What ultimately destroyed the evil empires of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were bankrupt dogmas. Crackpot ideology destroyed free expression. It ruined meritocracy and ensured unequal application of the laws—and so paved the way for far worse.
The Nazi ideal of a superior Aryan race adjudicated everything from physics to tank design. Soviet commissars did the same, subordinating rational thought to communist agendas.
Zealots in both systems infiltrated the universities and schools to institutionalize indoctrination.
Wokeism, while not yet as lethal, is similar. Racial wokeism posits that the race and gender of the vice president and the next Supreme Court justice subordinate all other considerations.
But will the current vice president and next Supreme Court justice commensurately select their future surgeons, or their upcoming airline pilots, on the same predetermined race and sex criteria?
What—other than ideology—explains why rejecting nominations of African-American judge Janice Rogers Brown in 2003 and 2005 was not racist and sexist, but blocking Joe Biden’s upcoming nomination of a preselected African-American female would be?
Why were most Antifa and Black Lives Matter criminals who looted, destroyed, and assaulted during the 120 days of summer 2020 not charged, much less tried? Why, in contrast, were the January 6 rioters or the current Canadian truckers treated disproportionately harshly by the media?
Had the same rioters on January 6 been waving pride flags and BLM banners, would some of them have been sitting for a year in solitary confinement and still uncharged?
Had the criminal protestors and looters of summer 2020 been wearing red MAGA hats, would they also have mostly gotten off without charges?
What would have happened had conservative demonstrators cut out a police-free “MAGA Zone” in Seattle rather than the exempted Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone? Would the police have similarly left it alone, and the media similarly romanticized such illegality?
One of the reasons the COVID-19 lockdown and mask policies lost public confidence was their utter corruption by ideology.
When thousands in June 2020 brazenly defied quarantines—and yet were excused by over 1,000 healthcare professionals claiming that woke agendas justified violating quarantine laws—then millions of Americans concluded government policy was as much about identity politics as saving lives.
Which politicians in 2020 trashed the vaccine programs and declared they would likely not get inoculations—if they were endorsed by then-President Donald Trump?
If Trump is demonized as a destroyer of election legitimacy, what then are we to say of the beatified Stacey Abrams? She lost the Georgia gubernatorial race by more than 50,000 votes. Yet for years, she has maintained the voting was rigged and the elected governor is illegitimate.
In 2000, who challenged for weeks the vote count, despite numerous public and private audits confirming George W. Bush’s popular vote victory in Florida?
Who in 2004–2005—for only the second time in history—challenged in Congress the Electoral College vote? In whose party were the 31 House members and one senator who forced a congressional vote in a failed effort to overturn the election?
Who in 2016 ran ads for weeks after the election, beseeching the chosen electors to violate their constitutional duties, ignore their state vote tallies, and instead vote for Hillary Clinton?
And who in 2016 claimed her victorious opponent was elected president illegitimately? Who bragged she was joining the “resistance” to undermine his presidency? Who advised Joe Biden in 2020 not to accept the election result if he lost?
If conservative zealots were ransacking American stores, carjacking innocents in the major cities, and spiking murder rates to historical highs, would the Biden administration be mobilizing law enforcement to ensure arrests, prosecutions, and incarceration? Would current city and county prosecutors continue to turn a blind eye?
If anti-communist Cubans by the millions were illegally crashing the southern border, would they be welcomed in as are those from Mexico and Central Americans?
If, by 2024, a Republican president enjoys a Republican Congress, what would be the reaction to conservatives who advocated ending the filibuster? Ensuring a national voting law requiring IDs at all the polls? Voting to increase the Supreme Court to 15 justices to guarantee at least six new nominations for the Republican-controlled presidency and Congress?
When ideology in places like Castroite Cuba, the old Soviet Union, and Venezuela warped the application of the law, destroyed the role of merit in assessing qualifications, silenced speech, and unequally applied the law, then society unwound.
In such ideological dystopias, eventually even the shelves empty, the currency becomes worthless, and the nation regresses into poverty and chaos. Is that the future we await?
Scarier still, ideology ensures that such chaos is heralded as a success. Critics are demonized and hounded. And the obsequious state media assures the public that things are going just great.
If, by 2024, a Republican president enjoys a Republican Congress, what would be the reaction to conservatives who advocated ending the filibuster? Ensuring a national voting law requiring IDs at all the polls? Voting to increase the Supreme Court to 15 justices to guarantee at least six new nominations for the Republican-controlled presidency and Congress?
Why Ideology Is the
Ancient Enemy of Civilization
By: Victor Davis Hanson
The Epoch Times
February 11, 2022
What ultimately destroyed the evil empires of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were bankrupt dogmas. Crackpot ideology destroyed free expression. It ruined meritocracy and ensured unequal application of the laws—and so paved the way for far worse.
The Nazi ideal of a superior Aryan race adjudicated everything from physics to tank design. Soviet commissars did the same, subordinating rational thought to communist agendas.
Zealots in both systems infiltrated the universities and schools to institutionalize indoctrination.
Wokeism, while not yet as lethal, is similar. Racial wokeism posits that the race and gender of the vice president and the next Supreme Court justice subordinate all other considerations.
But will the current vice president and next Supreme Court justice commensurately select their future surgeons, or their upcoming airline pilots, on the same predetermined race and sex criteria?
What—other than ideology—explains why rejecting nominations of African-American judge Janice Rogers Brown in 2003 and 2005 was not racist and sexist, but blocking Joe Biden’s upcoming nomination of a preselected African-American female would be?
Why were most Antifa and Black Lives Matter criminals who looted, destroyed, and assaulted during the 120 days of summer 2020 not charged, much less tried? Why, in contrast, were the January 6 rioters or the current Canadian truckers treated disproportionately harshly by the media?
Had the same rioters on January 6 been waving pride flags and BLM banners, would some of them have been sitting for a year in solitary confinement and still uncharged?
Had the criminal protestors and looters of summer 2020 been wearing red MAGA hats, would they also have mostly gotten off without charges?
What would have happened had conservative demonstrators cut out a police-free “MAGA Zone” in Seattle rather than the exempted Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone? Would the police have similarly left it alone, and the media similarly romanticized such illegality?
One of the reasons the COVID-19 lockdown and mask policies lost public confidence was their utter corruption by ideology.
When thousands in June 2020 brazenly defied quarantines—and yet were excused by over 1,000 healthcare professionals claiming that woke agendas justified violating quarantine laws—then millions of Americans concluded government policy was as much about identity politics as saving lives.
Which politicians in 2020 trashed the vaccine programs and declared they would likely not get inoculations—if they were endorsed by then-President Donald Trump?
If Trump is demonized as a destroyer of election legitimacy, what then are we to say of the beatified Stacey Abrams? She lost the Georgia gubernatorial race by more than 50,000 votes. Yet for years, she has maintained the voting was rigged and the elected governor is illegitimate.
In 2000, who challenged for weeks the vote count, despite numerous public and private audits confirming George W. Bush’s popular vote victory in Florida?
Who in 2004–2005—for only the second time in history—challenged in Congress the Electoral College vote? In whose party were the 31 House members and one senator who forced a congressional vote in a failed effort to overturn the election?
Who in 2016 ran ads for weeks after the election, beseeching the chosen electors to violate their constitutional duties, ignore their state vote tallies, and instead vote for Hillary Clinton?
And who in 2016 claimed her victorious opponent was elected president illegitimately? Who bragged she was joining the “resistance” to undermine his presidency? Who advised Joe Biden in 2020 not to accept the election result if he lost?
If conservative zealots were ransacking American stores, carjacking innocents in the major cities, and spiking murder rates to historical highs, would the Biden administration be mobilizing law enforcement to ensure arrests, prosecutions, and incarceration? Would current city and county prosecutors continue to turn a blind eye?
If anti-communist Cubans by the millions were illegally crashing the southern border, would they be welcomed in as are those from Mexico and Central Americans?
If, by 2024, a Republican president enjoys a Republican Congress, what would be the reaction to conservatives who advocated ending the filibuster? Ensuring a national voting law requiring IDs at all the polls? Voting to increase the Supreme Court to 15 justices to guarantee at least six new nominations for the Republican-controlled presidency and Congress?
When ideology in places like Castroite Cuba, the old Soviet Union, and Venezuela warped the application of the law, destroyed the role of merit in assessing qualifications, silenced speech, and unequally applied the law, then society unwound.
In such ideological dystopias, eventually even the shelves empty, the currency becomes worthless, and the nation regresses into poverty and chaos. Is that the future we await?
Scarier still, ideology ensures that such chaos is heralded as a success. Critics are demonized and hounded. And the obsequious state media assures the public that things are going just great.
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After 9/11, we praised the “first responders” – the firemen and police officers who charged into the burning World Trade Centers, giving up their lives to save others. These men and women were lauded for what they are – heroes. They displayed a level of courage that few people can ever muster. For years after that tragic day, people wore NYPD and FDNY hats and shirts to honor their sacrifice. But over the last two years, we have been told that the same police officers we praised for their courage and sacrifice are vile racists. Politicians have passed legislation to defund the police based solely on that unproven charge of racism. So, people who would never go into a burning building to save another human being, who would never run toward the bullets to protect others have taken essential resources away from those who would. People who surround themselves with armed guards for their own protection have stripped the funding for the people whose job it is to protect everyone else.
During the first year of the pandemic, we praised the “frontline medical workers”, nurses and doctors who risked their lives caring for dying Covid patients. Day in and day out, they went to the hospitals, donned their PPE gear, and stared this deadly pathogen in the face, trying to save the lives of the infected and dying. Now, the livelihoods of many of these same frontline workers are being taken away because they refuse to take experimental vaccines that the government and private hospitals are mandating. Once again, people who would never risk their lives for another person, who remained as far from the frontline of this pandemic as possible, are firing the people who have manned the frontline for the past 2 years, resulting in a dangerous hospital care shortage at the time we can least afford it.
We also praised “essential workers”, like truck drivers, for risking their lives to bring us the necessities to live as we remained locked down in our homes, scared and protected from a virus that these essential workers confronted every day. Now, we are being told to hate the very same truck drivers because they have the temerity to protest for their rights and freedom from a heavy-handed and overly intrusive government. The very people who were too scared to even leave their homes during Covid want to destroy a group of people who went out and faced Covid head-on to keep our country running, our people fed, and our economy alive.
But this is the way it works. This is what happens when the elites have the power. They believe they are the special class of people with special privileges and protections, and their virtue is more important than everyone else’s lives. The elites praise people who risk their lives to provide the elites the necessities they need, but as soon as those same people have the courage to stand up for what they need, their courage becomes inconvenient to the elites, and they vilify them.
We are seeing this with the Freedom Convoy in Canada, and the others springing up around the world. The truck drivers were our heroes when we needed them to bring us our food, and other essential goods, but now when they want something – their freedom, they are attacked and denigrated.
Police officers, frontline medical workers, and truck drivers are more essential to our country and our lives than the very people who are trying to destroy them right now. This pandemic has proven these people have the one characteristic that the elites will never have – courage. Most politicians and government bureaucrats are cowards. They hide behind their offices and bureaus and bully people less powerful into submission. This is why politicians like Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, want to crush the Freedom Convoy, why French officials have ordered the police to attack the trucker protest that arose in Paris, and why Joe Biden is advising Justin Trudeau to use federal power to break up the protests, and why TD Bank has frozen over $1 million donated to the truckers.
But these protests were inevitable because the very people who have the courage to risk their lives daily for the greater good, also have the courage to stand up for what is right. They face death every day. Does anyone believe they will shrink away from heavy-handed politicians or bureaucrats? They are just as willing to stand up for everyone’s rights and freedom as they are to risk their lives for others.
By fighting against mandates and protesting for freedom, these people are simply doing what they always do, courageously standing up for the rest of us. They know that if the government is allowed to continue to strip us of our freedom and rights as they have done during Covid, the politicians will never give our freedom and rights back. The powers that the politicians bestowed upon themselves during the pandemic will be seized again and again at the politicians’ discretion based on the flimsy guise of protecting the greater good. But as we have seen the last two years, it is not the politicians or the bureaucrats who protect us and the greater good, it is the police officers, the firefighters, the frontline medical workers, and the truckers, the very people the politicians are trying to destroy, who have the courage to protect, provide for and save us. And right now, they are standing up across the globe, not merely fighting for their own, but everyone’s freedom and rights.
Courage Convoy
By: Judd Garrett
Objectivity is the Objective
February 13, 2022
After 9/11, we praised the “first responders” – the firemen and police officers who charged into the burning World Trade Centers, giving up their lives to save others. These men and women were lauded for what they are – heroes. They displayed a level of courage that few people can ever muster. For years after that tragic day, people wore NYPD and FDNY hats and shirts to honor their sacrifice. But over the last two years, we have been told that the same police officers we praised for their courage and sacrifice are vile racists. Politicians have passed legislation to defund the police based solely on that unproven charge of racism. So, people who would never go into a burning building to save another human being, who would never run toward the bullets to protect others have taken essential resources away from those who would. People who surround themselves with armed guards for their own protection have stripped the funding for the people whose job it is to protect everyone else.
During the first year of the pandemic, we praised the “frontline medical workers”, nurses and doctors who risked their lives caring for dying Covid patients. Day in and day out, they went to the hospitals, donned their PPE gear, and stared this deadly pathogen in the face, trying to save the lives of the infected and dying. Now, the livelihoods of many of these same frontline workers are being taken away because they refuse to take experimental vaccines that the government and private hospitals are mandating. Once again, people who would never risk their lives for another person, who remained as far from the frontline of this pandemic as possible, are firing the people who have manned the frontline for the past 2 years, resulting in a dangerous hospital care shortage at the time we can least afford it.
We also praised “essential workers”, like truck drivers, for risking their lives to bring us the necessities to live as we remained locked down in our homes, scared and protected from a virus that these essential workers confronted every day. Now, we are being told to hate the very same truck drivers because they have the temerity to protest for their rights and freedom from a heavy-handed and overly intrusive government. The very people who were too scared to even leave their homes during Covid want to destroy a group of people who went out and faced Covid head-on to keep our country running, our people fed, and our economy alive.
But this is the way it works. This is what happens when the elites have the power. They believe they are the special class of people with special privileges and protections, and their virtue is more important than everyone else’s lives. The elites praise people who risk their lives to provide the elites the necessities they need, but as soon as those same people have the courage to stand up for what they need, their courage becomes inconvenient to the elites, and they vilify them.
We are seeing this with the Freedom Convoy in Canada, and the others springing up around the world. The truck drivers were our heroes when we needed them to bring us our food, and other essential goods, but now when they want something – their freedom, they are attacked and denigrated.
Police officers, frontline medical workers, and truck drivers are more essential to our country and our lives than the very people who are trying to destroy them right now. This pandemic has proven these people have the one characteristic that the elites will never have – courage. Most politicians and government bureaucrats are cowards. They hide behind their offices and bureaus and bully people less powerful into submission. This is why politicians like Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, want to crush the Freedom Convoy, why French officials have ordered the police to attack the trucker protest that arose in Paris, and why Joe Biden is advising Justin Trudeau to use federal power to break up the protests, and why TD Bank has frozen over $1 million donated to the truckers.
But these protests were inevitable because the very people who have the courage to risk their lives daily for the greater good, also have the courage to stand up for what is right. They face death every day. Does anyone believe they will shrink away from heavy-handed politicians or bureaucrats? They are just as willing to stand up for everyone’s rights and freedom as they are to risk their lives for others.
By fighting against mandates and protesting for freedom, these people are simply doing what they always do, courageously standing up for the rest of us. They know that if the government is allowed to continue to strip us of our freedom and rights as they have done during Covid, the politicians will never give our freedom and rights back. The powers that the politicians bestowed upon themselves during the pandemic will be seized again and again at the politicians’ discretion based on the flimsy guise of protecting the greater good. But
Courage Convoy
By: Judd Garrett
Objectivity is the Objective
February 13, 2022
After 9/11, we praised the “first responders” – the firemen and police officers who charged into the burning World Trade Centers, giving up their lives to save others. These men and women were lauded for what they are – heroes. They displayed a level of courage that few people can ever muster. For years after that tragic day, people wore NYPD and FDNY hats and shirts to honor their sacrifice. But over the last two years, we have been told that the same police officers we praised for their courage and sacrifice are vile racists. Politicians have passed legislation to defund the police based solely on that unproven charge of racism. So, people who would never go into a burning building to save another human being, who would never run toward the bullets to protect others have taken essential resources away from those who would. People who surround themselves with armed guards for their own protection have stripped the funding for the people whose job it is to protect everyone else.
During the first year of the pandemic, we praised the “frontline medical workers”, nurses and doctors who risked their lives caring for dying Covid patients. Day in and day out, they went to the hospitals, donned their PPE gear, and stared this deadly pathogen in the face, trying to save the lives of the infected and dying. Now, the livelihoods of many of these same frontline workers are being taken away because they refuse to take experimental vaccines that the government and private hospitals are mandating. Once again, people who would never risk their lives for another person, who remained as far from the frontline of this pandemic as possible, are firing the people who have manned the frontline for the past 2 years, resulting in a dangerous hospital care shortage at the time we can least afford it.
We also praised “essential workers”, like truck drivers, for risking their lives to bring us the necessities to live as we remained locked down in our homes, scared and protected from a virus that these essential workers confronted every day. Now, we are being told to hate the very same truck drivers because they have the temerity to protest for their rights and freedom from a heavy-handed and overly intrusive government. The very people who were too scared to even leave their homes during Covid want to destroy a group of people who went out and faced Covid head-on to keep our country running, our people fed, and our economy alive.
But this is the way it works. This is what happens when the elites have the power. They believe they are the special class of people with special privileges and protections, and their virtue is more important than everyone else’s lives. The elites praise people who risk their lives to provide the elites the necessities they need, but as soon as those same people have the courage to stand up for what they need, their courage becomes inconvenient to the elites, and they vilify them.
We are seeing this with the Freedom Convoy in Canada, and the others springing up around the world. The truck drivers were our heroes when we needed them to bring us our food, and other essential goods, but now when they want something – their freedom, they are attacked and denigrated.
Police officers, frontline medical workers, and truck drivers are more essential to our country and our lives than the very people who are trying to destroy them right now. This pandemic has proven these people have the one characteristic that the elites will never have – courage. Most politicians and government bureaucrats are cowards. They hide behind their offices and bureaus and bully people less powerful into submission. This is why politicians like Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, want to crush the Freedom Convoy, why French officials have ordered the police to attack the trucker protest that arose in Paris, and why Joe Biden is advising Justin Trudeau to use federal power to break up the protests, and why TD Bank has frozen over $1 million donated to the truckers.
But these protests were inevitable because the very people who have the courage to risk their lives daily for the greater good, also have the courage to stand up for what is right. They face death every day. Does anyone believe they will shrink away from heavy-handed politicians or bureaucrats? They are just as willing to stand up for everyone’s rights and freedom as they are to risk their lives for others.
By fighting against mandates and protesting for freedom, these people are simply doing what they always do, courageously standing up for the rest of us. They know that if the government is allowed to continue to strip us of our freedom and rights as they have done during Covid, the politicians will never give our freedom and rights back. The powers that the politicians bestowed upon themselves during the pandemic will be seized again and again at the politicians’ discretion based on the flimsy guise of protecting the greater good. But as we have seen the last two years, it is not the politicians or the bureaucrats who protect us and the greater good, it is the police officers, the firefighters, the frontline medical workers, and the truckers, the very people the politicians are trying to destroy, who have the courage to protect, provide for and save us. And right now, they are standing up across the globe, not merely fighting for their own, but everyone’s freedom and rights.
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The Prayer Scare And BeyondFebruary 14, 2022Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on critical reactions to prayer and religious conversations:A half century ago, those who were not religious tended not to be anti-religious, so they had no impact on the faithful. That’s changed. With almost three in ten Americans not adhering to any religion, there has been an increase in secular militancy, the likes of which we have never seen before in this country.It’s not just the increase in the “nones” that is troubling (those who answer “none” when asked what their religious affiliation is), it’s the changing cultural milieu that is a problem. We can thank the ruling class –the elites who command our most important institutions—for this development. Their hostility to religion is so strong that they even object to people praying, or talking about religion, in public.A high school student from Plainwell, Michigan was suspended for three days this year when he was caught talking to another student about religion on school property. The conversation was private and there was no attempt at proselytizing: the student who was engaged in dialogue shared the convictions of the student who opened the conversation.The suspended student says that he was told by a teacher that he must stop talking about his Christian religion with other students for fear of hurting their feelings. Those who might overhear their commentary, he was informed, might be offended or feel unsafe. Furthermore, he was told that it was his responsibility to contact school officials if he heard about hurtful comments made by other students. His case is now in federal court.A year ago, an off-duty police officer in Louisville, Kentucky was suspended for four months for praying outside an abortion clinic. He stopped to pray with his father, who was part of a pro-life group. He was wearing his police uniform at the time but tried to cover it up with his coat. His lawyer said the cop did not engage in political activity and prayed quietly outside the facility. He recently won a settlement from Louisville of $75,000.In a suburb of Seattle, a high school football coach was fired for engaging in voluntary silent prayer with his players after games. The school told him he should have prayed in a school-hall closet or the press box—that way he would not be seen by other students—and not on the 50-yard-line. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear his case.Ironically, the first person I ever met who exhibited a prayer scare was the founder of the ACLU, Roger Baldwin. I interviewed him in his home in New York City in 1978 (it was part of my New York University Ph.D. dissertation). Here is the exchange (it can be found in my first book, The Politics of the American Civil Liberties Union):”Donohue: The ACLU has even gone so far as to deny the right of people to voluntarily take the time during the day, as a schoolchild, to say a prayer.Baldwin: Not on school time.Donohue: Well, whose rights are being infringed upon if there is a silent prayer voluntarily said by a student?Baldwin: If they don’t say anything? You mean if they don’t—-Donohue: Right. Are you afraid they are going to proselytize the rest of the class?Baldwin: Well, they tried to get around it. They’ve tried to get around it even further than you by calling it meditation.Donohue: What’s wrong with that?Baldwin: You don’t say anything about God or religion or anything. I suppose you can get by with that but it’s a subterfuge, because the implication is that you’re meditating about the hereafter or God or something.Donohue: Well, what’s wrong with that? Doesn’t a person have the right to do that? Or to meditate about popcorn for that matter?Baldwin: I suppose that—it sounds very silly to me because it looks like an obvious evasion of the constitutional provision.”In the three current aforementioned cases, and the Baldwin one, there is something going on here that transcends any alleged constitutional problem.It’s ironic: These people accuse religious Americans, especially those who talk about religion in public, or pray in public, as being irrational, yet their prayer scare makes no rational sense. What are they really afraid of?The cancel culture is more than just about speech—it’s about religious thoughts. These mind-control freaks are beyond weird. Indeed, they are a danger to a free society.
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Cardinal Müller: For Faithful Catholics, It’s a ‘Time of Tribulation and Psychological Terror’
In an exclusive interview with the Register, the prefect emeritus of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith castigated the state of the Church in Germany and its ‘Synodal Way’ process.
Cardinal Gerhard Muller, former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, at a penance service in St. Peter’s Basilica during the “24 Hours for the Lord” initiative on March 29, 2019. (photo: Daniel Ibanez / CNA/EWTN)
VATICAN CITY — Faithful Catholics are today facing a period of persecution, tribulation and “psychological terror” that, in an unprecedented way, is coming from within their own countries that have ancient Christian traditions, Cardinal Gerhard Müller has observed.
The German cardinal made the observation in an exclusive Feb. 5 interview with the Register, during which he issued a blistering attack on the state of the Church in Germany and the “Synodal Way,” a controversial multiyear reform process that grew out of the clergy sexual-abuse crisis.
The prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) said these attacks on the faithful from within are coming from “secularized” parts of the Church and frequently occur in the workplace or in schools.
Now is a “time of tribulation and psychological terror,” and orthodox Catholics are being “persecuted; and in some countries this is culminating in martyrdom,” Cardinal Müller noted. “Usually this has come from the outside, but now it’s from the inside, in our countries that have old Christian traditions. It’s a new situation.”
The cardinal’s words came as a plenary meeting of the “Synodal Way” was concluding last weekend.
The participants voted at that meeting for a raft of dissenting notions that included same-sex union blessings; changes to the Catechism on homosexuality; the ordination of women priests; priestly celibacy to be optional in the Latin Church; and for lay involvement in the election of new bishops.
His comments also follow a spate of controversial statements from German and European prelates in recent weeks. They include Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich saying on Feb. 3 that priests should be allowed to marry “not just for sexual reasons,” but so they “wouldn’t be so lonely,” and Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg arguing that the Church’s teaching on homosexuality is “false” and needed revision.
Last month, more than 120 homosexual Church employees in Germany demanded the blessing of same-sex unions and a change in the Church’s labor rules — an initiative welcomed by the German bishops’ conference.
‘Secularized People’
Cardinal Müller, 74, who was bishop of Regensburg, Germany, from 2002 to 2012, said many of those promoting such dissenting views are “secularized people” who “want to keep the name ‘Catholic,’ to stay in the institution and take the money, but they won’t accept the teaching of the word of God.”
“They relativize the Catholic faith, but remain with their titles: cardinals, bishops, theology professors — but in reality they don’t believe what the Church is saying,” he noted, and he described such people as “materialists” whose basis of belief is not in creation and Revelation but in pseudo-sciences.
Similarly, he said the “LGBT” agenda that many of them support “is totally idiotic because its Neo-Gnostic mythology is absolutely against human nature, not only in a biological sense, but also in a philosophical one.”
Cardinal Müller, who was CDF prefect from 2012 to 2017, warned that the blessing of same-sex couples promoted by the German bishops is “absolutely a blasphemy” because it is a “negation of the constitution of human beings as man and woman, and there can be no blessing there.” He also decried the idea, proposed by some in the German Church, that a priest should have sexual relations with women so that “then they won’t take boys” as “scandalous argumentation!”
Upholding the teaching of previous popes, he also firmly ruled out a women’s diaconate, saying the “sacramental diaconate is one degree of an indivisible threefold order that cannot be transferred to women according to the permanent apostolic tradition.”
And yet he noted that this is “what they’re voting for” in the German “Synodal Way,” in reference to the Feb. 4 vote by the members of the German synodal assembly in favor of women’s ordination, even though “they cannot vote against the revealed truth and its infallible definition by the ecclesial magistery.”
More generally, Cardinal Müller warned of determined attacks against the sacraments, especially the Blessed Sacrament and holy orders.
“Not a few are denying the sacrificial character of the Eucharist and the Real Presence,” he observed. “The role of the priest and the substance of the faith is in danger.”
He added that those pushing for these changes have no “supernatural understanding,” and what they are calling for is, in fact, a “major anti-Vatican II movement” that goes against Lumen Gentium, the Second Vatican Council’s dogmatic constitution on the Church, and the Council’s decree on the ministry and life of priests, Presbyterorum Ordinis,on the dignity of the “priestly vocation and service in the understanding of priestly celibacy.”
‘Social Worker’ Priesthood
These are the same people, he said, who want to “destroy the sacramental priesthood, firstly by being against celibacy and then denying the supernatural institution of this sacrament.” They would like to relativize the sacramental priesthood, he added, so that what is left is a “social worker,” leaving the identity of the priest “hollowed out” and vulnerable to breaking down. On Feb 4, the German “Synodal Way” also backed an appeal to relax the celibacy requirement for priests in the Latin Church, urging that the topic be taken up in a future ecumenical council.
Church leaders and lay Catholics pushing these anti-Catholic views do not believe in the Last Judgment, Cardinal Müller contended.
“To them, God has to justify himself.” But he warned that their judgment will be harsher, given that they have apostatized. “As an apostate, that person has more guilt than someone who has never heard of the Catholic faith.”
He further noted that these dissenters within the Church won’t criticize the decadence of the world, nor do they “dare” say “abortion is child-murder,” because then “they will be brutally attacked.”
Instead, they focus on sexual abuse of children, but exploit it to advance their own agenda, without examining the causes or insisting on ordaining priests who can live in abstinence. “They say they’re ashamed of sexual abuse, but they don’t say what damage has been inflicted on the souls of those abused and the abuser, and the damage caused to the Body of Christ,” he said. “They’re instrumentalizing human beings; they have no respect for people. They manipulate young people, shed tears for abuse victims; but for others, they have no interest.”
In sum, he said he believes those advocating changes such as those in the “Synodal Way” “are not reformers” but are pushing for “a deformation of the Church, a secularization of the house of the Triune God.”
And he said a key problem is the desire to compromise with the world, an unwillingness to live with the tension of living the faith in today’s highly secularized society.
The aim of many bishops is to be loved and respected by society, as they were in the 19th century, but he said they know they cannot change the faith, so they call their efforts to do this “development of doctrine” and thereby “destroy and contradict the revealed faith.”
Attacks on Faithful Prelates
Asked about the relentless attacks on prelates such as Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne, Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer of Regensburg and, most recently, Pope Benedict XVI (over accusations of mishandling abuse cases more than 40 years ago, for which the pope emeritus denies wrongdoing), Cardinal Müller stressed that all of these bishops “took the most action against these abuses,” while other bishops, general vicars and others responsible for handling abuse cases “made big mistakes, but they’re not criticized because they belong to this ideological group of self-secularization.”
Cardinal Müller said that he and other prelates are on another “theological level” to their dissenting detractors, who “don’t have any argumentation, only personal attacks and defamation.”
He contended that Cardinal Woelki, for example, “can in no way be blamed” for mishandling abuse cases, “but the most furious slanderers among his German bishop-brothers can escape only because the anti-Catholic mass media is on their side, along with secularized Catholics inside.”
Many of these attacks are whipped up by a highly secularized and anti-Catholic media whose biases, Cardinal Müller contended, date back to the Kulturkampf, the 1872-1878 conflict between Otto von Bismarck’s Prussian government and the Catholic Church, led by Pope Pius IX.
“They take positions against the natural law, and what they ultimately don’t accept is a supernatural standpoint: that the highest authority is the personal and loving God, not us,” he said.
Further, he said that someone such as Cardinal Marx is often favored by the press because “he’s the best promotor of the aims they want — to neutralize the Church” and prevent it from giving “answers to deep existential questions.”
What’s Needed
Looking forward, the cardinal said it is up to Pope Francis and the College of Cardinals to step in and discipline these prelates and the “Synodal Way” before it’s too late.
He also called for the Pope to have more German consultants to explain to him exactly what is happening. More broadly, he said correcting these wrong teachings “can only be done by promoting a better, theologically informed episcopate,” as happened “in the time of the Reformation in Germany and in other countries.”
Meanwhile, for faithful Catholics enduring continual attacks on account of the faith, he encouraged them with Jesus’ words from the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:11):
“Blessed are you when people abuse you and persecute you and speak all kinds of calumny against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven; this is how they persecuted the prophets before me.”
Edward Pentin Edward Pentin began reporting on the Pope and the Vatican with Vatican Radio before moving on to become the Rome correspondent for EWTN’s National Catholic Register. He has also reported on the Holy See and the Catholic Church for a number of other publications including Newsweek, Newsmax,Zenit, The Catholic Herald, and The Holy Land Review, a Franciscan publication specializing in the Church and the Middle East. Edward is the author of The Next Pope: The Leading Cardinal Candidates (Sophia Institute Press, 2020) and The Rigging of a Vatican Synod? An Investigation into Alleged Manipulation at the Extraordinary Synod on the Family (Ignatius Press, 2015). Follow him on Twitter at @edwardpentin.
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What is the Real Agenda of the corrupt Joe & Hunter Biden’s Russiagate backing of the Trudeau-like Obama corrupt Ukraine Operatives in their Warmongering Posturing?
The Epoch Times in the article “What’s Behind the Troop Buildup on the Ukraine–Russia Border?” explained the real agenda of the corrupt Joe and Hunter Biden’s Russiagate backing of the corrupt Ukraine Justin Trudeau-like Barack Obama Ukraine operatives in their warmongering posturing:
For all the theories the media and Beltway experts have advanced to explain the perhaps imminent Eastern European conflict, they’ve hidden one big piece of the puzzle—the political faction that Biden leads sees Ukraine as an instrument to advance its narrow partisan interests, foreign and domestic.
In 2013, the Obama administration saw a Ukrainian protest movement as an opportunity to topple a Kyiv government aligned with Moscow. A few short years later, Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign used Ukrainian officials and activists to push an intelligence operation targeting her rival, Donald Trump. And in 2019, pro-Ukrainian U.S. policymakers conspired to impeach Trump in order to provide cover for Biden after he had publicly boasted of interfering in Ukraine’s political and judicial system for alleged personal gain.
This is essential context for understanding Russian President Vladimir Putin’s demands for security guarantees that NATO won’t move eastward—that is, won’t enlist Ukraine. From Moscow’s perspective, no matter how weak Biden appears, he’s head of a reckless and dangerous political bloc. The Democrats used Ukraine to destabilize the U.S. government, and it’s possible they will try again to use it to destabilize Russia.
As I discuss in the latest episode of “Over the Target,” the Democrats’ dangerous actions regarding Ukraine date back nearly a decade. After Putin compelled Ukraine’s then-President Viktor Yanukovych to reject a 2013 trade deal with the European Union that would have weakened the Russian economy, Ukrainian activists took to the streets of Kyiv in protest.
As violence erupted in the Ukrainian capital, senior Obama administration officials seized the opportunity to remold the government to their own liking. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt were famously caught on tape discussing the prime minister they were planning to install. The tape was allegedly leaked by the Russians to show how the United States was interfering in the internal political dynamics of a foreign country.
In February 2014, Yanukovych fled Kyiv for Moscow, and a handful of top Obama officials visited Ukraine for what seemed to many observers like a victory lap. CIA Director John Brennan’s April visit fueled speculation that America’s clandestine service had engineered the coup.
A week later, then-Vice President Joe Biden arrived, advising the new government to root out corruption. And yet only a month after Biden’s visit, a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, under investigation by international, and later Ukrainian, authorities, appointed his son Hunter to a board seat that paid more than $50,000 a month. It appears that Burisma was buying protection from the U.S. official in charge of Ukraine policy—Hunter Biden’s father.
With the 2016 presidential election in the offing, the Democrats urged their new friends in Ukraine to contribute to Hillary Clinton’s election efforts by supporting her campaign’s allegations that Trump had been compromised by Moscow. A Financial Times article from August 2016 documented the many former and acting Ukrainian officials who claimed the GOP candidate was “pro-Putin.”
In Washington, a Democratic National Committee contractor, Ukrainian American activist Alexandra Chalupa, sought help from the Ukrainian embassy in smearing Trump as a Russian agent. The Ukrainian ambassador to Washington pitched in with an anti-Trump op-ed in The Hill.
At the same time, Clinton campaign contractor Fusion GPS was sourcing reports of Trump–Russia collusion from Ukrainian parliamentarian Serhiy Leshchenko. Indeed, the infamous anti-Trump dossier is fundamentally about Russia and Ukraine.
The salacious bits may be the most notorious parts of the dossier, but the overarching collusion narrative hinges on allegations of a quid pro quo regarding Ukraine. In exchange for Putin’s help winning the 2016 race, the dossier alleges, Trump would remove sanctions that Barack Obama had imposed on Russia for its 2014 incursion into Ukraine and annexation of Crimea.
Just weeks before the Obama-Biden administration finished its term in January 2017, Biden told the Department of Justice that Trump’s national security adviser Michael Flynn should be prosecuted for discussing sanctions with the Russian ambassador to Washington. With the help of the press, the Obama-Biden team forced Flynn from the White House, the first move in a more than two-year operation combining the Democratic Party, U.S. spy services, and the media to topple the Trump administration.
When Russiagate did eventually wind down in the summer of 2019, another anti-Trump operation was already in motion. This one, too, turned on Ukraine.
On July 24, Robert Mueller appeared on Capitol Hill to say that his special counsel investigation found no evidence of any quid pro quo or collusion. The next day, Trump spoke on the phone with the new Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, and asked for Kyiv’s help in getting to the bottom of Ukraine’s role in Russiagate. He also asked Zelensky for information regarding the Bidens’ activities in Ukraine.
Trump had heard of Joe Biden’s public admission that he made the Ukrainians fire the prosecutor investigating the company paying his son Hunter. The former vice president told a New York audience that he’d demanded a quid pro quo from the Kyiv government. If they didn’t get rid of the prosecutor, he’d withhold a $1 billion loan guarantee. “Well, son of a [expletive],” said Biden, “he got fired.” Trump told Zelensky that Biden’s role “sounds horrible to me.”
A Ukrainian American official working in the White House named Alex Vindman was listening to Trump’s call with Zelensky and relayed its contents to a whistleblower, who was identified by RealClearInvestigations as former Biden aide Eric Ciaramella, a CIA analyst. As a key staffer to the former vice president on Ukraine, Ciaramella must have known as well as anyone that an investigation into the Bidens’ Ukraine-related activities could cause trouble for the Democratic Party’s potential 2020 presidential candidate.
And so, based on Vindman’s account, it was alleged that Trump threatened to withhold lethal defensive aid from Ukraine unless Kyiv helped find dirt on the Bidens. In reality, Biden’s quid pro quo was simply hung on Trump—it was Biden, after all, who’d used U.S. taxpayer money as leverage to allegedly benefit his family. As commander-in-chief, Trump had an obligation to find out whether the Bidens’ activities in Ukraine had compromised U.S. national security… [https://www.theepochtimes.com/whats-behind-the-troop-build-up-on-the-ukraine-russia-border_4237796.html]
The scholar William Briggs also shows the real Biden and RINO “conservative” agenda:
It’s easy to see why the regime wants war with Russia. Idiocy and profits. The entire military-industrial complex is behind the push, as is every major propaganda organ. Journalists are loyal liars.
The tangle of money is complex, of necessity, and it’s far from clear those thinking they’ll get rich off of exploding missiles have full batteries in their carnage calculators. But there’s no doubt they want, perhaps not war exactly, but to give Russia the high hard one.
It’s not as if there isn’t humor in this. It’s been a lot of fun watching Biden voters air out reasons why American blood needs to flow in Ukraine. Or if not our men, women, and whoknowswhats, then the red stuff of lowly foreigners. If they die, they die, and it’s their own fault for being born in some far off land nobody can find on a map.
One of the big reasons our woke and progressive compatriots want the killing to start is that “Putin stole the election for Trump.” No less an eminence than Hillary herself said so. Often. Propagandists, living through their Days Of Rage in 2016 and early 2017, repeated the story more times than NPR said “racism” in a year.
Well, let’s not remind our friends of this. It’s a tad embarrassing for them. Having to admit being duped that hard is painful. It’s also best to speak quietly of the revelation Hillary paid spies to look in on the Trump campaign. Hey. Trump had it coming. He was mean. And literally Hitler.
So it’s not just the moola, but the need to keep the fiction going that Russia and Trump were secretly attempting to rule the world, rather than having to admit to high treason.
No. Our concern is with the Big Con, with the neoconmen and other “conservatives” who started drooling the day the propaganda about an “imminent” invasion of Ukraine by Russia was released. The invasion was going to be today. No, today. Today, I mean. Tomorrow at the latest. Soon. Trust us. It’s happening.
Propagandists greased the minds of its adherents, saying Russia was going to release some horrible something, we know not what. Except that it is definitely maybe going to be a false flag. If you’re an American citizen, get out of Ukraine now! But only if you’re vaccinated.[https://wmbriggs.com/post/39085/]
Finally, despite all the Biden Russia warmongering posturing why is he an apparent Russian collaborator:
In May, Pulitzer winner and liberal Glenn Greenwald, who is a co-founder of the Intercept new outlet renowned for its accurate journalism on intelligence, reported “Just imagine what would be happening right now if it were Trump, rather than Biden, who just handed Putin his underwater natural gas pipeline just days after Russian hackers allegedly caused serious gas shortages“:
That the Kremlinhad taken over American political institutions through its blackmail control of former President Donald Trump was a media conspiracy theory as pervasive as it was deranged. This once-exciting script was excavated from the CIA’s Cold War basement, dusted off by their operatives, and then kicked off by the intelligence community’s purposeful dissemination of the now-debunked Steele Dossier. And once this fairy tale was launched, there were seemingly no limits on the depths to which media figures would sink to promote it…
… Trump found one thing even more threatening to the Kremlin’s vital interests than arming Ukrainians: namely, doing everything possible to destroy Russia’s ability to complete construction of its new underwater natural gas pipeline, Nord Stream 2. That new pipeline is designed to double Russian sales capacity to an EU addicted to cheap Russian natural gas, producing massive revenue for the Russian economy and giving Moscow greater leverage when dealing with its European neighbors. But it provides an even more important benefit: it allows Russia to bypass Ukraine and other Eastern European countries, thus avoiding costly transit fees and the risks of political instability or anti-Russian manipulation by outside forces, including the U.S. government.
For all those reasons, few priorities were more important to Putin and the Russian economy than this new pipeline. Yet for at least the last two years of his presidency, Trump — even as he was shrilly depicted as an agent of the Kremlin — was obsessed with stopping the Russian pipeline and thus sabotaging Putin’s key geopolitical project.
The Trump administration caused a halt to the project in 2019 when it imposed sanctions on companies working on it. Trump did everything he could to pressure, cajole and even threaten the Germans to pull out of the deal, warning that it would leave a winter-plagued Europe captive to Russian pressure and insisting that Berlin had the obligation to buy gas from the U.S., not Russia, given NATO expenditures to protect Germans. Trump even tried to pull close to 10,000 U.S. troops out of Germany to pressure the Merkel government, but the pro-war alliance of hawkish Democrats and Liz-Cheney-led neocon Republicans voted to defund that effort.
Any minimally rational or honest media would have taken note of these events and instantly realized that their years-long conspiracy theory about Trump being controlled by Putin was sophomoric nonsense, the opposite of the truth. That a Putin-controlled Russian asset would send lethal arms to Ukraine and do everything possible to sabotage Nord Stream 2 is so blatantly absurd that it could be ratified only by a media aggressively committed to spreading disinformation and lies.
All of this became even clearer on Tuesday when President Biden reversed Trump’s blockage of the Russian natural gas pipeline. Axios’ Jonathan Swan reported that “the Biden administration will waive sanctions on the corporate entity and CEO overseeing the construction of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline into Germany,” which “indicates the Biden administration is not willing to compromise its relationship with Germany over this pipeline.” Swan wrote what is clearly true: “the completion of Nord Stream 2 would be a huge geopolitical win for Putin and give him substantial new leverage in Europe.”
This “huge geopolitical win for Putin” is exactly what the Kremlin’s alleged asset in the White House spent years preventing and which Biden is now handing over. Indeed, this decision by the Biden administration directly contradicts the assurances which long-time anti-Russia hawk Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) extracted from Secretary of State Antony Blinken during Blinken’s January confirmation hearing. Cruz asked Blinken whether he would commit to maintain the efforts of the Trump administration and a bipartisan group of Senators to use sanctions to prevent completion of the Russian pipeline, and Blinken vowed that he would:
SEN. CRUZ: Now, worryingly, there have been suggestions out of Moscow and out of Berlin that the Biden administration would reduce pressure and reduce efforts to stop Nord Stream 2. Can you commit to this committee today that the Biden administration will hold the line, will keep the sanctions, and will prevent the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from being completed?
MR. BLINKEN: Two things, if I may, Senator. First of all, the president-elect strongly agrees with you that Nord Stream 2 is a bad idea and he has been very clear about that. I need to look at the actual legislation. I am determined to do whatever we can to prevent that completion, the last hundred yards, I very much agree.
As Swan put it: “this planned move” to lift key sanctions “seems at odds with” Blinken’s commitment. Indeed it does. While the Biden administration intends to maintain some of those Trump-imposed sanctions, the waivers they intend to issue will allow completion of Nord Stream 2, a gigantic gift to Putin.
What makes Biden’s turnaround even more stunning is that it comes just weeks after the U.S. claims that Russians were behind a quite serious hack-for-ransom into a U.S. gas pipeline that caused serious gas shortages on the East Coast. U.S. officials say that while they have no reason yet to believe that the Kremlin itself was responsible, they do believe that the hackers were Russian citizens and/or operating from Russia. An angry Sen. Cruz said on Wednesday morning: “Biden has vastly strengthened Putin’s hands at the expense of the rest of the Free World.” Yesterday, he tweeted this:
Just imagine what would be happening right now if it were Trump, rather than Biden, who just handed Putin his underwater natural gas pipeline just days after Russian hackers allegedly caused serious gas shortages in the U.S. Jingoistic op-eds would fill the pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post warning of Kremlin control of the U.S.; CNN and MSNBC would convene panel after panel of their former FBI and CIA operatives to accuse Trump of treason for subordinating U.S. interests to Russian interests; Rachel Maddow would be on the verge of righteous and indignant tears as she devoted her 20-minute monologue to decrying the tragedy that we were all living under Putin’s rule; and Nancy Pelosi would be holding a press conference to spread more innuendo about Putin’s blackmail control over Trump while demanding a DOJ investigation.
None of that, needless to say, will happen now. Indeed, just hours after Swan reported this sanctions waiver, reporters giggled and swooned after Biden joked about running them all over in his car as a condition to answering their questions about the war in Gaza, then giggled and swooned even more when he floored the car and drove away from them.
BBC, Dec. 21, 2019; Axios, May 18, 2021
For five years, the bulk of the U.S. media pushed and endorsed a demented, dangerous conspiracy theory about the world’s second-largest nuclear power that not only lacked evidence but was negated by every relevant event. As I documented in late 2016 and then again in 2018, there is a stronger basis for claiming that Obama was significantly more accommodating of Putin than Trump ever was. And after just four months in office, the same is true of Biden. But for a media devoted to an agenda rather than truth, the inexorable destruction of their conspiracy theory does not matter. [Glenn Greenwald(greenwald@substack.com): “Biden, Reversing Trump, Permits a Key Putin Goal: a New Russian Natural Gas Pipeline to Germany,” You’re on the free list for Glenn Greenwald. For the full experience, become a paying subscriber.
Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia.
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.
Francis Notes:
– Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church in such a situation:
“[T]he Pope… WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See.” (The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
– If Francis betrays Benedict XVI & the”Roman Rite Communities” like he betrayed the Chinese Catholics we must respond like St. Athanasius, the Saintly English Bishop Robert Grosseteste & “Eminent Canonists and Theologians” by “Resist[ing]” him: https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/12/if-francis-betrays-benedict-xvi.html
– LifeSiteNews, “Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers,” December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows “sexually active adulterous couples facing ‘complex circumstances’ to ‘access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'”
– On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
“The AAS statement… establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense.”
– On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
“Francis’ heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents.”
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
What is needed right now to save America from those who would destroy our God given rights is to pray at home or in church and if called to even go to outdoor prayer rallies in every town and city across the United States for God to pour out His grace on our country to save us from those who would use a Reichstag Fire-like incident to destroy our civil liberties. [Is the DC Capitol Incident Comparable to the Nazi Reichstag Fire Incident where the German People Lost their Civil Liberties?: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/is-dc-capital-incident-comparable-to.html?m=1 and Epoch Times Show Crossroads on Capitol Incident: “Anitfa ‘Agent Provocateurs‘”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1]
Pray an Our Father now for the grace to know God’s Will and to do it.SHARE
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“In this video, I summarize the one hypothesis that makes sense of the last eight years of chaos and evil in the Catholic Church: that Jorge Mario Bergoglio is an antipope and that the February 11, 2013 abdication by Pope Benedict XVI was not objectively valid.
“Conspiracy theory, white-hot take, or accurate description of reality? Watch this, follow up with the documentation reading links below, and decide for yourself.”
POINTS COVERED:
* Think, don’t emote over this hypothesis
* Weigh the evidence like a juror at a trial
* An antipope is not the antiChrist, but a man falsely believed to be the legitimate pope
* The Church has had over 30 antipopes in 2000 years
* This hypothesis is not sedevacantism
Evidence items:
1) The term “pope emeritus” has no precedent and is confusing 2) Pope Benedict XVI seems to have resigned only part of the papacy, the active ministerium, not the office or munus of the papacy 3) Pope Benedict’s longtime personal secretary Archbishop Georg Gänswein has made statements that appear to affirm Benedict’s continued papal identity 4) Pope Benedict’s correct form of address is still “Your Holiness” 5) There are at least three errors in the official Latin “declaratio” read by Pope Benedict on February 11th 2013 6) “Universal peaceful acceptance by the Church of Francis has never really occurred 7) The canonically illegal behavior of the St. Gallen Mafia cardinals in conspiring to vote in their man from Buenos Aires in 2013 invalidates the Conclave
* Catholics who refuse to even consider this evidence are forced to defend and domesticate the worst pope in history
* Catholics, especially conservative or traditional-minded ones, are in an abusive relationship with a passive-aggressive dictator
* The list of the evils and diabolical confusions perpetrated by Bergoglio is long, comprehensive, and disturbing
* The bottom line: Pope Benedict XVI is a wise and holy man who, in the end, really didn’t want to be Pope.
* He repeatedly asked Pope John Paul II to allow him to retire as prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith.
* In his very first homily as Roman Pontiff, Benedict XVI asked for prayers that “he might not flee out of fear of the wolves.”
* Maybe he didn’t flee the wolves. Maybe he outfoxed them.
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
* Apostolic Constitution “Universi Dominici Gregis,” by Pope St. John Paul II, February 22, 1996:
P. O’Brien says:Oh, I know. But I am making a parody of Patrick Coffin’s closing line “Be a saint. What else is there?” I’m not too crazy about that phrase — is there anything else to be, besides a saint? How about gett6ing into Purgatory after repenting of many sins?
Mark Docherty says:If you’re not aiming for sainthood, you’re never going to make it to Purgatory.
P. O’Brien says:No need to apologize about attacking my flippant nonsense. I am intrigued that people I would not consider to be traditionalists are starting to conclude that Francis is an antipope. I can count about five such among my friends, people who do not attend the old Latin Mass.
urielangeli says:So… one thing that struck at me was that he used an analogy directly from Barnhardt, but didn’t credit her. I also saw some things that may have been from Mark’s research. I know, I know, it doesn’t really matter in the broad scheme of things, and every one will receive his praise or blame from God when it is due, but it sticks in my craw.REPLY
can’t remember my screen name says:From first learning of the machinations of the St. Gallen group, I have thought it very possible the election was invalid. I think I am remembering correctly that Father Z wrote awhile ago that the canons weren’t violated, and I respect the opinion of him and others whose knowledge is much greater than mine. Still, to me it seems at a very basic level that those involved in the “group” admit to collusion and “fixing” the election.REPLY
Mark Docherty says:Importantly, Coffin notes St Gallen as the seventh and last piece of evidence. He gets the base premise right, that Benedict’s non-resignation is the root. But even if that weren’t true, Bergoglio and his enablers are all excommunicated anyway due to UDG.REPLY
Joe Crupi says:Well done Patrick Coffin! I hope that this impacts the wider and more mainstream audience of Mr Coffin and beyond. The Truth always wins. And this time when it does, we (all the faithful including members of the episcopacy) will have to look in the mirror and figure out how we let this happen in the first place. And vow never to be that complacent again.
Bruno W says:Please enlighten a hillbilly, what is UDG?
Mark Docherty says:UDG is the document that governs how a conclave works. It spells out that cheaters are excommunicated.
Michael @ The Pilgrim Center, San Sebastian de Garabandal says:@ Bruno W…Universi Dominici Gregis (UDG) 81. The Cardinal electors shall further abstain from any form of pact, agreement, promise or other commitment of any kind which could oblige them to give or deny their vote to a person or persons. If this were in fact done, even under oath, I decree that such a commitment shall be null and void and that no one shall be bound to observe it; and I hereby impose the penalty of excommunication latae sententiae upon those who violate this prohibition. It is not my intention however to forbid, during the period in which the See is vacant, the exchange of views concerning the election. – Pope John Paul II, Universi Dominici Gregis https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_jp-ii_apc_22021996_universi-dominici-gregis.html
Pissed-Off Pureblood says:August 8th, 1974…“Therefore, I shall resign active part of the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow. I will be keeping the nuclear launch codes with me as a keepsake and still be called ‘Mr. President’. Vice President Ford will be sworn in as President at that hour in this office…” – And thirty seconds later the Democrats would declare a civil war.That is what Richard Nixon DIDN’T say.That is what Benedict XVI’s “resignation” sounded like.If he wanted to resign, he could’ve RESIGNED! Just like when someone quits a job, they don’t come and put their work uniform back on, try to clock in, and start their job up again. They don’t want to split their hours with the new-hire to replace them.No one has any problem with The Bishop of Rome resigning his position. I don’t think a lot of people realize the argument that Ann is making. I don’t believe they want TO THINK about the serious problem we have right now. Having an anti-pope is SCARY, and they don’t want to think about it.Some of the things Benedict XVI had to do was: Stop dressing in white, stop being called “Your Holiness” don’t even have the word “Pope” in your title, don’t use the Papal Name “Benedict.” The title “Cardinal Emeritus” would have been a MUCH more appropriate to use, or even more simply, “Archbishop.” In a black cassock, he could keep telling the world’s media, “My name is Joseph Ratzinger, I am an Archbishop of the Catholic Church, I’m formerly the Bishop of Rome.” Him saying that would cut the legs out from under Ann Barnhardt.Heck, if Joseph Ratzinger did that, even I might say, “Okay… Ann’s arguments don’t hold water. He isn’t the Pope, Francis IS the Pope. We need to stay in communion with The Pope no matter what because that is the way things are, and we need to be obedient to the Chair of St. Peter. With the Roman Rite, TLM is over, we need to move forward with Novus Ordo, and start signing Gather Us In at the top of our lungs!!”REPLY
Mrs. Maureen Avila says:Very nice presentation and recap of the works of a variety of educated Catholics over the years since the 2013 Papal Conclave! Thankyou , Patrick.REPLY
Michal says:But why insist on Ratzinger still being pope if he believes almost the exact same heresies and promotes the exact same false ecumenism as Bergoglio? Francis denies the Limbo of Infants and believes infants can be saved without baptism. So does Benedict XVI, who goes even further, and says the term ”original sin” is ”misleading and imprecise” and that infant baptism is meaningless. Francis rejects converting schismatics. So does Ratzinger, who even denies Vatican I’s teaching on papal primacy. Francis is a judeiser who believes Jews have their own valid covenant. So is Ratzinger, who has even endorsed and foreworded a book called The Jewish People And Their Sacred Scriptures In The Christian Bible, which claims that the Jew’s waiting for the Messiah might still be valid. Francis agrees with Luther on justification. So does Benedict, who can actually be ”credited” with helping save the Joint Declaration wit the Lutherans on Justification, which openly denies the Council of Trent. Benedict XVI has engaged in the same false ecumenism as Bergoglio, and just like him he has taken part in Jewish worship and prayed in a mosque towards Mekka. All of Ratzinger´s heresies are publicly available in his books, like Principles of Catholic Theology, God And The Wolrd, etc. In fact, the only meaningful difference between Francis and B XVI is that B XVI is at least a validly ordained priest.REPLY
Aqua says:You are missing the point. The point is not whether Pope Benedict XVI is right or wrong on theology. The point … is Pope Benedict XVI still Pope; did Pope Benedict XVI resign the Office as required by UDG; can a Conclave be validly called to replace a Pope who has not left his Papal Munus; do rules matter or do we just do whatever the heck we feel like … one Pope, two Popes, three Popes, four – if you don’t like it just take the exit door; five Popes, six Popes, seven Popes eight – a Church without rules is really friggin’ great!Pope Emeritus? Not part of Sacred Tradition; never seen one before, don’t want to ever see one again.Two visible Popes? Christ established the Rock on one … there has only ever been one.Pope without the Munus? No, the Munus IS the Papacy; the Ministerium is merely what a Pope does. A person on the Seat of Peter (See of Rome) is by definition *antipope* – squatting on a sacred Throne.DMG specifies the rules. Were they followed? Or not followed? Does any Catholic care?I don’t care about whether Pope Benedict did or did not make theological errors. I care very much that we now have a deformed Papacy and no one even bats an eye – *EMERITUS POPE*? Really? Two visible Popes? Why didn’t the abdicator leave? That means EVERYTHING! He didn’t leave! He didn’t abdicate! He remains and the antipope chosen to serve alongside of him is continually committing the gravest heresies ever seen in recorded history. Pachamama cemon consecrated on the High Altar of St. Peter’s: Problem, or no?1: Was Ratzinger validly elected or no? 2: Did Pope Benedict XVI validly resign or no? Only those two questions matter.REPLY
Brian Murphy says:Your excellent video covers all the major points that we have covered in two videos based mainly on the work of Br. Alexis Bugnolo (From Rome). Great work!!Benedict Is Still Pope (translated into 13 languages) https://youtu.be/jCB4iGkcKUYMessage in a Bottle (translated into 6 languages) https://youtu.be/A30NvrOLLpwREPLY
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DEBATE: Is Benedict Still Pope? Today is the nine year anniversary Pope Benedict announced his resignation to the world (February 11th, 2013). Today’s debate answers the question: was Benedict’s resignation valid; and of not, IS BENEDICT STILL POPE? Todays debaters are: Dr. Ed Mazza is former Full Professor of History at Azusa Pacific University and host of “The Bar of History” at VirginMostPowerfulRadio.org. Mazza is the author of The Scholastics and the Jews: Coexistence, Conversion and the Medieval Origins of Tolerance from Angelico Press. His online classes in Church and World History are available at edmundmazza.com Steven O’Reilly is a graduate of the University of Dallas and the Georgia Institute of Technology. He writes for the blog RomaLocutaEst, He has had articles appear in the old Catholic Answers magazine, “THIS ROCK,” One Peter Five, and LIFESITENEWs. He is working on a historical fiction trilogy entitled PIA FIDELIS set in the time of the Arian Crisis, and the rise Julian the Apostate. Book I, “PIA FIDELIS: The Two Kingdoms”, is available for order on Amazon and other sites. He is a former intelligence officer, who served in the Clandestine Services of the CIA. He lives in Georgia with his wife, Margaret. He has four sons, and new granddaughter. [https://player.fm/series/timothy-gordon-rules-for-retrogrades-podcast/debate-is-benedict-still-pope]
Dr. Edmund Mazza and Steven O’Reilly on the Rules for Retrograde podcast debated on “The Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.” It can be found here.
Here is some stuff on Rumble and Twitter on the debate as well as on whether Benedict is still pope:
Canori Mora@CanoriMora
The recent ‘BiP’ debate with Dr. Mazza and Steven O’Reilly, made me recall the article by @CionciAndrea from last July, wherein he responds to 3 objections (from @S_OReilly_USA) wrt Pope Benedict XVI’s “Plan B”.
Here is the video of the debate between Dr. Mazza and myself on @timotheeology R4R show. Debate resolution: Benedict’s resignation was invalid due to “substantial error.” Dr. Mazza was the ‘yes’ ; I took ‘no’ position. [https://twitter.com/S_OReilly_USA/status/1492297551231467520]
SimplyCatholicWife&Mother@ProcessionsUSA
On the ninth anniversary of Pope Benedict not Canonically resigning, another person comes out publicly as “Benedict is Pope – BiP” | Barnhardt https://barnhardt.biz/2022/02/11/on- [https://twitter.com/ProcessionsUSA/status/1492187075742941186]
Will there be coffee in the gulag?@CoffinMedia
And now: shiny jagged red pill evidence that the Feb/2013 abdication by @P_BenedictXVI (who, if you click on it, is still called “Pope Benedict XVI”) was fatally flawed, and the Mar/2013 election of Bergoglio was likewise null: [https://twitter.com/CoffinMedia/status/1491929325938962432]
1) The term “pope emeritus” has no precedent and is confusing 2) Pope Benedict XVI seems to have resigned only part of the papacy, the active ministerium, not the office or munus of the papacy 3) Pope Benedict’s longtime personal secretary Archbishop Georg Gänswein has made statements that appear to affirm Benedict’s continued papal identity 4) Pope Benedict’s correct form of address is still “Your Holiness” 5) There are at least three errors in the official Latin “declaratio” read by Pope Benedict on February 11th 2013 6) “Universal peaceful acceptance by the Church of Francis has never really occurred. 7) The canonically illegal behavior of the St. Gallen Mafia cardinals in conspiring to vote in their man from Buenos Aires in 2013 invalidates the Conclave. [https://www.patrickcoffin.media/seven-pieces-of-evidence-that-francis-is-an-antipope/]
Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia.
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.
Francis Notes:
– Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church in such a situation:
“[T]he Pope… WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See.” (The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
– If Francis betrays Benedict XVI & the”Roman Rite Communities” like he betrayed the Chinese Catholics we must respond like St. Athanasius, the Saintly English Bishop Robert Grosseteste & “Eminent Canonists and Theologians” by “Resist[ing]” him: https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/12/if-francis-betrays-benedict-xvi.html
– LifeSiteNews, “Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers,” December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows “sexually active adulterous couples facing ‘complex circumstances’ to ‘access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'”
– On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
“The AAS statement… establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense.”
– On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
“Francis’ heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents.”
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
What is needed right now to save America from those who would destroy our God given rights is to pray at home or in church and if called to even go to outdoor prayer rallies in every town and city across the United States for God to pour out His grace on our country to save us from those who would use a Reichstag Fire-like incident to destroy our civil liberties. [Is the DC Capitol Incident Comparable to the Nazi Reichstag Fire Incident where the German People Lost their Civil Liberties?: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/is-dc-capital-incident-comparable-to.html?m=1 and Epoch Times Show Crossroads on Capitol Incident: “Anitfa ‘Agent Provocateurs‘”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1]
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Why is the Francis/Marx Team who apparently “Covered…up” Sex Abuse & promote Porn Anti-nuclear Family Propaganda Defaming Pope Benedict?
The From Rome website reported that “Cardinal Duka of Prague charges [Francis collaborator] Cardinal Marx with Defamation of Pope Benedict XVI”:
This regards the recent “report on sexual abuse” in the Archdiocese of Munich, headed by Cardinal Marx, and paid for by him, wherein the Holy Father was wantonly calumniated by the MSM round the world, on the basis of an intentionally distorted retelling of the facts. Cardinal Duka has come to the same conclusion I did, canonically, a week ago, namely, that the then Archbishop of Munich, Joseph Ratzinger, had no canonical authority to discipline Father X, who was a priest in the Diocese of Essen Germany, and that therefore the charge of malfeasance was libelous.[https://www.fromrome.info/2022/02/11/cardinal-duka-of-prague-charges-cardinal-marx-with-defamation-of-pope-benedict-xvi/]
In June, Gloria.tv reported:
Francis has declined the [fake] “resignation” of Munich Archbishop Reinhard Marx, Germany, and asked him to continue as Munich Archbishop.
Marx “resigned” on May 21 not for personal but blaming others “for institutional failures.”
In a June 10 letter to his “Brother”, Francis praised Marx for his “courage”…
… Marx’ “resignation” was likely a media stunt or a controlled detonation regarding accusations from his time as Trier Bishop (2002-2008). Alleged victims of homosexual abuses have claimed that Marx mishandled cases and “covered them up.”[https://www.gloria.tv/post/VJrTaSaB3UaD6uR6VRmSegpuR]
Also, Francis, it appears, is allowing, one of his closest collaborators, Cardinal Reinhard Marx and his German bishops to continue in the porn business which is a prime destroyer of family life.
Marx and the German bishop’s huge porn publishing company sold pornography for over a decade. The bishops were rebuked by Pope Benedict XVI after he was informed. After the papal rebuke, the German bishops promised the porn business would be sold according to Lifesitenews.com articles on October 31 and November 23, 2011.
The blog Vox Cantoris on September 18, 2015 wrote that Cardinal Marx and the German bishops were still in the same porn business and Francis did not “call them out.” The blog’s headline was “Why is Pope Francis blind to Germany’s rich and porn producing bishops?”:
“We know that they cannot win, that the “gates of Hell will not prevail” but in these times we must ask, ‘Where is the Pope?'”
“The Catholic Church in Germany is the largest employer after the Government and Mercedes-Benz with over 600,000 employees. Yes, you read that number correctly. The bishops in Germany also earn incomes of up to 150,000 Euros. There is no collection at the Offertory. The Church in Germany is funded through taxes and if you don’t pay you don’t receive the sacraments. This is simony! What lays behind this German assault on the truth at the Synod is their own survival as a privileged class of bishops in a failing Church. “
“These filthy degenerate bishops have taken control of this papacy and it is time to ask Francis a few questions.”
In 2016, Francis’s next x-rated outrage was appointing Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia to head the Pontifical Council for the Family. The papal appointee commissioned a gay neo-pornographic mural at his former cathedral which was called “blasphemous,” “disgusting,” and “demonic” according to Lifesitenews.com on March 15, 2017.
Francis is apparently promoting porn, anti-nuclear family and homosexuality propaganda for “youth”:
Francis appointed the mural pornography commissioner to produce a sex education programwhich was released with the“apparent approval”of Francis on World Youth Day according to a March 6, 2017 article.
The article was written by psychological experts Gerard van den Aardweg and Rick Fitzgerald on Lifesitenews.com.
Paglia’s sex ed program used porn “like” that used by “sexual predators.”
The sex abuse experts stated that the Paglia headed Vatican Pontifical Council for the Family developed and approved the program called Meeting Point that “contained homoerotic and hetersexual pornography which was like that employed by adult predators of youth.”
The experts said “even more troubling is the role of Pope Francis. His apparent approval of the Meeting Point program… with its homoerotic content and hetersexual pornography was severely negligent.“ (Lifesitenews, “Is the pontificate of Francis in the clutches of the gay lobby,” March 6, 2017)
The two experts said the porn predator-like program “should be withdrawn as soon as possible by the Vatican and its website closed.”
Moreover, in America, pro-abortion Black Lives Matter has joined Francis in apparently promoting homosexual and anti-nuclear family propaganda as documented by this Christian Post article:
The founders of the movement, the #BlackLivesMatter Foundation (BLMF), created it to radically shift culture. The far-left Ford Foundation, the world’s largest population control organization, vowed in 2016 to raise $100 million for the Movement for Black Lives (MFBL) — a nationwide coalition of BLM groups (including BLMF). MFBL released a shocking manifesto of policy positions that are deeply political and deeply disturbing. Drawing mostly from those positions, here are the top ten reasons why I will never support the #BlackLivesMatter movement. 1. The premise isn’t true. According to the FBI’s latest homicide statistics, I’m eleven times more likely to be killed by someone of my own brown complexion than a white person. Also, a comprehensive 2019 study concluded: “White officers are not more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers.” Every loss of life is tragic, but Washington Post’s database on police-involved deaths puts things into context. In 2020, among those killed were 76 black males and 149 white males (whose deaths are don’t get reported by national mainstream media). Only nine black individuals were actually unarmed. 2. There is no goal of forgiveness or reconciliation. None. It’s never mentioned on their sites. You can’t talk about the sins of the past and expect to move forward if there is no intention of forgiveness. I’m tired of the color-based oppressed/oppressor critical race theory paradigm. It’s not Gospel-centered. This should, immediately, be a deal-breaker for Christians. 3. It’s all about Black Power. It’s plastered all over the MFBL website.BLMF founders explain their “herstory”: “It became clear that we needed to continue organizing and building Black power across the country.” I don’t promote social colorblindness; I love all of our diverse hues of skin. But I’m so much more than my pigmentation. Martin Luther King promoted “God’s power and human power.” I’m with him. 4. They heavily promote homosexuality and transgenderism.“We foster a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking.” I’m not embracing confusion. The Bible is unambiguous about sexuality. Loving every human being is not the same as loving every human doing. 5. They completely ignore fatherhood. From BLMF: “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.” Well, every “village” that has fatherless families is a village that suffers higher crime rates, higher drug usage, higher abortion rates, higher drop-out rates, higher poverty rates, and so much more. #DadsMatter. 6. They demand reparations. Ok. Sooooo, I guess the white half of me will have to pay the black half of me? If progressives want to push reparations, start with the Party of Slavery and Jim Crow — the Democrat Party! Let them ante up. But the #BlackLivesMatter movement bizarrely demands: “Reparations for…full and free access for all Black people (including undocumented and currently and formerly incarcerated people) to lifetime education…retroactive forgiveness of student loans, and support for lifetime learning programs.” Uhhh, good luck with that. 7. They want to abolish prisons and police forces. And…cue utter chaos. MFBL asserts: “We believe that prisons, police and all other institutions that inflict violence on Black people must be abolished…” Defund and remove the police have been rallying cries. That would be anarchy in any community. I advocate some needed police reforms, including more accountability and better community/police relations, but this is just foolishness. 8. They are anti-capitalism. Oh the irony of this declaration made by a movement that is the result of capitalism: “We are anti-capitalist. We believe and understand that Black people will never achieve liberation under the current global racialized capitalist system.” The videos that make us aware of police brutality are captured on phones that are a result of capitalism. The best way to elevate people out of material poverty? Capitalism. This system is why the United States is the most charitable nation. 9. Colin Kaepernick supports it. A “biracial” adoptee, Kaepernick is now obsessed with his “blackness.” He idolizes the late murderous Fidel Castro and Che Guevara and worships Malcolm X (just see his social media feeds). Malcolm X was anti-integration, pro-violence and a member of the virulently racist Nation of Islam (who forced him out). Kaepernick makes millions from Nike — a company whose entire Executive Leadership Team is white (isn’t this white supremacy???) — that makes its shoes in the most murderous regime in the world. Kaepernick, of course, is completely silent on that. But you know, #SocialJusticeWarrior. 10. Apparently, not all black lives matter.Pro-abortion BLMF declared: “We deserve and thus we demand reproductive justice [aka abortion] that gives us autonomy over our bodies and our identities while ensuring that our children and families are supported, safe, and able to thrive.” Aborted children don’t thrive. BLM groups announced “solidarity” with “reproductive justice” groups back in February 2015. You cannot simultaneously fight violence while celebrating it. [https://www.christianpost.com/voices/do-all-black-lives-matter.html]
Why are Francis/Marx Team who “covered…up” Sex Abuse & are apparently promoting Porn Anti-nuclear Family Propaganda Defaming Pope Benedict?
Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia.
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.
Francis Notes:
– Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church in such a situation:
“[T]he Pope… WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See.” (The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
– If Francis betrays Benedict XVI & the”Roman Rite Communities” like he betrayed the Chinese Catholics we must respond like St. Athanasius, the Saintly English Bishop Robert Grosseteste & “Eminent Canonists and Theologians” by “Resist[ing]” him: https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/12/if-francis-betrays-benedict-xvi.html
– LifeSiteNews, “Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers,” December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows “sexually active adulterous couples facing ‘complex circumstances’ to ‘access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'”
– On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
“The AAS statement… establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense.”
– On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
“Francis’ heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents.”
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
What is needed right now to save America from those who would destroy our God given rights is to pray at home or in church and if called to even go to outdoor prayer rallies in every town and city across the United States for God to pour out His grace on our country to save us from those who would use a Reichstag Fire-like incident to destroy our civil liberties. [Is the DC Capitol Incident Comparable to the Nazi Reichstag Fire Incident where the German People Lost their Civil Liberties?: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/is-dc-capital-incident-comparable-to.html?m=1 and Epoch Times Show Crossroads on Capitol Incident: “Anitfa ‘Agent Provocateurs‘”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1]
Pray an Our Father now for the grace to know God’s Will and to do it.
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