Vatican Expert Marco Tosatti: “All these Distractions always lead to the same Scenario of the [Pope Benedict XVI] Impeded See?”
The renowned Vatican expert Marco Tosatti stated the papacy may be “impeded”:
And that all these distractions always lead to the same scenario of the impeded See?The latest discovery was made by a journalist from Roma IT, Mirko Ciminiello. Again in “Latest Conversations,” Ratzinger admits that he himself may indeed be the last pope on St. Malachy’s list of pontiffs: he practically does not consider Francis as his legitimate successor.If Benedict has not abdicated, in fact, the lines of succession are forever separated: one papal and one anti-papal, and if the cardinals do not settle the canonical question about his Declaratio, the true Church will continue in hiding, with a next spiritual leader who is the true successor of Benedict XVI.[https://www.marcotosatti.com/2021/08/28/benedicts-renunciation-and-the-question-of-the-impeded-see/]
The journalist Ciminiello wrote “‘the See of St. Peter’ has been translated as ‘will be vacant,’ but can legitimately be interpreted as communicating an impeded See”:
These are facts – and not even isolated ones. Suffice it to consider, for example, that Joseph Ratzinger still wears the white robe, lives in the Vatican, signs P.P. (Pater Patrum) and imparts the apostolic blessing. He admits (as per our recent intuition) the possibility of being the last Pope “as we have known him until now”, as he is designated in the prophecy of Malachi. In addition, there is the small detail that the institution of Pope Emeritus does not exist, as the Vatican has noticed only now – so much so that they are now trying to regulate it.
All aspects of which Benedict XVI seems perfectly aware. And about which he seems to have been sending, for eight years, messages to those who have ears to hear. The last one was reported by the blog fromrome.info, which quoted a very precise question by journalist Peter Seewald, also in Last Conversations. “Is diminished physical vigor sufficient reason to step down from the throne of Peter?”
Question to which Pope Ratzinger responded by immediately speaking of a misunderstanding related to the function (i.e. ministerium). But the successor of Peter “is involved in the innermost being”, that is, at the higher level of the munus. And – added His Holiness – if a Pontiff is no longer able to carry out his (practical) office in a complete manner, he must “leave the throne free”. Not, that is, to come down from it (as Seewald ventilated), but to leave it free, unencumbered, unoccupied.
The deafening silence of the media
This, according to some distinguished Latinists, is precisely the original meaning of a verb that stands out in the Declaratio of February 2013. Vacet, which in reference to “the See of St. Peter” has been translated as “will be vacant,” but can legitimately be interpreted as communicating an impeded See.
A status provided for in Canon 412 of the Code of Canon Law, which occurs when the diocesan bishop is prevented from exercising his pastoral office. And this “by reason of imprisonment, confinement, exile or incapacity, not being able to communicate even by letter with his diocesans.”
Just the situation that Joseph Ratzinger found himself living eight years ago. Besieged by internal enemies (the Mafia of St. Gallen), external (the blockade of Vatican ATMs), and with private mail given to the press (the Vatileaks scandal).
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)
– 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.
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Saint Louis Cathedral on Jackson Square in New Orleans where my maternal grandparents were married.
A number of my friends who are familiar with my life history have urged me from time to time to write my autobiography. I have thus far successfully resisted their urging. However, as I draw closer to the end of my life at age 91 it has occurred to me that there are aspects to my life history that shed light on the mystery of God’s love and providence and sharing some information about those aspects might have some benefit for anyone seeking to make sense out of this crazy world in which we live.
So, trusting in God’s grace to help me avoid anything that might seem like vanity I rely on the wisdom expressed in Psalm 115: Non nobis Domine, non nobis, sed nomine tuo da gloriam, not to us Lord, not to us, but to your name I give glory, and begin this series of autobiographical posts on my Abyssum.org website.
The beginning seems like a good place to begin.
I was born on June 9, 1923, ten feet below sea level, in the Lakeview section of New Orleans, Louisiana. My mother was Mathilde Marie Derbes and my father was Enrique (Henry) Joaquin Gracida.
My mother was the daughter of Josephine Saizan and Numa Joseph Derbes. The Saizan family was part of the French Acadian people who were expelled from Nova Scotia in 1775 and were deported to Louisiana where they settled in the area between Lafayette and Houma. The Derbes family came from Toulon, France in the 18th Century and were officials in the Bonaparte colony of Louisiana. After the Louisiana Purchase by President Thomas Jefferson in 1803 they became American citizens. In the Eighth Century, with the rise of the Ottoman Empire, the Derbes family had probably emigrated to Southern France from Derbe just north of Tarsus the home of Saint Paul. Saint Paul visited Derbe on his First and Second Journeys. Perhaps there is a connection in this with my spiritual life in this since I chose Saint Paul as my Confirmation saint and the Feast of his conversion, January 25, as the date for my ordination as a bishop.
My father was the son of Rafael Gracida Carrizosa and Margarita Marquez. The Gracida family emigrated from Spain in the 18th Century and settled in Oaxaca, Mexico where they became prominent land owners. The Hacienda La Soledad south of Oaxaca was the principal estate of the family. In the second decade of the 20th Century Rafael Gracida fled Oaxaca with his five sons because of religious persecution; his brother, Monsignor Carlos Gracida, was Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Oaxaca. Rafael moved first to Merida in Yucatan and then on to New Orleans with his five sons. In New Orleans, Enrique (Henry) my father, met my mother and married her in 1917. in 1918 my grandfather, Rafael, died and was buried in New Orleans. My father never spoke with us of his family in Mexico.
My sister, Carmita, was born in 1918. English and French were the languages spoken in our home since we had no contact with my father’s family. Actually I did not meet my father’s family until 1972 when I was ordained a bishop, having invited them to come to my ordination. However, my father took every opportunity to take his family to restaurants where the cuisine was Mexican and Spanish was spoken. In addition he would paint oil paintings with Aztec and Mayan elements and through questioning of him I learned much about Mexico and its culture.
My first five years were spent in New Orleans. I attended school at the Pierre Gustav Touton Beauregard Elementary School and grew to love New Orleans and my mother’s family. All of the women in my mother’s family were good cooks and so creole and cajun cooking was like ‘mother’s milk’ to me. All my life I have loved to cook and creole/cajun dishes are a special delight for me to cook.
My mother, and all her family, was very pious and faithful in the exercise of the Catholic faith; my father was less so. He had, in the periodic absence of his father who had business interests in the Yucatan and Cuba, been raised by his uncle, Monsignor Carlos Gracida Carrizosa who was something of a strict disciplinarian. Perhaps that is why my father was what one would describe as a “lax Catholic.” My father was a polymath. He was not as gifted as Leonardo da Vinci or Michaelangelo, but he mastered anything he set his mind to: oil painting, sculpture, architecture, engineering, etc. all without a university degree.
In 1928 my father was offered employment as an engineer by the Edgar Zinc Company and we moved to Saint Louis, Missouri where the headquarters of that Company was located.
I fell in love with Saint Louis. I loved visiting Forest Park and it was in its zoo that I probably developed my love of animals that has been such an important part of my life. We lived just a few blocks from Saint Louis Cathedral and it was there that I fell in love with the Church’s Liturgy. After Mass in the Cathedral we would spend the day in Forest Park. Forest Park had an amphitheatre where light opera was performed on the weekends. It was there that I got my first introduction to Texas via the musical play, Rio Rita. Here is the plot that made such an impression on this five-year-old boy.
Rio Rita may be said to be one of the last, great, “light musical comedies” or “Follies-based” type of musical. With the introduction of Show Boat, later in 1927—as well as the subsequent introduction of George Gershwin‘s musicals that year and thought the early 30’s — the American musical became much more a dramatically cohesive “musical play”. This form reached its maturity in the Rodgers and Hammerstein productions, beginning with Oklahoma! and culminating with South Pacific.
The captain of the Texas Rangers, Jim Stewart, is in San Lucar Mexico on the Rio Grande, in disguise in order to catch the notorious bandit Kinkajou. While there he falls in love with Rita Ferguson, an Irish-American-Mexican girl who sings in the local hotel after being displaced from her family ranch along with her brother Roberto.
General Esteban, the Governor of the San Lucar District, also loves Rita and hates all gringos. He hatches a plot to set Jim and Rita at odds by making Rita doubt both her own brother, who may be the Kinkajou, and Jim, who may be spying on her brother through her.
Amid all of this intrigue, Chick Bean, a soap salesman, and Dolly, an American cabaret girl, arrive in San Lucar and get married. Unbeknownst to Dolly, Chick also went to Mexico to obtain a quick divorce from his unfaithful first wife, Katie. But then hours after Chick and Dolly are wed Ed Lovett, a lawyer of dubious reputation, informs Chick that his divorce is not recognized by the U.S. Government. Complications ensue.
– Wikipedia
We only lived in Saint Louis for a year and then my father was transferred to the the Edgar Zinc Company office in Cherryvale, Kansas, located in the southeastern corner of Kansas near both Arkansas and Oklahoma. The year we lived in Cherryvale was one of the happiest years of my life. For the first time I lived in a rural setting and after living in New Orleans and Saint Louis it was wonderful. Some members of the Clements family lived in Cherryvale and so I came to know of Mark Twain and Tom Sawyer. My happiest years have been spent in rural settings as opposed to city life.
In 1930 the depression really hit hard and the Edgar Zinc Company went bankrupt and my family moved to Houston and then Texas City, Texas where my father found employment with Pan American Refining Corporation, a subsidiary of Standard Oil of Indiana. I finished my elementary and high school education in the public schools if Texas City. Texas City at that time had a population of less than 2,000 people and so I was again in a rural setting. I joined the boy scouts, became an altar boy in our mission church and began to think about becoming a priest, but by the time I graduated from Central High School in 1941 I had become too interested in girls to think about the priesthood.
As the Valedictorian of my class I was accepted as one of the 400 students matriculated at Rice University in 1942 and began my study of architectural engineering. At that time Rice taught architectural engineering with a heavy reliance on the Beaux Art system of study which consisted of a whole year of reproducing ink drawings of Greek temples. I was bored stiff. I wanted to design and build contemporary buildings, not eclectic recreation of classic Greek and Roman architectural monuments. After the war, even though I loved Rice University for its excellence, I chose to not return there to resume my architectural studies.
Since the United States was now at war I knew that I would be drafted into the infantry before long and so I chose to enlist in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve as a student since I hoped to be able to fly in the war. In the summer of 1943 my studies at Rice were interrupted when I was called to active duty and after processing at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio the Army sent me to the Infantry Training Camp at Mineral Wells, Texas where I barely survived 18 weeks of infantry basic training in the Texas heat of July, August and September of 1943. In the 18th week of my infantry basic training, an Army Air Corps officer ‘miraculously’ came looking for me and the mistake in my assignment to the infantry was corrected and I was transferred to the Air Base in Wichita Falls, Texas. God is good, this was the first of many interventions in my life by divine providence which gradually led me to understand that God expected something of me in return.
Eventually I ended up at the Kingman Arizona Air Base learning gunnery in B-17 bombers. From Kingman I joined my bomber crew in Florida and after some months of training there, in January 1945 we flew a brand new B-17 Bomber from Savannah, Georgia to Prestwick, Scotland by way of Maine, Newfoundland, Laborador, Greenland, and Iceland. In England we joined the Eighth Air Force 303rd Bomb Group (H) in Molesworth, 359th Squadron.
In my next post I will write about my experience in the Second World War with the Eighth Air Force.
So When Does Life Begin, Mr. President? September 7, 2021 Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on President Biden’s latest remark on the beginning of life: “Life begins at conception, that’s the Church’s judgment. I accept it in my personal life.” That is what Vice President Joe Biden said in 2012, echoing what he said in 2008. “I respect those who believe life begins at the moment of conception. I don’t agree, but I respect that.” That is what President Biden said last week. The science did not change, Mr. Biden, and neither has the Catholic Church’s teaching on this subject. So why did you? If life does not begin at conception, Mr. Biden, then when does it begin? Does life begin when the baby’s spinal cord, nervous system, gastrointestinal system, heart and lungs develop? That would be during the first four weeks from conception. Does it begin when the heart begins to beat? That would be four weeks after conception. Does it begin when the baby’s head develops? That would be five weeks after conception. Does it begin when the baby’s nose forms and his or her fingers begin to develop? That would be six weeks after conception. Does it begin when the baby’s toes appear? That would be seven weeks after conception. Does it begin when the baby’s elbows bend? That would be eight weeks after conception. Does it begin when the baby’s genitals develop? That would be nine weeks after conception. Does it begin when the baby’s fingernails form? That would be ten weeks after conception. Does it begin when the baby kicks, can hear, has a strong grip and a strong heartbeat? That would be during the second trimester. Does it begin at birth? Does it begin sometime after birth? When, Mr. Biden, does life begin? And why is science, and the teachings of your religion, wrong on this subject? Where is your evidence, Mr. Biden, that they are wrong? We need to know as this is literally a matter of life and death. Contact White House press secretary Jen Psaki: jennifer.r.psaki@who.eop.gov
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Joe Biden Has His “Best Lawyers at the Justice Department” Trying to Stop the Texas Abortion Ban
National | Rebecca Downs | Sep 6, 2021 | 9:45AM | Washington, DC
Condemnation from Democrats over the Texas abortion law which recently went into effect has been strong and swift. It was very much a theme of the Sunday morning shows.
On CNN’s “State of the Union,” White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain and host Dana Bash discussed the issue:
BASH: …Is the reality that there isn’t a whole lot the administration can do right now to change things in Texas?
KLAIN: Dana, I hope that’s not the reality.
We have the best lawyers at the Justice Department looking for legal remedies to protect women who are seeking to exercise their constitutional rights. We have the team at HHS looking at what means we can do to try to get women the health care services they need in the face of this Texas law.
And we have the Gender Policy Council here at the White House, the first time a president’s ever had a policy council devoted to gender issues, coordinating all this work to bring options forward for the president and the vice president to look at.
BASH: So, you think it’s possible — but you think it’s possible that you can do something at the federal level?
KLAIN: We are going to find — we are going to find ways, if they’re at all possible — and I think they are possible — we are going to find ways to make a difference for the women of Texas to try to protect their constitutional rights, yes.
Bash and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) addressed ways in which Congress is dealing with the matter.
BASH: So — so, Senator, you mentioned Congress.
Speaker Pelosi says the House will vote to codify abortion protections into law. But you know better than I do there aren’t 60 votes for that in the U.S. Senate. So, realistically, what can you and your fellow Democrats do, or is the Texas law going to be allowed to stand?
KLOBUCHAR: Well, first of all, I’m glad Speaker Pelosi is showing that leadership to get this through the House immediately, basically codify or to put Roe v. Wade into law.
In the U.S. Senate, first of all, there are some pro-choice Republicans. I want to make that clear. We have seen that time and time again in votes, specifically…
BASH: But enough to get to 60?
KLOBUCHAR: No. Senator Collins, Senator Murkowski.
So, my solution to this, which is my solution for voting rights and so many other things, including climate change, where one side of the country is in flames, the other side of the country is flooded, with people dying submerged in their cars, I believe we should abolish the filibuster.
I do not believe an archaic rule should be used to allow us to put our heads in the sand, to use Justice Sotomayor’s words, to put our heads in the sand, and not take action on the important issues, the challenges that are facing our country right now, now and over the next years.
We just will get nowhere if we keep this filibuster in place.
The discussion also led to a favorite Democratic talking point, the need to get rid of the filibuster.
Perhaps the most hyperbolic comments came from Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX), in an exchange with host Wejia Jiang on CBS’ “Face the Nation”:
WEIJIA JIANG: …What are you asking from the president?
REP. ESCOBAR: Well, I’m grateful that the president wants to fight for women’s health care and wants to protect women from a state and frankly, a party that is not pro-life, but is instead pro birth, willing to put women’s lives on the line. So, the Biden administration is looking at a whole of government approach, asking its agencies to take action. So, I’m grateful for that.
But Congress needs to act as well. We are going to bring to the floor the Women’s Health Protection Act, which will put into law the protections that women need and require that we’ve had for decades under Roe v. Wade…
WEIJIA JIANG: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would bring a vote on that act, which you are a co-sponsor of. But this week, you also tweeted, expand the court, abolish the filibuster. Do you think that is the only way the bill stands a chance of passing?
REP. ESCOBAR: I am really afraid that because of the Senate’s desire to hang on to a relic of the past, a Jim Crow relic, the filibuster, that while the House will move expeditiously to protect women from states like Texas and from a Supreme Court that is an activist court. My fear is, is that some members of the Senate will use the filibuster as an excuse to not take action.
And in the face of inaction, we will see more death in Texas. Texas is now a very dangerous place for women and children. We are going to see more states basically import this law and do everything possible to create the most hostile conditions for women in our country.
And I do believe I am a supporter of eliminating the filibuster so that the American people will be able to see progress in government. And I believe the filibuster, which voters never voted for, which is not in the Constitution and which is a relic of the past, it needs to be eliminated. But I do think we also need to expand the court. We- we’ve now seen SCOTUS basically engage in late night decisions through their shadow docket. We’ve seen them become an activist court. We need to restore integrity to the court.
While on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) likewise discussed the issue with host Chuck Todd. She also boasted about defeating Todd Akin in 2012, who made comments about “legitimate rape” which were condemned from all sides of the aisle:
CLAIRE McCASKILL:
…And I will not accept both sides on this. This is one party that is doing this, not both parties. This is not the place for, “Oh, both sides are a problem.” No. One side is a problem. I got reelected because of an extreme position on abortion. I believe a lot of Democrats will get elected over this.
…
CHUCK TODD:
Well, and Claire, this is something — you brought up the fact you got reelected because you had an opponent that was, went to — had an extreme position on the idea of rape, if legitimate rape is something that Todd Akin at the time called it…
…
CHUCK TODD:
Claire, is there a reasonable middle ground for the Democratic party on — it’s hard to say sometimes there’s a middle ground on abortion. But the public seems — there is a middle ground there, which is they don’t want it completely banned, and they don’t want it without some limitations…
CLAIRE McCASKILL:
Well, all the noise is going to be on the far extremes… But women of America are not calm right now. The Supreme Court had an opportunity to stay this bill. If it was so bad, all they had to do was stay it. And they didn’t. And that is telling. And that’s why women are not calm right now. They are very upset over the idea that this is going to be allowed in any state in the United States. So is there middle ground? Yeah. And the more extreme the Republican Party keeps becoming — and the next thing they’re going do — Missouri says they’re going to copy it…
Republicans featured on the shows who were asked about it were not in favor of the law.
Former Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA) appeared alongside McCaskill. “As someone who is pro-life and has always wanted to, you know, change hearts and minds and, you know, focus on creating a culture of life and respecting the dignity of women and the children, I don’t think this is a good bill,” she said, also calling it “a polarizing bill.”
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) was also asked about the Texas law on “State of the Union” He mentioned he was pro-life when speaking to Bash but was against the law didn’t rule out voting in favor of the pro-abortion bill Pelosi is bringing to the floor.
Democrats are now laser focused on codifying Roe v. Wade at the federal level. In doing so, it would seem that the party is trying to seize their opportunity to move on from serious issues and concerns, including and especially getting Americans out who are still stranded in Afghanistan.
LifeNews Note: Rebecca Downs writes for TownHall, where this column originally appeared.
Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins 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)
– 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.
Each year the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales organises a High Mass at England’s neo-Byzantine mother church, Westminster Cathedral, to coincide with its Annual General Meeting. This year’s High Mass on the Vigil of the Assumption was as majestic and liturgically sumptuous as ever, with a possibly record attendance of 350 – 400 people (see photo of above from the event). Among the faithful there was a quiet but perceptible air of determined resolution. Despite the promulgation of Traditionis Custodes, devotion to, and interest in, the Apostolic Roman Rite only continues to increase in England and her bishops are rather wary of how to ‘implement’ the recent motu proprio while dealing with the only part of the Church experiencing such inexorable growth. Growth, which according to their post-conciliar formation, represents retrogression against the ‘laws of history’ and thus, was never meant to occur.
History of the Latin Mass in England and Wales
The traditional community in England and Wales is of notable importance to the wider traditional movement. One of the unbroken streams by which Divine Providence saw fit to continue the flow of the Church’s Liturgical Tradition to the present, following the post-conciliar official hostility towards that Tradition from many quarters, was in England and Wales through the famous ‘Agatha Christie indult’ of 1971.https://100348b1f2c3f3eaae6ca59b1a6d44d5.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
For those readers unfamiliar with this rather curious episode some exposition may be helpful: in 1965, before the Second Vatican Council’s final session had closed, the Latin Mass Society was established to promote the Traditional Mass and all its riches in England and Wales. The LMS was, and is, a lay movement that represents a rare example of successful lay activism that has had some degree of influence on episcopal policy. The LMS was also an Una Voce Federation founding member and has supplied three presidents over the decades, including the famed Traditionalist writer Michael Davies. The society continues to be the best resourced Una Voce group in the world with a small full-time staff and permanent office.
During the heady foment of high modernist enthusiasm following the closure of the Council in November 1965 the officers of The Latin Mass Society sent an appeal to Pope Paul VI that “the discontinuance of the use of the Latin tongue in parts of the Mass has proved a grave spiritual privation and a source of great anguish of soul.” Alas, despite the personal sympathy of the English primate Cardinal Archbishop John Heenan of Westminster towards the pleas of England’s laity, the Roman Curia remained unmoving. With the promulgation of the Novus Ordo Missae in 1969 and the seemingly imminent ‘obliteration’ of the Apostolic Roman Rite an alternative plan was conceived to enlist the support of various prominent non-Catholics who would join the plea of the LMS faithful to save the Old Rite not just for its spiritual nourishment but as a cultural treasure of Western Civilisation. A section of the appeal surmised:
The rite in question, in its magnificent Latin text, has also inspired a host of priceless achievements in the arts – not only mystical works, but works by poets, philosophers, musicians, architects, painters and sculptors in all countries and epochs. Thus, it belongs to universal culture as well as to churchmen and formal Christians.
In the materialistic and technocratic civilisation that is increasingly threatening the life of mind and spirit in its original creative expression – the word – it seems particularly inhuman to deprive man of word-forms in one of their most grandiose manifestations. The signatories of this appeal, which is entirely ecumenical and non-political, have been drawn from every branch of modern culture in Europe and elsewhere.
Among the signatories were cultural luminaries such as Graham Greene, Iris Murdoch, Kathleen Raine and Cecil Day Lewis. Something about the ‘ecumenical, non-political and modern’ nature of the appeal, as well as the support of Cardinal Heenan, perhaps helped it secure serious consideration. According to legend, when presented with the petition Pope Paul VI ran through the list of signatories and alighted on the name of Agatha Christie, author of the Poirot series of which the Pontiff was fond. “Ah, Agatha Christie!” he exclaimed and signed his approval. The bishops of England and Wales were thus authorised to grant permission for the ‘occasional’ celebration of the Old Rite Mass
Although, as we are all aware, the Old Rite of the Mass was never abrogated, that was not the impression created in the extreme ultramontanist mid-to-late twentieth century. In 1971 the semi-official newspaper of the English Bishops’ Conference ‘The Universe’ published a front page that proclaimed:
As from this Sunday, the first in Advent, it is forbidden to offer Mass in the Tridentine rite anywhere in the world. In very special circumstances old or retired priests may apply to their own bishop for permission to use the rite, but for private use only.
Nevertheless, providence had marked England as a place where Tradition would be preserved and, in time, slowly come to flourish. The English (“Agatha Christie”) Indult of 1971 ensured that the Apostolic Roman Rite continued to be found in tucked away corners of the English landscape – withepiscopal approval – whereas in many more historically Catholic countries, outside the SSPX, the Apostolic Roman Rite was all but stamped out. The reasons for this notable difference in liturgical fortunes are difficult to fully comprehend. My own belief is that the Anglophone bishops possess a certain native ‘cultural liberalism’ where pluralism, including in liturgical matters, is not only tolerated but even celebrated. Hence, one group of Catholics can have their charismatic Mass, another their Neocatechumenal celebration, another can have their Old Rite Mass, perhaps another can even have their ‘LGBT Mass.’ Just so long as they all rub along and don’t become too assertive in the superiority of their liturgy.
Bishops from more Catholic countries on the other hand have imbibed a theological absolutism that is the legacy of a once truly Catholic objectivity. Therefore, when the ‘objective standard’ of the liturgy changed in 1969, or was perceived to have changed, they adhered to that new single liturgical expression with all the zeal once given to the unchanging truths and expressions of the Faith. The hostility of bodies such as the Italian Bishops Conference to the Old Rite Mass can be understood in this way. The Old Rite is viewed with consternation as the liturgical expression of ‘the old Religion’ which has since ‘evolved’, and, even been replaced.
Summorum Pontificum
Source: Latin Mass Society
Since Pope Benedict’s motu proprio in 2007 the erstwhile ‘Extraordinary Form’ became increasingly accepted as part of the life of the Church in England and Wales by at least some of her leaders. The progress of provision for the Apostolic Roman Rite since the promulgation of Summorum Pontificumis illustrated in the following graph for ‘Every Sunday’ Masses in the same location (not counting Saturday evening Masses).
Including Sunday celebrations which take place only monthly or quarterly, the average Sunday sees 54 celebrations. (Figures for 2020 are from the first quarter, before the Coronavirus restrictions.) Given England’s high population density and concentration in urban areas it is now quite possibly the case that the majority of the population is within an hour’s drive of an Old Rite Mass on Sunday, perhaps some of the best ‘TLM coverage’ of any country in the world. Nevertheless, the Traditional Mass remains a rather small phenomenon in the life of the Church in England and Wales, and despite the establishment of shrines and chaplaincies, the attitude of the bishops in general remains no better than one of benign neglect.
COVID and Traditionis Custodes
In the Covid era the growth of the Old Rite has accelerated. The succession of lockdowns and the clerical responses to them starkly revealed the prevailing hierarchical opinion of the Sacraments as a ‘non-essential service.’ With their minimal Covid superstitions and mandatory Communion on the tongue many faithful had added inducements to approach traditional parishes for the first time. In my own diocesan parish in South London, Sunday Latin Mass averages have swelled from 134 faithful pre-Covid, to 163 during the summer of 2020 when some restrictions were lifted, to a last count of 214 followingTraditionis Custodes. This represents a 60% increase in just over a year. Local sources confirm that other traditional parishes across the country have experienced similar and even greater growth.
I understand that the bishops of England and Wales were caught just as off guard by Traditionis Custodes and its severity as most traditional Catholics were. The decree’s immediate effect was received with particular shock by members of the Bishops’ Conference where decision-making tends to be cautiously bureaucratic, compromising and keen to avoid any kind of strident judgement that would upset the precarious post-conciliar status quo. However, in less than 24 hours after the promulgation of the Motu Proprio the bishops were issuing a response. Nearly every bishop with diocesan Old Rite provision granted initial permission. The Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichol’s response was fairly typical. His closing note read:
“In my judgement, these concerns do not reflect the overall liturgical life of this diocese. They are, however, warnings of which we should be on our guard.”
Despite the widespread episcopal permission and extension of dispensations to traditional parishes there is much episcopal hedging overall. Many permissions have been temporarily granted until the end of the year. The bishops will be discussing the motu proprio this autumn as August is usually the time of the year when they take some holiday. Generally, England’s bishops do not like to ‘rock the boat’ and many of them are former colleagues of masterminds and enforcers of Traditionis Custodes: Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments Archbishop Arthur Roche, former bishop of Leeds and protégé of former English primate and ‘St. Gallen Mafioso’ Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor. Most English bishops see themselves as loyal ‘moderates’ under Pope Francis, keen to follow his Pontifical programme, and advance their clerical careers, but not to alienate a vibrant group of their flock. In a somewhat typically English way, they will likely look to delay their response, prevaricating to see how other bishops respond, how Pope Francis’ papacy develops, and how various crises in the temporal sphere unfold.
The only English casualties of the motu proprio so far have been in the diocese of Clifton: the celebration of the Old Rite Mass at Glastonbury by a new traditional Benedictine community and the university chaplaincy at Bristol. Poignantly, Glastonbury is one of the most important sites for English Catholicism. According to legend it was the site where St Joseph of Arimathea established a church and may have deposited the Holy Grail. What is certainly true is that Glastonbury was the location of one of the oldest Marian shrines north of the Alps. Alone among his English brother bishops the ailing Bishop Declan Lang of Clifton immediately implemented Traditionis Custodes and suppressed the public Old Rite Mass at Glastonbury. The LMS responded:
We are very disappointed in the response of Bishop Declan Lang to Traditionis Custodes, which seems excessively harsh and not in line with the letter or the spirit of the document. We are seeking clarification from him and await his response.
The current situation in England and Wales — Green = Masses continue as before — Yellow = no Masses before or after — Amber = some Masses suppressed — Red = all Masses suppressed — Grey = status unchanged/uncertainThe diocese of Clifton has two SSPX locations, which are are now overflowing. The congregation at the SSPX chapel in Taunton in that diocese has tripled.
Despite this significant blow there are many reasons for traditional communities to have hope in the resiliency of access to the Old Rite Mass in this time of suppression. I would suggest that, unwittingly, Pope Francis has just deployed a particularly effective ‘sales technique’ for the Old Rite Mass – negative reverse selling. Unknowingly using a form of reverse psychology, he has stirred up a lot of publicity and hence curiosity for the Old Rite, creating an interesting thermometer of Catholic public opinion. ‘Conservative Novus Ordo Catholics’ who are ever more disconcerted and alarmed by Pope Francis’ distinctly un-Catholic actions and statements begin to wonder: “if this unpopular pope is against the Traditional Mass what is it about this liturgy that might antagonize him? Maybe it is moreCatholic?” Many of these people are now following their impulse and sampling the Apostolic Roman liturgy for the first time.
Furthermore, the survival of the Old Rite Mass in England following the 1969 liturgical reform fit a historical pattern of English Catholics doggedly holding onto their Catholic inheritance in the face of official persecution or at least disapproval. In a sense we have been here before. Following more than 250 years of Penal Laws for failing to show obeisance to the ‘Anglican Settlement’ English Catholics have a corporate memory of what it is to suffer for their faith. During the lockdowns and closure of the churches there were many clandestine Masses. At this moment English Catholics can draw inspiration from the zeal and resolute faith of their ancestors in cleaving to the Mass of Ages, even ‘underground’, if need be, as the full implications of Traditionis Custodes are worked out.
Theo Howard is a freelance writer based in London whose work has appeared in Crisis, the European Conservative and Sword & Spade magazine.
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This is the end game…———-[passed on by a friend] In a 2013 court case A.M. Pathology (Petitioners) v Myriad Genetics, the Supreme Court ruled that human DNA could not be patented because it was “a product of nature.” Toward the end of the ruling, the Supreme Court determined that if a human genome were changed by mRNA vaccines (which are now being used), then the genome could be patented. (read pages 16 & 17 of the attached) This means that the jabbed can technically be “patented” and something that is patented is “property”. They will fall under the definition of what is “transhuman”. Those whom are legally identified as ‘transhumans’ will not have access to Human Rights nor any rights granted by the State. This is because they are not classified as 100% organic or human. Therefore, technically, the jabbed will in the future no longer have access to Human Rights. There have been some legal documents discussing this recently, so clarification should be available soon. 4) The mRNA is CRISPR technology (MODERNA has described it as their “operating system”) and is looking at technology to reverse the side effects, as you would with a computer. There is currently a patent linked to this technology: WO2020060606 – CRYPTOCURRENCY SYSTEM USING BODY ACTIVITY DATA. The technology will be placed on your body, then assigned a barcode and attached to the cryptocurrency. The technology tracks your body activity and when you reach a “satisfactory amount of activity”, you will be paid your cryptocurrency. This is the short version of the patent, but you should examine it properly.
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With all of the dust and smoke being stirred up by Texas Right to Life’s(TRTL) involvement in getting the state’s heartbeat bill passed and then helping enforce it, I have never been prouder of my affiliation with this magnificent group; the biggest, best and most effective pro-life group in the world! This is not a go-along, get-along type of prolife group. I said in my last column that this is a group which gets things done and makes things happen. Can I pick ‘em or what?
First, the whistleblower site they set up to report violations of the law was de-platformed by GoDaddy. Then a Travis County District Court (Austin, of course – the San Francisco of Texas) granted a temporary restraining order preventing TRTL or anyone affiliated with it from helping to enforce the law – though any other Texan may do so. This just after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to grant a general restraining order against the law. Now, a worldwide coalition of activists is targeting TRTL. The left is SHOCKED that a pro-life organization actually took the initiative and is working with fortitude to end the execution of infants rather than just wringing their hands impotently as babies die.
I have spoken with many of my friends at TRTL and they all confirm that this assault is a sort of blitzkrieg effort. The left, including globalists, are terrified. If TRTL can effectively attack the very foundations of Roe v Wade, as it has, it could spark real resistance to global control of the countries of the world and bring down the entire leftist project. Give the left this much credit: they know what a dire threat this is to their whole deluded and deceitful program. But they are going to find that TRTL is not some run-of-the-mill conservative organization that talks tough, then turns tail as soon as the going gets rough.
TRTL will weather the storm and end up stronger than ever. It is an intense storm, though. TRTL is an independent pro-life activist group. It is an overtly Christian group – it is in its mission statement. It trains students to act as pro-life coordinators on college campuses across the state. It has the legislative team at the Capitol the entire time the legislature is in session, helping to initiate and lobby on behalf of bills such as the heartbeat law that was successfully passed this session – and for which it is now grappling with attacks from the entire leftist, globalist movement. When Texas hospitals seek to unilaterally withdraw care from patients and insist they must die, TRTL is on the spot advocating for those patients – and has saved more than a few. In fact, this cost them the support of the Texas Conference of Catholic Bishops (TCCB), a decadent group of Bishops who are in bed with the hospital association. TRTL didn’t hesitate or pause. In supporting life, TRTL does the job that Texas Bishops refuse to do, apparently because of the willingness of the TCCB to toss Catholic doctrine aside to enhance their earthly influence-peddling and prestige with the anti-God left. TRTL actively works to endorse and support candidates who are genuinely faithful conservatives – and doesn’t hesitate to go after incumbent Republicans who are too eager to trim their sails to mollify the left. When the dust has settled it will be the undisputed leader for the cause of life – no apologies, no deals, no backtracking. It will also be a premier leader in the battle for faith, family and freedom against the rising fascist movement in government, academia, media, entertainment, and the corporate world. No apologies, no retreat – and a clear-eyed response to the irony of our modern fascists calling themselves “anti-fascists.”
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One of the sideshows in the attacks against TRTL was when Wiccans and pagans started “cursing” TRTL. It brought back fond memories for me. Shortly after the turn of the millennium, I was writing for a couple of Illinois state journals. In one column, illustrating a point, I had written that the only modern functionally pagan state was Nazi Germany (a non-controversial fact among professional historians – and I did not note it to start a controversy). Well, it did, indeed, start a controversy. Wiccans started attacking me and promised that they had set aside a particular night when the Wiccans of three states – Illinois, Missouri and Iowa – were going to gather to simultaneously curse me, so I had best beware. I laughed and told them to, “Curse away! My Boss is stronger than your boss. But take care, for my Boss sometimes takes curses against His servants and redounds them against those who curse them.”
The appointed night came and went and I continued on my pilgrim way. What happened to the Wiccans doing the cursing, I couldn’t say. I never heard from them again. But they never made a public vow of cursing me after that.
I guess to a certain extent many think the pagans have won. After all, for the last decade or so, almost ALL western countries have become, suddenly, functionally pagan. But I understand why they would shriek so hideously as they see what they had thought they had won slipping away from them. And by gum, TRTL is playing a HUGE role in the slipping away of power from neo-pagan hands.
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If you like being at ground zero, that is where TRTL is at right now – and you’re invited to join them. Yes, CORAC members are being offered complimentary tickets to the grand TRTL Celebration of Life Dinner in Houston on Saturday, Sept. 18. But you have to register by the end of this week. Just drop an email to Bilot.lambfam@gmail.com. I went to my first dinner there in 2016 and I haven’t missed it since. Take it from a fellow who has probably been to more than a thousand grand political and social gala dinners, this is by far the best (and with the best food served, I might add.) This year’s keynote speaker is Jim Mcingvale, better known to Texans as Mattress Mack, the creative, funny and engaging king of furniture stores in Texas. What is less known is what a profound humanitarian he is – because he lives life as an intentional disciple and does it without fanfare. I have had dinner with Mattress Mack and a few other friends the last few times I have been in Houston. If you think he is funny and engaging in his commercials, he is absolutely amazing in person and in how he lives his life. I hope to see you there.
When you register, you are automatically registered for the VIP Brunch on Sunday morning where various department heads from TRTL and some allies will give updates and chat with those in attendance – and then shortly after the VIP Brunch is finished, we will have a CORAC meeting to do our own updates. The dinner is comped if you have registered, but you have to handle your own transportation and lodging – though TRTL will send you information on getting the group rates at the downtown Hilton of the Americas where everything is happening.
What is going on down there?
The main reason why everything is getting so very chaotic so quickly is because no one is in control of events at all anymore. Neither the good nor the evil. The anti-God left-wing globalists are looking on with horror as their plans collapse as dramatically as the twin towers did in New York two decades ago (it is so weird to me to consider that any babies born on that day are now 20 years old. Man, they grew up in a far different world than I did. I have told some of the young people I work with, including David Daleiden, that they don’t know what normal is, having never lived in a normal world). Leftists are always long on the certainty of their own superiority and short on any actual competence. It is why every time they take control in a society, everything goes to pot. This time, they have taken control of most of the globe. But their control is slipping away from them, as ordinary people recoil in horror at the folly of their crackpot plans.
Even as the supposed efficacy of the mRNA shots and masking is collapsing (Israel is the most “vaccinated” country in the world – and now it is the premier Covid hotspot in the world), leftists are shriekingly demanding every one double down on the authoritarian measures they insisted on that didn’t work the first time. That is all a leftist has: they are incapable of adjusting to reality when their plans collapse and can only insist on doing more of what failed in the first place. They never consider that they might be wrong, because they are convinced that theirs is the vision of the anointed, as the great Thomas Sowell contemptuously described them. Their frantic efforts to double down are just their reaction to the loss of control their myopia is costing them.
In Europe, some of the big bankers are trying to hedge their bets by going big into precious metals and stones, as the realization is hitting that all the economic tricks in the world will not prop up the economic damage leftist ideological pretensions have wrought on the global economy much longer. They have an even bigger surprise coming. In the end, though precious metals and stones are much more stable than fiat currency, they are still just a form of currency – and offer little protection in a catastrophic collapse. Spain, which had a hundred-year head start on England in the New World was not as successful in its colonization efforts. This is because Spain thought that gold and silver were real wealth – and concentrated on extracting that. England knew that setting up a mercantile system was what created an ever-growing flow of economic prosperity.
A very simplified view of the problem recognizes that there are different forms of value. Three concern us here. First there is intrinsic value, which is what something is worth in its own right. Then there is market value, which is what something will trade for. Market value is dramatically affected by factors such as desirability, scarcity and utility. Thus, because of its plentiful nature, water, which has a supremely high intrinsic value has very little market value. But if you are trapped on a desert island, would you trade all your preciously gained food stores for even a mountain of gold? If you did, you would soon die if you cannot replace those food stores – and you will have very little use for the gold. Extreme situations dramatically magnify the importance of intrinsic value and diminish the importance of market value, depending on the depth of the crisis. Finally there is imputed value. This is what props up all systems of currency ever devised. A relatively worthless article is agreed upon as a means of trade, representing the productivity of the people who agree to the form of currency. It is based on trust: as long as people agree to and believe it has value, it does. When confidence in a currency collapses, so does its value. Economic trickery can prop it up for a time, but at the very high risk of collapsing confidence in it altogether. This happened famously in the American Confederacy, the Weimar Republic and Pancho Villa’s Mexico. More recently, it happened in Yugoslavia as it broke up, Venezuela as it moved to communism, and in Lebanon in the last two years as the government has tried to dictate, by fiat, what the Lebanese lira is worth. The bankers have already lost control of the narrative – and their palliative of moving to precious metals and stones will only slow, not stop, the slide.
While everyone is focused on the humanitarian tragedy of America’s botched, incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan, few yet understand that what Joe Biden has actually accomplished is to unleash the dogs of war. America is clearly no longer the world’s policeman; it is not even a reliable ally. Not only can’t it keep the peace; it won’t even keep its word. This has dramatically empowered terrorists across the globe while importing a whole new generation of terrorists into the United States. It has also emboldened nation-state aggressors across the globe. We are on the verge of World War III, far more comprehensive and destructive than the two that preceded it, because of vain fecklessness. It can’t be much forestalled now even if a Ronald Reagan or Donald Trump were to take the reins – for we have taught evil aggressors that if an American administration which takes its job seriously is elected, all the aggressors have to do is lay low and wait for the inevitable Jimmy Carter or Joe Biden that will follow when feckless Americans cease to take sound policy seriously in favor of ideological pretensions or perceived benefits. We have also taught our allies the same. For over a century, America has been the great restrainer in global affairs. Now the hand of the restrainer is withered and dead.
America and the entire west have become like a bus without a driver careening down a mountain road towards the barricade to the abyss beyond. Ordinary people are feeling an awful dread, while the anti-God left is frantic that it wasn’t supposed to be this way and are trying to re-establish the control they have already lost in the only way they know how – ever more draconian dictates. The dictates lead to more demands, which lead to more dictates in an ever-deepening spiral which hollows out confidence in the institutions doing the dictates. If the “leaders” among us had an ounce of knowledge of actual history, they would know they are enacting the archetypical format for catastrophic collapse and global strife which will erupt into catastrophic war.
While dealing with some of the problems at my lower level, I am almost gleeful. For most of my life, I have been convinced that man was increasingly drunk with the illusions of his control over events. I have been expecting that, at some point, God would strip away all illusions, that He might first break down man and his vanity and then rebuild healthy cultures in His image. For there is One who has not lost control of events – and that one is God. Many of you, maybe most of you, in the comforting cocoon of western security, liberty and prosperity, have assured yourself and others of what your fidelity would be in extreme times. You say you trust God and walk in your own integrity? Now it is as if God were from Missouri, for He is inviting you to show Him your faith. To help you along, he has made Himself the only lifeline out of the swirling vortex sucking everything down our culture has become. But it only appears as if God is inviting you to show Him. He already knows what you are and can be. He intends that you demonstrate it to yourself, for He knows that imagining a crisis and living it are two very different things – and so He proves you through this fiery crisis that, even now, comes barreling upon the world like a runaway train. If you actually live the fidelity you always said, from your ease, that you would, you will walk with greater confidence in proclaiming His kingdom to the weary and the fearful – not because your confidence in yourself has grown, but because your confidence in Him has grown and you are able to abandon yourself more fully to that confidence.
God uses this technique over and over throughout Scriptures. Do you really think God was bargaining with Abraham in the debate over Sodom in the 18th Chapter of Genesis? God knew He would spare the city for the sake of 10 righteous men even before Abraham said a word. But He also knew how wroth Abraham would be with the city when he saw how hideously depraved it had become. So God entered into discussion with Abraham to draw forth from the man a sharing in God’s own pity, a deep desire that even the most vicious enemies be reclaimed to God rather than destroyed in mere human vengeance. The enlarging of Abraham’s heart through the “negotiations” did not spare Sodom, but animated Abraham’s outlook for the rest of His life. He craved less the vengeance that men crave – and more the turning of the hearts of men that God craves.
For most of my life, I have looked forward to the chaos that would come when all illusions of mastery are stripped away from both the great and the small. As fearful as it is to have our delusions of grandeur crucified before our very eyes, its signifies the same grace that flowed from the Crucifixion of Our Lord. We are to lift up our heads and rejoice, for redemption is at hand for all who trust in the Lord. We are to walk both humbly and confidently with the Lord, for He has condescended to invite us to cooperate with His plan for recalling those who have fallen who are willing. We cannot stop the crash. We cannot force those who have irrevocably deluded themselves that there is nothing greater than themselves. But we can assemble the ambulances to care for all the wounded who WILL stretch out their hand to God for healing – and what a glorious call it is! From the fires and rubble of a culture that, by its hubris, will make the City of Babel blush at the judgment, we are invited to participate with the Master in rebuilding a culture of life in the City of God. I tell you now that those who stand true in these fearful times and participate humbly and confidently in this great work God has appointed will be revered and called blessed by their children and grandchildren up unto the establishment of the new heaven and the new earth. What a glorious time to be alive! And God has chosen and called you for this moment. Don’t obsess over the wreckage of the dead culture collapsing around you. Answer His call with rejoicing and participate in building the City of God. God will use the coalition of the willing in his service to renew the face and faith of the world. It amuses me sometimes that God has decided, this time, to renew the world with an army of misfit toys – and I am foremost among them.
Maranatha!
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I was going to kick off a fall fundraising drive this week, but some of the key players in facilitating that are also key players with Texas Right to Life. I prefer to help them with their crisis right now and delay the start of the drive for a week or two. When we get started, our targets will be to get 100 people to pledge to monthly donations and secure a total of $40,000 heading into the fall. Also, for anyone who has emailed me at my CORAC address recently, know that it has been temporarily affected by the attacks on TRTL. I will get back to you as soon as I can get back into my account.
If you can help us get it started before we formally get started, you can donate here. I deeply appreciate it as we continue to assemble the ambulances. Make sure to check out the videos, discussions and papers of our Health and Wellness, Sustainability, Communications and Prayer Teams Pages. It helps you prepare for the worst in a way that paves the way for the best.
I have been delighted with the functionality and usefulness of the Gab social media site. It does everything I want it to and none of what I don’t. You can find me there under Charliej373 or the CORAC group. You can also follow Texas Right to Life there, under its newly formed group page.
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I will kick off my latest missionary journey this Saturday, Sept. 11, at the 9/11 CORAC event in St. Cloud, Minnesota. It is an all day event that will begin with a patriotic Rosary at 9:11 a.m., followed by a spiritual warfare presentation by Deacon Dan Dullinger. A shooting range will be open for enthusiasts and there will be presentations on sausage-making, communicating via ham radio, and natural and herbal medicines. In the afternoon at 1:30, I will give a presentation followed by questions and general discussion with attendees. Not only that…organizers have some 2,200 lbs. of dried navy beans on hand – and all who attend are invited to fill a bucketful to take home before they leave. But it is a BYOB event – Bring Your Own Bucket! (only for the dried beans; there will be brats, beans and beverages available on-site to keep you from fainting in the mid-day sun) For information on where it is and to let them know you are coming, call Kris Rehfeld at (605) 228-3539 or Dino Kremers at (320) 309-3655.
Come on up and we’ll have a lively time.
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