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2nd July 2021
Some Good News
Anthony Murphy Let’s start with some much needed good news! Readers may be aware that at the beginning of June a parish church in Dublin decided to fly the LGBT marxist rainbow flag. But after being up for less than 72 hours, the homosexual flag in the grounds of Our Lady of Assumption Church in Ballyfermot, Dublin, was removed due to popular outrage. The Archbishop of Dublin instructed the parish to remove the flag. However, reparation still needed to be done. The flag was removed but God had still been offended. So over 70 people gathered in front of the church to pray the Rosary. Some locals, upon seeing the campaign, enthusiastically joined. Other participants came from Waterford, Limerick, and Dungannon. Joy permeated the entire rally which was a good example of what can happen when faithful Catholics join together in action and prayer. There are other encouraging signs that the Church is beginning to recover its voice.
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The United States Bishops’ Conference, on a motion by Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Fort Wayne, has voted to prepare a formal document on whether nominally Catholic politicians who offer scandal to the faithful by openly opposing the Church’s teaching should be excommunicated.
Cardinal Cupich, one of nine children, opined that most priests would be “puzzled to hear that bishops now want to talk about excluding people at a time when the real challenge before them is welcoming people back to the regular practice of the faith and rebuilding their communities”.
Bishop Rhoades said: “We weren’t targeting particular individuals or limited to one issue, but I think we need to accept the discipline that those who obstinately persist in grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.”
Meanwhile, a recent poll shows that almost three quarters of churchgoing Catholics are opposed to abortion supporting politicians receiving Holy Communion.
Bishop Rhoades cited a 2019 poll that found a decline in Catholic belief in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. “We want to reignite that faith and help catechise people to the truth of that. But it has to be the whole truth,” he said. It’s “part faith in the Eucharist” but also “the call to live the Eucharist — that’s where consistency comes in,” Bishop Rhoades said. “How can you do so without living ... being in communion with the faith of the church? That’s eucharistic consistency. You can’t do a full treatment of the Eucharist without talking about that, without teaching about that.” Bishop Rhoades said the terms “eucharistic consistency” and “eucharistic coherence” originate in Pope Benedict XVI’s 2007 exhortation on the Eucharist, “Sacramentum Caritatis” (”The Sacrament of Charity”). The response from the Vatican was typically cautious. For it is well aware that the most notorious “catholic” opponent of fundamental doctrine is none other than Joseph Biden, described as a “President of the United States”. Cardinal Luis Ladaria, prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has called for “a delay to the debate”. Or, in plain English, no discussion of this embarrassing and inconvenient topic at all. He is supported by Cardinal Blaise Cupich, archbishop of Chicago.
The poll was conducted by the faith-based advocacy organisation CatholicVote, and had 600 Catholic respondents. 70% of the respondents agreed with the statement: “Catholic public officials who disagree with their Church on serious or grave matters, should avoid creating confusion and disunity by presenting themselves for communion.” 86% of the respondents agreed that “public officials who identify as Catholic but openly advocate for policies hostile to Church teaching are hypocritical.” 83% of the respondents said that “Catholic teaching holds that anyone conscious of ‘grave sin,’ who has not received the sacrament of reconciliation, should not present themselves for Holy Communion.” Curiously, these statements received strong positive responses, even though only 38% of the respondents identified themselves as “conservative.” The respondents agree with the Church’s teaching that Catholics who are obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion. The Church’s official stand against abortion and the other positions held by the Biden administration is very clear. As Pope Francis’
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predecessor, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, stated in 2004, Catholic politicians who consistently campaign and vote for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws manifest “formal cooperation” with grave sin and must be “denied” the Eucharist.
Newspeak, “Currently-Undocumented Potential Citizens”, known with cheerful irreverence in Texas as “CUPCakes”) and bussing them all over the nation, settling them almost exclusively in republicancontrolled States.
Biden, only the second Catholic to have occupied the White House, supports “reproductive rights for women” and is a loud advocate for abortion and believes the torture and killing of unborn babies in the womb is healthcare. Like almost all of today’s Left, Biden puts his marxism way before his Christianity.
Kill the indigenous population by abortion, import new Marxist voters across every border, ship them to Republican States to dilute the non-Leftist vote, rewrite the law to institutionalise and legalise the widespread voter fraud by which Biden grabbed the White House, and the “Democrats” – a misnomer if ever there was one – will hold power indefinitely.
The reproductive right of women is to bear children, not to torture and dismember them. But Biden has made it plain that if the Supreme Court, which legalised abortion in the notorious Roe v. Wade decision of 1973, follows Roe herself in rethinking its decision, he will support – and, as President, sign – legislation infliction abortion on the American people. The Supreme Court’s decision of 1973 was purely party-political, and it was unconstitutional. Indeed, it was contrary to Article 1, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, which says: “All legislative power herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.” The Constitution thus expressly denies to the Supreme Court, or to anyone other than the elected Congress, the right to make law. Indeed, Biden has admitted this, saying that there is nothing about the “reproductive right” of abortion in the Constitution.
That, at any rate, is the plan. The very first Bill introduced in the House of Representatives on Biden’s watch, labelled “HR1” is a Bill to gerrymander the voting process so that States who want to conduct honest and rigorous ballots, by junking the electronic voting machines in which China took a $400 million stake a month before the election, and by verifying that those who vote are entitled to do so and are not voting twice or more, are forbidden to tighten the voting process by Federal law. One can understand why some in the Church are panicking at the U.S. Bishops’ decision to prepare a formal document on whether those who, like Biden, openly defy the Church on her fundamental teachings should be excommunicated. The Bishops, if they do excommunicate Biden, will put the entire worldwide Marxist project of destroying the hated Christian West at grave risk. Let us hope that Bishop Rhoades prevails.
Biden was recently asked about the possibility that the Church might excommunicate him. He replied: “That’s a private matter and I don’t think that’s going to happen.” No, it is not a private matter. Biden has repeatedly made public his stance on abortion, which, like many of his other stances, has flip-flopped over the years. At present, he is implacably determined that the Leftist viewpoint should prevail in this as in all things. Communism, under its coy brand-name “Socialism”, has killed more people than any other political or religious doctrine in the history of our species. No one knows for sure how many it has killed in Russia and its satellites, in China, in Cambodia, in North Korea and in many other countries. Estimates range from 100 million to 250 million. And that is before taking any account of the hundreds of millions who have been killed by the abortion championed by the Left. One of the reasons why the Left support birth control through abortion or contraception is that it is inexorably reducing the White population, which – particularly in America – votes overwhelmingly for non-Marxist parties. For the same reason, the Left support unlimited immigration, which is why hundreds of thousands are now crossing into the United States from Mexico. What has not yet been reported on this side of the Atlantic, where most of the news media are now under Marxist influence, is that Biden’s administration has been picking up illegal immigrants (or, in woke
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18 TOTALITARIAN PERSECUTION
Catholic Voice
2nd July 2021
How Fear Of Reputational Assault Made Jellies Of The G7 “Leaders” Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
The Church has long been seen as the arch-enemy by totalitarians, who hate and fear the independentmindedness and unwillingness to defer to any mere Party Line that are the glorious consequences of loyalty to God, country and family. The most effective tactic of totalitarian fanatics is organised reputational assault on all who have proven publicly successful in opposing their false ideology. Here, “false” has a particularly strong meaning: for the hallmark of totalitarianism, in all its forms, is its insistence on slavish adherence to propositions that are manifestly, egregiously untrue. If those propositions were not manifestly false, there would be no need for totalitarianism. Wokery – the nasty, cruel blend of Fascism and Communism that constitutes today’s transiently fashionable totalitarian ideology – insists upon the following propositions among others: that there are no differences between men and women; that there are so many differences between men and women that there are hundreds of distinct genders; that all those putative genders do not matter anyway, for everything from public lavatories to G7 communiqués ought to be “gender-neutral”; that genders matter so much that, at the taxpayer’s expense, even children should have the right to “gender-reassignment” surgery that will make them forever ill and unhappy; that divorce should be made ever easier and marriage ever harder (unless you are a serial divorcé described as a “Prime Minister” seeking to be wed in a Cathedral presided over by a woke
Cardinal Archbishop who can be relied upon to put the Party Line before the Faith); that children are bad because their very existence harms the planet; that the torture, piecemeal dismemberment and butchering of children in the womb by way of abortion is a woman’s “reproductive right”; that homosexuality, notwithstanding the disease and death that it inflicts upon those who are at once its practitioners and its victims, is to be sedulously peddled, promoted and even glorified; that the State should own and command everyone and everything; and that to ensure the utter destruction of capitalism and the worldwide dissemination of abject poverty and starvation the coal, oil and gas that powered the industrial revolution should be forever banned outright. Sure enough, under the increasingly ludicrous “leadership” of Carrie Symonds and her puppet Boris Johnson, the G7 met at a grey, dismal resort that no one had heard of on the least-attractive stretch of the
Cornish coast and issued a leaders’ communiqué that comprised a foofaraw of fatuities that were the very embodiment of wokery. My favourite examples are the “Race to Resilience Campaign”, the “Race to Zero Campaign”, “equality, including gender equality, in the climate and environment sector”, and the “Equal by 30 Campaign for gender equality in the energy sector”. One hardly need emphasise that all the propositions of the totalitarianism that calls itself “woke” are directly, bitterly opposed to the teachings of the Catholic Church. Readers of this column will already know that the assault on the natural, Christian family that is the greater part of wokery had its origins in the resolutions adopted by the Third Extraordinary Congress of the Communist Party of the United States in 1921, 100 years ago this year, at the direct instruction of an envoy sent by Lenin, and that the capture of Greenpeace and the
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wider environmental movement by Communists was part of the long-standing programme by the Kommissars of the Kremlin to destroy the Western economies from within, a programme greatly accelerated by the humiliating defeat of the Communist-led miners’ strike in Britain by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
the generators of the cheapest electricity in the world by a large margin, is not only a waste of costly, long-established assets but a monstrous burden on every industry and every household. How anyone can imagine even for an instant that that daft policy will “create jobs” is beyond me. But there it is in the “leaders’” communiqué.
How is it that soi-disant “world leaders” have fallen so rapidly and so head-bangingly into line with the “woke” agenda? The reason is their fear of being made victims of the campaign of vicious reputational assault that is directed against successful opponents of the Party Line.
What is more, all the drivel about achieving “net-zero greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible” is about to be rendered visibly pointless by the forthcoming publication of a major research paper by two dozen scientists, among whom are some of the world’s foremost solar physicists.
The technique was invented by Goebbels, found in the archives of the Reichspropagandaamt by the then MGB, the precursor of the KGB, who had within one month founded the Disinformation Directorate to do nothing but trash the reputations of Communism’s leading opponents, and had thereupon mounted a decades-long campaign against Pope Pius XII, whom they falsely made out to be a Nazi-loving Jew-hater.
After studying 16 datasets of solar activity and countless datasets of global temperature change, this large and exceptionally well-qualified
The sheer viciousness of that lavishly-funded, long-pursued attack is now a vital part of the armoury of totalitarianism. Boris Johnson, for instance, knows full well that extracting and combusting coal, oil and gas is not in the least dangerous for the planet. Yet he simply lacks the moral fibre to stand out against the woke bullies. Hence the pages and pages of twaddle in the G7 communiqué, where it is suggested that destroying the coal industry – the current focus of the totalitarians’ hatred – will somehow “create jobs”. It ought to be obvious even to Mr Johnson that the enforced shutdown of coal-fired power stations,
team – I cannot yet name them, for their paper is not yet in print, though it has been peer-reviewed and accepted – have discovered that, if one studies only rural temperature stations unaffected by the direct emission of heat by cities, the rate of global warming is only half of the officially-stated observed rate. What is more, they have discovered that natural influences – chiefly variations in the output of energy by the Sun – account for 70% of that small warming, and our sins of emission account for only 30%, equivalent to approximately 0.2 C° per century. From here on, it is a race to the death between wokery and the truth. Let us pray, for the sake of our fellow men and women (male and female created He them), that the truth will prevail sooner rather than later.
“Offer up everything within your power as a sacrifice to the Lord in an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended; and of supplication for the conversion of sinners. Thus invoke peace upon your country. I am her Guardian Angel; the Angel of Portugal. Above all, accept and bear with submission the sufferings that the Lord may send you.” (The Angel of Portugal to Fatima children 1915)