OUR CATHOLIC BISHOPS FAILED TO GIVE US A HEADS-UP

Deep night has come down on this rough-spoken world
And the banners of darkness are boldly unfurled

The lyrics of a hymn I played at Mass this morning reminded me, unhappily, of our new Government. How many Catholics voted for Labour and Jacinda Ardern? 

When they voted, did they know that:

·         Jacinda Ardern is on record as opposing the principle of marriage defined as between one man and one woman.

·         She supports adoption by homosexuals.

·         She supports decriminalisation of abortion, which would mean partial-birth abortions, as in Victoria. She believes abortion should not be a crime because it’s a ‘health service’. As Ken Orr of Right to Life NZ has said, this would lead to ‘further exploitation, coercion and abandonment of women’.

·         She supports the legalisation of euthanasia – administering lethal injections to the elderly, the terminally or mentally ill, or helping them to kill themselves.

·         She opposes the decriminalisation of non-abusive smacking and worse, she opposes parental notification of teenage pregnancies.

·         She opposes a ban on street prostitution. 

Jacinda Ardern is without doubt well-intentioned, but we know where good intentions lead us: to Hell – that place described so graphically by Jesus Christ but now denied by the ‘Church of Nice’.

With their anodyne election statement the Catholic bishops failed to give us a heads-up on this thoroughly sinister and anti-Christ agenda. They must now face reality and speak out against the consequences which are only too likely to follow.

And the tempest-tossed Church - all her eyes are on thee,
They look to thy shining, sweet star of the sea.

Mary, Mother of God, pray for us. May God defend New Zealand.