From Gloria TV:
"When Pope Francis was elected, I was entirely positive about the new pontificate, focusing in my commentary on the new Pope’s apparentdevotion to the Blessed Virgin and his respect for the Fatima event, as shown by his request to the Patriarch of Portugal to consecrate his entire pontificate to Our Lady of Fatima. But I confess that at the time I knew next to nothing about the former Cardinal Mario Bergoglio. I did not know, for example, that he was “famous for his inconsistency.”
After two-and-a-half years of experience with this pontificate, however, I was not the least surprised to learn that Francis had named the fulminating, anti-Fatima, anti-Marian heretic Enzo Bianchi as a consultor to the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity. This phony “monk,” a layman who calls himself “Prior” of the phony interdenominational “monastery” of the “Bose Community,” was rightlydenounced by Monsignor Antonio Livi, former dean of the faculty of philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, as “substantially atheist” and a “prophet of the end of Catholicism” whose speeches are “a rhetorical device for his propaganda in favour of a humanism that is nominally Christian but substantially atheist.”
Read the rest here: https://www.gloria.tv/media/pMU3RG7HG81
As I keep wondering, where do these nuts and idiots come from?
Friday, December 18, 2015
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
We didn't listen
We didn't listen. We weren't fruitful. We did not multiply. And now the inexorable results.
Our refusal to accept the children that God wished us to have has now brought us to the brink. A quick glance at the current migration crisis in Europe is a revealing look at what our one-or-two kids mentality has brought to us. We have contracepted, NFPd and aborted ourselves to something bordering on oblivion.
Where is everybody?
The answer is, they were never born. And so the empty spaces that we have created will be filled by others, sometimes by good people, other times by criminal layabouts. We had much help in bringing this situation to pass. For example, in order for Ford Motor Company to have enough workers for their factories in the 1940s, and so that do-gooding, anti-Catholic meddlers like the Quakers could feel good about themselves, a massive migration of southern blacks were brought to the North, and in so doing the Catholic ethnic neighborhoods like those in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Milwaukee, etc. were destroyed, never to return or revitalize. But Big Business, anti-Catholic interests and the Quakers had to be appeased even if it meant turning charming and safe neighborhoods into hell holes. Where once there were charming neighborhoods of Irish, Italians, Germans, Jews, Polish and Russians there are now war zones and destruction.
And now Europe. Catholicism is dying in Europe, helped by a moribund Church that has all but ceased teaching the Faith, and the results are the same: fewer children. Now we see who it is who will be filling that vacuum. The same interests that destroyed the ethnic neighborhoods in America in the 1940s to the 1970s, or their descendants, are trying to destroy the remnants of European Catholic culture by facilitating an influx of refugees their own wars and policies created.
Our dislike of having children had enormous help from the weird idea called Feminism, a swindle perpetrated by some pretty smart people in order to wreck our homes, drive our women into the workforce, put our one or two children into the hands of uncaring daycare workers or over-taxed grandparents, and suppress the natural longings of the fair sex, transforming some of them into neurotic harridans or worse. Feminism was also providing fertile ground for the rise and tolerance of the homosexual perversion.
The Money Power knew its target well and acted accordingly. Anything that discouraged the begetting and nurturing of children was grist for their mill. They loved the idea of women in the workplace; their cynicism and manipulations over the issue were observed by not a few. To them it meant a whole new set of consumers, a rise in prices and profits and a reinforcement of a slave mentality. They wanted unthinking, overworked robots who would not question. And that is precisely what they got.
It is very late in the day, almost too late. But this situation can be reversed.
Don't reject the children God wants to send to you.
Our refusal to accept the children that God wished us to have has now brought us to the brink. A quick glance at the current migration crisis in Europe is a revealing look at what our one-or-two kids mentality has brought to us. We have contracepted, NFPd and aborted ourselves to something bordering on oblivion.
Where is everybody?
The answer is, they were never born. And so the empty spaces that we have created will be filled by others, sometimes by good people, other times by criminal layabouts. We had much help in bringing this situation to pass. For example, in order for Ford Motor Company to have enough workers for their factories in the 1940s, and so that do-gooding, anti-Catholic meddlers like the Quakers could feel good about themselves, a massive migration of southern blacks were brought to the North, and in so doing the Catholic ethnic neighborhoods like those in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Milwaukee, etc. were destroyed, never to return or revitalize. But Big Business, anti-Catholic interests and the Quakers had to be appeased even if it meant turning charming and safe neighborhoods into hell holes. Where once there were charming neighborhoods of Irish, Italians, Germans, Jews, Polish and Russians there are now war zones and destruction.
And now Europe. Catholicism is dying in Europe, helped by a moribund Church that has all but ceased teaching the Faith, and the results are the same: fewer children. Now we see who it is who will be filling that vacuum. The same interests that destroyed the ethnic neighborhoods in America in the 1940s to the 1970s, or their descendants, are trying to destroy the remnants of European Catholic culture by facilitating an influx of refugees their own wars and policies created.
Our dislike of having children had enormous help from the weird idea called Feminism, a swindle perpetrated by some pretty smart people in order to wreck our homes, drive our women into the workforce, put our one or two children into the hands of uncaring daycare workers or over-taxed grandparents, and suppress the natural longings of the fair sex, transforming some of them into neurotic harridans or worse. Feminism was also providing fertile ground for the rise and tolerance of the homosexual perversion.
The Money Power knew its target well and acted accordingly. Anything that discouraged the begetting and nurturing of children was grist for their mill. They loved the idea of women in the workplace; their cynicism and manipulations over the issue were observed by not a few. To them it meant a whole new set of consumers, a rise in prices and profits and a reinforcement of a slave mentality. They wanted unthinking, overworked robots who would not question. And that is precisely what they got.
It is very late in the day, almost too late. But this situation can be reversed.
Don't reject the children God wants to send to you.
Sunday, December 13, 2015
Friday, December 11, 2015
To Tea Drinkers
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| (With thanks to the Hilaire Belloc blog) |
"Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone."
Hilaire Belloc
(Full disclosure: I enjoy tea and digestive biscuits usually around 4 p.m. So there!)
Thursday, December 10, 2015
The Church and the World are afraid to say anything...maybe the environmentalists will?
Nostra Aetate Dept.
From the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem:
http://en.lpj.org/2015/12/10/beir-onah-continuation-of-land-confiscations-and-trees-uprooting/
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| On land stolen from the Palestinians, ancient olive trees are destroyed |
These Master Race tactics of the occupying regime in the Holy Land are all too common.
[For anyone interested, on the sidebar is a photo of olive oil. By clicking the photo you will be taken to a site that sells the precious olive oil produced by these millennium-old trees, the remaining ones that is. We use this in our home and can highly recommend it. It makes a lovely Christmas gift, too.]
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
President Duda, what is more important to you, NATO or your own Polish people?
Already the new president of Poland, Andrzej Duda, who had given us such hope that he would be a tireless fighter for the rights of Poland and her people, is showing the world that being in the good graces of NATO is more important than peace in the region. It is even more important presumably than the Polish people who elected him.
Duda has apparently joined the US/NATO bandwagon and the sinister cabal of oligarchs behind them. He is ready and willing to help the US and NATO (or do I repeat myself?) wage their wars of choice and to increase the tensions in the area. Incredibly, in an act of national stupidity if not national suicide, he will allow nuclear weapons from NATO to rest on Polish soil, and to be fired from Polish soil presumably at Russia, if the US wants, ensuring that the retaliatory strikes that will inevitably come will destroy great swaths of Polish land and people.
What is the hold that the US and NATO have over the leaders of Europe that would make them sacrifice the very lives of their own people against imaginary threats cooked up by Washington? What makes these leaders abandon their people so completely and so quickly? Money? Blackmail? What is it?
I believe that Mr Duda is a serious Catholic, though, of course, one that has been undernourished in the Faith like most of the rest of the world's Catholics for the past century. Yet even so he does seem to take his faith seriously. If that surmise is the correct one is there no sensible clergyman around that can school him in the realities of the world? Here is a man clearly willing to see a nuclear weapon strike his land in retaliation for one shot from his country under NATO/US orders.
Satan never sleeps, we know, and so the centuries-old hatreds between Poland and Russia are being whipped up by the Lords of Chaos who cleverly use these ancient hatreds to manipulate people and nations. The Evil One works through men and he has found fertile ground in certain peoples and countries. But to continue this hatred in the face of today's reality is pure stupidity. The US/NATO and the other players in this game are happily doing the work of their overlords by stirring up a hatred between Poland and Russia. It is mind boggling that so many Poles go along with this.
The Russians for their part are not being as helpful as they could by their constant Victory Parades marking the defeat of the Nazis. Though Vladimir Putin has been notably trying to warm relations between his country and others, there are still those patriotic marches and celebrations that, frankly, could be toned down. We can somewhat understand why these marches are suddenly popular again: half the world wants Russia's head on a platter. Be that as it may it would do well if Russia would re-think this strategy of super patriotism.
[A fascinating article appeared here at The Unz Review. Even more fascinating were the comments that followed, especially several that pointed out the same things about Russia's over-indulgence in Victory parades. Says commenter "Rurik":
I highly recommend both the article and many of the comments.]
But with all that at least Russia is making an effort at friendship and cooperation. Poland on the other hand does not appear to be making much effort on its part to bury the hatchet.
What Andrzej Duda might do is to emulate Viktor Orban of Hungary. Hungary suffered terribly under the Communist Russian boot but has come to realize that Russia is not the Soviet Union anymore and is willing to work together with all nations for the good of his Hungarian people. Not surprisingly, he is hated for this by the US establishment.
Orban could show Poland the way if she would but take note. If Mr Duda wishes to continue his fatal friendship with NATO his nation will be just another pawn in the hands of billionaires and may end up a smoking ruin. Literally. If Russia detects a nuclear weapon coming at it from any NATO country it is unlikely that Russia will merely sit there and take it. This is the imminent danger that America has put Poland in (and Germany and Italy and dozens of others), and it is astonishing that the leaders of Poland are willing to accept this danger. [Here is a good article on what NATO and the US are up to in the Balkans: http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2015/11/30/bfp-exclusive-stoltenberg-in-belgrade-biden-in-zagreb/]
We can only hope that Mr Duda's Catholicism "kicks in" soon and that he rejects the siren song of the Money Power and its agents, who care nothing how many innocent people get burnt to cinders in their quest for imperial dominance.
Pray for dear Poland.
Duda has apparently joined the US/NATO bandwagon and the sinister cabal of oligarchs behind them. He is ready and willing to help the US and NATO (or do I repeat myself?) wage their wars of choice and to increase the tensions in the area. Incredibly, in an act of national stupidity if not national suicide, he will allow nuclear weapons from NATO to rest on Polish soil, and to be fired from Polish soil presumably at Russia, if the US wants, ensuring that the retaliatory strikes that will inevitably come will destroy great swaths of Polish land and people.
What is the hold that the US and NATO have over the leaders of Europe that would make them sacrifice the very lives of their own people against imaginary threats cooked up by Washington? What makes these leaders abandon their people so completely and so quickly? Money? Blackmail? What is it?
I believe that Mr Duda is a serious Catholic, though, of course, one that has been undernourished in the Faith like most of the rest of the world's Catholics for the past century. Yet even so he does seem to take his faith seriously. If that surmise is the correct one is there no sensible clergyman around that can school him in the realities of the world? Here is a man clearly willing to see a nuclear weapon strike his land in retaliation for one shot from his country under NATO/US orders.
Satan never sleeps, we know, and so the centuries-old hatreds between Poland and Russia are being whipped up by the Lords of Chaos who cleverly use these ancient hatreds to manipulate people and nations. The Evil One works through men and he has found fertile ground in certain peoples and countries. But to continue this hatred in the face of today's reality is pure stupidity. The US/NATO and the other players in this game are happily doing the work of their overlords by stirring up a hatred between Poland and Russia. It is mind boggling that so many Poles go along with this.
The Russians for their part are not being as helpful as they could by their constant Victory Parades marking the defeat of the Nazis. Though Vladimir Putin has been notably trying to warm relations between his country and others, there are still those patriotic marches and celebrations that, frankly, could be toned down. We can somewhat understand why these marches are suddenly popular again: half the world wants Russia's head on a platter. Be that as it may it would do well if Russia would re-think this strategy of super patriotism.
[A fascinating article appeared here at The Unz Review. Even more fascinating were the comments that followed, especially several that pointed out the same things about Russia's over-indulgence in Victory parades. Says commenter "Rurik":
I highly recommend both the article and many of the comments.]
But with all that at least Russia is making an effort at friendship and cooperation. Poland on the other hand does not appear to be making much effort on its part to bury the hatchet.
What Andrzej Duda might do is to emulate Viktor Orban of Hungary. Hungary suffered terribly under the Communist Russian boot but has come to realize that Russia is not the Soviet Union anymore and is willing to work together with all nations for the good of his Hungarian people. Not surprisingly, he is hated for this by the US establishment.
Orban could show Poland the way if she would but take note. If Mr Duda wishes to continue his fatal friendship with NATO his nation will be just another pawn in the hands of billionaires and may end up a smoking ruin. Literally. If Russia detects a nuclear weapon coming at it from any NATO country it is unlikely that Russia will merely sit there and take it. This is the imminent danger that America has put Poland in (and Germany and Italy and dozens of others), and it is astonishing that the leaders of Poland are willing to accept this danger. [Here is a good article on what NATO and the US are up to in the Balkans: http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2015/11/30/bfp-exclusive-stoltenberg-in-belgrade-biden-in-zagreb/]
We can only hope that Mr Duda's Catholicism "kicks in" soon and that he rejects the siren song of the Money Power and its agents, who care nothing how many innocent people get burnt to cinders in their quest for imperial dominance.
Pray for dear Poland.
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Some of us might have this response to Fisichella's veiled excommunication threats
Seriously though, the good Archbishop would help himself if he would delve more deeply into Church history. Legitimate and respectful criticism of the Pope when necessary has been going on in the Church since Christ Himself walked the earth, and has continued on since then.
One doesn't need to bore readers with the obvious historical examples that abound. Catholics know that when their leaders go astray they have the right and the duty to express their thoughts, even if those thoughts are not the kind that high-ranking Churchmen wish to hear.
Would the good Archbishop be shocked to learn that Jesus Christ Himself said to the first pope, "Get thee behind me, Satan." ?
If nothing else Fisichella's ludicrous remarks indicate that the current Pope's hangers-on (and maybe Francis himself) are in desperation mode.
Monday, December 7, 2015
Confessions of a Potential Excommunicate
The theological lightweight, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for New Evangelization (sic), has intimated that those who might be more than a little troubled by some of the odd remarks emanating from the Vatican in recent years might be flirting with excommunication.
Words fail me.
A classic example of the ignorance of the doctrine of papal infallibility is here on full display from this high Churchman. The Archbishop is saying, in effect, what the defined dogma of papal infallibility firmly rejected: that every utterance from the mouth of the Pope carries magisterial if not infallible dignity. He is saying that the Popes are now impeccable - that anything and everything that drops from their lips belongs in the Deposit of Faith. Fiscihella may not realize this, but that is what he is saying.
This confusion over papal infallibility did not originate with men like Fisichella. Echos of it can be found pretty much everywhere in the Church. Many are those who confuse infallibility with impeccability. Sedevacantists and papolaters, who would not wish to be in the same room with each other, also misunderstand this dogma. Both of these opposing groups believe a pope must be impeccable, unable to say anything which is false or erroneous. Both have a poor understanding of the issue. If a papolater hears something from a pope that is 180 degrees different from previous teaching he will simply go along with it, secure in the knowledge that whatever the pope says must be gospel since he is impeccable. When the sedevacantist hears the same 180 degree different teaching from the pope he will say to himself, well since the pope is impeccable and that is clearly wrong, then, ergo, he must not be a real pope.
But Fisichella is carrying this ignorance of dogma to an entirely new level: suggesting in a subtle way that those who disagree with Francis' Modernist fancies may face ecclesiastical penalties.
As I said, words fail me. But they don't fail the writers over at Voice of the Family:
Archbishop Fisichella, President of the Pontifical Council for New Evangelization, has stirred controversy by suggesting that some criticisms of Pope Francis might result in automatic excommunication.
The erstwhile editors of The Eponymous Flower call this "insane". We heartily agree.
The days of silencing the laity with this kind of nonsense are over. There will be more courageous Churchmen, magazines, blogs, courageous layfolk and websites who will keep talking about these confusing times. Childish threats such as Fisichella's will not stop a deluge.
Words fail me.
A classic example of the ignorance of the doctrine of papal infallibility is here on full display from this high Churchman. The Archbishop is saying, in effect, what the defined dogma of papal infallibility firmly rejected: that every utterance from the mouth of the Pope carries magisterial if not infallible dignity. He is saying that the Popes are now impeccable - that anything and everything that drops from their lips belongs in the Deposit of Faith. Fiscihella may not realize this, but that is what he is saying.
This confusion over papal infallibility did not originate with men like Fisichella. Echos of it can be found pretty much everywhere in the Church. Many are those who confuse infallibility with impeccability. Sedevacantists and papolaters, who would not wish to be in the same room with each other, also misunderstand this dogma. Both of these opposing groups believe a pope must be impeccable, unable to say anything which is false or erroneous. Both have a poor understanding of the issue. If a papolater hears something from a pope that is 180 degrees different from previous teaching he will simply go along with it, secure in the knowledge that whatever the pope says must be gospel since he is impeccable. When the sedevacantist hears the same 180 degree different teaching from the pope he will say to himself, well since the pope is impeccable and that is clearly wrong, then, ergo, he must not be a real pope.
But Fisichella is carrying this ignorance of dogma to an entirely new level: suggesting in a subtle way that those who disagree with Francis' Modernist fancies may face ecclesiastical penalties.
As I said, words fail me. But they don't fail the writers over at Voice of the Family:
Archbishop Fisichella, President of the Pontifical Council for New Evangelization, has stirred controversy by suggesting that some criticisms of Pope Francis might result in automatic excommunication.
Archbishop Fisichella made his remarks while explaining how Pope Francis’s new “Missionaries of Mercy” will operate. The 800 “missionaries” will have the power to absolve from penalties previously reserved to the Holy See.
In reference to Canon 1370, which imposes automatic excommunication for “physical violence” against the Roman Pontiff, Archbishop Fisichella said:
“I would say that we need to understand well ‘physical violence,’ because sometimes words, too, are rocks and stones, and therefore I believe some of these sins, too, are far more widespread than we might think.”
Archbishop Fisichella’s comments will be interpreted by many as an attempt to silence faithful Catholics who are deeply concerned by the direction currently being taken by those who hold offices at the highest levels of the Church. Serious concerns have been raised over the last two and half years concerning:
- The alleged manipulation of the 2014 Extraordinary Synod and the 2015 Ordinary Synod
- The publication of a heterodox Relatio Synodi of the Extraordinary Synod
- The publication of a heterodox Instrumentum Laboris for the Ordinary Synod
- The publication of a heterodox Relazione Finale of the Ordinary Synod
- The radical reforms to the canonical procedures governing declaration of nullity of marriage
- The open collaboration between the Holy See and leading global advocates of population control
- The confusing remarks made by the Holy Father about who is able to receive Holy Communion
- The confusing remarks made by the Holy Father about the relationship between condoms and AIDS
- The confusing remarks and actions of the Holy Father on the subject of homosexuality
- The endorsement, by official bodies of the Holy See, of pro-abortion, pro-contraception UN Sustainable Development Goals
- The endorsement of the environmental agenda in the encyclical letter Laudato Si, without sufficient recognition of the profound connection between environmentalism and the population control movement
- The public association of Laudato Si with the most radical elements of the environmental/population control movement and dissent from the doctrine of Humanae Vitae
- The appointment, promotion or elevation to ecclesiastical offices or to positions of influence, by the Holy Father, of many openly heterodox prelates including, but not limited to: Bishop Franz-Josef Bode, Archbishop Blaise Cupich, Godfried Cardinal Danneels, John Cardinal Dew, Walter Cardinal Kasper, Bishop Heiner Koch, Reinhard Cardinal Marx, Vincent Cardinal Nichols, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn and Donald Cardinal Wuerl.
The erstwhile editors of The Eponymous Flower call this "insane". We heartily agree.
The days of silencing the laity with this kind of nonsense are over. There will be more courageous Churchmen, magazines, blogs, courageous layfolk and websites who will keep talking about these confusing times. Childish threats such as Fisichella's will not stop a deluge.
Sunday, December 6, 2015
The Teachings of James Martin, SJ and Thomas Roscia
The Mutt and Jeff of Media Catholicism are at it again.
"....especially when I think of all the wonderful LGBT friends I have."
Oh dear.
"Love means: getting to know LGBT men and women [aka sex deviates]..."
He's getting warmer.
"spending time with them..."
Uh-oh.
"..and wanting them to be a part of your lives..."
Still warmer. I believe Martin is trying to tell us something.
I know what he is telling this writer: if it looks like a duck (see above photo), walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. "Even after 25 years as a Jesuit [Note to young men with a vocation: you might want to cross the Jesuits off your list.] the level of hatred around homosexuality is nearly unbelievable to me". Someone must have hurt this man's poor, little feelings. It is instructive that he seems inordinately interested in this particular mortal sin. In addition to his personal "predilections", shall we say, Father Martin is instructing us on what he apparently believes is correct theology.
And then there is the Rosica Guy, master of theology and cravenness:
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| Rosica(l) and kindred spirit, Mr Cupich of Chicago |
"In contrast to the modern-day Pharisees and their followers, true Christians are those who boast in Christ crucified and no other, meaning that they believe that Christ’s work ensured the salvation of all whom He represented and is the only thing that makes the difference between salvation and condemnation. They know that their own efforts form absolutely no part of their acceptance before God. They rest in Christ alone as their only hope, knowing that it is the work of Christ by the grace of God that guarantees salvation."
"....their own efforts form absolutely no part of their acceptance before God"? Mr Rosica will need to clarify that point a little. Is "acceptance" salvation? If not, what does the man mean by acceptance? Acceptance of what? Their sinful selves? And who are the modern day Pharisees? Please advise, Father Rosica. If you are not just spouting gibberish have the courage and the decency to tell us plainly what you are talking about.
In view of these pseudo-doctrinal musings one wonders what vending machine these two clowns got their theology degrees from.
[with thanks to Kitchener Waterloo Traditional Catholic for the Rosica quote.]
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