POOR CARDINAL DEW - MISSING OUT ON PROTESTORS' HUGS, CHRIST'S CROSS

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On Ash Wednesday, at the Parliament Occupation's brutal finale, a hug

"The protestors would not have let me do that anyway!"

Cardinal John Atcherley Dew is sure the protestors at Parliament, who were "a real nuisance", would not have let him hug them. How he knows this is a mystery because obviously he kept his distance. 

"Give ... a good measure"(Lk  6:37). This verse (+Dew calls it "lines") from the Mass he celebrated during the Occupation (February 20), is, says Cardinal Dew, one for him to apply "to every situation in life."

What "measure" did he, the Metropolitan of  New Zealand, measure out to the protestors at Parliament? We supposed that at least he'd offered Masses and Rosaries for them - for food on the tables of those who've lost jobs, careers to the v*x; for healing for those who've lost family and friends to the v*x, and for the souls of people killed by the v*x. 

But no, apparently not.

Blessing them and praying for them might be fine for some, but it seemed to be going too far when our streets were occupied and the nights raucous. ... I realised I need to see in others that they too are the daughters and sons of God (Welcom, March).

 

Sons and daughters of God - Primer 1

For one thing, seeing others as children of God is not even Theology 1. It's Primer 1.  Surely his Eminence would have realised that about 65 years ago, at St Joseph's Convent Waipukurau. And for another, does he not realise the nights were raucous by order of the Speaker of the House, Trevor Mallard? 

"Be shepherds with the smell of the sheep," Antipope Bergoglio once famously said to his priests and bishops - and, we assume, to his cardinals. Cardinal Dew, who accuses protestors of "some extreme behaviours", doesn't smell a bit like the sheep we saw in Camp Freedom, who were joyful, peaceful, prayerful and hugful.

The lives of many people have been disrupted and inconvenienced because of these protests. We have heard stories of school children and the public being abused and insulted. It has not been a pleasant place to be overthe last couple of weeks (Welcom, March).

Cardinal Dew is missing the point, entirely. Here is a heaven-sent opportunity to obtain graces by embracing the cross of suffering, and he drops the ball. " "The noblest mark I can impress in My dear children is the cross ... there is no hand or master more capable than the cross in keeping the soul prepared, to make of her a residence worthy of the God of Heaven." Who can say what I understood of the cross, and how enviable is the soul who possesses it?" - Book of Heaven.

Cardinal Dew contents himself with wishing to apply giving "a good measure" to "every situation in life". So he evidently believes he is applying it by "clearly having precautions in  place for (parishioners') safety  - no singing, masking up, Mass registration ,,, to manage numbers attending Masses". (letter to priests and lay pastoral leaders, Welcom, March). 

He believes he is giving good measure to a certain priest in the Palmerston North Diocese who feels physical pain when he has to refuse Communion on the tongue to his parishioners, and to those parishioners who must resort to spiritual Communion.

He thinks he's giving "good measure" to a wheelchair-bound man who's been pushed out of Mass to sit outside and be refused Communion because he's not vaxxed.

He's giving "good measure" to an Asian man who's lost his position at a premium Catholic school because he's refused the abortion-tainted v*x pushed by +Dew, who had to move to the  PN Diocese to live with relations, and turns up with his wife for Mass there for the first time, only to be told to sit in the foyer and when a mother brings her crying baby into the foyer is told to sit in the porch, where these new parishioners could neither see not hear Mass.

Cardinal Dew is still saying, and presumably believing, that "Safety (is) the Priority". Not the safety of souls, but the safety of bodies - and an entirely fallacious safety at that. Once again we find ourselves in Primer 1, with Sister So-and-So explaining that "God made us to know, love and serve Him in this life and be happy with Him forever in the next". Even if COVID, Delta, Omicron and whatever comes next, as it will, were dangerous diseases - which thousands of scientists and physicians, who can think for themselves and have the courage of their truthful convictions to speak out, show they are not - how can a prince of the Church reckon that a few years' more life on this earth is more valuable to his people than assurance of heaven and avoidance of hell, for all eternity?

Novus Ordo, with clowns

By adhering to the Novus Ordo Missae, that's how. One does have to sheet it home to the Novus Ordo Missae, that sad misadventure which must be discontinued. One wonders, furthermore, whether Cardinal Dew is advised by women of a certain age who know How Things Should Be Done. They're in every parish and they run the joint. Once again, it's the Novus Ordo effect. Sacristans, in living memory, used to be male, and they provided great assistance to their priests, not only in the sacristy. But sadly, the Novus Ordo appeals so much more to women than to men, mainly because at the Novus Ordo they're allowed by popes and cardinals to Run Things, and women being just so much better at Running Things than men have elbowed those lovely elderly gentlemen out of the way.

We're forced to quote Antipope Bergoglio again.We apologise, but this is so apt:   

Taking an example from the works of St Caesarius of Arles (an early Church father), he talked about how calfs will nudge their mothers with their noses so the mother’s will give them milk. “A beautiful image,” he said. And that, he said, is how the people of God should be with their pastors, calling on them, disturbing them, even to the point of being troublesome or burdensome.

Pastors, on the other hand, should be imitators of Jesus, the Good Shepherd. Every pastor, he said, quoting the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii gaudium, “will sometimes go before his people, pointing the way and keeping their hope vibrant; the pastor should go ahead at times. At other times, he will simply be in their midst with his unassuming and merciful presence. At yet other times, he will have to walk after them, helping those who lag behind.”

But always, every pastor should be with his people. Not looking down at them from the cathedral precinct and photographing them, as curiosities. And those people at the Occupation of Parliament were the Cardinal's people, just as all the people of Palestine, including sinners and lepers, were the Apostles' people. "And going out, they went about through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing everywhere (Lk 9:6).  

He expressed his wish that all pastors would follow that model… but then called on the faithful once again to “bother your pastors so that they will give us the guidance of doctrine and grace!” 

http://www.archivioradiovaticana.va/storico/2014/05/11/pope_francis_at_regina_caeli_bother_your_pastors/en1-798398

And, as light relef, Ss Thomas Aquinas and Robert Bellarmine, Doctors of the Church: 

"…It must be observed, however, that if the Faith were endangered, a subject ought to rebuke his prelate even publicly. Hence Paul, who was Peter’s subject, rebuked him in public, on account of the imminent danger of scandal concerning faith …" [Peter had scandalized potential converts and threatened the mission of the Church by appearing to follow Mosaic dietary laws and refusing to eat with Gentiles.] St. Thomas here observes that the public rebuke of a prelate "would seem to savor of presumptuous pride; but there is no presumption in thinking oneself better in some respect, because, in this life, no man is without some fault. We must also remember that when a man reproves his prelate charitably, it does not follow that he thinks himself any better, but merely that he offers his help to one who, ‘being in the higher position among you, is therefore in greater danger,’ as Augustine observes in his Rule quoted above." Summa Theologica, Q. 33, Art. V, Pt. II-II.

St. Robert Bellarmine: "Just as it is licit to resist the Pontiff that aggresses the body, it is also licit to resist the one who aggresses souls or who disturbs civil order, or, above all, who attempts to destroy the Church. I say that it is licit to resist him by not doing what he orders and by preventing his will from being executed; it is not licit, however, to judge, punish or depose him, since these acts are proper to a superior.” St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, Book II, Chapter 29.

http://www.christkinglaw.com/blog/the-magisterium-and-doctors-of-the-church-on-the-licitness-of-resisting-the-pope-when-he-endangers-the-faith

In closing we note that - though not in the purview of Cardinal Dew - St Mary of the Angels is closed. "Closed", says CathNews, the Marist mouthpiece (SMOA is Marist), "by COVID."

St Mary of the Angels, when New Zealand is in peril from a psychopathic prime minister and the world is in peril of World War III and we need its namesake, Our Lady, perhaps more than ever before - St Mary of the Angels is not closed by COVID. It's closed by the Marists,. Our Lady's own priests, because there's one case of COVID in the community. 

Take note, Marists,  that Fr Jeremy Palman at the Te Atatu Auckland church of Holy Family, has COVID too. But his church will remain open: it will be opened and closed by parishioners every day..