A COMPROMISED CONCLAVE?

Mr Edward Snowden will most likely go down in history as one of the most courageous whistle blowers of all time for his revelations about the extent of spying being done against virtually the whole world.  He has provided us with a birds eye view of the mendacity, indeed malignancy of the United States government.

It is now revealed that the NSA was tapping the phones and communications of the entire Vatican establishment, including Pope Benedict and Pope Francis before, during and after the Conclave.  Is such a thing possible?  Here is one of many reports:

http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2013_10_30/Nothing-is-sacred-to-US-NSA-snoops-on-Pope-7540/

While it is true that the Cardinals agreed that no cell phones would be allowed in Conclave during the actual discussions and proceedings there is no iron-clad guarantee that the things that were discussed before the Conclave, and after the Conclave stayed in the Sistine chapel, and that very fact could have serious repercussions.  Apparently not even the Saint Marta Guesthouse escaped the big brotherish ears of the spying agency.  Cardinal Bergoglio's phone calls were eavesdropped on, as were numerous others.  Benedict himself was monitored for a number of years.

http://www.ibtimes.com/nsa-allegedly-spied-vatican-including-pope-benedict-xvi-cardinal-jorge-mario-bergoglio-1447634

In the International Business Times report linked above the reporter states:

"The NSA allegedly eavesdropped on cardinals before the conclave in March 2013 to elect the new Pope, including calls between them and Cardinal Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis, succeeding Benedict."

That being the case, and given what we now know about the NSA's nefarious activities, it is legitimate to ask the $64,000 Question "Was the Conclave compromised?"  The fact that the agency is run by the amoral General Keith Alexander, perjurer, and defended by James Clapper, perjurer,  should give us sufficient cause for concern.  The government is of course denying the story which, given their aptitude for lying not only to the public but to Congress, is not altogether reassuring.

Needless to say the official Vatican spokesman sees nothing.  "In any case, we have no concerns about the matter," a Vatican spokesman told IBTimes UK.  The Vatican spokesman is none other than that Jay Carney of the Vatican, Father Lombardi.  But if Rome is not concerned about this they sure as hell should be.  Already it has been credibly suggested that the NSA is using some of its scooped-up info for a discreet version of blackmail.  The agency has been monitoring the phone calls of Senators and Congressmen and there are those who surmise that some of the juicy bits of information they have picked up are being used to "convince" wavering legislators that they should not try to cut back on the activities of this gigantic, super secret, unaccountable Orwellian department.

It is damaging enough that they were eavesdropping on the Cardinals before and after the papal vote; it would be shocking if somehow they were privy to what was going on during the Conclave.  Despite the safety features that were put in place it is hard to say with certainty that the ears of the NSA were not listening in some way.

Person of Interest?

In another report, from Al-Jazeera we read:  
 
Bergoglio "had been a person of interest to the American secret services since 2005, according to Wikileaks”, it said.

The bugged conversations were divided into four categories: "leadership intentions", "threats to financial systems", "foreign policy objectives" and "human rights”, it claimed.

Why the American Secret Service considered Cardinal Bergoglio a person of interest for the past eight years is an interesting question although the Secret Service like all other US agencies is widely believed to have been corrupted, so it remains unclear as to how one should assess this piece of information or what it was about the activities of the Cardinal that prompted their extreme interest.  Still it is curious to say the very least.


Other sources are suggesting that this latest example of US spying has broken the Vatican's long-established secrecy when it comes to papal elections.  The Eponymous Flower site has a translation of a German report on the matter.

If that is so the Vatican might wish to emulate the Russians who are now reverting to type-written and hand-delivered important communications.

But if the Conclave was compromised in some way (and even if it wasn't we do know that the NSA has been listening to electronic communications of high Churchmen in Rome and probably everywhere else) then this opens up a whole new avenue of inquiry. Especially in view of the fact that the United States shares the information it illegally obtains with its partner, Israel.

A TRULY PASTORAL OPEN LETTER

The following open letter from Rev. Fr. G.T. Cooper was addressed to fellow priest Fr. P. Mulholland of Hull in the Sprint of 1984, in gratitude and admiration for the latter priest's blunt talk entitled, "Can we believe in Heaven or Hell?"  It seems every bit as appropriate now as it did nearly three decades ago.


Nazareth House
Park Road North
Middlesbrough
Cleveland TS1 3LP

Dear Father Mulholland:

OF COURSE, we cannot believe in Heaven or Hell anymore.  Whatever good intentions inspired fat jolly Pope John XXIII and his successors, the de facto consequences of the 'aggiornamento' effected by his Second Vatican Council has been the suppression of Our Lord's teaching about Sin, Death, Judgement and Hell.  Everything must be bright, cheerful, optimistic.  Bags and bags of 'Gaudiam et Spes'.  The trouble is that, if you suppress all Our Lord's teaching on Hell, you must, logically, suppress His teaching on Heaven as well.  In fact, there is no future life at all.  After death, there is only, in Nietszche's phrase 'ewige Kalte und Finsternis' - 'eternal cold and darkness'.

So there is no Hell.  We priests are redundant: mere parasites.  The Communists are quite right in putting us into Labour camps to do something useful.

The abolition of Hell has also led to the suppression of Our Lord's teaching on the fewness of the elect, the difficulty of salvation, the narrow gate, the difficult way, the bonds, the outer darkness, the weeping and gnashing of teeth, the everlasting fire, eternal punishment, etc.

There is no Hell.  That is why no lads want to be priests: there is nothing for them to do.  That is why, since 1969, 60,000 priests have gone off with a woman.  Utterly bored with their meaningless priesthood, they have sought satisfaction in sex.  That is why the laity are destroying themselves with contraception.  Why shouldn't they?  After all, the phrase 'mortal sin' is completely meaningless.  Little wonder churches are emptying!

In short, thanks to the abolition of Hell, the Church throughout the First World is dying.

Now we have mere humanism: the Church as an agency for the UN and the FAO.  Or we could say Amnesty International at prayer...if prayer too weren't 'out'.

God have mercy on us.

(Rev.) G.T. Cooper
Catholic

[Published in issue No. 85, 1984, of Approaches.  With thanks to Anthony Fraser.]

THE NEXT SHOE TO DROP?

The ever-perceptive commentator Patrick Foy has written another very interesting article.

This one wonders if the next shoe - a very important one - is about to drop.  If it does drop it will make a tremendous change in the Syrian discussion...dare we say a tsunami-like change.  It is a shoe many in Washington (and elsewhere) mightily hope will not drop.

Here is Patrick's article:

http://www.patrickfoydossier.com/patrickfoydossier/2013_Blog_Entries/Entries/2013/9/16_The_Next_Shoe_to_Drop.html

A VERY QUEER SHAKEDOWN

The Barilla Pasta story gets more depressing by the minute.  As many know the Juggernaut of the Perverted went into full attack mode when the president of that company made some perfectly natural comments about his products and about families.

At first it seemed that he was going to stand firm, but now, it seems, he may be backing down .

You might want to write to the company here: http://www.barilla.com/contactus

It is pitiful to watch these businessmen cower in fear over this tiny minority and make themselves jump through hoops to appease them.  Of course the major media controlled, as we know, by essentially six people will make sure the propaganda tap is turned on strong and will make certain that all media acts in perfect unison with one another.  This is the most sickening aspect of the homo mafia, to bludgeon and bully to death anyone who doesn't bow down before them.

Organized Faggotry has learned well the lesson taught by race hustlers like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and that obnoxious crew and have been applying it to any and all.

Their Pride will goeth before their Fall but in the meantime we are going to see an explosion of perversion the likes of which we cannot now even begin to imagine.  Spiritually prepare for it.

MAGISTER RAISES A QUESTION

Sandro Magister makes a very interesting point which upon reading seems obvious but can easily be overlooked.

http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350628?eng=y

In discussing the change of climate in the Church today with regard to changes in the Curia, Magister writes:

These brusque removals without promotion, together with the fact that the overwhelming majority of directorship positions have still been confirmed only provisorily - "donec aliter provideatur" - have created in the curia a widespread climate of terror, not softened much by the description of "evangelical" applied to the "revolution" underway.

Obviously in a climate of this kind the worst harm is that of being accused of being an agent or accomplice of any action of counter-revolutionary resistance, whether real or imaginary.

It is conceivable that that is the reason Cardinal Burke left a recent Conference at which Magister was speaking recently.

A VATICAN II SUCCESS STORY

A discussion about millstones

That grand and indefatigable lady, Daphne McLeod, presents some facts that the New Evangelisers may wish to meditate upon.  We will let Daphne speak for herself by offering a link to her latest newsletter, but let it be said right away that the latest statistics available show that in England around 96% of children educated in the Catholic schools leave the Faith shortly thereafter.

Here's the link:  http://www.proecclesia.com/page_newsletter.htm

I have no idea how the New Evangelism crowd plans to deal with this but I know perfectly well how the Old Evangelism crowd would.  It is perfectly clear that the Faith is not being passed on to future generations and if this situation does not change in the very near future there will be no Catholics left.  The "New Catechism" is very much to be blamed for a great deal of this problem and we would advise any parents of young children trying to teach them the seriousness and the certitudes of Catholicism to avoid it.  There are any number of sound catechisms that are still being published by small publishing firms.  As the computer specialists are wont to say, "garbage in, garbage out" so that should serve as a reliable warning about which catechism best transmits the truths of God's Church.  Daphne Mcleod's latest dire overview of the state of religious instruction is worthy of our attention.

Undoubtedly her report will please some people in the Church, those most interested in obliterating our twenty century heritage..

Her report is (for them) therefore yet another Vatican II success story.  It is a success for them because we always need to remember that adage which states:  "the result obtained was the result intended".

THERMIDOR

The end of Marat

[From issue #82 (1983) of APPROACHES, edited by Hamish Fraser]

In the June 1983, No.40 issue of de Rome et d'Ailleurs, our good friend H. Le Caron dedicated an article to the Sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne who were guillotined for their faith on July 17, 1794 and beatified by Pope St Pius X on May 27, 1906. (1)

These truly Catholic sisters had been driven from their convent by Jacobin fury on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (September 14, 1792).  The Jacobin Terror was then raging and the Carmelite sisters, under the leadership of their prioress, Mother Therese de Saint Augustin, decided to offer themselves as a holocaust in order to appease God's wrath, and for the intention of restoring the peace of Christ to both Church and State.

Their holocaust was found acceptable by God.  For a mere ten days later, on July 27, 1794 (9 Thermidor on the Revolutionary calendar) Robespierre, Saint Just and other monsters associated with them followed them to the scaffold.  In effect this marked the end of the Jacobin Terror.

Ever since then the very word "Thermidor" has not ceased to strike terror in the hearts of revolutionaries such as Trotsky and his disciples.

The "Thermidor" of the Russian Revolution will not come however until the consummation of a further holocaust of sufficient prayer and penance to merit the grace of the collegial consecration of Russia to Mary's Immaculate Heart.

NOTES:
1. It may interest readers to know that the 16 Compiegne martyrs were sheltered by Monsieur Le Caron's grandmother, Mme de la Vallee.  The Le Caron family later restored their relics to the Carmel of Compiegne.

Postscript by Editor of The Eye Witness:  Fraser's article was written before the dramatic events in Russia starting in 1989 (Hamish Fraser died in 1986) but his essential point about the Consecration of Russia remains as valid as ever.  Russia has come a long way but much still needs to be done to fully restore the peace of Christ to that land so loved by the Mother of God, primarily the action of the Pope.  Our current Pope may want to reflect on how his call for a day of prayer and penance saved Syria from destruction by US and Israeli forces and ponder what might be the effect of obeying Our Lady of Fatima's specific request.

It is also helpful to know that there is a word out there that will cause our current crop of revolutionaries to squirm and to cower:

Thermidor.

HE MURDERED HER...THEN WENT TO THE MOVIES

The murderer

The victim: Colleen Kritzer

After perusing a few blogs, and a few websites, that have mentioned the murder of Collen Ritzer, one notices immediately the pertinent information that is missing from all of these posts.  Even the Catholic websites are leery of mentioning the proverbial elephant in the living room.  To mention the obvious seems to some like pointing out a mildly embarrassing faux pas that it would be impolite to bring up in mixed company.

But the London Daily Mail is less terrified it seems of being called names by those who are superior to the Great Unwashed:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2473210/Danvers-High-school-boy-Philip-Chism-charged-murder-teacher-Colleen-Ritzer.html

Those who write from the relatively bucolic climes of the distant desert, or tranquil New England, or the cornfields of America have rarely had to face what those of us in large metropolitan areas like Chicago, or New York, or St Louis, or Milwaukee, or Detroit, or Minneapolis have to face every day which is, to put it quite bluntly, an epidemic of violence committed against innocent white people committed by fatherless, sociopathic, cruel blacks who have no empathy, no remorse, no impulse control, no family life to speak of, no morals, no faith; an epidemic that is unprecedented and is growing worse every day.  There...it had to be said. And it gives us no pleasure whatsoever to have said it.  These are people created by God

But do not take our word for it.  Read the words of the brilliant black scholar/pundit Thomas Sowell:

http://www.creators.com/opinion/thomas-sowell/race-hustling-results-part-iii.html

Mr Sowell's words need to be pondered.

Please pray for the soul of this young Catholic girl.

[ADDITIONAL NOTE :
Not related precisely to the story mentioned above but as a reminder that this sort of thing is getting more commonplace: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2477771/Lawrence-E-Shine-Thornton-Beloved-veteran-known-local-community-hot-tamales-killed-teens-violent-mugging.html
Interestingly, it took the British papers to find the story.]

No comment: http://www.thv11.com/news/article/280035/2/Trial-reset-for-man-charged-in-Arkadelphia-case-

STRANGE ECHO OF LA SALETTE

 [Editor’s note:  this article appeared in APPROACHES, No. 86, edited by Hamish Fraser, in 1984.  Our thanks to Anthony Fraser for his gracious permission in allowing us to re-publish on this blog articles from his father’s periodical APPROACHES as well as those from his own sorely-missed APROPOS.]

Writes Hamish Fraser:

In Approaches No. 75 (Christ the King, 1981) Father Lawson reviewed Shepherdess of La Salette by Abbe Gouin.  Now he sends us a translation of an insert in an article in the July-August 1984 issue of the Italian review CHIESA VIVA by its Rev. Editor, Father Luigi Villa.  The insert had been reproduced from the November 1972 issue of Chiesa Viva.  Here it is in full.

FACTS ARE…. FACTS!

In 1846, in a Commune in Isere (La Salette), the Blessed Virgin appeared to two young children, Massimino Giraud and Melanie Calvat-Mathieu.

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Four French bishops made it their business to stifle people’s belief in the apparition.  But… all four of them died a tragic and mysterious death.  Bishop Ginovilhac of Grenoble who had had little Melanie shut up in an English Convent to keep her quiet, died shortly afterwards in a lunatic asylum.  His successor, Bishop Fava, who did everything in his power to stop the spread of news of the apparition, was found dead flat on the floor, naked, his eyes bulging and his fists clenched.  Bishop Gilbert of Amiens (and later of Bordeaux), who had said: ‘The secret of La Salette is nothing but a tissue of anti-religion, lies and exaggerations’, was found a short time later, on August 16, 1889, dead in his room stretched out on the floor; and during his funeral the coffin fell off the catafalque.  Archbishop Darfoy of Paris, who himself interrogated Massimino and did violence to his mind with questions about ideologies so as to get at the secret of the boy:  ‘The words of your beautiful Lady are at times just stupid, as your secret will prove stupid.’  But the boy answered:  ‘It is as certain that I saw the beautiful Lady as I am certain that within three years you will be shot dead.’ It was a long time to the Commune and attempts at revolution, and France, unthinking and comfortable in the Second Empire, did not foresee them; but on May 24, 1871 that prophecy came true: the Archbishop was shot dead by the Paris communards.