The editorial board of The Dallas Morning News called on Democratic Rep. Robert “Beto” O’Rourke on Friday to provide clarification regarding where he stands on the migrant caravan that is heading toward the U.S border.
O’Rourke, who is trying to unseat Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, has been dodging the issue, despite immigration and border security overwhelmingly being the top issues for voters in Texas. Cruz urged reporters on Friday to probe O’Rourke into what he intends to do if elected to the Senate later this week.
“Two basic (questions) every reporter should ask Beto today,” Cruz tweeted. “(1) should the “caravan” be allowed to cross illegally into Texas? (Beto refuses to answer.) And (2) did your campaign dollars illegally fund their doing so?”
Cruz’s second question was in reference to undercover footage that was released on Thursday by Project Veritas.
In the video, O’Rourke’s campaign staff alluded to campaign resources that were being used to assist the migrants on their way to the Texas border, a move that would violate federal law. O’Rourke later claimed that the spending will be appropriately reported to the Federal Election Commission as a charitable expense.
O’Rourke finally addressed the issues during a rally in Lewisville, insisting that it is “part of an effort to try to stoke fear and anxiety about immigrants.” However, he notably did not provide clarification on how he intends to handle the migrant caravan during its impending arrival.“We’re looking at this, but anyone who is trying to politicize this is trying to win an election base on fear,” O’Rourke told the crowd. “I want to make sure that we’re focused on the issues that matters most to Texas.”
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Advertisement – story continues below“The (question) is ‘should the ‘caravan’ be allowed to cross illegally into Texas?’” Cruz replied. “That’s a simple yes or no question. Screaming ‘paranoia’ and refusing to answer is an obvious dodge, and reporters all know that.”
The editorial board did not go so far as to pull their endorsement, noting that he received it primarily due to the “tone and manner in which he’s conducted his campaign” over policy stances, but asserted that O’Rourke has an obligation to provide detail on what his position is and how it should be handled.“The debate about immigration is so critical to the nation and particularly Texas,” the editorial board wrote. “It is imperative that O’Rourke do more than just offer counter-statements to Trump and Cruz about unity and bringing people together.”
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Cardinal Joseph Zen believes that Cardinal Pietro Parolin is the puppet-master behind Pope Francis’s deal to betray the underground Chinese Catholics to the Chinese Communist regime.
On November 2, Vatican expert Marco Tosatti reported that Cardinal Joseph Zen said:
Communist expert Robert Royal on EWTN’s World Over has said that the Chinese government is a totalitarian regime that doesn’t respect truth, religious rights and most of all human life.
It is evil and totally godless.
Human life for them is cheap. People are killed and tortured at the whim of the regime.
Do Parolin and Francis believe that the underground Chinese Catholics are worthless things that they can cause suffering for to play at the so-called game of “diplomacy”?
If the Pope is actively collaborating with Parolin, with full understanding, in the totalitarian Chinese Communist deal, then he “has no faith” as Cardinal Zen said of Parolin. Francis said of the China deal: “I think of the resistance, the Catholics who have suffered. It’s true. And they will suffer…” “… I signed the [China deal] agreement,” Pope Francis stated. “I am responsible.” (Catholic Herald, “Pope Francis takes responsibility for China Deal,” September 26,2018)
The betrayal of the Chinese Church can thus be called the Francis/Parolin deal.
The Francis/Parolin deal is a abuse of papal power which can be disobeyed in good conscience as shown by the saintly English Bishop Robert Grosseteste.
In 1253, Bishop Grosseteste disobeyed Pope lnnocent IV who ordered that a benefice within his jurisdiction be given to the papal nephew. Benefices were a form of financial exploitation given to prelates who didn’t reside in the diocese and never saw their flock so souls were lost for lack of true shepherding or pastoral care.
Grosseteste said that benefices have only one end: “the salvation of souls.” Exploitative use of benefices was a abuse of papal power so he disobeyed Pope Innocent IV.
Innocent reportedly raged in anger, but his advisors told him to back down because all of Christendom knew Bishop Grosseteste was “one of the most learned men” of the age and a saintly bishop.
The Catholic Encyclopedia said of Grosseteste:
“Bishop of Lincoln and one of the most learned men of the Middle Ages… That he opposed… abuses of the papal administration is certain, but a study of his letters and writings… destroy the myth that he disputed the plena potestas of the popes.” (Catholic Encyclopedia, new advent.org, “Robert Grosseteste”)
If a pope could be disobeyed by “one of the most learned men of the Middle Ages” for the lost of souls due to benefices then there is no doubt that the Francis/Parolin betrayal of the Chinese Church to the totalitarian Communist regime which will result in the loss souls must be disobeyed.
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church.
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October 29, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – It is truly mind-boggling to consider the extent to which the science and technology sectors have dedicated themselves to making LGBT fantasies a reality, from transgender people demanding free wombs to reproductive technologies ensuring that same-sex couples can create designer babies biologically connected to both of them.
There are other experiments underway, too—millions of dollars are being spent to find out if a baby that has two male parents or two female parents can be created to accommodate the LGBT activists demanding children as a right—a commodity that they should be permitted to purchase.
But apparently, doctors are willing to take all of this a step further, as same-sex couple Ashleigh and Bliss Coulter of Mountain Springs, North Texas, is “believed to have made medical history as the first couple to deliver a baby they both carried,” according to ABC News. This was accomplished by a procedure called “Effortless Reciprocal In Vitro Fertilization” or Effortless Reciprocal IVF. Ashleigh and Bliss stumbled upon the option when they were hunting for a way to have a child that was biologically connected to both of them, rather than pursuing the option usually utilized by lesbian couples of using a sperm donor.
Dr. Kathy Doody, a fertility specialist from the C.A.R.E Fertility Clinic in Bedford was eager to help, and explained that “Effortless IVF” was an option for them, although this would be “the first time where both of the mothers physically carried the baby.” From ABC News:
Effortless IVF refers to a form of IVF whereby the eggs and the sperm are introduced in a device called an INVOcell capsule. They are then being placed in a woman’s vagina to simulate the conditions in an incubator.
Reciprocal IVF involves the eggs and sperm being incubated in a laboratory by an incubator. An incubator provides a temperate environment and moves gasses and substances, like toxins, away from the embryos. Since with Effortless IVF, the INVOcell capsule needs to be placed in a woman’s body, Bliss was able to have her eggs fertilized and embryos form inside her instead of using an incubator.
Doody said it works because “the woman has kidneys, a liver, and lungs, which allow the body acts as a natural incubator.”
Doody harvested eggs from Bliss, and then utilized a sperm donor to create embryos, which were placed inside Bliss for five days before being removed and then frozen until Ashleigh was ready to carry them. Usually, the woman who donates the eggs also carries the embryos, but because this was not the case with this lesbian couple, the child that was born as a result—a boy named Stetson Coulter—is considered to be the first child in medical history carried by two women.
According to Doody, “it is a doctor’s duty to find more ways to provide IVF care to patients and…Effortless Reciprocal IVF is a great opportunity for same-sex couples.” Children have become a commodity, and doctors have been tasked with toying around with human life itself in order to assist couples in circumventing the natural order and bringing fatherless or motherless children into the world on demand. Despite the bizarre nature of Effortless Reciprocal IVF, Doody even stated that it “feels more natural for parents and gives them a unique bond with their baby.” Interestingly, she didn’t notice her Freudian slip: The reference to “natural” indicates the fact that she instinctively knows there is something fundamentally unnatural about this new designer baby industry.
The Coulters have already informed the media that they are receiving an “overwhelming amount…of questions from other prospective same-sex couples and they are glad they were able to help provide them with this opportunity.” Another same-sex couple from North Texas has already undergone the same process at the same fertility clinic and given birth to a baby girl as a result. The Coulters, for their part, talk casually about whether or not they want more children—Bliss wants to stick with just Stetson, but Ashleigh wants more. “Whatever they decide,” ABC News notes, “the Coulters have two frozen embryos” and thus might decide to use the process again.
Those final lines bring home the staggering extent to which children have been commodified in an era where they can be bought and sold by specialists servicing sexual minorities seeking to circumvent the natural order: There are two human beings in a freezer, the biological siblings of their little boy. But apparently, they do not even consider these children to be human beings, as they have not yet decided whether or not they will give the children they paid to bring into existence a shot at life outside a freezer.
Jonathon Van Maren is a public speaker, writer, and pro-life activist. His commentary has been translated into more than eight languages and published widely online as well as print newspapers such as the Jewish Independent, the National Post, the Hamilton Spectator and others. He has received an award for combating anti-Semitism in print from the Jewish organization B’nai Brith. His commentary has been featured on CTV Primetime, Global News, EWTN, and the CBC as well as dozens of radio stations and news outlets in Canada and the United States.
He speaks on a wide variety of cultural topics across North America at universities, high schools, churches, and other functions. Some of these topics include abortion, pornography, the Sexual Revolution, and euthanasia. Jonathon holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in history from Simon Fraser University, and is the communications director for the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform.
Jonathon’s first book, The Culture War, was released in 2016.
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Known as the “Father of the Big Bang Theory,” Georges Lemaître was given credit for his proposal of an expanding universe with an official renaming of the theory.
In 1927, Belgian astronomer and priest Father Georges Lemaître first proposed the idea of an expanding universe starting with a “big bang,” previously known as the Hubble Law after astronomer Edwin Hubble.
“The Hubble law describes the effect by which objects in an expanding Universe move away from each other with a velocity proportionally related to their distance.”
However, a recent vote by the membership of the International Astronomical Union officially renamed the Big Bang Theory to give due credit to Father Lemaître’s contributions to the field, as he published his ideas two years prior to Hubble.
“To acknowledge the scientific contributions of Belgian astronomer Georges Lemaître to the scientific theory of the expansion of the Universe, the International Astronomical Union has decided to recommend the Hubble law to be renamed as the Hubble–Lemaître law.”
Some historians argue that Lemaître might have discussed his ideas with Hubble in 1928 during a general assembly of the International Astronomical Union, but the real reason Lemaître went overlooked lies in him publishing his results in French in an obscure Belgian journal.
“The meeting almost certainly didn’t take place. Hubble was clearly involved, but was not the first. He was good at selling his story.”
A little something to hopefully lift the spirits. This little chap has an absolutely infectious smile and demeanor, and he never misses a “please” or a “thank you”. And the inverted backwards pour method is the new #KitchenProTip. You heard it here first.
Nostalgia is a selective editing of the past. For instance, there are those who wish we had today some of the architects of thirteenth-century cathedrals, but who avoid mentioning thirteenth-century dentists. In recent times, the general conceit has been the opposite of nostalgia. The philosopher Owen Barfield spoke of “chronological snobbery,” defined as the belief that “intellectually, humanity languished for countless generations in the most childish errors on all sorts of crucial subjects, until it was redeemed by some scientific dictum of the last century.”
That snobbery had its heyday in the past generation, which defined itself as mankind finally “come of age.” Were that true, we should now be in the stage of incipient senility. Catholics are suffering from that period’s destructive arrogance. Just look at the circular churches and ugly music that replaced venerable shrines and chants. Characteristic of that polyester period was the underestimation of evil, which Pope Benedict XVI noticed even in some assertions of the Second Vatican Council. Without explanation, the Prayer to Saint Michael was dropped from the liturgical books in 1964. But “Satan and all the evil spirits” have not politely gone away. That prayer was promulgated by Pope Leo XIII in 1884. Accounts variously claim that he was inspired by a vision of horrors to come in the twentieth century. Its use remained a private option after recitation of the prayer was dropped from the end of Mass, but in 1994 Pope Saint John Paul II, from his experience of travails in his native Poland, was not inclined to underestimate the power of the wickedness and snares of the devil: “I invite everyone not to forget it, but to recite it to obtain help in the battle against the forces of darkness and against the spirit of this world.” Far from having “come of age,” chronological snobs have learned the hard way that theirs has been a prolonged adolescence. In our present cultural chaos, faced with moral decadence all around, the pope and bishops have asked that the Prayer to Saint Michael be restored at the conclusion of each Mass. In our parish we have not had to reinstate it because we never ceased to offer that prayer after Mass, sometimes to the consternation of a few who thought it retrograde. When the Barque of Peter is tossed by storms, it is time to bring the life jackets out of the storage where some liturgists hid them. Our church is providentially dedicated to Saint Michael, and a month ago the Catholic News Service published a photograph of our own statue of him, based on the famous painting by Guido Reni. Generations ago, the people of “Hell’s Kitchen” knew that Michael and his sword would be a better defense in battle than liturgical dancers and the balloons of chronological snobs. They also knew, as Baudelaire said, that “The devil’s greatest trick is to persuade us that he does not exist.”
St. John Paul II encouraged vocations and the universal call to holiness. (Pixabay)CULTURE OF LIFE | NOV. 1, 2018Archbishop Sample: ‘The Saints Are People Just Like Us’Shepherd reflects on ‘first vocation,’ heavenly friendsJulian Kwasniewski
Archbishop Alexander Sample enjoys discussing vocational discernment and the universal call to holiness. The Register spoke with him in connection with the Sacred Liturgy Conference in Salem, Oregon, this past June.
Your Excellency, I once watched a short message that you gave to youth who are discerning a vocation. You referenced the words of St. John Paul II, “Do not be afraid.”
I think it starts with the universal vocation that we all have, which is the call to holiness. The universal call to holiness is our primary vocation: We are all called to become saints. We are truly called to holiness — and that’s not just for popes, bishops, priests, religious; it’s for every baptized person. In Novo Millenio Ineunte, St. John Paul II says again that to ask to be baptized is to ask to be holy.
By virtue of our baptism, we are called to holiness, and thus it is the first vocation that is ours.
Within that universal vocation, however, each of us has our own personal vocation, which God has created us for. I think it is very important for us, especially young people, to reflect on that. We spend a lot of time asking young people, “What do you want to be when you grow up? What do you want to do with your life?” That’s really the wrong question. The question is, “What do you think God made you for? What do you think God created you to do with your life? What is he calling you to do with your life?” God has a plan for each of us. None of us is an accident. Every individual created by God has a unique vocation, and God has a plan for each of our lives. We are not some random beings wandering around trying to figure out life and what we are supposed to do with life. God already has that plan for us.
Once we realize “I have been in the heart and mind of God from all eternity. God has always loved me, long before he said, ‘Let there be light.’ He knew me already because he is eternal and all-knowing. I am known and loved by God, God has a plan for me,” then I have to discover how I am to live out my life in Christ. Whatever it might be — it could be marriage and family; it could be a vocation to the priesthood or some form of consecrated life — it is in thatthat I will find my true fulfillment and happiness, the true joy that God intends for me in this world and, of course, in the next, as well. Remember, Christ said: “Whoever gives up father, mother, brothers, sisters, lands, everything, for the sake of the Kingdom” receives a hundredfold in this worldand, together with persecutions, life eternal.
To give ourselves freely to God in whatever vocation he calls us to — and that may be the priesthood or consecrated life — the total gift of self is what is truly going to free us to serve God with our whole heart, mind and soul. It is that which will give us true joy and peace and even happiness in this world. A vocation really is the particular way we love God. …
How have you experienced this truth in your own vocation? A big question, I know.
I just celebrated the 28th year of my priestly ordination. There has never, never been a time where I regretted the choice I had made to responding to God’s call for me to be a priest. I had a master’s degree in engineering — I could have had a happy and prosperous career — yet I can’t imagine being as happy as I have been as a priest. Not that there have not been struggles and ups and downs — but there is in every vocation! Marriage has ups and downs; religious life also! But I cannot imagine finding the same joy that I have in my priesthood and as bishop that I would have had I not chosen the vocation God created me for. So that is why we say “don’t be afraid” to give yourself. Even the gift of celibacy frees you, as the Church says, to serve God with an undivided heart, to lay down your life for your spouse, which is the Church.
What if someone fails to respond to a vocation from God?
If we miss our vocational call, and we don’t respond to what God created us to do, it is not that we won’t be able to have happiness and fulfilment in life, but it will never be what God intended for us. So this idea which St. John Paul put forth of “Do not be afraid,” do not be afraid to open the doors of your heart to Christ, don’t be afraid to give yourself completely to him … you will know a joy and a peace that you cannot even imagine.
How must we view the saints so that we don’t write them off as impossibly holy people who have nothing to do with us?
We already spoke about how St. John Paul II clearly says that to ask to be baptized is to ask to become holy. Baptism commits us to holiness, to seek God with our whole strength, to imitate Christ in our lives. This is completely attainable. The saints are not superhuman creatures — they are men and women just like those [of us] today.
Some of the saints, as you know, had the special grace from childhood of being holy all their lives. Think of someone like St. Aloysius Gonzaga — how remarkable! By the age of 23, he was dead; by the age of 7, he was making commitments to Christ in prayer! I thought about that on his feast day: He died at the same age that I finally answered the call to the priesthood, kind of as a late starter! So we get people like that who have this special grace of being holy their whole lives. But then we get saints who were great sinners until their conversion. One of the Church’s great saints is St. Augustine of Hippo, confessor and doctor of the Church — well, he lived quite a dissolute life before he embraced Christ and was baptized.
We can all relate to the saints because they are people just like us. They are born into circumstances not unlike our own. …
But what makes one human being achieve the heights of holiness in their life and another not?
The saint is one who fully embraces his life in Christ; he realizes that his life is not his own, that it belongs to God: I have been purchased at a great price, and my whole life must be given over to God. I must serve the Lord with my life, with all my being.
That does not mean abandoning the duties of our lives; it means embracing the ordinary, everyday duties of our lives in a new way, where we see the will of God and his providence being played out every day — even to embrace the crosses and sufferings with joy. Those are the saints that really get to the bottom of it: when they can see in the sufferings of their lives the grace and love of Christ.
We can’t turn the saints into plaster statues we have in the church which look so pious! They were real flesh-and-blood human beings like us. Look at some of our contemporary saints: St. John Paul II was an ordinary kid, but he gave his life completely to God. It was through his surrender to God that God could enter in and work in him. God offers the grace, and we often don’t open ourselves to it through prayer, through regular celebration of the sacraments — of course Holy Mass, but also confession, regularly, not once or twice a year, but (let’s say) monthly.
Saints don’t always become saints because they embark on some great adventure or some new initiative for the Church or start some special apostolate. A lot of saints became saints by embracing the ordinary circumstances of their lives — the little way of St. Thérèse! I always say that it is the faithful living out, day by day, of our vocation in the little things — changing dirty diapers, working in an office, sweating in a shop — sanctifying the world through our sacrifices and the difficulties we suffer. There will be many who will never appear on the Church’s list of canonized saints but who nevertheless lived their lives in this way.
What are some of the challenges to bringing this message of holiness to Catholics today?
The youth live in this media-driven world, bombarded with all sorts of external stimuli, whether it is TV, or movies or video games, their iPhone, iPad, computer. Constantly bombarded with external stimuli, they live in an entertainment-driven culture so that it is hard to get them to sit down and listen and be still. So we need to find ways to introduce the saints to the youth, perhaps sometimes even using these forms of media.
I think parents especially have a responsibility, as the first educators of their children in the ways of the faith, to introduce their children to the saints as the real heroes, not the superheroes, if you will, of comic-book themes or Hollywood. It saddens me that our culture holds up before us these “icons” of our culture, the celebrities, with the unhappy, worldly, selfish lives these people live. We need saints! So parents need to introduce their children to the saints from the earliest age.
“Many a modern preacher is far less concerned with preaching Christ and Him crucified than he is with his popularity with his congregation. A want of intellectual backbone makes him straddle the ox of truth and the ass of nonsense.” -Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
As this election approaches, folks look for answers to moral questions. Some see this as “just another election,” and want to frame this in a “lesser of two evils” narrative. I don’t see it that way. There is MUCH MORE at stake.
Here’s how I see it …
In my lifetime, we have witnessed the most aggressive campaign to overthrow God that has been seen in all of civilization. Sure, not all sides are perfect, but one side is totally dedicated to continue this anti-God campaign, while the other side has all “those who are serious about their faith” rooting for God, and getting in the battle to save our country. The choice is crystal clear, when one sees it in this context. Did Christians squirm at Constantine’s morals? Yes. But, were they grateful how he opened the way for Christianity to thrive? Yes.
I am convinced we are in the throes of the greatest spiritual war of all times. While much of it is played out in the political theatre, it goes to the heart of everything we Christians hold near and dear to us, because it is a battle fought for Deus Vult (The will of God).
The enemy, just as it was in the Crusades, is seeking to seize ground by force and unjust tactics, while we are trying to protect this ground or even reclaim surrendered ground.
Here is my assessment …
More Christians have died for their faith in this past century than all other centuries of church history combined.
Since 1973, 1,720,000,000 babies have been sacrificed on the altar of sexual hedonism.
Sex outside of marriage has become the norm. Humans are copulating as they were the beasts (hook-up culture).
Birth control is a way of life.
Marriage has been redefined for the first time in civilization.
Illegitimacy rates have soared.
The divorce rate is at epidemic proportions.
Sodomy and homosexuality are celebrated openly.
Grown men must be allowed to share bathrooms with little girls.
With the advent of high speed internet, scores of men, in particular, are now addicted to pornography and masturbation which, in their spiritual death, makes them incapable and disqualified (no grace) to serve in this spiritual warfare.
Drug use and addiction has exploded.
Islamic terrorism has erupted worldwide.
Christian values and morals are disparaged as a “problem,” not a remedy in our culture, as religious freedom is under constant assault.
Every major institution of influence has been captured by the radical secular left … The media, Hollywood, TV, universities, public schools, theater, the arts, literature — they relentlessly promote the false gods of sexual hedonism and radical individualism.
In this Information Age (television, internet, etc.), the anti-God indoctrination is, as never before, in hyperdrive.
This civil war is very different than the last one. There are no cannons or cavalry charges. The left doesn’t want to secede. It wants to rule. Political conflicts become civil wars when one side refuses to accept the existing authority. The left has rejected all forms of authority that it doesn’t control.
The left has rejected the outcome of the last two presidential elections won by Republicans. It has rejected the judicial authority of the Supreme Court when it decisions don’t accord with its agenda. It rejects the legislative authority of Congress when it is not dominated by the left.
It rejected the Constitution so long ago that it hardly bears mentioning.
It was for total unilateral executive authority under Obama. And now it’s for states unilaterally deciding what laws they will follow (As long as that involves defying immigration laws under Trump, not following them under Obama). It was for the sacrosanct authority of the Senate when it held the majority. Then it decried the Senate as an outmoded institution when the Republicans took it over.
It was for Obama defying the orders of Federal judges, no matter how well grounded in existing law, and it is for Federal judges overriding any order by Trump on any grounds whatsoever. It was for Obama penalizing whistleblowers, but now undermining the government from within has become “patriotic”.
There is no form of legal authority that the left accepts as a permanent institution. It only utilizes forms of authority selectively when it controls them. But when government officials refuse the orders of the duly elected government because their allegiance is to an ideology whose agenda is in conflict with the President and Congress, that’s not activism, protest, politics or civil disobedience; it’s treason.
After losing Congress, the left consolidated its authority in the White House. After losing the White House, the left shifted its center of authority to Federal judges and unelected government officials. Each defeat led the radicalized Democrats to relocate from more democratic to less democratic institutions.
This isn’t just hypocrisy. That’s a common political sin. Hypocrites maneuver within the system. The left has no allegiance to the system. It accepts no laws other than those dictated by its ideology.
Democrats have become radicalized by the left. This doesn’t just mean that they pursue all sorts of bad policies. It means that their first and foremost allegiance is to an ideology, not the Constitution, not our country or our system of government. All of those are only to be used as vehicles for their ideology.
That’s why compromise has become impossible.
Our system of government was designed to allow different groups to negotiate their differences. But those differences were supposed to be based around finding shared interests. The most profound of these shared interests was that of a common country based around certain civilizational values. The left has replaced these Founding ideas with radically different notions and principles. It has rejected the primary importance of the country. As a result it shares little in the way of interests or values.
Instead it has retreated to cultural urban and suburban enclaves where it has centralized tremendous amounts of power while disregarding the interests and values of most of the country. If it considers them at all, it is convinced that they will shortly disappear to be replaced by compliant immigrants and college indoctrinated leftists who will form a permanent demographic majority for its agenda.
For me, it is more about voting for a “team” or, better yet, a platform. The Democratic platform is a disaster. In many respects, it is pure evil (see above). No matter what the quality of a candidate may be, they have to commit to the platform, and to the desires of their constituents to a great degree. I’ll take the desires of a “guns and religion” (RE: Obama Quote) constituency over the raging mob of snowflakes any day.
As more and more people rise up and stand their ground against this evil infiltration, they will be accused of “causing division.” You and I have not moved. We remain committed to the Judeo-Christian values (Kingdom Values) of our ancestors, while the ungodly Left moves further away, and points an accusing finger back at us.
St. Jude reminds us that it is the world that sets up division, not you and I …
“But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; they said to you, ‘In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.’ It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit. But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit; keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And convince some, who doubt; save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh” (Letter of St. Jude 1:17-23).
To be clear, we are now witnessing a “Crusade” to stand against this evil infiltration in our culture, witnessed in the voting booths that have now brought to power conservative dominance in all three branches of government. The radical secular elites are losing power as more and more people are becoming aware of their evil designs, and are “Voting Kingdom.” We must do all we can to keep this momentum moving toward God.
This is a war for souls; this is a war for the heart of America.
We need everyone to enlist in this battle!!
VOTE KINGDOM!
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Feast of All Saints “A Cloud of Witnesses” (Heb.12:1)
Sermon for 1 November 2018 __________________________________________________________________ Today we celebrate the Feast of All Saints, because everyone who goes to Heaven is a saint. There we hope to be one day among them. Some saints are officially canonized by the Church so that we will be inspired to follow their example, but they are not of a different species than the rest of us. Their holiness stands out among the crowd, just as some stars shine brighter than others. We could say that Jesus, our Saint of Saints, is like the sun, Mary is like the moon, reflecting the light of Jesus, and the other saints are like the stars, differing from one another in brightness. As St. Paul says:
“There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another of the stars; for star differs from star in glory. So also with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown in corruption rises in incorruption; what is sown in dishonor rises in glory; what is sown in weakness rises in power; what is sown a natural body rises a spiritual body” (1Cor.15:41- 44).
Do all become saints? Is it true, as John Paul II taught, that Hell is only for the devil and the fallen angels, and that everyone goes to Heaven? {That was God’s plan, but Satan loves company and he tries to fill Hell with as many men and women as he can! Abyssum} In that case, everyone we meet out in that wild and wicked world is a {potential} future saint. Our Lord Himself denies {that everyone succeeds in realizing their potential for sanctity, Abyssum} this in many of His sermons and parables, such as the parable of the sheep and the goats. Many passages from the Old Testament also deny it, like this passage from the prophet Daniel about the last days:
“At that time there shall arise Michael, the great prince, guardian of your people; it shall be a time unsurpassed in distress since nations began until that time. At that time your people shall escape, everyone who is found written in the book. Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake; some shall live forever, others shall be an everlasting horror and disgrace. But the wise shall shine brightly like the splendor of the firmament, and those who lead the many to justice shall be like the stars forever” (Dan.12:1-3).
Someone has said that we will be surprised at some of the people we find in Heaven, and even more surprised at some of the people we don’t find there. There are some who are reputed to be holy, like the hypocrites whom Jesus condemns, who will never see Heaven:
“Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you are like whited sepulchers, which outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men’s bones and of
all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear just to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity” (Mt.23:27,28).
But what does God think about the sinner who repents? The prophet Exechiel tells us:
“The soul that sinneth the same shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, and the father shall not bear the iniquity of the son. The justice of the just shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. But if the wicked do penance for all his sins which he hath committed and keep all my commandments and do judgment and justice, living he shall live, and shall not die. I will not remember all his iniquities that he hath done: in his justice which he hath wrought, he shall live. Is it my will that a sinner should die, saith the Lord God, and not that he should be converted from his ways and live?” (Ez.18:20-23).
Delaying your conversion is the last thing we would recommend, especially considering the dangerous situation facing us practically at our own doorstep. Those who wait, may find themselves suddenly thrust into Hell without expecting it, although even a last minute repentance is a possibility. The Good Thief, St. Dismas, for example, was absolved by Our Lord Himself from the Cross. But we must not be careless about out spiritual condition, because our time may be shorter than we think. We must follow the good advice of St. Paul:
“Therefore let us also, having such a cloud of witnesses over us, put away every encumbrance and the sin entangling us, and run with patience to the fight set before us; looking towards the author and finisher of faith, Jesus, who for the joy set before him, endured a cross, despising shame, and sits at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider, then, him who endured such opposition from sinners against himself, so that you may not grow weary and lose heart. For you have not yet resisted unto blood in the struggle with sin” (Heb.12:1-4).
“Now may the God of peace, who brought forth from the dead the great pastor of the sheep, our Lord Jesus, in virtue of the blood of an everlasting covenant, fit you with every good thing to do his will; working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is glory forever and ever. Amen” (Heb.13:20,21). †
________________________________________________________________________ “Worthy is the Lamb Who was slain to receive power, and divinity, and wisdom, and strength, and
honor. To Him belong glory and dominion forever and ever” (Apoc.5:12;1:6).
So begins the Introit of the Mass of Christ the King. We read in the book of the Prophet Daniel:
“I beheld therefore in the vision of the night, and lo, one like the son of man came with the clouds of heaven. And he came even to the Ancient of days: and they presented him before him. And he gave him power and glory and a kingdom: and all peoples, tribes and tongues shall serve him. His power is an everlasting power that shall not be taken away: and his kingdom that shall not be destroyed” (Dan.7:13,14).
Christ is therefore our King, appointed as such by God the Father. For:
“God also has exalted him and has bestowed upon him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend of those in heaven, on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father” (Phil.2:9-11).
Those who refuse to believe the Gospel are not in good faith, they are not “men of good will.” They cannot be saved because they have rejected God’s offer of salvation, insulting Him and His Divine Son. We know this because Our Lord Himself said:
“He who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be condemned” (Mk.16:16).
To refuse the Gospel, therefore, means to refuse God Himself. The Lord made this clear when He sent His Apostles before Him into the towns He intended to visit, with this instruction:
“And whoever does not receive you, or listen to your words – go forth outside that house or town, and shake off the dust from your feet. Amen I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that town” (Mt.10:14,15).
Any nation that refuses to recognize the authority of Christ is under the same judgment, and must face the terrible wrath of God. Our civilization, which began as Christian but now rejects Christ and His authority, is nearing its judgment. The signs are there – corrupt government structures, the enormous national debt, the spiraling degeneration of morals, the increasing violence and crime, the rise of neo-paganism, etc.
The new theology of the Church of the New Order (Novus Ordo), spearheaded by John Paul II, teaches that everyone is saved, and that it is not necessary for everyone to believe in Jesus Christ. He will save them
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nonetheless. This is why the official Vatican policy is to no longer preach the Gospel to the Jews, whom, they tell us, have their own covenant with God, still valid. The unfortunate Jews, not having the Gospel preached to them, will have to find out the truth of the Gospel for themselves. Strangely enough, the website “Israel Today” reports the following:
“A few months before he died, one of the nation’s most prominent rabbis, Yitzhak Kaduri, supposedly wrote the name of the Messiah on a small note which he requested would remain sealed until now. When the note was unsealed, it revealed what many have known for centuries: Yehoshua, or Yeshua (Jesus), is the Messiah. (“Israel Today,” April 30, 2007, http://www.israeltoday.co.il).
Did Jesus Christ sent His Apostles to teach all nations, baptizing them “in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,” so that everyone could become a member of His Church and be saved? Obviously, He did. Read the Gospels, and study the constant teaching of the Church from apostolic times up until the preaching of the “new all-inclusive gospel” of the conciliar church, which dates back barely a generation.
True religion is not even defended today by those who claim to be its representatives. There is now a new “openness” towards all false religions, and the idea that everyone is free to reject the Gospel. St. Paul tells us:
“Now the Spirit expressly says that in after times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of devils…” (1Tim.4:1).
Monsignor Anthony Frontiero, a Vatican official, addressing the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 24- Oct. 5, 2007), quoted Benedict XVI as saying that, “the right to religious liberty is fundamental, irrepressible, inalienable and inviolable,” claiming that:
“… the exercise of this freedom includes the right to change religion, which should be guaranteed not only legally, but also in daily practice,” and, “As we witness the varied religious reactions to the social problems of our day, there is evidence that the significant world religions, including Christianity, are promoting peace and justice as essential dimensions of their religious commitment” (Oct. 18, 2007,Zenit.org).
Pope Pius in Quas Primas, his encyclical on Christ the King, speaks otherwise:
“Nations will be reminded by the annual celebration of this feast that not only private individuals but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ… His kingly dignity demands that the State should take account of the commandments of God and of Christian principles, both in making laws and in administering justice…”
Pope Pius also states:
“…it is a dogma of faith that Jesus Christ was given to man, not only as our Redeemer, but also as a lawgiver, to whom obedience is due.” To deny this would then be to deny the rights of Christ the King and His Church, and to fall into heresy.”
When Christ the King is “lifted up from the earth” (as we will do during our Blessed Sacrament procession), He welcomes all who come to Him. We must also welcome all those who come to us at St. Jude Shrine. We must do this in obedience to Jesus Christ, Who is King of “all peoples, tribes, and tongues.”
ABYSSUS ABYSSUM INVOCAT / DEEP CALLS TO DEEP 
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