"SUBVERSIVE OBEDIENCE" ADVISED FOR TLM

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Self-explanatory

 

False obedience is a concept familiar to any Catholic with an ounce of knowledge of the Faith. It consists, in essence, in obeying man rather than God.

For example, it's false obedience to fall in line with apostate bishops who airily dismiss the Third Commandment of God and dispense their flock from the obligation to assist at Mass on Sunday for fear of the flu, as in the Covid shamdemic plandemic scamdemic.

"Subversive obedience" is something else altogether. For Rad Trad Latin Massgoers - even for ordinary Latin Massgoers if there are such  animals, which in New Zealand at least is unlikely - would seem to have a lot going for it.

Father Dwight Longenecker is an American convert from Anglicanism,  once a minister and now a Catholic priest, who studied theology at Oxford and spent most of his life in England before returning to the US, to the Bible belt. He's editor of a best-selling book of English conversion stories, The Path to Rome– Modern Journeys to the Catholic Faith.

Fr Longenecker suggests, as his countryman Cardinal Arthur Roche continues the calamity called down upon the Church by +Jorge Bergoglio, that "subversive obedience" is the way forward for faithful, traditional Catholics who love the Mass of Ages. 

Fr Dwight Longenecker

Quo Vadis Traditionalists?

 

Allow me to reflect on something called “subversive obedience”. When I was a student at a certain Protestant fundamentalist university in the 1970s we were obliged to observe a fairly strict dress code. Blue jeans were prohibited. Men had to wear a button-down collared shirt with a tie to morning classes.  You can guess what happened.

I and my fellow art students purchased corduroy Levis. Pants that were cut just, and worn just, like jeans. We got big plaid lumberjack flannel button down shirts with collars and finished off our outfit with outrageous silk ties from the 1940s salvaged from the Goodwill store. It was quite a flamboyant, creative outfit that flaunted the dress code while observing the letter of the law.

This happens whenever authorities seek to impose their will by stupid, oppressive legislation. I remember one boarding school in England that required the boys to wear khaki pants and the school blazer with school tie. The little boys colluded with the older boys and swapped uniforms so all across campus you  would see strapping eighteen year old rugby players crammed into khaki pants and a blazer sized for a ten year old. Likewise the little boys traipsed around the school in hugely baggy pants with the cuffs rolled up and jackets with massive shoulders and sleeves rolled up to the elbows.

Granted that this admirable behavior is somewhat adolescent, but it's what people are driven to by narrow-minded legalists who wish to impose their own ideology and preferences on others for some misguided idea that uniformity is the same thing as unity.

So with this in mind, what will be the response of those Catholics who are devoted to the Traditional Latin Mass given Rome’s latest round of restrictions? Several things: Some will migrate to the SSPX. Others will seek out other forms of reverent, traditional Catholic worship– an Ordinariate parish, a Byzantine parish or a Novus Ordo that is celebrated in a traditional manner.

Others, who are more hard line, will practice subversive obedience. “We can’t have the Latin Mass in the parish church? OK. We’ll move it to the parish fellowship hall, the gym or the Rectory chapel. In fact, what we’re doing is raising the money to build a Latin Mass chapel on the church campus. We’ll worship there instead of the parish church.”

Then, if the legalist clericalists respond in due form, another rule will come out that bans the Traditional Latin Mass from any building on the parish church property. “OK.” respond the traditionalists, “We will worship on Sunday elsewhere. The Episcopalians, the Methodists or the Lutherans have offered us hospitality. The local TLM will be held in a Protestant Church.”

“But you can’t advertise it in your church bulletin!” cry the legalistic clericalists. “Never mind. We have our own email lists and we advertise with posters on the church door.” “But you can’t advertise with posters on the church door!” “Right. Got it. We’ll hand out flyers at church.” and most annoyingly (from the point of view of the clericalists) this will largely be done by the laity who are not hindered by something so cumbersome as a vow of obedience to their bishop.

 

Cardinal Arthur Roche who hasn't got an ounce of entrepreneurial spirit 

 

You see how it goes.

What complicates this problem even further–and something which the Englishman Roche doesn’t seem to understand at all is the entrepreneurial spirit of American conservative Catholicism. I lived in England and know both the English Catholic Church and the Anglican Church very well. The English Catholics haven’t got an ounce of entrepreneurial spirit, and don’t understand this aspect of American religion. From the beginning of America as a country we’ve had separation of church and state and this has meant “If you want a church you have to pay for it yourself. The King isn’t going to fund it. Neither is Lord Balloon or Archbishop Redcoat. Get on and do it yourself.”

While the autocrats, bureaucrats, aristocrats and any other “crat” in Europe may dislike this independent spirit, they will have to get used to it. While the experts may lament the interference of hoi polloi they need to accept it, and in Catholic terms, if the laity get involved and get busy and keep the faith and promote the faith and evangelize well, isn’t that what the Second Vatican Council was all about? The present oppressive regime in the Vatican seems to be attempting to close the stable doors after the horse has bolted.

All the lovely talk about empowering the laity to do their job is just fine until the laity start actually doing their job of keeping the faith, teaching the faith to their children and evangelizing. I’ve often wondered, for instance, what happens when some modernist bishop who is all enthusiastic about lay people administering a parish finds that the lay people who have taken over are actually traditionalists. Whoops. We want lay people to be in charge–but not THOSE lay people!

So this American laity-led entrepreneurial spirit is one thing to cope with. The other thing Cardinal Roche and his politburo need to understand is that the traditionalists have invested big time in their enterprise. The folks in the Vatican should take some time to stop and understand what, exactly, they are suppressing. To do so, let them view this video about the SSPX community of St Mary’s in Kansas. 

In New Zealand one has only to visit St Anthony's SSPX church and school (Years 1-13) in Gonville, Whanganui, to see what Fr Longenecker is talking about. And the February 2023 update on the St Mary's Kansas video (above) shows the installation of a magnificent statue of the Immaculata above the vastly impressive (especially to New Zealand viewers, accustomed as they are to new churches looking like private homes with a pointy bit on top and a drive-through porch) which is still under construction.

The traditionalist community have not only invested large sums of money in their project - more importantly they are invested emotionally and relationally. In other words, their families are invested. Those who are committed to the traditionalist movement in the Catholic Church have invested their lives and the lives of their children in something they passionately believe and sacrifice for.

Try suppressing that! The Vatican needs to realize that this is not a problem that will go away with legalistic restrictions from a meddling cardinal far away in Rome.

Finally, what would my advice be? I have outlined my advice to traditionalists in this blog post (redacted here):

I hope the priests and people who are devoted to the Traditional Latin Mass might decide to follow the way of “subversive obedience.”

Celebrating the Novus Ordo Mass does not mean everyone holding hands and singing Kumbayah.

 

Father Fabulous and Sister Sandals in disguise

Remember the flexibility of the Novus Ordo is a two way street. Sure, Sister Sandals and Father Fabulous might celebrate with sock puppets giving the homily and singing  happy clappy folk music, but Father Biretta can also use the flexibility to his advantage.

He may celebrate the Novus Ordo in Latin. Ad Orientem. He can use all the Gregorian chant he likes. Wear fine vestments. Have well trained altar boys. Include some of the “extras” like the prayers at the altar, the Prayer to St Michael etc. Administer communion to the faithful kneeling and on the tongue. Encourage  traditional devotions in Latin.

To summarize, I advise folks to celebrate the Novus Ordo in the most traditional way possible. Allow the Traditional Latin Mass to inform the celebration of the Novus Ordo.

Unfortunately, Kiwi priests may well encounter stiff opposition from parishioners imbued with the modernist template of years of the "we do things differently here (i.e. New Zealand") mindset of our bishops. 

Ask yourselves what is most important. Is it truly the Latin language and the extraordinary form of the Mass that is so vital or is it that you value reverence, beauty and tradition? These are all possible within a reverent and traditional celebration of the Novus Ordo.

Er, tradition? Not so much. Fr Longenecker, as an ex-Anglican minister, is traditionally-minded but not schooled in the rich mysteries of the texts of the Old Mass, the usus antiquior, which are not to be found in the Novus Ordo:   

The classical liturgy begins, in a sense, with the inner man and works from there to the outer man. This is why it is a harder, more demanding way, a more deeply transformative way—one that is, for that very reason, more full of joy and more productive of fierce devotion. This liturgy demands of us that we be formed and educated, otherwise we can make no sense of it. It prompts the development of new faculties of seeing and hearing; it requires an exodus from our surroundings of pop culture and intellectual fashion; it calls us to a strange land, like Abram being summoned from Ur to Canaan. Latin is the intuitive symbol of this stripping of oneself and donning a new garment, fit for standing in the presence of the Lord.

 

When Latin was de facto abolished, a potent and efficacious sign of the transcendence of God (the object of worship), of man (the subject of worship), and of the activity of worship itself (the mediating sacrifice), was lost, with immensely damaging consequences.https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2015/07/formed-in-spirit-and-power-of.html#.Y_2kQXZBzgs

 

O Lord, be mindful of Thy servants and grant that our souls, chastened by the mortification of the flesh, may glow in Thy sight with desire for Thee. 

- Collect, Tuesday within the first week of Lent 

LUXON: ANTI-SCIENCE COWARD AND BULLY

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self-explanatory

Maureen Pugh MP's treatment by her boss Christopher Luxon was so cringe-making as to be embarrassing. Labour's propagandists at TvOne 'News' made a meal out of it but Luxon's words as reported in the print media were even more damning.

"Her and I had a conversation," said Luxon. So reminiscent of a Mafia mobster (an illiterate mobster at that) that one almost expects to hear of Pugh's body, in concrete shoes, washed up with the slash somewhere some day.

The terrible truth is, Pugh was right about 'climate change'. As such, it's non-existent. What we're seeing isn't "Mother Nature", it's "Father God" who is fed up with mankind, with our abortions, our same-sex "marriages",  our putting down the old and infirm. 

WOT? To be a climate change denier is now almost an indictable offence. As for blaming God for Cyclone Gabrielle and all the rest - everyone knows God doesn't exist and if He did He'd be a kind God who just wants to keep us all safe, a la Ardern of sacred memory (and NZ's Catholic bishops).

The irony of the Maureen Pugh furore is that it has caused far more damage to Christopher Luxon than to Pugh.

Luxon has come out of it looking like a control freak, intolerant of any deviation from the party line.

This should surprise no one. He comes from a corporate background, and the corporate world values conformity above almost everything else. Original thinkers are seen as problematical and even threatening. Conventional men who play golf and wear suits are naturally most comfortable in the company of other conventional men who play golf and wear suits.

John Key came from a corporate background too, but of a different type: one that placed a high value on individual risk-taking. One difference between Key and Luxon is that Key, for all his faults, seemed to have more trust in his own judgment.

But that’s not the only reason Luxon has come out of this affair looking bad. Many New Zealanders are likely to have taken a dim view of the way he threw Pugh under the bus.

Loyalty is a two-way street; party leaders are entitled to it, but so are their MPs – even lowly backbenchers. To publicly demean Pugh by ordering her to read some books on climate change – in other words, to go and stand in the naughty corner – was a bad look. It seemed petty and vindictive.

The result: Pugh finished the week having won public respect for having the honesty to say what she thought, even though she was then bullied into a humiliating recantation. People would have realised her backdown was insincere, but would have excused her because it was forced on her by her leader.

There was a simple way to avoid all this. When confronted by scalp-hunting political journalists about Pugh’s supposed climate-change heresy, Luxon could have casually waved it away. “Well, that’s Maureen,” he might have said. “She has her own way of looking at things. National has room for non-conformists.”

But he didn’t. He responded exactly as the media hoped and gave them the “Gotcha!” moment they wanted.

I think the underlying problem here is that Luxon is scared of the media and allows himself to be intimidated. Political journalists play him like a fiddle and end up effectively dictating the political agenda. This is no basis for a healthy democracy.

Luxon seems to lack the guts or confidence to stand up for principled conservative positions, fearing that the left-leaning media will punish him. The same is happening in Australia, where the once-formidable Liberal Party has been cowed into a state of paralysis by media that are even more aggressively leftist.

It wasn’t always like this. In the 1970s, the boot was on the other foot: New Zealand political journalists were scared of politicians – or to be more precise, one politician in particular, Robert Muldoon. That wasn’t good for democracy either. There's an honourable middle ground between these extremes.

Control-freak press secretaries appear to be part of the problem too. They wield far too much power. It emerged on RNZ this morning that when word of Pugh’s verbal indiscretion got around, Opposition press secretaries went into panic mode, scurrying around to ensure that all the other National MPs were “on message”.

Pardon me, but who’s in charge here? We don’t elect press secretaries to run the country. They are the modern equivalent of the palace courtier, wielding undue influence and orchestrating events out of the public eye. Political communications, aka the spin doctor industry, is a racket that’s out of control; a gravy train that needs to be derailed.

 

James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). Jesus Tempted in the Wilderness (Jésus tenté dans le désert),

For he saith: In an accepted time have I heard thee; and in the day of salvation have I helped thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation

-Epistle, First Sunday of Lent

NO FORGIVING IWI BOSSES WHO DON'T FORGIVE

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The lawyers and iwi bosses growing "fat and frisky and stout" on Te Tiriti (as it behoves us to call the Treaty of Waitangi) need reminding that there's no forgiveness for those who don't forgive.  

"And his lord being angry, delivered him to the torturers until he paid all the debt. So also shall my heavenly Father do to you, if you forgive not every one his brother from your hearts" (Mt 18:35).

Isn't it long past time that New Zealand's Catholic bishops preached on the spiritual need for Māori - and Pakeha - to forgive and forget? Because for one thing there is absolutely no evidence that ordinary Māori benefit from the largesse expended by the Waitangi Tribunal (actually the taxpayers). Quite the opposite: your median Māori continues to worsen materially in comparison with Pakeha, while Māori like MP Waititi can strut in flash hats and tats.

It's all got a bit much for radio and Tv jock Mike Hosking, who's an unknown quantity to those who eschew the MSM, but apparently - unlike most of his peers - he's not cowed by the gummint (or gummint press secretaries, who've got way too much for Karl du Fresne, but that's another story.

Mike Hosking

It is widely accepted by those who follow such matters that the Waitangi Tribunal has become wildly activist.

It is now, without question, a brilliant example of a decent idea gone horribly awry.

As Anthony Albanese struggles to drum up support for his voice vote, which will almost certainly fail, he has looked here. In fact, many people have looked to New Zealand and our attempts over what now is many decades to rectify past wrongs.

(In October, voters will decide whether they support the enshrinement of an Indigenous voice to parliament in the constitution, the culmination of years of campaigning by Aboriginal groups for recognition.) 

Ironically, history increasingly shows the Governments that have made the most progress have been National ones.

Yes, we used to be a world-beater in terms of race equality. It hasn't taken long for socialism to deprive New Zealand of that well-earned reputation.

Chris Finlayson of late and Doug Graham before him made major inroads into settlements, whereas the current Labour Government, like so much of what they do, amounts to little.

Speaking of little - Andrew Little, who is in charge of treaty matters, admits as much.

The Dishonorable Mr Little would probably prefer to sweep the Treaty under the rug, as he has done with the abortion statistics which are now hidden from public view.

Anyway, the tribunal in their latest report tells the Crown off for not funding Māori adequately so they can make their claims.

They've already been funded, in finalised settlements, $2.24 billion.  

What makes the tribunal so activist is this sort of statement and the thinking behind it is par for the course. What is adequate?

And given the system is invented, you have always needed a quid pro quo approach. What is a just settlement? Is it money, is it an apology, is it land or is it all three?

Every case is individual.

But somewhere along the way it's spiralled out of control. It's become an industry as individual lawyers have made millions. The tribunal seems intent on being here forever dealing with historic claims despite, if you remember, under Jim Bolger's Government there was an attempt to put a timeline on it all.

That logic, by the way, still applies given its not far off 50-years-old. Surely at some point the historic claims should be registered and settled. Just how long do you need to want to rectify something you argue went wrong over 180 years ago?

 

When men believed in God

How many lawyers, how much research, how much funding?

Treaty settlements: Highest paid Crown negotiators

From July 2006 and February 2018

 From the 2006-07 financial year until February 2018, 20 private law firms were paid $17.4m.

Buddle Findlay earned the most at just over $8m, followed by Greenwood Roche ($5.3m) and Wellington barrister Wendell Slatter ($2m).

Payments to Crown Law and its representatives came in at $41.5m over the 11-year period.https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/103443983/tens-of-millions-of-dollars-is-going-to-treaty-of-waitangi-negotiators-and-lawyers

The path to ratification has been open since the mid 70s and we are still scrapping over funding for claims. Surely boundaries have to be drawn and timelines have to be put in place?

Part of the reason the voice vote will fail in Australia is not because it's not the right thing to do, but because Albanese hasn’t explained properly what he is trying to do.

(In October, voters will decide whether they support the enshrinement of an Indigenous voice to parliament in the constitution, the culmination of years of campaigning by Aboriginal groups for recognition: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/24/australia-indigenous-voice-referendum-global-explainer).

But also, if you look over here at a model of how to do it, it would put the frighteners up you.

Agreed. But let's not assume that Australian aboriginals are as susceptible to venal troublemakers as Māori have shown themselves to be.  

Good intention is one thing.

A runaway train is another.

Thou hast forgotten the God that bore thee, didst not think of the Lord Who created thee 

- Deuteronomy 32:18

The Last Supper by Da Vinci 
God as pictured in just about every Catholic dining room in the States, they say  

MASS ATTACK:+ROCHE AMBUSHES TLM

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Church Militant's image: militating against a pope who militates against Holy Mass 

Rome has lost the faith. Pope Francis proves it by pursuing his cruel persecution of Traditional Latin Massgoers on the paper-thin pretext that they are a cause of division in the Church, sooling his singularly unattractive adjutant, Cardinal Arthur Roche, on to the world's bishops who must now go cap in hand to the Vatican for permission for the Mass of Ages to be celebrated in their dioceses. 

"A community is calling its very being into question when it suddenly declares that what until now was its holiest and highest possession is strictly forbidden and when it makes the longing for it seem downright indecent. Can it be trusted any more about anything else? Won’t it proscribe again tomorrow what it prescribes today?” - Cardinal Josef Ratzinger.

We may live in hope that tomorrow FrancisChurch will proscribe the Novus Ordo. Because as its prescribed choice the N O continues its inglorious descent into the dustbin of history, its adherents dying off rapidly under the influence of the so-called vaccine that Pope Francis promoted from its pulpits, while the Latin Mass where grudgingly admitted flourishes with new, younger adherents and vocations to the priesthood and religious life.

Which is precisely why Pope Francis, jealous of that post-conciliar creature, the Novus Ordo Missae, is determined to do the Latin Mass down. It has very little to do with a very few Latin Mass extremists who call the Novus Ordo invalid and the Seat of Peter vacant, and everything to do with the popularity of the Latin Mass with the young and fecund (as the latter prove by plenty of pious progeny).

Novus Ordo Massgoers, by the way, who feel uneasy or even queasy about their Sunday liturgies, might find that this "Group of Roman  Theologians" (http://traditionalcatholic.net/Tradition/Information/Ottaviani_Intervention/index.html) can put the finger on their pulse and diagnose their worrying condition.

Bear in mind that this Pope Francis is the very same who swore at some seminarians from Barcelona, flinging the 'f' word about with fine disregard for the sacred nature of their calling (not to mention that of his own). 

Yes, that was back in January (and a similar incident with South American seminarians in November) so it's an old story but one you're not likely to have read in NZ Catholic or Welcom, or heard from the pulpit.  

The pope shares another joke

Seminarians from Barcelona say they were scandalized when Pope Francis reportedly used the f-word and other expletives at a papal audience in Rome. According to testimonies from the seminarians, Francis ranted against "f***ing careerists who f*** up the lives of others." The pope criticized "those who climb to show their a**," the Italian media outlet Daily Compass reported on Monday. 

The trainee priests were shocked when Francis also reportedly insisted that priests should never deny absolution to penitents in the confessional under any circumstances. 

Eyewitnesses describe how the pontiff, at the audience on Dec. 10, tossed his prepared speech aside, saying that "it would have been boring." Instead, Francis told the seminarians to ask him questions. "We can never deny absolution, because we become a vehicle for an evil, unjust, and moralistic judgment," Francis reportedly told the seminarians, who were accompanied by the auxiliary bishop of the diocese, Javier Vilanova Pellisa.

Priests who deny penitents absolution are "delinquents," the pontiff allegedly stressed. Francis told the Latin American rectors and formators that priests "have to ask the permission of the bishop"  to withhold absolution in the case of mortal sin. 

"This happens, please! Our people cannot be in the hands of criminals! And a priest who behaves like this is a criminal, in every word. Like it or not," the pope emphasized. 

At the same November meeting, Francis also insisted that priests and seminarians must practice "closeness." The pontiff elaborated, "This must be contagious, that is, the priest, the seminarian, the priest must be 'close.' Close to whom? To the girls of the parish? And some of them are, they're close, then they get married, that's fine." 

"With the Barcelona seminarians, however, it seems that the joke (hardly a joke - ed) with an inappropriate double meaning was turned into language that would embarrass even a sailor," Daily Compass commented. Sources who live in Casa Santa Marta in proximity to Francis told Church Militant that they had witnessed outbursts of foul language from the Holy Father when he loses his temper.

 

In his bestseller The Dictator Pope: The Inside Story of the Francis Papacy, author Henry Sire (whose pen name is Marcantonio Colonna) records several instances of the pontiff exploding with expletives. 

According to Sire, Fr. Peter Hans Kolvenbach, former superior general of the Jesuits, wrote a damning report on Fr. Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1991, accusing Bergoglio, who required a dispensation to be appointed auxiliary bishop, of "a series of defects, ranging from habitual use of vulgar language to deviousness." 

"When the publicity cameras are off him, Pope Francis turns into a different figure: arrogant, dismissive of people, prodigal with bad language, and notorious for furious outbursts of temper which are known to everyone from the cardinals to thechauffeurs," Sire wrote.

Sire quoted other commentators to confirm how "Pope Francis' outbursts of temper, his rudeness towards subordinates, and his vulgar language have become notorious throughout the Vatican."

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/francis-shocks-seminarians-with-expletives

Was the pope drunk at the time, perhaps -  or actually, both times? 

 He directly contradicted the Council of Trent:

(A)ffirming that absolution can never be denied, even if there is no repentance and intention to amend on the part of the penitent, goes diametrically against the Council of Trent, which teaches that contrition, that is, "the sorrow of the soul and the reprobation of the sin committed, accompanied by the intention not to sin again in the future [...] has always been necessary to ask for the remission of sins" (Denz. 1676). Which is rather obvious, if we do not want to make the Sacrament of Reconciliation a farce and God's mercy a pass for sin.

https://newdailycompass.com/en/francis-shocks-barcelona-seminarians-with-sexual-expletives

Latin Massgoers take the Sacrament of Reconciliation deadly seriously. At a recent celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass at an undisclosed location (called by the initiated the 'Celatus Chapel') in Hawke's Bay, spared - unsurprisingly - by Cyclone Gabrielle, one contingent who'd driven some distance turned up as late as 4.45 for confession before Mass at 5 p m. The last into the box (a spare bedroom) got a good ticking-off for lateness and keeping people waiting for Holy Mass). She was quite gratified. "He's a disciplinarian," she said, approvingly. As a Latin Massgoer she'd learned that God's offendedness at even the smallest sin is infinite. 

Latin Massgoers have the benefit, you see (if you're not one yourself) of the original, millenia-old Mass texts which were bowdlerised by the devil's henchmen who invented the 'New Mass', who took their scissors to those Scriptures in the Mass which dwelt uncomfortably on the Four Last Things and what awaits every one of us at the moment of our death when we stand before Jesus Christ as our Judge.

Latin Massgoers will also, by and large, for the same reason at least try to welcome the evil persecution of Pope Francis and Cardinal Roche, for the sake of the Mass, "the most beautiful thing this side of heaven", and for themselves personally. Because persecution is the seedbed of martyrs.

"Many follow Jesus unto the breaking of bread, but few unto the drinking of the Cup of His Passion. Many revere His miracles, but few partake of the ignominy of His Cross" (The Imitation of Christ).

The Mystical Body of Christ, the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, is undergoing crucifixion at the hands of Francis, Roche et al, just as Christ Himself underwent crucifixion at the hands of the Roman soldiers. 

"If thou trust in the Lord, strength will be given thee from heaven, and the world and the flesh be made subject to thy will. Neither wilt thou fear thine enemy the Devil, if thou be armed with faith and signed with the Cross of Christ" (ibid).

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St Peter Damian, Confessor and Bishop, Doctor of the Church

"Truly, this vice" (clerical homosexual practice) "is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices.... It defiles everything, stains everything, pollutes everything. And as for itself, it permits nothing pure, nothing clean, nothing other than filth"

- St Peter Damian

St Peter Damian, on your feast day please pray for the Church

HORRIBLE THINGS REALLY HAPPENING

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Mahuta's not under a bridge. She's somewhere swanky

Friends, time is short. It's short in spiritual terms, in physical terms and even or especially, political terms. 

So short, and the list of Horrible Things Really Happening so long, the only way to let Joe Public - who believes what he sees on the telly - is occasionally to resort to bullet points.

Here are today's items (in no particular order of Horribleness):

• It will come as no surprise that DON BRASH reckons the Labour/Greens' new "history" curriculum is CRAP and Josef Goebbels would have been proud of it. New Zealand's children will be taught in class that:
  
  1) Maori were the first inhabitants of New Zealand 
  
  2) they lived more or less peacefully together until nasty British colonists arrived
  
  3) the Treaty of Waitangi created a partnership between Maori people and the  Crown which successive NZ governments have violated
  
  4) British troops committed ghastly atrocities on innocent, unarmed Maori women and children
  
  5) the arrival of European colonists was a huge disadvantage to Maori (ha ha hah!) and
  
  6) and "Aotearoa" was this country's first name. 
  New Zealand’s History Curriculum: Education or Indoctrination? by Roger Childs (a teacher of history) exposes this latest pack of lies from Labour.  

DON BRASH: THE NEW HISTORY CURRICULUM? IT’S CRAP (bassettbrashandhide.com)

• The reality of politics is you have to be trusted by the voters and likeable. On those scores Christopher Luxon is failing dismally. Poll results show that 52.9 percent – a majority – said they trust Hipkins, while 26.9 percent didn’t trust him. For Luxon, only 36.9 percent said they trust him, while 43.8 percent said, no they don’t.
  
  There isn’t enough of a distinction between Labour and National. On Three Waters Luxon just has a slogan. “National will repeal, and replace”. But there is no detail on what that replacement looks like. He’s clearly not opposed to Three Waters.
  
  Cam Slater (BFD's chief pundit) had lunch the other day with a group of "seriously wealthy business people". Many of them were significant donors to National under John Key. To a man, they said their wallets are closed to National.
  
  ACT and National are the only options unless we want a return to Ardern policies if Hipkins wins because only a total moron would be fooled by his ‘U turn'”.The voters will be fooled, Labour has command of the Treasury benches, so the budget will be a lolly scramble that will make National look miserable in comparison. People really are that fickle. Ignore that at your peril.
  
  The major problem we have in New Zealand politics is the willing acceptance of the average, the ordinary and the inept.https://thebfd.co.nz/2023/02/16/this-is-luxons-core-problem/?fbclid=IwAR3vOnr_SncqeavibMiGQ6AnpdkxfYXsuxO4PjcGfRP9fy9lqagKLBOsO4Y

On Facebook during Cyclone Gabrielle:

• Having massively increased the risk of strokes and heart attacks among the gullible millions who trusted the Government, the queen and ignorant celebrities and allowed themselves to be jabbed with a toxic pseudo-vaccine, the NHS (England's National Health Service) can no longer cope with the number of patients who have had strokes and heart attacks.

So it has downgraded strokes and heart attacks, and in future they will be treated in the same category as headaches. NHS England is now asking telephonists and ambulance crews to ignore these patients and tell them they will receive a phone call instead of an ambulance.

The new advice is that patients who think they’ve had a heart attack or a stroke will be told to get in touch with their GP or a pharmacist.

Read that line again. And then, because you don’t believe me, check it out.

If you have a heart attack or a stroke you’re supposed to ring your GP and make an appointment for three weeks on Friday. Or drag yourself to the chemist and queue up for advice from a 16-year-old girl with O-level gymnastics and too much makeup.

The 16-year-old girl at the chemist does not yet do home visits, unless she moonlights as a hairdresser or nail varnisher which is perfectly possible.  How I hope to survive the NHS’s latest attempt to kill me – The Expose (expose-news.com)

 

• Racism rampant in Cathnews:Two countries overlapping in time and space – New Zealand and Aotearoa. Honouring Te Tiriti then asks those of us who live in New Zealand to honour what happens in another country, Aotearoa.https://cathnews.co.nz/2023/02/16/a-growing-number-of-non-maori-new-zealanders-are-embracing-learning-te-reo-but-theres-more-to-it-than-language/

• NHS ambulance crisis sparks an 80% spike in serious safety incidents - with heart attack victims still waiting an HOUR for paramedics to arrive. Safety incidents logged by paramedics England skyrocketed 77% in the last year. The figures include 201 deaths, more than double the 78 logged two years ago.Health chiefs warned thousands of patients across the country could be affected".

Extrapolate these findings to the populations of countries such as the UK and New Zealand and I'll tell you what: Young people are dying when they should not be; people are dying suddenly while in the prime of their lives, while the elderly are dying several years or a decade or more before their time. Not to mention that our health services cannot cope.

Death Signal: 

Canadian Doctors Are Dying at 4x Prior Rate Under 40, 8x Prior Rate Under 30

“Most doctors by now have had four COVID shots — some have even had five.”

... “This is not just unusual. This is unheard of,” noted renowned health researcher Dr. Paul Alexander, speaking to Canadian physician and cancer researcher Dr. William Makis.“Initially, there seemed to be a tremendous pressure for doctors to take the COVID vaccines,They were the first ones to take the COVID vaccines. They were also the first ones in line to take the booster shots. I started noticing the doctors dying after the booster shot because some of those deaths occurred right after the booster shots were rolled out. We had some very high-profile sudden deaths. McMaster University admitted they lost three of their young residents, medical residents this summer — died at age 25, 27, and 32. 93 sudden deaths of actively practicing Canadian doctors who didn't have any obvious prior conditions prior to the vaccine rollout. 

 

Meanwhile, politicians and health experts worldwide look the other way, lying and ignoring the obvious while demanding we take more of these harmful jabs and grant them more control over our lives.https://www.garymoller.com/post/all-causes-deaths-crisis

• Amidst growing concerns in the United States over the safety of Covid-19 vaccines, a shocking report from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveals the devastating impact of the injections on children and young adults.

The data shows a staggering increase in mortality rates among vaccinated children, with triple-vaccinated children being 45.23 times more likely to die from any cause than unvaccinated children. Meanwhile, mortality rates per 100,000 are lowest among unvaccinated 18 to 39-year-olds and highest among vaccinated 19 to 39-year-olds.

This alarming trend is echoed by a secret CDC report, which confirms that half a million American children and young adults have died following the Covid vaccine roll-out, resulting in nearly 118,000 excess deaths against the 2015-2019 five-year average.

These staggering figures raise serious questions about the safety of the Covid-19 vaccines, the impact they are having on our youth, and why they were ever granted emergency use authorisation for use among children and young adults in the first place.

Tragic Cost of Profit, Secrets & Lies: Half a Million American Youth have “Died Suddenly” due to COVID Vaccination; Secret CDC Report Confirms – The Expose (expose-news.com)

• The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post blasted the Biden administration over a leaked anti-Catholic FBI memo. The FBI singled out "radical-traditionalist Catholics" as a possible threat for adhering to "anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, and white supremacist ideology." 
  
  Washington Post columnist Hugh Hewitt revealed his Catholic faith and tore into the FBI's woke warnings:

The memo - withdrawn amid a storm of criticism last week - warned of extremists being drawn into "radical-traditionalist" Roman Catholic organizations known primarily for their love of the Latin Mass and the relatively few churches where it is celebrated.

I know many "Rad Trads" and find the idea that they might be dangerous so laughable that at first I didn't believe the report. Church Militant is listed in the FBI memo.

Meanwhile, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued no response to the anti-Catholic FBI memo. The Federalist published an article blasting the bishops for their silence: "What has the Catholic Church hierarchy had to say in the seven days since the slanderous leak? Nothing." The Federalist author fields an educated guess on why the prelates are silent:

The FBI's association between Church Militant and so-called violent white supremacists was unfounded and embarrassingly badly sourced, and it would be easy for the Catholic hierarchy to come to their defense. But Church Militant is known for stridently reporting on the corruption, sexual abuse, and wokeism infecting the USCCB. Anyone familiar with the USCCB's disdain for Church Militant knows the bishops are more likely to revel in its slander than to rebuke it.https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/media-blasts-fbi

The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (Pieter Breughel the Elder)

 Grant, O Lord, that Thy faithful may begin the solemn days of Lent with fitting piety and may persevere therein with steadfast devotion.

-Collect, Ash Wednesday