go off, as you can see, but God and His word will never go off. The Bible says, "Let all men be liars, let God be true." God alone is our source; God alone is our shepherd. Follow Him regardless. There will be no religious seats or sections in heaven—only are you saved or not. Did you, for real, receive Jesus (Yeshua the Messiah) into your life and turn from sin and follow Him with all your heart? Were you born again, a true child of God? Did you live your life truly for Him and with Him and in Him and by Him? And if you haven’t, you need to do that. You need to get right with God. The most important thing you can do. If you have Catholic friends or anyone who needs to see this, get this video, get this link to them. Last thing: the statue of Peter in the province of Buenos Aires was one of two statues. The other statue was of Paul, the Apostle Paul. Now, in that statue, Paul is holding up a sword of iron. It was untouched. Nobody claims to hold the office of Paul or his keys, but Paul said, "Lift up the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God," and that’s the final word. In days of evil, in days of apostasy, it is not less important but more important that you, as a child of God, hold up the word of God without bending, without compromise, without fear. The more the world falls away, the more you stand strong. And now, I leave you with this word from the book of Ephesians from the Apostle Paul: "Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the full armor of God so that you’ll be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. Because our struggle isn’t against flesh and blood, but against rulers, powers, world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in high places. Therefore, take up the full armor of God so that you will be able to resist on the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. Stand firm therefore, having belted your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, having strapped on your feet the preparation of the gospel of peace. In addition to all, take up the shield of faith by which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God." All right, if you haven’t already, make sure you don’t miss getting these messages when they come out. Remember, hit subscribe. This is Jonathan Cahn. Until next time, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. [Music] Shalom! Hi, I’m Jonathan Cahn, and I hope you were blessed with the video. Make sure you hit the subscribe button and tap the bell icon so you’re notified every time a new video is posted. Feel free to share your reactions with your comments on how you were blessed, and share this video with your friends. Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you next time. [Music]