Four Cardinals Publicly Seek Clarification On Amoris Laetitia

In September, four cardinals wrote to Pope Francis to seek formal clarification regarding problematic statements found in Amoris Laetitia.  The pope did not reply to them so now they have made their concerns and questions public.  I will publish the complete text as found in National Catholic Register below the jump break, since it is rather lengthy.

The four cardinals are Walter Brandmuller, Raymond Burke, Carlo Caffarra, and Joachim Meisner.  They have formatted their writing in the form called "dubia", Latin for "doubts".  The questions are structured in such a way that the answer to be given them must be a "yes" or "no".  Consider also as you read this that the answers will have one of two effects: 1) the reversal of Amoris Laetitia, as well as the proceeds of the two synods or 2) the placement of the pope in formal heresy.  I link now to analysis done by LifeSiteNews, Rorate Caeli, Vox Cantoris, AKACatholic.  Several have asked why there are no more cardinals participating and why these four.  They then answered their own question by pointing out that three of these are retired and the fourth has already had influence stripped from him.  They have nothing to lose from a pope who has shown himself capable of punishing those who contradict him.  Please pray for them, the pope and that the filth may finally be swept from the Vatican.  Now the letter, after the jump break.

Lepanto Institute Speaks Truth, USCCB Shrieks In Fear Of Exposure

Some time ago Lepanto Institute exposed the fact that the Catholic Relief Services is acting in concert with organizations spreading the culture of death, itself participating in the distribution of contraceptives and abortifacients.  When Lepanto's report was released, the CRS predictably went into "damage control" mode.  Hichborn called them out on it.

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.

Does The Pope Regard Traditional Catholics As Niggers Of The New Age?

Remember three years ago when Pope Francis asked "who am I to judge" when discussing the situations of gay people?  It sure sounds so nice and non-judgmental now, doesn't it?  Contrast that with this screed that he uttered against those Catholics who prefer the Tridentine rite (Extraordinary Form).  He speaks particularly derisively towards young people who prefer that rite over the Ordinary rite.  To wit: "Pope Francis told Father Spadaro he wonders why some young people, who were not raised with the old Latin Mass, nevertheless prefer it. And I ask myself: Why so much rigidity? Dig, dig, this rigidity always hides something, insecurity or even something else. Rigidity is defensive. True love is not rigid."

Let's unpack this.  Notice that he equates "preference for the Tridentine rite" with "rigidity".  Then "rigidity" is equated with "insecurity" and "not true love".  The pope is slandering those faithful Catholics who prefer the Tridentine rite, portraying them as "insecure", "rigid" and not possessing "true love".  What ever happened to "who am I to judge?"  Let's address that now.

When the pope uttered that now-infamous quote three years ago, he was applying that to people living in states of mortal sin.  With that, he avoided the task of rebuking sinner, of setting them on the path of salvation.  However, when it comes to those Catholics who do obey Christ and His Church, he is quite judgmental towards them, demonizing their piety.  In this LifeSiteNews piece, read what Anya Proctor has to say about her love for the Tridentine Mass.  Her insights are nothing less than wise and profound.  Do you think this young lady deserves to be belittled by the Vicar of Christ?  Yet such is the treatment meted out to her and to countless others as well.  Liturgyguy believes this screed by Pope Francis to be a direct insult to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

Catholic Family News believes that we are being demonized as the new "deplorables" or as I've observed, this is more relegation of us to the status "niggers of the new age".

Temper Tantrums Of The Left

Some precious snowflakes, mainly at college campuses, find themselves "traumatized" by Trump's victory over Hillary.  The administrators of these "institutes of higher learning", are all too happy to validate these temper tantrums since they themselves find their agendas frustrated by Hillary's defeat.  Examples?

• Virginia Tech is offering "safe places" for Hillary supporters to snivel.
• Cornell University is holding "cry-ins" 
• The University of Pennsylvania is offering "breathing space", complete with puppies to cuddle along with chocolate and tea.
• A professor at Yale University is letting some poor traumatized dears skip their mid-terms without detriment to their grades.
• (Not college-relatd) There are some Californians who are now launching efforts to have California secede from the United States.  If it's feasible, I say good riddance.  They can take Nancy Pelosi, Moonbeam, Barbara Boxer, Holly-weird, etc with them.

There are more such examples.  It's bad enough that we seem to be coddling whining and temper tantrums, but the tantrums are becoming quite violent.  Calls are mounting on social media for the assassination of Trump.  My colleague at Les Femmes put up posts over the past few days of kids being assaulted at school for simply posting their views.  On Pamela Geller's site we see videos of anti-Trump violence being perpetrated by the same bunch that ballyhooed "love trumps hate".  Truthfeed has dug up ads on Craigslist posted by George Soros to gin up the riots that are now occurring.

Some voices of sanity are to be found on the internet.  Reacting to the election, Cardinal Burke said quite plainly in an interview that Trump is preferable to Hillary (#nevertrump people, take note).  Similarly, Franklin Graham posted that "The Lord Saves Us from a Godless, Atheistic Agenda".  He's quite correct.

Now what is the opinion of Pope Francis?  Perhaps the most recent interview with Eugenio Scalfari might offer some clue.  Stating that his main concern is "refugees", he opined that "it is the communists who think like Christians. Christ spoke of a society where the poor, the weak and the marginalized have the right to decide. Not demagogues, not Barabbas"  He evinces (once again) his disregard for the statement of Pope Pius XI, "no one at the same time can be a good Catholic and a true socialist."  Moreover, I fail to detect any corroboration for this statement of the pope when he said that Christ spoke of a society where the "poor" and not "demagogues" can "decide".  Who are the poor versus demagogues and what is being decided?  What are the Scriptural references?  Is the pope being intentionally nebulous?  One Peter Five has good analysis.

I glean from all this that the pope doesn't share the opinions of Cardinal Burke and the faithful Catholics who helped propel Trump over Clinton and perhaps saved the United States and western civilization from irreparable harm.

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CCHD = Cash for Chaos, Hatred and Disorder

We are all aware of the violence that has erupted in the wake of Trump's election as President of the United States.  One thing this illustrates is the results of poor education that has been allowed to go on for these past few decades.  It is poor by design.  John Dewey has rightfully been called the Father of Modern Education.  How many are aware that Dewey was a signer of the original Humanist Manefesto?

However, the violence in many cities (all of the cities being in states that Hillar carried, oddly enough) isn't just the work of spoiled little snowflakes pitching temper tantrums.  There is organization behind it as LifeSiteNews points out.

One of the organizations behind the mayhem is MoveOn.org, controlled by George Soros.  Soros' infiltration of progressive Catholic circles has been documented.  His organization, Faith in Public Life, several years ago attempted to refute an exposition of the CCHD done by Michael Hichborn.  Much has been written on this blog and others regarding the fact that monies collected by the CCHD were diverted to "community organizing" outfits that are anti-life, anti-God; many of these have been known to foment the kind of violence that has swept up the disgruntled Clinton supporters.

If you haven't done so yet, please watch the video "A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing".  It's long, but well worth the investment of time.  It tells the history of the invasion of progressives in the life of the Catholic Church in the US, focusing on the role of Saul Alinsky.  Furthermore, it details how Alinsky and his cronies in the Church created the Campaign for Human Development for the purpose of diverting Catholic donatons to progressive causes.  Later the word "Catholic" was put in front of the rest of the name.  That is to say that the entire purpose of CCHD was evil from its inception, as opposed to being once noble but only recently corrupted.

During the weekend of November 19-20, most dioeses in the United States will be devoting the second collections to the CCHD.  We must boycott this collection as we've done in previous years.  Many of us are tired from the election, but we must resist the temptation to "tune out and take a break".   The CCHD is a factor in the rot inside both the Church and the United States.  We must starve this beast known as CCHD.  With Trump's election, we've been given a reprieve by God, some more time to pray and work to establish the Culture of Life.  Let's not lose momentum but press ahead, starting by saying #no2cchd.

Election Maps Provide Sobering Lessons For #NeverTrumpers - Will They Learn?

I'm linking now to the election map that was provided by c-span.  One can go to an individual state, click on it, and get the exact counts per candidate for that state.  I have done so for a few states and will post them to illustrate the damage done by third-party candidates (screen shots taken from c-span).  Some of their adherents refuse to acknowledge simple laws of arithmetic; now they cannot ignore the reality before their eyes.

 These are all states that narrowly went to Clinton.  In all but one of these cases (I'll discuss VA later), the votes towards the third party candidate(s) amounted to more than the difference between the numbers of votes given to Trump and Clinton.  Since both Johnson and McMullin hold themselves to be conservative, we can guess that had their names not been on the ballots in these states, at least some of those voters would have cast their votes for Trump,  handing to him the electoral votes from those    

states as well as increasing his popular vote.

Had this been the situation in more states, we might well be looking at a more bleak future for the United States, as well as western civilization as a whole.  I said in my post on Friday that had this been the case this past Tuesday evening that the #nevertrump crowd might well have to answer for blood on their hands.  On Tuesday evening, God had mercy on the United States.

He also had mercy on the #nevertrump folks, sparing them much guilt.

I know some of you are going to whine about this post, asking why we can't just "kiss and make up".  It's very simple; if we don't learn from history we will repeat it - and the next history lesson can well be bitterly devastating.  Even now on facebook some foolish holdouts are still waxing cynical about Trump, seemingly oblivious to the catastrophe just averted.  It

 would have been a catastrophe in which they would have had a role in creating with their constant carping on the fantasy of third-party candidates.

Besides the ones who said they wouldn't vote for Trump, there are actually those who stated their intentions to vote for Hillary (see last week's post).  If they are reading this, they know who they are.  To those individuals - please be advised that as far as I'm concerned, any

credibility that you may once have had as a former pro-life leader has been forfeited by your doing.  Should I deem so necessary, I will divulge your name.

I promised a word about Virginia's situation.  The total of third-party candidates doesn't quite amount to the difference between Trump and Hillary.  However, recall that back in April, Governor McAuliffe, by executive fiat, restored voting rights to more than 200 thousand convicted felons.  Recalling that McAuliffe was once chair of the DNC, we can guess for whom

these felons voted.  Will Hillary soon be joining their number?

Deo Gratias!

Last night God granted the United States - and western civilization - a significant reprieve.  We know that along with massive effort, many prayers and fastings were undertaken so that the disaster known as a Hillary presidency would not occur.  I suggest that these continue and that there be no relaxation of our prayers and efforts in bringing about a culture of life.

I'll have more to say on this later as time permits.

Wolf In Sheep's Clothing

This tells a large part of the story how progressivism invaded the Catholic Church and the United States.  Watch this before you vote.  A vote for the Democrats - or simply abstention from voting for Trump - will further this satanic agenda.  (UPDATE - see post on 6/25/17 to watch the video).

A Closer Look At John Podesta

John Podesta is currently directing Hillary's election campaign.  A little while ago we learned that he founded two fake "Catholic groups" to facilitate a "Catholic spring".  Here's an anthology of previous posts.  New information has come out.  Since this fellow seems to be poised to assume a position of influence in a (God forbid!) Hillary administration, it would behoove us to take a closer look at him.

I'll post below an expose that was just released yesterday, detailing not only his career but that of his brother, Tony Podesta.  They have worked together for some time.  There has been some talk of WikiLeaks revealing his connection with a "spirit dinner".  In fact, he was invited to one such event via his brother.  I don't think there's evidence that he actually attended, but his brother seems to be linked with it.  Since he and his brother are closely associated, it bears mention that his brother could be tied up with occultic practices.

Now the expose..

Two Courageous Priests With Cowardly Superiors

The pastor of Immaculate Conception Church in San Diego California is under fire for allowing truth to be spoken in his bulletins regarding the upcoming presidential election.  According to this news report, a bulletin insert stated that "it is a mortal sin to vote Democrat" and that those in unrepented mortal sin will go to hell.  The local bishop's knickers are knotted over those statements.  He ignores one "inconvenient truth" (thanks to Al Gore for supplying that phrase).

Those statements are correct.  The Democrat platform is unabashedly pro-abortion.  Anyone voting Democrat will be cooperating with the mortal sin of abortion by furthering the Democrat agenda with their vote.  I went to the Immaculate Conception website and could not find the flyer in question.  I was pleased, however, to see a column on the election by Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix AZ in the Oct 23 bulletin and even Cardinal Wuerl had some cogent words in the Oct 16 bulletin.  A lady named Patricia Mann wrote an excellent piece on moral relativism.  I also see a column by Cardinal Burke therein.  The October 30 bulletin has some clear words about Hillary.  Pray for Father Richard Perozich and other courageous priests.  They are under heavy fire for proclaiming some truth, and that fire is coming from their chanceries.

Let's move on to the other priest under fire for speaking truth - this time, in Italy.  Father Giovanni Cavalcoli, a Dominican theologian who had a spot on a Catholic radio station there, stated that the recent quakes in Italy are divine punishment for Italy's legalization of sodomite #mowwidge.  For that he was suspended from the radio station and drew some harsh - and erroneous - condemnation from the Vatican's assistant Secretary of State, Archbishop Angelo Becciu (said to be close to the pope).  I'll bring in the whole quote from the Register so you can see this as we pick through the copious errors.

The prelate said the Dominican theologian’s words are not in accord with the Gospel, “are offensive to believers and scandalous to those who do not believe.” His words, the archbishop added, “date back to the pre-Christian period and do not correspond to the theology of the Church because they are contrary to the vision of God offered to us by Christ.” “Christ,” he added, “has revealed the face of God’s love, not a capricious and vengeful God. This is a pagan, non-Christian vision”. He also went so far as to say that such comments “offend” the Virgin Mary who is seen as “the mother of mercy who bends over a weeping child and wipes their tears, especially in terrible moments like those of the earthquake."

What a mess!  What would Becciu say of Matthew 23:31-38 and Luke 13:34-35, where Jesus is prophesying the destruction of Jerusalem because they rejected Him as Messiah?  Is Jesus "capricious and vengeful"?  How about "pagan"?  And what's with this "offending the Virgin Mary"?  How often did she tell the world at Fatima and Akita that God would rain down punishments if mankind as a whole did not repent?  She specifically said to the Fatima children that sins of the flesh would cause the greatest number of damned souls.  Italy just legalized a major sin of the flesh; why wouldn't God send an earthquake to wake up the world?  Am I saying that God's wrath is the cause of the earthquake?  I've no way of knowing for certain, but I daresay the Becciu has no basis for denying God's hand in the earthquakes.

Western civilization is in dire need of priests such as Fathers Cavalcoli and Perozich.  Pray that they be protected and that more like them, including bishops, rise up.