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Issue 290
A Catholic Fight
Five Saints To Call
Against An
Upon During A
Epidemic
Pandemic
- page 4
- page 21
The Signs of Our Time page 15-19
“For Nation shall rise against Nation, And Kingdom against Kingdom; And there shall be PESTILENCES, and Famines, and Earthquakes in places: Now all these are the beginnings of sorrows.”
Restore the Sacraments - page 2
(Matthew 24:7-8)
The False Conviction of Cardinal Pell - page 11
Bishops Call Pope Francis to Crown Our Lady - page 25
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Letters People are Being Left Behind Dear Editor, The war between society and Covid-19 allows use of the soldier’s refrain; leave no one behind. But it is evident that in the might and main of fighting the current medical battle residents of nursing homes and residential care facilities are being left behind. Action is now being taken but it’s a case of: equine bolted, stable door closed. People are also being left behind in the less fatal setting of the financial battlefield. During this health emergency no financial aid is being offered to those who are unemployed and receive no social welfare payment. While financial provision is being made for the recently redundant, what about a section of the Live Register who receive no payment but still have to sign-on for Credits. If you are unemployed and you do not qualify for an unemployment payment, you can sign-on for credits at your local Social Welfare Office to keep your social insurance record up-to-date as long as you qualify for credits. As recruitment and employment seeking activity grinds to a halt under Covid-19 restrictions where is the emergency funding for those who through circumstance not of their making find their employment
8th May 2020 Send your letters to: Letters Page, Catholic Voice, St Michael’s House, Castlemitchell South, Athy, Co Kildare or email to letters@catholicvoice.ie
seeking activity eliminated.
curtailed
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The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection needs examine this issue and agree to introduce a dignity payment for those signing for credits until this health emergency is over. John Tierney, Fews, Co. Waterford.
Butterfly Cocoons
The Cocooned World A. J .Cole. The world was plunged into cocooning With a virus that left us all swooning. Leaving political and health chiefs agog With no easy or quick way out of the fog. Awaiting with patience a scientific response The virus origins and cure much needed at once. Self isolation is all the while weighing us down Our work being brought to a halt I do not clown. Lets pray that we shall quickly rise up again With life restored without much money pain. And so may our faith, hope and love be strong For soon we’ll return to where we belong. To the unsung heroes we say a big thanks For the loving care coming from their ranks. Confinement do not drive us round the bend So well done to those cocooning to the end.
JUSTICE 11
8th May 2020 Catholic Voice
Establishment hatred of the Church and the false conviction of Cardinal Pell Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
A Rarity Hierarchy
Among
Today’s
Cardinal George Pell is a remarkable man. As one of the great Princes of the Church, he was in effect the Pope’s Finance Minister. In that role, he not only got to grips with the financial corruption that was endemic at the Vatican, striking fear into those who had been lining their pockets from Peter’s Pence for decades, but also whispered some common sense into the Pontiff’s ear on global warming. For Cardinal Pell is that rarity among today’s hierarchy: a social conservative who has always been uninterested in impressing the Marxist global elite and knowledgeable enough not to be taken in by the climate scam. I once helped him to draft a speech on the subject, but the truth is that he needed very little help from me: he knew at least as much about it as I did, and that is saying a lot. All it took for the elite to bring down Cardinal Pell was a single spectacularly false allegation by two malevolent 13-year-old choristers that he had sexually assaulted them in his own cathedral sacristy immediately after Sung High Mass on two Sundays. Defects in the Case Against Cardinal Pell Here are just a few of the obvious defects in the case against the Cardinal. One of the two choristers admitted to his own family that he had
fabricated the accusation against the Cardinal. The police, the prosecution and the judges in three courts culpably disregarded this admission. The two servers alleged that the assault had taken place at the busiest time after Mass, when the door between the sacristy and the main body of the Cathedral was open, and when people were coming in and out constantly.
alone at the time when the alleged offences were said to have occurred. Numerous credible witnesses testified that at the time when the assaults were alleged to have taken place the Cardinal was, as he usually was after the sung High Mass, at the door of the Cathedral shaking hands with parishioners.
At the time when the alleged assault took place, the Cardinal was fully robed in his Mass vestments and physically could not have committed the assault.
Remarkably, the Cardinal was convicted even though the Prosecution did not challenge the veracity of the testimony of any of the Cardinal’s witnesses. The judge at trial should have dismissed the case on that and many other grounds, but negligently failed to do so.
At all times when a celebrant is fully robed, particularly if he is an Archbishop in his own Cathedral, he is always accompanied – at minimum – by the Master of Ceremonies and two Capellani. He could not, therefore, have been
The police, fully aware that there was no case against the Cardinal, attempted to shore it up by using public funds to advertise for people who wished to come forward and say that they, too, had been assaulted by the Cardinal.
12 JUSTICE
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8th May 2020 Train-wreck of a Judicial Process The High Court concluded that there was “a significant possibility that an innocent person has been convicted because the evidence did not establish guilt to the requisite standard of proof”. This train-wreck of a judicial process brought down the Cardinal, flung him into prison for 405 days, during most of which he was held in solitary confinement for his own safety, and has left him a stumbling, gaunt, ill shadow of his former self.
Cardinal George Pell The testimony of the witnesses against the Cardinal was so feeble that the first of the two juries that heard the case could not agree on his guilt and he had to face a second trial, followed by a failed appeal to the Appeal Court of the State of Victoria, and finally his successful appeal to the High Court of Australia. Communist reporters at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and at other Marxist-dominated news media so thoroughly and repeatedly blackened Cardinal Pell’s name that he could not and did not receive a fair trial at any stage. One of the three Appeal Court judges had correctly concluded that because the Prosecution had not challenged the truthfulness of the Cardinal’s witnesses there was reasonable doubt about whether he had committed the alleged offences, but the other two had not drawn the correct conclusion – a near-unprecedented failure of judicial process. It was only at the High Court of Australia that all seven
judges unanimously handed down a stingingly critical judgment condemning the jury for irrationality, the witnesses for fabrication, the police for vindictiveness and the lower courts for idleness and incompetence. The High Court found that any rational jury ought to have doubted the Cardinal’s guilt. It quashed the convictions and replaced them with verdicts of acquittal. It is extremely rare that any superior court will thus reverse a jury’s findings as to fact unless new evidence comes to light after trial. That did not happen in this case. Normally, therefore, no appeal on the ground that a jury acted irrationally and contrary to the facts is permitted. The inadequacy of the testimony against the Cardinal was extreme, and the fact that the truthfulness of his own witnesses was not at any stage even challenged, let alone disproven, by the prosecution and yet that the trial judge had not dismissed the case is unprecedented.
Just as the Lord of Life was falsely convicted, sentenced, tortured and executed for the sins of others, so His good and faithful servant George Cardinal Pell was falsely convicted, sentenced, humiliated, imprisoned, isolated and made ill for the sins of those priests who had committed sexual assaults, and of those bishops who had failed to supervise them properly. These assaults are a disfiguring stain on the Church. But Cardinal Pell, who has borne the brunt of the world’s wrath even though he was and is blameless, has at last received his long-overdue acquittal. He has not received justice, for each of the four lower courts that heard the case should have flung it out, and he should never have lost his position at the Holy See, and should certainly not have had to endure the hatefilled humiliation he suffered at the hands of the Marxstream media. Characteristically, he bears his accusers and his inept and idle judges no ill will. Let us pray for him, and for them – for at the last day they are most certainly going to need all the prayers they can get.
8th May 2020 Catholic Voice
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St. Cajetan - The Surprising Saint who can help During the Coronavirus Crisis Paul Smeaton
Work is the Key to a Happy Life “Employment, stability, meaningful work – if you want to help people weather this crisis, the one that’s coming, save their jobs. It’s that clear.” – Tucker Carlson, March 16, 2020. Those words reminded me of a novena I have prayed on several occasions over the years to Saint Cajetan, patron saint of those seeking work. In addition to founding the Theatine order, St. Cajetan – who lived in the sixteenth century – founded a bank to help the poor and to offer an alternative to money-lenders practicing usury. His bank later became the Bank of Naples. catholicculture.org notes that St. Cajetan’s “concern for the unemployed, giving them the necessary financial help in their time of need, made him their patron.” Here are some lines that have always struck me when praying the novena, and which are similar to the sentiment expressed by Tucker Carlson last month. From Day 1 of the Novena: You were truly a spiritual shepherd, and your concern was always focused on the salvation of souls. But despite this, you were also aware that with hungry stomachs the faithful would have difficulty in understanding God’s Word. You embarked to help them, not just
by giving them bread but helping them gain their living by work.
For fellow Catholics who have learned to trust in the intercession of the saints, I can tell you that I have prayed this novena on a number of occasions and have each time been surprised by the generosity of God’s response.
in the realm of job hunting, I decided to implore God’s grace in finding a suitable alternative. A bit of online research and I discovered St. Cajetan, the patron saint of those seeking employment. Being a somewhat keen advocate for distributism, and accrediting the Church’s social doctrines for playing a large part in my coming to the Faith, I knew I’d found a Saint who’d always be close to my heart! Not only had this great saint and purifier of the Church established several hospitals to assist the needy and sick, he even established a usury free bank to combat the scourge of high interest loans and the profit of misery! What greater saint could we ask for today?
What Greater Saint could we ask for Today?
And so I embarked on my first ever novena. Expecting the job
And from Day 3: Since your death, dear St. Cajetan, the unemployed people of the world have sought your intercession. Work is the key to a happy life. Look with pity on the millions of people in our country who wake up each morning without certainty of finding food because they don’t have work.
I asked two friends of mine who have experienced similarly fruitful results from praying to St. Cajetan to contribute their reflections for me to include in this article. Here are the thoughts of the person who first introduced me to St. Cajetan on his experience of praying to him in times of need. It would have been around 2011, working a sales role for a less than scrupulous firm on a commission only basis, that I hit financial difficulties and decided I desperately needed a new job. As a fairly recent revert to the Faith, and not having much luck previously
St Cajetan - Patron Saint of those Seeking Work