IT'S A FIGHT BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL BUT WHICH SIDE IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON

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Last week a sign outside St Patrick's Masterton was removed. Next week a statue toppled, perhaps?

Cardinal John Dew, Archbishop of Wellington and in the absence (prolonged) of a bishop for Palmerston North also acting as PN's Apostolic Administrator, would seem by ordering removal of the 'All Lives Matter' sign in Masterton to be in the best company - the Pope's.

Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso Texas

Two days after this prelate (pictured) 'took a knee' in protest at the brutal killing of US black felon George Floyd, Pope Francis was on the phone. He was calling to say how grateful he was to Bishop Seitz.

(We note that the bishop and friends 'took a knee' instead of doing that old Catholic thing, kneeling. They're taking their cue from an American footballer who did it to snub the American anthem 'to protest against racial injustice', an action approved incidentally, by Barack Obama, who pointed to a tradition of sports figures protesting.)

"Frankly, what I did and what I have said is only a very small way to take part in what so many are doing in their peaceful protests," +Seitz said, ever so humbly. 

Pardon me? Peaceful? 

This is what Minneapolis looked like after some of those 'peaceful' protests. (3 months ago the mayor of Minneapolis designated March 10 as 'Abortion Providers Appreciation day'. It would seem that Almighty God did not appreciate the Appreciation Day.)

"Through me, he’s expressing his unity with everyone who is willing to step out and say this needs to change,’said Bishop Seitz.

Bishop Mark Seitz

Take a good look at Bishop Mark Seitz, and then at the prelate pictured below. Comparisons may well be odious, but sometimes they're made instinctively and involuntarily.

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone

Archbishop Cordileone (sounds like a Mafia godfather) comes with the recommendation of  lefty newspaper The Guardian as being 'ultra conservative'. What was his response to the toppling of the statue of St Junipero Serra in San Francisco ? Did he obsequiously try to appease the anarchic mobsters who last weekend removed that monument to the Spanish Franciscan missionary who  helped to found nine Californian missions?

Not quite. The archbishop said that a “renewed national movement to heal memories and correct the injustices of racism and police brutality in our country has been hijacked by some into a movement of violence, looting and vandalism.”

“The memorialization of historic figures merits an honest and fair discussion as to how and to whom such honor should be given. But here, there was no such rational discussion; it was mob rule, a troubling phenomenon that seems to be repeating itself throughout the country,” +Cordileone said. Bold words indeed, from a bishop. Thank God for bishops like Cordileone.

The monument to St Junipero Serra topples - with no objection from the constabulary

Last week the Los Angeles Times reported that Ventura Mayor Matt LaVere, along with the Barbareño/Venureño Band of Mission Indians and Father Tom Elewaut, a Catholic priest based at the San Buenaventura Mission in Ventura, had issued a joint statement agreeing to take down the statue of St Junipero and have it “moved to a more appropriate non-public location.”

As a highly significant aside, we note that in 2013, upon being assigned to that mission, Father Elewaut told parishioners who had been attending the Traditional Latin Mass there for 15 years that he would no longer allow that rite of the Mass and they would need to find another parish.

Fr. Elewaut told parishioners, who had responded point by point to reasons he gave for his decision, that it was “a fait accompli.” 

"Never be a dictator over any group that is put in your charge." That's the reading for this evening's Divine Office for pastors, for St Paulinus of Nola. How can a priest read this verse of Scripture so often and blithely ignore it? Does he not pray the Divine Office? Has he lost the faith? Is that why he's opposed to the Latin Mass? And is the root cause of his loss of faith the Novus Ordo?

“The 'demonstration' (toppling the saint's statue) was referred to as an ‘unmonumenting and cleansing of space’ in partnership with the Tataviam and Tongva Tribal Nations, according to Los Angeles’s Native/Indigenous community,” Los Angeles Daily News reports. 

“The act was described as ‘a step forward in returning balance to these lands. No police intervened as this was a ceremony,” a member of the community stated.  The statue of St Junipero Serra came down with no resistance from law enforcement. 

Appeasement. Like Cardinal John Dew's order for the removal of the 'All Lives Matter' sign at St Patrick's, Masterton. Like Bishop Seitz 'taking a knee' and Pope Francis' high profile phone call to Seitz saying 'how grateful' he was. 

In other words, like Seitz, like Cardinal Dew. Pope Francis supports Black Lives Matter, a Marxist front for terrorists which promotes abortion, LGBTQ and transgenderism (all diametrically opposed to the teaching of the Catholic Church) and aims expressly 'to disrupt nuclear families'. It follows that Pope Francis also supports defunding the police. ("Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon" is a rallying cry in Black Lives Matter riots). 

People around the world have rallied under the Black Lives Matter banner, believing it's about racial equality. But in fact, its true agenda is far more sinister and it's beyond belief that Catholic clergy are seeking to find common cause with a movement funded to the tune of $33m by billionaire globalist George Soros, a movement which pours millions into funding the pro-abortion US Democrats in a bid to topple Donald Trump, the greatest pro-life president in US history.

In his famous June 7 letter to Trump, Vatican whistleblower Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano wrote that, "There are faithful Shepherds who care for the flock of Christ, but there are also mercenary infidels who seek to scatter the flock and hand the sheep over to be devoured by ravenous wolves. It is not surprising that these mercenaries are allies of the children of darkness and hate the children of light: just as there is a deep state, there is also a deep church that betrays its duties and forswears its proper commitments before God. 

"It's thus the Invisible Enemy, whom good rulers fight against in public affairs, is also fought against by good shepherds in the ecclesiastical sphere. It is a spiritual battle."

Why are so many Catholic clergy fighting on the wrong side? We have to ask ourselves, does the Pope, do the hierarchy, really want revolution?

As for us poor foot-soldiers, the Catholic laity of New Zealand, confronted like the US with Lockdown, facing economic shutdown and asking ourselves - what's next? A police state? - there's only one unfailing strategy: prayer. I mean, what else have we got going for us?

You may already have made a Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. You can of course repeat it. If not, it is, I suggest, a good place to start with serious prayer - or to carry on. I strongly recommend it.

O Sacred Heart of Jesus, I give and consecrate to Thee, my actions and pains, my sufferings and my life, in order that my entire being may be devoted to honor, love and glorify Thy Sacred Heart. It is my sincere determination to be and to do all for Thy love.

I renounce with all my heart, all that may be displeasing to Thee. I choose Thee, O Sacred Heart, for the only object of my love, the protector of my life, the pledge of my salvation, the remedy of my weakness and inconstancy, the repairer of my past defects, and my safe asylum at the hour of death.

Be then, O Heart of Goodness, my advocate near God the Father and save me from His just anger. O Heart of Love, in Thee I place all my confidence, I fear much from my own malice and weakness but I hope all from Thy goodness. 

Destroy in me all that displeases or resists Thee.et Thy pure love be so deeply impressed on my heart that I may never forget, or be separated from Thee. O Jesus, I implore Thee, by Thy goodness, to let my name be written in Thy Sacred Heart, that living and dying in quality of Thy slave, I may find all my glory and happiness in Thee. Amen. 

–St. Margaret Mary