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  Bill Gates Has Exclusive Rights to Computerize the Human Body
Posted by: Stone - 12-19-2022, 09:32 AM - Forum: General Commentary - Replies (1)

Bill Gates Has Exclusive Rights to Computerize the Human Body


TIA | December 16, 2022

The next phase of humanity’s forced transition to virtual reality involves computerizing the human body and transforming it into a robotic machine that, together with all other computerized human bodies, will eventually comprise a vast global computer network owned in part by none other than billionaire eugenicist Bill Gates.

It might sound like some kind of out there science fiction novel, but U.S. Patent 6,754,472, owned by Microsoft, grants Gates and his cronies the “exclusive rights” to “computerize” the human body for use as a collective of local wireless networks.

The most advanced computer in existence, the human body, is already an electrically charged, vibrating and pulsing network of electrolyte-filled tubes and tunnels that transmit and communicate all sorts of things relevant for survival. Gates’ goal is to exploit and capitalize on this miracle of creation, as well as “enhance” it as part of the globalists’ transhumanist agenda.

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Gates wants to control the coming cyborg industry

You will notice that Gates’ plan to transition and transform humanity into a worldwide network of transhumanist cyborgs directly parallels the current transgender or trans agenda – and that is no accident.

They have been telling us all along with all the trans programming what they plan to do next, and that is to strip humanity of its humanity. Covid “vaccines” play a role in that, as does the transgender mutilation of children phenomenon. (Related: Bill Gates is tied to other patents that prove covid is a creation of the U.S. military-industrial complex.)

Entitled “Method and apparatus for transmitting power and data using the human body,” U.S. Patent 6,754,472 encompasses the entire human body. It gives Gates and whoever he works with the perceived authority to continue tampering with the human form to transform its image into something foreign or alien.

“Body parts, in this case skin, should not be in any way patentable,” says Jim Thomas of the ETC Group, which monitors these kinds of developments in technology.

“There are big questions here about whether individuals will be able to refuse this technology if it is used in, for example, tracking devices.”

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Yuval Noah Harari: ‘The designer of life will no longer be God’

Yuval Noah Harari, Klaus Schwab’s right-hand man, is another globalist who is pursuing similar interests as Gates. Harari has stated on record that the trans-humanity of the future will not have the option to refuse this technology – unless they want to be put to death.

“The designer of life will no longer be God,” Harari stated haughtily and arrogantly. “The WEF (World Economic Forum) are going to be the designers of the future of life.”

Harari would go on during the same speech to explain why Gates’ patent on the human body is critical to his globalist agenda. In short, the goal is to turn humans into cyborgs that no longer bear the image of God and are completely controlled by the globalist control matrix.

According to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Gates and his ilk have a “God-like willingness to experiment with the lives of (what they deem as) lesser humans.” Some would go a step further, replacing the words God-like willingness with wicked lust.

“Gates’ strategy of buying WHO (World Health Organization) and purchasing control of U.S. health officials like Tony Fauci and Deborah Birx (allows him to) dictate global health policies affecting seven billion people and to control the most intimate details of our lives.”

“Under his direction, the WHO is conducting global social and medical experimentation applying Gates’ religious faith that he can use technology (vaccines and GMO agriculture) and his deep understanding of computers to make him the savior to all of humanity. We are his guinea pigs.”

This article was published on Robots.News on December 12, 2022, under the title: "Bill Gates owns patent that grants him “exclusive rights” to “computerize” the human body"

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  Second Traditionis Custodes-type document rumored
Posted by: Stone - 12-19-2022, 08:34 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism - No Replies

Gloria.tv reports

Rigidity and Prohibitions: Will Francis Produce Another Traditionis Custodes Enforcement Document?


US bishops have been told that a second Traditionis Custodes enforcement document is coming, perhaps in the spring, Peter Kwasniewski has learned (Facebook.com, 15 December).

Kwasniewski notes that many US bishops are currently busy fighting the Mass.

In La Crosse, Wisconsin - Cardinal Burke's former diocese - three diocesan Masses and all other sacraments have been banned. As of 2023, Mass will only be celebrated at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Previously, local clergy had trusted that this would not happen.

In Missouri, a bishop [Springfield-Cape Bishop Edward Rice] who had assured the faithful that "nothing would change" suddenly announced that their Mass would be moved to a location outside the parish and all other sacraments would be banned.

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  St. Alphonsus Liguori: Daily Meditations for the Fourth Week of Advent
Posted by: Stone - 12-19-2022, 08:27 AM - Forum: Advent - Replies (4)

Monday--Fourth Week of Advent

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Morning Meditation

CONSIDERATIONS ON THE RELIGIOUS STATE - XII

Consider the great happiness that Religious enjoy in dwelling in the same house with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

If worldlings deem it so great a favour to be invited by kings to dwell in their palaces, how much more favoured should we esteem ourselves who are admitted to dwell continually with the King of Heaven in His own house? O Lord, I thank Thee! How have I deserved this happy lot?

The Venerable Mother Mary of Jesus, Foundress of a convent in Toulouse, said that she esteemed her lot as a Religious very much, and principally for two reasons. The first, that Religious, through the Vow of Obedience, belong entirely to God; and the second, that they have the privilege of dwelling always with Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament.

In the houses of Religious, Jesus Christ dwells for their sake in the church, so that they can find Him at all hours. Persons of the world can scarcely go to visit Him during the day, and in many places, only in the morning. But Religious find Him in the Tabernacle as often as they wish, in the morning, in the afternoon, and during the night. There they may continually entertain themselves with Our Lord, and there Jesus Christ rejoices to converse familiarly with His beloved servants, whom, for this end, He has called out of Egypt, that He may be their Companion during this life, hidden under the veil of the Most Holy Sacrament, and in the next, unveiled in Paradise. "O solitude," it may be said of every Religious house, "in which God familiarly speaks and converses with His friends!"

Behold me in Thy Presence, O my Jesus! -- hidden in the Sacrament, Thou art the self-same Jesus Who for me didst sacrifice Thyself on the Cross. Thou art He Who lovest me so much, and Who hast therefore confined Thyself in this prison of love. Amongst so many who have offended Thee less than I, and who have loved Thee better than I, Thou hast chosen me, in Thy goodness, to keep Thee company in this house, where, having drawn me from the midst of the world, Thou hast destined me always to live united with Thee, and afterwards to have me nigh to Thee to praise and to love Thee in Thy eternal kingdom. O Lord, I thank Thee. How have I deserved this happy lot? I have chosen to be an abject in the house of my God, than dwell in the tabernacles of sinners (Ps. lxxxiii. 11). Happy, indeed, am I, O my Jesus, to have left the world; and it is my great desire to perform the vilest office in Thy house rather than dwell in the proudest royal palaces of men.


II. Souls that love Jesus Christ much know not how to wish for any other paradise on this earth than to be in the presence of their Lord, Who dwells in this Sacrament for the love of those who seek and visit Him.

Her conversation hath no bitterness, nor her company any tediousness (Wis. viii. 16). He who does not love Jesus Christ finds tediousness in His company. But those who on this earth have given all their love to Jesus Christ find in the Blessed Sacrament their treasure, their rest, their paradise, and therefore the great desire of their hearts is, as often as they can, to visit their God in this Sacrament, to pay their court to Him, offering Him their affections and laying at the foot of the altar their sorrows, their desire of loving Him, of seeing Him face to face, and, in the meantime, of pleasing Him in all things.

Receive me, then, O Lord, to stay with Thee all my life long; do not drive me away, as I deserve. Be pleased to allow that, among the many good Religious who serve Thee in this house, I, though a miserable sinner, may serve Thee also. Many years already have I lived far from Thee. But now that Thou hast enlightened me to know the vanity of the world, and my own foolishness, I will not depart any more from Thy feet, O my Jesus! Thy presence shall animate me to fight when I am tempted. The nearness of Thy abode shall remind me of the obligation I am under to love Thee, and always to have recourse to Thee in my combats against hell. I will always keep near to Thee, that I may unite myself to Thee, and attach myself closer to Thee. I love Thee, O my God, hidden in this Sacrament. Thou, for the love of me, remainest always on this altar. I, for the love of Thee, will remain in Thy presence as much as I shall be able. There enclosed Thou always lovest me, and here enclosed I will always love Thee. Always then, O my Jesus, my Love, my All, shall we remain together -- in time in this House, and during eternity, in Paradise. This is my hope; so may it be. Most holy Mary, obtain for me a greater love for the Most Holy Sacrament.


Spiritual Reading
ENCOURAGEMENT TO NOVICES TO PERSEVERE IN THEIR VOCATION


There are two graces clearly distinct one from the other -- the grace of Vocation and the grace of Perseverance in one's Vocation. Many who have received a Vocation from God have afterwards, through their own fault, rendered themselves unworthy to receive the grace of Perseverance. He is not crowned except he strive lawfully (2 Tim. ii. 5). No one will receive the grace of Perseverance and the crown which God has prepared for him, who does not do what in him lies to fight and conquer his enemies: Hold fast that which thou hast, that no man take thy crown (Apoc. iii. 11). My dear young friend, you who, by so special a favour, have been called by Our Lord to follow Him, hear how He exhorts and encourages you: "Be careful, My son, to preserve the grace which you have received from Me, and tremble lest you should lose it and another gain the crown which is prepared for you."

He who enters a Novitiate enters into the service of the King of Heaven, Who tries the fidelity of those whom He accepts for His own, by crosses and temptations, and permits the devil to assail them. Because thou wert acceptable to the Lord, it was necessary that temptation should prove thee (Tob. xii. 13). And the Holy Ghost says to all who leave the world to give themselves to God: My son, when thou comest to the service of God ... prepare thy soul for temptation (Ecclus. ii. 1). So that the novice, on entering the House of God, ought to prepare himself, not for consolations, but for temptations, and for the war which the devil wages against those who give themselves wholly to God. And be well persuaded that the devil would rather tempt a novice to abandon his Vocation than a thousand seculars, especially if he enters an active Order. Yes, for the devil knows that if this novice perseveres and is faithful to God, hell will lose thousands of souls who will obtain salvation through his zeal. Hence, the enemy uses every means to win him and every device to beguile him.

The temptations by which the devil most frequently endeavours to induce novices to abandon their Vocation are the following.

I. TENDERNESS FOR PARENTS AND FRIENDS

First, he tempts them by tenderness for their parents. To resist this it is necessary to reflect on the declaration of Jesus Christ: He who loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me (Matt. x. 37). And He declares that He came not to send peace, but division. I came not to send peace, but the sword; for I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother (Matt. x. 34, 35). And why this great desire to separate relations from each other? Because Our Lord well knew the injury that comes from such intercourse, and that in the affairs of eternal salvation, especially where there is question of a Religious Vocation, there are no greater enemies than relations; and this Our Lord declared, saying: A man's enemies shall be of his own household (Matt. x. 36). O how many unhappy youths, through affection for their relations, have first lost their Vocations, and then, as so easily happens, their own souls. History is full of such sad instances. I will tell you of some. Father Jerome Piatti relates of a novice who was visited by a relation who said to him: "Listen to me; I only speak because I love you, and I beg you to reflect that your constitution is not fitted to undergo the labours and studies of the Religious life; by remaining in the world you can please God better, especially by giving to the poor a large share of the riches with which He has blessed you. If you persist in your undertaking you will repent of it, for, in the end, with shame, you will be obliged to quit the Community, seeing yourself made porter or cook on account of your little talent and poor health. Therefore it is wiser to do at once that which you will be at last obliged to do." The poor young man, thus perverted, left the monastery, but many days had not elapsed before he fell into all kinds of vices; and in a quarrel with some of his rivals, he, together with the relation who had perverted him, was so severely wounded that within a short time they both died on the same day; and, what is still worse, the unfortunate novice expired without confession, of which he must have stood in so great need. We read in the Life of St. Camillus of Lellis that a young man, who was received into his Community in Naples, was persecuted by his father. At first he resisted with courage. He had to go to Rome on business, and there, in an interview with his father, he yielded to the temptation. On dismissing him the Saint predicted that he would come to an evil end and die by the hand of justice. This was verified. The young man married, and later, in a fit of jealousy, murdered his wife and two servants. He was apprehended and brought to justice, and although his father expended his whole fortune to save the life of his unhappy son, he was beheaded in the market place of Naples, nine years after his departure from the monastery.

Be, therefore, most watchful, my dear brother, should the devil seek by this means to make you lose your Vocation. The Lord, Who, by an especial grace, has called you to quit the world, desires you not only to leave, but also to forget your country and your friends.

Hearken, O daughter, and see and incline thine ear, and forget thy people and thy father's house (Ps. xliv. 11). Hearken then to what God says to you, and know that if you desert Him for the love of your relations, great will be your sorrow and remorse at the hour of death. You will then remember the House of God which you abandoned, and behold around your death-bed brothers and nephews in tears, who, at a time when you need spiritual help, will press you to leave them your goods, and not one will speak to you of God; they will even try to delude you, not to increase your pain by the thought of death; they will hold out vain hopes of recovery, and thus you will die without preparation. Contrast with this the joy and peace you will feel on dying in Religion, where you will have the happiness of seeing around you your brethren, whose prayers will assist you to fix your hopes in Heaven, and who, instead of deceiving you, will aid you to expire in peace and joy. Reflect also, that though it be true that your parents have loved you for many years with some tenderness, God loved you long before, and with far greater love. Your parents have loved for twenty or thirty years or more, but God has loved you from all eternity. I have loved thee with an everlasting love (Jer. xxxi. 3). Your parents have, it is true, been at some expense for your welfare and suffered on your account, but Jesus Christ shed all His Blood and gave His life for you. When, therefore, your tenderness for your parents urges you to be grateful to them and not to displease them, remember that much greater gratitude is due to God, Who has done more for you and loved you more than all others. Say, then, to yourself: "Relations, if I leave you, it is for God, Who merits my love more and loves me better than you." And by such words as these you will vanquish this terrible temptation of your kindred, which has caused the ruin of so many in this world and in the next.



Evening Meditation

THE LOVE THAT GOD HAS SHOWN US IN BECOMING MAN

I. The Word was made flesh ... and delivered himself for us (Jo. i. 14. Eph. v. 2).

Let us consider the immense love which God shows us in becoming Man in order to procure us eternal life.

Our first parent, Adam, having sinned and rebelled against God, was driven out of Paradise and condemned to everlasting death with all his descendants. But behold the Son of God, Who, seeing man thus lost, in order to deliver him from death offers to take upon Himself human flesh, and to die condemned as a malefactor upon the Cross. But, my Son, we may suppose the Father saying to Him, consider what a life of humiliation and suffering Thou wilt have to lead upon earth. Thou wilt have to be born in a cold cave, and to be laid in a manger for beasts. Thou wilt have to fly as an Infant into Egypt to escape from the hands of Herod. On Thy return from Egypt Thou wilt have to live in a shop as a humble servant, poor and despised. And, finally, worn out by sufferings, Thou wilt have to give up Thy life upon a Cross, insulted and forsaken by all. -- Father, all this matters not, replies the Son; I am content with enduring all, provided man is saved.

O great Son of God, Thou hast become Man in order to make Thyself loved by men; but where is the love that men bear to Thee? Thou hast given Thy Blood and Thy life to save our souls; why, then, are we so unthankful towards Thee, that, instead of loving Thee, we treat Thee with so much ingratitude and contempt? And behold, O Lord, I myself have been one of those who more than others have thus ill-treated Thee. But Thy Passion is my hope. Oh, for the sake of that love which induced Thee to assume human flesh and die for me on the Cross, forgive me all the offences I have committed against Thee.

I love Thee, O Incarnate Word, I love Thee, O my God!


II. What would be said if a prince were to take compassion upon a dead worm, and were to choose to become a worm himself, and to make, as it were, a bath of his own blood, to die in order to restore the worm to life? But the Eternal Word has done even more than this for us; for, being God, He has chosen to become a worm like us, and to die for us, in order to purchase for us the life of divine grace which we had lost. When He saw that all the gifts He had bestowed upon us could not secure to Him our love, what did He do? He became Man, and He gave Himself entirely to us: The Word was made flesh ... and delivered himself for us (Jo. i. 14. Eph. v. 2).

Man, by despising God, says St. Fulgentius, separated himself from God; but God, through His love for man, came from Heaven to seek him. And why did He come? He came in order that man might know how much God loved him, and that thus, out of gratitude at least, he might love Him in return. Even the beasts, when they show us affection, make us love them; and why, then, are we so ungrateful towards a God Who descends from Heaven to earth to make us love Him?

One day, when a priest was saying these words in Mass: Et verbum caro factum est -- And the Word was made flesh -- a man who was present neglected to make an act of reverence; upon which the devil gave him a blow, saying: "Ah, ungrateful man! if God had done as much for me as He has done for thee, I should remain continually prostrate with my face to the ground returning thanks to Him."

O Infinite Goodness, I love Thee, and I repent of all the injuries I have done Thee. Would that I could die of sorrow for them. O my Jesus, give me love. Let me not live any longer ungrateful for the affection Thou hast borne me. I am determined to love Thee always. Give me holy perseverance!

O Mary, Mother of God and my Mother, do thou obtain for me from thy Son the grace to love Him always -- even until death. Amen.

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  Pope Francis laicizes pro-life priest Fr. Frank Pavone
Posted by: Stone - 12-18-2022, 07:33 AM - Forum: Pope Francis - No Replies

Pope Francis laicizes America’s best loved pro-life priest Fr. Frank Pavone
According to the pope's U.S. representative, the order for dismissal from the priesthood was a result of 'blasphemous communications on social media' and 'persistent disobedience of the lawful instructions of his diocesan bishop,' but Pavone said he had no knowledge of the Vatican's decision.

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Fr. Frank Pavone speaking at the 2019 HELP Crisis Pregnancy center fall dinner
Stephen Kokx / LifeSiteNews


December 17, 2022
(LifeSiteNews) — America’s best loved pro-life priest, Fr. Frank Pavone, the National Director of Priests for Life as well as the President of the National Pro-Life Religious Council, has apparently been laicized (dismissed from the priesthood) by order of Pope Francis.

Catholic News Agency (CNA) reported that a December 13 letter from the Pope’s representative in America –  Papal Nuncio Archbishop Christophe Pierre – sent to all bishops in America says that Fr. Pavone was laicized for “blasphemous communications on social media” and “persistent disobedience of the lawful instructions of his diocesan bishop.”

In a separate statement, the papal nuncio wrote that the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Clergy – the head of the Vatican’s department dealing with priests – said that there was “no possibility of appeal” of the decision.

“Father Pavone was given ample opportunity to defend himself in the canonical proceedings, and he was also given multiple opportunities to submit himself to the authority of his diocesan bishop,” explains a separate statement attached to Pierre’s letter. “It was determined that Father Pavone had no reasonable justification for his actions.”

According to CNA, which confirmed the letter with several bishops, the statement calls Fr. Pavone “Mr. Pavone.” “Since Priests for Life, Inc. is not a Catholic organization, Mr. Pavone’s continuing role in it as a lay person would be entirely up to the leadership of that organization,” the statement says.

The statement noted that the decision on the matter by the Dicastery for the Clergy was issued on November 9, but Fr. Pavone had not heard of the decision from the Vatican until CNA called him for comment.


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  Abp. Viganò: The Kingship of Christ is not limited to the Church, but extends to all nations
Posted by: Stone - 12-18-2022, 07:09 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò - No Replies

Abp. Viganò: The Kingship of Christ is not limited to the Church, but extends to all nations
Similarly, the negation of this principle is the prerogative of heretical thought and Masonic ideology.

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Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò

Dec 17, 2022
(LifeSiteNews) — The doctrine of the kingship of Christ constitutes a discrimen between the Catholic Church and the “conciliar Church;” indeed, it is the point of separation between Catholic orthodoxy and neomodernist heterodoxy, because the followers of laicism and liberal secularism cannot accept that the Lordship of Our Lord extends to the civil sphere, thereby removing it from being subject to the arbitrariness of the powerful or the will of the manipulable populace.

Yet the very idea that authority has its foundation in a transcendent principle was not born with Christianity, but is part of our Greco-Roman heritage. The same Greek word ἱεραρχία indicates on the one hand the “administration of sacred things,” but on the other it also refers to the “sacred power” of authority, where the commitments connected with it significantly constitute a λειτουργία, a public office of which the State takes charge.

Similarly, the negation of this principle is the prerogative of heretical thought and Masonic ideology. The laicity of the State constitutes the main claim of the French Revolution,1 for which Protestantism provided the theological foundations, which then changed into a philosophical error with the advent of liberalism and atheistic materialism.

This vision of an entirely coherent and harmonious whole that spans the passage of time and crosses the boundaries of space, leading humanity to the fullness of Christ’s Revelation, was proper to that Civilization whose removal and cancellation is desired in the name of a dystopia that is inhuman because it is intrinsically impious, since it originated from the inextinguishable hatred of the Adversary, eternally deprived of the supreme Good because of pride and rebellion against the Will of God.

It is not surprising that our contemporaries fail to understand the reasons for the present crisis: they have allowed themselves to be defrauded of the patrimony of wisdom and memory built up over the course of history thanks to the pedagogical intervention of Providence, which has inscribed in the heart of every man the eternal principles that must guide every aspect of their lives. This wonderful παιδεία has allowed peoples far from God and immersed in the darkness of paganism to become predisposed, by natural means, for the bursting forth of the supernatural dimension in history, that is, for the advent of Christ, in Whom everything is recapitulated and shows itself to be part of the divine κόσμος.

When Augustus ordered the publication of the Aeneid – which Virgil had ordered in his will to be destroyed, considering it incomplete – the Pax Romana had just begun throughout the Empire; a pax granted to the world to welcome the Incarnation of the Son of God and snatch humanity from the slavery of Satan. The echoes of that solemn and sacred peace still resound today in the grandiose words of the Roman Martyrology, which we will hear once again on the morning of Christmas Eve:

Quote:Ab urbe Roma condita anno septingentesimo quinquagesimo secundo, anno imperii Octaviani Augusti quadragesimo secundo, toto orbe in pace composito… Jesus Christus æternus Deus æternique patris Filius, mundum volens adventu suo piissimo consecrare, de Spiritu Sancto conceptus, …in Bethlehem Judæ nascitur ex Maria Virgine factus homo.

In the seven hundred fifty-second year from the foundation of the City of Rome, in the forty-second year of the reign of Emperor Octavian Augustus, the whole world being at peace, . . . Jesus Christ the Eternal God and Son of the Eternal Father, desiring to consecrate the world by his most loving presence, was conceived by the Holy Spirit . . . and was born of the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem of Judah, having been made man.

Only forty years before the Birth of the Savior, Virgil had the opportunity to associate with the sons of Herod who had come to study in Rome. It was from them that he came to know the messianic prophecies of the Old Testament and the announcement of the imminent birth of the Puer which is sung in his Fourth Eclogue:

Jam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturna regna,

jam nova progenies cœlo demittitur alto.

Tu modo nascenti Puero, quo ferrea primum

desinet, ac toto surget gens aurea mundo,

casta fave Lucina: tuus jam regnat Apollo.2



And that Dante shows Statius recalling in the Purgatorio (XXII, 70-72):

Secol si rinova;

torna giustizia e primo tempo umano,

e progenie scende da ciel nova.


The age renews itself;

Justice returns, and man’s primeval time,

and a new progeny descends from heaven.

In this anxious expectation of the advent of Christ, Augustus saves Virgil’s poem from destruction, seeing in it that yearning for a world in which peace is in force, after a century of civil wars. He saw in Aeneas the model of those who recognize themselves pius, inasmuch as they are respectful of the divine will and the bonds that derive from it towards their Fatherland [Patria] and family, inserted by Providence in the contingent events of history, participating in the will of God fixed in eternity.

We can easily understand why the soul of an upright and honest person, even if deprived of the Faith, could feel moved to a noble destiny, before which the false and lying gods are silent, the Sibyl remains mute and the Oracle of the Aracœli withdraws. We then see in fate – fas in Latin – the reference to the verb fari, which means “to speak” and refers to the Word of God, to the eternal Word pronounced by the Father. The Christian remains delighted by so much fatherly goodness, by this provident hand that accompanies humanity that wanders in darkness towards the Light of Christ, the Redeemer of the human race.

There is something ineffable in this vision of history and of God’s intervention in it, something that touches souls and spurs them onward to the Good, awakening the hope of heroic acts, of ideals for which to fight and give one’s life.

It was upon this perfect composition of the temporal and the eternal, of nature and Grace, that the world was able to welcome and recognize the promised Messiah, the Prince of Peace, the Rex pacificus who is victor over sin and death, the Desideratus cunctis gentibus

From the Upper Room to the catacombs, from the communities of the first Christians to the Roman basilicas that were converted to the worship of the true God, the prayer that the Lord taught the Apostles is raised up: adveniat regnum tuum, fiat voluntas tua sicut in cœlo et in terra. Thus a pagan empire became the cradle of Christianity, and with its own laws and its own civil and social influence made possible the spread of the Gospel and the conversion of souls to Christ. Simple souls, certainly; but also the souls of erudite people, Roman nobles, imperial officials, diplomats and intellectuals, who managed to see themselves – like pius Æneas – involved in a providential plan, called to give meaning to those civic virtues, to that yearning for justice and peace that without the Redemption would have remained incomplete and sterile.


The ‘providential’ role of the state

The economy of Salvation, in this “medieval” and Christian vision of events, recognizes that individuals have the privilege of being themselves part of this great plan of divine Providence: an actuosa participatio – forgive me for borrowing a phrase dear to the Innovators – of man in God’s intervention in History, in which the freedom of each one is faced with a moral choice which is therefore decisive for his eternal destiny: a choice between Good and Evil, between conforming to the will of God – fiat voluntas tua – and following one’s own will in disobedience to Him – non serviam.

However, precisely in the adherence of individuals to the action of Providence, we understand how earthly society, which is composed of these individuals, in turn assumes a role in God’s plan, allowing the actions of its members to be directed more effectively by the authority of rulers towards the bonum commune that unites them in the pursuit of the same end.

The State, as a perfect society – that is, a society which possesses in itself all the means necessary for the pursuit of the quid unum perficiendum – therefore has a function of its own, principally ordered to the good of citizens, to the protection of their legitimate interests, to the protection of the Fatherland from external and internal enemies, to the maintenance of social order. It goes without saying that, experiencing the attempts and failures of those who preceded us – following the eminently Christian vision of Giambattista Vico – civilized peoples have been able to grasp the importance of the study of history, allowing for real progress and recognizing the validity of Aristotelian-Thomistic thought precisely because it developed on the basis of knowledge of reality and not on the creation of abstract philosophical theories.

We find this vision of good governance symbolically represented in the frescoes by Ambrogio Lorenzetti at the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, confirming the profound religiosity of medieval society; a religiosity of the institution, certainly, but which was shared and made its own by those who, clad with public functions, considered their role as an expression consistent with the divine order – the κόσμος, precisely – imprinted by the Creator on the social body.

Of this historical role of the Roman Empire we have an example in the Aeneid (VI, 850-853):

Tu regere imperio populos Romane memento

hæ tibi erunt artes, pacisque imponere morem,

parcere subjectis et debellare superbos.


But Rome, ‘tis thine alone, with awful sway,

To rule mankind, and make the world obey,

Disposing peace and war by thy own majestic way;

To tame the proud, the fettered slave to free:

These are imperial arts, and worthy thee.

It was the awareness of this providential mission that made Rome great; it was the betrayal of this task due to the corruption of morals that decreed its fall.


The concept of laicity and the secularization of power

Nor could it have possibly been otherwise, since the concept of “laicity of the state” was completely unthinkable for both the rulers and subjects of the Western nations of any era prior to the Protestant Pseudo-Reformation. Only since the late Renaissance has the theorization of atheism allowed the formulation of a philosophical thought that removed the individual from the duty to recognize and render public worship to the divinity; and, beginning with the Enlightenment, Masonic principles spread through the forced secularization of civil society following the French Revolution, the overthrow of the Monarchies of divine right, and the fierce persecution of the Catholic Church. 

Today the contemporary world considers it a merit to claim its own laicity, while in the Greco-Roman world rebellion against the gods was considered a mark of impiety and a sign of revolt against the State, whose authority was the expression of a power sanctioned and ratified from above. Discite justitiam moniti, et non temnere divos – Learn justice, and take heed not to despise the gods – admonishes Phlegyas, who was thrown into Tartarus and condemned to cry out this warning without respite (Æn., VI, 620). The classical culture that we have inherited as a natural premise for the spread of Christianity, and that the Middle Ages recognized and valued, is therefore based on the duty not to despise the gods, showing how the absence of religio is the cause of the ruin of the Nation, from the betrayal of the Fatherland to the establishment of tyranny, from promulgating or abolishing laws for the sake of economic interest to violating the most sacred precepts of civil life.3

As a demonstration of how well-founded these fears were, we dare to contemplate the ruins of our contemporary society, capable of legitimizing unprecedented horrors such as the killing of innocents in the womb, the corruption of children through gender theory and the sexualization of childhood, and their exploitation in the infernal rituals of the pedophile lobby, whose infamous members hold positions of power and that thus far no one dares to try and condemn. The contemporary world is governed by a sect of servants of the devil who are devoted to evil and death. Those who are silent, closing their eyes to such monstrosities, are guilty accomplices of those horrendous crimes that cry out for vengeance before God.


The sacredness of authority

Until the French Revolution, rulers found their legitimacy in the exercise of authority in the name of God, and at the same time those who were governed saw their rights protected against abuses of power, since the whole social body was hierarchically ordered under the supreme power of the one Lord, who was recognized as Rex tremendæ majestatis precisely because he is the Judge even of Kings and Princes, of Popes and Prelates. Crowns, tiaras, and miters dot the depictions of Hell in the scenes of the Last Judgment painted in our churches. 

This sacredness of authority is not a concept added after the fact to a power that was originally born as neutral. On the contrary, every power has always found its origin in reference to divinity, both in Israel and in the pagan nations, which then acquired in the Western world the fullness of supernatural investiture with the advent of Christianity and its recognition as the State Religion by the Emperor Theodosius. Thus the Emperor of the East was Cæsar in a Court that in Byzantium spoke in Latin; the Czar of the Russias and the Czar of the Bulgarians were equally Caesars, and finally there was the Holy Roman Empire, whose last Sovereign, Blessed Karl von Habsburg, was overthrown by Freemasonry by means of the First World War.

The education of future sovereigns, nobility and clergy was held in the highest esteem, and was not limited to providing intellectual and practical instruction, but necessarily provided for a specific moral and spiritual formation that ensured solid principles, the habit of discipline, the ability to master one’s passions, and the practice of the virtues of government. An entire social system made those who exercised authority aware of their
responsibility before Christ the King, the sole holder of the temporal and spiritual Lordship that His Ministers on earth had to exercise in a strictly vicarious form. For this reason, as happened for example in the case of Frederick II of Swabia, the superiority of the spiritual Authority of the Church over the temporal authority of Sovereigns allowed the Roman Pontiff to release the subjects of a King who abused his power from their bond of obedience.


Secularization extended to any authority

The secularization of civil authority has been more recently followed by the secularization of religious authority, which with the Second Vatican Council was significantly stripped – and not only externally – of its sacredness for the benefit of a profane (and revolutionary) vision in which ecclesiastical power comes from below, by virtue of Baptism alone, and is delegated by the “priestly people” to its representatives, to whom various tasks of “presiding” are conferred, just as in the Calvinist sects.

The paradox is even more evident here, because it brings into the Church – thereby distorting her nature – the dynamics of toleration within a civil society that does not recognize the rights of true religion, and ends up legitimizing them by making them her own. In this perspective, the very serious deviations propagated today by the Synod on Synodality in a democratic and parliamentarian tone are nothing other than the putting into practice of the principles theorized by the Council, for which laicity – that is, the rupture of the link between earthly authority and its supernatural legitimization – should have extended to any human society, and at the same time also excluding any “theocratic” temptation as obsolete and inopportune. 

Inevitably, there was no authority that was beyond the reach of this process, from the paterfamilias to the teacher, from the magistrate to the government official. The duty of those who were subjected to authority to obey it and of those who exercised authority to administer it with wisdom and prudence recalled the divine paternity of God. As such, it had to be delegitimized, for rebellion is primarily against the authority of God the Father. The revolution of “Sixty-Eight” was but an offshoot of the Revolution, in which anything liberalism had preserved for the sake of utilitarianism or convenience in order to guarantee itself a minimum of social order was finally demolished, leading the Western nations to anarchy.


The subversive action of the secret societies

The infamous sect, aware of the power of the alliance between Throne and Altar, plotted in the shadows to corrupt the rulers and attract the nobility into their ranks, starting with the Capetian dynasty. In reality, already in the German Principalities with the Protestant heresy, and then in the England of Henry VIII with the Anglican schism, there were active conventicles of initiates of a gnostic matrix that were opposed to the Papacy and to the legitimate Sovereigns loyal to it. It is however certain and documented that the Revolution constituted the primary instrument by which the secret societies struck the Catholic nations in order to wrest them from the Faith and enslave them to their ideological and economic purposes, and wherever Freemasonry managed to act it always resorted to the same tools and the same propaganda, in order to obtain the secularization of public institutions, the cancellation of the State Religion, the abolition of ecclesiastical privileges and Catholic teaching, the legitimization of divorce, the decriminalization of adultery, and the spread of pornography and other forms of vice. Because that Christian world in every aspect of daily life had to be erased and replaced by an impious, irreligious society dedicated to the satisfaction of the basest pleasures, mocking virtue, honesty, and rectitude: these are the “achievements” of liberal ideology, which the most abject anticlericalism calls “progress” and “freedom.”

The Magisterium’s innumerable condemnations of secret sects were amply justified by the threat to the peace of nations and the eternal salvation of souls. As long as the Church had a valid ally in the civil authority, the action of Freemasonry proceeded slowly and was forced to conceal its criminal intent.

It was only with the corruption of ecclesiastical authority, pursued with the patient work of infiltration and brought to completion at the end of the nineteenth century thanks to Modernism, that Freemasonry could count on the complicity of rebellious and fornicating clerics, led astray in intellect and will, and who were thus easily enslaved and blackmailed. Their ascent in the ranks of the Church, which was stopped by the far-sighted vigilance of St. Pius X, resumed quietly in the last years of the pontificate of a debilitated Pius XII, and experienced a boost under John XXIII, who was himself probably a member of an ecclesiastical Lodge. Once again we see how the corruption of individuals is instrumental in the dissolution of the institution to which they belong.


The civil, social and economic revolution

The Revolution begun in France in 1789 had the same modes of implementation: first the corruption of the aristocracy and the clergy; then the action of secret societies that infiltrated everywhere; then the media propaganda against the Monarchy and the Church, and at the same time the organization and financing of street riots and protests to incite the people, who were impoverished and burdened with taxes due to the speculations of international high finance and the inadequacy of the State’s response to the mutations of the European economic system. Also in that case the main lever that allowed the subversive theory of Freemasonry to translate into a real revolution was represented by the class that had the greatest interest in appropriating the assets of nobles and of the Church, not only in order to sell off a priceless heritage of real estate, furnishings, and works of art, but also in order to radically transform the traditional socio-economic fabric, beginning with the exploitation of large estates, which until then had for the most part been left to produce their crops according to natural rhythms and archaic systems. In fact, after the French Revolution, we had the First Industrial Revolution, which with the invention of the steam engine and the mechanization of production imposed the mass migrations of laborers and peasants from the fields to the metropolis so as to convert them into cheap labor, after having deprived them of the possibility of having autonomous means of livelihood and inducing them to misery with new taxes and duties. The whole nineteenth century is a confirmation that the ideological matrix of the Revolution is based on a doctrinal heresy intrinsically linked to economic profit and financial domination.

The Second Industrial Revolution took place during the period between the Congress of Paris (1856) and the Congress of Berlin (1878), primarily involving Europe, the United States and Japan in new, forced technological advances such as electricity and mass production. The Third Industrial Revolution began in the 1950s and extended to China and India, and mainly concerned technological, IT and telematic innovation, and then expanded to the new economy, the green economy, and information control. This was supposed to create a cultural climate of neopositivist confidence in the possibilities of science and technology to provide for the material well-being of humanity. The action of manipulating the masses gave ample space to the imagination of what society could become, suggesting it through the cinematic theme of science fiction.

Since the year 2011, the Fourth Industrial Revolution has finally begun, which consists in the growing interpenetration between the physical, digital and biological world. It is a combination of advances in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), 3D printing, genetic engineering, quantum computers and other technologies. The theorizer of this dystopian process is the infamous Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive director of the World Economic Forum.


The secularization of authority as the premise of totalitarianism

Artificially separating the harmony and hierarchical complementarity between spiritual authority and temporal authority was an unfortunate operation that created the premise, as often as it was realized, for either tyranny or anarchy. The reason is all too obvious: Christ is King of both the Church and the Nations, because all authority comes from God (Rom 13:1). Denying that rulers have the duty to submit to the Lordship of Christ is a very serious error, because in the absence of the moral law the State can impose its own will regardless of the will of God, and therefore subvert the divine κόσμος of the Civitas Dei, replacing it with the arbitrariness and the infernal χάος of the civitas diaboli.

Today the Western nations are held hostage to potentates who answer neither to God nor to the people for their decisions, because they do not derive their legitimacy either from above or from below. The coup d’état that has been prepared and carried out by the subversive lobby of the World Economic Forum has effectively ousted governments from their independent status by means of external pressure and robbed states of their sovereignty. But this dissolutory process has now been exposed because of the arrogance with which the satraps of the New World Order – everything is new when it concerns them, and everything is old when it is to be overthrown – have revealed their plans, believing that they are now close to final victory. To the point that even intellectuals certainly not accused of conservatism begin to denounce the intolerable interference of Klaus Schwab and his minions in the government of nations. A few days ago Prof. Franco Cardini declared: “The forces that manage the economy and finance now choose, corrupt and determine the political class, which thus becomes a business committee” (here). And we are well aware that behind this “business committee” there are aims of blind profit being pursued, to the detriment of the economy of the States, but also disturbing projects of detailed control of the population, forced depopulation, and the chronicization of diseases in view of the total privatization of public services. The mentality that presides over this Great Reset is the same that animated the bourgeoisie and usurers of past centuries, who were concerned to exploit the large estates that the nobility and the clergy did not consider as a source of profit.

I hate him for he is a Christian,

But more for that in low simplicity

He lends out money gratis and brings down

The rate of usance here with us in Venice4

For these people, humanity is an annoying hindrance that must be rationalized and instrumentalized in pursuit of their criminal goals, and Christian morality is an odious obstacle to the establishment of a government that is in the hands of finance. If this is possible today, it is because there is no transcendent moral reference that puts a stop to their deliriums, nor a power that escapes this vile enslavement to private interests. And here we understand that the present situation is essentially a crisis of authority, beyond the understanding of individuals about the threat posed by the global coup d’état of the usurious elite.


The Nativity of Christ

The Birth of the Savior represented the breaking through of eternity into time and History, with the Incarnation of the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity in the virginal womb of Mary Most Holy. In the person of Our Lord, true God and true man, the authority of God is added to that of the descendant of the royal seed of David, and the Redemption of the human race through the Sacrifice of the Cross restores in the economy of Grace the divine order broken by original sin inspired by the Serpent.

The Infant King, lying in the manger, shows himself for the adoration of the shepherds and the Magi, wrapped in swaddling clothes, as was the prerogative of sovereigns: et hoc vobis signum (Lk 2: 6).5 He moves the stars and is honored by the Angels, yet He chooses the crib as his throne, the poor hut of Bethlehem as his earthly palace, just as on Golgotha – and also in the vision of the Apocalypse – it is the Cross that is the throne of glory. Our Lord receives the homage of the wise men of the East in recognition of his titles of King, Priest and Prophet; but already he must flee from the one who sees in Him a threat to his power. Foolish and cruel Herod, who does not understand that non eripit mortalia, qui regna dat cœlestia – He taketh not away earthly kingdoms, who bestoweth heavenly ones.6 Foolish and cruel are the powerful of today, who in the massacre of millions of innocents – a massacre carried out against their bodies as well as their souls – want to consolidate their tyranny of death, and who in the slavery of peoples renew their rebellion against the King of kings and the Lord of rulers, who has redeemed those souls with His own Blood.

But it is in the humble affirmation of his Lordship that the Child of Bethlehem manifests the divinity of the Son of God in the hypostatic union of the Man-God. A divinity that combines the omnipotence of the Pantocrator with the fragility of the un-weaned baby, the tremendous judgment of the Supreme Judge with the cry of the newborn, the immutable eternity of the Word of God with the silence of the infant, the splendor of the glory of the divine Majesty with the squalor of a shelter for animals in the cold night of Palestine.

In this apparent contradiction that wonderfully unites divinity with humanity, power with weakness, and wealth with poverty, we also find the lesson that all of us, and especially those who are constituted in authority, must draw for our spiritual life and for our very survival.

Even the Sovereign, the Prince, the Pontiff, the Bishop, the magistrate, the teacher, the doctor and the father enjoy a power that draws from the sphere of eternity, from the divine Kingship of the Son of God, because in the exercise of their authority they act in the name of the One who legitimizes it as long as it remains faithful to what it was willed for. Whoever listens to you, listens to Me. And whoever despises Me despises the One who sent Me (Lk 10:16). For this reason, obeying civil and ecclesiastical authority means obeying God, in the hierarchical order that He has decreed. For this reason, disobeying those who abuse their authority is equally necessary, in order to safeguard that order that has its center in God, and not in the earthly power that is its vicar. Otherwise, we end up adoring the one who holds power, paying him the homage to which he is entitled only insofar as he in turn is subject to God. Today, however, homage to those who hold positions of power not only has no bond of due subordination to Christ the King and Pontiff, but rather is His enemy. And also, where the alleged popular sovereignty propagated by the chimera of democracy has proven to be a colossal deception against that people who have no one to appeal to see their rights protected. On the other hand, what “rights” could be claimed by those who have tolerated letting them usurp God? How could we be surprised that power turns into tyranny when we accept that it no longer has any connection with the transcendent, which is the only guarantee of justice for the poor, the exile, the orphan and the widow?


Instaurare omnia in Christo 

The apparent triumph of the wicked – from the criminals of the World Economic Forum to the heretics of the “synodal path” – confronts us with the harsh reality of Evil, destined to final defeat, but also permitted by Providence as an instrument of punishment for wayward humanity. Because poverty, epidemics, misery induced by planned crises, ruthless wars moved by economic interests, the corruption of customs, the massacre of the innocents recognized as a “human right,” the dissolution of the family, the ruin of authority, the dissolution of civilization, the barbarization of culture and art, the annihilation of every impulse towards virtue and the Good – all of these are only necessary consequences of a betrayal carried out gradually but always in the same direction, and they are always only an introduction of the worst that is yet to come: the contempt of God, the wicked challenge of non serviam against the divine Majesty, which grows all the more ruthless and furious in proportion to the growth of the satanic presumption of being able to win a battle from which Satan will emerge eternally defeated.

Sleep, O Child; do not weep;

Sleep, O celestial Child:

The tempests will not dare

To rage about Thy head,

Used over earth of yore

Like battle-steeds before

Thy very face to wing!7

To recapitulate all things in Christ (Eph 1:10), means to recompose the order broken by sin, both in the natural and in the supernatural order, both in the private and in the public sphere, restoring the royal Crown to the King of kings, from Whom in a delirium of ὕβρις the Revolution has taken it; and, even before this, restoring the triple Crown to the Supreme Pontiff, torn off by the ideology of Vatican II and by the apostasy of this “pontificate.”

Popes and Kings, prelates and rulers of nations, the faithful of the Church and citizens of States all must return, in a palingenesis moved by Grace, to Christ, to Christ the King and Pontiff, to the one Avenger of the true rights of His people, to the one Protector of the weak and oppressed, to the one Conqueror of death and sin. And on this journey back to Christ, humility will guide us in knowing how to retrace backwards the easy way of perdition that we have undertaken by abandoning the way to Calvary marked out for us by the Lord. It is a path that He walked first, and on which He accompanies us through the Grace of the Sacraments, which leads to the Cross as the only premise for the glory of the Resurrection.

Whoever believes that by continuing on this path it is possible to change things; that a limit can be placed on the ideology of death and sin of the New World Order; that the wicked can be prevented from spreading the horrors of pedophilia, perversion, the cancellation of the sexes, the killing of children, the weak and the elderly, is deluded. If the world has become hell thanks to the Revolution, it can return to being less evil and deadly only with a counter-revolutionary action. If the Hierarchy has become a receptacle of heretics, the corrupt and fornicators thanks to Vatican II and the Reformed liturgy, it can return to being the image of the heavenly Jerusalem only by returning to what the Apostles, Fathers and Doctors, Saints, Popes and Bishops did until before the Council. Continuing on the path of perdition leads, in fact, to perdition: the difference lies only in the speed of the race towards the abyss.

The sooner each of us is able to strengthen our belonging to Christ, the sooner society will begin its return to its Lord. And this unconditional belonging to a God who became incarnate in order to redeem us must begin with the humble adoration of the Child King, at the foot of the manger, together with the shepherds and the Magi.

Sleep, O Celestial child:

The nations do not know

Who has been born;

But the day will come

When they shall be

Your noble heritage;

You who sleep so humbly,

You who are hidden in dust:

They will know you as King.8

May the blessed moment come for all of us when – touched by Grace and moved by the salutary vision of hell on earth that is being prepared if we stand by inertly while the globalist dystopia is established – we recognize the King. And in which, recognizing Him, we can fight under His holy insignia together with the formidable Overcomer of Satan – the Immaculata – the epochal battle against the Enemy of mankind. It will be a creature – a Woman, a Virgin, a Mother – who crushes the head of the ancient Serpent, and along with it the head of his accursed followers.

And so may it be.

+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop

December 17, 2022

Sabbato Quattuor Temporum Adventus



References

1 The first article of the French constitution explicitly states that the republic shall be “indivisible, laïque, democratic and social.”

2Now the Virgin returns, the reign of Saturn returns; now a new generation descends from heaven on high. Only do you, pure Lucina, smile on the birth of the Child, under whom the iron brood shall at last cease and a golden race spring up throughout the world: your own Apollo now reigns as king. Virgil, Eclogue IV, 6-10.

3 “Learn righteousness, and dread the avenging deities.” To tyrants others have their country sold, Imposing foreign lords, for foreign gold; Some have old laws repealed, new statutes made, Not as the people pleased, but as they paid; With incest some their daughters’ bed profaned: All dared the worst of ills, and, what they dared, attained. Virgil, The Aeneid, VI, 620–624.

4Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene III (words of Shylock).

5 In this regard, see the exegetical study of Msgr. Francesco Spadafora in Dizionario Biblico, Studium, 1963.

6 Crudelis Herodes, hymn for First Vespers of Epiphany.

7 A. Manzoni, Il Natale, verses 99–105.

8 A. Manzoni, Il Natale, verses 106–112.

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  "Global Walkout"- educational site on the globalists agenda
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California parish requires Catholics to sign waiver before receiving Communion kneeling

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Dec 15, 2022
(LifeSiteNews (adapted)) – A Catholic parish in the Diocese of San Bernardino is requiring parishioners to sign waivers before receiving Holy Communion kneeling – a move that may violate Church law.

St. Kateri Tekakwitha Catholic Community in Beaumont and Banning, California, announced the rule in a bulletin for the week of December 18, 2022.

The bulletin notes that the parish “highly discouraged the receiving of [C]ommunion while kneeling down” due to unspecified “incidents that happened in the past caused by people kneeling down when receiving [C]ommunion.”

The parish church “does not have [C]ommunion rails or kneelers to assist you when you get up and so you will be responsible for any harm that will cause to your body or to the ministers and people around you if you will have an accident,” the bulletin adds. “If you would like to continue receiving [C]ommunion kneeling down, we ask that you sign a waiver that releases our parish for any liability that may arise due to your action.”

“You will also be legally responsible,” it continues, “for any harm that your action may cause to the ministers or the people around you when taking [C]ommunion kneeling down,” which was the standard practice of the Catholic Church for centuries until the 1960s.

The recommendation against receiving the Eucharist while kneeling “is for your safety and the safety of our ministers and the people around you, and also to protect the sanctity of the Body and Blood of Christ,” the bulletin further stated.

The parish failed to note, however, that reception of the Eucharist in the hand inevitably risks particles of the Host falling to the floor and being trampled, a situation decried by Bishop Athanasius Schneider as “one of the grievous phenomenons and evils within the Church.”

The Catholic Church teaches dogmatically that every particle of the Holy Eucharist contains the entire Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ.

St. Kateri Tekakwitha parish’s waiver requirement, moreover, appears to violate Church law.

The Vatican Instruction Redemptionis Sacramentum stresses that priests may not deny the Eucharist to Catholics in good standing who wish to receive the Blessed Sacrament kneeling. “Therefore, it is not licit to deny Holy Communion to any of Christ’s faithful solely on the grounds, for example, that the person wishes to receive the Eucharist kneeling or standing.”

The document invokes Canon 843 of the Code of Canon Law, which states, “Sacred ministers cannot deny the sacraments to those who seek them at appropriate times, are properly disposed, and are not prohibited by law from receiving them.”

The General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM) also make clear that the faithful may receive Communion kneeling without impediment.

Church leaders known for their orthodoxy have praised reception of the Eucharist kneeling and on the tongue as the most reverent form of taking Communion.

Cardinal Robert Sarah, the former head of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, has said that receiving Communion kneeling and on the tongue “is much more suited to the sacrament itself” and “a further act of adoration and love that each of us can offer to Jesus Christ.” His comments echo those of other previous Vatican liturgy chiefs, including Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera.

Cardinal Sarah has linked reception of the Eucharist standing and in the hand to a “diabolical attack” on the Catholic faith. He noted that Pope John Paul II “forced his broken body to kneel” for Holy Communion even in his advanced age.


St. Kateri Tekakwitha parish lists LGBT ‘ministry’

In addition to announcing the waiver rule, St. Kateri Tekakwitha parish’s December 18 bulletin lists an LGBT-themed “ministry” titled “Ministry with Families & Friends of LGBT,” with a coordinator named Gloria Austin.

The Diocese of San Bernardino has a similarly named “Ministry to Families with Gay and Lesbian Catholics,” which also lists Austin as a contact. The diocesan organization’s website includes links to Outreach, a heterodox LGBT activism group founded by Father James Martin, SJ, and the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBT pressure group in the United States and a staunch proponent of “gender transitions” for children.

The bishop of the San Bernardino diocese is Alberto Rojas, one of several U.S. prelates who signed a statement last year organized by the Tyler Clementi Foundation, another pro-LGBT activist group, telling homosexual youth that “God is on your side.” Rojas withdrew the faculties of a priest in his diocese who criticized him for signing the statement.

Rojas, a Mexican national, was a student at the Archdiocese of Chicago’s infamous Casa Jesús program for Hispanic immigrants, which shut down in 2016 amid pedophilia and homosexuality scandals.

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  A Most Important Historical Document
Posted by: Stone - 12-16-2022, 06:41 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism - No Replies

A most important historical document:
the 1969 Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani (the original GIRM) - "The Lord's Supper, or Mass, is the sacred meeting or congregation of the people of God assembled, the priest presiding, to celebrate the memorial of the Lord..."


Rorate Caeli | December 13, 2022

Eleven years ago, in 2011, we in RORATE were proud to be the first to make available online, for the first time, a document that had then become extremely rare: the very first GIRM (General Instruction of the Roman Missal), published together with the 1969 Novus Ordo Missae.


From our post:

Quote:7. Cena dominica sive Missa est sacra synaxis seu congregatio populi Dei in unum convenientis, sacerdote praeside, ad memoriale Domini celebrandum. Quare de sanctae Ecclesiae locali congregatione eminenter valet promissio Christi: "Ubi sunt duo vel tres congregati in nomine meo, ibi sum in medio eorum" (Mt. 18, 20).

"7. The Lord's Supper, or Mass, is the sacred meeting or congregation of the people of God assembled, the priest presiding, to celebrate the memorial of the Lord. For this reason, Christ's promise applies eminently to such a local gathering of holy Church: 'Where two or three come together in my name, there am I in their midst' (Mt. 18:20)." [Most of the elements of this statement has been condemned by the Council of Trent - The Catacombs]

This is the original complete definition of the Mass according to the 1969 Novus Ordo Missae: they were arguably the most influential liturgical words written in the 20th century and signaled a watershed moment - in a sense, closing the book written since late antiquity and the chapter begun in Sessions XIII and XXII of the Council of Trent.

Number 7 of the first edition of the Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani (the General Instruction of the Roman Missal - GIRM) is the end moment of the original liturgical movement. Its writers also thought they would have the final say in the history of the Traditional Mass - within a few months, the storm started by these words on the edge of acceptability would spark the Brief Critical Study of the New Order of the Mass, presented to the Pope and to the Catholic world under the auspices of Cardinals Ottaviani, first Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Bacci.

The waves set by that text have not subsided. That famous number 7 and other highly problematic words of the original 1969 IGMR (in which Trent is not mentioned a single time) and Ordo Missae would be amended in 1970, 1975, and 2002. While much was vindicated by the swift and significant corrections of 1970 - and, ultimately, by the proclamation by Pope Benedict XVI that the traditional Roman Missal was "never abrogated -, can it be denied that the spirit of the 1969 IGMR lives on in the New Mass, or "Ordinary Form"?

While the texts of the 1970, 1975, and 2002 IGMR are widely available, it had been impossible up to now to find online the original source of the controversy. Thanks to the generous effort of a priestly source, RORATE can now present to our readers the original 1969 Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani. (Note: this is the entire IGMR, but only the first pages of the original complete publication of the 1969 Ordo Missae, promulgated on April 3, 1969, by the Apostolic Constitution Missale Romanum, of Pope Paul VI.)


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The Catacombs - excerpts from the Council of Trent
  • If any one saith, that in the mass a true and proper sacrifice is not offered to God; or, that to be offered is nothing else but that Christ is given us to eat; let him be anathema.
  • If any one saith, that by those words, Do this for the commemoration of me (Luke xxii. 19), Christ did not institute the apostles priests; or, did not ordain that they, and other priests should offer His own body and blood; let him be anathema.
  • If any one saith, that the sacrifice of the mass is only a sacrifice of praise and of thanksgiving; or, that it is a bare commemoration of the sacrifice consummated on the cross, but not a propitiatory sacrifice; or, that it profits him only who receives; and that it ought not to be offered for the living and the dead for sins, pains, satisfactions, and other necessities; let him be anathema.
  • If any one denieth, that, in the sacrament of the most holy Eucharist, are contained truly, really, and substantially, the body and blood together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and consequently the whole Christ; but saith that He is only therein as in a sign, or in figure, or virtue; let him be anathema.
  • lf any one saith, that Christ, given in the Eucharist, is eaten spiritually only, and not also sacramentally and really; let him be anathema.

See also: The New Mass: Article recommended by Archbp. Lefebvre

A few other points, taken from here, The Dangers of the New Mass:
  • It was Martin Luther who said, "The Mass is not a sacrifice ... call it Benediction, Eucharist, the Lord's Table, the Lord's Supper, Memory of the Lord or whatever you like, just so long as you do not dirty it with the name of a Sacrifice."
  • In the Encyclical Mediator Dei, Pope Pius XII condemned the statement that "the eucharistic sacrifice" is an authentic concelebration of the priest as well as of the people present.
  • 7th Session, Canon 13 of the Council of Trent: The correct Latin translation says:
    Quote:"If anyone says that the received and approved rites of the Catholic Church, customarily used in the solemn administration of the Sacraments, can be despised or can be freely omitted by the ministers without sin, or can be changed into other new rites by any pastor in the Church whomsoever, let him be anathema."

    This canon states very clearly that the Pope, who is the first and supreme pastor may never change any approved Rite of the Roman Catholic Church. The Roman Rite was fixed forever by Pope St. Pius V in Quo Primum. Paul VI tried to establish a whole new Roman Rite. There is only one Roman Rite of the Mass; there cannot be two.

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  We Are About To Witness A Major Move Toward A Cashless Society
Posted by: Stone - 12-15-2022, 06:00 AM - Forum: Global News - No Replies

We Are About To Witness A Major Move Toward A Cashless Society

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ZH | DEC 14, 2022
Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,

The war on cash has just gone to an entirely new level.  When I heard that the European Union was planning to completely ban all cash transactions above 10,000 euros, I had a hard time believing it.  There are so many wild rumors flying around on the Internet these days, and so I wasn’t going to write about this unless I could confirm it.  Unfortunately, this particular rumor is quite real.

Under the pretext of fighting “money laundering and terrorist financing”, the European Union will be entirely outlawing all cash payments greater than 10,000 euros.

The following comes from the official website of the Council of the European Union

Quote:By limiting large cash payments, the EU will make it harder for criminals to launder dirty money. An EU-wide maximum limit of €10.000 is set for cash payments. Member states will have the flexibility to impose a lower maximum limit if they wish.

So this means that in some countries the upper limit could potentially be a lot lower than 10,000 euros.

But instead of framing it as a major move toward a cashless society, the EU is trying to claim that this is all about fighting terrorists.

The following is what Zbyněk Stanjura, the Minister for Finance in the Czech Republic, has said about this upcoming change

Quote:Terrorists and those who finance them are not welcome in Europe. In order to launder dirty money, criminal individuals and organisations had to look for loopholes in our existing rules which are already quite strict. But our intention is to close these loopholes further, and to apply even stricter rules in all EU member states. Large cash payments beyond €10.000 will become impossible. Trying to stay anonymous when buying or selling crypto-assets will become much more difficult. Hiding behind multiple layers of ownership of companies won’t work any more. It will even become difficult to launder dirty money via jewellers or goldsmiths.

Meanwhile, the European Central Bank has been actively considering the possibility of introducing a “digital euro”.  The following comes from the official website of the European Central Bank…

Quote:We are working with the national central banks of the euro area to investigate whether to introduce a digital euro. It would be a central bank digital currency, an electronic equivalent to cash. And it would complement banknotes and coins, giving people an additional choice about how to pay.

Well isn’t that convenient?

As they take cash away from the general population, it turns out that they have already been working on the replacement.

Incredibly, the ECB even has the gall to claim that this new digital currency will be “like cash”…

Quote:A digital euro would offer an electronic means of payment that anyone could use in the euro area. It would be secure and user-friendly, like cash is today. As central bank money issued by the ECB, it would be different from “private money”, but you could also use a card or a phone app to pay with digital euro.

Yes, you will be able to spend it just like you can spend cash.

But unlike cash, a digital euro will allow authorities to track whatever you buy and sell with it.

Won’t that be wonderful?

By the way, the Federal Reserve is currently working on a digital currency as well.

And this is all happening as the private cryptocurrency industry is imploding all around us.

Many had believed that decentralized cryptocurrencies would be the future of commerce, but global central banks were never going to allow that to happen.

Instead, it appears that they intend to force all of us on to a cashless grid in which everyone uses digital currencies that are issued by them.

Needless to say, a lot of people out there are quite wary of any moves toward a cashless society because they believe that it is part of the “end times” scenario described in the Bible.  According to one recent survey, approximately 39 percent of all Americans are convinced that we are living in the “end times” right now

Quote:Nearly two in five Americans, including half of self-identified Christians and a quarter of the religiously unaffiliated, agree “we are living in the End Times,” a new study has found.

That’s about 39% of Americans who believe we are living in the End Times, according to Pew Research, highlighted by Lifeway Research.

Other surveys have come up with similar results.

[...]

If you have been waiting for life to “return to normal”, you can stop right now.

It simply is not going to happen, and I believe that global events will accelerate even more during the early stages of 2023.

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  How Vaccination Status May Affect Car Insurance Rates
Posted by: Stone - 12-14-2022, 11:17 AM - Forum: General Commentary - No Replies

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People who skipped their COVID vaccine are at higher risk of traffic accidents, according to a new study
The findings could justify changes to driver insurance policies, the authors say.


Fortune.com [slightly adapted] | December 13, 2022


If you passed on getting the COVID vaccine, you might be a lot more likely to get into a car crash.

Or at least those are the findings of a new study published this month in The American Journal of Medicine. During the summer of 2021, Canadian researchers examined the encrypted government-held records of more than 11 million adults, 16% of whom hadn’t received the COVID vaccine.

They found that the unvaccinated people were 72% more likely to be involved in a severe traffic crash—in which at least one person was transported to the hospital—than those who were vaccinated. That’s similar to the increased risk of car crashes for people with sleep apnea, though only about half that of people who abuse alcohol, researchers found.

The excess risk of car crash posed by unvaccinated drivers “exceeds the safety gains from modern automobile engineering advances and also imposes risks on other road users,” the authors wrote.

Of course, skipping a COVID vaccine does not mean that someone will get into a car crash. Instead, the authors theorize that people who resist public health recommendations might also “neglect basic road safety guidelines.”

Why would they ignore the rules of the road? Distrust of the government, a belief in freedom, misconceptions of daily risks, “faith in natural protection,” “antipathy toward regulation,” poverty, misinformation, a lack of resources, and personal beliefs are potential reasons proposed by the authors.

The findings are significant enough that primary care doctors should consider counseling unvaccinated patients on traffic safety—and insurance companies might base changes to insurance policies on vaccination data, the authors suggest.

First responders may also consider taking precautions to protect themselves from COVID when responding to traffic crashes, the authors added, as it’s more likely that a driver is unvaccinated than vaccinated. 

“The findings suggest that unvaccinated adults need to be careful indoors with other people and outside with surrounding traffic,” the authors concluded.

This isn’t the first time that researchers have examined the link between behavior and vaccination status. Among young adults, a 2021 study published in the Journal of Bioeconomics found a correlation between self-reported risky driving and having skipped their flu vaccine. It examined the survey responses of more than 100,000 Canadians.

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  Saving Benedict XVI -Schizophrenia or Hypocrisy?
Posted by: Stone - 12-14-2022, 08:45 AM - Forum: Sedevacantism - No Replies

From The Catacombs archives:


Saving Benedict XVI -Schizophrenia or Hypocrisy?


TIA | February 2019

In the Gospel of Luke we read that Christ told the crowds: "When you see a cloud rising from the West, presently you say: A shower is coming: and so it happeneth: And when ye see the south wind blow, you say: There will be heat: and it cometh to pass. You hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of the heaven and of the earth: but how is it that you do not discern this time?" (Lk 12: 54)

Perhaps, there is no warning from Our Lord that it is more appropriate for the time in which we live today.

For years now, and especially since the current phase of the calamitous project of the destruction of the Faith that moved to high speed with Pope Francis’ reign, many priests and laymen react surprised and scandalized over the buffoon we see sitting on the cathedra of St. Peter.

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Benedict praises the United Nations in a speech, later, Francis follows suit. No break, but continuity...

If I were to speak of surprise, I would like to say that the surprise is mine and also of many others like me who for years have been fighting Progressivism, this neo-modernism that managed to reach the highest places in the Hierarchy of the Church. "Felix qui pout rerum cognoscere cause" said Virgil (Fortunate is he who was able to know the causes of things).

This surprise is due, today more than ever, to the emergence of absurd theories that claim to show that there is a radical break between Francis and the other Popes of the post-Vatican II Council, to the point of supposing that Francis would not be Pope.

So, today I want to expound, on the one hand, on the almost delusional incoherence of this position and, on the other, on the danger there is in abandoning oneself to the guidance of those who, based on extravagant and arbitrary whims, claim to uphold superficially (or at times through a merely emotional fanaticism) a movement without its feet set in reality, like the ones who hate Francis (the consequence), but have nostalgia for Benedict (one of the causes of Francis' election).


The words of Benedict himself

Those who support such nonsense not only seem to act as schizophrenics, but are also publicly denied by Benedict himself who has repeatedly stated that his resignation has been well-deliberated and definitive.

In his book on his conversations with Benedict XVI titled Last Testament: In His Own Words, Peter Seewald reproduces the words of Benedict XVI regarding his resignation. He explains that Benedict's central statement is this:
Quote:“But no one has tried to blackmail me. If that had been attempted I would not have gone since you are not permitted to leave because you're under pressure." (London, Bloomsbury, p. 72)

Benedict XVI cannot be clearer when he says that:
Quote:"So I wrote the text of the resignation, I cannot say with precision when, but at the most 14 days beforehand. I wrote it in Latin because something so important you do in Latin." (Ibid., pp. 60-61)

He adds:
Quote:"A weak point is perhaps my lack of clear, purposeful governance and the decisions that have to be made there.,. So, practical governance is not my forte, and there, I would say, is a certain weakness." (Ibid., pp. 255-256).

Furthermore, in a letter addressed to the Secretariat of the Prefect for Communication, Msgr. Dário Edoardo Viganò, which he writes on the occasion of the presentation of the Collection, The Theology of Pope Francis, Benedict XVI says that there is an "internal continuity" between his pontificate and that of Francis.

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Always praise and warmth for Francis and his 'mercy'

His words are:
Quote:"I welcome this initiative which intends to oppose and react to the foolish prejudice according to which Pope Francis would be only a practical man deprived of particular theological or philosophical formation, whereas I was only a theoretician of theology who understood little of the concrete life of a Christian today."

And he adds:
Quote:"These small volumes rightly show that Pope Francis is a man of profound philosophical and theological formation and, therefore, help us to see the interior continuity between the two pontificates, although with all the differences of style and temperament."


Furthermore, on June 28, 2016, on the anniversary of the 65th priestly ordination of Benedict, a ceremony was held in Clementine Hall, where Pope Francis was also present. In his brief final greeting, Benedict XVI speaks again of mercy:
Quote:"Thanks above all to you, Holy Father! Your kindness, from the first moment of the election, in each moment of my life here, really moves me inside."

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Francis follows Benedict's footsteps and prays with an iman at a mosque in Turkey

He continues:
Quote:"More than in the Vatican Gardens, with their beauty, your kindness is the place where I live: I feel protected. Thanks also to the word of thanks, of everything. We hope that you can go forward with all of us on this path of divine mercy, showing us the path of Jesus towards Jesus, towards God."

Finally, the letters of Benedict XVI to Cardinal Brandmüller - which have recently been published - absolutely destroy any dream of those Ratzingherians who pretend that he is still the Pope. In the first letter of November 9, 2017, Benedict XVI states as clearly as possible that only Francis is the Pope.

His words to the Cardinal are these:
Quote:"As Pope Emeritus, I tried to create a situation in which I was absolutely inaccessible to the mass media and in which it was fully clear that there is only one Pope."

We see that the Ratzingherians try to show that the resignation of Benedict XVI is invalid are baseless. The arguments put forward do not proceed. However, those "arguments," despite their variety, lead to a single result: Benedict XVI is still Pope and, so, Francis is not a true Pope.


Self-delusional attempts to justify 'Pope Benedict'

This speaks volumes about the real reason for these attempts: It is not so important to understand how things are, but rather what end they want to reach, which is to state that Francis is not a true Pope - in one way or another.

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Clear continuity among the Vatican II Popes

So, with the clarification of the words of Benedict XVI himself declaring that he is not Pope and that the pontificate of Francis is in continuity with the preceding ones, what are we left to think? I believe that there are only two things we can think:

1. Those who say Benedict is Pope are in a state of trauma because they cannot sincerely admit that Francis is an extension of Benedict. This would be something like a kind of spiritual schizophrenia that prevents them from reconciling cause and effect because they will not accept that Benedict has abandoned them.

2. Or, those who promote this theory are hypocritical scoundrels who simply want to take advantage, confuse people and, through this confusion, constitute themselves as an infallible criterion for determining who is and who is not the Pope.

If we give these people the benefit of the doubt and consider that they are innocent, then, they do what they do out of ignorance or from the painful disappointment they possibly have upon learning that "Saint Benedict" is an example far from what holiness is.

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Benedict and Francis: hosting immoral performance and circus shows in the Vatican hall

Yes, it is not just Francis' fault if there is a decline of the Faith in the whole world. The catastrophic situation in which the Church finds herself is the result of years and years of attacks directed against the doctrine, the liturgy and, in general, everything that represents the Kingdom of Christ in society.

For the sake of the argument, if we admit the hypothesis that Benedict resigned under the pressure of a mafia, this mafia could not have had power unless if had been bolstered by the previous conciliar Popes and by Benedict himself. Should we also blame Francis for this?

At any rate, it does not seem a very honest or courageous position for a Pope who resigns and abandons the flock when the wolf is inside it.

It is enough here to remember the following words of Christ:

"But the hireling, and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and flieth: and the wolf catcheth, and scattereth the sheep: And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath no care for the sheep." (Jn 10: 12)

In short for decades, our Pontiffs have wandered around as if they were drunk. Their dependence on the absinthe of Progressivism and Modernism continually increase. They roam in the dark night of Humanism. Perhaps the Bavarian has better hidden his intention than the Argentinian, but at the end of the day, both walk hand in hand, singing the same tango and staggering in the same direction.

It is up to us to not lose sight of what the Prince of the Apostles said: "Sobrii estote et vigilate: qui adversarius vester diabolus, tamquam leo rugiens, circuit quærens quem devoret: qui resistite fortes in fide." Be sober, be watchful! For your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goes about seeking someone to devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith. (I Pet 5: 8-9)

Christus Rex - Adveniat Regnum Tuum

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  Kyiv Seizes Assets Of Russian Orthodox Clerics
Posted by: Stone - 12-14-2022, 06:51 AM - Forum: Global News - No Replies

Kyiv Seizes Assets Of Russian Orthodox Clerics

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St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Kiev, Ukraine. Wikipedia image


ZH | DEC 14, 2022
Authored by Kyle Anzalone via The Libertarian Institute,

Ukraine has ratcheted up its campaign against a branch of the Eastern Orthodox church with ties to Russia. On the order of President Volodymyr Zelensky, seven senior clerics from the Russian Orthodox church will have their assets seized and face bans on a range of economic and legal activities.

During his nightly video address on Sunday, the Ukrainian president said "by decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, sanctions were applied against seven people," adding that his administration is "doing everything to ensure that the aggressor state does not have a single string of Ukrainian society to pull."

According to Reuters, the new penalties mean that the seven clerics will have "their assets seized and are subject to a ban on a range of economic and legal activities as well as a de facto travel ban."

The vast majority of Ukrainians belong to the Eastern Orthodox Church, with many worshiping in parishes that take direction from the Moscow Patriarchate. On December 1, Zelensky announced that Kiev would attempt to expel all religious institutions with ties to Russia, arguing the move would make it "impossible for religious organizations affiliated with centers of influence in the Russian Federation to operate in Ukraine."

The president went on the claim that the Russian Orthodox Church poses a threat to Ukrainian culture, saying "we will never allow anyone to build an empire inside the Ukrainian soul."

He additionally denounced Ukrainians who continue to attend the allegedly Russia-controlled parishes as succumbing to "the temptation of evil."


Kiev has conducted a series of raids on Russian Orthodox parishes and claims to have uncovered clerics attempting to subvert the Ukrainian government, though has provided little evidence to support its assertions.

Nonetheless, Kiev sanctioned 10 top clerics of the church last week, suggesting they threatened "the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine."

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  Quotes from Saints and Theologians: 'Recognizing' the Pope
Posted by: Stone - 12-13-2022, 11:35 AM - Forum: Sedevacantism - No Replies

Quotes from Saints and Theologians: 'Recognizing' the Pope

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St. Peter’s instruction

The first pope St. Peter († 67) gave us the general principle of disobedience to, and resistance of, corrupt hierarchies and their commands when he was forbidden to preach Christ by the apostate Jews. When there is a conflict between the will of a religious superior and God, we are to obey God:
Quote:“But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men.” (Acts 5:29)

The Doctor Saint Thomas Aquinas O.P († 1274) used this incident as an indication that all superiors are to be disobeyed should their commands be against the Will of God:
Quote:“It is written: ‘We ought to obey God rather than men.’ Now sometimes the things commanded by a superior are against God. Therefore, superiors are not to be obeyed in all things.” (Summa Theologiae, IIa IIae, Q. 104, A. 5)

The theologian Juan Cardinal De Torquemada O.P. († 1468) expressly related that Bible passage to the duty to resist a wayward pontiff:
Quote:“Although it clearly follows from the circumstances that the Pope can err at times, and command things which must not be done, that we are not to be simply obedient to him in all things, that does not show that he must not be obeyed by all when his commands are good. To know in what cases he is to be obeyed and in what not, it is said in the Acts of the Apostles: 'One ought to obey God rather than man'; therefore, were the Pope to command anything against Holy Scripture, or the articles of faith, or the truth of the Sacraments, or the commands of the natural or divine law, he ought not to be obeyed, but in such commands, to be passed over.” (Summa de Ecclesia)

So, “superiors are not to be obeyed in all things”; a “pope can err at times, and command things which must not be done” and “we are not to be simply obedient to him in all things.” A pope can command “against Holy Scripture, or the articles of faith, or the truth of the Sacraments, or the commands of the natural or divine law” and then “he ought not to be obeyed.”



St. Paul’s example

Pope St. Peter I himself was publicly resisted to his face by St. Paul because he endangered the truth of the Gospel.
Quote:“But when Cephas [Peter] was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.” (Galatians 2:11)

The Fathers of the Church explained that the incident shows us the correctness of resisting wayward ecclesiastics, even popes. The great Scripture commentator Cornelius a Lapide († 1637) wrote as follows:
Quote:“Superiors may be admonished by their subordinates in all humility and charity so that truth may be defended: this is the basis (Galatians 2, 11) on which St. Augustine, St. Cyprian, St. Gregory, St. Thomas and many others who are quoted support this opinion. They teach quite unequivocally that St. Peter, although superior in authority to St. Paul, was admonished by him. St. Gregory rightly states that, “Peter remained silent so that, being first in the hierarchy of the Apostles, he might equally be first in humility.” St. Augustine writes, “By showing that superiors admit that they may be rebuked by their subordinates, St. Peter gave posterity an example of saintliness more noteworthy than that given by St. Paul, although the latter showed, nonetheless, that it is possible for subordinates to have the boldness to resist their superiors without fear, when in all charity they speak out in the defence of truth.”“ (Commentary Ad Gal., II, 11.)

So, the Doctor St. Augustine told us that we should “boldly” resist superiors, including the Pope, “without fear”, when we are defending the Faith.

St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that the Scripture passage shows that a pope who errs from the Faith must be resisted openly and publicly because of the danger which exists for the Faithful to be corrupted and led into error:
Quote:“There being an imminent danger for the Faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects. Thus, St. Paul, who was a subject of St. Peter, questioned him publicly on account of an imminent danger of scandal in a matter of Faith. And, as the Glossa of St. Augustine puts it (Ad Galatas 2.14), 'St. Peter himself gave the example to those who govern so that if sometimes they stray from the right way, they will not reject a correction as unworthy even if it comes from their subjects.” (Summa Theologiae, IIa IIae, Q. 33, A. 4)

He also commented on it as follows:
Quote:“The reprehension was just and useful, and the reason for it was not light: there was a danger for the preservation of Gospel truth. […] The way it took place was appropriate, since it was public and manifest. For this reason, St. Paul writes: 'I spoke to Cephas,' that is, Peter, 'before everyone,' since the simulation practiced by St. Peter was fraught with danger to everyone.” (Super Epistulas S. Pauli, Ad Galatas, 2, 11-14 (Taurini/ Rome: Marietti, 1953), lec. III, nn. 83f.)

That is how a heretical pope and his errors are to be resisted: “boldly”, “without fear”, “publicly” and “before everyone”, because he is a “danger to everyone”. That is the teaching of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church.



The instruction of the Popes

Various popes have also told us that popes can err from the Faith and should then be resisted.

Pope Innocent III († 1216) stated that a pope can “wither away into heresy” and “not believe” the Faith:
Quote:“The pope should not flatter himself about his power, nor should he rashly glory in his honour and high estate, because the less he is judged by man, the more he is judged by God. Still the less can the Roman Pontiff glory, because he can be judged by men, or rather, can be shown to be already judged, if for example he should wither away into heresy, because “he who does not believe is already judged.” (St. John 3:18) In such a case it should be said of him: ‘If salt should lose its savour, it is good for nothing but to be cast out and trampled under foot by men.’” (Sermo 4)

Venerable Pope Pius IX († 1878) recognised the danger that a future pope would be a heretic and “teach contrary to the Catholic Faith”, and he instructed, “do not follow him.”:
Quote:“If a future pope teaches anything contrary to the Catholic Faith, do not follow him.” (Letter to Bishop Brizen)

Pope Adrian II († 872) admitted that papal heresy “renders lawful the resistance of subordinates to their superiors, and their rejection of the latter's pernicious teachings.”:
Quote:“We read that the Roman Pontiff has always possessed authority to pass judgment on the heads of all the Churches (i.e., the patriarchs and bishops), but nowhere do we read that he has been the subject of judgment by others. It is true that Honorius was posthumously anathematised by the Eastern churches, but it must be borne in mind that he had been accused of heresy, the only offence which renders lawful the resistance of subordinates to their superiors, and their rejection of the latter's pernicious teachings”.

However, I must disagree with Pope Adrian when he said that heresy was the only offence that justified resistance: the Saints and Doctors have informed us otherwise, as we shall see.

Further, Pope Honorius I († 638) was not merely “accused of heresy” or “anathematised by the Eastern Churches”: he was anathematised as a heretic by the ecumenical Council of III Constantinople, whose Acts were confirmed by Pope Leo II († 683):
Quote:“We foresaw that, together with them, also Honorius, before Pope of Old Rome, is cast out of the Holy Catholic Church of God and anathematized, for we have found by his writings sent to [the heretic] Sergius, that he followed the thinking of the latter in everything, and continued his impious principles. [...] To Sergius, the heretic, anathema! To Cyrus, the heretic, anathema! To Honorius, the heretic, anathema!”

So we see that popes have told us that a pope can “wither away into heresy” and “not believe” the Faith; that “it is beyond question” that a pope can “err in matters touching the Faith”, he can “teach heresy” in decrees; that “many Roman Pontiffs were heretics”; that a pope may be a heretic and “teach […] contrary to the Catholic Faith”, in which case we are to follow the instruction “do not follow him”; and that papal heresy “renders lawful the resistance of subordinates to their superiors, and their rejection of the latter's pernicious teachings.”



The teaching of the saints and theologians

The Saints and theologians have told us the same thing through the ages: we must not obey but rather resist wayward pontiffs and their corrupt hierarchies.

The first Doctor of the Church, St. Athanasius († 373), told us that “Catholics faithful to Tradition” can be “reduced to a handful”. He wrote during the Arian crisis, when the global episcopacy defected to Arianism and Pope Liberius († 366) went into heresy, signed a heretical Arian creed and invalidly excommunicated St. Athanasius, as did the heretical bishops of the East:
Quote:“Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ.” (Epistle to the Catholics)

St. Vincent of Lerins († 445) is the Father of the Church most associated with the defence of unchanging doctrinal tradition. It is the subject of his main treatise, the Commonitory. He foresaw that if the whole Church should go into heresy we must keep to the traditional Faith handed down from the Fathers:
Quote:“What then should a Catholic do if some portion of the Church detaches itself from communion of the universal Faith? What choice can he make if some new contagion attempts to poison, no longer a small part of the Church, but the whole Church at once? Then his great concern will be to attach himself to antiquity which can no longer be led astray by any lying novelty.” (Commonitory)

A general corruption of the hierarchy has been foreseen and has happened before and the Saints have told us how we are to respond: we are to keep to the traditional, true Catholic Faith which has been handed down from the Fathers and to reject the “lying novelties” of the pope and the hierarchy.

The theologian Sylvester Prieras, O.P. († 1523) discussed the resistance of a corrupt pope at some length. He asked, “What should be done in cases where the pope destroys the Church by his evil actions?” and “What should be done if the pope wishes unreasonably to abolish the laws of church or state?” His answer was as follows:
Quote:“He would certainly be in sin, and it would be unlawful to allow him to act in such a fashion, and likewise to obey him in matters which are evil; on the contrary, there is a duty to oppose him while administering a courteous rebuke.

“Thus, were he to wish to distribute the Church's wealth, or Peter's Patrimony among his own relatives; were he to wish to destroy the church or to commit an act of similar magnitude, there would be a duty to prevent him, and likewise an obligation to oppose him and resist him. The reason being that he does not possess power in order to destroy, and thus it follows that if he is so doing it is lawful to oppose him.”

“It is clear from the preceding that, if the pope by his commands, orders or by his actions is destroying the church, he may be resisted and the fulfilment of his commands prevented. The right of open resistance to prelates’ abuse of authority stems also from natural law.” (Dialogus de Potestate Papae)

It would be “unlawful to allow him to act in such a fashion”, without any resistance, and “likewise to obey him.” There is “a duty to prevent him, and likewise an obligation to oppose him and resist him.” As he has papal power only to build up the Church and not to destroy it, it is “lawful to oppose him.” He is to be “resisted and the fulfilment of his commands prevented.” “Open resistance” is a right and a duty.

The theologian Tommaso Cardinal de Vio Gaetani Cajetan O.P. († 1534) declared:
Quote:“It is imperative to resist a pope who is openly destroying the Church.” (De Comparata Auctoritate Papae et Concilio).

Such a pope must be resisted, his policies opposed and prevented and true Catholic Faith and practice maintained. Resistance must be established and advanced.

The canonist and theologian, Fr. Francisco de Victoria, O.P. († 1546) told us the same:
Quote:“According to natural law, violence may lawfully be opposed by violence. Now, through the acts permitted and the orders of the kind under discussion, the Pope does commit violence, because he is acting contrary to what is lawful. It therefore follows that it is lawful to oppose him publicly. Cajetan draws attention to the fact that this should not be interpreted as meaning that anybody whosoever can judge the Pope, or assume authority over him, but rather that it is lawful to defend oneself even against him. Every person, in fact, has the right to oppose an unjust action in order to prevent, if he is able, its being carried out, and thus he defends himself.” (Obras, pp. 486-7)

All of the Faithful have the right to oppose the actions of a corrupt pope and to try to prevent his harmful policies from being carried out. It is “lawful to oppose him publicly.”

Adapted from here.

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  Archbishop Lefebvre: Excerpt from The Mystery of Jesus - "Placed before the Crib..."
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Excerpt from The Mystery of Jesus: The Meditations of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre


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"Placed before the image of the Infant Jesus in the crib, some might be moved to say, “It is not possible, He could not possibly have created the earth; he was just born.” To these St. Paul gives the reply: He was just born, yes, but His Person is a divine Person, and this Person is God, the Word of God. It is truly the Word of God who is there present in the crib, who assumes this body and soul. It is the Word of God, it is this divine Person whom we address. When you speak to someone, you address the person. This Person was the Word of God, by whom all was created. How can anyone then say that this Person who is the Word of God made Man is not Savior, and Priest and King, the three great attributes that this Person gives to this creature of God by the grace of the hypostatic union?*1

"Has any man then the right to be indifferent to the presence of the Word of God in our midst? It is inconceivable. God has willed to come among us; who then has a right to say, “Just let me live my life: I don’t need Jesus Christ to live.” It is unthinkable, especially since He came to save us from our sins. Consequently, we are all affected because we are all sinners. He came to die on the cross to redeem us from eternal damnation; can anyone then be disinterested? And how can they dare to compare this Person who is our Lord Jesus Christ to Mohammed or Budddha or Luther? How can a Catholic who has the Faith utter such words? How can they even speak of “the religions, all the religions, the cults” as if they were equal?

"Pope Pius VII manifested his indignation when presented with the Constitution of France in which was affirmed the freedom of all the religions. He reacted against the words “all the religions.” By these words they were putting the holy religion of God, of our Lord Jesus Christ, on the same level as the heresies and schisms. He was outraged, and he wrote to the Archbishop of Troyes: “Go and see the king. Tell him that it is inadmissible for a Catholic monarch, for a king who calls himself Catholic, to allow the freedom’ of all the religions,’ without distinction.” The Pope was indignant. This should be the conviction of every Catholic.

"It is not possible to be a Catholic and not feel outrage when they speak of “all the religions,” placing thereby our Lord on a par with Buddha and all the rest. They do not believe that our Lord is God. They do not believe that it is the Person of God who is before us. Clearly not. Are there several incarnations of God? In Buddha? In Mohammed? In Luther? No, there is only one, in our Lord Jesus Christ. This fact has enormous consequences, and we should sense this in prOeportion to our belief in the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ.

"What St. John says on this point is very important, as we have seen. It can be summed up in this way: He who affirms that Jesus Christ is God is of God, and he who denies that our Lord Jesus Christ is God is an antichrist (cf. I Jn. 2:22). Antichrist! and, consequently, a devil. St. John, for one, had the Faith, and he knew how to draw the consequences.

"It can be wondered today if there are any real Catholics left among those who call themselves Catholic, because everyone finds it natural to speak of freedom of religion and the liberty of worship. Yet that cannot be conceded, because it is contrary to the dignity of our Lord Jesus Christ. They will accuse you of being intolerant. How many Catholics think the same thing, even m our own Catholic families?

"If you affirm there is only one true religion, the religion of our Lord Jesus Christ, and all the others come from the devil, that they are of the Antichrist because they deny the divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, they will accuse you of being intolerant. “So, you want to go back to the Middle Ages,” they will sneer. No, we only want to restore what is: our Lord is King. The day when He comes suddenly in majesty upon the clouds of heaven they will say, “Ah, indeed, He is King; we did not believe it was possible.”

"Yes, our Lord is King, and He will be the only one, there shall be none beside Him. People are not able to convince themselves of it. They are infected by liberalism, by the secularism that affects many. Our Lord Jesus Christ is no longer ascribed his true place.

"His reign must be established on the earth as in heaven.

"It is He himself who said so in the prayer that He taught us, the Our Father: Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. And this must be the object of our prayers, the intention of our sufferings, and the purpose of our life. We must have no rest until our Lord’s reign is established. A Catholic whose heart is not animated by this profound desire is not a Catholic. He is not one of the faithful of our Lord Jesus Christ.[2]


Notes:
1. The union of two natures, divine and human. of Jesus Christ in one unique person, the Person of the divine Word. From the fact that this man Jesus Christ, is God, he is necessarily Savior, Priest, and King.

2. The Mystery of Jesus, The Meditations of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre [Kansas City: Angelus Press, 2000], pp. 23-25.

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