Dr. Gina: “All [COVID] masks tested positive for Titanium Dioxide… by the way, you are forcing your kid to breathing through it”
Long time Donald Trump media advisor, Gina Loudon, MA., MA., Ph.D, known as Dr. Gina said “All masks tested positive for Titanium Dioxide… by the way, you are forcing your kid to breathing through it”:
SHOCKING: As we predicted… All masks tested positive for Titanium Dioxide (TiO2), a group 2B carcinogenic. The best (lowest contamination) has more than 5x the acceptable limit. Ohh and by the way, you are forcing your kid to breathing through it[https://twitter.com/RealDrGina/status/1564714542340382720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1564714542340382720%7Ctwgr%5E7d4716017496ac1723c75cd8a9611b076fb945bf%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fromrome.info%2F2022%2F09%2F01%2Ffromrome-info-vindicated-in-calling-it-a-deathmask%2F]
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as for the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia.
Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.
Francis Notes:
– Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church in such a situation:
“[T]he Pope… WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See.” (The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
– If Francis betrays Benedict XVI & the”Roman Rite Communities” like he betrayed the Chinese Catholics we must respond like St. Athanasius, the Saintly English Bishop Robert Grosseteste & “Eminent Canonists and Theologians” by “Resist[ing]” him: https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/12/if-francis-betrays-benedict-xvi.html
– LifeSiteNews, “Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers,” December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows “sexually active adulterous couples facing ‘complex circumstances’ to ‘access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'”
– On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
“The AAS statement… establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense.”
– On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
“Francis’ heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents.”
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
What is needed right now to save America from those who would destroy our God given rights is to pray at home or in church and if called to even go to outdoor prayer rallies in every town and city across the United States for God to pour out His grace on our country to save us from those who would use a Reichstag Fire-like incident to destroy our civil liberties. [Is the DC Capitol Incident Comparable to the Nazi Reichstag Fire Incident where the German People Lost their Civil Liberties?: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/is-dc-capital-incident-comparable-to.html?m=1 and Epoch Times Show Crossroads on Capitol Incident: “Anitfa ‘Agent Provocateurs‘”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1]
Pray an Our Father now for the grace to know God’s Will and to do it.
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Posted inUncategorized|Comments Off on ck Maxey raises questions about President Trump and his entourage, deep corruption in federal agenciesIn the following, we shall present Maxey’s analysis of some of the major actors on the Republican side that might have to be looked at with more caution and suspicion.Jack Maxey on the ‘Two Mikes’ showrumble / screenshotMaikeHickson16Mon Aug 29, 2022 – 6:02 pm EDTListen to this article0:00 / 22:031XBeyondWords(LifeSiteNews) – In a new interview given to Dr. Michael Scheuer and Colonel Michael on the Two Mikes show, Jack Maxey delved deep into the current problem of the corruption of prominent figures connected with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Department of Defense (DoD), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), who are often considered to be good men. Here, he mentioned names such as Mike Pompeo and General Michael Flynn. In addition, Maxey also raised questions about former President Donald Trump and his apparent lack of detecting the untrustworthiness of some of his collaborators.The basis for Maxey’s insights is his in-depth research of the Hunter Biden laptop and the experience he has gained from trying to work with some of these forces in revealing Biden family corruption.In Maxey’s eyes, federal agencies such as the FBI and CIA are themselves so deeply intertwined with political corruption that they helped cover up a major instance of Biden family corruption via the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.He developed some of these arguments in another new interview on August 26, entitled “Jack Maxey slays the bad actors in the corrupt government, CIA, FBI, DOJ and more.”Sen. Ron Johnson, Mark Zuckerberg shed light on FBI and Biden laptop storyAs Maxey has said, the FBI had Hunter Biden’s laptop since December 2019 and did not investigate it at all.Because of this, one could argue that both the members of Democratic Party during primary elections, as well as U.S. voters during the 2020 general election, were not properly informed about the Biden family’s corruption.“Joe Biden is a dupe for the intel agencies,” Maxey told Two Mikes. “They put him in power. And proof of that is the betrayal of all of the Democratic candidates in the primary because they had the laptop since December of 2019.”And indeed, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) just made public, on August 25, a whistleblower’s testimony according to which FBI employees were told not to look at the Hunter Biden laptop until after the 2020 election.In addition, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan in an August 25 interview that the FBI had prompted him to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 election.LifeSite recommends our readers watch the entire episode of the Two Mikes show. It gives us many insights into the current problems in U.S. politics on a deeper level than usually discussed.Dr. Michael Scheuer himself worked for the CIA and headed for several years the Osama bin Laden unit. He later became a critic of the U.S. government’s handling of the Islamicist insurgence and left the CIA. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY HEADLINES US Canada World CatholicColonel Mike is described on the show’s website as “a former liaison and contractor for many years in South East Asia” and a businessman.Therefore, both Mikes are excellent interview partners for Jack Maxey.Maxey himself is a Yale graduate (class of 1988), a historian and political analyst who worked for some years for Steve Bannon at the War Room Pandemic. He is known to LifeSite readers also for his being part of the Faith & Reason show.Maxey has to be honored (as does the Epoch Times here) for his tireless work that finally led U.S. national newspapers to admit that the Hunter Biden laptop is authentic, after they had first suppressed the story by claiming it was Russian disinformation.As he told the Two Mikes, Maxey has now successfully passed on copies of the laptop to several U.S. sheriffs who are now doing their own forensic work on it.The overall discussion between Jack Maxey and the Two Mikes on August 17 dealt with the corruption of the Biden family and of all the people connected to them as it can be detected on Hunter Biden’s laptop (LifeSite has published numerous reports on this matter). While many of the people connected with the Biden corruption are Democrats, there are also numerous Republicans to be named. 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Sign this PetitionMike Pompeo, former head of CIA and former Secretary of StateMike Pompeo was the head of the CIA before serving in Trump’s administration as the Secretary of State.Maxey asks: “How was it possible for Mike Pompeo, great Mike Pompeo, big Mr. MAGA to leave CIA in the last 15 months of the Trump administration and move to State Department and replace himself with Gina Haspel, who was a little Brennan acolyte?”Before her appointment as head of the CIA, Haspel “had been station chief in London,” said Maxey. “I mean that station chief in London has to be the top three job at CIA.”As Maxey then revealed, Haspel was personally involved in London in creating the 2017 Christopher Steele report that was used against Trump, alleging his having close ties with Russia.“She ran that Steele dossier,” Maxey stated.He further asked: “How does she then become the head of CIA? How does Pompeo go to Trump and convince him this is a good idea? What was Pompeo’s motivation?”For Maxey, it is clear that “this is a racket to protect these agencies and the leadership inside them from having their misdeeds be uncovered to the American people.”It is, of course, also to be asked why Trump trusted Pompeo’s recommendation for Haspel’s appointment as head of the CIA without looking into her background.Of Pompeo, Dr. Scheuer added, “he’s running for president and he smells better than DeSantis and Trump because he wears cologne.”“He’s fake,” Scheuer concluded.Bill Barr, former Attorney GeneralSpeaking about Mike Pompeo, Maxey insisted that “these things need to be cleaned up.”“And then also you have to look at a guy like Bill Barr,” former Attorney General under President Trump.Maxey pointed out that Barr “had [an] eight-year active job at CIA as an analyst; they sent him to law school and he spends 12 years as their outside counsel. But too secret to reveal to the American people during the confirmation process for Attorney General.”That is to say, the public did not know that Barr was working with CIA for 20 years; he kept this fact hidden.“Note that both Pompeo and Barr are now calling almost daily for an independent counsel investigation of Hunter Biden,” said Maxey. But such a move “would be a grave error,” according to the historian and journalist.“This needs to be openly shown to the American people. We give it to a guy like Durham and what, eight years and three administrations later, we’re going to find out what may have happened. No.” These things are “deadly serious.”General Michael Flynn, former director of Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and Trump’s National Security AdvisorMaxey also discussed the role of General Michael Flynn, saying that “people have to question what are the motivations of General Michael Flynn.” He is presented as a man who “got canned by Obama” and is an “angry patriot who never got his fair shake,” but there are other angles to the story.Maxey went on to say: “And you now find out that – and I broke the story – that all those bio labs in Ukraine and Georgia and Kazakhstan and the Metabiota deal in Wuhan all were funded by DoD in a cover story through the Department of Agriculture.”That is to say, the Department of Defense – with which Flynn was linked by way of being the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2004 to 2006 and then later as National Security Advisor – was and still is involved with the very bio labs which are often operating under the guide of private bio research companies such as Metabiota.When Jack Maxey went to Switzerland in March of this year in order to do a forensic investigation of the Hunter Biden laptop, he actually found some 250 emails regarding Hunter Biden’s involvement with the firm Metabiota and even more specifically with its work in Ukraine. LifeSite quoted Jack Maxey as saying on March 22, after discovering these e-mails that had previously been deleted and that he was able to recover: “I have 100 percent, clear 100 percent, in writing evidence that Metabiota – you have heard me speak about this – that Metabiota [which] is inside Ukraine, working in those [bio] labs, is a DoD [Department of Defense] contractor, in writing.”The Yale graduate told the Two Mikes that in 2005, the CIA and other agencies planned to investigate these bio labs in countries that had been formerly under the influence of the Soviet Union, such as Ukraine, Georgia, and Kazhakstan.But then, said Maxey, they “privatized it.”They had “Metabiota, they created a little Blackwater, you know, no oversight and plenty of dough. And so the greed took over and. You saw things occur. I thought it was very telling.” Maxey then explained that there was a “professor inside the virology community that did the experiments who were going on inside the Wuhan lab working on gain-of-function [research]. These were experiments that were illegal in the United States dating all the way back to 2014.”That is to say, Maxey sees a link between the DoD, bio labs, Metabiota, the Wuhan lab, and the research that led to the coronavirus in 2020. He continued: “So they were engaged in illegal behavior using our taxpayer dollars. And now you know why this cover up is so large. Listen, we’re going to find out that the Americans, maybe not on an official level, but [that] Americans working in conjunction with other Frankensteins in Wuhan were partially responsible for what happened [with the coronavirus].”And here comes General Flynn into the story. “What I want to know about General Michael Flynn is,” said Maxey, “Metabiota was around for a few years before he got canned and DoD was funding these secret laboratories. Did Michael Flynn at head of the DIA know about them? And if he knew about them, what did he know about them and when did he know it?”Maxey would expect honest answers from Flynn, who is usually regarded as being an opponent to the Deep State. Yet Maxey himself had a bad experience with Flynn while in Switzerland.He said had called Flynn up after he discovered that Hunter Biden had active DoD root certificates on his laptop that should not be there and that could present a national security threat. They “gave Hunter admin responsibility in their email system,” Maxey said. So he called Flynn while in Switzerland, asking him for help in this national security matter, assuming that Flynn would be able to get DoD to at least deactivate these certificates.“Flynn did nothing. And then later he came out and criticized what I was doing in Switzerland,” the journalist went on to say. In July, Maxey posted a recording of his call to Flynn on Gettr. In that conversation, Flynn declined to make any comment on Maxey’s findings and said he would get back to Maxey on the root certificates, which he never did.On the contrary, both General Flynn and his brother Joseph Flynn then went public to undermine Maxey’s trustworthiness. That was in April, and since then they never recanted their statements, nor did General Flynn explain what he knew about Metabiota and why he never came to Maxey’s assistance in a national security matter. Maxey thankfully was able to get these DoD root certificates deactivated by way of other channels.At the same time with Flynns’s attack last spring came John Paul Mac Isaak’s questioning of Maxey’s claim that, while in Switzerland, he was able to recover 450 gigabites of deleted material on the Hunter Biden laptop. Mac Isaak at the time told Newsmax that so many gigabites would not have fit onto the version of the laptop that originally was in his possession, thus undermining Maxey’s work. Maxey did have a copy of Mac Isaak’s version, since it was Rudy Giuliani who had received a copy from Mac Isaak in August of 2019 and then had passed a copy on to Maxey, who was working at the time for Steve Bannon’s War Room Pandemic.Former intelligence officer Sam Faddis was also able to disprove Mac Isaak’s claim about the amount of gigabites found by Maxey on the Hunter Biden laptop. Maxey himself, who had always praised Mac Isaak for his courage to make the laptop available to law enforcement and then to Rudy Giuliani, was taken aback by Mac Isaak’s questioning of his work and could not understand why. But now he has learned more about the background of Mac Isaak who has connections with no one else but General Flynn.As Maxey was able to find out, all these men are interconnected, among them also Patrick Byrne and Garret Ziegler, who had received a copy of the laptop from Maxey back in 2020 and now runs the Marco Polo project on the laptop. “I get attacked by Ziegler, all these people. And guess who’s funding Ziegler? Byrne, Flynn. Guess who’s funding Mac Isaacs? Byrne and Flynn,” Maxey told the Two Mikes on August 17.Patrick Byrne, together with Sidney Powell and General Flynn, appeared during the election fraud discussion in 2020, “all of a sudden,” in the words of Colonel Mike, and played a major role. These people “would just all of a sudden [appear], you know, Flynn was on every platform or stage he can get his face on with every rotating MAGA show there is in the country,” he went on to say.Byrne was among those men who came out questioning Jack Maxey as soon as he broke the news that he had recovered 450 gigabites of deleted material. Byrne was defending Garret Ziegler, who was accused by Maxey of having received from Maxey a copy of the laptop under false pretense, namely that he had wanted to give the copy to the Director of National Intelligence.As Maxey now says he has been able to find out, all these men who were trying to undermine the credibility of his own work on the laptop – and Maxey is the only man who got the New York Times and the Washington Post to finally admit that the laptop is authentic – are interconnected with each other: Byrne, Mac Isaak, Flynn, and Ziegler. This raises questions of their true purpose and whether or not they are in one way or another agents of the Deep State themselves. Speaking of that group of men (and one woman, Sidney Powell), Maxey told the Two Mikes that “there’s something very odd about that crew and I don’t know what it is. I do believe that Lin Wood has started to see the light. He released a recording of a telephone call that he had with Patrick Byrne. It’s about 70 minutes, but it’s well worth listening to because it becomes very clear that things were not right, even between Byrne and Sidney and Byrne and Flynn.” (See herea short summary of that telephone conversation.)Whether or not General Flynn is trustworthy, according to Maxey, could be determined by Flynn coming out and explaining what he knew about U.S.-run bio labs in Ukraine and elsewhere. Maxey waits for “his answer concerning those bio labs, right? Is he trustworthy or not? Because it’s all going to come out, General Flynn. You want to come forward and explain what happened?”Flynn might even have a “benign” explanation, like, “I was looking into agricultural issues, you know…bovine encephalitis or something.”But Flynn must give an answer if he wishes to regain trust.Interestingly, Maxey had been alerted early on about the Biden connection to Metabiota, by some whistleblowers who reached out to him. They explicitly asked him whether he found any material on the laptop regarding that bio research firm. He himself at the time had not even heard of that company, but immediately found several e-mails on the laptop regarding this topic.President Donald TrumpFinally, Jack Maxey also discussed President Trump’s own weaknesses and how he should come out publicly explaining them to the American public. While the left had suppressed the discussion of the Hunter Biden laptop because it could embolden Trump, Maxey thinks that “he has to answer for things like Miley and Pompeo and Barr and all the rest of it. And Gina Haspel. I mean, Trump’s going to have to come clean on some of his errors in order to run [his re-election campaign] again effectively.” The political analyst stressed that he “likes” Trump and “what he tried to do.”Then he quoted a recent Op-Ed by Peter Navarro that he published on American Greatness regarding the devastating role Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, played during Trump’s presidency. That article, according to Maxey, gives a “very devastating look at Jared Kushner’s meddling from day one. And, how many times he got in the middle of important things.” For Maxey it is clear that “you can’t have a leader who surrounds himself with sycophants.”Dr. Scheuer even called Kushner an “agent of a foreign power,” and Maxey agreed, answering, “yeah, potentially, absolutely. I mean, look how much money he made on the Middle Eastern deals.”“Jared Kushner is not a good guy,” he added, and went on to say: “I mean, first of all, how is he qualified to be in that position [as Senior Advisor to the President] to begin with? I think it should have been a red flag for all of us.” Maxey reminded his audience that one should always be cautious about hiring one’s own relatives to run things. “The worst thing you could do at a family company is hire the screwball nephew. Right. And this is what Trump did over and over again.”“I mean, why were almost any of these people involved?” Maxey asked. “I’m all for a Trump agenda, but I’m not for necessarily the administration of that agenda if it’s going to be the same crew. I want IBM to succeed, too, but maybe not with the same chairman,” he added.The Yale graduate also said that Kushner himself – whose own father was involved in highly questionable activities – is “very lefty on everything,” similar to how “Trump was five years before he decided to become president.”Another aspect of Trump’s legacy that Maxey criticized is how the president dealt with the January 6 event and the people who got arrested that day, around 600 citizens. For him, a “a measure of leadership” is: “Are you willing to sacrifice yourself for your people? And I just don’t see Trump sacrificing himself for anyone. He could have pardoned the 600, but then he would have lost out on the impeachment and couldn’t run for office again. Hell, he could have just paid their legal bills and their bail money because he raised $300 million for the recount between November 3rd and January 6th. But did he come to the rescue of his platoon? No.”Colonal Mike agreed with Maxey here, saying “always say the best rally would be right outside the gulag, where the January-six prisoners are. The American Gulag. If Trump wants to do a rally, I’ll go to that one.” Being in accordance with the colonel here, Maxey added: “Well, he could have made sure none of the people went to the gulag.”He also criticized Trump’s promise to help these January 6 prisoners after his re-election as president, saying, “And now it’s like, you re-elect me and I’ll pardon everybody after you’ve spent four years in jail. Really? Thanks. No, I’m glad it is still on your mind. I think that we have to start demanding leadership.” Maxey’s concept of leadership here means that “we expect from American men that they are willing to sacrifice themselves for the people who follow them.”“And if you’re not willing to sacrifice yourself for those people, then you really shouldn’t be followed,” the journalist concluded.Most importantly, Maxey also challenged Trump on the fact that he still endorses the coronavirus vaccine and that he still praises his handling of the vaccine rollout. Dr. Scheuer first broached the topic by mentioning “the fact that Trump until recently has been keeping pushing this inoculation after he knows it’s killing tens of thousands of Americans and will continue to do it. And yet he still says he’s proud of it. It doesn’t make sense.”Maxey responded to these words with the comment that “this is symptomatic of an unhealthy ego, right? This is the other side of the coin. You have to be able to admit your mistakes. I mean, Trump could come out right now and be like, look, it was a scam. Fauci lied to me, NIH lied to me, FDA lied to me, CDC lied to me and he’d go up ten points. Instead, he wants to take credit for what is clearly becoming a, you know, a failure in everyone else’s eyes. And he still thinks it’s some sort of bold achievement.”“I don’t understand the guy,” Maxey went on to say. “I appreciate what he tried to do, but at the end of the day, he took the crucible advice from the absolute wrong members of the team. And I think that this has got to be fixed.”Finally, it might be worth mentioning here that Maxey has stated in the past that he had offered a while back Trump’s team a copy of the Hunter Biden laptop, an offer that was declined.‘These head fakes to conservative America’In conclusion, Jack Maxey is convinced that it is important to reveal these “head fakes to conservative America.” A Pompeo, for example, when he became the Secretary of State, did not clean house and remove corrupt elements in the state department. In general, regarding these federal agencies, Maxey now believes that “we should have replaced everybody. I don’t see any heroes in the state or in the House [of Representatives] or the Senate at all.”Summing up the political situation in today’s America, Maxey told the Two Mikes:“This country is filled with good, wonderful people, and unfortunately it’s got like an evil nexus inside Washington, D.C. … I think it’s going to be so shocking for people when they understand the absolute depth and depravity of the grift that’s going on. I mean, there are hundreds of people who should be in jail, maybe thousands.”Jack Maxey puts his hope in the American people. As he told former CIA agent Michael Jaco in his August 26 interview: “It starts with American men and women of courage standing up and saying: enough.”Dr. Maike Hickson was born and raised in Germany. She holds a PhD from the University of Hannover, Germany, after having written in Switzerland her doctoral dissertation on the history of Swiss intellectuals before and during World War II. She now lives in the U.S. and is married to Dr. Robert Hickson, and they have been blessed with two beautiful children. She is a happy housewife who likes to write articles when time permits.Dr. Hickson published in 2014 a Festschrift, a collection of some thirty essays written by thoughtful authors in honor of her husband upon his 70th birthday, which is entitled A Catholic Witness in Our Time.Hickson has closely followed the papacy of Pope Francis and the developments in the Catholic Church in Germany, and she has been writing articles on religion and politics for U.S. and European publications and websites such as LifeSiteNews, OnePeterFive, The Wanderer, Rorate Caeli, Catholicism.org, Catholic Family News, Christian Order, Notizie Pro-Vita, Corrispondenza Romana, Katholisches.info, Der Dreizehnte, Zeit-Fragen, and Westfalen-Blatt.TOPICS
For the Left, Donald Trump is synonymous with “fascism” (or “semi-fascism,” as Joe Biden put it the other day). And for Liz Cheney and most of the NeverTrumpers, he remains an existential threat to democracy.
But to quantify those charges, what exactly has Trump done extralegally—as opposed to his bombast and braggadocio about what he might have wished to have done?
And what are the standards by which to judge this supposed menace? Did Trump illegally and with a mere signature nullify over $300 billion of contracted student loans—to firm up his college-student and college-graduate base nine weeks before the midterm elections?
Did Donald Trump weaponize the feared IRS, the logical place to find fascistic tendencies of any president bent on using government to punish his enemies? Did he push through a plan to add 87,000 new IRS investigative agents at a time of national discord?
For the last five years, Trump was rumored to be under investigation by the IRS. Currently, his accountant is facing felony sentencing for advising improper write-offs.
Certainly, from the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop and the remarks of Hunter’s associates like Tony Bobulinksi, the Biden family raked in millions of foreign dollars. Evidence so far suggests Joe Biden was a recipient (as the “Big Guy”) of 10 percent of these quid pro quo payments. At times, Bobulinksi may have sent a strapped and broke Hunter thousands of dollars in cash gifts. Were any of these stealthy transactions taxed? Does the recently heavily Biden-endowed IRS care?
If Trump wished to abuse his power over the IRS, he would have followed the Obama model of weaponizing it during a reelection year to go after his ideological enemies.
In Obama’s case, the tax agency slow-walked or denied nonprofit status for groups whose ideology was deemed not helpful to Obama’s campaign in 2012. There was a reason Lois Lerner invoked the Fifth Amendment, and it was not to protect Donald Trump.
Politicized National Security
Did Trump blatantly use the national security apparatus of the government to enhance his own reelection bid in 2020? That is, did he do anything analogous to Obama’s gambit with Vladimir Putin in 2011?
Was Trump ever caught on a hot mic promising a Russian president that he would try to ease Russian worries about Eastern European missile defense if only the Russians would give him space during his 2012 campaign for president against Mitt Romney?
What we forget about the 2011 Seoul, South Korea hot-mic Obama exchange with then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was that all the conditions outlined in their hushed 2011 recap were adhered to by both parties: Obama did dismantle plans for a joint U.S.-Eastern European long-range missile defense—a system that might be now of advantage to the U.S. and its allies. Putin did stay quiet during the Obama campaign cycle. Obama did get reelected. And Putin did invade Ukraine and Crimea only after Obama was elected (or, a cynic might put it because Obama was reelected).
A current Trump “collusion” critic, mutatis mutandis, might have surmised that a colluding Barack Obama put the national security of the United States and its allies at risk to use his office to massage campaign advantages over Mitt Romney in 2012. And the ultimate result of such machinations was a loss of U.S. deterrence that in part explained Russian aggression in 2014.
Weaponizing Justice
Did Trump weaponize the FBI? That is, did the FBI go after journalists, former Obama officials, or Democratic Party activists who variously were attacking Don Jr. or Ivanka on the pretenses of retrieving one of their lost laptops or diaries?
Did Trump use Republican National Committee firewalls to transfer money to private lobbyists and law firms to find dirt on Hillary Clinton in 2016, and then turn it all over to the FBI to launch a Crossfire Hurricane investigation of Clinton, centered around a Trump-hired ex-spy who became a paid FBI informant?
Are there texts of Trump-era FBI agents talking about how to “stop” Hillary Clinton’s or Biden’s election bid?
Did Trump’s FBI, in the predawn hours, burst into the homes of New York Times reporters—in James O’Keefe -style—and march them outside in their underwear, all for the possible “crime” of receiving a stolen draft of the Supreme Court early draft of the Dobbs decision? Which is the greater “crime”—trafficking in clearly stolen confidential Supreme Court papers or looking at the abandoned, lost, and lurid diary of a wayward presidential daughter?
Did the Trump Justice Department start an investigation of the suspected illegal lobbying of Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, who used the former’s political connections to win large cash payments from foreign governments? Were there Trump officials in the permanent Justice Department who went after his various political opponents on the pretexts of the Logan Act? Or did the Trump Administration help spread the allegations of any hired anti-Clinton ex-spies and salt them around the bureaucracies?
Speaking of Trump and threats to the democratic order, did any Trump attorney general refuse a congressional subpoena, as former Attorney General Eric Holder did? Was anyone held in contempt of Congress, as Holder was? Did any simply refuse to honor subpoenas and withhold requested documents from Congress, as the Obama Administration did time and again?
Did Trump order an FBI raid on the Obama home, on rumors that there were thousands of documents under dispute with the National Archives in his possession, especially given the Obama record of fiercely fighting any Freedom of Information Act lawsuits to release his documents?
Was John Podesta put in leg irons by the FBI? Was Robbie Mook’s house stormed to learn of what he knew about Hillary Clinton’s missing emails?
Was Jake Sullivan’s phone grabbed by the FBI at an airport to determine his role in the Russian collusion hoax?
Or, with a look ahead to his reelection, did Trump in 2018 order a raid on the Biden home, in search of “lost” Biden vice presidential documents, supposedly improperly removed after Biden’s tenure that might have shed light on the Biden family’s extracurricular foreign lobbying?
Where Is Trump’s Deep State?
Are there now any former Trump loyalists who, as “anonymous” officials in cabinet agencies or obstructionists on the National Security Council, are writing op-eds about their stealthy daily efforts to undermine Biden’s executive orders or his administration’s action? Is anyone listening to Biden’s phone calls with foreign leaders while working with Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee and while prepping a “whistleblower” to find grounds for impeachment based on some of the things Biden has allegedly said to foreign leaders?
Did Pfizer rush prematurely to announce a viable COVID-19 vaccination to aid Trump’s reelection—or in contrast, did it slow walk a viable vaccination’s rollout until after the election to massage the result?
Are there now “50 former intelligence officials” who signed affidavits in support of Trump’s allegations about the authenticity of Hunter’s laptop? Are there dozens of retired four-stars now opportunely blasting Joe Biden’s historic humiliation of the United States in Kabul? Have any retired admirals mocked the Uniform Code of Military Justice to write New York Times op-eds suggesting a befuddled Biden leave office “the sooner, the better”?
Are there former Trump officials writing in Foreign Policy that Biden is a disaster who could be removed by impeachment or the 25th Amendment—or more rapidly by a military coup? Are retired officers writing to General Mark Milley urging him to act should he feel in the next election that a likely Republican loss seems suspicious?
Election Interference and Denial?
Between 2017 and 2020, did Trump’s team systematically seek to change the voting laws in key states to radically transform traditional balloting, into a mail-in or early voting revolution, in which only 30 percent of the electorate would vote on Election Day?
If Trump improperly questioned the ballot result of the 2020 election, then he sinned in the long tradition of presidential ballot objectors, including former U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), January 6 committee chairman himself Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), and Hillary Clinton, who claimed Trump was an illegitimately elected president and advised Biden not to concede if he lost the 2020 popular vote. A defeated Stacey Abrams toured the country claiming she was the “real” governor of Georgia, yet nobody smears her as an “election truther.”
Was there any “dark money” effort analogous to the efforts of corporate and tech money along with DNC activists and Biden operators in what Time magazine’s Molly Ball described as a “conspiracy” to ensure the defeat of Trump’s opponent?
Did Trump’s team coordinate with right-wing billionaires to infuse hundreds of billions of dollars to modulate street protests, absorb the work of state and local registrars in key precincts, and censor unfavorable stories on social media?
Trump impotently railed and bayed to the wind about the “fake news” reporters at his rallies. By contrast, the Left, both private elites and public officials, kept quiet and injected half a billion dollars to alter the way people voted and effectively censored the way people produced and consumed the news.
Restoring Our Norms?
How about Trump’s efforts to revolutionize the very system of government? Did he promote a court-packing scheme to ensure he might not just get a 5-4 majority, but perhaps an 11-4 conservative advantage in a new 15-justice Supreme Court?
Did he keep mum while right-wing demonstrators swarmed the homes of Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan? Did his attorney general ignore the obvious felonies involved in such threatening tactics? Did Trump work with his Republican Congress in 2017 to end the filibuster to ensure his legislation would not be stonewalled? Did he dream up ways of getting rid of the Electoral College so the “blue wall”might never return?
It’s alleged that Trump was insincere when he approved the request for thousands of federal troops to be available to local law enforcement on January 6, or that he did not really mean it when he instructed pro-Trump demonstrators on January 6 to “Peacefully and patriotically march to the Capitol.”
Perhaps even the hint of encouraging any type of protest was reckless in such partisan times. But just days after violent protestors attacked Secret Service agents manning barricades and had sought to storm onto the White House grounds, did Trump boast to the nation of the ongoing demonstrations, as did Kamala Harris, soon to be a vice presidential candidate?
They’re not going to stop. And everyone beware because they’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop before Election Day in November, and they’re not going to stop after Election Day. And that should be—everyone should take note of that, on both levels, that they’re not going to let up, and they should not, and we should not.
Was that a sober or insurrectionary thing to advise in a summer of rioting that saw 120 days of violence, $2 billion in damage, 35 dead, and hundreds of police officers injured?
Did Trump as president meet with CIA and FBI directors who, in their weekly and daily briefings, apprised him of efforts to monitor, spy, and infiltrate the campaign of Joe Biden?
Was there, after 2017, a Republican majority committee investigating Obama’s role in launching Operation Crossfire Hurricane, or Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s secret meeting with Bill Clinton while she was investigating Hillary Clinton? And if there were, would Obama loyalists in the House be excluded by the Republican speaker from participating in House investigations that also would allow no hostile or even neutral witnesses, no general counsel’s report, and no cross-examinations?
The strange thing about Trump was that he did not use extraordinary powers to investigate anyone unlawfully. He boasted, he railed, he screamed, he whined, and he became at times crude and obnoxious. But he did not use the FBI, the CIA, the Justice Department, or the IRS to go after the Obamas, the Clintons, or the Bidens.
Instead, he became the most investigated, probed, smeared, and autopsied president in modern history. Trump’s legislative agenda did not include revolutionary changes in the Electoral College or the filibuster, or radical changes to the Supreme Court.
In fact, of the last three presidents, Trump was either the most inept or indifferent, or the most obstructed concerning any issue of using government agencies for his own partisan political advantages or to neuter his enemies.
In truth, the entire apparatus of permanent government—the Pentagon hierarchy, the Washington elites at the FBI and CIA, the permanently entrenched at the Justice Department, and the apparat at the IRS all despised Donald Trump. And they did not just hate him but acted on their antipathy by using their powers of government to destroy his campaign in 2016, undermine his transition, either obstruct or sabotage his initiatives while president and hound him as an ex-president. As ex-felon and FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith put it of his own illegal effort to destroy a president, “Viva le [sic] resistance.” Is that the sort of FBI we want—a cadre of self-described revolutionaries?
Donald Trump was impeached for raising the question of Biden family corruption in Ukraine with the Ukrainian president and delaying offensive military aid that had never been approved by a Democratic president.
Evidence since Trump’s impeachment suggests he was prescient in his warning to the Kyiv government to stay out of domestic American politics. Everything thing we know since that 2021 impeachment vote solidifies—not contradicts—Trump’s point that the Biden family was corrupt, and Hunter Biden was receiving large sums of money from Ukraine and China solely because Joe Biden had been vice president and was seen as a possible or even likely future president worthy of such corrupt investment. Or to put it another way, why would those with contacts with the Ukrainian government ever pay millions to an incompetent, drug-addicted miscreant like Hunter Biden, if not for pay-for-play influence?
In that context, Joe Biden’s early boast that he got a Ukrainian attorney general fired, most likely for probing too deeply matters involving his family, gives credence to Trump’s instincts. So does the fact that both Obama and Biden for a time stopped shipments of offensive weapons to Ukraine, while Trump for a time only delayed them but eventually gave them what they wished.
The result of this unprecedented effort to accuse Trump of using government fascistically while fascistically using government to destroy a president is all too clear in the destroyed careers who sought to undermine the constitutional government. What John Brennan, James Clapper, Kevin Clinesmith, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Bruce Ohr, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and a host of retired flag officers and intelligence operatives share is not just their venomous antipathy toward an elected president and their efforts rhetorically and often concretely to neuter him, but their subsequent disgrace even among those who once cheered them on.
An FBI Special Agent who has a track record of mishandling politically sensitive investigations has resigned and was escorted out of the bureau’s headquarters, according to reports surfacing on Monday afternoon.
“A senior FBI official in the bureau’s Washington field office has abruptly resigned after coming under congressional scrutiny for suspected political bias in handling the investigation of Hunter Biden’s computer laptop,” the Washington Times reported.
“The Washington Times learned that Timothy Thibault, an assistant special agent in charge, was forced to leave his post according to two former FBI officials familiar with the situation,” the Times added.
“Mr. Thibault was seen exiting the bureau’s elevator last Friday escorted by two or three ‘headquarters-looking types,’” the report said.
“It is unclear if Mr. Thibault, a 25-year FBI veteran who was on leave for at least a month following revelations about political statements he made while leading the public corruption unit, left on his own accord or was forced out,” the report added.
Thibault also had a track record of “political bias” while mishandling Trump investigations.
“Former Special Agent Thibault was accused of displaying bias in his handling of politically sensitive investigations, including the criminal investigation of Hunter Biden’s laptop and FBI probes of former President Donald Trump,” Just the News reported.
“Whistleblowers alleged that Thibault concealed the partisan nature of evidence from FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland to secure their approval to open an investigation into former President Donald Trump,” the report added. “That investigation culminated in the FBI’s raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month.”
In late May, Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sought “Justice Department records regarding the work history of a senior FBI official following revelations of his apparent political bias on social media channels.”
“Department guidelines require employees to avoid even the appearance of bias, which could undermine investigations or call into question the credibility of the department’s work,” the senator’s letter said. “However, Timothy Thibault, an assistant special agent in charge (ASAC) at the FBI’s Washington Field Office engaged with and amplified partisan content on social media, sometimes under the label of his official job title. Thibault is assigned to oversee public corruption matters, which are often highly sensitive, and involve political figures.”
“It has come to my attention that while serving in a highly sensitive role that includes threshold decision-making over which Federal public corruption matters are opened for investigation, Assistant Special Agent in Charge (‘ASAC’) at the Washington Field Office, Timothy Thibault, likely violated several federal regulations and Department guidelines designed to prevent political bias from infecting FBI matters, including the Attorney General Guidelines for Domestic FBI Operations and FBI social media policies. … ASAC Thibault has demonstrated a pattern of active public partisanship, such as using his official title for public partisan posts relating to his superiors and matters under the FBI’s purview, that is likely a violation of his ethical obligations as an FBI employee,” Grassley wrote in his letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray.
Grassley cited politically charged content from Thibault’s LinkedIn profile, as well as partisan content on Twitter. The senator also wrote the Inspector General requesting an investigation into Thibault for “potential violations of rules and regulations designed to prevent political bias from infecting FBI matters.”
FBI Director Christopher Wray even said in Senate testimony that the FBI agent’s partisan social media posts and attempts to suppress information in the investigation into Hunter Biden’s business relationships were “deeply troubling.”
As reported earlier at Becker News, Thibault is far from the only politically biased FBI agent or Justice Department official directly implicated in an unprecedented raid on a former president’s home.
The Washington Field Office has thus been highly involved in many of the most politically charged, high profile cases in recent U.S. history. The RealClearInvestigations piece raises some intriguing names involved in the recent, unprecedented raid on a former president that followers of the Russiagate scandal should be familiar with.
“An examination of the bureau agents involved in the Mar-a-Lago raid reveals other connections between them and FBI officials who played key roles in advancing the Russiagate hoax,” Paul Sperry writes.
“Sources told RealClearInvestigations that Jay Bratt, the top counterintelligence official in Justice’s national security division, who happens to be a Democratic National Committee donor, has been coordinating the Mar-a-Lago investigation with Alan Kohler, who heads the FBI’s counterintelligence division,” Sperry adds.
The critical thing to note about Bratt, as was noted in an anonymous tip from Truth Ninja, is that he was a “resource of the Mueller investigation and worked directly with Andrew Weissman.” Russiagate followers will recall Andrew Weissman, nicknamed as ‘Mueller’s pit bull.”
Jay Bratt played a critical role in preparing the terrain at Mar-a-Lago in June for the FBI raid in August. His names are all over the redacted search warrant affidavit records.
“Bratt, the top counterintelligence official at Justice, traveled to Mar-a-Lago in early June and personally inspected the storage facility while interacting with both Trump and one of his lawyers,” Sperry notes. “Trump allowed the three FBI agents Bratt brought with him to open boxes in the storage room and look through them. They left with some documents. After leaving, Bratt made a request to Trump’s lawyer for increased security at the facility and asked to see surveillance footage from the security cameras. The lawyer complied with the requests.”
“Months went by before the Justice Department took the politically explosive step of sending FBI agents unannounced to Trump’s home, seizing documents, photos, and other items not just from the storage facility but from multiple rooms on the property, including the former president’s office,” Sperry adds.
Special Agent Thibault’s sudden resignation at the FBI is a tacit admission that the Hunter Biden case and the Trump cases are fraught with political partisanship. There must be more than abrupt resignations if the rule of law is ever going to be restored in America.
Jack Maxey raises questions about President Trump and his entourage, deep corruption in federal agencies
In the following, we shall present Maxey’s analysis of some of the major actors on the Republican side that might have to be looked at with more caution and suspicion.
Jack Maxey on the ‘Two Mikes’ showrumble / screenshot
(LifeSiteNews) – In a new interview given to Dr. Michael Scheuer and Colonel Michael on the Two Mikes show, Jack Maxey delved deep into the current problem of the corruption of prominent figures connected with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Department of Defense (DoD), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), who are often considered to be good men. Here, he mentioned names such as Mike Pompeo and General Michael Flynn. In addition, Maxey also raised questions about former President Donald Trump and his apparent lack of detecting the untrustworthiness of some of his collaborators.
The basis for Maxey’s insights is his in-depth research of the Hunter Biden laptop and the experience he has gained from trying to work with some of these forces in revealing Biden family corruption.
In Maxey’s eyes, federal agencies such as the FBI and CIA are themselves so deeply intertwined with political corruption that they helped cover up a major instance of Biden family corruption via the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.
He developed some of these arguments in another new interview on August 26, entitled “Jack Maxey slays the bad actors in the corrupt government, CIA, FBI, DOJ and more.”
Sen. Ron Johnson, Mark Zuckerberg shed light on FBI and Biden laptop story
As Maxey has said, the FBI had Hunter Biden’s laptop since December 2019 and did not investigate it at all.
Because of this, one could argue that both the members of Democratic Party during primary elections, as well as U.S. voters during the 2020 general election, were not properly informed about the Biden family’s corruption.
“Joe Biden is a dupe for the intel agencies,” Maxey told Two Mikes. “They put him in power. And proof of that is the betrayal of all of the Democratic candidates in the primary because they had the laptop since December of 2019.”
And indeed, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) just made public, on August 25, a whistleblower’s testimony according to which FBI employees were told not to look at the Hunter Biden laptop until after the 2020 election.
In addition, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan in an August 25 interview that the FBI had prompted him to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 election.
LifeSite recommends our readers watch the entire episode of the Two Mikes show. It gives us many insights into the current problems in U.S. politics on a deeper level than usually discussed.
Dr. Michael Scheuer himself worked for the CIA and headed for several years the Osama bin Laden unit. He later became a critic of the U.S. government’s handling of the Islamicist insurgence and left the CIA.
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Colonel Mike is described on the show’s website as “a former liaison and contractor for many years in South East Asia” and a businessman.
Therefore, both Mikes are excellent interview partners for Jack Maxey.
Maxey himself is a Yale graduate (class of 1988), a historian and political analyst who worked for some years for Steve Bannon at the War Room Pandemic. He is known to LifeSite readers also for his being part of the Faith & Reason show.
Maxey has to be honored (as does the Epoch Timeshere) for his tireless work that finally led U.S. national newspapers to admit that the Hunter Biden laptop is authentic, after they had first suppressed the story by claiming it was Russian disinformation.
As he told the Two Mikes, Maxey has now successfully passed on copies of the laptop to several U.S. sheriffs who are now doing their own forensic work on it.
The overall discussion between Jack Maxey and the Two Mikes on August 17 dealt with the corruption of the Biden family and of all the people connected to them as it can be detected on Hunter Biden’s laptop (LifeSite has publishednumerousreports on this matter). While many of the people connected with the Biden corruption are Democrats, there are also numerous Republicans to be named. In the following, we shall present Maxey’s analysis of some of the major actors on the Republican side that might have to be looked at with more caution and suspicion.
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Mike Pompeo, former head of CIA and former Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo was the head of the CIA before serving in Trump’s administration as the Secretary of State.
Maxey asks: “How was it possible for Mike Pompeo, great Mike Pompeo, big Mr. MAGA to leave CIA in the last 15 months of the Trump administration and move to State Department and replace himself with Gina Haspel, who was a little Brennan acolyte?”
Before her appointment as head of the CIA, Haspel “had been station chief in London,” said Maxey. “I mean that station chief in London has to be the top three job at CIA.”
As Maxey then revealed, Haspel was personally involved in London in creating the 2017 Christopher Steele report that was used against Trump, alleging his having close ties with Russia.
“She ran that Steele dossier,” Maxey stated.
He further asked: “How does she then become the head of CIA? How does Pompeo go to Trump and convince him this is a good idea? What was Pompeo’s motivation?”
For Maxey, it is clear that “this is a racket to protect these agencies and the leadership inside them from having their misdeeds be uncovered to the American people.”
It is, of course, also to be asked why Trump trusted Pompeo’s recommendation for Haspel’s appointment as head of the CIA without looking into her background.
Of Pompeo, Dr. Scheuer added, “he’s running for president and he smells better than DeSantis and Trump because he wears cologne.”
“He’s fake,” Scheuer concluded.
Bill Barr, former Attorney General
Speaking about Mike Pompeo, Maxey insisted that “these things need to be cleaned up.”
“And then also you have to look at a guy like Bill Barr,” former Attorney General under President Trump.
Maxey pointed out that Barr “had [an] eight-year active job at CIA as an analyst; they sent him to law school and he spends 12 years as their outside counsel. But too secret to reveal to the American people during the confirmation process for Attorney General.”
That is to say, the public did not know that Barr was working with CIA for 20 years; he kept this fact hidden.
“Note that both Pompeo and Barr are now calling almost daily for an independent counsel investigation of Hunter Biden,” said Maxey. But such a move “would be a grave error,” according to the historian and journalist.
“This needs to be openly shown to the American people. We give it to a guy like Durham and what, eight years and three administrations later, we’re going to find out what may have happened. No.” These things are “deadly serious.”
General Michael Flynn, former director of Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and Trump’s National Security Advisor
Maxey also discussed the role of General Michael Flynn, saying that “people have to question what are the motivations of General Michael Flynn.” He is presented as a man who “got canned by Obama” and is an “angry patriot who never got his fair shake,” but there are other angles to the story.
Maxey went on to say: “And you now find out that – and I broke the story – that all those bio labs in Ukraine and Georgia and Kazakhstan and the Metabiota deal in Wuhan all were funded by DoD in a cover story through the Department of Agriculture.”
That is to say, the Department of Defense – with which Flynn was linked by way of being the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2004 to 2006 and then later as National Security Advisor – was and still is involved with the very bio labs which are often operating under the guide of private bio research companies such as Metabiota.
When Jack Maxey went to Switzerland in March of this year in order to do a forensic investigation of the Hunter Biden laptop, he actually found some 250 emails regarding Hunter Biden’s involvement with the firm Metabiota and even more specifically with its work in Ukraine. LifeSite quoted Jack Maxey as saying on March 22, after discovering these e-mails that had previously been deleted and that he was able to recover: “I have 100 percent, clear 100 percent, in writing evidence that Metabiota – you have heard me speak about this – that Metabiota [which] is inside Ukraine, working in those [bio] labs, is a DoD [Department of Defense] contractor, in writing.”
The Yale graduate told the Two Mikes that in 2005, the CIA and other agencies planned to investigate these bio labs in countries that had been formerly under the influence of the Soviet Union, such as Ukraine, Georgia, and Kazhakstan.
But then, said Maxey, they “privatized it.”
They had “Metabiota, they created a little Blackwater, you know, no oversight and plenty of dough. And so the greed took over and. You saw things occur. I thought it was very telling.” Maxey then explained that there was a “professor inside the virology community that did the experiments who were going on inside the Wuhan lab working on gain-of-function [research]. These were experiments that were illegal in the United States dating all the way back to 2014.”
That is to say, Maxey sees a link between the DoD, bio labs, Metabiota, the Wuhan lab, and the research that led to the coronavirus in 2020. He continued: “So they were engaged in illegal behavior using our taxpayer dollars. And now you know why this cover up is so large. Listen, we’re going to find out that the Americans, maybe not on an official level, but [that] Americans working in conjunction with other Frankensteins in Wuhan were partially responsible for what happened [with the coronavirus].”
And here comes General Flynn into the story. “What I want to know about General Michael Flynn is,” said Maxey, “Metabiota was around for a few years before he got canned and DoD was funding these secret laboratories. Did Michael Flynn at head of the DIA know about them? And if he knew about them, what did he know about them and when did he know it?”
Maxey would expect honest answers from Flynn, who is usually regarded as being an opponent to the Deep State. Yet Maxey himself had a bad experience with Flynn while in Switzerland.
He said had called Flynn up after he discovered that Hunter Biden had active DoD root certificates on his laptop that should not be there and that could present a national security threat. They “gave Hunter admin responsibility in their email system,” Maxey said. So he called Flynn while in Switzerland, asking him for help in this national security matter, assuming that Flynn would be able to get DoD to at least deactivate these certificates.
“Flynn did nothing. And then later he came out and criticized what I was doing in Switzerland,” the journalist went on to say. In July, Maxey posted a recording of his call to Flynn on Gettr. In that conversation, Flynn declined to make any comment on Maxey’s findings and said he would get back to Maxey on the root certificates, which he never did.
On the contrary, both General Flynn and his brother Joseph Flynn then went public to undermine Maxey’s trustworthiness. That was in April, and since then they never recanted their statements, nor did General Flynn explain what he knew about Metabiota and why he never came to Maxey’s assistance in a national security matter. Maxey thankfully was able to get these DoD root certificates deactivated by way of other channels.
At the same time with Flynns’s attack last spring came John Paul Mac Isaak’s questioning of Maxey’s claim that, while in Switzerland, he was able to recover 450 gigabites of deleted material on the Hunter Biden laptop. Mac Isaak at the time told Newsmax that so many gigabites would not have fit onto the version of the laptop that originally was in his possession, thus undermining Maxey’s work. Maxey did have a copy of Mac Isaak’s version, since it was Rudy Giuliani who had received a copy from Mac Isaak in August of 2019 and then had passed a copy on to Maxey, who was working at the time for Steve Bannon’s War Room Pandemic.
Former intelligence officer Sam Faddis was also able to disprove Mac Isaak’s claim about the amount of gigabites found by Maxey on the Hunter Biden laptop. Maxey himself, who had always praised Mac Isaak for his courage to make the laptop available to law enforcement and then to Rudy Giuliani, was taken aback by Mac Isaak’s questioning of his work and could not understand why. But now he has learned more about the background of Mac Isaak who has connections with no one else but General Flynn.
As Maxey was able to find out, all these men are interconnected, among them also Patrick Byrne and Garret Ziegler, who had received a copy of the laptop from Maxey back in 2020 and now runs the Marco Polo project on the laptop. “I get attacked by Ziegler, all these people. And guess who’s funding Ziegler? Byrne, Flynn. Guess who’s funding Mac Isaacs? Byrne and Flynn,” Maxey told the Two Mikes on August 17.
Patrick Byrne, together with Sidney Powell and General Flynn, appeared during the election fraud discussion in 2020, “all of a sudden,” in the words of Colonel Mike, and played a major role. These people “would just all of a sudden [appear], you know, Flynn was on every platform or stage he can get his face on with every rotating MAGA show there is in the country,” he went on to say.
Byrne was among those men who came out questioning Jack Maxey as soon as he broke the news that he had recovered 450 gigabites of deleted material. Byrne was defending Garret Ziegler, who was accused by Maxey of having received from Maxey a copy of the laptop under false pretense, namely that he had wanted to give the copy to the Director of National Intelligence.
As Maxey now says he has been able to find out, all these men who were trying to undermine the credibility of his own work on the laptop – and Maxey is the only man who got the New York Times and the Washington Post to finally admit that the laptop is authentic – are interconnected with each other: Byrne, Mac Isaak, Flynn, and Ziegler. This raises questions of their true purpose and whether or not they are in one way or another agents of the Deep State themselves. Speaking of that group of men (and one woman, Sidney Powell), Maxey told the Two Mikes that “there’s something very odd about that crew and I don’t know what it is. I do believe that Lin Wood has started to see the light. He released a recording of a telephone call that he had with Patrick Byrne. It’s about 70 minutes, but it’s well worth listening to because it becomes very clear that things were not right, even between Byrne and Sidney and Byrne and Flynn.” (See herea short summary of that telephone conversation.)
Whether or not General Flynn is trustworthy, according to Maxey, could be determined by Flynn coming out and explaining what he knew about U.S.-run bio labs in Ukraine and elsewhere. Maxey waits for “his answer concerning those bio labs, right? Is he trustworthy or not? Because it’s all going to come out, General Flynn. You want to come forward and explain what happened?”
Flynn might even have a “benign” explanation, like, “I was looking into agricultural issues, you know…bovine encephalitis or something.”
But Flynn must give an answer if he wishes to regain trust.
Interestingly, Maxey had been alerted early on about the Biden connection to Metabiota, by some whistleblowers who reached out to him. They explicitly asked him whether he found any material on the laptop regarding that bio research firm. He himself at the time had not even heard of that company, but immediately found several e-mails on the laptop regarding this topic.
President Donald Trump
Finally, Jack Maxey also discussed President Trump’s own weaknesses and how he should come out publicly explaining them to the American public. While the left had suppressed the discussion of the Hunter Biden laptop because it could embolden Trump, Maxey thinks that “he has to answer for things like Miley and Pompeo and Barr and all the rest of it. And Gina Haspel. I mean, Trump’s going to have to come clean on some of his errors in order to run [his re-election campaign] again effectively.” The political analyst stressed that he “likes” Trump and “what he tried to do.”
Then he quoted a recent Op-Ed by Peter Navarro that he published on American Greatness regarding the devastating role Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, played during Trump’s presidency. That article, according to Maxey, gives a “very devastating look at Jared Kushner’s meddling from day one. And, how many times he got in the middle of important things.” For Maxey it is clear that “you can’t have a leader who surrounds himself with sycophants.”
Dr. Scheuer even called Kushner an “agent of a foreign power,” and Maxey agreed, answering, “yeah, potentially, absolutely. I mean, look how much money he made on the Middle Eastern deals.”
“Jared Kushner is not a good guy,” he added, and went on to say: “I mean, first of all, how is he qualified to be in that position [as Senior Advisor to the President] to begin with? I think it should have been a red flag for all of us.” Maxey reminded his audience that one should always be cautious about hiring one’s own relatives to run things. “The worst thing you could do at a family company is hire the screwball nephew. Right. And this is what Trump did over and over again.”
“I mean, why were almost any of these people involved?” Maxey asked. “I’m all for a Trump agenda, but I’m not for necessarily the administration of that agenda if it’s going to be the same crew. I want IBM to succeed, too, but maybe not with the same chairman,” he added.
The Yale graduate also said that Kushner himself – whose own father was involved in highly questionable activities – is “very lefty on everything,” similar to how “Trump was five years before he decided to become president.”
Another aspect of Trump’s legacy that Maxey criticized is how the president dealt with the January 6 event and the people who got arrested that day, around 600 citizens. For him, a “a measure of leadership” is: “Are you willing to sacrifice yourself for your people? And I just don’t see Trump sacrificing himself for anyone. He could have pardoned the 600, but then he would have lost out on the impeachment and couldn’t run for office again. Hell, he could have just paid their legal bills and their bail money because he raised $300 million for the recount between November 3rd and January 6th. But did he come to the rescue of his platoon? No.”
Colonal Mike agreed with Maxey here, saying “always say the best rally would be right outside the gulag, where the January-six prisoners are. The American Gulag. If Trump wants to do a rally, I’ll go to that one.” Being in accordance with the colonel here, Maxey added: “Well, he could have made sure none of the people went to the gulag.”
He also criticized Trump’s promise to help these January 6 prisoners after his re-election as president, saying, “And now it’s like, you re-elect me and I’ll pardon everybody after you’ve spent four years in jail. Really? Thanks. No, I’m glad it is still on your mind. I think that we have to start demanding leadership.” Maxey’s concept of leadership here means that “we expect from American men that they are willing to sacrifice themselves for the people who follow them.”
“And if you’re not willing to sacrifice yourself for those people, then you really shouldn’t be followed,” the journalist concluded.
Most importantly, Maxey also challenged Trump on the fact that he still endorses the coronavirus vaccine and that he still praises his handling of the vaccine rollout. Dr. Scheuer first broached the topic by mentioning “the fact that Trump until recently has been keeping pushing this inoculation after he knows it’s killing tens of thousands of Americans and will continue to do it. And yet he still says he’s proud of it. It doesn’t make sense.”
Maxey responded to these words with the comment that “this is symptomatic of an unhealthy ego, right? This is the other side of the coin. You have to be able to admit your mistakes. I mean, Trump could come out right now and be like, look, it was a scam. Fauci lied to me, NIH lied to me, FDA lied to me, CDC lied to me and he’d go up ten points. Instead, he wants to take credit for what is clearly becoming a, you know, a failure in everyone else’s eyes. And he still thinks it’s some sort of bold achievement.”
“I don’t understand the guy,” Maxey went on to say. “I appreciate what he tried to do, but at the end of the day, he took the crucible advice from the absolute wrong members of the team. And I think that this has got to be fixed.”
Finally, it might be worth mentioning here that Maxey has stated in the past that he had offered a while back Trump’s team a copy of the Hunter Biden laptop, an offer that was declined.
‘These head fakes to conservative America’
In conclusion, Jack Maxey is convinced that it is important to reveal these “head fakes to conservative America.” A Pompeo, for example, when he became the Secretary of State, did not clean house and remove corrupt elements in the state department. In general, regarding these federal agencies, Maxey now believes that “we should have replaced everybody. I don’t see any heroes in the state or in the House [of Representatives] or the Senate at all.”
Summing up the political situation in today’s America, Maxey told the Two Mikes:
“This country is filled with good, wonderful people, and unfortunately it’s got like an evil nexus inside Washington, D.C. … I think it’s going to be so shocking for people when they understand the absolute depth and depravity of the grift that’s going on. I mean, there are hundreds of people who should be in jail, maybe thousands.”
Jack Maxey puts his hope in the American people. As he told former CIA agent Michael Jaco in his August 26 interview: “It starts with American men and women of courage standing up and saying: enough.”
Dr. Maike Hickson was born and raised in Germany. She holds a PhD from the University of Hannover, Germany, after having written in Switzerland her doctoral dissertation on the history of Swiss intellectuals before and during World War II. She now lives in the U.S. and is married to Dr. Robert Hickson, and they have been blessed with two beautiful children. She is a happy housewife who likes to write articles when time permits.
Dr. Hickson published in 2014 a Festschrift, a collection of some thirty essays written by thoughtful authors in honor of her husband upon his 70th birthday, which is entitled A Catholic Witness in Our Time.
Hickson has closely followed the papacy of Pope Francis and the developments in the Catholic Church in Germany, and she has been writing articles on religion and politics for U.S. and European publications and websites such as LifeSiteNews, OnePeterFive, The Wanderer, Rorate Caeli, Catholicism.org, Catholic Family News, Christian Order, Notizie Pro-Vita, Corrispondenza Romana, Katholisches.info, Der Dreizehnte, Zeit-Fragen, and Westfalen-Blatt.
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Fr. George Rutler in his 2017 Crisis article said Fr. Antonio Spadaro, and by implication Francis since both he and Spadaro are liberal Jesuits, “grew up in a theological atmosphere of… Transcendental Thomism [which] was Karl Rahner’s attempt to wed Thomistic realism with Kantian idealism. Father Stanley Kaki, theologian and physicist, called this stillborn hybrid ‘Aquikantianism.'” (Crisis, “The Mathematical Innovations of Father Spadaro,” February 22, 2017)
Both the liberal Jesuits: Spadaro and Francis it appears are total relativists, as are most Jesuits and all liberal theologians.
Rahner’s “Foundation of Theological Study: A Sourcebook” says:
“The German Jesuit Karl Rahner (1904-1984) remains one of most influential theologians of the twentieth century.” (Foundation of Theological Study: A Sourcebook, https://booksgoogle.com>books)
Rahner was a disciple of Kant as Rutler said. Jaki, also, makes this clear in his books on Aquikantists.
Kant taught that one could only know the phenomena of the mind or ideas and not know reality. Jaki wrote:
“Kant, who begins with ideas and, as all the history of modern philosophy shows, never gets to reality.” (Chesterton: A Seer of Science, page 19)
Kant and those who follow him thought God was only a thought. Jaki quotes Kant and explains the citation:
“‘God is not a being outside me but merely a thought within me.'”
“That man was his own God, if he needed one, was evidently Kant’s conclusion.” (Angels, Apes and Men, page 10)
Rahner’s Kantian philosophy lead him to deny the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Fr. Regis Scanlon, OFM, Cap., wrote:
“In 1966 the late Fr. Karl Rahner stated that ‘one can no longer maintain today that bread is a substance, as St. Thomas and the Fathers of the Council (of Trent) obviously thought it was’.[12] [Theological Investigations, page 307] For Rahner the ‘substance’ of a thing did not include its < material and physical> reality, but the ‘meaning and purpose’ of the thing. [13] [Karl Rahner, S.J.., p.307; Engelbert Gutwenger, “Transubstantiation,” page 1754, pp. 34-35] So, according to Karl Rahner, transubstantiation meant that, after the consecration of the Mass, the physical bread remained physical bread but it now had a new ‘meaning’ of spiritual food because it was now a “symbol” of Jesus Christ.[14] [Engelbert Gutwenger, pp. 1754-1755]”
“Fr. Edward Schillebeeckx agreed with Fr. Karl Rahner that the physical bread and wine were only a ‘sign’ of Christ.[15] In fact, for Schillebeeckx, the ‘real presence’ of Christ in the Eucharist was not the consecrated bread and wine, but the < ‘assembled community’>.[16]” (Modern Misconceptions About The Eucharist, PDF, St. Patrick’s Basilica > 2016/10, https://Basilica.ca, Provided courtesy of: Eternal Word Television Network)
Jaki thought the “archetype” figure of this type of philosophy which Rahner professed was “Lucifer”:
“Kant who once wrote of himself: ‘I am an Archangel!’ and went on to state repeatedly: ‘I am God.’ The archetype for this self-enrichment was none other than Lucifer. If one looks for the source of the pride, the self-sufficiency… one merely has to look in the direction of the camp that still breeds Aquikantists… Aquikantists were overjoyed when the invocation of Saint Michael was dropped as a first step towards the new liturgy.” (Newman’s Challenge, pages 76-77)
Remember Aquikantists, specifically Rahner, have totally influenced all liberal theologians and many, maybe most, conservative ones.
Rahner’s influence even reached to the papacy of Pope John Paul II who believed in the Eucharist and objective morality unlike Francis who apparently may not believe in the Eucharist or objective morality.
John Paul because of philosophical inadequacies had a relativist inter-religious dialogue blindspot such as in the Assisi scandalous episode unlike Pope Benedict XVI. Scholar Fr. John Coleman S. J. wrote:
“John Hick’s pluralist model is based on a Kantian epistemology that undermines, at the outset, any notion of a normative revelation of God in history… In Danielou’s theology, the grace of Christ may mysteriously touch individuals outside Christianity but the other religions, their scriptures and rituals, remain purely human customs… Rahner did not make such a strict distinction… John Paul was closer to Rahner… Whereas Ratzinger had warned of the dangers of relativism in inter-religious dialogue.” (Inter-Religious Dialogue: Urgent Challenge and Theological Land-Mine, PFD Australian Catholic University>au)
Rahner’s influence has effected Francis as well as his inner circle, Catholic colleges, schools and children as well as youth catechism teaching books and their teachers who prepare them for the Sacraments.
Since all liberal Catholics and many conservative ones, knowingly or unknowingly, have been deeply influenced by Rahner’s Kantian “theology,” is it possible that the crisis in the Church, in large extent, is due to their unconscious and in some cases conscious disbelief in objective reality as well as objective “normative” revelation which leads to disbelief in the Eucharist and God.
Does this explain Francis’s panicked reaction against when Cardinal Robert Sarah gave a mild call for reverence at the Mass and the Holy Eucharist and his desire to explain away and in many cases openly reject God’s Ten Commandments?
It appears that Francis isn’t just a moral relativist, but apparently may not believe in the Eucharist.
Why do some traditionalists, recently, want to pretend that the Amoris laetitia total relativist Francis is exactly the same as Benedict and John Paul who both believed in the Eucharist and objective morality despite both having major philosophical inadequacies?
Is Francis a total relativist?
In my opinion, the evidence points to Francis being an apparent total relativist. Please read the following posts:
Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia.
Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.
Francis Notes:
– Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church in such a situation:
“[T]he Pope… WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See.” (The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
– If Francis betrays Benedict XVI & the”Roman Rite Communities” like he betrayed the Chinese Catholics we must respond like St. Athanasius, the Saintly English Bishop Robert Grosseteste & “Eminent Canonists and Theologians” by “Resist[ing]” him: https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/12/if-francis-betrays-benedict-xvi.html
– LifeSiteNews, “Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers,” December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows “sexually active adulterous couples facing ‘complex circumstances’ to ‘access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'”
– On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
“The AAS statement… establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense.”
– On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
“Francis’ heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents.”
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
What is needed right now to save America from those who would destroy our God given rights is to pray at home or in church and if called to even go to outdoor prayer rallies in every town and city across the United States for God to pour out His grace on our country to save us from those who would use a Reichstag Fire-like incident to destroy our civil liberties. [Is the DC Capitol Incident Comparable to the Nazi Reichstag Fire Incident where the German People Lost their Civil Liberties?: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/is-dc-capital-incident-comparable-to.html?m=1 and Epoch Times Show Crossroads on Capitol Incident: “Anitfa ‘Agent Provocateurs‘”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1]
Pray an Our Father now for the grace to know God’s Will and to do it.SHARE
By now, most Catholics plugged into the Internet have already heard news of the actor Shia LaBeouf and his journey to Catholicism, which followed from his preparation for filming Padre Pio (2022) as the titular character. The Catholic corner of the Internet became aflame with passionate discourse over his interview with Bishop Robert Barron, in which LaBeouf mentions why the traditional Latin Mass affects him deeply.
Proponents of the Latin Mass rejoiced that LaBeouf was speaking truth to power, as he, in surprisingly technical yet unpolished language, described what most of us have been trying to convey to Church leaders for years—the traditional Latin Mass is a pearl of great price, and it should be known, loved, and embraced by the Church. Of course, his interview—and particularly his analogy of the Novus Ordo as akin to trying to sell him a car—set off a firestorm on the Catholic blogosphere, with the usual suspects chiding LaBeouf for his “contemptuous caricature” of the usus recentior and those in the highest levels of the Church expressing bafflement at his comments.
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What is behind LaBeouf’s attraction to the traditional Latin Mass? Certainly, he has been as much of an “outsider” as anyone, as an agnostic celebrity, who was fully immersed in his own fame, scandals, and messiness. So, from the start, we can acknowledge that his appreciation of the traditional Roman Rite is not rooted in an ideological, “inside baseball” Church debate. His introduction to the Latin Mass was, in part, required for his portrayal of Padre Pio.
Instead, it seems that he stumbled upon the usus antiquor, an interruption into his normal routine of life that required him to stop in his tracks, pause, and reflect on higher things. One would assume that, despite his non-Catholic upbringing, LaBeouf has witnessed—or at least had a vague familiarity—with the Catholic Mass, if for no other occasion than attending weddings or funerals for his friends. It is worth asking why a man so deeply saturated in the secular, Hollywood lifestyle would possibly find the Latin Mass attractive. After all, was it not the claim of the liturgical reformers that the Latin Mass needed to be disassembled in order for the Church to reach “modern man”?
Well, modern man has spoken. Free from the intellectual and professional commitments required by “expert” liturgists, LaBeouf can speak as a simple observer, one who does not feel the need to show loyalty to the Party. He has acknowledged his past sins, his brokenness, and his need for repentance. And yet, in the darkness, he was able to witness the light; in his ugliness, he was able to recognize beauty.
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Here, LaBeouf’s car salesman analogy is important. “[The] Latin Mass affects me deeply,” he tells Bishop Barron. When Barron asks why, LaBeouf responds, “Because it feels like they’re not selling me a car…. When somebody’s selling me on something, it kills my aptitude for it, and my suspension of disbelief, and my yearnings to root for it. There’s an immediate rebellion in me.”
No matter how many times the expert car salesman keeps trying to push the product, modern man instinctively cringes. The pushiness and repeated explanations on why it is necessary does little to water the garden of the soul. Truth, goodness, and beauty speak for themselves and do not require a lengthy rationale or even re-education camps.
Elsewhere in the interview, LaBeouf mentions important moments in his turn to Catholicism, including being welcomed by the Capuchin friars as he prepared to get into the role of Padre Pio, reading the Gospel of Matthew, praying the Rosary, receiving catechesis from priests and nuns, attending Mass, praying in silence before the Blessed Sacrament, and even having meals in common. To his credit, Barron is an excellent interviewer, asking pointed questions and giving plenty of space for LaBeouf to expound on his new experiences.
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LaBeouf even mentions reading about the life of the Capuchin brother Jim Townsend, who lived a life of crime as a young boy and even murdered his wife, who was pregnant with their unborn child. During his time in prison, Townsend encountered a Catholic priest who encouraged him to make a confession. Townsend later became a secular Franciscan, before joining the Capuchins following his release from prison. LaBeouf mentions Townsend several times during the interview, and he clearly sees the message of mercy and repentance that Catholicism offers.
It is worth noting that LaBeouf’s attraction to Catholicism came from his immersion into the Church’s life. No pastoral program, no bishops’ conference initiative, no academic monograph “sold” him the Faith. He entered not only into the Church’s “matter” (becoming a member of the Body of Christ) but also into her “form” (community, traditional devotions, orthodox catechesis). The liturgy speaks for itself and forms the adherent’s personality by virtue of its essence, which cannot be understood properly apart from its incarnational form.
According to LaBeouf, after attending the traditional Latin Mass in Oakland, California, he felt as if someone was letting him in on a “profound secret.” In an age where the Vatican demands that Latin Masses should not be published in the parish bulletin, the Latin Mass is indeed a secret. Like the saint he is portraying on screen, LaBeouf will also know the reality that, even when one possesses the truth—such as Pio’s miracle of the stigmata—the Church hierarchy will not cease to deny or suppress it. Even when faced with undeniable beauty, ecclesiastical superiors can still suffer from envy.
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It seems as if LaBeouf has found the pearl of great price, the one that, when found, inspires one to sell everything one owns to buy it (Matthew 13:45-46). While Barron’s reception to his comments were polite, one can imagine the way LaBeouf’s love for traditional Catholicism would have been received by less-favorable prelates, some of whom liken the love of the traditional Latin Mass with a turn to Protestantism.
Truly, this celebrity actor is like the children proclaiming “Hosanna!” to Our Lord as he entered Jerusalem’s temple courts, and the institutional liturgists are like those inflexible chief priests. When they ask Jesus if He is hearing what the children are saying, Our Lord responds in the affirmative, quoting Psalm 8:2: “From the lips of children and infants you, Lord, have called forth your praise” (Matthew 21:12-16). It seems as if Padre Pio has adopted Shia LaBeouf as his spiritual child, guiding him to make the remainder of his life an act of oblation, reparation, and praise to the Lord.
Of course, Catholics should not make too much of LaBeouf’s interview with Bishop Barron, as if he is now our token representative. LaBeouf’s conversion will prove its sincerity only with time, and there is no need to place him on a privileged seat of honor, which can be dangerous for new converts. But that said, there is nothing wrong with feeling joy and excitement that a notorious sinner and former Hollywood elite has expressed his desire to become Catholic. That is a natural and expected response. But now that the pearl has been found, it is worth asking, “What’s next?”
Moreover, if Church hierarchs are truly genuine in their desire for a “listening Church,” for “accompaniment,” “walking together,” and “reading the signs of the times,” how can they afford to ignore a repentant sinner who is willing to sell everything for the Mass he loves?
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Do all Francis Catholics believe Francis is not Promoting Heresy & Sacrilege in allowing Communion for Adulterers? & Is Communion for Adulterers a “Sinful… Liturgical Abuse”?
Fr. Z, Fr. John Zuhlsorf, in his post “What’s the truth about SSPX?” gave a strong defense of the Society of St. Puis X against apparently Francis traditionalists… who asked him:
“Is it sinful to go to an SSPX Mass?”
He answered:
“Frankly, yes it would be sinful to go to their [SSPX] Masses out of sheer desire to hurt local parishes or priests or you hate the local bishop, or Pope, or some aspect of the Church, blah, blah blah. Frankly, yes, it would be sinful to attend a parish where there are liturgical abuses that you happen to know are abuses but you like those abuses and you don’t care about authority…”
“… They are clearly not Protestant, who are heretics.”
I have a some questions for Fr. Z.
Does he think Communion for adulterers is a “liturgical abuse” and therefore it is “sinful to attend a parish [or a Catholic church] where there are liturgical abuses” like this happening?
Does he think a Pope who teaches Communion for adulterers as his “authentic magisterium” which is placed in the Holy See’s Official Acts of the Apostolic See is “clearly… [not a] heretic”?
Does he think it is sinful or hateful to hate the heresy, but love the heretic by giving him a correction such as St. Paul did with St. Peter and which Cardinal Raymond Burke implied he would give to Francis? – The Catholic Monitor [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/04/does-fr-z-think-communion-for.html]
Last year, I asked a conservative Catholic with apparently a post graduated degree to PLEASE answer yes or no to the two following questions:
Is Francis promoting heresy and sacrilege in allowing Communion for adulterers? Do you believe in Communion for adulterers?
This educated Catholic asked me to show her where Francis said adulterers could receive Communion.
This is for all Catholics like her (who read the so-called journalism of the vast majority of the “Catholic media”) who don’t seem to know what is going on with Francis:
– [2017] Pope’s Letter on Argentinian Communion Guidelines for Remarried Given Official Status
A letter from Pope Francis praising episcopal guidelines that would allow divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Holy Communion in some cases while living in a state of objective grave sin has now been added to the official acts of the Apostolic See [AAS], conferring official status on what was formerly considered by many to be merely private communication — and raising the stakes on the Amoris Laetitia debate significantly.
Of the guidelines issued by the bishops of the Buenos Aires region that would open “the possibility of access to the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist” in “complex circumstances” where “limitations that lessen the responsibility and guilt” of couples who will not make the commitment to “live in continence” despite living in an objectively adulterous situation, the pope said in his letter that “The document is very good and completely explains the meaning of chapter VIII of Amoris Laetitia. There are no other interpretations.”
In August of this year, this letter was added to the Vatican website as a papal document available for public reference. Concerns were raised that what had previously been viewed as only private correspondence — and thus, completely outside the realm of papal magisterium — was being given the appearance of an official papal act. [https://catholictruthscotland.com/2017/12/03/concern-over-pope-francis-grows-schism-looms-cardinals-must-act/]
– LifeSiteNews, “Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers,” December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows “sexually active adulterous couples facing ‘complex circumstances’ to ‘access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'”
– On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
“The AAS statement… establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense.”
– On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida: “Francis’ heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents.”
Sadly, Francis’s concept of sin appears to be contrary to “the Sixth Commandment and to Saint Paul’s prohibition outlined in 1 Cor. 11:27-30” and the infallible Council of Trent.
Dr. Luca Gili, a professor of philosophy at the University of Quebec in Montreal, told LifeSiteNews:
“By saying that ‘there is no other interpretation’ [to [the Argentinian] guidelines that appear to blatantly approve Communion for adulterers], the pope is stating that he is (magisterially) proposing a doctrine which is contrary to the Sixth Commandment and to Saint Paul’s prohibition outlined in 1 Cor. 11:27-30.”
The Argentinian Bishops Guidelines says couples in adulterous second marriages not living in continence in “other more complex circumstances… Amoris Laetitia opens up the possibility of access to… the Eucharist.” (Aleteia.org, September 13, 2016)
Francis’s letter to the Argentinian Bishops on their guidelines says there is “no other interpretation.” (Aleteia.org, September 13, 2016)
In simple words, Francis is officially saying couples committing the grave sin of the sexual act of adultery can receive Holy Communion with the excuse of “complex circumstances” which is against God’s Divine Law and Revelation as taught be the infallible Council of Trent:
Trent’s decree on justification: “If anyone says that the commandments of God are, even for one that is justified and constituted in grace, impossible to observe, let him be anathema.”
Versus
Amoris Laetitia, 301: Hence it is can no longer simply be said that all those in any “irregular” situation are living in a state of mortal sin and are deprived of sanctifying grace. More is involved here than mere ignorance of the rule. A subject may know full well the rule, yet have great difficulty in understanding “its inherent values”, or be in a concrete situation which does not allow him or her to act differently and decide otherwise without further sin.’ [http://www.catholicworldreport.com/2016/04/22/five-serious-problems-with-chapter-8-of-amoris-laetitia/]
On January 2, Vatican expert Edward Pentin reported that Francis’s president of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio unwittingly said that the official endorsement of the Argentine directive of Amoris Laetitia contradicted the infallible doctrine of Trent:
“In comments to the Register last month, Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio insisted the Francis’s official endorsement of an Argentine directive on the issue did not contradict canon law.”
“The president of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts said it is true that ‘divorced and remarried (or cohabiting) cannot be admitted to Holy Communion because they are ‘in manifest grave sin.’””
“But he added that there are ‘divorced and remarried (or cohabiting) who have the intention to change their condition but cannot. Therefore such faithful are only in objective sin, not subjective sin, precisely because they have the intention to change, even if they cannot. This intention makes a difference!”
He further noted that the relevant canon, number 915, states that Holy Communion cannot be allowed if the person remains “obstinately persevering” in grave sin. The word “obstinate” means “without any intention to change,” Cardinal Coccopalmerio said, “so these faithful can be admitted to Holy Communion because they have the intention to leave the condition of sin and therefore they are not in sin.’”
“He added that the “doctrine of sincere repentance” which contains the purpose of changing one’s condition of life as a necessary requisite to be admitted to the sacrament of Penance ‘is respected’ because the faithful in such hypothesised situations ‘are conscious, have conviction, of the situation of objective sin in which they currently find themselves.’ They also ‘have the purpose of changing their condition of life, even if, at this moment, they are not able to implement their purpose.’”
“‘The cardinal added that the doctrine of ‘sanctifying grace as a necessary requisite to be admitted to the sacrament of the Eucharist is also respected’ because the faithful in this case ‘haven’t yet arrived at a real change of life because of the impossibility of doing so, but have the intention of implementing this change.’”
The Cardinal in the above statement said it is impossible to “change the condition of sin” which is another way of saying Amoris Laetitia’s “in concrete situations which does not allow him or her to decide otherwise.”
Trent said “If anyone says that the commandments of God are, even for one that is justified and constituted in grace, impossible to observe, let him be anathema.”
Coccopalmerio’s above statement of the Francis’s understanding of sin is important because he was Francis’s selected Vatican official who stated:
As stated by Francis’s own selected Vatican official Coccopalmerio to explain the pontiff’s authentic interpretation:
The Francis’s Amoris Laetitia appears to have fallen into the heresies of Martin Luther and situation ethics which are condemned by Trent and Veritatis Splendor.
Francis said of the heresy of Luther on justification which includes his teaching on sin:
“Lutherans and Catholics, Protestants, all of us agree on the doctrine of justification. On this point, which is very important, he did not err.” (patheos.com/blog/scotticalt, “Pope Francis is Wrong about Luther and Justification,” April 5, 2017)
On May 25, 2016, the Catholic Herald said new “revelations suggest that some of Amoris’s most contentious paragraphs – relating to “situations of sin” and “mitigating factors” – had their origin in Archbishop Fernández’s articles, which gave a critique of John Paul II’s encyclical Veritatis Splendor.”
The evidence shows that the Francis’s intimate friend and ghostwriter Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernandez did a “cut and paste” from his ten year old anti-John Paul II tracts which made up some of the most controversial parts of the papal document according to a May 25 article of The Spectator.
Francis’ friend, The Spectator said, is seen as “a joke figure” in terms of his reputation as a theologian who wrote a silly book called “Heal me with your mouth. The art of kissing.”
All these revelations came from Vatican expert Sandro Magister’s blog. Magister said Pope John Paul II condemned the situational ethics of “theologians” like Fernandez in his important and magisterial encyclical ‘Veritatis Splendor.’ [http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1351303?eng=y&refresh_ce ]
The Vatican expert in the article showed how the intimate a friend of Francis then Archbishop Bergoglio was his protege:
“Partly on account of those two articles, the congregation for Catholic education blocked the candidacy of Fernández as rector of the Universidad Católica Argentina, only to have to give in later, in 2009, to then-archbishop of Buenos Aires Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who fought tooth and nail to clear the way for the promotion of his protege.”
The Catholic Herald quoted a passage from Fernandez’s situational ethics articles which were “consciously echoed” in Amoris Laetitia’s paragraph 301:
“A subject may know full well the rule, yet have great difficulty in understanding ‘its inherent values’, or be in a concrete situation which does not allow him or her to act differently and decide otherwise without further sin.”
This passage according to the Catholic Herald may be directly counter to defined Catholic doctrine:
“This paragraph of the exhortation has been criticised by theologians including E. Christian Brugger, who argued that it apparently goes against Church teaching: ‘This seems to contradict the defined doctrine in Trent on Justification, canon 18: ‘If any one says the commandments of God are impossible to keep, even by a person who is justified and constituted in grace: let him be anathema.’”
First Things, in “Francis’s Argentine Letter And The Proper Response ” by Elliott Milco, says the exact same thing about Francis’s letter which endorses the Argentine norms.
America’s most influential journal of religion and public life, First Things’ Deputy Editor Milco says:
“The Church teaches and has always taught, from St. Paul to the Council of Trent and beyond, that grace strengthens and liberates us from the bonds of sin, and that while we may never, in the present life, be perfectly free from the inclination to do wrong, it is possible through grace to keep the commandments.”
“This doctrine was given force of law in Trent’s decree on justification: ‘If anyone says that the commandments of God are, even for one that is justified and constituted in grace, impossible to observe, let him be anathema.'”
“‘The same decree explains that ‘God does not command impossibilities, but by commanding admonishes you to do what you can and to pray for what you cannot, and aids you that you may be able.'”
“The real problem with the Argentine norms is their deviation from this larger and more fundamental principle: that grace truly sanctifies and liberates, and that baptized Christians are always free to fulfill the moral law, even when they fail to do so. Jesus Christ holds us to this standard in the Gospel. It is presumptuous of Francis—however benign his intentions—to decide that his version of ‘mercy’ trumps that given by God himself.”
Brugger and Milco are not speaking about the Kasper proposal, but the Catholic doctrine of infused grace which was denied by Martin Luther and the other “reformers”
On that other issue, Fr. Raymond de Sousa’s article “What Argentina’s ‘Amoris Laetitia’ Guidelines Really Mean” in the National Catholic Register tries to make the case that the Kasper proposal in it’s totality actually suffered a lose despite media hype claiming otherwise and despite Francis’s efforts to implement the total proposal.
De Sousa tries to makes the case that the Argentine norms is not mistaken because it could be treated in pre-Amoris Laetitia “standard principles of moral theology and confessional practice, analogous to the the moral culpability of contraception when the spouses do not agree.”
On this separate issue from the topic of grace, Brugger in the Catholic World Report with the article “The Catholic Conscience, the Argentine Bishops, and “Amoris Laetitia” destroys the De Sousa attempt to justify the Argentine norms by using Pope John Paul II’s Veritatis Splendor that shows it creates a “destructive dichotomy, that which separates faith from morality.”
He demonstrates that the only solution to the problematic Argentine norms is to form consciences not create loopholes so persons can sin in invincible ignorance.
Be that as it may, the point is that the Kasper proposal isn’t the issue here, but Amoris Laetitia and the Argentine norms apparent denial of a defined doctrine of the Council of Trent on grace which the “reformers” denied.
The “reformers” idea of imputed grace saw man as “totally depraved” and corrupt who even after justification was not infused with grace and truly changed on the inside.
Luther’s image of imputed grace was that of man as a pile of dung covered with snow.
Man isn’t changed on the inside (he is still a pile of dung), but “justified” man is covered with grace (snow) while not being changed on the inside.
As Milco said Trent’s doctrine on infused grace says “that graces truly sanctifies and liberates, and that baptized Christians are always free to fulfill the moral law, even when they fail to do so.”
It is a very big and scary moment in Church history when it appears that the Vatican is openingly teaching error that is anathema by the infallible Trent:
Moral Theologian Dr. E. Christian Brugger, on April 22, wrote Amoris Leatitia (A.L.) in 301 is “inconsistent with the teaching of Trent on grace.”
Brugger then writes that it appears that Canon 18 of Trent, which is infallible doctrine, gives an anathema to Pope Francis’s 301 teaching on grace.
Pray a Our Father now for the Dubia Cardinals to issue the correction.
Endnotes and quotes from Dr. E. Christian Brugger’s CWR article:
Dr. E. Christian Brugger is the J. Francis Cardinal Stafford Professor of Moral Theology at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver and Senior Fellow of Ethics at the Culture of Life Foundation in Washington, D.C. He has a forthcoming book with Catholic University of America Press on the indissolubility of marriage and the Council of Trent.
Dr. Brugger said of Amoris Laetitia, 301 in the Catholic World Report:
‘Inconsistency with the teaching of Trent on grace
301. Hence it is can no longer simply be said that all those in any “irregular” situation are living in a state of mortal sin and are deprived of sanctifying grace. More is involved here than mere ignorance of the rule. A subject may know full well the rule, yet have great difficulty in understanding “its inherent values”, or be in a concrete situation which does not allow him or her to act differently and decide otherwise without further sin.”
Again, the ‘rule” is the norm against adultery articulated in the sixth precept of the Decalogue, which Jesus says is violated by one who divorces his spouse and marries another (cf. Mt. 5:32, 19:9; Mk. 10:11-12; Lk. 16:18). Here chapter 8 teaches that someone who knows full well the “rule” (and is by hypothesis justified in Trent’s/Paul’s sense) can “be in a concrete situation which does not allow him or her to act differently and decide otherwise without further
sin” (emphasis added). This seems to contradict the defined doctrine in Trent on Justification, canon 18: “If any one says the commandments of God are impossible to keep, even by a person who is justified and constituted in grace: let him be anathema.”
It might be replied that no. 301 is addressed to pastors and is about mitigation, not objective possibility, not subjects in their deliberations about possible options. But in fact it is addressed to everyone, and no. 300 has identified “responsible personal and pastoral discernment” as proceeding on the same logic and as extending to personal discernment of possible present options, a logic that 301 is just unfolding.
What AL is ignoring is the adequacy of grace to enable people to respond to the overall objective demands of the Gospel.
ENDNOTES:
1 The note reads: “This is also the case with regard to sacramental discipline, since discernment can recognize that in a particular situation no grave fault exists.”
2 See no. 301 where “rule” clearly refer back to the “demands of the Gospel”
3 Note 336 makes clear that participation in the sacraments is one of the forms of participation in play in this passage.
4 The note references the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, Declaration Concerning the Admission to Holy Communion of Faithful Who Are Divorced and Remarried (June 24, 2000), no. 2. AL references the text to help overcome the potential judgment excluding remarried divorcees from Holy Communion. But the Pontifical text is saying just the opposite. The relevant passage reads:
“The Code of Canon Law establishes that ‘Those upon whom the penalty of excommunication or interdict has been imposed or declared, and others who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin, are not to be admitted to Holy Communion’ (can. 915). In recent years some authors have sustained, using a variety of arguments, that this canon would not be applicable to faithful who are divorced and remarried…. [These] authors offer various interpretations of the above-cited canon that exclude from its application the situation of those who are divorced and remarried. For example, since the text speaks of ‘grave sin’, it would be necessary to establish the presence of all the conditions required for the existence of mortal sin, including those which are subjective, necessitating a judgment of a type that a minister of Communion could not make ab externo; moreover, given that the text speaks of those who ‘obstinately’ persist in that sin, it would be necessary to verify an attitude of defiance on the part of an individual who had received a legitimate warning from the Pastor….
“The reception of the Body of Christ when one is publicly unworthy constitutes an objective harm to the ecclesial communion: it is a behavior that affects the rights of the Church and of all the faithful to live in accord with the exigencies of that communion. In the concrete case of the admission to Holy Communion of faithful who are divorced and remarried, the scandal, understood as an action that prompts others towards wrongdoing, affects at the same time both the sacrament of the Eucharist and the indissolubility of marriage. That scandal exists even if such behavior, unfortunately, no longer arouses surprise: in fact it is precisely with respect to the deformation of the conscience that it becomes more necessary for Pastors to act, with as much patience as firmness, as a protection to the sanctity of the Sacraments and a defense of Christian morality, and for the correct formation of the faithful.
“Any interpretation of can. 915 that would set itself against the canon’s substantial content, as declared uninterruptedly by the Magisterium and by the discipline of the Church throughout the centuries, is clearly misleading. One cannot confuse respect for the wording of the law (cfr. can. 17) with the improper use of the very same wording as an instrument for relativizing the precepts or emptying them of their substance. The phrase ‘and others who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin’ is clear and must be understood in a manner that does not distort its sense so as to render the norm inapplicable. The three required conditions are: a) grave sin, understood objectively, being that the minister of Communion would not be able to judge from subjective imputability; b) obstinate persistence, which means the existence of an objective situation of sin that endures in time and which the will of the individual member of the faithful does not bring to an end, no other requirements (attitude of defiance, prior warning, etc.) being necessary to establish the fundamental gravity of the situation in the Church; c) the manifest character of the situation of grave habitual sin.”
5 The encyclical Veritatis Splendor (Aug. 6, 1993) was the last papal document to be addressed to these issues, and is known to be an unprecedentedly serious effort to expound the Church’s understanding on moral norms from the apostles until today.
Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.
Francis Notes:
– Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church in such a situation:
“[T]he Pope… WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See.” (The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
– LifeSiteNews, “Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers,” December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows “sexually active adulterous couples facing ‘complex circumstances’ to ‘access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'”
– On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
“The AAS statement… establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense.”
– On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
“Francis’ heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents.”
– [2017] Pope’s Letter on Argentinian Communion Guidelines for Remarried Given Official Status
A letter from Pope Francis praising episcopal guidelines that would allow divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Holy Communion in some cases while living in a state of objective grave sin has now been added to the official acts of the Apostolic See [AAS], conferring official status on what was formerly considered by many to be merely private communication — and raising the stakes on the Amoris Laetitia debate significantly.
Of the guidelines issued by the bishops of the Buenos Aires region that would open “the possibility of access to the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist” in “complex circumstances” where “limitations that lessen the responsibility and guilt” of couples who will not make the commitment to “live in continence” despite living in an objectively adulterous situation, the pope said in his letter that “The document is very good and completely explains the meaning of chapter VIII of Amoris Laetitia. There are no other interpretations.”
In August of this year, this letter was added to the Vatican website as a papal document available for public reference. Concerns were raised that what had previously been viewed as only private correspondence — and thus, completely outside the realm of papal magisterium — was being given the appearance of an official papal act. [https://catholictruthscotland.com/2017/12/03/concern-over-pope-francis-grows-schism-looms-cardinals-must-act/]
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
What is needed right now to save America from those who would destroy our God given rights is to pray at home or in church and if called to even go to outdoor prayer rallies in every town and city across the United States for God to pour out His grace on our country to save us from those who would use a Reichstag Fire-like incident to destroy our civil liberties. [Is the DC Capitol Incident Comparable to the Nazi Reichstag Fire Incident where the German People Lost their Civil Liberties?: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/is-dc-capital-incident-comparable-to.html?m=1 and Epoch Times Show Crossroads on Capitol Incident: “Anitfa ‘Agent Provocateurs‘”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1]
Pray an Our Father now for the grace to know God’s Will and to do it.
Pray an Our Father now for America.
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
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Does Pope Benedict think the Francis Novus Ordo Mass is a “Fabrication”? & Did “Padre Pio” Actor Shia “Insinuate… that Novus Ordo Priests are like Car Salesmen”?
Actor Shia LaBeouf who plays Padre Pio in a new movie told Bishop Robert Barron on his YouTube show on August 25 that the “Latin Mass affects me deeply … because it feels like they’re not selling me a car”:
The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI has called the novus ordo is a “fabrication” and a “banal on-the-spot product”. [https://mobile.twitter.com/highlander_irl/status/1563030109266665472]
Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia.
Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.
Francis Notes:
– Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church in such a situation:
“[T]he Pope… WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See.” (The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
– If Francis betrays Benedict XVI & the”Roman Rite Communities” like he betrayed the Chinese Catholics we must respond like St. Athanasius, the Saintly English Bishop Robert Grosseteste & “Eminent Canonists and Theologians” by “Resist[ing]” him: https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/12/if-francis-betrays-benedict-xvi.html
– LifeSiteNews, “Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers,” December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows “sexually active adulterous couples facing ‘complex circumstances’ to ‘access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'”
– On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
“The AAS statement… establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense.”
– On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
“Francis’ heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents.”
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
What is needed right now to save America from those who would destroy our God given rights is to pray at home or in church and if called to even go to outdoor prayer rallies in every town and city across the United States for God to pour out His grace on our country to save us from those who would use a Reichstag Fire-like incident to destroy our civil liberties. [Is the DC Capitol Incident Comparable to the Nazi Reichstag Fire Incident where the German People Lost their Civil Liberties?: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/is-dc-capital-incident-comparable-to.html?m=1 and Epoch Times Show Crossroads on Capitol Incident: “Anitfa ‘Agent Provocateurs‘”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1]
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Fr. Z, Fr. John Zuhlsorf, in his post “What’s the truth about SSPX?” gave a strong defense of the Society of St. Puis X against apparently Francis traditionalists… who asked him:
ABYSSUS ABYSSUM INVOCAT / DEEP CALLS TO DEEP 
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