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So, "the law is the law", says Cardinal John Atcherley Dew. His Excellency is quoted in today's Cathnews (loath though we are even to mention that neo-Marxist publication) as supporting this neo-Marxist Government's heinous laws which today have divided New Zealand into two classes, the vaxxed and the unvaxxed - clean and unclean.
"We ought to obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:29).
May we ask, your Eminence, which law do you as a prince of the Church uphold? The law of Ardern,Robertson&Co, Death Dealers to the Nation, or the law of God?
You evidently belong to the post-Vatican II, Novus Ordo cult, for which the history of the Catholic Church began in the 1960s. Are you ignorant of the teachings of St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas? Have you never heard that "an unjust law is no law at all"?
A law which forces any kind of vaccine on a country's citizens contravenes the Nuremberg Code. When the vaccine is manufactured with the involuntary assistance of murdered babies, it also contravenes the law of Almighty God. The evidence is clear that the Pfizer jab is one such vaccine and no amount of sophistry, or promotion by men of the cloth, can conceal that fact. And to entertain the idea, advanced by some, that these "little ones" (murdered babies), have given their lives to save others, while perhaps consoling to the jabbed is naive in the extreme.
The disease the jab is supposed to protect us from is one from which 97% - 99% of sufferers completely recover. The vast majority of those who die from Covid-19 are elderly, and/or have comorbidities, meaning that their time on this earth is up or nearly so, anyway. So the end - the elimination of Covid, which is impossible anyway - is disproportionate to the means.
And as time goes by it's increasingly obvious that the so-called cure is worse than the disease, as young, fit, healthy men in the prime of life, double- or triple-vaxxed, drop dead on sports fields throughout the world.
So this law of segregation of the faithful is clearly "an unjust law" which "is no law at all.
"The diversity of political regimes is morally acceptable, provided they serve the legitimate good of the communities that adopt them. Regimes whose nature is contrary to the natural law, to the public order, and to the fundamental rights of persons cannot achieve the common good of the nations on which they have been imposed" - Catechism of the Catholic Church.
In view of the foregoing, your Eminence, what justification can you offer for segregating the faithful at Holy Mass, for stationing bouncers at our church doors with strict instructions, from you yourself personally, as quoted in Cathnews today, who "must sight each person's My Vaccine Pass or verify it using the NZ Pass Verifier App as they enter?.
"As the Archbishop of Wellington and the legal owner of parish property I grant you and your delegated" (i.e. bouncers) "the authority to refuse a person entry, and/or instruct a person to leave a church or other gathering place in your parish where you deem it necessary to ensure compliance with the above rules and/or to prevent the risk of spread of Covig (sic) - 19", Dew tells the priests and lay pastoral workers" (aka Uncle Toms).
"Where there is a transgression, the offending people are to be engaged with politely and respectfully, they need to leave." Cardinal Dew concludes: "the parish is obligated to do what it can do to adhere to the new rules of gathering under the Traffic Light System and warns that if exceptions are made the parish is liable for a substantial fine and the risk of Covid-19 infection is unduly increased. My Vaccine Pass holders have a right to expect that everyone inside is vaccinated (and has a Pass to prove it)". It took a fair amount of intestinal fortitude merely to copy those disgraceful words.
And get this: "this authority includes ... circumstances where a person is ... displaying symptoms associated with Covid-19". In other words, don't cough. Don't get overheated. Don't even get hayfever: any or all the above could get you evicted from Holy Mass.
The Cathnews story starts with "Many parishes have expressed concern about how to manage entry criteria when unvaccinated people insist on joining the vaccinated community."
FIrst off, we see how tinny is the much-vaunted Vat II notion of "community" (or "communidy" as Stalinda puts it). Cathnews makes it painfully evident that this 'Catholic' e community is expendable, one to be busted wide apart with impunity from on high, at the diktat of the hierarchy. Is this not clerical abuse, which acting in obedience to men - and godless men and women, at that - deprives the faithful not only of their right to Communion on the tongue, to the Traditional Latin Mass, even to holy water?
"Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" (Mt 5:10). Remember that, friends!
Second, it would be nice to think that expressing "concern about how to manage entry criteria" really means that many Novus Ordo Catholics are saying among themselves (if not to his Eminence) that they did not like the idea of turning fellow parishioners away from Mass, not one little bit. So his Eminence says to them, "Don't worry, I'll write out a set of instructions for you to follow, and then you can quote me." Job's done: any incipient rebellion is quelled and his Excellency's real master (or mistress, rather) can be assured that his Excellency's instructions will be carried out.
This, by the way, is called "a friendly, warm but if necessary firm approach".
St Michael's Rotorua |
So that in Rotorua, for example, a meeting is held on vax Masses. Apparently not all N O Catholics are unhappy at the idea of bouncers at the church door (that was a nice idea while it lasted). In Rotorua they're quite happy to turn people away and wouldn't entertain any alternative to the Vax Passport. When it was asked what should be done if someone gets upset and refuses to leave, the jocund response was "we'll kill them". Perhaps the P P, who was present at the meeting, had something to say about that? Or did he class that as a "necessary firm approach", perhaps?
Our Lady of Lourdes, PN: this is a Catholic church? Really? |
In Palmerston North, the NZ Catholic apartheid manifests as only one Sunday Mass for the latter-day lepers, with a limit of 50 - at Our Lady of Lourdes, where the congregation is expected to stand throughout the Consecration.and the celebrant is parish priest Fr Joseph (Joe) Grayland, a modernist of the first water, whose homilies are frequently heretical and obnoxious to the unvaxxed Traditional Latin Massgoers who've been evicted, per kind favour of Cardinal Dew and Jorge Mario Bergoglio, from their parish at St Columba's, Ashhurst.
Of suggested, pending changes to the wording of the Mass, our reader asks, "Do you think once they have drafted the faithful they will
feel more confident to change the words of the Consecration? Most of the vaxxed
have already been seduced by the Covid lie and are spiritually asleep. Will
they notice the changes to the Mass?"
St Mary's PN offers a 'Vigil Mass'at 5 p m at St Mary's and also at St Columba's Ashhurst which are MVP- free. And there's a 5 p m Mass at St Columbkille's, Woodville, for which a vaccine passport is not required either - but 5 p m Masses are not a Vigil for Sunday, they are Saturday Masses and so do not fulfil the Sunday obligation.
Confusion (a hallmark of Satan) reigns in regard to Mass times - even in parish newsletters. While apologising to parish secretaries it seems Massgoers would do well to check with a phone call. And just by the way, St Mary's PN newsletter, which is all about vaccine passports, Covid protocols, Mass 'bookings' and 'The Common Good' - which rivals Cathnews for neo-communism - makes absolutely no mention of the Sacred Name of Jesus Christ.
Sacred Heart Hastings - it's supposed to be Spanish Mission style |
In Hastings, one priest was very loath to segregate his flock, and rightly so. But he was overruled, and Masses for vaxxed and unvaxxed will proceed. Who overruled this priest? Was it the Parish Council or Team or whatever they call themselves? From where does a group of lay people derive the authority to overrule their priest, especially on a matter of faith and morals? Are they labouring under the delusion that the Church is a democracy?
A reader of this blog whose parish will require Vaccine Passes for Christmas Masses - in the fond hope that more than 50 will attend; Sunday Mass is now less than 50 - will not be there on Christmas morning, or any morning in the foreseeable future. Her parish church is where she made her First Holy Communion, and was married, but she can't bring herself to attend Mass there any more, under such nauseating, unChristian conditions. And she has been advised by a faithful, orthodox priest not to do so.
St Francis Xavier by Guercino (detail) |
"The LAW is the Law"
ReplyDelete?????
only a completent biblical illiterate like this Cardinal Dew would ever dream of saying so.
you yourself quote the exception - "rather obey Godthan man" etc. But this man is so drubk on his rank and power that his mind seems to have shrunk beaneath such a princple as Biblica context
Apostasy is everywhere !!
Warren Knott:
ReplyDeletecath church in NZ has sucessfully led the country astray - by starting the ecumenical movement after Vat !! and then the mad feminists wicans (wainwright-aussie & burgen -blockhouse bay coven, and co) teaching crap to the Anglicans at the leisure of Auckland Cath Tertiary Chaplaincy. (4 years of my degree was there so got to know what goes on in the cath church nz quite well).
Charles Pierard:
ReplyDeleteEveryone is just following orders. But whose? And what gave them authority? Money? Secrets? Who has so much power that they control churches, governments, corporations and the media? All in lock step. Man, that's some power! And it's proved on many levels they're not averse to misusing it. That's true blasphemy.
Tony Pearce:
It's the 'Authorities' dividing your Church so you fight among yourselves and they hold the power. It's Evil.
DonandBev Bush:
ReplyDeleteSic!
Steve Milton:
ReplyDeletethe pope and crims one and the same evil
It is interesting that the expectation is that there will be trouble from the unvaxed. I don't think the Cardinal is reading the room very well at all.
ReplyDeleteAs for the Law is the law. When it suits. Anyway, Pope Francis things that Catholics who bang on about the law are rigid. Some Catholics who love to do things their way when it comes to all things liturgical love to exercise their authority and point to the law when it suits.
Tell me, there is Mass for Alternative Thinkers advertised for Sunday 4 pm at a Marist Centre in Johnsonville in a parish newsletter...all things going well. Are Vax passes required at that Mass for a few held under the radar? Asking for a friend.
The Masses permitted for the unvaxed across the whole Wellinton Archdiocese are all booked out. They have permitted 350 unvaxed Catholics to meet their Sunday obligation.
I think they will have to throw the doors open a whole lot wider, for Christchurch city parishes and its surrounds have been far more generous. Christchurch is also booked out completely bar 10, and there are 750 places taken.
My guess is that Wellington is shutting out unvaxed Catholics. The Cardinal can take the ideological high ground 'get the vax' but unless the message changes parishes will lose too many. Moreover the vaxed up and secularised Catholics who are not so committed will not return after the latest round of restrictions. What this means is the coffers will be in serious deficit.
Progressivism never pays.
But the irony this time, is that inclusive progressivism is being hung on its own petard and the hypocrisy can be smelled a mile away.
I just read the Cardinal's article.
ReplyDeleteIt is as if they expect trouble from the unvaccinated.
I would put $1000 on it they will have none.
Catholics will vote with their feet, if they are not generously accommodated.
I see they are putting pressure on Fr Leslie in Wanganui to abandon his trust model. The same model Fr Palman has implemented.
Good for these priests, both of them excellent.
Why do I get the feeling that the Cardinal has pre-judged the unvaccinated as likely to be the conservative of his flock and perhaps looking forward to moving on without them.
I think he is in for a surprise, in parish attendance, and on the balance sheet.
I am too busy to give you the biblical sites but I will say the Bible gives us three Spears one the government to the church three the family the government's role is to punish the evildoers and reward the do-gooders. The raw of the individual is to decide what they should do with their own bodies. The government is out of order and has exceeded it's biblical mandate therefore it is unnecessary and contradicted to obey any law outside it's biblical authority.
ReplyDeleteThe Archbishop of Paris has resigned in disgrace.
ReplyDeleteSarah Oconnor:
ReplyDeleteSatan is waging his final battle. Its quite unbelievable watching it unfold. “The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.” – or –
“The road to hell is paved with the skulls of erring priests, with bishops as their signposts.”
St. John Chrysostom attributed.1
“I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish.”
St. John Chrysostom, Extract from St. John Chrysostom, Homily III on Acts 1:12.2
“The floor of hell is paved with the skulls of bishops.”
St. Athanasius, Council of Nicaea, AD 325 attributed.3
“The road to hell is paved with the skulls of bishops.”
Saint John Eudes, attributed.4
“It must be observed, however, that if the faith were endangered, a subject ought to rebuke his prelate even publicly.”
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica II, II, q. 33, a. 45
“Augustine says in his Rule: ‘Show mercy not only to yourselves, but also to him who, being in the higher position among you, is therefore in greater danger.’ But fraternal correction is a work of mercy. Therefore even prelates ought to be corrected.”
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica II, II, q. 33, a. 4, Sed Contra.