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I don't want to rub anyone's noses in this, but just to set the record straight, that Covington Catholic kid who dared to smile at an old man drumming has been cleared of all charges of harassment and racism.
When print and social media around the world burst into flames over that incendiary photograph of his 'smirk', Nick Sandmann and his classmates - who were waiting at the Lincoln Memorial for their bus to take them home after the Pro-Life March - were promptly accused by their school and diocese of behavior "opposed to the Church's teachings", with a suggestion even of expulsion from school.
But someone was praying for those boys. As the facts began to emerge from the media mist of rage, Bishop Roger Foys had a rethink and ordered an independent third-party investigation, meanwhile apologizing on behalf of Covington Catholic High School and the Diocese for "allowing ourselves to be bullied and pressured."
And when the investigation revealed that the boys' reaction - to what was now recognized by the bishop to be a bizarre and even threatening situation - was, in the bishop's words, "expected" (que?) "and one might even say laudatory", no apology was forthcoming.
The good bishop, who may well be demoralized by the reports in the US of clerical sex abuse, claimed that "the immediate world-wide reaction to the initial video led almost everyone to believe our students had initiated the incident."
Well excuse me, but even here in the antipodes there were people who did not believe that, and said so. This boy's bishop should have been the first to defend him against the world's fury.
Even if he lacked the discernment to analyse Nick's smile and the forces ranged against the pro-life movement in general and its Catholic origin in particular, the principle of 'innocent until proved guilty' should have put school and bishop firmly on Nick's side. It beggars belief that as Christians, as Catholics, instead they hung him and his classmates out to dry.
And the story's not finished yet. The FBI is reported to be investigating threats of violence against the school.
Make no mistake: what's going on here is diabolical. Nick Sandmann is white, male and middle-class, a condition which now lends itself to charges of racism and harassment; but what really fired up the ladies of the liberal left, the Democrats - and their cohorts here in NZ (Jacinda, ALRANZ et al) was that Nick is a Catholic, and he was protesting against abortion, which is implacably opposed by the Catholic Church - dare I say, even by Pope Francis?
That's why Nick was accused of racism. It's the convenient pretext, the politically correct cause of the moment. Those school kids' chaperones said they were "targeted from the get-go".
As some commentator said recently, before they accuse you of being Catholic, they'll accuse you of racism. Well, I've been accused of racism already and I'm bracing myself for what's coming.
We know that homosexuality and cover-up scandals have the Church in a vice-like grip and that the Pope's choice to head the bishops' meeting this month to sort the problem includes Cardinal Cupich, who denies homosexuality is a problem and defended the indefensible former cardinal and since-laicized Theodore McCarrick. (An instance perhaps, of setting a thief to catch a thief?)
With the Catholic Church now discredited, distracted and in disarray, the forces of evil are going for the jugular.
When I say diabolical, I mean that literally, as demonstrated by the call this week US Democrat Senator Patty Murray for the legalization of infanticide. Aborted babies who are born alive, says Senator Murray and her ilk, should be left to die. New Zealand has a habit of following the US. Wait for infanticide, coming soon to a hospital near you.
Satan hates the Church, who always has been and always will be opposed to his culture of death, and especially he hates her Sacraments, with their potency for spiritual life. Through the practice of homosexuality he works to defeat humanity's potency for physical life, and by infecting the Catholic priesthood with this vice he defeats the priest's potency, through the Sacraments, for the life of grace.
Satan intends the homosexual and cover-up scandal to be his coup de grace, putting the Catholic Church out of its misery.
Catholics must have recourse to Mary, who together with the Church is symbolized in the Book of the Apocalypse as the woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
We must pray her Rosary every day. In the end, as she herself has promised, her Immaculate Heart will triumph.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.
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