A friend of mine once said that "nice is a word NOT found in the Bible". He was spot-on. Yet so many in the Church are obsessed with being "nice" - to the point of actually undermining the salvation of souls.
See what ChurchMilitant.tv (formerly known as Real Catholic TV) has to say of the matter. Click here if you can't see embedded video.
I've written before on the scheme of some bureaucrats within the Detroit Archdiocese to force Real Catholic TV to change its name. Today's Vortex addresses the matter further. The Lifesite news article that Voris mentions can be found here. As you read it, note the comments - including some information on the employment of one of the canon lawyers who has spoken out on the matter.
Real Catholic TV centered its latest "Catholic Investigative Agency" episode around the Inquisition, giving some much-needed historical perspective. Click here if you cannot see embedded video.
Real Catholic TV has released its fourth episode of "Catholic Investigative Agency". In this installment, they go into detail about the true nefarious nature of the "climate change movement". Voris explains that the organizations promoting this belief fall into three categories:
Those promoting population control
Those promoting world governance
Those promoting earth worship
He explains why the "climate change" mindset has its roots in the eugenics movement. By the way - if you haven't done so already, please purchase and watch Maafa 21. Both this movie and this CIA episode reveal that eugenics originated in the U.S., and that Adolf Hitler was inspired by what he saw here.
The episode can be found here. I urge you to watch it in its entirety. Towards the end, Voris describes how the USCCB is being hoodwinked into promoting this dangerous mindset. Some examples of their naivte include their "Catholic Coalition on Climate Change" and "Catholic Climate Covenant" (remember the lenten carbon fast?) Granted, this clip is long, but if we are going to fulfill Our Lord's commission to bring about a Culture of Life, we must understand the current "lay of the land", and we must be willing to invest the time needed to gain that understanding. In this clip, Voris makes mention of supporting documentation, which can be found here. That too is worth examination.
These are issues that deserve close consideration as we all approach the November 2010 elections.
As I've said before on a few occasions, it isn't often when I disagree with Michael Voris and Real Catholic TV, but sometimes that happens. In fact, no two entities will always find themselves in complete agreement. I debated whether or not to post my disagreement with this Vortex, but because I post so many of them with my concurrence, I was concerned that my silence regarding this one would be interpreted as tacit agreement. My disagreements in this matter are rather substantial.
As a prelude, I want to mention that owing to some of the comments to previous postings, I believe I know what liberal, progressive types mean when they use the term "ad hominem". They use that term to refer to anything that challenges their erroneous mindsets, that dares to call evil for what it is. Their consciences are pricked and/or they have trouble denying the truth, so that truth becomes an "ad hominem attack".
I mention that now because these folks will wax apoplectic if they watch the pure, unadulterated, "kids gloves off" truth that is in today's Vortex. I urge to watch, but they need to hear the truth for the sake of their immortal souls. (Click here if you can't see embedded video)
The English meaning behind the title is "How you pray impacts how you believe which impacts how you live". In this special segment produced by Real Catholic TV, Michael Voris examines the history of how the Mass and its theology was undermined by certain key players in the Second Vatican Council. I do urge you to invest the two hours that it will take to watch it, and to review the supplemental materials supplied on the web page. Due to its length, embedding is impossible. However, please follow this link. It is a two-part seriies. Spread word of this.
A few months ago, I published a link to a special series done by Real Catholic TV, called "Catholic Investigative Agency". A new installment is now available. Since it's too long for youtube, it needs to be viewd on their site at this link. It is approximately 90 minutes long, but well worth the time investment.
In this segment, Michael Voris explores the deliberate attempts of the progressive types to further infiltrate the Catholic Church for the express purpose of compromising and watering down her teachings on morals. Note carefully a few things:
Voris points out that Catholic moral teaching, as found in all Papal documents from Leo XIII onward, makes clear that the focus is on the individual and not some "collective". I'll elaborate more on that later - but let's note the fact that we're now in the Independence Day weekend. The two are related.
He delves a bit into the backgrounds of the founders of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG). I've blogged a bit on this problematic outfit. Despite their claims of "non-partisanship", they are very "partisan", as in the "Party of Death" (Archbishop Burke's very accurate term for the Democrats).
He delves into the writings of CACG's chairman, Alfred M. Rotondaro. I went to the newsmeat website and found his campaign contributions. See for yourself here. Recipients include Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Patrick Leahy, Bob Casey Jr., Mary Landrieu, John Edwards - the usual cabal. Here is a link pertaining to the article about which Voris spoke, and here's the link to the orginal Huffington Post article.
A founder of CACG is Tom Periello, a pro-abort congressperson from Virginia (oh, I forgot! Rotondaro contributed to him, too). Guess how he voted on the Obama Hell Bill?
Another board member is Tom Chabolla. Does that name sound familiar? Reminder - he's high up in the SEIU. That's the union that supplied many of the thugs that trampled all over the private property of the Bank of America official, terrorizing the minor child. I guess that's their version of "the common good".
A major funder is (surprise!) George Soros. He funded a lot of the legal push, if you recall, to further the legalized murder of Terri Schiavo. He wrote a book called The Age of Fallibility, in which he said, "the main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States". I suppose we could get the book, but really - he shouldn't get any more royalties from that crap.
As I said in the first bullet, we celebrate this weekend the signing of the Declaration of Independence. This document, along with the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights, focus on the rights of the individual person as being bestowed upon him/her by God. We see in this current administration, headed by the Messiah Most Miserable, a push towards subsuming the individual into a "collective". I'd recommend a book that delves much into that, along with the psychologicial anomalies that warp common sense into a "progressive" mentality. The book is: The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness by Lyle H Rossiter, Jr, M.D. I got mine from Worldnet Daily, but I'm sure it can be acquired elsewhere.
Now that you've watched this, here is why I must take some exception to Voris's indictment of the so-called "baby boomer" generation. To start, it is commonly held that the "baby boomers" were born after the World War II soldiers returned to their wives and started to have children galore. It is these children who are the "baby-boomer" generation, born from around 1946 to maybe 1960 or so.
Voris implies that this generation was somehow responsible for promulgating "the spirit of Vatican II". I don't see how this assertion can be logical. This council was held from October 1962 to November 1965. Many of the baby boomer generation were still in grammar school. The older boomers were, at most, 20 years of age - hardly old enough to exert any influence on anything. Granted, that generation did carry that torch - but only after that generation itself had been intellectually and spiritually victimized.
To illustrate, I'll use myself as an example. I was born in 1956 and went to Catholic grade school. Up until the time I was 11 years old, the education was decent enough. However, even at my young age, I could discern the paradigm shift that occurred as I entered 6th grade. Obviously there was precious little I could do about it as a child. Even in high school, I was helpless to do much about it as I watched disgruntled priests literally decimate the faith of several classmates. Some would say we were a spoiled generation, and I'd say that's true; but I'd also ask in rejoinder, "Who spoiled us?"
Voris then says that we are fading from the scene - and then gives the late Joseph Cardinal Bernardin as an example. Example of the "fading baby boomers"? Not! Joseph Bernardin was born in 1928. Whatever else he may have been, he was not a baby-boomer.
I go through all this not to defend "my" generation, as it were, but to avoid what may be shallow and simplistic diagnoses of the reasons behind the cultural decline that is all too evident. Yes, the baby boomers did their part and carried that destructive torch, but who handed the torch to us? The corruption of Catholic education began a long time ago; I feel personally cheated of my heritage as I was forced to make those wretched felt banners and to have my religion classes turned into "explore your inner feeling sessions". We've got to look back at the forces of Modernism (Pope St Pius X was dead-on right about this menace). We've got to look at other forces, such as freemasonry, humanism and socialism. I could go on and on, because the roots of this situation are so deep and intertwined. Let's never be satisfied with simplistic ideas, but always be ready to dig deeper.
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