A CHRISTIAN IN A MUSLIM WORLD

Marie is an Egyptian linguist who follows PP and wishes to tell her remarkable story as a Christian

I love Australia. I have always loved this country and its people since the day I arrived. This country that Australians have built is like a paradise compared to where I came from. Yet since the day I arrived, I have been screaming to anyone who would listen, do not to allow the Muslims to come in here.

‘Why not’ they ask me? ‘We let you in, didn’t we?’

“Yes,” I reply, “but I don’t want to change your country or to take over. I just want to be a part of it and fit in”

If there is one thing I would like to change about Australians, it is their naivety. I don’t blame you for it. Growing up in such a wonderful country, it is almost impossible to imagine how people in other parts of the world can be so different.

I am a Christian, but I had the misfortune to be born in Egypt, which is a Muslim country. Fortunately for me, Egypt was under the rule of the British Empire as a Protectorate from 1882 until the 1956 Suez conflict. Anyone who thinks the British Empire was a force for evil has never lived through what me and my family have been through.

In 1956, I was living in Cairo when the Suez Canal war broke out. I was 13 years old at the time. That was when the British lost control of Egypt, thanks largely to American, Russian and UN pressure.

When us kids were allowed back to our English School of Heliopolis after the war, we found out, to our utter dismay, that all our Pom teachers had been expelled from Egypt. (Together with a huge number of other Europeans)

First lesson on the first day back, was a History class, our new teacher was one Mr Salama . . .I shall NEVER forget him. A short, squat man, with short wavy greying hair. Thick fat, wet lips, short fat fingers, and blue/grey eyes.

Mr Salama looked at us all with utter disdain, and explained that the Suez Canal ‘win’, (we actually believed Egypt had won, cos that is what we were told) was just the beginning of the creation of the new Caliphate.

He said: “All you dogs and pigs, remember my words. Us Muslims made a pact at the last Crusade to rebuild our numbers by marrying as many women as we could, then, when it is time and we have the numbers, to INVADE all Christian countries, BY ANY MEANS.

“Once inside, we will then force our demands on the host countries. We shall implement our Sharia Law. We shall proselytise, we shall marry the local women to bear as many children as they can, we shall build madrassas, we shall build mosques, we shall convert everybody, and FINALLY, we will have done what Mohammad (here he interrupted himself to bless Mo’s name) wanted us to do. I am an old man now, and will not see this Caliphate, but you pigs and dogs will.”

I turned around to my bench mate, a kid called Eshkenazy, and asked him, “who the hell are the pigs and dogs?”. He looked at me pityingly and replied, “you and me darling… the Christians and the Jews.”

WOW! I had never seen myself as a pig or a dog!… more like a CAT, as I am a Leo! In Islam, to call someone a pig or a dog, is one of the most offensive insults you can give.

Anyway . . .that lesson has remained in my memories and is as clear today, as it was then.

Muslims have NEVER stopped fighting the Crusaders, or The People of the Cross, (nas el saleeb, or gemaat el kitab – which means the People of the Book, as they call us… either that, or “The Nazarenes,” when referring to Christians).

People these days are being taught that Christians and Jews lived in peace and harmony in Muslim lands far more than Muslims could live in Christian lands. This is an outright lie.

My Egyptian family were forced to pay the Jezeyah for centuries. This is the onerous tax that is levied by Muslims on all Christians and Jews living in Muslim lands. They are forced to pay this tax on pain of death by beheading. They are also forced to accept great humiliation each year when they pay and are reminded of the death sentence that awaits failure to pay. (In Australia, this ‘slave’ tax is exacted through the Halal Certification program, seen on almost every single packaged food product in Australia.)

Eventually, my Egyptian family could no longer pay the Jezeyah. They had been paying it for centuries but finally, there was just no money left. When that happened, the Muslims confiscated all our ancestral land, all our assets and left my family in abject poverty. It is a very difficult and painful thing for me, to think about this.

I only recount it to tell others of the fate that awaits them should Muslims ever become a majority in this country.

If that were to happen, I am convinced that the Muslims would quickly vote the Aussies out of power and what happened to me, would soon be happening to your children. I have been telling people for years, that once Muslims have the numbers, they will take over positions of power in government, and they will marginalise us. I have lost many friends over this contentious issue, but I know I am right.

It started when a Muslim Pollie entered government by swearing on the Quran.

The Quran is very clear in its directive – Quran (3:28) – “Let not the believers Take for friends or helpers Unbelievers rather than believers: if any do that, in nothing will there be help from Allah: except by way of precaution, that ye may Guard yourselves from them. But Allah cautions you (To remember) Himself; for the final goal is to Allah.” The word ‘friend’ is Awliyaa which is inclusive of friends, protectors and helpers – the components of civil society. See also verse 5:51

I am appalled that our current Pollies have no notion of international history, no notion of what makes other nationalities tick. No notion of their mindset, their traditions etc. As other Pickering Posters have rightly said, Westerners assume that other people in the world are like them.

When the Poms were expelled from Egypt, it took a very short space of time for the infrastructure to start falling apart. The first thing I noticed, and I was just a kid, was the dirty smelly water running down the streets. Apparently, the sewage system had broken down, and nobody knew how to fix it – no Poms to guide and teach them anymore!

As for myself, I was no shrinking violet and had to learn to defend myself on the streets of Cairo, where my private parts got grabbed and groped. I figured, “well, two can play at this game.”

I took to watching the eyes of the men around me, and if I saw even the slightest hint of intent, I attacked first, by lunging forward, grabbing a handful of their private parts which I could discern quite clearly through their djellebahs, and then twisting with all my might.

They ended up on the ground at my feet, screaming with pain. It only happened twice, but never again . . .the story got around of my ferocity, they called me el shaitana (which means “the she devil”). My Egyptian grandmother would have died if she had known! Fortunately, my mother was out of the country, she never knew either.

I don’t think this is a good story to tell. It is my story and my burden, which I managed to live with and survived.

My understanding of Muslim intent, came through my adventurous forays on wagging school. I used to slip out of my boarding school on Saturday afternoons and go wandering around a bazaar called Khan el Khalili.

This bazaar was started in the 1300s by the dreaded Turks and is still going strong today. It is a place of amazing colour, incredible mouth-watering aromas of delicious Middle Eastern cooking, a great visual bonanza of masses of gold and silver jewellery hanging from little doorways, pottery, mountains of brass pots and pans, and an endless cacophony of sound and speech of the shoving, pushing humanity, the whole overlaid with the incessant wailing of Arabic music.

I met a man who was always busy making lovely ladies’ sandals, with his myriad bits of coloured strips of leather. I was fascinated with his deftness, his choice of colours, how he put it all together, creating his sandals before my very eyes.

He noticed me standing there, and offered me a little three-legged stool, so I could sit and watch him at work. The next time I went and sat with him, he offered me Tamar Hindi Sharbat – (same as Sherbet in English), a drink made of Tamarind seed, which is steeped in water, to create a refreshing drink. In Arabic, they call it Tamar Hindi . . . I can’t understand why, ‘Hindi’ because it is not an Indian tree but a north African one!!

Anyway, the little Muslim fella started talking to me, he told me he knew I was a Christian, that he had a daughter my age, and that if he thought she was wandering about in a souk (bazaar), he would have a heart attack.

He told me that Muslims are given instructions on how to get to heaven: humiliating, raping, or killing a Christian would give them a sure one-way ticket to paradise. Then he stuck his hand in the deep pocket of his djelebah and pulled out a knuckle duster {brass knuckles}, which he gave me with these words: ”don’t EVER let anyone do anything to you, that you don’t want”.

I learnt to use that knuckle duster {brass knuckles} to great effect. If anyone came anywhere near me, I whacked them with my deadly weapon I was also able to defend myself from the young men who gathered outside my Catholic church to pelt me with stones when I came out from Mass. I used to collect the stones and pelt them back with deadly accuracy. I felt quite Crusaderish!! One time, instead of the stones, they tried to attack me from close up. I lashed out with my knuckle duster and floored two of them. The others took off, hurling verbal insults at me as they went. None of the other churchgoers helped defend me. . .they were too scared. This was in faraway 1958/9 . . .just imagine what it is like today!

When I left Cairo for the last time in 1959, the Customs Officials at Cairo airport took the knuckle duster from me.

So, just imagine what coming to Australia and learning that I could walk down the street without getting groped and grabbed and spat upon meant to me!! I was in paradise!! I was in a civilised country! I was in a Christian country! I was with other people like me! I could open my mouth without getting jailed for it! I could walk down the street with a short-sleeved shirt and short skirt without being told I was a whore, just asking to be raped!

My kids could grow up and be whatever they wanted to be, without fear of being ostracised because they were Christians. Wow!! The very joy of being in this wondrous country is beyond descriptive words. People who haven’t ‘been there’, HAVE NO IDEA!!

I’ve been gone from Egypt since 1959, but the fear is back, now that things have drastically changed in Oz . . .and I am 75 this year! I still have people dear to me in Cairo.

They get traumatised every day of their lives, on the streets, during Christian festivities, etc ad infinitum et nauseam. Every Christmas and Easter, my soul shivers in dread fear for them. Even for myself, Australia is now full of these demented, vicious Muslims, who wouldn’t think twice about making my life a misery… I don’t care so much about myself but have to think of the rest of my family.

This insane idea of mass immigration is not about ‘refugees’, this is a bloody invasion, coordinated by the Muslim Leaders. This is something that was planned approximately 800 years ago, after the last Crusade, like Mr Salama told me all those years ago.

If Australians don’t wake up soon to the insane, self-destructive treasonous motives of our leaders, we will all find ourselves trapped in an Islamic hell hole and it will be too late to do something about it.

I thank God for The Pickering Post and I thank Larry for his efforts to bypass the lying, corrupt media and tell the truth to the Australian people. So many people are afraid to speak out through insane Politically Correct accusations of racism.

I am a wog! How is a wog racist? I am not a racist, I am a realist, and I can see the horrendous danger our Pollies are putting us into. We came to Australia to be safe, to leave behind the horrors of our youth.

But I won’t be silenced. I will shout this from the rooftops with my dying breath.

“Wake up Australia {and America}  and stop the mass immigration of Muslims into your wonderful country before it is too late!”

Marie Hudson

A CHRISTIAN IN A MUSLIM WORLD

Saint John Paul II receiving Holy Communion on the tongue

COMMUNION IN THE HAND

By Father George W. Rutler

FIRST THINGS

{ABYSUM}

In 1950, Pope Pius XII cautioned against the “historicist” mentality which is inclined to measure the merit of things against an imagined practice of the distant past. This mentality distorts historical fact. Historicism is to history as racism is to race and scientism is to science. It recreates a “fly in amber” early Church, something like colonial Williamsburg. It misunderstands the nature of sacred tradition, which is an organic development applicable to changing times but never abrogating the essential core of truth.

The practice of receiving the Sacred Host in the hand is often justified on the ground of primitive precedent. St. Cyril of Jerusalem famously described the reverent manner to be used in receiving in the hand, and comments by St. Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and St. Ambrose suggest that it was the norm. But two synods in the seventh century took opposite positions on the practice (Rouen against it and Trullo for). A gradual shift then occurred in favor of communion on the tongue. By the time of St. Thomas Aquinas, communion on the tongue seems to have become the use of the Latin Church, and for a clear theological reason:

Out of reverence towards this Sacrament, nothing touches it, but what is consecrated; hence the corporal and the chalice are consecrated, and likewise the priest’s hands, for touching this Sacrament. Hence, it is not lawful for anyone else to touch it except from necessity, for instance, if it were to fall upon the ground, or else in some other case of urgency. (Summa Theologiae, III, 82, 3)

Professional liturgists not infrequently lack a gift for practical psychology. Face-to-face confession was promoted around the time that a surfeit of moral abuses began to afflict the Church. The “reconciliation room” is problematic these days, presumably for the same reason that confessionals with screens were introduced centuries ago. Historicists failed to ask why the confessional had been introduced, just as they neglect to ask why communion on the tongue replaced reception in the hand. Clearly, the closed confessional and communion on the tongue were the result of necessity born of experience. It is no coincidence that the practice of auricular confession dwindled when “reconciliation rooms” came in, just as Eucharistic sensibility tragically declined after Pope Paul VI, with the reservations and cautions typical of him, granted permission for the laity to handle the Host.

It would be imprudent to return to receiving communion on the tongue as a universal practice by sudden decree, but the option should be encouraged, as should kneeling to receive. And the use of Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist as ordinary should be explained as the abuse it is. It is telling that since the ill-advised changes, the expression “receiving communion” commonly became “taking communion.” At least as important, and instituted more easily, is the ad orientem position of the celebrant. Its corrective influence on the psychology of worship would make other reforms more logical. Ecumenically speaking, these forms of reverence would be more sympathetic to the Eastern Rites. Though the Eastern churches receive communion standing, they also require prostration, and communion on the tongue.

A cardinal once told me that communion in the hand had increased Eucharistic devotion. Given the dramatic decline in Mass attendance and belief in the Real Presence since the 1960s, this was the triumph of theory over fact. In his 1980 apostolic letter “Dominicae Cenae,” n. 11, St. John Paul II warned about the potential for disrespect and indifference arising from the practice of receiving communion in the hand. From a practical perspective, especially in large city parishes, communion in the hand invites profanation: Many priests have stories about people absconding with the Host. But there will be no substantial improvement until another generation is willing to admit that the “spirit of Vatican II” often did more damage than good, and that many of the subsequent liturgical changes were disastrous.

This gives me an opportunity to mention what has often been said about the Eucharistic piety of St. Teresa of Calcutta. She invariably received on the tongue, and such has been the norm in her Order. Once she told me that of all the sad things she had seen, the worst was irreverent reception of communion. She said this while holding out her hands. When I quoted this, it was taken to mean that she opposed the reception of communion in the hand. This distressed her, because it suggested that she opposed the decision of the bishops to grant the option. She told me to write a correction for the press. I replied that I’d pray and then write. Sounding almost like a Marine sergeant, she said, “No. We need this right away. I pray. You write.” Since then I have explained this many times, and often the respondents act annoyed or proceed as though they had not heard me. But after each Mass, Mother Teresa would kiss the priest’s hands: “Thank you for bringing Jesus to us.” No reforms will accomplish much without such humility.

Fr. George W. Rutler is pastor of the Church of St. Michael in New York City.

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  tbrec63387 • 9 minutes ago

  What’s sad is that the services that the church provides, will virtually disappear. The government will have to pick up the slack and can they afford it? Strangely enough, this may be a blessing because what it will show, if it happens, is that the church will survive and not be beholding to government. We will no longer have to walk on egg shells. a “voters guide” which is no more then a list of where the candidates stand on certain issues, is far less then what I’ve seen by other denominations. That’s a Baptist bible belt and if this should happen to the Catholic church, it will not be foo far behind for other denominations. Just look at what the Obama preacher said … Other denominations should be paying attention because the government will be coming their way soon as well.

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  rfs • 10 minutes ago

  The Johnson Amendment was actually implemented in 1954 when LBJ was Senate Majority Leader

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  rebecca96 • 10 minutes ago

  First, I support Texas Right to Life (TRL) and plan to use their voter’s guide. However, there are two points in this article I take strong exception to.

  First, many pro-life legislators voted against the dismemberment ban because they believed it would be overturned in the courts and then once again the state of Texas would be giving millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood’s lawyers. It is fine to debate whether or not that would happen, but please be honest regarding their position. It is bearing false witness to claim they think it is okay to abort children with disabilities.

  Why doesn’t TRL try to pass a ban on all abortions from the point of conception? Because they know it would be overturned in the courts and we’d just be having the state of Texas giving millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood’s lawyers. It would be dishonest for people to report that TRL is for abortions the first 20 weeks in the same way it is dishonest to claim the pro-life legislators were for aborting people with disabilities.

  Second, the reason our bishops support people who immigrate here illegally is because they are pastorally invested in that community, which is admirable. Personally, I want our border enforced and for us to do a better job vetting who is allowed into our country, and I will vote for people who will support that type of legislation. I am not for deporting everyone who came here illegally. We were not enforcing our borders and we were providing incentives for people to come here illegally.

  If the reason the bishops support people who immigrated here illegally is for financial gain, then it is fine you reported this. If it is not the reason, then this is bearing false witness. (We were given only ten commandments, and this breaks one of them!) So please be very careful that you know their motivations if you are going to claim to know them.

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  Rafael • 24 minutes ago

  Republican used to mean something respectable. The last Presidential election was an example of how the Establishment Republican Party Elites were the same as the Democrats. For years, the GOP has been selling out conservatives. All the Moderate Republicans have been helping to push the GOP agenda to the center and now to the Left. The GOP establishment always threw conservatives “a bone” by nominating a candidate that would say something to appeal the conservative base. But, in the end, they always betrayed Conservatives by preventing or blocking the conservative candidate and nominating a Moderate. One only has to look at the last 30 years of Presidential Elections to see the proof of this. NOT ONE of the Presidential Candidates nominated in the last 30 years has been a true conservative – even the one from Texas!!!
  The conclusion many of us drew during the 2015-2016 campaign season was that the Republican Party and the Democrat Party were ONE BIG Party! It became an issue of elites vs. grassroots because the RINOs controlling the GOP were busily engaged in moving the party to the Left, making it more “progressive,” more “moderate” to appeal to some “invisible” voting block that was on the fence or undecided (what % *really* were the undecided). They always felt that the conservative agenda would never “appeal” to moderates or independents or the undecided voting block. So, they preferred appeasing moderates/independents/undecided and selling out the conservatives.
  Well, many conservatives had just about enough in 2016. Many conservatives finally left the party and became independent. And the beauty has been watching the RINOs squirm in their seats and be at such unrest when Trump actually one. Trump was the payback for all the years that they sold out conservatives. Trump helped “flush out” some of the RINOs (i.e. Kasich in Ohio). The GOP truly has a new face now.
  Lastly, it’s pretty clear that RINOs and CINOs have a lot in common. It used to be that almost all CINOs were exclusively Democrats – with some Republican exceptions, of course – because the Democrats held the larger Catholic voting block. However, the fact that more RINOs are being labeled CINOs is proof positive that the tide has definitely shifted.
  The question remains: Which party do faithful Catholics support? We KNOW that the Democrat Party is off the table, which leaves only the GOP. Although there has been some draining of the swamp in DC, the GOP is still riddled with Democrats operating under the cover of Republican (and some of them as Catholics, too). Until a great majority of these RINOs are flushed out, the GOP is still not safe to return back to. Faithful Catholics are on the fringe, not really having a home to go to.

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  Tony • 31 minutes ago

  Let us pray our rosaries for the right outcome of this election.

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    Mary Bryant Tony • 18 minutes ago

    Amen!

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  RedRobin • 34 minutes ago

  Does anyone have any knowledge of any dissenting Bishops’ votes, by name? I’m 100% certain my bishop was not among them. My bishop voiced words of consolation to a congregation shortly after the 2016 election.

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  Little Rose • 41 minutes ago

  I KNEW this was ultimately about immigration. These FOOLISH liberal prelates! Immigration is a PRUDENTIAL decision. It’s not an INTRINSIC EVIL like abortion. These Democrats in vestments have elevated immigration over abortion because it lines their pockets with millions of dollars every year from the federal government to resettle these people. These WOLVES put Judas to shame, trying to use Christ and His teachings to further their personal political agenda. Shame on them! I doubt they will lose their tax exempt status because of this, even though they deserve it. They will, however, incur costly legal expenses, which ultimately, comes from the pockets of the faithful. They’ve also further damaged the already blugeoned reputation of the Catholic Church with their prideful political hacking.

  Pray for Cardinal Sarah, the next pope, to clean house!

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    Mary Bryant Little Rose • 16 minutes ago

    Cardinal Sarah, the next Pope! Amen!

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      Little Rose Mary Bryant • 11 minutes ago

      Pray for Cardinal Sarah daily. The devil despises him. He is under tremendous attack. Time for God to save the day. #ProtectthePridelands.

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    Tony Little Rose • 17 minutes ago

    I’ve come to the conclusion that most bishops have no faith in God. Many times Michael will ask at the end of a Vortex something like, “Do these bishops really believe they will not have to give an account of their actions to almighty God on the day or their judgments?”

    The answer, Michael, is Yes, the bishops really believe they will not have to give an account. There is no blinking at this fact any longer. There can be no more “charitable interpretations” of their actions.

    These bishops have no faith. The Catholic church is, for them, an institution whose (diminishing) status they can use to bring about the social change they desire. That’s all it is to them. They are the cancer within.

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    Rafael Little Rose • 18 minutes ago

    I like the tone! I agree with what you are saying. And I, too, feel that it will be costly for them and that they will not lose their tax exempt status. There may even be some Churches closing. We’ll see if after this, these prelates will be willing to meet faithful Catholics “where we’re at.” Lord knows they’ve been more concerned about meeting dissident Catholics where they are at, yet, neglecting the ones who will be left after the church buildings begin to close.

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  Huntsville Harrahs • 42 minutes ago

  As harsh as this may sound, my first reaction to the Church losing it’s IRS tax exempt status and possibly bankrupting it… Good. It’s about time. As long as the current model continues, nothing will ever change. This reminds me of 2008 when all of DC was going nuts over the housing bubble stock market crash. At the time my reaction was the same. They need to let the whole house of cards collapse. Yeah it would be painful, for about 3-5 years. But on the other side of that, is a much more stable beginning. But, we know they didn’t, and 10 years later, things are worse. The sooner the rug is yanked out from under their feet the better.

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    Some Guy Huntsville Harrahs • 28 minutes ago

    Agree. When the institutional men slither off and the machinery melts away, the faithful church will emerge, working for Christ and his Church from the heart and not as professional Christians. Was it Athanasius who said of his adversaries something like, They have the buildings but we have the faith?

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      Huntsville Harrahs Some Guy • 15 minutes ago

      Yeah, I believe that was Athanasius. I would agree that’s right more today than then ever before.

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  MHC • an hour ago

  Thank you Michael for flying to Texas and give us the front line report. It is indeed valuable to have such an outstanding journalist who reports true news. Let us pray for the victory of true conservatives for the election result tomorrow.

  I am not sure I understand about the IRS ruling issue and how it affects the church’s tax exempt status. Can anyone shed a light?

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    RedRobin MHC • 26 minutes ago

    Yes, MV. We feel the love here in Texas. Thank you for your effort in bringing us a superb report from the battle front.

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  justfeddup • an hour ago

  Jennifer Carr Allmon and Bishop Michael Olson look strangely similar.
  I thought there wasn’t nepotism in the Church.

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  cheeriosinmypocket • an hour ago

  Well done Michael Voris. You have my prayers. Looking forward to hearing you this coming weekend in Cleveland. May God bless you.

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  JBQ21 • an hour ago

  I did some research on Texas Right to Life. Kyleen Wright is the director and as sincere as she can be. She gave a statement on the issue which was gracious in tone. It was obvious that she was hurt by the betrayal.—An iceberg is 90% below water. You have to look at Jennifer Carr Allmon and Bishop Michael Olson for their true agenda. This has the odor of Blase Cupich all over it.— The “toning down” of anti abortion and the lightening of gay criticism along with the diagnosis of the Republicans being the party of evil capitalism is the prime motivator. Our Lady of Guadalupe, the true protector of the immigrant and the innocent, pray for us. — The radicals in the Catholic progressive movement believe that they can secretly side with the Democrats as the party of “social justice”. The statement by P. Francis that “capitalism is the ‘dung’ of the devil” will come back to haunt the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops as it continues to march to the left. The question now remains of whether the true plan of the “moles within” is to show mercy for those aborting or for its true acceptance.

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  DHopp • an hour ago

  The Texas Bishops problem with the Right to Life organization?
  Their Advisory and Critique-
  The Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops’ advisory listed three conflicts with the pro-life organization:

  • Pro-life reform: “Texas Right to Life often opposes the Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops and has implied that the bishops do not faithfully represent Church teaching. Part of the dispute is rooted in Texas Right to Life’s rejection of incremental pro-life reforms …”

  • End-of-life reform: “The bishops have been compelled to publicly correct Texas Right to Life’s misstatements on end-of-life care and advance directives, in which Texas Right to Life implied that the legislation the bishops were supporting allowed euthanasia and death panels rather than the reality that the legislation reflected the long-standing church teaching requiring a balance of patient autonomy and the physician conscience protection.”

  • Texas Right to Life’s voter guide: “Finally, Texas Right to Life publishes a scorecard that purports to show which Texas legislators are pro-life. We believe this publication is not based on a fair analysis of a legislator’s work, but rather upon whether the legislator has followed voting recommendations of Texas Right to Life.”

  So now we should have “incremental pro-life reforms”–gradualism–at what–a snails pace?
  Note-Texas prolife reforms have been microscopic/ dismal vs other states.
  Texas Bishops-
  By what moral basis or overt evil done do you Banish a Pro Life organization from parishes in Texas?
  Why? If there is no moral or Catholic dogma violated–is not your action purely political?

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  schoooter • an hour ago

  Wow. Gotta watch this one again. Not certain I understood or followed it fully.
  Thanks for keeping up with things, Michael. We definitely need your work.

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    Patricia McArthur schoooter • 7 minutes ago

    I watched it, then read it…..it soaked in better after reading.

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    London Gopher schoooter • an hour ago

    Hey, schoooter!

    You can watch The Download from March 1 (2018) on YouTube if you aren’t a premium subscriber – it’s called “Shielding Fake Republicans”. That episode goes into great (and infuriating 😡) detail about this whole mess. WELL WORTH WATCHING!

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    klohre schoooter • an hour ago

    + lol- I usually have to watch them again or back track at least. +

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  Nicholas • 2 hours ago

  The modernist bishops have been in bed with progressives for decades. Look at the fools who were arrested on Capitol Hill last week for the “Catholic Day of Action for Dreamers.” Sisters and priests were “standing in solidarity” with the illegal aliens. Thomas Reese, SJ (pal of James Martin, SJ) looked like a complete tool getting dragged out by security. What an embarrassment they are.

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  SanSan • 2 hours ago

  I thought there was a move (Trump Administration) to end the Johnson Amendent so that Churches could participate in the public square without losing their tax exempt status?

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    Diane SanSan • 2 hours ago

    Yes, what happened to that?

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  Tom Williams • 2 hours ago

  The Lucifarian objective to control then destroy THE CHURCH is in It’s final stages.
  “You cannot serve both God and Mamon,” and the church leadership appears to serve “Mamon” rather than God.

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  Guy McClung • 2 hours ago

  So two-faced: so that they were not compelled to say you must vote for the prolife Repubican over the prodeath prohomosexual pro abortion Demoncrat, the bishops hid behind the Johnson Amendment. What they have now done shows how desperate they are. They have also just lit a fire under many of the anti-catholic prolife folks in Texas who will now vote for whoever is running against a bishop’s anti-life RINO candidate. By their actions they have doomed their RINOs to extinction; and may Texas Right To Life hasten that extinction.

  Of course in many areas, these bishops in democrat clothing were silent, but their silence was a loud and pointed implicit endorsement of democrats, candidates of the Party Of Death. From pulpits around Texas, the faithful heard from their alleged shepherds “We are not single issue voters,” that unsaid single issue being the murders daily, weekly yearly in Texas of hundreds of thousands of Texas babies, the murders being the overt policy of the democrats of the Party Of Death.

  In many places on any given day, all the murdered babies, ten, twenty, thirty, 100%, were Hispanic-American babies. For years, the Texas Conference of bishops have been silent about this brown genocide. Since Roe, 60,000,000 murdered babies in the US, and astoundingly, half, 30,000,000, were the children of minority mamas. Half. The democrat Party of Death RETA policy was demonically successful in getting rid of Sanger’s brown and black “human weeds.” (RETA: racial eugenic targeted abortion).

  Still the Catholic bishops of Texas have remained silent. Hand-in-glove with the democrats and profeath RINOs in their Texas alliance for death, they have not said from pulpits to vote for a prolife candidate instead of a party-of-death candidate, because the prolife candidate was – horror of horrors – a republican candidate. Never mind that the democrat candidate supported the murder of babies, and the RETA policy.

  But last week, mirabile dictu, wonder of wonders, the bishops speak! What could have spurred them to finally speak out – since they have never had the moral courage to say, as Peter did to the leaders of the time, “We can obey you, or we can obey God” ? Why speak out now when Hispanic-Americans are beginning to see the light and are beginning to vote for prolilfe folks to help save babies in Texas?

  The bishops have become painfully aware that their Texas alliance for death with the democrats and profeath RINOs is in danger. They saw what happened in 2016 in the Texas Rio Grande Valley when the Hispanic-American Catholics were shown how the Democrat RETA policy had decimated their numbers right here in Texas. And then the final horror – these enlightened voters, who love their children and live and die for family, they voted for Republicans. You could hear the weeping and the gnashing of prelates’ teeth from Brownsville to McAllen to Austin to Fort Worth to Houston – and even in El Paso.

  So the previously silent bishops, fearing that their Texas alliance for death partnership with the democrats would fail to deliver the once- rock-solid monolith of the Hispanic-American vote, in their desperation, loudly again proclaiming they must keep silent, have come out and condemned the quintessential Texas prolife organization, Texas Right To Life, because of its efforts – wildly successful efforts – to speak the truth about the brown genocide of Texas babies promoted by the Party Of Death democrats and Texas Right To Life’s support of non-democrat non-RETA-policy candidates; and Yes, most of them, hated non-RINO republicans.

  Lastly gasping, the bishops speak now days before the upcoming elections. Coincidence? No way, Jose. If Texas Right To Life and others like minded are to be stopped, if the Texas alliance for death is to succeed as it has in the past to elect democrats and RINO prodeath GOP candidates, the bishops had to speak out now – and it will be no surprise when they forsake these little ones in Fall 2018 again silently proclaiming we cannot endorse anyone.

  Didn’t Jesus say something about “woe” to those who hurt His children? Millstones, necks and drowning? And about hirelings, masquerading as shepherds, who run away, leaving the innocent sheep to the wolves?
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    schoooter Guy McClung • an hour ago

    Didn’t President Trump say as a candidate that he wanted to have the Johnson Amendment repealed? Is that in the works? Would it be too late for this mishap?

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    Rafael Guy McClung • an hour ago

    I here I was thinking Texas was a conservative state. This is also proof how the “seamless garment” has covered Texas as well – being that it started in Chicago. Like any garment, the USCCB appears to have kept adding to the garment by “weaving in” more issues “social justice” issues. Now, it looks like the garment has “blanketed” the WHOLE state of Texas. Now that’s ONE BIG seamless garment – even by Texas standards!

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      RedRobin Rafael • 42 minutes ago

      This is why Texans need to protect their state from liberals moving here and bringing their blue demographics to make our state purple. Keep fighting conservative pro-life Texans and take nothing for granted!

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  London Gopher • 2 hours ago

  What really burns my buttons here is that the Texas bishops CLEARLY believe that the laity is so poorly formed as to believe that we owe our bishops absolute obedience.

  Well, Bishop Olsen, Saint Thomas Aquinas…says otherwise.

  And you know what? I think I’ll go with him – rather than a man who uses TWITTER to get parishioners to RAT OUT THEIR OWN PRIESTS! 😡

  Saint Thomas Aquinas: There being an imminent danger for the Faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.

  ALSO…pray, pray, PRAY for our good and holy priests in Texas, on the receiving end of yet more “blue on blue” fire from their superiors.

  They DO take a vow of obedience to the bishop – and he can (and often does) make their lives a misery. 😢

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  Quicksilvr2Gold • 2 hours ago

  Well, if you want sensible immigration, the end to abortion, and parental rights to guide the raising and educating of your children to remain with the parents– you probably won’t vote for ANYONE that the Bishops in Texas want in office. Oh and if you are seriously in favor of the 1st and 2nd amendments of the US Constitution, well, anyone BUT those chosen by the Bishops.

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  Lisa Ann Homic • 2 hours ago

  Pray for the challengers to win their elections.

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  whatmoral • 2 hours ago

  Did these bishops support Abortion Barbie, Wendy Davis?

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  mr • 3 hours ago

  If i say what i want to say some people would have a heart attack.So i will pray.

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    Bdonovan03051 mr • 2 hours ago

    many of us know exactly what you mean. Have deleted way more comments than I post because I didn’t want to have to go to confession for a stupid internet posting.

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  Mike • 3 hours ago

  These modernist bishops are forgetting whose Church it truly is. I would like to think that Our Lord is offering a correction to the bishops with this chain of events. I remember being taught that in order to be a good Catholic, one follows the laws of the land in which he or she resides. To my recollection, “illegal” was not a part of that.

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  kristinechristliebcanavan • 3 hours ago

  Fort Worth is home to a very strong and vital conservative movement among Episcopalians who are, as it turns out, more Catholic than the Catholics.

  “Some of you will grab hold of a relative and say, ‘You still have a coat. Be our leader and rule this heap of ruins.'”

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    Caroline John Renaud kristinechristliebcanavan • an hour ago

    sad but true!

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    Trey Elmore Mod kristinechristliebcanavan • 3 hours ago

    Anglicans don’t have valid sacraments. ACNA accepts divorce, birth control. That’s hardly “conservative.”

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  Keith Abraham • 3 hours ago

  Forgive me if this is foolishness that I haven’t thought through well enough, but if the Church lost its tax-exempt status and essentially was bankrupted wouldn’t that actually be more a positive thing for the faithful? To lose it’s temporal power in this way would make all the money and power hungry people in the Church “give up the ghost” so to speak and it would leave the faithful behind which would in turn be far more powerful and outspoken.

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    SanSan Keith Abraham • 2 hours ago

    The Johnson Amendment needs to be repealed so that the Church can have exempt status AND speak up for Life and Morals…..

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    Quicksilvr2Gold Keith Abraham • 2 hours ago

    Except that suddenly the power of government to control the Church via taxation would be let loose to the delight of the devil. No, the Faithful need to get over the clericalism and BE Catholic in spite of the hierarchy being off the tracks. If the Faithful ignore the bishops unless they speak correctly on some aspect of the Faith, well, that will help greatly– the Faithful thinking for themselves and applying Church teaching.

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  Jeanne Anthony • 3 hours ago

  A very clear explanation of what is going on in Texas politics. Thank you, Michael! Maybe this is the end of the money grab by the bishops who support illegal immigration for the government funds. They have abandoned our unborn for those who break the law.

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  Dean A. Hoffman • 3 hours ago

  “And friends, our seventh collection this morning is for the [fill in name of bogus charity] fund. Please remember those less fortunate than us. Er, I mean, you.”

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    whatmoral Dean A. Hoffman • 2 hours ago

    And for all you that labor with heavy burdens, give me your precious finances so that I can funnel it to my favorite cause, which is of course my god’s will.

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    kristinechristliebcanavan Dean A. Hoffman • 3 hours ago

    At first I was laughing, but then I realized your words were too close to the truth to be amusing.

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    Tony Little Rose • 24 minutes ago

    I’ve come to the conclusion that most bishops have no faith in God. Many times Michael will ask at the end of a Vortex something like, “Do these bishops really believe they will not have to give an account of their actions to almighty God on the day or their judgments?”

    The answer, Michael, is Yes, the bishops really believe they will not have to give an account. There is no blinking at this fact any longer. There can be no more “charitable interpretations” of their actions.

    These bishops have no faith. The Catholic church is, for them, an institution whose (diminishing) status they can use to bring about the social change they desire. That’s all it is to them. They are the cancer within.
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    Rafael Little Rose • 25 minutes ago

    I like the tone! I agree with what you are saying. And I, too, feel that it will be costly for them and that they will not lose their tax exempt status. There may even be some Churches closing. We’ll see if after this, these prelates will be willing to meet faithful Catholics “where we’re at.” Lord knows they’ve been more concerned about meeting dissident Catholics where they are at, yet, neglecting the ones who will be left after the church buildings begin to close.
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  Huntsville Harrahs • an hour ago

  As harsh as this may sound, my first reaction to the Church losing it’s IRS tax exempt status and possibly bankrupting it… Good. It’s about time. As long as the current model continues, nothing will ever change. This reminds me of 2008 when all of DC was going nuts over the housing bubble stock market crash. At the time my reaction was the same. They need to let the whole house of cards collapse. Yeah it would be painful, for about 3-5 years. But on the other side of that, is a much more stable beginning. But, we know they didn’t, and 10 years later, things are worse. The sooner the rug is yanked out from under their feet the better.
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    Some Guy Huntsville Harrahs • 35 minutes ago

    Agree. When the institutional men slither off and the machinery melts away, the faithful church will emerge, working for Christ and his Church from the heart and not as professional Christians. Was it Athanasius who said of his adversaries something like, They have the buildings but we have the faith?
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      Huntsville Harrahs Some Guy • 22 minutes ago

      Yeah, I believe that was Athanasius. I would agree that’s right more today than then ever before.
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  MHC • an hour ago

  Thank you Michael for flying to Texas and give us the front line report. It is indeed valuable to have such an outstanding journalist who reports true news. Let us pray for the victory of true conservatives for the election result tomorrow.

  I am not sure I understand about the IRS ruling issue and how it affects the church’s tax exempt status. Can anyone shed a light?
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    Daninfla6th MHC • 6 minutes ago

    Since links are not permitted, please search for “JOHNSON AMMENDMENT” and you will see how that works.
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    RedRobin MHC • 33 minutes ago

    Yes, MV. We feel the love here in Texas. Thank you for your effort in bringing us a superb report from the battle front.
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  justfeddup • an hour ago

  Jennifer Carr Allmon and Bishop Michael Olson look strangely similar.
  I thought there wasn’t nepotism in the Church.
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  cheeriosinmypocket • an hour ago

  Well done Michael Voris. You have my prayers. Looking forward to hearing you this coming weekend in Cleveland. May God bless you.
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  JBQ21 • an hour ago

  I did some research on Texas Right to Life. Kyleen Wright is the director and as sincere as she can be. She gave a statement on the issue which was gracious in tone. It was obvious that she was hurt by the betrayal.—An iceberg is 90% below water. You have to look at Jennifer Carr Allmon and Bishop Michael Olson for their true agenda. This has the odor of Blase Cupich all over it.— The “toning down” of anti abortion and the lightening of gay criticism along with the diagnosis of the Republicans being the party of evil capitalism is the prime motivator. Our Lady of Guadalupe, the true protector of the immigrant and the innocent, pray for us. — The radicals in the Catholic progressive movement believe that they can secretly side with the Democrats as the party of “social justice”. The statement by P. Francis that “capitalism is the ‘dung’ of the devil” will come back to haunt the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops as it continues to march to the left. The question now remains of whether the true plan of the “moles within” is to show mercy for those aborting or for its true acceptance.
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  DHopp • an hour ago

  The Texas Bishops problem with the Right to Life organization?
  Their Advisory and Critique-
  The Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops’ advisory listed three conflicts with the pro-life organization:

  • Pro-life reform: “Texas Right to Life often opposes the Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops and has implied that the bishops do not faithfully represent Church teaching. Part of the dispute is rooted in Texas Right to Life’s rejection of incremental pro-life reforms …”

  • End-of-life reform: “The bishops have been compelled to publicly correct Texas Right to Life’s misstatements on end-of-life care and advance directives, in which Texas Right to Life implied that the legislation the bishops were supporting allowed euthanasia and death panels rather than the reality that the legislation reflected the long-standing church teaching requiring a balance of patient autonomy and the physician conscience protection.”

  • Texas Right to Life’s voter guide: “Finally, Texas Right to Life publishes a scorecard that purports to show which Texas legislators are pro-life. We believe this publication is not based on a fair analysis of a legislator’s work, but rather upon whether the legislator has followed voting recommendations of Texas Right to Life.”

  So now we should have “incremental pro-life reforms”–gradualism–at what–a snails pace?
  Note-Texas prolife reforms have been microscopic/ dismal vs other states.
  Texas Bishops-
  By what moral basis or overt evil done do you Banish a Pro Life organization from parishes in Texas?
  Why? If there is no moral or Catholic dogma violated–is not your action purely political?

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  schoooter • 2 hours ago

  Wow. Gotta watch this one again. Not certain I understood or followed it fully.
  Thanks for keeping up with things, Michael. We definitely need your work.
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    Patricia McArthur schoooter • 14 minutes ago

    I watched it, then read it…..it soaked in better after reading.
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    London Gopher schoooter • an hour ago

    Hey, schoooter!

    You can watch The Download from March 1 (2018) on YouTube if you aren’t a premium subscriber – it’s called “Shielding Fake Republicans”. That episode goes into great (and infuriating 😡) detail about this whole mess. WELL WORTH WATCHING!
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    klohre schoooter • an hour ago

    + lol- I usually have to watch them again or back track at least. +
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  Nicholas • 2 hours ago

  The modernist bishops have been in bed with progressives for decades. Look at the fools who were arrested on Capitol Hill last week for the “Catholic Day of Action for Dreamers.” Sisters and priests were “standing in solidarity” with the illegal aliens. Thomas Reese, SJ (pal of James Martin, SJ) looked like a complete tool getting dragged out by security. What an embarrassment they are.
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  SanSan • 2 hours ago

  I thought there was a move (Trump Administration) to end the Johnson Amendent so that Churches could participate in the public square without losing their tax exempt status?
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    Diane SanSan • 2 hours ago

    Yes, what happened to that?
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  Tom Williams • 2 hours ago

  The Lucifarian objective to control then destroy THE CHURCH is in It’s final stages.
  “You cannot serve both God and Mamon,” and the church leadership appears to serve “Mamon” rather than God.
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  Guy McClung • 2 hours ago

  So two-faced: so that they were not compelled to say you must vote for the prolife Repubican over the prodeath prohomosexual pro abortion Demoncrat, the bishops hid behind the Johnson Amendment. What they have now done shows how desperate they are. They have also just lit a fire under many of the anti-catholic prolife folks in Texas who will now vote for whoever is running against a bishop’s anti-life RINO candidate. By their actions they have doomed their RINOs to extinction; and may Texas Right To Life hasten that extinction.

  Of course in many areas, these bishops in democrat clothing were silent, but their silence was a loud and pointed implicit endorsement of democrats, candidates of the Party Of Death. From pulpits around Texas, the faithful heard from their alleged shepherds “We are not single issue voters,” that unsaid single issue being the murders daily, weekly yearly in Texas of hundreds of thousands of Texas babies, the murders being the overt policy of the democrats of the Party Of Death.

  In many places on any given day, all the murdered babies, ten, twenty, thirty, 100%, were Hispanic-American babies. For years, the Texas Conference of bishops have been silent about this brown genocide. Since Roe, 60,000,000 murdered babies in the US, and astoundingly, half, 30,000,000, were the children of minority mamas. Half. The democrat Party of Death RETA policy was demonically successful in getting rid of Sanger’s brown and black “human weeds.” (RETA: racial eugenic targeted abortion).

  Still the Catholic bishops of Texas have remained silent. Hand-in-glove with the democrats and profeath RINOs in their Texas alliance for death, they have not said from pulpits to vote for a prolife candidate instead of a party-of-death candidate, because the prolife candidate was – horror of horrors – a republican candidate. Never mind that the democrat candidate supported the murder of babies, and the RETA policy.

  But last week, mirabile dictu, wonder of wonders, the bishops speak! What could have spurred them to finally speak out – since they have never had the moral courage to say, as Peter did to the leaders of the time, “We can obey you, or we can obey God” ? Why speak out now when Hispanic-Americans are beginning to see the light and are beginning to vote for prolilfe folks to help save babies in Texas?

  The bishops have become painfully aware that their Texas alliance for death with the democrats and profeath RINOs is in danger. They saw what happened in 2016 in the Texas Rio Grande Valley when the Hispanic-American Catholics were shown how the Democrat RETA policy had decimated their numbers right here in Texas. And then the final horror – these enlightened voters, who love their children and live and die for family, they voted for Republicans. You could hear the weeping and the gnashing of prelates’ teeth from Brownsville to McAllen to Austin to Fort Worth to Houston – and even in El Paso.

  So the previously silent bishops, fearing that their Texas alliance for death partnership with the democrats would fail to deliver the once- rock-solid monolith of the Hispanic-American vote, in their desperation, loudly again proclaiming they must keep silent, have come out and condemned the quintessential Texas prolife organization, Texas Right To Life, because of its efforts – wildly successful efforts – to speak the truth about the brown genocide of Texas babies promoted by the Party Of Death democrats and Texas Right To Life’s support of non-democrat non-RETA-policy candidates; and Yes, most of them, hated non-RINO republicans.

  Lastly gasping, the bishops speak now days before the upcoming elections. Coincidence? No way, Jose. If Texas Right To Life and others like minded are to be stopped, if the Texas alliance for death is to succeed as it has in the past to elect democrats and RINO prodeath GOP candidates, the bishops had to speak out now – and it will be no surprise when they forsake these little ones in Fall 2018 again silently proclaiming we cannot endorse anyone.

  Didn’t Jesus say something about “woe” to those who hurt His children? Millstones, necks and drowning? And about hirelings, masquerading as shepherds, who run away, leaving the innocent sheep to the wolves?
  Guy McClung, Texas

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    schoooter Guy McClung • an hour ago

    Didn’t President Trump say as a candidate that he wanted to have the Johnson Amendment repealed? Is that in the works? Would it be too late for this mishap?
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    Rafael Guy McClung • 2 hours ago

    I here I was thinking Texas was a conservative state. This is also proof how the “seamless garment” has covered Texas as well – being that it started in Chicago. Like any garment, the USCCB appears to have kept adding to the garment by “weaving in” more issues “social justice” issues. Now, it looks like the garment has “blanketed” the WHOLE state of Texas. Now that’s ONE BIG seamless garment – even by Texas standards!
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      RedRobin Rafael • an hour ago

      This is why Texans need to protect their state from liberals moving here and bringing their blue demographics to make our state purple. Keep fighting conservative pro-life Texans and take nothing for granted!
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  London Gopher • 2 hours ago

  What really burns my buttons here is that the Texas bishops CLEARLY believe that the laity is so poorly formed as to believe that we owe our bishops absolute obedience.

  Well, Bishop Olsen, Saint Thomas Aquinas…says otherwise.

  And you know what? I think I’ll go with him – rather than a man who uses TWITTER to get parishioners to RAT OUT THEIR OWN PRIESTS! 😡

  Saint Thomas Aquinas: There being an imminent danger for the Faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.

  ALSO…pray, pray, PRAY for our good and holy priests in Texas, on the receiving end of yet more “blue on blue” fire from their superiors.

  They DO take a vow of obedience to the bishop – and he can (and often does) make their lives a misery. 😢
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  Quicksilvr2Gold • 2 hours ago

  Well, if you want sensible immigration, the end to abortion, and parental rights to guide the raising and educating of your children to remain with the parents– you probably won’t vote for ANYONE that the Bishops in Texas want in office. Oh and if you are seriously in favor of the 1st and 2nd amendments of the US Constitution, well, anyone BUT those chosen by the Bishops.
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  Lisa Ann Homic • 2 hours ago

  Pray for the challengers to win their elections.
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  whatmoral • 2 hours ago

  Did these bishops support Abortion Barbie, Wendy Davis?
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  mr • 3 hours ago

  If i say what i want to say some people would have a heart attack.So i will pray.
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    Bdonovan03051 mr • 2 hours ago

    many of us know exactly what you mean. Have deleted way more comments than I post because I didn’t want to have to go to confession for a stupid internet posting.
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  Mike • 3 hours ago

  These modernist bishops are forgetting whose Church it truly is. I would like to think that Our Lord is offering a correction to the bishops with this chain of events. I remember being taught that in order to be a good Catholic, one follows the laws of the land in which he or she resides. To my recollection, “illegal” was not a part of that.
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  kristinechristliebcanavan • 3 hours ago

  Fort Worth is home to a very strong and vital conservative movement among Episcopalians who are, as it turns out, more Catholic than the Catholics.

  “Some of you will grab hold of a relative and say, ‘You still have a coat. Be our leader and rule this heap of ruins.'”
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    Caroline John Renaud kristinechristliebcanavan • an hour ago

    sad but true!
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    Trey Elmore Mod kristinechristliebcanavan • 3 hours ago

    Anglicans don’t have valid sacraments. ACNA accepts divorce, birth control. That’s hardly “conservative.”
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  Keith Abraham • 3 hours ago

  Forgive me if this is foolishness that I haven’t thought through well enough, but if the Church lost its tax-exempt status and essentially was bankrupted wouldn’t that actually be more a positive thing for the faithful? To lose it’s temporal power in this way would make all the money and power hungry people in the Church “give up the ghost” so to speak and it would leave the faithful behind which would in turn be far more powerful and outspoken.
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    SanSan Keith Abraham • 2 hours ago

    The Johnson Amendment needs to be repealed so that the Church can have exempt status AND speak up for Life and Morals…..
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    Quicksilvr2Gold Keith Abraham • 2 hours ago

    Except that suddenly the power of government to control the Church via taxation would be let loose to the delight of the devil. No, the Faithful need to get over the clericalism and BE Catholic in spite of the hierarchy being off the tracks. If the Faithful ignore the bishops unless they speak correctly on some aspect of the Faith, well, that will help greatly– the Faithful thinking for themselves and applying Church teaching.
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  Jeanne Anthony • 3 hours ago

  A very clear explanation of what is going on in Texas politics. Thank you, Michael! Maybe this is the end of the money grab by the bishops who support illegal immigration for the government funds. They have abandoned our unborn for those who break the law.
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  Dean A. Hoffman • 3 hours ago

  “And friends, our seventh collection this morning is for the [fill in name of bogus charity] fund. Please remember those less fortunate than us. Er, I mean, you.”
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    whatmoral Dean A. Hoffman • 3 hours ago

    And for all you that labor with heavy burdens, give me your precious finances so that I can funnel it to my favorite cause, which is of course my god’s will.
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    kristinechristliebcanavan Dean A. Hoffman • 3 hours ago

    At first I was laughing, but then I realized your words were too close to the truth to be amusing.
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      Daninfla6th kristinechristliebcanavan • 18 minutes ago

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  Joe • 3 hours ago

  If the Bishops would stay the course and teach the True Authentic Faith, the church wouldnt be in this mess. Watch what comes next, the Vatican will send experts from Germany with all the answers about paying taxes, as they did to Chile. The only difference is the trip to Texas would be about money and not sex with Children as in Chile.
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    JBQ21 Joe • an hour ago

    “It all depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is”. P. Francis is maneuvering to create a world socialist Church based on the writings of Teilhard de Chardin. Capitalism needs to be removed in the U.S. in order to prepare the way for that utopian ideal.– Francis has stated that abortion is caused by the greed of Western capitalist influences. By rejecting original sin, he believes that if you remove capitalism, then there will be no need for abortion.
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  Steven Shaw • 4 hours ago

  Bishops all over the world have betrayed their office due to wealth and riches. It would probably do the Church some good to shed itself of money and modernisation and get back to teaching the Faith.
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  GaryLockhart • 4 hours ago

  “For the desire of money is the root of all evils; which some coveting have erred from the faith, and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.” 1 Timothy 6:10
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    whatmoral GaryLockhart • 2 hours ago

    Bishops vomit “Personally follow God with all your heart, but vote for the flesh, world, and devil.”
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  harveydude • 4 hours ago

  Maybe the Church should lose its tax-exempt status. That free the shackles and permit good priests and bishops to speak the truth more openly.
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    Michael Aiello harveydude • 3 hours ago

    That would be the best thing ever to happen!
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  Terry-on-disqus • 13 hours ago

  The monkeys have bullet holes in their feet.
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  Aaron Cadena • 14 hours ago

  Very Informative..