THE OBAMA EXPRESS AND THE TEA PARTY EXPRESS STOP AT THE SAME DEPOT
  October 3



I was not going to comment on the upcoming mid-term elections, but the sight of so many on the political right almost frothing at the expectation of a spectacular win a month from now certainly gave me cause to pause. I have no intention of disagreeing with their assessment in general, any gains under the circumstances, have to be counted as a plus in theory. In fact much of the credit can be given to the Tea Party movement or, borrowing from one of their constituent organizations, the TEA PARTY EXPRESS, for it seems to have picked up enough steam to stay on track going headlong for years to come, and not to the erstwhile conservatives who joined the establishment, becoming just an everyday variant of progressiveness, sometimes referred to as the GOP or Republican party. Anything that will shakeup those who ought to have known better in the first place, given what followed in the aftermath of 1994, is to the good and should be applauded. My arguments are not with the well-intentioned, dedicated members, regular folks like you and me, as far as things go. My arguments are strictly with the zeitgeist or overarching cultural mandate: that abortion, the slaughter of the most innocent of human beings and the banishment of the natural law, the first rule of all positive law, is off the table. This is sheer, utter folly!

 Essentially, tragically, the nihilistic left has won the culture, so much so that Sarah Palin can say without any sense of shame that she is proud of her daughter's appearance on a jaded, garish entertainment television show called "Dancing with the Stars". It is to weep. Our descent into degenerate circuses began with the first court cases that led to Roe v Wade, most especially with the Connecticut suit that established birth control as a right of privacy. Having sundered the most private of all, the marriage act, from the natural and supernatural, it was only a matter of time before abortion would be enshrined in the panoply of expanding rights in direct violation of our obligations to Almighty God. If life itself is no longer sacred, if innocence itself is so easily discarded, everything that has followed is quite predictable given the trajectory of hellish designs, which follow their own "doctrinal" inferences. Human persons are created in the likeness and image of God; it is ungodlike to manipulate that which is holy and ordained by God---openness to human life in complete trust of Him Who is the creator of life, Who is Life. Having abased the most private of human intimacy, having soiled ourselves in an act of defiance, can it honestly be thought that the rest of the natural law would hold? That law itself would retain its respectability? The answer surges up before our eyes. But we turn away, wanting things to be as we imagine, that we can accept a détente on abortion and still expect the grace of God to enable us to perpetuate the myth that is such an egregious affront to Heaven.

We look for our salvation now, from men in economic affairs and social arrangements, reserving God for Sunday and pious holidays, in so many words. Even Sunday, supposedly so holy to all the Americans who tell pollsters about their deep religious Christian beliefs, is a day of profanation with shopping a "sacrament" among other forms of contempt. Our Lady of la Salette had much to say about this blasphemy or sacrilege, with tears in her eyes. We are the lukewarm that He "will vomit" out of His mouth. And know it not anymore, if we ever did. You see, as I am wont to say, but must repeat because it is so necessary: reason and the natural law are indispensable friends of each other: banish the one, lose the other. This is why the emotional, the sentimental, the physical dominate; why we ask "How do you feel?" rather than "What do you think?" so often, misapprehending that one is the equivalent for the other.

Rather than be ruled by reason we are under the tyranny of unreason, that is, irrationality and the absurd---the pertubation of twisted logic, literally we have subjected ourselves to insanity. And no more is this displayed than in the federal courts where "law" is enacted out of deliberate will, the very hatred of normalcy while we are like helpless, scattered sheep before the dominion of lawlessness that has turned everything upside down, with some notable exceptions---the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah had a few righteous men. The long "slouch towards Gomorrah" [taking a phrase from Judge Bork] has reached its terminus in an almost complete embrace of the unnatural. Sodomy is now accorded rights, even among many who claim they do not mean to include "marriage". And I am talking about people who say they are "conservatives" or traditionalists, to be blunt, such as the woefully misguided Glenn Beck [as I first pointed out in the very beginning of the zenith of his public cult] and his adulation of the occultist Ben Franklin and the "deist", Thomas Jefferson. This Pied Piper, a lapsed Catholic, has not much good to say about Christopher Columbus and altogether too much good to say about his unholy trinity of faith, hope and charity, personified by Washington, Franklin and Jefferson.

Nothing that is truly sacred is off limits, for debate or rather, I should say, browbeating into eventual submission and humiliating oblivion. A corollary of this is that the new racism demands that Whites be denied equal protection of the law at the voting booth, a slight blip on the radar screen of outrage, then disappearing like a little burp into the morass of our political landscape. That vile swamp is so viscous that it withholds common sense and justice from our grasp: The latest victim being a cheerleader who was raped by a football player who admitted his crime. When he was allowed to return to the team [imagine!] the school punished the girl when she refused to salute him, rather than the savage. She was exiled from the squad, not he! Perverse obeisance to the zeitgeist is as overweening as is our pride and lack of normal shame.

Limiting the scope of government will be daunting to say the very least, like applying a Band-Aid to a hemorrhaging heart. Cavalier about spurning the natural law, we think we can pass laws that will have the consequences we intend. The law of unintended consequences, part of the human condition, is now on steroids because we do not have the grace of God upon our country anymore. He awaits out humility, our repentance, still ... there is only one depot for our runaway trains to end, abruptly---annihilation of the "American way of life".

I do not know if the elections will yield the hoped for bonanza of virtuous office holders or not. It is immaterial. God is chastising us and given our penchant for outsmarting ourselves, having assumed the rights of God Himself, He will let us have our way, "deliver us up to our iniquity" by not permitting us to see clearly enough to prevent the inevitable. That is, until, and only until we repudiate abortion, strike it from our midst and do penance for the holocaust of millions of innocent babies who were sacrificed on the altar of political expediency and the terrifying notion that mothers have a positive right not to be inconvenienced by their youngest children, the turning upside down of all that is right and natural and holy: that mothers make sacrifices for their children, not of their children. Some "rights" are so wrong that the price that is paid is far more costly and ruinous than any one individual, who accepts such evil, let alone an entire society, can comprehend.

Look for the law of unintended consequences to be rife, ready and more than able to cause confoundment and havoc, what we bargained for unwittingly, because it is what we deserve.
Until the Consecration to Russia of Our Lady's Immaculate Heart is made as explicitly asked for by Our Lady of Fatima, will the world begin to be set aright once more and live and legislate according to the just dictates of the natural law. For now it scarcely pays lip service to the natural law, embarrassed by the Divine.

 Traditionalist Catholics are the only ones left now to pray and make reparation. Until enough of us have done so, the chastisement continues.

Why the Consecration to Russia? Because Our Lady requested it and she requested it because Russia is the original source of the errors of our day, whence the evils of our time arose. Communism and socialism are habits of the mind and will and godless, dead souls, of men, courting Hell itself, and not necessarily any particular country; yet, it is Russia that must be converted first, that the rest of the world might follow.

The more Our Lady's requests are scoffed at, the more the mischievous Murphy moves in with his best aide de camp, the law of unintended consequences ....

This is my last column, and I conclude where I began, arriving full circle years hence with social matters only becoming less conducive to salvation than before. I am leaving the web with no regrets. I want to spend more time in prayer and catching up with good Catholic reading. I want to go back to basics as the phrase goes, for a more natural way of living, the silence of simplicity and the simplicity of silence---solitude. Pray for me as I will for you. I believe with all my heart and soul that this is the very will of God, Whose ways are unsearchable but most compelling, irresistible ...


WINTER BLUES IN LATE SUMMER:
The Long Cold March of Modernism or
The Wolves of Winter
  August 24, 2010

The little church was silent as the parishioners entered, genuflected, and knelt down to pray before the Blessed Sacrament. Holy silence before the Real Presence absent in Protestant churches, where the congregants have fellowship with each other in lieu of adoration of Our Lord in the tabernacle. A regular Sunday morning for those Catholic folks with a simple piety befitting any believing, practicing parishioner in the House of God.

A few minutes before the beginning of Mass a roar erupted near the sanctuary as the "late-vocation" up-to-date priest came through, noting the quiet of hushed prayer. He was offended that the parishioners were not behaving as Protestants, crying out, "You know this is a Catholic Church because it is so silent!" You should not be doing this, you ought to speak to your neighbor instead." Then a loud "Good Morning!" And more bidding to leave the tabernacle and commune with others in the pews. Most of the parishioners complied and a small cacophony welled up to impose itself devilishly on those who persevered in prayer. The molestation of the modern spirit continues unabated to enervate what is left of traditional piety. This ought to have been quite enough for any one Sunday. Ah, but it was not to be so. Pestilence is relentless.

The priest insisted that every one was to sing at the top of his lungs the Protestant song---Catholic hymns a rarity now---something about the table of plenty. Once more, only a few refrained, would not let the love of human respect conquer them. The sign of the times, and also  an indicator of more to come within a few minutes. The only altar server---there are no more acolytes---was a teenage girl, the lone lector a woman. Nothing new under the sun from the "get used to change" crowd.

At last the dreaded homily as a foreboding set in based on what transpired just before.

The priest quoted St. Luke 13: 24 about the narrow gate and the need to strive to enter thereby. But never explained what happened if one failed. Without the context, that is, the union of this passage with that of St. Matthew 7: 14, that few there are that find it [and are saved], it is easy to misapply the meaning in order to serve the new religion spawned by the "new Mass". Then all Hell broke loose as the priest announced the many [not the few] Hindus, Buddhists, Confucians, atheists, Protestants, Moslems, et al that were saved and how wrong the Church had been in its previous [actually the priest is unaware it is by necessity perennial and unchanging] teaching that there is no salvation outside of the Church; he added that he did not understand why the Church had taught as it did. So much for the supposed advantage of the wisdom of age. He made sure the parishioners knew that they ought to be ashamed of this dogma. He also entertained the assembly with a joke heard a hundred times before concerning all the rejoicing going on in Heaven by every group, still Hindus and Company, except the dour Catholics who were quiet, thinking they were the only ones there. No explanation why thinking this led to quietude. Nothing about the Beatific Vision and the eternal adoration of the Holy Trinity. Interestingly he separated the saved by religious beliefs, not order of sanctity, sheer prejudice, certainly in order to serve the blasphemous joke.  He also overlooked the reality that if a person who is justified is saved, an occurrence that Pope Pius IX taught we ought not consider as something readily [often] hoped for, it is through the grace of the Catholic Church and not by his false beliefs although in invincible ignorance. All the heathen's gods are of the devil as the New Testament tells us. Nothing like context. The real irony, not lost on every parishioner, thanks be to God, was that even if one starts out as a Buddhist or Moslem, etc., and is saved, when he gets to Heaven he is no longer these but a Catholic, period. The only human souls in Heaven are Catholics, notwithstanding that not every original Catholic finds himself saved.

This is the same priest who told the Mass-goers on the Feast of the Assumption that when you die you will all be like Mary, assumed into Heaven, or words to that effect. Purgatory? What is that to him, apparently, let alone the possibility of Hell.

St. Matthew's dire warning is worth repeating, in its totality:

Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat.  How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!  Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. [7:13-15]

NBC: HATE MONGERING FOR THE ANTI-CATHOLIC LEFT
 July 17, 2010

Friday's evening news broadcast by the National Barack Corporation [NBC] is evidence that the network has sunk to a new low, so much so, that its corporate letters could as easily stand for No Balance for Catholics. The offending segment, an exercise in raw bigotry and obscenity, was a specious news report on the Church's non-ordination of women. The reporter equated priestly pederasty, a real crime and loathsome vice, with what he characterized as another "crime", the ordination of men only. The tone was barely restrained sarcasm encased in outrage: a smear job that would make yellow journalism look virtuous. There was no attempt to present the reason why the Church cannot, not only does not, ordain women. The purpose was agitprop, to serve dissenters and heretics who use "the cause for ordaining women" as a pretext to destroy the Church. Given the network's total cover-up for President Obama's socialist agenda and much worse, actually; and the mockery of normal, ordinary Americans who are waking up to the monster they put in power in a reckless moment of serendipity about hope and change, it is not exactly surprising that Friday's display of contempt for the Mystical Body of Christ was so blatantly biased. NBC has the resources to do fact checking, send reporters all over the globe in the pursuit of news. It did not even try; it does not want to know the truth, for truth is uncharted waters therein and the reason its ratings are tanking lower than depth of the Dead Sea.

I don't have the same resources that NBC does, fortunately, for I have revealed truth in my arsenal of facts. The following is taken from A Short Catechism on "Women Priests" by John Vennari in the February 2001 issue of Catholic Family News. Mr. Vennari's "catechism" is succinct, clear and completely demolishes the arguments of those who claim they have a right to ordination:


What is the Church's teaching on women in the priesthood?

The Church's constant teaching can be summarized in three points.

1) God Himself determines who will exercise the function of the priesthood in the public liturgy. Not even Christ as man takes the honor to Himself, and to the Apostles He says, "You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you, and have appointed you." [John 15:16]
2) God chose men both in the Old and New Testament exclusively for the priesthood.
3) Only men are to exercise the ministerial priesthood, representing all mankind before God in things pertaining to God.
Is there any foundation for woman priesthood in the Old Testament?
There is none. From the beginning God chose only men to offer sacrifice. Adam, created before Eve, is the head of Eve and the whole human race. He is the first official priest through the primacy of his creation to offer sacrifice to God. It is also through Adam that sin was passed on to the human race. If only Eve had sinned and not Adam, the human race would not have fallen. Noah offered sacrifice when leaving the ark. Melchizedech, King of Salem and priest of God, offered sacrifice of bread and wine. Abraham, whom God called to be the father of many, offered sacrifice. Under Moses, Aaron was chosen by God as high priest. This Levitical priesthood [the sons of Aaron] continued until the coming of Christ, Who annulled all former priesthoods. There is no record of women offering sacrifice anywhere in the Old Testament.
Is there any foundation for woman priesthood in the New Testament?
There is none. Christ, the new Adam, through Whom are born all the children of of God in the supernatural order of Grace, offered Himself in sacrifice as both Priest and Victim. Christ chose only men as Apostles to act in persona Christi, i.e. to act in the person of Christ, particularly in the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.
Is there any foundation for woman priesthood in the Sacred Tradition of the Church?
There is none. St. Irenaeus and Tertullian of the early Church, both condemned heretical sects that attempted to admit women to priestly orders.
Is there any foundation for woman priesthood [priestesses] in the history of the world?
Yes, but in the paganism and witchcraft of the pre- and post-Christian era, as well as the condemned heretical sects mentioned above. It should be noted that every time such paganism and witchcraft is mentioned in Scripture, it is mentioned as something evil, to be condemned. This is why today's feminist "theologians" openly declare how "right" were the pagans and how "wrong" were Christ and the Church fathers.
Could it be that Christ did not institute woman priesthood because He was victimized by culture, custom and prejudice of His time?
Christ was no peaceful conformist. It is evident that Christ broke many of the conventions of His surroundings. He cleansed the temple of accepted commercial conventions and revoked the convenient custom of divorce [which is Rule #1 of "How to be unpopular"]. He spoke to Samaritans and that of a woman, He disregarded the legal customs of the Pharisees. Christ, being God, did not conform to the age. but commanded His age [and all ages] to conform to Him.

Didn't St. Paul say that "In Christ there is neither male nor female," therefore, women have a right to be priests?
This quote from St. Paul [which actually refers to sanctifying grace received at Baptism and not Holy Orders] is often cited by woman-priest advocates as an argument from infallible Sacred Scripture. Yet these feminists ignore the same St. Paul who wrote elsewhere in Sacred Scripture: "Let women keep silence in the Churches." [1 Cor. 14:34-35]
Didn't  the early Church have Deaconesses?
Yes, but it is unanimous from early Church documents that the term "deaconesses" had nothing to do with the Sacrament of Holy Orders. St. Epiphanius gives unquestionable testimony as to the non-ordination of "deaconesses." They were only women-elders, not priestesses in any sense, and their mission was not to interfere in any way with sacerdotal functions, but simply to perform offices in the care of women. [Haer. lxxix. cap. iii]
Does the non-admission of women to the priesthood have anything to do with "inferiority" and superiority?"
It has nothing to do with "inferiority" and superiority," but upon the roles which God has ordained for men and women. According to Divine Plan, God did not call women to the priesthood any more than He called men to motherhood. Our Blessed Mother was the most perfect being ever to walk the earth, outside of the God-man, Jesus Christ. So much does Her excellence surpass all of God's creatures that She is Queen of Angels and Saints. Yet Our Lord did not choose Her as one of His priests, but twelve unlettered men, one of whom betrayed Him. 

Is there any example to help us understand God's order?

The example of the Holy Family bears out God's order. St. Joseph was the pure and just head of the Holy Family. Our Lady was lovingly obedient to St. Joseph and Our Lord was subject to both of them. Yet in the order of excellence it was the other way around. Christ is the most excellent, then Our Lady, and then St. Joseph. Heaven recognized Joseph as head of the family as the Angel always went to Joseph with instructions to "Take your family to Egypt" and "take your family back to Nazareth." Unfortunately, a Christian understanding of the proper order of man, woman and family is practically non-existent in our modern atheistic world, which makes an understanding of the supernatural order of Christ's Church and His priesthood quite difficult for modern minds. But it is the modern world that is wrong, not Christ.

Will any of these arguments convince the feminists that they are wrong?

No, because they are based on Sacred Scripture and the Sacred Teaching of the Catholic Church established by Christ. Feminist "theologians" do not believe in the Divinity of Christ, nor in Sacred Scripture as the Word of God nor in an infallible Church instituted by Divine authority, nor ------- for that matter --------  in God the Father. [One of the latest trends in inclusive language is to replace "In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost" with "In the name of the Creator, the Redeemer and the Sanctifier." Some priests have Baptized using this inclusive language, thus nullifying the Sacrament and committing the mortal sin of sacrilege].

On what, then, do the feminists base their "theology?"

On pitiful fantasy, wishful thinking and the lies of occultism.

ENOUGH SAID!



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