Monday, April 20, 2015
Catholic Relief Services VP - A Flagrant Sodomite
The Facebook and Linkedin accounts are deactivated as of today. Presumably that was done in a lame attempt at damage control. It appears that he hasn't completely cleaned up his Twitter account. (UPDATE! That's gone, too!) We see that he is following both Michelle and Barack Obama as well as Ellen Degeneres.
At any rate, given his rather high-profile flaunting of his mortal sin, no reasonable person can gainsay that Estridge's objectively sinful status wasn't known by the higher-ups inside the Catholic Relief Services. For over two years, Catholic Relief Services - the same that pretends to uphold Catholic moral teachings - has harbored within its ranks of power a known sodomite. If the CRS directors have allowed this to fester in their midst for over two years, what does that say about their own loyalty to the Catholic Church and to Jesus Christ Himself?
Will John Rivera (or whoever now occupies the none-too-enviable position of CRS Director of Communications) go all-out into damage control mode as he tried to do three years ago (and miserably flopped)? What will the leadership of CRS do about this highly-placed official who is flouting Church teaching and contributing to the ongoing lie that is its "mission statement"? I think we all know the answer to that - zilch, zip, nadda!
I think we also have a glimpse regarding the reason why the upcoming March for Marriage on Saturday the 25th has received so little support from the two Maryland archdiocese. Yes, a few parishes have heroically promoted this march, but they are few and far between.
It is my opinion that the Catholic Relief Services is jaded beyond repair. In fact, the same can be said for the entire United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The whole apparatus needs to be dismantled. In the meantime, do not drop one red cent into any collection that is held for the benefit of CCHD, CRS, Catholic Charities or anything masterminded by the USCCB.
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Catholic Relief Services Arrogantly Defends Its Disregard For Jesus' Moral Teachings
In typical progressive fashion, Woo describes as "attacks" our discovery and exposure of CRS derelictions of Catholic duty. When queried about CRS's squalid association with anti-life organizations, she replie (with my comments in red):
"The type of attacks come in three forms. The first is: Why do we work with other organizations which don’t follow Catholic Church teaching?… So when we have responsibilities for these types of activities, for the scope of these activities, if we don’t reach out to other partners who have coverage of those territories, we are basically leaving a big swath of population unattended. … If we don’t collaborate with other agencies, we are leaving those people without any hospitals or clinics or access to those medications" Our first concern as Catholics is to save souls. Any other concern, while important, is secondary and ancillary to the overriding concern for eternal salvation. There is no indication of any such concern in Woo's remarks. The activities of CRS, in legitimizing contraception and abortion, may well be leading souls to eternal damnation.
In dealing with the CRS vice president who is in a "same-sex marriage", Woo trips over herself during her verbal tap-dance. "CRS has a senior person who is in a civil gay marriage, and the question is, Is that a violation of Church teaching? I just want to say we are working through this." As I said in a previous post, if the person was found to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan, there would be no "question", no "working through this". He would have been out on his ear in a heartbeat. If Woo really has to ask if it's a violation of Church teaching, she should be handed her pink slip as well.
Catholic Relief Services is showing itself to be a thinly-disguised front group for all sorts of progressives. It can be argued that CRS is merely the international version of Catholic Campaign for Human Development. Both are under the direct control of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The whole apparatus is showing itself to be quite the devil's liar and should be unceremoniously scuttled at once.
Friday, March 31, 2017
Why Catholic Conferences May Be Mum Regarding Planned Parenthood Funding
A little "aside" for my #nevertrump friends. You do realize that if you had your way, states would still be forced to fund Planned Parenthood, don't you? Deep down in your hearts, aren't you glad you didn't have your way? Let this be a lesson to you. As additional examples arise, I will be pointing these out to you!
Getting back to the main point of this post, state governments now take back control of their Title X funds and they now have the option of denying funding to the largest baby-killing racket in the nation, if not the world. I hope many states seize that opportunity. Alas, other states are infested with anti-life liberals and progressives. My home state of Maryland is one of them. I wrote last Saturday of the effort underway by pro-baby-murder politicians to fund Planned Parenthood. In that piece I also wrote of the de facto cooperation with these progressives that the Maryland Catholic Conference intends to give them. I speculated as to the cause(s) of the MCC's despicable stance, wondering if funding for some of their pet "social justice" goals hung in the balance. The video released by Michael Hichborn now causes me to fear that the reasons for MCC's lack of actions may be even more perfidious.
Deal Hudson had an article published today in Newsmax entitled "Catholic Bishops Caught In Conflict Of Interest Over Immigration". In the fifth paragraph down, we see that Catholic Relief Services received over $400 million from the Obama administration in 2016. In Obama's first year, he increased CRS funding by over $120 million. Hudson also mentioned that Planned Parenthood received approximately the same amount from the feds; he mentions it as a coincidence but maybe it's more than a mere coincidence.
So what does Catholic Relief Services have to do with Maryland Catholic Conference? Well, they're both headquartered in Maryland. CRS is directly controlled by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the MCC takes many leads from the USCCB. Six years ago, the USCCB did lobby for the defunding of Planned Parenthood. This month it was utterly silent regarding H.J. Resolution 43. Why the change?
The video below is that of Michael Hichborn giving a talk at the "Bringing America Back To Life" summit held in Cleveland earlier this month. The title of his talk is "Catholic Charities And The Culture Of Death". He details how Catholic "social justice" groups (under control by the US hierarchy) have compromised their missions to the point of participating actively in the Culture of Death. He focuses heavily on Catholic Relief Services. Pay very close attention to the 15:55 mark, when he reveals how CRS actually partnered with Planned Parenthood. Just how close have the tentacles of Planned Parenthood gotten into the inner sanctums of the US Catholic establishment? Can this be some explanation of the inaction of both the USCCB and MCC regarding the various battles over Planned Parenthood funding? To my readers: what, if anything, have your state Catholic Conferences been doing about your states' funding of Planned Parenthood? Please advise via the comments box.
If you have one of those lenten rice bowl things and have been dropping change into it, please empty it and give that money to an organization that is fighting for the Culture of Life.
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Boycott The Catholic Relief Services Collection This Weekend
In most dioceses across the nation, the second collection at Masses on Sunday March 30 will benefit the Catholic Relief Services. Locally, both the Archdiocese of Baltimore and the Archdiocese of Washington will be collecting for the CRS. The CRS is under the direct control of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
As you can see by my link, there have been multiple moral failings of the Catholic Relief Services, such as direct distributions of condoms, employing an openly "gay-married" man as a vice president, creating a "health network" in Africa that includes abortionists, etc.
Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) exposed the fact that CRS has been heavily funded by USAid. Fortunately that is now drying up. The CRS now needs to go away completely. Please do NOT give them one red cent of your money this coming weekend.
Lepanto Institute has done much work in exposing the Catholic Relief Services. Additionally, they have materials that you can place in the second collection when that basket is placed in front of your face.
Let's allow this faux-Catholic cabal to die its ignominious death.
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
CRS In Damage Control Mode Now That It Is Known They've Been Harboring A Sodomite
True to typical CRS fashion, their higher-ups are in full-scale damage control mode. From the National Catholic Register we read this statement from Tom Price, CRS Senior Manager for Communications: "Rick Estridge has served CRS for 16 years and currently holds the position as our vice president of overseas finance. Rick is in a same-sex civil marriage. At this point, we are in deliberations on this matter."
The "damage control" might be backfiring for that statement itself causes red flags to fly. To wit:
- I stated in my post yesterday that it is unreasonable to believe that CRS higher-ups, from Carolyn Woo up to the board of directors, did not know all along that Estridge was living in a state of objective mortal sin for at least two years, given his public profiles on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter. As of yesterday, those public profiles were gone as a part of the damage control effort, but prior to that the were available for all to behold. How can it be that Catholic Relief Services, a self-described adherent to Catholic moral teaching, harbored a sodomite in its midst let alone promoting him?
- Now they are "in deliberations!" Just how long does it take to be "in deliberation"? Let's put that question another way: how long would they have to be "in deliberation" if they had discovered that Estridge (or another CRS employee) was a card-carrying member of the Ku Klux Klan? I'd bet that in that case, the "deliberation" time would have been a lot less than the time that Bishop Bootkowski et al spent in firing Patricia Jannuzzi or the time that the Archdiocese of Washington spent in kicking Father Guarnizo to the curb - and those were lightening-fast "deliberations"! Mr. Price, why the delay?
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
BREAKING - Catholic Relief Service VP In Same Sex Marriage Resigns
Lepanto Institute posted an announcement released by the Catholic Relief Services this afternoon. Rick Estridge, the Vice President for Overseas Finance at the CRS - and a sodomite in a "same-sex marriage" has resigned his position. Lepanto has some worthwhile discussion on the matter, as CRS heaped praise upon Estridge as they announced the retirement.
One might ask if CRS's announcement would have sung Estridge's praise had he been a white supremist or involved in drug trafficking. We think not. Moreover, this resignation would not have taken over a month to have happened. It would have happened in mid-April when Lepanto first broke the story, at the latest. Ideally it would have happened much sooner than that, when CRS officials learned of Estridge's perversion and disregard for God's laws concerning marriage.
Please don't take this as a sign that Catholic Relief Services has finally seen the light. They're in damage-control mode here. They must have seen a drop in their donations; perhaps the May in-pew collection suffered as a result of their latest scandal. The number of scandals at Catholic Relief Services is legion, and that number will increase since it's merely an arm of the likewise ill-begotten United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. These beasts need to be starved; donote not one penny to them.
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Catholic Relief Services - Proud To Be Ashamed Of The Gospel
Therefore, it surprises me not in the least to hear that Bill O'Keefe, CRS's vice president for government relations and advocacy, told CNN that "..we do not attempt to engage in discussions of faith. We're proud of that..." Father Shenan Boquet, president of Human Life International, chided CRS for not sharing the Gospel while praising them for "serving the poor and marginalized". I believe Father was being way too generous to CRS; whatever else "serving the poor" may mean, it does not mean inducing them to practice contraception.
Now notice this lovely statement came from their vp for government relations. Most telling! When one considers that CRS receives over 60% of its funding from USAID, we can see how O'Keefe might have wanted to keep his sugar-daddies happy. Considering how little of the Faith CRS knows or believes, it might be just as well they keep their yaps shut, lest they spew forth all manners of heresies.
Catholic Relief Services, like its parent organization, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, is beyond repair. It's time to dismantle the whole sorry mess.
Sunday, May 1, 2016
Boycott The Upcoming Collection For Catholic Relief Services - Say #no2crs
- Funding pro-abortion organizations in Mexico
- Employing as a vice president a flagrant sodomite marriage-mangler
- Distributing abortifacients in Madagascar - not merely funding but distributing themselves
- Accepting funding from notorious progressive George Soros
- Joining forces with CARE, MEDICAM, and CORE to foist eugenics on developing third-world countries
- Accepting massive amounts in federal grants - notably from USAID - with all strings attached
Saturday, November 7, 2015
Catholic Standard Follies - Fawning Over Female Catholic Dissidents
Now one might wonder why I'm pointing fingers at the Catholic Standard since it was Georgetown University that hosted this gab-fest. It's quite simple. The article is written by Mark Zimmerman, editor of the Standard, and he disingenuously omits key details about these women - details that would make plain to everyone that these gals aren't qualified to advise children in tying their shoelaces much less Catholic leaders in how to lead. But not to worry! I and others have already supplied many of these details. I'll recap below:
- Sister Carol Keehan - Without her shilling for Obamacare in 2010, that deadly piece of legislation might never have been passed. As a result, religious sisters are compelled to fund contraception and thousands (if not millions) of babies will have Keehan to thank for their murders. Besides that, she's got quite a rap sheet. FYI, when Keehan gave the commencement address at Gonzaga's commencement in June 2010, we were there!
- Carolyn Woo - She is president of the scandal-ridden Catholic Relief Services. The Lepanto Institute has exposed much corruption within the organization, such as their direct involvement in the distribution of abortifacients and of retaining as one of their vice presidents a man who is in a same-sex marriage (and quite unabashed about it). No truly Catholic organization wants to emulate this woman's habits.
- Sister Donna Markham - See this. She too jumped on the Obamacare bandwagon in 2010. She also did a stint as president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. When the Vatican launched its investigation into the LCWR, well, let's just say she had a lapse in memory when it came to her religious vows.
- John Carr - He comes with his most unimpressive baggage pertaining to his promotion of progressivism while occupying positions within the USCCB.
Much of what was uttered at that meeting was pure drivel and a good bit of that was a feeble attempt at "damage control" to try to dismiss the evidence of their malfeasances as reported by this blog and discovered by Lepanto, Church Militant and other organizations.
I will focus on one key admission by Markham as she pouted over the chastisement that Catholic Charities received for accepting government funding. She mentioned that they receive approximately 64% of their budget from government grants. Now what are the sources of these "government grants"? Hint - stare into the mirror and you'll see one source, albeit an unwilling one. It comes from our tax dollars. Ladies and gentlemen, when they accept these tax dollars, they accept money that has been extorted from each and every one of us. The feds have no authority under the US Constitution to engage in this de facto wealth redistribution; they also have no basis in morality to do so, either. In accepting such funds, Catholic Charities benefits from such extortion and can be said to be contributing to the wrong-doing of the feds.
It can also be said that Catholic Charities is accepting bribes from the feds. Might this be why they are so quick to jump on board with every progressive effort in which the feds engage? In the past, Catholic Charities has been known to: allow an employee to take a client for an abortion appointment, conduct "needle exchange programs", take millions of dollars to facilitate illegal immigration, smooching up to pro-aborts in high places, etc.
The Baltimore Catechism teaches us that Jesus Christ founded the Church to help people get to heaven. Therefore the chief purpose of every endeavor of the Church must be oriented to that end. Not once in that article did I see the word "heaven" mentioned. Other words that I failed to notice include "soul", "hell", "sacrament", "eternal life". You get the drift.
This panel presented a picture on how NOT to lead any Church endeavor.
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Catholic Relief Service Lays Off 50% Of Its Workforce In Response To USAID Cutbacks
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Archbishop Vigano's Open Letter Regarding President Trump's Election
His Excellency Archbishop Vigano released an open letter on the occasion of President Trump's election. I won't say too much about it, and will only mention that he echoes what many of us believe about the significance of this opportunity. Please take the time to read it. It now follows.
Mons. Carlo
Maria Viganò
Contra
spiritualia nequitiæ
Letter to American Catholics
after the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump
Quoniam non est nobis colluctatio
adversus carnem et sanguinem,
sed adversus principes, et potestates,
adversus mundi rectores tenebrarum harum,
contra spiritualia nequitiæ, in cælestibus.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Eph 6:12
The recent inauguration of President Donald J. Trump, after
his landslide victory in the Presidential Election, is a reason for great hope
for every American Catholic, but also for all those Catholics in Western
nations, which today have been subjected to the globalist coup, who are aware
of the need and also the concrete possibility of rebelling against the tyranny
of the New World Order – always with the help of God – before it is too late.
What the deep state prevented with electoral fraud
in 2020 has now been achieved: for the first time after years of woke madness,
a President of the United States can carry out the program for which he was
elected, restoring those principles of natural law that are the basis of civil
life and a well-ordered society. It is the revolution of common sense, or,
better said, the counter-revolution of common sense.
The Conflict of Interest of Trump’s Opponents
But if Christians and all people of good will almost seem to
breathe a collective sigh of relief as they see the President’s campaign
promises materialize day after day – starting with the abolition of LGBTQ+ and
gender indoctrination in schools – it should not be surprising that the
election of Donald Trump represents a real disaster for many others. Among
these there are certainly characters with more than questionable conduct –
exponents of the pharmaceutical, food, and military lobbies, tycoons of high finance
or international organizations – who have benefited and still continue to do so
in terms of power and money from woke ideology, the Agenda
2030, NetZero, pandemics, smart cities and uncontrolled
immigration.
Individuals whom no one has elected, and who have no right
to interfere in the government of nations other than the blackmail power they
have acquired over their servants and the corruption of their accomplices, have
created false emergencies – health emergencies; war
emergencies; economic, climatic, and social emergencies – in order to be able
to impose their solutions, based on false data.
Many of you have realized the incongruity of the responses that governments and
international organizations gave to certain events: for example, because of the
alleged causal relationship between the percentage of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere and alleged global warming (false premise) and the supposedly
consequent need to reduce its presence in the atmosphere (false objective),
draconian measures have been applied in the Western nations to reduce the
emission of CO2 (false solution).
The True Purpose of “Emergencies”
This apparent inconsistency is due to a fact that is slowly
beginning to be understood by more and more people: the ultimate
purpose of all these so-called emergencies is to justify the adoption of
social, economic, food, and health policies which are intended to invariably
lead to a drastic reduction in the world population. This is the declared
goal of the followers of the World Economic Forum in Davos headed by Klaus
Schwab. It does not matter if the population dies from cancers induced by
vaccines, from poisons added to food or sprayed from the sky, from harmful
substances released into the water, from sterility psychologically induced by
LGBTQ+ ideology or surgically from gender transition, from poverty caused by
rising inflation, from wars, or from the violence and crimes of illegal
immigrants. The final result corresponds to a precise neo-Malthusian
project, which Bill Gates and other self-styled “philanthropists” pursue as
the main objective of their companies and foundations.
It is no mystery that private supranational
organizations such as the UN, WHO, WEF, World Bank, European Central Bank, and
International Monetary Fund answer to a board of directors, whose members are
all convinced supporters of demographic decline and the need to replace national
sovereignty with the New World Order.
It is also no mystery that there are enormous conflicts of
interest in the public sector as well, deriving from the lobbying activity of
multinational corporations or other bodies that interfere in the government of
nations. Members of the United States Congress receive large sums of money from
multinational corporations in exchange for the approval of laws that benefit
them: this applies to the military, pharmaceutical, agri-food and technology
industries. Without these undue and subversive interferences, we would never
have had the Covid pandemic, the bird flu scare, electric cars, the wars in
Ukraine and in the Middle East, synthetic meat, flour made from insects, and
geoengineering. All of these “emergencies” have as their immediate purpose the
enrichment of specific financial lobbies which are often part of the same
investment funds.
Two Subversive Entities
Among the entities that support the globalist agenda for the
profits they derive from it in terms of power and money is the deep
state, made up of those apparatuses that have embedded themselves
within the government and that determine its political action and choices,
regardless of the color of the various alternating administrations, acting for
their own interests against those of the citizens they claim to serve.
However, there is also what I myself have called the deep
church, which is similarly composed of exponents of the Catholic
Hierarchy, who after decades of progressive infiltration and occupation have
come to take full control of the Catholic Church, along with Jorge Mario
Bergoglio. These fifth columns of the globalist elite use their authority for
the interests of third parties, in opposition to the glory of God, the honor of
the Church, and the good of souls.
These two subversive entities – deep state and deep
church, as I recalled in my first Open Letter to President Trump in 2020 (here) – are mirror images
and complementary: their members are traitors in the service of illegitimate
powers, which we have seen acting in a coordinated way during the pandemic
farce, with “green fraud” and trafficking in illegal immigrants.
American citizens and faithful Catholics have now understood that the serious
social, economic, and religious crisis of the nation has been caused and
prepared from afar by the coup of these forces subverting legitimate authority,
one in the civil sphere and the other in the religious sphere. Americans have
also come to understand that there is a huge difference between the refugee
fleeing persecution and an organized mass of adult men of military age,
transferred in a systematic way within national borders, who effectively
constitute in a contingent of enemy soldiers and a potential threat to national
security and the safety of citizens.
The Complicity of the Deep State with the Deep Church
The proof of the complicity between the deep state and
the deep church is given not only by the fact that both
support the programmatic points of the Agenda 2030 because
they derive an immediate advantage from them, but also by their mutual
unwillingness to accept the reality that a legitimately elected President now
desires to concretely implement the commitments he made during his electoral
campaign. Their resistance is due to the fact that Trump’s initiatives seek to
put an end to the network of interests and profits that they have fraudulently
constructed in recent years. It is no mystery that the United States Conference
of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has never – and I repeat: never –
raised a penny to fight abortion, but rather has funded with tens of millions
of dollars associations that adhere to the Catholic Campaign for Human
Development and promote abortion, contraception, and homosexuality.
Nor does the USCCB have any qualms about receiving subsidies from the
Department of the Treasury for its management of illegal immigration, as its
budgets, which are public, prove. And it should be remembered that, in addition
to government funds, the USCCB receives funding from institutions and private
foundations for the same purposes.
If in fact, as some would have us believe, the Bergoglian
Hierarchy truly had at heart the salvation of souls – of all souls,
both the souls of US citizens and the souls of the migrants who arrive on US
territory – it should be doing what the Catholic Church has already very
successfully undertaken in the past: providing for the evangelization,
conversion, and religious instruction of these souls. I am thinking, for
example, of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, the foundress of the Missionaries of
the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the first American citizen to be raised to the
honors of the altar. Her work of assistance to immigrants (initially Italians)
expanded to include all those in need. She built churches, kindergartens,
schools, boarding schools for female students, orphanages, retirement homes for
lay and religious women, hospitals, and colleges thanks to the generosity of Catholics.
Her example of a true apostolic and missionary spirit has been renounced,
and cancel culture, so much in vogue today in the Bergoglian
Church, is almost ashamed of the charitable work undertaken by her and other
Saints.
The Lucrative Business of Immigration
What is happening today is precisely the opposite of the
Church’s true mission: the Hierarchy is only concerned with grabbing government
funding for the management of “welcoming immigrants” at taxpayer expense or for
the provision of morally unacceptable treatments in so-called Catholic
hospitals, even including mutilation for gender transition. In America there
are hundreds of nominally “Catholic” institutions that receive public money to
provide services that are entirely incompatible with the Catholic Magisterium.
By promoting the indiscriminate “welcoming” of immigrants,
the Bishops show that they care more about the profits of the illegal immigrant
business rather than the salvation of souls, the authentic social redemption of
the weakest, or the protection of the flock entrusted to them. And here it is
appropriate to remind the Catholic faithful that the Bishops have first of all
a moral responsibility before God and the Church for the sheep of their flock,
whom they have a duty to protect from the attacks of wolves.
The complicity of so many of the Bishops of the United
States in the present crisis derives from their total concurrence with
globalism, whose soul is intrinsically antichristic and therefore
anti-religious and anti-human. This complicity is expressed not only in the
promotion of the indiscriminate reception of illegal immigrants, but also in
the other “sustainable goals” of the Agenda 2030,
including LGBTQ+ ideology and gender theory: in the United States, according to
current data, there are over 150 Catholic hospitals that offer “treatment” –
that is, genital mutilation – for gender transition.
It should not surprise anyone that the American economist
Mariana Mazzucato, a member of the World Economic Forum (here)
with ties to the Club of Rome (here), has been
appointed by Bergoglio to the Pontifical Academy for Life despite being an
atheist and pro-abortionist. In November 2024 she declared at the Annual
Meeting of Davos that, since the elite has not managed to vaccinate the entire
world population through the pandemic crisis, it is necessary to focus on a
less abstract strategy such as a water crisis (here).
The Biden Administration, and more generally all recent US
administrations, both those led by Democrats and those led by neo-cons – have
distinguished themselves for having financed abortion, genital mutilation even
of young adolescents, genetic manipulation, surrogate motherhood, and
euthanasia with public funding. Although the Catholic Church condemns these
aberrations without exception, the silence of the American Bishops has
been deafening. This makes it clear that there is nothing genuinely Catholic about
the “pastoral” action of these Bishops, and that the only reason that leads the
Episcopate to support a government is the advantage it can derive from it in
terms of power and money; even if this means abandoning millions of human
beings who have been brought into the United States by criminal organizations
in order to then be exploited as slaves in humiliating working conditions, or
forced into prostitution (including minors), drug dealing, and the black market
of organ predation.
This mass of victims of elite cynicism weighs on the
conscience of many rulers and many Bishops, and the new Trump Administration
gives hope that a wise regulation of the migration phenomenon can largely solve
the problems of security and crime that all citizens have come to know only too
well.
The Bergoglian Church is an Accomplice in Ethnic
Replacement
In this context, it is dismaying to hear the words of Jorge
Mario Bergoglio, who recently stated – referring to Italy but speaking about
the entire Western world – that, in the face of demographic decline, the only
workable solution is to import immigrants, thus concretizing the ethnic
replacement theorized by Kalergi, the pan-European. This proposal is
also widely reflected in similar requests from multinational corporations, who
see the importation of immigrants as a way to drastically reduce the cost of
labor to the detriment of native workers, further increasing their profits. As
we can see, Authority is now completely subservient to the diktats of
the elite, with the complicity of the mainstream media, even
if this leads to a worsening of the social and working conditions of the
population. Or rather, it is precisely for this reason, since, as I
said, the ultimate goal of this lobby is the extermination of a sizeable
portion of the human race.
The Numbers Speak for Themselves
Finally, we cannot forget that the budgets of US Dioceses,
already largely compromised by the millions of dollars doled out in
compensation for the cases of sexual abuse, and also depleted by the
abandonment of an ever-increasing number of faithful from the official Catholic
Church because of its betrayal of its nature and mission, have their main
income from government funds given to them for the purpose of “welcoming”
immigrants. Along with Catholic charitable organizations, the sum received by
the American Catholic Church for “welcoming” immigrants amounts to over 2.4
billion dollars (here),
an exorbitant figure that highlights at least a serious conflict of interest
and that does not solve the social problems that derive from it in the least.
And it is gravely detrimental to the entire Catholic Church to have Bishops for
whom the maintenance of power renders irrelevant the link between the presence
of thousands of irregular minors on American soil and their exploitation by
perverts, pedophiles, organ harvesters, and criminals of all kinds. President
Trump and Vice President Vance are demonstrating that they know how
to protect the little ones of whom the Gospel speaks (Mt 18:6), contrary to
what the American Bishops and Bergoglio himself have done thus far.
The (Counter) Revolution of Common Sense
President Trump’s Executive Orders can only be hailed as
absolutely supported by every Catholic worthy of the name, just as Catholics
ought to praise the support shown by the President and Vice President for
the March for Life, which the previous Administration officially
opposed, even to the point of arresting those who prayed silently near abortion
clinics. Donald Trump’s Presidential Pardon for those who had been so
imprisoned confirms a reversal of the trend with respect to the “Catholic” Joe
Biden, just as the end of public funding for the abortion multinational
corporation Planned Parenthood and the providential cuts in disbursements
to self-styled Catholic organizations that favor illegal immigration represent
a radical change.
The statement that there are only two sexes, in its banal
obviousness, is now a revolutionary proposition – what President Trump calls
the “revolution of common sense” – yet Bishops, priests, and nuns deplore
his action as “divisive.” But if anyone is sowing division, it is precisely
those who are feeding the monstrosities of woke ideology
against the mandate they have received from Christ: first and foremost, Jorge
Mario Bergoglio.
The Role of the USCCB
Of course, it is not surprising that McCarrick’s heirs, who
have been promoted by Bergoglio to the top of the Catholic Church in the United
States, are so prompt to deplore the policies of canceling laws in favor
of woke ideology, starting with those who denied the binary
complementarity of the sexes and recognized gender dysphoria even in minors:
their subordination to the LGBTQ+ lobby is widely proven, both institutionally
and personally. And it is well known – as Dr. Taylor Marshall has pointed out –
that almost all Catholic Bishops in the United States have been vetted and
nominated by the previous three liberal cardinals in Washington, DC (the
pedophile homosexuals McCarrick, Wuerl, and Gregory), and then appointed directly
by Bergoglio. Marshall rightly comments: “Company men follow company orders.
They all owe each other” (here).
These serious deviations within the Clergy and Bishops will have to be the
subject of a great operation of removal and reform in due time, because they
constitute a subversive element within the ecclesial structure that is
irreconcilable with the Faith and Morals of the Catholic Church. The Bishops’
Conferences themselves – a spurious body of parliamentarian matrix that has no
legitimacy from a doctrinal and canonical point of view – represent an
independent entity that have been transformed over the past few decades into
political lobbying groups by the ultra-progressive Bishops. The proposal to
revoke the USCCB’s tax-exempt status (here) should
therefore be widely supported by faithful Catholics. And of course Bergoglio
should be the first to support this salutary initiative, since, after all, he
desires a “poor church for the poor . . . .”
Catholics also have the possibility of re-directing their
offerings and donations to those ecclesial realities that remain faithful to
Tradition and the perennial Magisterium of the Catholic Church, withholding
them from the Dioceses whose Bishops impose doctrinal errors and moral
deviations.
The Government can also intervene, without violating the
freedom of the Church, in order to bring to light and severely punish the
scandals and cover-ups that have not prevented certain Prelates from being
appointed to the head of the most prestigious Dioceses in America, not
least the newly-appointed Archbishop of Washington, Robert McElroy. Many
Catholics expect justice to be done, first of all out of respect for the
victims who have thus far been abandoned by both civil power and ecclesiastical
authority (here).
The Withdrawal from the WHO
Catholics are in absolute agreement with Donald Trump and
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., about the exit of the United States of America from the
World Health Organization that was accomplished by a recent Executive Order.
The policies promoted by this private organization – financed mainly by
pharmaceutical companies and Bill Gates – for so-called “reproductive health”
and for “gender equality,” along with claims about the supposed “sexual rights
of minors” and disturbing initiatives to decriminalize pedophilia, cannot be
accepted or even financed by American Catholics. The same applies to the global
“health policies” which the WHO would like to impose on sovereign nations.
The Woke Church
American Catholics have the right to demand that their
Bishops behave in accordance with the perennial Magisterium of the Catholic
Church, and that they not lend any moral or material support to what is
repugnant to the Natural Law even before it is a violation of the Commandments
of God. It is therefore outrageous and scandalous to learn from the Davos Forum
that important LGBTQ+ organizations consider Jorge Mario Bergoglio a precious
ally in achieving their agenda of normalizing sexual perversions (here).
In the civil sphere, the emissaries of the deep
state have seriously compromised citizens’ trust in institutions and
governments, and it will be up to President Trump and his Administration to
restore the trust and respect that previous governments (whether Democrat or
RINO) have deliberately undermined in recent years. Similarly, the deep
church has heavily delegitimized the faithful’s trust in the Catholic
Church and her Hierarchy, but we do not know when the occupation of these
heretics and perverts will end. For this reason, it is understandable that
Catholics feel somehow more protected by a Protestant President than by their
“pope” – who is not Catholic and perhaps not even Christian – in the fight the
President is leading against the deep state and the globalist
Left. Indeed, they have a “pope” who perfectly embodies the one who was
intended to replace Benedict XVI, as revealed by John Podesta’s emails
published by Wikileaks in 2016. And to close the magic circle of vices and
perversions, it is enough to remember that among Podesta’s closest
collaborators is Slade Sohmer, who was arrested in 2023 for pedophilia and
child pornography: we are talking about an important collaborator of Hillary
Clinton and John Podesta, linked to the world of Broadway and cinema, who had
worked in the effort to debunk the infamous Pizzagate, that is, the
network of vile complicities and horrendous crimes against minors that revolves
around the international deep state. How can we think that
characters organic to the system of corruption can condemn the vices and crimes
that involve them first and foremost? And how can we be surprised by the
hysterical reaction of certain Bishops and Cardinals, now that they are facing
the removal of a trough from which they have continually feasted?
The Real Battle Begins Now
It is difficult to predict how these subversive forces will
react to the organized and incisive action of the Trump Administration.
Nonetheless, it is likely that the colossal economic interests and the existing
network of corruption will lead to a clash between opposing and irreconcilable
forces. In this battle, which Saint Paul rightly points out is pre-eminently a
spiritual one, the role of Catholics will be decisive, and it will be a battle
fought with no holds barred. If the deep state went to the
point of subverting the results of the 2020 Presidential Election and the deep
church went to the point of placing on the Chair of Peter its own
emissary who would embody the woke ideals of a “progressive
spring” welcomed by the deep state, it is unlikely that they will
give up the power they have acquired just because the majority of Americans now
understand the threat that they represent. Indeed, the increasingly widespread
awareness of the coup perpetrated by the globalist elite and the end of the
censorship system of some social platforms make this redde rationem [give
an account] inevitable. And along with the collapse of the woke cabal
in the United States, the subversive lobby of other nations will also begin to
fall like dominos, beginning in Europe.
The meaning of the word apocalypse is “unveiling”,
“revelation.” In these epochal times, the forces of Good must finally unite to
form a common front against the forces of Evil, which have always been
organized and very powerful. And Catholics must understand that, as Sacred
Scripture and the Magisterium of the Church teach, as the end times approach,
there will be a clash that will make the two sides become clear. This will be
the true unveiling, the true revelation, as announced to the Blessed Virgin Mary
by the prophet Simeon: Behold, this child is destined for the fall and
rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against […], so
that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed (Lk 2:34-35). This
unveiling will show us the true intentions hidden behind the emergencies and
crises speciously planned by the globalist elite and ratified by the Bergoglian
church, and will force us to side either with Christ or against Christ, since no
one can serve two masters; […] you cannot serve both God and
money (Mt 6:24). And money, as we see, is truly Satan’s manure, the
fuel that feeds the infernal machine of the New World Order.
Authority on earth, both temporal and spiritual, belongs
exclusively to Our Lord Jesus Christ, King and High Priest. All
authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me (Mt 28:18), said
Our Lord. He grants it in a vicarious form to His representatives, so that they
may exercise it within the well-defined boundaries of Good and Truth. If this
vicarious authority, whether temporal or spiritual, is exercised against the
purpose for which it was willed by God, it becomes illegitimate and null. For
this reason, faced with the evidence of the betrayal of those who hold
Authority on earth, all Catholics must refuse to give obedience to one who was
the first to disobey Christ; nor must they attribute to Holy Church the faults,
however horrible, of her unworthy Ministers. Rather, we must pray that the Lord
will guard His sheep and punish the wolves who are disguised as sheep. Let us
remember with sure hope the words of the Lord: These things I have
spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have
tribulation, but take courage: I have overcome the world (Jn 16:33).
Conclusion
While it is true that all salvation ultimately comes from
God, this does not mean that we may simply passively sit around waiting for
divine intervention. No, we must cooperate with God’s grace through personal
commitment, courageous testimony, and the coherent witness of our lives. Let us
therefore begin to make this counter-revolution of common sense our
own, rejecting the lies and deceptions of those who seek to subvert the very
foundations of the Natural Law after having trampled on the Divine Law. Let us
defend the family, children, and those who are weak. Let us jealously guard our
Faith, the civilization built on its foundation, and the traditions of our
fathers.
May the Most Holy Virgin of Guadalupe, Empress of the
Americas, spread Her protective mantle over all of you, dear brothers and
sisters, over President Trump and Vice President Vance, and over all those who
refuse to retreat in the face of the arrogance of the wicked. And may God bless
the United States of America.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
February 2, 2025
Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Presentation in the Temple of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Sunday, February 14, 2016
How Faithful Catholics Can Do Operation Rice Bowl - #no$2crs
The Lepanto Institute has done stellar work in exposing the malevolence of the Catholic Relief Services. They recently published a piece outlining some of their most egregious violations of Catholic moral teachings. In that post, Hichborn published a slip that can be used during CRS collection times. Please keep that page open; I'll return to it in a minute.
Hichborn didn't include every wrong of the CRS in his litany; others can be found here (and this is most likely not exhaustive either). Let me highlight a few other "lowlights" from CRS's checkered record.
- Thanks to Lepanto, we learned that a CRS vice president was "married" to his accomplice in the mortal sin of sodomy. The man made no secret of it, blasting it all over his twitter page. It was only after public scrutiny was brought to bear on the situation that the man resigned.
- In 2005, while Terri Schiavo was being deliberately starved to death in the Diocese of St Petersburg Florida, the local bishop, Robert Lynch gave thinly-veiled approval to her murderous husband to have his way with her. At the time, Bishop Lynch was chairman of the board of CRS. That brings us to the third "bullet".
- The pro-euthanasia crowd in Florida was being heavily funded by George Soros during the struggle for Terri's life. If you read the link from the second bullet, you'll see that Soros was also funding CRS (along with other progrssive "katholyc" organizations).
- Please read my anthology of prior posts and follow the links to learn more of CRS. Clearly they are utterly unworthy of one penny from faithful Catholics.
- Pick up one of those "rice bowls" from your church lobby and assemble it.
- At the bottom of the Lepanto article is a note that you can use to let CRS know why you'll not contribute.
- Place that note in your now-assembled "rice bowl". I intend to sign mine, but that's optional.
- When your parish announces that it's time to return the rice bowls to church, please do so. Yours will have the note and no money.
Monday, November 14, 2016
Lepanto Institute Speaks Truth, USCCB Shrieks In Fear Of Exposure
The CRS is under the direct control of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The USCCB is having its semi-annual meeting in Baltimore, starting today. Michael Hichborn, president of Lepanto, penned an open letter to the US bishops regarding CRS's misbehaviors. Also today Archbishop Paul Coakley, USCCB Chair, asked the prelates in attendance to pay no attention to Lepanto's hours of research and the evidence pointing towards CRS's complicity with evil. His request is itself a betrayal of fear and resentment at having the dissidence of CRS, along with the USCCB, brought into light.
LifeSiteNews has details of Carolyn Woo's sniveling reaction to Lepanto's work. I don't think she realizes what she revealed when she claimed that "original sin was kind of abstract". In her time at CRS, particularly with the cover-up of the "gay-married" CRS vice president, she betrayed an abysmal lack of basic Catholic moral teaching.
As always, the only language that gets the attention of the progressives who occupy high places in the USCCB is the language of money. Thus, in addition to prayer, we must speak that language by withholding our donations. It is not time for the annual in-pew CRS collection. However, the in-pew collection for its national counterpart, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (also under direct USCCB control) is this coming weekend. I urge all to boycott that collection this coming weekend. Here are some tools to assist you in this boycott.
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Facilitators Of Illegal Immigration Reject Catholicism For Progressivism
Suppose, for example, there was a neighborhood that was plagued by a series of house invasions that occurred when the robbers burst into homes when doors had been opened to them. A father of a family heard a knock at the door at night. He calls through the door, asking the visitors what they want, and they stated they needed help and wished to be admitted into the home. Knowing the neighborhood situation, would the father be wise to believe the visitors? Of course not. "But Jesus would welcome the stranger", our good-hearted but weak-thinking friends might chime. I for one beg to differ. Would He not approve of the father's solicitude for his family, a solicitude that is enjoined on him by the Sacrament of Matrimony and the Fourth Commandment? Just as the father of a family have to abide by his God-given priorities, so do those in civil authority. Their FIRST responsibilities are to their citizens and constituents. This is NOT rocket science! Taylor Marshall wrote a piece that is an excellent treatment of this issue, drawing on Aquinas extensively.
Today ISIS released a video that threatens more destruction in Paris and the destruction of the White House. A few days ago, the DHS confirmed that eight Syrians were taken into custody in Laredo TX. Five others were arrested in Honduras as they attempted to use stolen passports.
So now Obama wants to allow muslim Syrians into the United States. Why, then, does he refuse to allow Christian and Yazidi refugees to enter the US? His bigotry against Christians is obvious and despicable.
Too many Catholic officials, carrying on like aging hippies with stars in their eyes, steadfastly refuse to acknowledge the truth and cling to their romantized notions of the "poor immigrants" with themselves as their noble saviors. In the midst of their semi-annual meeting in Baltimore, the US bishops pompously announce their calls for de facto open borders while chiding the governors who are following the maxims of Aquinas. Not to be outdone by the USCCB, the Maryland Catholic Conference put forth this laughable press release as it appears in the Catholic Standard. A little aside. Today I did not receive my issue in the mail. I think it's fascinating that my delivery is either missed or late when one of these whoppers is published in the paper. But I digress!
Anyway, there is the typical call for "compassion" (selective compassion, since non-muslims aren't allowed admittance). The MCC goes on to tout the praises (?) of the Catholic Relief Services, saying that they have "a rich history of serving potential refuges in their native land". Really? CRS has been caught red-handed distributing condoms and abortifacients in Africa - not merely funding said distribution, but CRS personnel themselves distributing these tools of mortal sin. They retained a "same-sex married" man as a vice president, knowing of his immoral lifestyle. Read here for a whole litany of their horrid endeavors and search the Lepanto Institute for more details. Here's a snapshot of their income statement for the fiscal year ended 9/30/2014. Notice that almost half their funding came from governmental grants: that is, our tax dollars! I suppose that's the "rich" part of their history.
Then the MCC crows about Catholic Charities. Yes - same Catholic Charities that:
- Took one of their female clients to her abortion appointment
- Engaged in a "needle exchange program" for drug addicts
- Aided and abetted an illegal immigrant with an established habit of drinking and driving - until his accident in which he killed someone
- He is supposedly a poor destitute refugee. Yet he has the wherewithal to get off the boat and hightail it to Washington DC. It sounds like he had some direction and resources to make the trip. The distance between LA and DC is approximately 1100 miles. How did he afford the transportation and other travel expenses?
- Recall from earlier in this post that ISIS made threats against the White House. Did this "poor refugee" come up here to participate? Was he ordered to do so?
Monday, October 7, 2019
Action Needed In Maryland And DC
Please CALL the Crofton Library at 410-222-7915 to ask them to drop the
program and to explain why you object to it. (Call during operating
hours, which are Monday through Thursday: 9 am to 9 pm; Friday and Saturday: 9
am to 5 pm; Sundays from 1 to 5pm. Let's inundate the library with calls to
drop the program!)You can use the following simple talking points when you call:
- I don't want Drag Queen Story
Times in our Maryland libraries. Please cancel the event.
- Drag is adult entertainment, so
it’s not age or developmentally appropriate for young children, even when
it’s modified or toned down for the library setting.
- Both the Drag Queen Story Hour
website and key leaders in the movement explicitly state that that one of
the goals of the Drag Queen Story Hour is to encourage ‘gender
fluidity’ and to encourage children to question their gender. But
all the scientific studies show that gender confusion harms children
(physically, psychologically, and socially) and that the medical
interventions involved in trying to ‘transition’ from one gender to another
are seriously harmful! (So do the heartbreaking personal testimonies of
individuals who went through the process of medical transition and then
regretted it.)
- Drag Queen Story Hours put
children at risk for sexual abuse. Several sex offenders have performed at
Drag Queen Story Times, including one who had molested an 8-year old boy
and one who had abused four children, ages 4, 5, 6, and 8! There have been
numerous other reports about Drag Queen Story Hours which show them to be
unsafe, including at least two reports of inappropriate physical contact
between a drag performer and young children, a performer teaching children
a sexually suggestive dance, and other problematic activities and
concerning ‘red flags’. This is simply NOT ACCEPTABLE.
- Yes, I agree with you that our
libraries should be safe, inclusive, welcoming spaces for all, that
we should teach children to treat everyone (especially people who are
different from themselves) with respect, and that the library should host
programs representative of all members of our diverse communities. But,
for the reasons I have stated, Drag Queen Story Times are not the way to
go to accomplish these goals!
After you have called the Crofton Library, please contact the Anne Arundel County Public Library in writing to note your objections to Drag Queen Story Times and to ask them to stop offering these harmful programs. (You can copy and paste the talking points listed above, when your write, if you like).
Ways to write to the library:
- Email key library administrators including the
following: Hampton "Skip" Auld (Chief Executive Officer) - sauld@aacpl.net;
Rebecca Hass (Programming and Outreach Librarian) - rhass@aacpl.net;
Catherine Hollerbach (Chief, Public Services & Branch Management) - chollerbach@aacpl.net
; Ruby Jaby (Branch Manager, Crofton Library) - rjaby@aacpl.net
- Contact the library Board of
Trustees using this form: https://www.aacpl.net/form/contact-library-board-trustees
- Fill out the library’s Tell Us
What You Think form here: https://www.aacpl.net/tell-us
(Check the box for ‘Library Program or Event,’ then you’ll see
the space where you can write your comment.)
- Submit your comments on these
programs to the library’s Ask Us service: Go here http://askus.aacpl.net/ , then click
‘Email Your Question’. (Write your feedback in the ‘More
Detail/Explanation’ box.)
Lastly, since this issue is so important to the safety and well-being of our children, we need to have a prayerful, peaceful, law-abiding presence near and/or at the Crofton Library on the afternoon of October 26. All are welcome and encouraged to attend, and persons from the Crofton/Bowie area are especially needed. The Crofton Library is located at 1681 Riedel Road, Crofton, MD 21114.
Thus ends my friend's email blast. Already these wastes of MD taxpayers' dollars are happening. See here. Let's raise our voices in protest.
The second item regards a fundraiser being conducted by Support Our Aging Religious (SOAR). At that fundraiser, Carolyn Woo is being honored. For long-time blog readers, her name should be all-too-familiar. She was the president of Catholic Relief Services during some of its most spectacular and anti-Catholic scandals. These include the distribution of abortifacients and the harboring of a Vice President who was a sodomite in a "gay marriage". See here for details, as time prevents a rehash of the same.
A word regarding SOAR. Before they occupied their current location, they were located at 1400 Spring Street, either directly above or below the Planned Parenthood abortuary where we were present for several years until the PP closed that location. When we learned of SOAR's presence, we thought we had an ally in the struggle. Such was not to be. They refused to utter a peep regarding the child-murder center so close to them. Of the thousands of babies killed there, we can surmise that at least a few of them might have had religious vocations and might have helped care for the elderly priests and religious. By their refusal to speak up for life, SOAR helped put the elderly religious in their current predicaments.
On the SOAR site are numbers and email addresses at which you can lodge your protests. Please do so.

