The term “assisted suicide” rolls right off the tongue. Merriam-Webster defines it as “suicide committed by someone with assistance of another person.” But what is it really?According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, suicide “contradicts the natural inclination of the human being to preserve and perpetuate his life. It is gravely contrary to the just love of self. It likewise offends love of neighbor because it unjustly breaks the ties of solidarity with family, nation, and other human societies to which we continue to have obligations. Suicide is contrary to love for the living God.”This is why Fr. John Hardon, S.J. wrote: “God alone has the ownership of human life. Those who practice euthanasia assume the right of ownership over life. Therefore the sin committed is either murder or suicide.”The fact that Fr. Hardon tied suicide to euthanasia gives us a clue about how the word is used today. In fact, Pope John Paul II made it crystal clear when he said that “suicide is always as morally objectionable as murder.” He pointed out what is blatantly ignored by those who promote euthanasia by calling it assisted suicide. According to Fr. Hardon: “To concur with the intention of another person to commit suicide and to help in carrying it out through so-called ‘assisted suicide’ means to cooperate in, and at times to be the actual perpetrator of, an injustice which can never be excused, even if it is requested. In a remarkably relevant passage Saint Augustine writes that ‘it is never licit to kill another: even if he should wish it, indeed if he requests it because, hanging between life and death, he begs for help in freeing the soul struggling against the bonds of the body and longing to be released; nor is it licit even when a sick person is no longer able to live.’”The point is that no matter what you call the taking of the life of another—whether he is suffering from anguish, loneliness, terminal illness, or any number of psychological forms of depression—taking his life or encouraging him in any way to do so is a heinous crime against God. Murder is the proper name for it, though proponents of such acts deny that and actually accuse defenders of life of using scare tactics. Honesty is not the forte of those who promote forms of euthanasia.The problem is that organizations supporting such acts and working tirelessly to make sure the laws of our nation protect what they are promoting are seeking the legal right to kill while calling it something else.If you check out a pro-euthanasia website such as Compassion & Choices, you will find public opinion polls that agree with this pro-death posture. You will also discover that they say that medical aid in dying is neither assisted suicide nor euthanasia. Nonsense!Catholic psychiatrist Aaron Kheriaty, MD, explains one of the reasons that causes people to commit suicide. He writes: “The vast majority of suicides are associated with some form of clinical depression, which in its more serious forms can be a sort of madness that drives people to despair—leading to a profound and painful sense of hopelessness and even delusional thinking about oneself, the world and the future.”The individual who is clinically depressed, and to some degree mentally ill, is suffering from anguish and despair. This is not the patient that those who advocate assisted suicide are discussing. In fact, David Montgomery states that quite the opposite is true, saying: “Catholic, and I suspect all other Christian, bio-ethics recognizes that in the vast majority of cases, dying persons who choose suicide are not making such a choice. Many, perhaps all, are under such coercion from physical or psychological suffering, guilt for being a burden, or active pressure that they are not fully responsible for their actions. Thus nothing in the statement that suicide is wrong implies any judgment about an individual who makes that choice, but it does make it clear that we must try to prevent suicide in every possible way.”Montgomery’s response is the one thing that proponents of euthanasia masked as assisted suicide will never say, namely that “the duty of the Christian and society is to provide the loving care for the dying that can make the choice of suicide no longer an issue.”When St. John Paul taught that “true ‘compassion’ leads to sharing another’s pain; it does not kill the person whose suffering we cannot bear,” he affirmed the truth that assisting a suicide is cruel, inhumane, and evil.Our challenge is to expose this, help others understand it, and end the deadly ruse.
JUDIE BROWN
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Donald J. Trump:Joe Biden’s Best FriendThe myth of Biden the healer, and Trump the cruel divider, got Biden elected. But the fantasy that Biden had the answers to problems that Trump created is a far greater—and more dangerous—delusion.By Victor Davis HansonApril 4, 2021 The Pavlovian “Trump did it!” sums up Joe Biden’s fallback excuse when faced with any embarrassment. His own completely optional, self-created, illegal immigration disaster? Trump somehow caused it, despite leaving office with a stable and secure border. Vaccination rates soaring? There would be even more if not for Trump’s mere 1-million-a-day vaccination rate, mere weeks after the rollout of the “experimental” vaccinations that supposedly would take “years” to develop. Chinese aggressiveness? Trump’s provocations again due to all his paranoid talk of travel bans, and a lab-escaped virus. European unwillingness to confront the Chinese? Yep, Trump’s the cause again, with jawboning our friends into paying $100 million more for their own defense. In truth, Trump’s atmospherics were chaotic, but not just due to his incessant tweeting and candid ad hoc outbursts—or even media hatred that led to 90 percent negative coverage by the networks, newspapers, and online social media. (Notice how few, Left or Right, use any more the adjective “left-wing” or “liberal,” since to do so is a redundancy: “the media” is now accepted as a synonym for “left-wing media.”) Instead, what enraged the elite was Trump’s unapologetic effort to fire up the economy to benefit Americans through massive deregulation, tax reform and reduction, encouragement of returning investment to the United States, and expansion of energy production, exploration, and delivery. The result was that on the eve of the pandemic, there was a trifecta of record-low minority unemployment and near-record peacetime low unemployment, record energy production, and strong GDP growth. Why Didn’t a Plagiarist Plagiarize? All the newly inaugurated Biden had to do—as the pre-COVID-19 economic engine begins to kick back in and as the virus slowly begins to wane—was to claim-jump Trump’s work as the “Biden recovery.” He could have tinkered around the edges of the soaring recovery with the usual progressive social welfare verbal boilerplate. To the degree we are now on the verge of a boom resulting from pent-up demand, it is largely because the fumes of the Trump policy have not been blown away yet by the impending Biden storm of regulations, and planned tax hikes. Biden claimed he was an “uniter.” So with a 50-50 Senate, a tiny majority in the House, and coming off a contested, bitter election, Biden simply could have conceded that he had no mandate for anything like Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 100-day revolution. Yet he could not just let events take their course—even if to his obvious own benefit. Instead of letting Trump’s Aesopian golden goose continue to lay its golden eggs for Biden, Biden is cutting the mother bird open—and so will find inside no more freely gifted gold. A year-long demand is being unleashed at once as quarantines erode. People are breaking out of their isolation. They want to buy, travel and have fun. The surge is accelerated by the “funny-money” Trump stimulus of 2020, now augmented by a funnier Biden $2 trillion cash infusion. The result is that we are creating a climate of profligate consumer spending, albeit one reliant on massive public deficits and soaring national debt—and supposedly near-permanent, de facto zero interest rates. Binge Now, Hangover LaterBut ancient and immutable laws advise caution: when real interest does not really exist, when the money supply soars, when production is overregulated and taxed and soon cannot keep up with spiraling credit-fueled demand, inflation returns—and with it an eventual stagflation of a slowed-down economy with high interest and soaring prices. Most of the country remembers neither the stagflation of the Ford-Carter years nor what caused the real estate bubble collapse of 2008. But one commonality was the ease of buying on credit what one could not afford but was deemed affordable by supposedly permanently low interest rates—along with government intervention in the economy to hyper regulate banking and commerce, and choose economic winners and losers. Already in once-stagnant places like California’s Central Valley, the prices of homes are sky-rocketing. Gas has gone up over $1 a gallon since the election and approaches $4. Tens of thousands of Californians are buying on easy credit high-priced cars and luxury trucks—with near-zero down payments, zero-interest loan incentives, at or above astronomical sticker prices. Container ships off Los Angeles harbor are lined up waiting for a berth, as the rapacious appetites of Americans for consumer goods have outpaced the ability to satiate them. Fresno, of all places, is now the nation’s hottest real estate market. I talked last month to a large pickup dealer in the area. His “challenge” is not finding entry-level and mid-level trucks for his supposedly unstimulated buyers, but top-of-the-line, luxury trucks for those who either are flush with cash, or eager to go into huge zero-interest debt. In one of the nation’s supposedly most depressed areas, buyers seem to prefer zero-interest-financed $75-80,000 to $55,000 trucks. The New Chaos Is Calm, the Old Calm Was Chaos?The last thing this emerging economy needs is trillions more in money-printing, especially for infrastructure spending that is more about race, class, gender, and climate therapeutics. Ditto the analogous paradigm on the border. Trump’s immigration security efforts for three years were tied up in court. They were filibustered. His own administration’s cabinet secretaries and administrative state clerks often ignored or stymied his efforts to build the southern border wall. Yet by January 2020, illegal immigration was in decline. Mexico and Central American governments were helping to curtail their exoduses. The border was relatively quiet—with 450 miles of new or rebuilt walls, on a steady trajectory for hundreds of more miles still. All Biden had to do was to enjoy the hard-won respite and claim that he solved the once-raucous border crisis, replace Trump’s coarse Manhattanese with his “old Joe from Scranton” therapeutic lingo, and bask in his accustomed appropriated achievement. Biden even might have insidiously kept the immigration stream partially open to meet his party’s grand design to recalibrate U.S. demographics, but at rates that remained under the radar and without the current catastrophic optics. But, again, he strangled the Trump goose and found its innards suddenly barren. Joe Biden inherited the foundations for the world’s most ambitious and efficient vaccination development program. No other country had subsidized, partnered, and took risks on Moderna, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Novavax vaccinations—and paid top dollar to ensure supplies. The result of such a bold gamble was that 1.5 million Americans were being vaccinated on the single day when Biden took office with a planned pathway to 2-3 million more per day—after two of the four vaccines were rushed into production within 10 months, all safer or more efficacious than anything in the EU, China, or Russia. All Biden had to do was to announce “a Biden acceleration” of this inheritance. Instead, he trashed his predecessor, lying there were no vaccinations when he took office (Biden did a photo-op being vaccinated on December 21, a full month before assuming office), and instructed those likely to be reluctant to be vaccinated that masks and social distancing would be required of the immunized, anyway. And all of this came after unnecessary delays in woke states and counties that sought to politically weaponize the order of vaccinations, instead of focusing on all people over 65, who were the most vulnerable to the virus. In foreign affairs, the script is similar. The Trump-Pompeo Middle East breakthroughs had isolated an eroding Iran, brought not just peace but an alliance between Israel and several of its former Arab enemies, and quietly transcended the traditional Palestinian veto over the foreign policy decisions of 425 million other Arabs in 22 nations. All Biden had to do was to pay lip service to “seeking a constructive relationship with Iran” and then put the Middle East on an auto-piloted continued trajectory. Instead, Biden is now eager to return to the pro-Persian-Shiite tilt, apparently in unhinged notions of either “balancing” the Likud Party and its Arab Gulf right-wing allies, or in a social welfare sense, empowering the supposedly marginalized “other” of the wider Middle East. Ditto new American policies toward China, U.S.-NATO relations, and North Korea. Pre-COVID, China was frustrated that the United States seemed to think it needed China less than China needed America, North Korea was relatively quiet. NATO countries had contributed a new $100 billion of their long-overdue contributions to their own defense. The truth was that Trump’s policies at home and abroad were neither neoconservative and interventionist nation-building nor RINO Republican country-club economics, but instead realist abroad and populist at home. More importantly, Trump’s record was not so much ideological as practical and led not to chaos but to achievement. Biden is daily discarding that gift and blaming Trump for his own growing self-created miseries. The 2020 Trump vs. No-Trump ElectionIn a cultural and political sense, Trump was also Biden’s best friend. Biden in 2020 never really had to campaign. He was a bystander as the media weaponized a Trump referendum. Biden simply holed up in his virtual basement headquarters of a virtual campaign. He outsourced his entire election effort to four nihilist groups: a toadyish, Ministry-of-Truth media; left-wing PACs and foundations intent on changing voting laws and election protocols; hard-core leftist political activists; and leakers and anonymous operatives inside the Trump administration—all to provide “scandals” and “walls-are-closing-in” 24-hour psychodrama. As a result, Biden offered no detailed alternatives to Trump’s domestic or foreign policy. He kept largely mum about his own newly acquired socialist fantasies. Biden instead demonized Trump the tweeter, Trump the press-conference brawler, and Trump the hirer of Omarosa, Steve Bannon, and the Mooch—while his surrogates fanned the dissipating fumes of “Russian collusion” and hyping nonstop leaked presidential phone calls and Oval Office discussions. In other words, all that Trump did became an unspoken veritable gift to Biden, and how Trump spoke and communicated was even a greater present for the mute and invisible Biden. All knew that the mediocre Biden—a former two-time presidential loser, the butt of ridicule during the Obama administration, at 78 of question cognitive abilities, a proverbial fabulist, habitual plagiarist, and prone to the most nonsensical racial riffs of any major political figure in recent memory—was an unlikely presidential winner and likely would be an inept president. But Trump gave him the foundations of a resilient economy (“the Biden recovery”), an ongoing successful vaccination Marshall Plan to defeat the virus (“the Biden vaccination”) and a pathway to return to a January 2020 economy (“the Biden boom”)—and nice Twitter fodder for the precious swing voter. The Glories of NihilismOf all Biden’s diminishing powers, megalomania seems the last to go. So instead of claiming credit for his predecessor’s accomplishments, Biden did the very opposite, with pretensions he would outdo Obamacare, the New Deal, and the Great Society all at once. In that vein, he has not only misrepresented Trump’s achievements, but in spite and ignorance sought to undo them at the border, on the economy, and in public health. Biden is back to habitual demonizing the former “chumps” and “dregs” with a new epithet of “Neanderthals.” His short-term memory is stuck on mask obsessions as if the more the Neanderthals are freed of them by vaccinations and growing herd immunity, the more he should mumble that they need two not just one. Biden calls any state that reasonably asks for voter IDs racist. And he has reverted to a paranoid presidency that is far less transparent than Trump’s, far more isolated, and reliant on a groveling media to disguise what may end up as something similar to the last 14 months of Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, with Jill Biden as the would-be Edith Wilson. Biden got elected by unleashing others to insist that he was a healer, not a boisterous Trump-style divider, and by enlisting special interests to redefine how we vote. The odd thing was that the supposedly narcissistic Trump did not emphasize sufficiently his own achievements and real accomplishments as much as he licked his unmerited political wounds, which fed into the Biden construct of a self-obsessed president. The myth of Biden the healer, and Trump the cruel divider, helped to get Biden elected. But the fantasy that Biden had the answers to problems that Trump created is a far greater—and more dangerous—delusion.
RIP MCINTOSH
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Scalfari quoted Francis the Balthasarian saying: “Once Incarnate, Jesus stops being a God and becomes a Man until his Death on the Cross.”
Balthasar makes the shocking statement that the Incarnation is “suspended” while Jesus is in the tomb:
“Holy Saturday is thus a kind of suspension, as it were, of the Incarnation, whose result is given back to the hands of the Father and which the Father will renew and definitively confirm by the Easter Resurrection” (“The Descent into Hell”, Spirit and Institution, Explorations in Theology, vol. IV, pp 411-412) – Unam Sanctam Catholicam website
In 2019, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano urged Francis himself to give a “clear answer” to if he believes Jesus was always God.
So far, Francis refuses to follow Archbishop Vigano’s urging.
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Scalfari quoted Francis the Balthasarian saying: “Once Incarnate, Jesus stops being a God and becomes a Man until his Death on the Cross.”
Balthasar makes the shocking statement that the Incarnation is “suspended” while Jesus is in the tomb:
“Holy Saturday is thus a kind of suspension, as it were, of the Incarnation, whose result is given back to the hands of the Father and which the Father will renew and definitively confirm by the Easter Resurrection” (“The Descent into Hell”, Spirit and Institution, Explorations in Theology, vol. IV, pp 411-412) – Unam Sanctam Catholicam website
Francis problem on this issue with Vigano started when his close longtime friend Eugenio Scalfari quoted Francis saying:
“Once incarnate, Jesus stops being a God and becomes a man until his death on the cross.”
Might this reported idea of Francis that Jesus’ “Incarnation [was] ‘suspended'” have come fromHans Urs von Balthasar who is a favorite theologian of Francis?
Also, in 2018, Francis owed the Church and the whole world a “clear answer” and public denial of the heretical words attributed to him by Eugenio Scalfari, a 93-year-old atheist and abortion advocate, that made worldwide headlines. The Vatican’s statement that Scalfari’s article is not “faithful” to Francis’s exact words is not enough to redress the damage that the Francis has done by allowing this to happen for the second time.
In 2018, Vox reported the denial of Hell is mostly a liberal Protestant andHans Urs von Balthasar heresy and that “Francis’s ‘doublespeak’ on this idea of Balthasar puts him in a precarious spot” as a Catholic:
Still, most of these modern theologians largely come from Protestant traditions, which lack the same formalized structure and codified doctrine as the Catholic Church. That said, some recent major Catholic thinkers have indeed pushed back on the idea of hell as popularly understood. In the 1980s, Swiss theologianHans Urs von Balthasar, for example, flirted with reconciliation in his book Dare We Hope That All Men Be Saved?…
… Francis’s “doublespeak” puts him in a precarious spot
But by participating in a kind of bait and switch — putting forth potentially heretical ideas, then formally denying them — Francis leaves himself open to the charge of disingenuousness. He’s able to signal sympathy for progressive theology, but does not have the responsibility of answering to conservatives or formally advocating for doctrinal change. It’s a canny political move, but one that destabilizes the nature of the Catholic Church as a centralized, formal body: the very thing that sets the Catholic Church apart from other Western Christian denominations. [https://www.vox.com/2018/3/30/17179952/pope-francis-hell-vatican-interview-scalfari-italian]
Carolyn Chau, who is a theologian at King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario, and Peter Casarella, a theologian at DePaul University, say Francis despite the Vatican’s “doublespeak” is a Balthasarian:
At the same time, it is hard to pigeonhole Father von Balthasar as a conservative. “Von Balthasar was also a sharp critic of an inward-looking, self-referential church,” said Peter Casarella, a theologian at DePaul University.
Dr. Chau said… what seems to resonate most with Pope Francis has been the Balthasarian emphasis on how the church encounters the world.
When he was still cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, the new Pope cited Father von Balthasar when he visited Quebec City for the 49th International Eucharistic Congress in 2008…
… The most unconventional part of Father von Balthasar’s work came after he met Adrienne von Speyr, a medical doctor who had mystical visions. From their encounter came one of his most disputed ideas: that on Holy Saturday, Christ didn’t go to the realm of the dead as a victorious liberator of righteous souls but as one who suffered so others wouldn’t. The claim triggered an academic row, with one theologian branding it quasi-heretical, Dr. Kilby said.[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/theologians-parse-popes-words-for-the-gospel-of-balthasar/article10548791/]
In First Things, Theologian Alyssa Lyra Pitstick, in a back and forth with Francis CatholicFr. Edward T. Oakes, S.J., saidthat apparently Francis the Balthasarian may be a liberal Protestant heretic with his favorite Swiss theologian:
Then, too, Oakes claims I dismiss Luther and Calvin “just for being Protestant” and that I consider the genealogy from Nicholas of Cusa to Balthasar via these two “probative merely by mentioning” it. I highlighted this lineage first to indicate that the doctrine of Christ suffering in hell has relatively recent origins; from its beginnings to the Reformation, the Church believed quite the opposite. But this genealogy is also important to the question of Balthasar’s status as a Catholic ecclesial theologian: The Catholic tradition rejected Nicholas’ proposal, while the idea was deliberately developed against the Catholic doctrine in the Protestant ambience. If Balthasar takes up what Catholics rejected and what Protestants used to distinguish themselves, one may legitimately question Balthasar’s Catholicity on these grounds-for it is not what we share that separates us but precisely our differences. It is fallacious for Oakes to suggest I think non-Catholics speak no truth simply because I argue that some of them are mistaken on one point.
Perhaps Oakes might now address my original difficulties: Can one doctrine truly be the development of another if the two are contradictory? Does the tradition’s material profession (the content of belief) have as much authority as the formal profession? And since Balthasar’s theology of Christ’s descent entails a de facto rejection of Catholic tradition and its authority, what must we conclude about Balthasar’s service as a Catholic ecclesial theologian? Perhaps in the end we must say, however reluctantly, that after Luther, Calvin, and Barth, Balthasar has made a real contribution to Protestant ecclesial theology. [https://www.firstthings.com/article/2007/01/more-on-balthasar-hell-and-heresy]
The Unam Sanctam Catholicam explains “The Heresies of Balthasar” and apparently Francis the Balthasarian heresies:
Balthasar’s dissatisfaction with the privation theory of sin leads him to posit a real, ontological existence for sin, contrary to Augustine, Thomas, the implications of the Catechism and almost all of ancient and medieval Catholic tradition. Sin becomes an ontological reality by a sort of negative creation, in which man, by the passion and willfulness that he puts into sinning, turns sin into a positive reality. Balthasar says:
“It is possible to distinguish between the sin and the sinner…Because of the energy that man has invested in it, sin is a reality, it is not ‘nothing.'” (Theo-Drama, vol. V, pp. 266, 314).
Because sin has this ontological reality, it can be abstracted from the sinner and, consequently, removed to another locus. Here Balthasar’s theology of sin crosses into his soteriology. Because sin is a reality that can be separated from the sinner, it is possible to “load” it on to Christ, who literally assumes the sins of every person in His death, but especially in His Descent:
“[Sin] has been isolated from the sinner…separated from the sinner by the work of the Cross” (ibid., 285, 314).
Thus, because sin is able to be loaded onto Christ, Christ literally takes the sins, and the guilt, of every sinner on to Himself, and in His death and Descent, literally becomes sin, in such a real, metaphysical sense that Balthasar makes the shocking statement that the Incarnation is “suspended” while Jesus is in the tomb:
“Holy Saturday is thus a kind of suspension, as it were, of the Incarnation, whose result is given back to the hands of the Father and which the Father will renew and definitively confirm by the Easter Resurrection” (“The Descent into Hell”, Spirit and Institution, Explorations in Theology, vol. IV, pp 411-412).. [http://unamsanctamcatholicam.blogspot.com/2012/02/heresies-of-balthasar.html?m=1]
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.
Scalfari quoted Francis the Balthasarian saying: “Once Incarnate, Jesus stops being a God and becomes a Man until his Death on the Cross.”
Balthasar makes the shocking statement that the Incarnation is “suspended” while Jesus is in the tomb:
“Holy Saturday is thus a kind of suspension, as it were, of the Incarnation, whose result is given back to the hands of the Father and which the Father will renew and definitively confirm by the Easter Resurrection” (“The Descent into Hell”, Spirit and Institution, Explorations in Theology, vol. IV, pp 411-412) – Unam Sanctam Catholicam website
In 2019, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano urged Francis himself to give a “clear answer” to if he believes Jesus was always God.
So far, Francis refuses to follow Archbishop Vigano’s urging.
Francis problem on this issue with Vigano started when his close longtime friend Eugenio Scalfari quoted Francis saying:
“Once incarnate, Jesus stops being a God and becomes a man until his death on the cross.”
Might this reported idea of Francis that Jesus’ “Incarnation [was] ‘suspended'” have come fromHans Urs von Balthasar who is a favorite theologian of Francis?
Also, in 2018, Francis owed the Church and the whole world a “clear answer” and public denial of the heretical words attributed to him by Eugenio Scalfari, a 93-year-old atheist and abortion advocate, that made worldwide headlines. The Vatican’s statement that Scalfari’s article is not “faithful” to Francis’s exact words is not enough to redress the damage that the Francis has done by allowing this to happen for the second time.
In 2018, Vox reported the denial of Hell is mostly a liberal Protestant andHans Urs von Balthasar heresy and that “Francis’s ‘doublespeak’ on this idea of Balthasar puts him in a precarious spot” as a Catholic:
Still, most of these modern theologians largely come from Protestant traditions, which lack the same formalized structure and codified doctrine as the Catholic Church. That said, some recent major Catholic thinkers have indeed pushed back on the idea of hell as popularly understood. In the 1980s, Swiss theologianHans Urs von Balthasar, for example, flirted with reconciliation in his book Dare We Hope That All Men Be Saved?…
… Francis’s “doublespeak” puts him in a precarious spot
But by participating in a kind of bait and switch — putting forth potentially heretical ideas, then formally denying them — Francis leaves himself open to the charge of disingenuousness. He’s able to signal sympathy for progressive theology, but does not have the responsibility of answering to conservatives or formally advocating for doctrinal change. It’s a canny political move, but one that destabilizes the nature of the Catholic Church as a centralized, formal body: the very thing that sets the Catholic Church apart from other Western Christian denominations. [https://www.vox.com/2018/3/30/17179952/pope-francis-hell-vatican-interview-scalfari-italian]
Carolyn Chau, who is a theologian at King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario, and Peter Casarella, a theologian at DePaul University, say Francis despite the Vatican’s “doublespeak” is a Balthasarian:
At the same time, it is hard to pigeonhole Father von Balthasar as a conservative. “Von Balthasar was also a sharp critic of an inward-looking, self-referential church,” said Peter Casarella, a theologian at DePaul University.
Dr. Chau said… what seems to resonate most with Pope Francis has been the Balthasarian emphasis on how the church encounters the world.
When he was still cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, the new Pope cited Father von Balthasar when he visited Quebec City for the 49th International Eucharistic Congress in 2008…
… The most unconventional part of Father von Balthasar’s work came after he met Adrienne von Speyr, a medical doctor who had mystical visions. From their encounter came one of his most disputed ideas: that on Holy Saturday, Christ didn’t go to the realm of the dead as a victorious liberator of righteous souls but as one who suffered so others wouldn’t. The claim triggered an academic row, with one theologian branding it quasi-heretical, Dr. Kilby said.[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/theologians-parse-popes-words-for-the-gospel-of-balthasar/article10548791/]
In First Things, Theologian Alyssa Lyra Pitstick, in a back and forth with Francis CatholicFr. Edward T. Oakes, S.J., saidthat apparently Francis the Balthasarian may be a liberal Protestant heretic with his favorite Swiss theologian:
Then, too, Oakes claims I dismiss Luther and Calvin “just for being Protestant” and that I consider the genealogy from Nicholas of Cusa to Balthasar via these two “probative merely by mentioning” it. I highlighted this lineage first to indicate that the doctrine of Christ suffering in hell has relatively recent origins; from its beginnings to the Reformation, the Church believed quite the opposite. But this genealogy is also important to the question of Balthasar’s status as a Catholic ecclesial theologian: The Catholic tradition rejected Nicholas’ proposal, while the idea was deliberately developed against the Catholic doctrine in the Protestant ambience. If Balthasar takes up what Catholics rejected and what Protestants used to distinguish themselves, one may legitimately question Balthasar’s Catholicity on these grounds-for it is not what we share that separates us but precisely our differences. It is fallacious for Oakes to suggest I think non-Catholics speak no truth simply because I argue that some of them are mistaken on one point.
Perhaps Oakes might now address my original difficulties: Can one doctrine truly be the development of another if the two are contradictory? Does the tradition’s material profession (the content of belief) have as much authority as the formal profession? And since Balthasar’s theology of Christ’s descent entails a de facto rejection of Catholic tradition and its authority, what must we conclude about Balthasar’s service as a Catholic ecclesial theologian? Perhaps in the end we must say, however reluctantly, that after Luther, Calvin, and Barth, Balthasar has made a real contribution to Protestant ecclesial theology. [https://www.firstthings.com/article/2007/01/more-on-balthasar-hell-and-heresy]
The Unam Sanctam Catholicam explains “The Heresies of Balthasar” and apparently Francis the Balthasarian heresies:
Balthasar’s dissatisfaction with the privation theory of sin leads him to posit a real, ontological existence for sin, contrary to Augustine, Thomas, the implications of the Catechism and almost all of ancient and medieval Catholic tradition. Sin becomes an ontological reality by a sort of negative creation, in which man, by the passion and willfulness that he puts into sinning, turns sin into a positive reality. Balthasar says:
“It is possible to distinguish between the sin and the sinner…Because of the energy that man has invested in it, sin is a reality, it is not ‘nothing.'” (Theo-Drama, vol. V, pp. 266, 314).
Because sin has this ontological reality, it can be abstracted from the sinner and, consequently, removed to another locus. Here Balthasar’s theology of sin crosses into his soteriology. Because sin is a reality that can be separated from the sinner, it is possible to “load” it on to Christ, who literally assumes the sins of every person in His death, but especially in His Descent:
“[Sin] has been isolated from the sinner…separated from the sinner by the work of the Cross” (ibid., 285, 314).
Thus, because sin is able to be loaded onto Christ, Christ literally takes the sins, and the guilt, of every sinner on to Himself, and in His death and Descent, literally becomes sin, in such a real, metaphysical sense that Balthasar makes the shocking statement that the Incarnation is “suspended” while Jesus is in the tomb:
“Holy Saturday is thus a kind of suspension, as it were, of the Incarnation, whose result is given back to the hands of the Father and which the Father will renew and definitively confirm by the Easter Resurrection” (“The Descent into Hell”, Spirit and Institution, Explorations in Theology, vol. IV, pp 411-412).. [http://unamsanctamcatholicam.blogspot.com/2012/02/heresies-of-balthasar.html?m=1]
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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JMJ I hope and pray you have a Happy and Joyous and Blessed Easter!Here is what Our Lord won for us on the Cross…a Church that would ALWAYS teach us true doctrine and would NEVER teach us false doctrine…a Church that would ALWAYS give us true Sacraments and NEVER give us evil liturgies and invalid Sacraments: Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi, June 29, 1943: 31. Just as at the first moment of the Incarnation the Son of the Eternal Father adorned with the fullness of the Holy Spirit the human nature which was substantially united to Him, that it might be a fitting instrument of the Divinity in the sanguinary work of the Redemption, so at the hour of His precious death He willed that His Church should be enriched with the abundant gifts of the Paraclete in order that in dispensing the divine fruits of the Redemption she might be, for the Incarnate Word, a powerful instrument that would NEVER fail. For both the juridical mission of the Church, and the power to teach, govern and administer the Sacraments, derive their supernatural efficacy and force of the building up of the body of Christ from the fact that Jesus Christ, hanging on the Cross, opened up to His Church the fountain of those divine gifts, which prevent her from EVER teaching false doctrineand enable her to rule them for the salvation of their souls through divinely enlightened pastors and to bestow on them an abundance of heavenly graces. ALWAYS, NEVER, EVER & WHATSOEVER ALWAYS: The “See of St. Peter ALWAYS remains unblemished by any error.” (Vatican I) NEVER: The See of Peter was given a “gift of truth and NEVER failing faith.” (Vatican I) EVER: The Catholic Church is prevented “from EVER teaching false doctrine.” (Mystici Corporis Christi) WHATSOEVER: “And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of Heaven. And WHATSOEVER thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in Heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in Heaven. (Our Lord Jesus Christ, Mt. 16:18-19) The Magisterium of the Catholic Church NEVER teaches heresy. (Mystici Corporis Christi) The “…See of St. Peter ALWAYS remains unblemished by any error.” (Vatican I) It was given a “gift of truth and NEVER failing faith.” (Vatican I) The Solemn Magisterium is incapable of “EVER teaching any false doctrine.” (Vatican I and Mystici Corporis Christi) The Ordinary Magisterium and Ecumenical Councils and Encyclicals are incapable of “EVER teaching any false doctrine.” (Mystici Corporis Christi and Humani Generis) Encyclicals, by their very own nature, demand consent and are ALWAYS as spotless in their doctrine as is Our Lord Jesus Christ…he who accepts an Encyclical, accepts Christ; he who rejects an Encyclical rejects Christ. (Humani Generis) “…the power to teach, govern and administer the Sacraments, derive their supernatural efficacy and force of the building up of the body of Christ from the fact that Jesus Christ, hanging on the Cross, opened up to His Church the fountain of those divine gifts, which prevent her from EVER teaching false doctrine.” (Mystici Corporis Christi) After reading the following quotes, I hope we can agree that: True Popes NEVER teach heresy in Magisterial documents.Our Lord Jesus Christ, Mt. 16:18-19 “And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And WHATSOEVER thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in Heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in Heaven. (Our Lord Jesus Christ, Mt. 16:18-19) The First Vatican CouncilDogmatic Constitution of Vatican I,Pastor Aeternus Pope Pius IX, July 18, 1870 A.D. “Indeed, their apostolic teaching was embraced by all the venerable fathers and reverenced and followed by all the holy orthodox doctors, for they knew very well that this see of St. Peter always remains unblemished by any error, in accordance with the divine promise of our Lord and Savior to the prince of his disciples: I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail; and when you have turned again, strengthen your brethren. “This gift of truth and never-failing faith was therefore divinely conferred on Peter and his successors in this see so that they might discharge their exalted office for the salvation of all, and so that the whole flock of Christ might be kept away by them from the poisonous food of error and be nourished with the sustenance of heavenly doctrine.” The First Vatican CouncilDogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith, Dei FiliusPope Pius IX, 24 April 1870 A.D. “Wherefore, by divine and Catholic faith all those things are to be believed which are contained in the word of God as found in Scripture and tradition, and which are proposed by the Church as matters to be believed as divinely revealed, whether by her solemn judgment or in her ordinary and universal magisterium.”Humani GenerisOn Modern Errors Pope Pius XII – August 12, 1950 20. “Nor must it be thought that what is expounded in Encyclical Letters does not of itself demand consent, since in writing such Letters the Popes do not exercise the supreme power of their Magisterium. For these matters are taught with the Ordinary Magisterium (Magisterio Ordinario), of which it is true to say: “He who heareth you, heareth me…” (Lk. 10:16) Notice above in Humani Generis, Pope Pius XII infallibly teaches that: Encyclical Letters are the Ordinary Magisterium, “of which it is true to say: “He who heareth you, heareth Me…” (Lk. 10:16) So if we admit that Christ is infallible, Then we must admit that Encyclicals and the Ordinary Magisterium are infallible. Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi, June 29, 1943: 22. Actually only those are to be included as members of the Church who have been baptized and profess the true faith, and who have not been so unfortunate as to separate themselves from the unity of the Body, or been excluded by legitimate authority for grave faults committed. “For in one spirit” says the Apostle, “were we all baptized into one Body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether bond or free.” 17 As therefore in the true Christian community there is only one Body, one Spirit, one Lord, and one Baptism, so there can be only one faith. 18And therefore if a man refuse to hear the Church let him be considered — so the Lord commands — as a heathen and a publican. 19 It follows that those are divided in faith or government cannot be living in the unity of such a Body, nor can they be living the life of its one Divine Spirit. 23. Nor must one imagine that the Body of the Church, just because it bears the name of Christ, is made up during the days of its earthly pilgrimage only of members conspicuous for their holiness, or that it consists only of those whom God has predestined to eternal happiness. it is owing to the Savior’s infinite mercy that place is allowed in His Mystical Body here below for those whom, of old, He did not exclude from the banquet. For not every offense, however grave it may be, is such as of its own nature to sever a man from the Body of the Church, as does schism or heresy or apostasy. 31. Just as at the first moment of the Incarnation the Son of the Eternal Father adorned with the fullness of the Holy Spirit the human nature which was substantially united to Him, that it might be a fitting instrument of the Divinity in the sanguinary work of the Redemption, so at the hour of His precious death He willed that His Church should be enriched with the abundant gifts of the Paraclete in order that in dispensing the divine fruits of the Redemption she might be, for the Incarnate Word, a powerful instrument that would never fail. For both the juridical mission of the Church, and the power to teach, govern and administer the Sacraments, derive their supernatural efficacy and force of the building up of the body of Christ from the fact that Jesus Christ, hanging on the Cross, opened up to His Church the fountain of those divine gifts, which prevent her from ever teaching false doctrineand enable her to rule them for the salvation of their souls through divinely enlightened pastors and to bestow on them an abundance of heavenly graces. Mortalium Animos, Encyclical by Pope Pius XI, 1928 “The Magisterium of the Church (“Ecclesia Magisterium”) which in the divine wisdom was constituted on earth in order that revealed doctrines might remain intact forever, and that they might be brought with ease and security to the knowledge of men, … is daily exercised [cotidie exercetur] through the Roman Pontiff and the Bishops who are in communion with him.” (Pius XI, Mortalium Animos, 1928) Note Well: The Teaching Authority (Magisterium) of the Church is exercised every day…not just in extraordinary circumstances, so there is no way to maintain that Vatican II and 63 years worth of Encyclicals and Catechisms from 1958-2021 weren’t the Magisterium of the Church…the Church’s Magisterium is incapable of teaching heresies. “Besides this, in connection with things which must be believed, it is nowise licit to use that distinction which some have seen fit to introduce between those articles of faith which are fundamental and those which are not fundamental, as they say, as if the former are to be accepted by all, while the latter may be left to the free assent of the faithful: for the supernatural virtue of faith has a formal cause, namely the authority of God revealing, and this is patient of no such distinction. For this reason it is that all who are truly Christ’s believe, for example, the Conception of the Mother of God without stain of original sin with the same faith as they believe the mystery of the August Trinity, and the Incarnation of Our Lord just as they do the infallible teaching authority of the Roman Pontiff,according to the sense in which it was defined by the Ecumenical Council of the Vatican. Are these truths not equally certain, or not equally to be believed, because the Church has solemnly sanctioned and defined them, some in one age and some in another, even in those times immediately before our own? Has not God revealed them all? For the teaching authority (magisterium) of the Church, which in the divine wisdom was constituted on earth in order that revealed doctrines might remain intact for ever, and that they might be brought with ease and security to the knowledge of men, and which is dailyexercised through the Roman Pontiff and the Bishops who are in communion with him, has also the office of defining, when it sees fit, any truth with solemn rites and decrees, whenever this is necessary either to oppose the errors or the attacks of heretics, or more clearly and in greater detail to stamp the minds of the faithful with the articles of sacred doctrine which have been explained. But in the use of this extraordinary teaching authority (extraordinary magisterium) no newly invented matter is brought in, nor is anything new added to the number of those truths which are at least implicitly contained in the deposit of Revelation, divinely handed down to the Church: only those which are made clear which perhaps may still seem obscure to some, or that which some have previously called into question is declared to be of faith.”
Let us pray to Our Risen Lord that he will give to holy men and women of our Church the grace, wisdom and courage to purify the Church of those men and women who are responsible for the present confusion and error which has been proposed as valid teaching of the Church and has caused the chaos which is inflicting such tremendous harm on the Body of Christ.
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Holy Saturday: Francis the Balthasarian & Balthasar’s Heresies on the Incarnation & Hell
Balthasar makes the shocking statement that the Incarnation is “suspended” while Jesus is in the tomb:
“Holy Saturday is thus a kind of suspension, as it were, of the Incarnation, whose result is given back to the hands of the Father and which the Father will renew and definitively confirm by the Easter Resurrection” (“The Descent into Hell”, Spirit and Institution, Explorations in Theology, vol. IV, pp 411-412) – Unam Sanctam Catholicam website
In 2018, Francis owed the Church and the whole world a public denial of the heretical words attributed to him by Eugenio Scalfari, a 93-year-old atheist and abortion advocate, that made worldwide headlines.
The Vatican’s statement that Scalfari’s article is not “faithful” to Francis’s exact words is not enough to redress the damage that the Francis has done by allowing this to happen for the second time.
In 2018, Vox reported the denial of Hell is mostly a liberal Protestant andHans Urs von Balthasar heresy and that “Francis’s ‘doublespeak’ puts him in a precarious spot” as a Catholic:
Still, most of these modern theologians largely come from Protestant traditions, which lack the same formalized structure and codified doctrine as the Catholic Church. That said, some recent major Catholic thinkers have indeed pushed back on the idea of hell as popularly understood. In the 1980s, Swiss theologianHans Urs von Balthasar, for example, flirted with reconciliation in his book Dare We Hope That All Men Be Saved?…
… Francis’s “doublespeak” puts him in a precarious spot
But by participating in a kind of bait and switch — putting forth potentially heretical ideas, then formally denying them — Francis leaves himself open to the charge of disingenuousness. He’s able to signal sympathy for progressive theology, but does not have the responsibility of answering to conservatives or formally advocating for doctrinal change. It’s a canny political move, but one that destabilizes the nature of the Catholic Church as a centralized, formal body: the very thing that sets the Catholic Church apart from other Western Christian denominations. [https://www.vox.com/2018/3/30/17179952/pope-francis-hell-vatican-interview-scalfari-italian]
Carolyn Chau, who is a theologian at King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario, and Peter Casarella, a theologian at DePaul University, say Francis despite the Vatican’s “doublespeak” is a Balthasarian:
At the same time, it is hard to pigeonhole Father von Balthasar as a conservative. “Von Balthasar was also a sharp critic of an inward-looking, self-referential church,” said Peter Casarella, a theologian at DePaul University.
Dr. Chau said… what seems to resonate most with Pope Francis has been the Balthasarian emphasis on how the church encounters the world.
When he was still cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, the new Pope cited Father von Balthasar when he visited Quebec City for the 49th International Eucharistic Congress in 2008…
… The most unconventional part of Father von Balthasar’s work came after he met Adrienne von Speyr, a medical doctor who had mystical visions. From their encounter came one of his most disputed ideas: that on Holy Saturday, Christ didn’t go to the realm of the dead as a victorious liberator of righteous souls but as one who suffered so others wouldn’t. The claim triggered an academic row, with one theologian branding it quasi-heretical, Dr. Kilby said.[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/theologians-parse-popes-words-for-the-gospel-of-balthasar/article10548791/]
In First Things, Theologian Alyssa Lyra Pitstick, in a back and forth with Francis CatholicFr. Edward T. Oakes, S.J., saidthat apparently Francis the Balthasarian is a liberal Protestant heretic:
Then, too, Oakes claims I dismiss Luther and Calvin “just for being Protestant” and that I consider the genealogy from Nicholas of Cusa to Balthasar via these two “probative merely by mentioning” it. I highlighted this lineage first to indicate that the doctrine of Christ suffering in hell has relatively recent origins; from its beginnings to the Reformation, the Church believed quite the opposite. But this genealogy is also important to the question of Balthasar’s status as a Catholic ecclesial theologian: The Catholic tradition rejected Nicholas’ proposal, while the idea was deliberately developed against the Catholic doctrine in the Protestant ambience. If Balthasar takes up what Catholics rejected and what Protestants used to distinguish themselves, one may legitimately question Balthasar’s Catholicity on these grounds-for it is not what we share that separates us but precisely our differences. It is fallacious for Oakes to suggest I think non-Catholics speak no truth simply because I argue that some of them are mistaken on one point.
Perhaps Oakes might now address my original difficulties: Can one doctrine truly be the development of another if the two are contradictory? Does the tradition’s material profession (the content of belief) have as much authority as the formal profession? And since Balthasar’s theology of Christ’s descent entails a de facto rejection of Catholic tradition and its authority, what must we conclude about Balthasar’s service as a Catholic ecclesial theologian? Perhaps in the end we must say, however reluctantly, that after Luther, Calvin, and Barth, Balthasar has made a real contribution to Protestant ecclesial theology. [https://www.firstthings.com/article/2007/01/more-on-balthasar-hell-and-heresy]
The Unam Sanctam Catholicam explains “The Heresies of Balthasar” and apparently Francis the Balthasarian heresies:
Balthasar’s dissatisfaction with the privation theory of sin leads him to posit a real, ontological existence for sin, contrary to Augustine, Thomas, the implications of the Catechism and almost all of ancient and medieval Catholic tradition. Sin becomes an ontological reality by a sort of negative creation, in which man, by the passion and willfulness that he puts into sinning, turns sin into a positive reality. Balthasar says:
“It is possible to distinguish between the sin and the sinner…Because of the energy that man has invested in it, sin is a reality, it is not ‘nothing.'” (Theo-Drama, vol. V, pp. 266, 314).
Because sin has this ontological reality, it can be abstracted from the sinner and, consequently, removed to another locus. Here Balthasar’s theology of sin crosses into his soteriology. Because sin is a reality that can be separated from the sinner, it is possible to “load” it on to Christ, who literally assumes the sins of every person in His death, but especially in His Descent:
“[Sin] has been isolated from the sinner…separated from the sinner by the work of the Cross” (ibid., 285, 314).
Thus, because sin is able to be loaded onto Christ, Christ literally takes the sins, and the guilt, of every sinner on to Himself, and in His death and Descent, literally becomes sin, in such a real, metaphysical sense that Balthasar makes the shocking statement that the Incarnation is “suspended” while Jesus is in the tomb:
“Holy Saturday is thus a kind of suspension, as it were, of the Incarnation, whose result is given back to the hands of the Father and which the Father will renew and definitively confirm by the Easter Resurrection” (“The Descent into Hell”, Spirit and Institution, Explorations in Theology, vol. IV, pp 411-412).. [http://unamsanctamcatholicam.blogspot.com/2012/02/heresies-of-balthasar.html?m=1]
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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In our moment of “woke”, do not let the Left cancel out the memories of your childhood. We must not agree that the 1950s and 1960s were times of evil. They were not. Westerns like The Searchers, High Noon, Shane, The Magnificent Seven, and Hombre all explored themes of racial prejudice, of the individual set against the mob, or the few willing to take on the lawbreakers, both the violent and the ‘establishment’. “Liberal” then was something akin to nonexistent conservative Democrat today and agendas mostly focused on a 40-hour week, disability insurance, and fair housing. My own memories are of two bone-tired heroic parents, who moved a 900-square-foot old house to our farm, as my dad tried to fix the unfixable himself—himself a veteran of 40 B-29 missions. His squadron (much of it wiped out by fighters, flak, or simply lost on the 32000-mile round-trip from Tinian to Tokyo) was a part of the effort to stop a murderous Japanese military empire that wiped out 15 million in China and another 2-3 million in the Pacific and other parts of Asia. And the militarist would not have been stopped, without the sacrifices of as many lives, which just wished to be left alone in places like Kingsburg and Selma. These were good people and we must honor them, and remember the country they bequeathed, one which millions of people seek to enter each year. This generation seems to think that AOC and Ilhan Omar appeared out of nowhere to build the US and millions then flocked to enter their reconstituted utopia. I can remember my parents in 1965 driving up to San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral in their unreliable 1956 Dodge wagon, to hear Martin Luther King, Jr. We stopped in Hunter’s Point and picked up some elderly African-American friends of a friend who were without a ride, and all of us joined an enormous line outside the cathedral. As the two enormous doors closed, my mother gave me a hard push into the church, and I was the only one of our party who heard his speech. I still remember his “A man must be judged on the content of his character, not on the color of his skin”—words perhaps more revolutionary today than in 1965.
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In 1957, seven Cincinnati Reds players were voted into the All-Star game as starters by the fans’ vote. The Reds had a starter at every position, except one, first base where Cardinals’ Hall-of-Famer Stan Musial had been elected. Commissioner Ford Frick recognized that this disparity was not right, so he stepped in and fixed the situation by replacing two Cincinnati players, Gus Bell and Wally Post with future Hall-of-Famers Willie Mays and Hank Aaron who had been excluded by the fans’ vote. This is what occurs when voting is unregulated. When there are no provisions in place to prevent voter-fraud, voter-fraud will occur. Commissioner Frick explained his actions, “[We] feel that the overbalance of Cincinnati ballots has resulted in the selection of a team which would not be typical of the league.” So, a disproportionate number of votes to people who haven’t shown the ability to warrant that those votes is a red flag of voter fraud. Sound familiar? 15 million more votes than any other candidate in history to Joe Biden? (Red Flag) MLB ended the fan vote in after 1957 All-Star game because it was determined that fans in Cincinnati had taken advantage of the lax voting rules, and stuffed the ballot box in the Red players’ favor. MLB fans would not get to vote for the All-Star game again until 1970 when Commissioner Bowie Kuhn restored fan voting. Since then, there have been several instances where stuffing the ballot box has occurred in All-Star Game voting, most notably in 2015, when Major League Baseball voided over 60 million votes over suspected fraud when 8 Kansas City Royals players were “voted” in as starters. Bob Bowman, CEO of MLB advanced media said, “it’s between 60 and 65 million votes that have been canceled. We don’t really trumpet it because if someone thinks they’re getting away with it, they’ll try to do it again.” The integrity of their sport and their league had been called into question because of lack of proper regulations around the vote, and also people’s willingness to stuff the ballot box. Major League Baseball took steps to fix it. In 2019, the league office made changes to their voting system by adding more regulations which limited fans ability to stuff the ballot box and prevented the abuses that had become prevalent. Today, Major League Baseball announced it was moving the All-Star Game out of Atlanta, in response to Georgia passing anti-voter fraud legislation. This is an ironic stance for MLB because of their history with fraudulent votes and ballot box stuffing that have plagued the All-Star election process for decades, which caused them to change and restrict their voting methods. MLB should understand that if people are willing to stuff the ballot box for an All-Star game, which is merely an exhibition, people will definitely stuff the ballot box for a Presidential election if anti-fraud voting measures are not in place. Major League Baseball and others who object to this legislation claim that voter ID requirements are racist, and that minorities have a difficult time obtaining a government issued ID. Are there laws on the books in the United States that prevent black people and people of color from getting an ID? If a black person shows up to a DMV or another government office in an attempt to obtain a government issued ID, are there armed police officers blocking the door, preventing them from entering the building? Or are their objections based in a belief that black people and people of color are inherently incapable of taking the most basic steps to get an ID? If that is their claim, then their claim is blatantly racist, and they are the ones who are the racist. Black people should be insulted at the very insinuation that the identification requirement to vote is somehow racist because they are incapable. Black people are fully capable of obtaining a government issued ID in order to vote. The steps require to obtain an ID are not more difficult than the steps required to actually vote. So, if they’re incapable of doing the one, then they’re incapable of doing the other. Which we all know both are absolutely not true. This does a disservice to black people. Not only is it extremely condescending, but calling something racist that is not racist, dilutes the impact of legitimate accusations of racism. Real charges of racism will not be taken as seriously because society has been inundated by so many false charges of racism that it becomes almost impossible to discern between which charges are authentic and which charges are false. The way the Democrats are exploiting and manipulating race in this country not only damages the country in general, but hurts minorities specifically. Voter ID is not racist. Not in any way, shape or form. The list of activities that need ID is a mile long; flying on a plane, renting a hotel room, renting a car, buying a car, opening a bank account, cashing a check, taking out a library book… the list goes on and on. If requiring ID was racist, all of these industries would be in direct violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Where are all the lawsuits by minorities against these industries based on their ID requirement to use their products? The people arguing against voter ID, want ballots cast without verifying if the voter is a legally registered voter. They want fraudulent votes to be cast, not because those fraudulent votes would be cast for the other side, but because those fraudulent votes will be cast for their side because they rely on fraud to win. It is interesting that the party that is against voter ID is completely for American citizens having to jump through more hoops than simply showing an ID in order to obtain a gun which is a Constitutionally protected right no different than the right to vote. It is also very interesting that the same people who believe that showing a simple identification in order to vote is racist, have no problem supporting a Covid vaccine passport in order to travel in the United States. Delta airlines CEO made a public statement claiming that voter ID and verification measures in Georgia’s law are racially discriminatory, claiming that “voting reform act that could make it harder for many Georgians, particularly those in our Black and Brown communities, to exercise their right to vote.” Another ironic stance because one of the main requirements to fly on Delta Airlines is to provide identification. Voter disenfranchisement cuts both ways. A legal voter being denied the right to vote is voter disenfranchisement, but also when illegal or fraudulent votes are cast, that disenfranchises legal voters because it dilutes or cancels their votes. When voting is unregulated, when voter identities are not verified, the incidents of fraudulent votes, of double voting, triple voting, stuffing the ballot box becomes easier, and much more prevalent. And, at the same time, instituting reasonable, commonsense, anti-fraud measures, such as voter ID, helps ensure that only legal voters vote once, and no voters votes are diluted or negated through fraud. The goal of every election should always be; every legal voter votes, and no illegal voter votes. You cannot have one-person one-vote without voter ID or other methods of verification. It is impossible. It would never happen. And those opposing voter ID know that, and that is precisely why they oppose these measures because they do not want one-person one-vote. They want one-person, multiple votes, as long as it is the right one-person voting the “right” way multiple times. Anti-voter ID people are disenfranchising millions of voters because the fraudulent votes dilute or cancel out legitimate votes. There are no barriers set in place based on racial lines that prevent black people or people of color from obtaining a government issued ID. None. Zero. There are not any. And any person who claims that requiring an identification to vote or to do any other thing is racist, are lying to you. They are not telling you the truth. And since they are lying to you. It is fair to conclude that their motives are nefarious; they want fraud to be committed. That is precisely why they are working so hard to defeat voter ID laws in the states, and pushing so hard to eliminate voter ID nationally through legislation. They want to commit as much fraud as possible. They are showing their hand, tipping off their strategy and how they plan to win elections; not by appealing to voters, or putting forth an agenda or legislation which makes the country better, or improves the lives of the citizens. No, their plan is to obtain power through manipulation of the voting process because they cannot win based on their agenda, and based on their legislation because as polling data clearly shows most of what they are pushing through Congress is not favored by the majority of the citizens. It is an agenda that will get the politicians proposing it run out of office in the next election cycle unless the vote is rigged in their favor.
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THE MORE PESSIMISTIC the CDC, Dr. Fauci, and the Biden Administration sound on the pandemic, the more cautiously optimistic I become, albeit as a non-medical observer of the pandemic. I also do not mean that as a contrarian, but, after all, we are approaching a perfect storm of events that could threaten at last to blow out the virus. We know from our 2020 experience that cases dip radically in the summer months, and it is now warming a bit every day, encouraging more to go outdoors, increasing natural Vitamin D levels, and reducing the lifespan of the virus in the open air. Yet we are not mired in the false hope of last April to July when the virus seemed at times to go dormant—given we have vaccinations this time around. The number of those who have tested positive in the US now is about 31,000,000. Some lowball estimates, based on the known positives, suggest that another 30,000,000-60,000,000 either are asymptomatic positives—or neither reported their symptoms nor got tested. So perhaps 60-90,000,000 have natural antibodies? No one has yet made a case that lots of COVID positives can be easily infected twice—at least so far—or, if infected, come down with serious cases. I accept that all these numbers, like those of deaths from COVID, are subject to wide debate. About 150,000,000 vaccinations have been given. Those with only one vaccination (65-80 percent immunity after 10-14 days) have reached around 50 million, In addition, over 50 million are fully vaccinated with 2 shots. Most studies show that initial data was right that the RNA-modeled vaccinations eventually convey around 90-95 percent immunity, and the Johnson & Johnson 70 percent, with the remaining percentages of vaccinated COVID-19 positive patients either reflecting those who got a mild virus or asymptomatically tested positive. There are over 70 million Americans under the age of 18, who are likely either to have greater resistance to COVID-19 infection or mild symptoms when infected. In theory, then, ca 250-270 million are either not likely to be infected or reinfected, or, if they are, will suffer only asymptomatic or milder cases. The number may be high, given an overlap of those with antibodies who got vaccinations—although, given increased worries over side effects of those with antibodies getting vaccinations, that number may be tapering off. Of course, new strains could also target the young as they do the old. SO WE MAY BE ACCELERATING to a semi-“herd” of 70-80 percent of the population who will either not get the virus or if it infected does not become especially sick. We are vaccinating now at an astonishing rate, reminiscent of the World War II ramp-up to a Liberty ship every four-five days or a B-24 made every hour at Willow Run. We have been averaging 2.7 million vaccinations a day, or 19 million a week or over 80 million a month. And there is a likelihood the rate will increase rather than decrease or level off, at least in the near future. (March 26 set a record of almost 3.4 million vaccinations given per day in the US). The states’ top-down, red-tape vaccination eligibility mess is fading, and we are reaching a point where the Covid-19 vaccination will soon approximate the flood-the-zone flu shot protocols at the local pharmacy. Here in California, the change is astonishing. We’ve gone from 40-60,000 new winter infections per day on some days to less than 2,000, as deaths plunge from winter highs of 600-900 per day to 100-200 on some days. And the winter was cold, and warm days did not arrive until just this week. California is slowly climbing back from a pathetic vaccination ranking to nearly 360,000 vaccinations per day. 30 percent of the state has received at least one vaccination. Nearly 10 percent has tested positive. And perhaps another 10-20 percent were infected and either did not know it or did not get tested. 16 percent of the population is under 18. Add all those possible numbers up, and we too may be zeroing in on near herd immunity, especially at the rate of 2.5 million vaccinations per week, or 10 million a month–all as the California heat approaches. I LEAVE YOU WITH known unknowns—in an optimistic vein no less. 1. Our authorities caution us that the infection rates have not dipped so much in the recent week or two. But one thing we have learned about the virus is that it acts geometrically not always arithmetically, and spurts suddenly up (e.g., as life returns to normal) and then down (e.g., as vaccination percentages soar). 2. Is it not more likely that at some critical point, the mass of those vaccinated and with antibodies will simply collapse the numbers all together and quite suddenly? 3. Will one of these mutant strains show up with immunity to the vaccination or the ability to reinfect the infected? So far that has not happened, and the closer we get to herd immunity and strangling the virus, the less likely widespread new lethal mutants will appear. 4. With the eroding lockdowns, are the daily numbers of vaccinated outpacing the transmission rates of those now out and about at work and returning to normal lives? 5. How long can the teachers’ unions persist in their “just say NO!” resistance, when their members will mostly soon be fully vaccinated, ignoring classroom students in need who are not likely to be infected, seriously sick, or easy spreaders of the disease, and operating in communities where the infection rates go down and most others are already at work (And I say that as a teacher, with one son and one son-in-law who are public school teachers, albeit as a grandfather of a special-needs 6-year-old who has suffered terribly and needlessly from the public schools’ lockdown). 6. As the virus subsides, what will the omnipresent, camera-addicted, and ubiquitous, Dr. Fauci do? AND FINALLY, AS WE LOOK BACK, we can add up four knowns: 1) There is a level-4 virology lab in Wuhan. It is ground zero of the pandemic. There was gain-in-function viral research ongoing at the lab, a strong Chinese military presence, and a prior record of sloppy procedures. 2) The Chinese government has corrupted WHO. Beijing denied access to its lab to international inspectors while lying repeatedly about the date, origins, and nature of the virus. 3) While the US has been threatened by prior scares of SARS-CoV-1, H1NI, West Nile, and avian flu, etc. and various pandemics—along with the rest of the world—never in recent memory has a virus appeared so suddenly and proved so infectious and so utterly disruptive. The more adamantly the Chinese communist government and American elites insist on a bat origin, the more adamantly they seek to stifle or ridicule those who legitimately inquire about the possibility of a leak and cover-up of a human-enhanced or even natural virus. 4) If information ever got out that COVID-19 was the result of a Chinese-engineered coronavirus, or even a captive natural virus, one that escaped its own labs and that such information was deliberately withheld from the world, as those infected left China on planes throughout the globe, the Chinese brand would be all but through for decades to come. I will let the reader decide whether the Chinese were terrified of the economic consequences of the escaped virus (whatever its origin, nature, or source) and so lied about its potential lethality, or shrugged once it escaped, “Better now everyone suffers rather than just us”, or at some point pivoted and concluded, “Well, it’s a tragedy, but at least it creates future deterrence: no one will wish to confront us when there is always the chance of another accidental COVID-21 or COVID 22-30 on the horizon.” All these hypotheticals, far-fetched and realistic, could easily be dispelled in a day by complete transparency, access to researchers, and the opening of records. This the Chinese communist not just won’t, but can’t, do.
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On Thursday, I talked about the destructive new ethnic studies program that has just been unanimously approved by the California State School Board and the ways in which it’s setting kids up to be indoctrinated, all the way from kindergarten to graduation. I described the “long game” that some are playing to tear our country apart from within. Later that day, by coincidence, Dan Bongino in his podcast brought up a video interview from the 1980s featuring a former KGB propagandist who defected to Canada, Yuri Bezmenov, who warns of just this sort of thing being done in America over several generations. Here is that interview . It’s sadly true: Some of the most “well-educated” people in America are so doggone dumb (and so thoroughly brainwashed) that we can argue the facts till we’re blue in the face and it will have no effect on them. Fortunately, you and I still have some functioning brain cells, so let’s look at what Bezmenov is saying. He’s talking about how Communists subvert American ideology in a totally non-sneaky way. It’s right in front of us. “All Americans have to do is unplug their bananas from their ears” and it will be obvious. It’s not like James Bond and the spy-themed entertainment that he says Americans are so enamored of, “that sells more deodorants.” Most of what our enemies are doing is not spy stuff, he says, and “has nothing to do with intelligence at all.” Only about 15 percent of “time, money and manpower” is used for espionage. The rest is part of a very slow brainwashing process –- like the “long game” I was talking about being played in California schools –- that they call ideological subversion. They have another name for it as well: “active measures.” It’s psychological warfare. The goal is to change Americans’ perception of reality so thoroughly that “despite an abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions.” Bingo. Ding-ding-ding! We are entering that place, RIGHT NOW. He breaks the process down into four stages: 1. Demoralization. Communists have this down to a science; Bezmenov says it takes about 15-20 years to demoralize a nation. That’s the length of time it takes to educate one generation, to expose them to “the ideology of the enemy.” He says that in America, “Marxist-Leninist ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generations of American students, without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of…American patriotism.” It’s now being done mostly by Americans to Americans. (I would add that, ironically, many are getting hugely rich doing so, on books and workshops about Critical Race Theory and class and gender “equity.“) The result: “half-baked intellectuals” in their 60s who now are in positions of power — government, civil service, business, mass media and education. “You are stuck with them,” he says. These people are “programmed to think and react to certain stimuli,” he adds. The process is “complete and irreversible.” They have their own perception and their own logic. “YOU CANNOT CHANGE THEIR MIND, EVEN IF YOU EXPOSE THEM TO AUTHENTIC INFORMATION, EVEN IF YOU PROVE THAT WHITE IS WHITE AND BLACK IS BLACK.” “Even if I take [a programmed person] by force to the Soviet Union and show him concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it.” Since there is no way to reach these people, he says, the only way out of this mess is to bring up a new generation that is well-versed in American values and doesn’t think this way. His message to us listening in the 21st Century surely is this: that it took a long time to get here and it’s going to take a long time to get out. Start NOW. He says that when those “useful idiot” Americans experience with shock what it’s like to be trapped within real Marxist-Leninism, there will be revolt, but rebellion will be put down. “There will be no place for dissent,” he says. Dissenters will be “squashed like cockroaches.” 2. Destabilization. Bezmenov says this process can take just two to five years. The enemy concentrates on “essentials”: economy, foreign relations and defense systems. They eliminate the principle of free-market competition and cozy up to Marxist-Leninist powers. He says that when he first came to America, he would never have believed the great success Marxist-Leninists would achieve in these areas. Imagine how stunned he would be if he could be here now. (He died in 1993.) 3. Crisis. This leads into a radical changeover of structure, power and economy and typically takes “up to six weeks.” 4. “Normalization.” He’s using this word cynically, as in Soviet propaganda. That’s when the tanks role in, as they did in Czechoslovakia and the new rulers said the situation was “normalized.” The government really has become Big Brother and those in charge function pretty much like “benevolent dictators.” I would add that they’re benevolent as long as everyone goes along and racks up the required number of social credits. “This is what will happen in United States if you allow all the schmucks to bring the country to crisis.” They do it by promising “all kinds of goodies” and “paradise on earth.” We’ve been at war, he says, an “undeclared total war” initiated by the “world Communist system,” or call it a “world Communist conspiracy.” We must turn this process around, because this is the last refuge of freedom and unlike him, we “will have no place to defect to.” That is, unless we want “to live in Antarctica with penguins.” So, what has to happen? The first essential is “a very strong national effort” to educate children in American values and patriotism and teach them the real danger posed by socialist/communist ideology. If young people fail to grasp this, he says, “nothing ever can help the United States.” Fortunately, he says, at least part of the American population gets what is happening, and they have to FORCE their government to stop “aiding Communism.” This effort has to go beyond the typical letters and petitions, he says, because “there is no other problem as burning and urgent.” At the time of this interview, Bezmenov is warning about the “murderers” in the Soviet Union, which did implode soon after while Ronald Reagan was President (thank you!). As we look at what is happening in our country and the world today, his warning applies to the growing power of China –- particularly American business’s dependence on that market –- and the global Communist system. If China and Russia ally themselves, our situation is even more dicey. Bezmenov says we’re at war, though many don’t realize it, and we have “precious little time” to save ourselves and future generations. The priority now: our education system. Whether or not you have kids in school, you are in this fight, and it is a FIGHT. Readers ask me all the time what we can do –- start here. That goes double for folks in California. Become an activist. Run for school board if you can, and support strong candidates. Make demands. See that the “woke” go broke. We have no choice but to take our classrooms and our culture back.
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In 2021, there have been seven mass murders where four people excluding the gunman were killed. Plenty of press has been given to the Atlanta and Boulder murders. The Atlanta shooter was white, and the Boulder shooter was mistakenly identified as white because his skin appears white. When it turned out he was brown, the news died down.
What about the rest? On March 31, Latino Aminadab Gaxiola Gonzalez allegedly murdered four people, including one 9-year old. Details indicate premeditation. News of this mass murder is relatively modest.
News of the other four only garnered local coverage. On January 9th African-American Jason Nightengale allegedly went on a spree and murdered five people. On January 24, African American, Raymond Childs allegedly murdered 6 people, including one unborn child. On February 2nd African American, Jaaron Deajol Pridgeon allegedly murdered 6 people, including five children. On March 13, African American Malik Halfacre allegedly murdered four people, including one child. On March 21, Hemel Jhameri, USA Today’s Diversity, and Inclusion Editor commenting on mass murderers tweeted. “It’s always an angry white man. Always.”
Maybe that’s just the ones everyone hears about.
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