Things Are Coming to a Headby charliej373By Charlie JohnstonThis is Joe Biden’s America:In Chicago, State’s Atty. Kim Foxx declines to press charges against five men arrested in a fatal gang shootout; In Washington, D.C. some 500 people continue into their ninth month of solitary confinement for “parading” in the Capitol.In Arlington, Texas, a school shooter is released the day after the shooting on $75,000 bond while it is unknown whether all his victims will survive; In Washington, D.C. the Justice Department has ordered the FBI to go after parents who criticize local school boards.On America’s southern border, illegal aliens are allowed, even encouraged, to freely come in (and hopefully vote Democrat); In Afghanistan, perhaps a thousand Americans were left behind in our disastrous retreat, with no serious effort (except by some private entities – which the government has tried to stifle) to get them out – no worries, too many of these were Republicans.The Supreme Court ruled that there was not sufficient cause to issue an injunction against the Texas Heartbeat Law. A District Court judge in Texas (an Obama appointee) ruled that there was sufficient cause, overruling the Supreme Court. Talk about the cart before the horse! This ought to be a clear enough provocation to raise the ire of even the feeble John Roberts-led Supreme Court. If District Courts can now overrule the Supreme Court, so long as it serves leftist aims, our courts are utterly impotent in protecting civil liberty.Joe Biden, the man who fraudulently occupies the White House, unconstitutionally ordered everyone to get the frankenshot gene therapy (which also violates the Nuremberg protocols) and bragged about it in a Chicago area appearance this week. He said that his mandates caused more people to “choose” to get the shot – just as people usually “choose” to give their wallet to a bandit with a gun in their face. Ninety years ago, Josef Stalin chose to improve Soviet harvests by forcibly starving millions of Ukrainian farmers. It extended famine – but the farmers who survived all did it Stalin’s way – which was the whole point. Now Joseph Biden seeks to improve health care by forcibly firing thousands of health care workers. It creates a critical shortage, but those left in the profession will do it his way – which, again, is the whole point.Six thousand teachers protested the shot mandates last week, chanting “F… Joe Biden.” Seventy-two percent of black folks who live in New York are no longer allowed to eat in restaurants – because they have refused the frankenshot. There is now serious talk of requiring frankenshot passports for any travel between states.I am not generally given to accept anecdotal evidence as decisive – but there are situations where it is. The most important is when the lie is big enough, the censorship is overwhelming against dissent, and active dissenters are punished by the government. The censorship and punishment of dissenters is enough for me to reject whatever narrative is being pushed by the censors and enforcers. But there is a self-defeating, practical flaw in the imperators’ insistence on pushing a big lie. When it is so big that normal people, in their own experience, see it for what it is, all it does is collapse whatever vestiges of confidence are left in institutions. That is why CNBC host Sara Eisen pressed Anthony Fauci on the reliability of his assurance on the rarity of “breakthrough cases” (cases where people who have gotten all the shots get Covid anyway). She asked because that applies to her and much of her family who are now fighting Covid cases.  I, personally, now know five otherwise healthy people who have died within weeks of getting the jab. I only know one who died of Covid. Even though many silly people attribute a sudden decline or medical problems that arise almost immediately after taking the jab as something else, as this continues to grow, the scales are going to fall ever more rapidly from those same people’s eyes. If a tidal wave is looming off your front porch and officials are telling you it is just a light rain, reality will intrude soon enough, however desperately you want to believe the officials.There is a price to be paid when officials choose to live by lies. It may unfold in slow motion, as people react in astonishment as institutions they once trusted increasingly gaslight them and even punish them for noticing. Eventually, though, it reaches critical mass. In the best-case scenario, people just cease to listen to officials at all. In the worst case, widespread civil unrest grows into outright revolt. We are VERY close to ‘eventually’ right now.How many people do you know who have died or have suffered major medical problems shortly after taking the jab? How many people do you know who have been fired or otherwise forced from their jobs for refusing the experimental gene therapy shot? When the bitter-enders say it is “just a vaccine,” I can only think, “Idiots!” It is genetic therapeutic approach that has never in history been used on humans before, has never had any long-term studies done in humans, and the long-term studies in animals have all been failures and, in most cases disasters in which all the animals died within a couple of years. When I hear Churchmen say that we have to consider the “common good,” I can only think, “Idiots!” How is it the common good to use a therapy that was never used on humans and has killed almost all its animal test subjects? I am horrified to find that most top religious authorities don’t even want to examine the evidence, but just do what the credentialed class tells them. I used to mistrust the Russian Orthodox Church because, when the Soviets came, they caved to temporal authorities with almost eager desire, even spying on the very people they were supposed to shepherd – for dissent against the party line. But I guess that all religious institutions, when composed of too many leaders without chests, fold like cheap suits when they are too lazy to do serious research and become too enamored of the paper and paste of temporal influence to care much about the riches that await those who live heroic fidelity.Last December 14 I posted an article entitled, “The Beginning, Not the End.” I said, at the end of it, that the American Republic died on Dec. 11, 2020 when the Supreme Court refused, on faulty procedural grounds, to even look at the evidence of massive vote fraud. That is the only thing I got wrong in that piece (for which even some of my close friends accused me of being too alarmist at the time). Actually, Dec. 11 was the day our case became terminal. Now the question is whether we will just get a death rattle of the republic or will we have a revival and a new birth of freedom in this now-benighted land? Many people do not yet realize that America has become as internally restrictive as the old Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and Communist China were and are. That is because the old system of freedom under God was so big that it takes time – and surrender – to fully get people under the heel of the tyrants. But the tyrants are steadily working at it. Do you know what one of the great historical facilitators of tyrannical takeover is? The smug belief of the short-sighted that, “it can’t happen here.”In the semi-comic religious song, “Noah Found Grace in the Eyes of the Lord,” at one point Noah says, “Lord, it’s beginning to pour,” to which God responds, “Noah, hurry up and shut the door!” All the tyranny, lies, deceit, and censorship are close enough to critical mass that we will soon reach a flashpoint. My advice to you is to hurry up and shut the door on the ark carrying your friends and family who have not drunk the cultural Kool-Aid.*********I call on police officers throughout the country to pray carefully now. Soon, you will have to make some serious decisions. Watching police authorities in Canada, England and especially Australia, mace and beat up little old ladies and children who resist Covid tyranny has horrified me. A year ago I was confident that in any such eventuality, the police would stand with the people they serve, their friends and neighbors, rather than viciously carry out the ugly edicts of their government overseers. This last year has badly shaken my confidence on that score.I have had some heartening evidence that, despite the degeneration of police morality in the above-mentioned countries, there is still hope we will hold the line here. One cop I know told his superiors over a year ago, when the Covid nonsense first began, that he would continue to do the extra work he had taken on for the department, but he would NOT enforce any Covid restrictions – and if that was a problem they should just tell him and he would turn in his resignation. They left him alone. Another cop, was asked at a gathering of fellow officers,  what he would do if a vaxx mandate came. He cheerfully said he would get another job. At almost all of my talks, there is usually at least one cop in attendance and often quite a few.Officers, I deeply respect the work you do in good times. Two members of my family are in law enforcement. When crunch time comes, remember that almost all of your overseers already hate you and are glad to throw you to the wolves. If you alienate the ordinary people who love you, you will become the single most bereft people in the land. Every department has a few bad apples. Active officers know who those bad apples are. It will no longer be enough to just ignore them. You will have to ostracize them, or you will be spattered by the tar of their vicious misconduct.Everyone, pray to St. Michael for our noble, local police officers.*********In case any of you were deceived by Frances Haugen, the purported “Facebook whistleblower,” her complaint is that there is not enough censorship of views she does not agree with on Facebook. I smelled a rat as soon as it was announced that she would appear on an establishment press outlet. The legacy press does not give a platform to anyone who supports liberty and open discussion. Sure enough, she wants to clamp down harder on conservatives and Christians. They set it up this way in the hopes that they could dupe conservatives and Christians who are angry with social media into further silencing themselves. Always read the fine print in these times.*********In my last piece, I drifted into error on when Jesus knew He was God. It was kind of idiotic, because I have covered this ground before while maintaining full fidelity to Magisterial teaching.I erred in this one because I drifted into suggesting that Christ was ignorant of His divinity for much of His formative period. In prior discussions of the matter, I have noted that I believe Christ set aside His knowledge in order to genuinely grow in His human nature. St. Thomas Aquinas, as usual, said it far more elegantly and concisely than I can: “What He knew from His divine nature, He suffered Himself to learn in His human nature.”The Catechism covers the subject more technically from Paragraphs 470-483.While this drift into error was a mistake, I have provoked more than a little controversy on several subjects these last few weeks. That is intentional. For almost the first thousand years of Christianity, there was a lot of often passionate and spirited debate on doctrinal matters. While that meant there was no little error, it also meant that people thought seriously about it and had to defend their position. I want to provoke something similar now, for after centuries, we have become so smugly certain of some things that we are poorly armed to defend the faith from serious assaults – because we are not challenging our own assumptions and thinking seriously about it. I would not leave you unarmed.The reactions were along the lines I expected. Some were shocked that others could see things differently than they did. Some relied on conditional or ambiguous statements from authority to declare absolute certainty that their interpretation was both correct and the only possible interpretation. Others denied absolute facts in order to support things that they want to believe. Still a few others pretended to an erudition they did not have to try to settle matters. I largely left much of it alone. I was tempted, when one commenter described an ancient Magisterial discipline as a mere “idea” to jump in, but I let it ride. I particularly loved the questions Steve BC started asking. They were serious and insightful without straying far afield from formal Magisterial teaching.There is nothing wrong with having a different take than other faithful people you respect have. Many saints who were contemporaneous with each other found themselves passionately defending opposite ends during the great doctrinal disputes. There is not even anything wrong with being wrong for a time. That is the price you pay for going deeper. The only wrong here would be to stubbornly keep to your interpretation after discovering defined Magisterial teaching refutes it. It is sufficient to be docile to defined Magisterial teaching once you know it, but it is much better to dive deeper then and find why the Magisterial teaching is true.Some nervously said we should not dig at all, just accept. Remember St. Paul’s injunction in 1 Corinthians 12:13-31. We are all members of the one Body of Christ. In that Body there is great and true diversity. Not all have the same calling, but we are all edified by each of the members living their calling truly. If you say we should not split hairs, would you oust Sts. Thomas Aquinas, Augustine, and most of the Fathers of the Church because that sort of philosophical and theological inquiry was exactly what they specialized in? If you say we should not engage in mystical speculation, would you dismiss Sts. Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Padre Pio and Faustina from the canon? If you are called to be an arm and not a foot, you are not obligated to do the things a foot must, in fact, it is best avoided. But take care lest you start condemning a foot for doing a foot’s job, instead of the job of an arm which you are called to and prefer. We all benefit from each member doing its job with fidelity.I want you to think harder, to meditate more deeply because things are going to get worse. If you have not closely considered your faith – and your assumptions – when the assault rises to its most furious level, you risk losing that faith to despair rather than deepening it. I don’t mind a whit if people I love disagree with some of my interpretations. Do you notice that when I am being speculative, I almost always note that “I might be wrong”? The only way to explore new territory is to actually explore it – and sometimes you are going to go up some blind alleys. Shoot, the very groundwork for my eventual conversion into the Catholic Church was my relentless reading and re-reading of the whole Bible, and then my study of the historical cultural norms of the times in which they were written so that I could understand better what the original listeners heard beyond what it means to a 20th and 21st Century person. I used to begin RCIA every year when I was teaching it by telling inquirers I collected heresies – and would give five dollars to anyone who could come up with one I never heard of or, likely, even once believed. It gave them permission to explore what really troubled them and was really an invitation to them to cast out into the deep.I am sometimes wrong – but my rock solid foundational convictions are that there is no error in God, who is truth, itself, and that truth will stand the test of examination. In fact, Truth welcomes it. If you don’t believe me, read Job again with fresh eyes. There is nothing wrong with sticking with what is simple. But for those who are called, what I am doing is inviting you to join me in casting out into the deep.*********We are in the second week of our fall fundraising drive for CORAC. We are now up to almost $15,000 raised on a goal of $50,000. Over a third of that has come from a wonderful woman in Alabama who tithed part of a recent inheritance she received. God bless her!Some have asked anew what exactly CORAC is. A good question, as we are most certainly not a conventional activist group. CORAC is primarily a fraternal group that is committed to the traditional American and Judeo-Christian values of faith, family and freedom. First and foremost, it is a way to join a community of like-minded people who are open to discussion and dissent, so long as it adheres to the fundamental mission. In these times, when you have to self-censor at work, among family and friends, it is as refreshing as a wilderness waterfall to be able to talk freely about what is on your mind and in your heart without fear of being ostracized. We are a healthy family, often with disagreements, but without rancor or the desire that you should be forced to shut up. We seek to build each other up rather than tear each other down.We engage in occasional activism, demonstrating in support of first reponders, conducting prayer rallies at various government offices. Since I am not big on directives, we are very open to letting you do what you love and, in fact, connecting you with people who are interested in the same. We engage in education on subjects that are useful to all. Your priorities do not have to match my priorities, so long as they are consistent with our mission. If you want to organize people to work to reform schools and protest, I encourage it and am glad to connect you with people who want to help and do the same. Whatever it is that supports those traditional American and Judeo-Christian values, we have people in our family focusing on it. I do not want to stifle people’s noble creative ability by rigidly directing what they must focus on; rather, I want to ignite that creative capacity in service to the larger organization and our communities. When you look at something wrong and say, “Someone should do something about that,” we give you the means to actually do something about it and help you find people who want to work with you.We engage in educational activities that will be useful if times stabilize and vital if they keep disintegrating. We focus now on teaching natural medical techniques; developing means of surviving and thriving where you are with traditional home skills; keeping the channels of communication open by establishing a network of ham radios across the country (governments cannot shut down radio signals) and more accessible means of keeping people in touch at the beginning of any crisis; prayer teams that are uniting Catholics and Protestants throughout the country in building up the City of God and providing CORAC with a foundation of prayer. We will soon add an education team to help people work together to give their children a solid education no matter what the state of our culture or society.In many of my talks, I have spoken of how the world will be transformed by the visible Triumph of the Immaculate Heart. People often ask me what that world will look like. I answer that it will be an entirely ordinary world, a place where we will have jobs and governments, bills and families, but a world transformed by love of God and love of neighbor. I tell them it will be similar to the idealized town of Mayberry in the old Andy Griffith show. At bottom, what CORAC is is Mayberry now. Whether you can participate a lot or just a little, whether you want to organize something or just learn some new skills (all classes and demonstrations are free of charge – though some may require materials – none of which we profit from. We won’t buy your radio or your homeopathy kit, but we are glad to teach you how to use them), or just want to spend some time visiting with friends where you don’t have to worry about being canceled, CORAC is a place you can do all of this and more. It is free to sign up and free to participate. We are entirely supported by donations (and some sales of CORAC-branded merchandise – but that is so small it doesn’t amount to much of anything). Thus, if you can, donate the largest amount you can by going here – and if you choose to become a monthly donor, we will send you a CORAC Rosary – complete with a little metal squirrel on it.So what is CORAC? Simple…Mayberry Now!(If only I could whistle, we would have a great theme song, too!)Come join me on Gab. Look at Charliej373 or the CORAC group. If you send me a friend request on Facebook, I rarely go there anymore, but follow me on Gab and I will follow you back.*********Next Saturday, Oct. 16, I will speak in Estes Park, Colorado at 1 p.m. Before that, Region 12 is sponsoring a pilgrimage beginning at St. Catherine’s Church (sometimes called the Stone Chapel) at the foot of Mt. Meeker. All are welcome. To sign up, go here. I hope to see you then!Mt. Meeker Now! (or something like that).St. Catherine’s Chapel

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Could Pope Benedict XVI “Resign Solely for Reasons of Age”? 

October 08, 2021

Antonio Socci in his book shows evidence that Pope Benedict XVI might not have been able to “resign solely for reasons of age.”

Benedict’s resignation said:

“[B]oth strength of mind and body… has deteriorated… I have had to recognize my incapacity… For this reason I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, successor of Saint Peter.”

“An authoritative canonist, Cardinal Vincent Faggioli” under John Paul II wrote:

“[I]n an exhaustive and absolute way, the pope may not resign solely for reasons of age.”

(The Secret of Benedict XVI, Pages 67-76)

Antonio Socci in his book shows evidence that Pope Benedict XVI might not have been able to “resign solely for reasons of age.”

Benedict’s resignation said:

“[B]oth strength of mind and body… has deteriorated… I have had to recognize my incapacity… For this reason I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, successor of Saint Peter.”

“An authoritative canonist, Cardinal Vincent Faggioli” under John Paul II wrote:

“[I]n an exhaustive and absolute way, the pope may not resign solely for reasons of age.”

(The Secret of Benedict XVI, Pages 67-76)

^{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)

Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said “the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church.”
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]

– “If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html

– “Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.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.

Election Notes: 

– Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: “212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted…Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden” [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]

– Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times “Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html– Tucker Carlson’s Conservatism Inc. Biden Steal Betrayal is explained by “One of the Greatest Columns ever Written” according to Rush: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/tucker-carlsons-conservatism-inc-biden.html?m=1 – A Hour which will Live in Infamy: 10:01pm November 3, 2020: 
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1 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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Could Pope Benedict XVI “Resign Solely for Reasons of Age”? 

October 08, 2021

Antonio Socci in his book shows evidence that Pope Benedict XVI might not have been able to “resign solely for reasons of age.”

Benedict’s resignation said:

“[B]oth strength of mind and body… has deteriorated… I have had to recognize my incapacity… For this reason I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, successor of Saint Peter.”

“An authoritative canonist, Cardinal Vincent Faggioli” under John Paul II wrote:

“[I]n an exhaustive and absolute way, the pope may not resign solely for reasons of age.”

(The Secret of Benedict XVI, Pages 67-76)

^{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)

Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said “the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church.”
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]

– “If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html

– “Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.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.

Election Notes: 

– Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: “212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted…Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden” [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]

– Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times “Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html– Tucker Carlson’s Conservatism Inc. Biden Steal Betrayal is explained by “One of the Greatest Columns ever Written” according to Rush: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/tucker-carlsons-conservatism-inc-biden.html?m=1 – A Hour which will Live in Infamy: 10:01pm November 3, 2020: 
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1 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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^{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)

Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said “the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church.”
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]

– “If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html

– “Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.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.

Election Notes: 

– Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: “212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted…Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden” [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]

– Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times “Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html– Tucker Carlson’s Conservatism Inc. Biden Steal Betrayal is explained by “One of the Greatest Columns ever Written” according to Rush: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/tucker-carlsons-conservatism-inc-biden.html?m=1 – A Hour which will Live in Infamy: 10:01pm November 3, 2020: 
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1 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. 

THE CATHOLIC MONITOR

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Could Pope Benedict XVI “Resign Solely for Reasons of Age”? 

October 08, 2021

Antonio Socci in his book shows evidence that Pope Benedict XVI might not have been able to “resign solely for reasons of age.”

Benedict’s resignation said:

“[B]oth strength of mind and body… has deteriorated… I have had to recognize my incapacity… For this reason I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, successor of Saint Peter.”

“An authoritative canonist, Cardinal Vincent Faggioli” under John Paul II wrote:

“[I]n an exhaustive and absolute way, the pope may not resign solely for reasons of age.”

(The Secret of Benedict XVI, Pages 67-76)

^{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)

Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said “the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church.”
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– “If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html

– “Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.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.

Election Notes: 

– Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: “212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted…Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden” [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]

– Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times “Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html– Tucker Carlson’s Conservatism Inc. Biden Steal Betrayal is explained by “One of the Greatest Columns ever Written” according to Rush: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/tucker-carlsons-conservatism-inc-biden.html?m=1 – A Hour which will Live in Infamy: 10:01pm November 3, 2020: 
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1 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. 

VIDEO ARCHIVE: DOCTORS EXPLAIN WHY VACCINES ARE NEITHER SAFE NOR EFFECTIVE

OCTOBER 5, 2021 EDITOR LEAVE A COMMENT

1. Dr. Nancy Banks – http://bit.ly/1Ip0aIm
2. Dr. Russell Blaylock – http://bit.ly/1BXxQZL
3. Dr. Shiv Chopra – http://bit.ly/1gdgh1s
4. Dr. Sherri Tenpenny – http://bit.ly/1MPVbjx
5. Dr. Suzanne Humphries – http://bit.ly/17sKDbf
6. Dr. Larry Palevsky – http://bit.ly/1LLEjf6
7. Dr. Toni Bark – http://bit.ly/1CYM9RB
8. Dr. Andrew Wakefield – http://bit.ly/1MuyNzo
9. Dr. Meryl Nass – http://bit.ly/1DGzJsc
10. Dr. Raymond Obomsawin – http://bit.ly/1G9ZXYl
11. Dr. Ghislaine Lanctot – http://bit.ly/1MrVeUL
12. Dr. Robert Rowen – http://bit.ly/1SIELeF
13. Dr. David Ayoub – http://bit.ly/1SIELve
14. Dr. Boyd Haley PhD – http://bit.ly/1KsdVby
15. Dr. Rashid Buttar – http://bit.ly/1gWOkL6
16. Dr. Roby Mitchell – http://bit.ly/1gdgEZU
17. Dr. Ken Stoller – http://bit.ly/1MPVqLI
18. Dr. Mayer Eisenstein – http://bit.ly/1LLEqHH
19. Dr. Frank Engley, PhD – http://bit.ly/1OHbLDI
20. Dr. David Davis – http://bit.ly/1gdgJwo
21. Dr Tetyana Obukhanych – http://bit.ly/16Z7k6J
22. Dr. Harold E Buttram – http://bit.ly/1Kru6Df
23. Dr. Kelly Brogan – http://bit.ly/1D31pfQ
24. Dr. RC Tent – http://bit.ly/1MPVwmu
25. Dr. Rebecca Carley – http://bit.ly/K49F4d
26. Dr. Andrew Moulden – http://bit.ly/1fwzKJu
27. Dr. Jack Wolfson – http://bit.ly/1wtPHRA
28. Dr. Michael Elice – http://bit.ly/1KsdpKA
29. Dr. Terry Wahls – http://bit.ly/1gWOBhd
30. Dr. Stephanie Seneff – http://bit.ly/1OtWxAY
31. Dr. Paul Thomas – http://bit.ly/1DpeXPf
32. Many doctors talking at once – http://bit.ly/1MPVHOv
33. Dr. Richard Moskowitz – censored
34. Dr. Jane Orient – http://bit.ly/1MXX7pb
35. Dr. Richard Deth – http://bit.ly/1GQDL10
36. Dr. Lucija Tomljenovic – http://bit.ly/1eqiPr5
37. Dr Chris Shaw – http://bit.ly/1IlGiBp
38. Dr. Susan McCreadie – http://bit.ly/1CqqN83
39. Dr. Mary Ann Block – http://bit.ly/1OHcyUX
40. Dr. David Brownstein – http://bit.ly/1EaHl9A
41. Dr. Jayne Donegan – http://bit.ly/1wOk4Zz
42. Dr. Troy Ross – censored
43. Dr. Philip Incao – http://bit.ly/1ghE7sS
44. Dr. Joseph Mercola – http://bit.ly/18dE38I
45. Dr. Jeff Bradstreet – http://bit.ly/1MaX0cC
46. Dr. Robert Mendelson – http://bit.ly/1JpAEQr
47. Dr Theresa Deisher https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=6Bc6WX33SuE
48. Dr. Sam Eggertsen- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8LB-3xkeDAE

DOCUMENTARIES ON THE DANGER OF VACCINES 

1. Vaccination – The Silent Epidemic (2013)

http://bit.ly/1vvQJ2W

2. The Greater Good – (2011)

3. Shots In The Dark -(2009)

http://bit.ly/1ObtC8h

4. Vaccination The Hidden Truth (1998)

http://bit.ly/KEYDUh

5. Vaccine Nation – (2008) https://youtu.be/bLk641P8CE4

6. Vaccination – The Truth About Vaccines

http://bit.ly/1vlpwvU

7. Lethal Injection

http://bit.ly/1URN7BJ

8. Bought – (2015)

1) https://youtu.be/HrgkKREhQrs

2) https://youtu.be/_9nre8AMe5I

9. Deadly Immunity – (2005)

http://bit.ly/1KUg64Z

10. Autism – Made in the USA(2009)

http://bit.ly/1J8WQN5

11. Beyond Treason – (2005)

http://bit.ly/1B7kmvt

12. Trace Amounts – (2014)

http://bit.ly/1vAH3Hv

13. Why We Don’t Vaccinate

NEWS

THE PFIZER 3RD BOOSTER IS MERELY ANOTHER DOSE OF THE PFIZER DEATHVAXX

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America and ‘The Dying Citizen’

Have we earned what those who died at Gettysburg

or on Omaha Beach bequeathed at such costs?

By: Victor Davis Hanson

The Patriot Post

October 7, 2021

(Emphasis added)

Only a little more than half of the current world’s 7 billion people are citizens of fully consensual governments.

That lucky 50 percent alone enjoys constitutionally protected freedoms. Most are also Western. Or at least they reside in nations that have become “Westernized.”

Migrants, regardless of their race, religion or gender, almost always head for a Western nation. And most often their destination remains the United States. The more it is now fashionable for Americans to take for granted or even to ridicule the idea of their own country, the more the non-American global poor risk their lives to crash America’s borders.

Constitutional systems easily perish because they ask a lot of their citizens — to vote, to be informed about civic and political issues, and to hold elected officials accountable. That responsibility is perhaps why, of the world’s true republics and democracies, only about 22 have been in existence for a half-century or more. We are seldom told, then, that America is a rare, precious and perhaps even fragile idea, both in the past and in the present.

American citizens are clearly also not the custom of the past. Unlike history’s more common peasants, citizens are not under the control of the rich who, in turn, seek undue influence in government through controlling them.

Instead, viable citizenship has always hinged on a broad, autonomous middle class. Those Americans in between lack both the dependence of the poor and the insider influences of the elite. Suffocate the middle and we know that a binary feudalism will soon replace it. We are seeing just that medievalization in contemporary California.

Nor are American citizens mere migratory residents who drift across nonexistent borders in expectation of receiving more rights than meeting responsibilities. Forfeit a sacred national space, a place where common customs, language, and traditions can shelter and thrive, and a unique America disappears into a pre-civilizational migratory void like the fluid vastness of late imperial Rome.

Americans are quite different from tribal peoples, whose first loyalties are determined by mere appearance or innate blood ties. Take this nation back to pre-civilizational tribalism, and our future as the next Yugoslavia, Rwanda or Iraq is assured.

Americans are not, then, premodern peasants, mere residents, and squabbling tribes — at least not quite yet.

But citizens also are equally suspicious and rightfully distrustful of the top-down subversion of citizenship by postmodern elites and the privileged. The latter often expect Americans to give up their ancient freedoms to a vast, unelected, and unaudited permanent administrative state, to be run by credentialed functionaries and sanctioned “experts.” That technocratic regimentation may now be the Chinese model, but it was never the vision of our founders.

Citizens object to “evolving” a 245-year-old republic into a radical socialist ochlocracy without checks and balances. That rebooting would mean scrapping ancient laws, long-held customs, and hallowed traditions — from the Electoral College and a nine-person Supreme Court to the Senate filibuster and 50-state union. Consensual societies usually implode when desperate factions resort to subverting hallowed rules for short-term partisan gain.

Some elites believe the Founders’ Constitution is in dire need of radical deletions and alterations to fit their own utopian visions. So, they imagine an evolving Constitution to synchronize with supposedly a fluid, mutable — and always progressing — human nature. They are ignorant that the core of the Constitution does not change because our own natural, core sense of right and wrong does not either.

Nor do citizens hand over their first allegiances to an abstract worldwide commonwealth — as if half of its membership are not illiberal theocracies, autocracies and monarchies. Such a tired “citizens of the world” dream dates to Socratic utopianism.

Yet neither the defunct League of Nations nor the United Nations has ever offered any credible blueprint for viable transnational governance. Today’s globalists at Davos may snicker at nationalist democracies like the United States and Israel, but in cowardly fashion they usually appease a totalitarian and brutal Communist China that allows no dissent.

Given our privileges, affluent and leisured Americans must always ask ourselves whether as citizens we have earned what those who died at Gettysburg or on Omaha Beach bequeathed at such costs.

Refusing to stand during the national anthem is not and should not be illegal. But such blanket rejection of American customs is admittedly now a collective narcissistic tic — and hardly sustainable for the nation’s privileged to sit in disgust for a flag that their betters raised under fire on Iwo Jima for others not yet born. Sometimes citizens can do as much harm to their commonwealth by violating customs and traditions as by breaking laws.

Instead, freedom requires constant reinvestment in and replenishment of a nation’s traditions and ideals. Self-criticism of one’s country is salutary to ensure needed changes, but only if Americans accept that an innately self-correcting United States does not have to be perfect to be good — and especially when, in a world of innately flawed humans and failed states, it remains far better than any of the alternatives abroad. 

  “In other words, those who are vaccinated are a threat to the unvaccinated, not the other way around.”     That the hierarchy has been misled in this regard by a small but powerful sector in the global medical complex is unfortunate

    “I would be scared to feel more important, you know? That I am scared of, because the devil’s cunning, eh? He’s cunning and he makes you feel like you are in power, that you can do this and that… but like St. Peter says, the devil prowls around like a roaring lion. Thank God I haven’t lost that yet, have I? And if you ever see that I have please tell me; tell me; and if you can’t tell me in private, tell me in public, but tell me: ‘Look, you should change! Because it’s obvious isn’t it?'” —Pope Francis, on September 17, 2013, speaking to the priests of Rome (link). This was eight years ago, just six months after his election as Pope on March 13, 2013. It was also just four days before the 60th anniversary of his vocation to the priesthood, which came in a church in Buenos Aires on September 21, 1953, when he was 16 years old. Francis was ordained a priest on December 13, 1969, just four days before his 33rd birthday. His vocation dates back to 21 September 1953, the Feast of St. Matthew, the tax collector converted by Jesus: it was during a confession that day, that the future Pope had a profound experience of God’s mercy (link)    ”8 Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the Gospel by the power of God, 9 who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, 10 and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel, 11 for which I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher, 12 which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me. 13 Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. 14 By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.” —St. Paul, Second Letter to Timothy, 1:8-14        “O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you…” —St. Paul, Second Letter to Timothy, 1:14    “For I know whom I have believed.” —The episcopal motto of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, “Scio cui credidi“) (“I know whom I have believed”)    ***    Letter #130, 2021, Thursday, October 7: Letter    Feast of the Most Holy Rosary    ***    “Tell me: ‘Look, you should change!'” —Pope Francis, speaking to the priests of Rome on September 17, 2013    Today’s letter contains a moving open letter to all the bishops of the Catholic Church written by my old friend, Mark Mallett, a Canadian Catholic, father, musician and theologian whom I much admire. (see below for the complete text of this important letter) (link)    ***    It is our tradition as Catholics to defend the depositum fidei (“the deposit of the faith”), as Pope Pius XII in 1954 urged Archbishop Giovanni Maria Montini (who later became Pope Paul VI and is now St. Paul VI).     Pius urged Montini to “guard the deposit of the faith” when he met with Montini after naming him the archbishop of Milan (as the wise Bishop Eric Varden of Trondheim, Norway, wrote in the reflection that I sent out in my Letter #129 yesterday).    The faithful are faithful because they hold fast to the deposit of the faith once handed down.    They are not “rigid” because they hold fast to the faith.    They are, precisely, steady, resilient, loyal, faithful.    ***    The faithful believe and hand down what has been handed down from the beginning: that the Church is the Church of Jesus Christ, instituted by Him to carry forward His Presence in the world until the end of time.    ***    Part of that faith is that Jesus entrusted the leadership and guidance and governance of the Church to Peter, the Prince of the Apostles.    On the night Jesus was arrested, Peter denied even knowing Him.    He denied knowing him three times in a brief time.    Then, when the cock crowed as dawn neared and Peter realized what a coward he had been, and that Jesus had known he would be such a coward, Peter “wept bitter tears.” (Luke 22:62)    ***    It is also part of our faith that Christians remain loyal to Peter as to a father.    They remain faithful to Peter by remaining faithful to the “depositum fidei” that it is Peter‘s principal task to defend.    They show this fidelity by encouraging Peter, by supporting Peter, in every time and every season of faith, to be Peter, and so to defend the faithful by defending the faith, which has always been the precious treasure that Christians have been willing to die for…    Willing to die for because the faith is the promise and pledge of God’s enduring, eternal love and blessing, even when that love and blessing seems invisible to the human eye.    The faith is the hope of the promise, the guarantee of eternal life, and as such the faith is more important than earthly, physical life itself… though earthly, physical life is very precious to God, and gives glory to God, especially and particularly when animated by and oriented toward the vision of God, as St. Irenaeus taught is 180 A.D. in Lyons in Gaul: “For the glory of God is man alive, but the life of man is the vision of God.”    The following poetic, spiritual verses are attributed to St. Irenaeus (link):    It is not you that shapes God    it is God that shapes you.    If you are the work of God    await the hand of the artist    who does all things in due season.    Offer Him your heart,    soft and tractable,    and keep the form    in which the artist has fashioned you.    Let your clay be moist,    lest you grow hard    and lose the imprint of his fingers.     —attributed to St. Irenaeus    For all these reasons, we feel it important, and fitting, to publish below the brave, timely and precious letter by Mark Mallet, which is a true cry from his heart, especially for the children of the whole world.—RM    

    Letter from a Reader    Good Evening Dr. Moynihan,    You may have already seen this piece by Mark Mallett.    It was released a few months ago. As time has marched forward this informative letter appears all the more relevant.    See what you think.    Very Grateful,    Charlene Shoen    ***    I wrote to Mark to ask if I might publish his letter.     He replied: “Yes, absolutely brother Bob. Thanks for spreading the word. Here is the most up to date version: link. How is it that Archbishop Viganò is one of the few prelates to warn the Church? Has the entire episcopacy fallen asleep? This is so hard to see…

    Open Letter to the Catholic Bishops of the World (link)    by Mark Mallett    September 27, 2021    ”Christ’s faithful are at liberty to make known their needs,especially their spiritual needs, and their wishes to the Pastors of the Church. They have the right, indeed at times the duty, in keeping with their knowledge, competence and position, to manifest to the sacred Pastors their views on matters which concern the good of the Church.     “They have the right also to make their views known to others of Christ’s faithful, but in doing so they must always respect the integrity of faith and morals, show due reverence to their Pastors, and take into account both the common good and dignity of individuals.”    —The Code of Canon Law, 212

    September 27, 2021    Dear Catholic Bishops,    After a year and a half of living in a state of “pandemic,” I am compelled by the undeniable scientific data and testimony of individuals, scientists, and doctors to beg the hierarchy of the Catholic Church to reconsider its widespread support for “public health measures” that are, in fact, gravely endangering public health.     As society is being divided between the “vaccinated” and “unvaccinated” — with the latter suffering everything from exclusion from society to the loss of income and livelihood — it is shocking to see some shepherds of the Catholic Church encouraging this new medical apartheid.     There are seven basic premises the Church has apparently accepted as scientific facts that are, in fact, pseudo-science at best.    I will address each of these below.     Although I am presently a lay evangelist within the Church, my professional background is a former television reporter with CTV Edmonton in Canada.    As such, I have returned to my journalistic roots of late in hopes of piercing through the intense censorship and cancel-culture that has deprived the faithful and world at large of critical information that is a matter of life and death — a matter indeed of “the common good.”     The American novelist Upton Sinclair once penned, “It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.”    ***    Before I address these seven premises, there is one underlying theme that has been accepted by society at large that has done tremendous damage.    And that is the novel idea that a perfectly healthy person is somehow a viral threat.    Dr. Peter McCullough, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, is probably the foremost expert in the world today on the pandemic response and the most cited doctor in the National Library of Medicine. He stated recently:    The virus is not spread asymptomatically. Only sick people give it to other people. —September 20th, 2021; interview, Gab TV, 6:32    One of the world’s most renowned immunologists agrees:    …it was the crowning of stupidity to claim that someone could have COVID-19 without any symptoms at all or even to pass the disease along without showing any symptoms whatsoever. —Professor Beda M. Stadler, PhD, former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern in Switzerland; Weltwoche (World Week) on June 8th, 2020; cf. worldhealth.net    The former Vice President and a Chief Scientist of vaccine manufacturer Pfizer, no less, flatly states that such a premise is a complete fabrication.     Asymptomatic transmission: the concept a perfectly well person can represent a respiratory virus threat to another person; that was invented about a year ago — never been mentioned before in the industry… It’s not possible to have a body full of respiratory virus to the point that you’re an infectious source and for you not to have symptoms… It’s not true that people without symptoms are a strong respiratory virus threat. —Dr. Mike Yeadon, April 11th, 2021, interview on The Last American Vagabond    Recent studies confirm that asymptomatic transmission is simply rare if ever.     Hence it follows that masking the healthy, social distancing, and locking down entire healthy populations rather than focused health protocols and quarantining the sick, have little basis in science.    The PCR test, used globally to determine whether someone has COVID, has produced so many “false-positives” — over 90% according to the New York Times — that it has been condemned by several European courts and has been called “criminal” by several leading scientists.     Even the CDC finally admitted recently that the test cannot differentiate between seasonal influenza and the COVID virus.     Combining over a thousand hours in research, I have addressed this astonishing departure from science in a new documentary called Following the Science?     Not long ago, Pope Francis stated:    I believe that ethically everyone must take the vaccine. It is the ethical choice because it is about your life but also the lives of others. I do not understand why some say that this could be a dangerous vaccine. If the doctors are presenting this to you as a thing that will go well and doesn’t have any special dangers, why not take it? There is a suicidal denialism that I would not know how to explain, but today, people must take the vaccine. —Pope Francis, interview for Italy’s TG5 news program, January 19th, 2021; ncronline.com    Unfortunately, this statement, which is refuted by the emerging data, is the very basis for allowing not only segregation to return en masse within society but has potentially led to the injury and deaths of scores, as I’ll explain.    I write this letter most especially in the name of all the priests and laity who have reached out to me, pressured by their bishops to participate in a medical programme that violates their conscience…    ***    Premise I: This is a vaccine    The first premise the Church is apparently operating from is that this is a “vaccine.”    It is no little thing that the mRNA injections are not vaccines in any traditional sense.    According to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it is a “gene therapy”.     Currently, mRNA is considered a gene therapy product by the FDA. —Moderna’s Registration Statement, pg. 19, sec.gov    This is a technology that has never made it to market after nearly twenty years of research because of its lethality in animal trials.     It only found “emergency authorization use” during this current declared pandemic.     Why is this important?     There are no long-term studies of this current “vaccine,” a process which normally takes 10-15 years before being mass distributed.    Second, the clinical trials of these mRNA injections are not slated for completion until 2023.     This means all the trial and safety data are still being collected while the product is being injected into millions of arms.    This, by very definition, makes this an experimental injection.     This has been confirmed by Moderna.    The CEO of Moderna admits that this technology is “actually hacking the software of life.”     There are concerns it can, in fact, alter human DNA.     It is startling, then, that the Church has seemingly thrown her support behind a completely novel, untested technology with radical potential for misuse.    The Catechism of the Catholic Church is clear:    Research or experimentation on the human being cannot legitimate acts that are in themselves contrary to the dignity of persons and to the moral law. The subjects’ potential consent does not justify such acts. Experimentation on human beings is not morally legitimate if it exposes the subject’s life or physical and psychological integrity to disproportionate or avoidable risks. Experimentation on human beings does not conform to the dignity of the person if it takes place without the informed consent of the subject or those who legitimately speak for him. —Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 2295    ***    Premise II: Ethically everyone must take this “vaccine”    Since the mRNA gene therapies are experimental, any coercion or “mandate” to force someone to be injected with this technology is a direct violation of Catholic teaching as well as the Nuremberg Code.    This Code was developed in 1947 to protect patients from medical experimentation, stating as its first declaration that “the voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.”     Hence, the Holy Father’s statement that “that ethically everyone must take the vaccine” is in conflict with this basic principle of international ethics.    Second, it is in contradiction with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s own guidelines:    At the same time, practical reason makes evident that vaccination is not, as a rule, a moral obligation and that, therefore, it must be voluntary. — “Note on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines”, n. 6; vatican.va    Hence, it is deeply troubling to have seen your fellow Bishop in Moncton, New Brunswick briefly threaten to withhold the sacraments from those not “doubly vaccinated.” (link)    However, we understand this may already be the case in Malaysia.     Nonetheless, it is clear that several bishops and cardinals are forcing their diocesan staff to be injected — or face possible termination, which is tantamount to violating the “voluntary consent of the human subject.”    ***    Premise III: The “vaccine” doesn’t have any “special dangers”    In the CDF’s guidelines, it explicitly states:    We do not intend to judge the safety and efficacy of these vaccines, although ethically relevant and necessary, as this evaluation is the responsibility of biomedical researchers and drug agencies. —n. 1, vatican.va    A year and a half into the pandemic and many months into an unprecedented “mass vaccination” of the global population, there is enough data to contradict the Pope’s surprising disclaimer.    For one, the animal trials from the very beginning were already a “signal” of potential “special dangers” with this therapy.     However, now that we are well into the human trials, the early data reveals an unprecedented and disturbing picture.    In the United States, VAERS (the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System) established to collect information on vaccine injuries, reveals that 15,386 people have reportedly died after receiving the injection as of September 17th this year; 20,789 have been permanently injured; and over 800,000 have reported some kind of adverse reaction varying in severity.     For perspective, Dr. Peter McCullough, who has chaired drug data safety monitoring boards, notes that:    A typical new drug at about five deaths, unexplained deaths, we get a black-box warning, saying it may cause death. And then at about 50 deaths it’s pulled off the market. —interview with Alex Newman, The New American, April 27th, 2021    During the 1976 Swine Flu pandemic, they attempted to vaccinate 55 million Americans, but the drive was suddenly dropped.    “The program was killed at 25 deaths,” says Dr. McCullough.     On July 16, 1999, the CDC recommended that healthcare providers suspend the use of the licensed RotaShield – a rotavirus vaccine – after only 15 cases of intussusception (bowel obstruction) were reported in VAERS.    Moreover, Dr. McCullough notes a Harvard study that found only about 1% of actual adverse reactions are reported to VAERS.     That means the aforementioned injuries and deaths may be exponentially higher.    Finally, Dr. McCullough himself states:    We have independent evaluations suggesting 86% [of deaths] is related to the vaccine [and] is far beyond anything that is acceptable… It’s going to go down in history as the most dangerous biological-medicinal product rollout in human history. —July 21st, 2021, Stew Peters Show, rumble.com at 17:38    By contrast, in Europe, the official database EudraVigilance reports that, as of September 25th, 2021, some 26,401 deaths have occurred after injection, and over 2.4 million have been injured.     And the WHO’s database using the search term “COVID-19 vaccine” returns over 2 million injuries.     This is extraordinary, and why Dr. McCullough has called for an immediate stop to the drug programme.    In fact, Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of mRNA technology, has recently signed the Physician’s Declarationalong with over 10,000 other doctors and scientists, accusing COVID policy-makers of potential “crimes against humanity.”     The reason for the injuries and deaths has been ascertained and discussed now by numerous high-level scientists (see footnote).    In a pointed address to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, MD, who has published over three hundred articles in the fields of immunology, bacteriology, virology, and parasitology, and received numerous awards and the Order of Merit of Rhineland-Palatinate, stated:    Don’t you know of the dangers of these vaccines? If so, why not? It’s your damn duty to find out. Same with the authorities; same, by the way, with the BBC — once the Great British Broadcasting Corporation… Now Boris’ or Bill [Gates’] Broadcasting Corporation. Shame on you, shame on you. —Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, MD; Oracle Films, rumble.com    If bishops are going to mandate that their staff and priests are to be injected against their consciences, and remain silent while thousands of their parishioners are fired from their jobs in health care and elsewhere… it would seem there is a moral obligation, at a bare minimum, for dioceses to have reviewed the safety data first.     ***    Premise IV: There is no alternative    The CDF states:    Those who, however, for reasons of conscience, refuse vaccines produced with cell lines from aborted fetuses, must do their utmost to avoid, by other prophylactic means and appropriate behavior, becoming vehicles for the transmission of the infectious agent. —Ibid. n. 5    Since the injections being used in this mass “vaccination” campaign utilized aborted fetal cell lines in order to develop them, the CDF gave specific guidelines as to when they would be permissible, if at all.    Among other things, the “Note on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines” states:    In the absence of other means to stop or even prevent the epidemic, the common good may recommend vaccination, especially to protect the weakest and most exposed. —n. 5, vatican.va    This study, for instance, concluded: “Meta-analyses based on 18 randomized controlled treatment trials of Ivermectin in COVID-19, have found large, statistically significant reductions in mortality, time to clinical recovery, and time to viral clearance. Furthermore, results from numerous controlled prophylaxis trials report significantly reduced risks of contracting COVID-19 with the regular use of Ivermectin.”     In fact, one of that study’s authors testified before a US Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing:    Mountains of data have emerged from many centers and countries around the world, showing the miraculous effectiveness of Ivermectin. It basically obliterates transmission of this virus. If you take it, you will not get sick. —Dr. Pierre Kory, M.D., December 8th, 2020; cnsnews.com    The Nobel Prize nominee Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, MD, an advisor to several governments and published in top peer-reviewed journals, reports a “99% survival of high-risk Covid-19 patients” by placing them on similar protocols utilizing the “Nobel prize-honoured” Ivermectin or Quercetin to deliver zinc to cells to combat the viral proteins.     In his address to the UK government, Dr. Sucharit declares:    The truth is there are excellent medicines: safe, efficacious, cheap — that, as Dr. Peter McCullough has been saying for months now, will save the lives of 75% of the elderly with pre-existing disease, and that reduces the lethality of this virus to below the flu. —Oracle films; :01 mark; rumble.com    Hence, the moral argument for taking these abortion-tainted injections completely falls apart.    Moreover, that these life-saving remedies are being censored should cause a collective outcry from all quarters of the Church as family members, religious and priests are unnecessarily dying and Intensive Care Units (ICU’s) unnecessarily strained!     ***    Premise V: Vaccination is the only valid means of building “immunity”    In 2020, the World Health Organization quietly but significantly changed the definition of “herd immunity”:    ‘Herd immunity’, also known as ‘population immunity’, is a concept used for vaccination, in which a population can be protected from a certain virus if a threshold of vaccination is reached. Herd immunity is achieved by protecting people from a virus, not by exposing them to it. —October 15th, 2020; who.int    That monumental statement, which omits for the first time “natural” infection, should have raised a loud and uniform protest among Catholic ethicists and scientists (but perhaps the censorship is simply too great, and they are unaware…?).    Nonetheless, this definition strikes at the very heart of God’s creation, suggesting that man’s natural immunity is somehow now useless, and that every man, woman and child must henceforth be injected when, how, and with what the government dictates.    This is flagrantly anti-science and the very definition of medical tyranny.     On the contrary, Harvard Professor Dr. Martin Kulldorff, PhD, states:    What we know is that if you have had COVID, you have very good immunity — not only for the same variant, but also for other variants. And even for other types, cross-immunity, for other types of coronaviruses.—Dr. Martin Kulldorff, August 10th, 2021, Epoch Times    And Dr. McCullough declares:    You can’t beat natural immunity. You can’t vaccinate on top of it and make it better. —Dr. Peter McCullough, March 10th, 2021; cf. documentary Following the Science?    He cites new data out of the United Kingdom that shows “nine out of every 10 people in the United Kingdom between the ages of 16 and 24 already have antibodies to protect themselves against the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19)… According to the estimates, 86.9 percent of young people in Wales have COVID-19 antibodies. In Northern Ireland, the number is 87.2 percent. In Scotland and England, this number increases slightly to 88.7 percent. The presence of coronavirus antibodies among such a high percentage of young people all over the U.K. suggests that many have already been infected by COVID-19 and have recovered from it… In Mumbai, India, nearly 90 percent of the residents of the city already have COVID-19 antibodies, according to a survey that was just released on Friday.”    However, with several bishops and even cardinals beginning to push “vaccine mandates,” it seems this basic fact of Creation and foundational tenet of immunology is being ignored, even by the Church.    In fact, one Archbishop went so far as to declare: “If you don’t want to be vaccinated, you are actually a sinner because you will become a source of the disease for other people.”     This is so far from actual science, so distant from any sound medical or moral argument, that such statements are scandalous, embarrassing, and causing more division and demonization of perfectly healthy and immune people.    Says one Canadian priest, thankfully:    One thing I do know is that we cannot participate in any enforcement by government of any marking system that identifies clean and unclean, leper and non-leper, vaccinated or non-vaccinated; to do that would be for us to surrender to the powers of this world, that which only rests with God… This vaccine passport for entrance into the worship of God. I don’t ask people when they come for communion if they’re in a state of grace. And brothers and sisters, in terms of eternity, that is much more important than the condition of their body. That will never happen in this church, ever. —Fr. Stefano Penna, St. Paul’s Co-Cathedral, Saskatoon, Canada; Sept. 19th, 2021; lifesitenews.com    It should be well-noted that the “deniers,” as Pope Francis sadly called some of his own Cardinals who are “vaccine-hesitant”, are not uneducated, selfish holdouts.    Rather, a recent study found that the most “vaccine-hesitant” are those with PhD’s.     How does belittling, mocking, and disparaging those who, based on their careful research and an informed decision to refuse forced injection, advance any kind of “human” cause?    Does the Church no longer believe in the precept of “informed conscience”?    Moreover, a stunning irony emerges in that the mRNA injections do not and never were designed to prevent the transmission of the virus.     The studies [on the mRNA inoculations] aren’t designed to assess transmission. They don’t ask that question, and there’s really no information on this at this point in time. —Dr. Larry Corey oversees the National Institutes of Health (NIH) COVID-19 “vaccine” trials; November 20th, 2020; medscape.com; cf. primarydoctor.org/covidvaccine    They were tested with an outcome of severe disease — not preventing infection. —U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, Good Morning America, December 14th, 2020; dailymail.co.uk    On May 19th, 2021, the Canadian government’s documentation likewise stated:    So far we have not been presented with evidence of vaccine effectiveness to prevent transmission… — “Privacy and COVID-19 Vaccine Passports”, priv.gc.ca    Hence, these are classic “leaky vaccines,” meaning they remove the evolutionary pressure on the virus to become less lethal.    As such, it means the vaccinated have become perfect carriers of the virus.     “In other words, those who are vaccinated are a threat to the unvaccinated, not the other way around.”     That the hierarchy has been misled in this regard by a small but powerful sector in the global medical complex is unfortunate.    In fact, data rolling in from countries around the world, most notably the most vaccinated countries of Israel, the UK, Bermuda, etc. all show that it is the “vaccinated” who are spreading the virus the most.     If there is any doubt remaining, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walenskyrecently admitted to CNN that the injections simply no longer “prevent transmission” (which we were told from the beginning that they never did).    So why are politicians and some Catholic bishops demonizing healthy, unvaccinated individuals when those who are “vaccinated” are likely spreading the virus in their parishes and communities anyway?    ***    Premise VI: COVID-19 is the most pressing health issue    The disease COVID-19 caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2 can be a serious infection for certain people.    According to the CDC, the survival rate for those under 50 years of age is 99.5%. Children are more at risk of dying from seasonal influenza than COVID-19.     Dr. Robert Malone states, “the risk associated with this disease is not uniformly distributed” but is “almost exclusively in the very old and obese, and others with certain preexisting risk factors.”     So while this is a more serious virus for those in high-risk categories, it has proven not to be so for the general population.     However, the obsession of governments with COVID-19 alone, with the endorsement of the Church at the highest level, has created a horrendous gulf of suffering and injustice elsewhere.    Two United Nations agencies have warned that the unprecedented lockdown of healthy populations could lead to a “doubling of world poverty” and a further “135 million” to starve to death.    It is a tragic irony that while our Church leaders are calling for equal distribution of these “vaccines,” the very lockdowns intended to “protect” the poor are killing them.    And what about those losing their businesses and livelihoods due to prolonged lockdowns?     What about those thousands who are dying because of delayed surgeries?     What about the skyrocketing mental health issues and potential explosion of suicides?     What about the deaths through a pandemic of drug abuse?     And what about those being forced from their jobs in this medical apartheid?     David Redman, a former head of the Alberta Emergency Management Agency, writes:    The Canadian “lockdown” response will kill at least 10 times more than it might have saved from the actual virus, COVID-19. The unconscionable use of fear during an emergency, to ensure compliance, has caused a breach in confidence in government that will last a decade or more. The damage to our democracy will last at least a generation. —July 2021, page 5, “Canada’s Deadly Response to COVID-19”    And your fellow bishop, French prelate Marc Aillet warned:    …man is “one in body and soul,” it is not right to turn physical health into an absolute value to the point of sacrificing the psychological and spiritual health of citizens, and in particular to deprive them of freely practicing their religion, which experience proves to be essential for their equilibrium. Fear is not a good counsellor: it leads to ill-advised attitudes, it sets people against one another, it generates a climate of tension and even violence. We may well be on the verge of an explosion! —Bishop Marc Aillet for the diocesan magazine Notre Eglise (“Our Church”), December 2020; countdowntothekingdom.com    ***    Premise VII: A “vaccine passport” is a “health” tool    Scientists around the globe, including the former Vice President of Pfizer, Dr. Mike Yeadon, are warning that vaccine passports are the end of freedom as we know it.    That the Vatican has now adopted such a tool is itself a scandal as it deliberately excludes perfectly healthy people, many who are naturally immune, from participating in society.    Already in France and in Columbia, some people have been blocked from buying groceries.     Two doctors in Alberta, Canada are calling for all unvaccinated to lose employment, potentially casting thousands of families into destitution.     Italy has already suspended all unvaccinated workers without pay.     Such medical apartheid is a horrifying spectre spreading across the world, creating new forms of discrimination, injustice and hardship.    Here, the prescient words of Benedict XVI are already upon us — that an “act of love,” which is what Pope Francis calls taking this experimental injection, must always be rooted in truth, otherwise:    …without the guidance of charity in truth, this global force could cause unprecedented damage and create new divisions within the human family. —Caritas in Veritate, n. 33    That the Vatican is “setting the example” by initiating so-called “green passports” is grievous when all things are considered, and inexcusable to those scientists who are warning of the grave risks to medical and human freedom with such an unnecessary surveillance system:     Just take it from me, you don’t need vaccine passports. They provide nothing whatsoever to you or anyone else in relation to safety. But it will give away, to whoever controls that database and the rules, complete control over everything you do. —Dr. Mike Yeadon, from Following the Science? 58:31 mark    If they ever come to be, then it’s goodnight to society, goodnight to science, goodnight to humanity. — Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, Ibid.; 58:48    I can’t say it more forcefully enough, this is literally the end of human liberty in the West if this plan unfolds as planned. —Dr. Naomi Wolfe, Ibid.; 59:04    ***    “Censorship, control and manipulation have prevailed”    In the Encyclical letter Laudato ‘si, Pope Francis stated: “The Church does not presume to settle scientific questions or to replace politics. But I am concerned to encourage an honest and open debate so that particular interests or ideologies will not prejudice the common good.”(link)     It should be clear now that neither honest nor open debate, nor freedom from particular interests or ideologies, has marked this pandemic.    Rather, censorship, control, and manipulation have prevailed as thousands of scientists, doctors and health care workers have been threatened, de-platformed, or dismissed for sharing the very data that you have just read.    That the Church is a party to this by virtue of her silence and/or complicit agreement, is not only grievous to many of us but the cost can literally be counted in lost and destroyed lives.    Please, Dear Shepherds, reject this new holocaust in the name of truth and science.     Your servant in Christ,    Mark Mallett    September 27th, 2021

The Dark Side Of Indigenous Peoples October 8, 2021 Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the dark side of Indigenous peoples: Serious historians know that when it comes to war, different parties to the conflict have had different motives, ranging from the just to the unjust. They also know that it is a rare occasion when all sides are equally innocent or guilty. To be sure, some may be more aggressive, but it is a mistake to assume that had the vanquished been in possession of the means to do so, they would not have been as vicious as the victors. Not all the losers in war were noble. This needs to be said in light of what is now fashionable every October—Columbus bashing is all the rage. Just as bad, some promote the idea that virtually all the Indians were kindly souls who respected the land and treated each other with dignity. This is a romantic fairy tale having no basis in history. The truth is that some were gentle while others were brutal.  It is also part of the conventional wisdom that almost all the Indians were massacred by the white man. Wrong. Historian William D. Rubinstein, in his book, Genocide, writes that “recent historians sympathetic to the plight of the American Indians at the hands of European settlers from 1492 onwards have repeatedly noted that while 95 percent of Indians living in the Americas perished (according to those historians) over the century or so after the coming of the white man, most of this diminution in population occurred through such factors as the importation of virulent diseases previously unknown in the Americas, the destruction of settled life-styles, enslavement, and the psychological effects of conquest rather than through overt murders and slaughters, although plenty of these took place.” On the flip side, we have some commentators who want to portray the Indians as savages who never contributed to America’s greatness. They, too, are wrong. The Indians served with distinction in World War I and World War II. Indeed, during World War I they enlisted in the Army in greater numbers, proportionally, than non-Indians. In World War II, tribes with strong warrior traditions volunteered, again with “disproportionate numbers.” Before detailing the dark side of Indigenous peoples, as a corrective to the prevailing notion that only the white man acted unjustly, it is important to note that the term “Indigenous” is misleading. The Indians were immigrants who came here from Asia. In “prehistoric times,” they “crossed the land bridge across the Bering Strait to the lands of the Western Hemisphere.”  The following is a selection of practices that were common to some Indian tribes. Long before the Salem Witch Trials, the Navaho believed that witches ran rampant and caused all manner of destruction. This belief filled the tribe with a sense of fear and foreboding. To counteract this, anyone believed to be a witch (usually someone on the fringes of the tribe) faced violence and death. Frequently witches were scapegoats for anything that negatively impacted the tribe. The Chumash Indians, who lived on the Channel Islands off southern California, had an established class system in which the upper class owned slaves. Because the Chumash had no established agriculture, their food came from fishing, hunting, and gathering, they appeared to own slaves for no other purpose than for wealthy tribe members to flaunt their power. Among the Yanomamo Indians of Venezuela, women were forbidden to have intercourse with their husbands throughout pregnancy and until the child was weaned. To avoid extended periods of celibacy, Yanomamo couples would kill their infants. Inuit adults encouraged children to kill small animals and birds by torturing these defenseless creatures to death. Even their sled dogs, vital to their ability to cross the vast icy expanses, were not spared abuse. Sled dogs were frequently kicked and abused for no reason. If a dog was injured during a journey across the tundra, the dog would be mercilessly beaten and then abandoned to die alone in the frozen wilderness. Although some have claimed that this might have been done to direct aggression away from humans and towards animals, the Inuit were prone to outbursts of lethal violence and killed one another at alarmingly high rates. The Hudson Bay Inuit believed that boiled meat was “man’s food, too good for women to have.” The men of the Mehinaku tribe in Brazil frequently used threats of gang-rape to assert their dominance over their women. The Kwakuitl people of Canada practiced an extremely hierarchical society. About 15 percent of the population lived as slaves and the sole property of the chief. The chief’s family subsisted entirely off the labor of their slaves. The economic productivity of the tribe went primarily to the chief. Further, the Kwakuitl would war with neighboring tribes to capture more slaves. The Aztecs sacrificed as many as 250,000 people per year to appease their blood-thirsty gods. Victims had their beating hearts ripped out of their chests, and their corpses were eaten by the Aztec nobility. Most of the sacrificial victims were either prisoners of war or tribute from surrounding tribes to avoid war with the Aztecs. The Aztecs were constantly at war or using their military to intimidate tribute from nearby tribes. Although they had acquired many riches through their strength of arms, the average Aztec received none of the spoils of war. Instead, wealth remained in the hands of the nobles. Commoners lived impoverished lives, and the poorest among the landless peasants would sell themselves into slavery. Today, in California schools, as part of their multicultural curriculum, children are told to chant prayers to the same Aztec gods who demanded human sacrifices. They are now being sued for crossing church and state lines. The Tonkawa Indians of central Texas were cannibals. They would raid other tribes to take captives. Unlike other tribes, the Tonkawa would eat these captives without any religious ceremony. From 1622 to 1626, the colonists in Virginia fought the Second Powhatan War. After initial conflicts between the colonists at Jamestown and the Powhatan Confederacy, peaceful cohabitation existed between the two groups. However, on March 22, 1622, without any provocation from the colonists, the Powhatan attacked the colonists. Of the 1,250 settlers, the Powhatan massacred 347 in a single morning. The Powhatan had hoped the colonists would abandon Jamestown, but instead the settlers dug in and fought back. The war ended in a peace that favored the colonists, and due to the vicious initial attack, English colonies adopted harsher policies in dealing with the Indians. From 1640 to 1698, the Iroquois Confederation, dominated by the Mohawk tribe, waged war on the Algonquin tribes and their French allies in the Great Lakes region in what is known as the Beaver Wars. In the 1620s, the Iroquois began trading furs at the Dutch trading post on the Hudson River. This gave them access to European weapons. With powerful trading connections and a new arsenal of superior weapons, the Iroquois sought to expand their power by taking rich hunting grounds away from the surrounding tribes. The war began in 1640 when the Iroquois drove the Huron out of New York. By the 1650s, the Iroquois began attacking French settlements. In this phase of the war, Iroquois war parties would raid isolated settlements, swooping down suddenly, wielding tomahawks and knives used for scalping to slaughter the inhabitants. In some cases prisoners were taken either as slaves or were slowly tortured to death. Some Iroquois would torture their victims to death in communal religious ceremonies because they believed it was a way for the tribe to harness the spiritual power of the enemy. Further, some of these victims were eaten in hope that Iroquois warriors could harness the strength of their enemies. The Mohawk, in particular, were known for their cannibalism. The Algonquin word for Mohawk meant “flesh-eater.” In the 1660s, the Iroquois and French agreed to a ceasefire once the French brought over regular troops from Europe. In the meanwhile, the Iroquois began a military campaign of expansion to the West. With superior arms, the Iroquois came to control the rich hunting grounds in a region extending from the Colony of Virginia up to the St. Lawrence River pushing west to the Mississippi River. They displaced several tribes including the Petun, Erie, Shawnee, Sisquehannock, and Lakota. Hostilities resumed with the French in the 1680s when the French sought to begin hunting in the region controlled by the Iroquois. The French adopted similar tactics to the Iroquois and had curtailed the Iroquois expansion. In 1698, the French and Iroquois made peace because the French wished to use the Iroquois as a buffer against English expansion in North America. As part of the peace, the several tribes displaced by the Iroquois were allowed to return to their ancestral lands; however, many were so wiped out by the war that only a handful of the inhabitants ended up returning. From 1675 to 1676, the colonies in New England fought the King Philip’s War against the Wampanoag Indians and their allies. The war began after years of border tension between the Wampanoag and the colonists. In January of 1675, a Christian Indian, John Sassamon, came to warn the colonists that the Wampanoag were planning to attack; however, soon after Sassamon was found dead on the orders of the Wampanoag chief, King Philip. A trial was held for several of the Indians responsible for the murder, and they were found guilty by a jury of colonists and Indians, and they were hanged. Enraged that his supporters were executed for murder, King Philip waged war on the colonists raiding many settlements and killing as many people as he could. The colonists responded by sending militias to destroy King Philip’s home village on Mount Hope, Rhode Island. This brought other tribes into the war to aid King Philip. In September of 1675, around 700 Nipmuc Indians ambushed a wagon train of colonists and their militia escorts. The Indians massacred the colonists, killing almost every member of the party, in what is now known as the Battle of Bloody Brook. In retaliation for Bloody Brook, Plymouth Colony’s Governor Josiah Winslow, ordered an assault on an Indian fortification near the Great Swamp in West Kingston, Rhode Island. An estimated 300 Indians died in the attack or from exposure to the winter weather following the battle; several Indians were burnt at the stake. After the fight at the Great Swamp, King Philip moved his camp to New York to win the support of the Mohawk. The Mohawk were traditional rivals of the Wampanoag and the other tribes supporting King Philip. The Mohawk massacred the main Wampanoag camp in New York and began raiding King Philip’s camps in New England. The brutal attacks from the Mohawks convinced several of the tribes supporting King Philip to make peace with the colonists believing they would get better terms from the colonists than they would from the Mohawks. In early 1676, the Indians continued to raid, plunder, and kill colonists throughout Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Maine. In one instance known as the “Nine Men’s Misery” incident, a group of King Philip’s warriors ambushed a group of 60 colonists and 20 Christian Indians. The warriors killed almost all of them in the fight, while nine men were taken and slowly tortured to death. In the spring of 1676, the colonists began to gain the upper hand, and the war finally concluded when King Philip was killed by a Christian Indian fighting with the colonists on August 20, 1676. King Philip’s body was decapitated, and hanged, drawn, and quartered, and his head was displayed in Plymouth Colony for almost two decades following the war. King Philip’s War is considered the bloodiest war per capita in U.S. history causing the deaths of several hundred colonists and destroying dozens of settlements. Thousands of Indians were killed, wounded, or captured and sold into slavery or indentured servitude as a result of the war. During the French and Indian War (1754-1763), there were many acts of violence committed by all parties. Perhaps the most famous instance of the war was the Massacre of Fort William Henry. In 1755 a large force of French and Indian soldiers pushed into New York. They began a siege of Fort William Henry held by a few British soldiers and American colonial militia. Without any hopes for reinforcements, the fort would soon fall. Seeking to avoid a pitched battle, the French commander offered terms to the British allowing them to retreat to Fort Edwards further south in exchange for Fort William Henry. The British accepted the terms, but while they were marching south they were set upon by the Indians who were part of the French coalition. The Indians brutally killed and scalped 185 soldiers and took hundreds more back to Canada as prisoners. The French had told the Indians that they were to let the British retreat; however, the Indians felt they were robbed of honor and the spoils of war so they attacked anyway. In some reports, the desire of the Indians to take spoils of war was so great that they desecrated the fort’s cemetery to take additional scalps, not only a sign of honor but also to receive a bounty, and any clothes or blankets that were buried with the dead. This atrocity was immortalized in the novel The Last of the Mohicans. Among the Indians involved in the massacre were the Huron. The Huron were known to torture and eat their captives. Women captives were frequently used as slaves while men were slowly tortured to death in religious ceremonies. If a captive showed particular courage, either in battle or during torture, the tribe would eat him in a religious service hoping to acquire his strength. It was not uncommon for the heart of a captive to be roasted and given to young men and boys to eat. The chief would usually consume the captive’s head. Between 1811 and 1924, the United States and Indian tribes west of the Mississippi fought a series of wars. These wars were brutal and atrocities were committed on both sides. Two of the most famous incidents were the Battle of Little Big Horn and the Wounded Knee Massacre. The Battle of Little Big Horn was part of the Great Sioux War of 1876.  In the battle, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer’s 7th Cavalry engaged a much larger force of Lakota, Dakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho under the leadership of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Custer and 268 of his men were killed. As was common during these conflicts, the Indians mutilated many of the bodies to send warnings to other Americans not to venture west. In response to this great defeat, the United States increased its military activity against the Indians. This culminated in the Wounded Knee Massacre on December 29, 1890. A reformed 7th Cavalry attempted to disarm a group of Lakota Indians camping at Wounded Knee. In the process of disarming the camp, a gun went off. Fearing a repeat of Little Big Horn, the Cavalry troopers began firing on the camp. Since most of the Lakota had given up their guns, they had little means of defending themselves. More than 250 Lakota men, women, and children were killed while 51 more were wounded.

Dear Freedom Fighters I made an in depth, quality update on the phenomenon of weird birth defects, like babies with a tail or covered with hair. This update explains everything very clearly, and totally removes all the previous confusion. It shows that these birth defects are real, they have been occurring in our world, and the warning issued by the Turkish leader and doctors is therefore to be taken very serious. This updated post replaces the previous one, and is far more detailed, showing many photos from birth defects around the world, explaining what caused them. You will also see Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO from Facebook, say to his staff – during an internal meeting – that these covid vaccines indeed change the human DNA and can cause mutations. This quality update makes up for the confusion there was before. It is very clear and accurate, and contains an important warning for our world.  If you want to know exactly what is true and what isn’t, then make sure to check it out. Your questions will be answered there.  The update includes the documentary The Battle for Humanity with Dr. Carrie Madej, in which she also warns for devastating genetic disorders resulting from the vaccines.  You can also see the Turkish leader issue his warning in the updated video, and you can see a video with a living organism (!) inside the Pfizer vaccin. This is a quality update for anyone who wants to be accurately informed. Check it out, and share it.  If you shared the first post, and felt bad about that, don’t worry. This update smoothly follows up, and simply explains it in far greater detail, which only adds more authority to the message.  I learned, and made something far better than it first was, because we have to inform humanity correctly about the grave danger that is threatening ourselves and our beloved ones. Don’t ignore this update, have a look, watch the videos and share it. https://www.stopworldcontrol.com/disorders/ May the truth always prevail and grow into a roar that will silence the lies of evil, so it will liberate this precious world, with its greatly beloved people. David Sorensen StopWorldControl.com

Hospital systems purge thousands of workers to engineer health care collapseThe purge of hospital workers with natural immunity is now under way, with The Epoch Times reporting that a large New York health care system has fired 1,400 employees for refusing to be injected with toxic spike protein nanoparticle bioweapons that are mislabeled “vaccines.”In Michigan, the Henry Ford hospital has seen the resignation of 400 employees who refuse to commit vaccine suicide, prompting the hospital CEO to grin and brag about how his workers are now “nearly 100 percent vaccinated.”As this “pandemic of the VACCINATED” accelerates into the Dark Winter of 2021 – 2022, the health care systems are purging the very health care workers who are going to remain living and capable of treating those injured by spike protein nanoparticles.The end goal is, of course, total collapse and the mass extermination of humanity to create a post-human world. It is now accelerating right before our eyes, with food shortages, energy scarcity, vaccine mandates, power grid failures and more.Listen to the full analysis in today’s feature podcast here.

Dear Freedom Fighters Babies from vaccinated parents are born with one eye, an animal tail, animal hair and multiple arms and legs. This was revealed by the Turkish Welfare Party, along with a team of doctors and scientists. They showed photos of babies born from vaccinated parents.  Some babies have one eye and an animal tail.  Other babies are covered with animal hair and have an animal skin. Other babies have multiple arms and legs. Fatih Erbakan says: ‘This is not a vaccine, this is an experiment to change the genes of humanity.’ I have included this new information in the updated version of the Vaccine Death Report. Make sure to download it and share it with all your local officials, be it law enforcement, health care, education or politics.  You find all their contact information online. Do a quick search and help save humanity!  We have to show them what they are doing, by mandating these genetic experiments. Most of them are simply hypnotized and totally blind. Shock them wide awake, by sending them the Vaccine Death Report. Also send them the page with the video and photos that shows the mutated babies. We have to wake the world up. If we don’t do it, who will? So rise up and do something! Watch the video of the mutated babies here, download it, and share it wildly. https://www.stopworldcontrol.com/disorders Links Not Working? If the links in this email don’t work, try this: 1) Select the link 2) Copy it 3) Open your internet browser 4) Paste the copied link in the address bar 5) Hit enter THIS IS THE LINK YOU SHOULD COPY AND PASTE INTO YOUR BROWER: www.stopworldcontrol.com/disorders

    ”A bishop is but a link in a long, long chain which goes by the name of ‘tradition’… He looks back with attention, gratitude and grace to receive what is handed on to him; he looks forward expectantly, wishing to convey, undiminished, the treasure with which he has been momentarily entrusted.” —Bishop Eric Varden, 47, of Trondheim, Norway, commenting recently on the motu proprio issued on July 16, 2021, by Pope Francis, Traditionis custodes (“Of tradition the custodians” or, more colloquially, “The custodians of tradition”). The article has just been republished by Vaticanist Sandro Magister on his blog at this link, and the entire thoughtful essay is also republished below    ”What he (Pope Pius XII) told him (Archbishop Giovanni Maria Montini, later Pope Paul VI, when Pius made Montini archbishop of Milan in 1954) was: go and pastor your variegated, scattered flock; find words and gestures they are apt to understand, but do not compromise; have confidence that the deposit entrusted to you from of old will contain the germ of answers you need to address the questions of today; live out of that deposit, dig into it, and deeply.” —Bishop Eric Varden, ibid.    ***    Letter #129, 2021, Wednesday, October 6: Tradition    The idea of what it means to be a “guardian of tradition” continues to occupy my mind.    We just reflected on the meaning of this term for three days in a very successful conference/retreat to launch our new Unitas initiative in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.    About 45 people from around the United States met from Sunday through Tuesday (October 3, 4 and 5) at the San Damiano Retreat Center of the Archdiocese of Arlington, not too far from Christendom College in Front Royal, where a great gothic-style church called Christ the King Chapel is rising alongside of Route 66 under the driving inspiration of another “guardian of tradition,” Dr. Timothy O’Donnell, Christendom’s president for 30 years. (We visited the still-unfinished chapel.)    We kindly received a video of support from Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev of the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate of Moscow, with whom we have been collaborating for more than 15 years.    Essentially, we pledged to begin anew a 35-year-old work to try to:    (1) “build bridges” between Catholics and Orthodox, and to try to    (2) “build bridges” between sometimes conflicting groups or lobbies within our Catholic Church (also through these letters), and, in general, in the modern secular (oriented toward what is secular, not toward what is sacred) culture, to    (3) “build bridges” between the human soul and God — to defend and promote the truth that the soul of each human bring has great dignity, being in truth made “in the image and likeness of God,” and a great destiny.    So what will Unitas do?    Build up, if we can, that unity that is referred to in the first of the four words of the Creed which refer to the characteristics of the Church: one, holy, catholic and apostolic.    This “one” means “united” — one throughout the world, one throughout time, one throughout the past, one now, one throughout the future, one in faith, one in baptism into Christ, one in belief in Him as the redeemer of the world.    And so, while working for ecclesial unity — even reunion of the Catholics and orthodox — we will try also to “evangelize the culture” and support the renewed discovery of our God-given dignity in every way possible, so that we, with others, may do our part to “restore all things in Christ.”    We took our keynote phrase, “Unitas: Come, Rebuild My Church,” from the words spoken by Christ from the cross of San Damiano in Assisi in about 1206 to a young St. Francis of Assisi, who was praying in a crumbling chapel to discern the path his life might take.    ”Francis,” he heard the Lord say, “Come, rebuild my Church, which, as you can clearly see, is falling into ruins.”    Francis was struck to his core.    At first he thought, “Ah, I will find a wheelbarrow, and gather stones, and rebuild this crumbling chapel.” And he did that for some time.    Only slowly did he come to realize that his task was far greater, that it involved renewing and re-positioning all of the “living stones” which make up the Church of God.    A movement of spiritual renewal.    A movement of renewed spiritual life.    So if the first tasks we face — or so it seems to us — are to overcome open ecclesial wounds, divisions which have separated us for decades, centuries, even millennia, to become more nearly “one” again after profound disagreements and schisms, the entire project must also and always be rooted in a type of spiritual renewal which must weigh what is good from all that the present time proposes, keeping that which is good while rejecting what is not good, and must hold fast always to what is central to our tradition, so that we ourselves may become one more link in a long chain to hand on to the future what we have received, preserved often at great cost.    So we have launched the Unitas initiative. It was a wonderful three days, a special time of grace, especially in the Masses celebrated by Father Tom Shepanzyk of St. John the Baptist Church in Front Royal, and Father Paul M. Grankauskas of St. Bridget of Ireland Catholic Church in Berryville, Virginia. Both men gave inspired homilies which touched the hearts of all of us.    If you would like to join us in this work, we would be grateful if you would accompany us and support us on the way. The road ahead is long and difficult, and it would be helpful to have companions on the journey.    ***    Please join us live on Friday, as we chat with Dr. Peter Kwasniewskithis Friday, October 8, 2021, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern time.     Dr. Kwasniewski is a respected expert on the Catholic liturgy and one of the most engaging and thoughtful scholars of the history of the Mass. If you would like to understand the Novus Ordo Mass, the old Latin Mass, the passage from one Mass to the other, this chat may be of great interest to you. We encourage you to join on Friday at 1 p.m. Eastern time. (We do plan to also record the conversation and make the tape of the conversation available on the internet. We will keep you posted on where and when to find the video tapes.    This Zoom event is live and you will have an opportunity to join the conversation. Click the button below to register for free. ITV Writer’s Chat     How to Treasure Tradition Today: A Lesson from Norway (link)    by Sandro Magister, one of the leading Italian observers of Vatican affairs    In his free-wheeling chat on September 13 with the Jesuits of Slovakia, Pope Francis had a lot to say. Among other things, he identified the greatest “evil of the Church at this moment” in the “ideology of turning back.”    The pope did not use the word “tradition.” But it is there that according to him the “perversion” of “rigidity” lurks. One need only look at the derisive title, “Traditionis custodes,” of the motu proprio with which last July 16 he intended to decree the end of the Mass in the ancient Roman rite, addressing the bishops as “guardians of tradition” precisely to impose on them rules that tear tradition to pieces.    Then, in practice, the motu proprio did not have the effect he hoped for. Most of the bishops have let things go on as before, especially in France and the United States, the two countries where celebration in the ancient rite is most widespread. For many, the idea of ​​tradition theorized and lived by Benedict XVI continues to apply, according to which the old and the new, in the Church, can and must be “mutually enriching.”    But if a bishop were to take seriously the epithet of “traditionis custos” that Francis has saddled him with, what positive lesson could he draw from this?    There is one bishop who has tried, and has written about it, first on September 15 in the progressive English Catholic magazine “The Tablet” and then on his blog, coramfratribus.com. Authorized by both, Settimo Cielo reproduces the full text below in several languages.    The bishop’s name is Erik Varden (pictured above). A 47-year-old Norwegian, he converted to Catholicism as a young man, studied theology and philosophy in Cambridge, became a Cistercian monk of the strict observance, a Trappist, and was abbot, in England, of the Abbey of Mount Saint Bernard in Leicestershire. He also studied in Rome at the Pontifical Oriental Institute and taught for a few years at the Pontifical Athenaeum of Saint Anselm.    Pope Francis appointed him bishop of Trondheim, and on October 3 2020 he received sacred ordination in the city’s cathedral, the first since the Protestant Reformation. Out of a population of 700 thousand people, in a vast territory, Catholics are 16,000, mostly immigrants from numerous countries of the world, as in a mission land.    Varden is also a musician and lover of Gregorian chant. At the Easter vigil of 2011 it was he who sang the Exultet in St. Peter’s Basilica. In 2018 he published a book with Bloomsbury that already in the title suggests the reference to tradition: “Shattering of Loneliness. On Christian Remembrance.”    Here is his learned and original reading of tradition, with at times surprising references to the patriarch Isaac, to Giovanni Battista Montini, archbishop of Milan, and above all to Pontian and Hippolytus, the first Pope who resigned in history and his opponent, one an innovator and the other a traditionalist, reconciled in martyrdom and holiness.    “TRADITIONIS CUSTODIA”    by Bishop Erik Varden    Lumen Gentium (“The light of the nations”), the Second Vatican Council’s splendid Constitution on the Church, describes the office of a bishop by means of beautiful titles.    If you happen to be a bishop, they are also pretty intimidating.    You are then, you are told, to be a “shepherd of the Church” (n. 18), a “successor of the Apostles” (n. 18), “the visible principle and foundation of unity” in your diocese (n. 23), “the steward of the grace of the supreme priesthood” (n. 26) and much else besides.    In a recent motu proprio, the Holy Father stressed a further epithet. He reminded us that a bishop is “traditionis custos,” a custodian of tradition.    For that definition, I, a novice bishop, am grateful.    ***    It is tempting, when appointed to such an office, to think that much depends on you. Pope Francis reminds us that this is not the case.    A bishop is but a link in a long, long chain which goes by by the name of “tradition.”    This word is a noun of agency. In Latin, “traditio” indicates the act of passing something on.    A bishop charged with custodianship of tradition must ensure that transmission continues.    He looks back with attention, gratitude and grace to receive what is handed on to him; he looks forward expectantly, wishing to convey, undiminished, the treasure with which he has been momentarily entrusted.    “Undiminished” is not a synonym for “unchanged;” still, caution is called for.    I must not reduce universal patrimony to a product merely of my preference.    When the Council urged us, with what I’d presume to call Cistercian emphasis, to return to the sources, it was with a view to restoring fullness where particular choices had issued in constraint and made broad places narrow.    To live, work, and pray as the Council taught is to be like Isaac, that mysterious patriarch. He left few words for the record, worked few monumental acts.    Still, his example is notable.    Unconcerned to leave a mark of his own, “Isaac dug again the wells of water which had been dug in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham; and he gave them the names which his father had given them” (Genesis 26:18).    Restoring access to paternal wells, he made sure his children could drink.    ”Depositum custodi”    I think often of an incident in the life of Giovanni Battista Montini, later Pope, now Saint, Paul VI.    Having been appointed to the see of Milan, Montini had an audience with Pius XII.    As the two men took leave, the ageing, ailing Pope gave the new archbishop this counsel: “Depositum custodi” (“Guard the deposit of the faith”).    It is a phrase of substance.    The notion of the “depositum fidei” (“deposit if the faith”) is ancient.    It refers to the fullness of faith contained in both Scripture and Tradition; it stands for that without which Christianity would not be itself.    It is not a static notion.    The deposit will find ever new ways of expressing itself.    It speaks many languages.    It is able to assume different cultural forms.    To find its most authentically “christophorous” articulation here and now is a challenge for each generation of believers.    What matters is this: not to reduce it to less than itself.    Montini succeeded Cardinal (Alfredo Ildefonso) Schuster to the see of Milan in 1954.    It was a time of turmoil and uncertainty.    Of this Pius XII was more aware than most.    He did not tell Montini to be a broken record, to keep mouthing old truths in old ways.    He knew that searching intellect, that sensitive priest, too well.    What he told him was: go and pastor your variegated, scattered flock; find words and gestures they are apt to understand, but do not compromise; have confidence that the deposit entrusted to you from of old will contain the germ of answers you need to address the questions of today; live out of that deposit, dig into it, and deeply.    This was how Montini explained the Pope’s words in his inaugural address, which pointed to the millennial tradition of the Church as a source of ever new relevance and originality.    These days there is a tendency abroad that seeks to reduce “tradition” to a term of partisanship, something one can be either for or against.    It makes no sense.    The moment I look upon “tradition” as an object, a possession within my grasp (whether to reject or jealously to preserve it), I reduce a living process to a thing.    I assign myself the task of an antiquarian charged with granting or rejecting preservation orders.    That is quite different from being a custodian.    There is a beautiful line in the Church’s compline hymn.    It asks the Maker of all things “ut solita clementia sis præsul ad custodiam.” (“Before the end of day, Creator of the world we pray, that with your desired favor, you would be our protector and guard“).    Custody is a function of constancy in clemency.    To exercise it is no not to lag behind but to go ahead.    The word “praesul,” often rendered “protector,” literally means “someone who leaps or dances in front,” like David before the Ark (2 Sam 6:14ff).    There must be humble energy in custodianship, and grateful joy.    Careful of what lies behind, it makes us fit to move forward.    It goes without saying that all will not always agree on how to negotiate tradition.    There is room for respectful, constructive dispute.    There always has been.    Part of what makes the Church catholic is its capacity to sustain tension, to wait for apparent antitheses to be resolved — by grace, in charity, not by compromise — in synthesis.    We struggle with this aspect of Catholicism today.    Why?    Partly because the pace of life has made us too impatient to give any process at all the time it needs to work.    Partly because we fall prey to the peculiarly twenty-first-century, self-aggrandising delusion which assumes that our times are categorically different from all other times and so ever call for categorically new measures.    We could do with re-reading Ecclesiastes.    And with remembering a lesson or two from Church history.    One such was offered us recently by the liturgical calendar.    On 13 August we had the option of keeping the memoria of StsPontian and Hippolytus.    Not all Catholics will have a spontaneous devotion to these two.    It is a pity.    They have a great deal to teach us.    Pontian was bishop of Rome 230-35 A.D.    The Church’s outward position then was fragile, imperial tolerance intermittent.    Within, it was riven by disagreements to do with Origen.    That incomparable theologian had been condemned by two Alexandrian councils whose edicts Pontian approved.    There was strife, too, about forgiveness of sin.    Are there people irreparably beyond the pale on account of acts they have committed, whether of moral failing or connected with apostasy?    The Popes increasingly envisaged reconciliation to communion through penitence.    This policy sparked strong responses.    Chief among critics was the priest Hippolytus.    Philippe Levillain’s distinguished dictionary of papal history refers to him as a “traditionalist.”    [Editor’s Note: !]    Hippolytus was soaked in Greek thought.    Origen, who heard him preach, admired him.    Hippolytus deplored what he saw as lax, thoughtless attitudes on the part of the hierarchical Church.    Gradually he mobilised an alternative communion.    Whether he was in fact, as is sometimes claimed, an “antipope” remains a moot point; but he was certainly a thorn in the side of Rome’s legitimate bishop.    When, in March 235 A.D., Maximinus the Thracian acceded to the imperial throne, he wished to undermine the Christian presence in Rome.    A convenient way to do so, he thought, would be to deprive the Church of its heads.    He recognised two: Pontian and Hippolytus.    [Editor’s Note: !!]    So he had them both arrested and packed off to hard labour in the Sardinian mines.    There, the two old opponents were reconciled.    [Editor’s note: !!!]    Both recognised the other’s Christian sincerity notwithstanding differing opinions on particular matters.    Pontian, sensing he would not live long on account of the treatment meted out to him, abdicated his office, the first Pope to do so.    He died in October 235.    Hippolytus died not long after.    Within a year or two Pope Fabian had their bodies brought back to Rome.    The Church honours both men as martyrs: we celebrate them with red vestments, within a single feast, as if the testimony of one would be incomplete without the other.    [Editor’s note: !!!!]    The collect for the feast of Sts Pontian and Hippolytus offers wholesome food for meditation, perhaps also for self-examination:    “Patientia pretiosa iustorum tuæ nobis, Domine, quæsumus, affectum dilectionis accumulet, et in cordibus nostris sacræ fidei semper exerceat firmitatem.”    “May the precious patience [a word within which the Latin root ‘passio’ is embedded] of the righteous, Lord, increase in us a heartfelt attachment to your love; and may it at all times exercise our hearts to firmness in holy faith.”    [End, important and thoughtful essay on tradition by Bishop Eric Varden of Trondheim, Norway]    ***