COMMEMORATING THE ASSASSINATION OF BEAUTY

We are being asked to celebrate these days the 50th anniversary of a document that all but wiped out one of civilization's greatest religious, artistic and cultural treasures, the Ancient Rite of the Catholic Mass.  The object of the celebration I refer to is the Second Vatican Council's ill-fated document,  Sacrosanctum Concilium.

I will not be found among those joining in the general jubilation.  Nor will I celebrate Hiroshima, the bombing of Dresden or the barbarian invasions of Europe for much the same reasons.  All of these events had something in common: they destroyed utterly something of infinite value.

Some will correct me here by saying, "Yes, but the Ancient Rite is coming back, slowly but surely".  I recognize that the hunger for beauty and for quiet will eventually see its complete restoration but to offset that optimism allow me to point out that two entire generations of Catholics have been deprived of it and the results of that deprivation are all around us.  The corrosive effects of the New Order of Mass will be with us for generations, barring a miracle of Divine Grace.

To those who find this new liturgical ugliness something to cheer about I say, "Carry on", but don't ask me to assist in opening the champagne bottles.  Those in the Hierarchy who colluded to bring this thing, this New Order of the Mass, to the Church may be pleased that their efforts have brought forth the kind of fruit they wanted.  By the very longest of stretches I could possibly imagine that a very few of them thought they were doing the right thing.  But most of this crew, or a majority at any rate, had destruction on their minds.  In one fell swoop they made away with the culture of a thousand years.

And the very few who naively thought they were doing the right thing looked around the devastated vineyards and mostly said nothing.

I am weary of discussing the utter folly of what the Church authorities did to that Mass.  It seems  to do very little good anymore.  Just as most of the world has grown accustomed to abortion most Catholics have come to terms with banality in the Liturgy.  The enemies of that exquisite Rite have won the battle for the moment and they can bask in their arrogance and smugness that their own little French Revolution has seemingly triumphed so well.  They have changed enough minds over forty years not to have to worry too much any longer about a return to the traditional practice.  They have succeeded in creating an entire population of ardent papolaters who will go along with anything no matter how bizarre, irreverent or stupid (see the video above).  Continuing to point out that the Church is little more than a smouldering ruin does not protrude itself upon their intelligences.

But I will say this.  What those bastards did to that beautiful Mass is something that can never be forgiven. It was a criminal robbery that will ever be seen as an act unforgivable.  Perhaps more than anything else it was the merciless destroyer of the faith of millions.  And I am being asked to celebrate that?

No, I will not.

AT LAST: COURAGE AND CLARITY ABOUT SODOMY FROM A CHURCHMAN

Unfortunately, not a Catholic Churchman:

http://rt.com/politics/gay-marriage-church-parliament-290/

It is tragic that the visibly dying Catholic Church refuses to come to terms with this immense evil that is boring its way into the body of the Church and causing a rotting from within.  The Patriarch quoted in the article is courageously saying what the Pope of Rome will not say, and he is saying it in clear, unmistakable terms. 

This man is trying to save his people.  He is speaking the necessary truth and one can hope that his words will prevent any more coddling of the perverse generation and slow down their juggernaut.

Kirill is worried about the onslaught of deviancy.  But Pope Francis, on the other hand, doesn't seem terribly concerned about it.  If he is he is certainly not saying much about it, or in loud, clear and unmistakable words when he deigns to allude to it at all.

A horrendous scandal of homosexual perversion still hangs over the Vatican.  The stink of it engulfs practically the entire Catholic world.  But there are no strong words condemning it, no commissions to examine it, no excommunications (although we now hear that Benedict laicized about 400 priests guilty of these crimes - a very small start but at least a start).  The Pope smiles when he meets the protectors of sodomy instead of taking them by the scruff of their necks and throwing them out of Rome.

We will go on writing about the Vatican's refusal to publicly and firmly deal with this catastrophe until something is done about it.

THE ANNUAL PLUTOCRATS SKI WEEK

I do like that description given by Patrick Young to describe the latest economic summit in Davos, Switzerland.

Here is his fascinating take on it:

http://rt.com/op-edge/davos-forum-out-of-touch-237/

Here are the titanic rich who control most economies in the world.  We wonder if the closed-door meeting looked something like this:

From 1965's "Thunderball": Blofeld instructs his minions

THE POPE AND THE CRETIN

Finlay Currie as St Peter in MGM's "Quo Vadis"

We always hope, usually in vain, that once - just once - a Pope of Rome would show some sterner stuff when meeting with the persecutors of the Church entrusted to him.

Diplomacy does not trump everything.  Being nice and friendly doesn't necessarily win converts.  Minds greater than that of Pope Francis tried to get a good Christian man like C.S. Lewis into the bosom of the Church but failed.  And Lewis wasn't a depraved sociopath like Francioise Hollande or Barack Obama. Great Popes in the past showed courage and faith when they stood up to Kings and presidents, they excommunicated them; they didn't pose for photo-ops with them first.

I don't recall St Peter having a friendly chat with Nero before being crucified by him upside down.

But we are all so nice and pleasant to our Hell-spawn enemies now.  We present to you therefore these photos of Francis and the arrogant buffoon and apostate Catholic, Hollande.  We will let our readers be the judge as to what is going through the minds of these two men.

THE AMERICAN MOLOCH'S 41ST ANNIVERSARY

The crime of "legally" eliminating children reaches its forty-first anniversary on January 22nd.  It was decreed by the Divine Oracles who inhabit nine chairs at Washington DC's supreme court building that living, growing children may be killed by their own mothers, their own fathers and a cadre of slimy little butchers who masquerade as doctors.

Yet we still "sit by and watch the barbarian".  We listen to pretty but worthless speeches from politicians who claim to be against this genocide.  We continue to vote them into office where they will ignore us completely.  We - and I include myself - have become spineless spectators as these horrors continue.

Our Church, the Catholic Church, with a few noble exceptions sits by and does little to nothing.  There are no excommunications, there is no thundering from our pulpits, there is no refusing to meet and be chummy with the cretins who keep this murder going strong.  There are no refusals to give the Sacred Species to crummy little ward-heelers who keep the status quo.  On the contrary.  Donald Wuerl and Timothy Dolan will continue honoring these men and giving them Holy Communion.

Even the Pope of Rome, Francis, is planning to shortly meet one of these people, our Glorious Emperor Obama.  Will the Pope show this monster his famous infectious smile?  Or will he show him the same severity that great Popes of the past have shown Kings and politicians who transgressed the laws of God?  Will it just be another cynical photo-op designed to salvage our Supreme Leader's fading popularity?  Or will the Pope do even what John Paul II did when meeting with the equally disgusting Bill and Hillary Clinton and speak in their very presence of the terrible evil that is abortion?  Will Francis be courteous and affable as he was with the current Hitler of Israel, Mr Netanyahu, or will he gravely tell the American president a few things that he needs to know?

But, God forgive us, forty-one years of "legal" abortion?  Isn't that enough?

With thanks to Wisconsin Right to Life

THE CHURCH'S FAIRY PRINCES

Weakland faces the press

We have reached a point in the history of the Church where Cardinals, Princes of the Church, have openly called for the legitimization of unnatural vice.  It is true and we can no longer turn our heads away and say this is impossible in the Church of Christ.  As low a point as that is in Catholicism's history it is I fear only a harbinger of things to come.


When men such as these feel comfortable about speaking their minds on this subject it is a sure sign that a festering problem is going to get far more serious before any healing can begin.  And it shows that they sense if not a kindred spirit at least a weakling in Peter's Chair who will not oppose them.  The following article sums up this new situation concisely:

 http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350534?eng=y

Recall that we are not talking about disgraced homosexuals like Rembert Weakland, or un-"outed" ones like Bernardin (and God knows who else), who are no longer in power.  We are speaking about Cardinals who are heading major dioceses, like Schonborn.  Their prestige will undoubtedly embolden other prelates, who will come forward with their own declarations of "tolerance" toward this unspeakable perversion.  With a perceived weakling in the papacy such expressions of sympathy and support for sodomy are likely to increase.

Whether it is bravado, stupidity, cunning or an overly trustful humility that animates the current Pope's views on this subject he seems not at all troubled by appointing to high positions people who have no trouble looking the other way when it comes to sex perversion.  It cannot be naivete, not at this late date.  Can it be bravado?  Does the Holy Father believe that he has the situation well under control and that he has the capability to handle it nicely, and that we in the pew should not trouble ourselves over it?  Is it simple stupidity: that he doesn't think it is really that big of a deal?  Surely not.  Can it be cunning?  That he is willfully protecting these men?  One doesn't even like to think that that could be true.

Is he so simple, so "overly trustful" in the goodness of mankind that he believes his smiles and his leniency will wash away all this evil?  I truly hope not.  He did promise to "look into it".  Still waiting......

Where does that leave us?

We do know that some in high positions in Rome have adopted the preposterous current view that sex deviates are "born that way".  That being the case we should not be surprised if soon we hear that felons, adulterers, wife beaters and bank robbers are also born that way.  Since there is no longer any sin in the world, let alone mortal sin, all these things must somehow be seen as merely different ways of living.  We must, to use Vaticanese, "accept" and "love" them....and never suggest that perhaps a visit to the confessional might be a good idea in the long run.

This is the twisted thinking that now has found a home in the minds of certain prelates in the Catholic Church.

That some of these Cardinals are secret homosexuals there seems little doubt.

Then there is the thorny but very real problem of blackmail.  Throughout recent political history homosexual blackmail has been a very effective tool used by villains to get things done.  The British spy scandals of decades ago gives us a clear picture of how this works.  Homosexual blackmail was effectively used by Soviet Russia to gain information from buggering government workers who had access to classified information.  It is being used today by Israelis.  And I have no doubt whatever that the USA, thanks to the capabilities of the NSA, is engaging in it too.  We must therefore assume that it is being used in certain circles of the Church.  For example, the fact that Rembert Weakland enjoys a fairly peaceful and comfortable retirement instead of being exiled to a monastery in Sudan is probably indicative of the fact that he knows a few things that might embarrass some higher-ups in Rome.  If someone else has an explanation for why this man was never canonically dealt with - and instead enjoyed the "acceptance" at their Episcopal installations by such men as Timothy Dolan and Jerome Listecki - I would like to hear it.  Why are men like Vincent Nichols and Donald Wuerl promoted far above not only their Catholicity but their competence?  It would be, I believe, quite naive to attribute there elevated status merely to normal Vatican protocol.

Hilaire Belloc once famously wrote:

"We sit by and watch the Barbarian, we tolerate him; in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence, his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creeds refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond: and on these faces there is no smile". 

He might as well have been talking about those who watch South Park as well as our current Princes of the Church who also delightedly revel in their inversion of our old certitudes.  But those prelates who engage in these inversions might wish to take especial note of Mr Belloc's last words in this quotation: those watching from above are not amused.    

What do we do?  Other than heartfelt and consistent prayer, and emulating Saints like St Anthony who held his Bishop's feet to the fire ("And now you, O mitred one!"), and demanding with our voices and our blogs that Bishops start acting like Bishops of the Catholic Church, I have no clue.

But one thing seems clear enough.  God wants us to do something about this.

PROGENY OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE

Saul Alinsky

Georg Lukacs

Hebert Marcuse

In an interesting column by Gerald Warner in the Scotsman on Sunday from October 13th last [with thanks to Anthony Fraser] we read about the effects of the Frankfurt School upon the ailing nation of Britain.  Mr Warner goes right for the jugular as he always does, and as he always should:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/gerald-warner-impact-of-politically-correct-britain-1-3128346

By now an old story the political establishment in Britain is applying the principles of the Frankfurt school in an effort to effect a sort of "mind control" over the British so that they will never become too uppity to throw off the chains that are being slowly fastened upon them.  It is easy to terrorize a populace as long as you and your minions in the media can continually hang over their heads the dreaded accusations of racism, antisemitism and the usual epithets of a similar nature.

In our recent post about the Frankfurt School written by the eminent Arnaud de Lassus we see the history of this malignant movement of organized distortion and organized perversion.  Among the purveyors of this slime are the three gentlemen pictured above.  The three of them could almost be the direct descendants of the Pharisees of olden times since they share many of the characteristics of the Pharisees, first and foremost an intense hatred for Jesus Christ, King.  They also share an admiration of the Marquis de Sade (not terribly surprising) and share what some writers have termed the "Jewish revolutionary spirit", a spirit that saw its origins at the time of the Crucifixion and yet another reminder that we must work for the conversion of these poor people to the one, true Church.

Converting these people will not be accomplished by some of the more well-publicized actions of recent Popes who attend seder dinners, wail at wailing walls and visit synagogues.  It will only happen when clear and forthright words are spoken to them about the only Messiah they will ever have.

THE POPE FINDS IT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND THIS

The Holy Father, Pope Francis, has suggested that the Church take a "fresh approach" to the situation of the adopted children of homosexual couples.  (The Holy Father actually said "gay couples" but I refuse to insult the English language in a similar manner.)

A fresh approach?

"On an educational level, gay (sic) unions raise challenges for us today which for us are sometimes difficult to understand," Francis said in a speech to the Catholic Union of Superiors General in November, extracts of which were published on Italian media websites on Saturday.

I am at a loss to determine what the Pope finds difficult to understand about two sodomites adopting innocent children and virtually destroying their lives, spiritually, mentally and on occasion physically.  It is an unimaginable evil we are talking about and that is not hard to understand.  Why should the man in the pew understand this and the Holy Father not understand it?  Surely the Pope is not suggesting that we do nothing about this horrendous situation or that we "accept" it as a fait acompli?

Child abuse indeed. 

This could be just another example of poorly thought out verbiage by Francis.  But if it isn't, if it is indeed a clear exposition of his thinking, then what are we to think?

In order to guide the Holy Father's understanding of what it means to a child to live in the home of two people drenched in unnatural vice, we present this case:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603097/posts

And on a related note, we are still awaiting Francis' "doing something about" the homo mafia in the Church.  He said he would look into it.

We're still waiting.

MR OBAMA MUGS THE NUNS

The cut-rate tyrant in Washington DC is pointing the big guns of his government at a little Order of nuns who are refusing to comply with his health care mandate.  He has just put the ever-popular Department of Justice(?) under Eric the Red (aka Holder) to make them comply, just like the little Stalin that he is.


Here's a perceptive article from Judge Napolitano:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/01/andrew-p-napolitano/obama-mugs-the-little-sisters-of-the-poor/

For some odd reason I am unable to hear any protests coming from a certain little state within Italy.  Did I miss it?

UPDATE:

I am informed - I hope correctly - that the mandate was discussed when Frankenstein look-a-like John Kerry met with a senior Vatican official.  Please God it is true.