PROMOTING PANIC, SELLING SAUSAGES, SAVING SOULS

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A Muslim butcher can open his shop to sell sausages, but a Catholic priest can't open his church to save souls. On Easter Sunday.

As of now, that seems to be the plight of our nation as plotted by this evil Government and connived at by the Catholic Church.

Seems that the halal butchers got to be reconsidered by our 'kind' Prime Minister because they put up a very strong case for being an "essential business".

But as Fr Francois Laisney SSPX has commented in one of his sermons live-streamed daily from St Anthony's Priory Whanganui, "To say that the Church is non-essential is against the Faith. The worship of God is the first duty of man. He describes the closure of churches as 'persecution'."

And remember that in this crazy country, abortion is 'an essential business'.

So how about it, dear bishops? What's the likelihood of making a very strong case for opening our churches as an essential business, saving people for eternal life, not just for this one which is just a blip in comparison - for the greatest festival of the Christian year?

Well, they say miracles do happen. Let's pray. Preferably in public spaces, like outside churches seeing we're not allowed in, with our rosary in hand and perhaps a candle - although the latter's not likely to stay alight in Palmy.

In contrast to the halal butchers, the Catholic Church remains mute, seemingly muzzled like an attack dog, not by her owner who is God Himself, but by fear.

"Fear is not in charity: but perfect charity casteth out fear, because fear hath pain. And he that feareth, is not perfected in charity" (1 Jn 4:18). That means, perfect love casts out human fear - fear of viruses, for example - but certainly not fear of God's judgments.

Which is why the NZ bishops' crackdown on public Masses is wrong twice over. They fear a virus which kills bodies but seem not to fear God's judgment on the preposterous proposal that His people not celebrate the Passion, Death and Resurrection of His Beloved Son. 

Was it also fear of upsetting the Government which induced them to crack down on public Masses - our best means of reparation and repentance - just two days after same Government authorised a holocaust of unborn babies?

They may fear upsetting Novus Ordo Catholics, aka the Church of Nice, who by and large are a bunch of conformists ('a Church of Sixes' according to people who know the Enneagram).

We must make an exception for Fr Joe Grayland, the brave priest at Our Lady of Lourdes, Palmerston North who popped out of his presbytery (illegally, going by his own bishops' mandate) to order a praying parishioner off the premises. 

Perhaps unfortunately for Fr Grayland, the parishioner was not a compliant NO Catholic but a Latin Mass adherent who is not so easily pushed around.

Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Kazakhstan says that "any priest, using discretion and following the necessary health precautions “has not to obey the directives of his bishop or the government to suspend Mass for the faithful.” 

Bishop Schneider described the COVID-19 pandemic as "a chastisement and a purification." 

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bishop-schneider-priests-dont-have-to-obey-bishops-govt-who-suspend-mass-over-covid-19?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com&utm_campaign=65cd172171-Catholic_3_31_2020&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_12387f0e3e-65cd172171-405142193

WOT??? What an extraordinary idea! We NO Catholics don't believe that, do we? For years, Sunday after Sunday, Father has told us that God doesn't punish. No wonder we Kiwis are "smiling zombies, lazy and smug", as Gordon MacLauchlan put it. But for Catholics who believe in God, Covid-19 proves otherwise. If you believe God exists, you must believe that God is either permitting Covid-19, or willing it as punishment.

And don't say, "What for?" For the four sins that cry out to God for vengeance, for a start:

• murder (e.g. abortion, which is legal in its most horrible manifestations particularly in New York which is the epicentre of the virus in the US - and in NZ legalised just two days before the bishops cancelled public Mass, and also in 'Catholic' countries like Italy and Spain)
• sodomy (promoted by the World Health Organisation's dissemination of LGBTQ propaganda) and freely practised by many priests and highly-placed prelates in the Catholic Church, notably within the Vatican
• oppression of the poor - rampant always; "The poor are always with us"(Mt 26:11) 
• depriving workers of their just wages (ditto)

Pope St Pius X stated that these sins "provoke God to the severest punishments". Evils like pestilence (e.g. Covid-19) are an effect of sin, either original or actual; all natural disasters including Covid-19 are attributable to God's displeasure and not, as Pope Francis in his latest outburst has stated, "to nature having a fit". (1)Neither are they, as Leonardo Boff, theologian, laicised priest and evident idolater claims, "a reprisal from Gaia" (the South American goddess, Earth) "for the offences we inflict on her".

Which brings me to idolatry in the Vatican, where Boff's chum Pope Francis looked on benignly as worshippers bowed down to the Amazonian goddess, Pachamama, desecrating the nearby tombs of martyrs and the Church of St Peter by placing her before the high altar, on October 4. 

The Pope broke the First Commandment. In St Peter's. Should we wonder why Covid-19 soon followed?  

Then there's the profanation of Holy Communion by allowing reception by divorced and 'remarried' Catholics, foisted on the Church through the back door of Amoris Laetitia.

"Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself" (1Cor 11,27-29) [6]. 

Quite apart from adulterous couples profaning the Most Holy Eucharist, think of the millions of Catholics worldwide who front up for Communion without the Sacrament of Confession, which is required for mortal sin, and which in NZ at least seems to be a thing of the past? And it's not only the communicant but the Minister of Communion who by canon law is held gravely responsible for this most serious sin.

Bishop Schneider points to the sinister implications in relation to Covid-19 for the verse following the one just cited: "Therefore are many weak and ill among you, and many have died" (ibid, 30).

Does that not send a chill up your spine, dear bishops? And yours, dear Ministers of Communion'?

On the other hand, St John Eudes observes that "the most evident mark of God's anger and the most terrible castigation he can inflict is when He permits His people to fall into the hands of clergy who are priests more in name than deed, who practise the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than charity and the affection of devoted shepherds." 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df6iIuaFmDA

Our shepherds are hidden away from this plague in their presbyteries; our chief Shepherd will evince his charity and affection from the safe 'social distance' of the Balcony of St Peter's.

Oh, but he's an old man so he's more vulnerable. Yes, most the clergy are old - and they're afraid of death? A holy old man - like one I know well, and like St Paul - longs to die and "be with the Lord, which is far better"(Phil 1:23).

"When God permits such things" (ravening wolves in shepherd's clothing), Bishop Schneider says, "He is thoroughly angry with His people and is visiting His most dreadful anger upon them. 

"We (the Church) have pushed God away, and so we also push His protection away. The devil is the prince of this world. God permits him to do harm only to bring good out of evil."

+Schneider reminds us that God is closest to us in suffering. He speaks of clandestine Masses, no doubt remembering his childhood in the Soviet Union where his family went 100 miles by train for Sunday Mass. He reminds priests, who are privileged to receive Communion, or the faithful who can receive only spiritually, to do so on behalf of all those who can't or won't or don't know now.

He reminds the 'God doesn't punish' brigade of non-believers that  God sent a plague on Israel (2 Sam 24, 15). 70,000 Israelites died because David had failed to trust in the Lord. Doesn't this tell us that God punishes people for the sins of the leaders they themselves have chosen? Transfer that story of God's justice to this day (God doesn't change) and who can say the sins of leaders like the Pope and our Prime Minister are not being visited on the world through Covid-19?

But the terrible irony is, the same leaders are asking for more punishment by blaming the Covid-19 fiasco not on the sin of sacrilege against God, but on sin against 'Mother Earth', which is idolatry (the Pope) and closing down the economy (Ardern).

"Do we know enough to justify the massive measures that violate human rights in our free democratic society?" asks Professor Doctor Sucharit Bhakdi of  Germany, who has devoted his life to researching the pathogenesis, diagnosis and therapy of infectious diseases. He says:

• there is no reason to panic
• it is essential to differentiate between infection and disease
• infection must not be equated with illness
• the danger of equating infection with illness  must be obvious as the daily record of infections is indeed exponential
• Infection cannot serve as the basis for projections on possible burden of medical care
• we need numbers of genuine Covid-19 cases to arrive at a sensible prediction
• implementation of draconian infringements on human rights can only be justified by an exceptionally dangerous virus
• There is no scientific evidence to support this contention for Covid-19
• Covid-19 does not differ in danger from its everyday relative
• Covid is more dangerous than everyday viruses but nothing points to it being much, much more dangerous
• it is not deadly, like SARS or MERS or like the flu virus two years back 
• two years ago there were 20,000 flu deaths in Germany but no stringent corrective measures were taken because the health system was adequate to cope
• if the virus has already spread to the general population, any attempts to halt its further spread are senseless
• the terrible world-wide error is, whenever Covid-19 is detected in a deceased it's automatically assigned as the cause of death and enters the awful list of corona-dead
• this violates a basic principle of medicine: it must be established that a person dies of Covid-19,not just with it - did the old lady in Greymouth die of Covid-19, or with it (she suffered from COPD)
• this principle is  not heeded in the case of Covid-19, making it impossible to differentiate between virus as the cause of death and virus accidentally present at death
• the simple and trivial presence of the virus must never be interpreted as the cause of death
• reports from Italy, Spain etc must not be the basis for our own measures
• our people need have no fear that a similar scenario threatens our economy
• a return to normality is desperately needed
• many of Prof Dr Bhakdi's colleagues in Germany have openly stated similar views
• one of the most renowned and acknowledged experts in the field, Prof John Ioannides of Stanford, has done so
• can the present curtailment of human rights be legally justified?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwb5QzJY2-s&feature=youtu.be

Pandemics like COVID-19 occur when there is no herd immunity and no vaccine. It’s similar to the situation in 2003 when another new coronavirus - SARS - emerged from China.

Following the SARS pandemic, our Ministry of 'Health' produced a plan. All contacts had to be tracked and anyone not needing hospital care was to “be isolated at home or in some other suitable facility. Household members were to be relocated away from anyone infected. If that was not possible, they were to minimise contact, with daily follow up by public health officials.

Why was the plan not enacted when WHO declared a pandemic on 12 March? Why did the Government decide not to isolate the ten cases in New Zealand at the time? 

The fatality rate of Covid-19 in Wuhan is between 0.04 percent and 0.12 percent - lower than the seasonal flu at 0.1 percent. 

The fatality rate for the virus in the UK is around 0.002 percent, far lower than the seasonal flu.

German immunologist and toxicologist Professor Stefan Hockertz concurs with Dr Bhakdi: most so-called ‘corona deaths’ have other causes while testing positive for the virus. He says, “Covid-19 is no more dangerous than influenza, but is simply observed much more closely. More dangerous than the virus is the fear and panic created by the media and the ‘authoritarian reaction’ of many governments.”
Muriel Newman <muriel@nzcpr.com

Yep, Ardern has closed NZ down - but China, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore have shown it's possible to contain the disease without destroying the economy: 

• they rigorously test  
• isolate people with the virus 
• meticulously trace contacts
• require that people practice good hygiene and social distancing
• wear face masks in public places
• Patients in a serious condition are treated in isolation hospitals 
• those with mild symptoms are often housed in makeshift facilities so the family don't catch the disease
• regular hospitals, patients and staff  are thus protected from cross-infection
• Singapore and China didn’t let positive patients back into the community 
• Wuhan created 50,000 hospital beds in two big temporary hospitals for the mild cases
• Australia, Europe and US send them home
• .https://www.noted.co.nz/currently/currently-currently/why-singapores-coronavirus-response-worked-and-what-we-can-all-learn
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Face masks are deemed essential. All of the countries that are beating the disease have issued face masks which must be worn in public. People here can't buy hand sanitiser, because of overly restrictive health and safety regulations.

Ardern announced “the widest ranging and toughest border restrictions of any country in the world” - but her 'restrictions' were reported by visitors to be a farce. No temperature checks, no explanation of the new requirements, and insufficient details collected to ensure people self-isolated.

The Government’s latest decision to close down the country will cripple the economy. The sharemarket has been in free fall. Wealth is being destroyed. Many Kiwi businesses will not survive. 

muriel@nzcpr.com>

In all of this, let us remember that facts are no substitute for the truth. Statistics are no substitute for the truth. MSM gives us dodgy 'facts' and fake news.

We must live by the Catholic code of canon law which teaches that salus animarum lex suprema. The salvation of souls is the highest law. 

To what purpose are human lives saved, if the souls are eternally lost? 

"And my people, upon whom my name is called, being converted, shall make supplication to me, and seek out my face, and do penance for their most wicked ways: then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sins and will heal their land" 

(2 Chron 7:14).