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THE NOVENA IN PREPARATION FOR 2020 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
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PERPETUAL NOVENA IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE PRESIDENTIAL "ELECTION"
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PERPETUAL NOVENA IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE PRESIDENTIAL "ELECTION"
INTRODUCTION TO THE NOVENA
The 2020 U.S. Presidential elections were barely 3 months away as this introductory piece was being written on the Feast of Our Lady of the Snows (August 5th) which is followed by the feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus on Mount Tabor (August 6th). Since the date for the Presidential Election was been scheduled for November 3rd, 2020, these dates of August 5th or August 6th were providentially perfect dates to begin a powerful novena of 90 days. If you began on August 5th―then the 90th day fell on the feast of All Souls (November 2nd). If you began on August 6th―then the 90th day fell on the actual day of Presidential Election (November 3rd).
Why a Novena of 90 days? Wouldn’t just 9 days suffice―which is the traditional length of a novena? Sure―you can do your 9-day novena at any time you like. However, given the fact that current religious, political, social, cultural, economic and moral climate of the country is plummeting rapidly―something more powerful is needed to hopefully stop or slow the current free-fall of America into various shades and degrees of totalitarianism, revolution, civil war, social unrest, lawlessness and immorality. Serious diseases require serious medicines if they are to be cured or contained.
The Number Nine symbolizes divine completeness or conveys the meaning of finality. The Number Ten symbolizes the perfection of divine order. We have the Ten Commandments of God given to us through Moses. We have the Ten Petitions of the prayer “Our Father”. The Ten Plagues of Egypt. The Parable of the Ten Virgins. Thus a 90-day Novena―which is 9 times 10―could be said to be the divine completeness of the perfection of the divine order. Plus, it tells God that we are very, very serious about what we are asking and praying for!
If you discover this 90-Day Novena at a later date―such as after the Presidential Election has taken place―do not assume that it is not for you; do not imagine that you are excluded, or even exempted. The mess that surrounded the Presidential "Election" and the mess that followed the "Election" clearly shows that there is much work (prayer and sacrifice) to be done―and Our Lord answers this difficulty of “latecomers” to the Novena with the following parable:
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like to a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard. And having agreed with the laborers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard [90-Day Novena]. And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market place idle. And he said to them: ‘Go you also into my vineyard [90-Day Novena], and I will give you what shall be just!’ And they went their way. And again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did in like manner. But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he said to them: ‘Why stand you here all the day idle?’ They said to him: ‘Because no man hath hired us!’ He said to them: ‘Go you also into my vineyard! [90-Day Novena]. And when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard said to his steward: ‘Call the laborers and pay them their hire ― beginning from the last even to the first!’ When therefore they were come, that came about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. But when the first also came, they thought that they should receive more: and they also received every man a penny. And receiving it they murmured against the master of the house, saying: ‘These last have worked but one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, that have borne the burden of the day and the heats!’ But he, answering, said to one of them: ‘Friend, I do thee no wrong! Didst thou not agree with me for a penny? Take what is thine and go thy way! I will also give to this last even as to thee! Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Is thy eye evil because I am good? So shall the last be first―and the first last! For many are called―but few chosen!’” (Matthew 20:1-16).
Why a Novena of 90 days? Wouldn’t just 9 days suffice―which is the traditional length of a novena? Sure―you can do your 9-day novena at any time you like. However, given the fact that current religious, political, social, cultural, economic and moral climate of the country is plummeting rapidly―something more powerful is needed to hopefully stop or slow the current free-fall of America into various shades and degrees of totalitarianism, revolution, civil war, social unrest, lawlessness and immorality. Serious diseases require serious medicines if they are to be cured or contained.
The Number Nine symbolizes divine completeness or conveys the meaning of finality. The Number Ten symbolizes the perfection of divine order. We have the Ten Commandments of God given to us through Moses. We have the Ten Petitions of the prayer “Our Father”. The Ten Plagues of Egypt. The Parable of the Ten Virgins. Thus a 90-day Novena―which is 9 times 10―could be said to be the divine completeness of the perfection of the divine order. Plus, it tells God that we are very, very serious about what we are asking and praying for!
If you discover this 90-Day Novena at a later date―such as after the Presidential Election has taken place―do not assume that it is not for you; do not imagine that you are excluded, or even exempted. The mess that surrounded the Presidential "Election" and the mess that followed the "Election" clearly shows that there is much work (prayer and sacrifice) to be done―and Our Lord answers this difficulty of “latecomers” to the Novena with the following parable:
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like to a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard. And having agreed with the laborers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard [90-Day Novena]. And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market place idle. And he said to them: ‘Go you also into my vineyard [90-Day Novena], and I will give you what shall be just!’ And they went their way. And again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did in like manner. But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he said to them: ‘Why stand you here all the day idle?’ They said to him: ‘Because no man hath hired us!’ He said to them: ‘Go you also into my vineyard! [90-Day Novena]. And when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard said to his steward: ‘Call the laborers and pay them their hire ― beginning from the last even to the first!’ When therefore they were come, that came about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. But when the first also came, they thought that they should receive more: and they also received every man a penny. And receiving it they murmured against the master of the house, saying: ‘These last have worked but one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, that have borne the burden of the day and the heats!’ But he, answering, said to one of them: ‘Friend, I do thee no wrong! Didst thou not agree with me for a penny? Take what is thine and go thy way! I will also give to this last even as to thee! Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Is thy eye evil because I am good? So shall the last be first―and the first last! For many are called―but few chosen!’” (Matthew 20:1-16).
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NEW PRAYER ADDED BELOW:
THE LITANY TO OUR LADY FOR AMERICA CONSECRATION OF THE UNITED STATES TO MARY In 1792, Bishop Carroll of Baltimore, consecrated the United States to Mary under the title of the Immaculate Conception. In 1846, bishops attending the Sixth Provincial Council in Baltimore chose Mary under that title as the country's patroness. On November 19th, 1959, Bishop Patrick O'Boyle of Washington, D.C. consecrated the United States to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. It was renewed by the U.S. bishops November 11th, 2006. Like the Canadian bishops, on May 1st, 2000, Archbishop José Horacio Gómez, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, led a “Renewal of the Consecration of the United States of America to the Blessed Virgin Mary” under the title “Mary, Mother of the Church” at Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles. That same day, a rite of consecration was similarly held by Archbishop Gregory at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington.
PRAYERS FOR THE NOVENA
NEW PRAYER ADDED!
THE LITANY TO OUR LADY FOR AMERICA Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us. God the Father of Heaven, Have mercy on us. God the Son, Redeemer of the world, Have mercy on us. God the Holy Ghost, Have mercy on us. Holy Trinity, One God, Have mercy on us. Holy Mary, pray for us. Holy Mother of God, pray for us. Holy Virgin of virgins, pray for us. O Immaculate Heart, triumph over our enemies! O Immaculate Heart, expose the snares of Satan! O Immaculate Heart, expose the plots of our enemies! O Immaculate Heart, paralyze the plans of our enemies! O Immaculate Heart, protect the true children of Holy Mother Church! O Immaculate Heart, convert or destroy the enemies of the Church and Mankind! O Immaculate Heart, crush the head of Satan and his stooges, instruments and minions! O Immaculate Heart, strengthen us in this persecution! O Immaculate Heart, obtain for us the courage to fight for the Faith! O Immaculate Heart, increase in us fervor in prayer! O Immaculate Heart, lead us to penance! O Immaculate Heart, obtain for us the zeal to make many sacrifice in this battle with Satan and the world! O Immaculate Heart, help us to overcome our worldliness! O Immaculate Heart, help us to overcome our indifference! O Immaculate Heart, help us repair the damage caused by our sins! O Immaculate Heart, obtain for us a sorrow for our negligence and sins! O Immaculate Heart, help us repair the damges caused by our negligences and sins. O Mother of Mercy, have mercy on the sins of America! O Mother of Mercy, intercede for sinners in America! O Mother of Mercy, convert the sinners of America! O Mother of Mercy, uproot the spirit of blasphemy and irreligion! O Mother of Mercy, help us repair the grievous sin of abortion! O Mother of Mercy, bring to an end the spirit and practice of contraception! O Mother of Mercy, stamp out the spirit of lust and impurity! O Mother of Mercy, destroy the spirit of adultery and fornication! O Mother of Mercy, overcome the spirit of homosexuality! O Mother of Mercy, bring to an end the abuse of children! O Mother of Mercy, overcome the hypocrisy of racism! O Mother of Mercy, cast out all alcoholism and drug abuse! O Mother of Mercy, remove from us a desire for riches and wealth! O Mother of Mercy, remove from us a spirit of greed and avarice! O Mother of Mercy, replace our materialism with a true spirituality! O Virgin Most Powerful, help us to put God before country! O Virgin Most Powerful, help us to put the Faith before our politics! O Virgin Most Powerful, convert America to the Catholic Faith! O Virgin Most Powerful, convert or destroy the enemies of God and the Faith! O Virgin Most Powerful, obtain for us a Catholic government! O Virgin Most Powerful, replace pagan schools with truly Catholic schools! O Virgin Most Powerful, grant that the laws of the Nation comply with the laws of God! O Virgin Most Powerful, replace our secular sinful culture with a religious Catholic culture! O Virgin Most Powerful, make us value grace more than money! O Virgin Most Powerful, replace our vices with virtues! O Virgin Most Powerful, bring about the Social Reign of Christ the King! Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world, Spare us, O Lord. Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world, Graciously hear us, O Lord. Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world, Have mercy on us. V. Pray for us, O holy Mother of God, R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. Let us pray: O Most powerful Mother of God, bring America to repentance and reconciliation with God. Grant America the humility to see her innumerable sins, offenses and negligences against God and the grace to do worthy penance and make sufficient reparation for them. Crush Satan’s empire of sin and erect the social reign of Christ the King―so that throughout the land we may witness a hatred of sin and a true love of God. Though our sins be like scarlet, make them white as snow! We ask this through Christ thy Son, Who lives and reigns with the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, world without end. Amen. An Act of Consecration
Most Holy Trinity: Our Father in Heaven, Who chose Mary as the fairest of Your daughters; Holy Spirit, Who chose Mary as Your Spouse; God of Son, Who chose Mary as Your Mother; in union with Mary, we adore Your Majesty and acknowledge Your supreme, eternal dominion and authority.
Most Holy Trinity, we put the United States of America into the hands of Mary Immaculate, in order that she may present the country to You. Through her we wish to thank for You the great resources of this land and for the freedom, which has been its heritage. Through the intercession of Mary, have mercy on the Catholic Church in America. Grant us peace. Have mercy on our president and all the officers of our government. Grant us a fruitful economy born of justice and charity. Have mercy on capital and industry and labor. Protect the family life of the nation. Guard the precious gift of many religious vocations. Through the intercession of our Mother, have mercy on the sick, the poor, the tempted, sinners ― on all who are in need. Mary, Immaculate Virgin, our Mother, Patroness of our land, we praise you and honor you and give our country and ourselves to your Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. O Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, pierced by the sword of sorrow prophesied by Simeon, save us from degeneration, disaster and war. Protect us from all harm. O Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, who bore the sufferings of your Son in the depths of your heart, be our advocate. Pray for us, that acting always according to your will and the will of your divine Son, we may live and die pleasing to God. Amen. Prayer to the Precious Blood for
the Conversion of Our Country (Based on Prayer No. 54 from the Raccolta) O good Jesus, prostrate at Thy feet, we humbly implore Thee, by Thy most sacred wounds and by the Precious Blood, which Thou didst shed for the salvation of the whole world, that Thou wouldst deign to cast a look of pity on the people of this country, starved or seduced from the Faith for so many centuries, and plunged in the darkness of heresy, separated from Thy Church, deprived of the participation of the adorable Sacrament of Thy Body and Blood, and of the other Sacraments instituted by Thee, as the refuge of souls in life and in death.
Remember, O Redeemer of the world, that for these souls too Thou didst suffer bitter death, with the loss of all Thy Precious Blood. Bring back, O good Shepherd, these wandering sheep of Thine to the one fold and to the healthy pastures of Thy Church, so that they may form with us one flock, tended by Thee, and by Thy Vicar on earth, the supreme Pontiff, whom, in the person of the Apostle St. Peter, Thou didst commission to feed Thy sheep and Thy lambs. Graciously hear, O good Jesus, the prayers which we offer Thee with the most lively trust in the love of Thy Sacred Heart and the power of Thy Precious Blood. May praise, glory, and honor be given to Thy most Holy Name and Thy Precious Blood, world without end. Amen. Prayer for the Preservation of Faith
(Based on Prayer No. 58 from the Raccolta) O my Redeemer, will that terrible moment ever come, when but few Christians will be found animated with a spirit of Faith? That frightening moment when, provoked to indignation, Thou wilt remove from us Thy paternal protection? The vices, the evil habits of our children, have perhaps irrevocably moved Thy justice this very day to vengeance!
O Thou who art the Author and Goal of our Faith, by the power of Thy Precious Blood, we implore Thee, in the bitterness of our hearts, humbled and contrite, not to permit the beautiful light of Faith to be extinguished in us. Be mindful of Thy mercies of old; cast a compassionate regard upon that vine which Thou hast planted with Thy right hand—which was bedewed with the sweat of the Apostles; watered with the precious blood of thousands upon thousands of martyrs and the tears of so many generous penitents; and made fruitful by the prayers of so many confessors and innocent virgins. O divine Mediator, by the power of Thy Precious Blood, have regard for those zealous souls who incessantly raise their hearts to Thee and pray for the maintenance of that most precious treasure, the true Faith. Suspend, O most just God, the decree of our reprobation; turn away Thine eyes from our sins, and fix them on the adorable Blood, shed upon the Cross as the price of salvation, and daily pleading for it, on our behalf, upon our altars. O, preserve us in the true Catholic Roman Faith. Infirmities afflict us, annoyances wear us down, misfortunes oppress us: but maintain for us Thy Holy Faith; for, endowed with this precious gift, we shall willingly bear every sorrow, and nothing can affect our happiness. On the other hand, without this supreme treasure of the Faith, our misfortunes will be unspeakable and immense. O good Jesus, Author of our Faith, by the power of Thy Precious Blood, keep it pure; keep us safe within the bark of Peter, faithful and obedient to his successor, Thy Vicar here on earth, that so the unity of Holy Church may be preserved, holiness fostered, the Holy See kept free and protected, and the universal Church extended, to the advantage of souls. O Jesus, Author of our Faith, by the power of Thy Precious Blood, humble and convert the enemies of Thy Church; bestow on all Kings and Christian Princes, and on all the faithful, peace and true unity; strengthen and maintain all in Thy holy service, to the end that we may live by Thee and die in Thee. Ah, my Jesus, Author of our Faith, in Thee I wish to live, and in Thee I wish to die. Amen. |
THE LAW SUITS CONTINUE, THE DEBATES RAGE
AS THE ELECTION GOES INTO OVERTIME SO DOES THE NOVENA!! Is There A Way Out?
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If you were really paying attention and really thinking―instead of drinking mainstream “Kool-Aid” and being superficially caught-up in the hype and hysteria―then you will have undoubtedly noticed the gradual, almost imperceptible, maneuvering of authorities and media to condition the naïve, gullible, non-thinking, surface-scratching minds of the “sheeple” to prepare them for a worldwide herding of GGs or gullible goons into the “sheeple pens” for universal “jabbing” or “swabbing” with DNA changing, life-threatening, electronically invasive, non-viral curing, medical procedures that have been hoisted upon us by a relentless battering with lying propaganda. As one documentary on the “swabbing” and “jabbing” procedures states: “It is not a vaccine―it is a cellular genetic modification technology, admittedly designed to give those who are ignorant enough to take it, a self-creating auto-immune disease, similar to what used to be called AIDS. The Covid (CovAids) deep nasal test swabs are not tests at all―they use nano-biological warfare and transhumanism technology. The numbers of adverse reactions, deaths and irreversible biological damage already caused by the first round of Covid “jabs” are exponentially greater than the numbers you have been told. It will go down as the greatest medical fraud and eugenics driven genocide and democide in recorded history.” For those who do not understand the terms “genocide” and “democide” ― according to the U.S. political scientist Rudolph Rummel, states that GENOCIDE, a punishable crime under international law, is the attempt by a government to eliminate people because of their indelible group membership by various methods, that are committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. These acts include (a) Killing members of the group―which is only one of many methods, the others being, (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group, and so on and so forth. That, in a nutshell, is what genocide is. Whereas DEMOCIDE is similar, but it always means killing the people. The term “democide” is “the intentional killing of an unarmed or disarmed person by government agents acting in their authoritative capacity and pursuant to government policy or high command.” Democide is any murder by government―by officials acting under the authority of government. That is, they act according to explicit or implicit government policy, or with the implicit or explicit approval of the highest officials. Such was the burying alive of Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers, the shooting of hostages by German soldiers, the starving to death of Ukrainians by Communists, or the burning alive of Japanese civilians deliberately fire-bombed from the air by American airmen. So, in summary―democide always involves the killing of people by authorities or governments, whereas genocide does not always include killing. So they are similar and have a partial overlap when they kill people. Doctors Prophets of Death Increasing numbers of doctors are testifying that the current batch of Covid vaccines are ultimately jabs of death. Dr. Mike Yeadon, the former Vice-President of one of the Big Pharma giants―Pfizer, states: “I have been outside of Big Pharma myself for ten years, all the time I was outside, when I’ve had my own company or was advising other people’s, ultimately the Big Pharma was the buyer. So, I’ve been in and around and dependent on that industry all of my professional life. So, I can assure you I’m pro their products. But what I’m not – I’m not pro unsafe products. I’m not pro products used in the wrong people in the wrong way. For people, for a trivial reason, to risk injection with an experimental, new technology vaccine―just so they could go on holiday or worse, down to the pub―is one of the most stupid things I’ve heard. Unfortunately, I think the Government is counting on people viewing it as a trivial decision because it’s ‘just a vaccine’! The fact that we’ve got this little word vaccine at the end, that does not mean any of the things you think you understand about vaccines will apply to this one. Not at all. The way they work is so different, they induce the body, the cells of your body to actually manufacture a piece of this pathogen, of this infective agent. Things could go wrong in the short, medium or long term, and we won’t know what they are. So don’t take one and don’t do it for trivial reason. They’ve not been around long. No one can tell you what will happen. What they’re doing is applying coercive pressure to you. And so instead of taking the vaccine, just say: ‘How about no!’ just say ‘No!’” “I would say every one of the major things your government and advisers have told you is a lie―pretty much everything. PCR testing, Polymerase Chain Reaction ― the fact is that it has a false positive rate. They simply don’t acknowledge that it does. And that means they’re able to generate any numbers they like. It’s just a complete waste of time ― every single number is unreliable, untrustworthy, scientifically meaningless. Rhey know that what I’ve just said is true and they’re deceiving you. You can’t trust this government and its advisers. That’s PCR testing. Then the Masks. They definitely do not reduce respiratory viral transmission and the Government knows that. So why are they making children wear them in school? Why do they make you wear them when you wander around shops? You can’t trust this government or its advisers. Then there are the lockdowns. Of course, we keep being told lockdowns reduce cases ― they don’t. They’ve been studied in least two dozen peer-reviewed journal articles by some of the best scientists in the world. Lockdown could never work because I don’t believe there was very much transmission in the community. They’ve smashed civil society and the economy and they know it. You can’t trust this government or its advisers. “It’s a stunning set of mistakes. It has to be a coincidence theorist to believe that that was an accident. So it’s not a conspiracy theory I’m outlining to you, it is clearly a concerted, deliberate attack using four or five plausible things and then they’ve used the power of the mass media to ram it down your neck and they are preventing any coherent alternative voices that think this is wrong and unfair, people like me, they’ll just smear me. And I think if I’m successful enough, they will actually remove me. I am fortunate in a number of ways, I have the breadth of a full career behind me and I love science and biology. There is nothing I can be fired from and I’m not doing it for money, so I can only be stopped if they arrest me or kill me. But I don’t fear for my life. It’s over anyway.” “This is not going to return to normal. It would be pointless. There is no way, with the amount of damage that has been done deliberately, would it then just be left. It would just be dumb. It would make no sense at all to have marched people up to the top of the hill and then say: ‘You can go back to normal now!’ And remember the drum beats for vaccine passports are very strong. And once that is in, then the majority that have already been vaccinated, will be so delighted with their privileges, beeping their phones when they go in and out of shops, they are not going to pay any attention to someone like me who says, ‘Excuse me! What about the unvaccinated’? “They will say: ‘Well don’t you know, you’re the unclean people! You’re the ones brewing the variants, you’re going to kill us! Can you just go away, or I might feel that I have to kill you!’ I expect vaccine passport will come in and those who have already been vaccinated will whoop for joy, a large number of people yet to be vaccinated will rush to get vaccinated because they will see their horizons will be shrunk and they simply won’t realize they are being herded like cattle into a pen.” “Your government is lying to you in a way that could lead to your death and that of your children! Why is my government lying to me? Because they are going to kill you! Stop. Look out the window, and think: ‘Why is my government lying to me about something so fundamental?’ Because, I think the answer is, they are going to kill you using this method. They’re going to kill you and your family. The eugenicists have got hold of the levers of power―and this is a really artful way of getting you to line-up and receive some unspecified thing that will damage you. I have no idea what it will actually be, but it won’t be a vaccine because you don’t need one. And it won’t kill you on the end of the needle because you would spot that. It could be something that will produce normal pathology, it will be at various times between vaccination and the event, it will be plausibly deniable because there will be something else going on in the world at that time, in the context of which your demise, or that of your children will look normal. That’s what I would do if I wanted to get rid of 90 or 95% of the world’s population. And I think that’s what they’re doing! There is absolutely no chance whatsoever that governments will save the people. They are the tools of our destruction. They will vote vaccine passports through, even those who know these are horrible things. They’ll be told it’s temporary and get their pat on the shoulder. But of course they won’t be temporary.” “I know enough about biotechnology to know that you can easily create, shall we say, pathogens, which don’t look like they’re related to what you’ve done. And what’s even more horrifying is you can separate them in time, so an injection which will later make you ill or kill you can be separated by design in time from that event. So you might die a year later of liver cancer or something and you wouldn’t connect that. And if you can imagine making a smorgasbord of different pathogens so not everybody is going to die of the same thing, you literally could do away with big slices of the population if you want. And we could all be running around like headless chickens. This is an attempt on global depopulation. They will vote vaccine passports through, even those who know these are horrible things. They’ll be told it’s temporary and get their pat on the shoulder. But of course they won’t be temporary. I think vaccine passports are a gateway to numerous things and it is my belief that it will be a gateway to mass killing, in the billions. There are some clever people who have taken it upon themselves to basically do God’s work and to do a violent readjustment of the population of the world to put it into a position where, once it sorts itself out from this utter bloody disaster, will be a place where maybe 500 million people will be living on the planet and they can have comfortable sustainable lives with plenty of space, plenty of room for the animals.” Who Is Behind the Masks?
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It is fitting that the 2020 Presidential Elections took place around the time that masks and costumes are all the rage―namely, Halloween, which is October 31st and the elections followed on November 3rd. Throw into the mix that last year’s Halloween also saw a full-moon, which was a Blue Moon―blue being the color of Democrats. The end of Halloween (Saturday, October 31st) also saw the clocks change―jumping forward one hour into Daylight Savings Time―which means that we are currently living in a “false time” which is one hour ahead of “real time” based on the sun. Another “hat into the ring” is the fact that Satanists look upon Halloween as one of their chief ‘feasts’ of the year―there are some cases of child abduction and child sacrifice taking place on that day. Of course, the mainstream media and the Satanist’s public relations system will “pooh-pooh” such claims―but ex-Satanists who have come to their senses and left Satanism testify to the truth of Satanic Halloween. Anton LaVey, the founder of the church of Satan, himself declared that by dressing up, either by wearing a costume or by coloring oneself in celebration of Halloween, signifies that you allow Satan to own you. He further said that when you adopt the pagan practices, you subconsciously dedicate yourself to the devil. He took joy in Christians who take part in the tradition, saying: “I am glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year! Welcome to Halloween!” LaVey’s statement is corroborated by a former Satanist, John Ramirez, who became a Protestant pastor after leaving Satanism behind. In an interview on CBS News on October 20th, 2018, he said: “I was a general to the kingdom of darkness in witchcraft. I would sit with the devil and talk to him like I’m talking to you today. It was that kind of communication. It was that kind of relationship.” He added that when you dress up even as an angel or a mermaid for Halloween, in his opinion “you give the devil the legal rights to change your identity.” Ramirez further warned that there’s a much darker reality in Halloween beyond costumes and candy. Shortly before his death in 2016, the chief exorcist of Rome, Fr. Gabriele Amorth, condemned the celebration of Halloween and warned of a danger to young people, because of the increase in occult activity, which fuels insomnia, mental illness; depression and suicidal thoughts in children. “Psychiatric and psychological studies show that children can’t sleep, are agitated, depressed, obsessed, suicidal.” Fr. Amorth said “Halloween is really a spiritual gathering presented as a form of game, and that is the equivalent of singing hosannas to the devil. Celebrating Halloween is like celebrating the devil!” Another exorcist, Father Aldo Buonaiuto, says: “Halloween is the antechamber towards something much more disturbing. For devotees of the occult, October 31st is the satanic new year. It’s a time for luring new converts. And it’s a time when exorcists have to work harder. With the arrival of Halloween, there is an increase in black magic rites, sacrilege and the adoration of Satan, as well as demonic possessions. During the period leading up to Halloween each year, our organization sees a sharp increase in the number of people calling its free phone number to express concerns about Satanism and the occult. Often they are parents who are worried about the behavior of their children.” Father Buonaiuto said even games like “Trick or Treat” were dangerous ― “Halloween is the devil’s ‘trick’. Many say Halloween is a simple carnival, but in fact there is nothing innocent or fun about it! There are always more evil rituals, animal sacrifices, desecrations of cemeteries and thefts of sacred bones ... From here the door to the devil can be opened.” Another exorcist, Fr. Jacek Stefanski, warned: “Let us never forget that it is not only members of Satanic cults who enter into a spiritual relationship with Satan. A spiritual relationship with the devil can take place in various degrees. It does not always have to end up in diabolical possession. But, as exorcists warn, exposing kids to something which has some kind of a demonic connotation, draws the risk of entering into a relationship with the devil. It is like a slightly open window that a thief sees from a distance: for him it a signal which he interprets as an invitation to enter into the house. Dressing up children in costumes of all kinds of evil spirits and creatures, hanging pumpkins outside the house with evil faces carved on them, is like sending an invitation card to the devil by express mail. We can be assured that the devil will get interested in the invitation. “The night between October 31st and November 1st is a time when, all over the world, Satanic practice is on the increase, because on that night, the greatest number of satanic rituals are performed, especially so-called demonic “black masses” which are celebrated with the use of animal or even human sacrifice. Dressing up in costumes that stand for demons, goblins, witches, and vampires is not the same as putting on a mask with the face of J. F. Kennedy, or a shirt similar to the one used by Elvis Presley. Exorcists have been finding out that when we start playing with something that resembles Satan, and his demons, we open ourselves to these malevolent creatures’ influence, which is not just something psychological or intellectual in nature. Satan sees such behavior as an invitation on our part: an open door to his evil spiritual influence on the minds and souls of human beings. As exorcists confirm unequivocally, even if we are not consciously seeking demonic influence, it is still possible for us to be dangerously affected by it. Actually, it is a lot easier for the devil to enter into the mind of those who think nothing of things that “innocently” resemble the devil. “Try to imagine the following situation. Let’s say we see a freshly baked delicious cake, but we do not know that someone laced it with poison. We start eating it. Will the fact that we are not aware of the poison prevent us from getting sick, or even dying? Of course not. The poisonous effects will take their course regardless of our will or our awareness of what’s inside the cake. This is precisely what happens with Halloween, but with one exception. We are fortunate to have the information which more and more priest-exorcists are sharing about its tremendous danger. Knowing what we know now, who in his right mind would want to dress up his children in costumes of demonic creatures?” In other words, behind the mask of “fun” and “games” ― there is something far more sinister happening, unbeknown to vast majority of gullible and naïve folk whose lack of religious knowledge and lack of interest in religion makes them an easy pushover and instrument, as Fr. Amorth puts it, “of singing hosannas to the devil.” What the Devil is Going-On in Washington? Back on November 20th, 2020, ATTORNEY LIN WOOD dropped a series of bombshells on live TV, claiming that senior politicians have engaged in pedophilia and satanic worship in Washington, DC. He said: “Look, I’d like to see in a perfect world, John Durham’s report come out and people go to jail. I’d like to see Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and a lot of people go to jail. I’d like to see what’s on Hunter Biden’s laptop. I’d like to see those people go to jail. I’d like to see what’s on Anthony Weiner’s laptop. I’d like to see a lot of people go to jail. And then when we get to the final phase of the election fraud I’d like to see people go to jail. The one thing I’ll say is there’ll be an intermingling. There will be people going to jail I believe who are involved in all of those or some of those same investigations. So there is potentially a great awakening. The truth has to come out. I believe it will. I do not think that you can hide the truth. I do say it and I believe it, every lie will be revealed. This country’s going to be shocked when the find the truth about who’s been occupying the Oval Office for some periods of years. They’re going to be shocked at the level of pedophilia. They are going to be shocked at what I believe is going to be a revelation in terms of people who are engaged in satanic worship.” Far-fetched? Wild imagination? Conspiracy theory? Well, ask OUR LADY and she will tell you: “From the end of the 19th century and especially in the 20th century, the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of morals … Lucifer, together with a large number of demons, will be unloosed from Hell [cf. “Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go forth, and seduce the nations, which are over the four quarters of the Earth” (Apocalypse 20:7)] … Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects ... During this epoch the Church will find herself attacked by terrible assaults from the Masonic sect … These years, during which the evil sect of Masonry [and therefore Satan also] will take control of the civil government … They will blind them in such a way, that, unless they are blessed with a special grace, these people will take on the spirit of these angels of Hell … All the civil governments will have one and the same plan, which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principle, to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism and vice of all kinds. They will abolish civil rights, as well as ecclesiastical rights. All order and all justice will be trampled underfoot and only homicides, hate, jealousy, lies and dissension will be seen, without love for country or family ... They will focus particularly on the children, in order to achieve this general corruption [what does pedophilia focus on? Children!]. Woe to the children of these times!” (Our Lady of Good Success & Our Lady of La Salette). Speaking from his experience and insights about Satan, from his 30 years as an exorcist, FR. GABRIELE AMORTH says: “Satanism is spreading enormously! The loss of a sense of sin―that characterizes our era―helps Satan to act nearly undisturbed … The smoke of Satan has entered everywhere. Everywhere! Satan is in the Vatican! The devil resides in the Vatican. I have no doubt about the fact that the demon tempts the authorities of the Church especially―just as he tempts every authority, those of politics and industry. Everybody is vulnerable to the work of Satan! The devil loves to take over business leaders and those who hold political office! Satanism is on the increase. Today Satan rules the world. The influence of Satan is immense! Today, Satan has free hands. Satan continually tries to dominate the world ― the whole world is in the power of the evil one, as it says in 1 John 5:19: ‘The whole world is seated in wickedness.’ He seeks to enslave men by making them obey himself and disobey God ... There is no doubt that Satan’s power is felt more keenly in periods of history when the sinfulness of the community is more evident [Already in 1956, Our Lady told Blessed Elena Aiello: “People are offending God too much! If I were to show you all the sins committed on a single day, you would surely die of grief! These are grave times! The world is in a worse condition than at the time of the deluge!”] . For example, when I view the decadence of the Roman Empire, I can see the moral disintegration of that period in history. Today we are at the same level of decadence, partly as a result of the misuse of the mass media (which are not evil in themselves) and partly because of Western consumerism and materialism, which have poisoned our society. “Unfortunately, Christians no longer believe in these things these days. There is a harmful tendency to remove Satan and the other spirits of evil. But in this way, their power is only increased. Satan’s biggest triumph is mankind’s conviction that he doesn’t exist! … Satan hides and disguises himself in a thousand ways! … The devil prefers this way! … This is perhaps why, in this day and age, Satan is so powerful and his influence over mankind is so great. Satan is free to create havoc and destruction with impunity. Today the world does not turn from God because it is idolatrous; rather, it pursues pure atheism, so as to put science on the altar [how many times have you not heard both Church and Government tell us to “Follow the Science!” during this 18 month Plannedemic? How about following God? No way! Not when you are in the ranks of the “Prince of this World”]. But science does not create; it only discovers that which God has made. In turning away from the Lord, its breakthroughs are put to disastrous use. Without the Lord, progress, too, is misused. We see it in laws that go totally against nature, such as divorce, abortion, ‘gay marriage’ … we have forgotten God!” So yes―what Attorney Lin Wood says about Satanism is Washington is not beyond the realms of likelihood, since the experienced exorcist FR. GABRIELE AMORTH states: The smoke of Satan has entered everywhere. Everywhere! Satan is in the Vatican! The devil resides in the Vatican. I have no doubt about the fact that the demon tempts the authorities of the Church especially―just as he tempts every authority, those of politics and industry. Everybody is vulnerable to the work of Satan! The devil loves to take over business leaders and those who hold political office! Satanism is on the increase. Today Satan rules the world!” This is reinforced by Our Lady’s words: “Lucifer, together with a large number of demons, will be unloosed from Hell … Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects ... The evil sect of Masonry [and therefore Satan also] will take control of the civil government … They will blind them in such a way, that, unless they are blessed with a special grace, these people will take on the spirit of these angels of Hell!” (Our Lady of Good Success & Our Lady of La Salette). FR. FRANÇOIS-MARIE DERMINE, besides being an exorcist, is a promoter of an Annual International Course on Exorcism in Rome, also President of the Italian Catholic association GRIS (Social-Religious Information Research Group) and professor of Moral Theology at the Theological Faculty of Emilia-Romagna; he is also the author of several books about the ministry of exorcism, says: “Satanism is now a reality for many people, who already know so much about it thanks to the resources they find online. There is also a growth of real Satanic groups, whereas in the past they were a very exceptional reality. They are multiplying in a very worrying way. Satanism has come out in the open, and we must be very careful about it. In order to become powerful, some people can be tempted to rely on the devil, and the purpose of Satanism is just that. ‘I will give something to you, devil; I offer you sacrifices, as long as you give me something in return!’ Those who are in search of power are sometimes tempted to rely on the devil. This danger is real. It is absolutely not excluded that high-ranking people explicitly worship the devil — not to mention Freemasonry, some of whose members can get along very well with Satanism.” The American exorcist, FR. CHAD RIPPERGER, said in a post-election interview on November 11th, 2020: “I think the devil is using people quit a bit. He is using people who are not leading morally good lives … That is the principal difficulty that we have. People who―for lack of a better way of putting it―are basically in league with him [the devil], they actually believe the same things that he does and they want the same goals ... I have talked to people who are in a very high level in our government―those who work at the very highest level in some of the parts of Washington― and they have told me that the Deep State is so pervasive, that it is so extensive and has got so much power over the last 30 to 40 years, that it is unlikely that even Trump could get it rooted out in at least one term … When I look at this, I say to myself, we are just dealing with a case of a battle between good and evil. There are certain key figures that are in the public sector, but this is literally a case of, not just flesh and blood, but of principalities and powers in high places. Unless our country does what is necessary to fight this on a spiritual level, I just really don’t see this problem being conquered or overcome in any serious fashion ... People have to be very consistent in their prayers, we have got to pray our way out of this! What we pray for is what we are going to get! So this means, if we want a normal country and get the country back to this, the only way we are going to do it is to pray our way out of it! ... We are not going to get spiritual peace unless we engage ourselves in the battle! … “At this point, it is only grace that is going to root out this entrenched problem that we actually have … These people have hijacked the political situation and have the reins of political power! … You cannot ‘soft-talk’ them! You have to treat them like demons, and that is to crush them underfoot―which is what Our Lady does! On a spiritual level, we have to crush the demons. We have to go on the offensive. We have to ‘man-up’ and do what we have to do! Don’t lose heart! Now is the time that we should be buckling-down. There is no middle ground―you are either going to have to [spiritually] fight and slog your way to freedom, or you get oppressed! That is way demons are in a person. You are either going to have to fight them―or they are going to take you over! It is one of the two―it is just the nature of the spiritual battle! … Once Satan thinks he has the upper-hand, then he presses all the more … Once he thinks he is control of a situation, then he is going to drive it until he ultimately gets what he wants! … That is what people have to realize―if you just roll-over, then you are basically consigning yourself and your country to other people and a life of misery … We stand a very real possibility of our country becoming Communist. There are elements of it already in place. It could get to the point where it is full-blown Communist―if we are not careful. Our Lady said Russia would spread its errors and nations would be wiped out―why do we think that our nation wouldn’t be one of them if we don’t fight for it? … I think this is Lepanto all over again ― we can win it, we just have to be willing to beg Our Lady, say the Rosary ― the Rosary, I think, is going to be one of the weapons! … Now is not the time to be conceding―now is the time to fight!” “In the minds of people there is a feeling of vulnerability right now―people see that the ‘checks-and-balance’ system in our country has essentially broken down. People in one part of the government are just doing whatever they want―legislating when it’s not their place to legislate. We saw that with COVID―we actually had mayors setting aside constitutional rights of the citizens. People are also angry at systemic crime―they see certain people, certain families, commit crime year after year, especially when certain crimes involve great damage and even treason, selling out the country and things of that sort―and nothing is ever done about it. Some believe that even all this [election] fraud is exposed they are not convinced that the Supreme Court would actually end up ruling in favor of what’s right. That demoralization is what you see when demons are attacking people. “A shift in the focus is what the demons are always trying to get us to do―and so be demoralized. Don’t let the demons drag your focus into what you are suffering, the things that you are dealing with―that is when things start going downhill―keep your focus on God. My concern is for the people on our side―the demons are using people on the other side to attack us and to make us feel demoralized―like they’ve won. The demons know that when you are praying, then what they have been working towards will be stripped from them. Demons are like typical bullies―once you rise up against them, they flee! The demons like to make you feel that what you are fighting against is insurmountable. With God you can―and that is why the demons constantly shift your focus away from God, and onto your troubles, the magnitude of them, and things like that, rather than keeping your focus on Him and doing what you actually need to do to win the battle. My concern is that, a lot of people I saw during the first couple of days after the election, when it seemed like Joe Biden was going to win, a lot of people on the Right just got demoralized, like they were deflated, they almost gave up right off the bat.” Who Won? Biden? Trump? Or Someone Else?
Joe n’ Jill
Are on the Hill Joe insists it’s the people’s will But Donald Trump isn’t glum, As he says with raised thumb, “The best is yet to come!” Several months have passed since the last article in this series―yet there is no better time to resurrect this series of articles than Easter Week, wherein we celebrate the resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead! Incidentally, after Our Lord’s resurrection, many found it difficult to believe that the man that was standing in front of them was really Our Lord Jesus Christ―just as many Americans today find it hard to believe that the man standing in front of them is really the President of the United States! Some of those disbelievers say that the Presidential Election was a fraud―others even go so far to say that Joe Biden is dead and that there is a “double” (or an actor wearing a Biden mask) who is making “apparitions” in place of the dead Biden! “Virtual Reality” Masks Just as a brief digression or an aside―without necessarily subscribing to the “Biden Mask” theory, if you do some research on the phenomenal progress made in making silicon masks with the help of computers and Artificial Intelligence, you will astounded, amazed, blown-over and “gobsmacked” by the absolutely incredible likenesses―even down to the tiniest facial hairs and skin texture―that these modern day masks have achieved. Silicone rubber has been rated for chemical and physical stability for well over 20 years without dry-rot, discoloration, or loss of elasticity. As long as moderate care is taken and no purposeful damage is done to the mask – it should last you 20 some-odd years, if not a lifetime. Take a look at the photos below―can you tell which are real people and which are just masks?
The answer is that they are all masks, being worn by real people (the eyes are those of the person beneath the mask). All the photos taken from one and the same website that manufactures masks. These are not even "top of the line" masks, they only cost $500 each. If you willing to spend thousands of dollars, then you get much better masks. Pretty good, huh? It makes it real easy to create "doubles" of famous people for security purposes or other reasons. If you are ever in doubt about the person standing in front, then just reach out and pull the nose!! If it stretches, then you know it is a silicon mask! Hey, Mr. Biden! Come here! I wanna pull your nose!
Former Chief of Disguise for the CIA, Jonna Mendez, explains how disguises are used in the CIA, and what aspects to the deception make for an effective disguise. The important part of this video is where she talks of briefing President Bush about disguises and then, at the end of the briefing, she removes a mask from her face―she had briefed the President while wearing a mask, and he did not even realize it or notice it! You will find that segment at the 1 minute 40 second mark of the video. If you did not realize this―Mendez fooled Bush 30 years ago!! Think of the phenomenal improvements in mask disguises since the advent of modern-day computers and Artificial Intelligence!!! Anyway―enough about masks―back to the article at hand! Masks Worn By Actors and Hypocrites We often associate masks with actors and staged theater plays or movies. Many are of the opinion that politics today is just one big staged theater play that serves as a distraction for “sheeple”, or dumbed-down people, who avidly watch it as though it was a reality show! That is pretty much what is has become―a show, a “put-on”, with increasingly less and less elements of truth, and increasingly more and more lies. Masks are not just limited to the physical sphere, but are also used in a psychological way (psychological masks) in the political sphere. The LIE is a mask that is pulled over the face of TRUTH. Our Lord would call it “hypocrisy” and labeled the religious politicians of His day as being hypocrites: “Hypocrites! Well hath Isaias prophesied of you, saying: ‘This people honoureth Me with their lips―but their heart is far from Me. And in vain do they worship Me, teaching doctrines and commandments [politics] of men!’” (Matthew 15:7-9) ― which is what most politicians do today: they profess some form of Christianity ― such as Catholicism by Biden and Pelosi ― but then make up their own laws that go against Christianity, like legislating for abortion, divorce, same-sex marriages, legalizing homosexuality, contraception, and failing to legislate against or control pornography. In view of this, you could paraphrase what Our Lord said to the Pharisees (read the original in Matthew 23:1-38) and apply it to the politicians. “Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples saying: ‘The Senators and the Representatives have sat on their chairs in Congress. All things whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do―but according to their works, do ye not―for they say, and do not! For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men’s shoulders―but with a finger of their own they will not move them [think of the lockdown and self-isolation abuses committed by those at the top]. And all their works they do for to be seen by men! And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the committees, and praise in the media and salutations in public places, and to be called by men, “Mr. President”, “Senator”, “Representative” or “Honorable”! But seek not to be called “Mr. President”, “Senator”, “Representative” or “Honorable”. For One is your master―and all you are brethren. Neither be ye called masters―for one is your Master, and that is Christ. He that is the greatest among you, shall be your servant [the politicians are meant to be serving the people, aren’t they? So what went wrong?]. And whosoever shall exalt himself, shall be humbled; and he that shall humble himself, shall be exalted! “‘But woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites―because you shut the Kingdom of Heaven against men, for you yourselves do not enter in―and those that are going in, you suffer not to enter {by locking-down the churches and forbidding public religious worship!] “‘Woe to you Senators and the Representatives, hypocrites―because you devour the houses of the poor, through hidden legislation in you long prayers [bills]. For this you shall receive the greater judgment. “‘Woe to you Senators and the Representatives, hypocrites―because you go round about the sea and the land to gain votes; and when you find a voter, you make him the child of Hell twofold more than yourselves. “‘Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites―because you put taxes mint, and anise, and cumin, and have neglected the weightier things ― such as the law, judgment, mercy, and Faith. These things you ought to have done, and not to leave those undone! Blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel! “‘Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites―because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of greed and uncleanness! Thou blind Pharisee! First make clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside may become clean! ‘Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites―because you are like to whitened sepulchers, which outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men’s bones, and of all filthiness! [think of allegations of pedophilia, tortured and killed children, etc.] So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity! “‘Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; that build the sepulchers of the prophets, and adorn the monuments of the just, and say:”If we had been in the days of our Fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets!” Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets! Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers! You serpents, generation of vipers! How will you flee from the judgment of Hell? Therefore behold I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes―and some of them you will put to death and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city ― so that upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the Earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and the altar! “‘Amen I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee! How often would I have gathered together thy children―as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings―and thou wouldst not? Behold, your house shall be left to you, desolate!’” (Matthew 23:1-38). Did Lies and Liars Win Again in the “Election”? Do you have confidence in politicians? Are politicians trying to “con” us? This brings back to mind the words spoken to President Reagan by the CIA Director, William Casey, in the 1981 initial presidential briefing of President Ronald Reagan, weeks after he took office ― “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” Barbara Honegger ― Assistant to the Chief Domestic Policy Adviser to President Reagan ― confirms that quote by Casey. Barbara Honegger said: “I am the source for this quote, which was indeed said by CIA Director, William Casey, at an early February 1981 meeting of the newly elected President Reagan with his new cabinet secretaries, to report to him on what they had learned about their agencies in the first couple of weeks of the administration. The meeting was in the Roosevelt Room in the West Wing of the White House, not far from the Cabinet Room. I was present at the meeting as Assistant to the chief domestic policy adviser to the President. Casey first told Reagan that he had been astonished to discover that over 80 percent of the ‘intelligence’― that the analysis side of the CIA produced ― was based on open public sources like newspapers and magazines. As he did to all the other secretaries of their departments and agencies, Reagan asked [Casey] what he saw as his goal as director for the CIA, to which he [Casey] replied with this quote, which I recorded in my notes of the meeting as he said it. Shortly thereafter I told Senior White House correspondent Sarah McClendon, who was a close friend and colleague, who in turn made it public.” (Barbara Honegger, Assistant to the Chief Domestic Policy Adviser to President Reagan). Not only does Honegger claim he said it, but apparently he said it in response to what he saw as his goal as CIA Director! Our Lord would not call such people “winners”―even though, they themselves see themselves as “winners”―but Christ would lump them into the same category as the “all-time-loser” or the GLOAT (Greatest Loser of All Time)―Satan. The “Mr. President” of Paradise who lost it all through his pride! Many―or should it be most―of today’s governments and politicians are doing the same thing, they are children, so to speak, of Satan―just as we are children of God. Our Lord would say to today’s politicians: “You do the works of your father! If God were your Father, you would indeed love Me! Why do you not know My speech? Because you cannot hear My word. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and he stood not in the truth; because truth is not in him! When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own―for he is a liar, and the father of lies! But if I say the truth, you believe Me not!” (John 8:41-45). Lies Are The Winners! What does all this mean? It means that American public is being conned―they are being made to believe what is a lie, to accept as being true that which is untrue. That is the essence of a “confidence trick” ― you place your confidence in someone and they trick you. The world―both socially and politically―has willingly embraced a culture of lies. Often it starts at the top―and the bad example filters down. Politicians are lying because lies are often the most expedient route to achieving their ends. Voters seem to tolerate being lied to without holding it against their favored candidate―but they will not tolerate the opposing candidate lies. They seem to be saying: “He may be a liar―but he’s my liar!” You could say this is an extension of individual attitude of: “It’s okay for me to lie, but it is not okay for others to lie!” Even the so-called “Fact-Checkers” have a political bias. One group says that Trump lied 70% of the time and Biden told the truth 75% of time―and those “Fact-Checkers” usually have a pro-Democratic bias. Yet other “Fact-Checkers” say the exact opposite―claiming Trump tells the truth most of the time, while Biden lies most of the time. The same is true of the mainstream media outlets―they all have a political bias and report news according to their bias. We quickly excuse our own lies, but will not excuse the lies of others. In politics, hypocrisy and doublespeak are tools. One investigative writer states: “There is a triumph of lying in government. Having spent a lifetime digging out facts to reveal the truth, I have to acknowledge it — the compulsive liars running countries are winning the communications war. The phenomenon is global. Official government lying from the top has gone viral. The only issue now is whether the liars can be stopped. Public life hasn’t always been a paradise for liars. In fact, lying used to be a short-cut to political ‘Boot Hill’. Now it is a turnpike to power. One reason political leaders lie with impunity is that there is no longer even a reputational penalty for doing it, let alone a real sanction. There is something bizarre about that. If a witness lies in a courtroom―he is guilty of perjury. If a person lies to the FBI―that is a crime. If a company runs a false ad―it faces consequences under ‘truth-in-advertising’ laws. Hell, if kids lie to their parents, they at least get a timeout. But when a politician lies, and lies big―there is only a minor skirmish between his detractors and supporters, the dust settles, and nothing happens until the process repeats itself with the next lie. Study after study shows that readers and viewers have been abandoning mainstream news and shedding their respect for the journalists who produce the fog of lies that is slowly choking democracy. Nothing blows smoke like the internet and it is very difficult to tell what is true and what is false in social media. Thanks to social media platforms with billions of users, lies travel as far and wide as truths. How can voters determine whether a politician is telling the truth or lying if all they receive is a steady diet of lies from their leaders, endlessly repeated on social media, and backed up by false advertising?” Studies have shown that increasing numbers of people are using social media to get news—62% percent. Unfortunately, a study by Stanford University shows that most social media news consumers cannot tell the difference between real from fake news stories! Given the crumbling trust in mainstream media and our vulnerability to lies on social media, we should not be surprised that politicians on both sides try to manipulate voters into believing lies. After all, the incentive for politicians is to get elected, not tell the truth. To be elected, politicians need to convey the appearance of trustworthiness—an appearance of “truthiness”—as opposed to actually being trustworthy. Lying Starts in the Family Home You could say that children are budding politicians. They lie to please others. They lie to avoid criticism. They lie to cover up their wrongdoing. They lie to obtain favors and privileges. They lie to make themselves look better than what they really are. They lie in order to get what they do not deserve. Sounds like a politician in the making, huh? All of this is the sad consequence of a culture that sees lying as just another tool to get our own way. It is important for parents to avoid lying to their children, and to nurture a home where the truth is honored, even when it’s uncomfortable. Once a child notices that its parents tell lies―then the virus is caught and may never be overcome. Birds of a Feather, Flock Together… In all honesty, we are all a bunch of liars! Some lie a lot, other lie a little―but, as Holy Scripture points out: “Every man is a liar!” (Psalm 115:11). “God is true―and every man a liar!” (Romans 3:4). “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us … If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us!” (1 John 1:8-10). How is it that the politicians or members of secret societies do not betray each other and reveal each other’s lies and agendas? Quite simply because they are all in the same boat of evil and lies―as the saying goes: “Birds of a feather flock together!”―and so the vultures flock together and you are not admitted into the flock of vultures unless you are prepared to “change your feathers” and become a vulture! Furthermore, there is the underlying chain or leash of evil that inextricably ties all the evil persons together―reveal someone else’s sins and they will reveal your sins―a kind of a mutual threat of blackmail. They are attached to evil like a bird is tethered by leather straps and leashes that are attached to the bird’s legs, called anklets and jesses―anklets are like a dog’s collar, and jesses are the dog’s leash. You will often see them used with birds of prey and also parrots. In the case of the parrot, they are often used to keep the parrot sitting on your shoulder without being able to fly away. Incidentally, just as the parrot will repeat the words that you train it to say, the “human parrots”―tethered to their controllers―will also repeat the propaganda and lies that they have been trained to say or “parrot”. Propaganda Parrots Getting accepted into a gang isn’t a free process. Generally speaking, you’re required to prove yourself first through a ritual known as “initiation.”The methods used are brutal—often beyond comprehension for the average person. Some initiation rites demand that you withstand a beating, commit a rape, inflict serious bodily harm on someone else, or even commit murder. This “initiation”―which is a crime―becomes the chain or leash that ties to inextricably to the gang. It is alleged that something similar happens in the upper echelons of Freemasonry and Politics―you cannot get to the “top” levels of the “ladder” without having some kind of “chain” or “leash” attached to you. Once you are “initiated” then, like the parrot, you have to repeat what you are trained to say―you become a mere mouthpiece for those holding the leash or chain. Backing Both Sides In the case of the “Money Men”―they always invest in and back both sides. In wars, they finance both opponents. In politics, they pour money into all the chief parties―Republican and Democrat in the case of the USA. They “buy-off” as many people as they possibly can in all the chief areas―politics, business, banking, military, medicine, media, etc. Often, the “buying-off” is through “shady deals” that would be classified by many as being illegal in one way or another―which then attaches the chain or leash that ties them to the “Money Men” and places them under their ultimate control, whenever they wish to exercise that control. Insane Conspiracy Theories or Conspiracy Facts? Of course, many deny such things as being insane “conspiracy theories”―yet propaganda and counter-propaganda, misinformation and disinformation and information overload are a common element used to create confusion and exasperation among the “sheeple” who then no longer know what to think! The information coming from Heaven is no propaganda and is no “conspiracy theory” but a “conspiracy fact”―as shown by the words of Our Lady herself: “From the end of the 19th century and especially in the 20th century, the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of morals, for Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects [cf. “Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go forth, and seduce the nations, which are over the four quarters of the Earth” (Apocalypse 20:7)] ... During this epoch the Church will find herself attacked by terrible assaults from the Masonic sect … These years, during which the evil sect of Masonry will take control of the civil government, will see a cruel persecution of all religious communities … All the civil governments will have one and the same plan, which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principle, to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism and vice of all kinds. They will abolish civil rights, as well as ecclesiastical rights. All order and all justice will be trampled underfoot and only homicides, hate, jealousy, lies and dissension will be seen, without love for country or family ... They will focus particularly on the children, in order to achieve this general corruption. Woe to the children of these times!” (Our Lady of Good Success, Our Lady of La Salette). So Who Are Winners and Losers? So who wins and who loses? The answer is not so simple as one might think! Ultimately, of course, God and Our Lady win and Satan with his devils lose. Yet, as in any war, even the winning side loses some battles whilst winning the war. In any war, even the winning side encounters many casualties. So, too, many souls are being lost in the meantime―before the final triumph of God and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, of which Our Lady of Akita says: “The thought of the loss of so many souls is the cause of my sadness!” Is the overwhelming loss of so many souls a cause of sadness to us also? Or are we indifferent to their damnation by being too preoccupied with the treasures and pleasures of this world? The “Money Men” and what Our Lady of Good Success called “the evil sect of Masonry” who “will take control of the civil government” so that “all the civil governments will have one and the same plan, which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principle, to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism and vice of all kinds” ― these minions of Satan will seem to be the winners, much like the Scribes and Pharisees seemed to the winners while watching Christ (the apparent loser) dying on His cross. These presumptuous winners will be turned into horrendous losers when God decides to awaken from His slumbers: “And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine. And He smote His enemies on the hinder parts―He put them to an everlasting reproach!” (Psalm 77:65-66). Or as Our Lady of La Salette said: “Then Jesus Christ, in an act of His justice and His great mercy, will command His Angels to have all His enemies put to death! Suddenly, the persecutors of the Church of Jesus Christ, and all those given over to sin, will perish and the Earth will become desert-like! And then peace will be made, and man will be reconciled with God!” Yes―God will win in the end―but how many souls will have needlessly been consigned to Hell in the meantime? Let us try and wash our hands of their blood―as Pilate vainly tried to wash his hands of the Blood of Jesus, nor as Cain vainly tried to wash his hands of the murder of Abel, saying: “Am I my brother’s keeper?” (Genesis 4:9). We are the “keepers” of our fellowmen―Our Lady and Holy Scripture tell us that: “Many souls go to Hell, because there are none to sacrifice themselves and pray for them!” (Fatima) … “He that hath the substance of this world, and shall see his brother in need, and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him?” (1 John 3:17) ― which equally means: We, who have the spiritual substance of Faith and sanctifying grace in souls, and seeing our brothers in need of Faith and grace, we shut up our bowels of mercy from them, how can we say that the charity of God exists in us? Our Lord will say to us: “‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels! For I was hungry, and you gave Me not to eat! I was thirsty, and you gave Me not to drink! I was a stranger, and you took Me not in! Naked, and you covered Me not! Sick and in prison, and you did not visit Me!’ Then they shall answer Him, saying: ‘Lord! When did we see Thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to Thee? Then He shall answer them, saying: ‘Amen I say to you, as long as you did it not to one of these least of My brethren [sinners], neither did you do it to Me!’” (Matthew 25:41-45). Thus, by our indifference to the plight of sinners, by our negligence in praying and offering sacrifices for their conversion, we too might end up being eternal losers! Do You Believe What You Are Seeing?
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If you have been in any way following the Presidential Election―or as some would say, Presidential Deception―then your mind has possibly flipped as many times as the votes have been flipped. Yet, at the end of the day, you have to ask if all that you are seeing and are being told is true. The world―being the princedom of Satan (John 14:30)―has a tendency to follow its prince in his love of lies. You could say of the world and Satan, “Like father, like son!” Our Lord actually implies that when He says to the Scribes, Pharisees and worldly-minded Jews: “You are of your father―the devil―and the desires of your father you will do! He was a murderer from the beginning, and he stood not in the truth―because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own―for he is a liar, and the father of lies!” (John 8:44). Those words of Our Lord take on a more powerful significance in our days, especially in light of the comment made by William Casey, the CIA Director from 1981 to 1987. At an early February 1981 meeting of the newly elected President Reagan and his new cabinet secretaries, to give reports about their agencies at the start of the new President’s administration, the CIA Director, William Casey, said: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” Can You Believe Liars? Shocking? Surprising? Not for God―for He tells us in Holy Scripture that “the sons of men are liars” (Psalms 61:10) ... “They have taught their tongue to speak lies” (Jeremias 9:5). “Every man is a liar!” (Psalm 115:11). Coming down to Earth, we find mere human scientists and doctors agreeing with Holy Scripture! Dr. Kang Lee, a professor at the University of Toronto, said that “we explicitly teach our kids to tell white lies,” in areas of life where telling the truth would make others feel uncomfortable ― saying that these lessons on how lie are given from around the age of 6 years of age and above. Thus the child learns that it is socially acceptable to lie. “Dishonesty is contagious,” says Dr. Simon Gaechter of the University of Nottingham. He added that most people would like to be honest, but if they live in a country where the violations of rules are rampant “people say, ‘Well everybody cheats. If I cheat here, then that’s OK!’” Dr. Bella DePaulo, author of “The Hows and Whys of Lies,” found that her students, on average, lied in every third conversation that lasted for 10 minutes or more. For adults, she found they lied once in every five conversations of 10 minutes or more. Some years later, Dr. Robert Feldman from the University of Massachusetts, found that he had similar results. Society rewards people for white lies, Feldman said. “We’re really trained to be deceptive. If we’re not, if we’re totally truthful all the time that’s not a good thing, there’s a price to be paid for that. We don’t like people who tell us the truth all the time.” Another researcher, Dr. Maurice Schweitzer, from the University of Pennsylvania ― who specializes in studying deception and decision-making ― said: “I would say we’re lying constantly! Constantly!” Our Lord said: “The truth shall make you free!” (John 8:32) ― yet most of the world prefers to be chained to lies and are uncomfortable with the truth―especially when it concerns themselves―which is why hardly anyone goes to the Sacrament of Confession anymore, for they do not like to face the truth about themselves. Confession has been replaced by accusation―instead of accusing ourselves in the secrecy of the confessional, we prefer to accuse others publicly―and the internet makes it oh so easy to do that! More often than not, those accusations are exaggerated, colored, enhanced and tailored―just like the view that we have of ourselves is often exaggerated, colored, enhanced and tailored. In both cases, truth suffers and the lie profits. Our Lord condemns this when He says: “Why seest thou the splinter that is in thy brother’s eye; and seest not the plank that is in thy own eye? Or how sayest thou to thy brother: ‘Let me cast the splinter out of thy eye!’ ― and behold there is a plank in thy own eye? Thou hypocrite! Cast out first the plank in thy own eye, and then shalt thou see to cast out the splinter out of thy brother’s eye!” (Matthew 7:3-5). The Truth Shall Make You Feel Uncomfortable As Our Lord said above, “The truth shall make you free!” (John 8:32) ― but, in addition, the truth shall make you see that you are not what you make yourself out to be; the truth shall make you see that the world is not what it pretends to be; the truth shall make you see that you have a God-given role in this life and that you are not here to have fun; the truth shall make you see that you are in part responsible for the mess that the Church and world find themselves in today. The truth is that we are too comfortable in this world and too comfortable with the world―and that leads us to another unpleasant truth, the fact that the world is an enemy of God and, by being a friend, a lover, a partaker of that worldliness of the world, we end up becoming enemies of God―even though we will naturally protest against that truth. Holy Scripture says: “They are of the world—therefore of the world they speak, and the world heareth them! We are of God. He that knoweth God, heareth us. He that is not of God, heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error” (1 John 4:5-6). Our Lord says to the worldlings: “You are from beneath, I am from above. You are of this world, I am not of this world!” (John 8:23). To His followers He says: “If you had been of the world, the world would love its own! But because you are not of the world―for I have chosen you out of the world―therefore the world hateth you!” (John 15:19). “If the world hate you, know that it hath hated Me before you!” (John 15:18). “The world hateth Me because I give testimony of it, that the works thereof are evil!” (John 7:7). To which Holy Scripture adds: “They who are in the flesh, cannot please God.” (Romans 8:8). “Keep yourself unspotted from this world!” (James 1:27). “Be not conformed to this world” (Romans 12:2) … “That we be not condemned with this world!” (1 Corinthians 11:32). “Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him!” (1 John 2:15). “Know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh an enemy of God!” (James 4:4). Now that’s the truth! That is also an unpleasant truth for most Catholics! What is Happening Happens to be Our Fault! As St. John Chrysostom―a Father and Doctor of the Church―says, on the Day of Judgment you will be judged for everything that happened in the world while you were alive in this world! Of course―unlike God―you cannot be everywhere at all times and capable of doing all things! However, you are capable of praying for the whole world and all its messes. You are capable of praying far, far, more than you at present and have done to this day. You are capable of recruiting almighty God to the battle by having numerous or countless Masses offered all throughout your life for the intention of the conversion of the many enemies of the Church and mankind (or their destruction if they won’t convert) and the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary―what would it cost you in time or effort? Very little indeed, a few dollars and note or a phone call to a priest once a week, every week―and for that measly sum of money you send Christ into battle―Who is almighty God Himself. There will be no excuse for that great neglect of our supreme weapon and our lack of Faith in it. Which brings us back to the theme of this article ― “Can you believe what you are seeing?” Would all that has been, is and will be unfolding before our very eyes―would it have happened had we, the Soldiers of Christ, been on active duty instead of being AWOL (absent without leave) among the distractions of the world? If you cannot see that Satan is currently ruling the world―then you probably cannot see the tip of your own nose! For those who still are able to see, they probably see less clearly than they imagine! The great big whopping lies that most people have swallowed with the advent of Covid-19 and whopping lies about the medical, social, business and economic measures that need to be taken in light of Covid-19 betrays an intellectual blindness that ultimately stems from a spiritual blindness. “Do you not yet know nor understand? Have you still your heart blinded?” (Mark 8:17). The intellectual blindness is a punishment for a deliberate spiritual blindness that neither seeks, nor loves, nor obeys God. “God hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them” (John 12:40). Blinded by Our Sins and the World “The gods of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers” (2 Corinthians 4:4). “These things they thought and were deceived―for their own malice blinded them” (Wisdom 2:21). “As it is written: ‘God hath given them the spirit of insensibility; eyes that they should not see; and ears that they should not hear, until this present day!’” (Romans 11:8). Way before this present day, Our Lady of Good Success warned without success: “From the end of the 19th century and especially in the 20th century, the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of morals, for Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects [cf. “Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go forth, and seduce the nations, which are over the four quarters of the Earth” (Apocalypse 20:7)] ... During this epoch the Church will find herself attacked by terrible assaults from the Masonic sect … These years, during which the evil sect of Masonry will take control of the civil government, will see a cruel persecution of all religious communities … All the civil governments will have one and the same plan, which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principle, to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism and vice of all kinds. They will abolish civil rights, as well as ecclesiastical rights. All order and all justice will be trampled underfoot and only homicides, hate, jealousy, lies and dissension will be seen, without love for country or family.” (Our Lady of Good Success). One Big Lie Bubble Just ponder upon those words of Our Lady for a moment! She says that Satan will reign almost completely by the means of the Masonic sects especially in the 20th century. Masonry will control of civil government. All civil governments will have one and the same plan. Can you not see that this has come to be true in front of our own very eyes―it has happened on “our watch” and, like the sowing of the cockle among the wheat in Our Lord’s parable, “while men were asleep, the enemy came and over-sowed cockle among the wheat and went his way” (Matthew 13:25). When Our Lady’s prophecy about Masonry came true with its birth in the early 1700s―around 100 years after Our Lady foretold it―the Church incessantly spoke out against Masonry. Pope Leo XIII, in his encyclical against Freemasonry, points out this opposition of the Church: “The Roman Pontiffs Our predecessors, in their incessant watchfulness over the safety of the Christian people, were prompt in detecting the presence and the purpose of this capital enemy [Masonry] immediately it sprang into the light, instead of hiding as a dark conspiracy; and, moreover, they took occasion with true foresight to give, as it were on their guard, and not allow themselves to be caught by the devices and snares laid out to deceive them. The first warning of the danger was given by Pope Clement XII in the year 1738, and his constitution was confirmed and renewed by Pope Benedict XIV; Pope Pius VII followed the same path; and Pope Leo XII, by his apostolic constitution, Quo Graviora, put together the acts and decrees of former Pontiffs on this subject, and ratified and confirmed them forever. In the same sense spoke Pope Pius VIII, Pope Gregory XVI, and, many times over, Pope Pius IX. “For as soon as the constitution and the spirit of the Masonic sect were clearly discovered―by manifest signs of its actions, by the investigation of its causes, by publication of its laws, and of its rites and commentaries, with the addition often of the personal testimony of those who were in the secret―this Apostolic See denounced the sect of the Freemasons, and publicly declared its constitution, as contrary to law and right, to be pernicious no less to Christendom than to the State … Freemasons grew with a rapidity beyond conception in the course of a century and a half, until it came to be able, by means of fraud or of audacity, to gain such entrance into every rank of the State as to seem to be almost its ruling power … Such a condition has been reached that henceforth there will be grave reason to fear for those States in which prevails the power, either of the Masonic sect of which we are speaking, or of other sects, not dissimilar, which lend themselves to Masonry as disciples and subordinates … Their ultimate purpose forces itself into view ― namely, the utter overthrow of that whole religious and political order of the world which the Christian teaching has produced, and the substitution of a new state of things in accordance with their ideas, of which the foundations and laws shall be drawn from mere naturalism.” Who Do You Believe? The Lie? Or Our Lady? Our Lady of Good Success, already back in the 1600s, prophesied that “From the end of the 19th century and especially in the 20th century … Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects” fits perfectly with Holy Scripture telling us that “Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go forth, and seduce the nations, which are over the four quarters of the Earth” (Apocalypse 20:7). Her prophecy also fits perfectly with the vision granted to Pope Leo XIII in the 1880s (which is the end of the 19th century, as Our Lady says), wherein Pope Leo heard Satan boasting to Our Lord that he could destroy if he could only have enough time. Our Lord gave Satan the time he requested. The result of this fits in perfectly with Our Lady’s prophecy, wherein she adds: “During this epoch the Church will find herself attacked by terrible assaults from the Masonic sect … These years, during which the evil sect of Masonry will take control of the civil government, will see a cruel persecution of all religious communities … All the civil governments will have one and the same plan, which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principle, to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism and vice of all kinds. They will abolish civil rights, as well as ecclesiastical rights. All order and all justice will be trampled underfoot and only homicides, hate, jealousy, lies and dissension will be seen, without love for country or family.” (Our Lady of Good Success). Still blinded? Still unable to focus and see? Are We Being Conned Into Communism?
This article is currently being written. Sections will be posted as they are completed. Please check back later. “We better wake up―one and all―or our constitution is going to fall. We’ll no longer be the United States, we’ll be the U.S.S.of A. (the United Socialist States of America)”--Rivoli Revue, 2009.
“One day we are going to wake up and find that―like Norman Thomas said―we’ll have Socialism” ― President Ronald Reagan. Millennials (born between 1981 and 1996) and Gen Z-ers (born 1997 and after) ― basically the “under 40s” ― are becoming increasingly comfortable with Socialism, according to the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC), which conducts an annual poll assessing Americans’ attitudes toward Socialism. In recent U.S. polls, 4 out of 10 people support Socialism―which is Communism’s little brother. 51% of U.S. adults say socialism would be a bad thing for the country, 43% believe it would be a good thing. Those results contrast with a 1942 Roper/Fortune survey that found 40% describing socialism as a bad thing, 25% a good thing and 34% not having an opinion. Well―the ‘good’ news for those lovers of Socialism is that Our Lady has prophesied that Communism will take over the whole world―including the USA. On July 15th, 1946, the American Catholic historian, William Thomas Walsh, interviewed Sister Lucia at her convent of the Dorothean Sisters at Vilar, Portugal. He recorded the incident in his popular book, Our Lady of Fatima. This interview clearly demonstrates that Our Lady’s request for the Consecration of Russia will only be fulfilled when, together, the Pope and the world’s Catholic bishops consecrate specifically Russia. Walsh writes: “Finally we came to the important subject of the second July secret, of which so many different and conflicting versions have been published. Lucia made it plain that Our Lady did not ask for the consecration of the world to her Immaculate Heart. What she demanded specifically was the consecration of Russia.” “She did not comment, of course, on the fact that Pope Pius XII had consecrated the world, not Russia, to the Immaculate Heart in 1942. But she said more than once, and with deliberate emphasis: ‘What Our Lady wants is that the Pope and all the bishops in the world shall consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart on one special day. If this is done, she will convert Russia and there will be peace. If it is not done, the errors of Russia will spread through every country in the world.’ “Does this mean, in your opinion, that every country, without exception, will be overcome by Communism?” Lucia replied: “Yes.” Concerning the July 15th, 1946 interview between Professor William Thomas Walsh and Sister Lucia, Louis Kaczmarek wrote the following in his 1986 book The Wonders She Performs: “While he was the pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Church in Ludlow, Massachusetts, I spent some time with Fr. Manuel Rocha, the interpreter selected for Mr. William Thomas Walsh, who wrote perhaps the most popular book on Fatima. Fr. Rocha told me that one of the questions Mr. Walsh asked him to translate to Sister Lucia―during a three hour interview on the afternoon of July 15th, 1946, while she was still Sister Maria das Dores, a Dorothean Sister at Vilar, near Porto, Portugal―was: ‘In your opinion, will every country, without exception, be overcome by Communism?’ Her pale brown eyes staring into his, a ‘little dimple on each cheek,’ she answered ‘Yes!’ Fr. Rocha related to me that Mr. Walsh wanted to be positive about the answer and therefore repeated the question adding: ‘And does that mean the United States of America too?’ Sister Lucia answered ‘Yes!’” What must seemed unimaginable to William Thomas Walsh and his interpreter Fr. Manuel Rocha back in 1946, today seems very plausible and likely―given the recent draconian lockdown measures and talk of mandatory vaccinations without which one will not be able to travel, nor work, nor enter stores. Presidential Election or Presidential Deception?
This article is currently being written. Sections will be posted as they are completed. Please check back later. Over 30 days have passed since the 2020 US Presidential Election and, much like the Catholic prophecy that speaks of a time when there will be two popes―we now have a time where we are speaking of having two presidents! As Our Lord asked of His Apostles: “And Jesus asked His disciples, saying: ‘Whom do men say that the Son of man is?’ But they said: ‘Some say John the Baptist, and others say Elias, and others Jeremias, or one of the prophets!’ Jesus said to them: ‘But whom do you say that I am?’” (Matthew 16:13-15)―likewise we are now asking others: “Whom do you think the nation elected as president?” Some say Donald Trump, others say Joe Biden.
The followers of Biden say Trump is on his way out. The followers of Trump say that Biden has usurped the presidency. To “usurp” means “to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right―as in the sentence: “The pretender tried to usurp the throne of the king” ― to use without authority or right; employ wrongfully.” A usurper is someone who wrongfully takes someone else's place. A usurper usually tries to take someone's place on the throne, rather than someone's seat on a bus. The person seizing power normally will try to legitimize his position, while denigrating and ridiculing that of his predecessor. A king who is overthrown, would consider the new king a usurper. Usurper is a strong word for someone who has taken or usurped what rightfully belonged to someone else. Trump accuses Biden and Co. of having usurped the presidency by the fraudulent means of voter manipulation and fraud. Biden basically tells Trump to get over it and get out. Who is right? Who will solve the problem? Who will judge on the truth of the matter? All of this reminds us of biblical account of the two whores, each of whom gave birth to a baby, one of which was smothered accidentally by the mother laying over her baby while she slept. “Then there came two women that were harlots, to the king [Solomon], and stood before him. And one of them said: ‘I beseech thee, my lord, I and this woman dwelt in one house, and I was delivered of a child with her in the chamber. And the third day, after I delivered my child, she also was delivered a child, and we were together, and no other person with us in the house, only we two. And this woman’s child died in the night―for in her sleep she overlaid him. And rising in the dead time of the night, she took my child from my side, while I thy handmaid was asleep, and laid it in her bosom: and laid her dead child in my bosom. And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold it was dead―but considering him more diligently when it was clear day, I found that it was not mine which I bore!’ And the other woman answered: ‘It is not so as thou sayest―but thy child is dead, and mine is alive!’ On the contrary the first woman said: ‘Thou liest: for my child liveth, and thy child is dead!’ And in this manner they strove before the king. “Then said the king: ‘The one saith: “My child is alive, and thy child is dead!” And the other answereth: “Nay, but thy child is dead, and mine liveth!”’ The king therefore said: ‘Bring me a sword!’ And when they had brought a sword before the king, he said: ‘Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other!’ “But the woman whose child was alive― for her bowels were moved upon her child―said to the king: ‘I beseech thee, my lord, give her the child alive, and do not kill it!’ But the other said: ‘Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it!’ The king answered, and said: ‘Give the living child to this woman, and let it not be killed, for she is the mother thereof! And all Israel heard the judgment which the king had judged, and they feared the king, seeing that the wisdom of God was in him to do judgment” (3 Kings 3:16-28). All People Are Liars Holy Scripture tells us that “The sons of men are liars” (Psalms 61:10) ... “They have taught their tongue to speak lies” (Jeremias 9:5). “Every man is a liar!” (Psalm 115:11) … “Speaking lies in hypocrisy” (1 Timothy 4:2). “He that speaketh lies shall not escape! … A false witness shall not be unpunished and he that speaketh lies, shall perish!” (Proverbs 19:5 & 9). Is it surprising then that most souls are so easily lost―because lying is so easy to do! Yet God says: “Six things there are, which the Lord hateth, and the seventh his soul detesteth: [1] haughty eyes, [2] a lying tongue, [3] hands that shed innocent blood, [4] a heart that deviseth wicked plots, [5] feet that are swift to run into mischief, [6] a deceitful witness that uttereth lies, and ]7] him that soweth discord among brethren” (Proverbs 6:16-19). It is not for nothing that Holy Scripture says: “Every man is a liar!” (Psalm 115:11). We learn to lie at a very early age. Researchers say that children learn to lie, on average, around the age of 3 years, says Dr. Kang Lee, a professor at the University of Toronto. Dr. Lee performed an experiment where he would tell children of various ages that there was a toy behind them, which they could have, if they would not peek behind them. He would then leave the room and return one minute later to ask them if they had peeked or not. The child had been recorded on video by an unseen camera. He found that 30% of 2-year-olds lied―saying they did not peek behind them. Among the 3-year-olds, 50% of the children lied. When it came to the 5-year-old to 9-year-old range, 90% lied. Dr. Lee added that “we explicitly teach our kids to tell white lies,” in areas of life such as telling them to say how much they love gifts from grandma, etc. ― saying that these lessons on how lie are given from around the age of 6 years of age and above. Thus the child learns that it is socially acceptable to lie. “Dishonesty is contagious,” says Dr. Simon Gaechter of the University of Nottingham. He added that most people would like to be honest, but if they live in a country where the violations of rules are rampant “people say, ‘Well everybody cheats. If I cheat here, then that’s OK!’” The New York Times article then spoke of an experiment by Dr. Bella DePaulo, author of “The Hows and Whys of Lies,” where she placed recorders on her students for a whole week and she discovered that, on average, they lied in every third conversation that lasted for 10 minutes or more. For adults, it was found they lied once in every five conversations of 10 minutes or more. Some years later, Dr. Robert Feldman from the University of Massachusetts, videoed the conversations of his students with total strangers and found that he had similar results ― and the participants did not even realize they were lying until they watched themselves. Society rewards people for white lies, Feldman said. “We’re really trained to be deceptive. If we’re not, if we’re totally truthful all the time that’s not a good thing, there’s a price to be paid for that. We don’t like people who tell us the truth all the time.” Another researcher, Dr. Maurice Schweitzer, from the University of Pennsylvania ― who specializes in studying deception and decision-making ― said: “I would say we’re lying constantly! Constantly!” “All Politicians Are Liars” The New York Times, in an article entitled “Finally, Science Shows That Politicians Are Lying Liars Who Lie”, speaks of politicians and lies, saying: “We watch with fascination as candidates for the world’s most powerful job trade falsehoods and allegations of dishonesty … We’ve come to expect and even joke about office-seekers who seem ‘truth-averse’ ― “How do you know a politician is lying? His lips are moving” ― many of us have given little thought to our own fibs and to how they compare with politicians’ deceits. What if PolitiFact looked at what we say to our spouses, friends and bosses?” The article goes on to say that for several decades, researchers throughout the world have found that “We all stretch the truth. We learned to deceive as toddlers. We rationalize our fabrications that benefit us. We tell little white lies daily that make others feel good. Now magnify that. Politicians distort the truth more often, use more self-justifications and deceive in larger ways, and with more consequences, experts in psychology and political science say.” The article then quotes , Dr. Bella DePaulo ― the psychology researcher at the University of California ― as saying: “I feel more worried about lying in public life ― specifically by politicians ― than I ever have before!” She added that when lies succeed, they make it “more tempting to lie. Lies can stick. They can have a lingering effect, even if they are debunked. ” A professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University, Dr. Dan Ariely, says: “People want their politicians to lie to them. The reason that people want their politicians to lie them is that people care about politics. You understand that Washington is a dirty place and that lying is actually very helpful to get your policies implemented.” Dr. Jennifer Mercieca, a Texas A&M professor of communications, who studies political rhetoric and teaches fact-checking, said politicians “convince themselves that the ends justify the means” and “the reasons they are doing it are more important.” Political scientist and psychologist, Dr. Stanley Renshon, said politicians should be held up to a higher standard, but, over the decades, they and the government have been more deceitful and unwilling to tell the public something that could hurt them politically. When President Dwight Eisenhower misled the public about a spy plane captured by the Soviet Union, lying was a rarity. By the time President Bill Clinton strained the meaning of the word “is” testifying before a grand jury, it was more common. “We’ve become kind of numb to it,” said Pamela Meyer, the author of the book “Liespotting” and chief executive officer of the private firm Calibrate, which that trains people and companies about how to spot deception. “In Washington, deception is the gift that keeps on giving.” Dr. Kang Lee, the professor at the University of Toronto, is working on a video camera that would study people’s heart rate, stress level, blood flow and mood, a kind of video lie detector called transdermal optical imaging. He envisions a future televised political debate, with a camera trained on the candidates showing their heart rates and breathing levels ― “an index of lying.” Who Do You Trust? Do you have confidence in God? Do you have confidence in politicians? Are politicians trying to “con” us? This brings back to mind the words spoken to President Reagan by the CIA Director, William Casey, in the 1981 initial presidential briefing of President Ronald Reagan, weeks after he took office ― “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” Barbara Honegger ― Assistant to the Chief Domestic Policy Adviser to President Reagan ― confirms that quote by Casey. Barbara Honegger said: “I am the source for this quote, which was indeed said by CIA Director, William Casey, at an early February 1981 meeting of the newly elected President Reagan with his new cabinet secretaries, to report to him on what they had learned about their agencies in the first couple of weeks of the administration. The meeting was in the Roosevelt Room in the West Wing of the White House, not far from the Cabinet Room. I was present at the meeting as Assistant to the chief domestic policy adviser to the President. Casey first told Reagan that he had been astonished to discover that over 80 percent of the ‘intelligence’― that the analysis side of the CIA produced ― was based on open public sources like newspapers and magazines. As he did to all the other secretaries of their departments and agencies, Reagan asked [Casey] what he saw as his goal as director for the CIA, to which he [Casey] replied with this quote, which I recorded in my notes of the meeting as he said it. Shortly thereafter I told Senior White House correspondent Sarah McClendon, who was a close friend and colleague, who in turn made it public.” (Barbara Honegger, Assistant to the Chief Domestic Policy Adviser to President Reagan). Not only does Honegger claim he said it, but apparently he said it in response to what he saw as his goal as CIA Director! Conned Citizens What does all this mean? It means that American public is being conned―they are being made to believe what is a lie, to accept as being true that which is untrue. That is the essence of a “confidence trick” ― you place your confidence in someone and they trick you. A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using their credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, irresponsibility, and greed. As Wikipedia summarizes: A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using their credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, irresponsibility, and greed. Synonyms for a “confidence trick” include con, confidence game, confidence scheme, rip-off, scam, and stratagem. The perpetrator of a confidence trick (or “con trick”) is often referred to as a confidence (or “con”) man, con-artist, or a “grifter”. Samuel Thompson (1821–1856) was the original “confidence man”. Thompson was arrested in July 1849. Reporting about this arrest, Dr. James Houston, a reporter of the New York Herald, publicized Thompson by naming him the “Confidence Man”. The National Police Gazette coined the term “confidence game” a few weeks after Houston first used the name “confidence man”. A confidence trick is also known as a con game, a con, a scam, a grift, a hustle, a bunko (or bunco), a swindle, a flimflam, a gaffle, or a bamboozle. The intended victims are known as marks, suckers, stooges, mugs, rubes, or gulls (from the word gullible). When accomplices are employed, they are known as shills. Short and Long Cons A short con or “small con” is a fast swindle which takes just minutes. It typically aims to rob the victim of everything in his wallet. A “long con” or “big con” (also, “long game”) is a scam that unfolds over several days, or weeks, or months, or even longer if the stakes are very high. It may involve a team of swindlers, and even props, sets, extras, costumes, and scripted lines. It aims to rob the victim of huge sums of money or valuables, often by getting him or her to empty out banking accounts and borrow from family members. The Stages Of The Con In Confessions of a Confidence Man, the former con-man, Edward H. Smith, lists the “six definite steps or stages of growth” of a confidence game. He notes that some of the following steps can be omitted. ► THE FOUNDATION WORK : Preparations are made in advance of the game, including the hiring of any assistants required and studying the background knowledge needed for the role. ► THE APPROACH : The victim is approached or contacted. ► THE BUILD-UP : The victim is given an opportunity to profit from participating in a scheme. The victim’s greed is encouraged, such that their rational judgment of the situation might be impaired. ► THE PAY-OFF OR CONVINCER : The victim receives a small payout as a demonstration of the scheme’s purported effectiveness. This may be a real amount of money or faked in some way. In a gambling con, the victim is allowed to win several small bets. In a stock market con, the victim is given fake dividends. ► THE “HURRAH” : A sudden manufactured crisis or change of events forces the victim to act or make a decision immediately. This is the point at which the con succeeds or fails. With a financial scam, the con artist may tell the victim that the “window of opportunity” to make a large investment in the scheme is about to suddenly close forever. ► THE IN-AND-IN : A conspirator (in on the con, but assumes the role of an interested bystander) puts an amount of money into the same scheme as the victim, to add an appearance of legitimacy. This can reassure the victim, and give the con man greater control when the deal has been completed. ► THE CORROBORATION : In addition, some games require a “corroboration” step, particularly those involving a fake, but purportedly “rare item” of “great value”. This usually includes the use of an accomplice who plays the part of an uninvolved (initially skeptical) third party, who later confirms the claims made by the con man. Why Do Cons Work? Confidence tricks exploit typical human characteristics such as greed, dishonesty, vanity, opportunism, lust, compassion, credulity, irresponsibility, desperation, and naïvety. As such, there is no consistent profile of a confidence trick victim; the common factor is simply that the victim relies on the good faith of the con artist. Victims of investment scams tend to show an incautious level of greed and gullibility, and many con artists target the elderly and other people thought to be vulnerable, using various forms of confidence tricks. Researchers Huang and Orbach argue: Cons succeed for inducing judgment errors—chiefly, errors arising from imperfect information and cognitive biases. In popular culture and among professional con men, the human vulnerabilities that cons exploit are depicted as ‘dishonesty,’ ‘greed,’ and ‘gullibility’ of the marks. Dishonesty, often represented by the expression ‘you can’t cheat an honest man,’ refers to the willingness of marks (the victims of the con) to participate in unlawful acts, such as rigged gambling and embezzlement. Greed, the desire to “get something for nothing,” is a shorthand expression of marks’ (victime’s) beliefs that “too-good-to-be-true gains” are realistic. Gullibility reflects beliefs that marks (victims of the con) are ‘suckers’ and ‘fools’ for entering into costly voluntary exchanges. Shills on “The Hill” Accomplices, also known as shills, help manipulate the mark into accepting the perpetrator’s plan. A “shill” ― also called a “plant” or a “stooge” ― is a person who publicly helps or gives credibility to a person or organization, without disclosing that they have a close relationship with the person or organization. Thus, you could say Fauci is a “shill” for “Big Pharma” because behind the scenes, he has a vested financial interest in “Big Pharma”. Likewise, you could say certain politicians are “shills” for “Big Pharma” and other big corporations―having being legally “bribed” by the lobbyists that continually work upon the politicians in order to “curry their favor” to vote on legislation that will financially benefit those big corporations. Shills can carry out their operations in the areas of media, journalism, marketing, politics, sports, confidence games, or other business areas. A shill may also act to discredit opponents or critics of the person or organization in which they have a vested interest through character assassination or other means. In most uses, shill refers to someone who purposely gives onlookers, participants or "marks" the impression of an enthusiastic customer independent of the seller, marketer or con artist, for whom they are secretly working. The person or group in league with the shill relies on crowd psychology to encourage other onlookers or audience members to do business with the seller or accept the ideas they are promoting. Shills may be employed by salespeople and professional marketing campaigns. Plant and stooge more commonly refer to a person who is secretly in league with another person or outside organization while pretending to be neutral or a part of the organization in which they are planted, such as a magician's audience, a political party, or an intelligence organization What's Next on the Elitist Script?
Who Cares Who Is The True and Real President!
While all the current hullabaloo rages around who is the truly elected President of the United States, the Elitist train rolls on unhindered towards its destination. They don’t care who the president is―because they ultimately control all the major events and happenings. It is highly likely that they have both Trump and Biden in their “back pocket” one way or another. To quote again some past presidents: ► U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt said: “Behind the ostensible [visible] government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.” (Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography, 1913, Appendix B). ► U.S. President Woodrow Wilson stated: “Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it” (Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924, 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921). ► U.S. President John F. Kennedy, in an address to the American Newspaper Publishers Association, on April 27th, 1961, said: “The word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society, and we are as a people, inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, secret oaths and secret proceedings. For we are opposed, around the world, by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy, that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence. It depends on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific, and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published, its mistakes are buried, not headlined, and its dissenters are silenced, not praised, no expenditure is questioned, no secret revealed… I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people.” (John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963, 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963). So, as you can see, the control of the U.S. ― and of global politics ― by the wealthiest families on the planet is exercised in a powerful, profound and clandestine manner. This control began in Europe and has a continuity that can be traced back to the time when the bankers discovered it was more profitable to give loans to governments than to needy individuals ― for by doing so, they placed those governments in debt and therefore under their influence and eventually their control. These banking families and their subservient beneficiaries have come to own most major businesses over the two centuries ― during which they have secretly and increasingly organized themselves as controllers of governments worldwide and as arbiters of war and peace. To the “money-men” war means more money. The “money-men” and their “front-men” the bankers, will usually grant loans to both fighting parties ― they don’t really care who wins, because the “money-men” are the ones who really win, by the loans they made and interest on the loans that they gained, and, by placing the warring governments into even greater financial debt (for wars are expensive), they gained an even greater “hold” or power over the debt-ridden governments. Below, you will find one of many info-graphics on the hierarchical set-up of this world domination. Though the various info-graphics differ in some ways, most are pretty much according to the one found below ― though only Satan and those who are his direct “stooges” at the very top of the pyramid actually know the correct set-up. 
Some say, in an attempt to restore “balance” in the world, a New World Order was formed. Formed by America and Europe’s most elite (both in terms of wealth and power) with historical roots that date back centuries. This power-house formed by allegedly 13 families is known to be controlling practically everything around the globe. From political parties around the world, courthouses, educational institutions, natural resources, foreign policies, food, national economies, media houses, even terrorist organizations. They are the ones who decide where and when the next terror attack is going to happen, they decide when the markets will fall, they decide when a new government needs to take over, they decide what happens at the United Nations―they decide practically everything. They write most of the script that everyone below them is supposed to follow. There is nobody above them―except Satan. Though that might sound somewhat shocking and sensational―it most certainly is not a “conspiracy theory” but a conspiracy fact―as Our Lady revealed to Sister Lucia of Fatima. Lucia said: “She [Our Lady] told me that the Devil is engaging in a battle with the Virgin, a decisive battle. It is a final battle where one party will be victorious and the other will suffer defeat. So, from now on, we are either with God or we are with the Devil; there is no middle ground” (Sr. Lucia of Fatima to Fr. Fuentes, December 26th, 1957) ― which is what Holy Scripture says anyway: “Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go forth, and seduce the nations, which are over the four quarters of the Earth” (Apocalypse 20:7).
Testimony of an Exorcist Having worked with (or rather against) the devil for most of his life―performing thousands of exorcisms―the recently deceased (2016) former chief exorcist of Rome, Fr. Gabriele Amorth, stated: ““The influence of Satan is immense! Today, Satan has free hands. This does not mean that he has more power than in the past, but the door is wide open to him. Primarily, today we live in a period of little Faith. It is purely mathematical―when Faith declines, superstition grows. When we abandon God, we give ourselves to practices that open the door to Satan. There is no doubt that today’s media have done much in favor of Satan, first by the immorality of certain shows, the abundance of movies showing violence, horror or sex. Apart from this, the media have put in the limelight and have given popularity to figures of wizards and magicians―and so they give publicity to their evil works. “Satan was the most perfect being created by the hands of God. His God-given authority and superiority over the other angels are recognized by all, so he thought that he had the same authority over everything that God was creating. Satan tried to understand all of creation but could not―because all the plan of creation was oriented toward Christ. Until Christ came into the world, God’s plan could not be revealed in its entirety. Hence Satan’s rebellion. He wanted to continue to be the absolute first―the center of creation―even if it meant opposing God’s design. This is why Satan continually tries to dominate the world ― “the whole world is in the power of the evil one”, as it says in 1 John 5:19. Beginning with our forefathers, he seeks to enslave men by making them obey himself and disobey God. He was successful with our forefathers, Adam and Eve, and he hoped to continue with all men with the help of “a third of the angels”, who, according to the Book of the Apocalypse, followed him in rebellion against God “Satan―defeated by Christ―fights against Christ’s followers. The battle against the evil spirits was begun from the very origins of the world, and will continue until the last day―as the Lord has attested. During this time, every man is on battle alert―because life on Earth is a trial of faithfulness to God. Even if this battle against Satan concerns all men and all times, there is no doubt that Satan’s power is felt more keenly in periods of history when the sinfulness of the community is more evident. “Jesus works through His Church, Satan through his empire of evil. Ignoring these simple truths means not having a true awareness. Unfortunately, Christians no longer believe in these things these days. There is a harmful tendency to remove Satan and the other spirits of evil. But in this way, their power is only increased. This is perhaps why, in this day and age, Satan is so powerful and his influence over mankind is so great. If the people of the Church do not unite themselves with determination against Satan and fight tooth and nail ― then Satan is free to create havoc and destruction with impunity. Satan’s biggest triumph is mankind’s conviction that he doesn’t exist! ― [the world’s governments and mainstream media would probably label a belief in Satan’s existence as a “conspiracy theory”!]. The “Father of Lies” Gives Birth to Millions of Liars and Liars With Millions The March 11th, 2020, Lockdown project uses lies and deception to ultimately impose a Worldwide totalitarian regime, entitled “Global Governance” (by unelected officials). In the words of David Rockefeller: “…The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual Elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.” (quoted by Aspen Times, August 15th, 2011, emphasis added) By now, you should have heard of the world leaders speak of “the Great Reset,” “the Fourth Industrial Revolution” and the call to “Build Back Better.” But what do the terms “Great Reset,” “Fourth Industrial Revolution” and “Build Back Better” actually mean? What do they refer to? In the October 16th, 2020, Corbett Report, investigative journalist James Corbett explains the new social contract planned for the world, otherwise known as “the Great Reset.” The Great Reset not only ties you to it through an electronic ID linked to your bank account and health records, but even gives you a “social credit” ID that can run every facet of your life. While the current pandemic is being used as a justification for the movement, the agenda has nothing to do with health and everything to do with a long-term plan to monitor and control the world through technical surveillance. In other words, the world will be reset to depend on digital technocracy run by self-appointed elitists. It’s a power grab of unprecedented magnitude, and involves the restructuring of social classes to dismantle democracy, erase national borders and allow for the governing of communities from a distance by a group of unelected leaders. What was in the past referred to as the “New World Order” is now known as “the Great Reset.” The Steps to the Great Reset The next phase of the “Con-all-virus” operation is the collapse of the world economy, which will be achieved by the constant increase of fake Covid cases through the means of deliberately allowed faulty Covid testing. The swab tests are known to produce a large quantity of false positives. The swab test, therefore, is the tool to detect an epidemic which actually doesn’t exist―because the swab test does picks up debris from all other types of flus (flu is a Coronavirus too) and this is maliciously translated as being, not a past flu, but as Covid-19. Without the swab test, the same artificial spreading of the virus would end. The swab test creates imaginary cases and this is the reason why governments around the world keep stubbornly recurring to it―because they want lockdowns, which they want to use to destroy the economy and thus pave the way for the next steps. This ‘increase’ (false increase―but can you prove it?) would bring the next phase of the “Con-all-virus” operation―the another wave of lockdowns―which will be complete lockdowns and far more severe than all previous lockdowns―which merely dipped our big-toe in water to see if we would comply, for once you have complied, then the first brick has been removed from the wall and the wall is now weakened and makes the removal of next brick all the more easy―just like the first mortal sin of a certain kind is hard to commit, but once you have committed it, then each successive mortal sin becomes easier and easier to commit. Whistleblowers state that in 2021, the Élite will give the green light to the third phase of the Covid crisis―another pandemic. The virus will mutate in a new more lethal and contagious version, namely Covid-21 (or whatever they will want to call it)―which will be (or already has been) man-made in a laboratory. In this phase, which will last until the summer of the 2021―until the health system will collapse due to the massive hospitalizations and arrival of the “Medical Messias”, the ‘savior’ arrives, which is the ‘redeeming’, ‘miraculous’ vaccine that will be universally distributed, most probably approved by the WHO and the Bill Gates Foundation, and it will be the only way to move around without restrictions. Those who refuse the vaccine will be deported into isolation camps. Mobility will also be restricted. Travel bans will be enforced in a way even more severe than the ones practiced in the spring of 2020. At this point, these new lockdowns will cause the biggest wave of bankruptcies that has ever been seen. The total lockdowns would inevitably trigger the collapse of the world economy and the biggest economic crisis in the history of mankind will follow. The blocking of production for many businesses and the mass unemployment that results, will lead the world towards a probable famine. Massive chaos, civil unrest and riots will spread all around the globe, and in this phase, according to the Élite plan, the military will appear on the stage. Martial Law―the military take-over of countries―will be the excuse as being the only way to protect people. That is the typical Communist game plan―demoralize (through relentless media propaganda), destabilize (which is what Covid and its accompanying measure has done), create a crisis (which is coming down the pike), and then be the “savior” who saves everyone from the crisis you yourself created in the first place). Once the chaos has been subdued by the “savior” of Martial Law, due to the widespread bankruptcies, the mass unemployment, the widespread poverty and famine― the Elite system of “The Great Reset” will offer the masses the universal income option (pretending to be a “savior”). Work―as it was historically known in a capitalistic society―will basically disappear. This huge economic depression has a precise goal, namely the complete de-industrialization of Europe and the Western world, so that they can create a two-class-society―composed of a tiny number Élite members and a multitude of relatively poor people. In this society, the middle class would disappear and small business enterprises which would follow the same path. The big corporations would have complete control of the market. That is exactly the aim conceived by the Club of Rome, a very influential globalist club founded and funded by David Rockefeller, in its book, The Limits of Growth, published in 1972. Once the system will have eliminated the traditional form of work as we know it, the masses would have no other option to accept the pittance of the government in order to survive. Is the "Fraud" a Fraud?
Does It All Add Up?
Two negatives cancel each other out. You can see this in speech: “Just do it!” is a positive encouragement to do something. “Don’t do that!” is asking someone not to do something. It’s a negative. “Don’t not do it” means “please do it”. Two negatives cancel out and make a positive, in math as well as in speech. In math, negative × negative = positive (as in –5 x –20 = 100 or minus 5 times minus 20 = plus or positive 100). Some people (wrongly) try to take the mathematical “negative × negative = positive” principle and apply to our moral actions. No doubt you have heard of the two different and opposing principles ― “Two wrongs make a right” and “Two wrongs do not make a right.” The statement “Two wrongs make a right” is fallacy in which an allegation of wrongdoing is countered with a similar allegation―for example, when a child is criticized and punished for lying, the child protests and points out that its parents tell lies also. The child, in other words says, if it’s okay for you to lie, then it’s okay for me to lie. Its antithesis or opposite, “Two wrongs don’t make a right”, is a proverb used to forbid wrongful conduct that falsely pretends to be a ‘rightful’ reaction to another person’s transgression. Sadly, “Two wrongs make a right” is considered one of the most commonly used fallacies in Western philosophy. A fallacy is faulty or deceptive argument through the use of invalid or faulty reasoning in the construction of an argument. A fallacious argument may be deceptive by appearing to be better than it really is. Fallacies can be either illegitimate arguments or irrelevant points, and are often identified because they lack evidence that supports their claim. Some fallacies are downright deliberate lies, committed intentionally to manipulate or persuade by deception, while other fallacies are committed unintentionally due to carelessness or ignorance. Unfortunately, since most people have been dumbed-down over the years, by a weakened educational system and overdosing on entertainment and fun, their mental ‘vision’ and their mental ‘muscles’ have been weakened ― thus making it highly unlikely that they would spot a fallacy if they heard or read one. This makes them vulnerable to deception and to swallowing lies that are being passed for truths. They are vulnerable to fraud and are easily defrauded. This leads to the current allegations of Election Fraud. What if the alleged fraud is actually a double fraud―whereby the fraud was committed, not to win the election for Biden, but to ultimately defraud the public and provoking them into civil unrest? What if the fraud was done in such a way that its discovery was deliberately intended, so that it would provoke universal outcry, stir up already very tense emotions, divide the already very divisive political viewpoints even more, ignite the already volatile animosities to flash-point and create a perfect platform for nationwide civil unrest that could lead to civil war―which would then necessitate military intervention and martial law? What can be said of that? Well, if two negatives make a positive―then such a double fraud would have to said to be a POSITIVE FRAUD! But is that the case? That is a veritable Pandora’s Box! Wolves and Sheep―Serpents and Doves The problem with most good people is that they are too trusting. Normally, that would be a good thing and a normal thing―for we are inherently born to trust. We trust our parents from the very beginning―we have no reason to distrust them. Children of Protestant parents trust and believe that what their parents tell them about their Protestantism being the right religion and Catholicism being, in effect, the Whore of Babylon and a work of the devil―and God allows that to happen! We are made by God to trust, we like to trust and we do trust―but sometimes our trust brings terrible consequences. Even though we were made to trust―we also have to be discerning and prudent. As Our Lord says: “Behold―I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye, therefore, wise as serpents and simple as doves!” (Matthew 10:16). “Beware of false prophets―who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves” (Matthew 7:15). You could as well say: “Behold―I send you as sheep in the midst of political wolves. Be ye, therefore, wise as serpents and simple as doves!” (Matthew 10:16). “Beware of false politicians―who come to you in the clothing of a shepherd, but inwardly they are ravening wolves” (Matthew 7:15). Personally, there is someone more believable than any or many a politician (or wolf, or serpent)―and that is Our Lady. While this or that politician might tell us one thing or another―Our Lady tells us: “From the end of the 19th century and especially in the 20th century, Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects [and take note that Scripture backs this up: “Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go forth, and seduce the nations, which are over the four quarters of the Earth” (Apocalypse 20:7)] ... During this epoch the Church will find herself attacked by terrible assaults from the Masonic sect … These years, during which the evil sect of Masonry will take control of the civil government, will see a cruel persecution of all religious communities … All the civil governments will have one and the same plan, which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principle, to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism and vice of all kinds. They will abolish civil rights, as well as ecclesiastical rights. All order and all justice will be trampled underfoot and only homicides, hate, jealousy, lies and dissension will be seen, without love for country or family.” We are now in the 21st century and it certainly looks that Our Lady was right―even though the Masons do not walk around wearing a T-Shirt saying: “I am a Freemason and I want you to know it!” The unbelievable worldwide coordination and evil manipulation of people and organizations in this Con-all-a-virus Plannedemic by all governments, by medical authorities and many other organizations within each nation, would be near impossible without a Masonic substrata and its interconnecting roots and branches―for their tentacles reach into all the major positions of authority and influence throughout the chief nations. Let it be said, though, that Masonry is still merely a puppet that is under control of the “higher-ups” or “puppet-masters” in Satan’s recruited hierarchy. On that point, it is well worth quoting the recently deceased former chief exorcist of Rome, Fr. Gabriele Amorth, on the connection between Satan and those in positions of authority, such as politicians and business leaders: “The smoke of Satan has entered everywhere. Everywhere! Satanism is on the increase. Today Satan rules the world. The masses no longer believe in God. Evil exists in politics―quite often in fact! And, yes, Satan is in the Vatican! The devil resides in the Vatican. I have no doubt about the fact that the demon tempts the authorities of the Church especially―just as he tempts every authority, those of politics and industry. Everybody is vulnerable to the work of Satan! The devil loves to take over business leaders and those who hold political office!” What’s the Goal? What’s the “End-Game”? All that we are currently seeing happening before our own very eyes―the Pandemic, the Pandemic regulations, the lockdowns, the loss of life, the job losses, the wounded and soon to be crashing economy, the threat of mandatory Covid vaccinations, the threat of mandatory electronic ID implementations on the body of everyone, the digitized money cashless society, the contentious Presidential Election, the accusations of fraud and treason, the polarization of people over a variety of issues, the provocation of civil unrest, the riots, the looting, the burning of buildings and cars, the violence, the killings―all of these are not the “Goal” nor the “End Game” of those who are in the process of creating and manipulating these scenarios. All of the above are merely chess-moves that are leading to the proverbial “checkmate”. Chess Over Souls We are not playing “chess” against mere humans―but we are playing “chess” against Satan. You could take Sister Lucia of Fatima’s words about Satan fighting a final battle against the Blessed Virgin Mary and put it into a “chess” context. Our Lady (being white) has her “pieces” in this world ― Satan (being black) has his “pieces” in this world. We should be “moved” by Our Lady just as evil men are “moved” by Satan. Since the “chess masters” ― Our Lady and Satan ― are way beyond us in power, intelligence and skill, we should not proudly presume to move ourselves, but humbly wait to moved when and where Our Lady wants us moved. The “Goal” or the “End Game” is to either “checkmate” Christ the King, or to “checkmate” Satan. Just as in a game of chess, the more pieces of your opponent that you capture, the more exposed and weaker your opponent’s king becomes―so too in the “Spiritual Chess Game”. The more souls that Satan can capture, the weaker and more fragile becomes the Social Reign of Christ the King. As Fr. Amorth said above: “The demon tempts the authorities of the Church especially [which we could compare to the Queen and Bishops in chess]―just as he tempts every authority, those of politics and industry [which we could compare to the Rooks (crooks?) and Knights in chess]. Everybody is vulnerable to the work of Satan! The devil loves to take over business leaders and those who hold political office!” Satan wants all the “pieces” so the “King” on the chessboard (Christ) is left all alone. On the other hand, Our Lady wants all of Satan’s pieces in order to convert them to Christ. Satan, knowing that he cannot destroy Christ (even though he would wish to do so if he could), satisfies himself with destroying and dragging down to Hell as many souls as he possibly can―regardless of whether are Catholics, Protestants, Pagans, Atheists or whatever. Satan wants them all. That is the “Goal” or the “End-Game” ― and everything else is merely a “chess-move” that he hopes will lead to a “checkmate” on every single soul. Chess and Deception Just because all the chess pieces visible and in full view, leads to a common misconception that chess does not contain deception. On the contrary, chess is essentially a game of deception and trickery―you do not win by making your intentions obvious―instead you disguise your intentions, create distractions with some pieces, and deliberately sacrifice other pieces. It is a game of deception and decoy; of contrivances to convince your opponent to believe you intend to do X, while all the while planning to do Y. All this is done with the intention of fooling your opponent into thinking that you are going to do one thing―whereas you really intend to do something different. The possibility for deception arises by preying on the beliefs of your opponent and presenting them with the opportunity of deceiving themselves. Satan is the ultimate deceiver―he deceived Eve into eating the forbidden fruit and thus disobeying God―and he has continued his deceptive moves ever since then, “checkmating” most souls by his deceptions, decoys and distractions. If you could say such a thing, then Satan has found a paradise on Earth in politics. It has come to the point where you almost have to have deception built into your DNA in order to get into politics―or at least in order to rise to the higher levels of politics. Here, we need to remind ourselves of the boastful words of William Casey, CIA Director from 1981 to 1987, allegedly boasted to the newly elected President Reagan in February of 1981: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” That deceptive political and governmental trait reflects Satan―the ultimate deceiver. The deceptive “chess moves” of Satan are far beyond the meager and ever-weakening intelligence of modern man. To face Satan at the “chessboard of life”, all alone and without assistance and coaching, is like an 8-year-old child trying to play against a world Chess Master. No contest! A pushover! That is where we need to remember the humbling and blunt words of Holy Scripture and Our Lord: “Be sober and watch―because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour!” (1 Peter 5:8). “Without Me, you can do nothing!” (John 15:5). “The things that are impossible with men, are possible with God!” (Luke 18:27). The deceptive “chess moves” of Satan are far beyond the meager and ever-weakening intelligence of modern man. To face Satan at the “chessboard of life”, all alone and without assistance and coaching, is like an 8-year-old child trying to play against a world Chess Master. No contest! A pushover! That is where we need to remember the humbling and blunt words of Holy Scripture and Our Lord: “Be sober and watch―because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour!” (1 Peter 5:8). “Without Me, you can do nothing!” (John 15:5). “The things that are impossible with men, are possible with God!” (Luke 18:27). On the other hand, one could also say: “The deceptions that are impossible with men, are possible with Satan!” and you could also have Satan saying: “Without me, your deceptions will be like nothing!” With his evil angelic intellect, Satan can come up with ploys, decoys, distractions and deceptions that are way beyond our imaginative powers. If St. Paul writes of God: “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love Him” (1 Corinthians 2:9) ― then we could also say: “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what deceptions Satan is prepared to create for those that work for him.” It would not be a far-fetched statement to say that Satan has had a great part to play in the creation of modern technology. Why? How can you say that? Well, because, as Our Lord says: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves! By their fruits you shall know them! Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit … Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them!” (Matthew 7:15-18). The fruits of most of modern technology are pulling people away from God, away from prayer, away from spiritual exercises, away from a spirit of mortification and sacrifice―instead they spend precious hours in front of their various idols―television screen, computer screen, tablet screen, smartphone screen―but in church or at prayer they are rarely seen! Let us turn for a moment from the deceptions of Satan to the deceptions of that hidden Catholic of the Protestant Reformation, William Shakespeare―who, besides deceiving the authorities as to his adherence to Catholicism, also wrote of deception in some of his many famous and celebrated plays. In one such play―Hamlet― Shakespeare has Queen Gertrude say the line: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks!” The play―Hamlet― depicts Prince Hamlet seeking revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet’s father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet’s mother―Queen Gertrude. Hamlet―believing that his father, the king, was murdered by his uncle Claudius―decides to stage a play, the Murder of Gonzago, that follows a very similar sequence of events that led to the murder of his father, in order to test whether viewing the play will trigger a guilty conscience on the part of Claudius. As Hamlet, Gertrude, Claudius and others watch the ‘play-within-the-play’, the Player Queen, representing Queen Gertrude, declares in flowery language that she will never remarry if her husband dies. Hamlet then turns to his mother and asks her: “Madam, how like you this play?”, to which Queen Gertrude replies ironically: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks!”― meaning that the Player Queen’s protestations of love and fidelity are too excessive to be believed. Is that what could be said of the political leaders and the media in the current Presidential Election turmoil and crisis―or could it be said “Presidential Play Acting Crisis”? Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction! Is there too much “protestation” going on from both sides? “The candidates doth protest too much, methinks!” A little too much of the theatrical? A little too much of the hyperbole? A little too much of stirring-up the watching audience? Are they putting on a show―a “play-within-a-play”? Perhaps. If so, then why? For what purpose? To what goal? It’s Not About Trump and Biden Trump and Biden with their Presidential Election Sideshow, are just that and no more―a sideshow, or, as in the play Hamlet, merely a “play-within-a-play”. It is highly likely―and you may find this highly contentious―that they are merely the supporting cast, chosen to play-out this dramatic scene that is merely a tiny part of the bigger play that is going on. Do you really imagine and think that Trump and Biden are key players on the world's political scene? This uncanny, unprecedented, previously unimaginable seamless worldwide unity in locking down the world in the face of this over-exaggerated and largely falsified and falsely represented Covid-19 virus―shows that most of the world high ranking politicians are in the “back-pocket” of the “higher-ups” or whatever other name you wish to give them. Ultimately, there are only two chief Globalists operating in the world―and they are not who you think they are! The first Globalist is Christ and other Globalist is Satan―both want to establish a “one world government” and rule over all peoples and nations. Anyone else and everyone else merely is an ‘employee’ of Christ or Satan. Of Christ―the Son of man―Holy Scripture says: “In the days of those kingdoms, the God of Heaven will set up a Kingdom that shall never be destroyed, and His Kingdom shall not be delivered up to another people, and it shall break in pieces, and shall consume all these kingdoms, and itself shall stand for ever! … The Son of man came … and He [God] gave Him [the Son of man] power, and glory, and a Kingdom―and all peoples, tribes and tongues shall serve Him. His power is an everlasting power that shall not be taken away; and His Kingdom shall not be destroyed.” (Daniel 2:44; 7:13-14). Our Lord Himself claimed power over all the Earth: “And Jesus spoke to them, saying: ‘All power is given to Me in Heaven and in Earth. Going, therefore, teach ye all nations―baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost―teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you” (Matthew 28:18-20). “Other sheep I have, that are not of this fold―them also I must bring―and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold and one shepherd” (John 10:16). Concerning Satan, Holy Scripture says: “That great dragon, that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan―who seduceth the whole world―was cast unto the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him” (Apocalypse 12:9). Earth is his “princedom” and Our Lord calls Satan the “prince of this world” ― “The prince of this world cometh, and in Me he hath not anything … The prince of this world is already judged ... Now shall the prince of this world be cast out!” (John 12:31; 16:11; 14:30). Satan now prowls about the world seeking its damnation―as an act of revenge in order to prevent gaining the Heaven that Satan had lost: “Your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour!” (1 Peter 5:8) ― and he prefers do “devour” or possess those who are in authority, because their power and influence will be useful in capturing the common people beneath them―just as in the Catholic principle: “Convert the king and you will convert the people!” As the former chief exorcist of Rome, Fr. Gabriele Amorth said: “The demon tempts the authorities of the Church especially―just as he tempts every authority, those of politics and industry. Everybody is vulnerable to the work of Satan! The devil loves to take over business leaders and those who hold political office!” The devil even tried to tempt and recruit Jesus during the forty day and nights of fasting and prayer by Jesus in the desert, after which “the devil took Him [Jesus] up into a very high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, and said to Him: ‘All these will I give Thee, if, falling down, Thou wilt adore me!’ Then Jesus said to him: ‘Begone, Satan! For it is written: ‘The Lord thy God shalt thou adore, and Him only shalt thou serve!’” (Matthew 4:8-10). Though Satan failed to recruit Jesus, he has, nevertheless, recruited most kings, princes, presidents, rulers and governors. Holy Scripture says: “The kings of the Earth stood up, and the princes met together, against the Lord and against His Christ, [saying]: Let us break their bonds asunder: and let us cast away their yoke from us!” (Psalm 2:2-3) ― today, the Holy Ghost―the author of those words, just as He the author of all of Holy Scripture―today, He would be called a “Conspiracy Theorist” for saying that, and the “Fact Checkers” would try to prove Him wrong. Wild Unsubstantiated Crazy Conspiracy Theory? The “New World Order” is no conspiracy theory―President George H. Bush openly spoke of it before the Senate in his speech about the Persian Gulf Crisis, on September 11th, 1990: “The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective — a New World Order — can emerge: a new era!” Already back in 19th century, the British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, stated: “So you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes” (Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister from 1874 to 1880). Around the same time, it was Baron Nathan Mayer de Rothschild (1840-1915) who said: “I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the British Empire on which the sun never sets. The man that controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply.” What was true of the British Empire is equally true of the U.S. Empire, controlled remotely by the London based Elite through the Federal Reserve System. A little later, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson stated: “Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it” (Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924, 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921). Around the same time, Winston Churchill, who was eventually “bored by it all,” wrote around 1920: “From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, to those of Trotsky, Bela Kun, Rosa Luxembourg, and Emma Goldman, this world wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It played a definitely recognizable role in the tragedy of French Revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the nineteenth century, and now at last, this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads, and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.” (Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, twice British Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945, and from 1951 to 1955). Over 20 years later, when he was the British Prime Minister during World War II, Churchill referred to the existence of a “High Cabal” that had brought about unprecedented bloodshed in human history. Churchill is also said to have remarked about the Elite: “They have transported Lenin in a sealed truck like a plague bacillus from Switzerland into Russia…” (quoted by John Coleman in The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, Global Publications 2006). In 1961 the U.S. President John F. Kennedy (JFK) announced in front of the media: “The word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society, and we are as a people, inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, secret oaths and secret proceedings. For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy, that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence. It depends on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific, and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published, its mistakes are buried, not headlined, and its dissenters are silenced, not praised, no expenditure is questioned, no secret revealed… I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people.” Secret societies, secret oaths, secret proceedings, infiltration, subversion, intimidation ― these are the words used by JFK! On June 4th, 1963, JFK ordered the printing of Treasury dollar bills instead of Federal Reserve notes (Executive Order 11110). He also ordered that once these had been printed, the Federal Reserve notes would be withdrawn, and the Treasury bills put into circulation. A few months later (November 22nd, 1963) he was killed in broad daylight in front of the whole world ― his brains blown out. Upon assumption of power, his successor, President Lyndon Johnson, immediately reversed the order to switch to Treasury bills―showing very clearly why JFK was murdered. Another order of JFK, to militarily disengage from the Far East by withdrawing U.S. “advisors” from Vietnam, was also immediately reversed after his death. After the Cuban crisis, JFK wanted peaceful non-confrontational co-existence with the Soviet Union―and that meant no wars in the world. He knew the next war would be nuclear and there would be no winners. The defense industry and the banks―that make money from war―belong to the Elite. The Elite subscribes to a dialectical Hegelian philosophy, as pointed out by Antony Sutton, under which they bring about ‘controlled conflict’. The two World Wars were ‘controlled conflicts’! Their arrogance, their ceaseless energy, their focus, their utter disregard for human life, their ability to plan decades in advance, to act on that planning, and their continual success are staggering and faith-shaking. Statements by men like Disraeli, Wilson, Churchill, JFK and others should not leave any doubt in the mind of the reader about who controls the world. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote in November 1933 to Col. Edward House: “The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element, in the larger centers, has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson.” It may be recalled that Andrew Jackson, U.S. President from 1829-1837, was so enraged by the tactics of bankers (Rothschilds) that he said: “You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.” Trying to Make Sense of Nonsense
If you were cynical, the only sense that you could make out this Presidential Election is that it is nonsense. Does nonsense make sense? To some it does! Yet one cannot help marrying two key quotes that might make sense and might make some sense out this nonsense.
► The first quote is attributed to the 32nd president of the United States, the Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won a record four presidential elections and presided from 1933 until his death in 1945. Franklin D. Roosevelt said: “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way!” While that statement should be taken absolutely in that absolutely everything is planned―it can be taken to mean that most of the important political events are not accidents, but are planned to happen more or less the way happen. ► The second quote is attributed William Casey, CIA Director (1981 to 1987) ― a statement which he made at an early February 1981 meeting of the newly elected President Reagan with his new cabinet secretaries, to report to him on what they had learned about their agencies in the first couple of weeks of the administration. President Reagan―as he did to all the other secretaries of their departments and agencies― asked William Casey what he saw as his goal as director for the CIA, to which Casey replied with this quote: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” The two can be joined together in “unholy” matrimony ― “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way!” takes as a spouse “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” When deliberate lies―“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way”―are pushed and propagated as being the truth―“ our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false”―then you have a farcical, chaotic, disordered, devious, deceptive and nonsensical state of affairs. Deliberate Strategic Chaos by Trump? This “unholy” matrimonial couple can clearly be seen roving around everywhere in this farcical, chaotic, disordered and nonsensical Presidential Election. Further fuel is added to the fire by the constant accusations and denials, and counter-accusations and denials, which each political Party levels at the other―further adding to the confusion and exasperation of the people and voters. Increasing numbers within the popular press and mainstream media have become anti-Trump, publishing and reporting only anti-Trump slanted articles―in other words, they only give one side of the story, namely, the side that puts Trump in bad light. Just one such example, from a smaller media outlet, pro-Democrat, Hilary Clinton endorsing (2016 Election) magazine or journal, The Atlantic, ran an article on June 18th, 2019, entitled “What If the Chaos Is Strategic?” condemning Trump for his chaotic presidency, while asking the question whether chaos was a strategic and deliberate ploy being implemented by Trump. The article stated: “Donald Trump’s presidency is the fact that it is maddeningly nonlinear, lurching several times each day between policy objectives that may be dictated by a Fox News anchor, a friend from Mar-a-Lago, or the Prime Minister of Norway. This was especially true in the first six months of his administration … In December 2018, chaos, which had been held in abeyance for at least some of the previous months, returned in full force. One of the unending debates of the Trump presidency is whether Trump intentionally creates this chaos or is somehow helpless against it, against the very disorder he causes daily, if not hourly. The question of intentionality is impossible for anyone but Trump to answer, and he would surely answer it by claiming that he has had a plan all along. That would be a typically Trumpian boast.” Trump Accused of Trying to Steal the Election! After a steady stream of anti-Trump articles, as the 2020 Presidential Election drew closer, The Atlantic published, on August 25th 2020, an article entitled “The U.S. Is Facing the Possibility of a Truly Illegitimate Election”, in which it was stated: “In the past few weeks alone, President Donald Trump has admitted to sabotaging the Postal Service in an attempt to prevent absentee votes from being counted; explored executive orders to further curb mail-in voting; talked about changing the date of the election; and sent federal forces into cities and states on the flimsy pretense of protecting federal property. “Protecting” federal elections could be next. Until recently, democracy advocates were mostly focused on the possibility that Trump wouldn’t accept the results of a legitimate election ... Lisel Hintz, of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, lists four indicators of a potentially compromised election: manipulation that is “pervasive, systemic, deliberate, and widespread.” Any one of these indicators, she says, should signal to observers that results were compromised. An election won by sabotaging the mail, so that likely Democrats’ ballots aren’t counted, or by keeping Democratic voters from the polls via state-sponsored intimidation, would easily have all four. “The less chaos that takes place on November 3rd, the fewer excuses the president will have to interfere with vote counting … Individual Americans can do a great deal to protect the integrity of the election. Requesting and casting mail-in ballots as early as possible will reduce the impact of any delays in the Postal Service. People at lower risk for COVID-19 can sign up to work the polls. Lawyers can volunteer to be poll watchers. Citizens can (while obeying local laws) document instances of voter intimidation, creating evidence for future court cases. None of these things will guarantee a fair or free election. But taken together, they could make the difference between an election that’s easy to tamper with and one that is not. “Another way to deter Trump from stealing the election is to set clear standards for election integrity well in advance of voting. Prominent Americans of both parties should come together as soon as possible to create these. Clear standards must also be accompanied by transparency, so that the American public can judge for itself whether the election was legitimate or not. Some states require a detailed procedural audit that confirms the accuracy of voting-machine numbers. All states should conduct similarly thorough audits, and make the results of those audits easily accessible online. A well-run election, coupled with clear standards set in advance and transparency around the procedures that were followed, will reduce the temptation to try to alter the results. Yet Trump may still try. The consequences should include legal ones. One possibility, as Michael Bromwich, a former inspector general for the Department of Justice, tweeted about, is that White House staff, attempting to subvert the election by drafting executive orders, could face criminal penalties. While it remains to be seen whether any such legal actions would be successful, even the threat of criminal charges might make staffers think twice before engaging in (or failing to report) misconduct. And a successful prosecution would send a powerful signal to future would-be election thieves. “The final, and most important, deterrent to election theft is a consequence that has nothing to do with the courtroom: Would-be autocrats should know that if they “win” an election via blatant manipulation, people will rise up in protest. Widespread civil disobedience is the last resort of a self-enforcing democracy, a way to demand fair and free elections even if a country’s institutions fail to provide them. It’s far too soon (August 25th) to say what will happen in November, but … even Republicans who hope Trump wins the election view sabotaging the mail or delaying the election as a bridge too far.” (The Atlantic, article “The U.S. Is Facing the Possibility of a Truly Illegitimate Election”, August 25th 2020). Paradoxically, it is Trump who is now accusing the Democrats of doing the very thing that they were forecasting that Trump would―namely, rig the election. Most of the above anti-Trump article can now be applied to the Democrat’s tactics in the recent Election! What a farce! What chaos! Is it a scripted, deliberate, pre-planned chaos and farce? Well, if the “Elitists” or “Globalists” or “New World Order” or “One World Government” players managed to pull-off the worldwide Covid-19 or Coronavirus Pandemic (also appropriately called the “Con-all-a-virus Plannedemic”), then political farces in one single country are “a piece of cake” and “child’s play” to them. “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way!” and “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” UK Prime Minister Accused of Creating Deliberate Chaos The mainstream UK newspaper, The Guardian, in a September 11th, 2019, article―entitled “Chaos is Being Normalised. It is all part of Boris Johnson’s Pernicious Plan” ― spoke of a similar deliberately created chaos, orchestrated by the government, or those invisible men who are outside the government, above the government and who control the government: On Saturday, for the first time in living memory, neo-fascists were chanting the name of the serving [UK] Prime Minister [Boris Johnson] ... [they] wandered around [the Government buildings on] Whitehall ― some drunk, harassing random remain protesters and shouting into the faces of journalists until, inevitably, they attacked the police. It’s part of an unnerving trend that’s emerged in the past two weeks―the normalization of chaos. We have a Parliament suspended against its will. We have Parliamentary Ministers threatening to break the law. We have allegations that a network of advisers inside Whitehall are using encrypted messaging to circumvent legal scrutiny. And we have briefings―to selected journalists―that the government might suspend the rule of law by invoking the Emergency Powers Act … This is a power-grab, run to a script! … As a mental exercise ask yourself: ‘If there was a single mind coordinating this crisis, what would it be thinking now?’ First, that the fragility of the unwritten constitution is a proven fact. If Parliament can have its sessions terminated once, it can be terminated again. Second, that parts of the British media have no stomach for the task of actively defending the rule of law and the principle of accountability. Third, that an atmosphere of weariness is descending on the mass of people. They were already weary of Brexit and are now getting weary of endless headlines about a constitutional crisis that never seems to end. In the 1930s, the psychologist, Erich Fromm, noted that the ideal conditions for the rise of dictators and autocrats was a state of inner tiredness and resignation … Among the German working class, Fromm observed a deep feeling of resignation, of disbelief in their leaders, of doubt about the value of any kind of political organization and political activity … deep within themselves many had given up any hope in the effectiveness of political action … The transparent aim of Johnson is to create a chaotic situation, in which decent people become too frightened by fascists and hooligans to protest ― a darkest hour in which, though he himself created the darkness, he eventually gets to switch on the lights [and be the “hero” ― which is along the lines of the Communist four-stage subversion plan―demoralize a nation, then destabilize that nation, then create a chaotic crisis in that nation, and then be the “hero” who saves that nation with your own Communist/Socialist solution] … What we’re living through is not normal, nor accidental. It’s a fabricated chaos!” (UK newspaper, The Guardian, in a September 11th, 2019). Deliberate Chaos Growing Worldwide If you look back over the last decade or so, you will see that deliberate strategic chaos has been created in various parts of the world―as though to condition people to its presence, reality and consequences―in a sense, trying to normalize chaos and make it part and parcel of daily life. One such chaotic crisis was the Greek Debt Crisis of 2010, which crippled the Greek economy, doubled the taxes paid by the citizens, created massive unemployment and extreme poverty. The resulting chaos saw widespread riots and civil unrest. A similar financial crisis was experienced by Ireland and Spain. By 2019, the crisis had spread to embrace, in varying degrees, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, China, Turkey, Argentina, Iran, Mexico and Brazil, among others. You also had the Immigration Crisis in Europe around 2015 to 2017, with millions of refugees flooding Europe―mainly coming from the Muslim countries of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. However, despite the chaos caused by this tsunami of over 2 million refugees, it has to be said that the Communist tactic (from the old USSR days) of weakening the nations that Russia had occupied by a policy of population transfer―which was the forced transfer of various groups from the 1930s up to the 1950s ordered by Joseph Stalin. It may be classified into the following broad categories: deportations of “anti-Soviet” categories of population (often classified as “enemies of workers”), deportations of entire nationalities, labor force transfer, and organized migrations in opposite directions to fill the ethnically cleansed territories. This population transfer is just one form of the “divide and conquer” technique―whereby you “water-down” or “dilute” countries of their native majority population and mix-in other races, encouraging inter-marriage and so reducing patriotism and nationalistic feelings. Now, in 2020, you have the deliberately created chaos of the Coronavirus pandemic―a deliberate man-made virus meant to cause worldwide chaos and bring the world into a totalitarian subjection, by triggering lockdowns, which in turn trigger economic collapses and job losses, which creates even more financial debt, and chains the debtor to the creditor in a form of legal enslavement, which will trigger the so-called “Great Reset” and “Debt Forgiveness Programs”, which will rob everyone of their possessions, rights and freedoms―thus fulfilling Our Lady’s warning that Communism would take over the whole world, America included. Or as Our Lady of La Salette warned: “From the end of the 19th century and especially in the 20th century, the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of morals, for Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects ... During this epoch the Church will find herself attacked by terrible assaults from the Masonic sect … These years, during which the evil sect of Masonry will take control of the civil government, will see a cruel persecution of all religious communities … All the civil governments will have one and the same plan, which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principle, to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism and vice of all kinds. They will abolish civil rights, as well as ecclesiastical rights. All order and all justice will be trampled underfoot and only homicides, hate, jealousy, lies and dissension will be seen, without love for country or family.” Political and Social Chaos Increasingly Acceptable Today, there are more and more Americans for whom creating chaos is the goal. They exist on both sides of the aisle―among Republicans and Democrats. At 2019 annual convention of the American Political Science Association, it was very indicative of the signs of our times that the winner of the best paper in political psychology focused on the “need for chaos.” Written by three political scientists, Michael Bang Petersen and Mathias Osmundsen, political scientists at Aarhus University in Demark, and Kevin Arceneaux, a political scientist at Temple University, the paper argued that the growth of vitriolic and venomous conspiracy theories the on social media has allowed those who are deeply disenchanted to rejoice in creating upheaval for upheaval’s sake. But―despite what those three political scientists say―let’s be honest about the matter. Not all so-called “conspiracy theories” are “pie-in-the-sky” theories, but are “conspiracy facts” ― mocking, ridiculing, stigmatic label “conspiracy theory” has been created and used, for the most part, as a means of hiding the real truth and throwing people off the scent. Nevertheless, the three political scientists summarize the current chaotic state of affairs thus: “We show that this extreme discontent is associated with motivations to share hostile political rumors, not because such rumors are viewed to be true, but because they are believed to mobilize the audience against disliked elites.” The authors measured this “need for chaos” among those they describe as frustrated status seekers: “We show that chaotic motivations are surprisingly widespread within advanced democracies, having some hold in up to 40% of the American national population.” The three political scientists surveyed members of the public and the Americans polled for their opinions, were asked to say whether or not they agreed with the following statements: “I think society should be burned to the ground.” Twenty-four percent said yes. “When I think about our political and social institutions, I cannot help thinking, ‘Just let them all burn.’” Forty percent agreed. “We cannot fix the problems in our social institutions, we need to tear them down and start over.” Forty percent agreed. The authors termed those results “staggering.” We could say that those results are only to be expected―for when you turn away from God (Who is absolute order), you automatically turn to Satan (who is chaos―as is Hell). “God is not the God of dissension, but of peace” (1 Corinthians 14:33). Just like the devil ― “Your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8) ― chaos is like a cancer that is always lurking, ready to take control of the soul of the person and social relations whenever order disintegrates. Our countless and disordered desires ― “every desire for itself” ― as in the saying, “every man for himself” ― are chaotically fight with each other to get whatever they can get. In a sense, the run riot, destroy our virtues and loot our graces. They become our masters and we become the slaves. St Augustine says that the human person is an uncontrollable bundle of desires that cannot be properly controlled or reigned-in and realigned without the helping grace of God. The Deliberate Tactic of Chaos Deliberate fomenting of chaos has long been a tactic that has been used overtly and covertly―that is to say openly and secretly. Many a country has accused the USA of fomenting chaos and insecurity across the world, in order to gain various political or financial advantages. It is not just USA―Russia does it, China does it, Israel does it, many a European nation does it. It is a very effective multi-faceted tool for subversion and key tool in the four-pronged Communist tactic for overcoming nations or other groups―(1) Demoralization (chaos can play a part); (2) Destabilization (chaos can again play a part); (3) Crisis Creation (chaos can once again play a part); and (4) Providing a Solution (that is advantageous to the Communists). A case in point is the following: on March 25th, 1931, two white women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, claimed they had been raped by nine black teenagers along the railroad from Chattanooga to Memphis. In a town called Paint Rock, Alabama, a citizen posse took the law into its hands and “arrested” the boys, transporting them to jail cells in nearby Scottsboro. As news spread, enraged whites gathered outside the jail, ready to form a lynch job. Local authorities promised quick justice to the seething vigilantes. Five days later an all-white jury indicted the nine black boys. A second round of trials commenced in March 1933, during which Ruby Bates recanted her initial testimony. Nonetheless, the jury voted again to convict the boys. The case of the Scottsboro boys was nationally known as a serious miscarriage of justice. The boys literally fought for their lives against a system rigged against them. Decent Americans were outraged. Something needed to be done. People with cooler heads needed to step in to calm the situation. Unfortunately, the Scottsboro case became further enflamed. It attracted some of the worst elements of the Marxist Left. American Communists saw a delicious opportunity to swoop in. They attempted to hijack the case and the cause. This was no surprise. Communists have long been skilled at agitating, instigating, and organizing. They are trained in the art. As skilled propagandists, they conceive and coordinate tight campaigns that work wonderfully well by enlisting Liberals in particular. They are really good at raising lots of hell without a lot of members, at fomenting chaos and discord and getting people in the streets. The tactic of chaos is nothing new―we even see it in the account of “Gedeon’s Three Hundred”, where God had rejected Gedeon’s original offer of a 32,000 strong army to fight the 135,000 strong Madianite army―and instead reduced Gedeon’s army to merely 300 men. Yet those 300 men, in the middle of the night and under cover of darkness, created chaos in the Madianite camp and defeated them despite being outnumbered by 450 to 1. The whole purpose of trying to create chaos among your enemy, is that we are at our best and most efficient when there is order―we speak of a “well-ordered mind”, a “well-ordered army”, a “well-ordered team”, a “well-ordered plan”, etc. Chaos removes and destroys that order and replaces it with complete disorder and confusion―where nobody knows what is going to happen next. This “not knowing” creates fear and panic―a state of mind which can woeful effects mentally and physically. Living under constant fear and threat has serious health consequences. As regards physical health, fear weakens our immune system and can cause cardiovascular damage, gastrointestinal problems such as ulcers and irritable bowel syndrome, and decreased fertility. It can lead to accelerated ageing and even premature death. We are seeing these things increasingly occur in this man-made Con-all-a-virus Plannedemic that has brought chaos to the normal world―threatening us all with what they are calling “a new normal” while telling us the world will never be the same again. The “new normal” corresponds to fourth item of the four-pronged Communist tactic of subversion―(1) Demoralize your opponent, (2) Destabilize your opponent, (3) Create a crisis for your opponent, and then (4) You yourself provide a solution or a “way-out” of the crisis for your opponent―which will require the opponent to accept your terms, your solution, which is planned to be to your advantage and not your opponent’s advantage. This tactic is not just used once―but over and over again. It is used in many different sectors―the political sector, military sector, financial sector, business sector, cultural sector, religious sector, etc. It is used on a large scale against nations, on a middling scale against organizations or groups, and on a small scale against individuals. It is like the waves of the sea―continually pounding the seashore and gradually eroding it. Democracy Hypocrisy?
What on Earth is a Democracy?
As with so many other things, our intelligence has―in most cases―atrophied, grown flabby and weak, and relies merely on the superficial. Our knowledge of things is often relegated to the level of “If I know how to spell and can say a few words about it―then I’m happy and content!” We no longer go deep into things―unless it is the latest gossip! We read the news 1,000 more times than we read the Bible. As for the phrase: “A jack of all trades, but a master of none” seems to fit our present day―we know a little about a lot things, but don’t know a lot about most things. Often people are content to merely repeat―like a parrot―what they hear, without really understanding it. And if they don’t understand it, they have little interest or motivation to find out more about it and achieve an understanding. The media even caters to that superficiality and feeds us constant streams of trivial, easily digestible, non-challenging material. In fact, many articles are deliberately written largely with a vocabulary that is in the range of a 5th to 8th grade student. Here is the testimony of an experienced teacher, who bemoans this “dumbing-down” of America―the original is much too long to reproduce, so here are a few pertinent extracts: “I teach college undergraduates, plus I used to teach in public schools. I deal with it daily, and please know I am not some highbrow elitist. In general, reading has become a lost art. Those of us who still read constantly are seen as geeks or just weird. Reading is not perceived as an enjoyable activity … Look hard for a bookstore in America. Borders no longer exists. Most independent bookstores got swallowed up by Barnes and Noble, which is as much a trinket store selling Starbucks lattes as it is a bookstore … We are swamped with visual media. It is now conceivable to watch a television show or a movie on the phone, on the computer, or on a tablet all the time. Watching seems easier than reading ... Eventually, they even have trouble following basic storylines in television and movies ... Elementary education taught students to memorize ... Students have been habituated into knowing, not thinking … Americans don’t know how to define intelligence. If someone is rich, they must be intelligent. If someone has a wife or a husband, kids and a house, they must be intelligent. If someone found a way to travel, they must be intelligent ... I am only scratching the surface. I think we have been dumbed down through removing ways to exercise our minds and instead falling in love with wealth. Americans in general will work hard, but they don’t want to work hard intellectually … It is easier to copy from an internet source, or just give the information a person wants, than thinking for themselves.” Now turn your mind back to the Presidential Election debates between Trump and Biden. It was basically political “cotton-candy” (candy floss) with very little substance and very little depth. You could almost say that they were both merely giving “chapter headings” without taking us through the chapter. In fact, their whole presidential campaigns have been the same. The reason is that the minds of much of the American public would overheat and blow-a-fuse if the material discussed was to have any real substance and depth to it. “My brain hurts!” would be the most common complaint. For the minority who would relish and profit from in-depth discussions―they have to realize that it will never happen, for it is not a minority that elects a president, but a majority. So―like it or not―in order to get votes, you have to come across as pleasing to the majority. Unfortunately, the majority is dumbed-down. Yet fortunately―for some―a dumbed-down majority is easily fooled and manipulated―because you know that majority will never dig down and go deeper, they will not research and analyze, they are happy with meaningless superficial topics and arguments. Which brings us to our question ― “Is Democracy Hypocrisy?” Well then, what is a democracy? How few people could give an apt and thorough explanation of a democracy? Very few! Yet there are millions upon millions who advocate a democracy! To avoid hypocrisy, let it be admitted that it took some research and reading to be able to give a sufficient and substantial answer to the question! It seems as though we are all somewhat dumbed-down―for without deeper reading, this article would probably be one or two paragraphs long and full of superficialities! Democracy and Republic The United States Pledge of Allegiance states: “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Yet everyone speaks of the United States as being a democracy! Can the United States be both a democracy and a republic? What is the difference between them? Power to the People The term “democracy” comes from the combination of two Greek words: “demos,” meaning “the people,” and “kratia,” which means “power or authority.” Thus, a democracy refers to a type of government where the power to govern rests with a country’s people rather than with God ruling through priests (a theocracy); or a ruling family (a monarchy); or through a small privileged class or by a minority consisting of those presumed to be best qualified to rule (an aristocracy); or a single individual (totalitarianism). That “power to the people” means that citizens control how their government operates, usually through voting. Authority Weakens the More it is Shared If you look closely at the different forms of government―God―Monarch―Aristocracy―People―then you can see a progressive degeneration of authority as the authority is gradually diluted, watered-down, distributed, shared, and spread thinner and thinner. If one man is chosen to represent 100 people―how on earth can that one man communicate and vote for what might end up being 100 totally different opinions? The people that the representative represents will never be in total agreement on issues. Will that representative really and truly seek to know the opinions of the 100 people that he represents. And how can he represent multiple and often contradictory views, opinions and demands? That inevitable disagreement ― as you can see in the United States of America right now ― is a great weakness of the democratic form of government. The United States are “latecomers” to the field of democracy. The term “democracy” first pops up in the 5th century BC to refer to the government in Athens, Greece. Between 508 BC and 322 BC, Athenians governed themselves in what is now referred to as a pure democracy. Ancient Athenians didn’t have anyone to represent them in government; instead, everyone had a voice—literally. Debates on topics of governance were held publicly in what was referred to as The Athenian Assembly, and every male Athenian citizen had individual voting rights. Not only that, but qualified citizens were given time off of work and a stipend to help make sure every voice was heard! Through the Assembly, every voice could weigh in on every issue, and all laws and rules of governance were established based on majority rule. It is not so hard to voice your opinion when the “state” is merely one city―which was the norm back in those days. But when the “state” is a whole region, a country, then giving opportunity for every single voice to be heard becomes impossible. While this type of democracy would eventually be replaced by a more representative form of government (whereby the people are represented by certain individuals), the underlying idea—that government works best when it’s run by its citizens—would go on to influence the governance of most of the Western world, including the United States. Yet for the naïve and gullible―it must be stressed that government works best when it follows the laws of God and not the whims of the people! The 3 Major Types of Democracies With growing populations and more complex systems of government, the Athenian method of one voice, one vote doesn’t always work―mainly because the relatively small “city-state” of several thousand people, morphed into much larger “country-states” of millions of people. So as the world has changed, democracy has changed with it. Here are the three major types of democracies seen in the world today. Direct Democracy Also known as pure democracy, direct democracy is democracy in its most basic form. Just like the Athenians at the Assembly, direct democracy lets each qualified individual shape policy by casting a direct vote. In other words, citizens are directly involved in the political process! In this system, political decisions are made based on what the majority of voters decide. Each qualified person casts a vote, and the category with the most number of votes wins. The benefits to a direct democracy are that it lets each person, regardless of class, race, or economic position have a voice. However, in practice, direct democracies often exclude certain groups. For instance, in ancient Athens, only male citizens had the right to participate in direct democracy. Women, criminals, and slaves—even though they were subject to Athens’ laws and policies—were denied a voice. Additionally, direct democracy doesn’t always work well on a large scale. That’s because there are an overwhelming number of decisions that need to be made to keep governments running. The bottom line is that people tend to disagree on what is good and bad, right and wrong. Their opinions and moods change with time. In a theocracy―where God and God’s laws are at the pinnacle of government―there can be no error of judgment as long as God and His laws are followed. The theocracy was the form of government for the Israelites beginning with Moses: “This is the testament which I will make to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will give My laws into their mind, and in their heart will I write them: and I will be their God, and they shall be My people” (Hebrews 8:10). The Israelites eventually rebelled against the theocracy―rule by God―and demanded that they be given a king to rule them, like all the surrounding nations. God gave them what they wanted―and that was the beginning of Israel’s downfall and destruction. Examples of Direct Democracy in Action Because direct democracy can be unwieldy on the national level, there are few countries that use it as a primary governmental system. But that doesn’t mean direct democracy doesn’t exist anymore! Here are some examples of where you can see direct democracy in action. Switzerland: Switzerland, a country of roughly 8.2 million people, uses direct democracy to run its local, regional, and federal governments. Every citizen over the age of 18 weighs in on how the country should be run, and because votes are so important, they are held four times a year and scheduled decades in advance. Also, as a direct democracy Switzerland lacks an elected Head of State. Instead, the country has a Federal Council which is elected by the Federal Assembly (which works like the Athenian Assembly) every four years. Each year, a new person from the Federal Council is elected to serve as president! Local Elections in the U.S.: Because the populations are much smaller, local, municipal, and county elections often rely on direct democracy to make sure government is serving the will of the people. Local laws and referendums are often put up for a majority vote where every vote counts. State Elections in the U.S.: Fourteen states allow citizens to design legislation and put it up for a vote through what are called ballot initiatives. Each state lets an individual citizen create a ballot initiative, and if it gets enough signatures via petition, it gets put on a statewide ballot where it passes by majority vote. The catch? In order to go on the ballot, each initiative must be ruled constitutional by the state courts, too! So it is not really a case of “power to the people” ― but “power to the people only when the state courts say so”. Representative Democracy The second type of democracy is a representative democracy (sometimes called indirect democracy). In this system of government, certain individuals are elected to represent the will of the people. These people, often referred to as elected officials, are chosen to vote on behalf of a specific group of citizens. These groups can be defined in many ways. Sometimes people are grouped by neighborhood, by city, by county, or even by province or state. The theory behind a representative democracy is to streamline the process of government. Because elections where every citizen can weigh with their opinion and vote can be difficult to organize and achieve, having a small number of people representing the desires of the majority allow for much faster decision making. This is especially important when governments are representing a large number of people, and it’s one of the reasons why many federal governments use indirect democracy to operate. But representative democracy comes with drawbacks, too. One of the biggest problems is that in most cases, representatives are not required―by law, constitution, etc.―to actually represent the will of their constituents. They are able to make their own decisions, which can mean that elected officials are more prone to corruption. This has been covered in a previous article, showing the constant intervention of lobbyists with their “legal bribes”, representing the big businesses and individual billionaires, the elected officials more often than not vote according to the desires of the “legal bribe” lobbyists acting on behalf of “big business” or “the rich” and not so much on behalf of the citizens who elected them into office. Additionally, there’s the problem of the vocal minority. Have you ever heard the term, “the squeaky wheel gets the grease”? It just means that the people who complain the loudest are often the ones who get the most attention. So sometimes a few people who complain loudly are mistaken for representing the majority of their community. Those who have the most money can afford to squeak longer and louder―and it is usually those who “get served first”! Examples of Representational Democracy in Action Because representational democracy works best on a larger scale, most Western governments operate this way (if the country is democratic). Here are a few examples of representational democracy in action. The U.S. Legislature: The U.S. Legislature is a federal representational government, meaning that the representatives who serve create laws that apply to the entirety of the United States. The legislative branch is split into two houses: the Senate and the House of Representatives. In the Senate, each state elects two people to represent their interests on the national level. In the House of Representatives, the number of representatives from each state is determined by population, so bigger states have more representatives. In both cases, all the representatives are elected by majority vote in their respective states. U.S. State Legislatures: U.S. state legislatures work exactly like the federal legislature, only on a smaller scale. Each state has both a senate and a house of representatives, and the state’s residents elect representatives based on the districts they live in. This allows each state’s residents to have a say in how their state is governed. The only exception to this is Nebraska, which has a unicameral state government. The Canadian Government: Like the United States, Canada holds popular elections where a handful of representatives are chosen to represent the citizenry at both the provincial and the national level. The elected officials serve in The House of Commons, which is similar to Congress in the United States. Each of Canada’s 10 provinces are also representative democracies, where elected officials represent the will of their province’s citizens. Yet, in all honesty, whose will is being done? In a godless world, it is not as it should be: “Our Father, Who art in Heaven … Thy will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven!” Our Lord commanded: “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God!” (Luke 12:31). Constitutional Democracy A constitutional democracy is the third major type of democracy in operation today. Constitutional democracies are characterized by having structures in place that limit the power of the majority. Put another way, constitutional democracies have constitutions, or other governing documents, that help regulate the power of those elected to office. To do this, constitutional democracies function based on a combination of democratic principles and the rule of law. The nation’s constitution serves as the highest form of law and outlines people’s rights as well as what the government can and can’t do. (You might say that the constitution puts limits on the government’s power in order to protect citizens freedom). As a result, a constitutional democracy government must both uphold the constitution and still represent the will of its people. The benefit of a constitutional democracy is that it gives a country a set of principles to use as a guide for all other decisions. It also protects the citizens by guaranteeing them a certain set of rights. For the United States, that is “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” ― yet it could something more spiritual and not so secular ― “The Life of Grace, Freedom from Sin, and the Pursuit of Eternal Happiness in Heaven” ― as Our Lady said to St. Bernadette of Lourdes: “I do not promise to make you happy in this world, but in the next!” However, a constitutional democracy also limits an individual citizen’s ability to participate in government, since there are strict legal parameters around what people can and cannot do. Additionally, constitutions are very hard to change. In the United States, it takes a two-thirds majority vote in Congress or a constitutional convention (or joint meeting) called for by two-thirds of the states’ governments in order to amend the Constitution! That can be a big problem, especially when aspects of the Constitution are out of date. Examples of Constitutional Democracy in Action Constitutional democracies are a popular form of democracy around the world. We’ll talk about a few countries that use constitutional democracy below, but if you’re interested in a full list, you can find that here. The United States: Of course, the United States relies on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to create all new legislation. It’s the job of the judicial branch—including the Supreme Court—to determine whether new laws violate the Constitution or Americans’ constitutional rights. In fact, did you know can go to school to study constitutional law? You can! Check out the Constitutional Law Reporter to learn more about how constitutional law is practiced in America today. Germany: After World War II, Germany was split into essentially two different countries, East Germany and West Germany. When West Germany was set up by the Allies, it was formed as a constitutional democracy. It wasn’t until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1991 that Germany was unified under a single constitution. Mexico: The United States’ southern neighbor is also a constitutional democracy. The Constitution of Mexico, which was ratified in 1917, was the first constitution in the world to create guidelines for social rights for its citizens, like a right to an education. (Remember: the United States initially did this through the Bill of Rights, which are the first ten amendments to the Constitution.) But Wait...Can a Country Be More Than One Type of Democracy? As you were reading through this section, you probably realized that the United States, along with many other countries, fall into more than one democratic category. That’s because a democratic country can use more than one type of democracy to run its government. For instance, a city can use direct democracy to vote in new laws and select state and federal representatives. Those representatives then participate in representative democracy, where they speak—and vote!—on behalf of their constituents. And finally, all of these actions—policy decisions, government structure, citizens’ rights, and the creation of new laws—are governed by the constitution. That means the United States is a constitutional democracy as well. This is possible because all democracies, regardless of their organizational structure, operate on a shared set of principles. Let’s take a closer look at those now. Characteristics of Democracies Beyond just structure, democracies are also characterized by a shared ideology, or system of beliefs. According to Larry Diamond, a professor at Stanford and one of the foremost scholars in democracy studies, democracies have four foundational characteristics. We’ll talk about each principle in more depth below. #1: Free and Fair Elections Now this is a topical question and “hot-issue” right now―in the wake of the 2020 Presidential election! Accusations of a “fraud election” and a “rigged” seem to have some traction-but we shall cover more on that later. In order to make sure that people’s voices are being heard accurately, democracies have to ensure that all voting processes are “free and fair.” But what does that mean? In order for an election to be “free and fair,” it has to be administered in a way that allows its citizens to vote and treats all political parties and candidates equally. That means the process (1) needs to be accessible to everyone who meets voting qualifications and (2) as unbiased as possible. Furthermore, in order to be as fair, these elections need to occur at a regular interval. If elections are only happening every two decades, that denies people the ability to make their voices heard! Free and fair elections are important to democracy because the voting process is the way that citizens voice their opinions and, in representative forms of government, choose the people who will represent them in higher levels of government. It also puts an important check on power. If representatives are coming up for reelection regularly, it puts pressure on them to vote in line with their constituents. Otherwise they could lose their position during the next voting cycle. #2: Citizen Participation In order for democracy to function, its citizens have to participate in the process of government. That means people have to run for office, create ballot initiatives, petition for laws and causes they believe in, and vote. Remember that the term “democracy” means that the power to rule belongs to the people. Only by exercising that power can a nation’s citizens ensure that their will is reflected in the country’s laws and structures. So is it still a democracy today, when many draconian and repressive measures are taken that clearly go against the will of the people, both Republicans and Democrats? It’s also important that in a democracy, all citizens are given an equal right to participate regardless of where they live, what they do for work, or what culture they come from. If civic participation is limited to a certain class or race, the system becomes an oligarchy instead. In oligarchies, a small group of unelected people hold all the governing power―which is what we are seeing today. When everyone has a chance to participate, it ensures that the government accurately reflects the populace, that minority populations have a voice, and that new laws are fair for everyone. #3: Protection of Citizens’ Human Rights Perhaps most notably, democracies believe in freedom. Citizens should have the right to express their opinions and participate in democracy without fear or intimidation―something that is rapidly being repressed today, with more and more intimidation being seen if citizens disagree with the ruling powers. Not only do democratic societies believe that creates a better life for its citizens, it also helps keep governmental power in check. If people can freely—but peacefully—express their opinions, it makes it clear when elected representatives aren’t listening to the will of the people. However, today, “peacefully” is being increasingly replaced with “violently” ― and that violence is being allowed, or a blind-eye is turned towards the violence―as we have seen all throughout 2020 in the United States. Even more importantly, democracies believe in the protection of people’s basic human rights. In the United States, these are outlined in the Bill of Rights, and they include the right to free speech, the right to bear arms, protection from the illegal seizure of property, and the right to a trial by jury. In other words, democracies guarantee fundamental protections to individual citizens which allows them to live in safety, freedom, and peace. Today, however, that has changed under the pretext of protection from terrorism (and now the latest scam―protection from disease). Human rights and freedoms saw a massive curtailing after the September 11th 2001 attacks on New York’s Twin Towers―which many allege was a deliberately staged event that would allow for totalitarian measures to be introduced. The resulting “Patriot Act” did just that! Just weeks after the attacks of September 11th, 2001, Congress passed the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act — or the USA PATRIOT Act for short. The “Patriot Act” has made government surveillance of citizens much easier by allowing the government to collect millions of communications records of Americans. In 2013, documents leaked by former government contractor Edward Snowden, revealed that the government had been collecting the phone records of every single customer of phone companies including Verizon. And it was using Section 215 as the justification that made it legal. Additionally, the “roving wiretap” provision (Section 206) allows the government to tap every device a person uses — landline, cell phone, laptop, etc. — with just one approval from the (famously permissive) Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Furthermore, the “lone wolf” provision (Section 207) allows the government to surveil someone who might be engaged in international terrorism, even if he or she is not actually connected to any existing terrorist group. The most controversial permanent program under the Patriot Act is the “National Security Letters” program, which lets the government demand communications records from telecom companies without even going through the surveillance court for approval first. Recently, on September 17th, 2019, by an overwhelming majority, the House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2020 in which 377 of the supposedly “people’s representatives” voted to renew the “authorization” for the unconstitutional surveillance of American citizens. Is that the will of American citizens? Or is someone else enforcing their will upon the American people. If you were cynical, you could admire the lengths that the government goes to in order to find out the thoughts and opinions of its citizens, so that might be better represented in Congress! Yeah! Just like the devil loves Christ! #4: Equal Rule of Law Finally, the last thing all systems of democracy have in common is the rule of law. The rule of law is fundamentally important to democracy―because it protects the rights of citizens, maintains order, and limits the power of government. In other words, if elections are how citizens make their voices heard, then laws are the ways that citizens’ desires are enforced. Laws, then, are a tool people can use to make sure the ideals of democracy—like freedom and basic human rights—are maintained. It’s pretty clear how laws work in a constitutional or representative form of democracy. In a constitutional democracy, the constitution itself lays out some fundamental laws, and no other legislation can violate them. In a representational democracy, laws are created by the elected officials in order to make sure that their constituents’ concerns are being addressed. But what about a direct democracy where everyone has a voice? Well, even in ancient Athens, the oldest direct democracy, had laws to help govern the city-state. The whole point of The Assembly was to create new policies and laws that the majority of people could agree on, and those policies would govern the entire populace! Today, the government are passing and enforcing laws that are blatantly contrary to the will of the people―but by this stage, the will of the people no longer matters, only superficially and cosmetically. So there you have it! Pretty boring and painful, huh? Yep―just like exercise can be boring and painful! Yet, as they say: “No pain, no gain!” If we fail to adequately exercise our bodies, our muscles atrophy, our immune system is not stimulated and we are more likely to contract diseases. If we fail to adequately exercise our minds, then our mental muscles atrophy and lack the strength to resist error, our mental immune system fails to see, engage and flush-out errors and lies, and we are more likely to fall into the disease of believing lies to be the truth. This state of mind is the reason why, at an early February 1981 meeting of the newly elected President Reagan with his new cabinet secretaries, to report to him on what they had learned about their agencies in the first couple of weeks of the administration, William Casey, CIA Director from 1981 to 1987, was able to say to President Reagan said: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” Is that how a democracy works? A democracy is supposed to work in the interests of the people and manifest and further the will of the people? Is it the will of people that they be constantly lied to? Sounds like democracy is becoming nothing but a hypocrisy! Post-Election "Blues" Making You See "Red"?
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With the Presidential Election on the proverbial “knife-edge”, the 77% of Americans who confessed to having “Election Anxiety” have probably run-out of fingernails to bite! A cynical assessment (or perhaps a true assessment) of the situation―that is to say, the current presidential election limbo and impasse―would probably say that “everything is going according to the script”―in the sense that the naïve, gullible, bleating American sheeple are hungrily chewing and gobbling-down the fodder being fed to them, by the Elitist-Globalist fictional scriptwriters through the mainstream media (which they own), and who―like any top movie producer―make their political fiction seem so real and believable. If you subscribe to the allegation that both the presidential candidates are mere puppets of the invisible “higher-ups” who really hold the ultimate power in the world, then, by that view, Trump and Biden have learnt their lines well and are acting the parts that have been written for them with aplomb and perfection―and everyone sits on the edge of their seats, lapping-up the make-believe show. Conspiracy theory? Pure imagination? Another form of fiction and not fact? Not really. As a previous American president, Franklin D. Roosevelt said: “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it does, you can bet it was planned that way!” It is only in the after-life that we shall “the whole truth and nothing but the truth”―meanwhile, here below, we are left guessing as to what is true and what is false. However, the likelihood is that what we are being fed is one big lie―for when another American president, Ronald Reagan was elected, William Casey, the CIA Director from 1981 to 1987, told President Reagan at his opening presidential briefing: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” Right now―the thought of the “Blues” winning is not only making the Republican “Reds” go red with embarrassment, but also red with rage! Similarly, the thought of Trump “stealing” the election by “legal loopholes” and legal maneuverings is also making the “Blues” see red, while giving them a heart attack with their faces turning blue as their red blood drains from it. That is the kind of reaction that any Hollywood producer would be proud of attaining with a movie―and one cannot help but (cynically?) think that this is what is happening in the current episode of the American Political Soap Opera! For those who “understand” (know what stands under the surface appearances), it is pretty logical and likely that the “Mystery Men” who really rule the world from the comfort and security of their anonymity (which prevents them from being assassinated)―call them Elitists, Globalists, Illuminati or whatever you want, though in reality all of those groups are probably puppets of even “higher-up” puppet-masters―it is pretty logical and likely that these clandestine rulers have all the key players in the world in their back-pocket. How could it be otherwise? After accumulating wealth that makes trillions seem like small-change; being able to recruit the greatest minds in any field whatsoever; after centuries of careful planning; possessing the power to “take-out” any and all opposition who get in the way of those plans; not to mention the fact that these men groom the future leaders of the world from an early age―Barrack Obama was such a groomed leader, whereby at a political meeting between some Russian and American diplomats in the mid to late 1980s, one of the Russians let slip the fact Barrack Obama was going to be a future American president. Planned and prepared well in advance― said: “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it does, you can bet it was planned that way!” (President Franklin D. Roosevelt). Politics is a movie in which the sheeple imagine they have a “walk-on” part where they decide who rules and then cast their votes―but, as Josef Stalin said: “Those who vote decide nothing―those who count the votes decide everything.” Furthermore, if you are so rich that a billion dollars seems like a tip that you leave behind after restaurant meal―then you can buy/bribe anyone―for, as they say, “Everyone has his price!” If buying them out, or bribing them is impossible for some reason―then they can always use their “small change” (or billions) on “setting someone up” in some way―the most common means today seems to be the use of sex―and then, once they are compromised, you can always blackmail them to coerce them into doing what you want them to do. Jeffrey Epstein was a prime example of a stooge that was used to sexually compromise politicians―and became extremely rich as reward for his corruptive work. As many credible investigative researchers have indicated, the “Mystery Men” probably arranged for his “fictional death” and whisked him away to a luscious, lascivious, ‘lolly’-laden life in some plush but obscure part of the world―some have even said he is somewhere in Israel. The only thing we can be fairly sure about is that he is not in Heaven. It is ironic―though not surprising―that in a country that professes “In God we trust”, its politicians and leaders cannot be trusted. God is truth―and what we are seeing unfold before our eyes is not the truth, but lies, fraud and manipulation. Our Lord could well address the same words that he addressed to the Scribes and Pharisees: “You are of your father―the devil―and the desires of your father you will do! He was a murderer from the beginning, and he stood not in the truth―because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own―for he is a liar, and the father of lies!” (John 8:44) ― which seems to confirmed by the statement of William Casey, the CIA Director from 1981 to 1987, to President Reagan at his opening presidential briefing: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” When you move away from God―which is what the whole world has done, regardless of political preferences or attachments―then you also move away from truth, for God is truth: “I am the Truth!” says Christ (John 14:6). Inescapably and automatically, as you move away from God and truth, you move closer to Satan and lies: “He that is of God, heareth the words of God. Therefore you hear them not, because you are not of God!” (John 8:47). All governments―without exception―have distanced themselves from God, some more, some less. It is not a case of them being far from God and then slowly moving towards God―they are far from God and are moving even further away from God. All the major mainstream political parties―without exception―have distanced themselves from God. They are ripe targets for Satan, because, as the recently deceased (2016) former chief exorcist of Rome, Fr. Gabriele Amorth, says: “Today, the world does not turn away from God because it is idolatrous―rather, it pursues pure atheism, so as to put science on the altar. [How many times in this current Covid-19 Plannedemic have we been told to “follow the science”―even by Catholic bishops!]. But science does not create; it only discovers that which God has made. In turning away from the Lord, its breakthroughs are put to disastrous use! ... There is no doubt that Satan’s power is felt more keenly in periods of history when the sinfulness of the community is more evident. Satan continually tries to dominate the world ― ‘the whole world is in the power of the evil one’, as it says in 1 John 5:19. Beginning with our forefathers, he seeks to enslave men by making them obey himself and disobey God.” Once political leaders move away from God, then they open themselves up as prime targets and “easy meat” for recruitment as stooges to achieve that plan of world domination. As revealed by Our Lady to Sister Lucia of Fatima: “The Devil is engaging in a battle with the Virgin, a decisive battle. It is a final battle where one party will be victorious and the other will suffer defeat. So, from now on, we are either with God or we are with the Devil―there is no middle ground” (Sr. Lucia of Fatima to Fr. Fuentes, December 26th, 1957)―and Satan just loves to sink his teeth into political leaders, religious leaders and financiers, as testified by the former chief exorcist of Rome, Fr. Gabriele Amorth: “Satan is in the Vatican! The devil resides in the Vatican. I have no doubt about the fact that the demon tempts the authorities of the Church especially―just as he tempts every authority, those of politics and industry. Everybody is vulnerable to the work of Satan! Evil exists in politics―quite often in fact! The devil loves to take over business leaders and those who hold political office!” When Blue is Red and Red is Blue It cannot be stated too many times―we are not engaged in a human political conflict, but a satanic political conflict. You had better believe the words of Our Lord, when He says of Satan: “The prince of this world cometh, and in Me he hath not anything … The prince of this world is already judged ... Now shall the prince of this world be cast out!” (John 12:31; 16:11; 14:30). Satan is not an idle or an indifferent ruler of his princedom―he is hard at work on every single human being, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and every week and year of each person’s life. He the prince of lobbyists―he never ceases to bombard us with lies, false promises and allurements. Some may enter politics with good intentions, but many, or perhaps even most, have those good intentions corrupted. Abraham Lincoln said: “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” To which can be added the words of Lord Acton, a 19th century British historian, who said: “Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” The famous Stanford University Prison Experiment manifested the truth of those statements, when, in 1971, an experiment divided students into two groups for a period of time―one group was the Prisoners, the other group was the Prison Guards. The experiment was stopped when the “Prison Guards” group of students, due to feeling empowered, began to abuse the “Prisoner” group. It doesn’t matter whether your political blood is Red or Blue―temptation (and organized temptation) strikes both Republicans and Democrats. We speak of “teaching by example”―well, when a politician sees increasing examples of compromise or even corruption, then it becomes tempting to taste a little bit of the political pie of personal profit. There are plenty of persons or corporations who are only too willing to bake that prosperous political pie! The don’t care if you are Red or Blue―they have just the pie for you! Red or Blue―the Seats Are Expensive! If you search for information on the control and influence of the so-called “Elites” over American politics, then you will find large numbers of accusations that both the Republicans and the Democrats are in the back-pocket of the “Elites”. Politics is money. Politics needs money. You need money to get into politics. You need money to survive in politics. Already back in 2012, research showed that it costs a lot of money to win a seat in Congress. MapLight has conducted an analysis of money raised by members of the 113th Congress who won election in 2012. They found that House members, on average, each raised $1,689,580 (1.6 million), an average of $2,315 every day during the 2012 working cycle. Senators, on average, each raised $10,476,451 (10.4 million), an average of $14,351 every day during the 2012 working cycle. Just about any interest group you can think of has a presence in Washington―and spends money to maintain that presence. Professional advocates make lots of money to lobby members of Congress and government officials on the issues their clients care about. But the money that industries, companies, unions and issue groups spend on lobbying is often just a drop in the bucket compared to what they can reap in return if their lobbyists are successful. The lobbyists with the most influence are those who write the biggest campaign checks. One recent study found that on average, for every dollar spent on influencing politics, the nation’s most politically active corporations received $760 from the government. That’s a 76,000% return on investment or a pay-back of $760 for investing only $1. In Congress and state legislatures, special interest lobbyists are delivering large sums of money to politicians, which effectively prioritizes the private interests of their corporate clients over the interests of the general public. Former congressman Mick Mulvaney demonstrated this dynamic when he said: “We had a hierarchy in my office in Congress. If you’re a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn’t talk to you. If you’re a lobbyist who gave us money, I might talk to you.” In Congress and state legislatures, special interest lobbyists are delivering large sums of money to politicians, which effectively prioritizes the private interests of their corporate clients over the interests of the general public. Former congressman Mick Mulvaney demonstrated this dynamic when he said: “We had a hierarchy in my office in Congress. If you’re a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn’t talk to you. If you’re a lobbyist who gave us money, I might talk to you.” Lobbying remains the single most popular post-Congress career choice for retiring members. In the 1970s, just a handful of retired lawmakers were lobbying. Between 1998 and 2004, however, 43% of the nearly 200 House members who left office became lobbyists. Among departing senators, the percentage reached 50%. This increase coincided with the rise of corporate lobbying as a whole. Ex-lawmakers can cash in on their policy expertise and friendships in the Capitol, earning two or three times their $174,000 base salary as a member of Congress. However, to become a lobbyist, you must have a “good track record” with the rich individual or the rich corporation for whom you hope to lobby―that means that you must have a record of having done them favors while in government. Money talks, huh? A former lobbyist of 7 years experience in Washington D.C. ― Jimmy Williams ― writes: “I was a lobbyist between 2003 and 2010 in Washington, DC. I quit in disgust. Years of legalized bribery had exposed me to the worst elements of our country’s political workings. Not even my half-million-a-year salary could outweigh my conscience. In my years as a lobbyist, I worked for the alcohol industry, for the racing car industry, and for a billionaire named Carl Icahn. I met with hundreds of Congress members advocating for the political interests of my employers and clients. Today, most lobbyists are engaged in a system of bribery―but it’s the legal kind, the kind that runs rampant in the corridors of Washington. It’s a system of sycophantic elected leaders expecting a campaign cash flow, and in return, industry, interest groups, and big labor are rewarded with what they want: legislation and rules that favor their constituencies. It’s a system that only responds to money, and after years playing and paying the game, I wanted out, fast. Let me be pointedly clear about something: I support lobbying and believe it’s an essential part of our constitutional right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Americans’ right “to redress” comes at a cost, and if you don’t have the cash, chances are you’ll be ignored. Those with the most money have the largest voices. Those with the least are rarely part of the process. “One doesn’t just become a lobbyist. There’s no college major or curriculum for it―like studying law or medicine. Instead, you have to get a job in government. You have to become a cog in the wheel, and you have to learn the tricks of the trade, so to speak. My career path was frankly the perfect road map to becoming a lobbyist. I started as an unpaid intern in the Senate and rose up through the ranks. Then I became the staff director for a Senate banking subcommittee and worked on important pieces of legislation. But the most important thing I did every day was to sit my ass on the floor of the Senate. I learned everything there is to know about how to make the Senate function smoothly, and, of course, the opposite: how to gum up the place so it came to a grinding halt. Both are equally effective when you’re in the business of dealmaking and getting legislation across the finish line or not. I had fun at first. Unlimited expense accounts, nights out on the town, expensive bottles of wine, elaborate meals with sitting senators and Congress members — that was my life. I attended fundraising breakfasts that led to committee hearings with the same Congress members or senators — a meeting that cost me or my political action committee a hefty $2,500 voting on the very legislation we’d talked about over bacon and eggs that morning. Then there’d be a lunch fundraiser with a different Congress member, paid for by another $2,500 check to discuss the issues my clients cared about. Then they’d go and vote on those issues. It was an endless cycle of money trading hands for votes. Over the years, the work began to weigh on me. Every fundraiser was yet another legal bribe. Every committee hearing I’d look up and think, ‘I just bought his vote.’ And every time I got a bill passed or, better yet, killed, I’d think to myself, ‘That wouldn’t have worked if I hadn’t bought the outcome!’” Does the Devil Win with both Candidates, or God?
Whichever candidate wins, the citizens lose! Biden and Trump ― Who Are They?
Both presidential candidates have been labeled many things throughout the presidential election campaign―and even before that! Biden the Brainless―Biden the Baby Butcher―Biden the Belligerent―Biden the Bullish―Biden the Background Boy―Biden the Blithe―Biden the Bolshevik―Biden the Barbiturate―Biden the Bisexual―Biden the Backdoor for Bolsheviks―Biden the Believer―Biden the Beast―Biden the Blurred Brain―Biden the Blah, Blah, Blah Trump the Tweeter―Trump the Temperamental―Trump the Treacherous―Trump the Theatrical―Trump the Towering―Trump the Triumphalist―Trump the Tenacious―Trump the Trickster―Trump the Tax Transgressor WYSIWYG One has to ask: “If WYSIWYG?” ― in other words, “If what you see is what you get?” Politics is traditionally and cynically a theatrical game―a game of pretense, a game of lies, false promises and two-facedness. Which is really the perfect description of a Liberal―and, let’s face it, both Trump and Biden are mega-Liberals. Catholics, who have given up all hope of one day seeing America converted to the Catholic Faith (or never even desired it in the first place), all too readily climb into bed with Liberalism with the excuse that is the lesser of the many other evils out there. In his book, Liberalism Is A Sin, Fr. Salvany paints the following picture of a Liberal: “Liberalism is a world complete in itself … It is the world of Lucifer, disguised in our times under the name of Liberalism … It now soothes and flatters; now hates and curses, now threatens and now praises. But it is most dangerous when it comes to us under the form of “liberality” [generosity]. It is especially powerful for seduction in this guise … Liberalism―whether doctrinal or practical―is a sin … it virtually transgresses all commandments … Liberalism strikes at the very foundations of Faith … It is the declaration of … the absolute independence of the individual and the social reason, [In other words, the opinion of society, or a group, or an individual, takes precedence over Church teaching]. In short it sets itself up as the measure and rule of Faith … It denies everything which it itself does not proclaim. It negates everything which it itself does not affirm. Charity is primarily the love of God, secondarily the love of our neighbor for God’s sake. To sacrifice the first is to abandon the latter. Therefore, to offend our neighbor for the love of God is a true act of charity. Not to offend our neighbor for the love of God is a sin. Modern Liberalism reverses this order; it imposes a false notion of charity: our neighbor first, and, if at all, God afterwards … Such is the general negation uttered by Liberalism … Hence we find Liberalism laying down as the basis of its propaganda the following principles: (1) The absolute sovereignty of the individual in his entire independence of God and God’s authority. (2) The absolute sovereignty of society in its entire independence of everything which does not proceed from itself. (3) Absolute civil sovereignty in the implied right of the people to make their own laws in entire independence and utter disregard of any other criterion than the popular will expressed at the polls and in parliamentary majorities. (4) Absolute freedom of thought in politics, morals, or in religion. The unrestrained liberty of the press. “Liberalism, in the order of action, is license; recognizing no principle or rule beyond itself … Liberalism … presents itself in various degrees or shades … We, therefore, as a rule, see the good only half good and the bad not altogether bad. Hence we find few out and out Liberals. Not many go the full length of their principles. They are nevertheless true Liberals … followers of Liberalism … Its disguises are many, its degrees various. However, it is the same evil … Liberalism is one, while Liberals, like bad wine, differ in color and taste … The Catholic Liberalist or the Liberal Catholic … throws open the gates to the enemies of the Faith, and, posing as a man of intellect with generous and liberal views … is thus both a traitor and a fool. Seeking to please the enemies of the Faith he has betrayed the Faith itself … he surrenders it to … the spirit of untruth … “That anomaly called Liberal Catholicism … takes its root in a false conception … of the act of Faith. The Liberal Catholic assumes … the individual judgment is the rule of Faith. He believes in the independence of reason. It is true he accepts the Magisterium of the Church, yet he does not accept it as the sole authorized expounder of divine truth. He reserves, as a coefficient factor in the determination of that truth, his own private judgment … The Liberal Catholic calls himself a Catholic because he firmly believes Catholicity to be the veritable revelation of the Son of God; he calls himself a Liberal Catholic because he believes that no one can impose upon him any belief which his individual judgment does not measure as perfectly rational. What is not rational he rejects; he is intellectually free to accept or reject. What appears good he assents to, but he is intellectually bound to no one. He falls an easy victim to the snare set by the devil for the intellectually proud … As a consequence, he is really not Christian, but pagan. He has no real supernatural Faith, but only a simple human conviction ... They have a horror of any coercive element in matters of Faith; any chastisement of error shocks their tender susceptibilities, and they detest any … intolerance. The Syllabus of Errors … is a nightmare to them, a most dominating, harsh … document, calculated to offend the sensibilities … of the modern world … and, if accepted, must be taken in a very modified sense. The [conservative] interpretation to him is violent and extreme, and does much more harm than good … Close upon this squeamishness … follows an abhorrence of antagonizing the convictions of others … Liberal Catholics ... erect into a dogma what is called the principle of toleration … “Amongst Catholic Liberals, many go to Mass, even make novenas, and yet when they come into contact with the world, they lead the lives of practical Liberals. They make it a rule “to live up to the times” as they call it. They believe the Church to be out-of-date, an old fogy, held back by conservatives, but they have hopes that she will catch up with the modern spirit of progress. Then will a new theology be developed, more in conformity with the needs of the times, more in harmony with the modern spirit. They are less excusable than those Liberals who have never been within the pale of the Church. In short they sin with their eyes open.” Liberalism Leads to Tyranny The equal freedom that is promoted by Liberalism is an open-ended standard that makes unlimited demands when taken seriously. For example, it views non-Liberal standards as oppressive, because they limit equal freedom. Liberal government wants to protect us from oppression, so it tries to get rid of those non-Liberal standards from more and more areas of life. Such an attempt puts Liberal government at odds with natural, God-given, human tendencies. If the way someone acts seems odd or immoral to me, and I look at him strangely, that creates the anti-social, prejudiced world he is forced to live in. He will find that oppressive. Liberal government cannot accept that, so it eventually feels compelled to supervise all our attitudes about how people live and how we express those attitudes―seeking to remove all judgmentalism, remove all religious bias, remove all moral measurement from them―so that they are “toothless”, non-judging, all accepting attitudes that are pleasing to everyone―whether those people be good people or evil people. Everyone can do as they want, and we have no right to judge them. The end result is a comprehensive system of control over all human relations run by an expert elite―that is responsible only to itself. That, of course, is tyranny. You can show that tyranny with a smile, or you can show it with a fist―but tyranny it is. We are, right now, seeing the Liberal tyranny in action throughout the world―as tyrannical Liberalism is morphing into tyrannical Socialism or whatever other name you want to give it―Totalitarianism, Communism, Authoritarianism, Police-State, etc. Liberalism is progressive, though, so its demands keep growing. It eventually rejects all traditional ways as illiberal and becomes more and more radical. You can see this tyrannical Liberalism― aggressively morphing into Socialism et al―in Britain and Canada, as well as on the European continent. The United States used to be still somewhat of an exception many decades ago, but over the last couple of decades, aggressive forms of tyrannical Liberalism have gained ground rapidly. It captured many academics, the elite bar and the media years ago, and it is rapidly gaining ground among the people. Today―over 50% of Millennials (ages 20 to 35) are in favor of Socialism. Political Parties Are For the Gullible Today, many parents place their children in front of the TV screen when they want to preoccupy the children so that the parents are free to do something else. That is exactly what has happened to politics throughout the world as Elitists and Globalists have slowly, relentlessly, increasingly and universally gained power, influence and control over the key positions of authority and power throughout the world. The Globalist Henry Kissinger put in succinctly when he said: “Control oil and you control nations―control food and you control the people.” There are many different ways of controlling nations and people. The best form of government is being ruled by God and his representatives on Earth―we call this a THEOCRACY. We also to speak of a MONARCHY (a king ruling the people). Another form of rule is by an ARISTOCRACY (where power rests with the nobility, such as princes, lords, dukes, etc.). You can also have rule by an OLIGARCHY (power rests with a small number of people―it could royalty, the wealthy, large extended family, the well educated, corporations, by military control or by a mixture of them). More common and popular in modern times is a DEMOCRACY (in which power rests with the people and all citizens are able to rule). A recent ruling class is TECHNOCRACY (where power rests with experts in technology―scientists, engineers and technologists who have knowledge, expertise, or skills). As you can clearly see―especially if you know you history as well as Bible history―there is a progressive descent over time from power being in the hands of God (theocracy) as in the history of the Chosen People until the time that they no longer wanted God to rule over them and demanded a king (monarchy), which God gave them in the person of King Saul. Rebellion breeds rebellion―and thus this gradually degenerated universally over thousands of years whereby princes, lords, dukes (aristocracy) rebelled against the power of the king and took increasing powers unto themselves. Rebellion breeds rebellion―and thus eventually the rich people, who were not aristocracy, increasingly took away power from the aristocracy and empowered themselves, which saw the rise of the middle classes and elite classes, such as bankers, merchants, landowners, etc. Rebellion breeds rebellion―and the next step saw the lower classes vying for power and creating what we now call a democracy (which literally means “rule by the people”). With the advent of modern electronic technology, we have now seen a rise in the power and influence of scientists, engineers and technologists, which has given rise to rule by these “technocrats” in what we call a “technocracy”. So, if you think politicians actually rule in the sense of “calling the shots”―then you are living in a political “Alice in Wonderland”, out of touch with reality. Politics No Longer Rules Technocracy is not a political system and it does not belong to or support either or any political side. It is an economic system based on technological control and digital surveillance. You can easily spot this during the current Con-all-a-virus Plannedemic―where you have government officials, local governors, even bishops and priests telling us to “Follow the Science!” Science (or technology) is the new god that must be believed, adored and obeyed. Yet much of that science is lying to us as much as the politicians lied and still lie to us. For the longest time, politics―and now recently science―has tried to usurp and replace God as the ultimate authority. As Our Lord warned: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them!” (Matthew 7:15-20). Only a fool can fail to see the that politics and science―like wolves in sheep’s clothing―have regularly and increased produced evil fruits―just look at some of the sinful legislation in politics and the immoral experiments and methods of science! With Men This Is Impossible!
With God Nothing Is Impossible! Tailor Made Politics
Ultimately, politics plays upon our greed and selfishness. It usually spouts promises about making us richer (or less poor) by reducing taxes, or increasing the minimum wage, creating more jobs, promising increasing equality, better health care, more housing or better housing. This is usually done in such vague terms so as to allow the politician who is promising these things some “wiggle-room” or an “escape-loophole”, not to mention the usual excuse for not delivering these promises upon the disastrous state of the economy that they inherited from the previous incompetent government. When the majority of the world or nation is no longer interested in God, then they are automatically not interested in justice―unless it is justice and fairness for “little-old-me”! Spiritual values take second place to material values―that is if they are not altogether kicked-out as being pointless and useless. The almighty dollar comes before almighty God. Most people want to rich, not holy. To play is more important than to pray. Recreation and titillation occupy the minds more than salvation or damnation. The here-and-now trumps the hereafter. Possessions top the list of our obsessions. All of this brings to mind the very sobering encounter of Jesus with the rich young man with many possessions: “And behold, a certain rich young man, running up and kneeling before Him, asked Him: ‘Good Master, what shall I do that I may receive life everlasting?’ And Jesus said to him: ‘If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments!’ The young man said to Him: ‘All these I have kept from my youth! What is yet wanting to me?’ And Jesus looking on him, loved him, and said to him: ‘One thing is wanting unto thee! If thou wilt be perfect, go sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in Heaven, and come follow Me!’ “And when the young man had heard this word, being struck sad at that saying, went away sorrowful: for he was very rich and had great possessions. And Jesus, seeing him become sorrowful, looking round about, said to His disciples: ‘How hardly shall they that have riches, enter into the Kingdom of God! Amen, I say to you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. And again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven!’ “And the disciples were astonished at His words. But Jesus again answering, said to them: ‘Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches, to enter into the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God!’ Who wondered the more, saying among themselves: ‘Who then can be saved?’ And Jesus looking on them, said: ‘With men it is impossible; but not with God! For all things are possible with God!’” (combined account of Matthew 19:16-29; Mark 10:17-31; Luke 18:18-25). Political Pied-Pipers If you are honest―and if you a true Catholic who places the spiritual above the material, as you should―then you have to admit that today’s politicians are “political pied-pipers” propelling us to the pit. As Our Lord would say: “Leave them alone! They are blind and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the pit” (Matthew 15:14)―and as Holy Scripture adds: “They are of the world—therefore of the world they speak, and the world heareth them! We are of God. He that knoweth God, heareth us. He that is not of God, heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error” (1 John 4:5-6). “Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath the faithful with the unbeliever? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God; as God saith: ‘I will dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people!’ Wherefore, ‘Go out from among them, and be ye separate!’ saith the Lord” (2 Corinthians 6:14-17). Yet, for some reason, we find ourselves “enchanted” by these “snake-charmers”, we are mesmerized by the tune of their hollow narratives, we drool at their empty visions, we imagine an impossible future, we unwittingly follow them into the political pit of propaganda with its pathetic platitudes and presumptive promises and psychological programming. We blindly and happily dance along behind our preferred “pied-piper” filled with sweet imaginings and dreams that will inevitably turn sour. It is ironic that Christ promises to lead us Heaven and eternal happiness through the sufferings of the cross―while today’s politicians also burden us with many crosses of suffering, but which will lead most souls to Hell. All of this is not as strange as one might first imagine―for the devil, the prince of this world, has always tried to “ape” God, that is to say, to imitate God―for that is what Satan would like to be in his infernal pride. So Satan uses his stooges and minions in this world to implement his satanic providence―and we are seeing that satanic providence being played out right now in a big way. Satan is imposing upon us his own infernal version of penance, sacrifices, crosses, etc. with the current man-made (Satan-inspired) bio-warfare Covid-19 (and all the ones that will follow, whatever they will call them: Covid-20, Covid-21, etc.). This Covid-19 and the subsequent man-planned (Satan-inspired) Coronavirus Plannedemic has implemented a whole host of satanic providential off-shoots―self-isolation, quarantines, lockdowns, business closures, job losses, church closures, social divisions, fear and panic, mob demonstrations, riots, looting, physical violence and even killings. Now there is worldwide talk―openly voiced by governments, not conspiracy theorists―about a second, more severe lockdown, as Covid-19 cases ALLEGEDLY start to spike to unprecedented levels. Severe lockdowns that threaten a total or near total collapse of the world economy―which then leads us into the “THE GREAT RESET” which world governments have been coordinating and the alleged “TOTAL DEBT FORGIVENESS PROGRAM” where all the resulting Coronavirus debts and bankruptcies will be forgiven in exchange for you giving up all your property, all your possessions and all your rights and freedoms! Satanic providence at its most devilish! You can really see Our Lady’s prediction coming true, whereby Our Lady of Good Success said: “From the end of the 19th century and especially in the 20th century, Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects ... During this epoch the Church will find herself attacked by terrible assaults from the Masonic sect … Masonry will take control of the civil government … All the civil governments will have one and the same plan, which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principle, to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism and vice of all kinds. They will abolish civil rights, as well as ecclesiastical rights. All order and all justice will be trampled underfoot.” These words found themselves echoed in Our Lady’s prediction to Sister Lucia of Fatima, that Communism would take over the whole world―America included. You need to get this clear and straight in your head―humanly speaking, there is nothing we can do, on the human level alone, in the face of this satanically inspired, long-planned, heavily invested, universally coordinated, multi-national, multi-organization, far-reaching and almost totally controlling monstrous family of evil (and stupidly gullible) persons, whom Satan has recruited in his attempts to enslave God’s created mankind and to destroy God’s Church―as Satan proudly boasted to Our Lord, in a conversation that Pope Leo XIII was allowed to overhear in the 1880s, wherein Satan claimed that he could destroy the Church if only he was given enough time. Our Lord gave him that time. With Sister Lucia of Fatima saying in 1957 that Satan was about to enter into a final battle with the Virgin Mary―you could say that the time given to Satan is drawing to a close and that he―currently―seems to be in total control, except for small pockets of resistance and fidelity here and there. We seem to be in an impossible situation. A situation where we are crying out, as did the Apostles on the potentially sinking boat on the storm-tossed: “Lord! Save us! We perish!” (Matthew 8:25). The Ark of the Church will not sink―Our Lord has promised that: “Upon this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it!” (Matthew 16:18). Yet that does not mean that we will not be under attack from the gates of Hell: “The cords of Hell compassed me: the snares of death held me!” (2 Kings 22:6). “The sorrows of Hell encompassed me and the snares of death held me!” (Psalm 17:6). “The sorrows of death have encompassed me and the perils of Hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow!” (Psalm 114:3). Everyone―in every age―has been and will be attacked by the devil: “Your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour! Whom resist ye, strong in Faith―knowing that the same affliction befalls your brethren who are in the world!” (1 Peter 5:8-9). Yet when that “Faith” becomes weak, it cannot resist, and the devil gains the upper hand. This is exactly what has happened in the world today―the Faith is weak; people no longer “feed” their Faith; they no longer study the Faith; they no longer read serious books upon the Faith; they barely remember their parrot-fashion First Holy Communion Catechism, never mind the more challenging 12 year-old’s Confirmation Catechism! Instead, most Catholics are now content to feed themselves on the junk of the world―and it is the devil who is the “prince of this world” (John 12:31). As the recently deceased (2016) former chief-exorcist of Rome, Fr. Gabriele Amorth said: “Today, Satan has free hands. This does not mean that he has more power than in the past, but the door is wide open to him. Primarily, today we live in a period of little Faith. It is purely mathematical: when Faith declines, superstition grows. When we abandon God, we give ourselves to practices that open the door to Satan. There is no doubt that today’s media have done much in favor of Satan, first by the immorality of certain shows, the abundance of movies showing violence, horror or sex ... Exorcism is a prayer. Like all the prayers, it is all the more efficacious the stronger the Faith is. Faith has a fundamental importance … In an Italian magazine, I had the occasion to comment on Our Lady’s messages where she speaks about Satan. She often spoke about this. She underlined that Satan is powerful and that he wants to destroy her plans. She invited us to pray, to pray, to pray ... Through prayer, we can even stop wars. I always understood Medjugorje as a continuation of Fatima. According to Our Lady’s words in Fatima, if we had prayed and fasted, there would not have been a Second World War. We have not listened to her and therefore there was a war.” What Fr. Amorth says is also true―not only of the Second World War breaking out―but also this Con-all-a-virus Plannedemic. Today’s MSM (mainstream media) has likewise played its part with perpetual propaganda, fabrication of lies, and a constant barrage of psychological pressure calculated to create fear and lead to submission. It is our lack of prayer and sacrifice that has loosened the chains on Satan while enchaining ourselves instead. Yet even now―though we might see our escape as impossible―with God nothing is impossible. However, God’s intervention comes at a price―are we willing to pay that price, or are we stupidly and naively expecting Him to just step-in and do for free? We have to remember that God is both JUST and MERCIFUL. He never shows mercy without also including justice. Likewise, He never exercises His justice without showing mercy. A case in point is that, of all those souls who are right now damned in Hell―not one single soul is being punished as much they actually deserved to be punished. The same applies to Purgatory―of all the souls in Purgatory, not one single soul is being punished as much they actually deserved to be punished. In both instances―Hell and Purgatory―the justice of God also includes the mercy of God. The same can be said of our life on Earth, whereby, in this life, nobody is being punished for their sins as much as they deserve. Yet at all times, we cannot and must not forget: “Be not deceived! God is not mocked! For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap! For he that soweth in his flesh, of the flesh also shall reap corruption! But he that soweth in the spirit, of the spirit shall reap life everlasting!” (Galatians 6:7-8) … “I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment!” (Matthew 12:36). Don't Be a Loser!
Don't Put Your Money on the Wrong Horse! Follow the Odds, or Follow the Gods? Believe the Odds or Believe the Gods?
Don’t follows the odds of media pollsters―follow the odds of God! The pollsters are guessing―God never guesses, God knows for certain! The polls―especially the MSM (mainstream media) polls―are saying that Joe Biden has anywhere from a 7% to 15% lead over Donald Trump. Besides that the fact that the MSM are habitual liars who are in the back pocket of the Democrats and their anonymous “Puppet-Masters”, many unbiased pollsters are estimating that there is large number of pro-Trump supporters who are keeping themselves anonymous and secretive about their political leanings. Ultimately, most people are inflexible in their personal bias―whether it be pro-Republican or pro-Democrat. It is much like the religious bias that is ingrained into children, depending upon which family they happen to born into―Catholic or one of the many shades of Protestantism. The political climate in America has grown increasingly bi-partisan over the years―and, as decency and morality increasingly break down, the extreme reactions, of increasing numbers of unquestioning supporters of each political party, also increase proportionately. Hence we see reactions to certain events, as being expressed emotionally and not with sane human reason, physically and violently rather than logically and calmly. The odds are more heavily stacked on the side that all the major political parties―not just in America, but worldwide―are a mere puppet-show being controlled by the unseen, anonymous, power-laden, “Puppet-Masters.” Heck! Really! Come on! Get real! Wake-up! Open your eyes! If Our Lady herself―the Mother of God, who in Heaven sees the past and the future in the present―tells us that “Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects” and that “the evil sect of Masonry will take control of the civil government” and “All the civil governments will have one and the same plan, which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principle, to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism and vice of all kinds” ― then who are you going to believe ― Our Lady, the Mother of God; or the MSM (mainstream media) who are in back pocket of the “prince of this world” (John 12:31) and the “father of lies” (John 8:44), the devil? Stupid, Ignorant Catholics Backing the Wrong Horse The problem with most Catholics today―and you have to say that they are stupid and ignorant Catholics, who are intellectually lazy about studying their Faith and slothful in living that Faith―the problem with these people is that they stupidly think that you can love the world and, at the same time, love God! That just beggars belief!!! Where on earth did they come up with such an idea? Who the hell taught them this lie? Actually, we know who the “hell” taught them it―it came from the “father of lies” (John 8:44), the devil himself. Whereas Our Lord and Holy Scripture say the exact opposite: “Lay not up to yourselves treasures on Earth … but lay up to yourselves treasures in Heaven―for where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also … No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon!” (Matthew 6:19-24). “He that loveth his life [in this world] shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world, keepeth it unto life eternal!” (John 12:25). Holy Scripture adds: “Be not conformed to this world” (Romans 12:2) … “That we be not condemned with this world!” (1 Corinthians 11:32). “For all that is in the world, is the concupiscence of the flesh, and the concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of life, which is not of the Father, but is of the world!” (1 John 2:16). “The god of this world [the devil] hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that the light of the Gospel should not shine unto them” (2 Corinthians 4:4). “If then you be dead with Christ from the elements of this world, why do you still act as though living in the world?” (Colossians 2:20). “Adulterers! Know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh an enemy of God!” (James 4:4). “We have received not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit that is of God; that we may know the things that are given us from God! … Use this world, as if [you] used it not: for the fashion of this world passeth away!” (1 Corinthians 2:12; 7:31). “Keep yourself unspotted from this world!” (James 1:27). “Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him!” (1 John 2:15). “Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath the faithful with the unbeliever? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God; as God saith: ‘I will dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people!’ Wherefore, ‘Go out from among them, and be ye separate!’ saith the Lord” (2 Corinthians 6:14-17). What is there in the above quotes that is not clear and comprehensible? What is there that cannot be understood? The language is not sophisticated and nuanced; it is not couched in obscure philosophical jargon―even a child can clearly understand what is being said! Why then do most Catholics do the exact opposite?―and this is especially true today! Split Personalities and Divorced Truly it has to be said that Catholics are living with a “split personality” ― spiritual and worldly. They are as if “divorced” from God, Whom they only come to visit on weekends or Sundays―though most don’t even do that anymore! They have not only divided Church from State―they have also divided Catholic “theory” from Catholic “practice”―they say they “believe”, but they do live-out in daily life what they profess to believe! Again Scripture condemns them: “Some man will say: ‘Thou hast Faith, and I have works!’ Show me thy Faith without works―and I will show thee, by works, my Faith! Thou believest that there is one God. Thou dost well! But the devils also believe and tremble! Wilt thou know, O vain man, that Faith without works is dead? … Do you see that it is by works that a man is justified―and not by Faith only? … For even as the body without the spirit is dead; so also Faith without works is dead” (James 2:14-26). Most Catholics today think that just because they “believe” they will surely get to Heaven! Well―if you pardon the “French”―why the hell have most Catholics been systematically and consistently and regularly been damned throughout all centuries―even the “hey-day” of Christianity in the Middle Ages, when St. Thomas Aquinas said: “There are a select few who are saved” (Summa Theologica, Ia, q.23, art.7, ad 3). “Those who are saved are in the minority” (Summa Theologica, Ia, q.23, art.8, ad.3)―and he is saying this at the peak and height of Christendom―which seems to indicate that, even back then, there was too much superficiality, too much presumption, and too little real Catholic living. Catholics have, for the most part, always tried backing the wrong horse in the race―with the result that they are now eternal losers! Holy Scripture warns against this complacency or presumption in the race for salvation: “Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed―but only one receiveth the prize? So run that you may obtain it! And every one that striveth for the mastery, refraineth himself from all things: and they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible one. I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty! I so fight, not as one beating the air―but I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest, perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway!” (1 Corinthians 9:24-27). Does Backing Present-Day America Mean Backing the “Wrong Horse”? The question is somewhat of a “no-brainer”―meaning that the answer is pretty obvious! America is financially bankrupt, it is also morally bankrupt, it is almost entirely bankrupt in sanctifying grace, and it is almost totally bankrupt of the Faith. That is the sobering and (hopefully) terrifying diagnosis that every American needs to hear, believe, accept and act upon. Though that is just as unlikely as all souls in the world being saved, or nobody ever going to Hell. It is not just America that finds itself in this precarious plight―the whole world finds itself in a similar mess. Let us briefly look at the “elephant in the room” that most people just want to ignore as they spew out their banal and vain slogans such as Trump’s “Make America Great Again!” and “Keep America Great!” or Biden’s “Battle for the Soul of the Nation!” … “Restore the Soul of America!” … “This is America, We are America, Second to None!” … “Anything is Possible!” … “Build Back Better!” “Unite for a Better America!” More than making America “great again”, it should be made holy for the first time in its history ― “I am the Lord your God―be holy because I am holy. Defile not your souls by anything upon Earth” (Leviticus 11:44) ― meaning that its citizens should be given sanctifying grace in their souls more than money in their wallet (or digitized money in their digitized wallet). If America is great―then it is sadly, like all the other nations of the world (in the words of Our Lady), a great sinner, when in reality it should be a great saint. Biden’s slogans of “Battle for the Soul of America” and “Restore the Souls of America” would be a great slogans―but Biden does not mean those words to mean what God would like them to mean! Perhaps Biden should cange the slogan to “Battle for the Soul of Biden” ― for it is hard to feel confident about the fate of his soul when he supports murderous abortions, while also supporting LGBTQ and, worse still, personally presiding as the minister in the White House chapel in the ‘marrying’ of two men! Biden needs to worry about the state of his own soul, before worrying about restoring the soul of America, which would mean bringing America (and himself) back to God, tearing it away from sin, destroying the countless un-Christian and un-Godly laws that have been passed over the centuries, uniting the State to the (Catholic) Church and adopting the Godly principles that the Church teaches (as a Catholic, one would think that would be Biden’s primary concern). Likewise, Biden’s “This is America, We are America, Second to None!” ― which is political pride that opposes Christian humility: “Every proud man is an abomination to the Lord!” (Proverbs 16:5). “God hath put down the mighty from their seat, and hath exalted the humble” (Luke 1:52). Our Lord says: “Learn of Me, because I am meek and humble of heart!” (Matthew 11:29). Both Trump and Biden could learn from Our Lord. Biden is a multi-millionaire, Trump is a billionaire―yet Our Lord says: “I say to you: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven! Amen, again I say to you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven” (Matthew 19:23) … “For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?” (Matthew 16:26). “Lay not up to yourselves treasures on Earth! … But lay up to yourselves treasures in Heaven! … For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also! … No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other―or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon!” (Matthew 6:19-24). The world “has lost it”, politics “has lost it” and we “have lost it” too! We are more worldly than godly―our focus on world probably exceeds ten or twenty times the focus and time we spend on God and our Faith. It is high time to change horses before it is too late―eternally late! Monetary Debt, Moral Debt and the “World Debt Forgiveness Program” Talking of mammon and money―America’s debt is already high by historical standards ― as of 2020, the official US Published National Debt stands at $27,250,000,000,000 or 27 million millions or 27 trillion (rounded-off), whereas in truth the real actual debt that they do not want to you to know about is $136,250,000,000,000 or 136 million millions or 136 trillion. Rounding it off, there are about 150 million taxpayers in the USA―which, if the REAL DEBT is shared out equally among all of them, then each taxpayer would have to pay almost 1 million each ($908,000) to remove the debt! Government projections show that America’s debt will continue to grow rapidly and to levels substantially higher than ever recorded in history. Just looking at the interest cost of the debt―in 2018, even with interest rates being low at the time, America’s (official but understated) debt hit an imposing $324 billion in interest payments ONLY. The aging of the population and rising health care costs are driving up government spending and revenues are not projected to keep pace. Hmm! Enter Bill Gates and Co. with their arm-twisting vehement advocacy of depopulation―and how “providential” is that depopulation regarding the burdensome “aging population” who create much of the health care debt, are the first and largest number of the population to succumb to the man-made bio-warfare agent of Covid-19, now Covid-SARS-2, and probably―coming to a place near you―Covid-20 or whatever other name they wish to give to their nefarious depopulation and population control agents and agendas―which will include universal mandatory multiple annual vaccinations, which will include the “chip” or electronic “Health-Pass” without which travel and access to many locations such as stores, workplaces, etc., will be impossible. The Great Rest and the World Debt Forgiveness Program In close tandem with this program, the world and governmental authorities as speaking of a double-header program―which goes under various terms, such as the “Great Reset,” “Fourth Industrial Revolution” and “Build Back Better” ― and which is linked to the alleged Communist/Socialist/Elitist masterstroke of financial enslavement of the world’s population by a “World Debt Forgiveness Program”, whereby all your debts―credit-card debts, mortgage debts, student loan and other loan debts, medical debts, any and all debts―are instantly wiped-out. As one whistleblower from the Canadian Parliament is allegedly supposed to have anonymously revealed: ‘The Strategic Planning Committee was asked to design an effective way of transitioning Canadians to meet an unprecedented economic endeavor. One that would change the face of Canada and forever alter the lives of Canadians. What we were told was that, in order to offset what was essentially an economic collapse on an international scale, that the federal government was going to offer Canadians a total debt relief. This is how it works. The federal government will offer to eliminate all personal debts (mortgages, loans, credit cards, etc) which all funding will be provided to Canada by the IMF (International Monetary Fund) under what will become known as the ‘World Debt Reset’ program. In exchange for acceptance of this Total Debt Forgiveness the individual would forfeit ownership of any and all property and assets forever. The individual would also have to agree to partake in the COVID-19 and COVID-21 vaccination schedule, which would provide the individual with unrestricted travel and unrestricted living―even under a full lock down (through the use of photo identification referred to as Canada’s Health-Pass). Committee Members asked who would become the owner of the forfeited property and assets in that scenario; and what would happen to lenders or financial institutions―we were simply told ‘the World Debt Reset program will handle all of the details’.” If you look at it from a merely theoretical viewpoint―it is pure evil genius! A non-bloody, minimally confrontational, legally contractually method of enslaving anyone and everyone―remove their debt and their financial worries forever! Yet the small print has them signing-over everything they have and all their personal freedoms and rights as a consequence! The perfect Communist maneuver―a maneuver that has never been seen, attempted, nor perhaps realistically envisaged. Yet it all fits perfectly with Our Lady’s prediction that Communism (or call it what you want, Socialism, Totalitarianism, New World Order, etc.) will take over THE ENTIRE WORLD―AMERICA INCLUDED! People are stupidly overvaluing the power of their vote and undervaluing the power of God in this election. As the saying goes: “Man proposes―God disposes!” It is ultimately God’s “vote” that matters and His “vote” carries the day. We need to be casting more votes with God than we are casting with mere mortal men―who are far from even being friends of God―for it highly likely from objective reasoning that neither candidate is in a state of grace and is thus an enemy of God. Yes―sure―Trump is saying he is against abortion―but that does not put him in a state of grace and a state of friendship with God―we can only be His friends by being in a state of grace. A state of mortal sin places us at enmity with God―regardless of who we are―Pope, Cardinal, Bishop, Priest, Religious, Laity, Protestant, Pagan, President or Presidential candidate! Without God―no matter who wins the election―we are sunk! “Without Me, you can do nothing!” (John 15:5). Only God can bring good out of evil―and, right now, we are immersed in evil up to our eyeballs―and, sadly, some are enjoying it! The only one worth truly backing is God―for only He can get us and the world out the mess that Satan has entangled us in. Turn to God, Not Man! Trust in God, Not Man!
Who Can You Trust These Days?
The Church is becoming more corrupt. Politics is becoming more corrupt. The financial sector is becoming more corrupt. The media is becoming more corrupt. Goodness is mocked and evil is glorified. Truth is disbelieved and lies are believed. As William Casey, CIA Director from 1981 to 1987, allegedly said in a briefing for President Reagan after his election: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” Hitler’s propagandist, Joseph Goebbels said, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” That is what the MSM (mainstream media) is doing today ― repeating lies until everyone begins to believe them and accept the lie as being the truth. We are living in an era where many truths are said to be lies―and many lies are paraded as being the truth! As Holy Scripture says both in the Old and the New Testaments: “The Lord hath looked down from Heaven upon the children of men―to see if there be any that understand and seek God. They are all gone aside! They are become unprofitable together! There is none that doth good―no, not one! Their throat is an open sepulcher! With their tongues they acted deceitfully! The poison of asps is under their lips!” (Psalm 13:2-3). “Every man is a liar!” (Psalm 115:11). “God is true and every man a liar!” (Romans 3:4). Our Lord said of Himself: “I am the truth” (John 14:6). “God will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth!” (1 Timothy 2:4). To the Jews He says: “But if I say the truth, you believe Me not! … You are of your father―the devil, and the desires of your father you will do. He stood not in the truth―because truth is not in him! When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own―for he is a liar, and the father of lies! … If I say the truth to you, why do you not believe Me? He that is of God, heareth the words of God. Therefore you hear them not―because you are not of God!” (John 8:44-46). “They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie” (2 Thessalonians 2:10-11). As we are about to enter the last week of the 2020 Presidential Campaign, we have bilateral lack of trust being manifested―Trump says you cannot trust Biden, and Biden saying you cannot trust Trump; Trump calling Biden a liar, and Biden calling Trump a liar. In all probability―since Holy Scripture is infallible―“Every man is a liar!” (Psalm 115:11). “God is true and every man a liar!” (Romans 3:4). Trump is a liar and Biden is a liar. They have lots of bedfellows among their Republican and Democrat colleagues―and even more bedfellows among the MSM (mainstream media). It almost seems as though lying has become fashionable. Ultimately, it comes down to “attack being the best form of defense”―get your lies in first, before your opponent can lie about you! Lies are also a marvelous way to confuse people and consequently demoralize people―which brings us back to the four-pronged Communist tactic of subversion: (1) demoralize your enemy; (2) destabilize your enemy; (3) create a crisis for your enemy; (4) produce the solution to the crisis for your enemy―and then you have your enemy under control. This is not just a one-time-tactic, but an ongoing ceaseless progressive tactic that seeks to gain more and more with each repetition of the four-pronged attack. As said before, the new form of warfare is not with nuclear weapons, on land invasion and hand-to-hand combat, but, as the former KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov said, the weapon is chiefly ideological subversion―and the mind of America has now been successfully subverted, whereby most Americans now believe what they are told to believe, and in this light, one can repeat the quote of William Casey, CIA Director from 1981 to 1987, who said in a briefing for President Reagan after his election: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” Heading for the Final Takeover The former KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov says that in the struggle for the ‘final victory of Communism’, the goal of the subverter is to substitute, as slowly and painlessly as possible, the concept of loyalty for NATION with loyalty to the “Big Brother” welfare state, who gives everything and is able to TAKE everything, including personal freedom — from every citizen. You can now see this to be clearly in the pipeline―as recently revealed by a Canadian Member of Parliament, who stated: “The Strategic Planning Committee was asked to design an effective way of transitioning Canadians to meet an unprecedented economic endeavor. One that would change the face of Canada and forever alter the lives of Canadians. What we were told was that, in order to offset what was essentially an economic collapse on an international scale, that the federal government was going to offer Canadians a total debt relief. This is how it works: “The federal government will offer to eliminate all personal debts (mortgages, loans, credit cards, etc) which all funding will be provided to Canada by the IMF (International Monetary Fund) under what will become known as the ‘World Debt Reset’ program. In exchange for acceptance of this Total Debt Forgiveness the individual would forfeit ownership of any and all property and assets forever. The individual would also have to agree to partake in the COVID-19 and COVID-21 vaccination schedule, which would provide the individual with unrestricted travel and unrestricted living―even under a full lock down (through the use of photo identification referred to as Canada’s HealthPass). Committee Members asked who would become the owner of the forfeited property and assets in that scenario; and what would happen to lenders or financial institutions―we were simply told ‘the World Debt Reset program will handle all of the details’. Several Committee Members also questioned what would happen to individuals if they refused to participate in the World Debt Reset Program, or the HealthPass, or the vaccination schedule, and the answer we got was very troubling. Essentially we were told it was our duty to make sure we came up with a plan to ensure that would never happen. We were told it was in the best interest of individuals to participate. When several Committee Members pushed relentlessly to get an answer, we were told that those who refused would first live under the lock down restrictions indefinitely. And that over a short period of time, as more Canadians transitioned into the debt forgiveness program, the ones who refused to participate would be deemed a public safety risk and would be relocated into isolation facilities. Once in those facilities they would be given two options, participate in the debt forgiveness program and be released, or stay indefinitely in the isolation facility under the classification of a serious public health risk and have all their assets seized.” The current historic lock downs have brought about mass poverty and will continue to weaken people’s financial and food security, thus making them increasingly vulnerable and desperate, which will manipulate them into accepting the new world economy and its bodily requirements of mandatory vaccination and other medical procedures. In essence, by agreeing to have all your debts removed―you are forced into giving over your entire life and all you own into the hands of “Big Brother” or the elites and their puppets. Great, huh? No more debts! No more worries! No more financial uncertainties! Totally cared for by “Benign Big-Brother” or “Compassionate Caring Communism”! The trade-off, though, is no ownership of ANYTHING and TOTAL DEPENDENCE FOR EVERYTHING on the minority ruling classes. If you refuse to do their will―they will refuse you the essentials of life! This is not just a Canadian project―but a worldwide project, with perhaps a few differences from country to country, but essentially a “World Debt Reset Program”―inevitably under the disguise of ‘caring’ for you and having your interests at heart―which will take away absolutely everything you have! Perfect Communism―except that instead of the people owning everything, they will own nothing in exchange for owing nothing! The Canadian government whistle-blower warns that world leaders in Australia, the USA, the UK, Canada and New Zealand will push for a “complete and total secondary lock down much stricter than the first and second rolling phase restrictions.” These new lock downs will be heavily pushed by overwhelming propaganda and false narratives in November 2020 through January 2021, by hyping up the dangers of the second wave of Covid-19, the absolute necessity of testing and the inflate count of alleged cases of infection. According to data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention August 26, 2020, only 6% of the total COVID-19-related deaths in the U.S. had COVID-19 listed as the sole cause of death on the death certificate. A September 2nd, 2020, study found the overall non-institutionalized infection fatality ratio was 0.26%. Among those under the age of 40, the infection fatality ratio is 0.01%, while those over 60 have an infection fatality ratio of 1.71%. The estimated infection fatality rate for seasonal influenza is 0.8%, so the only people for whom SARS-CoV-2 infection is more dangerous than influenza are those over the age of 60. Everyone else has a lower risk of dying from COVID-19 than they have of dying from the flu. White House Coronavirus task force coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx, also confirmed this far lower than typically reported mortality rate when she, in mid-August 2020, stated that it “becomes more and more difficult” to get people to comply with mask rules “when people start to realize that 99% of us are going to be fine.” Yet in the early stages of the Coronavirus outbreak, the official narrative was telling everyone that AROUND 2 MILLION AMERICANS WOULD DIE!!! That was a deliberate “die lie” calculated to have all Americans shaking in their boots out of a hysterical fear that life for them could easily come to an end! Scare-mongering! Fear-mongering! Manipulative lying! Especially since the Coronavirus (a.k.a. Covid-19 and Sars-Cov-2) was MAN-MADE in bio-warfare laboratories―initially begun in the USA and then, due to fears of misuse and abuse, as well as some moral indignation, the project was ‘suspended’ but secretly shipped-out by the ‘loveable’ and ‘trustworthy’ Dr. Fauci (and company) to the bio-warfare labs in Wuhan, China. Heck! Doesn’t that just make you love and trust those guys even more? The Hell it does―and Hell is ultimately behind all the worldwide multiple mutually orchestrated agendas that are ultimately geared to achieve the claim that Satan made to Christ in the audio-vision that Pope Leo XIII had in 1883, wherein Satan boasted to Christ: “I can destroy Your Church―but I need time!” Christ gave Satan that time and we can now see very clearly how Satan has used that time, to bring us very close to the point prophesied by Our Lady: “Lucifer, together with a large number of demons, will be unloosed from Hell; they will put an end to Faith, little by little … The Christian spirit will rapidly decay, extinguishing the precious light of Faith … Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects ... During this epoch the Church will find herself attacked by terrible assaults from the Masonic sect … These years, during which the evil sect of Masonry will take control of the civil government, will see a cruel persecution of all religious communities … All the civil governments will have one and the same plan, which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principle, to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism and vice of all kinds. They will abolish civil rights, as well as ecclesiastical rights. All order and all justice will be trampled underfoot and only homicides, hate, jealousy, lies and dissension will be seen, without love for country or family … The Church will be in eclipse, the world will be in dismay ... Men will kill each other, massacre each other, even in their homes … Blood will flow in the streets. A general war will follow which will be appalling. Blood will flow on all sides … There will be occasions when all will seem lost and paralyzed. People will believe that all is lost!” So Who Do You Trust? Who Do You Turn To? The governments and their puppet-medical media men have been injecting the people with lie after lie, as well as ramming the poisoned pills of half-truths down their throats for almost a year now. Add onto that year the many years of this pre-planned and orchestrated pandemic panic with events like Bill Gates’ “Event 201” wherein the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, together hosted “Event 201”, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18th, 2019, in New York, NY. The exercise illustrated areas where public/private partnerships will be necessary during the response to a severe pandemic in order to diminish large-scale economic and societal consequences. Wow! Someone’s a prophet and they don’t know it! Fancy that! A perfect vision of the terrible pandemic future envisioned by the prophets of Globalism and Totalitarianism! They were perfectly correct in all their predictions―almost Godlike! And, wouldn’t you know it―it was all foreseen “just in time”, for weeks afterwards the deadly pandemic―that they had so “providentially” discussing and preparing for―suddenly and “unexpectedly” broke out! O what would we do without the messianic Bills Gates and his apostles in the World Health Organization, “Big Pharma” and the CDC and the anonymous, behind-the-scenes, puppet-masters, employed by Satan to pull all the strings? Thanks be to God (or, more realistically, thanks be to Satan) for their presence, “prudence” and foresight! Professor Dr.Tim Levine―B.S. and Ph.D in psychology―of the University of Alabama, Birmingham―author of the books: Books: Duped: Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception―has spent decades researching the truth-lie phenomenon. He is of the opinion that few people can detect a liar. Even those whose job is to conduct interviews to dig out hidden truths, such as police officers or intelligence agents, are no better than ordinary folk. Levine argues that people to assume that others are telling the truth. Most communication by most people is truthful most of the time, so a presumption of honesty is usually justified. Humans are hard-wired to assume that what they hear is true—and therefore, says Mr. Levine, they are also automatically hard-wired to be duped. So strong is that instinct that people suspend their critical faculties when given orders by a superior―think here of the orders given by Dr. Fauci, the CDC and all the other governmental officials. A study published last year in Science, a journal, concluded that “falsehood is diffused significantly farther, faster, deeper and more broadly than the truth” and that this effect was especially strong for fake political news. Make the lie big but keep it vague! Keep away from precise details that can be easily checked and debunked. That is the tactic of both Modernists and Liberals within the Church, as well as godless, untruthful politicians throughout the world. If you are vague and give few details, then you are harder to nail down. Above all, keep repeating the propaganda and have others repeat it for you! Lies, when they are repeated by many people, add even more credibility to lie. This is exactly what Dr. Anthony Fauci and his staff and supporters have been doing with the Coronavirus Crisis and Pandemic (or Plandemic). Renowned scientists and doctors throughout the world―especially those whose expertise is in epidemiology and viruses―have disputed Fauci’s statements and claims, they have criticized, refuted and “called-out” Fauci and crew. They have challenged Fauci to a proper scientific discussion with evidence and proofs to be put on the table―but, of course, Fauci and crew (Bill Gates among them) keep silent and ignore such statements, invitations and challenges. Why? Because as Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda for the Nazi German government, wrote: “The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” Is that not what is happening right now? Repression of truth under the pretext of truth being a “conspiracy theory”? Are we not seeing a worldwide censorship of any serious evidence that goes contrary to mainstream propaganda and lies? Which court of law―if it deserving of that title―will only allow evidence to presented by one side only? Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ― “People in Authority Lie!” In a recent (August 28th, 2020) press conference in Berlin, Germany, the Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pulled no punches and hit hard at the corruption and lies coming from governments, corporations and pharmaceutical companies. He said: “Little by little I came to understand there were larger problems with vaccines. The central one and the one we were most deeply concerned with was that vaccines in the United States were not safety tested. They have an exemption that is not available to any other medical product, and that exemption which most people cannot even believe, is an artifact of the CDC’s (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) legacy as the public health service which was a quasi-military agency. “At the time the vaccine program was launched, the purpose was a national defense purpose, and they wanted to make sure that vaccines could be quickly formulated and deployed in order to derail attacks by foreign countries with biological substances. So they removed the regulatory impediments including the necessity to safety test vaccines. If they’re not safety tested, nobody can tell you with any medical authority whether that vaccine is injuring more people than it’s saving. It became very clear that there were other problems as well. There [were] problems with the corruption in our political system. The pharmaceutical companies had not only corrupted our politicians with huge amounts of lobbying money, they had captured the agencies that are supposed to protect Americans from public health threats―the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), the FDA (The Food and Drug Administration), the HHS (Health and Human Services). They had captured the press in our country by huge influxes of advertising dollars which had neutralized the press. They had effectively subverted American democracy by neutralizing all of those institutions. The Congress had been corrupted. The regulatory agencies were captured; they had become the sock puppets for the industry they’re supposed to regulate. The press had been sidelined. And worst of all, they had passed a law in our country in 1986 that gave pharmaceutical companies complete immunity from liability. So there was no incentive for any of those companies to make vaccines safe. “For many years totalitarian or authoritarian states have used the power of fear to engineer compliance in populations. I grew up understanding what happened in World War II in our country. During the Nuremberg Trials, Herman Goering was asked by the prosecutor, how did you make the German people comply? Goering said, it’s not just Germany, this works in any country, whether it’s a fascist country or a communist country or a monarchy or a democracy. All the rulers need to do is to tell the people that there’s something they need to be fearful of. Point a finger at that source of their fear and you can make human beings do anything you want. You can make them go to the slaughter like sheep; you can make them obey. Franklin Roosevelt said: ‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.’ He understood that fear would drive us into totalitarianism. Now they have a source of fear that is the most pervasive, an all-encompassing power that they’ve ever had which is the fear of pandemic. Governments love pandemics the same way that they love wars because it gives them power; it gives them control and it gives them the capacity to impose obedience on human beings. Today we have an inflection of new technology that give governments the capacity to impose controls on populations that have never been imagined before in human history by any tyrant in history. “They have another innovation which is digital currency. And once they have digitalized our currency and gotten rid of the cash economy they have absolute control over us because they will be able to tax every transaction. The banks will be able to cash in on every transfer of wealth, every transaction, no matter how miniscule, no matter how small. Also they’ll be able to enforce obedience because if you’re disobedient, they’ll be able to shut down your bank account and starve you, and you’ll no access to cash. “Many people argue that this pandemic was a plandemic, that it was planned from the outset, it’s part of a sinister scheme. I can’t tell you the answer to that. I don’t have enough evidence. A lot of it feels very planned to me. I don’t know, but I will tell you this, if you create these mechanisms for control, they become weapons of obedience for authoritarian regimes no matter how beneficial or innocent the people who created them. Once you create them, they will be abused. A hundred percent guarantee that they will be abused. And all of the people who are out on the street now, who are arguing with this new imposition that we’re seeing all around us of authoritarian control, of people being told, “Wear your mask.” “I think everybody in Europe, everybody in Germany, everybody in the United States, if they were told, here’s why you should wear a mask, here’s the science that says it will help, here is the science that says it works, that you will stop transmission to other people—everybody would wear it with no problem. What we know is that we’re not being dealt with honestly. We’re being told, this is the science, but it’s an appeal to authority. It’s science because Tony Fauci and Bill Gates tell us it’s science. We want to see the studies. We want to see the studies on hydroxychloroquine. We want to see the studies on whether the lockdown is killing more people than the Coronavirus. We want to see real science and real risk assessment. “My father told me when I was a child: ‘People in authority lie.’ If we are going to continue to live in a democracy we need to understand that people in authority lie.” (Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Press Conference in Berlin, Germany, August 28th, 2020). All Men Are Liars! God is Truth! All of this brings us back to the infallible Holy Scriptures which tell us: “Every man is a liar!” (Psalm 115:11). “God is true and every man a liar!” (Romans 3:4). So, in all honesty, who are you going to trust? Where will you turn to for the truth? God is the source of all truth and Satan is the father of lies ― “The God of truth” (Psalm 30:6) … “All thy ways are truth” (Psalm 118:151) … “O Lord, Thy truth is round about Thee!” (Psalm 88:9) ... “The Lord liveth in truth” (Jeremias 4:2) … “God loveth truth” (Psalm 83:12) … “The Lord will require truth” (Psalms 30:24) … “Serve the Lord in truth” (Tobias 14:10) … “The Lord is only for them that wait upon Him in the way of truth” (Ecclesiasticus 34:22) … But “truth hath been forgotten” (Isaias 59:15) … “They have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies, and not for truth! They have strengthened themselves upon the Earth, for they have proceeded from evil to evil, and Me they have not known, saith the Lord” (Jeremias 9:3) … “O Lord our God, grant that we might turn from our iniquities and think on Thy truth!” (Daniel 9:13) … “Inquire carefully and diligently the truth of the thing, by looking well into it” (Deuteronomy 13:14) ― but we don’t, we are superficial and have no time for careful and diligent research, we skim the surface, we merely shoot from the hip (or shoot from the lip) without being really sure of the truth! … “There is no truth in their mouth―their heart is vain!” (Psalm 5:10). Trust in God, Not Man! Rely Upon God, Not Man! Holy Scripture repeatedly tells us place our hopes and trust in God, more than trusting and hoping in the help and power of men: “Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will call upon the name of the Lord our God” (Psalm 19:8). “Put not your trust in princes, in whom there is no salvation!” (Psalm 145:2-3). “Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his strength, and whose heart departeth from the Lord” (Jeremias 17:5). “Have confidence in the Lord with all thy heart, and lean not upon thy own prudence!” (Proverbs 3:5). “For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God” (1 Corinthians 3:19). “O grant us help from trouble―for vain is the help of man! Through God we shall do mightily―and He will bring our enemies to nothing!” (Psalm 107:13-14). “Through Thee we will push down our enemies and through Thy Name we will despise them that rise up against us. For I will not trust in my bow―neither shall my sword save me. But Thou hast saved us from them that afflict us and hast put them to shame that hate us. In God shall we glory all the day long: and in Thy Name we will give praise for ever!” (Psalm 43:6-9). “The Lord is my helper and my protector! In Him hath my heart confided―and I have been helped!” (Psalm 27:6) “My enemies have trodden upon me all the day long―for they are many that make war against me. From the height of the day I shall fear―but I will trust in thee! In God I have put my trust―I will not fear what flesh can do against me!” (Psalm 55:3-5). “The Lord is my helper, I will not fear what man can do unto me! The Lord is my helper and I will look over my enemies! It is good to confide in the Lord, rather than to have confidence in man. It is good to trust in the Lord, rather than to trust in princes. All nations surrounded me and in the Name of the Lord I have been revenged on them. Surrounding me they compassed me about―and in the Name of the Lord I have been revenged on them!” (Psalm 117:6-11). Where Will We Find the Lord’s Help? Once again, it must be stressed that on this Earth we have no more powerful a supernatural weapon than the HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. The Holy Mass is the perpetual re-enactment of Christ’s victory over the Satan on Mount Calvary. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is the Sacrifice of Calvary―but now re-enacted and perpetuated in an unbloody manner. Yet it loses nothing of its power! Why are we so negligent in utilizing this most powerful weapon. Yes―we go to Mass―and that is good and necessary. However, it is even more advantageous to HAVE MASSES OFFERED FOR YOUR INTENTIONS―and today, the chief intention should be for the common good of the Church and Mankind, that is to say, the intention seeking the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary as well as the conversion or destruction of the enemies of the Church and Mankind. Satan knows the power of the Mass―that is why he has been working relentlessly to either weaken the effects of Holy Mass, or to destroy it altogether. Have you given priests stipends for the intention of seeking the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary as well as the conversion or destruction of the enemies of the Church and Mankind? The current situation in the Church and the world clearly manifests that Satan is almost ready to have his stooges and instruments take over the whole world into a satanic totalitarian rule. What are you doing about it? Sure―you yourself, your puny self, can do almost nothing of yourself to stop what is happening. However, you have the power to call for divine help―to bring into the battle Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself―and you achieve that by giving priests stipends for Masses to be offered for triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary as well as the conversion or destruction of the enemies of the Church and Mankind. Where is the difficulty in that? No Catholic can possibly excuse themselves from doing this! Absolutely nobody! You simply give the priest the stipend and tell him in which direction to point the “Missile of the Mass”―against the enemies of the Church and Mankind, so that the Immaculate Heart can triumph over them all―either by converting them, or, if they refuse to convert, then by destroying them. DO IT! DO IT NOW! The only thing holding you back is the devil of procrastination and the devil of false reasoning! DO IT! DO IT NOW! “Fight the good fight of Faith! Lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art called!” (1 Timothy 6:12). Start launching the “Missiles of the Mass”―many of them and regularly, until this satanic tide is turned back! The Missiles are waiting―it is you that must give them direction, you must point them at the right target―which is what you do when you ask the priest to offer Mass for the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary as well as the conversion or destruction of the enemies of the Church and Mankind. Is It Rigged & Are We Fooled?
A Repeat of History with a New Twist?
For those old enough to remember (or care to remember), the immediate aftermath of the 2000 Presidential Election contested by George W. Bush and Al Gore, is perhaps a sign of what America could experience in 2020. On Election Night, many news organizations initially called Florida for Al Gore—then, about two hours later, those same news organizations withdrew the call, and then, just a few hours later, declared that George W. Bush had won the state, giving him enough electoral votes to become President. Gore telephoned Bush to concede the Presidency to Bush―but his political aides, learning that the race in Florida was, in fact, too close to call, desperately tried to reach Al Gore in his limousine. They reached in time for Gore to again telephone Bush and to retract the concession of the Presidency. Gore demanded recounts in four Democratic-leaning counties. Bush reacted by filing a lawsuit in federal court in Miami to stop the recounts. Street protests were organized outside Vice-President’s Gore’s mansion, with crowds shouting: “Get out of Cheney’s house!” and the gathering together of the best available political and legal talent in the Republican Party. To the frustration of countless Democrats, Gore took a high-minded, traditional approach, asserting that the recount was a legal―not a political―process, and told his supporters to stay off the streets. Benjamin Ginsberg, the general counsel to the Bush campaign and the dean of Republican election lawyers, repeatedly and angrily said: “They are trying to steal this!” In the end, Bush’s resort to the courts proved to be his salvation. In the case known as Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court, by a vote of five to four, held that the recounts violated Bush’s rights, thus sealing his victory in Florida. Ultimately, George Bush was declared the winner in Florida by 537 votes, out of some six million cast votes. This year, 2020, each side has speaking about a potential legal fight that began months ago and may well continue long after November 3rd, 2020. President Trump has stepped-up a notch or two on the Bush strategy of total political warfare―Trump has already refused to commit to accepting the outcome of the election. “The only way we’re going to lose this election is if the election is rigged—remember that,” he said recently. “So we have to be very careful. . . . The only way they’re going to win is that way. And we can’t let that happen.” In July 2020, NPR (National Public Radio) reported: “Four years after Russian election interference rattled and embarrassed national Democrats, the party has gone on offense over what it fears are more schemes targeting this year’s presidential race. Democratic leaders in the House and Senate this week demanded an all-lawmaker briefing from the FBI about what they suspect are active efforts aimed at Congress. Former Vice President Joe Biden, the party’s likely presidential nominee, followed up on Wednesday with a more specific gambit. Biden’s campaign said that Sen. Ron Johnson, Republican for Wisconsin, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, could be at the receiving end of a pipeline of disinformation that originates in Russia … Johnson and his committee have said they’re continuing to investigate the work Biden’s son Hunter did in Ukraine while Biden was the point man on the country’s new government for the Obama administration. The storyline [is] that a Ukrainian company was paying Hunter Biden in hopes that he could open doors in Washington … Johnson and the Homeland Security Committee are still gathering material and interviewing witnesses with the aim of hearings or other activity targeting the Bidens — and Democrats worry that some of what they reel in could be fabricated or manipulated with the goal of hurting Biden and interfering in the 2020 election.” “Biden spokesman, Andrew Bates, cited what he called evasive answers or silence from Johnson and his staff about the Ukraine work: ‘Senator Johnson [Republican] is not only diverting the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee away from oversight of Donald Trump’s failed response to the Coronavirus outbreak ... not only engaged in total hypocrisy by virtue of his years-long support for the anti-corruption victory Vice President Biden delivered in Ukraine, and not only advancing the interests of Russia in a manner that is openly distressing to his Republican colleagues — but he has also revealed his complicity in a foreign attack on the very sovereignty of our elections.’ Austin Altenburg, a spokesman for [Senator] Johnson and the Homeland Security Committee, rejected Biden’s allegations. ‘The Democrat and Ukrainian claims are false, and the Democrats know this,’ he said.” “This back-and-forth underscored just how deeply and how frequently the prospect of foreign interference — never absent in U.S. politics — has come to dominate the daily work of politics. Biden’s charge against Johnson followed an earlier allegation against ‘One America News’―a cable news network friendly to President Trump―which Biden’s camp suspected also might be in receipt of suspicious material connected to the Ukraine storyline. Meanwhile, Trump and Attorney General William Barr have suggested that a foreign nation might exploit increased voting by mail this year, to manipulate the results of the election ... As he did in 2016, Trump often warns about the potential for what he calls an unfair election.” (NPR National Public Radio, July 23rd, 2020). In early August, 2020, when he was signing his Florida absentee-ballot application, he said, “Absentee ballots are good. Universal mail-ins, when you get inundated with these things, are bad and will lead to terrible things, including voter fraud.” More recently, Trump has spoken at length about the purported evils of universal mail-in voting. “They are sending out fifty-one million ballots to people that didn’t ask for them,” he said during an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, on the final night of the Democratic National Convention. “This will be the most fraudulent election in history. . . . It’s just a horrible thing. It’s going to be impossible to police.” The New Yorker, in its September 21st, 2020, article entitled “The Legal Fight Awaiting Us After the Election”, writes: “Democrats and Republicans have already filed dozens of lawsuits in attempts to define the rules in November—an overture for the battles that may follow the election. If Trump is the id of his campaign, its superego is Justin Riemer, the chief counsel of the Republican National Committee, who previously worked for the Virginia Board of Elections. Riemer stated: ‘We see what’s going on as a systemic attack on the existing absentee-voting safeguards that are in place around the country … We acknowledge that there is going to be much more absentee voting, so it’s never been more important to have those safeguards.’ In recent weeks, the Trump campaign has been sending questionnaires to election officials in swing states, asking for details about how they intend to conduct the election and count the votes. The officials’ answers could become important evidence in any post-Election Day litigation.” Recently, The Washington Post, in its October 8th, 2020, article stated: “‘The ballots are a disaster,’ President Trump said in September 2020. During his first debate with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden last week, Trump said: ‘This is going to be a fraud like you’ve never seen!’ It’s a claim he has been repeating for months, in his Twitter feed, in interviews, as often as he can. He asserts that large numbers of ballots are discarded, that mail-in voting invites fraud, and that his supporters need to ‘monitor’ polling places in cities.” In the October 22nd, 2020, Presidential Debate from Nashville, TN, in the segment on National Security, the debate moderator Kristen Welker (at the 21 minute 18 second mark), announced: “I do want to start with the security of our elections and some breaking news from overnight. Just last night, top intelligence officials confirmed again that both Russia and Iran are working to influence this election. Both countries have obtained U.S. voter registration information, these officials say, and Iran sent intimidating messages to Florida voters.” Trump claims outside interference with the election that seeks to manipulate voters in a way that Trump will lose! Whereas Biden claims outside interference that seeks to blacken his name and make him lose voters and victory! What are we to think? Each side is accusing the other side of the very same thing—a rigged, or manipulated or compromised election! The USA has already been shaken in 2020 by the so-called ‘deadly’ Coronavirus pandemic (with surprisingly little deaths, many of which have been falsely reported and attributed to Covid-19), an serious economic collapse and an increasingly society-wide forced focus on racism. Now comes an election in which voter suppression, foreign interference, online disinformation and a bitterly contested Supreme Court vacancy offer a recipe for chaos. The Democrats accuse Trump of months of spreading disinformation and discrediting what Trump calls “the greatest Rigged Election in history”. Asked in late September, 2020, if he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power, Trump declined, saying: “Well, we’re going to have to see what happens. You know that. I’ve been complaining very strongly about the ballots. And the ballots are a disaster.” Should Trump refuse to leave office, America could be plunged into a constitutional crisis and find itself in unchartered territory―which is exactly what the behind-the-scenes-puppet-masters want. Whatever the outcome, there is a very high risk that a significant chunk of the population will not accept the winner as legitimate, leading to angry street protests in a country flush with guns and an increasing fear that, after decades of corrosion, a system that was once the ‘envy of the world’ is beyond repair. Moe Vela, a political strategist and LGBTQ and Latino activist, predictably said: “I never dreamed I would live through our democracy being this volatile and vulnerable and fragile! … I never dreamed it could ever happen. It was not in the realm of possibility and Donald Trump has taken us to the brink of the demise of our democracy. It really is that serious!” Another Democrat, Neil Sroka, spokesperson for the progressive group Democracy for America, said: “Donald Trump has his fingers on the levers of power and is clearly maneuvering them in every way possible, legal and arguably illegal, to try to secure a narrow victory in November. The threat of voter suppression is very real. We’re already seeing robo calls [automated telephone calls which delivers a recorded message, typically on behalf of a political party] going out in places like Pennsylvania that dissuade people from voting early or voting absentee or putting out misinformation.” Opinion polls show that Democrats are far more likely to use mail-in voting, whereas Republicans tend to favor lining up on election day. The battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin all prohibit election officials from beginning to process mail-in votes until election day. Thus Republicans votes are likely to be counted first, leading to warnings of an election night “red mirage” in which Trump appears to build big early leads. It is feared that Trump will seize that initial surge and claim a premature victory and then, if mail-in ballots gradually turn the tide and produce a Biden victory days later, it is alleged that Trump will claim that the election is being stolen from him. Josh Mendelsohn, chief executive of Hawkfish, a Democratic data and analytics firm, said: “We are sounding an alarm and saying that this is a very real possibility, that the data is going to show on election night an incredible victory for Donald Trump. When every legitimate vote is tallied and we get to that final day, which will be some day after election day, it will in fact show that what happened on election night was exactly that, a mirage. It looked like Donald Trump was in the lead and he fundamentally was not when every ballot gets counted.” The Democrats claim that a long wait for a result could allow Trump to cause widespread unrest by flooding social media with conspiracy theories. The Democrat, Bill Galston, a former policy adviser to Bill Clinton, said: “What worries me most is that the president of the United States will decide, through reasons of his own, to impugn ballots that are not counted on election night. Given the fact a record number of ballots will be cast by mail in this election, and there appears to be a systemic difference with Democrats voting much more by mail than in-person, impugning the validity of mail-in ballots would be the moral equivalent of saying that only votes cast in person are valid, which is a prescription for electoral fraud on a massive basis such as we’ve never seen in this country. If you ask me what my worst nightmare is, that’s it.” There are even concerns that Trump and his conspicuously loyal attorney general, William Barr, could seek to disqualify mail-in votes. John Heilemann, a political analyst, told the MSNBC network: “Don’t rule out of your mind the possibility that the president on election night says: ‘I’m going to go to Pennsylvania and I’m impounding all of the uncounted ballots so far,’ and sends federal marshals into polling places where votes are being tabulated and tries to impound those ballots.” Making Sense of It All To make any sense of all these “election meddling” accusations and narratives you must try and grasp two points. The first point being that we currently find ourselves in a camouflaged, underground slow-motion Third World War between the hidden ruling classes consisting of the elites (the anonymous behind-the-scenes puppet masters, the real decision makers in the world), the oligarchs (the visible rich business leaders with a great deal of political influence who are puppets of the elites) and technocrats (those who seek to rule society by their technical and scientific expertise who are also puppets of the elites), all of whom are explicitly or implicitly leagued against the common man, or the “goyim” or “sheeple” of this world. Bill Gates sums it up by calling “depopulation”. In previous decades, the elites, the globalists, the oligarchs and the technocrats called for a “New World Order.” This notion of a New World Order has now been largely replaced with phrase like “the Great Reset,” “the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” and the slogan “Build Back Better.” All of these terms and slogans refer to the same long-term globalist agenda to dismantle democracy and national borders, in favor of a global governance by unelected leaders, and the reliance on technological surveillance rather than the rule of law to maintain public order. The chief focus is on technology — the modern means of warfare ― in particular Artificial Intelligence (AI), digital surveillance and Big Data collection (which is why 5G is being now being used and “rolled-out”) — and the electronic digitization of industry (which includes electronic banking and a cashless society) and electronic government, which in turn allows for the automation of social engineering and social rule (although that part is never expressly stated or revealed). Pandemics and Propaganda Are the New Weapons of War For decades, war and the threat of war has enriched the technocratic elite and kept the population going along with their agenda. Wars mean money and profit. The “money-men” have always financed both sides in a war―thus bringing nations into debt and ultimately under control of the “money-men”. Furthermore, not only do wars produce profits, but they can also be used to impose ever more draconian or totalitarian restrictions upon the common people and remove their liberties and rights. The Patriot Act, rammed through in the aftermath of 9/11, is just one egregious example. All of this was amply expressed by Our Lady when she warned: “Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects ... These years, during which the evil sect of Masonry will take control of the civil government, will see a cruel persecution of all religious communities … All the civil governments will have one and the same plan, which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principle, to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism and vice of all kinds. They will abolish civil rights, as well as ecclesiastical rights. All order and all justice will be trampled underfoot and only homicides, hate, jealousy, lies and dissension will be seen, without love for country or family.” That sums it all up succinctly, doesn’t it? It is what we are seeing unfold before our very eyes today! Today, pandemics and the threat of infectious outbreaks are the new tools of war and social control. For years, Bill Gates has openly and brazenly prepared the global psyche for a new enemy―the deadly, invisible viruses that can crop up at any time. And the only way to protect ourselves is by giving up old-fashioned notions of privacy, liberty and personal decision-making. Bill Gates no longer hides the goal of global mandatory vaccination and injection of electronic biometric ID and surveillance chips―though he calls it a ‘paternal, caring’ medical surveillance for these new deadly, invisible viruses. Of course, there will be no immediate brutal mandatory vaccination of the entire global population―current attitudes among people show that this would lead to massive opposition, even violent opposition. So, initially, it will all be voluntary―except perhaps for the medical profession and the elderly (who are said to be at highest risk of being infected by this “new enemy”). However, the “gentle, paternal, caring approach” will soon give way to slightly more coercive but subtle measures―such as privileges for those who are vaccinated, then leading to penalties for those who refuse vaccination, and finally isolation or even incarceration of those will not get vaccinated, under the false pretence that they are “health terrorists” and threats to mankind. Though Trump gives the impression of being somewhat reticent on the issue of mandatory vaccinations, enough of his comments suggest that, if he is re-elected, he will definitely take the “gentle, paternal, caring approach” that will soon give way to more coercive measures. Biden is also an advocate for universal mandatory vaccination. This is hardly surprising―for it should be fairly obvious to anyone with half-a-brain that it is not the politicians who ultimately control the political agenda, but the anonymous elites behind the scenes. The typical narrative reaction to anyone who thinks that way or suggests such a thing, is brand them as being a “conspiracy theorist” and eventually taking punitive measures against them. Once again, IT CANNOT BE STRESSED ENOUGH, NOR CAN IT BE REPEATED TOO MUCH, that the fight we are fighting is NOT A HUMAN FIGHT, but a PRETERNATURAL FIGHT. “Preternatural” means “above nature” or “beyond nature” and refers to the Satan and the devils, whose powers are way beyond anything natural. We find ourselves in an equivalent situation of an infant fighting against a Marine! No contest! Unless we have recourse to the SUPERNATURAL, which is above both the PRETNATURAL and the NATURAL, then we doomed to loose―which is what is actually happening at this moment in time. This Is Not Of God, But The Devil
Our Lord clearly tells us: “By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them” (Matthew 7:16-20).
What are the fruits that we are seeing during this Presidential Election? Bitter fruits! Angry fruits! Vengeful fruits! Untruthful fruits! These rotten fruits are coming from both sides and from all the MSM (mainstream media) outlets! This is not of God! Holy Scripture paints us a picture of what is and what is not of God: “The anger of man worketh not the justice of God!” (James 1:20). “Anger worketh pride” (Proverbs 21:24). “Be ye kind one to another; merciful, forgiving one another, even as God hath forgiven you in Christ” (Ephesians 4:32). “If you will not forgive, neither will your Father that is in Heaven, forgive you your sins” (Mark 11:26). “And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors … For if you will forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father will forgive you also your offences. But if you will not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive you your offences” (Matthew 6:12-15). “If thy brother sin against thee, reprove him: and if he do penance, forgive him. And if he sin against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day be converted unto thee, saying, I repent; forgive him” (Luke 17:3-4). Note here that forgiveness only comes after sinning has stopped and penance has started. The same is true for confession—lip service repentance is not real repentance. A firm purpose of amendment is one of the conditions for a valid confession. “Be not without fear about sin forgiven, and add not sin upon sin!” (Ecclesiasticus 5:5). “Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful” (Luke 6:36). “Who keepest mercy unto thousands: who takest away iniquity, and wickedness, and sin” (Exodus 34:7). “Be ye kind one to another; merciful, forgiving one another, even as God hath forgiven you in Christ” (Ephesians 4:32). “Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy” (Matthew 5:7). But “judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy” (James 2:13). The words “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us” flow easily from our lips, but no readily from our hearts. Yet Scripture warns us: “judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy” (James 2:13). This reminds us of the unjust and unforgiving steward, who was forgiven a large debt by his master, but then refused to forgive his neighbor a small debt. “Therefore is the kingdom of Heaven likened to a king, who would take an account of his servants. And when he had begun to take the account, one was brought to him, that owed him ten thousand talents. And as he had not wherewith to pay it, his lord commanded that he should be sold, and his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. But that servant falling down, besought him, saying: ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all!’ And the lord of that servant being moved with pity, let him go and forgave him the debt. “But when that servant was gone out, he found one of his fellow servants that owed him an hundred pence: and laying hold of him, throttled him, saying: ‘Pay what thou owest!’ And his fellow servant falling down, besought him, saying: ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all!’ And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he paid the debt. “Now his fellow servants seeing what was done, were very much grieved, and they came and told their lord all that was done. Then his lord called him; and said to him: ‘Thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all the debt, because thou besoughtest me! Shouldst not thou then have had compassion also on thy fellow servant, even as I had compassion on thee?’ And his lord being angry, delivered him to the torturers until he paid all the debt. So also shall my heavenly Father do to you, if you forgive not everyone his brother from your hearts” (Matthew 18:23-35). A talent was 750 ounces of silver and so ten thousand talents came to 7,500,000 (7½ million ounces). At today’s silver prices―silver being around $17.50 per ounce (seventeen dollars, fifty cents)―that would put the 10,000 talents at just over $131 million. The Roman penny was the eighth part of an ounce of silver—so a hundred pence would be a mere 12½ ounces of silver (or $218) compared to the larger debt of 7½ million ounces ($131 million)! Our Lord is painting a striking picture here. With the forgiveness of the large debt, it encourages us in seeing that even very grave sins can be cured and forgiven—showing the extreme kindness of the God of mercy. Even more importantly, it tells us be careful in harshly judging the sins of others. The above parable should go hand -in-hand with what Our Lord said in His Sermon on the Mount: “Why seest thou the splinter that is in thy brother’s eye; and seest not the plank that is in thy own eye? Or how sayest thou to thy brother: ‘Let me cast the splinter out of thy eye!’ ― and behold there is a plank in thy own eye? Thou hypocrite! Cast out first the plank in thy own eye, and then shalt thou see to cast out the splinter out of thy brother’s eye!” (Matthew 7:3-5). “Or how canst thou say to thy brother: ‘Brother! Let me pull the mote out of thy eye!’― when thou thyself seest not the beam in thy own eye? Hypocrite, cast first the beam out of thy own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to take out the mote from thy brother’s eye!” (Luke 6:42). How Godly is American Politics? Now take all that and transpose it over American Politics―or any country’s politics for that matter. It is like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. The two don’t match. There is no God in politics anymore! There is no charity in politics anymore! There is no forgiveness in politics anymore! Yet there is plenty from devil’s pot of stew―lots of anger, lots of hatred, lots of finger-pointing, lots of accusations, lots of mercilessness, lots of lies, lots of half-truths, lots of detraction (exposing the sins of others), lots of cheating, lots of manipulation, lots of self-aggrandizement, etc. Our Lord clearly tells us: “By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them” (Matthew 7:16-20). Are You Comfortable with Godless Politics? The lukewarm Catholic is probably very comfortable with Godless Politics―after all, the lukewarm Catholic cannot tolerate too much godliness in his or her environment. Their preference is “God in small doses―and preferably on Sunday mornings only!” Therefore, nothing could be more nauseating than Godliness in Politics! Unfortunately, those feelings are reciprocal with God, Who says: “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold, nor hot. I would thou wert cold, or hot! But, because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold, nor hot, I will begin to vomit thee out of My mouth!” (Apocalypse 3:15-16). It has been quoted before and it needs to be quoted again: “The Lord hath looked down from Heaven upon the children of men―to see if there be any that understand and seek God. They are all gone aside! They are become unprofitable together! There is none that doth good―no, not one! Their throat is an open sepulcher! With their tongues they acted deceitfully! The poison of asps is under their lips! Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness! Their feet are swift to shed blood! Destruction and unhappiness in their ways and the way of peace they have not known! There is no fear of God before their eyes! Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour My people as they eat bread? They have not called upon the Lord: there have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear” (Psalm 13:2-5). Just as you can become accustomed to chronic pain―that is always there and nagging―so too have most Catholics become accustomed to Godless Politics. They imagine that there will never be life without that that chronic pain of Godlessness and so they just go with the flow―some grumpily, some comfortably. October 22nd Presidential Debate Proved the Point Having just watched (or endured) the last of pre-election Presidential Debates―thankfully there will be no more―one is merely confirmed in the pure Godlessness of both party candidates. In over 90 minutes of presenting their own policies and debating the policies of the opponent―the lack of any Christian spirit manifested itself once again. Not one single mention of the word “God” ― as though He were some “black sheep of the family” that nobody dare talk about in case they upset everyone else. Not even a slight reference to religion―apart from Biden talking about a “moral obligation” to help those 200,000 or more (inflated and conflated numbers again) who are expected to die from Covid before Christmas―while forgetting to mention his “moral obligation” to protect the similar number (but REAL number, not a concocted Covid-19 number) of innocent and helpless babies who will butchered and slaughtered by abortion―which Biden continues to support in a crafty way. It must also be acknowledged that Biden did mention “God” once ― but it was in taking God’s Name in vain, as Biden blurted out in anger and exasperation: “O my God!” Furthermore, each candidate showed plentiful use of the “double-barreled-shotgun” of praise myself and shoot down my opponent―though it has to be said that this time around it was not as brutal as in the first debate! Nevertheless, it seems as though neither candidate has heard or read the words of Our Lord, when He says: “Without Me, you can do nothing!” (John 15:5)―for all that was heard was: “I have done this! … I have achieved that! … In my term this and that has been done! … Nobody has done more for … ! … Never before has America had such …! … When I get elected I will do this! … My plans will achieve this, that and the other! … Wall Street endorses my plan! … The Labor Unions endorse my plan!” ― BUT DOES GOD ENDORSE YOUR PLAN? DOES GOD APPROVE OF THE DIRECTION YOU PROPOSE TO TAKE? IS THIS PLEASING TO GOD? IS THIS ACCORDING TO GOD’S WILL? Holy Scripture has some things to say on this: “Let another praise thee, and not thy own mouth―a stranger, and not thy own lips!” (Proverbs 27:2). “You rejoice in your arrogance! All such rejoicing is wicked!” (James 4:16). “…it is the gift of God, not of works, so that no man may glory!” (Ephesians 2:8-9). “What hast thou that thou hast not received? And if thou hast received it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?” (1 Corinthians 4:7). “Thus saith the Lord: ‘Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, and let not the strong man glory in his strength, and let not the rich man glory in his riches! But let him that glorieth glory in this―that he understandeth and knoweth Me!’” (Jeremias 9:23-24). “Let him that glorieth, glory in the Lord!” (1 Corinthians 1:31). “If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my infirmity” (2 Corinthians 11:30). Yes―the nation officially says: “In God we trust!”―but does God trust you? Yes―the country says: “One nation under God!”―but does that mean “One nation under God if He is kept under wraps or in a closet!” Bishops Both Bash and Blunder on Biden
Is it “Biden the Catholic” or “Biden the Butcher”? Is it “Biden the Rosary lover” or “Biden the LGBTQ lover”? One man―two heads or two hats. One head being Democrat, the other being Catholic. One hat being supporter of social justice, the other hat being a supporter of the social injustice of abortion of babies.
Abortion is murder. It directly and absolutely breaks the Fifth Commandment of God―“Thou shalt not kill!” (Exodus 20:13). The modernist murderers―hating that distasteful truth―have to create an euphemism. For those who do not know what a “euphemism” is―the dictionary defines it as “a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.” Such a euphemism is “Pro-Choice” ― which seeks to hide the fact that you are in favor of killing babies. Homosexuality, Lesbianism, Bisexuality and all the other perversions have been condemned outright by God: “Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind, because it is an abomination” (Leviticus 18:22) ― in other words, do not practice homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman. It is a detestable sin―an abomination. “If any one lie with a man as with a woman, both have committed an abomination, let them be put to death―their blood be upon them” (Leviticus 20:13) ― in other words, if a man practices homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman, both men have committed a detestable act. They must both be put to death, for they are guilty of a capital offense. “For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and injustice of those men that, when they knew God, they have not glorified Him as God, but became vain in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened. Wherefore God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves. For this cause God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature. And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts one towards another, men with men working that which is filthy… 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 1:18-32). Pretty harsh, huh? Yes. That is homosexuality has its own euphemisms ― mild or indirect words or expressions substituted for those considered to be too harsh or blunt, when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing. One such euphemism is the word “gay” ― which seems to take away the stench of homosexuality and its abomination, and clothes it in a happy robe of many colors and the perfume of gaiety. Now since Joe Biden is both pro-abortion and pro-abomination (LGBTQ), this has presented many U.S. bishops and Catholics with a dilemma of whether or not they can support and vote for Biden. That debate was not always about Biden specifically. There were other ‘Catholic’ politicians before him who supported abortion―John Kerry being one of them, as well as Geraldine Ferraro, and the same question arose regarding Nancy Pelosi and the late Ted Kennedy and many other Catholic politicians. But Biden himself has been the main topic at least since 2008. In 2008 Biden had been chosen to be the candidate for the vice-presidency under Obama. When he visited Florida on the campaign trail, Bishop John Ricard of Pensacola issued an open letter reminding him that “all must examine their consciences as to their worthiness to receive the Body and Blood of our Lord. This examination includes fidelity to the moral teaching of the Church…” Lest Biden or any other reader fail to grasp the point, Bishop Ricard pointed to the senator’s “profound disconnection from your human and personal obligation to protect the weakest and most innocent among us: the child in the womb.” At that point, Bishop Ricard did not forbid Biden from receiving the Holy Eucharist―he merely asked Biden—as the Catholic bishops of the US have asked all candidates, and as perennial Church teaching has asked all Catholics—to make an examination of conscience before approaching the Blessed Sacrament. But a few weeks later, when Biden was the vice-president-elect, another Florida prelate, Bishop Robert Lynch, of St. Petersburg, said plainly that pro-abortion politicians should not be barred from Communion. In a revealing blog post, Bishop Lynch said that he took that position because “one keeps open a dialogue with the Joe Bidens of the world.” And how has the dialogue worked out? Twelve years later, in 2020, Biden is just as firmly committed to legal, tax-subsidized abortion on demand. Yet the “profound disconnection” that Bishop Ricard spotted in 2008 is even more evident today. In the intervening years Biden has also embraced the cause of same-sex marriage—even officiating at one such union—vowed to rescind the legal protection extended by the Trump administration to the Little Sisters of the Poor, and now chosen a running-mate, Kamala Harris, who views membership in the Knights of Columbus as subversive activity. The Catholic bishops who say that Biden should still be allowed to receive Communion—and they are, apparently, still the majority in the US bishops’ conference—argue that it is wrong to politicize the Holy Eucharist. But when the issue of Holy Communion has been politicized—by a candidate who trumpets his Catholic Faith, who runs advertisements about the inspiration he receives from that Faith—how should prudent bishops react? The canon lawyers see the need for disciplinary action. The loyal lay Catholics see the need. Even the Protestants recognize the need. The only people who don’t see the urgency of the situation (aside from those confused and idiotic people who don’t object to legal abortion) are the bishops—who are, unfortunately, the only people in a position to enforce the discipline that is so very necessary. Fr. Robert E. Morey, of Saint Anthony Catholic Church, South Carolina, denied Biden communion over his stance on abortion last year. Fr. Morey told the South Carolina Morning News: “Sadly, this past Sunday, I had to refuse Holy Communion to former Vice President Joe Biden. Holy Communion signifies we are one with God, each other and the Church. Our actions should reflect that. Any public figure who advocates for abortion places himself or herself outside of Church teaching. I will keep Mr. Biden in my prayers.” Biden said in response: “I’m a practicing Catholic. I practice my Faith, but I’ve never let my religious beliefs, which I accept based on Church doctrine, impose on other people.” Here is what the “leftist” and “pro-gay” Jesuit priest, Fr. James Martin, has to say on refusing Communion: “Denying Communion to politicians, whether Democrat or Republican, is a bad idea and bad pastoral practice. For if you deny the sacrament to those who support abortion, then you must also deny it to those who support the death penalty, which is also a life issue. How about those who don’t support programs to help the poor? Or refuse to help refugees and migrants? How about those who don’t support ‘Laudato Si,’ which is, after all, an encyclical? Where does it end? Besides, a priest has no idea what the state of a person’s soul is when the person presents himself or herself in the Communion line. As we were taught in our theology studies, the person may have repented of any sins and gone to confession immediately before Mass. You have no idea. Finally, as Pope Francis has said, the Eucharist ‘is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.’” (Fr. James Martin, SJ, October 29th, 2019). Fr. Martin is deliberately fudging the issue by clumping the apples with the oranges and being deliberately vague and misrepresenting Church teaching. He clumps together mortal sins (abortion) with what is not a sin (the death penalty) and with venial sin (refusing to help refugees and migrants)―that is devilishly deceitful, especially for a trained theologian! Then he says that we have no way of knowing the state of a person’s soul when they present themselves for Communion―they may have repented and gone to confession immediately before Mass! We know the state of Biden’s soul on abortion because his website clearly states his position and he himself has expressed a desire that Roe vs Wade become enshrined in federal law! Pretty clear, huh? Cardinal Burke, a Canon Lawyer, while still Archbishop of St. Louis, wrote on the matter of refusing Communion. Here are some extracts that are pertinent to the Biden situation: “During the election campaign of 2004 in the United States of America, some Bishops found themselves under question by other Bishops regarding the application of canon 915 of the Code of Canon Law in the case of Catholic politicians who publicly, after admonition, continue to support legislation favoring procured abortion and other legislation contrary to the natural moral law, for example, legislation permitting the cloning of human life for the purpose of harvesting stem cells by the destruction of the artificially-generated human embryo, and legislation redefining marriage to include a relationship between persons of the same sex. The gravity of the sin of procured abortion and of the sins involved in the commission of other intrinsically-evil acts seemed to place the Catholic politicians among those who obstinately persevere in manifest grave sin, about whom canon 915 treats. “Holy Communion must be denied, apart from any imposition or declaration of a canonical penalty, in order to respect the holiness of the Sacrament, to safeguard the salvation of the soul of the party presenting himself to receive Holy Communion, and to avoid scandal. While the judgment regarding the disposition of the individual who presents himself to receive Holy Communion belongs to the minister of the Sacrament, the question regarding the objective state of Catholic politicians who knowingly and willingly hold opinions contrary to the natural moral law would hardly seem to change from place to place. The Church’s admission of politicians to receive Holy Communion, who are persistent in supporting positions and legislation which gravely violate the natural moral law, [is] gravely wrong. To receive Holy Communion unworthily is to sin against Christ Himself. If the lack of right disposition is serious and public, and the person, nevertheless, approaches to receive the Sacrament, then he is to be admonished and denied Holy Communion. In other words, the Church cannot remain silent and indifferent to a public offense against the Body and Blood of Christ. The discipline is clear. Holy Communion is to be denied to the public sinner, whether the congregation is large or small. The cases which demand refusal of Holy Communion are seen to include murder and false witness, both public acts involving grave matter. Church discipline places an obligation on the minister of Holy Communion to refuse Holy Communion to persons known, by the public, to be in mortal sin. Among the categories of persons who are to be denied Holy Communion are they who publicly espouse political doctrines which are hostile to the Faith and to the Church. In a similar way, those who publicly support political platforms or legislative agenda which are gravely contrary to the natural moral law show that they are not rightly disposed to receive Holy Communion. Regarding the grave sin of abortion or euthanasia, when a person’s formal cooperation becomes manifest (understood, in the case of a Catholic politician, as his consistently campaigning and voting for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws), his pastor should meet with him, instructing him about the Church’s teaching, informing him that he is not to present himself for Holy Communion until he brings to an end the objective situation of sin and warning him that he will otherwise be denied the Eucharist. Finally, the discipline must be applied in order to avoid serious scandal, for example, the erroneous acceptance of procured abortion against the constant teaching of the moral law. No matter how often a Bishop or priest repeats the teaching of the Church regarding procured abortion, if he stands by and does nothing to discipline a Catholic who publicly supports legislation permitting the gravest of injustices and, at the same time, presents himself to receive Holy Communion, then his teaching rings hollow. To remain silent is to permit serious confusion regarding a fundamental truth of the moral law.” On the point that increasingly many U.S. Catholics priests are stating that voting for Joe Biden is a mortal sin, pro-gay Fr. James Martin posted: “Dear friends: I’m seeing more priests saying that voting for Joe Biden is a mortal sin. It is not. It is not a sin to vote for either Mr. Biden or Mr. Trump. Nor is it a sin to be Democrat or Republican. Listen instead to what the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops says in their helpful document ‘Faithful Citizenship’ about the role of conscience. ‘[We] bishops do not intend to tell Catholics for whom or against whom to vote. Our purpose is to help Catholics form their consciences in accordance with God’s truth. We recognize that the responsibility to make choices in political life rests with each individual in light of a properly formed conscience, and that participation goes well beyond casting a vote in a particular election.’ And, for good measure, Pope Benedict XVI (as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, using the language of moral theology): ‘When a Catholic does not share a candidate’s stand in favor of abortion and/or euthanasia, but votes for that candidate for other reasons, it is considered remote material cooperation, which can be permitted in the presence of proportionate reasons.’ In other words, know the Gospels, understand church teaching, examine the issues, pray, and then use your conscience” (Fr. James Martin, SJ, September 3rd, 2020). Some Roman Catholic priests and bishops have taken to social media to chide parishioners considering voting for Democrats, in general, and presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden, in particular, by reminding them of the church’s opposition to abortion. Over Labor Day weekend,2020, Bishop Richard Stika of Knoxville, Tennessee, reanimated suggestions that Mr. Biden is not a faithful Catholic―because the former Vice President supports legal abortion: “It really confuses me that both Joe Biden and [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi time and time again state that they are faithful Catholics and yet promote unlimited abortion as well as deny so many of the teachings of our faith,” Bishop Stika tweeted. In his August 30th, 2020, YouTube video, Father James Altman of St. James the Less Catholic Church in La Crosse, Wisconsin, denounced Mr. Biden over his pro-choice voting record when he represented Delaware in the U.S. Senate: “Here is a memo to clueless baptized Catholics out there: You cannot be Catholic and be a Democrat. Period!” On August 11th, 2020, Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island, observed on Twitter that the year 2020 marks the “first time in a while that the Democratic ticket hasn’t had a Catholic on it” — a jab at Mr. Biden, an avowed Catholic who supports abortion rights. Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego pushed back against those questioning Biden’s personal Catholic Faith based on his positions on abortion rights. McElroy said that when it comes to questions of public policy, abortion legislation is a matter of prudential judgment, saying: “One very sad dimension of the election cycle we are witnessing, is the public denial of candidates’ identity as Catholics because of a specific policy position they have taken. Such denials are injurious, because they reduce Catholic social teaching to a single issue. But they are offensive because they constitute an assault on the meaning of what it is to be Catholic. Being Catholic means having a grace-filled relationship with God. Being Catholic means loving the Church. Being Catholic means participating in the Sacramental life of the Church. Being a Catholic means trying to transform the world by the light of the Gospel. To reduce that magnificent, multidimensional gift of God’s love to a single question of public policy is repugnant and should have no place in public discourse … In the end, it is the candidate who is on the ballot, not a specific issue. While a specific act of abortion is intrinsically evil, the formulation of individual laws regarding abortion is not [Oh,oh! Are you sure about that?]. It is an imperative of conscience for Catholic disciples to seek legal protections for the unborn. But whether these protections take the form of sanctioning the doctor or the pregnant mother, whether those sanctions should be civil or criminal penalties, and the volatile issues pertaining to outlawing abortions arising from rape, incest and danger to the mother are all questions of deep disagreement among advocates wholeheartedly devoted to the protection of unborn children. Like the issues of fighting poverty and addressing climate change, the issue of abortion in law and public policy is a realm where prudential judgment is essential and determinative.” Hey, Bishop McElroy ― what is wrong with having women give birth and then giving up the baby for adoption? A heck of a lot less traumatic than murdering the baby! Or is that just too easy? On October 13th, 2020, Bishop Thomas Daly of Spokane, Washington, spoke out against Bishop Robert McElroy’s recent downplaying of the importance of abortion. Bishop Daly said McElroy’s comments “effectively constituted a defense of Biden and other prominent Catholic elected officials who publicly support unrestricted abortion.” Daly disputed McElroy’s minimalist view of what it means to be Catholic. In an article endorsed and promoted by Denver Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila, Fr. Luis Granados directly countered McElroy’s form of argumentation. Granados emphasized that we are sometimes morally responsible for even indirect effects of our actions, “our responsibility is limited to the consequences we can reasonably foresee and in the measure of our action, not in the measure of the whole effect.” Ultimately, the gravity of these indirect “sins against the environment” is “significantly smaller than in the case of abortion and euthanasia.” So What's the Solution? Is There Even a Solution?
To drive a nail into the wood, it usually takes several blows of the hammer. Somehow, one has to say that same applies with driving a truth into the minds of hard-headed humans! So―let Our Lord say it again and again: “The things that are impossible with men, are possible with God!” (Luke 18:27). “And Jesus said to them: ‘With men this is impossible: but with God all things are possible!’” (Matthew 19:26). “And Jesus looking on them, said: ‘With men it is impossible; but not with God: for all things are possible with God!” (Mark 10:27)―and the Archangel Gabriel adds: “Because no word shall be impossible with God” (Luke 1:37).
The problem is that hard-headed humans do not want to turn to God for solutions! Man has made his own god―called “Science”. The word “science” comes from Latin verb “scire” meaning “to know”―from which we get the noun “scientia” meaning “knowledge”. This is the modern-day god that dethroned God and usurped God’s throne. The latest heir apparent in this lineage or ruling dynasty of “knowledge” is “Artificial Intelligence”―which many have said will be the god of gods. Why turn to God―who never seems to answer anyway, or answers slowly―when you can turn to the artificial god of “Artificial Intelligence” which gives you answers in seconds? This god of knowledge reminds us of Satan’s temptation of Eve in paradise―who promised Eve she would have a knowledge like God’s knowledge: “Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: ‘Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?’ And the woman answered him, saying: ‘Of the fruit of the trees that are in paradise we do eat―but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die!’ And the serpent said to the woman: ‘No, you shall not die the death! For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened―and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil!’” (Genesis 3:1-5). Today―more than at any other time in the history of mankind―the following words of Holy Scripture fit like a glove: “The fool hath said in his heart: ‘There is no God!’ They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their ways: there is none that doth good, no not one. The Lord hath looked down from Heaven upon the children of men, to see if there be any that understand and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are become unprofitable together! There is none that doth good―no, not one! Their throat is an open sepulcher! With their tongues they acted deceitfully; the poison of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness! Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and unhappiness in their ways and the way of peace they have not known! There is no fear of God before their eyes.” (Psalm 13:1-3). Psalm 52 echoes the same, adding some other sentiments: “‘The fool said in his heart: ‘There is no God!’ They are corrupted, and become abominable in iniquities! There is none that doth good! God looked down from Heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, or did seek God. All have gone aside, they are become unprofitable together, there is none that doth good―no, not one! They have not called upon God! There have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear! For God hath scattered the bones of them that please men! They have been confounded, because God hath despised them!” (Psalm 52:1-6). Modern man no longer believes or accepts the words of Jesus, when He says: “Without Me you can do nothing!” (John 15:5). Modern man will tell you that he is doing quite well without Jesus! Mankind has never had it so good―he will say―and it is all the result of man’s knowledge and technology. Yet, as Holy Scripture says: “It is good to confide in the Lord, rather than to have confidence in man” (Psalm 117:8). “Have confidence in the Lord with all thy heart, and lean not upon thy own prudence … Be not wise in thy own conceit!” (Proverbs 3:5-7). “For they that are according to the flesh, mind the things that are of the flesh; but they that are according to the spirit, mind the things that are of the spirit. For the wisdom of the flesh is death; but the wisdom of the spirit is life and peace. Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither can it be. And they who are in the flesh, cannot please God” (Romans 8:5-8). “Now I beseech you, brethren, beware of them who make dissensions and offences contrary to the doctrine which you have learned, and avoid them. For they that are such, serve not Christ our Lord, but by pleasing speeches and good words, seduce the hearts of the innocent” (Romans 16:17-18). “Ever learning, and never attaining to the knowledge of the truth … These also resist the truth, men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the Faith. But they shall proceed no farther; for their folly shall be manifest to all men” (2 Timothy 3:7-9). “Evil men and seducers shall grow worse and worse―erring and driving into error. But continue thou in those things which thou hast learned and which have been committed to thee” (2 Timothy 3:13-14). Today, we are surrounded by such persons. Modern government is stacked with such persons. As Our Lady warned―and let us not vainly, optimistically, imagine something different―“From the end of the 19th century and especially in the 20th century, the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of morals, for Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects ... During this epoch the Church will find herself attacked by terrible assaults from the Masonic sect … These years, during which the evil sect of Masonry will take control of the civil government, will see a cruel persecution of all religious communities … All the civil governments will have one and the same plan, which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principle, to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism and vice of all kinds. They will abolish civil rights, as well as ecclesiastical rights. All order and all justice will be trampled underfoot and only homicides, hate, jealousy, lies and dissension will be seen, without love for country or family ... They will focus particularly on the children, in order to achieve this general corruption. Woe to the children of these times!” (Our Lady of Good Success & Our Lady of La Salette). Sound familiar? This last year has seen an escalation of all this as we approach the Presidential Election. Sr. Lucia of Fatima, back in 1957, speaks along the same lines, when she reveals what Our Lady had told her: “The Blessed Virgin did not tell me [explicitly] that we are in the last times of the world, but I understood this [implicitly] for three reasons. The first reason is because she told me that the Devil is engaging in a battle with the Virgin, a decisive battle. It is a final battle where one party will be victorious and the other will suffer defeat. So, from now on, we are either with God, or we are with the Devil―there is no middle ground. The second reason is because she told me, as well as my cousins, that God is giving two last remedies to the world: the Holy Rosary and devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. And, being the last remedies, that is to say, they are the final ones, means that there will be no others. And the third reason is because in the plans of the Divine Providence, when God is going to chastise the world, He always first exhausts all other remedies. When He sees that the world pays no attention whatsoever, then, as we say in our imperfect way of talking, with a certain fear He presents us the last means of salvation, His Blessed Mother. If we despise and reject this last means, Heaven will no longer pardon us!” (Sr. Lucia of Fatima to Fr. Fuentes, December 26th, 1957). America is seeing a big surge in homicides this year. A new report, by the Council on Criminal Justice, found that the homicide rate increased sharply this summer across 27 US cities: “Homicide rates between June and August of 2020 increased by 53% over the same period in 2019, and aggravated assaults went up by 14%.” Other data, from crime analyst Jeff Asher, found that murder is up 28% throughout the year so far, compared to the same period in 2019, in a sample of 59 US cities. A preliminary FBI report also found murders up 15% nationwide in the first half of 2020―the lower percentage rate of 15% is due to the inclusion of all rural areas, which naturally see a far smaller murder rate. Tracey Meares, founding director at the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School, says: “The current year, 2020, is an extreme deviation from baseline — extreme!” So what’s going on? Let us listen to the offerings offered by mere human reason first―then we shall listen to Divine Intelligence after hearing-out the gods of human intelligence. “We don’t know nearly enough to know what’s going on at the given moment,” Jennifer Doleac, director of the Justice Tech Lab, told me. “The current moment is so unusual for so many different reasons that … it’s really hard to speculate about broad phenomena that are driving these trends when we’re not even sure if there’s a trend yet.” “Overall it is pretty unquestionable that there is more violence, we’re hearing that anecdotally and it’s certainly what the data is showing too,” said Charles Ransford, senior director of science and policy, at Cure Violence Global. In Chicago and New York City, community members have reported dramatic situations on the ground. “People are using words like “chaos”, and “things are out of control”, and “things are just off the hook”, these are the kinds of words people are using. [We’re hearing that] things are just really heating up, and really getting a little crazy,” Ransford said. Uncertainty about what’s going on isn’t exactly new in the field of criminal justice. Rates of crime and violence have plummeted over the past few decades in the US, yet there is no agreed-upon explanation for why. There are theories applying the best evidence, research, and data available, ranging from changes in policing to a drop in lead exposure to the rise of video games. But there’s no consensus. Some experts have cited the protests over the police killings of George Floyd and others — which could have had a range of effects, from officers pulling back from their duties to greater community distrust in police, leading to more unchecked violence. Others point to the bad economy. Another potential factor is a huge increase in gun purchases this year. Still others posit boredom and social displacement as a result of physical distancing leading people to cause more trouble. There are several good sources, from criminologists, economists, and other data analysts, for what’s happened with crime and violence so far this year: (1) an analysis by Jeff Asher; (2) a Council on Criminal Justice report written by Richard Rosenfeld and Ernesto Lopez; (3) City Crime Stats, a website from the University of Pennsylvania set up by David Abrams, Priyanka Goonetilleke, Elizabeth Holmdahl, and Kathy Qian; and (3) a preliminary report from the FBI. Data Set #1 ― Crime analyst Jeff Asher offers the most recent data, looking at crime trends in 59 US cities in 2020 so far compared to 2019. He found murders are up 28%. Despite previous comments by Trump blaming the increase on Democratic-run cities, Asher found murders are up 29% and 26%, respectively, in cities with Democratic mayors and those with Republican mayors. Data Set #2 ― The Council on Criminal Justice report, updated in September 2020, looked at crimes in 27 US cities, ranging in size from Los Angeles to St. Petersburg, Florida, through August. The authors found homicide and aggravated assault increases starting in late May and early June. There were also increases in the spring or summer in gun assaults, domestic violence, and robbery. That certainly suggests there were more homicides. “It does look like violence is up in a number of cities,” said Rosenfeld, one of the report’s authors. Data Set #3 ― City Crime Stats’ data show homicides to be significantly up in many of the cities included in the City Crime Stats data set. There’s a lot of variation from city to city. Overall, Abrams, of City Crime Stats, said that his data suggests there was a significant increase in homicides from May to June: “We did find a statistically significant increase in homicides — about 21% — in aggregate in the cities we looked at in the month after, versus, [the month] before those protests,” he told me, cautioning that we can’t say with any confidence if the protests were the cause. “Same for shootings, but that’s from a smaller number of cities.” Data Set #4 ― A preliminary FBI report confirmed these other reports’ findings for the first half of 2020. It found a 15% increase in murders, a 5% increase in aggravated assaults. In Chicago, as well as some other cities, the apparent increase in homicides began before the protests over the police killing of George Floyd. Still, there’s enough in the four data sets to draw some conclusions: Homicides are up overall this year — in some cities, significantly higher. The trends, particularly with homicides, are alarming. So why are homicides up? We know less about why there’s a spike, but there are some theories. Experts have offered some possible explanations, based on the limited information they have so far: (1) The pandemic has really messed things up: Looming over absolutely every discussion about 2020 is the Covid-19 pandemic. That’s no different for discussions about crime and violence. This year is very unusual, with many forced to stay at home and living in fear of a new, deadly virus. That could lead to all sorts of unpredictable behaviors that experts don’t understand yet, and that might take us years to explain. (2) De-policing led to more violence: In response to the 2014 and 2015 waves of Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality, officers in some cities pulled back, either out of fear that any act of aggressive policing could get them in trouble or in a counter-protest against Black Lives Matter. While protesters have challenged the crime-fighting effectiveness of police, there is a sizable body of evidence that more, and certain kinds of, policing do lead to less crime. Given that, some experts said that de-policing in response to protests could have led to more violence — what some in years past called the “Ferguson effect,” after the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri, over the police shooting of Michael Brown, and also seen in Baltimore after the 2015 killing of Freddie Gray. (3) Lack of trust in police led to more violence: In response to the “Ferguson effect” in 2015, some experts offered a different view of what was happening: Maybe people had lost trust in the police and, as a result, they relied more on street justice and other illegal activities to resolve interpersonal disputes — an interpretation of “legal cynicism,” explained well in Jill Leovy’s Ghettoside and supported by some empirical research. Perhaps Floyd’s killing and the ensuing protests led to a similar phenomenon this year. (4) More guns led to more gun violence: There’s been a massive surge in gun buying this year, seemingly in response to concerns about personal safety during a pandemic. And as the research has shown time and time again, more guns mean more gun violence. A recent, preliminary study from researchers at UC Davis already concluded that gun purchases led to more gun violence than there would be otherwise through May this year. That could have further exacerbated homicide increases. (5) Overwhelmed hospitals led to more deaths: One way to explain a flat or dropping violent crime rate as homicides rise is that the violent crime was deadlier than usual. With health care systems across the US at times close to capacity or at capacity due to Covid-19, maybe hospitals and their staff had less ability to treat violent crime victims — increasing the chances they died this year. That could translate to more deaths, and homicides, even if violent crime remained flat or declined. (6) Idle hands led to more violence: Throughout the pandemic, a lot of people have been bored — with forms of entertainment, from restaurants to movie theaters, closed down. Schools are shut down too, and millions are newly unemployed. Other support programs that can prevent violence were shuttered due to the lockdowns. All of that could have led to conflict, and possibly more crime and violence. But, experts cautioned, this is speculative, with little evidence so far to support it. (7) A bad economy led to more violence: With the economy tanking this year, some people may have been pushed to desperate acts to make ends meet. Disruptions in the drug market, as product and customers dried up in a bad economy, may have led to more violent competition over what’s left. The bad economy also left local and state governments with less funding for social supports that can keep people out of trouble. All of that, and more, could have contributed to more crime and violence, but this, too, is still very speculative. Another possibility: None of these explanations is right. With limited data in strange times, it wouldn’t be surprising if it turns out we have no idea what’s going on right now. “We can bet on it being unpredictable,” Doleac said. To put it another way: There’s a lot we don’t know about crime, why it happens, and how to stop it. Heaven’s (Ignored and Unwanted) Data and Solutions Heaven’s Crime Data Bank is in agreement with its human counterparts―but not on the numbers and degree of crime (Heaven prefers to call “crime” by its real name―“sin”). The stats that Our Lady delivered in a veiled way, at Fatima back in 1917, suggested that sins (“crimes” against God) had reached very high levels. We deduce this from her comments―such as: “Do not offend the Lord our God anymore, because He is already so much offended!” … “If people do not cease offending God … a worse war will break out!” It seems like nobody cared about Our Lady’s stats and prognosis―as Sr. Lucia said in 1957: “The Blessed Virgin is very sad, because no one heeds her message; neither the good nor the bad. The good continue on the road of goodness with their life of virtue and apostolate without paying attention to this Message―they do not unite their lives to the message of Fatima. Sinners, the bad―because of their sins―do not see God’s chastisement about to fall upon them presently, and keep following the road of evil through sin, ignoring the Message, because they do not see the terrible chastisement about to befall them. But, Father, you must believe me that God is going to punish the world and chastise it in a tremendous way!” (Sr. Lucia of Fatima to Fr. Fuentes, December 26th, 1957). Around the same time, in December of 1956, Our Lady appeared to Blessed Sister Elena Aiello (1895-1961)―mystic, stigmatic, victim soul, prophetess and foundress of the Minim Tertiaries of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ―Our Lady, in an apparition on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, December 8th, 1956, said: “People are offending God too much! If I were to show you all the sins committed on a single day, you would surely die of grief. These are grave times! The world is in total turmoil because it is in a worse condition than at the time of the deluge! Materialism marches on ever fomenting bloody strifes and fratricidal struggles. Clear signs portend that peace is in danger. That scourge, like the shadow of a dark cloud, is now moving across mankind―only my power, as Mother of God, is preventing the outbreak of the storm! All is hanging on a slender thread! When that thread shall snap, Divine Justice shall pounce upon the world and execute its dreadful, purging designs! All the nations shall be punished because sins, like a muddy river, are now covering all the Earth!” One of those who ignored Our Lady’s messages was Pope John XXIII, who, instead of revealing the Third Secret of Fatima to the world in 1960―as requested by Our Lady through Sr. Lucia of Fatima―decided to label such things as the rantings of prophets of doom and gloom: “We feel that We must disagree with these prophets of doom, who are always forecasting worse disasters―as though the end of the world were at hand. Present indications are that the human family is on the threshold of a new era” (Opening Address of Pope John XXIII of October 11th, 1962, at the Opening of the Second Vatican Council). Famous last words, huh? He died less around 33 weeks later. His last words on his deathbed, as reported by Jean Guitton, the only Catholic layman to serve as a peritus at the Council, were: “Stop the Council! Stop the Council!” Runaway trains are hard to stop and it is hard to pull a plane out of a steep dive. The fatal fuse was lit! With the result that sin would increase exponentially―with the advent of abortion through Roe vs Wade in 1973; rampant contraception; divorce and remarriage―while in wings awaited the homosexual, sodomitical, transgendered and same sex-marriage cast, soon to be brought out on center-stage. Hence, in 1973―the year Roe vs Wade introduced legalized abortion―Our Lady of Akita stated: “Many men in this world afflict the Lord ... In order that the world might know His anger, the Heavenly Father is preparing to inflict a great chastisement on all mankind … As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one never seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful ... The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against bishops … The Church will be full of those who accept compromises … The thought of the loss of so many souls is the cause of my sadness. If sins increase in number and gravity, there will be no longer pardon for them!” Guess what? Sins DID increase in both number and in gravity! Roe vs. Wade was merely the tip of the iceberg of “legalized sins” and “legalized crimes” ― which, like a rolling snowball, gathered mass and momentum as it hurled downhill into the melting pot of Hell! As Our Lady said: “The thought of the loss of so many souls is the cause of my sadness!” The solutions of Heaven are ignored and rejected―or mocked at best. Our Lady of Good Success spoke of one such solution: “Woe to the world should it lack monasteries and convents! Men do not comprehend their importance, for, if they understood, they would do all in their power to multiply them, because in them can be found the remedy for all physical and moral evils ... No one on the face of the Earth is aware whence comes the salvation of souls, the conversion of great sinners, the end of great scourges, the fertility of the land, the end of pestilence and wars, and the harmony between nations. All this is due to the prayers that rise up from monasteries and convents. Oh, if mortals only understood how to appreciate the time given to them, and would take advantage of each moment of their lives, how different the world would be! And a considerable number of souls would not fall to their eternal perdition! But this contempt is the fundamental cause for their downfall!” (Our Lady of Good Success). Ah, yes! “This contempt is the fundamental cause for their downfall!” The vast majority of Catholics today place very little stock in the power of the spiritual. Their chief tools are humanistic allied to the technological. They think that the crises―be it in the Church, or in politics, or in the presidential election―can be solved by rolling-out the “god of knowledge”. They have bought-into the fallacy that “knowledge is power”―so they seek as much knowledge as they can get on the issues and then they forward their “god of knowledge” (in YouTube video format, or perhaps an article they came across) to their fellow Catholics with the dogmatic command of “Make it go viral” … “Forward it to everyone on your e-mail list” or “add your name to the petition” or “write/phone your governor or state representative” etc. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! What a load of &$#@%&$#!!! The poor deluded idiots―Communists like to call them “Useful Idiots”―with their infantile Faith fail to see that this is no way a human battle, but ultimately a Satanic battle―which was revealed to Sr. Lucia of Fatima as being the Final Battle between Satan and the Blessed Virgin Mary. Mere human weapons and means are as impotent in such a battle as using a water pistol against tanks or airplanes! Sure―without doubt―some knowledge is necessary, because you cannot fight against an enemy that you do not know! But what people are doing is falling into the trap of information overload, intellectual constipation and verbal diarrhea―with very little effective action being produced to combat the many different crises. How the devil loves that―as he pours more fuel (more knowledge) on the fire. The idiotic Catholic ends up being like a headless-chicken, running around shouting for the millionth time: “There’s a fire! There’s fire!” Calling, texting forwarding pictures and videos of that fire―without stopping to think about actually putting that fire out! Is This the Best America Has to Offer? Really? Who rules this world anyway? Yes—the devil is the prince of the world—but he is not in total control. Even less control is in the hands of the super-powers and their leaders—such as the USA, Russia and China. Even the “Elites” and “Money-Men” and “Select Families” who hover as puppet-masters behind the scenes, pulling the strings of their puppets in government, finance, military and medicine—even they are not in total control. As we see in Holy Scripture, the devil is ultimately under the power of God—he needs God’s permission for everything. A humbling thought—but the devil will never be humble. Satan could not lift a finger against Job in the Old Testament without God allowing it and setting the limits to how much Satan could do. Our Lord said to Pontius Pilate that he would not have any power over Christ had that power not been given to Pilate by God: “Thou shouldst not have any power against Me, unless it were given thee from above!”
The same applies to the so-called “Super-Powers”, “Elites”, “Money-Men”, or whoever may think they are in charge, but the fools fail to realize that in anything and everything that they do, the power of God is behind the scenes—allowing, blocking, limiting or even destroying their plans. The “mind-games” that the Elites and Super-Powers create and play can only occur if God allows it. Our Lord’s words: “Without Me you can do nothing!” (John 15:5)—do not just apply to His followers, but also to His enemies. If God controls absolutely everything by almighty power, why then is He allowing all this evil to happen in the world? Is God not supposed to be a loving God, a good God? If so, then why not stop evil in its tracks? What kind of a father allows his children to suffer when he could prevent that suffering? Well, the answer is a simple three-letter word—SIN. God actually did prevent any and all suffering from harming Adam and Eve—God’s providence literally made Adam’s life a “paradise on Earth”. Adam was not meant to get sick, not meant to die, not meant to suffer anything—but he “blew-it” by sinning—and thus opened the flood gates of suffering for the whole world. “The wages of sin is death!” (Romans 6:23). “The sting of death is sin” (1 Corinthians 15:56). “Sin hath reigned to death!” (Romans 5:21). “Sin, when it is completed, begetteth death!” (James 1:15). “By one man sin entered into this world [like a virus―the virus of Original Sin], and, by sin, death; and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned!” (Romans 5:12). “From the woman came the beginning of sin, and by her we all die!” (Ecclesiasticus 25:33). “Everyone shall die for his own sin!” (Deuteronomy 24:16). “Be not deceived, God is not mocked! For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh, of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit, of the spirit shall reap life everlasting” (Galatians 6:7-8). Right now, there is an awful lot of “sowing in the flesh” going on! We would all agree that the number and gravity of sins was much less 60 years ago—yet this is what Our Lady said of the world 60 years ago (64 years ago actually, in 1956): “People are offending God too much! If I were to show you all the sins committed on a single day, you would surely die of grief! These are grave times! The world is in total turmoil because it is in a worse condition than at the time of the deluge! All is hanging on a slender thread! When that thread shall snap, Divine Justice shall pounce upon the world and execute its dreadful, purging designs! All the nations shall be punished because sins, like a muddy river, are now covering all the Earth!” Fast-forward from 1956 to 1973 and Our Lady further adds: “Many men in this world afflict the Lord. In order that the world might know His anger, the Heavenly Father is preparing to inflict a great chastisement on all mankind. As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one never seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. If sins increase in number and gravity, there will be no longer pardon for them.” Yet—as we can clearly see—sin is the last thing on the minds of the presidential candidates as they play their allocated parts and faithfully repeat the scripts that they have been presented with. The “two-party-system” is nothing but Hollywood superimposed upon politics (theatrics or pure political theater). All this talk and hype about “Making America Great Again” and “Keeping America Great” is a bunch of baloney that is being fed to simpletons whose intelligence stops with their feelings and the latest tidbit found on social media or the internet. Before America can become “great” again, it needs to first find God, then find the true Faith and then live the true Faith. There is no “great” nation currently and hasn’t been for hundreds of years! Yet people don’t realize that—because they have been raised on trivia and nonsense. The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of Sin America is “great” only by being in a “great mess”—its Protestants are gradually becoming atheists with each new generation, and its Catholics are becoming Protestants with each successive generation. Over 90% of Catholic youth stop practicing their Faith regularly by the time they graduate from high school or college. Most of them lose their Faith in their early teens—merely going through the motions until they can ‘escape’ from home. Even most of their parents no longer practice the Faith! America is “great” by the “great” number of sins that it produces annually—America’s GDP (Gross domestic product) of sin is sky high! Its Gross Domestic Product is indeed “gross”―averaging from 600,000 to 1, In August 2020, the public debt of the United States was around 26.73 trillion U.S. dollars ― for those who don’t know what a “trillion” is, a “trillion” is one million times one million. Thus, 26.73 trillion dollars is over 26 million times one million! That debt of $26.7 trillion is over $4.7 trillion more than a year earlier, when it was around 22.02 trillion U.S. dollars. If you do some simple calculations on the “economy” of sin and America’s “Gross Domestic Product” (GDP) of sin―then it is similar to the financial debt―but most people end up paying their debt in Hell! Is that “great”? More like “great” stupidity and a “great” shame―not something to be proud of! Currently (2020) America has a population of about 331 million. If you take away from that number the children who are under the age of reason (and so cannot formally sin―even though they do so materially) then you are left with around 300 million sinners! “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us” (1 John 1:8-10). Let us say, in theory, that everyone sleeps for 8 hours and is awake for 16 hours―and let us say that everyone on average commits perhaps 10 sins per hour (mostly venial―complaining, lying, insulting, bad language, cheating, laziness, sloppy work, neglect of duty, wasted time, etc., etc.). That would give each person around 160 sins per day or 58,400 sins per year per person. When you multiply that by the number of people who are of the age of reason in the USA―around 300 million―then you get an annual total of 17,520,000,000,000 sins or 17.5 trillion sins. Over 10 years that debt of sin is 175 trillion. Who on earth is paying off the debt my massive amounts of prayer and penance? Almost nobody! All the political talk is about man, money, the comfort and ease of life―the electorate want to be richer, they want more freedom (to sin)―the dollar is more important than the embryo; perversion is more important than purity; a hypocrisy shows itself where destructive and murderous riots break out over the killing of one adult, but hundreds of thousands of murdered babies go largely unnoticed each year. They talk of “systemic racial abuse” but ignore an even greater “systemic baby abuse”! The mother is given a “right” to sacrifice her baby on “the altar of the dollar” or “the altar of convenience”―and nobody is allowed to call it what it is―plain murder! It is now a “hate crime” against the aborting mother to call her action a “hate crime” against her baby! “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!” (Isaias 5:20). “They have not called upon God! There have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear! For God hath scattered the bones of them that please men! They have been confounded, because God hath despised them!” (Psalm 52:6). “Do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If I yet pleased men, then I should not be the servant of Christ” (Galatians 1:10). Fools Fooling Themselves Don’t fool yourself or live in cocooned dreamworld―imagining things to be more or less tolerable for now! Read again the words of Our Lady above―things are NOT tolerable in Heaven, but they have come to be INTOLERABLE. “People are offending God too much! If I were to show you all the sins committed on a single day, you would surely die of grief! These are grave times! The world is in total turmoil because it is in a worse condition than at the time of the deluge! All is hanging on a slender thread! When that thread shall snap, Divine Justice shall pounce upon the world and execute its dreadful, purging designs! All the nations shall be punished because sins, like a muddy river, are now covering all the Earth! In order that the world might know His anger, the Heavenly Father is preparing to inflict a great chastisement on all mankind. As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one never seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. If sins increase in number and gravity, there will be no longer pardon for them.” That is what should be the topic of conversation! That is what should be preached from the housetops! Until we squarely face our worldwide and individual sinfulness―and for most Catholics, NEGLIGENCE in acting in the face of all this sin by prayer and penance―then there will no solution, nor any escape from what God is allowing His enemies to do to both the Church and mankind. We need MANY Masses offering against these plots, plans, agendas of God’s enemies! MAKE MASS OFFERINGS GO VIRAL―not YouTube videos! Start getting serious about the Holy Rosary―this month of the Holy Rosary―is a good incentive and a good time to start. Don’t just SAY your Rosary, but PRAY it! Don’t just pray a decade Rosary daily―but PRAY MANY MORE! Little St. Francisco Marto of Fatima was told by Our Lady that he would not go to Heaven until he had PRAYED MANY ROSARIES! What are that little boy’s sins compared to the deluge of sin that has flooded the world today? St. Padre Pio would pray MANY Rosaries daily―anywhere from 30 five-decade Rosaries to 50 Rosaries a day, depending on circumstances. When asked by a woman how is it that he could pray so many Rosaries in a day―St. Padre Pio retorted: “How is it that you pray so few Rosaries each day?” Joe Biden is on record as saying that he derives great consolation and peace from the Mass and the Rosary―it is to asked if it that gives him as much peace as the abortions that he supports or the LGBT agenda that he supports? Neither candidate is truly godly―they perfectly fit the bill of the following words of God: “The Lord hath looked down from Heaven upon the children of men―to see if there be any that understand and seek God. They are all gone aside! They are become unprofitable together! There is none that doth good―no, not one! Their throat is an open sepulcher! With their tongues they acted deceitfully! The poison of asps is under their lips! Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness! Their feet are swift to shed blood! Destruction and unhappiness in their ways and the way of peace they have not known! There is no fear of God before their eyes! Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour My people as they eat bread? They have not called upon the Lord―there have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear!” (Psalm 13:2-5). Fear of losing the election―but not a fear of losing their souls! C'mon! Just Do It! Quit the Talk! Walk the Walk!
Modern technology has made us a breed of “talkers” and not “walkers”―we talk the talk, but don’t walk the walk; we prefer “knowing something” over “doing something”―we have become intellectually constipated by being fed knowledge constantly by the media. We are intellectually bloated and impotent in deeds. As they say: “Put your money where your mouth is!” It does not take much brains, as they say, to see that we are in the middle of several enormous crises and one hell of a mess! You really have to be heavily sedated by worldliness not to see that things are not good and that they are getting worse. The 2020 Presidential Election campaign is in full swing and ― for those who still have a head on their shoulders and a brain in that head with ears attached ― the smoke and mirrors” propaganda is everywhere; we hear a lot of talk with little substance, or, as they say, we see a lot of feathers but no bird. The truth of many issues and situations is obscured or embellished with misleading or irrelevant information. Gullible and naïve people are starting to run around like the proverbial headless chicken―which means, as the idiom dictionary says, “to carry on or act in a disorganized manner; to be in a state of panic, where there is a lot of running around or talking or blabbering which isn’t effective; running around aimlessly or without direction.” Running Around Like a Headless Chicken―or a Clueless Catholic? What is the difference between a headless chicken and a brainless Catholic or a clueless Catholic? Not that much really―except that the brainless or clueless Catholic runs around for a lot longer than a headless chicken. You may have heard of “KFC” or “Kentucky Fried Chicken”―but have you heard of “CCC” (no, not the Catechism of the Catholic Church―though many have not heard of, nor read that, either), but “CCC” as in “Colorado Chopped Chicken”. But before developing this intriguing comparison between brainless birds and clueless Catholics, you first need to be “clued-up” about “CCC”―the “Colorado Chopped Chicken”―for you are probably a “CC”―a Clueless Catholic”―on the subject of “CCC”―the “Colorado Chopped Chicken.” So before you “chicken-out” of reading this article―because you sense it might ruffle your feathers or make you fall off your perch―just nestle down and roost for a while and learn about the “Colorado Chopped Chicken” or “The Headless Chicken who Refused to Die”. After that we can talk about “Headless Catholics”, “Clueless Catholics”, “Brainless Catholics” and “Brain-dead Catholics”. Michael the Archangel or Mike the Chicken September is the month of the feast of St. Michael the Archangel―September 29th being the actual date. Yet did you know that September is also the ‘feast’ of Mike the Chicken―who was supposed to be the feast on the dinner table, but never got there! Mike the Chicken’s ‘feast’ day is September 10th―for Mike was ‘martyred’ or butchered on September 10th, 1945, weighing just over 2lbs, which means that Mike was less than 1 year old―which makes this year, 2020, Mike’s 75th anniversary or diamond jubilee. In fact, Mike the Chicken was still alive and kicking―although without a head―when Donald Trump was born in June of 1946! Joe Biden―born in 1942―was only two-and-a-half years old when Mike the Chicken was born! Trump was only a 10-month old baby when Mike the Chicken left this world in March of 1947―after living 18 months without his head.
His fame and fortune would earn him recognition by being featured in Life and Time magazines. He was also photographed for dozens of magazines and newspapers. Curious sideshow patrons in New York, Atlantic City, Los Angeles, and San Diego lined up to pay 25 cents to see Mike. At the height of his popularity, the chicken’s owner earned US$4,500 per month (equivalent to $65,000 per month in 2020). The “Wonder Chicken” Mike was valued and insured at $10,000 (equivalent to $145,000 in 2020)―some expensive chicken or “golden goose”!
In March 1947, at a motel in Phoenix on a stopover while traveling back from tour, Mike started choking in the middle of the night. He had managed to get a kernel of corn in his throat. A vital bodily function that Mike needed help with was the clearing mucus from his throat. The Olsens fed him with an eyedropper, and cleared his throat with a syringe. However, the Olsens had inadvertently left their feeding and cleaning syringes at the sideshow the day before, and so were unable to save Mike. Without the syringe that was habitually used to clear Mike’s open esophagus, Miracle Mike passed on. The chicken’s severed trachea, which was blocked by some grain, could not properly take in enough air to be able to breathe, and it therefore choked to death in the motel. Olsen at first claimed that he had sold the bird off, resulting in stories of Mike still touring the country as late as 1949. Headless Chickens, Brainless Catholics, Clueless Catholics Man is defined as being a “rational animal”―meaning that we have physical bodies like animals, but we also have a rational soul that reasons, thinks, analyzes, understands, memorizies and judges―which is what animals cannot do. Take away―or diminish the rational or thinking side of our nature and we are no longer “rational animals” or “thinking animals” but only animals―and so we act like animals. This is something that we are increasingly seeing all around us as the dumbing-down process continues to even greater depths than ever―leaving people more ignorant than ever, more stupid than ever, more clueless than ever―where intelligence is replaced by emotion, in other words, emotional feelings replace rational thoughts. “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools!” (Romans 1:22). “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes!” (Proverbs 12:15). “Fools despise wisdom and instruction” (Proverbs 1:7). “A fool will laugh at sin” (Proverbs 14:9). “A fool laughs at instruction” (Proverbs 15:5). “The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God” (1 Corinthians 3:19). “For My foolish people have not known Me! They are foolish and senseless children! They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge!” (Jeremias 4:22). “Hear, O foolish people without understanding―who have eyes, and see not: and ears, and hear not. Will not you then fear Me, saith the Lord: and will you not repent at My presence?” (Jeremias 5:21). 
The “Do Nothing” or “Do Wrong Thing” Catholics
Those words of Our Lord should haunt every Catholic: “Why stand you here all the day idle?” (Matthew 20:6). If there is anything we are usually more idle about―it is our Faith! We are minimalists when it comes to the Faith―doing the minimum that we think we can get away with while still saving our souls or scraping into Heaven by the skin of our teeth! Yet when it comes to the world, we are maximalists―seeking to get the most possible out of the world. In essence―whether we see it or not, admit it or not―we are seeking to serve both God and world, God and mammon―which Our Lord says is impossible: “Lay not up to yourselves treasures on Earth! … But lay up to yourselves treasures in Heaven! … For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also! … No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other―or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon!” (Matthew 6:19-24). Governments are Merchants of Sin and Legislators of Lawlessness In the same way you cannot serve the modern politics of the world and the “politics” of God―because “the kings of the Earth stood up, and the princes met together, against the Lord and against His Christ [saying]: ‘Let us break their bonds asunder and let us cast away their yoke from us!’” (Psalm 2:2-3). To whom God says: “My thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the Heavens are exalted above the Earth, so are my ways exalted above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts” (Isaias 55:8-9). Why on Earth are we tolerating, supporting, voting and fighting for politicians and potential presidents who are opposed to God? What on earth is going on in our minds? Have we lost our heads? Have we lost our brains? Have we become headless chickens, brainless Catholics, clueless Catholics? For Heaven’s sake―whose side are we on? Who are you voting for? You are voting for the merchants of sin, who should be, instead, "cast out of the temple"! Today’s governments are the purveyors and enablers of sin! Regardless of which party or leaning―all of them are ultimately “sin-merchants” and brainless Catholic “sheeple” follow them as though they were the only shepherds that there are! Those politicians, governments and brainless Catholics are dumb for having lost the sense of sin as being the greatest evil in the world: “Sin is the only evil upon Earth” … “Mortal sin is a great evil, the greatest evil in the world, a greater evil than disease, poverty, or war, because it separates us from God … [venial sin] is second only in evil consequences to mortal sin” (The Catechism Explained, Spirago-Clarke; My Catholic Faith, Bishop Morrow, STD). Pope St. Pius X in Acerbo Nimis (April 15th, 1905), his encyclical on religious ignorance, clearly states: “The enemy has, indeed, long been prowling about the fold and attacking it with such subtle cunning that now, more than ever before … Those who still are zealous for the glory of God are seeking the causes and reasons for this decline in religion ... We are forced to agree with those who hold that the chief cause of the present indifference and the serious evils that result from it, is to be found above all in ignorance of things divine. This is fully in accord with what God Himself declared through the Prophet Osee: “And there is no knowledge of God in the land. Cursing and lying and killing and theft and adultery have overflowed.” It is a common complaint, unfortunately too well founded, that there are large numbers of Christians in our own time who are entirely ignorant of those truths necessary for salvation. And when we mention Christians, We refer not only to the masses or to those in the lower walks of life ― for these find some excuse for their ignorance in the fact that the demands of their harsh employers hardly leave them time to take care of themselves or of their dear ones — but We refer to those especially who do not lack culture or talents and, indeed, are possessed of abundant knowledge regarding things of the world, but live rashly and imprudently with regard to religion. It is hard to find words to describe how profound is the darkness in which they are engulfed and, what is most deplorable of all, how tranquilly they repose there. They rarely give thought to God … They have no conception of the malice and baseness of sin; hence they show no anxiety to avoid sin or to renounce it. “Our Predecessor, Pope Benedict XIV, had just cause to write: “We declare that a great number of those who are condemned to eternal punishment suffer that everlasting calamity because of ignorance of those mysteries of Faith which must be known and believed in order to be numbered among the elect.” … This erring will, blinded by its own evil desires, has need therefore of a guide to lead it back to the paths of justice whence it has so unfortunately strayed. The intellect itself is this guide … It is a guide, though, that, if it lack its companion light, the knowledge of divine things, will be only an instance of the blind leading the blind so that both will fall into the pit. … In fine, Christian teaching not only bestows on the intellect the light by which it attains truth, but from it our will draws that ardor by which we are raised up to God and joined with Him in the practice of virtue … A man who walks with open eyes may, indeed, turn aside from the right path, but a blind man is in much more imminent danger of wandering away. Furthermore, there is always some hope for a reform of perverse conduct so long as the light of Faith is not entirely extinguished; but if lack of Faith is added to depraved morality because of ignorance, the evil hardly admits of remedy, and the road to ruin lies open. How many and how grave are the consequences of ignorance in matters of religion! And on the other hand, how necessary and how beneficial is religious instruction! It is indeed vain to expect a fulfillment of the duties of a Christian by one who does not even know them.” Ideas Have Consequences―The Consequence of No Ideas is No Action Ideas have consequences. Actions follow ideas―if you have no idea, you will have no action. That is where the Catholic world finds itself today―it has little idea of the Faith and so little action is taken in the domain of Faith. “Faith without works is dead” (James 2:12)―Catholics today are without works and so they are “dead”, or “brain-dead”, because they no longer think spiritually or supernaturally, but only materially and naturally. They are not of God―the desires of the world they do, thus the desires of the devil they do―for the devil is the prince of this world―and the desire of the devil is that we do little or nothing for the Faith. Satan knows that it is easier to stop people living the Faith than stop them believing the Faith. Hence there are many who call themselves Catholic, who believe themselves to be Catholic, and who, by Baptism are Catholic―but they are Catholic in name only, because they not live the Faith as it should be lived, they have little or no works, they have no charity and they live in mortal sin. When you are in mortal sin, your prayers for others and other causes are useless―God will merely let your prayers “rebound” on yourself in the hope that you convert and return to God and the state of sanctifying grace. Likewise with you works and merits―you merit nothing in mortal sin, except perhaps the actual graces to repent, convert and return to God and the state of sanctifying grace. In other words, you might still be soldier of Christ―but you are a useless soldier, you are impotent in the fight against the devil and the world, because you are mortally wounded―that is what the devil wants and enjoys seeing: wounded, impotent, useless soldiers―and their number is legion! The vast majority of the Catholic world is mortally wounded―in a state of mortal sin, without sanctifying grace in the soul. That should be a pretty obvious conclusion since we are told that most souls end up being damned―you cannot be damned if you are in a state of sanctifying grace; you can only be damned if you are in a state of mortal sin. Faith Without Works Is Dead―Politics Without Faith Is Dead You are―no doubt―familiar with the Holy Scripture passage on Faith and works: “Faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself. But some man will say: ‘Thou hast Faith, and I have works!’ Show me thy Faith without works; and I will show thee, by works, my Faith! Thou believest that there is one God. Thou dost well: the devils also believe and tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that Faith without works is dead? Do you see that by works a man is justified; and not by Faith only? For even as the body without the spirit is dead; so also Faith without works is dead!” (James 2:17-26). You could paraphrase the above quote and transform its subject matter―Faith and Works―to the realm of politics and speak of Politics and Faith, so that it would read as follows: “Politics, if it have not Faith, is dead in itself. But some man will say: ‘Thou hast Politics, and I have Faith!’ Show me thy Politics without Faith; and I will show thee, by Faith, my Politics! Thou believest that there is one God. Thou dost well: the devils also believe and tremble. Thou dost say: ‘In God we trust!’ Thou dost well―but even devils have to trust in God for permission to act. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that Politics without Faith is dead? Do you see that by Faith joined to Politics a man is justified; and not by Politics only? For even as the body without the spirit is dead; so also Politics without Faith is dead!” (James 2:17-26). Taking it a stage further―and coming back to “Mike the Headless Wonder Chicken”―you could say that “Politics without Faith is like a Chicken without its Head”―meaning that Faith allows Politics to see where it is going, just as the eyes in the head of a chicken allow the chicken to see where it is going. Thus a headless chicken just runs around not knowing where it is going, just as Politics with Faith also runs around like a headless chicken, not knowing where it is going. Sadly, most of the political world (or coop) of today contains nothing but “headless chickens” or “Faith-less and faithless unfaithful politicians.” As Holy Scripture says: “Without Faith it is impossible to please God” (Hebrews 11:6)―and most of the political world has deliberately “divorced” itself from the Faith and is now a bedfellow of the world and its undercover prince, the devil. “This is a nation which hath not listened to the voice of the Lord their God, nor received instruction! Faith is lost and is carried away out of their mouth!” (Jeremias 7:28). “They are of the world—therefore of the world they speak, and the world heareth them! We are of God. He that knoweth God, heareth us. He that is not of God, heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error!” (1 John 4:5-6). Christless Christians―Headless Chickens―Faithless Politicians The current Congress of the United States has 535 members (which consists of the 100 members of the Senate and the 435 members of the House of Representatives). What you should know―but what you don’t know―is the religious affiliation of Congress. According analysis by the Pew Research Center in 2019, about 88% of Congress identifies as being Christian, compared with just 71% of all U.S. adults identifying themselves as Christian. Catholics now make up 31% of Congress; while only 21% of U.S. adults identify as Catholic. Democrats, including newly elected Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, are more likely than Republicans to identify as Catholic. More than a third of congressional Democrats (35%) are Catholic, while just over a quarter of Republicans (26%) identify as Catholic. Compared with the two previous Congresses, which saw the number of Catholic Democrats and Republicans about equal, the new Congress sees a large gap, with 86 Catholic Democrats and 55 Catholic Republicans. According to Pew Research Center, the percentage of Catholics in the last four congresses has remained stable, at around 31%. That is far higher than the 19% of Catholics who comprised the 87th Congress in 1961, just after the election of President John F. Kennedy. What adjectives can be used to describe the Faith―or lack of Faith―on the part of the 88% Christian membership of Congress (around 470 out of 535 members) when they allow or vote for clearly anti-Christian laws? What can be said of the 31% of Catholic members of Congress who betray their Faith on so many occasions? All of these politicians identify as being Christian or Catholic―but Our Lord would say of them: “Leave them alone! They are blind and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the pit” (Matthew 15:14). “Hypocrites! Well hath Isaias prophesied of you, saying: ‘This people honoureth Me with their lips: but their heart is far from Me. And in vain do they worship Me, teaching doctrines and commandments of men!’” (Matthew 15:7-9). They are heartless lips, headless chickens, faithless politicians―they refuse to let the light of the Faith into the dark caves of their politics―“who sit in darkness, and see not the light of Heaven?” (Tobias 5:12). Of such Holy Scripture says: “Return to Him, and obey His commandments with all thy heart, and with all thy soul!” (Deuteronomy 30:2). “In the perverseness of their heart, they have gone after strange gods to serve them and to adore them … whose heart departeth from the Lord” (Jeremias 13:10; 17:5). They “have gone away every man after the inclinations of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to do evil in the sight of the Lord God” (Baruch 1:22). “The heart of this people is grown gross, and with their ears they have been dull of hearing, and their eyes they have shut―lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them!” (Matthew 13:15). “If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to My Name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will send poverty upon you, and will curse your blessings, yea I will curse them, because you have not laid it to heart!” (Malachias 2:2). These Soldiers of Christ―that have become traitors of Christ―need our prayers more than our votes! Why vote for a replica of Antichrist? The laws that they pass, uphold and refuse to criticize are laws that anti-Christian, laws that go against the commands of Christ and the commandments of God. These “headless chickens” are running around in a political darkness―a darkness that lacks the light of Faith. “Jesus spoke to them, saying: ‘I am the Light of the world! He that followeth Me, walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life!” (John 8:12). “Jesus therefore said to them: ‘I am come as a light into the world―that whosoever believeth in Me, may not remain in darkness! … Walk whilst you have the light, so that the darkness overtake you not! For he that walks in darkness, knows not where he goes!” (John 12:46 & 35). These self-proclaiming ‘Christians’ have rejected the light and Faith of Christ ― “their eyes they have shut; lest perhaps they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them” (Acts 28:27)―and have made for themselves their own version of Christianity: “The Light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it … That was the true Light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world. He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not!” (John 1:5-11). Sadly, it is not only America’s Christian and Catholic politicians that “who sit in darkness, and see not the light of Heaven” (Tobias 5:12), but it also the American Christian and Catholic population who also sit in the same darkness―quite content and comfortable in a darkness that lacks the light of Christ and the light of Faith, which is offered to them “to enlighten them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death: to direct their feet into the way of peace” (Luke 1:79), to “open the eyes of the blind, and bring forth the prisoner out of prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house” ― which is the prison of Politics without Faith and Christ (Isaias 42:7). What will change things? Human solutions are mere illusions! You can talk all you want! You can pass on this or that YouTube video and make it “go viral” all you want! You can sign petitions all you want! These things do not change hearts and bring about conversions―and it is radical conversions that are needed. As our catechisms tell us: “Faith is a supernatural gift of God” ― and not of man. No man can give another man the Faith. Sure―we can instrumental in bringing the Faith to others―and that is where it IS USEFUL to teach, pass on information, point out things, etc. ― but all of this is merely firewood with a spark or a flame, or like a bullet or a rifle without the marksman or rifleman to pull the trigger. The gun does not fire itself, the firewood does not light itself―it needs someone to do that. It is in this sense that Our Lord says of Himself: “Without Me, you can do nothing!” (John 15:5) ― or, you could add: “Without Me, you can nothing except create one Hell of a mess!” ― and Hell is standing right there in the wings ready to take center stage. Today’s politicians with their godless politics have chosen to “go it alone” and “do it my way” ― but God says: “‘My thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways My ways!’ saith the Lord. ‘For as the Heavens are exalted above the Earth, so are My ways exalted above your ways, and My thoughts above your thoughts!’” (Isaias 55:8-9). It is not a case of voting Republican or Democrat―it is ultimately all about voting for Christ or Satan. Modern day politics, with its politicians, is not Christ-like―it ignores many, even most, of Christ’s laws and teachings―and Christ clearly says: “Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. [20] Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you!” (Matthew 28:19-20)―what is about the word “ALL THINGS” is it that we (and ‘Christian’ or ‘Catholic’ politicians) don’t understand? “He that is not with Me, is against Me: and he that gathereth not with Me, scattereth!” (Matthew 12:30). “For many will come in My Name … and they will seduce many!” (Matthew 24:5). One thinks of the 88% Christians or 31% Catholics in Congress who are making laws for people, who are meant to be leading the people―but leading them where? “Take heed you be not seduced―for many will come in my name … Go ye not therefore after them!” (Luke 21:8). These pseudo-‘Christians’ and pseudo-‘Catholic’ who want you to vote for them while at the same time they are opposed to the politics and manifesto of Christ, by supporting abortion, divorce and remarriage, homosexuality, same-sex marriages, euthanasia and separation of Church and State, which is nothing other than a separation of God and man, Faith and politics―a ‘divorce’ or ‘abortion’ in its own way! “Many shall come in My Name … and they shall deceive many!” (Mark 13:6). Remember―one does not become a heretic by refusing to believe ALL the dogmas that the Church teaches, by stubbornly and publicly refusing to believe JUST ONE SINGLE DOGMA you become a heretic. Solution? Mass Protest! What is solution? Mass protest! No―not the kind of mass protest that you are thinking about, with people taking to the streets in protest. No―this is not a human battle, but, as Sr. Lucia of Fatima said, it is a satanic battle and we cannot defeat Satan with human weapons. Sr. Lucia warned: “She [Our Lady] told me that the devil is engaging in a battle with the Virgin, a decisive battle. It is a final battle where one party will be victorious and the other will suffer defeat. So, from now on, we are either with God or we are with the devil; there is no middle ground” (Sr. Lucia of Fatima to Fr. Fuentes, December 26th, 1957). Our Lady of Akita said: “The only weapons that will remain for you will be the Rosary and Sign left by my Son!” ― in other words, the Holy Rosary and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass; devotion to the Immaculate Heart and the Sacred Eucharistic Heart of Jesus. You MUST pray more and more Rosaries and you MUST have Masses said for the double intention of (1) the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart and (2) the conversion or destruction of the enemies of the Church and State―they are really flip sides of the same coin. GET THOSE STIPENDS FOR THOSE MASSES IN THE HANDS OF AS MANY PRIESTS AS POSSIBLE. Not just one Mass―but many and continually until this threatening tsunami of evil is quelled and put down. The Mass is the GREATEST TREASURE AND WEAPON that we have―and the Rosary comes in a close second. St. Padre Pio said: “It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do without Holy Mass!” He also said: “The Rosary is THE weapon!” The candidate that we and all Christians and Catholics are or should be voting for―or praying for―is Christ Himself. He knows how to handle this election without being pestered by our naïve, childish, infantile, ignorant, biased, two-cents worth of worthless suggestions. He is the electrician, or plumber, or brain-surgeon who will do the work―we merely need to pay Him for His work through those Masses and Rosaries and humbly keep our mouths shut and our opinions, plans and solutions to ourselves. God knows how to brings good out of evil―we cannot: “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible!” (Matthew 19:26). Nevertheless, as St. Augustine says: “God created us without us: but He did not will to save us without us” (Sermon 169, 11, 13)―meaning that God cannot save us without us, because, without our desire and cooperation, He will not force Himself upon us. We need to ask for God’s help―nay, beg for God’s help: “In all things whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive!” (Matthew 21:22). But “hitherto you have not asked anything in My Name. Ask, and you shall receive; that your joy may be full!” (John 16:24). Yes―“the things that are impossible with men, are possible with God!” (Luke 18:27), but “he that turneth away his ears from hearing the law, his prayer shall be as abomination” (Proverbs 28:9). “We know that God doth not hear sinners―but if a man be a server of God, and does His will, him God heareth!” (John 9:31). “Why call you Me: ‘Lord! Lord!’ and do not the things which I say?” (Luke 6:46). Yes, God can turn things around if we ask Him. “And Jesus looking on them, saith: ‘With men it is impossible; but not with God: for all things are possible with God!’” (Mark 10:27) ― but “you ask and receive not because you ask amiss!” (James 4:3). Do not underestimate or take lightly the current dangers threatening the Church, the State and mankind! Listen to sound of the warning trumpet and sound your own warnings― “Cry! Cease not! Lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their wicked doings and their sins” (Isaias 58:1) … “And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: ‘Son of man! Speak to the children of thy people, and say to them: “When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man, one of their meanest, and make him a watchman over them, and he see the sword coming upon the land, and sound the trumpet, and tell the people―then he that heareth the sound of the trumpet, whosoever he be, and doth not look to himself, if the sword come, and cut him off, then his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not look to himself―so his blood shall be upon him. But if he look to himself, he shall save his life. And if the watchman see the sword coming, and sound not the trumpet: and the people look not to themselves, and the sword come, and cut off a soul from among them―then he indeed is taken away in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at the hand of the watchman. So thou, O son of man, I have made thee a watchman … Therefore thou shalt hear the word from My mouth, and shalt tell it them from Me!’” (Ezechiel 33:1-7). So―once again―let it be stressed that you MUST pray more and more Rosaries and you MUST have Masses said for the double intention of (1) the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart and (2) the conversion or destruction of the enemies of the Church and State―they are really flip sides of the same coin. This double intention is the umbrella that covers all the various threats that are currently hanging above our heads. GET THOSE STIPENDS FOR THOSE MASSES IN THE HANDS OF AS MANY PRIESTS AS POSSIBLE. Not just one Mass―but many and continually―until this threatening tsunami of evil is quelled and put down. The Mass is the GREATEST TREASURE AND WEAPON that we have―and the Rosary comes in a close second. St. Padre Pio said: “It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do without Holy Mass!” He also said: “The Rosary is THE weapon!” “And the Lord gave a great victory!” (2 Kings 23:12). “After a hard fight, by the help of God, they got the victory … "And when this was done, they blessed the Lord with hymns and thanksgiving, Who had given them the victory” (2 Machabees 12:11; 10:38). Then we will be able to say: “Thanks be to God, Who hath given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” ― through the Sacrifice of the Mass (1 Corinthians 15:57). “For the word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness; but to them that are saved, that is, to us, it is the power of God!” (1 Corinthians 1:18). A U.S. Presidential Election or a Fight for the Faith?
The typical lukewarm superficial armchair Catholic recoils when disturbed by the thought that the Faith might actually require Catholics to fight—and not just fight among themselves! This Catholic infighting is a source of amusement and joy to the devils—whose perpetual stratagem has always been one of “divide and conquer”—a tactic that has brought about havoc in every age since the time of Adam and Eve, when Satan succeeded in dividing Eve from God, and Cain from Abel. He has brought about countless cases of division within the Church, within the Nations and States, within cities and communities, within parishes and schools, and not least of all, within families. “And the Lord said: ‘Simon! Simon! Behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat!” (Luke 22:31). The Cambridge Dictionary defines the verb “to sift” as meaning “to separate” — hence divide. Thus, Our Lord is saying: “Satan desires to separate you! To divide you!”
The preferred way to divide is to divide from the inside, to divide from within, to divide in a hidden, clandestine, secret manner. This requires infiltrating the group or organization or community or nation that you wish to divide. Some may think that this “Conspiracy Theory” stuff — but Our Lord Himself spoke of this “divide and conquer” tactic: “And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand! And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand!” (Mark 3:24-25). “And Jesus knowing their thoughts, said to them: ‘Every kingdom divided against itself shall be made desolate, and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand!” (Matthew 12:25). “But Jesus, seeing their thoughts, said to them: ‘Every kingdom divided against itself, shall be brought to desolation, and house upon house shall fall!’” (Luke 11:17). “And if Satan be risen up against himself, he is divided, and cannot stand, but hath an end” (Mark 3:26). “And if Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand?” (Luke 11:18). That is why Satan loves democracies over monarchies—it is far easier to divide a group than it is to divide a single person. That is why Satan has worked hard at destroying families—by seeking to destroy and replace the “monarchy” of the father, with the “democracy” of the entire family, where everyone has a vote on family policies. St. Thomas Aquinas says, in his work entitled, On Kingship (De Regno), that “the aim of any ruler should be directed towards securing the welfare of that which he undertakes to rule” and that a king would be the best to do so — much like the captain of a ship. If there is rule by many, then the government and country are prone to disunity — which is what is seen in most modern democracies. As Aquinas argues, “for union is necessary among them if they are to rule at all—several men, for instance, could not pull a ship in one direction unless joined together in some fashion.” And so St. Thomas believed one man is better at keeping a country united. He also believed that rule by one is the natural order of things. As St. Thomas writes, “whatever is in agreement with nature is best, for in all things nature does what is best. Now, every natural governance is governance by one.” History, according to Aquinas, shows that the natural order is to have a king: “For provinces or cities, which are not ruled by one person, are torn with dissensions and tossed about without peace.” You can see the truth of this manifested in so many families, where, if the father of the family is not a leader who is God-fearing, strong, fair, just and in control, then you have chaos and anarchy, where everyone is arguing and basically doing what they want. Revolution and Division Revolution and Division are merely flip sides of the same coin. If you are going to have a revolution, then it means dividing or splitting from an accepted state of affairs—breaking away from the way in which things are usually done, breaking away from customary attitudes or beliefs, etc. A Revolution is defined as “a sudden, radical, or complete change; a fundamental change in political organization; a fundamental change in the way of thinking about or visualizing something; the overthrow or renunciation of one government or ruler and the substitution of another by the governed.” The word “Division” is defined as “the act or process of dividing; the state of being divided; an act of separating into parts, portions, or shares; a part separated or distinguished from the rest; state of being at variance in sentiment or interest; the condition or an instance of being divided in opinion or interest — as in disagreement, disunity.” The English word “division” appears in the early 14th century meaning “to separate into parts or pieces,” coming from the Latin verb “dividere” meaning “to force apart, to sever the union or connection with, to disunite, to cause to disagree in opinion.” Our Revolutionary Age Every age in history has witnessed division and revolution to a certain degree—but never in the history of mankind have we seen such frequency and universality of division and revolution as we see today. Pandemic seems to be the “in-word” these days—well, the word “pandemic” is most fitting and appropriate when attached to division and revolution. You find the viruses of division and revolution — call them DIVid-19 & REVid-19 if you want — everywhere: in every family, parish, school, workplace, community, city, state and nation — it has infected the Faith, morality, medicine, politics, education, finance, culture, etc. We have all felt the symptoms of DIVid-19 & REVid-19 (division and revolution) from one source or another—or have even been carriers ourselves! We have become accustomed to the diet of division and revolution—we see it on the news, it is part and parcel of most movies and soap operas, we experience it at work, it is present in our parishes and schools, it has even burrowed its way into all families. The viruses hit the children at ever increasingly younger ages—it is no longer the teen years that manifest division and revolution, it now hits children from the ages of reason onwards. Division and revolution no longer shocks us, nor alarms us, we expect it, we have started to treat it as a ‘normal’ aspect of life in which we ourselves often participate. Thus we gradually (perhaps reluctantly at first) the revolution in the Faith, the revolution in morals, the revolution in culture and fashion, the revolution in art, the revolution in politics, the revolution in social conventions—everywhere and anywhere we turn, we experience divisions and revolutions. We forget the basic principle that God is the foundation of truth and unity, while Satan is the cause of division and lies. Even Traditional and Conservative Catholics—well-meaning though they might be—are drawn into the ever widening whirlpool of division and revolution, excusing themselves by protesting that it is all in the cause of truth, in defense of the Faith, for the good of the Church, etc., etc. They will attack those whom they perceive to be in error and often in insulting ways! They have no qualms in detracting others—always under the excuse and banner of truth! You would almost think that they have never read the words of Christ, where He says: “The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost!” (Luke 19:10) … “Go then and learn what this meaneth: ‘I will have mercy and not sacrifice!’ For I am not come to call the just, but sinners” (Matthew 9:13) … “I came not to call the just, but sinners to penance!” (Luke 5:32). Their Way Is Not Christ’s Way Too often, we Catholics are tempted to think that our way of doing things must automatically be God’s way—just because we are Catholic and we mean well! Yet God Himself says: “My thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the Heavens are exalted above the Earth, so are My ways exalted above your ways, and My thoughts above your thoughts” (Isaias 55:8-9). There are too many Catholics— and more than just a few Traditional and Conservative Catholics—who are ruled predominantly by a spirit of bitter zeal. Yet in doing so, they break other fundamental tenets and principles of the Faith they are purporting to defend! They forget fundamental counsels of Holy Scripture, such as: “Let all bitterness, and anger, and indignation, and clamor, and blasphemy, be put away from you, with all malice. And be ye kind one to another; merciful, forgiving one another, even as God hath forgiven you in Christ!” (Ephesians 4:31-32). In the words of Pope St. Pius X: “So that Christ may be formed in all, be it remembered that no means is more efficacious than charity … It is vain to hope to attract souls to God by bitter zeal. On the contrary, harm is done more often than good by taunting men harshly with their faults, and reproving their vices with asperity” (Encyclical E Supremi). Holy Scripture adds: “If a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness—considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted!” (Galatians 6:1). Our Lord wisely said: “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her!” (John 8:7) … “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us … If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us” (1 John 1:8-10) … “Why seest thou the splinter that is in thy brother’s eye; and seest not the plank that is in thy own eye? Or how sayest thou to thy brother: ‘Let me cast the splinter out of thy eye!’ ― and behold there is a plank in thy own eye? Thou hypocrite! Cast out first the plank in thy own eye, and then shalt thou see to cast out the splinter out of thy brother’s eye!” (Matthew 7:3-5). Our Lord adds: “You have heard that it hath been said: ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thy enemy!’ But I say to you, Love your enemies! Do good to them that hate you and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you—so that you may be the children of your Father Who is in Heaven, who maketh His sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust. For if you love them that love you, what reward shall you have? Do not even the publicans this? And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more? Do not also the heathens this? Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect!” (Matthew 5:43-48). Seeking Unity in Truth—Not Division and Lies Though we might disagree on some things, the preservation of unity—especially the unity of Faith—is of paramount importance. “Stand fast in one spirit, with one mind, laboring together for the Faith of the Gospel” (Philippians 1:27) … “One Lord, one Faith, one Baptism!” (Ephesians 4:5) ... “Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell in unity!” (Psalm 132:1) ... St. Peter says: “Be ye all of one mind!”(1 Peter 3:8). St. Paul adds: “Be of one mind, having the same charity, being of one accord, agreeing in sentiment. Let nothing be done through contention!” (Philippians 2:2-3) … “Be of one mind, have peace; and the God of peace and of love shall be with you” (2 Corinthians 13:11) … “I beseech you, brethren, by the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you; but that you be perfect in the same mind, and in the same judgment … ” (1 Corinthians 1:10; 12:12) “As in one body we have many members … So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another … Being of one mind one towards another” (Romans 12:4-5; 16). In the following passage, St. Paul explains this need for unity amongst diversity in more detail: “For as the body is one, and hath many members; and all the members of the body, whereas they are many, yet are one body, so also is Christ. For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, whether bond or free. For the body also is not one member, but many. If the foot should say, because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear should say, because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were the eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? But now God hath set the members every one of them in the body as it hath pleased him. And if they all were one member, where would be the body? But now there are many members indeed, yet one body. And the eye cannot say to the hand: I need not thy help; nor again the head to the feet: I have no need of you. Yea, much more those that seem to be the more feeble members of the body, are more necessary. And such as we think to be the less honorable members of the body, about these we put more abundant honor; and those that are our uncomely parts, have more abundant comeliness. But our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, giving to that which wanted the more abundant honor, so that there might be no schism [division] in the body; but the members might be mutually careful one for another!” (1 Corinthians 12:12-25). Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem? As someone once said: “There is no more neutrality in the world. You either have to be part of the solution, or you're going to be part of the problem.” This is exactly the same sentiment expressed by Sr. Lucia of Fatima, when she said: “She [Our Lady] told me that the Devil is engaging in a battle with the Virgin, a decisive battle. It is a final battle where one party will be victorious and the other will suffer defeat. So, from now on, we are either with God, or we are with the Devil; there is no middle ground” (Sr. Lucia of Fatima to Fr. Fuentes, December 26th, 1957). Yet, as the same Sr. Lucia further stated, most Catholics do not want to be part of the solution—therefore they make themselves part of the problem: “The Blessed Virgin is very sad, because no one heeds her message; neither the good nor the bad. The good continue on the road of goodness with their life of virtue and apostolate without paying attention to this Message―they do not unite their lives to the message of Fatima [and therefore become part of the problem]. Sinners, the bad―because of their sins―do not see God’s chastisement about to fall upon them presently, and keep following the road of evil through sin, ignoring the Message, because they do not see the terrible chastisement about to befall them. But, Father, you must believe me that God is going to punish the world and chastise it in a tremendous way!” (Sr. Lucia of Fatima to Fr. Fuentes, December 26th, 1957). We either believe that our Faith can overcome the world, or we don’t believe it: “This is the victory which overcometh the world—our Faith!” (1 John 5:4). “And Jesus said to them: ‘Where is your faith?’” (Luke 8:25). “The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent bear it away!” (Matthew 11:12). “Fight the good fight of faith: lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art called!” (1 Timothy 6:12). Our Faith has more than enough power and weapons to overcome what is currently happening in the world—yet we do not want to exercise that Faith and use those weapons. The solutions are available, but the problem is that nobody is using those solutions! Catholics have been immersed in a materialistic, technological, humanistic culture for so long, that the only solutions that they look for are merely materialistic, technological or humanistic—they have totally lost focus and trust in the supernatural and spiritual tools and weapons that Heaven has given to us as solutions to our many different crises. Thus, analogically, we end up trying to extinguish a forest fire with a glass of water or a water pistol. We are trying to shoot down planes with pellets from a air-rifle; or using a feather-duster as a battering ram. If we say that we have the Faith—then let us use the weapons of Faith! Having the Faith is not enough! “Faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself. But some man will say: ‘Thou hast Faith, and I have works!’ Show me thy Faith without works; and I will show thee, by works, my Faith! Thou believest that there is one God. Thou dost well: the devils also believe and tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that Faith without works is dead? Do you see that by works a man is justified; and not by Faith only? For even as the body without the spirit is dead; so also Faith without works is dead” (James 2:17-26). It is time to start using your Faith before you start to lose it! The apostasy that has been prophesied for our times has already begun—if you do not make yourself part of the solution, then you will become part of the problem—and the problem is that you may well lose your soul. “About the eleventh hour, he went out and found others standing about idle, and he saith to them: ‘Why do you stand here all the day idle?’” (Matthew 20:6). Can Your Faith Move or Influence the Election?
Moving Mountains or Moving God to Move Nations?
The world is in a mess! America is in a mess! Most Catholics are in a mess! Who on earth can get us out of this mess? Like the Apostles, in the storm-tossed little boat on the lake, we are scared or even terrified (unless, of course, we have been anesthetized and numbed by ‘goodies’ of the world) and Our Lord seems to be asleep amidst all this! “And when Jesus entered into the boat, His disciples followed Him. And behold a great tempest arose in the sea, so that the boat was covered with waves—but He was asleep. And they came to Him and awakened Him, saying: ‘Lord! Save us! We perish!’ And Jesus said to them: ‘Why are you fearful, O ye of little faith?’ Then rising up He commanded the winds and the sea—and there came a great calm. But the men wondered, saying: ‘What manner of man is this? For the winds and the sea obey him!’” (Matthew 8:23-27). Sinking Ship? In case you yourself have been asleep on this Ark of the Church on which we are meant to be sailing to Heaven—we are in a mess, we are in one Hell of a storm—yes, a Hell created storm—as Our Lady foretold: “Lucifer, together with a large number of demons, will be unloosed from Hell; they will put an end to Faith, little by little, even in those dedicated to God … The Christian spirit will rapidly decay, extinguishing the precious light of Faith, until it reaches the point that there will be an almost total and general corruption of morals … Evil books will be abundant on Earth and the spirits of darkness will spread everywhere a universal slackening of all that concerns the service of God ... as true Faith fades and false light will brighten the people … The true Faith to the Lord having been forgotten … disorder and the love of carnal pleasures will be spread all over the Earth. People will think of nothing but amusement. The wicked will give themselves over to all kinds of sin. The wicked will make use of all their evil ways. The Church will be in eclipse, the world will be in dismay. How the Church will suffer during this dark night!” (Our Lady of Good Success & Our Lady of La Salette). Sister Lucia of Fatima confirmed this in 1957: “She [Our Lady] told me that the Devil is engaging in a battle with the Virgin, a decisive battle. It is a final battle where one party will be victorious and the other will suffer defeat. So, from now on, we are either with God or we are with the Devil; there is no middle ground” (Sr. Lucia of Fatima to Fr. Fuentes, December 26th, 1957). Faith to the Rescue! What can overcome this devilish onslaught? Yes—we know Our Lady spoke of the Rosary and the “sign” left by her Son—but those weapons are useless without one essential thing. What is that essential thing? It is Faith! Yes, the Rosary and the Mass are powerful weapons, but they require a powerful Faith to wield them in battle! “Whatsoever is born of God, overcometh the world—and this is the victory which overcometh the world—our Faith!” (1 John 5:4). “Fight the good fight of faith: lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art called!” (1 Timothy 6:12). “The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent bear it away!” (Matthew 11:12). Our Lord expects Faith to be present, Our Lord looks for Faith, He praises Faith when He finds it: “And Jesus said to them: ‘Where is your faith?’” (Luke 8:25). Of the centurion who sought a cure for his servant, Jesus said: “Amen I say to you, I have not found so great faith—not even in Israel!” (Luke 7:9). “According to your faith, be it done unto you!” (Matthew 9:29). To the woman seeking a cure for her possessed daughter, “Jesus answering, said to her: ‘O woman, great is thy faith! Be it done to thee as thou wilt!’ And her daughter was cured from that hour.” (Matthew 15:28). Does America Need Exorcizing? In a certain sense, the devil needs to be thrown out of America—which at the moment is chained to him. Satanism is on the rise everywhere—not least in the United States. The IRS has officially affirmed their status as a legitimate religion under the federal government of the United States. Amongst the privileges given to the Satanic Temple by the government are exemption from taxes and the ability to host public events. The Satanic Temple released this statement on the matter: “We are pleased to announce that for the very (first) time in history, a Satanic organization has been recognized by the United States Federal Government as being a church. The Satanic Temple recently received notice from the IRS affirming our status. This acknowledgement will help make sure the Satanic Temple has the same access to public spaces as other religious organizations, affirm our standing in court when battling religious discrimination, and enable us to apply for faith-based government grants.” As Our Lady said: “Lucifer, together with a large number of demons, will be unloosed from Hell; they will put an end to Faith, little by little! … Many will rebel against the spirit of the Catholic Church, impelled by the malice of the devil … The demon will be especially implacable against souls consecrated to God … The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against bishops ... The devil will resort to all his evil tricks to introduce sinners into religious orders, for disorder and the love of carnal pleasures will be spread all over the Earth … The chiefs, the leaders of the people of God, have neglected prayer and penance, and the devil has bedimmed their intelligence. They have become wandering stars which the old devil will drag along with his tail to make them perish. God will allow the old serpent to cause divisions among those who reign in every society and in every family.” If you cannot see that happening all around you—then it is highly doubtful that you will ever see and find the path to Heaven—you are, as Our Lord says, blind: “Leave them alone! They are blind and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the pit” (Matthew 15:14). We Are Looking at a Very Costly Work! The threatening storms that surround us and escalate with each month, need to be miraculously quelled. The moral and spiritual sickness—from which America is dying—needs to be cured. The answer from Heaven is: “According to your faith, be it done unto you!” (Matthew 9:29). If we turn to God with a humble yet confident Faith, begging His intervention and His mercy, then things may well change—but if you think one knock on the door suffices, or one Rosary suffices, or one Mass suffices, then something has short-circuited in your intelligence and your pride has swollen to unbelievable proportions! The offense and the damage caused by the uncountable sins of the world (our sins included) is not something that is going to simply brushed-off with a cursory “I’m sorry Lord! Now can we get back to normal?” The greater the sin, the greater the damage, the greater the reparation must be made. If you break someone’s coffee-cup, you might get away with an apology and a few dollars. However, if you destroy a person’s house, or even a whole city—then an apology and few dollars just isn’t going to “cut-the-mustard” and put things right! We should reflect upon Our Lady’s words to Blessed Elena Aiello on the gravity of our sinful situation: “People are offending God too much! If I were to show you all the sins committed on a single day, you would surely die of grief! These are grave times! The world is in total turmoil because it is in a worse condition than at the time of the deluge! All is hanging on a slender thread! When that thread shall snap, Divine Justice shall pounce upon the world and execute its dreadful, purging designs! All the nations shall be punished because sins, like a muddy river, are now covering all the Earth!” Our Lord (God) is, in a sense and a respectful sense, like handyman who can repair anything—but the handyman needs paying. The problem here is that we have also insulted and offended our heavenly Handyman by our innumerable sins. Not only do we have to pay for the work He will do—we have to eat some humble-pie, apologize sincerely and profusely for our offenses and then pay for any damages even before we pay Him for the work of fixing the world! “Be not deceived, God is not mocked! For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh, of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit, of the spirit shall reap life everlasting” (Galatians 6:7-8). God is willing to help—but we have to make some serious adjustments and put some things right before He will help—God is not a doormat or a “patsy” or a “pushover”. There is always a way back from the brink—but it is serious business, as God Himself points out: “The soul that sinneth, the same shall die … But if the wicked do penance for all his sins which he hath committed, and keep all my commandments, and do judgment, and justice, living he shall live, and shall not die … Is it my will that a sinner should die, saith the Lord God, and not that he should be converted from his ways, and live? … And you have said: ‘The way of the Lord is not right!’ Hear ye, therefore! Is it my way that is not right, and are not rather your ways perverse? … For when the just turneth himself away from being just and committeth iniquity, he shall die therein! In the injustice that he hath wrought he shall die! And when the wicked turneth himself away from his wickedness and doeth judgment and justice―he shall save his soul alive! … Therefore will I judge every man according to his ways, saith the Lord God. Be converted and do penance for all your iniquities and iniquity shall not be your ruin! Cast away from you all your transgressions by which you have transgressed, and make unto yourselves a new heart and a new spirit―and why will you die? For I desire not the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God, return ye and live!” (Ezechiel 18:20-32). “God Bless America” says the popular song—but God will not bless America’s sinfulness. To think He will bless and condone America’s sinfulness is a case of extreme of wishful thinking, or plain crackpot delusion. Neither will God accept the slick hypocritical “quasi-religious” gloss that politicians—and especially presidential candidates during election season—spin upon their public messages and speeches. The following words of Our Lord seem especially appropriate for politicians seeking to win over the Christian voters: “You have made void the commandment of God for your tradition [politics]. Hypocrites! Well hath Isaias prophesied of you, saying: ‘This people honoureth Me with their lips: but their heart is far from Me. And in vain do they worship Me, teaching doctrines and commandments of men [humanistic politics]!’” (Matthew 15:6-9). America needs to return to God—but that will never happen without much spiritual warfare and much prayer, penance and sacrifice—especially the Sacrifice of the Mass. It is absolutely and shockingly disappointing, dreadful, pitiful, pathetic and almost abominable to currently witness both (1) a sham and hypocritical religiosity being displayed not only during this Presidential Election campaign, but at all other times too; and (2) the incompetency of well-meaning Catholics, both clergy and laity alike, in their assessment as to what needs to be done for America! Those who mean well, seek to do well, but mainly end up running with fervor down the wrong road or in the wrong race. There has been a recent spate of Catholic priests and even bishops speaking out on some of the political issues involved in this 2020 Presidential Election—but, like many others who see the truth, their solution falls infinitely short of what is really needed. They are drawn into the humanist whirlpool that looks to and suggests merely human solutions to something that more than a mere human problem. The problem facing not just America—but the whole world—is something that goes beyond the human scope of possibility in solving the problem. “For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places” (Ephesians 6:12). Our Lord has clearly stated that Satan, the Devil or Lucifer is the “prince of this world” (John 12:31; 14:30; 16:11) — thus our battle is not merely human, but ultimately against Satan — and Holy Scripture further adds the manner in which we are to fight him and the world: “Your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour—whom resist ye, strong in Faith!” (1 Peter 5:8) … “Whatsoever is born of God, overcometh the world—and this is the victory which overcometh the world, our Faith!” (1 John 5:4). “Therefore take unto you the armor of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and to stand in all things perfect. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of justice, and your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace. In all things taking the shield of Faith, wherewith you may be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of the most wicked one! And take unto you the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit—which is the word of God. By all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the spirit!” (Ephesians 6:13-18). Faith is the foundation of our fight as Soldiers of Christ, which is why Holy Scripture says: “Fight the good fight of Faith!” (1 Timothy 6:12). “Without Faith it is impossible to please God!” (Hebrews 11:6). You have no chance of getting to Heaven if you refuse to fight for the Faith—for you are meant to be a Soldier of Christ and “The life of man upon Earth is a warfare!” (Job 7:1) — and not a time of fun and games! “The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent bear it away!” (Matthew 11:12). A war is without doubt a cross, a burden, a pain and of that cross Our Lord says: “If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me!” (Luke 9:23). “And whosoever doth not carry his cross and come after Me, cannot be My disciple!” (Luke 14:27). “And he that taketh not up his cross, and followeth Me, is not worthy of Me!” (Matthew 10:38). But all this is still a little vague—isn’t it? What does it really mean to “fight the good fight of Faith” and to “put on the armor of God” and what is this “shield of Faith” and the “sword of the Spirit”, etc.? This we will explain at more length in the next article and we will take closer look at what we can and should be doing in what is more than a mere human, political fight for the US Presidency, but what is ultimately a fight of the Faith. If You Only Had Faith!
Mountain Moving Faith!
Faith, they say, can move mountains—which is what Our Lord Himself, not only said, but also promised: “For, amen I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain: ‘Remove from here to there!’ and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you!” (Matthew 17:19). “And in the morning, returning into the city, he was hungry. And seeing a certain fig tree by the way side, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves only, and he said to it: ‘May no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever!’ And immediately the fig tree withered away. And the disciples, seeing it, wondered, saying: ‘How is it presently withered away?’ And Jesus answering, said to them: ‘Amen, I say to you, if you shall have faith, and stagger not, not only this of the fig tree shall you do, but also if you shall say to this mountain: ‘Take up and cast thyself into the sea!’ it shall be done. And in all things whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive” (Matthew 21:18-22). It is important to note and realize that when the we encounter the word “faith” in the Bible, it does not always and not only mean “Faith” as in the first of the three theological gifts (Faith, Hope and Charity)—whereby and wherewith we believe all things that God and His Church teaches, but the biblical use of the word “faith” often means a practical consequence of the fundamental virtue of Faith, a use of that Faith, a fruit of that Faith—in the sense of a Faith that not only believes in the power of God, but believes with confidence that something will happen as a result of that power. For example, we all have Faith freely given to us by God in our Baptism—but very few souls have nurtured that Faith to a point where it is a hopeful Faith, a strong Faith, a confident Faith, and miracle producing Faith. You could say that Faith is somewhat like a muscle—we all have muscles, but very few people have strong muscles, powerful muscles, race-winning muscles. Or compare it to intelligence—we have an intelligence as part of our God-given nature, but very few have a sharp, strong, penetrating intelligence, because they do not exercise it enough, they avoid lifting heavy intellectual weights and steer clear of things that burden, bore, pain or strain their intelligence. However—as they say—no pain, no gain! Electronic Faith—Technological Faith Instead of using our God-given intelligence more, we have succumbed to the seductive power of Artificial Intelligence or “AI” as they call it for short. Today, the ‘miracle working’ god of Science has replaced the miracle working God of Heaven; and we increasingly are seeing the ‘miracle working’ Artificial Intelligence replacing a miracle working Faith. Ask God for something and you never seem to get an answer—at least not immediately! Ask Google’s Artificial Intelligence digital assistant “Google Now”, or ask Apple’s “Siri”, or Amazon’s “Alexa”, or Microsoft’s “Cortana” — and your ‘prayers’ or requests are answered almost immediately, or at least within seconds. No wonder that many people are becoming more and more impressed with Artificial Intelligent—much more than they are with God and the Faith—and they are beginning to rely more on Science, Technology and Artificial Intelligence than they rely upon God. Put simply and bluntly—people are starting to have more faith in Science and Technology than they do in God. In a parody of the opening words of the Book of Genesis — “In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth. And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters. And God said: «Be light made!» And light was made” (Genesis 1:1-3) — the biblical parody, Neosecularia (which imitates the Bible but changes everything into technological language), states: “In the beginning, technologists created the science fiction. Now the fiction was formless and empty, and darkness lay over the surface of the science, and the spirit of mathematics hovered over their creation. And the technologists said, «Let there be Internet» and there was connection. Technologists called the Internet «community» and the science they called progress. And there was community and there was progress” (The first day, from the Neosecularia, 1:1-3). For those whose Latin is rusty or non-existent, “Neosecularia” literally means “New Age”, and echoes the “New World Order”—both of which are synonymous with the “Age of Satan” and a “Satanic Order” or “Satanic Rule” — which is where we are headed, as Our Lady warned: “From the end of the 19th century and especially in the 20th century, the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of morals, for Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects ... During this epoch the Church will find herself attacked by terrible assaults from the Masonic sect” (Our Lady of Good Success). “The ten Kings of the Antichrist, all of whom will have one and the same plan and will be the only rulers of the world” (La Salette). Satan promises power to those stooges who are willing to, in effect, sell their souls for the power and things of this world. Satan even tempted Christ in the desert—after His forty days and nights of prayer and fasting—with the same: “The devil took Him up into a very high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, and said to Him: ‘All these will I give thee, if falling down thou wilt adore me!’” (Matthew 4:8-9). Today, many are falling down and adoring the scientific and technological gods that Satan has helped produce. Do not kind yourself—most of modern technology is not of God, but from Satan. How can you know that? Simply by looking at the direction in which technology is headed and by the fruits it produces. Our Lord Himself said: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them!” (Matthew 7:15-20). What are the “fruits” of modern technology? Its fruits largely consist of pulling people more and more away from God, away from the spiritual life, away from the religious life, away from the Faith. Considering that, as the Catechism tells us, “God made me to know Him, love Him and serve Him in this life so that I may be happy with Him in the next life” and, as Jesus Himself says, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind, and with thy whole strength” (Mark 12:30) — then there seems to be a problem, a glitch, a breakdown or short-circuit in all of this, because the average person spends anywhere from 3 to 4 hours daily on the smartphone alone; 3 to 4 hours daily watching television. On average, American 8-to-12-year-olds spent 4 hours and 44 minutes on screen media each day. And teens average 7 hours and 22 minutes — not including time spent using screens for school or homework. Many people spend as much as 12 hours a day in front of TVs and computers – and that’s while at home! The words of Our Lord come to mind: “What! Could you not watch one hour with Me?” (Matthew 26:40) — and He doesn’t mean “watch” Him on the screen, but to spend time with Him! That is why there is so little true Faith to be found today, because there is too little time spent with God. You reap what you sow! “He who soweth sparingly, shall also reap sparingly” (2 Corinthians 9:6). “For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh, of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit, of the spirit shall reap life everlasting” (Galatians 6:8). Which reminds us of Our Lord’s parable about the Sower of the Seed: “The sower went out to sow his seed. And whilst he sowed, some fell by the way side, and it was trodden down by men, and the birds of the air came and ate it up. And some seed fell upon stony ground, where it had not much depth of earth, and the seed sprouted and shot up immediately, because there was no deepness of earth. But when the sun was risen, the sprouted seed was scorched, because it had no root and no moisture. And other seed fell among thorns: and the thorns grew up with it and choked it and it yielded no fruit. And others fell upon good ground: and this seed brought forth fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixtyfold, and some thirtyfold. “And His disciples asked Him what this parable might be. To whom Jesus said: ‘The parable is this! Hear therefore the [explanation of the] parable of the sower. The seed is the word of God. And they by the way side are they that hear. When any one hears the word of the kingdom, and understands it not, the devil, Satan, comes [the birds of the air] and takes the word [of God], which was sown in his heart, out of his heart―lest believing he should be saved―this is he that received the seed by the way side. And he that received the seed upon the rock or stony ground, is he that hears the word of God, immediately receives it with joy and believes for a while. Yet he has no root in himself, but keeps the word of God only for a time. For, in time of temptation, when tribulation and persecution arises because of the word of God, he is suddenly scandalized [weakened] and he falls away. And he that received the seed among thorns, is he that hears the word, but the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches and the pleasures of this life, choke up the word of God, and the word becomes fruitless and yields no fruit. But he that received the seed upon good ground, is he that hears and understands the word of God in a good and perfect heart, and bring forth fruit in patience; and the yield for one is a hundredfold, for another sixtyfold, and another thirtyfold!’” (Matthew 13:3-8, 13:18-23; Mark 4:3-8; Luke 8:5-15). Modern technology is like the thorns that Our Lord refers to in His parable, it chokes the Word of God, because it is all about “the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches and the pleasures of this life” which “choke up the word of God, and the word becomes fruitless and yields no fruit.” Don’t kid yourself—the many hours of daily screen time are rarely spent on religious matters, but purely worldly matters—“mammon” or the pleasures and treasures of the world. Yet Our Lord warned: “Lay not up to yourselves treasures on Earth! … But lay up to yourselves treasures in Heaven! … For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also! … No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other―or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon!” (Matthew 6:19-24). But who cares about what Our Lord say anymore? There are better things to listen to and watch on the screen! What's the Point of Voting? What Good Will It Do?
If you take the time to research a little into the electoral process throughout the world and read a little of the critical opinion available, then one thing surfaces universally—it is a dissatisfaction with the electoral process of democracies, with some countries even calling it a farce.
We have been so dumbed-down—and many people just love the comfortable state of being dumb, because it does not overheat the brain—that so many aberrations, falsities, injustices, immoralities and illogicalities end up passing under our dumbed-down radar. We no longer “think” so much as we “feel”, we have “impressions” rather than true “thoughts”, we “imagine” rather than “understand” — so much so that we no longer think much of being fed stupidity. “You are”, as they say, “what you eat!” Living a life of being fed childish things, superficial things, foolish things and stupid things—inevitably has obvious consequences. “O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge?” (Proverbs 1:22). “Fools despise wisdom and instruction” (Proverbs 1:7). Thus, if we are constantly being fed stupidity and we digest that stupidity, then we invariably become stupid fools: “A friend of fools shall become like to them” (Proverbs 13:20)—and, as Holy Scripture states: “The number of fools is infinite!” (Ecclesiastes 1:15). Politics—especially modern-day politics—pretends to be wise, yet God has already pronounced His verdict on man’s wisdom, be it political ‘wisdom’ or any other puffed-up, pretended, prideful wisdom: “The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written: ‘I will catch the wise in their own craftiness!’” (1 Corinthians 3:19) … “For My thoughts are not your thoughts; nor your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the Heavens are exalted above the Earth, so are My ways exalted above your ways, and My thoughts above your thoughts!” (Isaias 55:8-9). The world in general, and politics in particular, have not known the “ways” of the Lord—in fact, they reject the “ways” of the Lord: “And the children of Israel say: ‘The way of the Lord is not right!’ Are not My ways right, and are not rather your ways perverse?” (Ezechiel 18:29). In a similar way, God would say: “You politics is not My politics, and your manifesto is not My manifesto!” God is the true and ultimate ruler of the world—and not just the world, but the entire universe. Yet the rulers of this world do not want to serve under God: “The kings of the Earth stood up, and the princes met together, against the Lord and against His Christ, [saying]: ‘Let us break Their bonds asunder and let us cast away Their yoke from us!’ He that dwelleth in Heaven shall laugh at them: and the Lord shall deride them. Then shall He speak to them in His anger, and trouble them in his rage!” (Psalm 2:2-5). Give Us A King! Give US a President! You may remember—if you have cultivated the good habit of reading the Bible—that initially God was the ruler or king over Israel. Holy Scripture is full of quotes that indicate this—some of which are: “My King and my God!” (Psalm 5:3) … “Thou art Thyself my King and my God” (Psalm 43:5) … “God is the King of all the Earth! God shall reign over the nations! God sitteth on His holy throne!” (Psalm 46:8-9). “The Lord hath reigned … He hath established the world … Thy throne is prepared from of old! Thou art from everlasting!” (Psalm 92:1-2). “The Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. For in His hand are all the ends of the Earth!” (Psalm 94:3-4). “He hath on His garment, and on His thigh written: ‘King of kings, and Lord of lords’” (Apocalypse 19:16). Israel was originally a “theocracy” — “theos” meaning “God” — but they soon got tired of God and wanted a human being to rule over them—a king, just like the kings they saw in the worldly nations around them. “All the ancients of Israel being assembled, came to Samuel [God’s prophet and priest] and they said to him: ‘Behold thou art old! Give us a king, to judge us, as all nations have!’ And the word was displeasing in the eyes of Samuel, that they should say: ‘Give us a king, to judge us!’ And Samuel prayed to the Lord. And the Lord said to Samuel: ‘Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to thee! For they have not rejected thee, but Me—that I should not reign over them!’” (1 Kings 8:4-7). God’s Qualifications For Israel’s King God—being God—foresaw this rebellion from all eternity. Long before the Israelites threw off the yoke of God’s “theocracy”, we read in the Book of Deuteronomy, that God gave the qualifications for a king or ruler: “When thou art come into the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee, and possessest it, and shalt say—‘I will set a king over me, as all nations have that are round about!’—thou shalt set him whom the Lord thy God shall choose out of the number of thy brethren. Thou mayest not make a man king, who is of another nation, and not thy brother. And when he is made king, he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor lead back the people into Egypt, being lifted up with the number of his horsemen, especially since the Lord hath commanded you to return no more the same way. He shall not have many wives, that may allure his mind, nor immense sums of silver and gold. But after he is raised to the throne of his kingdom, he shall copy out to himself the Deuteronomy of this law in a volume, taking the copy of the priests of the Levitical tribe, and he shall have it with him, and shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, and keep his words and ceremonies, that are commanded in the law; and that his heart be not lifted up with pride over his brethren, nor decline to the right or to the left” (Deuteronomy 17:14-20). ► First, the king was to be one of the Chosen People—meaning the Israelites (17:15). This meant the king would belong to the Chosen people who recognized the authority of God. Today, the member of the Chosen People—the Israelites—would be a “Catholic” who is a member of “New Chosen People”—the Catholics—for there are only Catholics in Heaven. Christ intended the whole world to be baptized Catholics and taught the Catholic Faith, which is the religion given to us through Christ: “Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: ‘All power is given to Me in Heaven and in Earth! Going, therefore, teach ye all nations! Baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost! Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you!’” (Matthew 28:18-20). A true Christian can only be a Catholic. Let us not cheapen God’s ideal by our pessimistic and slothful attitudes! We might be tempted to utter with the Apostles: “And when they had heard this, the disciples wondered very much, saying: ‘Who then can be saved?’ And Jesus beholding, said to them: ‘With men this is impossible! But with God all things are possible!’” (Matthew 19:25-26). Who—among today’s rulers—recognizes the authority of God? Recognizing God’s authority automatically necessitates the recognition and acceptance of God’s Laws! Who does that anymore? The laws of every country are a contradiction to this requirement. ► Second, the king must not acquire many horses (17:16). The Bible explains that horses came from Egypt, and horse-trading would tempt the Israelites to interact with the pagan people from whom they had been delivered. Today, what would those horses be? Cars? Planes? Perhaps just material possessions in general. “And behold, a certain rich young man, running up and kneeling before Him, asked Him: ‘Good Master, what shall I do that I may receive life everlasting?’ And Jesus said to him: ‘If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments!’ The young man said to Him: ‘All these I have kept from my youth! What is yet wanting to me?’ And Jesus looking on him, loved him, and said to him: ‘One thing is wanting unto thee! If thou wilt be perfect, go sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in Heaven, and come follow Me!’ And when the young man had heard this word, being struck sad at that saying, went away sorrowful: for he was very rich and had great possessions. And Jesus, seeing him become sorrowful, looking round about, said to His disciples: ‘How hardly shall they that have riches, enter into the Kingdom of God!’” (combined account of Matthew 19:16-29; Mark 10:17-31; Luke 18:18-25). ► Third, the king must not take many wives (17:17). It was normal in ancient times to seal treaties between kings by intermarriage. Foreign women would influence the Israelites to abandon the unique lifestyle to which God had called them. Later in Israel’s history, King Achab (who married Jezabel) and his son King Joram (who married Athalia) learned the hard consequences of ignoring this command. King Henry VIII with his 6 wives must seem like a kindergartener compared to King Solomon, who had 700 wives and 300 concubines! Solomon was a wise and clever man—hopefully he remembered the names and birthdays of all his wives and concubines! At least King Henry made it easier in this regard by ‘marrying’ 3 Catherines, 2 Annes, and a plain Jane! What about today’s rulers—how many wives have they had? How many mistresses have they got? ► Fourth, the king must not accumulate large amounts of gold and silver (17:17). Perhaps God wanted to make sure Israel’s king remained dependent upon Him for success; or perhaps he wanted to keep his people from interacting with the pagan nations that would be supplying the gold and silver. Joe Biden calls himself “Middle-Class Joe” — but his net worth would leave every true “middle-class” person gasping with envy. Biden cultivated his “middle-class” reputation while serving as a U.S. Senator from Delaware for 35 years—his salary increasing from $42,500 a year in 1973 (equal to about $250,000 today) up to $170,000 a year in 2008 (equal to about $210,000 today). From 2009 until 2016, while serving as vice president for President Barack Obama, Biden made $230,000 annually (equal to about $280,000 annually today)—during which time Biden had stopped publicizing his tax returns. Biden publicized his federal returns from 2016, 2017 and 2018 on July 9th, revealing he and his wife Jill have taken in more than $15 million since leaving the Obama White House. Lucrative book deals and constant publicity tours brought in more than $4.5 million before taxes. Biden’s disclosure also showed over $2.7 million in business income as part of his publicity tour and writing. He also took a $425,000 salary from a business the Bidens used for their post-White House work. Biden and his wife also signed a multi-book deal worth $8 million. Biden also earned $540,000 as a professor of the University of Pennsylvania. Jill Biden made at least $700,000 in her own speaking engagements. Biden’s basic speaking fee was reportedly $100,000 a speech, but his disclosure showed that some appearances were priced as ‘low’ as $40,000, and others were as high as $190,000. Biden’s recent available tax returns show his family income jumped from $400,000 in 2016 to $11 million in 2017 as a result of his book deal. His total income in 2018 was about $4.6 million. After announcing his candidacy for president, Biden’ campaign raised $6.3 million in the first 24 hours, from 96,926 people. During a speech in New York in June, Biden suggested that being rich doesn’t mean you love the U.S. any less. “What I’ve found is rich people are just as patriotic as poor people,” he said, “Not a joke. I mean, we may not want to demonize anybody who has made money!” Donald Trump is far from painting himself as being “middle-class”. Trump has often given much higher values for his wealth than organizations estimating it. The Washington Post similarly concluded that “Trump is a mix of braggadocio, business failures, and real success.” Trump is the first billionaire in history to serve as president of the United States. If you think “middle-class” Joe Biden is rich with $9 million to his name—then Trump is anywhere from 250 times to 400 times richer than “Middle-Class-Millionaire Joe”—or, if you believe Trumps own propaganda, then more than 800 times richer. However, the “hot-air-balloon” of Trump’s own assessment of his personal wealth is somewhat punctured by the more realistic assessment of several financial and business organizations. In 2016, Forbes estimated Trump's net worth at $3.7 billion. During the three years after Trump announced his presidential run in 2015, Forbes estimated his net worth declined 31% and his ranking fell 138 spots. In its 2018 billionaires ranking, Forbes estimated Trump's net worth at $3.1 billion (766th in the world, 248th in the U.S.). The 2018 Bloomberg Billionaires Index listed Trump's net worth as $2.48 billion, and in July, 2018, Wealth-X listed it as at least $3.8 billion. In its 2019 billionaires ranking, Forbes estimated Trump's net worth at $3.1 billion (715th in the world, 259th in the U.S.). Be it Biden or Trump—neither seem to fall into the category required by God as regards the wealth that kings or rulers should have or not have: “He shall not have … immense sums of silver and gold” (Deuteronomy 17:17)—something which was reiterated by Our Lord in the New Testament, when He said: “Jesus saith to the rich young man: ‘If thou wilt be perfect, go sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in Heaven: and come follow Me! And when the young man had heard this word, he went away sad: for he had great possessions. Then Jesus said to His disciples: ‘Amen, I say to you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. And again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven!’” (Matthew 19:21-24). “He spoke a similitude to them, saying: ‘The land of a certain rich man brought forth plenty of fruits. And he thought within himself, saying: “What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?” And he said: “This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and will build greater; and into them will I gather all things that are grown to me, and my goods. And I will say to my soul: ‘Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years take thy rest; eat, drink, make good cheer!’” But God said to him: “Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee: and whose shall those things be which thou hast provided? ‘So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich towards God!’”” (Luke 12:16-21). ► Fifth, the king must keep a copy of God’s Laws and Commands with him to be read throughout his life, so he would rule according to God’s principles (17:18-20). Who on earth is guided by the Laws and principles of God anymore!!!? It would be political suicide to do so—because the people want fun, not God! God is no fun—God is all about praying, doing penance, giving up things, loving the things you want to hate and hating the things you want to love! God—in the eyes of most people—screws up your life when you could be having fun! So a politician or a ruler that follows God is bad, bad news! Since it is the people that have the power of voting—it is the people and not God that you have to please! So Who Do We Want For Our Ruler? Who do you want for your ruler? Have you become much like the worldly Chosen People—Israelites? Have we capitulated in our minds and hearts by accepting the ungodly and antichristian candidates available? Are we judging by the standards of the world or the standards of God? Have we made a mental division between Church and State, God and the world, the spiritual and the material life? Are we saying with the Israelites: “Give us a king as all nations have!” while provoking God to say of us what He said of them: “They have not rejected thee, but Me—that I should not reign over them!” (1 Kings 8:4-7). For most Catholics—perhaps not you, hopefully not you—this is true. They have divorced God from the world, the live double-lives, they have two-faces, they have already compromised if not crucified their Faith by a capitulation to worldly principles. These are the voters who see no wrong in those for whom they will vote. Is it all beyond hope? Is it a hopeless scenario? Is it even worth voting over? Who the hell do you vote for? Both are basically candidates of Satan—for Our Lord said: “If you love Me, keep My commandments … He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them; he it is that loveth Me … If anyone love Me, he will keep My word … He that loveth Me not, keepeth not My words” (John 14:15, 14:21-24). How is the acceptance of abortion passed-off a keeping God’s commandments? How is acceptance of homosexuality and the rest of the LGBTQ agenda passed-off as keeping God’s commandments? How is adultery passed-off as keeping God’s commandments? How is having several wives or living in sin passed-off as keeping God’s commandments? How is religious indifferentism and false ecumenism keeping God’s commandments? Our Lord is pretty clear on this: “He that is not with Me, is against Me: and he that gathereth not with Me, scattereth!” (Matthew 12:30). They are clearly not with Him—not completely—but then you don’t have break EVERY commandment to get a free ride to Hell, breaking just one only one time will do! Heck! If most Catholic souls are damned regardless of whether they are popes, bishops, priests, religious or laity—which is what Our Lord, Our Lady, many of the saints and most classical traditional theologians say—then what are we to think of the Protestant Presidents or abortion and LGBT supportive politicians? The words of Our Lord come to mind: “Let them alone! They are blind, and leaders of the blind! And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the pit!” (Matthew 15:14). Holy Scripture adds: “They are of the world—therefore of the world they speak, and the world heareth them!” (1 John 4:5). “Our wrestling is against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places!” (Ephesians 6:12). The problem is that we have stopped wrestling with the world and now accept one or other of the worldly candidates presented before us. It is a sad state of affairs when the Catholic world has been forced into a position whereby the only choice they are presented with is between choosing evil or evil—or as some would put it: choosing between an evil and a lesser evil. Do I choose to take the poison that will kill me in seconds, or do I take the poison that will kill me in minutes? Do I choose to drink bleach or do I choose to drink ammonia? Do I choose to marry a murderer or a serial rapist? Do I choose to be bitten by a snake or stung by a scorpion? “Who on earth are we to vote for? Is it even worth voting? What’s the point?” you may even ask. The Real Election Whether it be the U.S. Presidential election or any other election in the world—all these are mere distractions, side-shows, public entertainment and confidence tricks that mask and disguise the real events in the world—or the events that are plotted, planned and executed behind the scenes. The two real candidates in any and every election throughout the world are simply and solely Christ and Satan. To think that puny man can dream of living a life that is independent of Christ or Satan is the most stupid and unrealistic suggestion than can be uttered. Holy Scripture—which is much more believable than any politician or politician’s puppet-master—states that Christ is the King of kings and that Satan is the prince of this world. That leaves no room for puny man to set up his own independent stall outside the influence and power of Christ or Satan. Even Satan is dependent upon Christ for all that he is allowed to do—as we read in the Book of Job. No—the real election is do we choose Christ as our leader or do we choose Satan for our leader. Everyone who lives, eats, sleeps and walks on this Earth is either—explicitly or implicitly—FOR Christ and AGAINST Satan, or AGAINST Christ and FOR Satan. You can sub-categorize those options into Church or Faith (Christ) and World, State, or worldliness—but ultimately it comes to the same thing. Can You Fix or Rig an Election for Christ? If anything, the modern-day elections are “fixed” or “rigged” against Christ! Could you even imagine a candidate running on a “Christian Ticket”? Sure—there are many politicians and presidential hopefuls who will rub shoulders with various Christian leaders or groups—but it is mere political cosmetics and an exercise in fishing for votes. Christ is not even a “side-dish” on the menu! The only choice you get—as already stated above—is which plane to Hell do you want to take and if you want a direct flight or one that has a stop-over. Yet there is a way that Christ can win the election race against Satan—if you think otherwise, then your Faith is failing you and you are implicitly saying that the evil hold of Satan is so great that Christ can no longer overcome, which would be blasphemous. Christ can overcome anything and everything in the blink of an eye, yet, as St. Augustine says: “God, Who created you without you, will not save you without you” (Sermon 169, §13)—which is similar to the saying: “God helps those who help themselves!” We must make the most of what God offer us—as Holy Scripture says: “Receive not the grace of God in vain. For God saith: ‘In an accepted time have I heard thee; and in the day of salvation have I helped thee!’ Behold, now is the acceptable time! Behold, now is the day of salvation!” (2 Corinthians 6:1-2)—what are doing with God’s grace? Using it, misusing it or abusing it? The problem with the stranglehold of evil on the world is that fact that there are very few supporters who are prepared to do what it takes to make Christ win! There is a certain Catholic inertia that comes from disillusionment, demoralization and despondency with regard to the predicament that we find ourselves in—a feeling of helplessness and hopelessness. Jesus seems not to care. He seems to be sleeping. We feel abandoned. We are so numbed that don’t even resort the Apostolic example of waking Him and crying: “Lord! Save us! We perish!” (Matthew 8:25). We are quasi-resigned to our fate—as though nothing can be done about it! In his excellent book, Spiritual Despondency and Temptation, Fr. Michel writes: “Despondency or discouragement is the most dangerous temptation that the enemy of our salvation can employ … In despondency there is nothing to lean upon: we feel that reason does not suffice to enable us to practice all the good that God requires of us. On the other hand, we dare not hope to receive from God all the help we need; thus we become discouraged and nearly reduced to despair, the very point to which the devil tries to lead the despondent soul … The most fatal effect of despondency is that the soul that yields to it does not view it as a temptation … The great danger of despondency is that, being deceived by an excessive fear, which makes us blind to the truth, and being discouraged at the sight of difficulties, against which we find no resource in ourselves, we nevertheless do not look upon this state as the effect of temptation … To make this danger clearer to you, consider the general course of conduct among men. Is it not the hope of success, of procuring some advantage, of avoiding some evil, or of satisfying some desire or passion, which makes them act, supports them under their labors, and animates them to overcome their difficulties? Take away from them all hope, and they would soon fall into inaction. None but a madman would strive for an object which he despairs of obtaining … When we lose all hope of overcoming the difficulties, we do not try, or try but feebly. These insufficient efforts only increase our weakness, and being more than half overcome by despondency … We feel keenly the difficulty we have to overcome ourselves—as we succeed but rarely. Filled with these sad and discouraging reflections of our lack of strength—and of the little that we do to please God—we consider it useless to have recourse to Him, Who, we think, will not listen to our prayer whilst we remain in our present state … A soul that is addicted to despondency is swayed by fear, which prevents it from reflecting on the immovable foundations of confidence in God ... The fear of not succeeding prevents us from employing the means which God has given us, and we are thus defenseless against our enemy. We are like a child who, seeing the approach of a giant, begins to tremble, and forgets that a stone thrown in the name of the Lord may lay him prostrate.” Are You Caught-Up in the Hype?
They say that whoever controls the money, also controls the world. The German Jewish banker and the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty, often referred to as a “founding father of international finance,” Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), once said: “Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws!” Many years later, Henry Kissinger, a friend of the Rothschild’s, and former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presidents Nixon and Ford, also said: “Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world!” As they say, “Money talks!” He who has the most money, gets to talk the most. People tend to “listen” to money. Those with the most money have the strongest influence on the actions and decisions of people in politics.
Similarly, you may have heard it said that “Knowledge is power!” ― but money has more power, for it can buy knowledge, control knowledge, reformat knowledge, change knowledge (that is to say, change truth) and then re-sell that knowledge (changed truth, or call it what it really is―a lie) to all the unwitting ignorant dupes who indiscriminately crave that knowledge―without really knowing what it is that they know! He who controls the money, controls the media―and the mainstream media (MSM) is the modern-day “supermarket” of knowledge. There are still some “mom-and-pop” “corner-stores” media outlets―but they are a minor minority, not many people “shop” there for their knowledge, and the MSM (mainstream media) label such “corner-store” news outlets as being “dangerous” “conspiracy theorists” and seek to isolate, discredit and even drive them out of the knowledge “business”. Psychologists tell you that people have more and more trust in a message or statement the more and more times they hear it. Hence, the words of the media quickly become like the Gospel, all of which is accepted blindly and without question. As William Casey, CIA Director from 1981 to 1987, said in 1982 to President Reagan: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” Investigative journalist Jack Anderson―a contemporary of CIA Director William Casey―wrote are article in the September 22nd, 1981, Santa Cruz Sentinel, discussing the troubling CIA disinformation campaign being waged against Americans. Anderson pointed out the CIA’s “triple assault on the public’s right to know” included (1) trying to shut-off channels of information to the electorate, (2) seeking criminal penalties against reporters whose stories might identify CIA operatives, and the third which Anderson called most troubling, (3) spreading “disinformation” to news agencies. The Scientific American, in a June 15th 2017 article entitled “How to Address the Epidemic of Lies in Politics”, states: “Lying proved a very successful strategy for political causes and individual candidates in the U.K. and U.S. elections in 2016 … As such, it might seem ludicrous to many that we can solve the problem of lies in politics … The traditional mechanisms for identifying the truth about politics come from mainstream media and its fact checking. Polling shows, however, that trust in the mainstream media has dropped from around 50% to 32% from 2000 to 2016, and only 29% trust fact checking. No wonder fewer and fewer Americans are getting their news from mainstream media and engaging with fact checkers … Given the crumbling trust in traditional media and our vulnerability to lies on social media, we should not be surprised that politicians on both sides try to manipulate voters into believing lies. After all, the incentive for politicians is to get elected―not tell the truth. To be elected, politicians need to convey the appearance of trustworthiness—what talk show host Stephen Colbert infamously called “truthiness”--as opposed to being actually trustworthy.” Do not for one minute think that the lies, misinformation, disinformation or “fake news”―as the latest fashion tends to call it―rests solely in the lap of the politicians. No sirrreee! The politicians, for the most part, are mere puppets (witting or unwitting) of “higher-ups” who “call the shots” and “write the scripts”. It is, once again, money that talks. The money men are not only the puppet masters of most politicians, they are also the ventriloquists of the politicians. The politicians often open the mouth and look to be talking―but the words come from the ventriloquists. “What?” you say, “Do you really believe that? That’s just conspiracy theory garbage!” Discrediting truth is easy if you label truth as being a “conspiracy theory”. Perhaps we should distinguish―which the mainstream media refuses to distinguish―the difference between “conspiracy theories” and “conspiracy facts”. Not all “conspiracy theories” are true―but neither are all “conspiracy theories” untrue. Some are true and some are false. When we buy something or “buy-into” something―we tend to follow the success percentage in deciding what to buy. If a product works for you―you will buy it again; but if the product does not do what the label claims it will do, then you will not buy it again. Advertisers know this―and so they make sure that there are heaps of good reviews that accompany a product. Create an outlandish, crazy, whacko, far-fetched conspiracy theory and make it patently unbelievable and you have introduced “crazy cockle” among the “sane seed” that is planted in the minds of people. Now―if you keep creating more and more outlandish, crazy, whacko, far-fetched conspiracy theories and planting them in the minds of people―to the point where the crazy conspiracy theories outnumber the sane conspiracy theories by 100 to 1―then suddenly the likelihood of there being truth to these theories is 100 to 1. That is a clever way to discredit the truth―make truth guilty by association with the crazy conspiracy theories created just for that purpose. If 99 out of a 100 people have lied to you about their real name―then you are automatically going to presume that the 100th person will also lie to you―even though he is going to tell you the truth. Create and publish as many crazy conspiracy theories as possible, then make sure everyone hears about them, ridicule and mock them to scorn―and then even the true theories will be presumed to be crazy and will be rejected, or at least doubted. The Solution That Every Catholic Should Want!
The Solution That No Catholics See! “The higher you aim―the higher you reach!” Aim high and you might reach it. Aim low and you might shoot yourself in the foot! Some people aim at nothing in life and manage to hit that target every time! Or, to put it Scripturally, “For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh, of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit, of the spirit shall reap life everlasting” (Galatians 6:8). What and how you sow dictates on how and where things will go! “Sow for yourselves in justice” (Osee 10:12) … “Sow not evils in the furrows of injustice, and thou shalt not reap them sevenfold” (Ecclesiasticus 7:3). “He that soweth iniquity shall reap evils” (Proverbs 22:8). “He who soweth sparingly, shall also reap sparingly” (2 Corinthians 9:6). A harvest is not obtained without much effort and pain, but “They that sow in tears shall reap in joy!” (Psalm 125:5).
Gross Hearts! Deaf Ears! Blind Eyes! Stony Souls! God tries to sow His word in our souls―but the soil of our soul is so hard that failure results. We are deaf to the word of God―which bounces off the hardened soil of our soul. We are blind to God’s teachings―for the things of the world are blocking our view. We are in a mess because we fail to see and take the solutions that God offers. The parable of the Sower of the Seed exemplifies our problem. “And He spoke to them many things in parables, saying: ‘Behold the sower went forth to sow. And whilst he soweth some fell by the way side, and the birds of the air came and ate them up. And other some fell upon stony ground, where they had not much earth: and they sprung up immediately, because they had no deepness of earth. And when the sun was up they were scorched: and because they had not root, they withered away. And others fell among thorns: and the thorns grew up and choked them. And others fell upon good ground: and they brought forth fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixtyfold, and some thirtyfold. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear!’ And His disciples came and said to Him: ‘Why speakest Thou to them in parables?’ Who answered and said to them: ‘Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven―but to them it is not given. For he that hath, to him shall be given, and he shall abound―but he that hath not, from him shall be taken away that also which he hath. Therefore do I speak to them in parables―because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And the prophecy of Isaias is fulfilled in them, who saith: “By hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand: and seeing you shall see, and shall not perceive. For the heart of this people is grown gross, and with their ears they have been dull of hearing, and their eyes they have shut―lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them!” [Jesus is quoting Isaias 6:9-10]. But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear. For, amen, I say to you, many prophets and just men have desired to see the things that you see, and have not seen them, and to hear the things that you hear and have not heard them. Hear you, therefore, the parable of the sower. When any one heareth the word of the Kingdom, and understandeth it not, there cometh the wicked one, Satan, and taketh away that which was sown in his heart: this is he that received the seed by the way side. And he that received the seed upon stony ground, is he that heareth the word, and immediately receiveth it with joy. Yet he hath not root in himself, but is only for a time: and when there ariseth tribulation and persecution because of the word, he is presently scandalized. And he that received the seed among thorns, is he that heareth the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choketh up the word, and he becometh fruitless. But he that received the seed upon good ground, is he that heareth the word, and understandeth, and beareth fruit, and yieldeth the one an hundredfold, and another sixty, and another thirty!’” (Matthew 13:3-23). Field Full of Cockle―God’s Seed Cannot Grow! The Word of God has not really penetrated our lives in any great depth―otherwise we would not be in the terrible crises that we see in both the Church and the world today. The prince of this world―the devil―has managed to sow his worldly cockle alongside the seed of God’s Word―and that cockle is strangling the life out of God’s Word. “Another parable He proposed to them, saying: ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seeds in his field. But while men were asleep, his enemy came and over-sowed cockle among the wheat and went his way. And when the blade was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit, then appeared also the cockle. And the servants of the good-man of the house coming said to him: “Sir! Didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? Whence then hath it cockle?” And he said to them: “An enemy hath done this!” And the servants said to him: “Wilt thou that we go and gather it up?” And he said: “No! Lest perhaps gathering up the cockle, you root up the wheat also together with it! Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: ‘Gather up first the cockle, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn!’” ’” (Matthew 13:24-30). There are some medications and cures that must be “taken on an empty stomach”―so that food does not hinder or “get in the way” of the healing work of the medicine. Likewise, the remedies of God need to be “taken on an empty stomach” so that God’s word and work can freely operate in our soul and the world. This is why, when the young rich man asked Our Lord what he should do to get to Heaven, Our Lord replied that he should give away all his riches and possessions, give his wealth to the poor, and then, having left everything, to come and follow Him (Christ)―adding that it is almost impossible for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of Heaven: “And behold, a certain rich young man, running up and kneeling before Him, asked Him: ‘Good Master, what shall I do that I may receive life everlasting?’ And Jesus said to him: ‘If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments!’ The young man said to Him: ‘All these I have kept from my youth! What is yet wanting to me?’ And Jesus looking on him, loved him, and said to him: ‘One thing is wanting unto thee! If thou wilt be perfect, go sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in Heaven, and come follow Me!’ “And when the young man had heard this word, being struck sad at that saying, went away sorrowful: for he was very rich and had great possessions. And Jesus, seeing him become sorrowful, looking round about, said to His disciples: ‘How hardly shall they that have riches, enter into the Kingdom of God! Amen, I say to you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. And again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven!’ “And the disciples were astonished at His words. But Jesus again answering, said to them: ‘Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches, to enter into the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God!’ Who wondered the more, saying among themselves: ‘Who then can be saved?’ And Jesus looking on them, said: ‘With men it is impossible; but not with God! For all things are possible with God!’” “Then Peter answering, began to say unto Him: ‘Behold we have left all things, and have followed Thee! What therefore shall we have?’ And Jesus answering, said to them: ‘Amen, I say to you, that you, who have followed me, in the regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit on the seat of His majesty, you also shall sit on twelve seats judging the twelve tribes of Israel! And every one that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for My Name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and, in the world to come, shall possess life everlasting!’” (combined account of Matthew 19:16-29; Mark 10:17-31; Luke 18:18-25). Politicians Preach Prosperity, Possessions, Profit and Plenteousness The politics of today is overwhelmingly antithetical or the opposite of the politics of Christ. Politicians make their politics promise people all kinds of riches and wealth―yet Christ says: “How hardly shall they that have riches, enter into the Kingdom of God! Amen, I say to you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. And again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven!’ And the disciples were astonished at His words. But Jesus again answering, said to them: ‘Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches, to enter into the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God!’” Who would you vote? Your “riches promising” politician or your “riches condemning” Savior? Tough call, huh? There is no doubt as to who you would vote for “in theory”―but who would you vote for “in practice” by practicing what you vote for? What politics is increasingly becoming is a funding of lifestyles and laws that are fundamentally opposed to those of God. It is also becoming increasingly invasive and controlling of religion and how religion is allowed to operate. Our Lady’s prediction has been and is being strikingly fulfilled: “From the end of the 19th century and especially in the 20th century, the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of morals, for Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects ... During this epoch the Church will find herself attacked by terrible assaults from the Masonic sect … These years, during which the evil sect of Masonry will take control of the civil government, will see a cruel persecution of all religious communities … All the civil governments will have one and the same plan, which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principle, to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism and vice of all kinds. They will abolish civil rights, as well as ecclesiastical rights. All order and all justice will be trampled underfoot and only homicides, hate, jealousy, lies and dissension will be seen, without love for country or family!” (Our Lady of Good Success and Our Lady of La Salette). New Religion of Politics There is no longer a separation of Church and State―which is wrong in itself―but now it is becoming increasingly worse, with there being an invasion of the Church by the State, or a replacing of religion by politics. Politics is becoming a ‘religion’ all of its own and it will not tolerate other false ‘religions’ ― especially the Catholic religion, which is the only true religion. In the devil’s typical fashion―which is to “ape” God and reverse true values―the world or State (of which the devil is prince) firstly divorced the Church and wrecked the God appointed marriage of Church (the man/husband) and State (woman/wife)―where the Church was superior to the State, furnishing the State with God-given principles and truths. Now, after this divorce, the State increasingly threw out the principles and truths of God and replaced with its own man-made principles and ‘truths’ of a man-made god, namely Science. Now, the State is returning to the Church to enslave her and force the State’s man-made truths and principles upon the Church, while making her abandon her God-given principles in matters of conflict or contradiction. A total reversal of God’s intended marriage plan for Church and State, whereby the State, once being the wife, now takes on the role of husband and leader, forcing the Church, once being the husband and leader, to take on the subservient role of wife. Talk about gender change!!! Instead of the Church warning people that most souls go to Hell―the new ‘church’, the State, is warning people that most persons will catch the deadly, dreaded, “fate worse than Hell” disease of Covid-19. Instead of following through with Christ’s command of “teach ye all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matthew 28:19)―the new ‘church’, the State, teaches all nations about the dangers of Covid-19, masking them and vaccinating them in the name of Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci and the unholy spirit of alliance between Politics and Big Pharma. Just as Christ’s baptism leaves an indelible mark on the soul―the Covid-19 vaccination will soon leave an indelible chip in your body. Just as Christ wanted everyone to be baptized―Bill Gates wants everyone to be ‘baptized’ with a vaccine. If you refuse this State ‘baptism’ of vaccination, then you are to be anathematized and excommunicated by quarantining or self-isolation. Refusal of this ‘baptism’ of vaccination risks be deprived of the graces of employment and financial security. Furthermore, the State wishes to be like God by knowing all about you, tracking your every move, if possible listening to all you say, reading all you write―maybe one day having the technology to even make a good guess at what you are thinking! There will, no doubt, come a time when ‘sinning’ against the State will be a ‘mortal’ sin punishable by death and―if not being sent to the real Hell―then at least making your life a Hell on Earth! Even Jesus is being harnessed by both political parties―for everyone wants Jesus on their political side so as to win the political votes of Christians. There are a lot of ‘religious’ votes at stake and so the political parties want to stake a claim to those votes. The latest polls show the president’s overall favorability trending downward, including a sharp decline among white Roman Catholics. But white evangelical Protestant support for Mr. Trump remains remarkably stable, after spiking upward in March and sinking back to its previous level. You will see T-shirts emblazoned with slogans such as: “Jesus is my Savior! Trump is my President!” In July, 63% of white Evangelicals viewed President Trump favorably, the same as in May, according to the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute. That’s virtually equal to the 64% of white Evangelicals who viewed Mr. Trump favorably last year, on average, in PRRI polls. In contrast, white Catholic support for Mr. Trump has declined from an average of 48% in 2019 to 36% in July 2020. In order to win over Christian voters, politicians will offer much “lip-service” and readily mix with the chief religious “movers and shakers”. Going Forwards or Going Backwards? The Fathers and Doctors of the Church say that “He who makes no progress loses ground!” In other words, if we are not going forwards and making progress in our spiritual life, in our life of Faith―then we are automatically going backwards, because the life of Faith, the spiritual life, is like constantly swimming upstream against the downward flow of the river (the world), and if we stop for only a moment, we are quickly carried downstream and lose is a few seconds the hard work and progress that cost us many minutes of swimming upstream. Where are we headed? Where are we going? Or, perhaps more precisely, where are we being led? Where is politics leading us? Whether you see it or not, know it or not, believe it or not, admit it or not―we are being led by the nose to enslavement like a pig or a bull with a ring through its nose―except instead of a ring being buried in our noses, it is a case our noses are buried in the phone as we stare at the smartphone screen in our hands for hours on end. The ring is placed in the nose of the bull―but the smartphone knows how to place bull in our minds. A nose ring is a ring made of metal, designed to be installed through the nose of pigs as well as domestic cattle, usually bulls. Bull rings are usually about 3 to 5 inches in diameter―coincidentally, a typical smartphone measures around 3 inches by 5 inches! You Are What You Eat, Read, Hold and Handle As they say: “You are what you eat! You are what you read!” Our Lord says: “Not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God!” (Matthew 4:4). The smartphone is not known for delivering loads of religious knowledge to your mind―it is usually known for delivering lots of worldliness to your mind. If you spend hours “devouring”, “digesting” and “eating-up” all the endless information that your smartphone can serve-up, then without doubt you are becoming more and more worldly―meaning that, at the same time, you are becoming less and less religious and spiritual. Our Lord said: “Lay not up to yourselves treasures on Earth … But lay up to yourselves treasures in Heaven … For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also! … No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon! … "He that is not with Me, is against Me―and he that gathereth not with Me, scattereth!” (Matthew 6:19-24; 12:30). The smartphone―and all other forms of modern technology―do not exist to make people more religious and more spiritually minded―they exist to make people more worldly, more materialistic, more hedonistic (pleasure-seekers). Politics goes “hand-in-hand” with the smartphone in your hand―it all about worldliness, materialism, money, pleasure, comfort, etc. With you smartphone in your hand, you become like a bull or pig with its nose-ring. You follow your masters by being led through your smartphone info, just like the bull is led by the nose with the chain attached to its nose-ring. As a bonus, your smartphone also “rings” for you―and you get to choose your preferred “ring-tone”! A Deadly Battle Over Souls, Minds and Hearts We are living in the midst of a materialistic Masonic inspired battle―which is the same things as a worldly Satanic inspired battle―which Sr. Lucia of Fatima referred to as the Devil’s Final Battle with the Blessed Virgin Mary: “She {our Lady] told me that the Devil is engaging in a battle with the Virgin, a decisive battle. It is a final battle where one party will be victorious and the other will suffer defeat. So, from now on, we are either with God or we are with the Devil; there is no middle ground” (Sr. Lucia of Fatima to Fr. Fuentes, December 26th, 1957). Our Lady herself spoke of this battle thus: “From the end of the 19th century and especially in the 20th century, the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of morals, for Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects ... During this epoch the Church will find herself attacked by terrible assaults from the Masonic sect … These years, during which the evil sect of Masonry will take control of the civil government, will see a cruel persecution of all religious communities … All the civil governments will have one and the same plan, which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principle, to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism and vice of all kinds. They will abolish civil rights, as well as ecclesiastical rights. All order and all justice will be trampled underfoot and only homicides, hate, jealousy, lies and dissension will be seen, without love for country or family ... They will focus particularly on the children, in order to achieve this general corruption. Woe to the children of these times!” (Our Lady of Good Success and Our Lady of La Salette). How will they focus on the children? Mainly through the media, through technology, through various mobile devices that will give them access to the child’s mind and heart―and from there they can control the child’s thoughts, desires, attitudes, ideology, and actions. That is exactly what they have done with great success―for with the child now glued to the screen, away from religion the child they do wean! Teenagers in the United States are spending vast amounts of their days using screens as a form of leisure and entertainment, according to a new report. Teens spend an average of seven hours and 22 minutes on their phones a day, and tweens ― ages 8 to 12 ― are not far behind, at four hours and 44 minutes daily, according to a new report by Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that promotes safe technology and media for children. This amount of screen time does not included time spent on schoolwork, according to the report. When figuring in activities such as reading books and listening to music, the numbers jumped to nine hours and 49 minutes daily for teens and five hours and 54 minutes daily for tweens (ages 8 to 12). The report also found that online video viewing is “through the roof,” as more than twice as many young people are watching videos every day than in 2015. The percentage of teens who said they spend time watching online videos jumped from 34% to 69%, and the number of tweens (8 to 12 year olds) who reported watching online videos rose from 24% to 56% in that same time frame. When you compare that to religious activities―daily prayers, daily spiritual reading, etc. ― there is no comparison, it is like a worldly mountain standing next to a spiritual grain of sand. It is no surprise that 90% of children have ceased practicing their Faith regularly by the time they finish their education (High School or College/University). The children are as good as in Satan’s hand―because he has succeeding in placing smartphones in their hand. He is smart―we are not so smart! That is what we fail to see and need to see―for the smartphone (and all other modern technology from the television upwards) has blinded our eyes to God. We can no longer see God because we have difficulty seeing past these technological distractions that are at the end of our noses. We―not just children, but adults also―have become blind with regard to God. Consequently, we cannot lead the children―the young generation―to God, because we have lost sight of the way being distracted as we are with the world. We are, what Our Lord calls, “the blind leading the blind” and whom He says: “Leave them alone! They are blind, and leaders of the blind! And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the pit!” (Matthew 15:14). We have dug a pit for ourselves with our technological distractions―that is the seed that we have sown and now we are reaping its fruits―the beginning of mass apostasy from the Faith―proved by the fact that only 20% of Catholics regularly attend Sunday Mass (which binds a Catholic under the pain of mortal sin), and further proved by the terrible statistic that over 90% of young Catholics cease practicing their Faith regularly once they finish their education in High School or College/University. We should see all these dangers signs, we should worry about the dangers they bring―but we don’t! We are too distracted with all that is going on around us that we fail to see pit ahead of us! The fact that most souls end up in Hell no longer worries or fazes most Catholics―because they are too busy having a good time on Earth! Who the hell cares about Hell when there is so much fun to be had right now? That fatal mindset is chiefly found in the youth of today―but many adults, even the once traditionally minded “baby-boomers”, subscribe to that attitude too! Despite all the warnings from Heaven, from Our Lady in her many apparitions, the threats merely flow over us like water flowing off a duck’s back. What we fail to see is that we risk being the “roasted duck” on the devil’s plate one day! First Oblivious, Then Obliterated In the meantime, we blithely and nonchalantly go about our daily preoccupations unpreoccupied with what should preoccupy us the most―our salvation. As Sr. Lucia of Fatima warned: ““Father, the Blessed Virgin is very sad, because no one heeds her message; neither the good nor the bad. The good continue on with their life of virtue and apostolate, but they do not unite their lives to the message of Fatima. Sinners, ignoring the message, keep following the road of evil, because they do not see the terrible chastisement about to befall them. But you must believe me that God is going to punish the world and chastise it in a tremendous way!” (Sr. Lucia of Fatima to Fr. Fuentes, December 26th, 1957). Our Lord’s words are equally applicable in this case: “Not everyone that saith to Me: ‘Lord! Lord!’ shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven: but he that doth the will of My Father, Who is in Heaven, he shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Many will say to me in that day: ‘Lord! Lord! Have not we prophesied in Thy Name, and cast out devils in Thy Name, and done many miracles in Thy Name?’ And then will I profess unto them: ‘I never knew you! Depart from Me, you that work iniquity!’ Everyone therefore that heareth these My words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock, and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on a rock. And every one that heareth these My words, and doth them not, shall be like a foolish man that built his house upon the sand, and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall thereof!” (Matthew 7:21-27). “Why call you Me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ and do not the things which I say?” (Luke 6:46). “Do you not yet know nor understand? Have you still your heart blinded? Having eyes, see you not? And having ears, hear you not? Neither do you remember!” (Mark 8:17-18). Politics has become a distraction―it is theater meant to preoccupy the common man. As William Casey, CIA Director from 1981 to 1987, said in 1982 to President Reagan: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” Investigative journalist Jack Anderson, wrote in the September 22nd, 1981, Santa Cruz Sentinel discussing the troubling CIA disinformation campaign being waged against Americans. Anderson pointed out the CIA’s “triple assault on the public’s right to know” included (1) trying to shut-off channels of information to the electorate, (2) seeking criminal penalties against reporters whose stories might identify CIA operatives, and the third which Anderson called most troubling, (3) spreading “disinformation” to news agencies. Truly the words of Holy Scripture apply to the politics of today: “These things they thought, and were deceived―for their own malice blinded them!” (Wisdom 2:21). “Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a provoking house: who have eyes to see, and see not: and ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a provoking house” (Ezechiel 12:2). Once again, you could apply Our Lord’s words to the relationship of politics to the common man: “Do you not yet know nor understand? Have you still your heart blinded? Having eyes, see you not? And having ears, hear you not?” (Mark 8:17-18). To which Holy Scripture adds: “O foolish people without understanding: who have eyes, and see not: and ears, and hear not!” (Jeremias 5:21). “They have not known, nor understood: for their eyes are covered that they may not see, and that they may not understand with their heart” (Isaias 44:18). We have become so distracted and blind that we fail to see that the only solution for the world today is a spiritual solution. No weapons, no words, no viral YouTube videos, no passing-on of e-mails, no signing of petitions, no armed uprisings―none of these things and other similar things are going to change the critical and damning state of the world today. More than ever it has to be recourse to the supernatural and spiritual weapons that God and Heaven have placed before us―but which we stubbornly (or stupidly) refuse to use―preferring, instead, to spout and pout, to forward the viral videos, to employ endless e-mails, to complain constantly, etc. ― all the while forgetting or ignoring Our Lord’s damning statement: “Without Me, you can do nothing!” (John 15:5). Are You Sure You Want to Go Down This Road?
Damned If We Do! Damned If We Don’t!
Many―perhaps most―people have a feeling of futility, hopelessness and helplessness when it comes presidential elections, or any other political elections for that matter. They feel like they are voting for “evil” regardless of who they vote for, or which party they ‘support’―much like someone wishing to marry, but realizes that each suitor is evil in one way or another. One potential spouse might be murderer, another is a thief, another is a wife-beater, another a child-abuser, another is a rapist, another is an alcoholic, another a drug-addict, a pornographer, an adulterer, a homosexual or lesbian, etc., etc. What a morbid choice―you end up with evil whichever you choose! According to a theory from Emory University political science professors Alan Abramowitz and Steven Webster, in the general election, the vast majority of the American public is going to vote they way they are going to vote―no matter what. And increasingly, the way Americans vote is against a party, not for one. “A growing number of Americans have been voting against the opposing party rather than for their own party,” they wrote. It is increasingly becoming more of a focus on hate rather than love―people increasingly motivated to vote AGAINST a nominee they HATE, rather than being motivated to vote FOR a nominee they LIKE. Abramowitz and Webster analyzed data since the 1980s from the American National Election Studies, found that voters have become incredibly loyal to parties, yet they publicly identify less and less with a party. The amount of voters identifying as independent, but leaning one way or the other, has surged to a record level, they note. They are saying, in effect, that is the HATRED of a particular candidate that drives them to go out and vote. Those who hate neither candidate are more likely not to vote, than those who hate one of the candidates. People vote along party lines because they are voting AGAINST a party, rather than FOR something they believe in. You could argue that―in a similar way―people who hate God and hate God’s laws, are likely to produce proportionately more activists from their numbers, than those who love God but tend to be more passive. The salvation of our soul is of the utmost importance―as Our Lord says: “For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?” (Matthew 16:26). To save your soul and reach Heaven safely, you need good guides. Those good guides do not only have be guides within the Church, but we also need good guides on the level of the State―for the Church and State should be like two horses harnessed to our soul that should be pulling it in the right and same direction. So what are our current “guides” in the State like? More precisely, what are the guides like who are running for the presidency? ► DONALD TRUMP (Republican Party presidential candidate) was born in 1946 (currently aged 74) and has five children from three marriages: Don Jr., Ivanka, and Eric Trump from his marriage with Ivana Trump (1977–1992), Ivana had already married once before; Tiffany Trump from his marriage with Marla Maples (married 1993–1999); and Barron Trump from his marriage with First Lady Melania Trump (Knauss), a baptized Catholic girl (married in 2005 in an Anglican service in Palm Beach, Florida). Is he actually married? Which marriages―if any―were valid? A Catholic (Melania) marrying Trump in an Anglican service? It is a real melting pot. Only God knows the answers to that mess! President Donald Trump has often used religious language while in office, and he has surrounded himself with evangelical leaders and supported conservative Christian causes. But Trump’s personal religious beliefs and practices have not been as public. Indeed, half of U.S. adults either say they’re not sure what Trump’s religion is (34%) or that he has no religion (16%), while just 33% say he’s Protestant. And Americans overall don’t think Trump is particularly religious: A majority say Trump is “not too” (23%) or “not at all” (40%) religious, while 28% say he’s “somewhat” religious and only 7% say he’s “very religious,” according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Of all modern American presidents, he is the only spiritual nomad—a man seemingly without religious roots. Before him, Barack Obama attended Methodist services. George W. Bush was also a practicing Methodist. Bill Clinton was a Baptist, George H.W. Bush was an Episcopalian, and Ronald Reagan was a Presbyterian. The connections between these past presidents and their faiths were well-defined. But despite President Trump’s claims to mainline Protestantism, investigations by CNN have found that while he did attend church in his youth, there is no evidence that he, as an adult, is attached to any Christian tradition at all. President Trump identifies himself as Presbyterian, but Trump does not regularly attend a Presbyterian church, he doesn’t seem to have held an official membership in any church since he was 28 years old and he has associated with a range of religious groups. He does not belong to a church in Washington, though he refers to himself as a Presbyterian. He only occasionally attends a service, including multiple visits to St. John’s Episcopal across from the White House, which past presidents historically have attended, and Christmas and Easter worship at the Florida Episcopal church where he was married to Melania Trump, or at Washington National Cathedral, another Episcopal church. His spiritual adviser, televangelist Paula White, used to lead a Pentecostal-leaning church. He has prayed in public with Southern Baptist leaders. In 2015, after Trump said he attends Marble, the church publicly stated he “is not an active member” of the church. At Christmas in 2019, Trump attended services at a conservative Baptist-affiliated church. He also attends an Episcopal church. Looks like he is courting a wide variety of potential voters rather than courting God! At a conference in Des Moines, Iowa, during the Question & Answer portion, he said “People are so shocked when they find ... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church and I love God and I love my church.” But when asked by Frank Luntz, moderator of the forum, if he had ever asked God for forgiveness for his actions, Trump replied: “I am not sure I have. I just go on and try to do a better job from there. I don’t think so … I think if I do something wrong, I think, I just try and make it right. I don’t bring God into that picture. I don’t.” The president says the Bible is his favorite book―but has declined to name a verse that is particularly meaningful to him. And he has said multiple times that he does not like to ask God for forgiveness, which is traditionally seen as a core part of the Christian faith. Once they have converted, Christians tend to take up certain spiritual disciplines, such as prayer, church attendance, tithing and reading the Bible. In interviews with several religious leaders and observers, there is no indication that Mr. Trump engages in any of those practices regularly. A man’s religion dictates his worldview, and his worldview dictates how he perceives reality. This, in turn, dictates his actions. And Trump’s words and actions seem to be those of a nominal, superficial, Evangelical Christian who embraces “prosperity theology”. To put it simply, winning is equated with good, and losers are equated with bad. This is strikingly similar to the attitude of some Evangelicals, wherein those who experience grave misfortune must have sinned or suffered from a lack of faith to deserve that misfortune. In Trump’s worldview, success is everything. Trump announced during Pride Month in 2019 that his administration was launching a global campaign to end the criminalization of homosexuality. His leadership on this issue couldn’t be more necessary — even in 2020, 72 countries still identify same-sexual orientation as criminal, including eight countries where it is punishable by death. This campaign was spearheaded by former U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, an openly gay member of the administration who subsequently served as acting director of U.S. national intelligence, becoming the first openly gay Cabinet member in U.S. history. With regard to abortion, Trump’s views on abortion have changed significantly. In 1999, Trump described himself as “very pro-choice” (pro-abortion) and said “I believe in choice.” Although he said he hated the “concept of abortion,” he said he would not ban it, nor the specific procedure sometimes called “partial-birth abortion.” That year, he gave interviews describing himself as “totally pro-choice” and claiming that abortion should be “removed from politics. I believe it is a personal decision that should be left to the women and their doctors.” In his 2016 presidential campaign, by contrast, he described himself as pro-life―more specifically as “pro-life with exceptions”―suggesting that women who have abortions should face some sort of punishment (a view he quickly retracted); and pledged to appoint pro-life justices to the Supreme Court. While campaigning for the presidency in 2016 Trump said, “I’m pro-life and I’ve been pro-life a long time” and acknowledged that he had “evolved” on the issue. CNN reported that Trump “dodged questions testing the specificity of those views.” In August 2015, Trump said he supported a government shutdown over federal funding for Planned Parenthood. In March 2016, Trump said Planned Parenthood should not be funded “as long as you have the abortion going on”, but he acknowledged that “Planned Parenthood has done very good work for many, many—for millions of women.” Planned Parenthood said the “Trump presidency would be a disaster for women.” In an interview later that month, Trump acknowledged that there must be “some form” of punishment for women if abortion were made illegal in the U.S. He issued a statement later that day reversing his position from earlier by saying, “the doctor or any other person performing this illegal act upon a woman would be held legally responsible, not the woman.” Trump has said that abortion should be legal in cases involving “rape, incest or the life of the mother being at risk.” In May 2016, when asked if he would appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade, Trump said: “Well, they’ll be pro-life. And we’ll see about overturning, but I will appoint judges that will be pro-life.” In the same interview he said of the pro-life cause, “I will protect it, and the biggest way you can protect is through the Supreme Court.” In his first interview following his designation as president-elect, Trump affirmed his pledge to appoint pro-life Supreme Court justices. He said that if Roe v. Wade were overturned, the issue would be returned to the states, and that if some states outlawed abortion, a woman would “have to go to another state” to get one. In January 2018, Trump spoke at the March for Life in Washington, D.C., becoming the first president to directly address the annual anti-abortion rally, though it was through satellite. In May 2018, he signed an executive order entitled, “Establishment of a White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative” that aims to prevent funding for abortion. On several occasions Trump has asserted that Democrats advocate “executing” newborn babies. In February 2019 he tweeted, “The Democrat position on abortion is now so extreme that they don’t mind executing babies AFTER birth ...” The assertion became a staple at his rallies, including in April 2019 when he said, “The baby is born. The mother meets with the doctor. They take care of the baby. They wrap the baby beautifully. And then the doctor and the mother determine whether or not they will execute the baby.” The sexual misdemeanors of Trump have been well documented. Over the years well over 20 women have accused Trump of various levels of sexual assault―from rape to sexual molestation and groping, to entering rooms when they were naked. These seem to be tip of the iceberg and Trump has given various interviews over the years where he has publically boasted of his sexual misdeeds. ► MIKE PENCE (Republican vice presidential running mate of Donald Trump) was born in 1959 (currently aged 61), and in 1985 (aged 26) married the Catholic Karen Batten (previously married to/divorced from John Whitaker). Mike Pence grew up in a big Irish Catholic family of Democrats in central Indiana, was raised Catholic, served as an altar boy, attended Catholic parochial schools. Pence kept attending Mass after college and worked as a youth minister at a Catholic church. Pence reportedly even applied to Washington, D.C.’s Catholic University with plans to become a priest. Yet today, having left the Catholic Faith, Pence describes himself as Evangelical, who openly follows conservative Christian teachings, often cites the Bible in speeches and has said “my faith sustains me in all that I do.” Pence became a “born-again-Christian” and converted to Evangelical Christianity through the influence of a non-denominational fellowship group in 1978 (aged 19), while a freshman at Indiana’s Hanover College. In the mid-1990s (in his mid-30s), Pence started taking his family to an Evangelical megachurch in Indianapolis. “I simply made a personal decision for Christ,” said Pence. When asked about his change of religion from Catholicism to Evangelism, Pence replied: “I cherish my Catholic upbringing” … [but I] … “just felt drawn to worship at an evangelical church.” As late as 1994, the religiously confused and drifting Pence still described himself as “a born-again, evangelical Catholic.” One of Pence’s many former slogans is that he is “a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican―in that order.” After being elected governor of Indiana in 2012, Pence signed bills intended to restrict abortions, including one that prohibited abortions if the reason for the procedure was the fetus’s race, gender, or disability. After Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, he encountered fierce resistance from moderate members of his party, the business community, and LGBT advocates. The backlash against the RFRA led Pence to amend the bill to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and other criteria. Pence is an opponent of abortion, and his unwavering support of abortion restrictions has gained him the support of grassroots conservative activists. He began seeking to defund Planned Parenthood in 2007 and in three congressional sessions, he introduced legislation to block organizations that provide abortion services from receiving any funding. Pence has been a vocal opponent of efforts to expand LGBTQ civil rights, during both his governorship and his tenure as a U.S. representative. In 2000, his congressional campaign website said: “Congress should oppose any effort to recognize homosexuals as a ‘discrete and insular minority’ entitled to the protection of anti-discrimination laws similar to those extended to women and ethnic minorities.” Pence opposed the 2009 Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act, saying that Barack Obama wanted to “advance a radical social agenda” and said that pastors “could be charged or be subject to intimidation for simply expressing a Biblical worldview on the issue of homosexual behavior.” Pence has said that homosexuals should not serve in the military, saying: “Homosexuality is incompatible with military service because the presence of homosexuals in the ranks weakens unit cohesion.” Pence opposes both same-sex marriage and civil unions. While in the House, he said that “societal collapse was always brought about following an advent of the deterioration of marriage and family.” He has advocated a constitutional same-sex marriage ban. In January 2019, Pence’s wife, Second Lady Karen Pence, announced that she would return to teaching at Immanuel Christian School in Springfield, Virginia, outside Washington, D.C. The announcement drew immediate controversy based on Immanuel Christian School’s code of conduct, which included that the school would refuse admission to students who were involved in or who had tolerated “sexual immorality, homosexual activity or bisexual activity.” After Second Lady Pence and the school were condemned by the media, Pence defended his wife, stating in an interview: “To see major news organizations attacking Christian education is deeply offensive to us.” Pence was in turn condemned for the defense of Christian education. ► JOE BIDEN (Democratic Party presidential candidate) identifies as being Mass going and Rosary praying Catholic, but breaks with Church teaching on abortion and the re-definition of marriage. Biden has been publicly corrected by U.S. bishops for contradicting Catholic moral doctrines. Biden was pro-life when he began his Senate career in 1973, but Biden changed his stance on the issue over his decades in Congress, saying initially that he supported abortion, but was opposed to using taxpayer money to fund it. Recently, Biden refused to comment to The New York Times about his current stance on taxpayer funding for abortion. In 2015, Biden told America magazine that he accepted “on faith” that human life begins at conception, but that he was unwilling to impose that view on others. Another major Church teaching that Biden has broken with over the years is the teaching that marriage is a union between one man and one woman ordered toward the good of the spouses and procreation. Even the Liberal and Modernist Church teaches that homosexuality is “objectively disordered,” and persons with such an inclination are “called to chastity.” Initially, Biden voted for the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, which prohibited the federal government from recognizing any same-sex marriage―but in a 2012 interview he said he was “absolutely comfortable” with allowing same-sex couples to marry. Biden himself has officiated at several same-sex marriages―taking the role of “minister” that ‘blessed’ the homosexual unions. As regards his own marriages, Biden tragically lost his first wife in a car accident in 1972, then dated a married woman (now Jill Biden, then Mrs. Jill Stevenson) who eventually divorced her husband and married Biden in the presence of a Catholic priest on June 17th, 1977, at the Chapel at the United Nations in New York City. The existence of an annulment on the part of Jill Stevenson (Jill Biden) with regard to her first marriage is unknown. Jill Biden was raised agnostic, but joined the Presbyterian Church at the age of 15. Joe and Jill Biden’s daughter, Ashley, recently married a Jewish doctor in joint Catholic-Jewish ceremony, officiated by a Catholic priest, Father David Murphy, and a Reform Jewish Rabbi, Joseph M. Forman of Or Chadash synagogue! ► KAMALA HARRIS (Democrat running mate of Joe Biden) was raised on Hinduism and Christianity. Her mother was from India; her father from Jamaica. Her name, “Kamala”, means “lotus” in Sanskrit, and is another name for the Hindu goddess Lakshmi. Her parents divorced when she was 7, and she grew up attending predominantly Black churches. Kamala Harris now considers herself a Black Baptist. She is married to a divorced Jewish lawyer, Douglas Emhoff―though this is Emhoff’s second ‘marriage’, it is Harris’ first marriage. Harris is the fourth most left-leaning democrat in the Senate, only slightly further right than Bernie Sanders. She also has a 100% approval rating from Planned Parenthood Action. On abortion, Harris opposes any all restrictions on abortion and even sought to protect the abortion industry from scrutiny. As California’s attorney general in 2015 she used unprecedented legal measures to sue David Daleiden, the journalist who went undercover to expose the buying and selling of aborted baby body parts. In February 2020, Harris voted against the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, a law which would have made it a federal crime to withhold medical treatment from babies that survived botched abortions. After she was elected to the Senate in 2016, Harris continued to staunchly support LGBTQ rights. During the 2020 Democratic primary campaign, where Harris was among the field of presidential hopefuls, her LGBTQ platform stood out for promising to appoint a White House chief advocate for LGBTQ affairs “to ensure that LGBTQ+ Americans are represented in hiring and policy priorities across the government.” But during the primary, Harris, Biden and over a dozen other Democratic hopefuls were remarkably unified in their positions on many LGBTQ issues, which included ending the transgender military ban and religious exemptions to anti-discrimination laws, and reversing policies that discriminate against LGBTQ people in adoption and housing. After her selection as Biden’s running mate for the 2020 Presidential Election, Kamala Harris made immediate waves when she announced her chief of staff would be Karine Jean-Pierre — an out lesbian. Ruled by One or Ruled by Many?
Monarchy or Democracy? IN BRIEF
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) reasoned that there are two types of government―Just and Unjust―and that there are three basic forms that these may take. Before going any further, it must be stressed that Aquinas required that ALL FORMS OF GOVERNMENT HAD TO BE SUBSERVIENT AND OBEDIENT TO GOD AND GOD’S LAWS―OTHERWISE THEY WERE UNJUST GOVERNMENTS AND COULD BE DEPOSED. A JUST GOVERNMENT ► A Just Monarchy For Aquinas, the absolute best form of government was the rule of a single leader whose heart was kind and just and who applied God’s law to all matters of governance. This was the most efficient form of government, because there were no obstacles in the way of the king’s benevolent rule. ► A Just Oligarchy The second preference would be the rule by an aristocracy, or elite leadership, which is called an "oligarchy", who would rule as a kind of senate, making decisions for the people they represent. This is not nearly as efficient as a monarchy, so is not as ideal, but is the next best thing. Again, it is presumed that these are God-fearing men, subservient and obedient to the will and laws of God, who are doing what is best for the people according to God's dictates and not merely themselves and not their own profit or advantage. ► A Just Democracy A democracy is rule by the masses. This is the most inefficient of the three options because masses of people move very slowly. Assuming that the people are just and God-fearing (this is, of course, quite a leap theologically ― and begs the question of why you need a formal government in the first place!), this can be a good form of government, although it is quite unlikely that you will ever get anything done because of the debates, disagreements and multitude suggestions on how to do anything and everything. Furthermore, is everybody going to be equally subservient and obedient to the will and laws of God? Very unlikely! Hence arguments and divisions are very likely to arise. AN UNJUST GOVERNMENT ► An Unjust Democracy Supposing that the people were selfish and looked only after their own interests, rather than following the law of God and caring about others, a democracy would be the best form of unjust government. Why? Because democracies move slowly, hence it would degenerate more slowly, and this form of rule would be the least likely to adopt tyranny (since everyone is wanting to be free from external rule and restrictions). ► An Unjust Oligarch If tyranny is a risk, then tyranny is more likely to happen at the hands of a few, than at the hands of the masses. Therefore, according to Aquinas, an oligarchy (governance by the few) is worse than a democracy (governance by the masses), but better than a monarchy, if you were FORCED or UNAVOIDABLY HAD to settle for some form of unjust government. ► An Unjust Monarchy The absolute worst form of unjust government that Aquinas could envision was the tyranny of a single monarchy. As you look back at the history of the world, it is not hard to agree with his assessment. So, the best kind of government, with a kind and benevolent king, could also be the worst if the king is bad or evil, because there is no “red tape” or bureaucracy to keep the bad or evil king in check. IN MORE DETAIL Political-philosophy types should all be familiar with Plato’s belief that the “philosopher king” would be the best ruler. Picking up on that theme, St. Thomas Aquinas delves into the best form of government in his book, On Kingship (De Regno). Americans―being raised on and used to democracy―will probably be surprised to learn about what Aquinas thought was the best form of government. Somewhat like the Ancient Greek philosopher Plato, Aquinas believed that monarchy was best. Well, actually, it would be a “Christian spiritual philosopher king” that would be the best ruler. The problem is you can never find him―especially today! The reasons? St. Thomas Aquinas believed that “the aim of any ruler should be directed towards securing the welfare of that which he undertakes to rule” and that a king would be the best to do so – much like the captain of a ship. If there is rule by many, then the government and country are prone to disunity ― which is what we see in democracies today. As Aquinas argues, “for union is necessary among them if they are to rule at all: several men, for instance, could not pull a ship in one direction unless joined together in some fashion.” And so he believed one man is better at keeping a country united―but let it again be stressed in these godless days, that one man is not, and should not be, independent of God and God’s laws. Otherwise you have a recipe for disaster. He also believed that rule by one is the natural order of things. As he writes, “whatever is in accord with nature is best, for in all things nature does what is best. Now, every natural governance is governance by one.” For example, each person rules themselves―even though they take advice from others and align themselves with God’s will―they ultimately have the final say on each course of action, upon which they, and they alone, shall be judged one day. To Aquinas, history shows that the natural order of things is to have a king: “For provinces or cities which are not ruled by one person are torn with dissensions and tossed about without peace…” In other areas of On Kingship, Aquinas elaborates as to the character of this king. He should have a “zeal for justice”, “the gentleness of clemency”, and “mildness” when it comes to the “individuals who are subject to his rule”. In other words, Aquinas sees a sort of “philosopher king” as the best ruler as well. But Aquinas is no fool. As much as a monarchy may be the best form of government with a “philosopher king” at the head, the system of rule by one man can also be the very worst form of government if a tyrant is at the head. “If an unjust government is carried on by one man alone, who seeks his own benefit from his rule and not the good of the multitude subject to him, such a ruler is called a tyrant—a word derived from strength—because he oppresses by might instead of ruling by justice.” Because power is centralized in a monarchy, if a tyrant rules the throne he is able to efficiently and effectively pursue his own good over that of his people. That is also why people reflexively hate the idea of monarchy – even if ruled by the “philosopher king”, as Aquinas admits: “Because both the best and the worst government are latent in monarchy, i.e. in the rule of one man, the royal dignity is rendered hateful to many people on account of the wickedness of tyrants. Some men, indeed, whilst they desire to be ruled by a king, fall under the cruelty of tyrants, and not a few rulers exercise tyranny under the cloak of royal dignity” As for other forms of government? Aquinas considered them all to be different forms of “polyarchy” or rule by many, including aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy, and a republic. Aquinas believed that the core problem of “polyarchy” is disunity: “Group government [polyarchy] most frequently breeds dissension.” And to Aquinas, where does the dissension and disunity lead? Tyranny. Aquinas says: “Moreover, in point of fact, a polyarchy [many rulers] deviates into tyranny, not less, but perhaps more frequently, than a monarchy. When, on account of there being many rulers, dissensions arise in such a government, it often happens that the power of one person preponderates and he then usurps the government of the multitude for himself. This indeed may be clearly seen from history. There has hardly ever been a polyarchy [rule by many] that did not end in tyranny. The best illustration of this fact is the history of the Roman Republic. It was for a long time administered by the magistrates―but then animosities, dissensions and civil wars arose and it fell into the power of the most cruel tyrants. In general, if one carefully considers what has happened in the past and what is happening in the present, he will discover that more men have held tyrannical sway in lands previously ruled by many rulers, than in those ruled by one.” Should It Be About Right and Left?
Or Right and Wrong? “You know where I stand,” George W. Bush said any number of times before his 2004 electoral victory. Where does Donald Trump stand? Where does Joe Biden stand? Where does Mike Pence stand? Where does Kamala Harris stand? Where does the Republican Party stand? Where does the Democratic Party stand? Where do all the other politicians stand? Where do the voters stand? Where do you stand? Do you stand for “The Right” or for “The Left”? Or do you stand for “what is right” against “what is wrong”? Do those politicians on “The Right” stand for what is right, or for what is wrong? Do those politicians on “The Left” stand for what is right, or for what is wrong? Is “The Right” really right, or are they wrong? Is “The Left” really right, or are they wrong? As Our Lord said: “Either make the tree good and its fruit good: or make the tree evil, and its fruit evil. For by the fruit the tree is known!” (Matthew 12:33).
Our Lord goes on to say: “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 [politicians], who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them. Not every one that saith to Me: ‘Lord! Lord!’ shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven―but he that doth the will of My Father Who is in Heaven, he shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Many will say to Me in that day: ‘Lord! Lord! Have not we prophesied in Thy Name, and cast out devils in Thy Name, and done many miracles in Thy Name?’ And then will I profess unto them: ‘I never knew you! Depart from Me, you that work iniquity!’ Every one therefore that heareth these My words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock―and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on a rock. And every one that heareth these My words, and doth them not, shall be like a foolish man that built his house upon the sand―and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall thereof” (Matthew 7:13-27). George Orwell, the author of the famous dystopic novel 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four), wrote in 1944: “The real problem of our time is to restore the sense of absolute right and wrong, when the belief that it used to rest on — that is, the belief in personal immortality — has been destroyed. This demands faith―which is a different thing from credulity.” The modern ‘Christian’ politician focuses more on what to render or give to Caesar than what to render or give to God―he has very little regard for the Prophets and no end of veneration for profits. Politicians (and voters) are more concerned about the battle between “The Right” (Conservatives, Republicans) and “The Left” (Liberals, Democrats), with less and less concern about “Right” and “Wrong”. In fact, it is increasingly being shown that the most politicians and followers of each political party (e.g. Republicans & Democrats) think that their opinions and policies and always “Right” and that opinions and policies of the other political party are always “Wrong”. This falls into the trap of subjective truth (meaning truth is what I think is true) replacing objective truth (meaning truth is NOT based on WHAT I THINK, but truth is based ON WHAT ACTUALLY IS). In the case of subjective truth―I change or adjust truth to fit my opinions, preferences, prejudices and tendencies. Whereas with objective truth―I must change or adjust my opinions, preferences, prejudices and tendencies to fit in with the truth. In subjective truth―I change and shape truth to fit myself. In objective truth―I change, adjust or shape my thoughts to fit in with the truth. Today, sadly, truth is sacrificed on the altar of wishful thinking. Truth changes as the mood changes. There is no longer an unchangeable truth (dogma)―the god of self can now change anything that the God of Heaven once set in stone. Even the commandments of God are now changed―and what was once “right” is now “wrong”; and what was once “wrong” is now “right” ― and the politicians of both “The Right” and “The Left” subscribe to this creed of changeable truth. Of such blind fools Our Lord says: “Leave them alone! They are blind, and leaders of the blind! And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the pit!” (Matthew 15:14). Can Politics Be Cured?
Politics is sick! Politics today is a politic of death! It is a politic of spiritual suicide! It is “Pied-Piper” politic leading to perpetual perdition. It is doomed to damnation―and a nation following today’s damnable politics will be damned with it. It is a politic that is spiritually blind―and both its leaders and its led will fall into the pit. “They are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the pit!” says Our Lord (Matthew 15:14).
Why? Well, Our Lady explains it thus: ““From the end of the 19th century and especially in the 20th century, the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of morals, for Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects ... These years, during which the evil sect of Masonry will take control of the civil government, will see a cruel persecution of all religious communities … All the civil governments will have one and the same plan, which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principle, to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism and vice of all kinds. They will abolish civil rights, as well as ecclesiastical rights. All order and all justice will be trampled underfoot and only homicides, hate, jealousy, lies and dissension will be seen, without love for country or family!” (Our Lady of Good Success & Our Lady of La Salette). To Blessed Sister Elena Aiello (1895-1961)―mystic, stigmatic, victim soul, prophetess and foundress of the Minim Tertiaries of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ―Our Lady, in an apparition on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, December 8th, 1956, said: “People are offending God too much! If I were to show you all the sins committed on a single day, you would surely die of grief. These are grave times! The world is in total turmoil because it is in a worse condition than at the time of the deluge! Materialism marches on ever fomenting bloody strifes and fratricidal struggles. Clear signs portend that peace is in danger. That scourge, like the shadow of a dark cloud, is now moving across mankind―only my power, as Mother of God, is preventing the outbreak of the storm! All is hanging on a slender thread! When that thread shall snap, Divine Justice shall pounce upon the world and execute its dreadful, purging designs! All the nations shall be punished because sins, like a muddy river, are now covering all the Earth!” Surgical Spiritual Cure Needed Our Lady of La Salette predicts: “Woe to the inhabitants of the Earth! God will strike in an unprecedented way! God will exhaust His wrath upon them, and no one will be able to escape so many afflictions together! The chiefs, the leaders of the people of God, have neglected prayer and penance, and the devil has bedimmed their intelligence. They have become wandering stars which the old devil will drag along with his tail to make them perish. God will allow the old serpent to cause divisions among those who reign in every society and in every family. Physical and moral agonies will be suffered. God will abandon mankind to itself and will send punishments which will follow one after the other! … The society of men is on the eve of the most terrible scourges and of gravest events! Mankind must expect to be ruled with an iron rod and to drink from the chalice of the wrath of God!” Medicinally, the doctor always seeks the least invasive and least traumatic treatment. Basically, prevention is preferable to cure; or medication rather than amputation. You have to do what it takes. The removal of one part of the body must be done to save the rest of the body―leaving a diseased incurable body part in place, risks bringing death to the whole body. In a certain sense, this is also God’s diagnosis and prognosis―as clearly enunciated in Holy Scripture: “The soul that sinneth, the same shall die … But if the wicked do penance for all his sins which he hath committed, and keep all my commandments, and do judgment, and justice, living he shall live, and shall not die … Is it my will that a sinner should die, saith the Lord God, and not that he should be converted from his ways, and live? … And you have said: ‘The way of the Lord is not right!’ Hear ye, therefore! Is it my way that is not right, and are not rather your ways perverse? … For when the just turneth himself away from being just and committeth iniquity, he shall die therein! In the injustice that he hath wrought he shall die! And when the wicked turneth himself away from his wickedness and doeth judgment and justice―he shall save his soul alive! … Therefore will I judge every man according to his ways, saith the Lord God. Be converted and do penance for all your iniquities and iniquity shall not be your ruin! Cast away from you all your transgressions by which you have transgressed, and make unto yourselves a new heart and a new spirit―and why will you die? For I desire not the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God, return ye and live!” (Ezechiel 18:20-32). What is here said of the soul, can also be said of politics―which, in a certain sense, should be the secular soul of the nation. Right now, the political soul of the nation―even all nations―is sick, satanically sick, for it follows the anti-Christian laws inspired by Satan―the prince of this world (John 14:16-17; 15:26; 16:7-11)―and increasingly disregards what remnants remain of the Laws of God. As Scripture says: “Be not deceived, God is not mocked! For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh, of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit, of the spirit shall reap life everlasting” (Galatians 6:7-8). Corrupt politics―politics that have corrupted the Laws of God―need God’s medication, or, in the worst case scenario, God’s surgery and amputation. Our Lord warns: “Amen I say to you, that all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and the blasphemies wherewith they shall blaspheme! But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, shall never have forgiveness, but shall be guilty of an everlasting sin!” (Mark 3:28-29). “Therefore I say to you: Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven men―but the blasphemy of the Spirit shall not be forgiven. And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man―it shall be forgiven him. But he that shall speak against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him―neither in this world, nor in the world to come!” (Matthew 12:21-32). St. Thomas Aquinas, in the Summa Theologica (IIa-IIae, q. 14), commenting upon this sin of “blaspheming against the Holy Ghost” or “blasphemy of the Spirit”, says that this kind of sin is essentially the sin of malice that resists known truth for the sake of deliberately and stubbornly remaining in sin―which, in a certain sense, you could say applies to the politics of today. St. Thomas writes: “The Master, Peter Lombard, says (in Sent. ii, D, 43) that ‘to sin against the Holy Ghost is to take pleasure in the malice of sin for its own sake.’ Now this is to sin through certain malice. Therefore it seems that the sin committed through certain malice is the same as the sin against the Holy Ghost. I answer that, three meanings have been given to the sin against the Holy Ghost. For the earlier doctors, namely St. Athanasius, St. Hilary, St. Ambrose, St. Jerome, and St. John Chrysostom say that the sin against the Holy Ghost is literally to utter a blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. St. Augustine, however, says that blasphemy or the sin against the Holy Ghost, is final impenitence―when a man perseveres in mortal sin until death. St. Augustine says that ‘so great is the downfall of this sin, that it cannot submit to the humiliation of asking for pardon.’ “But others understand it differently, and say that the sin of blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, is a sin committed … through certain malice, i.e. through the very choosing of evil, it is a sin ‘against the Holy Ghost.’ Now this may happen in two ways. First by reason of the very inclination of a vicious habit which we call malice, and, in this way, to sin through malice is not the same as to sin against the Holy Ghost. On another way it happens that by reason of contempt, that which might have prevented the choosing of evil, is rejected or removed; thus hope is removed by despair, and fear by presumption, and so on, as we shall explain further on (Q 20,21) ... In this sense, to sin through malice is to sin against the Holy Ghost ... According to the various interpretations of the sin against the Holy Ghost, there are various ways in which it may be said that it cannot be forgiven. For if by the sin against the Holy Ghost we understand final impenitence, it is said to be unpardonable, since in no way is it pardoned: because the mortal sin wherein a man perseveres until death will not be forgiven in the life to come, since it was not remitted by repentance in this life.” (St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, IIa-IIae, q. 14). As stated by God through His prophet Ezechiel (see above), God is willing to forgive if man is willing to change and repair for his sins. It requires a change of heart, a change of mind, a change of behavior―whereby evil is judged as being evil; renounced as being evil; and abandoned for being evil. That would be the reaction of someone moved by the truth of God―the “Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, nor knoweth Him” (John 14:17). The sins of modern politics are increasingly seen to be sins of malice―meaning that they love evil for evil’s sake and they resist the truth for the sake of remaining in that evil. If they stubbornly and obstinately remain in this mindset, then God has no choice but to abandon His medications (words of warning) and opt for amputation (destruction of certain elements and persons within this world)―all of which has been the diagnosis and prognosis offered by the Blessed Virgin Mary for a long time now. Politics CAN be cured―but WILL IT be cured? Has politics committed a “blasphemy against the Holy Ghost” ― the “Spirit of Truth” ― and knowingly, deliberately, willingly and obstinately refused the truths and laws of God in order to “be like unto gods” themselves and go down a path that inevitably leads to the pit of perdition―dragging with them all their willing followers. Politics or Cosmetics?
Cosmetics could be said to be “the covering up of reality” or “the exaggeration of reality” or “the practice of pretense”― for women usually “put on” cosmetics to make themselves look more beautiful or less ugly than what they actually are (no offense intended, ladies). Hence the expressions “put-on” “make-up”―in the sense of “pretending” or “making things up” which are not true.
The same can be said of politics and politicians―they “put-on” a face, they “make-up” an image of themselves, they hide reality beneath a painted or powdered superficial covering. For example, we’ve all seen pictures of politicians holding babies in front of crowds of potential voters. Politicians, of course, have a right to enjoy the heart-warming feeling of embracing a newborn just as much as the rest of us. However, if a politician were to hold a baby for the sake of using it as a prop for photo―in order to try and convince voters of how ‘loving’ and ‘caring’ he/she is, then a problem arises. Now, whether politicians choose to hold babies as a superficial way to boost their rankings in the poles is impossible to know for sure, as we cannot read their minds to figure out why they do it, nor can we read the minds of voters to see if it had the desired effect. Negative ads and half-true claims, on the other hand, are definitely superficial tactics politicians use to gain the favor of the public. Voters should keep an eye out for these tactics to avoid falling prey to their influence. When I see a political smear ad on TV, it is nothing else than a “plastering” on of ugly cosmetics on the “face” of a political opponent. It is great indication of the immaturity of politicians that they spend millions of dollars insulting one another in front of the entire United States? It is a case of ugly, childish, unchristian, political cosmetics. It all seems like a very superficial way to confront the mistakes of opposing candidates― intellectual, well-informed arguments against the candidates’ decisions are rarely used. In other words, candidates are taking the easy way out when they choose to destroy their opponent's reputation, instead of voicing cogent reasonable logical and analytical plans for dealing with political issues. Some might argue that “smear ads” are important because they inform voters on the flaws of candidates. In some respect, a candidates’ past mistakes should be taken into account―especially if the flaw is uncorrected and unrepented. However, a better way to do this would be to calmly and respectfully point out a poor decision an opposing candidate made, why it was a bad decision, and indicate what proof it offers that the candidate will make bad decisions in the future. In other words, use rational reasoning rather than simply emotionally ranting about all of the things an opposing candidate has allegedly done wrong. To be fair, there might be a good reason that rational arguments are not a candidate’s preferred method of self-promotion. The reason might be that the average American doesn’t want to put forth the energy or time to digest confusing political issues. This could be because they’re busy or simply lazy and uninterested. More likely is the fact that most Americans have been “dumbed-down” so much that any in-depth discussion would place them out of their depth. Either way, treating elections like popularity contests is much easier and much less work. Unfortunately, when Americans interact with elections as though they are mere popularity contests, the wrong people end up representing and governing the nation. Besides―the real rulers of nations are not the politicians but the so-called “money-men” or “shadow government” or “deep-state”―or, ultimately and even more precisely, as Our Lord and Holy Scripture tells us―the prince of this world, who is the devil or Satan: “The prince of this world cometh, and in Me he hath not anything … The prince of this world is already judged ... Now shall the prince of this world be cast out!” (John 12:31; 16:11; 14:30). “Our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and power, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places” (Ephesians 6:12). Things have become so bad―worse than you think, for cosmetics cover the reality―that only Heaven can help us now. Our Lady has been trying to tell us that for some time now. Our Lady wears no cosmetics, nor does she try cover reality with cosmetics―she tells it as it is, even if it worries us or frightens us. ► At QUITO, Ecuador, Our Lady of Good Success said: “At the end of the 19th century and into the 20th century, various heresies will be propagated … As these heresies spread and dominate, the precious light of Faith will be extinguished in souls by the almost total corruption of morals ... There will be occasions when all will seem lost and paralyzed. This then will be the happy beginning of the complete restoration. This, however, will mark the arrival of my hour, when I, in a marvelous way, will dethrone the proud and cursed Satan, trampling him under my feet and fettering him in the infernal abyss.” (Our Lady of Good Success, 1611). It is the promise later echoed by Our Lady at FATIMA in 1917: “In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.” ► At LA SALETTE, France, in 1846, Our Lady speaks of her important role: “If my people do not wish to submit themselves, I am forced to let go of the hand of my Son! It is so heavy and weighs me down so much, that I can no longer keep hold of it! I have suffered all of the time for all of you! If I do not wish my Son to abandon you, I must take it upon myself to pray for this continually! And all of you think little of this! In vain you will pray! In vain you will act! You will never be able to make up for the trouble I have taken over for all of you!” ► At FATIMA, Portugal, in 1917, Our Lady speaks of herself in the third person―referring to herself as Our Lady of the Rosary―as she says: “Continue to pray the Rosary every day in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary … because only she can help you.” (July 13th, 1917). Adding later, “In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.” ► At AKITA, Japan, in 1973, Our Lady again refers to herself as the one chosen by God and Heaven to bring victory: “Pray very much the prayers of the Rosary! I alone am able still to save you from the calamities which approach. Those who place their confidence in me will be saved.” It is not politics that will save―but Heaven in general and Our Lady in particular. Our Lady has been “elected” by God’s Divine Providence as being the one who will “rule” and “triumph” in the near future. With Our Lady there will be no “cosmetics”―with her, “What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get”―we already know her platform, we know her manifesto, we know her agenda―it is all about God; all about reducing the inflation of sin; all about draining the world of “Satan’s Swamp”; all about increasing the standard of moral living; all about paying God fair ‘taxes’ that are due to Him, those of prayer and penance; all about a beneficial spiritual health program for everyone; all about a generous eternal retirement plan. Those are the issues that really matter―those are the chief issues she is campaigning on and has been campaigning on for hundreds of years. How Can You Let Yourself Be So Fooled?
A World of Fools
We live in a world of fools. A foolish world where the insignificant becomes important and the important becomes insignificant. A foolish world that lives for the present whilst foolishly ignoring the eternal. “The heart of fools where there is mirth” (Ecclesiastes 7:5). “The mouth of fools feeds on foolishness” (Proverbs 15:14). “Fools despise wisdom and instruction” (Proverbs 1:7). “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes” (Proverbs 12:15). “The instruction of fools is foolishness” (Proverbs 16:22). “For professing themselves to be wise, they became fools” (Romans 1:22). “Folly is joy to the fool” (Proverbs 15:21). “A fool will laugh at sin” (Proverbs 14:9). “The thought of a fool is sin” (Proverbs 24:9). “A friend of fools shall become like to them” (Proverbs 13:20). “Weep for the fool, for his understanding fails” (Ecclesiasticus 22:10). “The number of fools is infinite” (Ecclesiastes 1:15). There is a general consensus in the opinion that people have been “dumbed-down” considerably over that last 50 years or so. There is a growing and disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in American culture. It’s the dismissal of science, the arts, and humanities and their replacement by entertainment, self-righteousness, ignorance, and deliberate gullibility. Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason, says in an article in the Washington Post, “Dumbness, to paraphrase the late senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, has been steadily defined downward for several decades, by a combination of heretofore irresistible forces. These include the triumph of video culture over print culture; a disjunction between Americans’ rising level of formal education and their shaky grasp of basic geography, science and history; and the fusion of anti-rationalism with anti-intellectualism.” There has been a long tradition of anti-intellectualism in America, unlike most other Western countries. Richard Hofstadter, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his book, Anti-Intellectualism In American Life, describes how the vast underlying foundations of anti-elite, anti-reason and anti-science have been infused into America’s political and social fabric. Famous science fiction writer Isaac Asimov once said: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Mark Bauerlein, in his book, The Dumbest Generation, reveals how a whole generation of youth is being dumbed down by their aversion to reading anything of substance and their addiction to digital “crap” via social media. Journalist Charles Pierce, author of Idiot America, adds another perspective: “The rise of idiot America today represents ― for profit mainly, but also and more cynically, for political advantage in the pursuit of power ― the breakdown of a consensus that the pursuit of knowledge is a good. It also represents the ascendancy of the notion that the people whom we should trust the least, are the people who best know what they are talking about. In the new media age, everybody is an expert.” “There’s a pervasive suspicion of rights, privileges, knowledge and specialization,” says Catherine Liu, the author of American Idyll: Academic Anti-Elitism as Cultural Critique and a film and media studies professor at University of California. The very mission of universities has changed, argues Liu. “We don’t educate people anymore. We train them to get jobs.” Ultimately, we are witnessing a drifting away from a pursuit for truth, which is being replaced by a politically correct acceptance of the lie. Once again, we need to quote William Casey, CIA Director from 1981 to 1987, who told President Reagan shortly after his election: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” With each successive year―due to our being “dumbed-down”―we are letting ourselves be fooled by more and more lies masquerading as truth. The current Conallwithavirus Plannedemic is a case in point―whereby be believe falsified death statistics, wear homemade masks believing they will filter out the virus, wash the skin off our hands, sanitize everything we can see, and believe that only a vaccine can save the world from destruction and that the ummune system is powerless to do anything―when for any sane person there is overwhelming SCIENTIFIC evidence that disproves those propaganda lies and narratives. Stupid is as stupid does! And there are a lot of stupid people doing stupid things because they believe stupid things! The Emperor’s New Clothes―The King With No Clothes―The Invisible Suit of Clothes We would do well to read and ponder upon Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale about the [Stupid] Emperor’s New Clothes―also known as The King With No Clothes―The Invisible Suit of Clothes. It is especially applicable for our own day and age! Many years ago there was an Emperor so exceedingly fond of new clothes that he spent all his money on being well dressed. He cared nothing about reviewing his soldiers, going to the theatre, or going for a ride in his carriage, except to show off his new clothes. He had a coat for every hour of the day, and instead of saying, as one might, about any other ruler, “The King’s in council,” here they always said. “The Emperor’s in his dressing room.” In the great city where he lived, life was always joyful and entertaining. Every day many strangers came to town, and among them one day came two swindlers. They let it be known they were weavers, and they said they could weave the most magnificent fabrics imaginable. Not only were their colors and patterns uncommonly fine, but clothes made of this cloth had a wonderful way of becoming invisible to anyone who was unfit for his office, or who was unusually stupid. “Those would be just the clothes for me,” thought the Emperor. “If I wore them I would be able to discover which men in my empire are unfit for their posts. And I could tell the wise men from the fools. Yes, I certainly must get some of the stuff woven for me right away.” He paid the two swindlers a large sum of money to start work at once. They set up two looms and pretended to weave, though there was nothing on the looms. All the finest silk and the purest old thread which they demanded went into their traveling bags, while they worked the empty looms far into the night. “I’d like to know how those weavers are getting on with the cloth,” the Emperor thought, but he felt slightly uncomfortable when he remembered that those who were unfit for their position would not be able to see the fabric. It couldn’t have been that he doubted himself, yet he thought he’d rather send someone else to see how things were going. The whole town knew about the cloth’s peculiar power, and all were impatient to find out how stupid their neighbors were. “I’ll send my honest old minister to the weavers,” the Emperor decided. “He’ll be the best one to tell me how the material looks, for he’s a sensible man and no one does his duty better.” So the honest old minister went to the room where the two swindlers sat working away at their empty looms. “Heaven help me!” he thought as his eyes flew wide open, “I can’t see anything at all!” But he did not say so. Both the swindlers begged him to be so kind as to come near to approve the excellent pattern, the beautiful colors. They pointed to the empty looms, and the poor old minister stared as hard as he dared. He couldn’t see anything, because there was nothing to see. “Heaven have mercy!” he thought. “Can it be that I’m a fool? I’d have never guessed it, and not a soul must know. Am I unfit to be the minister? It would never do to let on that I can’t see the cloth.” “Don’t hesitate to tell us what you think of it,” said one of the weavers. “Oh, it’s beautiful! It’s enchanting!” The old minister peered through his spectacles. “Such a pattern, what colors! I’ll be sure to tell the Emperor how delighted I am with it.” “We’re pleased to hear that!” the swindlers said. They proceeded to name all the colors and to explain the intricate pattern. The old minister paid the closest attention, so that he could tell it all to the Emperor. And so he did. The swindlers at once asked for more money, more silk and gold thread, to get on with the weaving. But it all went into their pockets. Not a thread went into the looms, though they worked at their weaving as hard as ever. The Emperor presently sent another trustworthy official to see how the work progressed and how soon it would be ready. The same thing happened to him that had happened to the minister. He looked and he looked, but as there was nothing to see in the looms he couldn’t see anything. “Isn’t it a beautiful piece of cloth?” the swindlers asked him, as they displayed and described their imaginary pattern. “I know I’m not stupid,” the man thought, “so it must be that I’m unworthy of my good office. That’s strange. I mustn’t let anyone find it out, though.” So he praised the material which he could not see. He declared he was delighted with the beautiful colors and the exquisite pattern. To the Emperor he said, “It held me spellbound!” All the town was talking of this splendid cloth, and the Emperor wanted to see it for himself while it was still in the looms. Attended by a band of chosen men, among whom were his two old trusted officials―the ones who had been to the weavers―he set out to see the two swindlers. He found them weaving with might and main, but without a thread in their looms. “Magnificent!” said the two officials already duped. “Just look, Your Majesty, what colors! What a design!” They pointed to the empty looms, each supposing that the others could see the stuff. “What’s this?” thought the Emperor. “I can’t see anything. This is terrible! Am I a fool? Am I unfit to be the Emperor? What a thing to happen to me of all people!” … “Oh! It’s very pretty!” he said. “It has my highest approval!” And he nodded approbation at the empty loom. Nothing could make him say that he couldn’t see anything. His whole retinue stared and stared. One saw no more than another, but they all joined the Emperor in exclaiming, “Oh! It’s very pretty!” and they advised him to wear clothes made of this wonderful cloth especially for the great procession he was soon to lead. “Magnificent! Excellent! Unsurpassed!” were words bandied from mouth to mouth, and everyone did his best to seem well pleased. The Emperor gave each of the swindlers a cross to wear in his buttonhole, and the title of “Sir Weaver.” Before the procession the swindlers sat up all night and burned more than six candles, to show how busy they were finishing the Emperor’s new clothes. They pretended to take the cloth off the loom. They made cuts in the air with huge scissors. And at last they said, “Now the Emperor’s new clothes are ready for him!” Then the Emperor himself came with his noblest noblemen, and the swindlers each raised an arm as if they were holding something. They said, “These are the trousers, here’s the coat, and this is the mantle,” naming each garment. “All of them are as light as a spider web. One would almost think he had nothing on, but that’s what makes them so fine.” “Exactly!” all the noblemen agreed, though they could see nothing, for there was nothing to see. “If Your Imperial Majesty will condescend to take your clothes off,” said the swindlers, “we will help you on with your new ones here in front of the long mirror.” The Emperor undressed, and the swindlers pretended to put his new clothes on him, one garment after another. They took him around the waist and seemed to be fastening something ―that was his train―as the Emperor turned round and round before the looking glass. “How well Your Majesty’s new clothes look! Aren’t they becoming!” He heard on all sides, “That pattern, so perfect! Those colors, so suitable! It is a magnificent outfit.” Then the minister of public processions announced: “Your Majesty’s canopy is waiting outside!” “Well, I’m supposed to be ready,” the Emperor said, and turned again for one last look in the mirror. “It is a remarkable fit, isn’t it?” He seemed to regard his costume with the greatest interest. The noblemen who were to carry his train stooped low and reached for the floor as if they were picking up his mantle. Then they pretended to lift and hold it high. They didn’t dare admit they had nothing to hold. So off went the Emperor in procession under his splendid canopy. Everyone in the streets and the windows said, “Oh, how fine are the Emperor’s new clothes! Don’t they fit him to perfection? And see his long train!” Nobody would confess that he couldn’t see anything, for that would prove him either unfit for his position, or a fool. No costume the Emperor had worn before was ever such a complete success. “But he hasn’t got anything on!” a little child said. “Did you ever hear such innocent prattle?” said its father. And one person whispered to another what the child had said, “He hasn’t anything on! A child says he hasn’t anything on!” “But he HASN’T got anything on!” the whole town cried out at last. The Emperor shivered, for he suspected they were right. But he thought, “This procession has got to go on!” So he walked more proudly than ever, as his noblemen held high the train that wasn’t there at all. The Politics of Mary
What?!! The Politics of Mary?!! How ridiculous can you get?!! Really? It is not so ludicrous as you think! First of all, what is understood by the word “politics”? Here are some definitions from a variety of dictionaries of the word “politics”:
● The art or science of government. ● The activities of the government, members of law-making organizations, or people who try to influence the way a country is governed. ● The job of holding a position of power in the government. ● The activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power. ● The often internally conflicting inter-relationships among people in a society. ● A particular set of political beliefs or principles. ● Someone’s opinions about how a country should be governed. ● Your politics are your beliefs about how a country ought to be governed. The English word “politics” comes from the Greek “politiká”, meaning “the affairs of the cities” ― that is to say, the set of activities that are associated with making decisions among groups, or other forms of power relations between individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. Since Our Lady is Queen of Heaven and Earth, do you think she does not know the art of governing, or is ignorant in the science of government? Being Queen of Heaven and Earth, do you think that she holds no position of power in the government of Heaven and Earth? Is she not involved in the activities of governing the world? Is she not trying to exert an influence upon the world? Is she not trying to maneuver the world back to God? Is she not engaged in the inter-relationships of people in society? Does she not have a particular set of beliefs and principles as to how the world should be governed? Our Lady holds all these positions and is actively involved in Heaven’s politics of trying to get the world over to the side of God and stop the world from “voting” for and following Satan. Our Lady, therefore, is a politician “par excellence” ― there is no greater ‘politician’ that Our Lady, except God (Our Lord) Himself. Thus, we have no excuse for not getting involved in politics―since Our Lady is perpetually involved in the endless political drama and tug of war between the Heaven Party and the Hell Party, which competes for the votes (souls) of mankind. Our Lady is endlessly and tirelessly trying to win souls over the Heaven Party―but most of them are so deeply ensconced in the pleasurable freebies offered by the Hell Party (a.k.a. World Party), that Our Lady seems to be fighting a losing battle against the politics of pleasure, whereas she advocates the politics of penance. Much like politicians today―the Hell Party (World Party) makes promises it cannot keep. Its platform rests upon lies and propaganda. It is a house built on soft sand. Whereas Our Lady’s makes promises she will keep―but her platform is one of “no pain, no gain” or “no cross is your loss” and again “no thorns, no crown” ― basically telling us what she told St. Bernadette at Lourdes: “I do not promise to make you happy in this life, but in the next!” Whereas the Hell Party tells us to forget about the next life and party all you can in this life ― which will inevitably lead to a hell of a party in the next life! Whose politics do you want to follow? Where do you want to go? Yet, just as the messages and promises of many politicians are ignored―so too are the messages and promises (warnings and threats) of Our Lady ignored. Sister Lucia of Fatima tells us that: “the Blessed Virgin is very sad, because no one heeds her message; neither the good nor the bad. The good continue on the road of goodness with their life of virtue and apostolate without paying attention to this Message―they do not unite their lives to the message of Fatima. Sinners, the bad―because of their sins―do not see God’s chastisement about to fall upon them presently, and keep following the road of evil through sin, ignoring the Message, because they do not see the terrible chastisement about to befall them. But, Father, you must believe me that God is going to punish the world and chastise it in a tremendous way!” (Sr. Lucia of Fatima to Fr. Fuentes, December 26th, 1957). The politics of Our Lady are the only politics that will save our souls. Ignore her message at your peril. Reject her platform at your peril. Refuse her manifesto at your peril. For, Holy Mother Church in Her Liturgy puts the following words of Scripture into the mouth of Our Lady in one of the Masses in her honor: “Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways. Hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not. Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors. He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord. But he that shall sin against me, shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death!” (Proverbs 8:32-26). If you wish to be among the elect―if you wish to get “elected” to the Congress of Heaven―then it is the ‘policies’, ‘platform’ and ‘manifesto’ of Our Lady that you must follow! Otherwise you will not be ‘elected’… you will not be among the elect!! Are you totally “on-board” with Our Lady on her ‘platform’? Do you know what her ‘manifesto’ consists of? Do you know, follow and put into practice her ‘policies’? Don’t be like a modern-day politician, who will “talk-the-talk” but will not “walk-the-walk”. Faith without works is dead: “Faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself. But some man will say: ‘Thou hast Faith, and I have works!’ ― Show me thy Faith without works; and I will show thee, by works, my Faith. Thou believest that there is one God. Thou dost well! But the devils also believe and tremble! But wilt thou know, O vain man, that Faith without works is dead? … For even as the body without the spirit is dead; so also Faith without works is dead!” (James 2:17-26). A Tale of Two Cities? A Tale of Two Parties? Or is it?
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” (George Santayana).
Past presidents of the United States and other high profile political leaders have repeatedly issued warnings over the last 214 years that the U.S. government is under the control of an “invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.” According to six of our former presidents, one vice-president, and a myriad of other high profile political leaders, an invisible government that is “incredibly evil in intent” has been in control of the U.S. government “ever since the days of Andrew Jackson” (since at least 1836). They “virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both parties … It operates under cover of a self-created screen [and] seizes our executive officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.” As a result, “we have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world—no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.” The sources for the above quotes (and more) are listed below. All of the quotes in this article have been verified as authentic and have associated links to the source materials. Also included below are statements made by David Rockefeller Sr., former director of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and Federal Reserve Chairman’s Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke that appear to confirm some of the warnings. Warnings About the Invisible Government Running the U.S. The warnings listed below, which appear in chronological order, began with the first U.S. president ― George Washington. The last president to speak out was John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated. Read what they and other political leaders have said about the invisible government. ► GEORGE WASHINGTON wrote that the Illuminati want to separate the People from their Government: “It was not my intention to doubt that the Doctrines of the Illuminati and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am. The idea, that I meant to convey, was that I did not believe that the Lodges of Free Masons in this Country had, as Societies, endeavored to propagate the diabolical tenets of the first, or pernicious principles of the latter (if they are susceptible of separation). That Individuals of them may … actually had a separation of the People from their Government in view, is too evident to be questioned.” (George Washington, 1st President of the United States (1789―1797), from a letter that Washington wrote on October 24th, 1798, which can be found in the Library of Congress. For an analysis of Washington’s warning, see the article “Library of Congress: George Washington Warns of Illuminati”). ► THOMAS JEFFERSON wrote: “I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.” (Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (1801―1809) and principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence (1776), in a letter written to John Taylor on May 28th, 1816). ► JOHN C. CALHOUN stated: “A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.” (John C. Calhoun, Vice President (1825-1832) and U.S. Senator, from a speech given on May 27th, 1836). Note that it appears that Washington’s and Jefferson’s concerns regarding bankers and separation of the people from the government was realized by 1836. This fact was confirmed in a letter written by Franklyn D. Roosevelt in 1933 (see below) in which he wrote that “a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.” Jackson was the seventh president of the United States (1829-1837). Calhoun served as Jackson’s vice-president from 1829-1832. ► THEODORE ROOSEVELT said: “Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.” (Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography, 1913, Appendix B). ► WOODROW WILSON said: “A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men … [W]e have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world—no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.” (Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, The New Freedom, 1913). ► WOODROW WILSON also said: “Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.” (Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, The New Freedom, 1913). ► NEW YORK CITY MAYOR JOHN F. HYLAN stated: “The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation… The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both parties, … and control the majority of the newspapers and magazines in this country. They use the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of office public officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government. It operates under cover of a self-created screen [and] seizes our executive officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.” (New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, New York Times, March 26th, 1922). ► CONGRESSMAN LOUIS T. MCFADDEN said: “Mr. Chairman, we have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks. The Federal Reserve Board, a Government board, has cheated the Government of the United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the national debt…Mr. Chairman, when the Federal Reserve act was passed, the people of the United States did not perceive that a world system was being set up here… and that this country was to supply financial power to an international superstate — a superstate controlled by international bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure.” (Congressman Louis T. McFadden, from a speech delivered to the House of Representatives on June 10th, 1932). ► FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT stated: “The real truth of the matter is―as you and I know―that a financial element, in the large centers, has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.” (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (1933―1945), in a letter to Colonel Edward M. House, dated November 21st, 1933, as quoted in F.D.R. ― His Personal Letters, 1928-1945). ► SENATOR WILLIAM JENNER said: “Today the path to total dictatorship in the U.S. can be laid by strictly legal means … We have a well-organized political-action group in this country, determined to destroy our Constitution and establish a one-party state … It operates secretly, silently, continuously to transform our Government … This ruthless power-seeking elite is a disease of our century… This group…is answerable neither to the President, the Congress, nor the courts. It is practically irremovable.” (Senator William Jenner, 1954 speech). ► J. EDGAR HOOVER stated: “The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous, he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.” (J. Edgar Hoover, The Elks Magazine, 1956). John F. Kennedy said: “The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are, as a people, inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings … Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe … No war ever posed a greater threat to our security. If you are awaiting a finding of “clear and present danger,” then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent … For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy, that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence―on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources, into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine, that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.” (John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, from a speech delivered to the American Newspaper Publishers Association on April 27th, 1961 and known as the “Secret Society” speech). ► CONGRESSMAN LARRY P. MCDONALD stated: “The Rockefellers and their allies have, for at least fifty years, been carefully following a plan to use their economic power to gain political control of first America, and then the rest of the world. Do I mean conspiracy? Yes, I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.” (Congressman Larry P. McDonald, November 1975, from the introduction to a book titled The Rockefeller File). ► SENATOR DANIEL K. INOUYE said: “There exists a shadowy government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.” (Daniel K. Inouye, US Senator from Hawaii, testimony at the Iran Contra Hearings, 1986). The Federal Reserve “A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves…” (John C. Calhoun). “… owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.” (Theodore Roosevelt). “… one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Bank.“ (Louis T. McFadden). In an interview with Jim Lehrer that was aired on PBS’ News Hour, on September 18th, 2007, that you can watch on YouTube, formal Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said, essentially, that the Federal Reserve was above the law and that no agency of government can overrule their actions: Jim Lehrer: “What is the proper relationship, what should be the proper relationship between a chairman of the Fed [Federal Reserve] and a president of the United States?” Alan Greenspan: “Well, first of all, the Federal Reserve is an independent agency, and that means, basically, that there is no other agency of government which can overrule actions that we take. So long as that is in place and there is no evidence that the administration, or the Congress, or anybody else, is requesting that we do things other than what we think is the appropriate thing, then what the relationships are don’t frankly matter.” The fact that the Federal Reserve is above the law was demonstrated by current Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke, during his appearance before Congress on March 4th, 2009. Senator Bernie Sanders asked Bernanke about $2.2 trillion in American tax dollars that was lent out by Federal Reserve. Bernanke refused to provide an answer: Senator Sanders: “Will you tell the American people to whom you lent $2.2 trillion of their dollars? … Can you tell us who they are?” Bernanke: “No” David Rockefeller and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) “We have a well-organized political-action group in this country, determined to destroy our Constitution and establish a one-party state…” (William Jenner). “The Rockefellers and their allies have, for at least fifty years, been carefully following a plan to use their economic power to gain political control of first America, and then the rest of the world.” (Larry P. McDonald). In 1921 the stockholders of the Federal Reserve financed an organization called the “Council on Foreign Relations” (CFR). A full discussion on the CFR is beyond the scope of this article. Suffice it to say that the CFR likely plays a prominent role in the invisible government that we have been warned about. The CFR is alleged to be the arm of the Ruling Elite in the United States. Most influential politicians, academics and media personalities are members. The CFR uses its influence to push their New World Order agenda on the American people. David Rockefeller, Sr. is the current patriarch of the Rockefeller family. He is the only surviving grandchild of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil. Rockefeller began a lifelong association with the CFR [Council on Foreign Relations] when he joined as a director in 1949. In Rockefeller’s 2002 autobiography Memoirs, he wrote: “For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as internationalists and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure — one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.” James Warburg, son of CFR [Council on Foreign Relations] founder Paul Warburg, delivered blunt testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 17th, 1950: “We shall have world government, whether or not we like it. The question is only whether world government will be achieved by consent or by conquest.” Cognitive Dissonance “The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.” (J. Edgar Hoover). Because of a deep rooted beliefs that the U.S. government is “for the people” and the protector of the free world, many will reject the notion of an evil shadow government. When our beliefs are challenged or when two beliefs are inconsistent, cognitive dissonance is created. It’s human nature to try to hold our beliefs in harmony with our world view and avoid disharmony (or dissonance). The Conventions Begin! It's Conventional to Lie!
It’s convention time! U.S. Presidential Election Convention time! It is important to understand the things we talk about. We use the word “convention” frequently―but what does it really mean? As is usually the case with many or most words―we need to go back Latin to get a clear idea of the word “convention”. In Latin, the verb “convenire” meaning “unite, be suitable, agree, assemble” is a compound (gluing together) of “com” meaning “with, together” + “venire” meaning “to come.” You see this meaning in the word “convent” which is a “coming together” of “suitable”, “like-minded” religious women, in order to live a common religious or spiritual life in a “convent”.
Hence, your dictionary will define “convention” along the lines of the following definitions: (1) a meeting of people for a common purpose; (2) a way in which something is usually done, especially within a particular area or activity; (3) a way of behaving that is considered to be correct or polite by most people in a society; (4) a large meeting of an organization or political group; (5) an agreement between countries covering particular matters, especially one less formal than a treaty. A convention, in the sense of a meeting, is a gathering of individuals who meet at an arranged place and time in order to discuss or engage in some common interest. As they say: “Birds of the same feather, flock together!” That is exactly what the U.S. Presidential Conventions are ― they are political meetings of like-minded people (generally Republicans or Democrats) for the purpose of (originally electing and) endorsing their political party’s presidential candidate and getting the political ball rolling in preparation for the forthcoming presidential election. A United States presidential nominating convention is a political convention held every four years in the United States by most of the political parties who will be fielding nominees in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. The formal purpose of such a convention is to select the party’s nominee for popular election as President, as well as to adopt a statement of party principles and goals known as the party platform and adopt the rules for the party’s activities, including the presidential nominating process for the next election cycle. Political parties in the United States began holding conventions in the early 19th century and presidential primaries in the early 20th century. One of the big differences between modern conventions and 19th-century conventions is that there were no presidential primary elections. The convention was when candidates were selected and, after voting, one of those candidates became the presidential nominee for that political party. The convention remained the main way of selecting candidates until 1972, when new rules gave the primaries more power to determine the nominee. Since then, conventions have become a way to celebrate a predetermined candidate, rather than a means of choosing one. The convention today is meant to be a big psychological “hurray” for both politicians and supporters as they prepare to embark on the brutal, intense, unchristian, defamatory and calumniatory road to the “not-so-White-House”! Could You Call Politics “Antichrist”? If you look over the list of proven corrupt politicians and judges in the United States, over the last 50 years (since 1970), you will find over 400 names listed. You can reasonably assume that for every one who is “caught”, there are quite a few more who manage to “pass under the radar” and escape detection. in a 2015 Gallup poll, 75% of American respondents said that corruption was “widespread” in the country’s government. Nevertheless, is it not a gross exaggeration to label politics as being “Antichrist”? Surely that is going overboard! Or is it? ► Christ Himself said: “He that is not with me, is against me!” (Matthew 12:30) and being against Christ is anti-Christ, is it not? Today’s politics is certainly not with Christ, but largely against Christ in much of its policies and laws. Is abortion, contraception, same-sex marriage, divorce and remarriage, homosexuality, transgenderism, etc. according to the mind of Christ and the laws of God? Of course not! It is totally opposed to them! Hence it is anti-Christ. ► Furthermore, since Christ is the truth― “I am the truth” (John 14:6)―and since politics is filled with so many lies, deceits, misrepresentations, misinformation, exaggerations and twisted half-truths―it therefore stands to reason, as anyone with common sense can see, that the preferred path of politics is the path of untruths or lies, which diametrically opposes the way of truth, which is the way of Christ―hence it is anti-Christ. ► Furthermore, when you look at the hatred, animosity, vitriol, anger and character assassination that takes place in politics, anyone with common sense can see that this opposes God, who is Charity itself: “God is charity” (1 John 4:8). Christ even said: “By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you have love one for another” (John 13:35)―to which Holy Scripture adds: “If any man say: ‘I love God!’ and hateth his brother―then he is a liar! For he that loveth not his brother whom he seeth, how can he love God Whom he seeth not?” (1 John 4:20). Hence all this hatred, animosity, vitriol, anger and character assassination is anti-Christ. ► Furthermore, politics has become so accusatory and unforgiving , with one political party accusing the other and showing a total lack of mercy in the process―whereas Christ said: “With what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you give to others, it shall be measured to you again! Why seest thou the splinter that is in thy brother’s eye; and seest not the plank that is in thy own eye? Or how sayest thou to thy brother: ‘Let me cast the splinter out of thy eye!’ and behold a plank is in thy own eye? Thou hypocrite! Cast out first the plank in thy own eye, and then shalt thou see to cast out the splinter out of thy brother’s eye!” (Matthew 7:2-5). “For if you will forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father will forgive you also your offences. But if you will not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive you your offences!” (Matthew 6:14-15). All these merciless political accusations and muck-raking are not according to the mind of Christ and are thus anti-Christ. Archbishop Fulton Sheen put things into perspective when he once said, “[Satan’s] logic is simple: if there is no heaven there is no hell; if there is no hell, then there is no sin; if there is no sin, then there is no judge, and if there is no judgment, then evil is good and good is evil.” That logic epitomizes the logic of many politicians today. It is not for nothing that Our Lady of Good Success and La Salette warned: “From the end of the 19th century and especially in the 20th century, the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of morals, for Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects … During this epoch the Church will find herself attacked by terrible assaults from the Masonic sect … These years, during which the evil sect of Masonry will take control of the civil government, will see a cruel persecution of all religious communities … All the civil governments will have one and the same plan, which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principle, to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism and vice of all kinds. They will abolish civil rights, as well as ecclesiastical rights. All order and all justice will be trampled underfoot and only homicides, hate, jealousy, lies and dissension will be seen, without love for country or family ... They will focus particularly on the children, in order to achieve this general corruption.” For the last thirty years, the secularization of culture and the banishing of God from the public forum have created a great religious void. More and more Americans have been abandoning the practice of religion. Since 1990, the number of Americans who claim no religious affiliation has almost tripled from 8% to 22%. It would be foolish to close our eyes to the unmistakable increase of the devil’s activity in our society. Lack of civility. Hate speech. The tearing down of people’s good name. The bloodshed on our streets. The breakdown of family life. The widespread extolling of vices contrary to the Gospel. The delight in exposing the sins of others. Abuse in all its forms. Abortion. The persecution of the Church. All these are born of anger, hatred, envy, pride, greed and lust. They cause division and are the fingerprints of the Evil One. All of these vices are presented as something “good” and “acceptable”―which is an outright lie! “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” (Isaias 5:20). Yet that is what politics does! It is politic of untruth, a politic of deception, a politic of lies―which is ultimately a politic of Satan. Thus the words of Our Lord as just as applicable to modern-day politics as it was back in His time, when He said to the Scribes and Pharisees: “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will do! He was a murderer from the beginning, and he stood not in the truth―because truth is not in him! When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own―for he is a liar, and the father of lies!” (John 8:44). Elections Sunk in a Swamp of Lies and Falsehood
Election Fever Pandemic
When elections come around―be it the U.S. Presidential Elections or any other kind of major election―then it’s time to lie low! Or should it be said: “It’s time to lie and to lie in low, mean, nasty way!” Isn’t it strange how everyone somehow feels dispensed from the virtue of charity during “Election Season”? Just as Our Lord complained to Sister Mary Ephrem about not being loved (see previous article), you could say that this “No-Love-Virus” hits pandemic proportions during “Election Season”. Its symptoms are a raging fever, a racing heart, fits of anger and depression, foggy reasoning, selective hearing, temporary blindness and a host more, especially delirium. Voter Delirium Delirium is defined as an acute, fluctuating syndrome of altered attention, awareness, and cognition. Delirium is a serious disturbance in mental abilities that results in confused thinking and reduced awareness of the environment. Delirium causes an abrupt change in the brain, that leads to mental confusion and emotional disruption. It makes it difficult to think, remember, sleep, pay attention, and more. It is common in older persons. In the long term, delirium can cause permanent damage to cognitive or thinking abilities. An early sign of delirium of delirium may be a sudden confusion about time and often about place, where they are. If delirium is severe, people may not know who they, or who or what other people are. Thinking is confused, and people with delirium tend to ramble, sometimes becoming incoherent. It is interesting how delirium can relate to the political field and the way people see things and think about things politically! Here is a brief medical overview of delirium―you can easily relate it to politics! ► The Medical profession categorizes delirium as follows: ● Reduced awareness of the environment, which may result in: ● An inability to stay focused on a topic or to switch topics ● Getting stuck on an idea rather than responding to questions or conversation ● Being easily distracted by unimportant things ● Being withdrawn, with little or no activity or little response to the environment ► What are the general symptoms of delirium? The general symptoms of delirium usually start suddenly, over a few hours or a few days. They often come and go. The most common symptoms include: ● Changes in alertness (usually more alert in the morning, less at night) ● Changing levels of consciousness ● Confusion ● Disorganized thinking, talking in a way that doesn't make sense ● Disrupted sleep patterns, sleepiness ● Emotional changes: anger, agitation, depression, irritability, overexcitement ● Hallucinations and delusions ● Incontinence ● Memory problems, especially with short-term memory ● Trouble concentrating ► Poor thinking skills (cognitive impairment) which may appear as: ● Poor memory, particularly of recent events ● Disorientation — for example, not knowing where you are or who you are ● Difficulty speaking or recalling words ● Rambling or nonsense speech ● Trouble understanding speech ● Difficulty reading or writing ►Behavior changes, which may include: ● Seeing things that don't exist (hallucinations) ● Restlessness, agitation or combative behavior ● Calling out, moaning or making other sounds ● Being quiet and withdrawn — especially in older adults ● Slowed movement or lethargy ● Disturbed sleep habits ● Reversal of night-day sleep-wake cycle ► Emotional disturbances, which may appear as: ● Anxiety, fear or paranoia ● Depression ● Irritability or anger ● A sense of feeling elated (euphoria) ● Apathy ● Rapid and unpredictable mood shifts ● Personality changes ► Types of delirium Experts have identified three types of delirium: ● Hyperactive delirium. Probably the most easily recognized type, this may include restlessness (for example, pacing), agitation, rapid mood changes or hallucinations, and refusal to cooperate with care. ● Hypoactive delirium. This may include inactivity or reduced motor activity, sluggishness, abnormal drowsiness, or seeming to be in a daze. ● Mixed delirium. This includes both hyperactive and hypoactive signs and symptoms. The person may quickly switch back and forth from hyperactive to hypoactive states. Are you beginning to notice more and more cases of delirium around you as we enter “Election Season” or “Election Fever”? The state of delirium is the politicians and media’s dream! Symptom #1: Easily Distracted There is often a great deal going on around us. There can be multiple people doing different things, shows on the TV, and sometimes there are activities going on outside the window. Still, we generally manage to focus on what we are doing and take no notice of the other things that are going on. One of the early signs of delirium is that the patient can become easily distracted. Even trivial things can distract them from what they are supposed to be doing. This can make it very difficult for them to get anything done, even if they do have serious things to be focusing on. Politics is a master of disraction. Politicians will distract you from important truths with tirvial matters. Symptom #2: Sticking on Ideas When talking with other people, we will tend to share ideas and thoughts on certain subjects. We’ll say what we have to say, and will then often stay quiet and listen to what other people have to say. People suffering from delirium, however, can find this to be difficult. Instead of sharing and listening, they will often focus on one point and stick to it. Instead of responding accordingly to the input of other people around them, they can continue on their path of talking about the idea that is stuck in their head. At times, it can be as though they are just talking to themselves and nobody else is around them. Have you noticed how many politicians have a theme or a slogan or a point that they keep hammering away at—which is usually some failure, fault, mistake or vice of their opponent. Symptom #3: Disorientation Our brains are very good at letting us know what is happening around us. We can take in various events and process them with ease, making us aware of our surroundings at all times. If all is not well, though, then even knowing what is around us can become very difficult. People suffering from delirium can become very disorientated. They may struggle to understand where they are and how they got there, as well as struggling to make sense of activities around them. It can become very disturbing for them, and they will likely need to be taken to a safe place. Politics loves to disorientate people, to confuse people so as to hide from them what is really going on. Symptom #4: Withdrawn We all have different personalities and some people like to get involved with activities more than others. Even those that do tend to be quite reserved, though, will still enjoy getting involved with close friends and family from time to time. However, if somebody has become more withdrawn than usual, then it can be a sign that all is not well. People that are suffering from delirium will often withdraw completely from activities and socializing with others. They may choose to stay in a room alone, away from everybody else, only speaking with others when absolutely necessary. This can also be a sign of various other problems, some of which can be very serious. Symptom #5: Memory Loss Human beings have impressive memories. We can remember complex calculations and also events that happened to us many years ago. Mostly, these memories will stay tucked away until we need them, at which point they can be recalled with ease. If the brain is not well, though, then recalling these memories can become a great deal harder. Patients with delirium will sometimes find that they begin to lose their memory. They can struggle to remember even simple things, especially things that have occurred recently. This is potentially risky, particularly when it comes to things such as turning off stoves and other appliances. It is amazing how many politicians have selective memory loss when it comes to their own failings—but have a memory as sharp as a tack when it comes to the failings of their opponents! Symptom #6: Rambling Good speakers are able to make themselves well understood. They are able to keep on topic and speak in a way that allows others to understand them with ease. Some people are better at this than others, but if somebody is rambling then it could be a sign of an illness. Patients with delirium will sometimes go from one topic to another when speaking. This can make it difficult to follow what they are saying as they are continually changing track. It is a sign of various mental illnesses and is something that should be checked out as soon as possible. Rambling can be art by which you sedate, hypnotize and drag people along with you. It can also backfire. However, one thing is certain, the "Election Season" is a "Rambling Season". Symptom #7: Reading Difficulties Reading comes as second nature to most of us. Indeed, many of us even do so for pleasure, and some can read in multiple languages. It is something that we start learning from a young age and that lasts with us until the day that we die. Sometimes, though, even reading can become difficult for people. Delirium can cause people to have trouble reading, even if their eyes are in good working order. This means that they can also struggle to write regardless of their ability to use their hands. Such symptoms are a clear sign that something could be wrong so medical advice should be sought as soon as possible. Symptom #8: Trouble Finding Words Human beings have a very impressive vocabulary. We remember tens of thousands of words and are able to remember those words to use them at a whim. This allows us to speak in complex languages, and some people can even speak in multiple languages. Even people with a relatively limited vocabulary can still remember a surprising number of words. People with delirium, however, can have difficulty finding the words that they need. This can make it very difficult for them to communicate what they are thinking, and this can be very frustrating for them. This is in addition to other speaking problems such as slurred speech. It is no exaggeration to say that Americans (as well as most of the world) have been progressively and consistently “dumbed-down” over the last half-century or so. Part of that “dumbness” comes as a result of technology presenting information in the form of “pictures” ― television images, internet images, smartphone images, etc. In a certain sense we are regressing back to a second childhood or kindergarten―a time when we couldn’t read, nor could we think properly―but we loved pictures. That is why you have the predominance of pictures in early childhood books. Pictures replace words―and too much looking at pictures, where pictures replace words, leads to lack of vocabulary and lack of intellectual skill. People become “sheeple” and politicians just love their “sheeple”. Hence you have a government of the sheeple, by a few people, for the sheeple. Symptom #9: Paranoia It is sensible to keep your guard up to a degree. There is a chance that certain people might try to harm us, but some common sense will reduce the chances of anything bad happening considerably. For some people, though, it can feel like everybody is out to get them, even when nobody is. People with paranoia can feel as though other people are plotting behind their backs to hurt them. This can even include close friends and family, even if those people are only trying to help. Paranoia can occasionally lead to violent behavior as the patient feels they need to protect themselves from others. Is there such a thing as “political paranoia”? You bet there is! In fact, according to Robert Robins and Jerrold Post, experts in political psychology and authors of the book, Political Paranoia: The Psychopolitics of Hatred, paranoia is not an obscure mental state afflicting some individuals, but is a widespread condition of modern societies. Politicians can use the “paranoia tool” in a variety of ways to achieve their ends and goals. The classic political “cover-up” or “smoke-and-mirrors” trick is to label and smear all and any persons who “sniff-out” any corrupt or sinister dealings as being paranoid “conspiracy theorists.” The ridiculing and demonization of the “enemy” ― whether national or international ― is the general default position of American politics. In nearly every aspect of society and across cultures and time, ridicule works. Ridicule leverages the emotions and simplifies the complicated and takes on the powerful, in politics, business, law, entertainment, etc. Ridicule can tear down faster than the other side can rebuild. Many nasty and sinister things are successfully carried out behind the defensive wall of ridicule. Not all “conspiracy theories” are false theories―because there are conspiracies galore, from family, to business, to military matters and politics. The success of the “sinister” guys is to make the gullible public believe that all “conspiracy theories” are false and manifestations of paranoia. Symptom #10: Hallucinations Our sensory organs have evolved to be able to detect certain information around us. This information is then sent to the brain, which paints a picture of what is happening. It’s a system that works very well but it can sometimes go wrong. If the brain is not working properly, then the picture of the world it is painting can become very confused. Delirium can cause hallucinations. This means that the patient can see, hear, and even feel things that are just not there. It can be difficult for the patient to differentiate between what is real and what is not, and this can be made so much worse when accompanied by paranoia. Wow! Can you see the political delirium lurking behind those symptoms? We are about to enter a delirium pandemic as this 2020 U.S. Presidential Election takes off! That delirium is about to be fueled by the mainstream media which loves to make a mountain out of a molehill―and reduce a mountain to a mere molehill. The media―aided by the delirium merchants of politics―are about to launch the “delirium virus” on the gullible public and the symptoms are about to explode: distraction, rambling, sticking to ideas, disorientation, selective memory loss, seeing things that don’t exist, changing the reality of things, trouble concentrating on important things, trouble understanding things, hallucinations, etc. In this atmosphere, the bug of lies finds a most favorable platform to confuse the truth, hide the truth, twist the truth, deny the truth and destroy the truth. Political Delirium is a Patsy for Political Lies What is a “patsy”? A “patsy” is American slang for a gullible and weak-minded person. A “patsy” is a fool, usually a person that has good intentions but is deceived easily. That is what the mass of American voters are―manipulable patsies. The few who can and do think deeply, and can see past the political “smoke-and-mirrors” are just that―a few, very few―and a few votes matters little. The gullibility and naivety of the American masses has long been a talking point―there is no smoke without a fire. The progressive and relentless “dumbing-down” process of America has created a people that increasingly “think” with their emotions and feelings instead of thinking logically with their minds. More technically put―objectivity has been replaced by subjectivity, actual truth has been replaced by what an individual “feels” is the truth. Thus―if you can control and manipulate a person’s emotions and feelings, then you manipulate that person’s perceptions of truth. Or to put it another way, you can make that person believe that the truth is a lie, and then replace that real truth with your own lie, which you make out to be the “truth”. Thus truths become lies and lies become truth―good becomes evil and evil becomes good. “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” (Isaias 5:20). Yet that is what much of today’s politics does. Hence William Casey, CIA Director from 1981 to 1987, was able to say: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” The Scientific American, in a June 15th 2017 article entitled “How to Address the Epidemic of Lies in Politics”, states: “Lying proved a very successful strategy for political causes and individual candidates in the U.K. and U.S. elections in 2016 … As such, it might seem ludicrous to many that we can solve the problem of lies in politics … The traditional mechanisms for identifying the truth about politics come from mainstream media and its fact checking. Polling shows, however, that trust in the mainstream media has dropped from around 50% to 32% from 2000 to 2016, and only 29% trust fact checking. No wonder fewer and fewer Americans are getting their news from mainstream media and engaging with fact checkers … Given the crumbling trust in traditional media and our vulnerability to lies on social media, we should not be surprised that politicians on both sides try to manipulate voters into believing lies. After all, the incentive for politicians is to get elected―not tell the truth. To be elected, politicians need to convey the appearance of trustworthiness—what talk show host Stephen Colbert infamously called “truthiness”--as opposed to being actually trustworthy.” Ultimately, when you reject Christ―Who said of Himself: “I am the Truth!”―then you automatically fall into the camp of Christ’s enemy, who is Satan or the devil, whom Christ called a liar. Thus, if politics rejects Christ or marginalizes Christ, or closets Christ―then it also rejects Christ’s love of truth, it marginalizes truth, it closets truth and begins to imitate the opposite of Christ, the devil, taking up the lying ways of the devil. Thus, Christ could justifiably say of most politicians today: “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and he stood not in the truth; because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of lies!” (John 8:44). The “dumber” we are, the more easily we fall for the lies. There is a growing and disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in American culture. It’s the dismissal of science, the arts, and humanities and their replacement by entertainment, self-righteousness, ignorance, and deliberate gullibility. Many universities in the United States are known more for their athletics than their academics. Mainly, this is because the average person is more likely to watch or attend college sports than to read books. People prefer to play rather than study; they prefer being entertained more than being educated; having fun supersedes having knowledge. This overspills into the spiritual life―where people prefer to play rather than pray. Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason, says in an article in the Washington Post, “Dumbness, to paraphrase the late senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, has been steadily defined downward for several decades, by a combination of heretofore irresistible forces. These include the triumph of video culture over print culture; a disjunction between Americans’ rising level of formal education and their shaky grasp of basic geography, science and history; and the fusion of anti-rationalism with anti-intellectualism.” There has been a long tradition of anti-intellectualism in America, unlike most other Western countries. Richard Hofstadter, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his book, Anti-Intellectualism In American Life, describes how the vast underlying foundations of anti-elite, anti-reason and anti-science have been infused into America’s political and social fabric. Famous science fiction writer Isaac Asimov once said: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Mark Bauerlein, in his book, The Dumbest Generation, reveals how a whole generation of youth is being dumbed down by their aversion to reading anything of substance and their addiction to digital “crap” via social media. Journalist Charles Pierce, author of Idiot America, adds another perspective: “The rise of idiot America today represents ― for profit mainly, but also and more cynically, for political advantage in the pursuit of power ― the breakdown of a consensus that the pursuit of knowledge is a good. It also represents the ascendancy of the notion that the people whom we should trust the least are the people who best know what they are talking about. In the new media age, everybody is an expert.” “There’s a pervasive suspicion of rights, privileges, knowledge and specialization,” says Catherine Liu, the author of American Idyll: Academic Anti-Elitism as Cultural Critique and a film and media studies professor at University of California. The very mission of universities has changed, argues Liu. “We don’t educate people anymore. We train them to get jobs.” Such a scenario is a perfect scenario for political manipulation through lies, half-truths, exaggerations, misrepresentations, obfuscations and constitutional deviations. Having exchanged thinking and study for fun and entertainment―the “sheeple” are on the verge of being corralled and confined by increasingly totalitarian governments, whom the “sheeple” willingly and ignorantly elect to be their “shepherds”. When you reject Christ as shepherd, the only other options are found at the “low-end” of the market. When you reject the truth (that Christ is and teaches), then you automatically slither down the slope of lies in trying to justify your rejection of truth. Would Christ Defeat Trump or Biden?
Jesus Loses the Vote!
Would Jesus defeat Trump and Biden? Tough question! Jesus once found Himself as a candidate in an election during His Passion―and He lost the vote! All the “Newspapers” of the day (the four Evangelists―Matthew, Mark, Luke and John―reported on Jesus’ election defeat, where the populace chose to vote for rebel and a murderer, rather than vote for Jesus! THE MATTHEW MORNING NEWS reports: “Now upon the solemn day the governor was accustomed to release to the people one prisoner, whom they would. And he had then a notorious prisoner, that was called Barabbas. They therefore being gathered together, Pilate said: ‘ Whom will you that I release to you, Barabbas, or Jesus that is called Christ? ’― for he knew that for envy they had delivered Him. But the chief priests and ancients persuaded the people, that they should ask for Barabbas, and take Jesus away. And the governor answering, said to them: ‘ Whether will you of the two to be released unto you? ’ But they said: ‘ Barabbas! ’ Pilate said to them: ‘ What shall I do then with Jesus that is called Christ? ’ They all said: ‘ Let Him be crucified! ’ The governor said to them: ‘ Why? What evil hath He done? ’ But they cried out the more, saying: ‘ Let Him be crucified! ’ And Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing, but that rather a tumult was made; taking water washed his hands before the people, saying: ‘ I am innocent of the blood of this just Man―look you to it! ’ And the whole people answering, said: ‘ His blood be upon us and our children! ’ Then he released to them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered Him unto them to be crucified” (Matthew 27:15-26). THE MARK MONITOR reports: “Now on the festival day he was wont to release unto them one of the prisoners, whomsoever they demanded. And there was one called Barabbas, who was put in prison with some seditious men, who in the sedition had committed murder. And when the multitude was come up, they began to desire that he would do, as he had ever done unto them. And Pilate answered them, and said: ‘ Will you that I release to you the king of the Jews? ’ For he knew that the chief priests had delivered Him up out of envy. But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas to them. And Pilate again answering, said to them: ‘ What will you then that I do to the king of the Jews? ’ But they again cried out: ‘Crucify Him! ’ And Pilate said to them: ‘ Why! What evil hath He done? ’ But they cried out the more: ‘Crucify Him! ’ And so Pilate, being willing to satisfy the people, released to them Barabbas, and delivered up Jesus, when he had scourged Him, to be crucified” (Mark 15:6-15). THE LUKE LEADER reports: “And Pilate, calling together the chief priests, and the magistrates, and the people, said to them: ‘ You have presented unto me this Man, as one that perverteth the people; and behold I, having examined Him before you, find no cause in this Man, in those things wherein you accuse Him! No―nor Herod neither! For I sent you to him, and behold, nothing worthy of death is done to Him! I will chastise Him therefore, and release Him! ’ Now of necessity he was to release unto them one upon the feast day. But the whole multitude together cried out, saying: ‘ Away with this Man, and release unto us Barabbas! ’ ―who, for a certain sedition made in the city, and for a murder, was cast into prison. And Pilate again spoke to them, desiring to release Jesus. But they cried again, saying: ‘Crucify Him! Crucify Him! ’ And he said to them the third time: ‘ Why? What evil hath this Man done? I find no cause of death in Him. I will chastise Him therefore, and let Him go! ’ But they were instant with loud voices, requiring that He might be crucified―and their voices prevailed. And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required. And he released unto them him, who for murder and sedition, had been cast into prison, whom they had desired―but Jesus he delivered up to their will” (Luke 23:13-25). THE JOHN JOURNAL reports: “Pilate therefore went into the hall again, and called Jesus, and said to Him: ‘ Art thou the king of the Jews? ’ Jesus answered: ‘ Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or have others told it thee of Me? ’ Pilate answered: ‘Am I a Jew? Thy own nation, and the chief priests, have delivered Thee up to me! What hast Thou done? ’ Jesus answered: ‘ My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would certainly strive that I should not be delivered to the Jews―but now My kingdom is not from hence! ’ Pilate therefore said to Him: ‘ Art Thou a king then? ’ Jesus answered: ‘ Thou sayest that I am a king. For this was I born, and for this came I into the world; that I should give testimony to the truth. Every one that is of the truth, hears My voice! ’ Pilate said to Him: ‘ What is truth? ’ And when he said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them: ‘ I find no cause in Him! But you have a custom that I should release one unto you at the Pasch! Will you, therefore, that I release unto you the king of the Jews? ’ Then cried they all again, saying: ‘ Not this Man, but Barabbas! ’ Now Barabbas was a robber. “Then therefore, Pilate took Jesus, and scourged Him. And the soldiers platting a crown of thorns, put it upon His head; and they put on Him a purple garment. And they came to Him, and said: ‘ Hail, king of the Jews! ’ and they gave Him blows. Pilate therefore went forth again, and said to them: ‘ Behold, I bring Him forth unto you, that you may know that I find no cause in Him! ’ Jesus therefore came forth, bearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. And he said to them: ‘ Behold the Man! ’ When the chief priests, therefore, and the servants, had seen Him, they cried out, saying: ‘ Crucify Him! Crucify Him! ’ Pilate saith to them: ‘ Take Him you and crucify Him―for I find no cause in Him! ’ The Jews answered him: ‘ We have a law; and according to the law He ought to die, because He made himself the Son of God! ’ When Pilate therefore had heard this saying, he feared the more. “And he entered into the hall again, and he said to Jesus: ‘ Whence art Thou? ’ But Jesus gave him no answer. Pilate therefore saith to Him: ‘ Speakest Thou not to me? Knowest Thou not that I have power to crucify Thee, and I have power to release Thee? ’ Jesus answered: ‘ Thou shouldst not have any power against Me, unless it were given thee from above! Therefore, he that hath delivered Me to thee, hath the greater sin! ’ And from henceforth Pilate sought to release Him. But the Jews cried out, saying: ‘ If thou release this Man, thou art not Caesar's friend! For whosoever maketh himself a king, speaketh against Caesar! ’ Now when Pilate had heard these words, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat, and he said to the Jews: ‘ Behold your king! ’ But they cried out: ‘ Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him! ’ Pilate said to them: ‘ Shall I crucify your king? ’ The chief priests answered: ‘ We have no king but Caesar! ’ Then therefore he delivered him to them to be crucified” (John 18:33-40; 19:1-16). Ah! The power of politics! Ah! The power of behind the scenes manipulation! Ah! The fickleness and stupidity of voters! Christ the miracle worker loses the vote to Barabbas the seditionist and rebel. Christ, Who raised people from the dead, loses the vote to Barabbas the murderer! Christ, Who takes nothing, loses the vote to Barabbas the robber! The people who admired and cheered for Christ, now seek to crucify Christ and cry for His Blood! Christ, Who was loved, is now hated! Would Christ today defeat Trump and Biden? Probably not! Why not? Because very few people would “buy-into” the manifesto that Christ would be preaching. His message would be unpopular with the populace. If miracles counted for nothing in that vote before Pilate almost 2,000 years ago―then any miracles Christ might perform now, would count for little in 2020. The following words of Holy Scripture are uncannily applicable to our day and age: “The Lord hath looked down from Heaven upon the children of men―to see if there be any that understand and seek God. They are all gone aside! They are become unprofitable together! There is none that doth good―no, not one! Their throat is an open sepulcher! With their tongues they acted deceitfully! The poison of asps is under their lips! Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness! Their feet are swift to shed blood! Destruction and unhappiness in their ways and the way of peace they have not known! There is no fear of God before their eyes! Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour My people as they eat bread? They have not called upon the Lord―there have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear!” (Psalm 13:2-5). As Our Lord said in to Sister Mary Ephrem (to whom Our Lady of America appeared): “I am not loved in the homes of men. And because I am not loved, the Divine Trinity refuses to dwell therein ... Their hearts are being drawn farther and farther away from Me. They will not even listen to My Mother, because they have never been taught to listen ... Children are not taught to love Me, because those who have charge over them have no time or patience to do so … If the world is dying, it is because it will not let Me give it life. I am the resurrection and the life, and unless souls seek their life in Me, they will find only death and destruction … My Heart beats with compassion for the sorrows of man. Oh, how gladly would I help him bear the weight of his terrible cross, fashioned, for the most part, by his own guilt! But alas, he will have none of My help. So I am forced to stand by the side of the road and watch him struggle hopelessly in his agony. O man, what have I done to you that you should refuse My aid? Do you know what I find most lacking in the world today? It is FAITH. There are so few souls that believe in Me and My love. They profess their belief and their love, but they do not live this belief. Their hearts are cold, for without Faith there can be no love.” “Ain’t that the truth!!!” Now whether or not you accept and believe the Our Lady of America apparitions (and the additional apparitions by Our Lord that came with them)―you have still got to admit the truth of the above words. Don’t try and fool yourself that Our Lord is loved in the homes! People―even “good” Catholics―spend far more time on their electronic devices, or other pet hobbies, than they do with Our Lord. For the meager 2% to 3% who still “say” (but don’t really “pray”) the Rosary daily―there is little or no meditation on its mysteries, merely an announcing of the title of the mystery and perhaps the fruit of the mystery and that’s it! Just about everyone says the Rosary at a pace that they would never use in talking to other people―unless they were angry! Children are not really taught to love Our Lord (or Our Lady)―everything is so superficial, exterior, ready manufactured, on “auto-pilot” and “micro-waved.” As the children grow, they grow into addicts of social media, television, internet, music―but not Our Lord. Is it a surprise then that they would love and think more of earthly people―television and movie personalities, musicians and music bands, sports stars, etc. ― more than they love and think of Christ? Sure! Our Lord would win some votes―for there are still decent people and faithful Catholics around here and there―but the majority of voters would not be voting for Christ. The "Christ the King" Ticket
No Politics Beyond the End of the Nose
Have you ever really thought about politics and politicians beyond the end of your nose? In fact, how many politicians actually see beyond the ends of their noses? We do not primarily live for the “here and now”, but for the future. Farsightedness (hyperopia) means that objects far away appear clearer than objects close to you. Nearsightedness (myopia) means that objects that are close to you appear clearer than objects that are farther away. Nearsightedness is much more common than farsightedness―meaning that most people have difficult seeing things clearly in the distance. The same is true of our spiritual life―and even our physical and material life. We focus too much on the things that immediately concern us and lose focus of things in the distance. This is one reason why most souls are damned―they did not look into the future or distance to assess the possible consequences of what they were doing “here and now”. We were not primarily made for life on Earth―which is exceedingly short anyway―but we were made for an eternity in Heaven. If we fail to focus correctly on our future, by almost exclusively focusing on the present, then we risk spending eternity in Hell and most certainly not on Earth. Earth pales away alongside Heaven―or it should do. Thus Our Lord says: “What doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?” (Matthew 16:26). Almost every single politician in this world is focused on the “here and now”―or at least only the immediate future of a few years down the line. All the talk and rhetoric in politics is of the “here and now” and all that materially goes with it ― money, jobs, taxes, benefits, security, etc. Today, there is little or no mention of God in politics ― apart from the occasional superficial tidbit thrown out there to perhaps satisfy and win over Christian voters. Any reflection of God in the lives of many politicians, is, for the most part, superficial in relation to God, if not entirely non-existent. As Christ said: “Well did Isaias prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘This people honoureth Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me!’” (Mark 7:6)―words which seem to be tailor-made for politics and politicians. Most politicians cannot see beyond the end of their own nose―metaphorically speaking of course! Much like a vain, proud person being unable to pay attention to or focus upon other people in life―for they are almost exclusively focused on self―hence such people are called “self-centered” people. A self-centered person will always paint oneself in a good light, whilst painting others in a bad light. As we enter the build-up to the 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections, we also enter into an arena of accusations, lies, distortions and hatred. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit―therefore the political tree must be bad. What Does Politics Have in Common with Satan or the Devil? In fact, when you speak of accusations, lies, distortions and hatred―you are giving a perfect description of the nature and antics of the devil or Satan―for his names mean just that. The Old English word “satan”, comes from Late Latin word “satan”, and from the Greek “satanas”, from the Hebrew noun “satan” ― meaning “adversary, one who plots against another, one who opposes, obstructs, or acts as an adversary” and from the Hebrew verb “satan” ― meaning “to show enmity to, oppose, plot against.” The word “Devil” comes from the Old English “deofol” and the Late Latin “diabolus” which is the foundation for the word “devil” in many languages: Italian diavolo, French diable, Spanish diablo; German Teufel. The Late Latin word “diabolus” in turn comes from the Greek noun “diabolos”, which in Jewish and Christian use was “the Devil, Satan,” and which in general use meant “accuser, slanderer” and the Greek verb “diaballo” meaning “to twist, accuse and calumniate.” There you have a perfect description of modern day politics and politicians―“adversary, one who plots against another, one who opposes, obstructs, or acts as an adversary; accuser, slanderer; to twist, accuse and calumniate.” In fact, Our Lord links the “politicians” of his day―the Scribes and the Pharisees―to the devil, when He says to them: “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will do! He was a murderer from the beginning, and he stood not in the truth―because truth is not in him! When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own―for he is a liar, and the father of lies!” (John 8:44). To how many of world’s politicians would Christ address those words today? Most―no doubt! Just as the Scribes and Pharisees had no time for Christ, had no love of Christ and most certainly did not want to cede any authority to Christ―the same can be said for most politicians today. Shocking as though it may sound―as Our Lord said: “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will do! He stood not in the truth―because truth is not in him! When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own―for he is a liar, and the father of lies!” Christ is the King of Kings―the Ruler of Rulers Most Catholics will have never read―or never even heard of―the Papal Encyclical on Christ the King, Quas Primas. For their benefit―and as a refresher for you―here are the chief points extracted from the encyclical. These are points on which almost every Catholic has capitulated or surrendered. We have lost all knowledge of the truths concerning Christ the King; we are afraid to publicly stand up for Christ the King; we have stuffed Christ the King in the closet, from which we might take Him out and discreetly parade Him about a few times a year on feasts such as Christmas, Easter and the feast of Christ the King (the date of which most people do not even know!). So here, for your benefit, are those excerpts from the encyclical on Christ the King―which should give us plenty of food for thought during this build-up to 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. Who are we electing? A friend of Christ the King? Or an enemy of Christ the King? Pope Pius XI writes: “In the first Encyclical Letter, at the beginning of Our Pontificate, We referred to the chief causes of the difficulties under which mankind was laboring. And We remember saying that these manifold evils in the world were due to the fact that the majority of men had thrust Jesus Christ and His holy law out of their lives; that these had no place either in private affairs or in politics: and we said further, that as long as individuals and states refused to submit to the rule of our Savior, there would be no really hopeful prospect of a lasting peace among nations. Men must look for the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ. Peace could not be more effectually restored nor fixed upon a firmer basis than through the restoration of the Empire of Our Lord. We saw men and nations cut off from God, stirring up strife and discord and hurrying along the road to ruin and death. “It has long been a common custom to give to Christ the metaphorical title of “King,” because of the high degree of perfection whereby He excels all creatures. But if we ponder this matter more deeply, we cannot but see that the title and the power of King belongs to Christ as man in the strict and proper sense too. “Do we not read throughout the Scriptures that Christ is the King? He it is that shall come out of Jacob to rule (Numbers 24:19), who has been set by the Father as king over Sion, His holy mount, and shall have the Gentiles for His inheritance, and the utmost parts of the Earth for His possession (Psalm 2). In the nuptial hymn, where the future King of Israel is hailed as a most rich and powerful monarch, we read: “Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; the scepter of thy Kingdom is a scepter of righteousness” (Psalm 44).There are many similar passages, but there is one in which Christ is even more clearly indicated. Here it is foretold that His Kingdom will have no limits, and will be enriched with justice and peace: “in His days shall justice spring up, and abundance of peace ... And He shall rule from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the Earth” (Psalm 121). “The testimony of the Prophets is even more abundant. That of Isaias is well known: “For a child is born to us and a son is given to us, and the government is upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, God the mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace. His Empire shall be multiplied, and there shall be no end of peace. He shall sit upon the throne of David and upon His Kingdom; to establish it and strengthen it with judgment and with justice, from henceforth and for ever.” (Isaias 9:6-7). With Isaias the other Prophets are in agreement. So Jeremias foretells the “just seed” that shall rest from the house of David ― the Son of David that shall reign as king, “and shall be wise, and shall execute judgment and justice in the Earth.” (Jeremias 23:5). So, too, Daniel, who announces the Kingdom that the God of Heaven shall found, “that shall never be destroyed, and shall stand for ever.” (Daniel 2:44). And again he says: “I beheld, therefore, in the vision of the night, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of Heaven. And He came even to the Ancient of days: and they presented Him before Him. And He gave Him power and glory and a Kingdom: and all peoples, tribes, and tongues shall serve Him. His power is an everlasting power that shall not be taken away, and His Kingdom shall not be destroyed.” (Daniel 7:13-14). The prophecy of Zachary concerning the merciful King “riding upon an ass and upon a colt the foal of an ass” entering Jerusalem as “the just and savior,” amid the acclamations of the multitude (Zacharias 9:9), was recognized as fulfilled by the holy evangelists themselves. “This same doctrine of the Kingship of Christ which we have found in the Old Testament is even more clearly taught and confirmed in the New. The Archangel, announcing to the Virgin that she should bear a Son, says that “the Lord God shall give unto Him the throne of David His father, and He shall reign in the house of Jacob for ever; and of His Kingdom there shall be no end.” (Luke 1:32-33). “Moreover, Christ Himself speaks of His own kingly authority: in His last discourse, speaking of the rewards and punishments that will be the eternal lot of the just and the damned; in His reply to the Roman magistrate, who asked Him publicly whether He were a king or not; after His resurrection, when giving to His Apostles the mission of teaching and baptizing all nations, He took the opportunity to call Himself king (Matthew 25:31-40), confirming the title publicly (John 18:37), and solemnly proclaimed that all power was given Him in Heaven and on Earth (Matthew 28:18). These words can only be taken to indicate the greatness of His power, the infinite extent of His Kingdom. What wonder, then, that He whom St. John calls the “prince of the kings of the Earth” (Apocalypse 1:5) appears in the Apostle’s vision of the future as He who “hath on His garment and on His thigh written ‘King of kings and Lord of lords!’” (Apocalypse 19:16). It is Christ whom the Father “hath appointed heir of all things” (Hebrews 1:2); “for He must reign until at the end of the world He hath put all His enemies under the feet of God and the Father” (1 Corinthians 15:25). “The Catholic Church, which is the Kingdom of Christ on Earth, is destined to be spread among all men and all nations. From this it follows not only that Christ is to be adored by angels and men, but that to Him as man angels and men are subject, and must recognize His Empire. We are no longer our own property, for Christ has purchased us “with a great price” (1 Corinthians 6:20); our very bodies are the “members of Christ” (1 Corinthians 6:15). “This lordship of Christ consists in a threefold power which is essential to lordship concerning the universal dominion of our Redeemer. It is a dogma of Faith that Jesus Christ was not only our Redeemer, but also a law-giver, to whom obedience is due. He claimed judicial power [to judge]. In this power is included the right of rewarding and punishing all men living, for this right is inseparable from that of judging. Executive power, too, belongs to Christ, for all must obey His commands; none may escape them, nor the sanctions He has imposed. “This Kingdom is spiritual and is concerned with spiritual things. The Jews and even the Apostles wrongly supposed that the Messias would restore the liberties and the kingdom of Israel, He repelled and denied such a suggestion. When the populace thronged around Him in admiration and would have acclaimed Him King, He shrank from the honor and sought safety in flight. Before the Roman magistrate He declared that His Kingdom was not of this world. “It would be a grave error, on the other hand, to say that Christ has no authority whatever in civil affairs, since, by virtue of the absolute Empire over all creatures committed to Him by the Father, all things are in His power. The Empire of our Redeemer embraces all men. His Empire includes not only Catholic nations, not only baptized persons who, though of right belonging to the Church, have been led astray by error, or have been cut off from her by schism, but also all those who are outside the Christian Faith; so that truly the whole of mankind is subject to the power of Jesus Christ. Nor is there any difference in this matter between the individual and the family or the State; for all men, whether collectively or individually, are under the dominion of Christ. “If, therefore, the rulers of nations wish to preserve their authority, to promote and increase the prosperity of their countries, they will not neglect the public duty of reverence and obedience to the rule of Christ. With God and Jesus Christ excluded from political life, with authority derived not from God but from man, the very basis of that authority has been taken away, because the chief reason of the distinction between ruler and subject has been eliminated. The result is that human society is tottering to its fall, because it has no longer a secure and solid foundation. “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony. If princes and magistrates duly elected are filled with the persuasion that they rule, not by their own right, but by the mandate and in the place of the Divine King, they will exercise their authority piously and wisely, and they will make laws and administer them, having in view the common good and also the human dignity of their subjects. The result will be a stable peace and tranquillity, for there will be no longer any cause of discontent. Men will see in their king, or in their rulers, men like themselves, perhaps unworthy or open to criticism, but they will not on that account refuse obedience if they see reflected in them the authority of Christ God and Man. “If the Kingdom of Christ, then, receives, as it should, all nations under its way, there seems no reason why we should despair of seeing that peace which the King of Peace came to bring on Earth ― then at length will many evils be cured; then will the law regain its former authority; peace with all its blessings be restored. Men will sheathe their swords and lay down their arms when all freely acknowledge and obey the authority of Christ. “If We ordain that the whole Catholic world shall revere Christ as King, We shall minister to the need of the present day, and at the same time provide an excellent remedy for the plague which now infects society. We refer to the plague of anti-clericalism, its errors and impious activities. This evil spirit has not come into being in one day; it has long lurked beneath the surface. The Empire of Christ over all nations was rejected. The right which the Church has from Christ Himself, to teach mankind, to make laws, to govern peoples in all that pertains to their eternal salvation, that right was denied. Then gradually the religion of Christ came to be likened to false religions and to be placed ignominiously on the same level with them. It was then put under the power of the state and tolerated more or less at the whim of princes and rulers. Some men went even further, and wished to set up in the place of God’s religion a natural religion consisting in some instinctive affection of the heart. There were even some nations who thought they could dispense with God, and that their religion should consist in impiety and the neglect of God. “The rebellion of individuals and states against the authority of Christ has produced deplorable consequences―the seeds of discord sown far and wide; those bitter enmities and rivalries between nations, which still hinder so much the cause of peace; that insatiable greed which is so often hidden under a pretense of public spirit and patriotism, and gives rise to so many private quarrels; a blind and immoderate selfishness, making men seek nothing but their own comfort and advantage, and measure everything by these; no peace in the home, because men have forgotten or neglect their duty; the unity and stability of the family undermined; society in a word, shaken to its foundations and on the way to ruin. “This state of things may perhaps be attributed to a certain slowness and timidity in good people, who are reluctant to engage in conflict, or oppose with a weak resistance; thus the enemies of the Church become bolder in their attacks. But if the faithful were generally to understand that it behooves them ever to fight courageously under the banner of Christ their King, then, fired with apostolic zeal, they would strive to win over to their Lord those hearts that are bitter and estranged from Him, and would valiantly defend His rights. While nations insult the beloved name of our Redeemer by suppressing all mention of it in their conferences and parliaments, we must all the more loudly proclaim His kingly dignity and power, all the more universally affirm His rights. “When we pay honor to the princely dignity of Christ, men will doubtless be reminded that the Church, founded by Christ as a perfect society, has a natural and inalienable right to perfect freedom and immunity from the power of the state. Nations will be reminded that not only private individuals but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ. It will call to their minds the thought of the last judgment, wherein Christ, who has been cast out of public life, despised, neglected and ignored, will most severely avenge these insults; for His kingly dignity demands that the State should take account of the commandments of God and of Christian principles, both in making laws and in administering justice, and also in providing for the young a sound moral education.” (Pope Pius XI, Quas Primas, Encyclical on Christ the King, December 11th, 1925). Restoring Christ as King The implementation or restoration of Christ as King―often called the Social Reign of Christ the King―will not be brought about by any human means. The world has already walked too far down the path of Satan and his princedom, which is the world. As Our Lady prophesied: “Lucifer, together with a large number of demons, will be unloosed from Hell; they will put an end to Faith, little by little, even in those dedicated to God. The demon will be especially implacable against souls consecrated to God. The spirits of darkness will spread everywhere a universal slackening of all that concerns the service of God. The chiefs, the leaders of the people of God, have neglected prayer and penance, and the devil has bedimmed their intelligence. God will allow the old serpent to cause divisions among those who reign in every society and in every family. The devil will make himself like the king of all hearts … The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against bishops ... Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects … All the civil governments will have one and the same plan, which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principle, to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism and vice of all kinds. They will abolish civil rights, as well as ecclesiastical rights. All order and all justice will be trampled underfoot and only homicides, hate, jealousy, lies and dissension will be seen, without love for country or family. This apparent triumph of Satan will bring enormous sufferings … This, however, will mark the arrival of my hour, when I, in a marvelous way, will dethrone the proud and cursed Satan, trampling him under my feet and fettering him in the infernal abyss. Thus the Church and this country will be finally free of his cruel tyranny” (Our Lady of Good Success, La Salette, Akita). As Sr. Lucia of Fatima said back in 1957: “The Devil is fighting a decisive battle against the Virgin and, as you know, what most offends God and what will gain him the greatest number of souls in the shortest time is to gain the souls consecrated to God. For this also leaves unprotected the field of the laity and the Devil can more easily seize them … The Devil is engaging in a battle with the Virgin, a decisive battle. It is a final battle where one party will be victorious and the other will suffer defeat. So, from now on, we are either with God or we are with the Devil; there is no middle ground” (Sr. Lucia of Fatima to Fr. Fuentes, December 26th, 1957). How to Rig the Election in Favor of God
Elections do get “rigged”. What do we mean by “rigging” an election? Electoral fraud, sometimes referred to as election fraud, election manipulation or vote rigging, is illegal interference with the process of an election, either by increasing the vote share of a particular candidate, depressing the vote share of the rival candidates, or both.
Since the 1990s, there have been around 200 controversial national elections throughout the world―with various kinds of accusations of fraud, rigging and illegal interference being raised. Even the papal elections have come under the shadowy sinister suspicion of being rigged! In the 2018 book, How to Rig an Election, by Nic Cheeseman (Professor and International Development at the University of Birmingham, UK) and Brian Klaas (a Fellow in Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics), you can read about the 1998 St. Petersburg local assembly elections, where Oleg Sergeyev was running for re-election. In power, he had proved to be quite a thorn in the side of the city’s governor, Vladimir Yakovlev. So much so that some expected Sergeyev could even run for the governor’s position in the future, or at least challenge his authority by campaigning for reform. Yakovlev did not take opposition lightly, and so he allegedly used his political influence to take Sergeyev out of the game, before he became a real threat. Thus, when Oleg Sergeyev launched his bid to retain his seat, he was surprised to learn the names of two of his opponents: Oleg Sergeyev and Oleg Sergeyev ― both having the identical same name to the Oleg Sergeyev who was seeking re-election. The former namesake was a pensioner, the latter namesake an unemployed man. Neither of the two new Olegs had any qualifications for the office they were seeking. But they had been handpicked (and no doubt well-rewarded) for one key characteristic―their names. When voters arrived in the polling booth, they were unsure which of the three Oleg Sergeyev was their candidate of choice―because all they saw printed was the name. Many cast ballots for the “wrong” Sergeyev, which split the vote and contributed to Sergeyev’s downfall, exactly as Yakovlev had intended. The problem, of course, is that everyone realized the game that Yakovlev was playing. Voters aren’t stupid, and when they see three Oleg Sergeyevs on one ballot, they know the election is being rigged. Another case was Ukraine’s 2004 presidential election, which had masses of voters who were opposed to the incumbent, Viktor Yanukovych, turning up at the voting locations in the hope of voting him out. Upon arrival at their assigned polling stations, they received ballot papers and pens to mark them with. Many voted against the ruling regime, and placed their ballot papers into the ballot box to be counted. Four minutes later, their ballots were blank. Although the opposition voters didn’t know it, they had been given pens that were filled with disappearing ink. The ballot boxes were filled with stacks of unmarked ballots giving the impression that many voters chose to abstain from voting. Despite such dirty tricks, the incumbent, Yanukovych, eventually lost. Election observers noticed the disappearing ink trick — and many others — leading to the election being re-run. Nevertheless, say Cheeseman and Klaas, it must be said that Yanukovych’s defeat was unusual―because incumbents usually win most elections these days for two reasons. First, they enjoy many legitimate advantages, such as the ability to set the political agenda. Second, a remarkably high proportion of elections are rigged. Most incumbents have learned to transform elections from a threat to their grip on power, into something that can instead be used to tighten it. They’ve figured out how to rig an election, leading to the greatest political paradox of our time: There are more elections than ever before, and yet the world is becoming less democratic. Cheeseman and Klaas then say that if you want to take a master class in subtle and legal pre-election rigging, you might want to travel to the United States. The 2016 presidential election will be remembered for many things, but one of the most unusual was the repeated claims, by leaders in both parties, that the election was “rigged.” Many of these accusations were promoted by Russian hackers, who were intent on aggravating divisions between and within the political parties and fomenting distrust in the democratic system. Nevertheless, despite being seen as the world’s most powerful democracy, America is where many of the rigging techniques used today were perfected and continue to exert a powerful legacy. This is particularly true of two of the most tried and tested methods for establishing a pre-electoral advantage: gerrymandering and voter suppression. Distorted electoral boundaries loom large in every U.S. congressional election. Opinion polls consistently show that Congress is viewed favorably by just 10 to 20 percent of Americans. That is about the same favorability rating as cockroaches. But even with that dismal approval rating, only eight incumbents out of a body of 435 representatives lost their re-election bids in 2016. This is one of the lowest turnover rates in the world. Some of these uncompetitive elections are caused by demographic clustering, where like-minded voters self-select into districts. But gerrymandering―the manipulation of the boundaries of an electoral constituency, so as to favor one party or class―also plays a role. Across the United States, self-interested politicians get to choose their voters rather than the other way around. The worst offenders have been clustered in North Carolina, Michigan, and — until a recent decision by the state’s Supreme Court to redraw electoral boundaries — Pennsylvania. And there are offenders on both sides of the aisle: Democratic gerrymandering happens in Massachusetts, Maryland, and to a lesser extent Illinois; while Republican gerrymandering happens in Florida, Ohio, Texas, and Virginia. In net terms, Republicans have secured a significant seat advantage in the House of Representatives, thanks to the cynical and self-interested way in which congressional districts are drawn. Nowadays, elections are held almost everywhere. The vast majority of governments at least go through the motions of election campaigns and are rhetorically committed to allowing citizens to cast ballots to choose the leaders who will govern them. However, in many places, that choice is little more than an illusion; the contest is rigged from the start. If you think that poor-quality elections like the 2004 vote in Ukraine are an exception, think again: On a scale of 1 to 10, in which 10 reflects a perfect election and 1 reflects the worst possible, the average election around the world scores just 6 according to data collected by the Electoral Integrity Project. In Asia, Africa, post-communist Europe, and the Middle East, the figure is closer to 5. Globally, only about 30 percent of elections result in a transfer of power. In other words, incumbents win seven times out of 10. Since the turn of the century, there has been a gradual decline in the quality of democracy in the world. In 2017, according to Freedom House, 71 countries suffered net declines in political rights and civil liberties, with only 35 registering gains. The world has become more authoritarian every year since 2006, and the pace of democratic decline seems to be accelerating. Today, nearly 2 in 3 citizens in the world live under a system of government that is not fully democratic. In other words, we are in the middle of a serious democratic recession. The recent Coronavirus Plannedemic [read more on that here] only serves to underline this worldwide stifling of democracy, liberties and rights. One does not have to be cynical―only truthful―in stating that, for the most part, politics is becoming increasingly godless and corrupt. Do we really want to put our lives in the hands of godless and corrupt people? “But”, you will protest, “many of these politicians are not godless―they are Christians! Look at Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence! Biden himself is a practicing Catholic! Trump speaks of Jesus and holds up Bibles! Harris, Biden’s running mate, claims to be a Baptist!” Our Lord would reply to your protests with these words: “: “Not everyone that saith to Me: ‘Lord! Lord!’ shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven: but he that doth the will of My Father Who is in Heaven, he shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Many will say to Me in that day: ‘Lord! Lord! Have not we prophesied in Thy Name, and cast out devils in Thy Name, and done many miracles in Thy Name?’ And then will I profess unto them: ‘I never knew you! Depart from Me!’” (Matthew 7:21-23). “Why call you Me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ and do not the things which I say?” (Luke 6:46). “If you love Me, keep My commandments … He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them; he it is that loveth Me … If anyone love Me, he will keep My word … He that loveth Me not, keepeth not My words” (John 14:15, 14:21-24). “Well did Isaias prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘This people honoureth Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me!’” (Mark 7:6). This religious hypocrisy is especially seen in today’s politicians―regardless of which party, which race, which religion they belong to. The US national motto, found also on US currency, says “In God we trust” while the Pledge of Allegiance adds: “One nation under God” ― and many still use the phrase from the song: “God Bless America” ― yet that one nation does not trust in the ways of God, preferring to go its own way; that one nation under God now undermines God and His laws, refusing to carry the yoke of His commandments; that desire that God bless America will not be fulfilled in a godless America. The modern day notion of independence has degenerated more and more over the years from the initial false idea of independence. Today, nations seek independence not only a material and political level―they have also declared an independence from God. That “Declaration of Independence from God” is clearly seen by the laws legislated by those independent nations, just as a tree can be recognized by its fruits. As Our Lord said: “By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire” (Matthew 7:16-19). “Either make the tree good and its fruit good―or make the tree evil, and its fruit evil. For by the fruit the tree is known” (Matthew 12:33). You could rephrase that to read: “Either make the nation good by making its laws good―or make the nation evil, by making its laws evil. For by its laws a nation is known.” So how do US laws measure up? US laws do not uphold the One True God in whom the Nation apparently trusts and under Whom it states that it stands: “In God we trust” and “One nation under God.” Yet its secular Constitution allows any old religion to exist and for its citizens to believe in whatever god them want. Not only that, but in April 2019, Satanists were acknowledged as being a religion and were given tax-exempt status by the IRS (Inland Revenue Service). Being granted tax-exempt status essentially means that the Satanic Temple has the same legal protections that other religions do, including “access to public spaces as other religious organizations; affirming its standing in court when battling religious discrimination; and enabling The Satanic Temple to apply for faith-based government grants,” according to a press release by the IRS. The taking of God’s Name in vain―blasphemy―is widespread and popular. Some people can’t say a sentence without including the word “Jesus!” or “My God!” Yet it is not out of devotion that they use those words! Far from it! The “Lord’s Day”―Sunday―is not just another day of the week. Very little holiness permeates the day―making a mockery of the Commandment: “Remember thou keep holy the Lord’s day!” Honoring of parents is a hit and miss affair―as is the honoring of all other authorities. “Thou shalt not kill” has changed to “Kill the innocent, but spare the guilty” ― as in the case of innocent babies being slaughtered by abortion, and murderers escaping the death penalty. “Thou shalt not commit adultery” has become pretty much “Thou shalt enjoy adultery, but just don’t get caught!” With regard to “Thou shall not steal”, nowadays it is a case of “Steal if you can disguise the theft in some way!” as in disproportionate and exorbitant charges, add-ons, taxes, levies, fines, penalties, etc. “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor” has become “Dig up as much dirt as you can on neighbor―regardless of whether it is all true or not!” Election time is the harvest time for doing this! “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife [or husband]” is a joke as we see so much impurity, immodesty, provocativeness, innuendo, nudity or semi-nudity plastered all over the place in movies, on television, on the internet, in books, magazines and newspapers, in advertisements―and nobody really gives a damn anymore, whereas in the past days of living memory, the police would warn or even arrest you for such kinds of behavior. The laws of Nations and States no longer care to promote or enforce the Commandments of God, for they have divorced themselves from God and have become mere secular states. Yes―by their fruits [or laws, or lack of laws] you will know them! “By their fruits you shall know them. Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire” (Matthew 7:16-19). “Either make the tree good and its fruit good―or make the tree evil, and its fruit evil. For by the fruit the tree is known” (Matthew 12:33). So “Either make the nation good by making its laws good―or make the nation evil, by making its laws evil. For by its laws a nation is known.” Right now―many of the fruits or laws are evil. Abortion, divorce and remarriage, contraception, cohabitation, same-sex marriages and sexual relationships, homosexuality, transgenderism, etc. ― and these are just the tip of the iceberg. Already in 1956, Our Lady said to Blessed Elena Aiello: ““People are offending God too much! If I were to show you all the sins committed on a single day, you would surely die of grief! These are grave times! The world is in total turmoil because it is in a worse condition than at the time of the deluge! All is hanging on a slender thread! When that thread shall snap, Divine Justice shall pounce upon the world and execute its dreadful, purging designs! All the nations shall be punished because sins, like a muddy river, are now covering all the Earth!” So, coming to the theme of this article―does God “rig” elections or “rig” rulers? That would seem to be dishonest! Yet that is what God does and He is not being dishonest or a cheat in doing so. We actually need God to “rig” our elections―to dispose of those who refuse to use God’s ways in governing nations. God is the supreme authority―the rulers of nations have merely been wanted (if they are good rulers) or allowed (if they are bad rulers) for God’s own designs in either rewarding or punishing those nations. There is no authority except from God, and those authorities which exist are established by God: “There is no power but from God: and those that are, are ordained of God” (Romans 13:1). Ultimately, God is the ruler of the Earth, God is its king, its president, its governor. Our Lord confirms this truth when He tells Pontius Pilate that Pilate would have no authority over Him, unless it had been given to Pilate by God: “Thou shouldst not have any power against Me, unless it were given thee from above” (John 19:11). “He taketh away kingdoms and establisheth them” (Daniel 2:21). Good or bad governors are sent by God [“rigged” if you like] to either punish people for their sins or as reward for those who do what is right: “Governors sent by Him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of the good” (1 Peter 2:14). “Princes are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good―and thou shalt have praise from the same. For the prince is God’s minister to thee, for good. But if thou do that which is evil, then fear―for he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is God’s minister―an avenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evil” (Romans 13:3-4). God, in speaking of King Cyrus of Persia―a figure or symbol of the future Christ―says: “Thus saith the Lord to My anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I have taken hold of, to subdue nations before his face, and to turn the backs of kings, and to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut. I will go before thee, and will humble the great ones of the Earth! I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and will burst the bars of iron!” (Isaias 45:1-2). “In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, to fulfill the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by the mouth of Jeremias, the Lord stirred up the heart of Cyrus king of the Persians who commanded it to be proclaimed through all his kingdom, and by writing also, saying: ‘Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians: “All the kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord the God of heaven given to me, and he hath charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judea: who is there among you of all his people? The Lord his God be with him, and let him go up”’” (2 Paralipomenon 36:22-23). If God can depose―in one fell swoop―all the kings of the Earth and eliminate all the sinners of the Earth, as He already did in the time of Noe and the Great Flood; then the elimination of a ruler or two, or a few nations is “a piece of cake” in comparison. “All nations are before Him as if they had no being at all, and are counted to Him as nothing and vanity!” (Isaias 40:17). Civilizations come and go, and governments rise and fall―but God remains in charge, ruling the whole universe. God will bless nations only in proportion to how faithfully they adhere to God and His Laws. But this blessing ends when a nation becomes degenerate, rebellious, and unfit for self-rule. When God determines that His patient waiting and extended mercy for any particular nation has no redeeming effect, God then marginalizes, impoverishes or destroys that nation. “The Lord is the true God: He is the living God, and the everlasting king, at His wrath the Earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide His threatening” (Jeremias 10:10) “And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: ‘Son of man, when a land shall sin against Me, so as to transgress grievously, I will stretch forth My hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof: and I will send famine upon it, and will destroy man and beast out of it. And if these three men―Noe, Daniel and Job, shall be in it [meaning, people who are just and holy like Noe, Daniel and Job]―then they shall deliver their own souls by their justice, saith the Lord of hosts. And if I shall bring mischievous beasts also upon the land to waste it, and it be desolate, so that there is none that can pass because of the beasts―if these three men shall be in it―as I live, saith the Lord, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered, and the land shall be made desolate. Or if I bring the sword upon that land, and say to the sword: “Pass through the land!” and I destroy man and beast out of it―and these three men be in the midst thereof―as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they themselves alone shall be delivered. Or if I also send the pestilence upon that land, and pour out My indignation upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast―and Noe, and Daniel and Job be in the midst thereof―as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter, but they shall only deliver their own souls by their justice. For thus saith the Lord: Although I shall send in upon Jerusalem My four grievous judgments, the sword, and the famine, and the mischievous beasts, and the pestilence, to destroy out of it man and beast, yet there shall still be left in it some that shall be saved’” (Ezekiel 14:13-22). If we want sanity in politics, humility in politics, truth in politics, justice in politics, charity in politics―then we need God in politics. Not just a “lip-served” God, but a “heart-served” God, where God is truly in the hearts of politicians and not just on the lips. If God is in the heart, then God is loved―and if God is loved, then His Commandments are kept: “If you love Me, keep My commandments … He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them; he it is that loveth Me … If anyone love Me, he will keep My word … He that loveth Me not, keepeth not My words” (John 14:15, 14:21-24). “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord … The Lord hath looked from heaven: he hath beheld all the sons of men. From His habitation which H e hath prepared, he hath looked upon all that dwell on the earth. He who hath made the hearts of every one of them: who understandeth all their works. The king is not saved by a great army; nor shall the giant be saved by his own great strength. Vain is the horse for safety; neither shall he be saved by the abundance of his strength. Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them that fear Him and on them that hope in His mercy. To deliver their souls from death; and feed them in famine. Our soul waiteth for the Lord―for he is our helper and protector. For in Him our heart shall rejoice; and in His Holy Name we have trusted. Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us―as we have hoped in thee!” (Psalm 32:12-22). We need to pray MUCH and do MUCH penance in order to reform the current corrupt, and, in many cases, Satanic political stranglehold not only on America, but the entire world. It of such that God says: “They have reigned, but not by me: they have been princes, and I knew not!” (Osee 8:4). If we don't or won't pray and do penance, then, as the saying goes: “You get the leaders that you deserve!” For a long time now we have been getting what we deserve―and that is going to get a helluva lot worse very soon! Our Lady for President?
As the years go by, there is more and more talk about who might be the first female President of the United States. Numerous other nations have had a woman in the top ruling position of power―the larger ones including China, India, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, France, Portugal, Austria, Ukraine, Norway, Finland, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Philippines, Pakistan, Poland, Australia, New Zealand and a lot, lot more. The United States of America is a notable absentee from that list.
Can a woman reign and rule? Normally, according to the designs of God’s creation, a woman is a helper to man: “for Adam there was not found a helper like himself. Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he was fast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and filled up flesh for it. And the Lord God built the rib which he took from Adam into a woman: and brought her to Adam” (Genesis 2:20-22). “Let wives be subject to their husbands” (1 Peter 3:1). “Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord” (Colossians 3:18). “As the Church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in all things” (Ephesians 5:24). “Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord” (Ephesians 5:22). Usually the woman’s role is one of assistance to her husband―so, in the case of a queen, one would usually assume and find it to be the case that there is also a king in the picture. Though this is not always the case―as seen to be in the long reign of Queen Elizabeth II of England (who ascended to the throne in 1952)―whose husband Philip only has the title “Prince” and not “King”. An ancient English ruling states that the wives of ruling kings are to be called “queens”, whereas husbands of ruling queens are to be called “princes”. Our Lady―whom we call the Queen of Heaven and Earth―is not without her king. That King is, of course, her Son―Our Lord Jesus Christ―to Whom Pontius Pilate asked the question: “‘Art Thou a king then?’ Jesus answered: ‘Thou sayest that I am a king. For this was I born, and for this came I into the world!’” (John 18:37). Our Lady is not there to usurp the throne of Christ and reign in place of Him―she is there to promote the reign of Christ throughout the world. St. Louis de Montfort says: “It was through the most holy Virgin Mary that Jesus came into the world, and it is also through her that He has to reign in the world … It was only through Mary that God the Father gave His Only begotten to the world … The Son of God became man for our salvation; but it was in Mary and by Mary … The conduct which the Three Persons of the Most Holy Trinity have deigned to pursue in the Incarnation and the first coming of Jesus Christ, They still pursue daily, in an invisible manner, throughout the whole Church; and They will still pursue it even to the consummation of ages in the last coming of Jesus Christ … God the Father wishes to have children by Mary till the consummation of the world” (True Devotion to Mary). St. Louis de Montfort continues: “God the Father wishes to have children by Mary till the consummation of the world … All the true children of God, the predestinate, have God for their Father and Mary for their Mother. He who has not Mary for his Mother has not God for his Father. This is the reason why the reprobate, such as heretics, schismatics and others, who hate our Blessed Lady or regard her with contempt and indifference, have not God for their Father, however much they boast of it, simply because they have not Mary for their Mother … Mary has produced, together with the Holy Ghost, the greatest thing which has been or ever will be—a God Man; and she will consequently produce the greatest saints that there will be in the end of time. The formation and the education of the great saints who shall come at the end of the world are reserved for her” (True Devotion to Mary). Never mind about “Making America Great Again!” What about making souls holy again? “For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?” (Matthew 16:26). God―as revealed by Our Lady of America―expects a holiness from America, saying to them what He once said to His Chosen People, that He wants “to make thee higher than all nations which He hath created, to His own praise, and Name, and glory―so that thou mayest be a holy people of the Lord thy God!” (Deuteronomy 26:19). “Sanctify yourselves, and be ye holy―because I am the Lord your God!” (Leviticus 20:7). In another of his works, The Secret of Mary, St. Louis de Montfort addresses the quest for this holiness: “Chosen soul, living image of God and redeemed by the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ, God wants you to become holy like Him in this life, and glorious like Him in the next (Matthew 5:48). It is certain that growth in the holiness of God is your vocation. All your thoughts, words, actions, everything you suffer or undertake, must lead you towards that end. Otherwise you are resisting God, in not doing the work for which He created you and for which He is even now keeping you in being. What a marvelous transformation is possible! Dust into light, uncleanness into purity, sinfulness into holiness, creature into Creator, man into God! A marvelous work, I repeat, so difficult in itself, and even impossible for a mere creature to bring about, for only God can accomplish it by giving His grace abundantly and in an extraordinary manner. The very creation of the universe is not as great an achievement as this. “Chosen soul, how will you bring this about? What steps will you take to reach the high level to which God is calling you? The means of holiness and salvation are known to everybody, since they are found in the Gospel; the masters of the spiritual life have explained them; the saints have practiced them and shown how essential they are for those who wish to be saved and attain perfection. These means are: sincere humility, unceasing prayer, complete self-denial, abandonment to divine Providence, and obedience to the will of God. “The grace and help of God are absolutely necessary for us to practice all these, but we are sure that grace will be given to all, though not in the same measure. I say “not in the same measure,” because God does not give His graces in equal measure to everyone (Romans 12:6), although in His infinite goodness He always gives sufficient grace to each. A person who corresponds to great graces performs great works, and one who corresponds to lesser graces performs lesser works. The value and high standard of our actions corresponds to the value and perfection of the grace given by God and responded to by the faithful soul. No one can contest these principles. “It all comes to this, then. We must discover a simple means to obtain from God the grace needed to become holy. It is precisely this I wish to teach you. My contention is that you must first discover Mary if you would obtain this grace from God” (St. Louis de Montfort, The Secret of Mary). St. Louis then makes ten points on how Mary leads us to holiness and, so to speak, “Makes Our Souls Great Again!” (1) Mary alone found grace with God for herself and for every individual person (Luke 1:30). No patriarch nor prophet nor any other holy person of the Old Law could manage to find this grace; (2) It was Mary who gave existence and life to the author of all grace and, because of this, she is called the “Mother of Grace.” (3) God the Father, from Whom, as from its essential source, every perfect gift and every grace come down to us (James 1:17), gave her every grace when He gave her His Son. Thus, as St. Bernard says, the will of God is manifested to her in Jesus and with Jesus. (4) God chose her to be the treasurer, the administrator and the dispenser of all His graces, so that all His graces and gifts pass through her hands. Such is the power that she has received from Him that, according to St. Bernardine, she gives the graces of the eternal Father, the virtues of Jesus Christ, and the gifts of the Holy Ghost to whom she wills, as and when she wills, and as much as she wills. (5) As in the natural life a child must have a father and a mother, so in the supernatural life of grace a true child of the Church must have God for his Father and Mary for his mother. If he prides himself on having God for his Father, but does not give Mary the tender affection of a true child, he is an imposter and his father is the devil. (6) Since Mary produced the head of the elect, Jesus Christ, she must also produce the members of that head, that is, all true Christians. A mother does not conceive a head without members, nor members without a head. If anyone, then, wishes to become a member of Jesus Christ, and consequently be filled with grace and truth, (John 1:14), he must be formed in Mary through the grace of Jesus Christ, which she possesses with a fullness enabling her to communicate it abundantly to true members of Jesus Christ, her true children. (7) The Holy Ghost espoused Mary and produced His greatest work, the incarnate Word, in her, by her and through her. He has never disowned her and so He continues to produce every day, in a mysterious but very real manner, the souls of the elect in her and through her. (8) Mary received, from God, a unique dominion over souls, enabling her to nourish them and make them more and more godlike. St. Augustine went so far as to say that, even in this world, all the elect are enclosed in the womb of Mary, and that their real birthday is when this good mother brings them forth to eternal life. Consequently, just as an infant draws all its nourishment from its mother, who gives according to its needs, so the elect draw all their spiritual nourishment and all their strength from Mary. (9) It was to Mary that God the Father said, “Dwell in Jacob” (Ecclesiasticus 24:8, 12) that is, dwell in my elect, who are typified by Jacob. It was to Mary that God the Son said, “My dear Mother, your inheritance is in Israel,” that is, in the elect. It was to Mary that the Holy Ghost said, “Place your roots in my elect.” Whoever, then, is of the chosen and predestinate, will have the Blessed Virgin living within him, and he will let her plant in his very soul the roots of every virtue, but especially deep humility and ardent charity. (10) Mary is called by St. Augustine, and is indeed, the “living mold of God.” In her alone the God-man was formed in His human nature without losing any feature of the Godhead. In her alone, by the grace of Jesus Christ, man is made godlike as far as human nature is capable of it” (St. Louis de Montfort, The Secret of Mary). St. Louis de Montfort adds: “When the Holy Ghost, her Spouse, has found Mary in a soul, He flies there. He enters there in His fullness; He communicates Himself to that soul abundantly, and to the full extent to which it makes room for His spouse. Nay, one of the greatest reasons why the Holy Ghost does not now do startling wonders in our souls is because He does not find there a sufficiently great union with His faithful and inseparable spouse.” (True Devotion to Mary). How the Planet would change if Mary were elected “President”!! The following words of Fr. Frederick Faber, from the Preface of his own personal translation, from the original French, of St. Louis de Montfort’s book, True Devotion to Mary, paints a picture of how different the world would be if Mary reigned in our minds and hearts: “All those who are likely to read this book [True Devotion to Mary], love God, and lament that they do not love Him more; all desire something for His glory—the spread of some good work, the success of some devotion, the coming of some good time. One man has been striving for years to overcome a particular fault, and has not succeeded. Another mourns, and almost wonders while he mourns, that so few of his relations and friends have been converted to the Faith. One grieves that he has not devotion enough; another that he has a cross to carry which is a peculiarly impossible cross to him; while a third has domestic troubles and family unhappinesses which feel almost incompatible with his salvation; and for all these things prayer appears to bring so little remedy. “But what is the remedy that is wanted? What is the remedy indicated by God Himself? If we may rely on the disclosures of the saints, it is an immense increase of devotion to our Blessed Lady; but, remember, nothing short of an immense one! Here in England, Mary is not half enough preached! Devotion to her is low and thin and poor! It is frightened out of its wits by the sneers of heresy! It is always invoking human respect and carnal prudence, wishing to make Mary so little of a Mary that Protestants may feel at ease about her! Its ignorance of theology makes it unsubstantial and unworthy! It is not the prominent characteristic of our religion which it ought to be! It has no faith in itself! Hence it is that Jesus is not loved, that heretics are not converted, that the Church is not exalted; that souls which might be saints wither and dwindle; that the Sacraments are not rightly frequented, or souls enthusiastically evangelized! “Jesus is obscured because Mary is kept in the background! Thousands of souls perish because Mary is withheld from them! It is the miserable, unworthy shadow which we call our devotion to the Blessed Virgin that is the cause of all these wants and blights, these evils and omissions and declines! Yet, if we are to believe the revelations of the saints, God is pressing for a greater, a wider, a stronger, quite another devotion to His Blessed Mother! I cannot think of a higher work or a broader vocation for anyone than the simple spreading of this peculiar devotion of the Venerable Grignion de Montfort! Let a man but try it for himself, and his surprise at the graces it brings with it, and the transformations it causes in his soul, will soon convince him of its otherwise almost incredible efficacy as a means for the salvation of men, and for the coming of the kingdom of Christ! Oh, if Mary were but known, there would be no coldness to Jesus then! Oh, if Mary were but known, how much more wonderful would be our Faith, and how different would our Communions be! Oh, if Mary were but known, how much happier, how much holier, how much less worldly should we be, and how much more should we be living images of our sole Lord and Savior, her dearest and most blessed Son!” (Fr. Frederick Faber, from the Preface, True Devotion to Mary,). We need Mary’s rule in our lives. Until we elect Our Lady as Queen of our Hearts, or, if you like, President of our Planet, then we will continue in our ever increasing spiral downwards in sin towards Hell. Just as worldly presidential candidates will say that they are the only ones who can bring the country out of its demise and problems―Our Lady likewise, at her “Fatima Convention” on July 13th, 1917, while referring to herself under the title of “Our Lady of the Rosary”―said: “Only she can help you now!” At her “Akita Convention” in Japan, on October 13th, 1973, Our Lady said the same thing: “I alone am able still to save you from the calamities which approach. Those who place their confidence in me will be saved!” What Should True Catholics Do In This Election?
Holy Scripture tells that whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is a sin: “To him, therefore, who knoweth to do good, and doth it not, to him it is sin” (James 4:17). Being a true Catholic means more than just saying: “Lord! Lord!” ― “Why call you Me: ‘Lord! Lord!’ and do not the things which I say?” (Luke 6:46). “Everyone therefore that heareth these My words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock! And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on a rock. And everyone that heareth these My words, and doth them not, shall be like a foolish man that built his house upon the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall thereof!” (Matthew 7:24-27).
Catholics must remember that having the Faith is not enough―Hell is full of those who had the Faith! “Faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself. But some man will say: ‘Thou hast Faith, and I have works!’ Show me thy Faith without works; and I will show thee, by works, my Faith! Thou believest that there is one God. Thou dost well: the devils also believe and tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that Faith without works is dead? … For even as the body without the spirit is dead; so also Faith without works is dead” (James 2:17-26). As the electoral wheels of theatrical propaganda began to churn once again, seeking to simultaneously entertain and bewitch the intellectually sleepy shallow minds of the manipulable masses, sucking them into a whirlpool of unchristian jibes, accusations, scandals, lies, false promises, etc. ― making the whole electoral process look like a humanized “Pavlov’s Dog Experiment” ― what can the Catholic do? What “works” can you do in preparation for this 2020 Presidential Election (if it takes place and there is no distracting and postponing event that suddenly breaks out―such as a war, civil unrest, civil war, or another super-pandemic created by men)? What “works” will work? Every Catholic will have their own subjective opinion and will follow their own subjective tendencies and predisposed preferences or biases. ► The Combative-Computer-Catholic will be guaranteed to scour the news and blogs, to make multiple opinionated posts, to forward lots of videos/articles/posts telling his or her e-mail list of contacts to “pass it on and make it go viral” ― as if there weren’t enough viruses floating around! This kind of Catholic is all-humanistic with little or no supernatural acumen or tactics. That humanistic zeal and self-confidence forgets that Our Lord said: “Without Me, you can do nothing!” (John 15:5) ― and so only human means and methods are used, while the supernatural means and methods are left aside and untried. Failure is inevitable―it always has been in the past, and always will be in the future. A lot of effort with very little or no real results. ► The Collecting-Catholic will also scour the news and blogs, collecting as much information about as many election related items as possible. This kind of Catholic becomes the proverbial “Jack of all trades, but master of none!” In other words, he ends up know a little about a lot of things―but knows a lot about very little. He ends up being the “two-bit” Catholic on election matters, full of “two-bit-phrases” and sensational superficial stories. Such a Catholic rarely digs beneath the surface of things and remains on the level of superficiality. Often the knowledge is isolated without “joining any dots” ― more a parrot than a thinker. They have no real ideas of their own, since they cannot penetrate and analyze things―they just repeat what is written by other or said by others. They collect the opinions of others. ► The Cerebral-Catholic is the reader, thinker, analyzer who thinks that the Faith is all about knowing the Faith and little else. The more they know, the better the Catholic they imagine themselves to be. Knowledge is power for them. They will fervently “talk the talk” but rarely will they “walk the walk”. The following words of Holy Scripture are especially applicable to them: “Faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself. But some man will say: ‘Thou hast Faith, and I have works!’ Show me thy Faith without works; and I will show thee, by works, my Faith! Thou believest that there is one God. Thou dost well: the devils also believe and tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that Faith without works is dead? … For even as the body without the spirit is dead; so also Faith without works is dead” (James 2:17-26). ► The Constipated-Catholic bears a close resemblance to the “Cerebral Catholic” in that much reading, study, thinking and analysis takes place―but nothing comes out from all this. It all stays “in the head” ― constipated, so to speak. These constipated Catholics and full of all kinds of knowledge but do nothing with it. It is almost like doing tons of research for an essay―and then never writing that essay. Or studying mechanics to understand how your car works―but then never fixing anything that goes wrong. To such a Catholic you can also apply the words of Scripture: “Faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself. But some man will say: ‘Thou hast Faith, and I have works!’ Show me thy Faith without works; and I will show thee, by works, my Faith! Thou believest that there is one God. Thou dost well: the devils also believe and tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that Faith without works is dead? … For even as the body without the spirit is dead; so also Faith without works is dead” (James 2:17-26). ► The Conned-Catholic will gullibly gulp down all the official mainstream media fodder that is fed to gullible GOPS, or retard Republicans, or Demented Democrats. To these easily conned Catholics, the words of the media are like the Gospel, all of which is accepted blindly and without question. As William Casey, CIA Director from 1981 to 1987, said in 1982 to President Reagan: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” Investigative journalist Jack Anderson, wrote in the September 22nd, 1981, Santa Cruz Sentinel discussing the troubling CIA disinformation campaign being waged against Americans. Anderson pointed out the CIA’s “triple assault on the public’s right to know” included (1) trying to shut-off channels of information to the electorate, (2) seeking criminal penalties against reporters whose stories might identify CIA operatives, and the third which Anderson called most troubling, (3) spreading “disinformation” to news agencies. ► The Clueless-Catholic never really thinks―he or she just votes. That is the be-all and end-all of the matter. They don’t really follow the issues, they will never penetrate the “smoke and mirrors” of politics, they just don’t understand or don’t want to understand. Talk to them about the politics in the election and they will just stare blankly and you will draw a blank for an answer―the only thing they know is how fill in the ballot card or voting card. That is as far as it goes. The words of Pope St. Pius X, in his encyclical, Acerbo Nimis, on the lamentable dangers of ignorance in matters of Faith, could be equally applied to the ignorance of most people about politics which leads to a failure to take correct measures to remedy the evils within politics. The Pope writes: “The enemy has long been prowling about the fold and attacking it with such subtle cunning …. The chief cause of the present serious evils is to be found above all in ignorance of things divine … There are large numbers of Christians in our own time who are entirely ignorant … A great number of those who are condemned to eternal punishment, suffer that everlasting calamity because of ignorance …” ► The Couldn’t-Care-Catholic basically is so immersed in the world or his or her own personal life with its obligations, hobbies, pastimes, socializing , etc., that there is no time and no inclination to “waste time” on the political field. Family life, work duties, social life and a bunch of other things are far more pressing or exciting than trying to get involved in the political sphere. The bottom-line attitude is one of “What can I do anyway?” and so they do nothing and care nothing about it. ► The Capitulating-Catholic may well care about what is happening in the political field, but he or she has a similar final attitude as the one above ― “What can I do anyway?” They are aware of the evils and agendas within politics. They are perhaps even well-read and very knowledgeable on many points ― but they are low on Faith and Hope, and easily fall into despair and hopelessness in their feelings of helplessness. Our Lady mentions this kind of person, saying: “There will be occasions when all will seem lost and paralyzed. People will believe that all is lost!” They are discouraged, demoralized and depressed―which is exactly how Satan wants them to be―for discouraged, demoralized and depressed will not look for and will not use the weapons that could defeat Satan and his human minions in the political arena. ► The Cynical-Catholic believing that people are motivated by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity, is likely to be of the opinion that “all politicians are crooks” and has no trust for anyone. The cynical Catholic cannot believe that the political field is reformable and has written it all off as irredeemable. This cynicism leads to a kind of fatalism, which reasons that there is no way out of the evil stranglehold that current day politics has on the events in the world. Ultimately the cynical Catholic will end up being a capitulating Catholic. ► The Cowardly-Catholic might be a devout Catholic, even a fervent Catholic, or, on the contrary, a lukewarm Catholic. The cowardly Catholic knows what should be done―but does not want to suffer in any way by actually doing it. The cowardly Catholic would seek to “win the war” from the comfort of his or her armchair. They say―sarcastically―that best quarterbacks in football are the “armchair quarterbacks” sitting in front of their TV screens, who see all, know all, tell you all but have done nothing. You could call them “Couch-Potato-Catholics” ― all talk, no action. They are quick to pontificate about the pope, pick-to-pieces political plans, paddywhack presidents and pound politicians―but they are afraid to put into practice the solutions that Heaven has provided. But they do not want to get out the armchair, enter the fight and be in the “line of fire” or on the “front-line” ― at best, they might become timorous back-seat drivers, whose fearfulness will never inspire courage in others. ► The Chameleon-Catholic is the “please everyone” type of Catholic, who is the bad version of the Old Testament Joseph with his coat of many colors. The chameleon Catholic, like all true Liberals, will change his tune often and whistle what others like to hear, or will change his coat to suit the company he finds himself―like the proverbial “turncoat” or traitor, who shifts allegiance from one loyalty or ideal to another, betraying or deserting an original cause by switching to the opposing side or party. Too much human respect and not enough respect for God is the problem. ► The Complacent-Catholic is the eternal optimist who fails to realize that Hell is full of eternal optimists who are no longer very optimistic. The complacent Catholic imagines a lot of things―and the key word is “imagines”, for imagination is not reality. The complacent Catholic imagines that since Our Lady has promised that her Immaculate Heart will triumph―then there is nothing for the complacent Catholic to do except sit on bleachers (grandstand seats) and happily watch the spectacle. The complacent Catholic forgets to “Fight the good fight of Faith” (1 Timothy 6:12) because “the Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent bear it away” (Matthew 11:12). Forgetting too that Sister Lucia of Fatima said: “the devil is engaging in a battle with the Virgin―a decisive battle. It is a final battle where one party will be victorious and the other will suffer defeat. So, from now on, we are either with God or we are with the Devil―there is no middle ground” (Sr. Lucia of Fatima to Fr. Fuentes, December 26th, 1957). There is no “middle-ground”―meaning there can be no spectators. Yes―Mary will win―but she needs fighters, as she said at La Salette: “I make an urgent appeal to the Earth! I call on the true disciples of the living God! I call on the true followers of Christ! I call on my children, the true faithful! I call on the Apostles of the Last Days! It is time they came out and filled the world with light! Go and reveal yourselves to be my cherished children! I am at your side and within you, provided that your Faith is the light which shines upon you in these unhappy days! May your zeal make you famished for the glory and the honor of Jesus Christ! Fight, children of light, you, the few who can see! For now is the time of all times, the end of all ends!” ► The Cocksure-Catholic is not short on courage, but is short of common sense. As the proverb says: “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread!” The courage of the cocksure Catholic is more often than not based on his or her own power, knowledge, skills and experience. They rely more on their human abilities than upon God’s help―which becomes secondary or superficial. They almost seem to say: “Hey, Lord! Why don’t you sit down and take a back seat! We don’t want you to get in the way or to get hurt! Leave this to us!” They either forget or ignore Our Lord’s words: “Without Me, you can do nothing!” (John 15:5). They boldly march into battle with their sword of pride, but having left behind their shield of humility. St. Peter shows this trait in Garden of Gethsemane, when, at the arrest of Jesus, he confidently draws out his sword―even though he is heavily outnumbered―and is ready to fight it out. Yet the cocksure Peter would later deny Christ three time before the cock would crow three times. “Jesus said to him: ‘Amen I say to thee, that in this night, before the cock crows twice, thou wilt deny me thrice!’ Peter said to Him: ‘Yea, though I should die with thee, I will not deny thee!” (Matthew 26:34-25). That cocky attitude would turn to humility at cockcrow. “And Peter remembered the word of Jesus which he had said: ‘Before the cock crow, thou wilt deny me thrice!’ And going forth, he wept bitterly!” (Matthew 26:75). In these current battles of Church and State, of nation with nation, of patriot with traitor―if we rely upon ourselves, our own knowledge, power, skill and experience―then, as in the case of Peter, it will all end in tears. ► The Conquering-Catholic is the humble Soldier of Christ, who knows that without the help of Heaven and grace―all will be lost. The conquering Catholics trusts in the words of God in Holy Scripture: “For whatsoever is born of God, overcometh the world! And this is the victory which overcometh the world―our Faith!” (1 John 5:4). “Fear them not―for the Lord your God will fight for you!” (Deuteronomy 3:22). “They shall be as mighty men, treading underfoot the mire of the ways in battle. And they shall fight because the Lord is with them” (Zacharias 10:5). “Put not your trust in princes” (Psalm 145:2). “Trust not thyself!” (Ecclesiasticus 7:28). “I will not trust in my bow; neither shall my sword save me!” (Psalm 43:7). “In God I have put my trust! I will not fear what flesh can do against me!” (Psalm 55:5). “In thee, O my God, I put my trust! Let me not be brought to shame!” (Psalm 24:2). The conquering Catholic will realize that in the many crises that surround us, “our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places” (Ephesians 6:12). “This kind can go out by nothing, but by prayer and fasting” (Mark 9:28). Realizing these things, the Conquering Catholic heartily takes up the cross of Christ to follow Him on the road to victory over self and the world―which is the Road of the Cross, or the Way of Cross, the narrow way, or narrow gate that leads to Heaven and triumph. “And Jesus said to all: ‘If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me!” (Luke 9:23). “And whosoever doth not carry his cross and come after Me, cannot be My disciple!” (Luke 14:27). “And he that taketh not up his cross, and followeth Me, is not worthy of Me!” (Matthew 10:38). The cross of Christ encompasses the fasting, the penances, the sacrifices and the proof of love that is required to overcome this world and reach Heaven. It is that cross of Christ that requires separation from the world and a renunciation of friendship with the world―for the world is an enemy to God: “My kingdom is not of this world ... My kingdom is not from hence!” (John 18:36). To the worldlings He says: “You are from beneath, I am from above. You are of this world, I am not of this world!” (John 8:23). To His followers He says: “If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, for I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you!” (John 15:19). “If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath hated Me before you!” (John 15:18). “The world hateth Me because I give testimony of it, that the works thereof are evil!” (John 7:7). “Lay not up to yourselves treasures on Earth, but lay up to yourselves treasures in Heaven. For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also … No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon!” (Matthew 6:19-24). “Adulterers! Know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh an enemy of God!” (James 4:4). “We have received not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit that is of God; that we may know the things that are given us from God! … Use this world, as if [you] used it not: for the fashion of this world passeth away!” (1 Corinthians 2:12; 7:31). “Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him!” (1 John 2:15). “Bear not the yoke with unbelievers! What fellowship hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath the faithful with the unbeliever? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God! As God saith: ‘I will dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people!’ Wherefore, ‘Go out from among them, and be ye separate!’ saith the Lord” (2 Corinthians 6:14-17). Christ came into the world to save the world from the world. He has compassion on the world: “For God so loved the world, as to give His only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in Him, may not perish, but may have life everlasting. For God sent not His Son into the world, to judge the world, but that the world may be saved by Him” (John 3:16-17). “Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:4). “I came not to judge the world, but to save the world” (John 12:47), so that “all the world may be made subject to God” (Romans 3:19). Yet, even though Christ had compassion for the world, He did not have compassion for the spirit of worldliness. He came to extract us from the world, not to cement us in the world. “This is the judgment―because the light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil” (John 3:19). “Jesus spoke to them, saying: ‘I am the light of the world! He that followeth Me, walketh not in darkness!’” (John 8:12). “He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not … He came unto His own, and His own received Him not … the light shone in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it” (John 1:5-11). God loved the world, but the world hated God and preferred evil pleasures: “The world cannot hate you; but Me it hateth: because I give testimony of it, that the works thereof are evil” (John 7:7). “If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath hated Me before you … If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you” (John 15:19). “Blessed are they that suffer persecution for the sake of justice―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!” (Matthew 5:10-12). The Conquering Catholic feeds upon such words of Holy Scripture, knowing full well that “Not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4) and finds his weapons in those words of God, since “the word of God is living and effectual, and more piercing than any two-edged sword” (Hebrews 4:12), therefore “take unto you the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit―which is the word of God” (Ephesians 6:17). “And out of his mouth proceedeth a sharp two-edged sword―so that with it he may strike the nations” (Apocalypse 19:15). The world is a lying world, an untruthful world, a fake world―just like its prince, the devil, the father of lies. The Conquering Catholic goes into battle against the world armed with words and truths of Christ ringing in his ears: “Be not afraid of them who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will show you whom you shall fear! Fear ye Him, Who, after He hath killed, hath power to cast into Hell. Yea, I say to you, fear Him!” (Luke 12:4-5). “Without Me, you can do nothing! … Teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you … He that heareth you, heareth Me; and he that despiseth you, despiseth Me; and he that despiseth Me, despiseth Him that sent Me” (John 15:5; Matthew 28:19-20; Luke 10:16). “Follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doth good, is of God! He that doth evil, hath not seen God” (3 John 1:11). “Hating that which is evil, cleaving to that which is good … Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil by good!” (Romans 12:9, 21). “Let no man deceive you! He that doth justice, is just―even as Christ is just. He that committeth sin, is of the devil―for the devil sinneth from the beginning” (1 John 3:7-8). A Universal Lack of Suitable Candidates?
“Provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, in whom there is truth, and that hate avarice, and appoint of them rulers of thousands, and of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens” (Exodus 18:21).
“I desire that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for kings, and for all that are in high station” (1 Timothy 2:1-2). “The ancients therefore that are among you … feed the flock of God which is among you, taking care of it, not by constraint, but willingly, according to God―not for filthy lucre’s sake, but voluntarily. Neither as lording it over them” (1 Peter 5:1-3). Lord John Acton, (1834–1902) was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. He is perhaps best known for the remark, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men...”, which he made in a letter to an Anglican bishop. Politicians aspire to power, are elected to powerful positions and this power brings its own temptations ― especially if you are not in a state of sanctifying grace (and most of the world is not in a state of grace), which can then very easily lead you down the slippery slopes of corruption. On this point, it is well worth remembering the words of the recently deceased (2016) former chief-exorcist of Rome, Fr. Gabriele Amorth, on the topic of politicians and leaders in general (business and otherwise). Fr. Amorth said: “Satanism is spreading enormously! The loss of a sense of sin―that characterizes our era―helps Satan to act nearly undisturbed and, inducing man to sin, takes man progressively away from the love of God, weakens the consciences of men and women and leads them toward egoism, closing their hearts, lack of forgiveness, and doing everything for money, power, and sex. The smoke of Satan has entered everywhere. Everywhere! Satanism is on the increase. Today Satan rules the world. The masses no longer believe in God. And, yes, Satan is in the Vatican! The devil resides in the Vatican. I have no doubt about the fact that the demon tempts the authorities of the Church especially―just as he tempts every authority, those of politics and industry. Everybody is vulnerable to the work of Satan! Evil exists in politics, quite often in fact! The devil loves to take over business leaders and those who hold political office!” (Fr. Gabriele Amorth). Our Lady, in her revelations to the Venerable Mary of Agreda, adds: “The inestimable treasure of the virtue of divine Faith is hidden to those mortals who have only carnal and earthly eyes. How many men―whom the world has celebrated as great, powerful and wise―on account of the lack of light of Faith, have precipitated themselves from the darkness of their unbelief into most abominable sins, and thence into the eternal darkness of Hell! How many kingdoms and provinces, being blind themselves, follow these still more blind leaders until they together fall into the abyss of eternal pains, and they are followed by the bad Christians, who having received the grace and blessing of Faith, live as if they had it not in their hearts! … There are very few in the world in our days who use well the temporal riches and offer them to their God and Lord … Witness how cruel and avaricious human nature has become … Witness the nobility of the souls so degraded and abased in the service of vile greed of gold with all its evil powers. As if all things had been created for the individual use of the rich, they amass them to themselves and deprive the poor, and denying them even to God, Who created and preserves all things, and Who can give or take at will … Trusting in deceit and in the powerful of this world; those that are not moderate in their desires and greedily covet what is unnecessary for the sustenance of life; they anxiously cling to what they possess, fearing that it may be diminished … There are few who know how to use wealth properly and who can retain it without inordinate greed … It is most lamentable that while the rich might purchase eternal life with their possessions, they abuse them to draw upon themselves damnation!” It is not in vain that Our Lord twice repeated Himself on one occasion about the dangers of riches (and riches buy power): “Jesus said to His disciples: ‘Amen, I say to you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven! And again I say to you―It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven!” (Matthew 19:23-24). There are very few amongst the top politicians who are not rich. Riches and power seem to be the staple diet of most. Every year, members of US Congress are required to report on the value of their households’ income and assets. The data reveal that the lawmakers are a very rich bunch. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Democrat for California) has seen her wealth increase to nearly $115 million from $41 million in 2004. Sen. Mitt Romney (Republican for Utah), a former private equity executive, is worth an estimated $174 million. Two-term Representative Paul Mitchell (Republican for Michigan) saw the largest growth in wealth between 2017 and 2018. The former for-profit college executive’s average net worth skyrocketed from $101 million to nearly $180 million. Mitchell won’t seek reelection this November. Some longtime members of Congress watched their wealth rise to record levels in 2018. Representative Collin Peterson (Democrat for Minnesota) was worth an estimated $123,500 in 2008. The House Agriculture Committee chairman’s average net assets stood at $4.2 million as of his most recent financial disclosure. Representative Judy Chu (Democrat for California) was worth less than six figures in 2008. One decade later her estimated net worth sat at $7.1 million. Senator Roy Blunt (Republican for Missouri) increased his wealth from $602,000 to $10.7 million over the last decade. The median member of the US Congress was worth at least $1.1 million. That is more than 12 times greater than the net wealth of the median US household whom they represent and serve. Yet that doesn’t tell the whole story, since the chambers of congress are not equal in wealth terms. The median net worth of a senator was $3.2 million, versus $900,000 for members of the House of Representatives. These are conservative estimates. Congress members are not required to report on the value of their residence, though many do. And that doesn’t tell the whole story, since the chambers of congress are not equal in wealth terms. The median net worth of a senator was $3.2 million, versus $900,000 for members of the House of Representatives. In a recent public survey, 53% of voters believe political corruption is a crisis in the United States, while another 36% believe it is a significant problem but not a crisis. That is very consistent with other ScottRasmussen.com polling data showing that 87% of voters nationwide believe corruption is widespread in the federal government. Majorities of voters believe there is also corruption in state (70%) and local (57%) government. The belief that the USA has a political corruption crisis is shared by 53% of women, 52% of men, 51% of white voters, 55% of black and Hispanic voters, 54% of rural voters, 53% of suburban voters and 52% of urban voters. This is truly an issue that cuts across partisan and demographic lines. Recognition of political corruption as the nation's biggest crisis shouldn't be much of a surprise, considering the ongoing political debates. On one side, many voters believe that President Donald Trump was elected to clean up the swamp. On the other side, many believe the president is more corrupt than other politicians. But the perception of political corruption as a crisis goes deeper than attitudes about the president: ● A majority of voters (54%) believe it's likely that their own representative in Congress trades votes for cash. ● Just 23% believe their own representative is the best person for the job. ● Two-thirds of voters (67%) believe that big businesses and government regulators often work together to create rules that are harmful and unfair to consumers. ● An overwhelming majority of voters -- 82% -- believe that the top leaders of federal regulatory agencies often use their position to pursue their own personal agenda and impose their standards on the rest of the nation. ● At the federal level, just 21% believe that government contracts are generally issued to the best company for the job. ● 79% believe contracts are awarded to the firms with the best contacts in government. Put it all together and you have a situation where voters find little hope and much cynicism in the political process. In fact, the system is so broken that 27% of voters don't think anything would be all that different if Hillary Clinton had won the presidential election in 2016. Get Involved in Politics in an Easy Strange Way?
Puppets and Puppet Masters
It is often said that politicians―especially those at the top end of the political ladder―are merely puppets who are controlled by the unseen puppet-masters behind the scenes, the money-men, the elite, or, as some call them “Deep State” or “The Swamp”―but “Deep State” or “The Swamp” is itself in the hands of higher powers. This is the hallmark, trademark, preferred tactic of Satan himself―proud though he is, he prefers to work behind the scenes, subtly, craftily, quietly, allowing the glory of his successes to be given to his human stooges or instruments. Perhaps “puppet-masters” is an appropriate term―for politics is merely a stage, a circus, a game, a distraction that allows those “pulling-the-strings” to quietly, hiddenly, subtly, craftily work behind the scenes of the “smoke-and-mirrors” political stage that they have created and control. Talking of “control”―it seems that never before have been more controllable and malleable that in the present “dumbed-down” era. A Nation of Idiots A Chicago Tribune article, entitled “Political Circus Embarrassing, Not Entertaining” from October 4th, 2018, states: “America by and large is full of idiots ... boring, pathetic … fat, dumb people, who have no interests except McDonald's and malls … Many of the cable news networks air the same tired, yet successful formula―give viewers 10% of actual news followed by 90% of pontification from a peanut gallery of self-described experts ... Too many national media outlets focus on the opinions on the latest scandal. And we keep getting stabbed in the eye by our political leaders with help from national media … To the rest of the world, we must appear to be, yes, a nation full of idiots. Deep down, we know this to be true. Yet we don't do anything about it. It’s an embarrassment!” You could almost call politics as an extension of Hollywood. It claims that it is “a government of the people, by the people and for the people” ― but you would have to say it more of a “theater of people to fool the people” ― a “front”, a “distraction” that is meant to make people focus on the wrong things, secondary things, while they are being pick-pocketed of the rights and freedoms. This is the “magical” world of politics, which follows the stage or theatrical “magician’s” principles of deception. Magically Fooled In theatrical magic, misdirection is a form of deception in which the performer draws audience attention to one thing to distract it from another. Managing audience attention is the aim of all theater, and the foremost requirement of all magic acts. In magic, the performer and the audience share an understanding―feats that appear to be real are actually optical illusions. When executed properly, all magic, deceives observers, tricking them into believing what they see. Magicians pull this off using the art of misdirection. Misdirection—or direction, as some magicians prefer to call it—is the subtle, deceptive art of directing an audience’s attention towards one thing (a magical effect) so it does not notice another (the method or mechanics of a trick). It can refer to both the effect of a spectator’s mind being focused on an unimportant thing, or the action that causes it. Magicians misdirect audience attention in two basic ways. One leads the audience to look away for a fleeting moment, so that they don’t detect some sleight-of-hand or move. The other approach re-frames the audience’s perception, distracting them into thinking that an extraneous factor has much to do with the accomplishment of the feat (trick), when it really has no bearing on the effect at all. The true skill of the magician is in the skill he exhibits in influencing the spectator’s mind. “Misdirection has nothing to do with distraction. It has everything to do with controlling audience attention, at all times” (Gary Kurtz, magician). “Not only shouldn’t they see anything, they shouldn’t suspect anything” (Erdnase, magician). “As a magician, you must learn how magicians use misdirection to make sure your spectators don’t see the things you do not want them to see. It’s not about hiding moves. It’s not about turning your back while you do a suspicious half pass; it’s about controlling audience attention so that when you are going to make a move, the audience is not only focused somewhere else, but they don’t even suspect you are doing anything. It is about making sure that suspicion doesn’t even cross your spectator’s mind” (Merchant of Magic). You would imagine that magicians would make the best politicians! In The Encyclopedia of Magic and Magicians, author T.A. Waters writes that “Misdirection is the cornerstone of nearly all successful magic; without it, even the most skilled Sleight of Hand or mechanical device is unlikely to create an illusion of real magic.” Misdirection uses the limits of the human mind to give the wrong picture and memory. The mind of a typical audience member can only concentrate on one thing at a time. The magician uses this to manipulate the audience's ideas, or, perceptions of sensory input, leading them to false conclusions. As one magician, Tommy Wonder, says: “When a great magician uses misdirection correctly, the audience doesn’t FEEL distracted at all. Quite opposite, they would swear they’ve been staring at the magician’s hands the entire time—and that they’ve NEVER looked away. That’s what misdirection is all about. We want our spectators to believe that THEY are in control of their attention. In reality, we choose where they look, and what they see, at every moment.” In the book, The Secret Art of Magic, authors Eric Evans and Nowlin Craver state that magic is directly related to warfare, and relies on the same principles for success. They reference the Ancient Chinese military strategist, Sun Tzu’s book, Art of War, to show how deception is essential to any successful campaign. Craver goes on to illustrate, through the 36 strategies, how they form a blueprint for every known method of misdirection. In World War II, British military intelligence employed stage magician Jasper Maskelyne to help devise various forms of misdirection such as ruses, deception, and camouflage. Take, for example, the Trump impeachment fiasco ― it was merely the latest in a never-ending series of distractions, distortions, and political theater aimed at diverting the public’s attention from the sinister advances of the American Police State. That has been succeeded by the latest movie: “Coronavirus Plannedemic” or “Covid-19 and the Masked Men”, also known as “SARS-CoV2” which you say stands for “Stupid Abysmal Reasoning Skills Conned Over Virus Too!” Dumb, Distracted and Deceived Dumbed-down, entertainment stuffed, media-drunk, internet-infested, couch-potato Christian soldiers of Christ have allowed themselves to be distracted, diverted or mesmerized by the cheap theater tricks. These “Hollywood” made spectacles are Shakespearean in their scope. The wall-to-wall media coverage full of sound, fury and fear―stirs the emotions, fools the mind, but signifies little or nothing in comparison to the things they are distracting you from―the more important and more sinister things that are being planned behind the scenes. We’ve been losing our freedoms so incrementally for so long—sold to us in the name of national security and global peace, maintained by way of martial law disguised as law and order, and enforced by a standing army of militarized police and a political elite determined to maintain their powers at all costs—that it’s hard to pinpoint exactly when it all started going downhill, but we’re certainly on that downward trajectory now, and things are moving fast. The Republic has fallen. The “Deep State’s” plot to take over America has succeeded in all but the final icing on the cake. The cake is cooked. The American system of representative government has been overthrown by a profit-driven, militaristic, corporate oligarchy bent on total control and global domination through the imposition of martial law here at home and by fomenting wars abroad. Even now, we are being pushed and prodded towards a civil war, not because the American people are so divided but because that’s how corrupt governments control a populace (i.e., divide and conquer). Can Catholicism Penetrate Politics?
Catholicism in politics? Are you mad? That is “mission impossible”! Such would be the initial and understandable reaction of anyone faced with the dilemma of influencing politics with Catholic principles. But why is this so? If God is the Creator of each individual soul that walks this planet―regardless of creed, race or social standing―then why would God not want everyone whom He made to follow His laws and principles? That would only seem logical. “There is one lawgiver and judge, that is able to destroy and to deliver” (James 4:12). “For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king!” (Isaias 33:22). Which is why Holy Scripture commands: “Obey God rather than men!” (Acts 5:29).
While we might believe in the governmental system of a Constitutional Republic, we do not think the government is our ultimate lawgiver, judge, ruler and savior. God alone is the supreme justice, the ultimate lawgiver, and the most righteous king―and Christ is God. He alone is the savior of the universe! “Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under Heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). “For there is one God, and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Timothy 2:5). “God also hath exalted Him, and hath given Him a Name which is above all names, that in the Name of Jesus every knee should bow―of those that are in Heaven, on Earth, and under the Earth! And that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11). “For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written: ‘As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God!’ Therefore every one of us shall render account to God for himself!” (Romans 14:10-12). That is the theory―but what is happening in practice? Unfortunately Holy Scripture gives us the answer in two different psalms, both of which essentially say the same thing―man does not care “two hoots” about what God thinks: “The Lord hath looked down from Heaven upon the children of men―to see if there be any that understand and seek God. They are all gone aside! They are become unprofitable together! There is none that doth good―no, not one! Their throat is an open sepulcher! With their tongues they acted deceitfully! The poison of asps is under their lips! Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness! Their feet are swift to shed blood! Destruction and unhappiness in their ways and the way of peace they have not known! There is no fear of God before their eyes! They have not called upon the Lord! There have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear!” (Psalm 13:2-5). Psalm 52 says much the same: “God looked down from Heaven on the children of men―to see if there were any that did understand, or did seek God. All have gone aside! They are become unprofitable together! There is none that doth good―no, not one! Shall not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up My people as they eat bread? They have not called upon God! There have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear! For God hath scattered the bones of them that please men―they have been confounded, because God hath despised them!” (Psalm 52:3-6). Why does this happen? It happens because earthly rulers make up their minds to divorce themselves from God in what suits and pleases them―making their own laws that contradict or overturn God’s laws: “The kings of the Earth stood up, and the princes met together, against the Lord and against His Christ, [saying]: ‘Let us break Their bonds asunder and let us cast away Their yoke from us!’” (Psalm 2:2-3). The bottom line is that most of the world has voted God out of politics and condemned Him to the closet of Sunday religion. The world has more or less divorced God―even Catholics―whereby they might “worship” God on Sunday, but then they will live pagans from Monday to Saturday. This is true of the spiritual life, social life, cultural life and politics. Everyone can a have a god in their closet―but other than that, no god is invited to the “party.” God is not indifferent to the politics of man―God wants to be at the heart of man’s politics. In a certain sense, that is how God “set things up” in the first place for both angels and men. Yet Lucifer caused the first separation between Church (God) and State (the angels) with his infamous cry of “Non serviam!” ― meaning, “I will not serve!” and a third of the angels followed Lucifer in this separation of Church (God) and State (the angels). The “separation virus” was born and Lucifer next infected Eve, by encouraging her to separate herself from God’s commands and laws―thus achieving a separation of “Church and State” by causing a division between God and man. Lucifer achieved this by seducing Eve with the idea that she and Adam could be like gods unto themselves: “Your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods―knowing good and evil!” (Genesis 3:5) ― an offer Eve found too hard to resist. Lucifer played on Eve’s pride and used that pride to separate her from God through disobedience. She separated herself from God’s law, ate the forbidden fruit, and caught the “non serviam virus”, which she then passed on to Adam by getting him to disobey God also. Adam and Eve, having caught the “separation virus” or “non serviam virus”, then passed it on to their descendents ― we know the virus by the name of “Original Sin” ― which is essentially, as the Church teaches, a sin of pride and disobedience. This pride and disobedience currently oozes from the pores of politicians around the world―their pride leads them to despise the laws of God and they readily and willingly show disobedience to the laws of their Creator. They have lost their way and they are losing their souls―as well as dragging many souls with them into Hell, as the “sheeple” follow those Pied-Piper politicians into the pit. They are the “blind leaders” that Our Lord speaks of: “Leave them alone! They are blind, and leaders of the blind! And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the pit!” (Matthew 15:14). “O foolish people, and without understanding: who have eyes, and see not: and ears, and hear not!” (Jeremias 5:21). “Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a provoking house―who have eyes to see, and see not: and ears to hear, and hear not―for they are a provoking house!” (Ezechiel 12:2). “For the heart of this people is grown gross, and with their ears they have been dull of hearing, and their eyes they have shut―lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them!” (Matthew 13:15). Yet that is what God wishes to do―to heal and to save―despite the unprecedented sinfulness of the world. “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost” says Our Lord (Luke 19:10) … “I came not to call the just, but sinners to penance!” (Luke 5:32) … “Go then and learn what this meaneth: ‘I will have mercy and not sacrifice!’ For I am not come to call the just, but sinners!” (Matthew 9:13). We have an integral and important part to play in penetrating today’s “hearts of stone” and trying to give them a “heart of flesh” ― “I will give you a new heart, and put a new spirit within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh” (Ezechiel 36:26) ― and it through our prayers, penances and sacrifices that this can be obtained. This conversion of sinners is not a “freebie”, but has to be paid by prayer, penance and sacrifice―and lots of them. Sin is expensive and costly―therefore conversions are not cheap. It is not “mission impossible”― no matter how evil the world and politics is, for “where sin abounded, grace did more abound!” (Romans 5:20). The problem is that we are not seeking those graces of conversion nor are we paying for them ― even though Our Lady of Fatima asked for that payment, not even exempting young children from the task! She asked a 10-year-old (Lucia), an 8-year-old (Francisco) and a 7-year-old (Jacinta) to pray, sacrifice and suffer for sinners: “Are you willing to offer yourselves to God and bear all the sufferings He wills to send you, as an act of reparation for the conversion of sinners? … Then you are going to have much to suffer, but the grace of God will be your comfort.” We do not have to be in politics to be able to influence politics. It is the grace of God that influences the entire world―yet that grace is not cheap. We can change the world―but nobody, or very few, are willing to pay the price. Until we reconsider and change our minds, there will be no change in the fatal direction in which the world is being led by its politicians and politics. We have it in our power to do something―but we refuse to do so! In one sense, our guilt is as great if not greater, and our punishment will most likely be greater than that of these neo-pagans: “That servant who knew the will of his lord, and prepared not himself, and did not according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes!” (Luke 12:47). We have not been placed in this world to have fun and enjoy life as much as possible―we have been placed on Earth as Catholics to be the salt of the Earth, the light of the world, and the leaven that raises up the bread. “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing any more but to be cast out, and to be trodden on by men! You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle and hide it under a table, but put it upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house. So let your light shine before men!” (Matthew 5:13-16). Today―Christianity and Politics seem to be an explosive mixture. For most people, it is prudent and even desirable to keep Christianity out of politics. Such people are always quoting Holy Scripture as proof of their position, where Christ said: “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and to God, the things that are God’s!” (Matthew 22:21) and glue it onto another quote of Christ’s: “My kingdom is not of this world!” … My kingdom is not from hence!” (John 18:36) as well as the Scripture which says: “Let every soul be subject to higher powers: for there is no power but from God: and those that are, are ordained of God. Therefore he that resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God. And they that resist, purchase to themselves damnation. For princes are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil” (Romans 13:1-3) ― but what if those rulers, those princes, those higher powers are themselves evil or are proposing evil things, or even legislating evil things? What then? Obedience to authorities is fine and good―if they themselves require and command what is good. But that’s a far cry from the notion that whatever the government does is somehow automatically right, or replacements for God’s will, or irresistible in their power. Daniel rightly disobeys the political edict that he must bow down to the king. The Hebrew midwives are blessed by God for disobeying Pharaoh. Rahab is heralded as an example of faith in both Hebrews 11 and the book of James for her disobedience to the political authorities in Jericho. For Our Lord is equally clear on who is boss, when He says: “All power is given to me in Heaven and in Earth!” (Matthew 28:18) and when He tells Pontius Pilate: “Thou shouldst not have any power against Me, unless it were given thee from above” (John 19:11) ― which is echoed by St. Paul: “There is no power but from God” (Romans 13:1) ― with St. Peter adding: “We ought to obey God, rather than men!” (Acts 5:29) ―especially when those men propose evil or legislate for evil. “For we must ALL (not just believers) be manifested before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive according as he hath done, whether it be good or evil” (2 Corinthians 5:10). Though true Christians―not the false Christians who support abortion, divorce and remarriage, same-sex relations and marriage, contraception, LGBT and the rest―true Christians have become a minority, both socially and in politics. There is barely a politician anywhere who has not compromised on God’s laws and accepted and voted for legislation supporting sin. It is almost as though entering politics increases you chances of damnation a hundredfold or a thousandfold. It is such politics and such politicians that MUST be resisted by true Christians. Our Lord is clear on the matter: “He that is not with Me, is against Me: and he that gathereth not with Me, scattereth!” (Matthew 12:30). "But before all these things, they will lay their hands upon you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and into prisons, dragging you before kings and governors, for My Name’s sake. Lay it up therefore into your hearts, not to meditate before how you shall answer―for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to resist and speak against!” (Luke 21:12-15). “For they shall deliver you up to councils, and in the synagogues you shall be beaten, and you shall stand before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony unto them. And when they shall lead you and deliver you up, be not thoughtful beforehand what you shall speak; but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye. For it is not you that speak―but the Holy Ghost!” (Mark 13:9-11). “You shall be brought before governors, and before kings for My sake―for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. But when they shall deliver you up, take no thought how or what to speak―for it shall be given you in that hour what to speak. For it is not you that speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaketh in you!” (Matthew 10:18-20). There is no simple blueprint or rule that we can apply in all times and cases to get this exactly right. It is our ongoing task as Christians―being firstly citizens of God’s kingdom and only secondly citizens of earthly kingdoms―to live so as to give government its proper respect without seeing it as completely corrupt or evil on the one hand (as if God hasn’t ordained it) or treating it as completely infallible on the other (as if God has made government His infallible representative on Earth). When the government loses sight of God, loses Faith in God, opposes the laws of God―then, in God’s eyes, it becomes an enemy of God. Governments are not exempt from Christ’s command of “SEEK YE FIRST the kingdom of God and HIS justice!” (Luke 12:31), as well as “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind, and with thy whole strength. This is the greatest and the first commandment!” (Mark 12:30; Matthew 22:37-38). “If you love Me, keep My commandments … He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them; he it is that loveth Me … If anyone love Me, he will keep My word … He that loveth Me not, keepeth not My words … If you keep My commandments, you shall abide in My love … This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you” (John 14:15, 14:21-24; 15:10; 15:12). “Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him!” (1 John 2:15). “Know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh an enemy of God!” (James 4:4). “Bear not the yoke with unbelievers! What fellowship hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath the faithful with the unbeliever? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God! As God saith: ‘I will dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people!’ Wherefore, ‘Go out from among them, and be ye separate!’ saith the Lord” (2 Corinthians 6:14-17). “Our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places!” (Ephesians 6:12). “Be not conformed to this world” (Romans 12:2) … “That we be not condemned with this world!” (1 Corinthians 11:32). The problem is that most Catholics are well and truly integrated into the world―they are at home with the world, comfortable in the world, and loving the world! They have become enemies of God! In that role of enemies of God, they have no problem voting for and electing enemies of God into positions of power on the political stage! God help us! An Example of a Catholic Politician and President
In the early 1600s, Our Lady of Good Success, how appeared many times at the end of the 16th and during the 17th centuries, in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, prophesied the following: “In the 19th Century there will be a truly Catholic president, a man of character whom God Our Lord will give the palm of martyrdom on the square adjoining this Convent. He will consecrate the Republic to the Sacred Heart of My Most Holy Son, and this consecration will sustain the Catholic Religion in the years that will follow, which will be ill-fated ones for the Church.”
The man of whom Our Lady was speaking was to be Garcia Moreno of Ecuador in South America, who was President of Ecuador on two occasions (1861–1865 and 1869–1875) and, after being elected to a third term, was assassinated during his before he could start his third term as President of Ecuador. He is noted for his Conservatism, Catholic religious perspective and rivalry with Liberal strongman Eloy Alfaro. Under his administration, Ecuador became a leader in science and higher education within Latin America. In addition to the advances in education and science, he was noted for economically and agriculturally advancing the country, as well as for his staunch opposition to corruption, even giving his own salary to charity. Gabriel Garcia Moreno was born in 1821, the son of Gabriel García-Yangüas y Gómez de Tama, a Spanish nobleman, and María de las Mercedes Moreno y Morán de Butrón, a member of a wealthy aristocratic criollo family in Ecuador’s main port, Guayaquil. His father died when Garcia Moreno was a boy, leading his upbringing to his devoutly Catholic mother. This rearing instilled in the young Garcia Moreno a devout sense of Catholic piety which would influence his later political activity as well as his private life. Garcia Moreno studied theology and law in the University of Quito. Thinking he had a vocation to the priesthood, he received minor orders and the tonsure; but his closest friends and his own interests convinced him to pursue a secular career. Graduating in 1844, he was admitted to the bar. Starting his career as both lawyer and journalist (opposed to the Liberal government in power) he made little headway. In 1849, he embarked on a two-year visit to Europe to see first-hand the effects of the 1848 revolution. He returned home to find his country in the grip of strident anti-clericals (against the Church, priests and religious); he was elected a senator and joined the opposition to Liberalism and anti-clericalism. Although himself a monarchist (he would have liked to have seen a Spanish prince on the throne) he bowed to circumstances and allowed himself to be made president after a civil war, the year after his return to Ecuador from Europe―so great had his stint as a senator made his reputation. In 1861, his presidential position was confirmed in a popular election for a four-year term. His successor was deposed by the Liberals in 1867. But two years later he was reelected, and then again in 1875. During his period in office, he propelled his nation forward, all the while uniting him more closely to Catholicism. Ecuador After Independence The coming of independence to Latin America saw the formation of two parties in every country: Liberal and Conservative. Conservatives looked toward Europe, and particularly Spain, for social and political inspiration. They wished to retain the Catholic Church in the position which she had from the first settlement; furthermore, they wanted the great estates to remain like those of Europe—self-contained communities which, despite failing to make a great deal of money for their owners, did build social stability. The Liberals looked to the United States as a guide, wanted separation of Church and State, and wished to turn the great estates into money-making concerns, like factories. These two groups had clashed since independence. The Conservatives produced some notable leaders, like Mexico’s Agustín de Iturbide and Guatemala’s Rafael Carrera. As the 19th century progressed, both parties were faced with the impact of such inventions as the railroad. From 1845 to 1860 Ecuador was in a position of near anarchy, barely ruled by a series of fleeting regimes, mostly Liberal; it was from this precarious, nearly anarchistic situation which Garcia Moreno saved the country. Personally pious―he attended Mass daily, as well as visiting the Blessed Sacrament; he received Holy Communion every Sunday (a rare practice before Pope St. Pius X advocated frequent Communion) and was active member in a religious sodality―he made it one of the first duties of his government to promote and support Catholicism. Catholicism was the official religion of Ecuador, but, by the terms of a new Concordat, the State’s power over appointment of bishops (inherited from Spain) was eliminated at García Moreno’s insistence and the appointment of bishops was left exclusively in the hands of the Church. The 1869 constitution made Catholicism the religion of the State and required that both candidates and voters be Catholic. He was the only ruler in the world to protest the Pope’s loss of the Papal States, and two years later had the legislature consecrate Ecuador to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. One of his biographers writes that after this public consecration, he was marked for death by German Freemasons. García Moreno generated some animosity with his friendship toward the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). During a period of exile, he helped some displaced Jesuits from Germany find refuge in Ecuador. He had also advocated legislation which would outlaw secret societies. While the politics of his age were extremely convoluted and murky, that he was elected to a second term clearly indicates his popular appeal, both with the Catholic Church and with the masses. His vigorous support of universal literacy and education based on the French model was both controversial and bold. Economic Climate of Ecuador García Moreno came to the presidency of a country with an empty treasury and an enormous debt. To overcome this, he placed the government on stringent economy and abolished many positions, as well as cutting out the corruption which siphoned off tax money. As a result, he was able to provide Ecuadoreans with more for less. This improved the financial status of the country and attracted foreign investment. The army was reformed, with officers being sent to Prussia to study, and illiterate recruits taught basic skills. Houses of prostitution were closed, and hospitals opened in all the major towns. Railroads and national highways were built, the telegraph extended, and the postal and water systems improved. City streets were paved and local bandits suppressed. These public works projects were accomplished in part through the use of revenues obtained from the trabajo subsidario tax, a tax initially created to aid the funding of local works projects. The trabajo subsidario tax in many ways mirrored the colonial mita labor requirements demanded of Indians by Spaniards. The voluntary contributions law and trabajo subsidario tax, revived in 1854, required that every citizen contribute four days of unpaid work to the State yearly or its monetary equivalent to promote the nation’s public works projects. Like its mita precursor, the trabajo subsidario obligation fell most heavily on Ecuador’s indigenous populations since these groups were unable to pay to avoid labor. Estate-bound peons were able to find protection from these laws through the help of hacendado or essential paternal landlords. In 1862, in a somewhat contentious move, García Moreno demanded control of these revenues of this tax in order to direct funds towards his ambitions for major infrastructural reform. This created a great deal of local discontent, as this meant diverting funds from more locally based public works projects. Using these funds, García Moreno began his famous highway system project, contracting workers from the trabajo subsidario requirement to build these roads. Along with a variety of notable public works programs, García Moreno reformed the universities, established two polytechnic and agricultural colleges and a military school, and increased the number of primary schools from 200 to 500. The number of primary students grew from 8000 to 32,000. To staff the enormously expanded health-care and educational facilities, foreign religious were brought in. All of this was done while expanding the franchise and guaranteeing equal rights under the law to every Ecuadorean. Religious Climate of Ecuador Economic development, however, was only a part of Garcia Moreno’s plan for the new Ecuador; he above all sought to remake the nation into a shining example of a Catholic State. Garcia Moreno, while abroad, had witnessed the violence and chaos, as well as the uprooting of the Church’s spiritual authority, which revolutionary Liberalism brought in the Revolutions of 1848, As a result, he became further committed to Catholic principles. The new constitution Garcia Moreno drafted in 1861 increased presidential power to allow for this, and his 1862 concordat with the Church gave it more power over Ecuador it has ever had before or since. Catholicism, in a new 1869 constitution, was made the State religion as well as the only legal Faith. Garcia Moreno further strengthened the Church’s interests that same year by signing into effect legislation which outlawed secret societies such as the Freemasons, which those on the receiving end saw as a personal attack. Garcia Moreno, however, did not merely leave the Church alone but instead sought to reform the behavior of Ecuador’s clergy. Priests since colonial times, in spite of canon law, frequently had held wives and concubines on the side, and monks frequently were in disciplinary trouble for abandoning their vows and engaging in drunkenness. Garcia Moreno, therefore set into effect laws which enforced rigid monastic and clerical discipline. He further set the Church to work by turning education over to the Jesuits, who were well renowned for their work in the advance of the empirical sciences. Political Climate and Assassination The Liberals hated García Moreno, due to the authoritarian and ultraConservative nature of his rule, as well as the fact that he frequently used secret police to silence leftist dissent. In the minds of radicals, Garcia Moreno was a dictator, and the Liberals also were enraged that his policies remained after 1865 when friends of his were elected, and winning the presidency again in 1869. Meanwhile, other politicians, who previously had been free to exert their influence over government for their own personal gain, now were opposed by a man determined to stamp out all corruption within Ecuador. This opposition from the more radical left compelled Juan Montalvo to write the pamphlet La dictadura perpetua (The Perpetual Dictatorship), which inspired the movement to assassinate Garcia Moreno. Therefore, when he was elected a third time in 1875, it was considered to be his death warrant. He wrote immediately to Pope Pius IX asking for his blessing before inauguration day on August 30th: “I wish to obtain your blessing before that day, so that I may have the strength and light which I need so much in order to be unto the end a faithful son of our Redeemer, and a loyal and obedient servant of His Infallible Vicar. Now that the Masonic Lodges of the neighboring countries, instigated by Germany, are vomiting against me all sorts of atrocious insults and horrible calumnies, now that the Lodges are secretly arranging for my assassination, I have more need than ever of the divine protection so that I may live and die in defense of our holy religion and the beloved republic which I am called once more to rule.” García Moreno’s prediction was correct; he was assassinated in the steps of the National Palace in Quito, struck down with knives and revolvers, his last words being: “Dios no muere!” (“God does not die!”). Faustino Rayo assaulted him with several blows of a machete, while three or four others shot him with their revolvers. On August 5th, shortly before his assassination, a priest visited García Moreno and warned him, “You have been warned that your death was decreed by the Freemasons; but you have not been told when. I have just heard that the assassins are going to try and carry out their plot at once. For God’s sake, take your measures accordingly!” García Moreno replied that he had already received similar warnings and after calm reflection concluded that the only measure he could take was to prepare himself to appear before God. “It appears he was assassinated by members of a secret society,” observed a contemporary review of public events. Gabriel Garcia Moreno received Last Rites just before he died. Pope Pius IX declared that Gabriel Garcia Moreno “died a victim for the Faith and Christian Charity for his beloved country.” The Corruption of Politics and Politicians
Political corruption, otherwise known as government corruption, has been defined in numerous ways. Aristotle, the third-century Greek philosopher, defined it as the practice of leaders who rule with a view to their private advantage rather than the pursuit of the public interest. More recently, it has also been defined as behavior by government officials that violates publicly sanctioned moral standards. In the early twenty-first century the definition most commonly used among social scientists is that devised by Joseph S. Nye—the abuse of public office for personal enrichment. Such abuse occurs in many forms. The most common include bribery, extortion, embezzlement of government resources, violation of campaign laws, and electoral fraud.
Catholicism in Politics
Modern-day Catholicism has become much like any political system with its divided political parties agreeing on some things and disagreeing upon others. Our Lord’s desire when speaking to God the Father concerning the church, “that they may be one, as We also are one” (John 17:22) is far from being achieved. The current “political” state of the Church is not united but very divided―more than it has ever been in its 2000-year-old history.
Today, the vast majority of Catholics embrace Liberalism (which is a sin in itself) and an ever-increasing number as descending even further into the pit by morphing from Liberalism into Modernism. Add to that the stance of Traditionalists and Conservatives and the shades between them, including the Sedevacanstists, Sedeprivationists, and all their offshoot “Sedes.” Within all groups ― Traditionalism, Conservatism, Liberalism, Modernism, Sedevacantism, Sedeprivationism ― you have limitless shades of “-isms” that continue to splinter and splinter as each Catholic becomes their own “judge and jury” or “pope and curia”. At the moment, Christ’s desire “that they may be one, as We also are one” (John 17:22) is but a pipedream that is going to need hammering-out on the anvil of Heaven. This attitude of every man being his own pope or judge as to what is true and what is false, what is to be believed and what is to be disbelieved has fractured and splintered the ‘synapses’ of Catholic logic. Everyone can now hold their own truth―even if all our ‘truths’ seemingly contradict each other―we are nevertheless all “correct”. What is true for you may not be true for someone else―but you are both right! As a result of this “jellyfish” Catholicism―a Catholicism that lacks a backbone of objectivity and truth, preferring instead the ever-changing truth of subjectivity ― Catholics adhere to political parties which, each in their own sphere, preach sin and anti-Catholic teachings. It is predictable that if a Catholic identifies as a Republican, then he or she will likely disagree with every single position the U.S. Catholic (sadly Liberal and Modernist) bishops take on issues like poverty, social justice, immigration, health care, and gun violence. Similarly, if a Catholic identifies as a Democrat, then he or she will almost certainly disagree with Church teaching on issues like the legalization of abortion, physician-assisted suicide, and same-sex marriage. When positions advocated by the Church come into conflict with a person’s political party or ideology, it is the Church that loses every single time. They say that the United States of America is an ethnic melting pot, in which people from many nations are melted-down, mixed together, and remolded as citizens of the U.S. Similarly, you could say that Catholic doctrine has been melted-down, mixed together with politics and subjectivism, and remolded and presented as the New Catholic Teaching or Truth of the present modern-day neo-pagan, secular, religiously indifferent age that is paving the way for the New World Order. One of the root causes for the present ideological political mess is the much praised but greatly catastrophic so-called “Separation of Church and State” ― whereby the Church keeps out of the political sphere and does not interfere or tell the State what to do; and, on the other side of the fence, the State keeps out of the religious sphere and does not interfere or tell the Church what to do. However, we have seen, over decades, a gradual and increasing invasion of the Church by the State, especially in financial and legislative matters. For example, trying to command churches to bless same-sex marriages, forbidding churches and religious schools to discriminate against sinful LGBT persons seeking employment; laying down conditions for churches accepting State financial assistance, etc. It is no longer, as Our Lord said: “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and to God, the things that are God’s” (Matthew 22:21)―but now it is a case of “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and also give to Caesar the things of God that Caesar might want!” Caesar (the State) looks upon himself (itself) as being above God. And, as some have noted, most of today’s Americans are American first and Catholic second. This is clearly seen to be the case with some Catholic politicians―like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi―who are either entirely for abortion or two-faced about abortion: saying, like Biden, “I’m prepared to accept that at the moment of conception there’s human life and being, but I’m not prepared to say that to other God-fearing, non-God-fearing people that have a different view.” Though Senator Biden says: “Personally for me, Faith, it’s all about hope and purpose and strength, and for me, my religion is just an enormous sense of solace. I go to Mass and I say the Rosary. I find it to be incredibly comforting.” Yet Biden’s website also pledges him to “restore federal funding for Planned Parenthood.” In a 2019 article about Biden’s record on abortion, Biden’s press secretary, Jamal Brown, said that when Biden arrived in the Senate in 1973 he thought Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided, but now "firmly believes that Roe v. Wade is the law of the land and should not be overturned.” Maybe he also finds the murder of babies through abortion to be “an enormous sense of solace” and “incredibly comforting.” As regards the sinfulness of homosexuality and transgenderism, as vice president, Biden supported the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010, which repealed the prohibition on open service by gay, lesbian, and bisexual people in the U.S. military. In the Senate, Biden was an outspoken critic of congressional Republicans' efforts to prohibit same-sex marriage. In a May 2012 Meet the Press interview, Vice President said he was “absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don't see much of a distinction beyond that.” Biden supported the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in 2015, which held that same-sex couples have a federal constitutional right to marry. Biden issued a statement saying that the ruling reflected a principle that "all people should be treated with respect and dignity—and that all marriages, at their root, are defined by unconditional love.” In an event with the group Freedom to Marry, Biden described the decision as “the civil rights movement of our generation.” During his 2020 presidential campaign, Biden vowed to support legislation and action to prohibit discrimination against transgender people and to combat hate crimes targeting LGBT persons, including violence and harassment against transgender people. All of this is a clearly proven case of American and Politician first, but Catholic second. He is “absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women” regardless of what God thinks, what the Faith says, or what the damning consequences there are for such behavior and for those who promote and protect such behavior. John F. Kennedy was the only Catholic to be President of the United States. He won the presidency in one of the closest elections in American history—by a margin of 118,000 votes out of 69 million. More than a half century after his presidency, JFK remains the only Catholic to have held the highest office in the land. Yet even President Kennedy was a Liberal Catholic who had compromised his Faith―back in the days (early 1960s) when the Catholic Faith was much more Traditional and Conservative. Remember, Kennedy was brought up going to the Traditional Latin Mass―he never experienced the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council, nor the New Mass. Yet in the months leading up to the 1960 presidential election, the Democratic Senator Kennedy, who was constantly being hounded over the Catholic religion stigma that he carried, gave a press conference in Washington to the editors of all the leading newspapers, in which he clearly showed that he was American first and Catholic second. Senator Kennedy said: “I am not “trying to be the first Catholic President,” as some have written. I happen to believe I can serve my nation as President ― and I also happen to have been born a Catholic … What, then, is the so-called religious issue in American politics today? It is not, it seems to me, my actual religious convictions ― but a misunderstanding of what those convictions actually are ... I do not think that religion is the decisive issue in any state. I do not think it should be. I do not think it should be made to be … For the past months and years, I have answered almost daily inquiries from the press about the religious issue. Is the religious issue a legitimate issue in this campaign? There is only one legitimate question underlying all the rest: “Would you, as President of the United States, be responsive in any way to ecclesiastical pressures or obligations [of Faith] of any kind that might in any fashion influence or interfere with your conduct of that office in the national interest?” I have answered that question many times. My answer was ― and is “NO” ... The prospects of any President ever receiving for his signature, a bill providing foreign aid funds for birth control, are very remote indeed. It is hardly the major issue some have suggested. Nevertheless I have made it clear that I would neither veto, nor sign, such a bill on any basis―except what I considered to be the public interest, without regard to my private religious views … The President is not elected to be protector of the Faith ― or guardian of the public morals … I do not speak for the Catholic Church on issues of public policy ― and no one in that Church speaks for me … The Supreme Court has written that as public officials: “We are neither Jew, nor Gentile, neither Catholic, nor Agnostic. We owe equal attachment to the Constitution and are equally bound by our obligations whether we derive our citizenship from the earliest or latest immigrants to these shores .... for religion is outside the sphere of political government.”” Transfiguring or Transforming America
On this feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord―there comes to mind the need for a “Transfiguration of America”! Not having read the book and thus knowing nothing more about the book than its title―therefore not recommending the book other than for its catchy title―one has to admit the Liberal Democrat author of the book entitled “God’s Politics― Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It” seems to hit the nail squarely on the head! Neither political party seems to “get it” when it comes to God―despite the word “God” being liberally sprinkled throughout the Declaration of Independence, as a national motto and in patriotic songs. American politics (as well as world politics) might have God on their lips, but sadly not in their hearts. You can sing “God bless America” all you want, but Our Lord will say: “This people honoureth Me with their lips―but their heart is far from Me! And in vain do they worship Me, teaching doctrines and commandments of men!” (Matthew 15:8-9).
It seems as though God is God and Politics is Politics and “never the twain shall meet” ― a phrase that is used to suggest that two things are too different to coexist. Just as God says: “For My thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are exalted above the Earth, so are My ways exalted above your ways, and My thoughts above your thoughts!” (Isaias 55:8-9). Politics seems to reply in the same vein: “Our thoughts are no longer God’s thoughts and God’s ways are no longer our ways, saith politicians. For as the skyscraper towers above the street, so are our thoughts above God’s thoughts and our ways above God’s ways.” Political opinion and political talk―due to the misguided principle of separation of Church and State―has become the Las Vegas of Christianity—an environment in which our sin is excused. Hate is winked at; fear is perpetuated and strife is applauded. “Go wild, Christ-follower! This is the political arena―not the church! Your words have no consequences here! Jesus doesn’t live in Vegas!” Not only are ‘believers’ excused for their political indiscretions, but they are often applauded for committing them. Slander is explained away as righteous anger; winning arguments are esteemed higher than truthful ones (whether or not the “facts” align); and those who stir up dissension are given the pulpit to preach what the hell they want. Has the proverbially “penny dropped” yet? Has the “elevator finally reached the top floor”? Has someone or something finally turned-on the light-bulb in the darkness of your mind? Can you finally see, grasp, understand why Holy Scripture calls the world our “enemy”? “The Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things. The kings of the Earth stood up and the princes met together, against the Lord and against His Christ [saying]: ‘Let us break Their bonds asunder and let us cast away Their yoke from us!’” (Psalm 2:1-3). “Our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places!” (Ephesians 6:12). “What fellowship hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath the faithful with the unbeliever? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God! As God saith: ‘I will dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people!’ Wherefore, ‘Go out from among them, and be ye separate!’ saith the Lord” (2 Corinthians 6:14-17). “And Jesus said to them: ‘You are from beneath, I am from above! You are of this world, I am not of this world!” (John 8:23). “Adulterers! Know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh an enemy of God!” (James 4:4). “We have received not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit that is of God; that we may know the things that are given us from God! … Use this world, as if [you] used it not: for the fashion of this world passeth away!” (1 Corinthians 2:12; 7:31). “For we brought nothing into this world: and certainly we can carry nothing out!” (1 Timothy 6:7). “Keep yourself unspotted from this world!” (James 1:27). “Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him!” (1 John 2:15). “For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written: ‘I will catch the wise in their own craftiness!’” (1 Corinthians 3:19). “Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?” (1 Corinthians 1:20). Yet many say the Church should engage in the political process. Why would we do that? The political process is dirty and broken and far from God and Christ. Paranoia and vitriol are hardly attractive accessories for the Bride of Christ. The Christian is not meant to descend to the level of the world―but to elevate the world to the much higher level and ideals of Christianity. Rather than engage in the political process, Christians have a duty to elevate it. Like any other sin, we are called to stand above the partisan political dissension and demonstrate a better way of doing things. Should we have an opinion? Yes. Should we care about our country? Yes. Should we vote? Yes. But it’s time we talk politics in a way that models the teachings of Christ rather than mocks them. We need to transfigure politics and raise its low dirty level. The problem is that when there is little beauty around to be found―then ugliness starts to be thought of as being beautiful. You can eat unhealthy, lousy, chemical laden food for so long that you actually begin to prefer it to healthy, good God-made food―whereby the lab-grown meat is preferred to pasture-raised meat. Similarly, man-made truths, human opinions, man-made morals are preferred to God’s truth, God’s opinion and God’s morality. This constant feeding upon the―for the sake of using a nicer word―garbage that the world feeds us, results in the shocking situation where most Catholics now accept divorce, remarriage, contraception, abortion, same sex marriages and sexual relations, false religions through false ecumenism, and worldliness as a whole. We are no longer the “salt of the earth” nor the “light of the world”―with our taste for morality and light of Faith being ever increasingly diminished and extinguished. We have become the opposite of what Christ commanded: “You are the salt of the Earth. But if the salt lose its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing any more but to be cast out, and to be trodden on by men. You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house. So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in Heaven!” (Matthew 5:13-16). We are no longer “salty” Catholics, but “bland” Catholics―having lost the flavor and savor of Catholicism―we have become “GM―Genetically Modified” Catholics, loaded with “MSG―materialism, sensuality and greed”. Not only the non-Catholic world, but also the Catholic world needs a massive transfiguration, a gigantic transformation, an almost total overhaul and conversion. The problem is that going downhill is easier than going uphill―going downhill requires little or no effort, going uphill requires a lot of effort. God is on the mountain―not in valley or the pit. “In My holy mountain, in the high mountain of Israel, saith the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel serve Me!” (Ezechiel 20:40). “Great is the Lord, and exceedingly to be praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain” (Psalm 47:2). “Many people shall go, and say: Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us His ways, and we will walk in His paths!’” (Isaias 2:3). “And many nations shall come in haste, and say: ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and He will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in His paths” (Micheas 4:2). God will not accept the current state of the world with its increasingly godless politics―that keeps only a hypocritical fraction of God’s Law, while introducing as laws those blatant God-condemned sins such as divorce, remarriage, contraception, abortion, same sex marriages and sexual relations, false religions through false ecumenism, and worldliness as a whole. There will be a transfiguration and transformation―without any doubt. Yet there are two ways that it can happen―we can either choose to change on our own part; or God will force us to change on His part. That has been made abundantly clear by the terrible, frightening, brutal revelations of the sweet, loving, kind and merciful Mother of God―who clearly warned: “If my people do not wish to submit themselves, I am forced to let go of the hand of my Son! It is so heavy and weighs me down so much, that I can no longer keep hold of it! … Woe to the inhabitants of the Earth! God will strike in an unprecedented way. God will exhaust His wrath upon them, and no one will be able to escape so many afflictions together … Physical and moral agonies will be suffered. God will abandon mankind to itself and will send punishments which will follow one after the other. The society of men is on the eve of the most terrible scourges and of gravest events. Mankind must expect to be ruled with an iron rod and to drink from the chalice of the wrath of God!” (Our Lady of La Salette, 1846). Things had not changed by 1956, when Our Lady said to Blessed Elena Aiello: “People are offending God too much! If I were to show you all the sins committed on a single day, you would surely die of grief! These are grave times! The world is in total turmoil because it is in a worse condition than at the time of the deluge! All is hanging on a slender thread! When that thread shall snap, Divine Justice shall pounce upon the world and execute its dreadful, purging designs! All the nations shall be punished because sins, like a muddy river, are now covering all the Earth!” By 1973 things were no better, which prompted Our Lady of Akita to say: “Many men in this world afflict the Lord. I desire souls to console Him to soften the anger of the Heavenly Father. I wish, with my Son, for souls who will repair―by their suffering and their poverty―for the sinners and the ungrateful. Prayer, penance and courageous sacrifices can soften the Father’s anger. In order that the world might know His anger, the Heavenly Father is preparing to inflict a great chastisement on all mankind. As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one never seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. If sins increase in number and gravity, there will be no longer pardon for them.” Let us not kid ourselves about the “goodness” of today’s politics and politicians―Our Lady hits the final nail in the coffin of current politics when she reveals: ““From the end of the 19th century and especially in the 20th century, the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of morals, for Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects ... During this epoch the Church will find herself attacked by terrible assaults from the Masonic sect … These years, during which the evil sect of Masonry will take control of the civil government, will see a cruel persecution of all religious communities … All the civil governments will have one and the same plan, which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principle, to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism and vice of all kinds. They will abolish civil rights, as well as ecclesiastical rights. All order and all justice will be trampled underfoot and only homicides, hate, jealousy, lies and dissension will be seen, without love for country or family! … Masonry, which will then be in power, will enact iniquitous laws, making it easy for everyone to live in sin, encouraging the procreation of illegitimate children born without the blessing of the Church ... The spirit of impurity that will permeate the atmosphere during these times. Like a filthy ocean, it will run through the streets, squares and public places with an astonishing liberty. There will be almost no virgin souls in the world … Moreover, in these unhappy times, there will be unbridled luxury which, acting thus to snare the rest into sin, will conquer innumerable frivolous souls who will be lost. Innocence will almost no longer be found in children, nor modesty in women, and in this supreme moment of need of the Church, those who should speak will fall silent!” That is the result of present-day politics, present-day legislation, present-day culture―all of which ultimately comes back to the doors of those who rule and govern―all the way down from presidents and kings, the U.S. Congress with its Senate and House of Representatives, or the U.K. Parliament and House of Lords, down to local state governance, down to city governance and even priests in parishes, teachers in schools and parents in homes. With regard to most of these people, God would say today what He said of old: “The fool hath said in his heart: ‘There is no God!’ They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their ways! There is none that doth good―no, not one! The Lord hath looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there be any that understand and seek God. They are all gone aside! They are become unprofitable together! There is none that doth good―no, not one! Their throat is an open sepulcher―with their tongues they acted deceitfully; the poison of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood! Destruction and unhappiness in their ways: and the way of peace they have not known! There is no fear of God before their eyes” (Psalm 13:1-3). The whole world today―not just the 2020 U.S. Presidential candidates―need Divine intervention to pull both the U.S. and the world out of the deadly dive that they have entered. Most souls―led by the “Pied Piper” politicians are precipitously plummeting towards Hell―and as Our Lady of Akita says: “The thought of the loss of so many souls is the cause of my sadness. If sins increase in number and gravity, there will be no longer pardon for them!” (Our Lady of Akita, October 13th, 1973). If you think that one man is going to change the world―then go see a psychiatrist quickly! The only “one man” who can change the world is Jesus Christ―and He is currently not invited to the party! He can change the world gently or violently―the choice is ours. That is the chief choice we should be mulling over in our minds―and not the choice between Trump and Biden. Neither man is “of God” ― even though Biden claims to be Catholic (in theory, but not in practice) he supports abortion, while Trump holds up Bibles and speaks of God and partially talks against abortion, yet is ‘married’ to a ‘practicing’ Catholic. Biden has received criticism from the U.S. Catholic hierarchy over his abortion position, including the well-publicized 2008 decision by the bishop in Biden's native Scranton, Pennsylvania that he not be allowed to receive Holy Communion because of his abortion stance, and a South Carolina priest’s refusal last year to serve Biden communion. Last year, on April 25th, 2019, the National Catholic Register ran an article entitled: “2020 Candidate Joe Biden Identifies as Catholic, But Breaks With Church Teaching” in which it said: “Biden has grappled with reconciling his Catholic faith with his stances on issues like abortion and marriage that contradict central Church teachings … Biden was pro-life when he began his Senate career in 1973 … However, Biden changed his stance on the issue over his decades in Congress, saying initially that he supported abortion but was opposed to using taxpayer money to fund it … In 2015, Biden told America magazine that he accepted ‘on faith’ that human life begins at conception but that he was unwilling to impose that view on others. ‘I’m prepared to accept that at the moment of conception there’s human life and being,’ he said at the time, ‘but I’m not prepared to say that to other God-fearing, non-God-fearing people that have a different view.’” The Catholic News Agency in an article entitled: “Biden Touts Catholic Faith as Campaign Falters”, reported on February 19th, 2020, that “By 2012, in the vice presidential debate against then-Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Biden described himself as being personally pro-life, though he also expressed his support for legally protecting abortion … [while saying] ‘I go to Mass and I say the Rosary. I find it to be incredibly comforting,’ Biden said. ‘Personally, for me, Faith, it’s all about hope and purpose and strength, and for me, my religion is just an enormous sense of solace … he added ... Biden’s website also pledges him to ‘restore federal funding for Planned Parenthood.’” A Newsweek article put thing into perspective: “The Trump family has a complex relationship with religion. Donald and Melania Trump do not attend church regularly, but he has said he is a Christian. His faith has been questioned by critics who argue his policies, such as eliminating health insurance for the poor, do not represent the Bible's views on charity. Trump, who has been divorced twice and is known for using foul language, also faced controversy last year for not being able to cite his favorite Bible verse. ‘The Bible means a lot to me―but I don't want to get into specifics!’ he countered at the time.” Neither candidate has the qualifications or viewpoints that would get them elected as the “Holy Monarch” ― subservient to a Holy Pope ― whom God will use to restore godliness to a godless world. It is Christ and His Mother that we should be voting for and casting our ballots (or beads) for them many times a day! As Our Lady said: “Pray the Rosary every day in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary, because only she can help you.” (July 13th, 1917) ― which she again echoed at Akita in 1973, saying: “The only weapons which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by my Son. Each day recite the prayers of the Rosary … Pray very much the prayers of the Rosary! I alone am able still to save you from the calamities which approach!” As far as we know, Our Lady made no mention of Trump, Biden or any other politician in this world―though we stand to be corrected if anyone can up with contrary evidence. As usual, the political circus of elections will grab attention of Catholics―or the few that remain worthy of that name, as Our Lady of Good Success said of our times, that there would only be “small number of souls who, hidden, will preserve the treasure of the Faith and practice virtue”―diverting their attention away from the real election that is constantly taking place throughout the world (America included), in which the only two running candidates are God (Heaven’s Party) and Satan (World’s Party, also known as Hell’s Party). Until Catholics start casting their votes (Masses, prayers, penances) in that election―Godless America can keep singing “God Bless America”―but nothing is going to change. Will God Bless a Godless America?
Improbable as it is for snow to fall during August in the Northern Hemisphere, history tells of a snowfall that seemed impossible to the human mind. It happened in Rome, Italy, on August 5th, in the year 352, when a snowfall occurred during the hottest month of the year.
Usually, when one speaks of devotion to Our Lady under a particular title, there is a link to one of Mary’s qualities or virtues―such as Mother of Mercy, Comforter of the Afflicted, Mother of Good Counsel, etc., or it might in reference to the location of one of her apparitions―such as Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of La Salette, etc. The title of “Our Lady of the Snows” seems to be in contradiction to the above mentioned titles―yet it is one of the oldest devotions to Mary. There lived in the Eternal City a wealthy nobleman, John and his childless wife, who had been blessed with much of this world’s goods. They chose the Mother of God as the heir to their fortune―since they were childless―and, at the suggestion of Pope Liberius, prayed that she might make known to them how to do this by a particular sign. In answer, the Virgin Mother, during the night of August 5th, appeared to John and his wife and also to the Holy Father, Pope Liberius, directing them to build a church in her honor on the crown of the Esquiline Hill. And what would be the sign that John and his wife had requested? “Snow will cover the crest of the hill!” Our Lady replied. Snow rarely falls in Rome, but the flakes fell silently during that night, blanketing the peak of the historic hill. On that hot, sultry morning of August 5th, 352, the Esquiline Hill (one of the famous Seven Hills of Rome) was covered in white snow! During the morning the news quickly spread and crowds gathered to throng up the hill and behold the white miraculous splendor. The snow had fallen in a particular pattern―showing the outline of the future church. All the proclaimed this summer snowfall to be a miracle and a church to honor Our Lady was built on that snowy site―the Esquiline Hill. When it became known that the snow was a sign from Mary, the people spontaneously added another to her long list of titles, Our Lady of the Snows. So what has all this got to do with the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election? Well, let us not try to make a meal out of this! However, we can find some lessons that could well be learned and applied by the U.S. political system. Currently, most of America, like the rest of the world, is childless in a certain sense―for they are killing babies frequently through abortion. Worldwide, over 50 million babies are killed annually through abortion―and that is ONLY THE REPORTED NUMBER―the actual number is higher than that. In America, over the last 10 years, the numbers of babies killed by abortion fluctuates from the 600,000s into the 700,000s―the record numbers were during the 20-year span from 1978 to 1997, when over 1 million babies were killed each year in the USA. So, yes, America is a little like the childless couple in Rome who received the dream from Our Lady―for in the modern day “childless” America regularly had 1 million children less each year than they should have had. This “childless” phenomenon was increased and exacerbated by the contraceptive mentality―both in America and the world at large. This regular prevention of the conception of children made America and the world even more childless. Such a “childless” world and a “childless” America betrays a godless world and a godless America. Though there are many references to God in the political sphere― “God bless America” sings the American patriotic song written by Irving Berlin during World War I in 1918. “In God we trust” is the official motto of the United States of America and of the U.S. state of Florida―it was adopted by the U.S. Congress in 1956. The Declaration of Independence speaks of “a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence” while “appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions” also affirming that there are “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” ― which today they increasingly ignore, reject or even change. The Declaration of Independence goes on to speak of the people being “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights” ― which today are being severely curtailed or even removed. Another phrase, “All aspects of our lives, spiritual and political, are in God’s hands”, today sounds so hypocritical―because nothing could be further from the truth, because the Laws of God and counsels of Scripture are ignored, while the government of men usurp all control from God and introduce their own sinful laws to replace the Commandments, Laws and counsels of God. Our Lord’s words are very applicable in these godless days: “This people honoureth Me with their lips―but their heart is far from Me! And in vain do they worship Me, teaching doctrines and commandments of men!” (Matthew 15:8-9). The very defects or tyrannical characteristics that the Declaration of Independence condemned in the person of King George III of England, we now see the present day government doing what was condemned back then. The Declaration said of King George III: “He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation: ► For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us; ► For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states; ► For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world; ► For imposing taxes on us without our consent; ► For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury; ► For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses; ► For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies; ► For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments; ► For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.” Today many of those condemned policies are being practiced by America’s modern day government―and they have exceeded the tyranny on many points. You could not find a truer statement of the current state of world and American politics than these words of God from Holy Scripture: “The Lord hath looked down from Heaven upon the children of men, to see if there be any that understand and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good―no, not one! They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their ways! There is none that doth good―no, not one! Their throat is an open sepulcher! With their tongues they acted deceitfully―the poison of asps is under their lips! Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and unhappiness in their ways: and the way of peace they have not known! There is no fear of God before their eyes. They have not called upon the Lord! There have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear!” (Psalm 13:1-5). “The Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things. The kings of the Earth stood up, and the princes met together, against the Lord and against His Christ, [saying] ‘Let us break their bonds asunder! And let us cast away Their yoke from us!’ He that dwelleth in Heaven shall laugh at them; and the Lord shall deride them! Then shall He speak to them in His anger, and trouble them in His rage!” (Psalm 2:1-5). As Our Lady warned on several occasions: ““From the end of the 19th century and especially in the 20th century, the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of morals, for Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects ... During this epoch the Church will find herself attacked by terrible assaults from the Masonic sect … These years, during which the evil sect of Masonry will take control of the civil government, will see a cruel persecution of all religious communities … All the civil governments will have one and the same plan, which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principle, to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism and vice of all kinds. They will abolish civil rights, as well as ecclesiastical rights. All order and all justice will be trampled underfoot and only homicides, hate, jealousy, lies and dissension will be seen, without love for country or family ... They will focus particularly on the children, in order to achieve this general corruption. Woe to the children of these times!” It is for this reason that we must not place our primary trust in mere men―and corrupt men at that―but we must place our trust in God, with whom nothing is impossible. “Hope in the Name of the Lord, and lean upon God!” (Isaias 50:10). “Blessed is he who hath God for his helper, whose hope is in the Lord his God!” (Psalm 145:5). “God hath not forsaken them that hope in Him!” (Judith 13:17). “Our help is in the Name of the Lord―Who made Heaven and Earth!” (Psalm 123:8). “Our God is in Heaven―He hath done all things whatsoever He would” (Psalm 113:11). “In God is my salvation and my glory! He is the God of my help―and my hope is in God!” (Psalm 61:8). “It is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God!” (Psalm 72:28). “Put not your trust in princes [human actions and human interventions] (Psalm 145:2). “Some trust in chariots, and some in horses―but we will call upon the Name of the Lord our God!” (Psalms 19:8). “I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me!” (Psalm 43:7). “He that holdeth the bow shall not stand; and the swift of foot shall not escape; neither shall the rider of the horse save his life!” (Amos 2:15). “It is good to trust in the Lord, rather than to trust in princes! [presidents, politicians, money-men, etc.]” (Psalms 117:9). |
