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At the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) 2021 Fall General Assembly held in Baltimore,  November 15–18, they were due to consider the application of Canon 915 of the (1983) Code of Canon Law which says: “Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty, and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin, are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.” Prior to the Bishops’ Assembly, the American Cardinal Raymond Burke made a Declaration, the main points of which are summarised here below;

“The Bishops will address the long-term and gravely scandalous situation of Catholic politicians who persist in supporting and advancing policies such as abortion in grievous violation of the most fundamental precepts of the moral law, while, at the same time, claiming to be devout Catholics, especially by presenting themselves to receive Holy Communion. This is a critical matter – a matter of life and death for the unborn, and of eternal salvation for the Catholic politicians involved.

There is a common refrain that what is needed is more “dialogue” with the Catholic politicians and legislators in question. However, the teaching of the natural law, which necessarily is also the teaching of the Church, is beyond discussion. The practice of abortion is a most grievous violation of the first precept of the natural law, which safeguards the inviolability of innocent and defenceless human life. There is nothing about which to dialogue. The subject of dialogue must be how best to prevent such an evil in society. Such prevention can never involve the actual promotion of the evil.

Pastoral action taken against politicians has nothing to do with “interfering in politics.” It is directed to the safeguarding of the sanctity of the Holy Eucharist and to the salvation of the souls of the Catholic politicians in question and to the prevention of the serious scandal caused by them. They are not only sinning gravely against the Fifth Commandment but they are also committing sacrilege by receiving unworthily Holy Communion.

The grave scandal caused by such Catholic politicians has contributed in a significant way to the consolidation of a culture of death in the United States, where procured abortion is simply a fact of daily life. The Catholic Church’s witness to the beauty and goodness of human life, from its first moment of existence, and the truth of its inviolability, has been grievously compromised. The USCCB had previously discussed the issue in June 2004. Some of the most influential Bishops desired to avoid any intervention with Catholic politicians who, according to the discipline of Canon 915, should not be admitted to receiving Holy Communion. The matter was remanded to a Task Force on Catholic Bishops and Catholic Politicians under the chairmanship of the then Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. With time, the Task Force was forgotten, and the critical issue was left unaddressed by the Conference of Bishops.

While the true Church of Christ is totally opposed to the attack on innocent and defenceless human life, the Catholic Church in the United States seems to accept the abhorrent practice, in accord with a totally secularized view of human life and sexuality. Pray for the Church in the United States and in every nation, that it will be uncompromising in applying Canon 915 and that it will defend the sanctity of the Holy Eucharist, and safeguard Catholic politicians’ souls, because if they support abortion and still present themselves to receive Holy Communion, then they commit sacrilege and serious scandal.”

Catholic Politicians and Non-Admittance to Holy Communion

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The Old Testament is a store of treasures, because every one of its 46 Books is, by definition of the Council of Trent, the Word of God. To define the relationship between the Old and New Testaments, it has been well said that the New lies hidden within the Old, while the Old comes clearly into view in the New. Thus there is no contradiction between the two Testaments, nor between the God of the Old and the God of the New Testaments (as some people are tempted to think), nor between the doctrine of the Old and the New, but the Old is simply fulfilled in the New.

Therefore the Old Testament can have much to give us in this crisis of the New Testament Church, approaching its close in human history with the end of the world. For indeed that end is not going to be without much human suffering of the innocent, which is the problem of suffering in its acutest form, and which is the central theme of the Old Testament’s 20^th Book, the Book of Job. These “Comments” will present in three separate issues Job’s problem, patience and solution respectively. Firstly the problem.

The problem is that Job is a wholly blameless and upright man, a very successful landowner with a large family of ten children and considerable property, with thousands of farm animals. Moreover he has a great piety and devotion to God. Yet he is going to be made to suffer intensely, without his knowing why. Firstly attacks from outside on his property and children deprive him entirely of both. But his only reaction is to bless God. In his own sublime words, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return, the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord.” But then, as though he is not suffering enough, he is attacked in his own person with loathsome sores from head to foot, so that he is reduced to scraping himself off with a fragment of pottery. His wife tempts him to seek relief in cursing God, but again he reacts with an exceptional piety: “Foolish woman, if we accept good from the hands of God, shall we not also receive evil?” – Let us remember this admirable example of Job and his noble words when the heavens come crashing around our ears in the next few years!

What Job had not known, but what the narrator of Job’s story had told us in those first two chapters of the Book, was that his appalling sufferings, apparently undeserved, had indeed come from God, from a kind of tussle between God and Satan, no less. When Satan had once appeared before God, God asked if he had ever seen such piety as in His servant Job. Satan responded that that was due to a special protection from God for Job, but if God would only stop protecting him, in suffering Job would curse God just like anyone else. God then gave Satan permission to make Job suffer in all his belongings but not in person. That was when Job had lost his family and all his property, but had said not a word against God. “You see?” said God, when Satan reappeared before Him. “Ah,” replied Satan, “but just let him suffer in his own person, and You will see him curse You.” God then gave permission to Satan to do his worst against the person of Job, but not to take his life, and that was when Job had been stricken with unbearable sores from head to foot, reducing him to a human wreck sitting on a heap of ashes, agonising over what he might have done to deserve such misery upon misery. The story continues with the patience of Job.

Meanwhile in our Covid misery, a first great piece of wisdom is to remember how all our lives are slung between two invisible powers in their tussle for our invisible souls, Satan striving with might and main to pull us down to Hell, and God doing all He can, short of taking away our free-will, to get us with Him for ever enjoying the beatific vision of Himself in Heaven. Almighty God could easily nullify all efforts of Satan, but then His Heaven would fill with robots, and that is not what He had ever meant to create Creation for. Then let us all read between the lines of the Covid nonsense, and recognise a just and loving God at work to get us to Heaven. Unlike Job, by our worldwide scorn for His very existence, we have deserved our worldwide nonsense.

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From the Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, living in hiding for fear of his life, comes yet another admirable declaration to say what every single serious churchman should be saying in order to defend and protect Our Lord’s own sheep from a gang of murderous wolves, now revelling in the effective paralysis of those who should be their shepherds. And if these “shepherds” actually believe in, and preach, compliance with the wolves, can they really not see the dictatorial power grab of these wolves? What blindness! Truly, “Only I can help you now” – Our Lady, in 1973! Here is the usual summary of the Archbishop’s clear and truthful words, as he spoke, no doubt by electronic means, to a protest meeting held in Turin on October 18 against the “Green Pass” being imposed to prove one has been inoculated –

The globalist elite have declared in no uncertain terms the society that they want to create. In the documents about the Agenda 2030 of the World Economic Forum we read: “I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better.” Private property, in the plan of the globalists, will have to be abolished and replaced by a universal income that allows people to buy only what the elite have decided to sell them. Agenda 2030 also includes electronic money, with the obligation to buy and sell with a card that is linked to the “Green Pass” and to social credit.

The health dictatorship and the now-imminent ecological dictatorship, effectively legitimize a system for evaluating our behaviour, such as is already in force in China. Each of us will have a certain score, and if someone is not vaccinated or eats too much meat, their points will be reduced, and they will no longer have access to specific goods and services. These tyrants want to deprive us of our very means of subsistence, forcing us to be what we do not want to be, to live as we do not wish to live, and to believe in things we consider to be a blasphemous heresy.

“You have to be inclusive,” they tell us; but they hurl themselves against us, discriminating against us because we want to remain sane, because we consider it normal that the family is composed of a man and a woman, because we want to preserve the innocence of our children, because we do not want to kill children in the womb or the elderly in their hospital beds. “We respect all cultures and religious traditions,” they specify; and it is indeed true that all of the idols and superstitions find a place in the ecumenical Pantheon of the new Universal Religion desired by Freemasonry and the Bergoglian church. But there is one religion that is banned: the true Religion that Our Lord taught to the Apostles, the Religion that the Church proposes to us for belief. The lie reigns, and there is no citizenship for the truth.

Nevertheless, our protest against the Green Pass must not stop at considering this specific event, however illegitimate and discriminatory, but it must expand to the overall picture. We must know how to identify the aims of the globalist ideology and those who are responsible for this crime against humanity and God. If we do not understand the threat that looms over us, limiting ourselves to protesting only one detail of the entire project, we will not be able to mount a strong and courageous resistance. 

However, we do have something globalists do not have. We have the Faith, the certainty of Our Lord’s promise: “The gates of hell will not prevail.”We invoke the Most Holy Virgin, the  Janua Coeli , the Gate of Heaven. May she who in the Book of the Apocalypse strikes the head of the ancient Serpent be our Queen and our Leader in battle, in view of the triumph of Her Immaculate Heart.

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Doug Casey on the Next “Crisis” the Global Elite Have Planned (internationalman.com)

Every year, the most influential world leaders come together at Davos in Switzerland, where they present the most visible element of our international ruling class. They overlap with many other groups who are pushing the same agenda, including Bilderberg, Council of Foreign Relations and Bohemian Grove. These people are all part of what we might call the “World Deep State.” They all know each other. They go to the same conferences and share the same world-view. They live in their own little silo, where the rest of the world’s 7.9 billion population are outsiders.

In 2019, well before the first case of COVID was reported, the World Economic Forum (WEF), which hosts the annual Davos conferences, held an event to discuss the possibility of a worldwide pandemic – Event 201. They ran a simulation exercise for how the Covid scenario could play out and how governments, large corporations, and the media should handle the situation. This elite has been planning the idea of a virus for years, and they may do various things with it. Pretending to be friends of mankind, they may justify their plan as a way to cleanse the gene pool, reducing world population by 80 or 90%. Or the vaccine may be used itself to kill many people after a while and to sterilize the rest. Or it may serve as a means for the vaccinated herd, the obedient 80%, to put the independent 20% into internment camps for the unvaccinated. Or the current virus may be just the first gambit, and after the Delta and Mu strains a genuinely serious Zeta “variant” will present itself.

In any case we now have genuinely crazy people in control of the apparatus of the state. They have exactly the same psychological and philosophical profile as the French (1789) or Russian (1917) Revolutionaries. They are not going to let go of power voluntarily. They are turning many countries into genuine police states. It is happening right before our eyes in Australia – the entire country is locked down. Masked at all times, people cannot go more than a couple of miles from their homes without suffering draconian penalties. No one can enter Australia, no one can leave!

Here in the USA, vaccine passports are on the way. In a recent speech of Biden, he made the unvaxed out to be a potential enemy – a domestic danger. With this COVID nonsense the elite are playing the health card. They are also playing the race card and domestic terror card. They are succeeding in delegitimizing American values and history, as well as masculinity in general and white males in particular. Next is due to come back the Global Warming scam. The “plebs” will not be allowed to do anything, and most will go along with it because they have been indoctrinated over several generations. The elite are doing everything in their power to ramp up fear. Fear for our health, fear of domestic terror, fear of the non-compliant, and fear of the climate destroying the planet. Fear is the most powerful tool governments have to control the people. They thrive on fear. Fear is the health of the modern State.

And so as we enter the trailing edge of the Greater Depression, things are similar to 1914 or 1939. However, World War 3 will not be about nuclear weapons or conventional armies. It will be primarily a cyber and biological war. The cyber war aspect will be huge because the entire world now runs on computers and is starting to run on Artificial Intelligence. Earlier this year, the WEF started to make a lot of noise about cyberattacks disrupting global supply chains. A cyber pandemic and a closing down of the Internet are a near certainty, because for the elite to get control, it is essential for them to stop the people organizing to challenge them, so they must stop them from communicating with one another.

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In last week’s issue of these “Comments,” a reader was commended for taking a properly supernatural view of the modern world’s frightening problems, namely, they constitute one overriding offence against Almighty God. That is why their full gravity cannot remotely be grasped on a purely human level. That is why for centuries purely human solutions have failed, one after another. If the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom (Ps. CX, 10), then atheism, the scorn of God, is suicidal folly. “The Lord is a jealous God and avenging, the Lord is avenging and wrathful; the Lord takes vengeance on His adversaries and keeps wrath for His enemies. The Lord is slow to anger and of great might, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty.” (Nahum, I, 2–3).

Read again our reader’s version of the problem, and now read his version of the solution –

All that said, I think recognizing this state of affairs also reveals the solution: A spiritual intensification, to obtain help from the only One Who can defeat our enemy (but Who is currently withholding it because His aid is not being solicited earnestly enough). It is reparation, penance, prayer, and supernatural acts of faith, hope, and charity which will win His help.

Likewise it will be Our Lady’s heel which will vanquish the devil and his New World Order, not just our human efforts. For us, the focus should be on fidelity and final perseverance in grace and faith, than which nothing more is necessary, or needed. As for the coming persecution in particular, a rather profound letter back in February from the Superior General of the Society of St Pius X, Fr. Davide Pagliarani, seemed to reveal the secret of perseverance amidst bloody persecution:

“Having been warned of this for a long time, we have to prepare ourselves for it, peacefully, by surrendering ourselves unreservedly into the hands of Divine Providence, and without desperately looking for a way out. Let us think back to the first century Christians, under the persecutions:  those who looked too closely at the persecutors, the instruments of torture or the wild beasts, and forgot the God of love calling them to join Him in Heaven, saw nothing but danger, pain and fear . . . and ended up apostatizing. They had no lack of clear information, but their faith was not strong enough, and it had not been sufficiently nourished by ardent prayer . . . ” ( https://​sspx.​org/​en/​publications/​letters/​feb-2021-letter-friends-and-benefactors-n%C2%B0–90–63853 )

That is to say, our gaze should remain on God, and not on the noose. If we pray ardently for fidelity, faith, and final perseverance, the good God who certainly desires that we should have these things will not fail to grant them. But it may very much be doubted whether He will bestow such gifts upon those who do not ask for them. 

The athletes of God are now in training for the contest to come.  

Escape is not in the cards.

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Such is the pressure of national and international events in the autumn of 2021 that readers of these “Comments” can be asking themselves, is there any other way forward for people living today than the way forward traced for them by the enemies of God, namely complete submission to the world dictatorship being established all around us by means of the universal “Covid inoculation,” amongst other brutalities. When Almighty God has allowed His enemies to go so far in dominating mankind in this life, what can He possibly have in mind for us who want not to abandon Him, but to get to Heaven in the next life? A reader of these “Comments” offers us in this issue and in the next a valuable view of the supernatural problem and solution respectively. We congratulate him. Read on –

On the worldwide scene, I think we are witnessing the unfurling of a plan so elaborate, detailed, and comprehensive, affecting every aspect of our social, political, spiritual/religious, professional and economic lives, that only an atheist could miss perceiving a superior angelic intelligence directing and inspiring it all. Because of that, unfortunately, I do not believe we will be able to think or manoeuvre our way out of the present chastisement. 

We will need to bleed our way out. 

The God “who is not mocked” is too offended. Unfortunately, there is so little repentance, conversion, and reparation, even amidst this chastisement, that it is all but guaranteed to intensify (i.e., God will continue to allow the devil to establish ever more his New World Order). If that much is true, then it is entirely reasonable to predict that the situation for true Catholics will deteriorate most of all, and not just because life will become harder for us, as we are forced to recuse ourselves more and more from civil society (being portrayed and viewed as “enemies of the (Godless) state,” and even “terrorists” who need to be rounded up for not being “vaccinated”), but also because we will be the only ones – precisely because we will have accepted the penance of not conforming – capable of making the reparation which God’s justice demands.  

Ultimately, I am concurring with Romano Amerio in  Iota Unum : A formless darkness is descending upon us from which there will be no escape, and which will make active resistance futile (at the natural level, but not at the supernatural level). But only lately do I begin to understand the essence of this darkness: It is the seeming incomprehension and deterioration of critical thinking skills, which makes polemics futile; it is a “diabolical disorientation” which makes any kind of confederation or united resistance impossible; it is a disfigured human nature – even in most who describe themselves as “Catholics” – which erects an obstacle to grace, preventing grace from taking effect in many souls, rendering us without supernatural assistance. For if grace builds upon nature, and nature is subverted by transhumanism, homosexuality, chemical DNA mutilation, etc., then grace can hardly penetrate. 

In short, the darkness is an intelligent attack.

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