In most US dioceses, the second collection at this weekend's Masses will go towards the Catholic Relief Services. This includes Baltimore and Washington DC. This blog, the Lepanto Institute, and other faithful Catholic sites have cited numerous reasons over the years how this outfit, along with the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, Catholic Charities and others have funneled millions of dollars towards progressive organizations that spread both spiritual and physical death and destruction. And no, they didn't just naively give over the cash. They were founded with the express purpose of undermining Holy Mother Church.
Below is a podcast from the Anchor Team expounding on the harm being done by CRS and others, as well as the history behind these cabals. Encourage your fellow Catholics not to put one red penny in that basket.
In the Jan 16th episode of the Anchor Team, Michael Hichborn and Dr. Janet Smith elaborated on why the appointment of Cardinal McElroy is particularly egregious to the Church at large.
Both Hichborn and Smith make a compelling case why McElroy's appointment is even more harmful than was Gregory's appointment several years ago. This is seen as a direct slap in the face of President-elect Trump, who has sworn to close the border and deport those who are here in defiance of our laws. We can also expect the gay agenda to be unhindered in the Church, as well as the baby-killing agenda and any other dissidence against the moral teachings of the Church.
I must make clear one serious difference of opinion that I have with Dr. Smith. She stated several times that those Catholics who find the truth of the Church's abysmal state hard to swallow, simply excuse themselves and focus on other matters. I hold that such is not a morally valid option for anyone who calls themselves a Catholic. Each and every one of us is part of the Church Militant. No one is exempted from the moral duty to face and confront the evil that pervades the structures of the Church. Indeed, it is this very same willful ignorance that has allowed such evil to ensconce itself in the Church unhindered. All of us, no exceptions, must thicken our skins, harden our noses, and stiffen our spines in the face of this evil. If some find their faith to be shaken by the sordid truth, may I suggest that such faith has very shaky basis and needs correction? Sometimes the boat must be rocked to see if it will withstand a storm.
We need to get serious about learning our faith, opening our eyes to current events so that we can pray and act accordingly.
I need not elaborate too much on this. Suffice it to say, though, I hope that Hichborn takes up my request to deal with the myopic and downright irresponsible pro-life leaders who are encouraging people to sit out the presidential election because Trump isn't strong on pro-life matters (that means you, Lila Rose!) I call to mind what I wrote a few days ago and in prior posts.
Hichborn debunks Harris' lies with prior clips of her stating what she denied. Please watch for yourselves.
As many of you know, the pope and cabal initiated a "Synod on Synodality". That is no joke. They are literally talking about talking. Not only that, but they've decided to extend the gabfest for who knows how long. We know from past synods what the real deal is. The New World Order wonks - and that includes Francis - have an agenda that will be realized through this. They are merely putting on this charade to give the appearance that they really care about input from real Catholics. But I suppose enough people are naive enough to believe that they aren't being played for fools, although there has been plenty of precedent for them to realize the truth.
In any event, the Vatican released a few days ago a "Working Document for the Continental Stage". What is a "continental stage"? Who knows? I doubt they know or care. As you can see, I've linked to the 45-page tome.
Michael Hichborn of Lepanto Institute worked off some time in purgatory by reading through that mess, and analyzing it for us. You might want to have the link above opened so that you can verify for your own sakes the quotes that Hichborn unpacks in his video. Make no mistake. They, from Francis on down, are trying to mutate the Church into a horrid caricature of Her true nature. The Church is the Mystical Body of Christ so she can never be destroyed, but they sure are trying. In their efforts, these progressives will endanger their own souls, plus the souls of countless others who have the "itching ears" of which Paul warned to Timothy.
So now we have this long-winded screed written by Vatican gas-bags telling us that mortal sins such as adultery, sodomy, fornication, contraception, idolatry, etc aren't really all that bad. Of course that is false and we see that this mish-mash is sinful in and of itself, as it is chock-full of cooperation with mortal sin. I cannot think of a single document that has come from the Francis mockery of a papacy that hasn't explicitly promoted mortal sin and/or heresy. If I am incorrect, please post examples in the com-boxes.
Let's not be hesitant to explain to others just why this "synod" and the countless others sure to follow are spiritual poison. Let's keep praying our rosaries.
There is some confusion and consternation regarding some translations of the consecration prayer used today by the pope. I linked to it a few days ago; obviously I linked to the English translation. The phrase in question is "Queen of Heaven". In the English, this is a perfectly fine reference to use for Our Lady. However, in the Italian, the language used by the pope in the consecration prayer earlier today, the phrase put in its place was "tiera del cielo". Roughly translated, it means "earth of heaven". Some think this may be a not-so-veiled reference to the pachamama demon-idol.
Below are two videos, one from Taylor Marshall and the other from Michael Hichborn - both men whom I respect. Marshall believes that the phrasing is, at best, suspicious. Hichborn doesn't and he cites some Byzantine liturgies as precedents for the phrase's use.
I tend to side with Marshall on this one. Even if Hichborn is correct in believing the phrase has basis for usage, it doesn't explain the variance between the English and Italian translations. "Queen" simply doesn't get translated into "earth". If anything, "Queen of Heaven" should be rendered "Regina Cielo" or something to that effect. Why the disparity in those two words? Most other languages, by the way, have the "earth of heaven" phrase as well. So again, why is the English have a phrase that is more compatible with traditional Catholicism?
Well, call me a cynic, but I believe that you are looking at one of those reasons. Blogs and other media outlets such as this, many of them in English-speaking countries, are run by us "neo-palagian rigid trads" who have obnoxious habits of calling the shots as we see them and doing so loudly and often. Perhaps the Vatican thought we'd be so ecstatic about the consecration occurring that they thought we wouldn't notice such teensy details. But, as they say, the devil is in the details - perhaps literally.
At the end of the day, though, there is hope that the consecration was done properly - not assurance but hope. Both of the men below agree that no matter what, we must still conduct ourselves according to the requests of Our Lady of Fatima. That means praying the Rosary daily and wearing the brown scapular. That means keeping the Five First Saturday devotions. That means prayer and penance. We are still in for some intense battles so stay close to Our Lord and Our Lady.
The heresy in question can be found at this Twitter link. I now post below the Anchor Team episode from Friday Feb 4. Michael Hichborn details why what the pope said about apostates - still embracing their apostacy - cannot be called "saints".
Taylor Marshall also offers his words on the matter. He also shows the man who rebuked the pope right during those heretical remarks. Echoing the prophet Samuel's words to the disobedient King Saul, he said to him "God has rejected you". Are these words prophetic? We cannot ascertain that at this time, but no doubt the pope's words were heretical.
Tonight's Anchor Team focused on Lepanto Institute's expose of some Vatican organizations that are directly and unabashedly promoting communism, witchcraft and baby-slaughter. That expose was published two days ago and is linked here. Please note that there is more commentary beneath the video.
Please watch the whole thing for there are mentioned websites with additional information. In their discussion of communism and freemasonry, Hichborn and Maughan mentioned that Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels were greatly assisted by a British masonic lodge that took them under their wings, so to speak.
Also, please pay special attention to Hichborn's observations regarding so many of the "Catholic social justice" groups. Many if not most of them are focused solely on temporal concerns without nary a thought towards eternal salvation. It is the latter that is the Church's primary mission, for one day this earth will fade and their will only be heaven and hell. A sole focus only on earthly concerns is a surefire way of careening straight towards hell. That is one key reason why the Vatican's push for the covid cootie-jab is so nefarious, in addition to the fact that usage of these concoctions constitutes cooperation with the sin of baby-murder.
They have much to say about the socialistic bent of the United Nations, certainly as manifested through its presidents throughout the decades. Recall that two years ago Pope Francis erroneously said that we have a duty to obey the United Nations. I won't say that the pope has been duped by the communists in the UN. No, he is in fact a fully-knowledgeable collaborator with them. His shilling for the Sustainable Development goals and his constant hosting of Jeffrey Sachs and Ban-Ki Moon in preparation for Laudato Si certainly is proof of that.
Yesterday was the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. This is a good time to commit - or recommit - to praying it daily, as she requested at Fatima. While prayer is essential, it is not sufficient. Please take the time to inform yourselves of the ills of our Church and world. Plan to speak against the evils that you see, even if the sources of those evils wear miters. Use your rights as US citizens to take a stand for decency; we've seen plenty of parents do precisely that at various school board meetings lately. Emulate their examples. The time is short.
A lot of calamities seem to be occurring all at once:
Draconian vaccine mandates
Papal attack against the Traditional Latin Mass
Illegal immigration run amok
Mid-east situation going south
And that's just a few problems. They all seem to be unrelated, don't they? They aren't - not by a long shot. Take a look at this from John Zmirak. For more food for thought, I post last week's Anchor Team.
The Association of United States Catholic Priests is an organized bunch of dissident priests. Michael Hichborn of Lepanto Institute and others engaged in a protest of their annual meeting in Minneapolis last week. The protest included not only a Rosary of reparation outside, but their own conference in the same hotel as the dissidents. That led to some up-close confrontation with the AUSCP's evils.
Jim Hale is a correspondent for LifeSiteNews. He filmed some of the meeting and was accosted by three priests from that bunch. One of them went so far as to assault Hale. That assailant is none other than Father Peter Daly, retired priest of the Archdiocese of Washington. It's rather a pity that Hale decided not to press charges.
So here's the clip. You'll notice that not one of these dissidents is wearing his clerics. Some find it deplorable. I for one appreciate that at least they are minimizing the disgrace to their roman collars by declining to wear them during their heretical gab-fest.
Catholic laity, again we have with these protesters some sterling examples of how to speak out for Holy Mother Church.
Below is a Lepanto Institute podcast, wherein Michael Hichborn and Jim Maughan explain how today's calamities are most likely results, punishments if you will, for the pachamama being brought into the Vatican for idolatrous worship. They point out how spiritual and societal deterioration have accelerated since the pachamama sacrileges, most notably the corona virus, the abject dereliction of duty on the part of Catholic clergy (more on that later) and the Democratic theft of the US presidential election.
During the covid pandemic, with a few exceptions, the Catholic bishops all over the world - and yes, that includes the pope - have been absolutely derelict in their duties to soldier through these conditions to provide the sacraments to the Catholics in their charge. Instead, they have shuttered the churches and hidden themselves from their flocks. Early on I thought that cowardice was the sole motivator behind their actions. While that may have been partially true, I failed to consider the other key motivator behind many of their misdeeds throughout these past few decades - money. Taylor Marshall, in this video, details how the US hierarchy collected billions of taxpayers' dollars via the PPP loans and stuffed them in their coffers. Here is the AP article to which Marshall refers. Among other things, Marshall points out how this can set a precedent for tax dollars to be diverted to churches, along the lines of Germany.
So here we see another facet of the corruption in the Church, and how it has at least been accelerated by idolatry within the walls of the Vatican. Besides prayer, we must shine the light of truth on it so at least the perpetrators will have to operate under scrutiny. Perhaps this is one reason why the pope has recently railed yet again against "fundamentalist" Catholics and the media outlets that they run. Archbishop Vigano is correct in pointing out how this pope directs harsh words against faithful, traditional Catholics while ignoring and even rewarding dissidents. If he is lashing out so harshly against us, it can only mean that the truth is being heard.
Michael Hichborn put out this video today with the title quoted in this post's title. With Jim Maughan, Hichborn delves into the pivotal role that Communist China has played in the attempted theft of the presidential election away from Donald Trump. As an aside, on the two pro-Trump marches that I've attended in Washington DC, I couldn't help but notice the presence of many Chinese people calling for the abolition of the Chinese Communist Party; this video gives me a greater appreciation of their reasons for attending the pro-Trump rallies.
Hichborn not only asks us to watch it, but to pass this along to others. We know that not only will the mainstream media try to stifle its message, but so will the progressives who occupy many of the chanceries in the US. Keep praying those daily Rosaries.
Last Friday, Michael Hichborn gave an online address regarding the heresy of modernism. Pope St Pius X and Pope Leo XIII repeatedly warned against that poison. It has found its way into the thinking of Catholics, many of them well-meaning. I'd suggest a careful listen, particularly to my friends involved in charismatic circles, as I once was. The over-emphasis on subjective experience was one trait of that movement that eventually led me to part ways with it. (In the video, take note starting at 37:15.) Even so, I didn't realize how insidious it is, until I heard Hichborn's reasonings.
Genesis of modernism is materialism. For the modernist/materialist, science takes precedence over Church Teaching. If there is a conflict (real or perceived) between science and Church teaching, then they will attempt to alter Church teaching to conform with their take on scientific pronouncements. What is perceived by the senses informs their adherence to Teachings.
With their focus on the "here and now" (because eternity is beyond the realm of science), we understand the basis of the erroneous focus of most of the "social justice" activists in the Church on their various issues, while denying the right to life of the unborn and the serious nature of sins against the Sixth and Ninth Commandments.
Hichborn recommends (and held up) a book called "A Catechism of Modernism". The author is Father J.B. Lemius. It is available on Amazon. The encyclical of Pope St Pius X can befound here.
In the midst of the calamity of the United States being without one public Mass, even then there is just the tiniest silver lining to the cloud. Without Mass, there can be no second collections. This weekend, for most dioceses, the second collection would have been taken for the Catholic Relief Services. That will not happen. That means that CRS will have fewer dollars with which to undermine the Faith.
Michael Hichborn of the Lepanto Institute unearthed some truly squalid enterprises in which CRS has participated and even led. Below I publish the second and third of the videos comprising his entire report.
Michael Hichborn of the Lepanto Institute has recently completed a month-long investigation of the malfeasances of the Catholic Relief Services. The resulting report is quite long, owing to the voluminous evidence found that quite frankly, incriminates CRS and the entire USCCB for actions committed agaisnt Catholic faith and morality. Because his findings were so extensive, Hichborn has opted to release his reports in installments.
Today he released the first one and it can be found here. This one focuses on CRS's involvement in the distribution of condoms in Africa. Mind you, CRS isn't merely partnering with other organizations that are doing the condom distribution. CRS is doing the deed themselves - funded by donations from faithful Catholics. That leads me to my next point.
Lent has just started and we have all seen the obiquitous "Operation Rice Bowl" things in our church lobbies. A few days ago, I suggested what you could do with them. You can do the same when CRS conducts its in-pew collection in mid-May. The precsie weekend is May 17. I believe the schedule for this collection is nation-wide, but check your envelopes. Let's not only starve this beast, but let the "powers-that-be" know exactly why they won't get one penny from us.
In this clip, Michael Hichborn lays out what he believes the real purpose of this Sham-azon Sin-nod to be - in other words, the ulterior and sinister motives of the Vatican crowd and their progressive accomplices in the secular world. He lays out a very convincing case, comparing various synodal and preparatory documents with other writings such as:
The above list is a list of hyperlinks. There are undoubtedly additional links with more information on each topic. I post these so that you can examine the points that Hichborn makes. Long-time readers of this blog will recall that I have already commented on the Vatican's flirtations with the "sustainable development goals".
The writings of one group that Hichborn didn't mention deserves some consideration, in my opinioin. I refer to the Humanist Manifesto. The link that I just posted is a link to the American Humanist Association. It's worth noting that this latest version of their manifesto is rather vague. Follow the links to the two earlier manifestos to see more nitty-gritty about their beliefs. Also note that the first manifesto was signed by John Dewey, regarded to be the "father of modern education".
Now the Hichborn video, and I'll have more to say below that.
A few days ago John-Henry Westen of LifeSiteNewsintereviewed Bernardo Kuster, a Brazilian Catholic commentator who believes that some of the money sources behind the synod, e.g. Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation and others are interested in mineral resources in the Amazon region. He believes that they are using the Church to get to these minerals. Now what was that again about not exploiting resources of indiginous peoples?? Sshhh! We shouldn't ask such pesky questions!
So who's correct? Hichborn or Kuster? Well, maybe they are both correct!
Below I post a talk given by Michael Hichborn about an hour ago in which he comments about the damage to the Church being wreaked by the pope and his cronies via the Amazon Synod. I'll have more information and another video below that.
Hichborn made mention of an interview that Edward Pentin conducted with Bishop Erwin Krautler. The latter is a key synod figure and is unabashedly in favor of women priests. He states that one reason is to bring the Sacraments to indigenous peoples. Of course that is pure fantasy. The Church simply hasn't the authority to ordain women as the Lord Himself ordained only men. If there was any such attempt to ordain women, both the women and miscreant "ordaining" bishop would incur immediate excommunication. Moreover, any "sacraments" attempted by these women would be completely invalid. Any "mass" would simply be a sham and not valid at all. No remission of sins would occur in any fake "confession" in which they might engage. Rather than serve the people, these false "priests" would be engaging in a cruel joke on those poor people, assuming they were so poorly catechized that they didn't know the idea of "women priests" is completely bogus.
Now below I'll post a Vortex showing the ties of some South American synod "fathers" with tribal infanticide. Apparently in the Brazilian Parliament, a law is being debated that will ban infanticide among indigenous tribes. The liberals among them are claiming that the indigenous peoples cannot be told to abandon "cultural practices". That such a matter has to be debated only shows the depths of depravity to which western society has sunk. The Brazilian Catholic Conference has ties to a leading proponent of infanticide. These national "catholic conferences" really need to be trashed, but I digress.
Now remember - this is a synod about "listening" and "dialoging" and "learning from their wisdom". So they are going to teach us imperialistic first-world westerners that burying children alive is okie-dokie with "mother earth"? Of course I can see how Planned Parenthood, NARAL and other outfits might be down with that - but Catholic clergy?
A word of warning - the Vortex does show snippets of the child murders being committed, so be prepared.
Michael Hichborn has done extensive research over the years regarding "social justice" in the Catholic Church and the dangers that it poses to the eternal salvation of countless souls. My Catholic Media Coalition colleague, Stephanie Block, also has done similar research; in fact, Hichborn acknowledges her contributions at the 31-minute mark of the video below.
In this video, Taylor Marshall interviews Hichborn regarding the shams that are the three main vehicles of this so-called "social justice". They are: Catholic Campaign for Human Development, Catholic Relief Services, and Catholic Charities. While the video is long, I think it worth your while to listen closely to the whole thing. We are obliged to inform ourselves of these matters, and we simply must invest the time to do so.
May 12 - Catholic Relief Services. For reasons discussed in this video, and many more, this (and the on-going Rice Bowl collection) must be boycotted.
June 23 - Peter's Pence. In light of recent revelations regarding the stench that is in the Vatican, we dare not feed the corruption with our hard-earned dollars.
August 4 - Catholic Campaign for Human Development. Hichborn mentioned in the video that they try to disguise this collection. That's why they call it "Catholic Communications and Human Development?. Whom do they think they are fooling?
Very soon I will give some practical suggestions on notes to put into the envelopes, etc. For now, please pay close attention to this video and spread this around. Thank you.
