SIN, LGBTQ 'ART' THE 'A-WORD': IT'S THE N O EFFECT

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"The Foot Washing" by Fr William Hart McNicolls: Pope Francis kissing the feet of Christ with two same-sex couples embracing. 

"The Catholic Church holds it better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions on it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than for one soul, I will not say, should be lost, but should commit one single venial sin, should tell one wilful untruth, or should steal one poor farthing without excuse."

Who said that? Who on earth would say that? Can't you just hear the howls of protest, not only from Protestant trolls but from Novus Ordo Catholics - even or especially from New Zealand's Catholic bishops? Who apparently cannot think of anything better way to  revive the faith that's been lost than to print prayer cards teaching us to pray, not the Catholic Our Father but the Protestant 'Lord's Prayer' in Te Reo Maori ? 

The explanation above of the truly awful nature of just one venial sin comes from the pen of the celebrated 19th century Anglican convert St John Henry Newman - who knew nothing of the N O queues of communicants receiving their Eucharistic Lord in the hand with souls stained not just by venial but mortal sin because they haven't been absolved of those sins in the sacrament of penance, and thereby incurring the grievous mortal sin of sacrilege.

St John Henry Newman knew nothing, either, of priests who won't say the "A-word" in a homily because they KNOW - they admit - that among their flock are women who have had an abortion. These false shepherds, aka hirelings, would rather allow these women and their spouses (or partners, perhaps?) go to hell rather than hurt their feelings. This is not compassion. It's effeminate cowardice, and it's only to be expected from priests led by bishops who are similarly inclined to this vice. It's the Novus Ordo effect.

More evidence of that phenomenon is one Fr William Hart McNicolls, whose "icons, paintings and images," according to sodomy sympathiser Father James Martin, “hang in Catholic churches, as well as colleges and universities, around the world.”  The original painting of “The Foot Washing” (image above) now hangs in New York in the media headquarters of America magazine, the Jesuits’ flagship publication in the United States. 

Another "icon" by Fr William Hart McNicolls

America - whose editor at large is the aforesaid +Martin - has no problems apparently, with naming +McNicolls as "a gay priest".  The "icon" was commissioned by the "LGBTQ Catholic Resource" (never mind the oxymoron) for their 2024 conference, with which Antipope Francis - whose "outreach to the LGBTQ community is well known" said he was "united in prayer". https://outreach.faith/2024/08/father-william-hart-mcnichols-on-the-foot-washing/

What would St John Henry Newman have thought of this tawdry, blasphemous, cheap and nasty depiction of Our Lord Jesus Christ, depicted with sad, sorry sodomites and an Antipope who not only condones but blesses their intrinsically disordered unions? 

And what would the saint's reaction have been to the sale of the historic Catholic church of St Anne's in Buffalo, New York, to Muslims, to be repurposed as a mosque? St John Henry Newman knew a thing or two about property deals, having established in Birmingham, the first Oratory of St. Philip Neri in the English-speaking world. St Anne's in Buffalo was sold off to Muslims for the paltry price of $250,000. Father Ronald Vierling's  posts on X drawing attention to the sale, had elicited nearly 2 million views by August 12.https://www.newsweek.com/new-york-church-mosque-buffalo-1937906

  

St Anne's, Buffalo NY

For any Catholics who don't follow the NZ Catholic Bishops on Facebook, a few notes on  recent posts:

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the patronal feast not of "Aotearoa New Zealand", but of New Zealand. New Zealanders have not signified their political will to change the name of our country. "Aotearoa New Zealand" is a woke fiction and in forcing it on the faithful the bishops are unjust. And, in passing, an observation: "openness" is not a virtue. The Blessed Virgin Mary is our model of all the virtues but "openness" isn't one of them. Dear bishops, what you're actually talking about is Mary's OBEDIENCE to the will of God.

Perhaps Catholics would prefer to learn the Our Father (not 'the Lord's Prayer', as it's called by Protestants) and the Hail Mary, in the language of the Catholic Church, which is Latin. Dear bishops, you may have forgotten, or perhaps never knew, that the devil hates Latin. Which is one of the reasons why the Ape church of Antipope Francis has tried so hard to exterminate the Latin Mass - and failed. 

The best way to prepare for Mass is by confessing your sins in the Sacrament of Penance. To receive Holy Communion in a state of serious (mortal) sin is to add the mortal sin of sacrilege to that already committed. "Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood" (Jn 6, 53) ... "unworthily eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord" (I Cor 11, 29).

English convert G K Chesterton 

St John Henry Newman followed his famous declaration on the true character of sin, even venial, with the ensuing clarification in his lecture Certain Difficulties felt by Anglicans in Catholic Teaching Considered, delivered in 1850. 

"I think the principle here enunciated to be the mere preamble in the formal credentials of the Catholic Church, as an Act of Parliament might begin with a "Whereas". 

"It is because of the intensity of the evil which has possession of mankind, that a suitable antagonist has been provided against it; and the initial act of that divinely commissioned power is of course to deliver her challenge and to defy the enemy. Such a preamble then gives a meaning to her position in the world and an interpretation to her whole course of teaching and action." 

Anyone feeling depressed by this post and in particular by the sale of St Anne's Buffalo, to Muslims, might be comforted by the image below. It was miraculously imprinted in 1531 on the tilma of the peasant (since canonised) Juan Diego. 

Our Lady of Guadalupe stands with feet implanted on the crescent of Islam. 

Our Lady of Guadalupe, please pray for us