ELECTION STATEMENT 2020: NZ BISHOPS BETRAY THEIR BRIDE THE CHURCH

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It says it all, doesn't it? Prime Minister Jacinda Jackboot Babykiller Ardern, smiling at her own image on her own camera amid a crowd of 'useful idiots', of the academic variety. 

If this pic doesn't give you the chills, it should. Stuff captured the moment for posterity yesterday, at Massey University, Palmerston North. 

Academics are one of the two elites who constitute Labour's power base in a country run by a socialist Government and a nearly-socialist Opposition. The other elite is Māori, as borne out by Labour's pick of candidates for Parliament in Palmerston and next-door Rangitikei. I say 'elite' because, quite wrongly, Māori are accorded privilege over other ethnicities in New Zealand because of the colour of their skin and perceived historical injustice.

"Do as I say, not as I do" was the focus of aggrieved comments on this pic of Ardern and associated adorers published by Stuff. Not a single remark on its comments page - until I joined the fray - about Ardern's utterly evil Abortion Legislation Act

So don't they know about it? Do those adoring academics crowding in on Ardern not know that she ordained that babies be killed up to and including birth, with no pain relief, and left to die with no medical care if they survive a botched abortion? Pull the other one.

And if they are still in the dark, they will most emphatically not be enlightened by the NZ Catholic Bishops' long-awaited 2020 Election Statement.

"Voting does not start at the polling booth", say the bishops. Oh, great! They're telling us that voting in 2020 started on the Vigil of the Annunciation, when the Labour Coalition Government ushered in that truly wicked law. 

But no: the NZ Catholic Bishops are telling us that  “Our participation in elections is about listening to the cries of the Earth and the cries of the poor, studying carefully the proposals of political parties, praying about them, and voting with our conscience."

We are indebted to CathNews for passing on this regurgitation of the Pope's Laudato Si.

"The bishops’ statement expressly says it is not the bishops’ role to tell people who to vote for."

Tell that to the Marines. Tell that to bishops like +Carlo Maria Vigano former Papal Nuncio to the US, who predicts that President will win re-election "by God's right hand", 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBZr8-RAGAg  

or Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas or Father James Altman, Wisconsin. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/watch-priest-warns-us-voters-you-cannot-be-catholic-and-be-a-democrat.

 

"It is published in Māori and English throughout." 

The bishops think of everything. They think of all those Catholics - Filipinos, Koreans, Indians for example - who can't read English but can read Māori. They'll be ever so grateful.

"What kind of a nation do we want?"

“We hope and work for a nation that looks to ensure the sanctity and wellbeing of whānau;

'We': is this the royal 'we', or the ecclesiastical version? How can 'a nation' ensure our sanctity? Is our sanctification not the work of the Holy Spirit? Aided and abetted and informed by our pastors? It seems not. Not any longer. Now we look to the 'nation' to guide us to God. Good God. Good night.   

"... that supports all families to access the basic human needs of food, clothing, housing, education and healthcare,” the bishops say.

Everyone already possesses those 'basic human needs of food, clothing' etc etc. Those basic needs are held in common, by all. What many lack is the meeting of those needs.

“Rather than thinking about what will benefit each of us personally regarding the election and referendum choices we face, we ask you to pray and discern what will protect the poor and vulnerable and what will uphold the dignity of creation so that we create a connected future for all, without discarding any of us.”

Almighty God surely expects His bishops to lead 'us' in upholding the dignity of souls as their first duty. The bishops seem enamoured with a notion of equality - in a mistaken idea of humility wanting to be considered to be on the same plane as their people. 

How do Catholic sheep get on, I wonder, when their shepherds treat them as equals? What would have happened to the proverbial, but literally, lost sheep that yesterday caused my farmer son such concern, if he hadn't anxiously kept watch from his kitchen window, listening for her "call", as he put it, saying she was distressed and frightened to find herself in the alien environment of an asphalt road, all alone? 

My son did not expect that sheep to know its way back to its paddock safely on its own. But our bishops apparently expect their flock - overworked and underpaid as most are - to do all the research needed to vote for good government, which means voting according to God's will. 

And really, pray tell, what on earth is 'a connected future for us all'? God knows. I don't - except that the term is woke speech for globalism and a World Church. Maybe the bishops envisage us all being 'connected' in the 'future' by mass, mandatory vaccinations. In this they might be following the lead of their peer, Bishop Brian McGee of the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles: 

 

Bishop Brian McGee, who'd fit in nicely here

 

A Catholic bishop chairing the COVID-19 Pastoral Ministry Working Group in Scotland has sparked alarm among Catholics after revealing that restoring normal parish life is contingent on finding a vaccine for the Wuhan virus.

"We recognize that parish life cannot quickly return to normal until a vaccine or a treatment is available," Bp. Brian McGee of the diocese of Argyll and the Isles announced at the end of May. https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/scottish-bishop-no-vaccine-no-mass

On the other hand - you have been warned: 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nephew of President John F. Kennedy and chairman of the Children's Health Defense, is on record on the CHD website saying: "Vaccines, for Bill Gates, are a strategic philanthropy that feeds his many vaccine-related businesses (including Microsoft's ambition to control a global vaccination-ID enterprise) and give him dictatorial control of global health policy." 

In 2000, Gates was allowed into India to direct the nation's immunization effort against polio. Under his leadership, up to 50 doses of polio vaccines were administered to enormous numbers of Indian children before age five and hundreds of thousands of those children became paralyzed over the next roughly 20 years.

While he was advancing his polio effort in India, he started up another vaccine program testing experimental HPV vaccines, designed to protect against sexual infection. In one year alone, 2009, 23,000 young girls were inoculated. According to Kennedy, 1,200 suffered severe side effects, with seven young girls actually dying.

As if India wasn't enough, Gates took his vaccine tour to Africa where 50 of the 500 vaccinated children developed paralysis. The Left is always yammering on about colonialism, but apparently it's okay for leftist white men to use a nation to advance their social engineering, especially a black nation.

There's a love triangle between Dr. Anthony Fauci, the WHO, and Bill Gates — an interrelationship that many are becoming extremely bothered by, particularly in light of leftist governors talking about "mandatory" vaccines and penalties for refusing.

Lots of ideas are being dropped into the media about travel cards, certificates to prove you've been vaccinated before going into stores and so forth.

Perhaps the wisest advice on all this is from that same Italian minister of Parliament who said a resistance must form against the lockdown measures and a refusal to submit to any mandatory vaccine program that might be presented by Gates and his allies in the medical-industrial complex.

https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-arrest-bill-gates

Back to what purports to be the NZ Bishops' 2020 Election Statement. Even the US Bishops can spell it out more clearly:

“The threat of abortion remains our preeminent priority because it directly attacks life itself, because it takes place within the sanctuary of the family, and because of the number of lives destroyed,” the bishops wrote.

“In our nation, ‘abortion and euthanasia have become preeminent threats to human dignity because they directly attack life itself, the most fundamental human good and the condition for all others.’”

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/us-bishop-says-environment-should-be-preeminent-issue-for-voters-not-abortion?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com&utm_campaign=b0b0f74d5e-Catholic_9_17_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_12387f0e3e-b0b0f74d5e-405142193

New Zealand's bishops do manage to state their opposition to euthanasia. Thank God for that much. But on the recreational use of cannabis referendum they merely hint: 

"They are keenly aware that rangatahi are the group most vulnerable to the adverse effects of cannabis."

We must assume, from the context, that 'rangatahi' are teenagers.

“We think people do need to give serious thoughts to the issue, and we hope you will use your vote in a way that considers the impact of legalised recreational cannabis on the young and vulnerable in our communities.”

Pity about the 'young and vulnerable' who are not 'in our communities'. We wonder where the bishops think they are.

Last night in Waipukurau,New Conservatives firearms spokesman Victoria O'Brien - who's got what it takes and then some - declared confidently that "the churches are with us" - and her Christian audience all seemed to agree. But except for moi it was a Protestant audience. O'Brien was talking about Protestant churches. In this scenario the Catholic Church is nowhere to be seen.

There were no Māori at the Waipukurau meeting either. I offered to ask the local marae if New Conservatives could put up a billboard there alongside Labour, NZ First, Act and Advance NZ (the National Party are keeping a discreet distance, further along SH2). O'Brien was keen, but I was told, "They'll say you're racist". Sticks and stones ...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern backs Tangi Utikere to win Palmerston North seat, ran Stuff's Thursday headline. "Backs who?" you might well ask. Apart from naming him, Stuff doesn't say. You'll remember that the previous Labour incumbent, Minister for Immigration Iain Lees-Galloway, retired under a cloud - "an inappropriate relationship with a former staffer" - and we have Ardern's assurance of confidence in Utikere "because of ... what he’s been doing in the region”, but what Tangi's been doing exactly, Stuff doesn't tell us. 

But hey, does it matter what he's been doing? 

Utikere said he was focused on sharing with the community what he and the party offered.

So what does he offer?  

“I am offering a fresh, strong and effective local voice in Parliament, and also in Government. Our party is focused on a plan for delivery.”

I guess if you're new to the job, you're 'fresh', and that to be PN's MP you have to be 'local'. And it's nice he has a good self-image and thinks he's 'strong and effective'. Let's just pray that time won't tell. Because:

Ardern’s visit coincided with the Government announcing timing for its $5 billion of spending on lower North Island infrastructure, with shovel-ready  projects to be rolled out in the next 18 months. Projects include the Marton rail centre, enabling infrastructure for Levin’s new Tairaka subdivision, Horowhenua business park infrastructure, improvements to Route 52 in Tararua and a climate resilience package with regional councils.

The infrastructure funding will support the Manawatū Gorge replacement highway, which is due to start in November, Capital Connection upgrades, and health and education investments.

Adrian Rurawhe and Soraya Peke-Mason, who are running for nearby Te Tai Hauāuru and Rangitīkei, respectively, echoed Utikere’s thoughts.

Rurawhe is the sitting MP in Te Tai Hauāuru (a Māori seat) and he said he was focused on winning the seat again and increasing the party vote. Peke-Mason has the harder job of challenging incumbent Ian McKelvie in a National stronghold, but she said she had been receiving positive response throughout the electorate.

So according to Stuff what all three Māori candidates in PN and roundabout are 'focused on' is 'a plan for delivery' of temporary jobs and $5 billion more of debt for our children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren to pay.  

stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/300110276/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-backs-tangi-utikere-to-win-palmerston-north-seat

Meanwhile, in Sweden where common sense prevailed and lockdown was avoided:

Chief epidemiologist puts low number of cases down to light-touch ‘sustainable’ approach

While many European countries are seeing new cases surge to levels not seen since the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Sweden – whose light-touch approach has made it an international outlier – has one of the continent’s lowest infection rates. “We don’t have the resurgence of the disease that many countries have,” Anders Tegnell, the country’s chief epidemiologist and architect of its no-lockdown strategy, told broadcaster France-24 in an interview, adding that the country was broadly happy with its overall strategy.

“In the end, we will see how much difference it will make to have a strategy that’s more sustainable, that you can keep in place for a long time, instead of the strategy that means that you lock down, open up and lock down over and over again.”

Unlike many countries, Sweden closed schools for the over-16s but kept those for younger pupils open, insisting on full attendance. Schools and universities are now open again.

It also banned gatherings of more than 50 people and told people over 70 and in at-risk groups to self-isolate.

Otherwise, the population of 10 million was asked, rather than ordered, to respect physical distancing and work from home if possible, which it largely did. Shops, bars, restaurants and gyms stayed open and the wearing of masks has not so far been recommended.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/15/sweden-records-its-fewest-daily-covid-19-cases-since-march?fbclid=IwAR1u4jXphEIdlpsXzm6e3eQZzYLMU23JGB2JxjxN-tzqQLRueuAmds1V2uQ

What's also revealing about that pic of Ardern and fans is not the crowding or no masks, but that Ardern's own, ridiculous 'social distancing', so fervently extolled by her, by her sidekick Dr Bloomfield and her propaganda machine the msm, was completely ignored. Ardern et al are latter-day pharisees: for they say, and do not (Mt 23:3).

But wait. Has Ardern turned a new leaf? Did she hear the well-known US priest Father Robert Altier give a homily posted on September 7 on the YouTube page of Complicit Clergy on September 7? Fr Altier denounced COVID-19 restrictions as “not human” and urged Americans to reject the so-called “new normal” of required masks and social distancing that deepen isolation and fear as “evil” and a diabolical deception.

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Being human and normal as God created us to be means that "by the mystery of this water and wine we may be made partakers of His Divinity Who vouchsafed to partaker of our humanity, Jesus Christ". 

We pray for New Zealand and our priests and bishops, that Election 2020 will result in a nation more conformed to God's will for humanity.