FAITHLESS PRIESTS WANTING PRIESTESSES

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"An unsuitable bishop can spiritually destroy a diocese for generations." 

The truth of this observation by Bishop Athanasius Schneider in his latest book, Christus Vincit, would appear to be borne out by support from a significant number of priests in the Diocese of Palmerston North NZ for female ordination to the priesthood. 

I suppose you could say that a Conference of unsuitable bishops can spiritually destroy an entire nation for generations. The truth of that extrapolation is proved by the way the NZ Conference of Bishops tripped over themselves in their rush to cancel Mass, just one day after the Government banned indoor gatherings of more than 100 and five days before we entered Level 4 - on the feast of the Annunciation! - and who continue even now to deny their flock the Bread of Life.

The real pandemic is not Covid-19 but loss of faith in God. In the Body of Christ on earth, the Catholic Church, that has been brought about in the last 50 years by that wretched invention of the Freemason Monsignor Annibale Bugnini, the 'New Mass', and what rapidly became its concomitant - Communion in the hand. 

That's not to say that it's Communion in the hand per se which has caused the horrendous haemorrhage of faith which is horribly obvious in this country by the NZ Conference of Bishops resorting to importation of priests from overseas (and repatriation again if the locals don't like their accents, as has happened in Palmerston North); in the collapse in Mass counts and reception of the sacraments, especially Penance while the 'faithful' continue to line up to receive Our Lord and Saviour into their unwashed hands and unconfessed souls. 

Our Lady of Kapiti Parish - Te Whaea Tapu o Kapiti 

That or whatsoever is born of God, overcometh the world: and this is the victory which overcometh the world, our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? (1 Jn:4,5).

That verse is embedded in the Prayer of the Church, and for good reason:

 "Is born of God": That is, is justified, and become a child of God by baptism: which is also to be understood; provided the belief of this fundamental article of the Christian faith be accompanied with all the other conditions, which, by the word of God, and his appointment, are also required to justification; such as a general belief of all that God has revealed and promised: hope, love, repentance, and a sincere disposition to keep God's holy law and commandments.

"Our faith": Not a bare, speculative, or dead faith; but a faith that worketh by charity. (Douay Rheims).

On Sunday morning, at Mass at St Joseph's Waipukurau, we heard the familiar, reproachful refrain of 'people who are negative, who say you can't do this, you can't do that'. 

If, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die: thou declare it not to him, nor speak to him, that he may be converted from his wicked way, and live: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand. But if thou give warning to the wicked, and he be not converted from his wickedness, and from his evil way: he indeed shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul (Ezek 3: 17-20).

I want my soul delivered, thank you very much, Father. That's why I'm telling you and the other priests of this diocese now, that you can't have women priests, and - as my mother would say - "that's flat". 

My source tells me - as if I needed telling - that it's the feminists in the Church who have indoctrinated our PN diocesan priests. Women like Joy Cowley - who has led retreats for priests. Talk about setting a trap for the unwary! Badly formed in the seminary, celebrating Holy Mass versus populum with themselves as the centre of attention from congregations who are mostly female (similarly unaware, short on facts and long on feelings), these priests were ripe for the feminists' plucking.

And when the clergy of the Church of Nice consistently fail to tell the faithful what they 'can't do', it falls to the laity to take up the slack. Do our bishops and priests expect us all to sit idly by, watching unsuspecting, beloved members of our Mass communities sleepwalking to the fate so dreaded by those little children of Fatima, Ss Francisco and Jacinta Marto? To keep souls from falling into hell they spent hours with forehead to the floor (Francisco) or making sacrifices at every opportunity (Jacinta), exhibiting more wisdom in shepherding than NZ's entire Conference of Bishops.

How refreshing then, to 'attend' the Immemorial (Latin) Mass online in Ireland yesterday morning. Rather than drive 15 minutes to the NO and be denied Holy Communion on the tongue, I was rewarded by the young priest's clear, succinct sermon on the Sacrament of Penance (as well as an on-screen prayer for spiritual Communion).  

"At the moment," Cardinal John Dew has explained by email to a lay person who finds Communion in the hand abhorrent, "Communion on the tongue is not possible".

Dear Cardinal Dew, it is entirely possible. You are not obliged to follow a pagan Government's advice to ban Communion on the tongue. In fact it is your duty as our chief shepherd not to follow that advice, because it is opposed to the will of God as expressed in the magisterium of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. "We ought to obey God rather than men" (Acts 5, 29). Simple as that. 

"Forgoing this is your contribution to the common good," Cardinal Dew continues. In view of the statement above of Ss Peter and Paul, disobeying God's will is obviously a contribution to the common harm.

"I ask you to view this spiritually as a sacrifice which you make in order to care for others." How patronising. What cheek. How faithless. 

"It will not be long, hopefully, before there is a return to normal practice," says Cardinal Dew. You and the NZ Bishops, your Eminence, could return us to normal practice tomorrow. It's your decision to make, not the Government's.

 "Jesus Christ came to save the world, not to condemn it, not to judge it", said Father on Sunday morning.

Ahem. For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world: but that the world may be saved by him. He that believeth in him is not judged. But he that doth not believe is already judged: because he believeth not in the name of the only begotten Son of God (Jn 3:18).  

So, Father, Christ didn't come into the world to judge it, no; but men and women who do not believe in the name of the Son of God will be judged.

You can tell who believes in the name of the Son of God and who doesn't. It's obvious: those who believe in the name of the Son of God have the faith which "overcomes the world". They're not worldly. They're not politically correct. They're not slaves to an atheistic Government. Their first concern - like little Ss Jacinta and Francisco - is to save souls, not bodies. Because they believe in the name of the Son of God they believe what He teaches us in the magisterium of the Church. They do not believe in a female priesthood.

The teaching of the Catholic Church on ordination, as expressed in the Code of Canon Law, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and the apostolic letter Ordinatio sacerdotalis, is that only a Catholic male validly receives ordination and "that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful.

NB: "definitively held by all the Church's faithful" - which means, surely, that the priests of the Palmerston North Diocese who want female ordination are not faithful. These priests have no faith.

In other words, the male priesthood is not a policy of the Church but an unalterable requirement of God.
On May 22, 1994, John Paul II promulgated Ordinatio sacerdotalis, where he states that the Church cannot confer priestly ordination on women:
Wherefore, in order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance, a matter which pertains to the Church's divine constitution itself, in virtue of my ministry of confirming the brethren (cf. Lk 22:32) I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful.^[

Pope Francis said "that door is closed" regarding women's priestly ordination, affirming the teachings of his predecessors, including St Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordination_of_women_and_the_Catholic_Church

My point is that priests who recite the banal, boring and benighted texts of the Novus Ordo and pass out the Body and Blood of Christ like bus tickets are bound to be a prey to the devil's suggestions that this simply cannot be the Sacrifice of the Son of God on Calvary. Their personal prayer life would have to be a fortress to preserve them from loss of faith - and incredible though it sounds, prayer does not feature. At all. In. The programme. Delineated for students at Holy Cross Seminary, Auckland.

For further evidence of this massive loss of faith, take a gander at the front page of the June issue of Welcom. Take the minimalistic cross off the front of the building displayed there - Our Lady of Kapiti Parish - Te Whaea Tapu o Kapiti - and what would you make of it? A modern art gallery? Flash new library? Or as one wag has suggested, a building with built-in obsolescence, to be converted when no longer wanted into something that is: whisk the cross off, stick four minarets on top and it could be a mosque.

Note that the photographer or artist has instinctively applied to the skies above this monument to bad faith, subliminally suggestive of a slab of cake, the element essential to any place of worship: the vertical plane which raises the mind and heart to God.

Inside it's mostly glass, so you can admire the views. There's a reason why it was always impossible to see out of a traditional church's stained glass windows, and the reason is, what was going on inside - the Mass - was infinitely more interesting than whatever was outside. But that was before the Novus Ordo was invented.

It's not even called a church. I guess that word is, well, a bit churchy.

"All who come to this church," said Cardinal Dew in his homily, " ... will gather with one another, you will be given different gifts by the Spirit of God. The purpose of being with Jesus is to go forth from Jesus in his power and with his grace. ... This Church (sic) was built so we could remember the words of Jesus "Do this in Memory of Me". We need our memorials, we need our Holy Places, our churches, not "to escape life", but rather "to memorialise it." Here today we bring to mind what is at "the heart of the mystery of our salvation," the life-giving passion, death and resurrection (sic) of Jesus, and the gift of His Spirit."

Do you see what I mean? LOSS OF FAITH. The first task of a bishop (cardinal) is to teach. Cardinal Dew teaches that people come to church not to offer the Immemorial Sacrifice of Christ' Body and Blood on Calvary but "to gather with one another" (simper, simper).

He teaches that "the purpose of being with Jesus" is not to stay with Jesus, but to "go forth from Jesus".

Cardinal Dew teaches that the church was built not to re-enact Christ's salvific Act of dying on the Cross and to house His Body and Blood, but "so we could remember", and "memorialise" life. He teaches not that we renew that Act of the Son of God, our Redeemer and Saviour, but to "bring it to mind".

No wonder his homily at the ordination of Trung Nyugen last Saturday was so mind- and soul-numbingly boring. So Protestant. Nothing, nothing to inspire a boy or young man to become a priest. Nothing about going forth to preach the Gospel or baptising. Nothing about the sublimely beautiful act of calling down onto an altar the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ our Lord and God, and giving Him as the Bread of Heaven to the faithful. No vision for the future of the Land of Mordor, as the Wellington Archdiocese is now known.

Except we know he's actively promoting 'lay pastoral leaders'. Just about all of them women, I bet. Take another look at the front page of Welcom and note the preponderance of women and girls in the pix.

But Cardinal Dew would never come right out and say he's for priestly ordination  of women. He didn't get to where he is today by making waves.

'Te Whaea Tapu o Kapiti' interior - is it an Adoration chapel, or is this where Mass is celebrated?
At least the view isn't boring.