EMINENCES AND EXCELLENCIES: IT IS NOT ABOUT 'FREEDOM'...

When a horse cart or a motor car is running out of control it is time to apply the brakes.  My dear Bishops, Archbishops and Cardinals: it is time to apply the brakes.

When you are fighting with that despotism rising in Washington on the issue of  "the mandate", do not speak to us about fortnights of freedom; speak to us instead about what is right.  "Freedom" is what has gotten us into this mess in the first place; worship of the American system is what has brought us to this crucial pass; placing inconvenient truths on the back burner, so as not to offend your fellow Americans, is what has brought us to this disaster point.  Your Lordships, start to teach the truth again about contraception.  Tell those Catholics in your care why it is wrong, evil and an insult to God.  Tell your priests that they had better start preaching the truth from their pulpits and to stop telling their penitents in the Confessional that it is up to them whether they want to contracept or not.

If "freedom" is your goal, why should there not be freedom for anyone to do anything they wish or desire?  Why not the freedom of two homosexually-disturbed people to live together and commit unnatural acts, acts which cry to Heaven for vengeance?  Where does your freedom begin; more importantly, where does it end?  If Your Lordships imagine for a single moment that appealing to "freedom" is going to get you out of this you are, with due respect, being delusional.  The time for freedom is over; it is now time for Catholics to act like Catholics.

Do not imagine, Excellencies, that your contradictions go unnoticed.  On the one hand you tell the world that refusing God's gift of life via contraception is a bad thing; on the other hand you tell the world that refusing God's gift of life via Natural Family Planning is a good thing.  You all know perfectly well that avoiding children is seriously wrong whether one uses natural or unnatural methods to do so.  But you don't make these distinctions, Your Excellencies.  I dare say some of you don't even understand, or, at least, have never thought about these distinctions.  Yet I assure Your Excellencies, that many in the pews understand.

There is no longer the slightest doubt whatsoever that the United States is in the hands of a perverse, murderous and anti-Catholic oligarchical despotism every bit as evil as those of the past.  Indeed if we factor in its lust to befoul the country with unnatural vice the USA can legitimately said to be even worse than the past regimes of the 20th century.  Every level of government is now poised to bring a terror upon its citizens undreamed of in times past.  Legislative, Judicial and Executive branches alike commit injustices and outrages that only a few years ago would have been thought of as the purest science-fiction.  Do not, Your Lordships, expect your calls for "freedom" to impress such people.

There are hopeful signs here and there in the Church, a good Bishop here, a courageous priest there, even a few religious orders who have kept up with their ancient rules.  But the sickness is still there, and it is nearing malignancy.  A Prince of the Church like Donald Wuerl can humiliate and try to destroy a young priest who tries to do his Catholic duty, other High Ecclesiastics in places like London and New York still, to this day tolerate "masses" designed for homosexually-disturbed persons, a Cardinal Dolan can invite a murderer of the innocent to an Al Smith Dinner.  The Vatican, which should have put an instant stop to such horrors, allows it to continue and even promotes the perpetrators of this malfeasance.  That is how deep the problem is.

To our Bishops and Cardinals I say this:  brace yourself for the wrath of the media, the jackals in Washington, London, Tel Aviv, etc., the indifference of most so-called Catholics, the treasonous and soothing words of some of your fellow Bishops, the queer mafia, the financial elite, the superpatriotic Catholic bloggers who will defend America no matter what evils or war crimes are committed by her and all others whose shallow thinking have brought us to this state.  Brace yourself and fight back, not with calls for freedom but with calls for penance, teaching Catholic truth, fasting and offering reverent Masses.  For God's sake use the tools that God has given you to fight such evil.

The Church is on the verge of shipwreck, Your Lordships.  An Angelic Intelligence is behind this, as you well know.  And that Intelligence will all but destroy the Church if nothing is done to change course.  Rid us of the apostates, the heretics, the rotten apples.  If a priest is a homosexual, defrock him.  If a convent has turned into a hothouse of dissent and worse, shut it down.  If Holy Mass is turning into insipid, banal shows turn the clock back to the Mass that nourished the Church for twenty centuries.  We've had quite enough of Vatican 2.  Let's talk, for a change, about Nicea, Ephesus and Trent.  Or Vatican 1.

If the Church crashes against the rocks and Your Lordships want to apportion blame for the disaster, Your Lordships will only have to look in the mirror.