EVER BEEN HAD? TO WIN, HITLINDA HOAXED HALF OF NEW ZEALAND

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"Current lockdown policies are devastating for public health.".

Now, being of a modest and retiring disposition, I am of course very reluctant to say "I told you so". And since Hitlinda and her government brilliantly succeeded in its strategy of scaring New Zealanders literally witless (a strategy I've mentioned before today, also) - to the extent that 50% of the population have proved to be 'useful idiots' by voting Labour - you might well say that I'm trying to shut the door after the horse has bolted. 

But eventually, thank God, there will be another election and by then even the most idiotic of the idiots will have realised their ghastly mistake, as the results of Election 2020 will be obvious. Those results, according to 11,000 medical specialists and over 30,000 medical practitioners worldwide, including a group in New Zealand, will include: 

• lower childhood vaccination rates
• worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes
• fewer cancer screenings
• deteriorating mental health

Moreover, signatories to the Great Barrington Declaration state these results will mean "a greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class" - good thinking, Labour, keep it up! - "and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice." 

NZ epidemiologist Simon Thornley said yesterday that the founding signatories of Covid Plan B, the NZ contributors to the 'Declaration', "felt obliged by their professional ethics to assert the low risk posed by Covid19, the availability of treatment, the dangers of Government over-reaction, and primacy of the doctor-patient relationship.

Recent assessments by economists indicate that the costs of lockdowns in New Zealand outweigh benefits by a ratio of between 90 and 200 to one.

More evidence of the idiocy in New Zealand of the "I always vote Labour" non-thinking.

It's estimated that 300 cancer patients will die because of missed appointments. The child/youth mental health team in Auckland noted a 1000% increase in demand following the first lockdown and not a single client in the country was able to see their counselor during lockdown. The ramifications of that on a country with one of the worst suicide rates in the world is yet to be seen.

In the United Kingdom, more than 24,000 cases of cancer have gone undiagnosed as a result of the suspension of normal services while delays in treatment mean some people’s disease is now inoperable, Cancer Research UK (CRUK) says. 3,800 people whose cancer would usually have been picked up by screening have gone undiagnosed, CRUK believes. Another 20,300 cancers have also been missed because an estimated 290,000 people were not urgently referred by their GP for investigation within two weeks of possible cancer symptoms, it says.

"They have seen the data," says Thornley, "and ... the initial fear"...

 ...deliberately whipped up by our 'kind' PM Ardern (remember her death threat of "tens of thousands"? ...

..."is now clearly unfounded. They are seeing the damage to people’s health caused by institutional fear and compliance, and by elimination strategies and lockdowns. Unlike too many others, they are prepared to say so.

"Their statement will signal to like-minded New Zealanders in the healthcare sector that they can and should resist, and they should reassure patients and the public."

The group says its statement was intended to break the silence. NZ registered health practitioners who want to join the movement should sign the international Great Barrington Declaration and email Covid Plan B (info@covidplanb.co.nz). 

Contact: Simon Thornley, 021 299 1752

We, the poor put-upon public, can sign too. More than 50,000 concerned citizens worldwide have already done that. 'Useful idiots', aka 'smiling zombies' may think Level One is the pandemic you have when you're not having a pandemic and now they're safe; 'kind' baby-butcher Ardern has saved them. Hah. Just wait for her threatened Second Wave.

And meanwhile, some NZ citizens are very concerned for family and friends in Australia, especially Melbourne where megalomaniac Premier Daniel Andrews has had everyone locked down for 112 days. 112 days of lockdown end today - for restaurants and bars, that is. For churches, who knows? 

112 days without Holy Mass, without Holy Communion, when the need for the Bread of Heaven has never been greater. No wonder Melbourne Catholics are talking about acedia, that affliction suffered by monastics. "Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you, and many sleep" (1 Cor 11:30). It's simply appalling that the Catholic Church should sacrifice souls on the altar of the great god Covid. 

Melbourne's Archbishop Peter Comensoli in his empty cathedral. What has he got to smile about?

Hundreds more Victorians are likely to die from cancer and serious illnesses due to fears about COVID-19 and Melbourne's lockdown causing people to skip health appointments and miss early disease diagnoses, medical professionals have warned.

The Barrington Declaration continues:

"Keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed."

"Vulnerability to death from COVID-19 is more than a thousand-fold higher in the old and infirm than the young. For children, COVID-19 is less dangerous than ... influenza. As immunity builds in the population, the risk of infection falls. All populations will eventually reach herd immunity. Our goal should therefore be to minimize mortality and social harm until we reach herd immunity. 

The most compassionate approach is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk: Focused Protection. 

• Nursing homes should use staff with acquired immunity
• Frequent PCR testing of other staff and all visitors. 
• Minimized staff rotation. 
• Retired people living at home should have groceries and other essentials delivered. 
• They should meet family members outside rather than inside.
• Those not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal. 
• Simple hygiene measures such as hand-washing and staying home when sick. 
• Schools and universities should be open. 
• Extracurricular activities, such as sports, should be resumed. Young low-risk adults should work normally. Restaurants and other businesses should open. Arts, music, sport and other cultural activities should resume. People who are more at risk may participate if they wish, while society as a whole enjoys the protection conferred upon the vulnerable by those who have built up herd immunity.

The Great Barrington Declaration signatories: Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University, biostatistician and epidemiologist with expertise in detecting and monitoring infectious disease outbreaks and vaccine safety evaluations; Dr. Sunetra Gupta, professor at Oxford University, epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases;Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor at Stanford University Medical School,  physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations.

New Zealand's version of the Great Barrington Declaration is the Registered Health Practitioners for Covid Plan B. They have this to add:

"Health is based on freedom and trust. Free human beings can decide themselves about their health. Free societies decide in democratic discussions how to deal with their health."

But given Hitlinda's draconian 'mad March hare' measures, we have to ask, is New Zealand any longer a free society? 

"The NZ Bill of Rights guarantees free choice of treatment. Fear of the pandemic" ...

orchestrated by NZ's very own Angel of Death Ardern

... "makes us unfree. It makes us see vaccination and lockdowns as the only way to get back to normality. International health data and our own experience shows that the fear engendered in the public and our patients is not proportional to the threat to their health posed by covid-19.

"New Zealand’s public health and economic response to Covid-19 ... is very likely to be more harmful than the threat posed by the virus in the medium to long term.

"Doctors can help  ... by providing treatments if they fall ill to Covid-19. There is nothing we have yet seen in the features of this virus that warrants it being regarded as especially dangerous above the many other viruses that are with us every day. 

"The infection fatality rate of Covid-19 is currently about 0.3% once antibody levels are accounted for. The infection fatality rate of influenza, which is strongest each winter, is about 0.1%. The age of people who die with Covid-19 is about the same as that from natural mortality. This information is enough to inspire us to take better care of our health, but not to drastically change our society and economy.

"About a third of Covid-19 positive patients have no symptoms, with about 90% of infections treated in the community, and only about 1.5% needing intensive care. In the US, almost all hospital treated cases have had other serious medical conditions and are almost all people who die with the virus are over 50 years old. Unusual or long lasting symptoms currently appear similar to a range of responses seen in other respiratory illnesses.

"Doctors now have many promising treatments against Covid-19, including vitamin D. 

"Immune function can benefit from:

• minimising sugar
• refined starch intake
• several servings of fruit and vegetables daily
• being physically active
• socially connected
• having sensible sun exposure to ensure adequate levels of vitamin D
• avoiding tobacco and excess alcohol.

"Comorbidities that make people susceptible to Covid-19 (are) diabetes, hypertension and raised cholesterol. We need to treat Metabolic Syndrome which creates immune system dysfunction.

"Policies the Government should prioritise or review are:

• Adequate resourcing of high-quality infection control and care in rest homes and hospitals
• Abandoning lockdowns. These measures are disastrous economically and do little to contain viral spread.
• Review the requirement for managed quarantine and compulsory detention (which) leads to social isolation and undue mental distress.
• Further limits on border travel should be urgently reviewed.
• Avoid any measures that lead to social isolation.
• Review the requirement for compulsory diagnostic tests. Patients should have the right to refuse medical tests. Public health risk from this virus does not warrant these rights being superseded.
• Abandon the requirement for masks on public transport: the best epidemiological evidence does not support mask-wearing.
• Online patient consultations detract from the quality of the doctor-patient relationship and raise the risk of mis-diagnosis.

"As facts about the virus become self-evident, the public is wondering whether the current measures cause more harm than good. They will wonder why the authorities have been unwilling to listen to, or even allow, discussion of the facts and alternative policies."

The reason being that socialist governments just know what's best for us proles. 

"We are deeply concerned that the consequence will be a loss of faith in health services, science and bureaucracy."

That's happened already. 

Signatories:

Dr Cindy de Villiers – General Practitioner, M.B.,Ch.B;Dr Matthias Seidel – Obstetrician and Gynaecologist; Dr Anne O’Reilly – General Practitioner. MB BCh FRNZCGP; Dr Rob Maunsell – General Practitioner;Dr René de Monchy – Consultant Psychiatrist; Dr Robin Kelly – General Practitioner MRCS, LRCP, FRNZCGP; Dr Tessa Jones – Integrative medical practitioner MBChB, Dip Obs, FRNZCGP, FACNEM, FABAARM; Dr Alison Goodwin – General Practitioner, MBChB, FRNZCGP; Dr Ronald Goedeke – Director of Appearance Medicine, BSc Hons MBChB; Dr Deon Claassens – General Practitioner, MBChB, Dip. SportsMed, FRNZCGP; Shane Chafin – Pharmacist,AGPP,BCACP; Dr Ulrich Doering – General Practitioner, MBChB, Dipl O&G, FRNZCGP; Dr Samantha Bailey – Research Physician MBChB (Otago).

22 October 2020

"New Zealand has not released any analysis about the negative health impacts of the Covid-19 elimination and lockdown policy.

"Studies released in the UK this week indicate that their lockdowns are responsible for thousands of deaths and new illnesses, principally as a result of delayed cancer diagnoses (see note below).

"The only known study of lockdown health impacts in New Zealand was of a Dunedin primary health clinic, where referrals and tests had dropped 100% and 99% respectively. Anecdotal evidence provided to the Covid Plan B group is that referrals and tests may be down across the country by two thirds. Auckland District Health Board is also investigating after four women died during and after pregnancy this year, with three dying since alert level 3 was instituted in late March. Expected numbers of deaths are between 0 and one from previous years.

"Dr Simon Thornley, spokesman for Covid Plan B, said the Government’s elimination and lockdown policy was based on hope, because little analysis of the downsides of the policy has been carried out.

“If you base your rationale on discredited models and you don’t count impacts, this is not a policy based on evidence.

"This is a policy based on an assumption that the low Covid-19 impact is the result of the lockdown policy. There is no proof of that, and international studies indicate it is unlikely.

"This is also a policy continued on the assumption that there are no negative effects. But the effect on unemployment is now clear, with a 38% rise in adults on the jobseeker benefit since late March. Now, the impact of delayed diagnosis and under treatment of other conditions must be considered.

“We are not even trying to count what the other effects have been on health. We do not know how many people have died, had conditions or prognosis worsen because of the ways lockdown and fear have affected healthcare.

“We call on the Ministry of Health to undertake the same studies we’ve seen in the UK, and to weigh those costs against what they imagine, or count, are the benefits of the elimination strategy.” 

Who knows what it would take for Hitlinda to lock us up for Christmas? We're thinking, not a lot. Probably depends on what Helen Clark has in mind for us. 

Pope Francis greets gay film director Evgeny Afineevsky

Meanwhile, although the Vatican as usual has tried hard to explicate (but has now been told to shut up), 'His Holiness' the pope has followed up his inexplicable remarks on civil unions by announcing he will celebrate Christmas in private. It seems St Peter's Basilica will be closed for Christmas. 

Bergoglio (that styling seems more appropriate now, than 'His Holiness' has been jumped on for his "scandalous" endorsement of homosexual civil unions, Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Astana, Kazakhstan has asked the pontiff to retract his approval "for the sake of the salvation of his immortal soul."

"Every true Catholic, every true Catholic priest, every true Catholic bishop must with deep sorrow and a weeping heart regret and protest against the unheard fact, that Pope Francis ... uttered in the documentary film Francesco ... his support for civil same-sex unions."

Fr Michel Rodrigue

We don't know what lies ahead for New Zealand or for the Church (thank God), and as Catholics and Christians we treat "our joys and afflictions with like indifference", but we need now to take heed of the many prophecies of the "Illumination of Conscience" which mystics say is imminent. 

While no one is obliged to believe mystics, the Bible has this to day in Amos 3:7: "For the Lord God does nothing without first revealing his secret to his servants, the prophets."

On March 24, 2020, Father Michel Rodriguez Priest, Exorcist, Founder and Superior General of The Apostolic Fraternity of Saint Benedict Joseph Labre (founded in 2012) wrote the following to his supporters:

"You must now consecrate your house or apartment to the Eternal Father through the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary. We must regularly bless our places, our homes, with exorcised holy water. ...

"The prayer of the Holy Rosary, of Saint Michael the Archangel, and that of your guardian angels will be your comfort, your strength, your protection."

BISHOP DUNN ME-TOOS THE POPE: HOMOSEXUALS, 'DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY'

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So New Zealand's bishops have sided with sodomy. And with the pope - but of course. We saw that coming.

“I endorse the reported comments of Pope Francis," says Bishop Pat Dunn, somewhat obsequiously. "I know that he is anxious for LGBTQ people to know that they are valued members of the family of the Church as they are of their own families. We want their happiness, and for them to know that they are loved.” Well carry me home to die, as my mother would have said. What egregious and erroneous sentimentality. The happiness a good shepherd wants for his flock is, surely, happiness of the eternal variety. Practising homosexuals are committing one of those sins which "cry to heaven" (CCC 1867), and unless they repent (and can we imagine them repenting and confessing to +Dunn or his cohorts on the NZCBC, only to be told, "There there, don't worry, be happy"?) they will go to hell. Not much happiness there. Ever. We'd have thought Bishop Dunn had lived long enough by now to "mind the things that are above" (Col 3:2). Apparently not. Some people are slow learners and God is infinitely patient.  Homosexuals, like everyone else, need to know they are loved by God. Unfortunately - tragically - they won't find that out in the Catholic Church in New Zealand, not under these bishops' watch. In fact they will be actively or subliminally deterred from doing what would lead them to find out how much they are loved by God: attending weekday Mass, praying the Rosary, practising meditation etc. In my parish such misguided persons (all three or four of them) have been called out as 'holy people' whose chances of heaven compare rather unfavorably with the usual Sunday Massgoer's. Pope Francis made the remarks in a new documentary film, Francesco, about his life and teachings. The full quote is: “Homosexual people have a right to be in a family. They’re children of God, have the right to a family. You can’t kick someone out of a family, nor make their life miserable for this. What we have to have is a civil coexistence law; they have the right to be legally covered.”  Ahem, your Holiness. Canon 223 states:    §1 In exercising one’s rights the Christian faithful, as individuals and as united in associations, must have the rationale of the common good of the Church, and the rights of others, and their duties for others. Even common sense tells us that an individual's 'rights' stop at the point where they collide with the 'rights' of other people. If an overtly homosexual adult family member were exerting a harmful effect on his/her siblings (who have a right to protection from moral harm), the parents would have the right to ask the homosexual to leave the family home. The parents then, would not 'make (the homosexual's) life miserable; an actively homosexual life is per se 'miserable' because it offends God. And "the common good of the Church" demands that God's Commandments be kept, and be seen to be kept - if only to avoid the sort of scandal that the pope himself (eagerly aided and abetted by Bishop Dunn) is visiting on the Church. It's Caesar's business (i.e. the government's business), is it not, to ensure the 'right' of homosexuals' 'to be legally covered', not the Church's business? The Church should stick to Her knitting, in particular attending to the massive holes in the warp and weft of Church life caused by all these dropped stitches.  Think how hard it is for priests faithful to Church teaching to get up into the pulpit (yes there are such priests still; not all priests stroll down into the nave to get comfy with the plebs) and contradict the Vicar of Christ - a title, by the way, which the pope refuses to go by. Think also of the blowback they'll get from parishioners who choose to be faithful to the NZ bishops and the pope rather than to the Church; in other words obeying man, not God.  I was privileged to hear one such sermon today, authoritative, clear, concise and referencing historical and theological sources of which alas, I can remember only one: St Vincent of Lérins.   Now I don't suppose Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of Kazakhstan, would ever have heard of Bishop Pat Dunn of Auckland, so Bishop Schneider won't have anything to say about the latter's me-tooing the pope. But he has plenty to say about the pope in his latest verbal infelicities re civil unions.   Bishop Athanasius Schneider "The Catholic Faith in the voice of the perennial Magisterium, the sense of the faith of the faithful (sensus fidelium) as well as common sense clearly reject any civil union of two persons of the same sex, a union which has the aim that these persons seek sexual pleasure from each other. "Even if persons living in such unions should not engage in mutual sexual pleasure — which in reality has been shown to be quite unrealistic — such unions represent a great scandal, a public recognition of sins of fornication against nature and a continuous proximate occasion of sin. "Those who advocate same-sex civil unions are therefore also culpable of creating a kind of structure of sin, in this case of the juridical structure of habitual fornication against nature, since homosexual acts belong to sins which cry to heaven, as the Catechism of the Catholic Church says (see n. 1867). "Those who advocate same-sex civil unions are ultimately unjust and even cruel against those persons who are living in these unions, because these persons will be confirmed in mortal sin, they will be solidified in their interior psychological dichotomy, since their reason tells them, that homosexual acts are against reason and against the explicit will of God, the Creator and Redeemer of men." Not only, but also - Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, ex-papal nuncio to the US:   Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò "October 23, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Yesterday, on the occasion of the Rome Film Festival, the director Evgeny Afineevsky presented a documentary called Francesco,  Among other disconcerting statements, there are several about the legitimization of homosexual civil unions: “What we have to create is a civil union law. That way they [homosexuals] are legally covered. I stood up for that.” "I think that both the simple faithful as well as bishops and priests feel betrayed by what Bergoglio has affirmed. It is not necessary to be theologians to understand that the approval of civil unions is in clear contradiction of the Magisterial documents of the Church, including recent ones. Such approval also constitutes a very grave “assist” to the LGBTQ ideology which today is being imposed on the global level. "In the coming days the Italian Parliament will be discussing the approval of the so-called Zan law [against so-called “homophobia”] proposed by the Democratic Party (PD). In the name of protecting homosexuals and trans-sexuals, it will be considered a crime to affirm that the natural family is the building block of human society, and those who affirm that sodomy is a sin that cries out to God for vengeance will be punished. Bergoglio’s words have already been received by the gay lobby worldwide as an authoritative support for their claims.  "...The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has already unequivocally clarified that in no case may a Catholic approve of civil unions, because they constitute a legitimization of public concubinage and are only a step towards the legal recognition of so-called homosexual marriages. So much so that in Italy today it is even possible for people of the same sex to “marry” each other, after having been assured for years – even by self-styled Catholic politicians – that [civil unions] would in no way question marriage as it is defined in the Italian Constitution. "After all, experience teaches us that when Bergoglio says something, he does it with a very precise purpose: to make others interpret his words in the broadest possible sense. The front pages of newspapers all over the world are announcing today: “The Pope Approves Gay Marriage” – even if technically this is not what he said. But this was exactly the result that he and the Vatican gay lobby wanted. Then the Vatican Press Office will perhaps say that what Bergoglio said was misunderstood, that this was an old interview, and that the Church reaffirms its condemnation of homosexuality as intrinsically disordered. But the damage has been done, and even any steps backwards from the scandal that has been stirred up will ultimately be a step forward in the direction of mainstream thought and what is politically correct. Let us not forget the nefarious results of his famous utterance in 2013 – “Who am I to judge?” – which earned him a place on the cover of The Advocate along with the title “Man of the Year.” "Bergoglio has declared: “Homosexuals have a right to be a part of the family. They’re children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out, or be made miserable because of it.” All the baptized are children of God: this is what the Gospel teaches. But these children may be either good or evil, and if they break God’s Commandments, the fact that they are His children will not prevent them from being punished, just as an Italian who steals does not avoid going to prison solely because of the fact that he is a citizen of the nation where he commits the crime. The Mercy of God does not prescind from Justice, and if we think of how in order to redeem us the Lord shed His Blood on the Cross, we cannot but strive for holiness, conforming our behavior to His will. Our Lord has said: “You are my friends, if you do what I command you” (Jn 15:14). "If familial or social exclusion results from provocative behaviors or from ideological claims that cannot be shared – I am thinking of Gay Pride – this is only the result of an attitude of challenge, and thus such exclusion has its origin in those who use that attitude to hurt their neighbor. If instead that discrimination results only from being a person who behaves like everyone else with respect for others and without any imposition of one’s own lifestyle, it should be rightly condemned. "We know very well that what the homosexualist lobby wants to obtain is not the integration of normal and honest people but rather the imposition of seriously sinful, socially destabilizing models of life that have always been exploited to demolish the family and society. It is no coincidence that the promotion of the homosexual agenda is part of the globalist project, in conjunction with the destruction of the natural family. "One of the most ardent supporters of the LGBTQ agenda and of the indiscriminate welcoming of homosexuals in the Church, the Jesuit James Martin, has been made a Consultor in the Dicastery for Communication of the Holy See. As soon as the news came out about Bergoglio’s statements, Martin stormed social media with tweets, expressing his uncontainable satisfaction with this action which, in contrast, scandalized the majority of the faithful. "Along with Father Martin, there are cardinals, bishops, monsignors, priests, and other clerics who belong to the so-called “lavender mafia.” Some of these have been investigated and condemned for very grave crimes, almost always linked to homosexual environments. How can we think that a clique of homosexuals in the command post does not have every interest in pushing Bergoglio to defend a vice that they share and practice? "In fact, I would say that it is part of Bergoglio’s intended behavior that he plays with equivocation and provocation – such as when he said, “God is not Catholic,” or when he leaves it to others to finish a discourse which he initiates. We have seen this with Amoris Laetitia: although he did not clearly contradict Catholic doctrine on the impossibility of the divorced and remarried accessing the Sacraments, he allowed other bishops to do so, later approving their statements and stubbornly remaining silent in response to the Dubia of the four Cardinals.   "It may be asked: why would the Pope act in this way, especially when his predecessors were always very clear on moral matters? I do not know what Bergoglio has in mind: I limit myself to making sense of his actions and words. And I think I can affirm that what emerges is an attitude that is deliberately two-faced and Jesuitical. Behind all of his utterances there is the effort to arouse the reaction of the healthy part of the Church, provoking it with heretical statements, with disconcerting gestures, with documents that contradict the Magisterium. And at the same time, his statements please his supporters, above all non-Catholics and those who are Catholic in name only. "By dint of provoking, he hopes that some bishop will grow tired of daily feeling afflicted by his doctrine and morals; he hopes that a group of cardinals will formally accuse him of heresy and call for his deposition. And by doing so, Bergoglio would have the pretext of accusing these prelates of being “enemies of the Pope,” of placing themselves outside the Church, of wanting a schism. Obviously, it is not those who want to remain faithful to the Magisterium who separate themselves from the Church: this would be absurd. "If canonically it is unthinkable to excommunicate a Catholic for the mere fact that he wishes to remain so, politically and strategically this abuse would allow Bergoglio to expel his adversaries from the Church, consolidating his own power. And I repeat: we are not talking about a legitimate operation, but of an abuse that, despite being an abuse, no one would be able to prevent, since “the First See is judged by none” – prima Sedes a nemine judicatur. And since the deposition of a heretical Pope is a canonically unresolved question on which there is no unanimous consent of canonists, anyone who would accuse Bergoglio of heresy would be going down a dead end and would obtain a result only with great difficulty. "And it is exactly this, in my opinion, that Bergoglio’s “magic circle” wants to achieve: to reach the paradoxical situation in which the one who is recognized as Pope is at the same time in a state of schism with the Church he governs, while those who are declared by him to be schismatic for disobedience will find themselves expelled from the Church because of the fact that they are Catholic. "Bergoglio’s action is above all directed outside the Church. The encyclical Fratelli Tutti is an ideological manifesto in which there is nothing Catholic and nothing for Catholics – it is the umpteenth embrassons-nous [“let’s embrace”] of the Masonic matrix, in which universal brotherhood is obtained not, as the Gospel teaches, in recognizing the common fatherhood of God through belonging to the one Church, but rather by the flattening of all religions into a lowest common denominator that is expressed in solidarity, respect for the environment, and pacifism. "With this way of acting, Bergoglio is a candidate for “pontiff” of a new religion, with new commandments, new morals, and new liturgies. He distances himself from the Catholic religion and from Christ, and consequently from the Hierarchy and the faithful, disavowing them and leaving them at the mercy of the globalist dictatorship. Those who do not adapt to this new code will therefore be ostracized by society and by this new “church” as a foreign body. "On October 20 in Rome, Pope Francis prayed for peace along with representatives of the world religions: the motto of that ecumenical ceremony was “No one is saved alone.” But that prayer was addressed indiscriminately to both the True God as well as to the false gods of the pagans, making it clear that the ecumenism propagated by Bergoglio has as its goal the exclusion of Our Lord from human society, because Jesus Christ is considered “divisive,” “a stumbling stone.” This modern man thinks that he can obtain peace by leaving aside the One who said of Himself: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father except through Me” (Jn 14:6). It is painful to note that this apostasy of formerly Christian nations is accompanied by Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who ought to be the Vicar of Christ, not his enemy. "Three days ago, the press announced that the Pope will not celebrate Midnight Mass on Christmas. I will limit myself to one observation: a few days ago, in the midst of the full-fledged “Covid emergency,” it was possible to celebrate an ecumenical rite in the presence of the faithful and the civil authorities, all wearing masks. And yet, on the contrary, someone has decided that it would be imprudent to celebrate the Birth of the Savior on the Holy Night of Christmas in the far vaster space of the Vatican Basilica. "If this decision is confirmed, we will know that Jorge Mario Bergoglio prefers to celebrate himself by supporting the mainstream thought and syncretistic ideology of the New World Order, rather than kneeling at the foot of the manger where the King of Kings is placed." + Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop 22 October 2020

FROM A COUNTRY GARDEN

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To take the bad taste out of our mouths after yesterday's post, scenes of spring at Clairvaux:  

Prunus 'Shimidsu Sakura' on the approach to the house 

Prunus 'Shimidsu Sakura' and the round lawn

Tamarisk with clematis montana rubens on the round lawn

Judas tree (Cercis canadensis)

Proteas, tulips and gladioli in the kitchen

Wistaria and Rosa 'Crepescule' on the north terrace

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam - for the greater glory of God