POSIE MAKES SATAN GO BERSERK

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New Zealand is forever shamed

The mob hysteria elicited by Posie Parker's appearance at Albert Park last Saturday could, and perhaps should, be taken for demonic possession. Lest you think we exaggerate, the UK Spectator called the mob "deranged", with faces " twisted into masks of feral hatred". 

And that's not hate speech. It's not even speech that trans people hate. It's love which seeks to excuse the hateful, hatefilled behaviour of those unfortunate trans activists as being not of their own volition, but rather as a take-over by powers beyond their conscious control. You know how Jesus Christ was kept so busy casting out demons? They're still around, only more so. 

Satan and his minions are real and as our world darkens, many more people (70% of Americans back in 2007, up from 55% in 1990) have faced up to that reality. When God gets cancelled as He is in New Zealand - the most pagan country in the world - Satan is delighted to fill the vacuum. And at Albert Park it looked like he went berserk. 

Lest you think we exaggerate, the U K Spectator called the mob "deranged", their faces " twisted into masks of feral hatred". https://youtu.be/ka6jl0hL9ZE

People who 'transition' are likely to be sensitive and thoughtful but last Saturday they were cruel bullies, making literally the devil of a racket to drown out an intelligent, articulate woman who was a guest in our country, to prevent her and other women from taking the mike on their right to female-only private spaces and sports. 

It seems hypocritical, to say the least, that people who parrot peace and harmony could swarm like killer bees around Parker, who feared for her life. She tweeted afterwards that she was afraid her children would lose their mother, and her husband, his wife.

'Get tomato'd' - a particularly vile, violent expression

• Newshub - a major news outlet - fabricated the absurd theory that Parker was giving white supremacist hand signals
• Newshub doctored video footage to support this fantasy by blurring footage which showed Parker adjusting the zipper on her jumper
• Parker was doused with tomato juice - a choice of beverage decent people might think random, but actually code for particularly vile and disgusting male-on-female abuse 
• A 76 year-old woman, a Parker supporter, was assaulted by a male
•  Elderly people were shoved to the ground 
• These boots stomp TERFS, said one poster. (TERFS, in case you're wondering, are trans-exclusionary radical feminists. They're 'transphobic'.  They are us 
• Trans women are women, was the irrational - but fervently believed -  proclamation made by another.
  
  
  

  

  “Politically, I am a woman with trans experience, an intersex body, a non-binary gender identity. I identify myself as post-gender" - Eli Rubashkyn

  
  

What or who besides the devil could possess these people (mainly born male), that they could tell or believe the lie (amplified by a menacingly manipulative media, especially NZ Herald) that a woman who came to New Zealand to defend women's rights and who is truly pro-woman, is 'anti-trans'? How delusional is that? Bear in mind that Satan is 'the father of lies'. 

'Posie Parker' is the funny pun that Kelly-Jay Keen-Minshull goes by, her married name being a bit of a mouthful. Not only is she married - to a man - but she has four children, which on its own is normal enough to get a trans mob frothing at the mouth. 

self-explanatory

This is hardly esprit de corps we're talking about. Like the Covid pandemic fantasy, it's catching. Hysteria is highly infectious. 

• The Mercure Hotel called while she was still in mid-air cancelling her reservation, saying they'd had a visit from the police 
• A border official at Auckland Airport offered Parker a queue jump then led her to a room where she was questioned for two hours and had her luggage taken apart and searched 
• She had a threatening note put through her door in the hotel that was brave enough to put her up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMFi7kM88iA
• Greens' co-leader Marama Davidson - who used to be quite impressive - epitomised the craziness at Albert Park when strutting away from the scene of the crime wreathed in smiles she put all the world's violence down to "cis men". And this while she claimed (only later, when carpeted by Head Prefect PM Hipkins) to be in a state of shock after being hit by a motorbike.
  
  

  Davidson said they were there to “reject the violence and hate of transphobia.

  By exhibiting violence and hate, naturally. 

  “We are here to raise love for our trans people and community above hate and I am so proud because trans people are terrific.

  “Trans people are a taonga... and trans people are tired of being oppressed and discriminated.“I am a prevention violence minister, and I know what causes violence in this world and it’s white cis men.” 

  https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/marama-davidson-apologises-pm-white-cis-men-comment

   

In her blatant denial of commonly-accepted facts proven in statistics on violence in New Zealand and round the world, Marama Davidson is an exemplar for the Green Party and this government. 

And what of the police? Where, we may ask, was Mr Plod who's employed by us taxpayers to protect us and our possessions - and our guests to this country, as Parker was? Isn't that their first duty? 

Oh but, you say, these days you have private security guards (which Parker did, saying later that she owed them her life.) Since when, in NZ,  did you have to be wealthy enough to employ security guards to protect you? Since, maybe, the police proved unreliable? 

The police were there all right, lurking on the peripheries, 'watching on'. It wasn't till after the Parker and the elderly woman were assaulted that they moved in, picked Parker up and took her to the airport. You know, like a taxi cab. So she could dust the sand of New Zealand off the soles of her feet, so to speak. Or as Aunty Herald put it, so she could "flee the country". 

The police told Parker that if she hadn't felt safe she should have left the premises. Carry me home to die. Evidently, in what was once Godzone the law of the jungle now prevails. If you don't feel safe, don't dial 111, just scarper. If you can. Albert Park was dereliction of duty on the part of police and even though she's been minister for only five minutes Ginny Andersen (herself of dubious integrity - .https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300256874/ginny-andersen-admits-knowledge-of-electorate-office-deal-in-2017) should resign. Let's be frank: to get rid of her any excuse would do.

Just yesterday, after "a number of calls and reports" (we should say so!) the police got around to laying a charge of assault against the "activist" immigrant and NZ citizen Eli Rubashkyn, who threw the tomato juice and who really did "flee the country". Rubashkyn reckons he/she/it/they will be imprisoned because "National wants to make an example". We reckon Rubashkyn wants to make a reputation. On the flight to New York, in a video sitting next to a bottle of tomato juice, Rubashkyn said, "Dear Posie, I think that your genocidal hate will not be accepted in many countries of the world."

So wanting women to have a pee in private and not be compelled to compete with men is "genocidal hate". Rubashkyn - who reportedly speaks five languages - can't be stupid. So what is he/she/it/they, then?

Far-right activists at the Posie Parker rally - rad trad Catholics? Really?

But in all the miasma of hypocrisy, subterfuge and downright lies at Albert Park last Saturday, Satan really outdid himself with the claim by "researchers" that far-right activists who were present are "part of an emerging neo-Nazi, traditional Catholic movement in this country".

In one fell swoop the evil one managed to implicate not just the Catholic Church, but that factor he hates most because it's his most effective opposition, bar none: the Traditional Latin Mass, stamped on universally by Pope Francis and in New Zealand by Cardinal John Dew of the Wellington Archdiocese (the Land of Mordor).

So the FBI was caught plotting to target American Catholics who attend Latin Mass as enemies of the state. What a good idea. Failed in the States but let's try it on in Enzed, where folks are more naive and demonstrably prone to group gaslighting.

And who should be peddling this item but Satan's little helpers, the Marist rag Cathnews:

Researchers who specialise in extremist groups in New Zealand said the audience included a range of individuals on the far right spectrum, from right-wing populists and Christian fundamentalists to neo-Nazis.

Guilt by association. Neat, isn't it?

(T)wo Catholic women say they feel aggrieved because their faith has no relationship to what the neo-Nazis stand for.

“Antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia and Islamophobia have nothing to do with the 10 Commandments, nor the Beatitudes,” one said.

“The Gospels and Jesus Christ are positive guides to good living,” said the other.

As traditional Catholics in a Synodal Church, they want to make a stand and distance themselves from the suggestion in the article.

Oh ha, ha, hah! "Traditional Catholics in a Synodal Church" is an oxymoron. Guilt by association again, one might say. But good one, Satan, for the suggestion that the synister Synod is any part of sacred tradition. 

Although British activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, aka Posie Parker, calls neo-Nazis “abhorrent”, her rallies seem to attract them.

Doesn't that just take the cake. Parker attracts neo-Nazis. So? Marigolds attract wasps.

Paparoa is a body of researchers focusing on Aotearoa-New Zealand’s extremist organisations.

So Cathnews isn't calling this country Aotearoa. Yet. But nearly. It's just a matter of time.

They are also concerned the emerging so-called traditional Catholic neo-Nazi group promotes extreme antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia and Islamophobia.

How dare Cathnews publish this smear? This libel? Because, whether they know it or not, they have Satan at their backs. 

Cathnews promoting nonsense

And the irony of it all is, it's the Catholic Church which if she had been stuck to her knitting, preaching the Gospel and saving souls instead of the planet, could have prevented, countered or at least minimised the evil transgender ideology that has traduced and seduced so many.

She it is who has the knowledge and wisdom to heal demonic possession through exorcism. Every Catholic diocese in the world, by canon law, must provide exorcism for those who ask for it - even, last time we asked, the benighted, bishopless (for well over 3 years) diocese of Palmerston North.

So Posie Parker has departed, trailing clouds for New Zealand not of glory but ignominy. She's tweeted that New Zealand is the worst place for women that she's visited. Um, so what sort of a place does that make it for truly traditional Catholic women, the sort who attend the Traditional Latin Mass? Not that they care, except to thank God for persecution, for suffering for love of Christ - that "coin of inestimable value!"

"If we all knew it, we would compete with one another to suffer more"

-Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta

Now the festival of the Jews drew nigh, and the chief priests took counsel that they might kill Jesus.

DEP0PULATION IS THE NAME OF THE GAME

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Self-explanatory

What kind of pressure could persuade the real estates' licensing authority to come up with the awfulness Sir Bob Jones complains of in this piece? The same kind of pressure, presumably, that's applied to the ASB Bank, now 'proudly' flying a rainbow flag and tweeting encouragement for the unfortunate 'trans and non-binary' community.  

That is, the community that fronted as a rabble, ranting at Posie Parker at her Let Women Speak event at Albert Park on Saturday, preventing her and others from speaking - and not against 'trans' but just about women. More needs to be said about this and will be, just as soon as this blog gets a new computer. 

Is it likely that the tiny actual trans community can wield such influence unaided? Nup. Karl Marx believed that in time distinction between genders would dissipate, and his ideology has this neo-com Labour/Greens government in its grip. Depopulation is the name of the game.

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Co-Founder Save Women's Sport Australasia: 

Absolutely shameful ⁦

@ASBBank

⁩. Standing for intimidation & violence against women, cancel culture & anti free speech. Have been with you for the past 20 odd years - you do not deserve my business now. This was posted AFTER the shutting down of #LetWomenSpeak event.

Bob Jones: Another Maori wonderfulness absurdity

Real estate agents operate under the Real Estate Agents Act, needless to say overseen by a farcically large Wellington bureaucracy.

The Act’s expressed objectives are the regulating of real estate agents, the raising of standards and to provide a disciplinary process to deal with complaints, all plainly worthy.

By law agents must renew their licence to practise each year. Now brace yourself.

This year the licensing authority has come up with a new angle, specifically that henceforth for agents to renew their licenses they will be required to undertake and pay for a special study course in “the maori world view (maori customs, protocols and the maori language)”.

To that end they’ve engaged an outfit called Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, described as an educational institution, to deliver this nonsense for a fee. They will do this by making agents watch an online video for an hour and a half and in return, at $29 per agent, will pocket circa $600,000.

This rubbish is simply trendy gangsterism against a currently hard-pressed service industry. It’s also ludicrous. There is no bloody maori perspective on buying, selling or renting property.

These are tough times for real estate and over the next two years I suspect their numbers will reduce by at least a third and possibly more as reliant on commissions, agents find their income falls to zilch.

That aside, given their often irrational obsession with property, why not a compulsory study course on “Chinese customs, protocols and language”? If not, why not, after all I’d wager for every real estate transaction with a maori there’s at least 20 with members of our Chinese community. Imagine the carry-on if it were they subject to this rubbish as diverse commentators would rightly protest at its absurdity.

This nonsense is a disgraceful burden on the currently hard pressed real estate agency business and requires Ministerial intervention to put a halt to it.

Sir Bob Jones is a renowned author, columnist , property investor, and former politician, who blogs at No Punches Pulled HERE.

 

Today's saint, St John of Capistrano, a Franciscan, was a great 15th century preacher and leader of an army that liberated Belgrade from a Turkish invasion. 

 

 San Juan Capistrano and its eponymous Spanish mission. made famous by the swallows that return there each year - prime real estate?

 St Juan Capistrano, please pray for New Zealand

KELLIE-JAY IS LET IN: WATCH MR PLOD

 

Kellie-Jay Keen whose anti-trans views Minister Wood says are vile

If there’s one thing that women’s rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen’s current speaking tour is proving beyond doubt, it’s that policing in Australia and New Zealand has become so deeply politically compromised that both are rapidly becoming police states.

Hyperbole? Consider what a “police state” is: A state whose government institutions exercise an extreme level of control over civil society and liberties, with little or no distinction between the law and the exercise of political power.

In the Australian state of Victoria, police have pursued highly politicised prosecutions against prominent conservatives in defiance of the state prosecutor’s express recommendations, while government MPs have openly flouted summonses with no repercussion. During Covid lockdown, police took part in illegal BLM protests, but used rubber bullets and teargas against Freedom protesters.

In New Zealand, police knock on peoples’ doors over perfectly legal social media posts, while issuing secret notices against journalists, and filmed themselves gleefully high-fiving after violently smashing the peaceful “Freedom Village” protests. 

 

Government and police conspire to illegally keep conservative journalists from entering the country.

In the case of Kellie-Jay Keen, Victorian police bizarrely co-operated with neo-Nazis in an apparent effort to embarrass a feminist rally, while violent far-left counter-protesters punched police horses and knocked a woman unconscious.

And New Zealand is allegedly conspiring to repeat its attempt to keep an ideological opponent out of the country.

Firebrand British anti-transgender activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull could be barred from entering New Zealand after her rally in Melbourne attracted neo-Nazi supporters and descended into violence.

Keen-Minshull will be allowed in, Immigration NZ confirmed just one hour before the time of writing, despite the Minister of Immigration, Michael Wood, condemning her “inflammatory, vile and incorrect world views”. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/131572087/antitrans-activist-kelliejay-keenminshull-allowed-into-new-zealand

Well there you are. "Incorrect." The last word has been spoken. Stuff declares, in its usual unbiased reporting, that "a number of " (Keen-Minshull's) "supporters were seen throwing Nazi salutes". How did Stuff identify her supporters? Stuff does not say. Wood said like many New Zealanders, he would prefer it if Keen-Minshull “never set foot in New Zealand.

“I find many of her views repugnant, and am concerned by the way in which she courts some of the most vile people and groups around including white supremacists.”

 

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However, "I have been advised," said Wood. "that this case does not meet the threshold for Ministerial intervention.” Not yet, that is.

Ms Keen-Minshull’s radical “Let Women Speak” tour has scheduled events in Auckland and Wellington on Saturday and Sunday.
While UK nationals are usually able to enter New Zealand without a visa, Immigration New Zealand (INZ) is investigating Ms Keen-Minshull’s application ahead of those events […] However, such actions are usually taken based on a person’s criminal background, meaning an assessment of how the Melbourne incident might weigh on Ms Keen-Minshull’s application is outside of the usual parameters.

Meaning that Keen has no criminal record. Her only “crime” is opposing the left-wing government’s anti-woman “trans” agenda.

As for the neo-Nazis and violence in Melbourne, Victoria Police have a lot to answer for.

The event on Saturday was long planned and co-ordinated with the Victorian Police, event organisers made public warnings that far-right groups were expected and not welcome.

Yet, Victoria Police, while properly keeping far-left counter-protesters separate from the women’s event, ushered the neo-Nazis through a cordon, even apparently shaking hands with one. The police willingly gave the neo-Nazis a platform to stand on the steps of the Victorian parliament and perform Nazi salutes.

Why did police allow this to happen?

The Australian Jewish Association is asking that very question.

There was some very odd policing. While the Victorian police held back the trans activists who arrived to disrupt the rally, they did not do the same to the Nazis. Rather they seemed to facilitate their entry to where the women’s rally was taking place on parliament steps. WATCH the video and form your own view.

 

This disruption caused the women’s rally to disperse early. Many are saying the police should have stopped the Nazis.

The Nazis were condemned by the women’s rally organisers – one contacted AJA in distress explaining what had happened. The “Let Women Speak” organisers had nothing to do with the Nazis.

It is shameful that some politicians and media are now trying to smear this women’s movement with the false accusation of involvement with Nazis.

Australian Jewish Association/Facebook

The women’s group included Maori and Muslim women, so they are clearly far from Nazi sympathisers. Kellie-Jay Keen has been repeatedly attacked by neo-Nazis groups.

Many women at the rally, including Maori woman Michelle Uriarau, Co-Founder of women’s group Mana Wahine Koreo, said the salute was ‘chilling’.

Political motivations on behalf of the Victorian Police would also seem to include wedging the weak-as-piss Victorian opposition. Liberal leader John Pesutto is moving to sack newly-elected MP Moira Deeming, who attended the rally.

Moira Deeming was recently elected to the Victorian Upper House, and is a former local councillor and school teacher. In her maiden speech, Deeming presented a clear platform for women’s rights and talked about her broad association with more left-leaning woman in solidarity against gender identity ideology […]

Speaking after the rally, Moira Deeming said she was frightened when she first saw the men dressed in black wearing masks because she assumed they were trans activist that were about to attack women. She was however confused that the police appeared calm […] Deeming said until the men did the Sieg Heil salute there was no outward indication that the men were Nazis, even though they were clearly not associated with the women’s group.

Spectator Australia

Yet, while Victoria Police coddled the neo-Nazis, just steps away, far-left groups with a reputation for thuggish violence, such as Socialist Alternative and Antifa, were spitting, throwing corrosive liquids and punching police horses and kicking women. One woman was knocked unconscious.

Will New Zealand Police similarly tolerate violence against women by trans activists? Assuming, of course, that the immigration process isn’t yet again wrongfully hijacked by political machinations.https://thebfd.co.nz/category/politics/nz-politics/

So the immigration process hasn't been hijacked - this time. But we might hold our collective breath on this one with no chance of expiring were it not for vigilantes like the indomitable Lushington D. Brady and Cam Slater of BFD fame. 

We should pray for the restoration of right and order in the public square: the kind of right and order which is guaranteed only under the sovereignty of Jesus Christ and will be obtained only by the restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass, a holy pope and holy clergy.  

“Christus vincit! Christus regnat! Christus imperat!” – “Christ conquers, Christ reigns, Christ commands”

 

POPE: 'HELL IS NOT A PLACE BUT A POSTURE'

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The smart-arse pope

The only truly Christian, Catholic response to Pope Francis' latest heretical moment - that Hell is "not a place, it's a state" is to thank God. 

Firstly, because this will serve to remind the faithful - those who are paying attention - that according to the Church Fathers Hell is most certainly a place, with flames in it, and they burn for all eternity, and  heretics go there. 

And we should thank God for inflicting this smart-arse pontiff on the Church because he humiliates the Body of Christ, and humiliation borne for love of Jesus Christ Whose crucifixion was the ultimate in ignominy makes the Body more like unto the Head.

Lifesitenews, which has a reputation to maintain, is too polite to call Bergoglio a smart-arse but it's a licence allowed to no-count blogs such as this one when applied as the pejorative is here, to a heretic.  

Canon 1364 §1: “an apostate from the faith, a heretic, or a schismatic incurs a latae sententiae excommunication.”  Faithful Catholics who long for a truly Catholic pope and who offer the suffering inflicted on them by this pontificate are under no obligation to obey him, but rather should resist.  

In an interview to mark his 10-year anniversary, Pope Francis appeared to deny the existence of Hell, saying that “is not a place” but is instead simply “a state of the heart” and “a posture towards life.”

The pontiff’s comments formed part of a lengthy conversation conducted by Argentinian news site Perfil, one of a number of recent interviews the Pope granted journalists to mark his decade upon the papal throne. Touching on a number of topics he discussed with other reporters, Francis also spoke about his philosophical and theological thought, along with aspects relating to global politics. 

As part of the in-depth discussion, Francis was asked, “What is your own interpretation of Hell and paradise, and what happens to people who go to Hell, and what happens to those who go to paradise?”

Giving a trademark lengthy, convoluted, and somewhat evasive answer, Francis appeared to deny the existence of Hell as an actual place. “Hell is not a place,” he said. “If one goes to attend the Last Judgment, and sees the faces of those who go to Hell, one gets scared. If you read Dante, you get scared. But these are media representations.”

Expanding on his answer, Francis described Hell simply as “a state” — a description which appeared to refer to a state of mind. “Hell is a state, there are people who live in Hell continuously.”

He clarified that he was not referring to suffering generally, but to “those who make a world of bad or sick self-referentiality, and end up living in Hell.”

Hell is a state, it is a state of the heart, of the soul, of a posture towards life, towards values, towards the family, towards everything. There are people who live in Hell because they seek it, there are others who do not, who are suffering. And who goes to Hell, to that Hell, to that state? They are already living from here. 

Not content with appearing to deny the existence of Hell, however, Francis implied that there was no one actually in Hell — an about-turn in his argument that saw him appear to thus accept that Hell could be real.

“If you ask me how many people are in Hell, I answer you with a famous sculpture of the cathedral of Vézelay,” he said. Providing a description of the sculpture, Francis noted that the sculpture “has Judas hanging and the devil pulling him down, and on the other side they have the Good Shepherd, Jesus who grabs Judas and puts him on his shoulders with an ironic smile.”

“What does that mean?” he queried. “That salvation is stronger than damnation. This pilaster is a catechesis that should make us think.” 

“God’s mercy is always at our side, and what God wants is always to be with his people, with his children, and not for them to leave him,” he ended. 

His remarks echo those made in a controversial interview with atheist journalist Eugenio Scalfari, in which Scalfari claimed that Francis denied the existence of Hell and argued instead that “lost souls” were annihilated upon the death of the earthly body.

The Vatican subsequently issued a process of damage control following Scalfari’s publication of the interview. At the time, Fr. Thomas Rosica, English-language assistant to the Holy See Press Office, told LifeSiteNews: “All official, final texts of the Holy Father are found on the Vatican website,” and since they were never published by the Holy See Press Office they “should not be considered official texts.” 

They were, said Fr. Rosica, “private discussions that took place and were never recorded by the journalist.”

 

Catholic teaching on existence of Hell

 

An Angel leading a soul into Hell (Hieronymous Bosch) 

 

Pope Francis earnest attempt to deny the existence of Hell, or the possibility of anyone being in it, runs in the face of the Catholic Church’s teaching on the subject. 

The Gospels present the words of Christ on the matter. In the parable of Lazarus and the rich man, Christ warns how the greedy and selfish rich man, who died unrepentant, “also died, and he was buried in hell.” (Luke 16:22)

So also in St. Matthew’s Gospel, Christ presents the account of Judgment Day and the separation of the just from the unjust. Those who did not follow the law of God “shall go into everlasting punishment,” teaches Christ. (Matt 25:46)

In yet another discourse with His disciples, Christ explained the meaning of the parable of the sower, likening it to the final days of judgement. “The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and them that work iniquity. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matt 13:41)

One wonders how many (if any) of those readings are included in the bowdlerised texts of the Novus Ordo Missae. It's a fair bet that if present they do not occur as often as they do in the Old Mass, the Traditional Latin Mass, where the faithful are regularly reminded of the uncomfortable proposition of Hell. Which explains why they frequent the confessional: they don't want to go there..

READ: Yes, Hell is real, and Christians should not take it lightly

In his supplement to the Summae Theologiae, St. Thomas Aquinas draws upon the teaching of Scripture to clearly outline and defend the existence of Hell. Writing about where souls are borne immediately after death, the great theologian writes:

And since a place is assigned to souls in keeping with their reward or punishment, as soon as the soul is set free from the body it is either plunged into hell or soars to heaven, unless it be held back by some debt, for which its flight must needs be delayed until the soul is first of all cleansed.

“This truth is attested by the manifest authority of the canonical Scriptures and the doctrine of the holy Fathers,” he continues, “wherefore the contrary must be judged heretical as stated in Dial. iv, 25, and in De Eccl. Dogm. xlvi.” 

Later in the same section, St. Thomas reaffirms the physical existence of Hell, drawing as always from the Fathers of the Church and Sacred Scripture. Citing St. Basil, Aquinas writes that: 

at the final cleansing of the world, there will be a separation of the elements: whatever is pure and noble remaining above for the glory of the blessed, and whatever is ignoble and sordid being cast down for the punishment of the damned: so that just as every creature will be to the blessed a matter of joy, so will all the elements conduce to the torture of the damned, according to Wisdom 5:21, “the whole world will fight with Him against the unwise.” 

This is also becoming to Divine justice, that whereas they departed from one by sin, and placed their end in material things which are many and various, so should they be tormented in many ways and from many sources.

So resolutely did St. Thomas teach regarding the existence of Hell, that he outlined the manner in which the tormenting fire – of which the Scriptures speak – would be real. “However, whatever we may say of the fire that torments the separated souls, we must admit that the fire which will torment the bodies of the damned after the resurrection is corporeal, since one cannot fittingly apply a punishment to a body unless that punishment itself be bodily.” 

Aquinas further cites the teaching of Pope St. Gregory along with that of St. Augustine to support his writing. 

In comments provided to LifeSiteNews, catechist and author Deacon Nick Donnelly highlighted the importance of teaching the physical existence of Hell, since doing so “upholds the objective reality of God’s Justice.”

“When our Lord referred to the punishments of Hell — the eternal fire and undying worm — He described them in very physical terms, not in terms of psychological or spiritual states of mind,” said Donnelly. 

The Church Fathers understood Jesus’ depiction of Hell as being a literal description of a physical place. It is essential to teach the nature of Hell as a physical place because it upholds the objective reality of God’s Justice — God determines the punishment of the damned — and the objective reality of the resurrection of the body — the bodies of the damned suffer real punishments.

The English cleric slated Francis’ comments on Hell as ultimately being an “example of his dethronement of the true God for one of his own making.”  

Pope Francis’ caricature of Hell as being a psychological state is yet another example of an idolatrous humanism that reduces everything to this world, as if man’s experience is the measure of God, rather than God’s eternal design and plan as being the measure of man’s destiny. Pope Francis’ offhand dismissal of our Lord’s description of the physicality of Hell is yet another example of his dethronement of the true God for one of his own making.

 

 

The Last Judgment (Michelangelo)

 Nihil operi Dei praeponatur - Let nothing be put before the Work of God (St Benedict, Abbot)

St Benedict, on your feast day please pray for the Church