Doing My Part to Thwart the Leftist Attempt to Memory-Hole Evidence of Biden/Democrat Corruption and Bribe-Taking October 15, 2020
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The Left, via it’s control of almost all media, the dominant tech industry, and other allied forces, is attempting to block the circulation of an extremely powerful expose in the New York Post, which reveals how Joe Biden was connected with corrupt Ukranian and Russian business ventures, establishing how the mechanism of influence-buying and bribery was established. After years of peddling, and encouraging the dissemination of, utterly unfounded, and frankly ludicrous claims – invented by Hillary Clinton herself! – regarding the Russian collusion hoax – now the overwhelmingly powerful and influential social media companies Facebook and Twitter are moving to completely block any spread of this evidence of massive democrat corruption anywhere on their sites. The entire New York Post twitter site has been suspended, as have those of Jack Posobiec, Trump White House Spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany, and many other influential Trump-supporters. Well, maybe a barely-updated blog with a smattering of readers will escape their notice, and can do a tiny part to help keep this important revelation in the public sphere.
Probably all readers are already aware of both the original scandal and the attempted cover-up by the democrat/statist/media/corporatist axis, but I thought I’d provide a reminder or two that Google and Twitter have been telling us for years that they intend to do everything in their power to prevent the re-election of President Donald Trump, and thus use their power, in a most elitist, aristocratic way, to thrwart the will of the people. Without the repeated attacks of the Russia collusion hoax, the subsequent failed impeachment, the Chinese-Communist Party created Wuhan flu, the George Floyd directed/planned riots/information op, and a thousand other cuts, Trump would be re-elected with a massive majority. Even with all these attacks, and in spite of what extremely dubious polls say, the democrats are behaving as if this election still very much hangs in the balance. So, they are now using their monopolistic power to prevent accurate revelations from being made about the corrupt and mentally failing Joe Biden in an effort to help insure his election. They told us they were going to do this 4 years ago, and have been telling us ever since, by banning Alex Jones, Gavin McInnes, Nick Fuentes, Lara Loomer, and scores of other Trump supporters off their platforms over the past 2 years. One of the founders of Google not only said he found Trump’s election horrifying, he said Google would do all in their considerable power (with billions from communist China certainly helping) to prevent it ever happening again:
An entire laptop worth of data, almost certainly belonging to the drug-addled and pampered Hunter Biden, was left at a Delaware computer repair shop some time ago. The owner of the shop made a copy of the hard drive contents before turning the laptop over to the FBI, which surely bleached the hard drive immediately upon receipt. The contents were turned over to Rudy Giuliani, a stalwart ally of Trump’s. These are only the first in what will likely be an ongoing series of extremely damaging revelations going right up to election day.
Whether it will be enough, with the entire deep state corruptocrat apparatus in and out of government running cover for Biden, to an even greater degree than they did for Hillary in 2016, to see Trump through to re-election is up in the air, and also up to us. Vote early and at least as often as your demonrat neighbors. But more importantly, pray, pray for our nation, our Church, and our president, that the most reliably conservative and, frankly, Christian (in his policy) president this nation has seen in a century or so may be re-elected, and his enemies – who haven’t tried to hide in the slightest that they most definitely seem themselves as our enemies – may be vanquished, exposed, and driven from their seats of power.
And after that re-election, may there also be a reckoning for those corrupt, turncoat Republican leaders in the House and Senate, like Jim Jordan and Mitch McConnell, who have aided and abetted the monopolist social meda congolmerates in their efforts to shut down the rights of free men and women while protecting the interests of a narrow, incompetent, and most inaptly named elite. These traitors have helped push this nation to the brink of civil war and caused untold misery by their constant support for their corporate donor overlords. I’ve had more than enough of it. And no self-interested video from Ben Shapiro, apologizing for the corporate oligarchy, is going to change my mind.
Cuck-Fil-A Chooses Mammon Over God November 19, 2019
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Not entirely surprising, but still disappointing. The news has been all over, that popular but (stupidly) controversial restaurant chain Chick-Fil-A will stop supporting Christian charities, as it always has in the past, and now start supporting different, not explicitly Christian, if not avowedly leftist charitable organizations. They are doing this, of their own admission, in order to try to appeal to leftists generally, and specifically to get the rabid, deranged, amoral, but almost always successful sodomite lobby off their backs. I don’t think this will help Chick-Fil-A in its goal to expand into much more liberal areas of the US, and, especially, to Canada and overseas, unless they completely and totally become an active enemy of Christianity and avowedly take up a radical leftist agenda. Which, they may well do. I, for one, am willing to bet that their policy of being closed on Sunday will be gone before the end of 2020.
Not many people may know that Chick-Fil-A attempted to expand into England over the summer, and had to shut down their restaurant there after only 5 weeks due to heavy protests and low sales. Recent expansions into Toronto, Ontario have been met by very heavy protests, which I can’t show you, because they are unbelievably disgusting and immoral.
So, self-avowed Christian and Chick-Fil-A chairman Dan Cathy looked deep into his soul, as every good protestant does at one point or another, and realized he had a choice to make. He could choose God, or Mammon. And, like the vast majority of protestants before him, he knew the decision was a no-brainer. Mammon wins, every time. This ease of pretending Christianity while cuddling up to Mammon has always been one of the least appealing characteristics of protestantism, and this goes back to the first princes that backed Luther and the very convenient “more wealth means I’m saved” doctrines of Calvin and Zwinglii in Switzerland (yes, I’m bending things a bit, but not too much, in their essence). I guess we couldn’t expect much more from sects and entities built on foundations of sand, but it’s still disappointing to see.
Especially after the massive outpourings of love and support Christians gave to Chick-Fil-A in 2012, 2014, and ever since, this latest move does feel very much like a betrayal. I can see why a number of folks are incensed.
Yes, it’s only a chicken shop, and one that always caused me some stomach upset when I ate there (I have no idea why), so my new boycott won’t cost me much. I hadn’t eaten there for some time. My wife and kids like it but I don’t know if they’ll be going there anymore. Hopefully not. I’m curious what readers think. Is it time to add Chick-Fil-A to your already extensive list of companies you won’t support? Do you think this will cause Chick-Fil-A to experience a significant “get woke, go broke” backlash to their bottom line? Are Christians and other conservatives right to feel outraged and betrayed?
The reactions online from conservatives were quick, vociferous, and essentially unanimous. I think Chick-Fil-A screwed up badly and seriously misjudged the situation. We’ll see how committed they are to serving moloch and his leftist minions over the coming months. I imagine they expected a backlash, but possibly not this severe.
Eat more beef. It tastes infinitely better, anyway. “My” farmer raises anywhere from 400 to 1200 head of Herefords at a time, so I’m covered.
Today’s Leftist Extremism and ‘Cancel Culture’ Was Baked Into ‘Liberal Democracy’ From the Outset November 15, 2019
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One of the most disturbing trends in American, and broader Western, culture today, is the fact that any deviation from leftist orthodoxy, from ‘woke politics,’ can get one’s life destroyed in a matter of minutes. An offhand joke made waiting on the tarmac for a flight can lead to a reaction that means no job, no friends, and no home by the time one lands at their destination. Holding to beliefs that were completely unremarkable and widespread a mere 5 or 8 years ago can do the same. Merely standing in a public space waiting for a bus and minding your own business can, with the right kind of propaganda, lead to a nearly life-destroying episode before one’s life has even begun.
Most people wonder what in the heck has happened. How have we gone from the free speech extremism of the 1960s to the totalitarian speech policing of today? I might argue that all have been part of the same overarching movement, a movement intended to destroy Christendom, that uses different tools at different points of its long march through the institutions, and which has no problem at all in contradicting itself, or spouting literal double-think almost constantly.
Still, most would conclude that there was a sunny, happy time in liberal democracy, a golden age we’ve somehow lost. Many people believe the closer one gets to the roots of today’s liberal free market state’s founding, the closer one is to an ostensible ideal.
But this may not be the case. In fact, many of the intellectual framers of today’s liberal state, from back in the time of the endarkenment, realized some of the tragic implications of the godless, at-war-with-the-Church system they were proposing. In fact, several of the most key “enlightenment” thinkers realized that what they were doing was proposing a contrary religious-cultural system to the then-existent Christendom, and that they looked forward to war with Christendom, and that to the hilt. Some of these thinkers were very explicit about this, as you will see below.
From Rousseau’s The Social Contract, an exegesis on how those who rebuffed the new order would have to be treated, and that quite savagely:
While the civil profession of faith (in the civil authority) can compel no one to believe them, it can banish him, nor for impiety, but as an anti-social being, incapable of truly loving the laws and justice, and of sacrificing at need his life to his duty. If anyone, after publicly recognizing these dogmas, behaves as if he does nto believe them, let him be punished by death: he has committed the worst of all crimes, that of lying before the law. [These same liberals supposedly hated blasphemy laws, and yet here is one of their leading lights publicly calling for death for blasphemy against the “sacred” state’s “sacred” laws!]
The dogmas of civil religion ought to be few, simple, and exactly worded, without explanation or commentary……..Its negative dogmas I confine to one, intolerance, which is a part of the cults we have rejected……Now that there can be no longer an exclusive national religion, tolerance should be given to all religions that tolerate others, so long as their dogmas contain nothign contrary to the duties of citizenship. But wheover dares to say: “Outside the Church there is no slavation,” ought to be driven from the State, uless the State is teh Church, and the prince the pontiff.
So much for the tolerance of the new religion! Let no one think to be joined to Christ who is not prepared to be crucified under Pontius Pilate, for the godless state is ever satan’s arm.
And the revolution made clear from the beginning that any deviation from it’s orthodoxy, no matter how slight, would eventually be brutally punished, even with death. It was politic for the revolution, for a time, to pretend otherwise, to pretend open-mindedness and magnanimity, but no longer. As it nears its Omega point, the revolution drops the mask, and even schoolchildren can be crushed and destroyed – and that, for doing nothing at all wrong – solely for the ease of the revolution.
It was the same, of course, in the Soviet Union, and Maoist China, and Ortega’s Nicaraugua, Venezuela, etc., etc.
The only force capable of resisting this always advancing secularist onslaught is Catholicism – traditional Catholicism, since there are so many fake varieties today.
The Episcopate of the United States Catholic Church Has Always Been Americanist, Indifferentist, and even Heretical November 15, 2019
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I mentioned recently I have been reading books by Solange Hertz. They are very valuable and enlightening reading, providing great insight into how the almost universally rock-solid Church of the 18th century became the structurally modernist, indifferentist, and leftist body that it is today.
Reading Hertz has been part of a broader study I’ve been blessed to make over the course of much of 2019, reading histories of the Church over the period 1800-1950, principally in the United States but also Europe. This is history that is almost entirely forgotten, and deliberately so, as it reveals the means and methods by which the Church was first penetrated, and then overtaken, by revolutionary forces. While many faithful Catholics today point to AA-1025 and communist penetration of the Church in the first half of the 20th century, to be frank, that analysis misses the mark. In point of fact, most of the damage was done in the 19th century, and came not from European revolutionaries (they more or less took advantage of an already existing situation), but from American ones.
American, ahem, Catholics, were responsible for much of the most destructive beliefs that burst into open view, with apparent approbation of the institutional hierarchy, at Vatican II. Indifferentism (rejection of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus), almost a maniacal focus on both materialism and ecumenism, the exaltation, if not practical worship of, democratic forms of government and the free market, tacit endorsement of blasphemy and sacrilege under the guise of “freedom of speech” and “freedom of expression”………..all these ideas came primarily from the United States and, it must be said, mostly Irish-lineage bishops and priests, though they did find fertile ground for these ideas throughout much of Europe.
A few datapoints to illustrate. The first American bishop, John Carroll, was a thoroughgoing Americanist, practically seeking to create an Americanist Gallist Church (a national church free from Rome’s influence). He practically worshipped the US Constitution and the American state and was influenced, to an almost unbelievable degree for a man who called himself Catholic, by the liberal wing of the protestant sects in the United States. He was also extremely close with the freemasons who dominated the American elite. He insisted, for instance, on the election of bishops, and even wanted election of priests, to go along with a vernacular liturgy and many other items protestants/masons would like to see changed regarding Church Doctrine. He was only just prevented from doing this by intervention from Rome, and his death.
Carroll also did all he could to upset and frustrate attempts by the constant waves of immigrants to maintain their traditional Church structures and parish lives within their own communities. Carroll and his disciples waged constant war against German, Polish, Italian, and other priests and lay people who sought to maintain the traditions of the Faith from Europe. They insisted all immigrants should be swiftly and thoroughly “Americanized,” bowing to the unique genius of the Constitution and the American(ist) way of life.
Thus, the tragic situation we see today, where the US episcopate demands unconstrained immigration in order to make up for the falling away of tens of millions of Catholics, has persisted throughout the Church’s history in this country. In the latter half of the 19th century, 25-30% of recent Catholic immigrants fell away from the Faith within 25 years of arriving in the US. Most became some flavor of protestant. This has been the regular reality of Catholic life in these United States, save perhaps for the brief period of the 1920s to the 1950s when the Catholic Church appeared much more orthodox, reliable, and robust compared to its rapidly collapsing mainline protestant counterparts. This was about the only period in US history when, subtracting immigration, there was a net inflow of converts into the Church, as against Catholics falling away.
The following quote sums up the situation in Amchurch circa 1900 rather nicely, from The Star-Spangled Heresy: Americanism, pp. 186-188 (I add comments):
…[D]efenders of the Faith had little difficulty linking Americanism to communism, not to mention Semitism, Protestantism, Masonry, and outright Satanism. A Catholic paper in Paris accused Cardinal Gibbons [I haven’t even touched on Gibbons, but he is perhaps the principal villain in the Americanist story] of partiality to masonry on the basis of his persistent defense of such organizations as the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias……….all condemned by Rome, and of secret societies generally in the States. The French Canadian Jules Tardivel dubbed America “the eldest daughter of the sect,” and Leo XIII’s Belgian biographer stated its true center was located here.
In 1899 Leo XIII was finally forced to write Testem Benevolentiae condemning Americanism specifically as a heresy. In the face of the threatened withdrawal of American support for Peter’s Pence, however, [the American Church, like the German Church today, routinely used its massive financial resources to threaten Rome with denial of funds – and this, at a particularly critical time when the Papal States had been stolen by Garibaldi and the Church was in desperate financial straits] none of the heretics was designated by name, although everyone knew who they were and had expected them to be formally excommunicated. Robert Cross relates that one Roman periodical, referring to the “satanic spirit” of America, exclaimed: “Put the mask aside, O Monsignor Ireland: bow down before the Vicar of Jesus Christ, Cardinal Gibbons, and deny the blasphemous theories of the heretical sect which are embodied in you!” Civilta Cattolica dubbed the heresy:
…….purely American…….employed at first to indicate in general the ‘new idea’ which was to rejuvenate the Church, and in particular the ‘new crusade’ against the uncompromising position of Catholics of the ‘old creed.’
All the heresiarchs loudly disclaimed being tainted by what they termed a ‘phantom heresy’ existing largely in the minds of the Curia or at best in a few French dioceses, and they continued on as before. [Indeed – an encyclical sent to the lead American cardinal, talking only about the United States, only applied to a few foreign dioceses, and those strangely French. But do we not see the exact same kinds of dissembling tactics today, especially in the US episcopate?] The American flag was displayed ever more prominently at altar-side, as if also intended for worship, despite the frowns of Rome, which steadfastly refused approval for the tricolor within the sanctuary. Episcopal progress in socialism was steady. At the close of the First World War the American bishops under the leadership of Msgr. John Ryan became so convinced that “so-called ’socialistic’ measures were practically synonymous with Catholic moral principles” – to quote a popular Catholic history textbook – that they boldly embarked on their own social program. Advocated were minimum wage legislation, unemployment and old age insurance, prohibition of child labor, legal protection of unions, national employment service, public housing for workers, control of monopolies, curtailment of ‘excess’ profits, participation of labor in management and wider distribution of stock ownership. Christ was now harnessed to the Revolution as to His Cross. [These efforts were through the “National Catholic War Council,” supposedly set up to help fight WWI, but then extended after the war as the National Catholic Welfare Conference. The first permanent episcopal conference in Church history, it was banned by Pius XI but later, of course, was given approval at Vatican II, where the Church awoke and groaned to find itself Americanist. Of course, episcopal conferences have turned into charnal houses of sex abuse, graft, larceny, and radicalization political agendas, along with constantly reducing the Faith to the lowest possible common denominator, in concert with ‘right democratic principles.’]
……[I]n 1928 indulgent America permitted a Catholic, Al Smith, to run for the Presidency for the first time in the nation’s history. Ten years later in Madrid the anti-Catholic writer George Seldes was able to say in The Catholic Crisis:
‘The future of Catholicism may lie in America because of the growing Catholic population, the large increase of bishoprics, the financial support of the Church which is said to be larger than that contributed by the rest of the world. But it may lie in America because America is the stronghold of democracy. American Catholicism is the Catholicism of the famous credo of Al Smith……which states that the Syllabus of Pius IX which is anti-liberal, anti-democratic, and in a way anti-American, has ‘no dogmatic force’ as Cardinal Newman said long ago……..[I hope Cardinal Newman did not say that. I don’t know]
By the Smithian system of dialectics no Catholic need fight Socialism, or Communism, or pay any attention to Rerum Novarum, Quadragesimo Anno, Casti Connubii, Lux Veritatis, or the late Pope’s utterances in favor of Franco’s Spain, if he individually disagrees. The American Catholic, according to its most important spokesman, can take it or leave it. [The primacy of the individual conscience, circa 1930!] However, no Catholic outside the United States has ever expressed the same views and remained in the Church.
Thus, the Americanist heresy is at the root of the crisis in the Church, and contrary to the relatively conservative body most Americans are propagandized to believe it is, has been one of the key driving forces behind the revolution against the Church conducted principally by those given sacred trust to promote and defend the authentic Faith. Unfortunately, Americanism is deeply rooted in the basic patriotism of the United States, and so constantly finds new adherents. It’s a difficult and tragic thing to find one at odds with one’s country, but that is exactly the position thinking, informed, believing Catholics find themselves in. That this nation has produced so precious few of that group only demonstrates how insidiously effective that propaganda is.
They have now. Apparently, As Bishop O’Gorman once wrote his friends from Rome, “Americanism, which was supposed to be our defeat, has been turned into a glorious victory. We are surely on top.” The lucrative waters of the Potomac were now flowing freely into the Tiber. Only a faithful few in the US today recall that their Lord “suffered under Pontius Pilate,” after Pilate and the “religious” Herod became friends. “If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you…….The servant is not greater than his master.” And “no man can serve two masters” (Jn xvi:20).
Mindful of this difficulty, Hilaire Belloc predicted the “necessary” conflict between the civil state and the Catholic Church in America. He said in so many words, of course, “the Catholic Church in America.” He was not referring to the star-spangled “American Catholic Church” which is after all only a modernist sect of long standing, with a large growing membership. No conflict with Pilate should arise there. [Since, after all, for Cardinal Gibbons and most current and historical American bishops, their greatest fear was and is that they might ever give offense to the protestant majority, and especially the formerly protestant but now thoroughly secularized and leftist political-cultural elite.]
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This post is already very long, and I hope to get out one much shorter post today, but I’ll conclude with this: it is a profoundly unsettling realization to make, that one’s Faith, and one’s country and culture, are totally at odds. It is even more discomfiting to realize that, in many ways, only one can ultimately survive. It was, of course, fear of this realization that drove the thoroughly American bishops and priests (again, most all of them, strangely enough, Irish) to attempt to posit a typically American ‘new and improved’ church, one that fit in fine with the surrounding culture and political landscape, one that wouldn’t make any waves, and one that would rarely, if ever, expose its practitioners to persecution.
But Our Blessed Lord told us that if we love Him, the world will hate us, and that if we are faithful, it will persecute us like it persecuted Him. This is the narrow path of salvation. The Church in the US, by and large (there were numerous countervailing elements, especially German), chose the wide, soft, easy road.
We all know how those two stories end.
How Much Responsibility do the NeverTrump Rinos of the 2016-18 Congress Bear for this Impeachment Farce We are Enduring? November 14, 2019
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I’d say, a very, very great deal.
Remember, this is the party that could not, would not, support Trump on virtually any of his major policy initiatives (the border wall, principally, but there were others) and in fact tried to stone wall and impede every move he made. Their actions, and an inept organization by the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee (were they trying to fail), chilled enthusiasm among Republicans and pretty much insured – along with a press consisting almost entirely of leftist operatives with bylines – that the demonrat party would gain control of the House in 2018. Which, they did, after promising for two years that if they DID gain the House, they would use that as their leverage of power to impeach Trump and/or derail his re-election. I increasingly believe that the House Republican leadership quite knew what it was doing in blocking Trump and helping to set this @#$&! show up, and that creatures like Paul Ryan (who, you will remember, conveniently retired from Congress to a lucrative lobbying career after his work in blocking Trump was done) did this deliberately with an intent to achieve just what we are seeing now. Heck, the demonrats were very clear in their intent from even before Trump was sworn in – he must be blocked, stopped, and resisted by all means, fair or (preferably, for them) foul, up to an including use of naked violence. They were talking impeachment from January 20, 2017 and haven’t stopped since.
Of course, this is what they have done to every single Republican elected President since Eisenhower, save for hapless, helpless, and hardly conservative Jerry Ford.
The democrats have been sending very strong signals to the American people for half a century now. They mean to gain power, and once gained, never let it go. I truly believe they felt they had practically attained their end in 2016, when, after 8 years of Obama and decades of flooding the country with democrat-voting immigrants, they were certain that 8 more years of demonrat rule under Hillary would mean perpetual democrat power. That’s what this impeachment is about, it’s about overturning the elective will of the American people, and insuring that perpetual one-party rule under the democrats.
And leading Republicans went along with it, all too eagerly. They are all too happy playing the always losing saps to the democrats one party rule (of course, as many have noted, there are so few differences between the Republican and Democrat elites that govern us that we are already essentially ruled by an incompetent, self-aggrandizing uniparty). One grows exhausted at their constant malfeasance and cowardice. There aren’t 60 rock solid conservatives between the entire Congressional Republican bunch, House and Senate combined. I guess at some point, we only have ourselves to blame.
So, I get very much what the “groypers” are doing. I agree with much of it. I just think their attacks are a bit broad and some parts of their focus may prove counterproductive. Or, at least, premature.
I liked this from reader T:
Bishop Barron Gives Invocation at US House, Fails to Use Sign of the Cross, or Holy Name November 11, 2019
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I know some people think he does some good, but this guy to me is a snake, worse than an out n’ proud leftist like James Martin SJ, because he mixes in orthodoxy with diabolical error. Also, his attempt to give Vatican II an orthodox theological explanation is a catastrophe, it basically just defines the Church as starting in 1962, and all that came before, no matter how solemnly defined or obviously the will of God, can be jettisoned:
Man Taylor was born again hard about August 2018. He has been a rock, on fire, since then. Not that I mean to call him brimstone. Just love mixing metaphors.
I took a screen shot for something at work one day while I was (unusually) listening to TnT on my work computer (which is a four monitor setup). As I took the bit I needed for work, I saw I had captured this. I thought it was funny. Nice pink shirt, Tim Gordon, do you shop at the same store as your wife? Oh well, he does live in California.
Just a tease, both Ts are great but Taylor has really been fantastic the past 15 months. I hear he gave a good talk at the Catholic Identity Conference. Hope I get to go sometime.
I’m reading a wonderful book by Solange Hertz, who (whom?) I’ve never read before. Goodness, Tumblar House is a great outfit and deserves the support of all faithful Catholics. I sure like Charles Coulombe. She (Hertz) has a wonderful quote, to the effect that the Bishops of the United States – and this goes back to the very first one, Bishop Carroll – have always feared what non-Catholics would think far more than God, or the Holy Father, or the Doctrine of the Faith. That is soo true, and is perfectly exemplified in Bishop Barron. If he, and the American episcopate generally, could be summed up in one word, I would choose………craven.
Unfortunately, the Americanist heresy that was part and parcel of the Church in this country from before it’s founding (read Hertz excellent book) was deliberately evangelized upon a weakening Church by the Americanist hierarchy (e.g., the Paulist order), especially in Europe and South America, where it found many willing adherents among Catholics – lay and cleric alike – who sought that same approval of the world, and wanted to be for “liberal” and “progressive” ideologies. Thus, Americanism is the seed-bed upon which modernism sprang and grew, and then ultimately took over the Church at Vatican II, which was little more than the implementation of Americanist principles upon the Church at large. Rome was unable to interfere due to their lack of influence over this nation and its hierarchy, and their need for American funding during the very difficult times that occurred between the fall of the Papal States and the (extremely troubling) Concordat with Mussolini in 1929.
This is a huge subject and I’d like to go on for hours. Not sure if anyone would like this kind of content in a podcast form? I don’t know that I will find the time to write what would have to be a tl;dr 5000 word post, if not much longer. I used to do radio but all the back-end was handled by others, I just had to show up and talk. Doing justice on this subject would be thousands of words.
Dominus vobiscum!
The Left Targets a Venerable Institution, Invades It, Kills It, then Parades Around in its Dessicated Husk Demanding Respect October 25, 2019
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The future of the institutional Church?
How long do you think these pagans will permit the TLM to coexist in the “same church” as the one they hold hostage?
For those just coming to the realization of what Francis and his ilk are, and what they intend for the Church, well, many other Catholics felt just as scandalized and outraged after Assisi in 1986. That event was what caused Archbishop Lefebvre to decide he must act to insure the perpetuation of the priestly society he had founded. It was just as scandalous then, as this Amazonian sin-nod is today.
In other words……….
A lot of people have been very hard on the SSPX over the years. For some, this hostility was based on ideology, for others, convenience, for a very few, true concern for their souls. But I fear the vast majority of us who like to think we’re such faithful Catholics may have to make the very, very hard choice the “Lefebvrists” did back in the 70s and 80s – adhere to the true practice of the Faith, or retain the approbation of the institutional Church (I originally wrote Whore of Babylon, but thought that might seem a bit strong. Ooops). The Ecclesia Dei communities have been a very cozy middle ground for the past 30 years. I don’t think those in charge of the Church today will see much use in permitting this coziness to go on for much longer, especially as the number of souls associating with traditional communities continues to explode in direct reaction to the ongoing anti-Catholic travesties in Rome. Right now the traditional movement is still small enough for the old, out of touch men in Rome to ignore and hope will die a natural death, but for how long? These guys are anything but blind to the threat we represent to their newchurch.
Praise the Lord! Hardy Souls Toss Pagan Idol “Pachamama” Installed in Vatican Church into the Tiber – UPDATED October 21, 2019
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[UPDATE at bottom. The men who removed the offensive statues have issued a statement to Life Site News.
My only criticism, is that they should have smashed them first. Those idols are long and thin, made of wood. Even an exotic Amazonian hardwood like bloodwood should have been breakable, but, hey, I’ll shut up. These two guys are heroes. I don’t want to hear about theft or sin, this was an unbearable offense against God and Holy Mother Church and had to come to precisely this end, just as some good University of Dallas (UD) students stole a blasphemous depiction of Our Blessed Mother from a horrid art exhibit that occurred about a decade ago, when former diocesan and university administration tried turning UD from a generally solidly Catholic college – as intended and founded by good Bishop Gorman, RIP – into something much more worldly, leftist, and fallen. Fortunately, they mostly failed, though some harm was done to the university and its reputation (full disclosure, my daughter attends UD).
But I demure. First, the video of the heroic act, then, some commentary by Taylor Marshall, who I had the pleasure of speaking with yesterday after the beautiful Pontifical High Mass at Mater Dei:
Now, some commentary from Dr. Taylor Marshall, who gives some historical context for this act, which is in the tradition of many saintly defenders of the Faith. In fact, destroying false idols has constantly been a hallmark of stalwart defenders of the Faith for centuries. It is only of this time of unprecedented heresy, blasphemy, cultural rot and institutional decay within the Church that such ridiculous acts like installing pagan idols in Catholic parishes would not be met with an instant fury of righteous indignation and immediate concrete acts to remove the offending idols. An act like this required great resevoirs of the masculine virtues, and in spite of the calamitous collapse of such virtues among men particularly and all souls generally in the past 200 years or so, it is extremely gratifying to know that some men still possess them. I am extremely heartened that, after 2 weeks, some hardy souls (finally?) acted:
Say a prayer for these good men, as Marshall did. I have not seen a formal reaction from Rome, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there is not an ongoing attempt to identify them and perse-prosecute them.
David Rodriguez is in Rome right now for The Fatima Center, and I had actually suggested to him that he go and take care of this ugly business, but I don’t believe David was involved in any way. I’m sure he wasn’t. Yep. Absolutely sure. No doubt about it.
Speaking of DR and The Fatima Center, Fr. Isaac Mary Relyea calls on Francis to convert and become Catholic below. I can’t say I disagree with that in any way. What that means, theologically and ecclesiastically, I have no idea, but I don’t disagree with the sentiment at all:
[UPDATE]: The statement from the heroes, via Life Site News:
“This was done for only one reason: Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, his Blessed Mother, and everybody who follows Christ, are being attacked by members of our own Church. We do not accept this! We do not longer stay silent! We start to act NOW!
Because we love humanity, we cannot accept that people of a certain region should not get baptized and therefore are being denied entrance into heaven. It is our duty to follow the words of God, like our holy Mother did. There is not second way of salvation.
Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat!
Reads like this was a translation or that these guys are not native English speakers. It makes no difference, may God be with them. Dominus vobiscum!
Our Lady of Good Success Warned (and reassured) Us About This Sin-nod October 21, 2019
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A nice and brief cartoon via reader TT, which reminds us that Our Blessed Mother has prophesied and warned of these days, but also given us reassurance as to the ultimate outcome of this war for the soul of Holy Mother Church:
From Promoting Error/Heresy to out n’ out Apostasy, the “Amazonian” Synod Takes Form October 10, 2019
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We knew from the beginning – heck, from the beginning of this pontificate – that Francis and his band of elderly leftists would move to “modernize” the Church by attacking many of the dogmas and disciplines they and their generation have found most offensive – priestly celibacy, the sanctity of life, the sanctity of marriage, and the general moral beliefs of the Church (especially those associated with the 6th and 9th Commandments). This sin-nod was ginned up on a false narrative (the people of the Amazon region ostensibly desiring certain exceptions for themselves with regard to Catholic moral doctrine), fabricated out of whole cloth on a fantastic basis, and made up of an overwhelming number of like-minded hardcore leftist/modernists (unworthy priests and prelates, many probably plants from the days of the Soviet Union and its satellite states) which insured that the outcome was determined in advance.
Thus, the grave error and violation of discipline of rejecting priestly (and that of bishops, and probably even popes) celibacy was decided entirely in advance of this synod. There is no debate, no real discussion. The participants were chosen specifically for their lock-step adherence to these manifest assaults on the very nature of the priesthood and the Church. The synod is just a PR exercise and an attempt to give this violent assault on the Church a patina of respectability. As one of its leading lights declared, this synod is also meant to approve female deaconesses and pave the way for false female priests. Again, no discussion or debate. This entire synod is a production of the German episcopal conference, which is funding it lock, stock, and barrel, and demanding its doctrinal outcome in advance.
But as this supposed synod has gone along over the past few days, it has become apparent that what this group of revolutionaries and Peronists has in mind is not “merely” the overturning of key disciplines and even certain doctrines/Dogmas, but an out and out apostasy against the Church herself. Just a few samples from the past 2 or 3 days:
There was the pagan ritual held in the Vatican garden, in which Francis freely and happily took part, terminating with Francis offering the Pater Noster in Latin, of all things. I’m amazed he knew it.
This was followed by subsequent pagan ceremonies within various Vatican City churches. I must wonder whether this will not culminate with a pagan ceremony, featuring demons as objects of worship, within Saint Peter’s itself before this nightmare is over.
A handful of priests and prelates have vociferously objected to these heinous assaults against the Faith of Jesus Christ. One of the most notable was (unfortunately, long-retired) Bishop Rene Henry Gracida of Corpus Christi, who described the pagan ceremonies mentioned above in these words:
The participation by Francis the Merciful in the pagan rites held in the Vatican Garden is further evidence of his lack of concern for the canonical penalties he is incurring by his repeated participation in heretical and even occult religious ceremonies forbidden to all Catholics, especially one who sits (invalidly ?) on the Throne of Peter. But then he does not seem to have let the excommunication incurred by him under the law of Universi Dominici Gregis bother him and so the penalties incurred by him with increasing regularity these days become easier to dismiss. A day of reckoning will come for him as it will for each of us.
Blessings,
+The Most Reverend Rene Henry Gracida
Adhuc multiplicabuntur in senecta uberi et bene patientes erunt
Ut adnuntient quoniam rectus Dominus Deus noster et non est iniquitas in eo(Source: Private Correspondence with the Bishop)
Scene in a Roman church near the Vatican this week
As this synod goes on, it tends further and further from the promotion of specific errors/heresies and more and more towards outright apostasy. Thus, it came as little surprise today that Francis was quoted by his long-time friend and extremist communist journalist Eugenio Scalfari as holding to the Arian heresy – Francis declared that Jesus Christ was just a man, and not Divine, a heresy settled in the earliest days of the Church:
“Those who, as it has happened many times with me, have had the luck of meeting him and speaking to him with the greatest cultural intimacy, know that pope Francis conceives Christ as Jesus of Nazareth, man, not God incarnate. Once incarnate, Jesus stops being a God and becomes a man until his death on the cross………..
“When I had the chance of discussing these sentences, Pope Francis told me: ‘They are the proven proof that Jesus of Nazareth, once having become a man, was, though a man of exceptional virtues, not at all a God.'”
Now, in the past, many have risen to defend Francis from the reporting Scalfari has made of his numerous interviews with Francis. They have argued that Scalfari routinely misquotes Francis, or even makes up material out of whole cloth.
But as Rorate Caeli notes, why would Francis repeatedly return to a source that has ostensibly misquoted him over and over again? Why would the Vatican publish the contents of several of these interviews in official Vatican organs? At the very least, it would appear that Francis is extremely imprudent, to the point of negligence, in using Scalfari to communicate any message of any kind. Coupling these quotes with yet another non-denial denial from the Vatican PR team, and given the other radicalism and rejection of the Faith occurring during this Synod (most all of these Scalfari interviews have been timed to coincide with synods or other major events), many are now concluding this represents something approximating Francis’ real belief. And in that case, we could have the first pope not merely to hold to some error on a fine point of theology, but to hold such massive errors, and so many, that they rise to the level of apostasy. Even if Scalfari made up this statement out of whole cloth, where on earth is the vociferous denial from the Vatican?
It is all of a piece with this synod and this pontificate. I find it incredibly difficult to believe, at this point, that all these scandals, and all these massive shifts in doctrine and practice are not pointing towards a systematic attack on the Church has shee has been construed lo these past 2000 years.
As Pope Pius X of blessed memory stated, modernism is the synthesis of all heresies. Once a man falls into the heresy of modernism, there is no limit to the depths to which he will sink, or the errors he will hold.
In truth, though, the Church since Vatican II has been heading in this modernist/leftist/materialist/pagan direction almost uninterruptedly. There has been Assisi I, II, and III, hosted and happily promoted by both of Francis’ predecessors, the “stalwart defenders of the Faith” John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Certainly, neither predecessor so attacked and poisoned the faith with such determination and apparent glee as Francis, but both did not only permit, but promoted numerous offenses against the pre-conciliar, perennial belief and practice of the Church, beliefs and practices generally settled for well over 1000 years prior to Vatican II and essential to the Church’s understanding of herself.
I used to think the modernists were after the protestantization of the Church, and perhaps the first generation around Vatican II was, but this current generation in power, consisting mostly of men formed in and around the time the revolution was most visibly active in the Church, appears to be after nothing short of the full-on replacement of Christ’s Holy Church with a demonic simulacra. These men are not wreaking this devastation out of concern for souls. This is not some misguided pastoralism. That’s the furthest thing from their minds. They are doing it to try to force the Church to correspond to their own modernist, leftist, pagan, and wholly immoral beliefs and conduct.
They are, in many ways, the ecclesiastical equivalent of the US deep state, and seek the same broad ends – exaltation of their ideology and great wealth and power for themselves, and spiritual and material destitution for just about everyone else – especially those who reject their errors and their assumptions of authority.
And, my good readers, this is just getting started. This is the beginning of the abomination of desolation becoming ascendant in Holy Mother Church. As Our Lady said, we will have much to suffer. Be strong, keep to the Faith, pray without ceasing, and implore God to have mercy on us and on His Church. Pray especially the Rosary, and adhere to the Faith of our Fathers. Buy all the good and holy books you can, especially those published by reliable sources and most especially those published prior to 1900 in the US and 1800 in Europe. Find the best parish/priests you can and nail your foot to the floor if you must. Trust in God, but know that this, barring some unprecedented miracle, is the Passion of the Church, and it will be prolonged.
I pray I may be a fool shouting inanities to himself, and that I have totally misread the situation, but I believe we are better off having our eyes open, than to keep the blinders on and try to pretend that all is fine and normal in the Church, or that the hierarchy, put in place by God to guide souls to Heaven, have not gone disastrously off the rails.
A good summation of our present situation from Dr.’s Taylor Marshall and Tim Gordon, below:
A photo of a woman suckling a dog – a DOG – in a Roman church. That’s where these pagans want to go.
One potential good God may draw from this unprecedented crisis – and God almost always draw good even from the greatest evils – is that I increasingly believe Francis and his allies are going to push so far, so fast, that it is going to force a decision point for many souls who would otherwise have tried to go along with happy clappy Novus Ordo church for years to come. I think if they try to ordain women as priests, there will be an enormous influx out of the Novus Ordo church and into the TLM, especially those parishes operated by explicitly traditional communities like the FSSP and SSPX. The good would be that many, many more souls may be exposed to the traditional practice of the Faith. The bad is that there is no way these men are going to leave the traditional communities alone for very long. They will have to come to them, because the difference between what they are constructing, and the actual Catholic Faith, will be too vast to paper over or ignore. The TLM communities will also pose an increasing threat to the man-made object these sad (largely) old and corrupt men are trying to sing into being (no matter how bad their song is, or their voices are). That’s another thing to gird your loins for – the coming attack on the TLM. But that’s a matter for another day.
So, if you wondered what I thought about Francis and the synod, now you know. I am not declaring Francis a heretic or even a practical apostate, only that he gives every appearance of being one. It is up to God to judge, and may He be merciful to me if, despite the mountains of evidence, somehow I err.
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