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The Easy and Only Way to Be a Saint: LOVE GOD

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If you think it is hard to be a saint, you (and almost all others) have listened to the devil who convinced you it is nearly impossible, so why even try?  (God and heaven are all love; the devil and hell are all hate.)

It’s not hard to love God Who is infinitely good and loves us immensely.  Our hearts were created to love God, as our ears were made to hear how He loves us.  God certainly demonstrated His love for us during His 33 years on earth.

The devil also plants the idea that God is stern and quick to punish and you should be afraid of Him.  That couldn’t be further from the truth.  God is just, which is a divine virtue that you should thank Him for.  But it is also important to realize that God is love, mercy, and sweetness, and loves you so much He died for you.  There is no greater love than one who gives up his life for another.

The members of your family love each other to a point that all want that fact to be known.  So each member of the family tries to demonstrate that with gifts, hugs, kisses, and words of affection.  Your love for God is not something you have to outwardly prove to Him every day, because He can “read” your heart.  He knows you love Him without your spending your life in the desert, dressed in sackcloth and ashes.  The saint in the desert is an extraordinary saint, called to do extraordinary things.  You live your lives in the world – but not of the world.  You love God and live accordingly.  You do God’s will as uncompromising traditional Catholics, quick to stand up for Christ the King.

You strive to become ordinary saints.  You are called to be saints, but not necessarily to perform extraordinary tasks, (for example, one who has been called by God to start a religious order like the Franciscans, etc.)

Let’s consider the steps one must take to learn to love God.

     1)  You have real interest in knowing and loving God.

     2)  You must learn much about God so you are willing to study much.

     3)  You are willing to sacrifice out of love.

     4)  You must have faith that your love is returned.

     5)  It’s only natural to speak often to someone you love.  

Thus, when you talk to God, it should be like talking to a friend – not a taskmaster, but a friend.  So do it often, through the day and when you awake at night.  He is always there and ready to help.  “Whatsoever you shall ask the Father in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.”  (St. John's Gospel, 14:13)  

The biggest confidence-building point in your journey to becoming an ordinary saint is understanding God’s ability to read what is in your heart.  Therein lies the truth that can’t be deceptively altered.

Another duty one has on this journey is to set the best of examples for others to follow.  No compromise with liberalism to avoid criticism or loss of family or friends.

Another big help in your efforts to love God is His Mother’s help.  She is all-powerful (through her Son) and is just waiting for your request for help to love her Son and join her in heaven.

Also, don’t forget your Guardian angel.  He is waiting to help and share his love for God.

It is important while on this journey to sanctity, to talk with God many times in a day, expressing your love and offering help to do His will saving souls.  You must always be in the state of grace, of course, and avoid sin at all costs.  If life without sin is your problem, you have very much work to do to build a sinless platform to spring forward on your journey to sanctity.  Christ does not ask the impossible of Catholics, in order for us to get to heaven.  He made us specifically to be in heaven with Him.  He did His part; now, it’s up to you (with His help).

Isn’t it wonderful to know God is in charge and that He loves you more than we can understand?  It’s important to speak about your love for God and set the example for others to follow.

There are many more saints in heaven than those listed in the saint books.  So, take heart, love God, and live your life accordingly.  An indication of your love for God is your willingness (with real satisfaction) to defend God and His Church against all odds.  If this is not the case in your life, you’re on the wrong track, and changes must be made.  You’re probably depending on the N-SSPX or other liberals for guidance and direction.  You cannot simply give them what is your responsibility for your own salvation.  Handing it off to others is very dangerous, and yes, uncertain.  Follow the five steps above and secure your sanctity.

Booke Review — Ungodly Rage

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The Hidden Face of Catholic Feminism

By Mrs. Donna Steichen

Ignatius Press, San Francisco ©1991

Mrs. Donna Steichen, the author of Ungodly Rage, is a Catholic journalist who attended many “women’s empowerment” conferences in many locations, investigating the feminist movement.  Here is part of her biography from a May 31, 2011 interview:

In the 1970s, Steichen began working as a Catholic journalist, writing for her diocesan newspaper.  She was also active in the pro-life movement, the Catholic League and religious education.

 

Long an avid reader of Catholic publications, in the 1980s Steichen became increasingly concerned about the effect of feminism on American Catholicism.[1]

Mrs. Steichen studied religious feminism because, as she explained, “it is the ultimate manifestation” of feminism.[2]  She explained further how she came to write her book, Ungodly Rage:

This book is a report on the subterranean phenomena of religious feminism as observed over more than a dozen years.  My journalistic investigation began, roughly, in 1977, when Rosemary Ruether, in a keynote address to Minnesota’s International Women’s Year (IWY) meeting, identified feminist theology as a species of [Marxist] liberation theology.[3]

Before we survey what Mrs. Steichen discovered in her investigation of religious feminism, let us first see what feminism is on a broader level, which includes secular feminism.  

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines “feminism” as a theory of equality:

Feminism: the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the

sexes.[4]

Encyclopedia Britannica adds that, in the 1990s, the feminist movement shifted to become more integrated with the racial equality movement and that the (so-called) “third wave” of the feminist movement which began then, redefined women as assertive and powerful:

The third wave [viz., in the 1990s] was much more inclusive of women and girls of color than the first or second waves had been.  …  the third wave redefined women and girls as assertive, powerful …[5]

This version of feminism is the popular, “mass consumption” version.  This is the level in which one encounters it around us every day.

“Rank & file” feminists merely focus on career advantage or in the “empowerment” of not needing to obey their husbands.  The “every day”, ordinary feminists don’t look any deeper than that.  This is like most Masons who don’t look deeper than the shallow appearance of Freemasonry being a career aid, a networking group, a fraternal society and a social club.  So, it easily happens that feminists and Masons seem perfectly normal and good people and that they are friendly and well-intentioned.  But looking deeper, Freemasonry is much more insidious[6] and, based on her years of investigation, Mrs. Steichen explains that the feminist movement is insidious too.

In a 2011 interview, Mrs. Steichen notes that the feminists do not define what feminism is:

Question: What is feminism and how does it operate in our society?

Donna Steichen: That’s a good place to start, because if you notice, feminism is rarely defined.  In particular, the feminists don’t define it.  It is to their advantage not to define it, because most people interpret it as meaning that you’re for women, or that you believe women have a right to be educated or are just as smart as men.

But that’s not what it is about at all.  Feminism is about overthrowing the structure of the family and society.  It rose out of the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels [authors of The Communist Manifesto]. They saw that the family was at odds with their vision of society.  Owning the factories is not enough; you can’t change society unless you get rid of the family.  When you attack the family, you attack society itself, including its institutions, authority, and traditions, as well as the Ten Commandments and God.

Religious feminists, and even secular feminists, want to overthrow God.  The religious feminists have set about replacing the Trinitarian God with a mishmash of New Age spirituality[7], paganism, psychology, and anything that is not structured, that is not traditional, that is not Christianity.[8]

Mrs. Steichen explains the various related levels of feminism in this way:

When feminism is defined as a movement to establish the equality of women, it sounds plausible.  But its fruits betray its real nature.  Even at its least destructive, it is a tactical falsehood, like the Emperor’s new clothes.  It attempts to establish equality between the sexes, which already exists in fact, by forcing everyone to pretend the sexes are identical.  

  • In the family, it would substitute performance contracts and pre-nuptial divorce agreements for the loving donation of all one’s self and goods to a permanent common life.

  • In commerce, it is a divisive form of reverse discrimination.

  • In academia, as academics know, it is a cut-throat politics, unconcerned with fact or scholarly objectivity.  

  • In its ultimate manifestation, in religious feminism, it is an anarchic madness.[9]

Mrs. Steichen explained the connection of this “religious feminism” to the secular versions, in these words:

Religious feminism is the logical extension of secular feminism into the realm of the sacred.  From the beginning its leaders have worked closely with secular and anti-Christian feminists.[10]

Mrs. Steichen remarks that this is the reason the secular feminist Gloria Steinem, in her introduction to the conference “textbook” Goddesses in Every Woman, wrote about the value of the goddess movement.[11]  Mrs. Steichen adds that “the ultimate feminist objective is the obliteration of Christianity.”[12]  Mrs. Steichen explains that even the leaders of the secular feminist movement know that feminism is, at bottom, a revolution against traditional religion.  Mrs. Steichen quotes Gloria Steinem as saying, “Women-Church is the women’s movement.”[13] 

Mrs. Steichen also quotes secular feminist leader, Betty Friedan about feminism being, at bottom, anti-God:

When asked what the feminist movement could hope to accomplish in the future, Betty Friedan told reporters, “I can’t tell you that now.  You wouldn’t believe it anyway.  It’s theological.”[14]

Mrs. Steichen’s book is full of first-hand accounts of feminist conferences.  Many of her narratives are quite long and detailed.  Here is a representative part of one of her accounts:

At most workshops, there seemed to be a deliberate attempt to draw participants into ritual activities.  No one asked me to leave when I declined, but I began to suspect a concerted effort to enlist everyone present in the conspiracy against the “patriarchal” Church through group dynamics.  All the rituals I witnessed, and most of the “language and imagery” discussed, were drawn from Starhawk’s[15] books.  Clearly, she had become a matriarch of feminist spirituality.[16]  …

By Sunday morning, the Mankato conference crowd had declined to about three hundred.  While two other feminist services were held down a hallway, some 150 women gathered for the Wiccan rite described in the program as combining “both ancient matriarchal concepts and contemporary feminist issues”.  The large room was unfurnished except for a table altar, decorated with corn and gourds, four unlighted candles, a conch shell and a small brass cauldron.  Priestesses Patti Lather and Antiga said the service would be conducted in the “Dianic Wiccan tradition”.  The women formed a loose circle and followed Antiga and Lather in a vigorous opening chant:

We are strong and loving women;

We will do what must be done,

Changing, feeling, loving, growing,

We will do what must be done.

It was repeated, in accelerating tempo, half a dozen times.  Next came a song in a quick folk-blues rhythm. The women sang eagerly, clapping in time, some singing the harmony:

Woman am I, Spirit am I,

I am the infinite within my soul;

I have no beginning and I have no end,

All this I am.[17] …

Antiga called the large circle together again with a blast from her conch shell.  The women stood with hands linked, eyes closed, while she led them in the hypnotic “centering meditation”, a “Tree of Life ritual largely taken from Starhawk’s Dreaming the Dark” and almost identical to the one used earlier in Joan Keller-Marcsh’s workshop.

There were sighs and groans.  … Around the room, bodies obediently swung forward, heads hanging down, like a circle of rag dolls.

She paused. “Open your eyes, and we’ll begin casting the circle of the east.”

The circle of the east lay on the floor like spokes of a wheel, toes together. Crooning, the women rose slowly, waving their arms, then joined hands and moved in and out from the center, like children dancing around a maypole. They made windy, whistling sounds.

“Welcome, spirit of the east”, said Antiga, lighting the first candle. “Blessed be.”  “Blessed be”, the congregation responded.

The circle of the south knelt with foreheads touching the floor, then rose and raised their arms. “Blessed fire”, they intoned. “Fire is transformation, is passion, is beauty, is eternity ….  Come join our fire.”

“Welcome, spirit of the south.  Blessed be.” Antiga lit the second candle.

“Blessed be”, the group replied.

The circle of the west stood, alternately lifting their arms, then folding them in. “Hear me, Aphrodite. . . sunset. . . intuition. . . life giving. . . deep waters, dark waters”, they crooned, swaying.

“Welcome, spirit of the west.  Blessed be.” The third candle was lighted.

“Blessed be.”

The circle of the north knelt, foreheads pressed to the floor. As they began to sway from side to side, they lifted their heads and droned, “Oooom, oooora,” Rising, arms linked, they called out, “North star. Cold. Cold moon dying. Ice. Northern lights.  Blackness. Nothingness.” They howled wordlessly. Then they knelt, pressed their heads to the floor again, raised them and, swaying, chanted over and over ….

“Welcome, spirit of the north. Blessed be”, said Antiga.

“Blessed be.” The last candle was lighted, the large circle reformed.  …

Antiga moved the smoking cauldron to the center of the circle.  Everyone was invited to “cast into the cauldron all that you want to let go of”. Voices called out,  “Patriarchy!” “Anger!” “Fear!” “Oppression!” “Lack of time!” “Military mindset!”  …

We are three witches from different places”, one of the trio said “I resent being classified with satanism!. . . Satanism has nothing whatever to do with women’s religion!  Satanism is a perversion of the white male Catholic religion …”

“Freedom! Freedom!” Kneeling in a circle, the congregation shouted. They pounded on the floor. The shouts became screams, and then a rising roar.[18]

This account, like many of Mrs. Steichen’s eye-witness accounts, demonstrates what she called “feminism’s anti-feminine heart”,[19] because feminism is ultimately a movement of rage and hatred.

Mrs. Steichen recounts how these feminist conferences promote not only feminism and witchcraft (wicca) but also cross-promote unnatural impurity[20], the murder of the innocent[21], extreme environmentalism, the New Age Movement, and many other great evils.  Mrs. Steichen summarized:

Feminism appears to be the bait, moral disintegration the hook and the occult the dark and treacherous sea into which the deluded are towed.[22]

Mrs. Steichen provides the broader picture of feminism and its goals:

The primary target of secular feminism was the traditional family.  …  [Before the 1960s feminist revolution,] one can concede that some men demeaned women’s characteristic role.  Every era has its own imperfections.  But it was a far better society for women and children than the present chaotic one, and few women would not gladly trade their present state to restore it if they could.  The feminists did not call on society to value women’s distinctive contributions properly but instead attempted the impossible task of opposing human nature, denying the differences everywhere revealed in experience.  Feminists won the battle, and women lost. …

[One of the many evils of feminism is that it caused] an indignant masculine backlash against irrational feminist accusations, and litigation is emerging to erode further men’s protective instincts toward women.  

[In summary, Mrs. Steichen explains that] Catholic feminism incorporates all the errors of secular feminism and others more profound.  Its major target is the religious belief that underlies the traditional family and society.[23]

A key part of feminism’s attack on the family, is an attack on patriarchy.  Mrs. Steichen explained this fact:

Under the feminist assault, patriarchy has come to be regarded as odious, even by patriarchs [such as the Catholic Church’s hierarchy].  Feminists denounce it as atavistic,[24] inherently inequitable, irredeemably oppressive. But they misunderstand the nature of women’s rights.  Recovering those rights will require that patriarchy be reclaimed.  Selfishness, like pride, is gender neutral.  So patriarchy has sometimes been abused by sinners to justify their selfishness.  But the present agonies of the family, of secular society and of the Church all result from failure to meet patriarchal responsibilities, understood and lived as St. Paul outlined them.  …

The term patriarchy refers to the male-headed family form and social system expressed in Scripture and existing everywhere in human society.  In the Church, it is a title referring to bishops who rank just below the Pope in jurisdiction, though Catholic feminists use the word to mean the male priesthood and the entire male hierarchy.  In all cases, it is properly an office, not a declaration of qualitative superiority.  …

Feminist mythology to the contrary, the Church did not inflict inequality on women.  Catholicism in fact elevated women to a status they had never enjoyed in pre-Christian societies by venerating the Blessed Virgin Mary as the perfect model of human response to God, by consecrating marriage as a sacrament, by recognizing the family as the basic unit of society and by constantly teaching that [certain intimate] acts are the unique privilege of the married state.[25]

Mrs. Steichen then beautifully explains the roles of men and women, as God intended them:

The Church teaches that creation exists to raise up souls to God.  Woman’s natural vocation is irreplaceably at the heart of that purpose, where human nature is most plainly seen to be neither simply animal nor purely spiritual but a mysterious combination of both.  …  In the “domestic Church” of the family, where the future Church is born, they are the ones most immediately responsible for the physical and spiritual formation of the new generation through the transmission of faith and culture.  Their wisdom and generosity are essential in shaping the family as a holy and enduring center where each member is cherished not for what he does but because his immortal soul is of incalculable value.  It is in the family that all mankind’s labor is transmuted by love into the human and the personal.

Parenthood is a work of eternal significance in which both parents share, but by nature woman is the one most deeply engrossed.  Her vocation is so much a part of herself that she becomes submerged in it; she is compelled by its demands always to be centered outside herself.  Certainly, motherhood is a demanding work, and it sometimes brings anguish as well as joy.  When a woman’s husband and children rise up and call her blessed, [Prov.31:28] she doubtless deserves their praise.  Some who deserve it never receive it; there are heroines of holiness struggling at the brutally difficult task of raising and supporting their children alone.  But even in the most painful circumstances, a mother usually finds that her baby awakens in her a previously unknown passion of protective love.  To have a life work so absorbing that it makes us forget ourselves is a great human privilege.

Fathers are called by that name because they reflect God’s capacity to generate life outside Himself, a high honor and an awesome responsibility.  A father’s role is of great importance; many women have lately discovered from painful experience how vital it is to family stability and the healthy psychological and moral development of children.  But normally he must be engaged elsewhere much of the time, dealing with the world, providing for his family’s material needs.  Only a fortunate minority of men find a work significant in itself.  For most, the knowledge that they are supporting their families is all that gives their labor meaning.  

Patriarchy, properly interpreted, means men meeting their vocational obligations.  When a husband fulfills his responsibilities as St. Paul prescribes, his role is not one of domination but of service.  As husband and father, he is to negotiate with the outside world, provide for and protect his family, guide and direct it in consultation with his wife.  In normal human relationships, such consultation is broad ….[26]

Because feminism is, at root, a rebellion, Mrs. Steichen draws a parallel between Eve’s rebellion and modern feminism:

Cunning, the serpent draws Eve into dialogue.  She knows the limits God has set, but she listens as the deceiving voice lures her with a promise of autonomy – the promise that she can be her own God.  When she yields, her disobedience separates her from God and from Adam.  Contemporary Catholic feminists are part of a vivid, and ruinous, reenactment of that ancient tragedy.  Their history strikingly recalls Eve’s susceptibility to false promises, her rebellion against legitimate authority and her presumptuous ambition to make herself “as God”.  Women, it seems, are more prone than men to such fraudulent spiritual enthusiasms.[27]

Mrs. Steichen continues by astutely showing men’s very heavy responsibility for feminism:

Men, in contrast, seem especially tempted to irresponsibility.  Adam chooses to evade the very duties of leadership that Eve covets.  He is not deceived by the serpent, but he eats the forbidden fruit anyway.  [1 Tim 2:13-14]  Perhaps he cannot bear to be separated from his bride by her sin.  Perhaps he is intimidated by the prospect of confronting her.  In either case, the head of the first family disobeys his Creator and betrays his patriarchal obligations with his eyes open.  

We can see parallels to Adam’s sin in men who abdicate their legitimate authority and obligations in the family.  Some use the slogans of feminism to seduce women into [impure] relationships outside of marriage, then coerce them to [kill innocent life]. Some deny their wives motherhood or deprive them of the right to live their maternal vocation with full attention, by driving them into the labor force.  Some welcome any excuse to remain immature and carefree boys by shunting their responsibilities onto their wives.[28]

Mrs. Steichen’s book is an eye-opening peek behind the veil of the most virulent form of feminism, to help us see what is at stake in feminism, for society and for the family.  We recommend this book.

Catholic Candle’s afterword: the Catholic Life is the Answer for all of Society’s Ills!

The virtuous Catholic life is the solution to all our social ills and we should live this Catholic life fully.[29]  The devil apes this genuine Catholic solution through his own counterfeit “solutions”, one of which is feminism and the “women’s equality” movement.  This is like the devil aping genuine Catholic social teachings with the false “solution” of Marxist liberation theology.  

Because of Original Sin, men (and women) don’t always live up to their vocations and responsibilities.  Men should show respect for women and, more than that, they should honor women, cherish them and be chivalrous.  This is the true and Catholic way of life.  

Men should show this in many ways, large and small, e.g., changing a flat tire for a woman motorist at the side of the road, opening a door for a woman (although she is capable of opening a door herself), giving her his seat on a crowded train, offering to help her carry her heavy packages, even when she is capable of lifting them herself, etc.

Men should be courteous to women, charitable, respectful, polite, attentive, considerate, patient, thoughtful, obliging, listening well, not failing to listen because they are formulating a new comment while a woman (or a man) is talking.

God made men to compete with men.  God made women to be man’s helpmate, not his competitor.  That is why the Catholic Church overcame paganism to instill into a man to be a gentleman and to be gallant toward women. 

Girls and women are children of God (as men are too).  Women and girls have their own role and dignity in God’s Plan.  God did not put them on earth merely for men’s selfishness (any more than men are on earth only for women’s selfishness).  Rather, God made women to collaborate with men in the work God intends them to accomplish, in the roles for which God created them in the family.[30]

We should treat all women as images of Our Lady.

The weightiest lesson of all comes from the law to love our neighbors as ourselves, which St. Paul applies to women (wives) in particular:

Thus, ought husbands also to love their wives as their own bodies. Who loveth his wife, loveth himself, for no one ever hated one’s own flesh (Eph. 5:28-29).

The Catholic Church has ever been the leaven fostering the dignity of women.  This is what the Catholic Church has to say in the context of the family:

“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church, and delivered Himself up for it.”  Ephesians 5:25.  This means that, as Christ gave His Life for His Church, a husband should give/devote his life to his wife.

Our Lord teaches us the generosity we should have for each other, and husbands for their wives:

“Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his

friends.”  St. John’s Gospel, 15:31.  Husbands should remember that their wives should be their best friends.

A man who loves much does not “count the cost” and he sacrifices gladly everything for his friend (especially his wife and children).  “If a man should give all the substance of his house for love, he shall despise it as nothing.” Canticle of Canticles, 8:7.

We should take to heart, also as regards the women in our midst (and men too), what our holy Redeemer taught us:

As ye would that others should treat you, so do ye likewise to them. … So be compassionate as your Father also hath compassion.  Judge ye not, and ye shall not be judged.  Condemn ye not, and ye shall not be condemned.  Forgive ye, and ye shall be forgiven.  Give ye, and it shall be given unto you.  They shall give into your bosom good measure, pressed down and shaken together and overflowing.  For it shall be meted unto you again with the same measure wherewith ye have meted.

St. Luke’s Gospel, 12:31, 36-38.

[1]          May 31, 2011 interview found here: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2011/05/31/incalculable-damage/

[2]
         Ungodly Rage, page 237.

[3]          Ungodly Rage, page 17 (bracketed explanation added).

[5]          https://www.britannica.com/topic/feminism/The-third-wave-of-feminism (bracketed words added for clarity).

[6]
         See, e.g., Custodi Di Quella Fede, Encyclical Of Pope Leo XIII (On Freemasonry), 1892.

[7]          See, further information in Ungodly Rage, page 122.

[8]
         Quoted from the May 31, 2011 interview found here:

https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2011/05/31/incalculable-damage/ (bracketed words in the original).

[9]          Ungodly Rage, page 237 (reformatted with bullet points for easier reading; emphasis added).

[10]
         Ungodly Rage, page 50.

[11]          Ungodly Rage, page 58.

[12]          Ungodly Rage, page 79.

[13]          Ungodly Rage, page 117-118 (emphasis in the original).

[14]          Ungodly Rage, page 20.

[15]          Mrs. Steichen explained: “Born Miriam Simos in St. Paul, Minnesota, Starhawk was given dubious respectability, and introduced into many Catholic settings, by Rev. Matthew Fox, O.P., the founder and director of the Institute for Culture and Creation Spirituality (ICCS).”  Ungodly Rage, page 34.

[16]          Ungodly Rage, page 34.

[17]          Ungodly Rage, page 35.

[18]          Ungodly Rage. pages 36-39.

[19]          Ungodly Rage, page 165

[20]          We use delicate terminology in this article, as Catholics must.  Read the Catholic teaching on this principle here:

https://catholiccandle.neocities.org/faith/sins-caused-by-obscene-speech.html

[21]          We use delicate terminology in this article.

[22]          Ungodly Rage, page 27.

[23]

          Ungodly Rage, p. 225

[24]
         Atavism is: recurrence of or reversion to a past style, manner, outlook, approach, or activity.  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/atavism

[25]          Ungodly Rage, page 226 (bracketed euphemistic words used for delicacy).

[26]          Ungodly Rage, page 227.

[27]
         Ungodly Rage, page 223.

[28]
         Ungodly Rage, page 223 (bracketed explanations used for delicacy).

[29]          Here is one way in which Pope St. Pius X taught this truth: “there is no true civilization without a moral civilization, and no true moral civilization without the true religion”.  Our Apostolic Mandate, August 25, 1910.

[30]          For an overview of the roles that God gave to women and men, read this article: https://catholiccandle.neocities.org/faith/the-role-that-god-gave-to-woman-and-the-great-work-of-her-life.html

The “New” SSPX Follows the Conciliar Popes in Minimizing the Abuse Crisis

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Catholic Candle note: Pope Pius XI declared that “purity of morals” is a “most delicate matter”.[1]  When talking about the Sixth and Ninth Commandments, the Council of Trent Catechism warns that a person sins if he does not use “great caution and prudence, and … great delicacy”.[2]  The article below attempts to use that great delicacy which God requires.

Although this article involves conciliar clergy, the inherent doubts[3] concerning their “ordinations” and “consecrations” do not mean that those clergy do not possess the jurisdiction of their offices (for governing).  For a full explanation of this principle, read this article: https://catholiccandle.neocities.org/faith/against-sedevacantism.html#section-10

Honest Catholics know that Vatican II’s promotion of laxity and “openness to the world” has caused unimaginable harm to the morals of Catholics and (indirectly) to non-Catholics.  Since Vatican II, pornography, adultery, divorce, murder of the innocent, euthanasia, unnatural impurity, rejection of the children God Wills to send, and countless other grave vices, have dramatically multiplied.

The true Catholic Church is the Light of the world[4] and anchors the world regarding morals and the Natural Law.[5]  Beginning only at Vatican II, when the Catholic Church’s human element became increasingly lax, “decent” non-Catholics began to accept a great many vices they previously rejected.  For example, “decent” non-Catholics opposed cremation and tattoos before the Vatican II revolution.[6] 

Therefore, Vatican II’s very bad fruits will continue (and worsen) until the human element of the Catholic Church rejects Vatican II and the conciliar church through Our Lady’s miraculous intervention when Russia is consecrated to Her Immaculate Heart.  

Until then, no Catholics (if they have any common sense) are surprised by additional bad fruits when they hear of them.  One such example, is the impurity crisis of conciliar “priests” abusing the innocent.  Honest and informed Catholics would never deny the problem nor deny that the conciliar revolution caused it.

So many conciliar “priests” have committed these crimes that the attorneys general of all fifty United States (Republican as well as Democrat) are investigating this abuse within their states.[7]

One might hope that the “new” SSPX, as it ought, would accuse Vatican II and its resulting conciliar church of forming the lax “priests” who commit these crimes so widely.

One might further hope that, because of this crisis, the N-SSPX would warn its followers to stay away from the conciliar church and its horrific, evil fruits.  The N-SSPX does no such thing because the N-SSPX wants to join the anti-Catholic conciliar church.

Former Pope Benedict and the N-SSPX both minimize this Abuse Crisis

The N-SSPX follows the minimizing tactics of conciliar popes.  For example, while former Pope Benedict XVI oversaw (for the Vatican) all cases worldwide of these abuse crimes committed by “priests”, he downplayed the problem by falsely claiming that in the United States “less than 1% of priests are guilty of acts of this type.”[8]

The SSPX downplays yet more extremely than former Pope Benedict by hesitating to admit that any conciliar “priests” have committed this abuse.  Here are the N-SSPX’s words: “Even if perverts or unbalanced men can be found among consecrated men …” – thereby suggesting that it is doubtful that there are any abusers at all among conciliar “priests”.[9]

Who would say “if the devil is not God” unless the person was leaving open that the devil might be God?  Likewise, why would anyone who accepts these clergy crimes as fact say “if clergy are committing these crimes”?

By supposing that no conciliar “priests” are abusers when countless priests are, the SSPX fights the truth.

Pope Francis and the N-SSPX deflect blame away from the lax, conciliar “new priesthood”.

Pope Francis deflects blame from conciliar “priests” by blaming “clericalism”, i.e., blaming a lack of power-sharing by the hierarchy.[10]  Here are Pope Francis’ words:

Clericalism, whether fostered by priests themselves or by lay persons, leads to an excision in the ecclesial body that supports and helps to perpetuate many of the evils that we are condemning today. To say ‘no’ to abuse is to say an emphatic ‘no’ to all forms of clericalism.[11]

Thus, Pope Francis blames the conciliar “priest”-abuse on (comparatively conservative) Catholics who oppose democratic decision-making in the church.  Of course, the true blame for this abuse lies with the lax, conciliar “priesthood” which Archbishop Lefebvre rejected – calling it modernist Rome’s “new priesthood”.[12]

The N-SSPX uses a tactic similar to Pope Francis’ tactic – by deflecting the blame from where it belongs, viz., the lax, conciliar “new priesthood”.  The N-SSPX blames evil media outlets, saying that any problem is only with a comparatively “tiny” group and the media have exaggerated this problem.  Here are the N-SSPX’s words:

The media attacks the Church furiously while pretending to forget that these cases, as scandalous as they may be, are only a tiny minority compared to the abuse committed by adults on children in schools, sports activities, or stepfamilies, not to mention the shady circles of fashion, the show business and the media.[13]

The N-SSPX not only deflects blame from the lax, conciliar “priesthood” – which is where the blame belongs – but the N-SSPX falsely suggests the media is the problem “if” there are any pervert-“priests” and that this abuse involves only a comparatively “tiny” minority.  

The N-SSPX also deflects blame for the abuse caused in the lax, conciliar “new priesthood”, on the grounds that godless civil society is worse.  By contrast, relatively conservative Catholic media sound the alarm about abuse in the new, conciliar priesthood:  

  • Media such as (the relatively conservative, Catholic) Lifesitenews.com reports on a new study showing the “priest”-abuse crisis is worse than “commonly thought”.[14] 

  • Media such as Lifesitenews.com report increasing statistics of abuse.  (However much abuse actually occurred in 2002, temporarily fewer abuses came to light because the abusers were scared by the lawsuits and media then.)[15]

Whereas the N-SSPX faults the media for (supposedly) exaggerating the “priest”-abuse crisis, Lifesitenews.com reports on a new study which specifically blames this abuse on the immorality of the conciliar hierarchy and the “new priesthood”, i.e., upon that fact that:

you’ve got eight times the proportion of [unnaturally impure men in the conciliar priesthood] as you do in the general population – it’s as if the priesthood becomes a particularly welcoming and enabling and encouraging population for [that kind of unnaturally impure] activity and behavior.[16]

Lifesitenews.com cited a survey in which most of the recently “ordained” conciliar “priests” disclosed the existence of a subculture and network of men at their seminaries who were steeped in unnatural impurity.[17]

This is a crisis!  Yet the N-SSPX deflects blame from the lax “new priesthood” to the media.  Pope Francis could not ask for a better partner than the N-SSPX to deflect blame from that same conciliar “new priesthood” which Archbishop Lefebvre entirely rejected.

The N-SSPX minimizes the abuse crisis by citing the lower abuse numbers from a report which conciliar “bishops” commissioned and financed.

Honest Catholics know that they cannot trust the conciliar “bishops” to protect the innocent.  Those conciliar “bishops” want to appear to defend innocent victims.  However, they never implemented the “Dallas Charter” regulations to restrain their “priests”, until the media and other external pressure drove them to do so in 2002.  Even then, the “bishops” exempted themselves from this regulation.[18]

The Ordinary of the Diocese of Burlington, VT, “bishop” Christopher Coyne, admitted (concerning his own fellow-“bishops”), that “The mistrust underlying all this was earned ….  The bishops had proven over the last two decades that they had not been able to police themselves.”[19] 

The U.S. conciliar “bishops” hired and paid for a study by John Jay College which concluded that 4% of “priests” are credibly accused of committing abuse which became public (at least eventually).[20]

A different study, not paid for by the U.S. “bishops”, concluded that the actual percentage was about 50% higher than that, i.e., about 6%.  These statistics, of course, include only abuse for which there were complaints which were made public, at least eventually.[21]  In other words, these percentages leave aside unreported as well as privately-handled abuse.

Even using the lower statistics used by the U.S. “bishops” and the N-SSPX, this abuse still shows there is a crisis.  This abuse is a type of spiritual death caused by 4% (or 6%) of the “priests” not counting (maybe much higher incidences of) unreported abuse as well as privately-handled abuse.  Doubtlessly, the victims number in the thousands or tens of thousands in the U.S. alone.

Further, the “bishops” shuffle the “priest”-abusers from parish to parish to hide the spiritual death they cause.  Also, the conciliar dioceses settle confidentially with victims, to keep this spiritual death hidden.

Let us suppose an analogous crisis of physical death:

  • Suppose there were a soft drink which was sold throughout the U.S. (and throughout the world), of which, 4% (or 6%) of the cans caused death, killing thousands or tens of thousands of persons in the U.S. alone.  

  • Suppose further the stores and the soft drink’s manufacturer moved the cans from one store to another, when the people began to notice persons dying from the soft drinks they bought at a particular store.  

  • Suppose then (like the “bishops” in the current “priest”-abuse crisis) the soft drink’s maker made confidential settlements to keep the deaths hidden from the public.

No honest person would say the type of thing which the N-SSPX says about the spiritual deaths caused by “priest”-abusers, viz., Even if there are any poison soft drink cans, the media is blowing the matter out of proportion from what is only a tiny minority of soft drink cans.

Conclusion

Plainly, the “new” SSPX is trying to ingratiate itself with the conciliar revolutionaries.  The N-SSPX minimizes the evil of the conciliar hierarchy and the lax “new priesthood”.  The “new” SSPX will say anything to have its followers accept the coming deal with modernist Rome.  This shows that you should not expect the truth from the N-SSPX.[22]

[1]          Divini Illius Magistri, (On Christian Education), Pope Pius XI, 1929, §65.  

To learn more about this grave duty to use great caution in discussing the sins against purity and to discuss them only when necessary, read this article: https://catholiccandle.neocities.org/faith/sins-caused-by-obscene-speech.html

[2]
         Warning given by the Council of Trent Catechism in the section on the 6th Commandment.

[3]          Faithful and informed Catholics know that conciliar ordinations and consecrations are inherently doubtful and so must be treated as invalid.  For an explanation why this is true, read these articles:

[4]

          St. Matthew’s Gospel, 5:14.

[5]          The Natural Law is what we know we must do by the light of the natural reason God gave us.  One example of the Natural Law is that we must never tell a lie.  We naturally know this because we know that the purpose of speech is to convey the truth and so we naturally know that telling a lie is abusing the purpose of speech.  

Here is how St. Thomas explains what the Natural Law is:

[L]aw, being a rule and measure, can be in a person in two ways: in one way, as in him that rules and measures; in another way, as in that which is ruled and measured, since a thing is ruled and measured, in so far as it partakes of the rule or measure.  Wherefore, since all things subject to Divine providence are ruled and measured by the eternal law, as was stated above [in Summa, Ia IIae, Q.91, a.1]; it is evident that all things partake somewhat of the eternal law, in so far as, namely, from its being imprinted on them, they derive their respective inclinations to their proper acts and ends.  Now among all others, the rational creature is subject to Divine providence in the most excellent way, in so far as it partakes of a share of providence, by being provident both for itself and for others.  Wherefore it has a share of the Eternal Reason, whereby it has a natural inclination to its proper act and end: and this participation of the eternal law in the rational creature is called the natural law.  Hence the Psalmist after saying (Psalm 4:6): "Offer up the sacrifice of justice," as though someone asked what the works of justice are, adds: "Many say, Who showeth us good things?" in answer to which question he says: "The light of Thy countenance, O Lord, is signed upon us": thus implying that the light of natural reason, whereby we discern what is good and what is evil, which is the function of the natural law, is nothing else than an imprint on us of the Divine light. It is therefore evident that the natural law is nothing else than the rational creature's participation of the eternal law.

Summa, Ia IIae, Q.91, a.2, respondeo.

[8]          Words of former Pope Benedict XVI before he became pope, in November 2002, when he was in charge of all abuse cases for the Vatican, quoted from an interview here:

http://www.bishop-accountability.org/AtAGlance/USCCB_Yearly_Data_on_Accused_Priests.htm

[9]          Emphasis added.  Here is the longer quote from the SSPX:

Even if perverts or unbalanced men can be found among consecrated men, we must not lose sight of the general hypocrisy that reigns in our “liberated” societies, where everything is permitted, and the worst depravities are encouraged.  

Here is the entire N-SSPX article: https://fsspx.news/en/news-events/news/300-priests-united-states-suspected-abuse-between-1947-and-2010-40486?utm_source=Society+of+Saint+Pius+X+%7C+Newsletter&utm_campaign=9d1eca99f1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_21_04_48&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8c13eb2341-9d1eca99f1-203947293 (emphasis added).

[10]          The Merriam-Webster Dictionary’s only definition of “clericalism” is “a policy of maintaining or increasing the power of a religious hierarchy”.  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clericalism

[12]          In his November 21, 1974 declaration of principles, Archbishop Lefebvre wrote:

We refuse, on the other hand, and have always refused to follow the Rome of neo-Modernist and neo-Protestant tendencies which were clearly evident in the Second Vatican Council and, after the Council, in all the reforms which issued from it. …

It is impossible to modify profoundly the lex orandi without modifying the lex credendi. To the Novus Ordo Missae correspond a new catechism, a new priesthood, new seminaries, a charismatic Pentecostal Church—all things opposed to orthodoxy and the perennial teaching of the Church.

This Reformation, born of Liberalism and Modernism, is poisoned through and through; it derives from heresy and ends in heresy, even if all its acts are not formally heretical. It is therefore impossible for any conscientious and faithful Catholic to espouse this Reformation or to submit to it in any way whatsoever.

http://sspx.org/en/1974-declaration-of-archbishop-lefebvre (emphasis added).

[13]          https://fsspx.news/en/news-events/news/300-priests-united-states-suspected-abuse-between-1947-and-2010-40486?utm_source=Society+of+Saint+Pius+X+%7C+Newsletter&utm_campaign=9d1eca99f1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_21_04_48&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8c13eb2341-9d1eca99f1-203947293

Here is the longer N-SSPX quote:

The Hypocrisy of the World and the Statistical Reality

Even if perverts or unbalanced men can be found among consecrated men, we must not lose sight of the general hypocrisy that reigns in our “liberated” societies, where everything is permitted, and the worst depravities are encouraged.  The media attacks the Church furiously while pretending to forget that these cases, as scandalous as they may be, are only a tiny minority compared to the abuse committed by adults on children in schools, sports activities, or stepfamilies, not to mention the shady circles of fashion, the show business and the media.

The creators of opinion, who are so careful to decry any form of amalgam on certain topics, between Islam and terrorism for example, or immigration and invasion, etc., are having a field day here.  And yet, as the blog “[], Church and Media” recalled in 2016, the most complete study on the cases of [] abuse in the Church is that of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the University of New York, published in February 2004.  Drawing up an inventory of all the court cases between 1950 and 2002, this study makes a strict distinction between allegations and condemnations.

Thus, out of the 4,392 allegations listed in the study, 1,021 led to police investigations resulting in only 384 criminal accusations. This enabled the blog to draw up more precise statistics on the cases of confirmed [abuse]. The numbers go from 4% of priests accused of alleged [] abuse, to 0.35% of priests actually convicted of these acts.  Of course, “in this difference, not all the priests are innocent (some are no longer alive, statute of limitations, etc.), but there are some who are innocent, for unfortunately, false testimony and defamation do exist.”  And based on the rate of convictions among the inquests that were conducted and completed without being interrupted by the statute of limitations or the death of the accused, the blog concludes that between 98.5% and 99.65% of American priests are innocent.  The black sheep represent between 0.35 and 1.5% of consecrated men. Obviously, this is still too many.

In France, statistics show, according to the National Observatory of Social Action, that in 75% of the cases recorded, abuse of minors happens in the family, and a quarter of these cases of abuse are committed by other minors.  The proportion of Catholic priests convicted and imprisoned for such acts, all sentences combined, represents 0.48% of the clergy in function, as the French Bishops’ Conference pointed out on January 23, 2017.  As serious as it may be, it remains a marginal reality, much more marginal, in any case, than the media, always ready to pounce on an opportunity to dishonor the Church, would have it.

The Church intercedes for her wounded children, not for this hypocritical and corrupt world for which Christ refused to pray (see Jn. 17:9).

Emphasis added; slightly edited (at brackets) for delicacy.

[16]          Read the longer Lifesitenews report here: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/landmark-study-proves-homosexuality-is-strongly-linked-to-catholic-cle (bracketed synonyms substituted for delicacy).

[18]
         “The bishops specifically excluded themselves from the [2002 Dallas Charter] landmark child protection measures”.  https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/landmark-study-proves-homosexuality-is-strongly-linked-to-catholic-cle

The Rosary – How & Why

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Prayer is the lifting of the heart and mind to God. The heart is the will and the mind is the intellect.  The Rosary is a special prayer because it involves both mental prayer and vocal prayer.  One recites the prayers of the Rosary while meditating on the mysteries that the Holy Catholic Church gives us, namely, the Joyful, the Sorrowful, and the Glorious mysteries.  Yet what does this mean and how does one do it?

Most people do not understand how the Rosary is supposed to be said and hence they find the Rosary boring, tiresome, and let’s face it, “a drag.”  “I just don’t get anything out of the Rosary”; “It is so repetitious and boring to be just saying Hail Mary’s over and over again”; “I get so distracted saying the Rosary” or “I spend the whole time fighting distractions;” “Oh, it takes so long to say the Rosary” or “I don’t have time to say the Rosary.”

  Of course, the devil, who hates the Blessed Virgin Mary, is the one who inspires these discouraging thoughts.  He certainly knows by observation how efficacious the Rosary is, and how powerful the Rosary is, in protecting the soul from his onslaughts.  This is one of the primary reasons why Our Lady requests that we say at least five decades a day. She requested this specifically at Fatima, and at Lourdes.  Our Lady of Fatima said in the end times, that we would only have her Immaculate Heart and the Rosary. Thus, there should be no doubt in a serious Catholic’s mind, that we certainly have a moral obligation to say the Rosary.  We need to have devotion to Our Lady in order to save our souls, and the Rosary is one of the simplest devotional prayers one can say.

It is a positive shame that as many books as have had reference to the Rosary, there doesn’t seem to be anything written on exactly how the Rosary should be said. It seems to be assumed that people would automatically just “know” how to say it. What a clever trick of the devil, to ensure that folks will never say the Rosary, or never say it in the way the Blessed Mother intends it to be said!  Books and pamphlets about the Rosary mention that one says so many Hail Mary’s and an Our Father and Glory Be while meditating on the Mysteries. One can even find a “Scriptural Rosary” book that has basically Scriptural Quotes to be said between Hail Mary’s. Very well indeed, but just saying a Scriptural Quote is not meditating.  One can find books with the pictures of the Rosary depicting each of the 15 decades. Again, all very nice, but these do not explain how to say the Rosary. These books merely are hinting that just thinking or recalling to one’s mind the “story” of each mystery is supposed to be “praying” the Rosary.

There are many books written about mental prayer, yet unfortunately the way one actually is supposed to do it, is not described.  Even the Concise Catholic Dictionary does not give an accurate definition of mental prayer.  Meditation involves bringing some truth to mind and thinking on this truth or one could call it pondering a truth.  One considers the truth and draws what could be called some “profit, insight, or further conclusion” from “the considering” that one is presently doing. This process of considering might be called the preparation for mental prayer.  The actual mental prayer is simply this, that one says something to God.   This saying something to God is referred to as “an affection” or an “act of the will”.  Of course this statement is really said inside and does not have to be spoken aloud, although at times when one is alone, he might find himself saying things to God or the saints aloud.  Because prayer is the “lifting of the heart and mind to God”, the “act of the will” is the “lifting” of the heart.

The consideration can be compared to the tilling of the soil and the act of the will is like the harvest or fruit of the consideration.  The goal of the consideration is the acts of the will. If one does not make acts of the will, then one is not lifting both the heart and the mind to God, and thus, one is not praying.  When one is doing a good job making considerations, then the heart seems to overflow with things to say.  This pouring out of the heart is what is also called the colloquy.  These acts are typically of four kinds, namely, thanksgiving, contrition, petition, or adoration, which are the four types of prayer.

In meditation one considers some truth. One can think and consider about some topic, for example, the fall of the Angels. Then someone would take as many aspects of this topic as he wished to ponder and this pondering would produce many things to say to God, for instance, “Thank-you dear Lord for revealing this truth to mankind”; or “Thank-You dear Lord for saving me from falling into hell”; or “Thank-You for your mercy to me, etc.” One can meditate on a standard Catholic prayer and think about the words of the prayer itself.  This kind of meditation would involve thinking about the meaning of the words [singly, or perhaps, a couple at a time] and dwelling on them in order to appreciate them, and these thoughts would inspire acts of the will.  This might go something like this, maybe taking the Hail Mary:  

  • One would say Hail [thinking inside himself – this is a greeting to Mary]
  • Then, Mary [this name means seas]
  • Then, Full of grace[this means that Mary is completely holy]

These are examples of the considerations one would make and the following are possible “acts of the will” which the considerations might inspire:

  • Thou are so fair, O sweet Mother, and so pure.
  • I love you dear Mary, or, thy sweet name consoles me
  • Help me fair Lady of grace

Now putting these concepts in the sphere of the Rosary, when one is reciting the Hail Mary’s during the decades of the Rosary, one would not do this type of meditating on the words of the Hail Mary. Because meditating only on words of the Hail Mary for each Hail Mary of the entire Rosary would be difficult, the church has us base our considerations on the life of Our Lord and/or Our Lady, and let these considerations inspire our acts of the will. Thus, we only recite the Hail Mary’s, while considering the lives of Our Lord and/or Our Lady and making acts of the will. One may ask, “How can I be thinking about the lives of Our Lord and/or Our Lady, decide what I want to say to them, then say it, while I recite  the Hail Mary?” The simple answer is, that if one is saying the Rosary with someone else, then one can make his considerations, decide his act of the will and say it, (mentally), while the other person is leading or following the Hail Mary. When one is just starting out, one should not worry about making acts of the will when he is leading or following. It may happen at first that one’s act of the will, might slip out into the vocal recitation while following, but despite the embarrassment, know that in time this won’t keep happening.  

After a while of practicing making these acts of the will in this manner, one will find that he is actually able to say acts of the will while leading and/or following.  

One should try to make his acts of the will as simple as one can, because this will help him to get into the habit of mental prayer while he is reciting the vocal prayer.

One may also ask, “What if I am saying the Rosary by myself?” If one is saying the Rosary alone, it is a better thing to say the Our Father’s, Hail Mary’s, and Glory Be’s out loud, in a whisper, or at least mouthing the words with his lips. This makes it easier to say the required internal acts of the will.  Then, similarly one can say his act of the will in between the Hail Mary’s and eventually the acts of the will start “bleeding” into the recited Hail Mary’s. The person will find that he can truly make an act of the will at the same time he is reciting the Rosary. In fact, the expression, “reciting the Rosary” shows that the vocal aspect of the Rosary is merely a recital by rote of the Hail Mary’s.  The recital by rote and simultaneously saying acts of the will can, of course, include the Our Father’s and Glory Be’s as well.  Or one can think of the meaning of the Our Father and Glory Be while reciting them stirring up as much tender love as one can, trying to say them with fervor.  Then while reciting the Hail Mary’s one can pour out acts of the will.  One should not fret if his acts are simple, or if he finds himself making the same act throughout the entire decade.  One will discover that the Rosary becomes something that one really enjoys saying and that the Rosary seems to fly by and has far fewer distractions and maybe no distractions at all.  The Rosary is a powerful prayer and does soothe the soul when said properly. The following is a possible demonstration of how to do what is described above:

If the Rosary is not said alone-

Leader announces: The first joyful Mystery is the Annunciation. Then the leader begins the Our Father.

The follower: {reader of this article} while listening to the first part of the Our Father might say within himself, “Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for all your blessings to me. I am so unworthy,” or he might just internally join in the recital while he tries to focus intensely on the meaning of the words.

The leader: “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.”

The follower: [while the leader leads] internally thinks of considerations or intentions to say to God, Our Lord specifically, Our Lady specifically, or the saints. E.g. “thank-You dear Lord for becoming Man”

The follower: answers the Hail Mary “Holy Mary Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen”.

 The leader: says the next Hail Mary. [During this, the follower may ponder longer and come up with more ideas of what to say or add additional acts based on what he said already, e.g. “I adore Thee O Lord for Thy Incarnation,” or “Mary, I thank thee for thy ‘Fiat’”

The follower: answers the 2nd Hail Mary.

And so the process continues for the rest of the Annunciation decade and the rest of the decades.

If the Rosary is said alone-

Here the Leader and the follower are the reader.  So the reader as the leader announces the first Mystery. “The Annunciation” Then the reader says aloud, in a whisper, or at least mouthing the words recites the Our Father with a fervent focus on the words of the Our Father striving to say it with love.  Or the reader can say a short act of the will before beginning to recite the Our Father. {Of course the person praying can say any particular intention he may have when announcing the decade and this may inspire acts of the will likewise.}

Before saying the first Hail Mary, the reader should say an act of the will aloud, in a whisper, or at least mouth the words, e.g. “I love Thee O Lord for Thy Humility in becoming Man.” Then the reader should recite the first Hail Mary. He should simply recite the Hail  Mary,think of a different theme or continue with the same idea that he started with, e.g. “O Lord, I thank Thee for Thy Mercy.” [This process can also be done during the Our Father, and Glory Be.]

 

Below are some sample acts of the will that may help in understanding how one says the Rosary by making acts of the will while one is reciting the decades by rote. One can be as ornate in his acts as he wishes to be, or is inspired to be.  God is certainly pleased with our contrite prayers and humble begging of His help.  As one becomes more proficient, one can get more elaborate.

Sample Acts of the Will

The Joyful Mysteries

{The Annunciation}

Simple Acts

1. Mary, teach me humility.  2. Mary, help me be humble.  3. Mary, help me accept God’s Will. 4. I love you, Mary. 5. I adore Thee, O Lord.  

Flowery Acts

1. Mary, rich in humility, teach me.  2. Thank-you Lord for becoming Man. 3. Mary, help me accept God’s Will. 4. Thank-you, Mary for your fiat. 5. O Blessed Mother and St. Joseph, thank-you for your examples.  6. Mary, teach me your ways.

Poetic Acts

1. Mary, model of humility, please teach me humility.  2. Mary, O humble handmaid, help me be humble.  3. Mary, help me accept God’s Will. 4. I thank-you for your humble submission to God’s Will. 5. O Incarnate Wisdom, I adore Thee. 6. O Hypostatic Union, I adore Thee. 7. How can I thank Thee enough O Lord for Thy incarnation? I love Thee, O Lord.

{The Visitation}

Simple Acts

1. Mary, teach me generosity.  2. Mary, help me be selfless.  3. Mary, teach me love of neighbor. 4. I love thy virtue, Mary. 5. Mary, help me stay close to Jesus.

Flowery Acts

1. Mary, model of generosity, teach me.  2. Mary, help me be give of myself completely.             3. Mary, help me follow your sweet example. 4. O Sweet Mary, I love you. 5. I love your examples, O Mary.

Poetic Acts

1. Mary, O sweet model of charity, help me.  2. Mary, help me be selfless like thee.  3. Mary, help me stay close to Our Lord. 4. Mary, model of generosity, teach me to be unselfish. 5. O Mary, vessel of devotion, keep me close to your heart. 6. Mary, Mother of my sweet Jesus, I love you.

{The Nativity}

Simple Acts

1.  Infant King, I love Thee. 2. Thank-you dear Jesus for coming.  3. Mary, help me adore thy Son. 4. Dear Infant Jesus, help me be humble.

Flowery Acts

1. Sweet Infant Jesus, I love Thee.  2. I thank Thee dear Jesus for Thy sweet example of humility.  3. I adore Thee O sweet Infant King. 4. I love Thee dear Infant Jesus. 5.  Mary, help me accept God’s Will as you and St. Joseph did. 6. O heavenly Mother and patriarch St. Joseph, help me to have a real spirit of Poverty.

Poetic Acts

1. Dear Jesus, help me be detached from the world.  2. Mary, teach me a love of poverty.  3. Mary and St. Joseph teach me holy detachment. 4. Thank-you dear Jesus for your example of humility. 5. Help me, O Holy Family to love the things of heaven.

{The Presentation}

Simple Acts

1. Mary and St. Joseph, teach me obedience 2. O Infant King, I love Thee. 3. O Infant King, I love Thy humility.

Flowery Acts

1. Mary and St. Joseph thank you for your example.  2. Mary, help me give myself to the Infant King.  3. Mary, keep me close to Thy Divine Son. 4. Mary, thank–you for your tender heart.

Poetic Acts

1. Mary, present me to the Infant Jesus.  2. Thank-you for listening to my wretched woes. 3. Mary, help me accept God’s Will. 4. Mary, help me present my heart to God. 5. I am so unworthy dear Mary, please help me. 6. O Mary, you understand my woes, thou art my consolation. 7. Thank-you dear Lord for giving us Mary.

{The Finding of the Child Jesus}

Simple Acts

1. Mary, teach me resignation to God’s Will.  2. Mary, help me love God.  3. Mary, help me accept God’s Will. 4. Mary, keep me close to the Child Jesus.

Flowery Acts

1. Mary, teach me how to love God’s Will.  2. O Holy Family, keep me close to the Child Jesus.  3. Mary, help me keep the Child Jesus in my heart. 4. O Mother of Sorrows, teach me patience in my sorrows. 5. Dear Mother of Sorrows, please convert poor sinners.

Poetic Acts

1. Mary, model of patience, I love you.  2. Mary, help me always seek Our Lord.  3. Mary, help me accept God’s Will with generosity. 4. Mary, help me love God with all my heart.

5. O Child Jesus, please help me be patient teaching others. 6. O Child Jesus, please help me always do the Will of Thy Father with love. 7. O Child Jesus, please unite me to Thee always.

The Sorrowful Mysteries

{The Agony in the Garden}

Simple Acts

1. O Lord, I am sorry for my pride.  2. O Lord, help me be humble.  3. Mary, help me accept God’s Will. 4. O Lord, I love Thee.  5. O Lord, help me be patient.

Flowery Acts

1. O Lord, I am weak, teach me.  2. O Lord, help me always accept Thy Holy Will.  3. I thank Thee O Lord for Thy examples of humility.4. I thank Thee for Thy example of patience. 5. O Lord, help me follow Thy example of patience.

Poetic Acts

1. O My Agonizing Jesus, please forgive my cold and conceited heart. 2. O Lord, help me follow Thy example of humility. 3. I adore Thee O Lord in Thy suffering for me. 4. I am so sorry for me sins of pride. 5. O Lord, I see what my wretched pride hath done to Thee. 6. O Lord, I beseech Thee to give me tears of compunction.

{The Scourging at the Pillar}

Simple Acts

1. O Lord, I am sorry for my self-indulgence.  2. O Lord, help me be selfless.  3. Dear Jesus, I love Thee.

Flowery Acts

1. Dear Jesus, help me mortify myself.  2. I thank Thee for suffering such cruelty for my sake.  3. Mary, help me willingly suffer for Christ. 4. O Lord, help me love Thee. 5.  Dear Lord, help me suffer willingly for Thee.

Poetic Acts

1. Dear Lord, I am sorry for my sins of pampering myself.  2. Mary, help me mortify my flesh. 3. Dear Lord, I love Thee with my whole heart and soul. 4. I give Thee my heart dear Lord. 5. O Lord, I adore Thy Precious Blood. 6. Bathe my wretched, ungrateful heart in Thy Precious Blood, O Lord.

{The Crowning with Thorns}

Simple Acts

1. Mary, teach me humility.  2. O Jesus, help me be humble.  3. O Lord, I am sorry for my pride.

Flowery Acts

1. O Lord, I thank Thee for Thy Humility.  2. Mary, help me love humility with all my heart.  3. Mary, help me accept every pain that God sends me. 4. Thank Our Lord for us, O Mary, for all the humble examples He gives us. 5. Help me Dear Lord to stand up for Thy Glory. 6. O Jesus, I am sorry for my horrible sins of pride.

Poetic Acts

1. O Crown of my Savior, I love Thee.  2. O Crown of my Savior, I adore Thee.  3. O My dearest Jesus, please forgive me for my wretched pride. 4. Dear Jesus, help me mortify my imagination. 5. O Sacred Head so wounded, I love Thee. 6. O Humble Jesus, help me to be unconcerned about the insults and hatred I receive from others.

{The Carrying of the Cross}

Simple Acts

1. Mary, help me bear suffering well.  2. O Jesus, give me patience.  3. Mary, help me accept God’s Will.

Flowery Acts

1. O Lord I am sorry for my sins of impatience.  2. Mary, help me unite with thee in suffering.  3. Jesus, help me carry my cross with love. 4. Jesus, I adore Thee and praise Thee. 5. O Jesus, help me to love my cross for love of Thee. 6. Mary, help me cling to the Cross of Our Lord.

Poetic Acts

1. I adore Thee and I praise Thee O Lord, because by Thy Holy Cross Thou hast redeemed the world.  2. Thy Cross, O Lord is my hope and my refuge.  3. O Mother of Sorrows, be my guide. 4. Mary, help me compassionate Thy Dear Son. 5. Mary, show me the sweetness of the Cross. 6. O Mary, help me joyfully sacrifice for Thy Son.7. Dear Mary, please help me carry my crosses joyfully. 8. Dear Lord, please help me carry my crosses in the way that pleases Thee most and serves Thee best.

{The Crucifixion}

Simple Acts

1. Jesus, I love Thee with my whole heart.  2. Mother of Sorrows, guide me.   3. Mary, help me have true contrition. 4. O Lord, I am sorry for my sins.

Flowery Acts

1. O Lord, draw me to Thy Sacred Heart.  2. Jesus, I am unworthy to be Thine.  3. O Incarnate Wisdom, I thank Thee and I love Thee. 4. Dear Mary, help me love my Lord more and more. 5. I adore Thee O Christ because by Thy Holy Cross Thou hast redeemed the world. 6. O Lord, never let me abandon Thee.

Poetic Acts

1. I am so sorry, Lord, for all my sins, especially my sins of pride.  2. Melt my cold heart, dear Lord.  3. Mary at the foot of the Cross, teach me to love thy Son with all my heart. 4. O Sacred Heart of melting wax, soften my heart, and make me melt with love for Thee. 5. O Sorrowful Heart of Mary, teach me compassion. 6. O Sorrowful Mother, help me compassionate thy Son. 7. I adore Thee and I love Thee O Lord for enduring the wound on Thy left wrist. [likewise, one could mention the right wrist, the left foot, the right foot, and the pain of the Most Sacred Heart- the painful throbbing and inflammation as well as the moral and spiritual suffering of His Heart.]

The Glorious Mysteries

{The Resurrection}

Simple Acts

1. I thank Thee Lord for the gift of faith.  2. O Lord, strengthen my faith.  3. O Lord, help me love the faith more.

Flowery Acts

1. O Lord, I believe, help my unbelief.  2. Thank Thee, O Lord for resurrecting. 3. Mary, you who ever kept the faith, help me always keep the faith. 4. O Mary, keep us strong in the faith in this Great Apostasy in which we live. 5. O Holy Apostles, protect us in this Great Apostasy.

Poetic Acts

1. O Victorious Lord and Redeemer, may Thou ever be praised.  2. O Compassionate Lord, I adore and praise Thy many apparitions.  3. I adore Thee, praise Thee, thank Thee, and love Thee, O Lord, for Thy Glorious Resurrection. 4. Please keep me faithful to Thee, O Lord.  

5. I adore Thee, God the Father, for Thy Divine Plan for redeeming mankind. 6. I adore Thee, God the Son, for being obedient unto the death of the Cross. 7. I adore Thee, God the Holy Ghost, for Thy Divine Plan for man’s redemption.

{The Ascension}

Simple Acts

1. O Lord, I adore Thee for Thy Ascension.  2. O Lord, increase my hope.  3. O Lord, give me a great desire for heaven.

Flowery Acts

1. Thank Thee O Lord, for ascending into heaven.  2. O Lord, I beg Thee to make me one of Thy elect. 3. Mary, help me have a burning desire for heaven.

Poetic Acts

1. I adore Thee, O Lord, for Thy Glorious Ascension.  2. Mary, help me have an intense desire for heaven.  3. Mary, my life, my sweetness and my hope, pray for me. 4. O Sweet Jesus, please increase my hope for heaven.

{The Descent of the Holy Ghost}

Simple Acts

1. O Holy Ghost, I adore Thee.  2. O Holy Ghost, I love Thee.  3. Mary, teach me to love.

Flowery Acts

1. O Holy Ghost, Infinite Love between the Father and the Son, I adore Thee.  2. O Holy Ghost, Infinite Love between the Father and the Son, I love Thee.   3. O Holy Ghost, Infinite Love between the Father and the Son, please open my heart. 4. O Paraclete, please inspire me, and guide me. 5. O Paraclete, grant that I learn and have virtue in my heart.

Poetic Acts

1. Fill my heart I beg Thee, O Holy Ghost.  2. I can do nothing without Thee, O Holy Ghost, please teach me.  3. Mary, spouse of the Holy Ghost, beg Him to teach me how to love. 4. O Paraclete, I, a creature, can neither give nor receive Thy Infinite Love, yet make my poor finite love pure. 5. I can only receive and give finite love yet please grant that my love be pure. 6. O Holy Ghost, grant that I ever love the Truth.

{The Assumption}

Simple Acts

1. Mary, please pray for me.  2. Thank Thee dear Lord for giving us Mary.  3. Mary, please obtain for us a holy death.

Flowery Acts

1. Mary, Mediatrix of all grace, please obtain for us the grace of final perseverance.  2. O Mary, Mother of Mercy, pray for us.  3. Sweet Mother Mary, please guide us and protect us. 4. I thank Thee, O Lord, for Thy wonderful gift of Mary, for our Mother.

Poetic Acts

1. O Lord, I cannot thank Thee enough, for Thy bountiful gift of Mary.   2. Mary, help us to love God with all our hearts.  3. Mary, Our Mother, help us and keep us safe. 4. Mary, Our Blessed Mother, help us ever lean on thee. 5. Mary, model of all virtue, teach us who are thy poor children.

{The Coronation of Mary as Queen of All Creation}

Simple Acts

1. Mary, powerful Queen, pray for us.  2. Mary, dear humble Queen, help me be humble.  3. Mary, Our Queen, protect us.

Flowery Acts

1. Mary, please increase our devotion to thee.  2. Mary, no one can go to Jesus except through thee, please help us stay close to thee.  3. Mary, never let us abandon thee..

Poetic Acts

1. O Infinite Goodness of God, I thank Thee with my whole heart for giving Mary to us.  2. O dear Lord, Mary is Thy masterpiece; I cannot thank Thee enough for creating such a treasure as Mary.  3. O Mary, my Mistress and Queen, protect me. 4. O Queen of Heaven and all creation, keep me ever safe with thee.

Thus one can see that the rosary is the wise prayer of the church to teach her children the principles of meditation which draw the soul to the life of contemplation and a mystical union with Christ which is part of God’s intention for Catholic souls.

How to Destroy the Catholic Church (in Her Human Element)

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Catholic Candle note: The article below was written by a man who has always been Traditional Catholic and who has been continually fighting liberalism since before Vatican II.

That is exactly what the Masons and the modernists did to the Catholic Church through a heresy of the Second Vatican Council – that of universal salvation, (i.e., everyone goes to heaven).  How did this heresy become respectable?  I’ll tell you how, in the context of a funeral:

  1. Draping the casket in white;

  1. Stating over and over again that the deceased is now in heaven, or “in a much better place smiling down on us,” etc.;

  1. Using the new conciliar “mass of the resurrection”;

  1. Revising the words of the Consecration of the Wine, from “many” to “all” to suggest that everyone’s sins are forgiven;

  1. Reciting the Glorious Mysteries or the conciliar Luminous Mysteries (if the family insists on prayers);

  1. There is never a request for a mass said for the soul of the deceased;

  1. The priest implies there is no need for prayers because the deceased is already in heaven;

  1. There is no need for “Christians” (i.e., heretics) to convert as they are already united to Christ in Baptism;

  1. There is no longer a need for a prayer card for the deceased because their life story on a page or two, with pictures, is “more appropriate” now.

  1. The Novus Ordo mass is a community meal and not appropriate for prayers of atonement for the sins of the deceased.  When they eliminated the traditional Catholic Requiem Mass for the salvation of the deceased, they had to point out there is no longer a need for the Requiem Mass because “everyone goes to heaven now.”[1]


With the above heresy made respectable, why is there a need to go to mass, confession, receive the sacraments, or ever go to a church, or support the Catholic Church?  Everyone goes to heaven, no doubt.  The Catholic Church is unnecessary, obsolete; there’s no need for it anymore.  To sell a product, the salesman must convince the buyer that he really needs the item being sold.  When there is no longer a need for the Catholic Church and all its regulations, sacraments, doctrines, service, etc., it is easy to predict the Church’s substantial loss of influence and membership.


The results of this heresy – that everyone goes to heaven, and that there is no further need of the Church for salvation – can be clearly seen by comparing Catholic Church statistics for the U.S., from 1965 to 2016.  It spotlights that the Church is losing influence and that Catholics’ perceived need for the Church is greatly diminished or completely eliminated:

  1. Total priests:  58,632 to 37,192 (and these are doubtfully valid priests anyway);[2]

  1. Ordinations:  994 to 548 (and these are doubtfully valid ordinations anyway);

  1. Religious Sisters:  179,954 to 47,170;

  1. Religious Brothers:   12,271 to 4,119;

  1. Parishes without a resident priest:  549 to 3,499;

  1. Baptisms of infants: 1.31 million in 1965, to 670,481 in 2016 (and when these baptisms occur at all, they are usually delayed for months or years, as shown by the sizes of the baptismal gowns now widely sold);

  1. Marriages:  352,458 in 1965, to 145,916 in 2016; and

  1. Mass attendance:  55% to 22%.[3]

The above very, very sad and disheartening statistics indicate a real problem for those few who adhere to and live the traditional Catholic Faith.  Moreover, these statistics do not include the rampant impurity and pervasive abuse of countless victims in every diocese through the world.

Don't expect the above statistics to improve at all.  This fact of life is based on Pope Francis and church leaders criticizing traditional Catholicism.  More and more, Traditional Catholics will be considered by Church and local civil authorities to be a disruptive group that acts contrary to the lifestyle and accepted morals of the majority, and that this group must be “dealt with”. 

It might come to that.

Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.  Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake: Be glad and rejoice, for your reward is very great in heaven.  For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you.[4] 

Catholic Candle note: We might be in the End Times and, if we are not, there certainly seems to be a strong basis for comparing the current great apostasy to the apostasy then.

Here is the teaching of St. Ambrose, Doctor of the Church, regarding widespread apostasy in the End Times:

With so many people apostatizing from Christianity, the brightness of the faith will be dimmed by this cloud of apostasy ….

Further, when the End Times come, the Catholic Church will be persecuted everywhere.  Here is the teaching of St. Augustine, Doctor of the Church:

[Our Lord’s End Times prophesy] will come to pass when tribulations shall be so spread through the whole world that it will affect the Church (which will be persecuted in every place) and not those who will persecute her; for it is they who will say “peace and security”….

Both quoted from the Catena Aurea on St. Luke’s Gospel, ch 21, vv. 25-33, St. Thomas Aquinas, editor.

 




[1]          Here the Council of Trent interposed with a definition of Faith (Sess. XXII. can. iii) “If anyone saith, that the Mass is only a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving … but not a propitiatory sacrifice; or, that it profits only the recipient, and that it ought not to be offered for the living and the dead for sins, punishments, satisfaction, and other necessities; let him be anathema."  Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. X, pp. 16-17.

[2]          For an explanation of the inherent doubtfulness of conciliar ordinations and why every conciliar ordination must be treated as invalid, read the analysis in these articles:

[4]
        St. Matthew’s Gospel, ch.5, vv. 10-12.

The Basics of the Church’s Traditional Laws of Fast and Abstinence

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Catholic Candle note: With Lent fast approaching, we are pleased to print an expanded version of an excellent article from a woman who has always been Traditional Catholic and who has been continually fighting liberalism since before Vatican II.  We printed her original article in 2016.

In these days of shocking scandals in the conciliar church and creeping liberalism in the “new” SSPX, we sometimes forget one of the basic duties of a good Catholic: observing the Church’s Rules of Fast and Abstinence.  In the old days, our parish priests reminded us of them in a timely manner:  four times a year (Ember Days approximately at the change of seasons) and Vigils of four Feast days.

However, it was not always easy to keep them clear in our minds.  Thus, in the 1970s our (traditional Catholic) pastor put together and distributed a chart (included below, in a simplified form which more closely follows the 1917 code).  It was a real plus for us traditional Catholic families.  You may want to save this chart as well as copy it to give to others.  

Having said that, it is worthwhile noting that the Church’s obligatory laws of fast and abstinence have always required a bare minimum and not the recommended or ideal amount.  We should do much more fasting and abstinence than what is required.  “Unless you do penance, you shall likewise perish.”  St. Luke, 13:5.

We are traditional Catholics and so we follow the “traditional rules” – not choosing the easier path as the conciliar church has.  Further, we recommended that Catholics:

  • Fast even after turning 59, if they can, to be more generous with Our Lord;

  • Fast and abstain until Easter Sunday morning, rather than ending these Lenten observances at noon Holy Saturday; (the 1955 extension of fast and abstinence until midnight was historically connected with the 1955 changes in the Holy Week liturgy.  The merits of those liturgical changes are a separate issue.)

  • Have children begin to abstain from meat with the rest of the family, before the rules absolutely require it.  This would send the right message to younger children (and not harm their health in the least).  This shows them that a serious Catholic does not ask, “How little can I do?”

Two further points: 

  1. The traditional (pre-1983) rules required fasting beginning at 21 until turning 59, but the Church’s fasting law is perhaps the only occasion when the new code is stronger (in a very narrow respect) – it requires fasting beginning at age 18 – although only on a (wimpy) two days per year.  We need more fasting (and other penance), not less, and so it is a good thing we are required to begin fasting at 18.  Because we recognize the validity of the pope who issued the law that fasting begins at 18 years old, we must obey that law because it does not oppose the Traditional Catholic Faith and morals.

  1. Contrary to what the conciliar church does in practice, the new code of Canon Law (despite its countless flaws) does require abstinence on all Fridays.  Although the 1983 Code of Canon Law – canon 1251 – does allow a national bishops’ conference to substitute the penance of abstaining from a different food, we are not aware of any national conference of bishops which has done so.[1] 

    Indult groups like the “new” SSPX wrongly follow the soft conciliar practice of asserting that no abstinence is mandatory under pain of mortal sin, on most Fridays of the year.  This soft practice ignores:

  1. the traditional law of the Church;
  2. even the lax 1983 code of Canon Law they purport to follow; and
  3. the fact that the bishops’ conferences have never specified any other food from which Catholics must abstain on Fridays instead of meat.

Traditional Catholic

Fast and Abstinence Recommendations

Based on the 1917 Code of Canon Law, §§1250-54, slightly revised to include later canonical requirements where they are stricter.

Abstinence: no meat or meat-sourced broth (binds persons who have turned 7 years old)

Fast: only one meal per day and two small meatless collations* (binds persons who have turned 18† and have not yet turned 59)

Fridays

✓

Ash Wednesday

✓

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Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays between Ash Wednesday & Easter

✓

Fridays & Saturdays between Ash Wednesday and Easter‡

✓

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Ember Days

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✓

Day before Pentecost

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August 14 (unless Sunday)

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October 31 (unless Sunday)

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December 24 (unless Sunday)

✓

✓


* As a concession to human weakness, traditional rules allow two small meatless collations in addition to the meal.  The New Marian Missal, by Silvester P. Juergens, S.M., Regina Press, NY, NY, 1961, p.11.

† The New Code of Canon Law (§1252) changes the 1917 Code by revising the beginning age from 21 to 18.

‡ Under the 1917 Code, fasting and abstaining ends at noon on Holy Saturday.  Canon Law later extended this penance until mid-night.  Cf., New Marian Missal, by Silvester P. Juergens, S.M., Regina Press, NY, NY, 1961, p.11.

Appendix

Catholic Candle note: Above, is our recommendation for fasting and abstaining and the reasons for those recommendations.  Below, is a historical analysis showing the weakening of the fasting/abstinence rules over the 1900s.  

This weakening is important because fasting and abstaining is a strong defense against impurity and gluttony as well as all sins and heresies.  The weakening in the Church’s fasting and abstaining laws grew much worse after Vatican II.  But the weakening before Vatican II could have played some role in reducing Catholics’ readiness to resist the doctrinal and moral attacks beginning in the 1960s.

How Catholic fasting law relaxed over the 1900s

Canons 1250-54 (1917)

Dr Sylvester Juergens, The New Marian Missal for Daily Mass (ca. 1955)* (another source for same text)

Canons 97 §1, 1251-52 (1983)

definition of abstinence

no flesh or flesh-sourced broth

no flesh or flesh-sourced broth

no flesh

definition of fasting

one meal per day; one may take some additional food (aliquid cibi) at two other times in the day; the meal may not be in the morning

one meal per day; one may take some additional food, so long as it is not flesh and does not add up to a second meal, at two other times in the day

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how old one is when one must abstain

7+

7+

14+

how old one is when one must fast

21-58

21-58

18-58

abstinence

fast

abstinence

fast

abstinence

fast

All Fridays

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✓

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Ash Wednesday

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✓

✓

✓

✓

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All days after Ash Wednesday and before Easter, except Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays

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Fridays between Ash Wednesday and Easter, not including Good Friday

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✓

✓

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Saturdays between Ash Wednesday and Easter, not including Holy Saturday

✓

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Good Friday

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✓

✓

✓

✓

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Holy Saturday forenoon

✓

✓

✓

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Holy Saturday afternoon

✓

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Ember Fridays

✓

✓

✓

✓

Ember Wednesdays and Saturdays

✓

✓

✓

Eve of Whitsunday

✓

✓

✓

August 14 (unless Sunday)

✓

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October 31 (unless Sunday)

✓

✓

December 7 (unless Sunday)

✓

✓

December 24 (unless Sunday)

✓

✓

✓

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* We would be grateful for a more authoritative source for tracking how the rules changed between the early 1950s and the early 1960s. It is hard to track Vatican legislation between codifications; some of it is online, but poorly organized and labeled even on the Vatican website. Dr. Juergens’ book is difficult to date, because Pius XII’s administration extended the Holy Saturday fast till midnight with the decree Maxima Redemptionis nostrae mysteria (16 Nov. 1955), but the administration had already abolished the Vigil of the Immaculate Conception, December 7, by the decree Cum nostra hac aetate (23 March 1955).

[1]        Further, promoting collective authority of the national conferences of “bishops” is a conciliar error and one of the countless evils of Vatican II (collegiality).  This conciliar evil aims both to diminish the monarchical authority of the pope and to diminish the authority of individual “bishops” in their own dioceses.

        Faithful and informed Catholics know that conciliar ordinations and consecrations are inherently doubtful and so must be treated as invalid.  For an explanation why this is true, read these articles:

        Although there are inherent doubts concerning the “ordinations” and “consecrations” of conciliar “bishops”, this does not mean that those clergy do not possess the jurisdiction of their offices (for governing).  For a full explanation of this principle, read this article: https://catholiccandle.neocities.org/faith/against-sedevacantism.html#section-10

What 3 Things Help Most to Convert Souls and to Pass on Catholic Tradition?

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(Hint: it is not Giving Money to the N-SSPX, which is the

N-SSPX’s Own Avaricious Answer.)

The three greatest helps to passing on the Catholic Faith (i.e., converting souls) are:

  1. Sanctifying our own souls;

  1. Increasing our knowledge of the Catholic Faith; and

  1. Increasing our devotion to Our Lady, in particular.

Below, we examine each one of these crucial helps to convert others to the Catholic Faith.[1]

  1. Sanctifying our own soul is a great help in converting other people.

When a person converts to the Catholic Faith, he is beginning his road to holiness.  Although converting souls is God’s work, we can be better tools for God’s use, by being holier ourselves because “you can’t give what you don’t have” (as the proverb says).[2] 

Further, when we sanctify our own souls more, this shows a potential convert that we are serious about our souls and we give him a model and example of pursuing holiness seriously.

  1. Increasing our knowledge of the Catholic Faith is a great help in converting other people.

God uses human instruments to explain the Catholic Faith to potential converts.  Thus, knowing the Faith better ourselves allows us to better explain it and answer a potential convert’s questions.[3]

Further, when we continually study our Faith (as the Church instructs us to do) this shows the potential convert that the true Faith is important and we set a good example to him.

  1. Increasing our devotion to Our Lady is a great help in converting souls.

Drawing closer to Our Lady and being more devoted to her, will increase her help bringing potential converts to her Son, as she brings us closer to her Son also.  Strengthening our devotion and friendship with the Blessed Virgin Mary is crucial for increasing our interior life, for saving our own souls, and for winning converts to her Son because:  

  • Our Lady is the “Neck of the Mystical Body of Christ”.[4]  This means that everyone who goes to our Lord Jesus Christ, goes to Him (the Head of the Mystical Body), through the Neck (Our Lady).

  • Devotion to Our Lady is not an optional devotion for us or for the person we seek to convert to the Catholic Faith.[5]  The potential convert sees the example of our devotion to Our Lady and thereby understands that the way to Our Lord is through His mother.

  • Conversion to the true Catholic Faith is a gift of God which no one can merit for himself.  All conversions require grace.  Our Lady is the Mediatrix of All Graces.  Thus, we must be devoted to her and lead potential converts toward devotion to her, who supplies the grace to convert to the Faith and to grow in it.[6]

  • Our Lady is the Co-Redemptrix of mankind.  She joined in Our Lord’s Sacrifice to redeem the “lost sheep” (mankind).  Joining with her Son to redeem man, she is most ready to apply that salvific merit to individual souls.  Our increased devotion helps us to unite with her those persons whom we seek to convert.

Conclusion of this article so far

The three greatest helps to passing on the Catholic Faith (i.e., converting souls) are:

  1. Sanctifying our own souls;

  1. Increasing our knowledge of the Catholic Faith; and

  1. Increasing our devotion to Our Lady, in particular.

Let us use them to cooperate with God in sanctifying our souls and being God’s tools in leading others to heaven.

The “New” SSPX says the best way to pass on the Catholic Faith is to give the N-SSPX money.

The “new” SSPX has a very different, unspiritual outlook.  It tells people that the best way we can spread the Catholic Faith is by giving the N-SSPX money in our wills or trusts.  Here are its words:

There is no more meaningful or lasting way to pass on the gift of Catholic Tradition and the traditional Latin Mass, than to make a legacy gift [viz., to the N-SSPX].[7]

There are two problems with this statement:

  • giving money is not the best of all ways to pass on Catholic Tradition (as shown above); and

  • it is proud self-interest for the N-SSPX to declare that it is the best place to give money for this purpose.[8]

How different is the Catholic truth, from the N-SSPX’s money-grubbing claim![9]  Above, we see that sanctity and studying the Faith are our best means to pass on the Faith.  The Catholic Church focuses on the spiritual, whereas the N-SSPX is money-focused.  The Venerable Bede, Doctor of the Church, teaches that priests should trust so much in Providence and be so focused on the eternal things of God that they give no thought to temporal things.  Here are his words:

For such should be the preacher's trust in God, that, though he takes no thought for supplying his own wants in this present world, yet he should feel most certain that these will not be left unsatisfied, lest whilst his mind is taken up with temporal things, he should provide less of eternal things to others.[10]

The “old” SSPX did not used to be so money-focused.  For example, in the mid-1990s we remember an SSPX priest who was newly-assigned to our area.  In his first sermon, he told the congregation that:

You won’t hear me talk much about money.  I think that if I do my job [viz., sanctifying souls], the money will take care of itself.  

(Bracketed explanation added to this priest’s words, to show the context.)  This priest still belongs to the (new) SSPX but has been marginalized in recent years by his superiors, who are money-focused and unspiritual.

Conclusion

 

Let us focus on holiness and on studying the Catholic Faith, and not on giving money to the N-SSPX.

[1]          In footnotes below, we quote The Soul of the Apostolate, which is a book about holiness and prayer.  This book lucidly demonstrates that converting and sanctifying other persons especially requires our own sanctification.  We heartily urge all Catholics to read this wonderful book on prayer and holiness, as the means to converting other people!

Pope St. Pius X read this book and admired it so much that he declared:

If you desire that God should bless your apostolate and make it fruitful, undertake everything for His glory, saturate yourself and your devoted fellow-workers with the spirit of Jesus Christ, animating yourself with an intense interior life.  To this end, I can offer you no better guide than The Soul of the Apostolate, by Dom Chautard, Cistercian Abbot, I warmly recommend this book to you, as I value it very highly and have myself made it my bedside book.

Quoted from the Introduction of The Soul of the Apostolate, by Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard, O.C.S.O., Abbot of Notre Dame de Sept-Fons, Abbey of Gethsemane Press, U.S.A., ©1946.

Pope Benedict XV wrote the author, Dom J. B. Chautard, about The Soul of the Apostolate, in these words:

We congratulate you sincerely upon having brought out so clearly the absolute necessity of the interior life for those engaged in good works, a life so necessary for the success of their ministry.

Expressing a wish that this work in which are found gathered together doctrinal lessons and practical advice suited to the needs of our times may continue to spend and do good, We send with all Our Heart to its esteemed author, an affectionate Apostolic Blessing,

[signed] Benedict PP XV

Id.

[2]          Here is how The Soul of the Apostolate expresses this truth:

  • The apostle should always remember that “the extent to which you yourself are able to live on the love of Our Lord, will be the exact measure of your ability to stir it up in other people.  What it all comes to, is that you base everything on the inner life.”  Page 57.
  • It is crucial to “give [lay apostles] piety, genuine and ardent piety, based on conviction and full of understanding”.  Page 56.

  • For the lay apostle, it is crucial that his “center … will be Jesus and Mary”.  Page 56

[3]          The Soul of the Apostolate explains the importance of “lay apostles” knowing the Catholic Faith well in order to effectively help convert others.  For example, here is an instruction to a priest for forming laymen into effective apostles:

You are going to build up a strong faith in them [viz., laymen], by a series of well-prepared talks, which will take up many of their winter evenings.  Your Christians will go out, after these talks, well enough armed not only to give complete and effective answers to their fellows in the various plants and offices, but also to resist the more treacherous action of newspapers and books.  

The Soul of the Apostolate. page 56.

[4]          Pope Pius X called her the Neck of the Mystical Body, in his Encyclical On the Immaculate Conception, Ad diem illum laetissimum.

[5]          True Devotion to Mary, St. Louis de Montfort, part 1, ch.1, §3, #39.

[6]          Here is how The Soul of the Apostolate explains this truth:

Whether it be the task of the active worker to rescue souls from sin or to make virtues put forth flowers in their souls, his first objective must always be, as was St. Paul’s, to bring forth Our Lord in them.  Now Bossuet says that God, having once willed to give us Jesus through the Most Blessed Virgin, there is no further change in that order.  It was she who brought forth the Head, and so it is she too who is to bring forth the members.

To isolate Mary from the apostolate would be to misconstrue one of the most vital parts of the divine Plan.  …  St. Bernardine of Siena justly concludes that, since the Incarnation, Mary has acquired a sort of jurisdiction over every temporal mission of the Holy Ghost, in such a way that no creature receives any graces but through her hands.

But the man with true devotion to Mary becomes all-powerful over the Heart of his Mother.  And so, what apostle can doubt the efficacy of his Apostolate when, by his devotions, he can control the all-powerful mediation of Mary in the distribution of the merits of the Precious Blood?

The Soul of the Apostolate, page 286.

[W]e observe that all great converters of souls are filled with an unusually powerful devotion for the Blessed Virgin. …  What persuasive accents will Mary give to her true children, that they may open to Jesus hearts hitherto locked!

The Soul of the Apostolate, page 286-7.

[7]          Quoted from an undated SSPX money-seeking brochure mailed to the U.S. District mailing list in April 2019.

[8]
         With great self-importance, the N-SSPX adds that whatever money you give to the N-SSPX benefits the whole Church.  Here are Fr. Wegner’s words soliciting bequests for the N-SSPX:

And your bequest, one that benefits the whole Church in Her desperate hour of need, will certainly be remembered.

Quoted from the March 28, 2019 letter from Fr. Wegner, N-SSPX District Superior for the U.S. (emphasis added).

[9]
         For additional examples of the N-SSPX’s focus on money, read here: https://catholiccandle.neocities.org/priests/sspx-fundraiser-fatigue.html

[10]
         Words of the Venerable Bede, Doctor of the Church, quoted from the Catena Aurea on St. Mark’s Gospel, St. Thomas Aquinas, editor, ch.6 §2 (emphasis added).

Is There Room for Compromise, Gradualism, Liberalism, and Modernism in the Catacombs?

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Catholic Candle note:  The following article helps to explain how salvation is surely possible for uncompromising Traditional Catholics, who for a time are without the Mass and Sacraments, at least in most places.  One doesn’t have to compromise his principles and overlook liberalism just so that he can have the Sacraments and the Mass (with a compromising priest).

If a person responds to the above question that he has to overlook some liberalism to “secure the sacraments” (at least in most places), then this person is really compromising, along with:

     1.  seven bishops;

     2.  hundreds of priests;

     3.  thousands of gullible followers of the liberal N-SSPX; and 

     4.  other liberal religious communities, (like the Fraternity of St. Peter).

These groups say that those Catholics who are truly uncompromising, are too strict and are wrong.  I ask: Is it, then, also wrong to be too loyal to Our Lord?

Currently, uncompromising Traditional Catholics are without an uncompromising priest or bishop (at least in most places).  God will provide in His own good time for the needs of the loyal soldier in the battle against corrupt conciliar church leaders in Rome and Catholics who are (objectively) compromising.

It’s not easy to live in the catacombs, but there are compensations – like extra graces – as those in the catacombs can attest.  One will also feel grateful and happy that he is doing his part in this great worldwide fight for Christ the King, when so many have abandoned Him.  (“This part” might include speaking often against liberalism, wherever you find it.)

Also, uncompromising Traditional Catholics find they have a closer friendship with Christ and want to do more, e.g., setting a most-needed good example for others to follow in a world that has rejected Christ.

Many clergy who are (objectively) compromising were on the right track but then weakened, I believe, because of pride.[1]  Or perhaps because they lacked the moral courage to resist the liberal direction their N-SSPX leaders (or others) had taken.  Also, the N-SSPX leaders were too concerned about the number of followers they had and were anxious to avoid defections.  This is a critical consideration in order to make a deal with the anti-Catholic conciliar church in Rome.  Rome doesn’t want the mass defection (from the liberal N-SSPX) of persons who would fight against the conciliar church and liberalism in order to return Rome to tradition.

Many lay followers were not concerned about small compromises with liberalism and so they gradually abandoned Archbishop Lefebvre’s stand for tradition.  These followers mistakenly believed that to be saved you must have the Mass and Sacraments without interruption.  It’s easy for a person within a large group to rationalize his defection from tradition and from Christ, by falsely believing God will understand because He knows people need the Mass and Sacraments.  Oh, no He won’t!  He really expects and wants loyalty and sacrifice.

The last fifty-five years show the majority of religious leaders were quick to abandon tradition and succumb to the liberalism of Vatican II, much the same as the apostles abandoned Christ during His Passion.  If one has to choose between the path of being loyal to Our Lord (including uncompromising tradition), and the path of overlooking liberalism in a compromise group in order to receive the Mass and the Sacraments, I know which path really leads to salvation!

Those who compromise are sure to ask how does one expect salvation without a priest and confession?  Well, with God’s help, where there’s a will there’s a way.  One surely doesn’t have the luxury of giving in to his passions or temptations and then being “excused” by a Saturday afternoon confession.  However, since we are all sinners, and we could possibly fall into grave sin despite extra graces at the time of death, the prospect of dying without (an uncompromising priest for) confession  would be horrifying were it not for the knowledge that a merciful God has provided for this with a perfect Act of Contrition.[2]  This prayer, said sincerely and with God’s help, is literally a God-send.  United with a pledge to go to (an uncompromising priest for) confession when available, this heartfelt prayer restores the dying person to grace at once. 

Uncompromising Traditional Catholics who are currently without an uncompromising priest are given extra graces and spiritual strength to help fight against evil and temptations, as those persons can attest.

We must avoid compromises such as accepting sacraments and sacramentals from a compromising priest or bishop (although we must not judge their interior culpability).  Accepting even one such compromise is the start of gradualism, the seat of liberalism and damnation.  Such situations give apparent approval to the compromising bishop or priest.  It is important to be consistent in all our actions.  If not, one bad concession causes a person to lose his credibility and his ability to set a good example – maybe forever.  

Let’s pray hard, be happy, and confident that we are in the right place by not compromising, and by doing what we can for Christ the King, Who is in charge and will triumph in the end!

[1]          See, e.g., this bragging of the “new” SSPX: https://catholiccandle.neocities.org/priests/sspx-institutional-pride.html

[2]          The Catholic Encyclopedia teaches:

Perfect contrition, with the desire of receiving the Sacrament of Penance, restores the sinner to grace at once.  This is certainly the teaching of the Scholastic doctors (Peter Lombard in P.L., CXCII, 885; St. Thomas, In Lib. Sent. IV, ibid.; St. Bonaventure, In Lib. Sent. IV, ibid.).

Catholic Encyclopedia,  1908, Volume 4, article: Contrition, page 339.

The Baseless Climate-Change Scare aims to usher in the New World Order

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Catholic Candle note:  This article pertains to the hoax that there is a human-caused, climate-change emergency.  The article does not pertain to the natural cycles of the climate which result in no year’s weather being identical to any other year’s weather, nor any century’s weather being identical to any other century’ weather.  Those natural fluctuations have always occurred and always will occur.  There are long-term cycles and short-term cycles.  That is how God created the world.

The second half of the article (below) discusses how the conciliar popes have promoted an important goal of the enemies of Our Lord Jesus Christ.  However, a reader would be mistaken if he assumed that these popes’ cooperation in this evil somehow means that they lost the papacy.

Sedevacantism is wrong and is (material or formal) schism.  Catholic Candle is not sedevacantist.  On the contrary, we published a series of articles showing that sedevacantism is false (and also showing that former Pope Benedict is not still the pope).  Read the articles here: https://catholiccandle.neocities.org/faith/against-sedevacantism.html 

In the 1970s, the government and media hyped a global-cooling climate scare which they called “the new ice age” – until it became too clear to everyone that the world was not cooling in any relevant way.[1]

Then, beginning in the 1980s, the climate scare was global-warming – until it became very clear that the evidence did not support this hoax.[2]

Consequently, the New World Order elites (working for a one-world government) began promoting “climate change” as their preferred climate “emergency” because this allows them to use all bad weather to further their power-grab agenda.  

Moreover, normal “bad” weather is now often hyped in the extreme.  Here are the words of one Time magazine writer who contrasts this current hype to earlier times when routine “bad” weather was merely treated as routine:

Now, every cold front that threatens to slicken roads and cause airport delays along the Eastern corridor (where, not merely coincidentally, almost all network TV news executives live and work) has become urgent news.  And not just in winter.  Springtime thunderstorms, summer heat waves, the first cold snap of the fall — all of them get breathless treatment, often accompanied by a barrage of scary stats: “14 states under severe weather watches”; “24 million people at risk for the possibility of tornadoes”; “43 million people at risk for flash flooding.” I grew up in Kansas City, Mo., in what used to be known as Tornado Alley.  In the late spring and early summer, we were always at risk.  It never seemed to make the national news.[3]

Not only is routine bad weather now hyped in the extreme, but the climate catastrophes of the past are ignored.  The examples are too numerous to count.  For example, in the Central American Country of Belize:

In 1931 an unnamed hurricane destroyed over two-thirds of the buildings in Belize City and killed more than 1,000 people.  In 1955 Hurricane Janet leveled the northern town of Corozal.  Only six years later, Hurricane Hattie struck the central coastal area, with winds in excess of 186 mph and a storm surge (ocean tide) of more than 13 feet.  Hattie was the second hurricane to devastate Belize City, in only thirty years.[4]

Who could doubt that, if those catastrophes occurred now, they would be used as “proof” that climate change is real?

Further, our fallen human nature makes it easy for the New World Order elites to succeed in this climate-scare fraud because fallen man has always been quick to exaggerate any current weather problems and to suppose that the weather was better in the past.  Here is how St. Augustine, Doctor of the Church, explained 1600 years ago how fallen man unreasonably tends to suppose that the weather is becoming more extreme:

Not only did our elders complain about their days, their grandparents too complained about their [own] days.  People have never been pleased with the days they lived in.  But the days of the ancestors please their descendants, and they too were pleased with the days they hadn’t experienced – and that’s precisely why they thought them pleasant.  It’s what’s present that is sharply felt.  I don’t mean it comes nearer, but it touches the heart every day.  Practically every year when we feel the cold we say “It’s never been so cold.”  “It’s never been so hot.”  “It,” “it” – “it” is always in our minds.  But blessed is the man whom You instruct, Lord, to claim him from baleful days, while a pit is being dug for the sinner.[5]

The climate change scare aims at ushering in the power-grab of the New World Order

The purpose of the climate-change hoax is a power-grab.  This hoax aims at destroying what remains of freedom and capitalism[6] in the world’s largest capitalist nation (the U.S.) and destroying national sovereignty to pave the way for a New World Order — i.e., global governance.

This truth was admitted by Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, in February 2015.  At a news conference in Brussels, she admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.  Here are her words:

This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change [i.e. get rid of] the economic development model [i.e., capitalism] that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.[7]

Referring to the Paris Climate Accord which she was promoting, Figueres added:

This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.[8]

Another of the U.N.'s top climate officials, Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer, also admitted that the climate-change scare is not to save the environment but to redistribute the world’s wealth.  Edenhofer, who was co-chair of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group III, made this admission in an interview with the Swiss Newspaper, Neue Zürcher Zeitung.  Here are Edenhofer’s words:

One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy.  This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy, with problems such as forest dying or ozone hole.  …  [O]ne has to say clearly: we are effectively redistributing world wealth through climate policy.[9]

Currently, in the U.S., one aspect of the climate-change hoax (and socialist power-grab), is the Democratic Party’s Green New Deal proposal.  Here is how this proposal is described by the (liberal) New York Times:  

What is the Green New Deal?

The Green New Deal is a congressional resolution that lays out a grand plan for tackling climate change.  Introduced by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Senator Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, the proposal calls on the federal government to wean the United States from fossil fuels and curb planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions across the economy.[10]  …

The resolution uses as its guide two major reports issued last year by the United Nations and by federal scientists who warned that if global temperatures continue to rise, the world is headed for more intense heat waves, wildfires and droughts.[11]

Sponsor, U.S. Representative Ocasio-Cortez, declared that our continued existence requires the Green New Deal.  Here are her words:

Our goal is to treat Climate Change like the serious, existential threat it is by drafting an ambitious solution on the scale necessary – aka a Green New Deal – to get it done.[12]

Examining the Green New Deal shows that it is a collection of goals long sought by the socialists and communists.  It requires Federal Government control throughout many broad parts of people’s lives.  Among many other evils, this proposal mandates the Federal Government to pass many unattainable socialist laws requiring:

  • all carbon emissions are eliminated;
  • all people in the United States have a free higher education;
  • to enforce the sovereignty and land rights of indigenous peoples;

  • all people of the United States have free high-quality health care;

  • all people of the United States have affordable, safe, and adequate housing;

  • all people of the United States have healthy and affordable food;

  • all people of the United States have access to nature;

  • all employers are forced to give paid leave and paid vacations to their employees; and

  • many other mandates of socialism.[13]

As explained above, the Green New Deal’s principal sponsor in the U.S. House of Representatives is liberal New York Democrat, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  Concerning this Green New Deal, her chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, (who has since left his job) revealed that the Green New Deal is not about “saving the planet”.  Here are his words about the Green New Deal:

It wasn’t originally a climate thing at all … we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.[14]

The New World Order elite is marshalling all of its forces to push the climate-change scare as a means of convincing the world’s population that the climate emergency gives people no choice but to accept unprecedented government control – especially globalist control – of all aspects of life.[15] 

The conciliar popes declare we need a world government to solve our climate emergency

The New World Order elites have been tirelessly working to install on the papal throne a pope who furthers their goal of one-world government.  This allows those elites to use the incomparable power of the papacy to advance the New World Order power-grab.

Here is how the Carbonari (the Italian Masons) described their plan to subvert and harness the power of the papacy:

[W]e can conspire at our ease, and arrive little by little at the end we have in view.  …  

The Pope, whoever he may be, will never come to the secret societies. It is for the secret societies to come first to the Church, in the resolve to conquer the two.  The work which we have undertaken is not the work of a day, nor of a month, nor of a year. It may last many years, a century perhaps, but in our ranks the soldier dies and the fight continues.  …  

That which we ought to demand, that which we should seek and expect, as the Jews expected the Messiah, is a Pope according to our wants.  Alexander VI., with all his private crimes, would not suit us, for he never erred in religious matters. Clement XIV., on the contrary, would suit us from head to foot.  Borgia was a libertine, a true sensualist of the eighteenth century strayed into the fifteenth.  He has been anathematized, notwithstanding his vices, by all the voices of philosophy and incredulity, and he owes that anathema to the vigor with which he defended the Church.  …  

We have the little finger of the successor of St. Peter engaged in the plot, and that little finger is of more value for our crusade than all the Innocents, the Urbans, and the St. Bernards of Christianity.  We do not doubt that we shall arrive at that supreme term of all our efforts; but when? but how? The unknown does not yet manifest itself.  Nevertheless, as nothing should separate us from the plan traced out; as, on the contrary, all things should tend to it, — as if success were to crown the work scarcely sketched ….

You will have fished up a Revolution in Tiara and Cope, marching with Cross and banner—a Revolution which it will need but to be spurred on a little to put the four quarters of the world on fire.[16]

This Masonic plan having largely succeeded, the post-Vatican II popes promote the globalist agenda in many ways, including promotion of the climate-change scare.

Shortly after Pope Francis’ election, the Masons declared that he was a plan (i.e., “a design”) fulfilled.  Here are the words of Nicola Spinello, Adjunct-Vicar Grand Master of the Masons of Piazza del Gesù:

I believe that this pope [viz., Francis] is the realization of a design that has long wanted to be adopted.[17]

Pope Francis has hopped onto the climate-scare bandwagon.  He declared that “one of the most serious and worrying phenomena of our time [is] climate change.”[18]  To respond to the supposed climate emergency, Pope Francis declared the need for a global government.  Here are his words:

The twenty-first century, while maintaining systems of governance inherited from the past, is witnessing a weakening of the power of the nation states, chiefly because the economic and financial sectors, being transnational, tends to prevail over the political.  Given this situation, it is essential to devise stronger and more efficiently organized international institutions, which functionaries who are appointed fairly by agreement among national governments and empowered to impose sanctions …[19]

Former Pope Benedict XVI likewise promoted a global government to protect the environment.  Here are his words:

In the face of the unrelenting growth of global interdependence, there is a strongly felt need, even in the midst of a global recession, for a reform of the United Nations Organization, and likewise of economic institutions and international finance, so that the concept of the family of nations can acquire real teeth.  One also senses the urgent need to find innovative ways of implementing the principle of the responsibility to protect and of giving poorer nations an effective voice in shared decision-making. This seems necessary in order to arrive at a political, juridical and economic order which can increase and give direction to international cooperation for the development of all peoples in solidarity. To manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result; to bring about integral and timely disarmament, food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of the environment and to regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need of a true world political authority, as my predecessor Blessed John XXIII indicated some years ago.[20]

Conclusion

We see the climate-change hoax being used to scare people into allowing destruction of national sovereignty and control of the world’s population.  Unbeknownst to most people, the ultimate goal is to prepare conditions for the coming of the antichrist.

Not only is this climate-scare a fraud, but it is a complete reversal of the priorities we should have.  Modern man cares nothing for his soul and focuses entirely on the material world.  

Even if the climate scare were not a fraud (as it is), nonetheless worldwide environmental catastrophe is much better than even a single venial sin.  Here is how Cardinal Newman states this truth:

The Catholic Church holds it better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions on it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say, should be lost, but should commit one single venial sin, should tell one willful untruth, or should steal one poor farthing without excuse.[21]

Even if climate-change were not a hoax, we should put more effort into preventing one venial sin than stopping climate-change.

Let us not be deceived by the climate-change scare!  

Let us remember that the only true evil is sin!

[2]          Here is a small sample of information showing that the global-warming scare is a fraud:

[3]          When did routine bad weather become such big news?, by Richard Zoglin, Time magazine contributor and author.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/tv-news-is-too-obsessed-with-the-weather/2019/11/29/df2a678a-116b-11ea-b0fc-62cc38411ebb_story.html?utm_campaign=opinions_saturday&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Newsletter&wpisrc=nl_opinions&wpmm=1 (emphasis in the original).

[4]          Quoted from: Latin America, A Sketch of its Glorious Catholic Roots and a Snapshot of its Present, by the Editors of Quanta Cura Press, © 2016, p.59.

[6]
         In a capitalistic economy, there is an absence of the government control which the socialists and the communists insist upon.  Thus, socialists and communists hate capitalism.  In capitalism, there is relative freedom – which is why the New World Order elites seek to destroy capitalism because it is incompatible with their vision of world control.

However, the pre-Vatican II popes reminded the world that, even in a capitalist economy, bosses and workers must fulfill the duties of justice and charity that those groups have to each other.  See, e.g., Quadragesimo anno the encyclical issued by Pope Pius XI on 15 May 1931 and Rerum Novarum the encyclical of Leo XIII issued forty years before that.  Thus, unlimited capitalism (doing whatever we can to succeed in business) is also immoral because that would disregard justice and charity.

[7]
         Quoted in the daily financial newspaper, Investors Business Daily, available here: https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/climate-change-scare-tool-to-destroy-capitalism/

(emphasis added; bracketed words added for clarity).

[8]          Quoted in the daily financial newspaper, Investors Business Daily, available here: https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/climate-change-scare-tool-to-destroy-capitalism/ (emphasis added; bracketed words added for clarity).

[9]          This interview was published on 11-14-10 and is available here:

https://www.nzz.ch/klimapolitik_verteilt_das_weltvermoegen_neu-1.8373227

Here is the original German:

Man muss sich von der Illusion freimachen, dass internationale Klimapolitik Umweltpolitik ist. Das hat mit Umweltpolitik, mit Problemen wie Waldsterben oder Ozonloch, fast nichts mehr zu tun.  …  Aber man muss klar sagen: Wir verteilen durch die Klimapolitik de facto das Weltvermögen um.

[13]          116th Congress, House Resolution 109.

[15]          Climate-change fraud is promoted in countless ways, by countless “foot soldiers” who aid this effort knowingly or unknowingly.  For example, The Oxford Dictionary promotes the climate scare by (among other things) having made the two-word phrase “climate emergency” its Word of the Year for 2019.  https://www.msn.com/en-gb/finance/other/climate-emergency-is-oxford-dictionarys-word-of-the-year-2019/ar-BBX6Roi

[16]          The Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita, drafted by the Carbonari (the Italian Masonry) publicly published by the orders of Pope Pius IX and Pope Leo XIII who vouched for its authenticity.  This document is found in The War of Anti-Christ with the Church, by Msgr. George Dillon, D.D., Gill & Son, Dublin, 1885, Ch.13.

[17]          Quoted in the book, Vaticano massone. Logge, denaro e poteri occulti: il lato segreto della Chiesa di papa Francesco, by Giacomo GALEAZZI – Ferruccio PINOTTI, Edizioni Piemme, Milano 2013, p.83, as quoted here: https://onepeterfive.com/freemasons-love-pope-francis/#_ftn23 (bracketed word added to show the context).

[19]          Laudato Si, section 175 (emphasis added).

[20]
         Caritas in Veritate, (former) Pope Benedict XVI, 6-29-09, §67 (emphasis added).

[21]          Apologia Vita Sua, by John Henry Cardinal Newman, Image Books, Doubleday, Garden City, New York, © 1956, p.324.

False humility, an excuse for not standing up for the Catholic Faith

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One might think, either through ignorance or false humility, that because we are not the pope (or at least a bishop), we should not “set ourselves up in judgment” regarding whether the conciliar hierarchy is teaching the truth or not, or whether the conciliar hierarchy’s teachings are consistent with the traditional teaching of the Church.  One might wrongly think that, failing to believe whatever the current hierarchy tells us, shows a “Protestant mentality”, i.e., deciding for ourselves what to believe. 

 

This ignorance or false humility is contrary to the consistent teaching of the Church that every Catholic has the duty to discern whether the members of the hierarchy, without exception, are teaching what the Church has always taught.  For example, St. Paul writes to his converts to whom he taught the Faith:

 

Though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a Gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema. 

 

Galatians, 1:8.

 

And St. Paul emphasizes this point by immediately repeating it:

 

As we said before, so now I say again: If anyone preach to you a Gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema.

 

Galatians, 1:9.

 

But the Galatians might have objected, why should we believe your Gospel on your first visit to Galatia and not an eventually different one on your second?  St. Paul immediately gives a first reason:

 

The Gospel which was preached by me is not according to man.  For neither did I receive it of man, nor did I learn it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

 

Galatians,1:11-12. 

 

And St Paul confirms this by narrating how little contact he had with those who might have taught him (viz., the other Apostles) before he began preaching.  Galatians, 1:15-19.  The Galatians could verify the facts and St. Paul swears an oath to the Galatians that he is not lying.  Galatians, 1:20. 

 

He gives a second reason a little later, which is the miracles and experience of the Holy Ghost [Galatians, 3:2-5] that the Galatians themselves had witnessed as the direct result of the preaching of St. Paul’s first visit.

 

Thus, St. Paul confirms that God taught him the Gospel which he had already taught to the Galatians.  St. Paul tells them that they can, and they must, distinguish it from false doctrine.  Each Catholic has this duty.

 

Many other Catholic authorities have repeated St. Paul’s teaching.  Here is another one:

When the shepherd turns into a wolf, the first duty of the flock is to defend itself.  As a general rule, doctrine comes from the bishops to the faithful, and it is not for the faithful, who are subjects in the order of Faith, to pass judgment on their superiors.  But every Christian, by virtue of his title to the name Christian, has not only the necessary knowledge of the essentials of the treasure of Revelation, but also the duty of safeguarding them.  The principle is the same, whether it is a matter of belief or conduct, that is, of dogma or morals.  Treachery such as that of Nestorius is rare in the Church; but it can happen that, for one reason or another, pastors remain silent on essential matters of faith.  The true children of Holy Church at such times are those who walk by the light of their baptism, not the cowardly souls who, under the specious pretext of submission to the powers that be, delay their opposition to the enemy in the hope of receiving instructions which are neither necessary nor desirable.

 

The Liturgical Year, Vol. IV, Dom Guéranger; see the entry for the Feast of St. Cyril of Alexandria, February 9th (emphasis added).

 

Here is another authority: St. Vincent Lerins, in his Commonitorium:

 

What then should a Catholic do if some part of the Church were to separate itself from communion with the universal Faith?  What other choice can he make but to prefer to the gangrenous and corrupted member, the whole of the body that is sound.  And if some new contagion were to try to poison no longer a small part of the Church, but all of the Church at the same time, then he will take the greatest care to attach himself to antiquity which, obviously, can no longer be seduced by any lying novelty.

 

Emphasis added.  Note that St. Vincent gives this rule to all Catholics, not only to the bishops or doctors of theology.

 

We do not give more quotes from authority here because the type of person who suffers under this ignorance or false humility is a prisoner unable to free himself by reference to the consistent teaching of Church authority, because his very error is that his mind is too lowly to discern what those authorities say.  Therefore, we present the following argument of reason instead.

 

Humans can understand the Catholic Faith, though not perfectly as God does.  Our Faith is presented as a series of statements in each of which a predicate is said of a subject.  Even though the faithful Catholic cannot prove by natural reason, this link (i.e., connection) between the subject and predicate, he knows by Faith that the link exists and thus, that the opposite statement must be false.

 

If one were to (wrongly) say that a Catholic is forbidden to compare current teachings of the hierarchy, with the consistent teaching of the Church of all time, this would mean that a Catholic is forbidden to understand what he is saying (and believing) when he is professing his Faith.  This position would instead substitute a blind obedience which accepts a mere formula of sounds – devoid of meaning – when professing the Faith.  The Catholic Church has never professed such nominalism.  Instead, the Church wants (and requires) Her children to understand the Faith, not merely memorize sounds or words by rote.

 

Thus, whereas the Protestants set their own private judgment as the measure and rule of all faith, faithful Catholics set the revealed truth of the Church of all time, as the measure and rule of Faith.  This is infallible Catholic Tradition.  Because the Catholic is allowed (and required) to understand his Faith, the current post-conciliar problem exists because an understanding of the Faith shows plainly that the modern conciliar teachings are the opposite of what Catholics have been required to understand and believe since the earliest times. 

 

That is, a Catholic who knows his Faith today is merely understanding what the Church has always taught.  By knowing what the Church has always taught and knowing what the post-Vatican II hierarchy teaches, he notices that they are often opposites.  To say that a Catholic is forbidden to notice this opposition is simply to say that Catholics are forbidden to understand, and must simply memorize the sounds of words without understanding that they have any meaning.  In other words, the Church of the past (i.e., the Church of all time), judges the present conciliar hierarchy’s teachings.  Faithful Catholics are doing their duty by noticing this fact.

 

Further, the very fact that Catholics are taught the distinction between infallible and non-infallible magisterial teachings, is because Catholics are taught that the infallible ones cannot conflict with the Catholic Faith but are part of it, whereas non-infallible magisterial teachings might conflict with the Catholic Faith.  This distinction is a warning to Catholics to accept all of the infallible teachings without possibility of error, but to accept the non-infallible ones only provided that they do not conflict with the consistent teachings of the Catholic Church through the ages.  This distinction also shows that Catholics are required not only to understand their Faith but also to understand when current churchmen contradict infallible Catholic Tradition.

 

 

Conclusion

 

Let us stand against the countless conciliar errors which attack the Catholic Faith!  Let us study our Faith so we can truly understand it and pass it on to the next generation!

 

What Virtue is the Most Misunderstood

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Catholic Candle note: The article below was written by a man who has always been Traditional Catholic and who has been continually fighting liberalism since before Vatican II.

 

 

 

That virtue is humility.  Why is it misunderstood and rarely practiced?  Because most people believe it’s a sign of weakness and they expect to be taken advantage of.  This couldn’t be further from the truth.  Our Lord was meek and humble of heart, but He stood up to the Pharisees many times.  (He twice cleared the temple of merchants and thieves with a whip.) 

 

To be humble is courageous and far from cowardly.  Our free will is prone to pride, the antithesis of humility.  So, we must fight against the sin of pride.  Our first parents were filled with pride and were put out of Paradise because of it.

 

There are many benefits from practicing the virtue of humility.  With pride, stress, envy and anger are sure to follow, whereas a humble person has continuous peace.  If there is good in you, you see more good in others, so that you may remain humble.[1]

 

Below are listed things you should know about humility and how it can affect your peace of soul and your salvation.  The points listed are from the Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. VII, page 544.

 

➢  Humility is a repressing virtue opposed to pride.

 

➢  Humility is said to be the foundation of the spiritual edifice.

 

➢  Humility is the first virtue, inasmuch as it removes the obstacles to Faith.

 

➢  It removes pride and makes a person subject to, and a fit recipient of, grace.

 

➢  God resisteth the proud and giveth His grace to the humble.

 

➢  Humility keeps the mind and heart submissive to reason and to God, and it may therefore be said to be a universal virtue.  It is, therefore, a virtue which is necessary for salvation.  Our Lord said, “Learn of Me, because I am meek and humble of heart.”

 

The virtue of humility is of such importance that many Catholic authorities have addressed it over the centuries.

 

The following points about humility and how it will affect your peace of soul and your salvation are from The Imitation of Christ, Book I, Chapters 6 and 7:

 

·         When a person desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease.  A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he who is poor and humble of heart lives in a world of peace.

 

·         It may happen, too, that while one’s own opinion may be good, refusal to agree with others when reason and occasion demand it, is a sign of pride and obstinacy.

 

·         God helps the humble and humbles the proud.

 

If you feel guilty when you push yourself forward, you have a start at understanding humility.   The dictionary definition of humility is: “implying absence of vanity and arrogance; meekness, and absence of wrath or vindictiveness”.  These are all qualities you need to save your soul.

 

God created man and angels to have a free will, which is required for a personal and meaningful decision of servitude.  Lucifer rejected humility in favor of pride. (“Non serviam!”)  Thus, he was cast into hell for all eternity.  Humility is that golden key that opens the Gates of Heaven.  Humility puts God first and ourselves second.

 

Humility opens a person’s heart and mind to better listen to God speak, and is a “direct line” to know His will.

 

Humility does not exempt someone from hard work and doing his best to do God’s will in his state of life or holy vocation.

 

The virtue of humility separates us from the animal world by controlling our passions.

 

Pride, the antithesis of humility, rules the world in all aspects, causing wars, murders, etc. 

 

Liberalism and modernism are caused by sins of pride.

 

Let us pray for a better understanding of humility, and that it is practiced by all, especially traditional Catholics and priests in the real resistance.

 


[1]              The Imitation of Christ, Book I, Chapter 7.

 

The Evil of Vaccines made from Murdered Babies

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We live in a godless society and there are countless evils around us.  For example, in some places, for some diseases (like chickenpox), one can only obtain vaccines whose manufacturers used cell lines from murdered babies, as disease cultures for manufacturing the vaccine.[1]

 

The conciliar church is lax and liberal and approves receiving vaccines which come from the cell lines of murdered babies, unless there is an alternative vaccine which does not use murder.  But there are three reasons it is wrong to accept these vaccines manufactured using the cell lines of murdered babies:

 

1.    Using those vaccines promotes future murders.

 

2.    Using those vaccines rewards persons connected with the murders.

 

3.    We incur guilt for those murders, by our consent.

 

Below, we discuss each of these reasons.

 

 

1.   Using those vaccines promotes future murders.

 

Using the cell lines from murdered babies encourages future murders whenever pharmaceutical companies deem it to be convenient and profitable to commit more murders for use in vaccine research or production. 

 

Because people did not refuse vaccines coming from the 1960s-era cell lines taken from murdered babies, drug companies, labs, and researchers felt “free” to commit more murders to create new cell lines.  For example, a new cell line from a new murdered baby, was announced in 2015.[2] 

 

Accepting those vaccines manufactured through murdered babies, promotes future murders (and every murder of an innocent human is a murder too many)!  Thus, when you use a vaccine produced through murder, the drug companies are encouraged to commit additional murders to keep vaccine production high.

 

 

2.   Using those vaccines rewards persons connected with the murders.

 

It is wrong to use vaccines produced from murdered babies because using these vaccines enables manufactures to profit through the murders.  We should not help drug companies make wickedness profitable!

 

 

3.   We incur guilt for the babies’ murders, by our consent.

 

We become culpable for someone else’s sin by consenting to it.[3]  When St. Paul teaches us this truth about sharing someone else’s sin by consent, he mentions murder in particular.  Here are his words:

 

Being filled with … murder, …  they who do such things, are worthy of death; and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them.

 

Romans, 1:29-32 (emphasis added).[4]

 

A person is guilty of a murder by consent when he acquiesces[5], even passively[6], or accedes, even reluctantly,[7] to the murder.  When we use vaccines which come from murder, we are (at least) passively accepting – i.e., giving in[8] to – the murders that make those vaccines available. 

 

 

A person can incur guilt by consenting even after the murder.

 

Some types of sharing in someone else’s sin can only occur before the sin is committed, e.g., commanding or advising that the sin should be committed.  See, the above list (from The Penny Catechism) of ways to share someone else’s sin. 

 

However, consent to the sin is different.  A person can consent to (i.e., acquiesce in) a murder either before or after it is committed, and so can incur guilt either way.

 

St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that a person can incur guilt by consenting to a murder which has already been committed.  He applies this principle (of guilt through post-murder consent) to a person who joins the Jewish religion after Christ’s murder.  Here are St. Thomas’ words:

 

When a person becomes a Jew, he becomes a participant in the killing of Christ. 

 

St. Thomas Aquinas, Lectures on St. Matthew, ch.23, #1861.

 

By using those vaccines manufactured through the murders of babies, a person thus incurs guilt by consenting to (i.e., acquiescing in) the murders of those babies even though murders were already committed.

 

 

The passage of time does not erase the guilt of consenting to those murders.

 

A superficial objection could be raised that the vaccines were made from murdered babies more than five decades ago and surely that is “so long ago” that we should disregard the murders because they are too distant in time.

 

That is wrong.  God does not cease to treat a murder as murder merely because of the passage of time.[9]  Those who commit murder and those that consent to it, remain culpable.  The mere passage of time does not remove the need to repent.  The punishments of hell are forever because the passage of time does not erase guilt.

 

Just as God does not overlook culpability for murder simply because of the passage of time, man does not do so either.  In the civil law, there is typically no statute of limitations for murder.[10]  In other words, no murder is ever so remote in time that we “don’t worry about it”.

 

The murdering of the babies committed to “harvest” their cell lines, was premeditated and is first degree murder.  The passage of time does not change the guilt of the murders and does not eliminate the guilt of a person who consents to the murders.

 

No matter how much time passes, faithful and informed Catholics will never buy the vaccines manufactured through these murders!

 

 

The end does not justify the means

 

Another superficial objection could be raised that vaccines do much good and that they save so many lives that this “outweighs” the murders through which the vaccines are produced.  However, faithful and informed Catholics must never be complicit in evil because of “good” that can come from it.  The end does not justify the means!

 

 

Discerning God’s Will through standing up for principle.

 

A similar, superficial objection is that without receiving these sinful vaccines, I will

lose some opportunity, for example, the chance to enter (or send my dependents to) a particular school.  Again, the end does not justify the means!

 

If, despite your best efforts, you cannot receive a “conscience waiver” or “religious exemption” to attend (or send your dependents to) the school without receiving a sinful vaccine, that merely shows you that God does not want you to attend that particular school, etc. 

 

 

We are not justified in consenting to even the smallest of sins, much less, consenting to murder.

 

The evil at issue here is murder.  That is a very grave evil.  But even if a person were to suppose that receiving vaccines derived from the cell lines of murdered babies were “only” a venial sin, even the very smallest sin is an infinite evil in three ways.[11]  We should be ready to die rather than commit any sin. 

 

Here is how St. Alphonsus de Liguori, Doctor of the Church, warns against committing even the smallest sin:

 

A single venial sin is more displeasing to God than all the good works we can perform.

 

St. Alphonsus de Liguori, Uniformity with God’s Will, §6.

 

Here is how St. John of the Cross, Doctor of the Church, warns us that the road to hell begins with a small sin:

 

Our Lord said in the Gospel: “He that is unfaithful in little will be unfaithful also in much.”  For he that avoids the small sin will not fall into the great sin; but great evil is inherent in the small sin, since it has already penetrated within the fence and wall of the heart; and as the proverb says: Once begun, half done.

 

Ascent of Mount Carmel, Book III, ch.20, section 1.

 

Here is how John Henry Cardinal Newman declares that the smallest sin is worse than all the physical suffering in the world:

 

The Catholic Church holds it better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions on it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say, should be lost, but should commit one single venial sin, should tell one willful untruth, or should steal one poor farthing without excuse.

 

Apologia Vita Sua, by John Henry Cardinal Newman, Image Books, Doubleday, Garden City, New York, © 1956, p.324.

 

 

Information about which vaccines to refuse.

 

We must be informed Catholics.  This sometimes means doing our own research, if we cannot obtain reliable information from our doctor.  Here is a list of sinful vaccines the use of which connects a person to the murders of those babies.  https://cogforlife.org/wp-content/uploads/vaccineListOrigFormat.pdf  The list also identifies ethically permissible alternative vaccines where they are available. 

 

If your doctor does not cooperate in your decision to refuse sinful vaccines, get a different doctor!

 

 

Conclusion

 

Some vaccines are produced through cell lines obtained from murdered babies.  There are three reasons getting these vaccines is a sin:

 

1.    Using these vaccines promotes future murders.

 

2.    Using these vaccines rewards those connected with the murders.

 

3.    We become culpable for the murders, by our consent.

 

We should stand up for Christ and reject these sinful vaccines.  We should also urge others to stand against these vaccines which break God’s Law (including the Natural Law).  At our Judgment we would want to have done so!


[1]           Here is a list of vaccines connected with murder and ethical alternatives, if they exist: https://cogforlife.org/wp-content/uploads/vaccineListOrigFormat.pdf

 

[3]              Here is summary of this basic truth from a common catechism:

 

328. When are we answerable for the sins of others? 

We are answerable for the sins of others whenever we either cause them, or share in them, through our own fault. 

329. In how many ways may we either cause or share the guilt of another’s sin? 

We may either cause or share the guilt of another’s sin in nine ways:

 

1.    By counsel.

 

2.    By command.

3.    By consent.

4.    By provocation.

5.    By praise or flattery.

6.    By concealment.

7.    By being a partner in the sin.

8.    By silence.

9.    By defending the ill done.

 

Quoted from The Penny Catechism, Nihil Obstat, Joannes M.T. Barton, S.T.D., L.S.S., Censor deputatus, Imprimatur, Georgius L. Craven, Epus Sebastopolis, Vicarius Generalis, Westmonasterii, die 20a Junii, 1958, p.57 (emphasis added).

 

[4]           Here is the longer quote from St. Paul:

 

Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness, full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity, whisperers, detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, foolish, dissolute, without affection, without fidelity, without mercy.  Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death; and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them.

 

Romans, 1:29-32

 

[5]           One of the definitions of consent is: “acquiescence to or acceptance of something done or planned by another”.  https://www.thefreedictionary.com/consent

[6]           One of the definitions of acquiescence is: “passive assent or agreement without protest”.  https://www.thefreedictionary.com/acquiescence

 

[7]           Two of the definitions of accede are: “to consent” and “to give in”.  https://www.thefreedictionary.com/accede

[8]           Two of the definitions of accede are: “to consent” and “to give in”.  https://www.thefreedictionary.com/accede

[9]           St. Thomas Aquinas teaches the principle that a person is culpable for consenting to a murder even when that murder had been committed many centuries earlier.  St. Thomas applies this principle to a person who joins the Jewish religion long after Christ’s murder.  Here are St. Thomas’ words:

 

When a person becomes a Jew, he becomes a participant in the killing of Christ. 

 

St. Thomas Aquinas, Lectures on St. Matthew, ch.23, #1861.

 

Thus, St. Thomas teaches that even the passage of a long, long time (1200 years, in St. Thomas’ time) after the murder, does not remove the culpability for consenting to it.  In other words, there is no “end date” for culpability by consenting to murder after it was committed. 

 

Note also regarding St. Thomas’ own example, that he places culpability upon consent to the murder of Christ (through conversion to Judaism), not upon ethnic lineage of a person.  Thus, this culpability does not touch the Apostles or any other ethnically Jewish persons who did not (do not) consent to the murder of Christ.

 

[10]            Here is how one legal commentary summarized the state of the law:

 

               Some crimes have no statutes of limitations.  As an example, murder typically has

               none.

 

https://resources.lawinfo.com/criminal-defense/criminal-statute-limitations-time-limits.html

 

Here is how the New York courts explain that murder does not become a non-prosecutable crime because of the passage of time:

 

Statutes of limitations are laws which say how long, after certain events, a case may be started based on those events. If the statute of limitations has run out, a case should not be started in court. If a case is started after the statute of limitations has run out, it is called time barred. A defendant or respondent can ask the court to dismiss the case if it is time barred by the statute of limitations.

 

Statute of limitations laws are based on fairness. Over time, memories fade, evidence is lost, and witnesses disappear.  People get on with their lives and don’t expect court cases from events in the past – unless a really horrible crime has been committed.

 

The amount of time by when a person or agency can start a case is different depending on the claim. For example, cases about real property have a long time period, while slander and libel have short time periods.  Some crimes, like murder, are so terrible that they often have no limitations period.

 

Except for when a government agency is sued, there is almost always at least one year from the date of an event to start a case no matter what type of claim it is. You should have no statute of limitations worries if you file your case within this one-year period.

 

https://nycourts.gov/CourtHelp/GoingToCourt/statuteLimitations.shtml

[11]         For a full explanation of this truth that all sin is an infinite evil in three ways and mortal sin is an infinite evil in a fourth way too, read this article: https://catholiccandle.neocities.org/faith/the-infinite-evil-of-sin.html

 

Compromise in the Catacombs?

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Catholic Candle note:  The following article helps to explain how salvation is surely possible for uncompromising Traditional Catholics, who for a time are without the Mass and Sacraments, at least in most places.  One doesn’t have to compromise his principles and overlook liberalism just so that he can have the Sacraments and the Mass (with a compromising priest).

If a person responds to the above question that he has to overlook some liberalism to “secure the sacraments” (at least in most places), then this person is really compromising, along with:

     1.  seven bishops;

     2.  hundreds of priests;

     3.  thousands of gullible followers of the liberal N-SSPX; and 

     4.  other liberal religious communities, (like the Fraternity of St. Peter).

These groups say that those Catholics who are truly uncompromising, are too strict and are wrong.  I ask: Is it, then, also wrong to be too loyal to Our Lord?

Currently, uncompromising Traditional Catholics are without an uncompromising priest or bishop (at least in most places).  God will provide in His own good time for the needs of the loyal soldier in the battle against corrupt conciliar church leaders in Rome and Catholics who are (objectively) compromising.

It’s not easy to live in the catacombs, but there are compensations – like extra graces – as those in the catacombs can attest.  One will also feel grateful and happy that he is doing his part in this great worldwide fight for Christ the King, when so many have abandoned Him.  (“This part” might include speaking often against liberalism, wherever you find it.)

Also, uncompromising Traditional Catholics find they have a closer friendship with Christ and want to do more, e.g., setting a most-needed good example for others to follow in a world that has rejected Christ.

Many clergy who are (objectively) compromising were on the right track but then weakened, I believe, because of pride.[1]  Or perhaps because they lacked the moral courage to resist the liberal direction their N-SSPX leaders (or others) had taken.  Also, the N-SSPX leaders were too concerned about the number of followers they had and were anxious to avoid defections.  This is a critical consideration in order to make a deal with the anti-Catholic conciliar church in Rome.  Rome doesn’t want the mass defection (from the liberal N-SSPX) of persons who would fight against the conciliar church and liberalism in order to return Rome to tradition.

Many lay followers were not concerned about small compromises with liberalism and so they gradually abandoned Archbishop Lefebvre’s stand for tradition.  These followers mistakenly believed that to be saved you must have the Mass and Sacraments without interruption.  It’s easy for a person within a large group to rationalize his defection from tradition and from Christ, by falsely believing God will understand because He knows people need the Mass and Sacraments.  Oh, no He won’t!  He really expects and wants loyalty and sacrifice.

The last fifty-five years show the majority of religious leaders were quick to abandon tradition and succumb to the liberalism of Vatican II, much the same as the apostles abandoned Christ during His Passion.  If one has to choose between the path of being loyal to Our Lord (including uncompromising tradition), and the path of overlooking liberalism in a compromise group in order to receive the Mass and the Sacraments, I know which path really leads to salvation!

Those who compromise are sure to ask how does one expect salvation without a priest and confession?  Well, with God’s help, where there’s a will there’s a way.  One surely doesn’t have the luxury of giving in to his passions or temptations and then being “excused” by a Saturday afternoon confession.  However, since we are all sinners, and we could possibly fall into grave sin despite extra graces at the time of death, the prospect of dying without (an uncompromising priest for) confession  would be horrifying were it not for the knowledge that a merciful God has provided for this with a perfect Act of Contrition.[2]  This prayer, said sincerely and with God’s help, is literally a God-send.  United with a pledge to go to (an uncompromising priest for) confession when available, this heartfelt prayer restores the dying person to grace at once. 

Uncompromising Traditional Catholics who are currently without an uncompromising priest are given extra graces and spiritual strength to help fight against evil and temptations, as those persons can attest.

We must avoid compromises such as accepting sacraments and sacramentals from a compromising priest or bishop (although we must not judge their interior culpability).  Accepting even one such compromise is the start of gradualism, the seat of liberalism and damnation.  Such situations give apparent approval to the compromising bishop or priest.  It is important to be consistent in all our actions.  If not, one bad concession causes a person to lose his credibility and his ability to set a good example – maybe forever.  

Let’s pray hard, be happy, and confident that we are in the right place by not compromising, and by doing what we can for Christ the King, Who is in charge and will triumph in the end!


[1]           See, e.g., this bragging of the “new” SSPX: https://catholiccandle.neocities.org/priests/sspx-institutional-pride.html

 

[2]           The Catholic Encyclopedia teaches:

 

Perfect contrition, with the desire of receiving the Sacrament of Penance, restores the sinner to grace at once.  This is certainly the teaching of the Scholastic doctors (Peter Lombard in P.L., CXCII, 885; St. Thomas, In Lib. Sent. IV, ibid.; St. Bonaventure, In Lib. Sent. IV, ibid.).

 

Catholic Encyclopedia,  1908, Volume 4, article: Contrition, page 339.

 

Climate-Change serves to usher in the New World Order

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Catholic Candle note:  This article pertains to the hoax that there is a human-caused, climate-change emergency.  The article does not pertain to the natural cycles of the climate which result in no year’s weather being identical to any other year’s weather, nor any century’s weather being identical to any other century’ weather.  Those natural fluctuations have always occurred and always will occur.  There are long-term cycles and short-term cycles.  That is how God created the world.

The second half of the article (below) discusses how the conciliar popes have promoted an important goal of the enemies of Our Lord Jesus Christ.  However, a reader would be mistaken if he assumed that these popes’ cooperation in this evil somehow means that they lost the papacy.

Sedevacantism is wrong and is (material or formal) schism.  Catholic Candle is not sedevacantist.  On the contrary, we published a series of articles showing that sedevacantism is false (and also showing that former Pope Benedict is not still the pope).  Read the articles here: https://catholiccandle.neocities.org/faith/against-sedevacantism.html 

 

In the 1970s, the government and media hyped a global-cooling climate scare which they called “the new ice age” – until it became too clear to everyone that the world was not cooling in any relevant way.[1]

Then, beginning in the 1980s, the climate scare was global-warming – until it became very clear that the evidence did not support this hoax.[2]

 

Consequently, the New World Order elites (working for a one-world government) began promoting “climate change” as their preferred climate “emergency” because this allows them to use all bad weather to further their power-grab agenda. 

Moreover, normal “bad” weather is now often hyped in the extreme.  Here are the words of one Time magazine writer who contrasts this current hype to earlier times when routine “bad” weather was merely treated as routine:

Now, every cold front that threatens to slicken roads and cause airport delays along the Eastern corridor (where, not merely coincidentally, almost all network TV news executives live and work) has become urgent news.  And not just in winter.  Springtime thunderstorms, summer heat waves, the first cold snap of the fall — all of them get breathless treatment, often accompanied by a barrage of scary stats: “14 states under severe weather watches”; “24 million people at risk for the possibility of tornadoes”; “43 million people at risk for flash flooding.” I grew up in Kansas City, Mo., in what used to be known as Tornado Alley.  In the late spring and early summer, we were always at risk.  It never seemed to make the national news.[3]

Not only is routine bad weather now hyped in the extreme, but the climate catastrophes of the past are ignored.  The examples are too numerous to count.  For example, in the Central American Country of Belize:

In 1931 an unnamed hurricane destroyed over two-thirds of the buildings in Belize City and killed more than 1,000 people.  In 1955 Hurricane Janet leveled the northern town of Corozal.  Only six years later, Hurricane Hattie struck the central coastal area, with winds in excess of 186 mph and a storm surge (ocean tide) of more than 13 feet.  Hattie was the second hurricane to devastate Belize City, in only thirty years.[4]

Who could doubt that, if those catastrophes occurred now, they would be used as “proof” that climate change is real?

Further, our fallen human nature makes it easy for the New World Order elites to succeed in this climate-scare fraud because fallen man has always been quick to exaggerate any current weather problems and to suppose that the weather was better in the past.  Here is how St. Augustine, Doctor of the Church, explained 1600 years ago how fallen man unreasonably tends to suppose that the weather is becoming more extreme:

Not only did our elders complain about their days, their grandparents too complained about their [own] days.  People have never been pleased with the days they lived in.  But the days of the ancestors please their descendants, and they too were pleased with the days they hadn’t experienced – and that’s precisely why they thought them pleasant.  It’s what’s present that is sharply felt.  I don’t mean it comes nearer, but it touches the heart every day.  Practically every year when we feel the cold we say “It’s never been so cold.”  “It’s never been so hot.”  “It,” “it” – “it” is always in our minds.  But blessed is the man whom You instruct, Lord, to claim him from baleful days, while a pit is being dug for the sinner.[5]

 

The climate change scare aims at ushering in the power-grab of the New World Order

The purpose of the climate-change hoax is a power-grab.  This hoax aims at destroying what remains of freedom and capitalism[6] in the world’s largest capitalist nation (the U.S.) and destroying national sovereignty to pave the way for a New World Order — i.e., global governance.

This truth was admitted by Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, in February 2015.  At a news conference in Brussels, she admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.  Here are her words:

This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change [i.e. get rid of] the economic development model [i.e., capitalism] that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.[7]

Referring to the Paris Climate Accord which she was promoting, Figueres added:

This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.[8]

Another of the U.N.’s top climate officials, Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer, also admitted that the climate-change scare is not to save the environment but to redistribute the world’s wealth.  Edenhofer, who was co-chair of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group III, made this admission in an interview with the Swiss Newspaper, Neue Zürcher Zeitung.  Here are Edenhofer’s words:

One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy.  This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy, with problems such as forest dying or ozone hole.  …  [O]ne has to say clearly: we are effectively redistributing world wealth through climate policy.[9]

Currently, in the U.S., one aspect of the climate-change hoax (and socialist power-grab), is the Democratic Party’s Green New Deal proposal.  Here is how this proposal is described by the (liberal) New York Times: 

What is the Green New Deal?

The Green New Deal is a congressional resolution that lays out a grand plan for tackling climate change.  Introduced by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Senator Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, the proposal calls on the federal government to wean the United States from fossil fuels and curb planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions across the economy.[10]  …

The resolution uses as its guide two major reports issued last year by the United Nations and by federal scientists who warned that if global temperatures continue to rise, the world is headed for more intense heat waves, wildfires and droughts.[11]

Sponsor, U.S. Representative Ocasio-Cortez, declared that our continued existence requires the Green New Deal.  Here are her words:

Our goal is to treat Climate Change like the serious, existential threat it is by drafting an ambitious solution on the scale necessary – aka a Green New Deal – to get it done.[12]

Examining the Green New Deal shows that it is a collection of goals long sought by the socialists and communists.  It requires Federal Government control throughout many broad parts of people’s lives.  Among many other evils, this proposal mandates the Federal Government to pass many unattainable socialist laws requiring:

·         all carbon emissions are eliminated;

·         all people in the United States have a free higher education;

·         to enforce the sovereignty and land rights of indigenous peoples;

 

·         all people of the United States have free high-quality health care;

 

·         all people of the United States have affordable, safe, and adequate housing;

 

·         all people of the United States have healthy and affordable food;

 

·         all people of the United States have access to nature;

 

·         all employers are forced to give paid leave and paid vacations to their employees; and

 

·         many other mandates of socialism.[13]

As explained above, the Green New Deal’s principal sponsor in the U.S. House of Representatives is liberal New York Democrat, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  Concerning this Green New Deal, her chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, (who has since left his job) revealed that the Green New Deal is not about “saving the planet”.  Here are his words about the Green New Deal:

It wasn’t originally a climate thing at all … we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.[14]

The New World Order elite is marshalling all of its forces to push the climate-change scare as a means of convincing the world’s population that the climate emergency gives people no choice but to accept unprecedented government control – especially globalist control – of all aspects of life.[15] 

 

The conciliar popes declare we need a world government to solve our climate emergency

The New World Order elites have been tirelessly working to install on the papal throne a pope who furthers their goal of one-world government.  This allows those elites to use the incomparable power of the papacy to advance the New World Order power-grab.

Here is how the Carbonari (the Italian Masons) described their plan to subvert and harness the power of the papacy:

[W]e can conspire at our ease, and arrive little by little at the end we have in view.  … 

The Pope, whoever he may be, will never come to the secret societies. It is for the secret societies to come first to the Church, in the resolve to conquer the two.  The work which we have undertaken is not the work of a day, nor of a month, nor of a year. It may last many years, a century perhaps, but in our ranks the soldier dies and the fight continues.  … 

That which we ought to demand, that which we should seek and expect, as the Jews expected the Messiah, is a Pope according to our wants.  Alexander VI., with all his private crimes, would not suit us, for he never erred in religious matters. Clement XIV., on the contrary, would suit us from head to foot.  Borgia was a libertine, a true sensualist of the eighteenth century strayed into the fifteenth.  He has been anathematized, notwithstanding his vices, by all the voices of philosophy and incredulity, and he owes that anathema to the vigor with which he defended the Church.  … 

We have the little finger of the successor of St. Peter engaged in the plot, and that little finger is of more value for our crusade than all the Innocents, the Urbans, and the St. Bernards of Christianity.  We do not doubt that we shall arrive at that supreme term of all our efforts; but when? but how? The unknown does not yet manifest itself.  Nevertheless, as nothing should separate us from the plan traced out; as, on the contrary, all things should tend to it, — as if success were to crown the work scarcely sketched ….

You will have fished up a Revolution in Tiara and Cope, marching with Cross and banner—a Revolution which it will need but to be spurred on a little to put the four quarters of the world on fire.[16]

This Masonic plan having largely succeeded, the post-Vatican II popes promote the globalist agenda in many ways, including promotion of the climate-change scare.

Shortly after Pope Francis’ election, the Masons declared that he was a plan (i.e., “a design”) fulfilled.  Here are the words of Nicola Spinello, Adjunct-Vicar Grand Master of the Masons of Piazza del Gesù:

I believe that this pope [viz., Francis] is the realization of a design that has long wanted to be adopted.[17]

Pope Francis has hopped onto the climate-scare bandwagon.  He declared that “one of the most serious and worrying phenomena of our time [is] climate change.”[18]  To respond to the supposed climate emergency, Pope Francis declared the need for a global government.  Here are his words:

The twenty-first century, while maintaining systems of governance inherited from the past, is witnessing a weakening of the power of the nation states, chiefly because the economic and financial sectors, being transnational, tends to prevail over the political.  Given this situation, it is essential to devise stronger and more efficiently organized international institutions, which functionaries who are appointed fairly by agreement among national governments and empowered to impose sanctions …[19]

Former Pope Benedict XVI likewise promoted a global government to protect the environment.  Here are his words:

In the face of the unrelenting growth of global interdependence, there is a strongly felt need, even in the midst of a global recession, for a reform of the United Nations Organization, and likewise of economic institutions and international finance, so that the concept of the family of nations can acquire real teeth.  One also senses the urgent need to find innovative ways of implementing the principle of the responsibility to protect and of giving poorer nations an effective voice in shared decision-making. This seems necessary in order to arrive at a political, juridical and economic order which can increase and give direction to international cooperation for the development of all peoples in solidarity. To manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result; to bring about integral and timely disarmament, food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of the environment and to regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need of a true world political authority, as my predecessor Blessed John XXIII indicated some years ago.[20]

 

Conclusion

We see the climate-change hoax being used to scare people into allowing destruction of national sovereignty and control of the world’s population.  Unbeknownst to most people, the ultimate goal is to prepare conditions for the coming of the antichrist.

Not only is this climate-scare a fraud, but it is a complete reversal of the priorities we should have.  Modern man cares nothing for his soul and focuses entirely on the material world. 

Even if the climate scare were not a fraud (as it is), nonetheless worldwide environmental catastrophe is much better than even a single venial sin.  Here is how Cardinal Newman states this truth:

The Catholic Church holds it better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions on it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say, should be lost, but should commit one single venial sin, should tell one willful untruth, or should steal one poor farthing without excuse.[21]

Even if climate-change were not a hoax, we should put more effort into preventing one venial sin than stopping climate-change.

Let us not be deceived by the climate-change scare! 

Let us remember that the only true evil is sin!


[2]           Here is a small sample of information showing that the global-warming scare is a fraud:

 

·         Volcanoes under Antarctic glaciers are cause of melting; explanation why this melting won’t cause rise in ocean levels.  https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/wouldnt-it-be-nice-if-cnn-didnt-report-fake-news-about-global-warming

 

·         Leaked emails by global warming alarmist scientists show attempt to explain-away the data because it contradicts them.  http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/09/20/warming-lull-since-18-haunts-climate-change-authors/

 

·         So-called “greenhouse” gas, CO2, is only .04% of the composition of the air.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide

 

·         https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-blogs/realimpactofweatherwithdrjoelnmyers/throwing-cold-water-on-extreme-heat-hype/70008963

 

·         https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/leading-global-warming-scientist-ordered-to-pay-opponents-legal-costs-in-libel-suit

 

·         https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/global-warming-is-fake-science-promoted-by-biased-scientists

 

·         http://merionwest.com/2017/04/25/richard-lindzen-thoughts-on-the-public-discourse-over-climate-change/

 

·         https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/climate-scientist-who-got-it-right-predicts-20-more-years-global

 

·         http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/top-stories/global-warming-is-rubbish-says-top-professor-1-6536732

 

·         http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/20/times-atlas-apologizes-for-misleading-greenland-ice-melting-claim/

 

·         https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/science/earth/18juneau.html

 

·         https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/science/earth/21climate.html

 

·         https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/climate-change-alarmists-disregard-sanctity-of-human-life-population-expert

 

·         https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315690426_A_National_Survey_of_Television_Meteorologists_About_Climate_Change_Preliminary_Findings

 

·         https://www.alipac.us/f19/no-global-warming-16-years-monckton-explains-scandal-over-climate-change-269898/

 

·         http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarming/11395516/The-fiddling-with-temperature-data-is-the-biggest-science-scandal-ever.html

 

·         https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11561629/Top-scientists-start-to-examine-fiddled-global-warming-figures.html

 

·         http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11367272/Climategate-the-sequel-How-we-are-STILL-being-tricked-with-flawed-data-on-global-warming.html

 

[3]           When did routine bad weather become such big news?, by Richard Zoglin, Time magazine contributor and author.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/tv-news-is-too-obsessed-with-the-weather/2019/11/29/df2a678a-116b-11ea-b0fc-62cc38411ebb_story.html?utm_campaign=opinions_saturday&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Newsletter&wpisrc=nl_opinions&wpmm=1 (emphasis in the original).

 

[4]           Quoted from: Latin America, A Sketch of its Glorious Catholic Roots and a Snapshot of its Present, by the Editors of Quanta Cura Press, © 2016, p.59.


[6]           In a capitalistic economy, there is an absence of the government control which the socialists and the communists insist upon.  Thus, socialists and communists hate capitalism.  In capitalism, there is relative freedom – which is why the New World Order elites seek to destroy capitalism because it is incompatible with their vision of world control.

 

However, the pre-Vatican II popes reminded the world that, even in a capitalist economy, bosses and workers must fulfill the duties of justice and charity that those groups have to each other.  See, e.g., Quadragesimo anno the encyclical issued by Pope Pius XI on 15 May 1931 and Rerum Novarum the encyclical of Leo XIII issued forty years before that.  Thus, unlimited capitalism (doing whatever we can to succeed in business) is also immoral because that would disregard justice and charity.


[7]           Quoted in the daily financial newspaper, Investors Business Daily, available here: https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/climate-change-scare-tool-to-destroy-capitalism/

(emphasis added; bracketed words added for clarity).

 

[8]           Quoted in the daily financial newspaper, Investors Business Daily, available here: https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/climate-change-scare-tool-to-destroy-capitalism/ (emphasis added; bracketed words added for clarity).

 

[9]           This interview was published on 11-14-10 and is available here:

https://www.nzz.ch/klimapolitik_verteilt_das_weltvermoegen_neu-1.8373227

 

Here is the original German:

 

Man muss sich von der Illusion freimachen, dass internationale Klimapolitik Umweltpolitik ist. Das hat mit Umweltpolitik, mit Problemen wie Waldsterben oder Ozonloch, fast nichts mehr zu tun.  …  Aber man muss klar sagen: Wir verteilen durch die Klimapolitik de facto das Weltvermögen um.

[13]         116th Congress, House Resolution 109.

[15]         Climate-change fraud is promoted in countless ways, by countless “foot soldiers” who aid this effort knowingly or unknowingly.  For example, The Oxford Dictionary promotes the climate scare by (among other things) having made the two-word phrase “climate emergency” its Word of the Year for 2019.  https://www.msn.com/en-gb/finance/other/climate-emergency-is-oxford-dictionarys-word-of-the-year-2019/ar-BBX6Roi

 

[16]         The Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita, drafted by the Carbonari (the Italian Masonry) publicly published by the orders of Pope Pius IX and Pope Leo XIII who vouched for its authenticity.  This document is found in The War of Anti-Christ with the Church, by Msgr. George Dillon, D.D., Gill & Son, Dublin, 1885, Ch.13.

 

[17]         Quoted in the book, Vaticano massone. Logge, denaro e poteri occulti: il lato segreto della Chiesa di papa Francesco, by Giacomo GALEAZZI – Ferruccio PINOTTI, Edizioni Piemme, Milano 2013, p.83, as quoted here: https://onepeterfive.com/freemasons-love-pope-francis/#_ftn23 (bracketed word added to show the context).

[19]         Laudato Si, section 175 (emphasis added).


[20]         Caritas in Veritate, (former) Pope Benedict XVI, 6-29-09, §67 (emphasis added).

 

[21]         Apologia Vita Sua, by John Henry Cardinal Newman, Image Books, Doubleday, Garden City, New York, © 1956, p.324.