Catholic #NeverTrump Mindset Is Effeminate - UPDATED

Two weeks ago I wrote that the Catholic Standard had published online the text of Cardinal Gregory's homily, the one he gave while he was cooperating with mortal sin by offering Mass at Father Martin's Outreach 24 gab fest.  For some reason, I didn't think the Standard would be so brazen as to publish it in their print, thus making known their unholy alliance with perversion.  Silly me!  They did!  It's on page 5 of the August 22nd issue.

I saw it in a copy that I picked up after Mass yesterday.  As I read it, I wondered to myself how decent Catholics could read this and yet not be outraged at this overt betrayal and dissidence against Catholic moral teaching.  I mentioned this to someone as I was still somewhat aghast at both the dissidence and apparent indifference of so many Catholics.  Their reply was, "I don't like politics".  I replied that this wasn't politics, but didn't continue further when I realized that the mindset this person was evincing is quite widespread.

Before I go on any further, I remind my readers that this blog does NOT operate under a 501(c) charity.  Thus I can say anything political and even endorse candidates to my heart's content.  Now let us continue..

We are coming up on a presidential race that will be quite pivotal for our nation.  Politics is in the air and that is a healthy thing.  Politics is simply the effort to implement the teachings of Jesus Christ in the public arena.  Our opponents are setting themselves against Jesus and are making efforts to implement their perverted world views.  That mean, ladies and gentlemen, that there will be struggles and conflicts between the two camps.  We Christians must simply harden our noses, thicken our skins, and put some calcium into our backbones.  We must accept the fact that we will get dirt under our fingernails and have the anti-life crowd say (and do) mean things to us.  To those of us bemoaning the scrappiness of politics, may I remind you that politics has become unsavory in large part due to the generations of Christians abdicating their God-given duties to be involved in civic affairs?

At this time we are also facing the wearisome spectacle of Catholics stating that because both candidates from the major parties are morally tainted, that they cannot vote for either one, and thus they will either stay home on election day or vote for a third-party candidate who doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of winning.  I've dealt with this so many times in previous years; I link now to an anthology of posts.

When I wrote those posts, I lamented that no priest was willing to weigh in with a theological or philosophical viewpoint on the matter.  I was delighted to discover that Father Chad Ripperger did so during an interview.  Here is a video of the relevant portion.

UPDATE AS OF 9/15/24: I originally posted a small snippet of Father Ripperger's remarks last week.  I am now replacing it with the entire video as it gives Father's complete remarks.  The relevant portion starts at the 1:08 mark.

The Priestly Fraternity of St Peter has a treatise on the matter, as well.

Still, the #nevertrump crowd has resumed their tamper tantrums.  Granted, he has made regrettable remarks betraying a reduced pro-life conviction, but he has an obvious pro-life track record.  May I remind one and all that Roe v Wade would not have been overthrown, had not Trump appointed three of the five Supreme Court Justices who trashed Roe?

In that anthology of posts, I described what I believe some of the causes of the weird #nevertrump mindset are.  Now I believe I have stumbled across another.  I believe that #nevertrumpers are operating out of an effeminate mindset.  The word "effeminate" has several definitions, but one is used by St. Paul.   Merriam-Webster has an online dictionary.  The relevant definition is the second one.  So many of the comments in my previous posts involve an over-exaltation of "conscience" as a cloak for mere distaste.

See this quote to the left.  Don't fall into this mental trap.  If you do, you will fritter away not only your own life and freedoms, but those of your children and grandchildren.  You may even be called to account for it at your Particular Judgment.

Faithful Catholics, Stop Sitting On Your Hands

The video below was posted by Randall Terry, reporting on his recent confrontations with rabidly pro-abortion CINO Joe Biden.  As most know, Biden is one of quite a few pro-abortion Democrats (a redundancy) running for President.  In his video, Terry states the reasons for his protest and encourages others to do the same.

As I watched this, I couldn't help but recall our action against Mark Shriver at Mount St Mary's last month.  Of all the faithful Catholic laity that I know exist in Maryland, only nine of us showed up - me and eight young men from the American Society of Tradition, Family and Property.  Now I realize that quite a few faithful Catholics were in front of abortuaries as they usually are on Saturday mornings.  I speak not to them for they are in fact speaking against evil in other venues.  They too find their numbers to be small.

I tried to drum up support for the Mount effort but at best the responses were "well, maybe".  Those "well maybes" turned into no-shows.  Ladies and gentlemen, please understand that while prayer is necessary and crucial, it is NOT sufficient.  In fact, I daresay that if one prays for the culture of life but yet refuses to step out of his/her comfort zone to engage in street activism, political action or just speaking publicly, then his/her prayers aren't worth the spit produced in the utterances, for they value their comfort over God's will.  It is they who need repentance as much as abortion supporters.  If you are going to repent, don't just go to confession (although that's advisable) but get out of your comfort zones and do something.  The next 40 Days campaign would be an excellent start.  Now the video.

Second Red Rose Rescue And Other DC Area Pro-Life News

Today pro-life activists held another Red Rose Rescue effort at three abortuaries - one in Alexandria VA and another at a mill illegally run by the very chequered Stephen Chase Brigham at 6323 Georgia Avenue NW in Washington - just 11 blocks south of the now-closed Hillcrest Women's Surgi-Center where I could be found for many Saturday mornings.  A third happened in Michigan.

At each of these locations, several pro-lifers went into the abortuaries to counsel the women.  Refusing to leave, they were arrested; the ones arrested locally were released several hours later and given court dates. At this early date, videos are not yet available so we can only provide feeds from facebook-live.  Here is one and another.  As one of the narrators states, one key reason why abortion happens is that too many Christians sit on their duffs and do squat (my terminology, not his) about the child-slaughter going on in our localities.  As Jonathan said when the second video ended, "no one should be at peace while abortion is legal".

Priests for Life and Abortion-Free New Mexico called abortionclinics.org, the official name of the abortuary business of Leroy Carhart.  He has now set up shop in the Wildwood area of Bethesda MD.  They have confirmed that Carhart will murder perfectly healthy 28-week babies.  The staff quoted a price of $7,000 for the murder.  The recording can be found on this LifeSiteNews piece.  The abortion employee explained a bit of the procedure to them, but informed the caller that Carhart would not meet with them to discuss any other options.  For updated news regarding this Bethesda abortuary, please check www.prayforbethesda.com.

At about the same time that LifeSiteNews published its findings, the Washington Post came out with a piece on "abortion doulas".  Basically these are women who are with the mother while her baby is being murdered, offering false "comfort" to these women.  I'm guessing that this piece was written several months ago, for the author laments the closing of Carhart's Germantown mill while making no mention of the Bethesda location.  These "doulas" are volunteers, apparently.  One wonders what these "volunteers" would think of the amount of filthy lucre being taken by Carhart to slaughter babies - but maybe they don't care.

But again - do good Christians care enough to do something about abortion?  Do you care??

Catholics! Man Up And Wise Up!

This goes double for those of the Archdiocese of Washington who threw Father Marcel Guarnizo under the bus because he actually acted like a priest of God in preaching truth and repentance.  Click here if you cannot see embedded video.