Sunday 19 May 2024

ST PATRICK AND PN'S CATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

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Palmerston North was once infamously derided by John Cleese as "the suicide capital of New Zealand". It's flat and windy but it does have a river. And trees. Its saving grace is the Gothic Catholic church on Broadway designed by Francis William Petre. 


Its exterior is still beautiful, its spire is still adorned with a statue of St Patrick. What's he doing up there? He's staying put, claiming it as his church - St Patrick's - as it was from the first Mass, on St Patrick's Day 1877. Three successive churches were St Patrick's, until Palmerston North became a suffragan diocese of Wellington in 1980 and its first bishop (now emeritus) Peter Cullinane renamed the last of them. +Cullinane's moniker was rejected by Rome and by St Patrick himself apparently, as his statue refused to budge, but +Cullinane ignored the Vatican and the saint, and St Patrick's Church became the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit. 


Its sublimely simple interior (above) once spoke of the transcendent, of the mystery of  the Mass of Ages, "the most beautiful thing this side of heaven" (Father Faber) for which the church was built. Look at it now (below).



Note people chatting, backs turned to the Blessed Sacrament (concealed at upper left)


Angled 'modular arrangement' of seating 



One can only imagine, now, how the hues of sunlight once filtered through the glorious stained glass to colour the original, austere interior. There's no austerity now and no need for mental resources either, in the renovated cathedral embellished with murals, carpet, cushions and OHP screens. We see how God has fallen from favour and in the emasculated liturgy of the Novus Ordo Missae (NO or 'New Mass), how man has usurped God's place. 

St Patrick's Church celebrated the usus antiquior (the traditional Latin Mass), giving God His due - adoration, thanksgiving, atonement (reparation) and petition (intercession). In the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, at the NO, how many congregants realise that these are still the "Four Ends", the purposes of the Mass?

The original, simple pews were focussed squarely and humbly on the (literally) high altar, as if perennially anticipating the manifestation of the Son of God - Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity - called down by the priest at the moment of consecration; a peerless miracle wrought by the same Power that said "Be light made. And light was made (Gen 1,3).

In the second image above we see the pews which made kneeling fairly easy replaced by chairs and comfy cushions, a 'modular arrangement' which gives a better view of the Cranmer table holding pride of place in front of the disused altar (which has literally come down in the world and is rumoured to have been destined for removal from the premises, once all the benefactors who paid for it have shuffled off this mortal coil). And angled seating, incidentally, also gives Massgoers a better view of one another.

The rear portion of the nave is raked, so that the typically Catholic Massgoers who stick to the back of the church are looking down on the altar. The idea is borrowed from the Masons, those ancient enemies of the Church who give the created superiority over the Creator. The front does a zig-zag around the sanctuary-which-is-not-a-sanctuary, as the altar rails have gone, so that female lectors, sometimes in mini-skirts, or 'Ministers of the Eucharist' in trousers can come and go, and visitors to the Eucharistic or day chapels can cut the corners on the way.


 “As in all the churches of the saints, the women should keep silence in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says. If there is anything they desire to know, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church” (1 Cor 14:33–35). Moreover, the same Apostle says to Saint Timothy: “Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness. I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men; she is to keep silent” (1 Tim 2:11–12).

In accordance with this apostolic judgment, the Church, for nearly 2,000 years, did not permit any woman to exercise a liturgical ministry in the sanctuary. Thus, the Council of Laodicea (365 AD) stated in Canon 44: “Women may not approach near the altar.” But the Church, being guided by the Holy Spirit, cannot err in the pleasing worship of Almighty God. Therefore her constant customs indicate a divine disposition, and all discordant novelties are to be rejected.  

(I)n Sacred Scripture the Word of God is always compared to seed, and the preacher to the one who plants the seed in the soil. The one who hears the Word is the mother whose faith receives the seed - the womb in which the seed is implanted, begins to grow, and with patience bears fruit. For this reason, the congregation of the faithful is the image of the Virgin Mary, while the lector is the image of God the Father, implanting in their hearts the seed of the Word, Jesus Christ, even as He did through the instrumentality of the Archangel Gabriel at the Annunciation. ...

(T)he now nearly universal custom of women reading at Mass deserves to be abolished as the historical aberration and theological danger that it is. Such a restoration of ancient discipline would be one more way to celebrate and consolidate the authentic teaching of the Second Vatican Council, which did not breathe a word about opening up liturgical ministries to women, and which expressly stipulated: “there must be no innovations unless the good of the Church genuinely and certainly requires them” (Sacrosanctum Concilium, 23).

Hence, for a woman to be proclaiming the Word is self-contradictory: it makes the female who receives the seed the male who issues the seed.https://onepeterfive.com/should-women-be-lectors-at-mass/


Zig-zagging around the 'sanctuary'


In the tradition of the Catholic Church in New Zealand, aesthetics are the presumed preserve of the parish priest, who for most of the 20th century was of Irish ethnicity if not birth (as evidenced by the cathedral's original name). Spiritually speaking that was a blessing - driven from the Emerald Isle by poverty and hardship they were men of piety who did not scorn to repair to Our Lady with the Rosary and other Marian devotions, or to encourage the faithful to do the same in the Legion of Mary, the Holy Name Society, Catholic Women's League and so on. 

However, pious Oirish families had no time or money to indulge in consideration of things of beauty being a joy forever, or to hone their sense of same. Built by Irish priests, churches resembling supermarkets and libraries are everywhere in New Zealand, especially those built or "modernised" (the very adjective hints at heresy) in the last 50 years or so - as the cathedral of the Holy Spirit demonstrates. 

Of course, lots of people don't notice or care about aesthetics. Fine. But many do. Many believe, and feel passionately, that the house of God should be beautiful, and in keeping with canon law, and that the ancestors who built their church with galas and garden parties and concerts should be honoured also. It would be nice if PPs and/or parish councils consulted these people before assaulting churches which do not belong to Father (who will inevitably move on), or to a group of parishioners who might resign tomorrow. 

Installation elsewhere in the PN Diocese, for example, of handrails on sanctuary steps tells of congregations inexorably aging, of a PP and/or the lectors or 'ministers of the Eucharist' who are elderly and infirm; or clear windows so Father can see how far away the late-comers are, or clocks so he can see when to stop his homily (in five minutes, give or take a few seconds).


For Massgoers the outside world should not exist. For at least one hour in the week a Catholic's attention should be devoted entirely to the Presence within (if they're in a state of grace), which makes visuals in the church all the more vital to those who care, to their inner peace and powers of concentration on the miracle of the Eucharist unfolding before them. It's the Mass that matters, and the God Who gave His life for us deserves the very finest accoutrements a parish can afford. The more generous it is to God, the more generous He is with blessings for the congregation. 


 

The cathedral's faux high altar


The cathedral's high altar is faux. Catholics at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit no longer worship "the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar" as they did in St Patrick's: God is reserved in a tabernacle well away from the altar, which now is now merely a nice backdrop for a Protestant-style table and the 'presider's' chair.


The Most Holy Sacrament is to be reserved in a tabernacle in a part of the church that is noble, prominent, readily visible, and adorned in a dignified manner” and furthermore “suitable for prayer” by reason of the quietness of the location, the space available in front of the tabernacle, and also the supply of benches or seats and kneelers (Instruction Redemptionis Sacramentum).


The Blessed Sacrament Chapel at the cathedral has plastic flowers and a single prie-dieu. Only rarely is there anyone kneeling on it. 


The text for the image of the altar on the diocesan website states:

The marble high altar was dedicated to Monsignor James McManus, 7th parish priest, and installed in July 1963. Its 200 pieces weigh 7 tons and were assembled between two pillars close to the rear sanctuary wall. It is somewhat ironic that this work was carried out during Vatican II: in only a few years both the altar in that form and the altar rails were to become hindrances to modern liturgical practice. During renovations in 1988 it was decided to keep the altar and move it forward to fashion the Day Chapel. 


 

The day chapel, once St Patrick's sanctuary  



 

That  word "modern" is the key to unlocking the ideology behind the latter-day Reformation of St Patrick's. Modernism was denounced as heresy by successive popes of the 20th century - and the 'liturgical practice' is now the Bugninian Mass. Paul VI's Novus Ordo Missae was imposed in 1969 after its concoction, in a dizzying 5 years, by a prelate widely reckoned to be a Mason (with advice from Protestant clergy, deliberately and professedly to make the Mass more acceptable to Protestants), replacing the traditional Mass which had grown organically throughout 1500 centuries. St Patrick's Church was designed for the latter; the Cathedral for the former. 

The marble altar was probably too heavy to bother moving. It's there merely as window dressing and we may thank God that it didn't end up in the Manawatu; many high altars were dumped in rivers and harbours in the wreckovations of the '60s and '70s. What's used now instead of an altar for the Sacrifice of the Lamb of God is something (pictured below) commonly named the Cranmer table after Thomas Cranmer, Henry VIII's  Archbishop of Canterbury, who turned the unbloody re-presentation of the Sacrifice of Calvary into a nice, Protestant, memorial meal. 


The Cranmer table


Its design means that the officiating priest (or priests plural when concelebrating, O me miserum), stands behind it like Dad waiting to carve the roast for his family - who are metaphorically starving for the spiritual meat missing from NO homilies, based as they are on skimpy Mass texts which completely omit the Offertory. If the high altar's tabernacle were still occupied as it was in the past by the Real Presence, the priest would be turning his back on God.

As it is, the God Who died on the Cross for our salvation is sidelined in a glorified cupboard, unceremoniously divested of the crucifix and altar with which the tabernacle must be conjoined because all three elements point to the Eucharist, “the source and summit of the Christian life” (CCC 1324). 



The new tabernacle: no altar, no crucifix


The cathedral was closed for months on end after an arson attack in April 2023 damaged a glass mural described on the diocesan website by Young Catholics Team Leader Nick Wilson:

Two glass panes run from the floor close to the ceiling behind the altar. Powerful red lamps throw light up into the glass that has flames etched into it, making it look like it is on fire – a symbol of the Spirit.


Good to have the explanation. We'd never have guessed. 



Modern screens: not a good fit with the stained glass windows   


 

Not only the glass murals flanking the altar, but also the painted screens either side of the sanctuary, juxtaposed as they are with glorious stained windows, are iconoclastic to say the least. And then there's the question of the Stations of the Cross. St Patrick's Church had large framed painted works; the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit has these:

 


The Stations are miniscule


Bronze and marble are materials worthy of better workmanship than this, and the noble proportions of the cathedral are worthy of larger Stations of the Cross than these, which are miniscule.


Further embellishments considered necessary for Palmerston North's Cathedral which were entirely missing from St Patrick's Church are Maori carvings on the aisle end of every row of chairs. They are said to be "an expression of faith in wood from the six tribal groups of the Diocese".





Tānenuiārangi is the common ancestor of the Rangitāne people. He is one of New Zealands most notable ancestors.  Also known as Tāne-te-waiora and Tāne-matua, he helped separate Rangi-nui and Papa-tū-ā-nuku so the sun would shine on their children. He also ascended to Te Toi-o-ngā-rangi to bring back the three kits of knowledge. (Deacon Danny Karatea-Goddard.)https://pndiocese.org.nz/news-and-events/cathedral-of-the-holy-spirit/


Not to put too fine a point on it, what's described above by Deacon Danny Karatea-Goddard on the diocesan website is pagan spirituality. It has nothing to do with Christ or the Gospel or the Catholic Church. The images on the chairs in the cathedral may well be Christian in intent but there seems to be no information available on the diocesan website to interpret them for cathedral parishioners and visitors, the vast majority of whom are non-Maori and to whom the carvings look just like Rotorua's.  



Pachamama in St Peter's Basilica, 2019


Since those carvings were made and installed the Mystical Body of Christ has seen the pagan goddess Pachamama worshipped in the Vatican Gardens in the presence of Pope Francis and introduced into St Peter's Basilica, an event attributed by Cardinal Raymond Burke to "diabolical forces" which needed to be "vanquished by the grace of God". 


Since Pachamama's appearance in the heart of the Christendom, race and religious relations have deteriorated in New Zealand and all around the world. The prayers and reparation to the Blessed Virgin Mary requested in 2019 for the Pachamama idolatry by Cardinal Burke and Bishop Athanasius Schneider would seem needed now more than ever. 

On the great Solemnity of Pentecost we may turn to the Holy Spirit for Whom Palmerston North's Cathedral was named, and to His Immaculate Spouse who experienced the Holy Ghost at her Immaculate Conception and always knew Him intimately, asking her prayers for New Zealand, for the world and for the Church at this perilous moment in history.  



The Crowning of the Virgin by the Trinity (detail) by Velasquez




Come Holy Spirit; come by the powerful intercession of the Most Immaculate Heart of Mary, Thy Beloved Bride










































Thursday 16 May 2024

US SENDS PRO-LIFERS TO GAOL, WHEN WILL NZ?


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With apologies for reminding decent Kiwis of her existence





Tomorrow morning four individuals will stand around the Stortford Lodge intersection in Hastings holding placards. Since Ardern's Safe Areas legislation, this is the closest they can get to the hospital, a block away, on babykilling day. "Doctors are killing babies at Hastings Hospital today", says one sign. "Smile: you're made in God's image" says another. 3 are Latin Massgoing Catholics, the fourth a Catholic priest, in civvies. 

Where are the other Catholics? They drive by, some tooting approvingly. Where are the Catholic priests wearing clericals - Roman collars? They won't even give space in their parish bulletin for fear of being "divisive". 

Forget genocide in Gaza: think genocide in New Zealand. This is the business of the Catholic Church - saving souls. Not the planet, Pope Francis, souls! Millions of women are killing their own children and you're fretting about 'climate change'! Four people are in prison in the US now for protesting against abortion, for trying to do your job for you, Holiness. It's only a matter of time before Kiwis are sent to jail for it too.

 

Pro-life advocate Johnathan Darnel: 2 years+ for protesting abortion



The Biden administration has thrown yet another pro-life American in prison for protesting abortion.

Thanks to Joe Biden’s politicized Justice Department, pro-life advocate Herb Geraghty has been sentenced to 34 months in prison under the FACE Act just for engaging in a peaceful protest inside an abortion center.


 

Herb Geraghty (real name Rosemary)

Like fellow pro-life advocate Lauren Handy, Darnel was found guilty on all counts the Biden administration brought against them for allegedly violating the FACE law.

In a previous interview, Darnel called it an “honor” to be arrested for saving babies from abortions.

“FACE is a crime, but it shouldn’t be a crime because abortion shouldn’t be tolerated,” he said in an interview with Catholic News Agency (CNA). “Except for the unjust execution of Christ, abortion is the worst thing that’s ever happened in the history of the world.”

Darnel said he lives in “a nation that murders kids” and attributed his 14-year “quasi-full time” pro-life work to his evangelical Christian faith. “How can I say I love Christ and not respond with extreme zeal, extreme action, and drastic measures to this holocaust?”

Those pro-lifers on trial conducted a rescue at the Washington Surgi-Clinic operated by the notorious late-term abortionist Cesare Santangelo who was busted by a LiveAction undercover investigator for admitting that he would not help a child with life-saving efforts if he or she survived a late-term abortion. He emphatically stated that a nearby hospital’s efforts to save the life of a child he was trying to abort was “the stupidest thing they could have done.”

Lauren Handy, Herb Geraghty, Darnel and others cited those videos as the reason for the rescue and protest at the abortion business because of the concern babies might be left to die. They chained themselves to the entrance of the abortion center in an attempt to stop abortions.

The rescuers were given 115 aborted babies by the driver of a medical waste van outside Santangelo’s late-term abortion facility. The babies were well-developed – second and possibly third trimester. Their remains are still in a vault at the D.C. medical examiner’s office.

In October 2020, about two months after the remains were obtained, the nine pro-lifers blocked the entrance of the abortion facility and protesting abortion. Darnel filmed the protest he participated in alongside Handy and the other convicted activists.

However, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, a Clinton nominee, would not allow the video to be used as evidence. She also prohibited the defendants from arguing their actions were protected by the First Amendment or were committed in defense of a third person, unborn children.

“This is a clear abuse of power and a sign that the Biden administration is using the Department of Justice to attack political targets—particularly those of us who believe in the right to life for all human beings,” Geraghty, a member of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, told The Daily Signal late last year.

 

John Hinshaw: told the judge off for ignoring babies: "How can you allow this?"



Yesterday, another pro-life advocate who participated in the protest, John Hinshaw, was sentenced for 21 months and will get credit for 9 months served. And pro-life advocate Will Goodman was sentenced to 27 months in prison for his role in the 2020 protest.

If the pro-life advocates were environmental activists or a leftist supporting Hamas, their sit-in at an abortion business would have earned Handy a misdemeanor charge and maybe a small fine. But because she is a pro-life advocate protesting abortion, the Biden administration used the FACE Act to prosecute her for supposedly blocking access to abortion.

Even though the law, which abrogates the free speech rights of pro-life Americans, has rarely been used, the Biden administration pushed for putting several pro-life advocates in prison for over a decade for protesting abortion. Biden officials misused the law to push for the highest penalties, reserved for violent criminal behavior, to prosecute peaceful pro-life Americans who merely exercised their free speech rights.


 

Lauren Handy, a Catholic, with a real priest

 

Handy, a Catholic, is a well-known pro-life voice on the political left. She was the primary organizer and leader of the peaceful protest sponsored by  Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising that led to the ongoing court cases.

In a statement before the ruling, Handy shed some perspective on being jailed for her pro-life activism.

"I will go into court with my head held high and my heart open.”


“Today’s outrageous 57-month sentence for a progressive pro-life activist is a stark reminder: Biden’s DOJ is fully weaponized against pro-life American citizens, and they are using the FACE Act to do it,” Rep. Chip Roy said in a statement. “House Republicans should defund the DOJ weaponization, repeal the FACE Act, and stand up for the freedoms that we campaign on.”


 

Outside the US Supreme Court the day Roe v Wade was overturned

 

Caroline Smith, Executive Director of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising said, “The abortion industry wants to scare, intimidate, fear-monger, and isolate us. But what they don’t know is we have a radical hope that goes beyond the concrete walls of both prisons and abortuaries. I believe the oppression that the DOJ is expressing right now will absolutely backfire on them in the near future. Oppression always backfires, especially when your motivation is blood money. Abortion is murder, and fetuses are people, and nothing will stop Rescue.”

A total of 10 pro-life advocates face the federal criminal charges after they were arrested and indicted for allegedly violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) in 2020 at the Washington Surgi-Clinic in Washington, DC. That’s a late-term abortion facility suspected of breaking federal law by performing partial birth abortions and illegally allowing babies born alive after failed abortions to die.

Allowing such babies to die is legal in New Zealand -  https://bothlivesmatter.org.nz/the-law-in-detail/

The defendants – often called “rescuers” by fellow members of the pro-life movement – partook in a 2020 peaceful protest against a notorious Washington, D.C. abortuary that performed late-term abortions.


 

Also on the day Roe v Wade was overturned 

 

Last year, all nine were found guilty of violating the controversial Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. They each face a sentence of up to 11 years in federal prison. The FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) Act prohibits individuals from attempting to injure, intimidate, or interfere (by use of force, threat of force, or physical obstruction) with anyone obtaining or performing an abortion.

FACE is the US equivalent of New Zealand's Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion (Safe AreasAmendment Act 2022 which came into force on 19 March 2022. "Safe Areas" is Ardern's idea of a joke at the expense of unborn babies for whom the 'safe area' is the most dangerous in the land.

The indictment in the case says that on Oct. 22, 2020, 10 individuals “conspired with one another and with others known and unknown to obstruct access” to the Washington Surgi-Clinic in Washington, D.C.

“It was the purpose of the conspiracy to create a blockade to stop the clinic from providing and patients from obtaining reproductive health services,” the indictment alleges. The indictment says the defendants used “deception” to gain access to the clinic, used “force” to enter, and barricaded themselves inside with “ropes and chains.”

A video of the rescue shows the pro-life advocates praying and singing inside the abortion facility and refusing to leave so abortions could end the lives of unborn children.

Stephen Crampton, senior counsel for the nonprofit legal firm Thomas More Society, says the cases are clearly political persecution.

“They waited a year and a half to file this action,” Crampton said. “If indeed this was some sort of dire offense and the defendants ought to be incarcerated, why in the world, does the government wait a year and a half to file the charges?”

“The climate activists were out there [in D.C.] gluing their hands to the streets, shutting down traffic and everything, you think there’s any chance the feds are going to prosecute those people or try to put them in prison for 11 years?” he asked.

He also told Fox News that finding a fair jury was practically impossible considering that D.C. is the “most pro-abortion city in America.”

Caroline Taylor Smith, executive director of PAAU told LifeNews, “This overreaching of power and authority by Biden’s DOJ is egregious and must be stopped. Nonviolent prolife actions should not be a federal crime, and peaceful people with a desire to save lives should not be jailed for over a decade. Some of these Rescuers could be facing death by incarceration. We must repeal the FACE Act now!”

Last year, former President Donald Trump promised to support “political prisoners” if he’s elected president. During the Family Research Council’s “Pray, Vote, Stand Summit” in Washington, D.C., Trump vowed to get innocent Americans out of jail for standing up for their beliefs while criminals run rampant. 

“I am announcing that the moment I win the election, I will appoint a special task force to rapidly review the cases of every political prisoner who has been unjustly persecuted by the Biden administration,” Trump said. 

That was last year, mind you. Trump's middle name is not consistency. He has flip-flopped on abortion. However, faux Catholic Joe Biden is the most murderous president in US history.  He wants the absolute right to abortion up to birth. He and VP Kamala Harris are fully endorsed by Planned Parenthood. Enough said.

Trump referenced the convictions of pro-life advocates who now face as many as 11 years in prison for rescuing babies from abortions at a late-term abortion business in Washington D.C.

“If we stand together in this fight, we’re going to defeat Crooked Joe Biden; if he runs — will he make it to the starting gate?” Trump said.

 


Pentecost (Crispin van den Broeck, 1524-1591)


 Come Holy Ghost Creator come, 

from Thy bright heavenly throne; 

come take possession of our souls 

and make them all Thy own.


Saturday 11 May 2024

IRELAND IS "FINISHED AS A COUNTRY"

 

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"Crown the Witch". The catchphrase went viral on social media sites when 31-year-old Bambie Ray Robinson – known as “Bambie Thug” - made it into the Eurovision Song final. 

"My goal in life is to make everybody leave all the other religions and join witchcraft", said she. Robinson won support from Irish media and politicians, including Prime Minister Simon Harris. "Ireland salutes Bambie Thug," said he. 

Ireland's Bambie Thug was beaten by Switzerland's Nemo. But when once-holy Ireland voted by a landslide to legalise butchery of the unborn, Lucifer seized his opportunity for his take-over of the once-Catholic nation. Bambie Thug's "blood-spattered corporate Satanism" is a direct, diabolical consequence of the crime of abortion against Christ our King. What are Ireland's once-Catholic bishops going to do about it? Corporate exorcism and public Masses of Reparation are in order.



Taoiseach Simon Harris: "Ireland salutes Bambie Thug"



Bambie Thug says her aims are “to talk more about the occult and get people more familiar with it and make people stop being so judgy about witchcraft.” 

Her description of writing music sounds like a kind of demonic possession: “I can go into a vortex.  I completely channel. I just go somewhere else for ages and then just come out with the song. I sometimes don’t even remember writing something."

She says her aims are “to talk more about the occult and get people more familiar with it and make people stop being so judgy about witchcraft.”

 

“My goal in life is to make everybody leave all the other religions and join witchcraft,” Robinson stated.

 Robinson claims to be non-binary and describes her work as “Ouija pop,” with prominent and central aspects of satanic-inspired images, actions and symbols present throughout.

Robinson said “Bambie Thug is your witchy king antidote to the world”. Her openly satanic flagship song “Doomsday Blue” saw Robinson dressed in gothic attire, with devil horns and fake nails representing bishops’ crosiers. 

Overt satanic themes included Robinson’s makeup and lyrics featuring spells drawn from Harry Potter literature.

What did we say about Harry Potter, way back then? But claiming "I told you so" is never satisfying.  

At one point, Robinson stood in the center of an encircled pentagram while candles lit up as she waved her hand over them.

Her dance partner 's makeup resembled a demon while a mid-performance disrobing saw Robinson wear the transgender flag colors on a bikini, which she explained was to “shout from the rooftops about trans rights forever.”

Robinson ended with “Crown the Witch” in Gothic text on the screen behind her. She had the phrase tattooed on her face in Ongham script. Her original intention to have “Free Palestine” tattooed on her face was rejected.

The catchphrase “Crown the Witch” has since gone viral on social media sites, with Robinson winning notable support from the Irish media and numerous Irish politicians, including newly appointed Prime Minister Simon Harris.

The song is described by Eurovision as being “about the feeling of having your potential overlooked, an ode to the queer community.”

Robinson’s songs and music videos are notable for explicit content such as full nudity, heightened focus on sex, and direct links to the occult.

She professes to have practised “spells” since an early age. “My heritage is pagan and I practice witchcraft. I’m a goth b**ch.” 

Speaking in 2023, Robinson stated that the then-unreleased song “Doomsday Blue” is explicitly satanic. “I have a song called ‘Doomsday’ that isn’t out yet. I spoke tongues under the beat or we all speak backwards in songs or just hide spells in songs, using occult language as well. Or even like the ‘NECROMANCY’ song, that came from a spell.” 

Her description of writing music sounds like a kind of demonic possession: “I can go into a vortex.  I completely channel. I just go somewhere else for ages and then just come out with the song. I sometimes don’t even remember writing something."

She says her aims are “to talk more about the occult and get people more familiar with it and make people stop being so judgy about witchcraft.” 

“My goal in life is to make everybody leave all the other religions and join witchcraft,” Robinson stated.

Her rise to international prominence is completely unexpected given her very small number of songs and the fact that “Doomsday Blue” peaked at 37 on the Irish charts.

After Robinson performed “Doomsday Blue” on Irish TV in February, Father Declan McInerney of the Diocese of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora excoriated the performance. In a viral homily, McInerney stated after viewing Robinson’s song that “we are finished. We are finished as a country.”Irish non-binary ‘witch’ makes Eurovision final with song aimed to ‘make everybody join witchcraft’ - LifeSite (lifesitenews.com) (redacted).