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9 October 2020 - 22 October 2020
Issue 301
October - Month Of The Holy Rosary “A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.” (Apocalypse 12:1)
“Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 8 But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. 9 The great dragon was hurled down — that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.” (Apocalypse 12:1)
“Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring —those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus” (Apocalypse 12:1)
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2 EDITORIAL
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9th October 2020
A Tale Of Two Bishops
Anthony Murphy
of the virus has reached serious levels and constitutes a real risk of radically increased infection within the community. In many cases, the increase in numbers is due to gatherings within households and communities.”
quoting a Vatican document urging a rapid return to normal worship. Some are using that as an indication that the official line of the Holy See is to object to restrictions. This is a very serious distortion of what that document says.”
At the time of writing there are 88 people in hospital with the virus but thankfully the number of deaths continues to remain low and the recovery rate continues to increase.
Actually it is not - the document, which is approved by Pope Francis says:
In the response to the current Covid restrictions it is charitable to observe that our bishops have been silent and have dutifully obeyed the dictats of the secular State without question. The restrictions on public Mass are unjust and unnecessary and deprive Catholics of essential spiritual nourishment. Dublin and Donegal are the only places in Europe where public Mass is forbidden even though there have been no clusters or outbreaks of the Chinese virus due to church gatherings.
In the same letter the archbishop also observes that “It is true that due to the extraordinary effort of parishes in adapting Church buildings and reducing attendance, thank God, there has been no indication of the virus being spread in worshiping communities.”
The Archbishop of Dublin, always eager to support his friends in the government, immediately published a letter on the Dublin diocesan website and observed that “many people may be underestimating the seriousness of the current situation in County Dublin and indeed now in other counties. The spread
The archbishop misleads the faithful when he writes “I have seen reports
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So no evidence of any risk of spread during public Mass and the archbishop takes the first opportunity to move things back online again.
“As soon as circumstances permit, however, it is necessary and urgent to return to the normality of Christian life, which has the church building as its home and the celebration of the liturgy, especially the Eucharist, as “the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed, at the same time it is the font from which all her power flows” It is up to the prudent but firm action of the Bishops to ensure that the participation of the faithful in the celebration of the Eucharist is not reduced by public authorities to a “gathering”, and is not considered comparable or even subordinate to forms of recreational activities.”
9th October 2020 Catholic Voice Given that the archbishop has already acknowledged “there has been no indication of the virus being spread in worshiping communities” why has he been so quick to cave in to the secular authorities and ban public Mass in his diocese? How long will he continue to cave in and what plans is he making to ensure safe public worship at Christmas?
derive from the practice of your faith and connection with your faith community. City Hall ignored us. City Hall ignored you. They didn’t deny it, but they simply ignored you. It has become clear to me that they just don’t care about you. To them you are nothing, to them you don’t matter. Let me repeat that: to City Hall, you don’t matter.
In contrast Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco has challenged restrictions in his diocese. He published a letter to the faithful entitled “Catholics at the back of the line” in which he says:
One person at a time in this great cathedral to pray? What an insult. This is a mockery. They are mocking you, and even worse, they are mocking God.
“For months I have pleaded with the city on your behalf, advocating for your need of the consolation of the Mass, and the consolation you
To City Hall, you don’t matter.” The archbishop also led a Procession bringing our Eucharistic Lord out onto the streets of his city
TALE OF TWO BISHOPS 3 in a public act of defiance against the unjust restrictions which as he notes are mocking God. Archbishop Cordileone is showing true leadership while his counterpart in Ireland chooses to remain silent as God is mocked. Let us pray that one Irish bishop has a Pentecost moment and takes the lead in insisting that religious worship is an “essential activity” and that our churches are not merely public places they are also sacred places where the faithful should always have the right to receive the Body of Christ and to worship the Lord present in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
Traditional Mass Promoters Awarded Papal Medal On Sunday 13th September, 2020, after the Latin Mass in St Mary’s Church, Drumkeen, Co.Donegal, Proinsias and Fionnuala Ó Muireagáin were presented with the Papal Benemerenti medal for their dedication and long service to the Catholic Church. The medal was presented to them by Fr Liam Boyle on behalf of Bishop Alan McGuckian of the Raphoe Diocese. Proinsias and Fionnuala have spent over 30 years promoting the Latin Mass and the Fatima apostolate. Proinsias, who is in his nineties, still serves the Latin Mass which is celebrated in St Mary’s at 11.00am every Sunday. The Benemerenti Medal was first awarded by Pope Pius VI (1775–1799) in recognition of military service on behalf of the Catholic Church. In 1925, the practice of including non-military persons, clerical and lay, in these awards for great service to the Catholic Church was introduced. On behalf of all of us here at Catholic Voice, I would like to extend my warm congratulations and thanks to Proinsias and Fionnuala for their tireless work promoting the Latin mass and the message of Fatima both so much needed in these dark times.
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9th October 2020
“In The World You Shall Have Distress: But Have Confidence, I Have Overcome The World.” Let us continue to pray for our bishops. Once again the people of Dublin & Donegal have been denied access to Jesus Christ in the Sacraments of the Catholic Church and there are threats that this lockdown may be extended to other counties. Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen Today I want to sing the praises of two people. One is a lady called Irene who is ninety-one years of age. Irene called me about two months ago to ask me to come to her house to make a presentation on RSE for a group of five people, three of whom have children in Catholic schools. The meeting went very well with one of the parents now deciding to home-school. Some of the attendees want me to return to make a presentation to other small groups in the area so that more parents can be alerted to the dangers their children face in our Catholic schools. Irene gives me great hope. I got to know her more than twenty years ago through pro-life work and through a group of parents who were publicly opposing the introduction of the RSE programme when it was first being introduced into our Catholic schools. That she is still actively defending the Catholic Faith is marvellous. I know that she doesn’t want any recognition as she is simply doing what her faith requires of her so I won’t give any more of her details. The good Lord knows of her great service. I am more than willing to travel throughout Ireland to meet with small groups of parents in private homes so that these parents can be given a clear insight into what is being proposed at a global level for the world’s children. My wife Naomi and I are more than happy to
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speak to parents about the joys and challenges of home-schooling and to share the insights we have gained since we began home-schooling in 2005. The other person I want to praise is a man who lives in Dublin called Séamas de Barra. Séamas is involved with a group called ADFAM - Alliance for the Defence of the Family and Marriage - and he spends much of his time scrutinising, watching and listening to what goes on in the houses of the Oireachtais. I am on his mailing list so I regularly receive information from Séamas. Recently he sent me a copy of the Autumn Legislative Programme and also notification that the ‘Objective Sex Education Bill 2018’ has been restored to the Order Paper in Dáil Éireann. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Séamas for what must often be a tedious task. You can contact Séamas by e-mail on info@adfam.ie if you would like to receive correspondence from him through his mailing list. These recent notifications which I have received clearly show us that we live under a government which has evil intentions for our country and its citizens. I want to highlight just some of what is proposed under the current regime. Most of Ireland’s citizens do not follow what goes on in Dáil Éireann or Seanad Éireann and I guarantee you that most are not aware of the legislation that is proposed for the current legislative session. It is this ignorance and disinterest which allows successive governments to undermine our democracy and to work to destroy our civilisation. I will go through the legislation that should be of interest to Catholics from the ‘Legislation Programme Autumn Session 2020’ published by the Office of the Government Chief Whip, Jack Chambers, T.D. on 15th September, 2020, the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, in the order in which they appear on that list. The first piece of interest comes under Children and Youth Affairs and is
titled ‘Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill’ The purpose of this is “to provide the statutory basis and framework under which Government may decide to authorise interventions at certain sites where manifestly inappropriate burials have taken place associated with institutions operated by or on behalf of the State or in respect of which the State had clear regulatory or supervisory responsibilities”. Whilst there may be some merit in this bill my guess is that it will be used to further the rumours and disinformation that has been spread about the Mother & Baby Homes of Ireland. These rumours and fake news insinuate that many children were possibly murdered by the religious orders who were taking care of them and the fake story about children being buried in a septic tank in Tuam are still being circulated even though there is no evidence to support this claim. The Irish government is lying when it claims to have an interest in inappropriate burials. Remember that the HSE on its website tells women who have an abortion at up to eight weeks that “You can decide how to dispose of the pregnancy remains. They can be flushed down the toilet, or wrapped in tissue and disposed of as you wish.” So the hypocritical Irish government claims to want to intervene where “manifestly inappropriate burials have taken place” whilst advocating flushing small human bodies down the toilet and into sewers and septic tanks. We live in very evil times. Under ‘Culture, Heritage & the Gaeltacht’ there is a bill titled ‘Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill’. Once again there is merit in this bill however one glaring omission from the general scheme for this bill is that the issue of online pornography is not mentioned in the bill. Cyber bullying is mentioned and this is good, however the spread of online pornography is probably doing more harm to our society. Given that online pornography
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is highly profitable from an ad revenue and taxation point of view and that people like Kate Dawson are promoting ‘porn literacy’ in Catholic secondary schools, it is unlikely that online pornography will be tackled by this bill. Another difficulty is that this bill could be used to suppress online content which is critical of government policies by deeming it to be dangerous. We see this happening already with anyone who dares to question the government’s covid-19 narrative in danger of being suppressed or asked to resign from their job. The next piece of legislation comes from the department of ‘Employment Affairs & Social Protection’ and is called the ‘Adoptive Benefit Bill’. Its purpose is “To amend the Social Welfare Acts regarding adoptive benefit around entitlement for male same-sex couples”. This is an evil piece of legislation which furthers the false notion that there is no difference between samesex couples and opposite sex couples and which has no regard for the true welfare of children who are in need of a home. “Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.” (Isaiah 5:20) Naturally there are a couple of proposed bills under the Department of Health which are of major concern to Catholics. The first of those listed is the ‘Assisted Human Reproduction Bill’ which proposes ‘To provide a legislative framework for the regulation of assisted human reproduction practices and associated research’. When one goes to the general scheme of this bill it lists one of the practices that needs regulation as “embryo and stem cell research” While this section forbids the “creation of an embryo specifically for use in research” it allows for research on ‘surplus’ embryos created through assisted human reproduction. The logic here is that there is no need to create embryonic human beings to be experimented on
for research purposes because of the existence of embryonic human beings in storage facilities where assisted human reproduction is carried out.
person is a person who is still alive. A deeply comatose person is a person who is still alive
Who would have thought that we would see a day where our government has legislated for innocent human beings to be experimented on in laboratories for ‘research’ purposes. We live in very evil times.
The philosophical rationales, which have been advanced to justify the declaration of death based on the “brain death” protocol, contradict reason as well as the sound tenets of Christian anthropology as taught and held by the Church.
The commodification of the human being continues with the ‘Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill’.
The necessary and important details about “brain death” (e.g., that brain dead individuals are still alive and can move) have been carefully kept from the public at large.”
Our government seeks “To deal with organ donation and transplantation in respect of both deceased and living donors, an opt-out system of consent for deceased organ donation, postmortem practices and procedures, anatomical examination/education and training and public display of bodies after death”
Our government is now proposing to introduce evil legislation that, in the event of a person becoming comatose and declared ‘brain dead’, which means that they are still physically alive, their organs will belong to the state unless the person in question has opted out. This is euphemistically and deceitfully called ‘deemed consent’ and is defined as follows in the scheme for this bill.
Many people do not realise that vital organs used for transplantation, such as the heart, must be taken from a living person. The John Paul II Academy for Human Life & Family issued a declaration on organ donation and ‘brain death’ after their conference on the ethics of organ donation which was held in Rome in May of 2019. The declaration states in part: “Ample medical data have shown the irrefutable evidence that “brain-dead” donors are not dead, but alive. A dying
““deemed consent” means that an adult is presumed to have consented to donate their organs after death if they have not registered their objection to becoming an organ donor on the Organ Donation Opt-Out Register;” This growing practice with regard to consent is deliberately deceitful. Consent is a conscious act of the will and cannot be an act of omission yet, if this bill goes through, those who have not placed themselves on the ‘opt-out’ register for