Jerusalem Belongs to Christ the King and His True Church
NOTE: Not an endorsement for sedevacantism...
The Calvinist-Judeo-Masonic world of Modernity is premised the following false premises:
(a) that it is possible for men and their nations to pursue the common good by their own unaided powers;
(b) that material prosperity is the sole measure of personal success and national greatness;
(c)
that men have the right to exercise an unfettered freedom of speech and
press without regard for Divine Revelation and/or without regard even
to objective truths in the Order of Creation;
(d) that human sentiment and utilitarian necessity are the standards of law and morality.
Theses premises have created a contemporary world containing the following characteristics:
(a)
that elections must be controlled by political parties composed of
career politicians who, at least for the most part, are concerned solely
the acquisition and retention of civil power;
(b)
that the citizenry, distracted by the bread and circuses represented by
partisan politics, lack the interest and do not have the attention span
to understand that the real decisions shaping their lives are made by
lobbyists for corporate interests which provide campaign cash and
perquisites for elected officials;
(c)
that the establishment of the career civil service and then the welfare
state permitted an oligarchy of unelected officials to serve as the
permanent government that is accountable to no one and able to make
decisions about the lives and property of private citizens by virtue of
administrative procedures established by Congress’s abdication of its
constitutional duties;
(d)
that “public education” is a tool of ideological propaganda designed to
condition young people to accept the dictates of the high priests and
priestesses of Modernity without complaint; (e) that a supposedly “free
press” can report the “news” from that same ideological perspective to
reinforce the direct and subliminal messages taught in America’s
concentration camps;
(f)
that it is necessary to surrender national sovereignty to a variety of
globalist entities, each of which has its own administrative ruling
class accountable to no one which does the bidding of Judeo-Masonry;
(g)
that national borders are archaic and that foreign nationals must be
permitted free access to other nations without regard to those nations’
national security, public health and political stability;
(h) that “freedom of religion” means freedom from religion, especially the true religion, Catholicism—not conciliarism, in the public “square”;
(i)
that medical care must be premised on the acceptance of contraception,
surgical and chemical abortions, the homosexualist agenda, “brain
death,” “vital organ donation” and so-called palliative care;
(j) that parents have no Natural Law rights to educate their children as they see fit;
(k)
that pharmaceutical companies have a right to exercise a virtual
monopoly on so-called “remedies” and that natural means to heal bodies
and to cure diseases and chronic conditions must be suppressed;
(l)
that corporations and internet providers have the right to violate the
privacy of people to track their every move, if not their every word,
spoken or written, and to condition people to purchase what is displayed
in pop-up screens;
(m)
that the masses, lulled to sleep by lives of relative ease and
convenience, will accept robots and other means of “artificial
intelligence,” including the implantation of the “chip” into their own
bodies, to create a race of people who do whatever the “chip” or robot
commands;
(n)
that natural disasters are the result of “global warming” and not a
manifestation of God’s just chastisement upon men for their sins.
This
is a somewhat comprehensive summary of life created in the wake of the
triumph of Calvinism and Judeo-Masonry since Martin Luther’s overthrow
of the Social Reign of Christ the King five hundred years ago.
Nonetheless,
however, this site exists to help readers to see the world through the
eyes of the true Faith as it is easy to become agitated and distracted
over the conflicts that are designed by the adversary to keep people
from reflecting on root causes of problems, starting with the social
effects of their own sins.
Father Edward Cahil, S.J., writing in the Irish Ecclesiastical Review eighty-eight years ago, provided his own list of what the scions of Judeo-Masonry hoped to accomplish in the world:
The
immediate aim of the practical policy of Freemasonry is to make its
naturalistic principles effective in the lives of the people; and first
of all to enforce them in every detail of public life. Hence its
political and social programme includes:
(1) The
banishment of religion from all departments of government, and from all
public institutions; and as a mark of the triumph of this policy, the
removal of the Crucifix and all religious emblems from the legislative
assemblies, the courts of justice, the public hospitals, the schools and
university colleges, etc. (Father Edward Cahill, S.J., Freemasonry and the anti-Christian Movement,
Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, published originally by M. H.
Gill and Son, Ltd., in Dublin, Ireland, 1930, and republished by
Kessinger Legacy Reprints, pp. 156-157.)
It
is very telling that conciliar revolutionaries, who have enabled the
"leftists" of the civil state in a particularly blatant manner since the
"elction" of Jorge Mario Bergoglio on Wednesday, March 13, 2013, have
applauded these “developments” as most of their own colleges and
universities have divested themselves of official control of what is
purported to be the Catholic Church and have removed the Crucifix and
other religious emblems from most of their classrooms. Formerly Catholic
hospitals have done the same. Indeed, many of them, participating fully
in the medical industry’s manufactured, money-making myth of “brain
death” (see ObamaDeathCare),
have merged with secular corporations. And most Catholics in public
life are fully supportive of various evils under cover of the civil law,
and none of them is reprobated by Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who, quite
instead, praises those of them that he meets as “servants of the poor.”
To return to Father Cahill’s enumeration of the Judeo-Masonic program:
(2) The secularization of marriage.
(3)
The establishment of a State system of so-called education which, at
least in its primary stages, will be obligatory and conducted by the
laity.
(4) Complete freedom of worship (at least for all except the true one.) (Father Edward Cahill, S.J., Freemasonry and the anti-Christian Movement,
Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, published originally by M. H.
Gill and Son, Ltd., in Dublin, Ireland, 1930, and republished by
Kessinger Legacy Reprints, p. 157.)
Absent
the Social Reign of Christ the King as It must be exercised by His
Catholic Church, men and their nations must fall into the abyss. Those
who think that the perversity represented by so-called “gay marriage”
has brought us to rock bottom are quite mistaken. Polygamy and
“marriage” to children are the next frontiers in the path of “civil
freedom” according to the logic of Judeo-Masonry. Total debauchery thus
must be enshrined under cover of the civil law and promoted and
celebrated throughout what passes for “popular culture.”
Pope Leo XIII had made a similar point in Immortale Dei, November 1, 1885, forty-five years before Father Cahill’s articles appeared in the Irish Ecclesiastical Review:
Doctrines
[Modern doctrines on the separation of Church and State and civil
liberty] such as these, which cannot be approved by human reason, and
most seriously affect the whole civil order, Our predecessors the Roman
Pontiffs (well aware of what their apostolic office required of them) have never allowed to pass uncondemned.
Thus, Gregory XVI in his encyclical letter "Mirari Vos," dated August
15, 1832, inveighed with weighty words against the sophisms which even
at his time were being publicly inculcated-namely, that no preference
should be shown for any particular form of worship; that it is right for individuals to form their own personal judgments about religion;
that each man's conscience is his sole and allsufficing guide; and that
it is lawful for every man to publish his own views, whatever they may
be, and even to conspire against the State. On the question of the
separation of Church and State the same Pontiff writes as follows: "Nor
can We hope for happier results either for religion or for the civil
government from the wishes of those who desire that the Church be
separated from the State, and the concord between the secular and
ecclesiastical authority be dissolved. It is clear that these
men, who yearn for a shameless liberty, live in dread of an agreement
which has always been fraught with good, and advantageous alike to
sacred and civil interests." To the like effect, also, as
occasion presented itself, did Pius IX brand publicly many false
opinions which were gaining ground, and afterwards ordered them to be
condensed in summary form in order that in this sea of error Catholics
might have a light which they might safely follow. (Pope Leo XIII, Immortale Dei, November 1, 1885.)
As
we know, the conciliar “popes” have endorsed that which our true “Roman
Pontiffs (well aware of what their apostolic office required of them)
have never allowed to pass uncondemned.” The conciliar “popes” have
“reconciled” with the principles of Modernity. A future such “pope”
explained this in his own words thirty-five years ago:
Let
us be content to say here that the text serves as a countersyllabus
and, as such, represents on the part of the Church, an attempt at an
official reconciliation with the new era inaugurated in 1789. (Joseph
Ratzinger, Principles of Catholic Theology, p. 382.)What happened in 1789?
Wasn't there some kind of anti-Theistic revolution in France, the elder daughter of the Church? What did Pope Leo XIII write about such reconciling with the principles of the revolution just a year before he promoted the Bishop of Mantua, Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, to be the Patriarch of Venice?
Wasn't there some kind of anti-Theistic revolution in France, the elder daughter of the Church? What did Pope Leo XIII write about such reconciling with the principles of the revolution just a year before he promoted the Bishop of Mantua, Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, to be the Patriarch of Venice?
Every familiarity should be avoided, not only with those impious libertines who openly promote the character of the sect,
but also with those who hide under the mask of universal tolerance,
respect for all religions, and the craving to reconcile the maxims of
the Gospel with those of the revolution. These men seek to reconcile
Christ and Belial, the Church of God and the state without God. (Pope Leo XIII, Custodi Di Quella Fede, December 8, 1892.)
This
applies as much to the conciliar revolutionaries as to the lords of
Modernity as they, the conciliar revolutionaries, have shown their
utmost respect for all religions while showing their contempt for the
true one instituted by God Himself. The religion of conciliaism is
Judeo-Masonic pantheistic naturalism.
Pope
Saint Pius X always understood the schemes of the enemies to make the
civil state the true secular “church” as the only means of human
happiness and advancement:
In
August 1896 in Padua, the second Congress of the Catholic Union for
Social Studies took place. We have already seen that this organization
had been created seven years before by Professor Giuseppe Toniolo, in
the presence of the Bishop of Mantua [Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto]. This
time, eight bishops were present and several directors of the Opera del Congressi took
part. All the eminent representatives of the Italian Catholic Movement
were present (Medolago Pagnuzzi, Alessi and others). Cardinal Sarto's
address attracted considerable notice. Faced with "ardent enemies"
(unbelief and revolution) "...menacing and trying to destroy the social
fabric," the Patriarch of Venice invited the participants to make Jesus
Christ the foundation of02/ their work: "the only peace treaty is the Gospel." He warned them against what is now called the "welfare state," the state which provides everything and provides all socialization: "substituting
public almsgiving for private almsgiving involves the complete
destruction of Christianity and it is a terrible attack on the principle
of ownership. Christianity cannot exist without charity, and the
difference between charity and justice is that justice may have
recourse to laws and even to force, depending on the circumstances,
whereas charity can only be imposed by the tribunal of God and of
conscience." If public assistance and the redistribution of wealth are institutionalized, "poverty becomes a function, a way of life, a public trade..." (Yves Chiron, Saint Pius X: Restorer of the Church. Translated by Graham Harrison. Angelus Press, 2002, p. 100)
Jorge
Mario Bergoglio is the epitome of everything condemned by the Bishop of
Padua, the future Pope Saint Pius X, one hundred twenty-one years ago.
Bergoglio embraces every pro-abortion, pro-perversity, Marxist-leaning
or outright Marxist public official, whether elected or appointed, on
the face of the earth, including the egregious pro-abort, pro-perversity
globalist statist named Edmund G. (Jerry/Space Cadet) Brown, Jr. the
Governor of the People’s Republic of California (see Vatican Extols Pro-Abortion Governor Jerry Brown as a True Leader Who Defends Human Dignity).
The social teaching of the counterfeit church of conciliarism, replete
as it is with a Marxist-Leninist deification of the poor and of the
state’s role in “assisting” them—to stay in poverty and under their
collectivist thumb, that is, is in perfect accord of the goals of
globalists, who are really Marxists in green clothing. (Somewhere in the
files of The Wanderer is a column I wrote twenty-three years ago, “When Green Is Red,” about environmentalism as a cover for Marxism.)
Temptations to Develop Rooting Interests for Two Sides of the Same Naturalist Coin
There
is a firm alliance between the likes of former President Barack Hussein
Obama/Barry Soetoro’s Marxist “community organizers” and the
counterfeit church of conciliarism, which is why no one should in the
least be surprised by the as of yet unsubstantiated allegation in
Dictator Pope that “Pope Francis” laundered the Peter’s Pence donations
that had been made by the American conciliar “bishops to the Vatican and
then directed them into the coffers of the presidential campaign of
former First Lady/former United States Senator/former United States
Secretary of State Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton in 2015. How can there
be any doubt in the minds of any “conservative” Catholic that Jorge
Mario Bergoglio is a Marxist who equates innocent human life in the womb
with the earth, plants and animals? (See, for example, "He Speaks Like A Leftist", Jorge Plays Tag Team With George Soros and Comrades and Attack Dogmatic Truth, Open the Doors Wide for George Soros.)
The
existence of an alliance, which is pretty much out in the open and in
everyone’s face, between the conciliar revolutionaries and leftists in
the United States of America and everywhere else in the world should
not, however, blind believing Catholics into ignoring the fact that the
man who is hated by this alliance of evil, President Donald John Trump,
is anything other than another manifestation of the triumph of the
Judeo-Masonic spirit in the United States of America.
Although
there is the natural temptation to develop a “rooting” interest in the
farce that is American electoral politics and governance, the truth of
the matter is very simple: those who are not for Christ the King will
always put self-interest above the national interest. This is true of
almost everyone in the false opposite of the naturalist “right,” which
features many cowardly careerists who are nothing other than the
bought-and-paid-for stooges of corporate lobbyists, and, obviously
everyone in the false opposite of the naturalist “left” as statists have
a vested self-interest in maintaining and expanding statism and its
international counterpart, globalism, which are but two sides of the
same Marxist-Leninist coin.
It
is with this in mind, therefore, that one must understand that despite
some important measures, some of which will be discussed below in
summary form, that the Trump administration has taken, there have been
the usual “head fakes” taken by Republican administrations that appear
to fulfill campaign promises but are replete with “fine print” that make
render such actions devoid of any real substance.
Moreover,
there are a whole lot of swamp creatures within the administration
itself. Even excluding the failure of President Donald John Trump to
purge holdovers from Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro’s administration
from political positions at the sub-Cabinet level (a matter that I have
addressed before—see Everyone Loses When Our King Reigneth Not Over Men and Their Nations, part three),
Trump has chosen a number of real swampsters, including Goldman-Sachs
alumni such as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and others, to serve in
key positions
Also
not to be counted as “good” is the very flawed “Mexico City” policy
that was restored by the Trump administration on January 23, 2017 (see Sober Up, part nine)
or the continuation of Federal funding for Planned Barrenhood, which,
thankfully, is now under investigation by the United States Department
of Justice for its sale of fetal body parts from the babies butchered at
their chop shops (see U.S. Department of Justice Investigating Planned Barrenhood for Sale of Babies' Bodily Organs)
and other such “family planning” agencies, most of which would have
continued to receive full funding under RyanCare even if they killed
babies surgically in certain “exceptional” circumstances (see There Is Nothing "Pro-Life" About RyanCare).
It
is also true that, the president’s often heated rhetoric
notwithstanding, the globalists, led by National Security Adviser
Herbert Raymond McMaster and the pro-Planned Barrenhood Secretary of
State, Rex Tillerson, are fully in charge of American foreign policy,
aided and abetted by the pro-Iraq War General John Kelly, who is the
White House Chief of Staff, and the war hawk by the name of General
James “Mad Dog” Mattis, who is the United States Department of Defense.
Far from extricating the United States from the wars in Iraq, which is
apparently “ending” for the umpteenth time, and Afghanistan, the Trump
administration actually increased American troop presence in the
never-ending Afghan War (see Trump Being Swallowed Alive by the Swamp He Promised to Drain.)
Indeed,
President Trump seems so determined to refortify the swap with swamp
creatures that he has nominated a globalist advocate of open borders,
Kirstjen Nielsen, who is a firm supporter of the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that scoffs at the integrity of this
country’s borders and thus its legitimate national secure interests.
Mrs. Nielsen, who is a protégé former President George Walker Bush and
his brother, former Florida Governor John Edward (JEB!) Bush, carries
with her the nickname of Lady DACA.
It is not nothing that the level of illegal immigration has now
returned to what it was in the last months of the corrupt administration
of Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro. Trump, who is called "DACA Don
by some naturalists of the "right," has delegated so much of his actual
governing powers that he is letting the swampmeisters select totally
unworthy nominees to run Cabinet departments and to serve in various
agencies in all too many instances.
Lest
I be understood and termed yet again as “unrealistic” or that I hold up
the “perfect” to be the enemy of the merely “good,” it is important to
stipulate that, yes, the vulgar, profane, narcissist and materialistic
naturalist, Trump, who believes that he can make “America great again”
by means of economic prosperity, has done some good in the objective
order of things in the first eleven months of his holding the
presidency.
Although
some would say that the mere fact that Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is
not president is itself good enough no matter what Trump says and does,
there have been much needed rollbacks of executive and administrative
overreach by previous administrations. It should be noted as well that
the Federal judiciary is being staffed, at least by and large, with
nominees who have some understanding of the Constitution of the United
States of America and the attempt by Federal judges at all levels of the
Federal judiciary to make law from the bench to circumvent the
“messiness” and slow, inefficient and cumbersome legislative process is
simply the way the Congress of the United States of America was meant to
operate (this is specified in The Federalist, Numbers 10 and 51, each of which was authored by James Madison).
Additionally,
although President Trump’s April 25, 2017, executive order concerning
the odious persecution of the Little Sisters of the Poor by the Obama
administration was deplorably weak (see Living Under Adversary's Rules),
the United States Department of Health and Human Services did finally
end the contraception mandate for all employers who have religious
objections to the provision of contraception and other “family planning
services” on October 6, 2017 (see Trump
Administration Expected to End Rule Requiring Nuns to Fund Insurance
Coverage for Contraception and other "Family Planning services").
Then
again, the same Department of Health and Human Services is soon to be
headed by a stooge of the Big Pharmaceutical industry, Alex Azar. That
is not good, and it should be noted as well that, as has happened in the
past, the little genuine good that Republican presidents accomplish
with respect to protecting the innocent preborn can be done quite
quickly by a successor from the organized crime family of the false
opposite of the naturalist “right” (see January 22, 1993, and January
22, 2009). Without the sure footing provided by a frank recognition of
the binding precepts of the Divine Positive Law, which have been
entrusted exclusively to the Catholic Church for its infallible
explication and safekeeping, and the Natural Law, which is explicated
authoritatively by the Catholic Church, men and their nations must fall
into the abyss.
Once again, therefore, let me turn to Pope Leo XIII:
The sovereignty of the people, however, and this without any reference to God, is held to reside in the multitude; which is doubtless a doctrine exceedingly well calculated to flatter and to inflame many passions, but which lacks all reasonable proof, and all power of insuring public safety and preserving order.
Indeed, from the prevalence of this teaching, things have come to such a
pass that may hold as an axiom of civil jurisprudence that seditions
may be rightfully fostered. For the opinion prevails
that princes are nothing more than delegates chosen to carry out the
will of the people; whence it necessarily follows that all things are as
changeable as the will of the people, so that risk of public
disturbance is ever hanging over our heads.
To
hold, therefore, that there is no difference in matters of religion
between forms that are unlike each other, and even contrary to each
other, most clearly leads in the end to the rejection of all religion in
both theory and practice. And this is the same thing as atheism,
however it may differ from it in name. Men who really believe in the
existence of God must, in order to be consistent with themselves and to
avoid absurd conclusions, understand that differing modes of divine
worship involving dissimilarity and conflict even on most important
points cannot all be equally probable, equally good, and equally
acceptable to God. (Pope Leo XIII, Immortale Dei, November 1, 1885.)
It
was on All Saints Day fifteen years later that Pope Leo XIII explained
the dire consequences that the world suffers from divorcing itself from
the Social Reign of Christ the King:
From
this it may clearly be seen what consequences are to be expected from
that false pride which, rejecting our Saviour's Kingship, places man at
the summit of all things and declares that human nature must rule
supreme. And yet, this supreme rule can neither be attained nor even
defined. The rule of Jesus Christ derives its form and its power from
Divine Love: a holy and orderly charity is both its foundation and its
crown. Its necessary consequences are the strict fulfilment of duty,
respect of mutual rights, the estimation of the things of heaven above
those of earth, the preference of the love of God to all things. But
this supremacy of man, which openly rejects Christ, or at least ignores
Him, is entirely founded upon selfishness, knowing neither charity nor
selfdevotion. Man may indeed be king, through Jesus Christ: but only on
condition that he first of all obey God, and diligently seek his rule of
life in God's law. By the law of Christ we mean not only the natural
precepts of morality and the Ancient Law, all of which Jesus Christ has
perfected and crowned by His declaration, explanation and sanction; but
also the rest of His doctrine and His own peculiar institutions. Of
these the chief is His Church. Indeed whatsoever things Christ has
instituted are most fully contained in His Church. Moreover, He willed
to perpetuate the office assigned to Him by His Father by means of the
ministry of the Church so gloriously founded by Himself. On the one hand
He confided to her all the means of men's salvation, on the other He
most solemnly commanded men to be subject to her and to obey her
diligently, and to follow her even as Himself: "He that heareth you,
heareth Me; and he that despiseth you, despiseth Me" (Luke x, 16).
Wherefore the law of Christ must be sought in the Church. Christ is
man's "Way"; the Church also is his "Way"-Christ of Himself and by His
very nature, the Church by His commission and the communication of His
power. Hence all who would find salvation apart from the Church, are led
astray and strive in vain.
As
with individuals, so with nations. These, too, must necessarily tend to
ruin if they go astray from "The Way." The Son of God, the Creator and
Redeemer of mankind, is King and Lord of the earth, and holds supreme
dominion over men, both individually and collectively. "And He
gave Him power, and glory, and a kingdom: and all peoples, tribes, and
tongues shall serve Him" (Daniel vii., 14). "I am appointed King by Him .
. . I will give Thee the Gentiles for Thy inheritance, and the
uttermost parts of the earth for Thy possession" (Psalm ii., 6, 8).
Therefore the law of Christ ought to prevail in human society and be the
guide and teacher of public as well as of private life. Since this is
so by divine decree, and no man may with impunity contravene it, it is
an evil thing for the common weal wherever Christianity does not hold
the place that belongs to it. When Jesus Christ is absent, human
reason fails, being bereft of its chief protection and light, and the
very end is lost sight of, for which, under God's providence, human
society has been built up. This end is the obtaining by the members of
society of natural good through the aid of civil unity, though always in
harmony with the perfect and eternal good which is above nature. But
when men's minds are clouded, both rulers and ruled go astray, for they
have no safe line to follow nor end to aim at. (Pope Leo XIII, Tametsi Futura Prospicientibus, November 1, 1900.)
Nothing
can last in the unsettled firmament of a country founded on false,
naturalistic, religiously indifferentist and semi-Pelagian principles.
Everything must be unsettled until the lords of the false opposite of
the naturalist “left” decide that their version of “settled truth” is
the only one that can be the basis of social order and public law. In
other words, the scions of the “left” believe that they are infallible
and that those who dissent from “inarguable” truths are social heretics
who have no right to be heard.
Members
of the “left” are on the march, invigorated perhaps more than ever
before in the past thirteen months, as a result of elections in
Virginia, New Jersey and now, of course, Alabama. There is a very strong
chance United States Senator Charles H. Schumer (D-New York) will be
the Senate Majority Leader on January 3, 2019, and it is even possible
that former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the
pro-abortion, pro-perversity Catholic in name only by the name of Nancy
Patricia D’Alesandro Pelosi (D-San Francisco, California, could reclaim
the speakership that she had to relinquish to former United States
Representative John Boehner (R-West Chester, Ohio—remember him) on
January 5, 2011, at the same time. The atmosphere would then be quite
ripe to act on any recommendations made by supposedly Special Counsel
Robert Mueller concerning the actions of President Trump for supposedly
obstructing justice.
There is a very real possibility that the coup d’etat—and
it is a coup no matter what Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who
is willfully blind to the fact that Mueller has hired a gaggle of
Democratic Party operatives to “investigate” a president they loathe and
want to remove, protests to the contrary (see Rosenstein Stands by Mueller as Reoublicans Fume Over Insider Bias--being
engineered by allies of Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro and Hillary
Diane Rodham Clinton will succeed. This is especially true if Republican
careerists in the United States Congress decide that Trump is more of a
political liability to them than they think he is presently.
All
the ranting and raving about the double standard that exists in the
farce of American naturalist politics can never change the simple fact
that the “left” plays for keeps while the “right” plays to focus groups,
fearful of offending “swing” voters or, perhaps more to the point, if
they do anything to hurt the interests of those who fund their
campaigns, including the same claque on Wall Street that is
well-represented in the Trump administration. Naturalism produces
political farce to agitate and thus distract the masses.
Moreover,
when the “left” is far better and more sanctimonious about stonewalling
than the “right.” The administration of Barack Hussein Obama/Barry
Soetoro persecuted political opponents and then lied about it (Lois
Lerner and the Internal Revenue Service). They covered up the facts of
Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the Uranium One scandal and the multiple
violations of law committed by Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton. The former
president even obtained a FISA (Federal Intelligence and Surveillance
Court of Review) warrant to eavesdrop on Trump and his top aides during
the 2016 election and then orchestrated an “unmasking” of the names
after the election to undermine his successor.
Then
again, though, President Donald John Trump has not ordered
Obama/Soetoro’s FISA application to be released, leading a former
Justice Department official, Andrew McCarthy, a Republican who admits
that the Mueller investigation is hopelessly compromised, to write the
following recently:
What
the president’s champions fail to mention is that he is in charge of
classified information — including classified applications submitted to
the secret FISA Court. Was candidate Trump the victim of political
spying? Of a weaponization by the Obama administration of the
government’s intelligence-collection power, with ramifications that,
thanks to the Mueller investigation, beset the Trump administration to
this day? If President Trump is indeed a victim, then it just so happens
that he is uniquely positioned to expose this shocking abuse of power.
All he has to do is order disclosure . . . .
Mind
you, we are talking here about Donald Trump: the “when attacked, never
apologize, always hit back twice as hard” brawler. He has never seemed
like a guy who would suffer in silence if he had the power to reveal
such treachery perpetrated against him. If what happened is as bad as it
is being portrayed, why are the Justice Department and FBI, under
Trump-appointed leadership, stonewalling Republican-led congressional
committees? After Thursday’s hearing, why didn’t the president tell
Director Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that, by close
of business Friday, either the FISA application should be in the House
Intelligence Committee’s hands or their resignations should be on his
desk?
In
the unmasking controversy, it seems Trump was more interested in
politically exploiting the specter of abusive unmasking than in ordering
the disclosure of what actually happened. Is the same thing true of the
dossier? I don’t know why the FBI and Justice Department are
stonewalling the Intelligence Committee. Suffice it to say, however,
that the president could order disclosure if he wanted to. He hasn’t. If
he persists in that posture, we have to assume he would prefer that we
not know what the FBI told the FISA Court. Read more at: Trump Should Disclose FISA Warrants)
As
I have noted in the past, it is futile to expect justice from those who
are personally unjust, which is the why the author of the article
quoted just above, Andrew C. McCarthy III, is being more than a little
naïve in his repeated contentions (Mueller Needs to Make a Change and Is the Steele Dossier the Source of the FISA Warrant Against Trump Campaign?) that
just because he, a self-described “opinionated conservative” who worked
as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New
York in the 1990s, could put aside his “personal beliefs” to act
professionally in the pursuit of justice that Clintonites such as
now-disgraced Federal Bureau of Investigations Agents Peter Strzok and
Lisa Page, who were shamelessly texting each other about their hatred
for Donald John Trump (see The Plot To Take Down Trump)
while they were committing sins against Holy Purity with each other,
and Clinton lapdog Andrew Weissman, a supposedly “professional”
prosecutor who has a long track record of destroying the lives of the
innocent by withholding exculpatory evidence from defense attorneys and
thus Federal courts (see Weissman Has a History of Bullying and Withholding Information, Critics Say),
could be expected to “set aside” their own personal biases. Those who
cleave to the false opposite of the naturalist “left” do not conduct
themselves with disinterest as theirs is an unholy secular crusade to
demonize and to delegitimize all those who are opposed to the “revealed”
truths of the deep state and leftism.
Moreover,
no one in the spineless pack of the careerist creatures within the
ranks of the Republican Congressional leadership is going to stand up to
Robert Mueller’s own lawlessness, which has been exhibited in his
bludgeoning the General Services Administration to hand over ten
thousand privileged and confidential e-mails that belong to the Trump
Transition Team. Sure, he should be removed, something that a naturalist
named Greg Jarrett has said is the appropriate legal remedy (Mueller's Allegedly Lawless Acts Have Corrupted His Probe and Demand His Removal). Who will do so? Why should men who have no regard for the laws of God have any respect the laws of mere men?
Even
an investigation into the deep state biases within the United States
Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation as
proposed by commentator Hugh Hewitt (Special Counsel Needs to Investigate the FBI and the Justice Department)
will never root out the corruption that must exist when a nation does
not recognize the Social Reign of Christ the King as it must be
exercised by His true Church. Public life must be stained by crime when
the minds of men are deluded into thinking that a merely secular form of
public administration is “good order” to pursue justice and maintain a
just social order:
A
system of morality based exclusively on human reason robs man of his
highest dignity and lowers him from the supernatural to the merely
natural life. Not but that man is able by the right use of reason to
know and to obey certain principles of the natural law. But though he
should know them all and keep them inviolate through life-and even this
is impossible without the aid of the grace of our Redeemer-still it is
vain for anyone without faith to promise himself eternal salvation. "If
anyone abide not in Me, he shall be cast forth as a branch, and shall
wither, and they shall gather him up and cast him into the fire, and he
burneth" john xv., 6). "He that believeth not shall be condemned" (Mark
xvi., 16). We have but too much evidence of the value and result
of a morality divorced from divine faith. How is it that, in spite of
all the zeal for the welfare of the masses, nations are in such straits
and even distress, and that the evil is daily on the increase? We are
told that society is quite able to help itself; that it can flourish
without the assistance of Christianity, and attain its end by its own
unaided efforts. Public administrators prefer a purely secular system of
government. All traces of the religion of our forefathers are daily
disappearing from political life and administration. What blindness!
Once the idea of the authority of God as the Judge of right and wrong is
forgotten, law must necessarily lose its primary authority and justice
must perish: and these are the two most powerful and most necessary
bonds of society. Similarly, once the hope and expectation of eternal
happiness is taken away, temporal goods will be greedily sought after.
Every man will strive to secure the largest share for himself. Hence
arise envy, jealousy, hatred. The consequences are conspiracy, anarchy,
nihilism. There is neither peace abroad nor security at home. Public
life is stained with crime. (Pope Leo XIII, Tametsi Futura Prospicientibus, November 1, 1900.)
Rather
than fight crime and criminals such as Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton,
the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s then director, James Comey,
probably doing the bidding of former Attorney General Loretta Lynch,
took the initiative (see Judge Napolitano: James Comey Responsible For Hillary Clinton Probe Statement, FBI Text Messages on Russian and Clinton Investigations and Hillary Clinton's Allies: Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, James Comey) to exonerate the former Secretary of State’s grossly negligent handling of e-mails marked confidential (Comey Edits Revealed: Remarks on Clinton Probe Were Watered Down),
which makes it highly ironic that “Special Counsel” Robert Mueller is
now investigating any efforts by the Trump campaign in 2016 to obtain
Clinton’s e-mails from WikiLeaks (see Mueller sought emails of Tramp Campaign Data Firm).
I mean, those e-mails wouldn’t have been any kind of issue if Hillary
Diane Rodham Clinton had not gone to such lengths to hide them from
public access via freedom of information requests by having an internet
technician set up a home-brewed server in her house in Chappaqua, New
York. The only kind of Russian interference in the 2016 has come in the
form of efforts to aid the campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton by making
it appear that Donald John Trump was a Russian stooge (Unlike Nixon, Trump Will Not Go Quietly, All of Hillay's Men and Russia Gate is Really Hillarygate.)
Moreover,
FBI investigator Peter Strzok used the discredited Peter Steele
“dossier” as an “insurance policy”—which is a term he used in his own
conversations with FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, whose wife is a
Democratic Party operative, in the case that Donald John Trump defeated
Hillary Rodham Clinton last year. Adherents of the false opposite of the
naturalist “left” want to use Federal law and regulations and the sheer
brute force of Federal law enforcement agencies as a means to agitate
and thus to divide people to the point that those in the false opposite
of the naturalist “left” will simply give up any effort to reverse what
the “left” has accomplished. This is what has happened with the chemical
and surgical execution of the innocent preborn and with the absurdity
that is “marriage” between two people of the same gender engaging in
perverted acts, and it is the same methodology that the “left” is using
now to wear down the “right” to force Donald John Trump’s removal from
office for “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
Everything
must fall into disorder and chaos when men are steeped in errors galore
even if they are not steeped in personal vice. Injustice passing for
justice must become the norm rather than the exception when legal
positivism (the assertion that something is legal because it has been
made thus by a legislative statute or because a law enforcement or
regulatory agency says it has the power to do something even without any
explicit authorization and, of course, perhaps even in defiance of
their own standards of professional conduct) takes place of the binding
precepts of the Divine Positive Law and the Natural Law and thus of all
objective norms of law and justice.
The
United States Department of Justice has become somewhat analogous to
the "Ministry of Justice" in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
from its earliest days of operation. Nikolai Krylenko, who would rise
eventually to the post of "Commissar of Justice" under Joseph Stalin in
1929 and served in this position until 1931, was the chief prosecutor of
Moscow in 1923 during the show trial of Archbishop Jan Cieplak. It was
during this unjust prosecution of Archbishop Cieplak that Krylenko made a
bold pronouncement, which is contained in the following paragraph about
the persecution of Christians by the Soviets:
Krylenko,
who began to speak at 6:10 PM, was moderate enough at first, but
quickly launched into an attack on religion in general and the Catholic
Church in particular. "The Catholic Church", he declared, "has always
exploited the working classes." When he demanded the Archbishop's death,
he said, "All the Jesuitical duplicity with which you have defended
yourself will not save you from the death penalty. No Pope in the
Vatican can save you now." As the long oration proceeded, the Red
Procurator worked himself into a fury of anti-religious hatred. "Your
religion", he yelled, "I spit on it, as I do on all religions, -- on
Orthodox, Jewish, Mohammedan, and the rest." "There is no law here but Soviet Law," he yelled at another stage, "and by that law you must die." (Francis McCullagh, The Bolshevik Persecution of Christianity, E. P. Dutton Company, New York, New York, 1924, p. 221.)
It
is also by Soviet "law" that Nikolai Krylenko died as he was executed
after a twenty-minute show trial on July 29, 1938. And it is by such
"law" that we are governed at this time. Anyone who believes that there
is some secular way out of a mess that is the result of Protestant
Revolution’s doing the bidding of Talmudists to separate Church and
State, thus paving the way for Judeo-Masonry, is sadly mistaken.
In
the midst of all this, though, a believing Catholic must keep in mind
that the agitation engendered by these conflicts of false opposites is
from the adversary. The adversary wants Catholics to believe that they
have a “friend” in Donald John Trump. They have no such thing. Donald
John Trump remains what he has always been, a naturalist who has been
beholden to Talmudists politically and who is beholden politically to
the “evangelical” and “fundamentalist” Protestant who profess
“Christian Zionism.”
To Do the Bidding of the Zionist State of Israel
Well,
what has all this got to do with President Donald John Trump’s decision
to move the American embassy in the Zionist State of Israel from Tel
Aviv to Jerusalem?
This
is a fair question, and I so glad that you, the inquisitive six readers
who still access this website, have asked it. Permit me an opportunity
to posit an answer.
Actually, the part—and I will admit that it is only a part—of the possible legal jeopardy that President Donald John Trump may face from the extremely biased, out-of-control investigation of “Special Counsel” Robert Mueller (see Did FBI and Justice Department Plot to Clear Hillary Clinton and Bring Down Trump? and Co-Dependents of the Independent Counsel)
has to do with the fact that former National Security Advisor Michael
Flynn’s having pled guilty to lying to agents of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation concerning two meetings he had with the Russian Ambassador
to the United States of America, Sergey Kisylak, one year ago this
month.
The
first of those meetings took place on Thursday, December 22, 2017, the
Feast of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, and the second took place a week
later, that is, on Thursday, December 29, 2017, the Feast of Saint
Thomas a Becket and the Fifth Day in the Octave of Christmas. The
subjects of those meetings were described in the following report:
Flynn admitted in his plea that he lied to the FBI about several December conversations with Kislyak. In one, on Dec. 22, he
contacted the Russian ambassador about the incoming administration’s
opposition to a U.N. resolution condemning Israeli settlements as
illegal and requested that Russia vote against or delay it, court
records say. The ambassador later called back and indicated Russia would
not vote against it, the records say.
In
another conversation, on Dec. 29, Flynn called the ambassador to ask
Russia not to escalate an ongoing feud over sanctions imposed by the
Obama administration, court records say. The ambassador later called
back and said Russia had chosen not to retaliate, the records say.
Flynn admitted as a part of his plea that when the FBI asked him on Jan. 24 — four days after Trump was inaugurated — about
his dealings with the Russians, he did not truthfully describe the
interactions. But perhaps more interestingly, he said others in the
transition knew he was in contact with Kislyak.
Flynn
admitted that before speaking with the ambassador, he called a senior
transition official at the Mar-a-Lago resort on Dec. 29 “to discuss
what, if anything, to communicate to the Russian ambassador about the
U.S. Sanctions” and learned that transition members did not want Russia
to escalate the situation. And when the ambassador later informed him
Russia would not retaliate, Flynn told senior members of the transition
team, court records say. The senior transition official is not
identified in records, but people familiar with the matter said it is
K.T. McFarland, who is now nominated to be the U.S. ambassador to
Singapore. (Michael Flynn Charged With Making False Statements to the FBI.)
What
has mystified most observers thus far is why retired General Michael
Flynn would lie about meetings that were (a) not illegal in the
slightest and (b) known by the National Security Agency to have taken
place. There has got to be a reason why General Flynn, who is a native
of Rhode Island (his late mother, Helen Francis Flynn, was very active
in pro-life circles in the Ocean State when he was a teenager in the
1970s), lied about the meetings and their substance when question by FBI
agents on January 24, 2017.
Additionally,
General Flynn, who is hated by the globalist crowd because of his firm
desire to protect American sovereignty, has promised to cooperate with
Robert Mueller’s so-called “investigation.” Although there has been a
great deal of speculation concerning what knowledge, Flynn, has
concerning President Trump and those within his inner circles, the
following report from a Russian source, Sputnik, builds a plausible case
that the December 22, 2016, meeting with Sergey Kisylak, who is now the
Russian Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova, was undertaken at the
initiative of Jared Kushner, the Kabbalist who is married to Trump’s
daughter, Ivanka Trump Kushner, who converted to Talmudic Kabbalism
because of him:
But
then you have a final point where Flynn is asking Kislyak to assert his
authority to have Russia veto a United Nations resolution condemning
Israel for settlement activity [in the West Bank] — a resolution that
Obama planned to abstain from and allow to pass as kind of a final act
of disrespect] to [Israeli Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu.”
The
resolution, UN Security Council Resolution 2334, condemned the building
of Israeli settlements in the West Bank as a "flagrant violation" of
international law. Fourteen of the 15 members of the Security Council
voted in favor of the resolution, including Russia. Only one state, the
US, abstained.
"We
learned that Flynn was acting here on behalf of Jared Kushner, the
presidential son-in-law who is also the son of Charles Kushner, a
longtime friend of Benjamin Netanyahu whose family foundation has funded
Israeli settlements," added Blumenthal. "He has basically helped
support the political empire of Benjamin Netanyahu for years — in fact,
when Jared Kushner was a teenager, he'd have to get up and leave his
bedroom when Netanyahu was in town because Netanyahu would stay
literally in his bed with his family when he was on trips to New York.”
So
this relationship with Netanyahu is what all the Israeli government
drew on to turn the Trump transition team into its own personal vehicle
to attempt to attack Barack Obama and the sitting American
administration. This is as clear a case of collusion against an American
president with a foreign power that I've ever seen in my life, and
we're hearing not dead silence, but it's being treated as business as
usual." (Flynn-Kislyak Conversation on Israel.)
Admittedly,
the story above is from a Russian source. However, it is a known fact
that Jared and Ivanka Trump Kushner have a special, vested interest in
providing every manner of assistance to the Zionist State of Israel. It
is not beyond the realm of possibility that Jared Kushner might have
urged Flynn to have been less than candid about the meetings that he,
Kushner, wanted Flynn to have to Sergey Kislyak a year ago this month.
Kushner himself was not candid, at least not at first, in the
representations he made on a form to disclose his contacts with foreign
officials (see Kushner Updated Disclosure to Add More than One Hundred Foreign Contacts.)
Again,
this would be mystifying as it is not uncommon for incoming
administrations to have contact with representatives of foreign nations,
although it is unusual—but not entirely unprecedented—for there to be
direct efforts to oppose the outgoing administration’s policies. When it
comes to the Kushner and the Zionist State of Israel, however, one can
count on the unusual as usual.
Support
for the Zionist State of Israel, which was founded by displacing the
Palestinian Arabs who have lived there for centuries by their forcible
removal from their homes and placed into “detention camps” simply for
living on lands they owned for generations, is a cornerstone of the
Kushners’ entire belief system, and these two smooth operators have been
very successful in exploiting the sort of “Christian Zionism” that
exists in “evangelical” and “fundamentalist” Protestant circles that was
described as follows by Father Louis J. Campbell, the pastor of Saint
Jude Shrine in Stafford, Texas:
Since
the time of the Apostles, the Holy Catholic Church has preached the
Gospel by the authority granted it by Jesus Christ. The Church was
preaching the Gospel years before the Four Gospels were written down,
and has continued to this day to fulfill Our Lord’s command to “preach
the gospel to every creature” (Mk.16:15).
The
Church collected the Scriptures that make up the Bible. But the
heretic, Martin Luther (1483-1546), weeded out some of the books of the
Bible he didn’t like, and the Protestant version of the Bible was born.
The Bible itself was then touted as the sole authority subject to the
“private interpretation” of the believer, thus denying the Church’s
authority to preach the Gospel and interpret the Scriptures. However, it
seems “the believers” are willing to believe much that is not to be
found in the Bible.
No
doubt many of us are puzzled by the strange phenomenon of Christian
Zionism. Many Evangelical Christians, like the Baptists, the
Pentecostals and the Charismatics, are enthusiastic supporters of Jewish
Zionism, although not all Jews are Zionists, and many of them dispute
the Zionist claims.
The
Jewish Zionist Movement was founded by Theodor Herzl in 1897. Its chief
aim was the creation of a Jewish homeland in the territory defined as
the “Land of Israel” in the Bible. The Temple would eventually be
rebuilt, and the ancient religious rites resumed. Since they believe
they have a right to the lands promised to Abraham by God, the Zionists
have little sympathy for the Palestinians, who were squeezed into the
West Bank and the Gaza strip after the creation of the Jewish State of
Israel in 1948. Misusing Old Testament Scriptures, the Jewish Zionists
believe they are destined to rule the world.
So
what could have turned famous Protestant preachers like Billy Graham,
Hal Lindsay, John Hagee and Pat Robertson, into Christian Zionists,
enthusiastic supporters of the aims of Jewish Zionism? Could it have
been – the Scofield Bible?
The
Scofield Reference Bible is widely used in Protestant seminaries,
especially among Evangelicals, such as Baptists, Pentecostals and
Charismatics. Recently someone sent me an article by a Mr. C.E. Carlson
about the Scofield Bible, which seems to get to the root of the problem.
Much of what follows is from Mr. Carlson (http://www.serendipity.li/zionism/carlson01.htm).
One
of the schemes of the Jewish Zionists was to alter the Christian view
of Zionism by creating and promoting a pro-Zionist subculture within
Christianity. One Cyrus I. Scofield (1843-1921) was funded by Zionist
agents to re-write the King James Version of the Bible by inserting
Zionist-friendly notes in the margins, between verses and chapters, and
on the bottoms of the pages. It was first published in 1909 by Oxford
University Press, which still holds the copyright.
Scofield
produced a revolutionary book that radically changed the context of the
King James Version. Oxford's promoters made the Scofield Bible, with
its Christian Zionist footnotes, a standard for interpreting scripture
in Christian churches, seminaries, and Bible study groups. And they all
followed like sheep – even Hagee, Lindsay, Robertson, Van Impe, and the
revered Billy Graham. So much for private interpretation!
After
Scofield’s death, the Oxford University Press turned the Scofield Bible
into a manual for the Christian worship of the State of Israel.
Scofield’s un-Christian anti-Arab theology has permitted the theft of
Palestine and 54 years of death and destruction against the
Palestinians, with hardly a complaint from the Judeo-Christian mass
media evangelists or most other American church leaders, including the
so-called U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
In his Epistle to the Galatians, St. Paul contradicts the claims of the Scofield Bible:
“The
promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. He does not say,
‘And to his offsprings,’ as of many; but as of one, ‘And to his
offspring,’ who is Christ… For you are all the children of God through
faith in Christ Jesus. For all who have been baptized into Christ, have
put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither slave
nor freeman; there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in
Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are the offspring of
Abraham, heirs according to promise” (Gal.3:15b,16;26-29).
This
makes it clear that to be a blood relative descended from Abraham is of
no advantage to those who do not have faith in Jesus Christ. And
Scofield and the Oxford University Press are liars when they try to
prove that those who are known today as “Jews” are the heirs to the
promises of Abraham. We read this whopper on page 1136 of the 1967
edition: “All Jews are natural descendants of Abraham…”
This
is absolutely false and absurd. The great majority of the so-called
Jews who control Israel today are not descendants of Abraham at all.
They are the Ashkenazi Jews, descendants of the Khazars of Eastern
Europe. They are imposters, with no right to the lands of the Bible!
Although known as “Jews” they are such neither by blood nor by religion,
because the Jewish religion their ancestors adopted in the eighth
century is not the true religion of the ancient Jews of the time of
Christ, but the false Talmudic Judaism which blasphemes Jesus Christ and
deifies the Jewish race.
And
on page 19 we find this blatant lie: “God made an unconditional promise
of blessings through Abram’s seed… to the Nation of Israel to inherit a
specific territory forever.
What
a deception! The televangelists and their huge following have accepted
this abominable lie, and have led the whole country into vassalage to
the Godless modern State of Israel. Jesus Christ is Abraham’s heir, not
the State of Israel. The promises God made to Abraham are fulfilled in
Jesus Christ. The Jewish Zionists have no true understanding of the
Scriptures. And who would have thought that the “Bible believing
Christians” would have stumbled after them into the darkness?
“Did
you never read in the Scriptures,” said Our Lord to the Pharisees:
“‘The stone which the builders rejected, has become the corner stone; by
the Lord this has been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes’?
Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of God will be taken away from
you and will be given to a people yielding its fruits” (Mt.21:42,43).
St. Paul understood it well:
“You
are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets with Christ
Jesus himself as the chief corner stone. In him the whole structure is
closely fitted together and grows into a temple holy in the Lord, in him
you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in the
Spirit” (Eph.2:20-22). (Father Louis J. Campbell, Seventh Sunday after
Pentecost.)
The
notion that the people who threw out the Palestinians from their homes
and dispossessed them of their belongings as many of them were herded
into the Zionist equivalent of concentration camps, termed
euphemistically as "relocation camps," in 1948 and thereafter represent
the Abrahamic Jews of the Old Testaments is false. Most of those Jews
who settled in Palestine between the two world wars and after World War
II are not descendents of Abraham nor are they Jews by blood. Most of
these modern day Talmudists are descendants of the Asiatic Khazars
who converted to Talmudism:
Jesus
Christ is the Great Prophet foretold by Moses, Whom all nations and
peoples must hear and obey, lest they be "destroyed from among the
people." Jesus was not a mere prophet, like Moses, Jeremiah, or Isaiah.
In Jesus there resided the prophetic gift in all its fullness. When God
speaks, we must listen in fear and trembling (cf. Isaias 66:5).
Though
they have rejected the Great Prophet, the Jews still think that the
promises made to Abraham are theirs, and that all the lands promised to
the ancient Israelites are theirs by right, and will be theirs in fact.
This means that no one else who occupies these lands, be they
Palestinians, Lebanese, or whatever, have any rights, and that they can
be dispossessed of the lands they have occupied for millennia. The
ancient Israelites, whose heirs they imagine themselves to be, were
commanded by God to exterminate the Philistines, were they not? And who
are the descendants of the Philistines? Why, the Palestinians and the
Lebanese, of course! Their rights can be ignored with impunity.
Then
there are those of the Christian Fundamentalist Right in the Unites
States, the Christian Zionists, who support Israeli claims, egged on by
such false prophets as Jerry Falwell, Hal Lindsey, Jack Van Impe, and
John Hagee. Thousands of evangelical Christians recently arrived from
all 50 states in Washington, where they have enormous political
influence, for the first annual summit of Christians United for Israel, Hagee being the main organizer.
For
the first time in the history of Christianity in America," Hagee said,
"Christians will go to the Hill to support Israel as Christians." They
will urge the US government "not to restrain Israel in any way in the
pursuit of Hamas and Hezbollah… We want our Congress to make sure that
not one dime of American money goes to support Hamas and Hezbollah or
the enemies of Israel."
Then
Hagee declares: "When they see what's going on in the Middle East, a
whole range of enemies arrayed against God's people, they see God's word
being played out on their television sets. They see Israel triumphing
over its enemies as proof that God's promises remain" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/5193092.stm).
It
is as if Jesus Christ never came and established a New Covenant in His
Blood, and founded the Holy Catholic Church. God's promises were
fulfilled in Jesus Christ and in those who follow Him. Hagee, and those
like him, have an Old Testament theological viewpoint, and have betrayed
Jesus Christ, in Whom the Scriptures are fulfilled. Who are God's
people but those who have believed in His word and obey His commands,
whether Jews or not? According to St. Paul, "There is neither Jew nor
Greek; there is neither slave nor freeman; there is neither male nor
female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's,
then you are the offspring of Abraham, heirs according to promise" (Galatians 3:28,29).
The
Jews are children of Abraham according to the flesh only, natural
descendants. Some of them, that is. Are those whom we call Jews today
the descendants of the Jews who were dispersed among the nations after
the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 A.D., or even of the
ten tribes that were carried off into captivity by the ancient Assyrians
in 721 B.C.? On the contrary, most Jews today are the so-called
Ashkenazi Jews, descended from the ancient Khazars of Eastern Europe.
Despite their prominence in the Jewish community they do not have Jewish
blood, but were converted to Judaism in the ninth century. They do not
have Jewish blood, and they follow the modern Jewish Talmudic religion.
How does that make them "God's people," and the "inheritors of the
promises"?
On
May 14, 1948, on the day in which the British Mandate over Palestine
expired, the Jewish People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum and
declared the establishment of the State of Israel. The new state was
recognized that night by the United States, and three days later by the
USSR. The Vatican, out of concern for the safety of the Holy Places and
the rights of the Palestinians, many of whom are Catholic, did not
recognize the modern state of Israel until John Paul II, fervently
pro-Jewish, gave it official Vatican recognition on April 20, 1984.
Contrary
to what the Jewish Zionists expect, they will not reign as masters of
the world from Jerusalem. The servile nations will not come to Mount
Zion bearing gifts. Pray for the Jews! They will be all but exterminated
except for the remnant who will turn to Jesus Christ and be saved.
And
contrary to what the Christian Zionists expect, the Temple will not be
rebuilt, and 144,000 Jews will not be converted to reign with Jesus
Christ from the Temple in Jerusalem for a thousand years. (Father Louis
Campbell, "And I Saw No Temple Therein". For a listing of John Hagee’s anti-Catholic statements over the years, see Hagee In His Own Words)
Yes, the notion of the current "Talmudists" as the Jews of the Old Testament is entirely invented.
The
Zionist State of Israel is entirely invented out of the fantasies of
Theodore Herzl, the founder of International Zionism, to relocate the
Talmudists in the very land from which the actual descendants of Abraham
were expelled by the Romans in 70 A.D. as God used the pagan Romans as
the instrument to chastise the Jews for their obstinate refusal to
accept the preaching of the Gospel in their midst after He had
mercifully permitted them a thirty-seven year period of reprieve
following their role in calling down the Most Precious Blood of Our
Divine Redeemer, Christ the King, upon them and their children. God
expelled the Jews from the Holy Land in 70 A.D., and they were not meant
to return, certainly not to found a nation based in a false,
blasphemous religion, less yet to do so by violent means and the
constant use of raw terror and the murder of countless thousands of
innocent Palestinian Arabs, both Christians and Mohammedans, thus
engendering an endless cycle of hatred and violence.
It
is with this in mind that one must understand that President Donald
John Trump’s long-anticipated decision to move the American embassy in
the Zionist State of Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem can receive the
support of no believing Catholic. Although the Zionist State of Israel
exists, this does not mean that it has any right from God to exist or
that it has any legitimate claim on the City of Jerusalem—the City of
the House of David, which belongs exclusively to Christ the King and His
true Church.
Here is an excerpt from the president’s announcement of the pending embassy move:
Israel
is a sovereign nation with the right like every other sovereign nation
to determine its own capital. Acknowledging this as a fact is a
necessary condition for achieving peace.
It
was 70 years ago that the United States, under President Truman,
recognized the State of Israel. Ever since then, Israel has made its
capital in the city of Jerusalem -- the capital the Jewish people
established in ancient times. Today, Jerusalem is the seat of the modern
Israeli government. It is the home of the Israeli parliament, the
Knesset, as well as the Israeli Supreme Court. It is the location of the
official residence of the Prime Minister and the President. It is the
headquarters of many government ministries.
For
decades, visiting American presidents, secretaries of state, and
military leaders have met their Israeli counterparts in Jerusalem, as I
did on my trip to Israel earlier this year.
Jerusalem
is not just the heart of three great religions, but it is now also the
heart of one of the most successful democracies in the world. Over the
past seven decades, the Israeli people have built a country where Jews,
Muslims, and Christians, and people of all faiths are free to live and
worship according to their conscience and according to their beliefs.
Jerusalem
is today, and must remain, a place where Jews pray at the Western Wall,
where Christians walk the Stations of the Cross, and where Muslims
worship at Al-Aqsa Mosque.
However,
through all of these years, presidents representing the United States
have declined to officially recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. In
fact, we have declined to acknowledge any Israeli capital at all.
But
today, we finally acknowledge the obvious: that Jerusalem is Israel’s
capital. This is nothing more, or less, than a recognition of reality.
It is also the right thing to do. It's something that has to be done. (Trump Statement on Jerusalem.)
This is not the right thing to do.
Zionists and anti-Zionist Talumdists have no claim on Jerusalem.
Mohammedans have no claim on Jerusalem.
Jerusalem belongs to Christ the King and His true Church, the Catholic Church. No one else.
Protestants
reject this, of course, and the “Christian Zionists” among them who
gave such strong electoral support to Donald John Trump in 2016
expressed great delight in the president’s decision to move the American
embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The aforementioned
anti-Catholic bigot named John Hagee said the following on the very
misnamed “Christian Broadcasting Network” (CBN):
"What
President Trump is doing is one of the most courageous political things
that's been done in Washington in a long time," Hagee, who is also the
senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, told CBN
News.
Many
presidents have promised to move the embassy and declare Jerusalem as
the eternal capital, but they have promised without performing," he
continued.
"President
Trump, when I spoke to him in the White House about this several weeks
ago, he said this very emphatically. He said, 'Other presidents have
failed you, but I will not disappoint the Christian community in this
issue. I will stand with Israel, and we will at some point in time, move
the embassy,'" said Hagee.
He also talked with the president about the significance of moving the embassy in this "Jubilee Year."
"...I
told him that God measures everything in modules of 50 years," Hagee
explained to CBN News. "And I said this is a principle that's carried
out in Leviticus, the 25th chapter."
"I
said, 'If you look at 1917, it was a Jubilee Year, and the Balfour
Amendment came, and then in 50 years, it was 1967, and Jerusalem was
reconnected to Israel,'" he continued.
'And
you add 50 to 1967, and you're in 2017.' I said, 'This is the year to
move the embassy and make that declaration because it is a biblical
timing of absolute precision,'" Hagee said. "Thank God, he's going to do
exactly that."
Meanwhile, CBN's Gordon Robertson says that Trump's move for Israel was long overdue from America's leaders.
And
Hagee also emphasized the significance of the Jewish state to God and
why Christians need to acknowledge its global importance.
"...I
believe at this point in time, Israel is God's stopwatch for everything
that happens to every nation, including America, from now until the
Rapture of the Church and beyond," he said.
"Christians
should care about Israel because the entirety of the Bible beginning at
Genesis all the way to the end is God's position paper on the Jewish
people," Hagee explained.
"God
found a man by the name of Abraham and He made a covenant with him,"
Hagee continued. "Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, recorded in the book of
Genesis, that He was going to give them a strip of real estate in the
Middle East, and that piece of real estate would be theirs forever."
"Forever
means today, tomorrow and forever," he said. "It has nothing to do with
what the Palestinians think, what the Russians think, what the UK has
the opinion of; it belongs to the Jewish people."
"And Israel is the gateway to God's blessing in the Bible," Hagee continued. "Genesis 12: 'I will bless those who bless you.'"
"World
history can be summed up in one sentence. The nations that blessed
Israel were blessed of God, and the nations that cursed Israel were
cursed of God," he said. (Laugh of the Day: Anti-Catholic Bigot John Hagee Praises Trump Decision on Jerusalem.)
John
Hagee, who rejects Sacred (Apostolic) Tradition as a source of Divine
Revelation, knows as much about Sacred Scripture as Donald John Trump
knows about the provisions of the Constitution of the United States of
America. Nothing.
The New Zion is the Catholic Church, not the Zionist State of Israel.
God Himself took the Holy Land away from the Jews when He used the pagan Romans to expel them in the year 70 A.D.
Our
Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ prophesied the destruction of
Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem, a destruction that is symbolic of the of
the salvific power of Judaism, which has belonged to the kingdom of
satan ever since (see the passages from Monsignor Joseph Clifford
Fenton's The Catholic Church and Salvation contained in Jerusalem Belongs to Christ the King and His True Chuch, part two that was published eight months ago):
And
Jesus being come out of the temple, went away. And his disciples came
to shew him the buildings of the temple. [2] And he answering, said to
them: Do you see all these things? Amen I say to you there shall not be
left here a stone upon a stone that shall not be destroyed. (Matthew 24:
1-2.)
Our
Lord prophesied that there “shall not be left here a stone upon a stone
that shall not be destroyed,” which should teach us that the so-called
Western Wall is not part of Solomon’s Temple as modern Jews contend (it
is a retaining wall for the courtyard on the Temple
mount, not for the Temple itself, which was destroyed, stone upon stone)
but another false representation made by those who believe that they
remain the Chosen People, which they do not.
An
unnamed official in the Trump administration, however, accepts the
Zionist propaganda about the Western (Wailing) Wall, and said that no
“peace” settlement could be made that did not include the wall as part
of the Zionist State of Israel:
The
Trump administration “cannot envision a scenario” under which the
Western Wall, “would not be part of Israel” in a future peace agreement
with the Palestinians, a senior official said on Friday.
The
official underscored the point in a briefing with reporters in advance
of this week’s visit to Israel by US Vice President Mike Pence.
The
trip has been hampered by a crisis with a Palestinian Authority already
livid over US President Donald Trump’s recognition earlier this month
of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
“We cannot envision any situation under which the Western Wall would not be part of Israel,” the official said.
“But
as the president said, the specific boundaries of sovereignty of Israel
are going to be part of the final-status agreement.”
Trump
was the first US president to visit the Wall in an official capacity
during his May trip to Israel. The administration official said that,
similarly, Pence would visit the Western Wall in his role as vice
president.
The PA denounced the latest US statement about the Western Wall.
The
Palestinians will not accept any changes to the pre- 1967 lines in east
Jerusalem, Abbas’s spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said according to Wafa,
the PA news agency.
In
pronouncing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on December 6, Trump said
that his administration made no judgment on who will control which parts
of the city in a final agreement. Israel insists that all of Jerusalem
remain its undivided and eternal capital, while the Palestinians demand a
state of their own with its capital in the city’s eastern districts.
“This American position proves once again that the current US administration is completely out of the peace process,” he said.
“Continuing
with this American policy – whether it has to do with recognizing
Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moving the US embassy to the city or
taking a unilateral decision on final-status issues – is in violation of
international law and consolidates the occupation. This is not
acceptable to us and we denounce it,” Abu Rudeineh said. (Western Wall Is Part of Israel, Unnamed Trump Official Says.)
So
much angst over a wall that was never part of Solomon’s Temple! Ah,
angst, anger, confusion and even violence must follow in the wake of the
adversary’s plan to spread falsehood to take place of the Gospel of the
Christ the King as It has been entrusted to and taught infallibly by
the authority of the Catholic Church.
Father
George Leo Haydock’s commentary on verse two of the twenty-fourth
chapter of the Gospel according to Saint Matthew explains the falsity of
the Jewish contention that the Western (Wailing) Wall has anything to
do with Solomon’s Temple, which was destroyed by the Romans. in its
entirety. It was, to use a favorite phrase of a friend of ours, leveled.
Ironically, it was the Jews themselves who destroyed a few remnants of
the Temple’s wall in the Fourth Century as they did the bidding of
Julian the Apostate to try to produce false archeological evidence to
debunk Our Lord’s prophecy:
Ver.
2. Do you see all these things? Examine again and again all this
magnificence, that the sentence of heaven may appear more striking. --- A
stone upon a stone. We need not look on this as an hyperbole. The
temple burnt by the Romans, and afterwards even ploughed up. See Gregory
of Nazianzus, orat. ii. cont. Julianum; Theodoret, lib. iii. Histor.
chap. xx. &c. (Witham) --- Julian the apostate, wishing to
falsify the predictions of Daniel and of Jesus Christ, attempted to
rebuild the temple. For this purpose, he assembled the chief among the
Jews, and asking them why they neglected the prescribed sacrifices, was
answered, that they could not offer any where else but in the temple of
Jerusalem. Upon this he ordered them to repair to Jerusalem, to rebuild
their temple, and restore their ancient worship, promising them his
concurrence in carrying on the work. This filled the Jews with
inexpressible joy. Hence flocking to Jerusalem, they began with
scorn and triumph to insult over the Christians. Contributions came in
from all parts. The Jewish women stripped themselves of their most
costly ornaments. The emperor opened his treasures to furnish every
thing necessary for the building. The most able workmen were convened
from all parts; persons of the greatest distinction were appointed to
direct the work; and the emperor's friend, Alipius, was set over the
whole, with orders to carry on the work without ceasing, and to spare no
expense. All materials were laid in to an immense quantity. The Jews of
both sexes bore a share in the labour; the women helping to dig the
ground, and carry away the rubbish in their aprons and gowns. It is even
said that the Jews appointed some pick-axes, spades, and baskets, to be
made of silver, for the honour of the work. Till this time the
foundations and some ruins of the walls had remained, as appears from
St. Cyril, in his catechism xv. n. 15, and Eusebius, Dem. Evang. lib.
viii. p. 406. These ruins the Jews first demolished with their
own hands, thus concurring to the accomplishment of our Saviour's
prediction. They next began to dig a new foundation, in which many
thousands were employed. But what they had thrown up in the day, was, by
repeated earthquakes, the night following cast back again into the
trench. When Alipius the next day was earnestly pressing on the
work, with the assistance of the governor of the province, there
issued, says Ammianus Marcellinus, such horrible balls of fire out of
the earth near the foundations, as to render the place inaccessible from
time to time to the scorched workmen. And the victorious element
continuing in this manner obstinately bent, as it were, to drive them to
a distance, Alipius, thought proper to abandon, though reluctantly, the
enterprise. This great event happened in the beginning of the
year 363, and with many very astonishing circumstances is recorded both
by Jews and Christians. See the proofs and a much fuller account of this
astonishing event, which all the ancient fathers describe as
indubitable, in Alban Butler's life of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, March
18th. Thus they so completely destroyed whatever
remained of the ancient temple, that there was not left one stone upon
another; nor were they permitted by heaven even to begin the new one. (Maldonatus) (Haydock Commntary.)
So
much for the “fake news” and absolute hoax that is the “Western Wall”
as being anything other than yet another means for the contemporary
practitioners of a dead, superseded religion to lay claim to that which
belongs to Christ the King and His true Church that He Himself founded
upon the Rock of Saint Peter, the Pope, and to force the conciliar
“popes” and dupes such as Trump and Vice President Michael Richard
Pence, who is visiting the Zionist State of Israel this week, to do
their obeisance in front of this hoax.
Alas, it should come as no surprise that many there is a phenomenon as “Christian Zionists” as Talmudists were in the vanguard of undermining the Faith throughout the Middle Ages and played a particularly important role in bringing about Martin Luther’s revolution against the Divine Plan that Our Lord Himself instituted to effect man’s return to Him through His true Church that is responsible, proximately speaking, for the triumph, although only transitory, of Judeo-Masonic naturalism in the world.
Alas, it should come as no surprise that many there is a phenomenon as “Christian Zionists” as Talmudists were in the vanguard of undermining the Faith throughout the Middle Ages and played a particularly important role in bringing about Martin Luther’s revolution against the Divine Plan that Our Lord Himself instituted to effect man’s return to Him through His true Church that is responsible, proximately speaking, for the triumph, although only transitory, of Judeo-Masonic naturalism in the world.
William Thomas Walsh’s Characters of the Inquistion
summarized the decisive role of Talmudists in bringing about and then
propagating the Protestant Revolution to overthrow the Social Reign of
Christ the King an eradicate the Holy Name of Our Blessed Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ from public view:
During
the spectacular and fateful reign of Charles the Fifth, the Spanish
Inquisition became so inactive that its enemies began to take its early
death for granted. Charles, who was elected German Emperor soon after
becoming King of Spain, and while still a youth crowned an extraordinary
good fortune by marrying the most beautiful woman in Europe, seemed too
powerful a monarch to have to worry about a few heretics here and
there; moreover, he was by nature trusting, tolerant and magnanimous to
such a degree that Cervantes has been suspected of drawing a sublime
caricature of him in Don Quixote. Masters of the new World, whose gold
came by galleons to Sevilla, he was always in need of money and
dependent upon the favors of usurers. Lover of peace, he was always
fighting, now defeating Francis I at Marignano, now performing the
prodigies of a paladin in Africa, now warring against traitorous barons
in Germany and Austria. Lover of Christ and of the Catholic Faith, he
saw through the fallacies of Luther; yet he made fatal compromises (his
famous Interim, for example) which permitted Lutheranism to pass from
the sectarian to the political plane, and so to destroy the unity of
Christian Europe for centuries; and he heard with shame, in 1527, that
his armies composed in great measure of German Lutherans and of secret
Mohammedans (Moriscoes) from eastern Spain, had sacked Rome, besieged
and all but killed the Pope, and filled the capital of Christendom with
the horrors of butchery, rape, and desecration even of the Blessed
Sacrament. Charles considered himself the great champion of the Church,
and was sincerely anxious for the reform of existing abuses against
which the Lutherans in the north were clamoring, yet he allowed his
aunt, Catherine of Aragon, to be cast aside for a royal concubine by
Henry VIII, as a prelude to the crafty destruction of the Catholic Faith
in England; and he saw his rivalry with Francis I constantly prevent
and finally interrupt, the deliberations of the Council of Trent, which
alone could restore health and discipline to the human organization of
the Church. A cool and skillful statesman, a keen judge of men
and motives, and on the whole, a better man than either Francis or
Henry, he was in the main outwitted from first to last by more subtle
and unscrupulous individuals. At a time when Europe needed a man
of single purpose, a Saint Fernando, a Saint Louis, a Catholic Moses,
to insist always that the soul of western civilization was the Christian
Faith, on which, in the nature of things no compromise was possible,
there were two conflicting men in this Habsburg potentate: an ascetic
and a sensualist. During the lifetime of his wife, to whom he
was faithful apparently until her death, he promised her that when their
son Philip was old enough to rule, they would retire from the world, to
a monastery, she to a convent, to meditate and pray. After the death of
the Empress Isabel, however, circumstances seemed to demand that he
retain his power; and the animal in him, which had always manifested
itself in his huge feeding and drinking, gained the ascendance for a
time. By one of his mistresses, the blond termagant singer Barbara
Blomberg, he begot Don Juan of Austria, about the time when he was
advising his legitimate son and heir, Philip, to live chastely, and to
beware of politicians who would seek to gain influence over him through
the wiles of women. The contrast was characteristic, and it continued to
the end. An old man at forty-nine, he handed over the government of
Spain to Philip, and retired to the monastery at Yuste to prepare for
death, to flagellate himself for his sins, to curse at choristers who
sang off key, to gorge himself with meat and wine and then to pay with
spasms of the gout, as the dregs of his earthly life seeped miserably
away.
Charles
seemed unaware, most of his life, that he was surrounded by the agents
of an international conspiracy to destroy everything that his heart
loved and revered. Most of his councillors were Catholics in name only,
or very lax Catholics; many of them, in key positions, were of Jewish
descent. Charles saw no danger in this. His favorite chaplain
was doctor Constantino Ponce de la Fuente, an eloquent preacher whose
voice is said to have had something like the effect of music on his
congregations, and whose book on Christian doctrine (dedicated to the
Emperor, who read it faithfully) gained him a great reputation as a
theologian – though at the very time her was in secret
communication with Lutherans in Germany, and had two wives living. The
chief minister of Charles, the wily Gattinara, had adopted principles of
Erasmian heretics then industriously undermining Catholicism in Spain,
while Erasmus himself, alarmed at the turn events were taking, was
denouncing Luther. Even Alonso Marique, the Inquisitor General,
was said to have Erasmian tendencies. The Emperor intervened to save
Juan Gil, who was secretly propagating anti-Catholic doctrines at
Alcala, from the Inquisition; and he wanted to make him bishop of
Tortosa. Another court preacher in high favor was the secret Protestant,
Father Augustin Cazalla. Michael Servetus was secretary to the
Emperor's confessor, Juan de Quintana. Propagandists were at work to
draw the whole Imperial family away from the Church Catholic. Charles's
brother Fernando remained faithful in his rather stupid way; but their
sister Mary of Hungary was a Lutheran for a time; and Fernando's son
Maximillian (who later became Emperor) was notoriously Protestant in his
views and in his friends. Even the children of Charles were in grave
danger of perversion. Some one skilfully suggested that young Philip II
take as his confessor the great Doctor Constantino; but Philip, warned
against the man, chose some one else. Philip's sister Maria (later
Empress) was not so wary. Her confessor was Fray Vincente de Rocamoro,
who later threw off the mask of Catholicism and joined the Hebrew
community at Amsterdam as Isaac of Rocamoro.
The
Expulsion of the Jews from Spain had been only a temporary misfortune
for that energetic and resourceful race. Already, in various parts of
the world, they had built up new political and commercial empires. Even
before the Spanish calamity, their control of international trade, and
of almost the entire economic life of Europe, had been broken by the
organization of the medieval Catholic workmen's guilds: but they had
gone a long way toward repairing the misfortune, and scattered from
Spain and Portugal, were soon controlling the overland trade between the
West and Indies, at Ferrrar, Venice, Ancona, Salonika, Constaninople,
Cairo and Suez. A Portuguese Jewish family names Mendes, with relatives
in Spain, the Netherlands and England, formed a powerful syndicate which
became known as the Spice Trust, whose owners collected toll on goods
consumed in every country in Europe, maintained an elaborate
intelligence or spy system, indulged in usury on a vast scale, gradually
pushed into the background such Catholic bankers as the Fuggers, and
threw the huge weight of their wealth and influence on the side of any
movement aimed against the Church of Christ. Joseph
Mendes, one of the spice magnates, went to Constantinople and there
became virtually master of the policy of the Sultan; it was he, for
example, who instigated the great threat to Christendom which was
stopped by the fleet of Don Juan of Austria at Lepanto. All
the powers of international Jewry were allied with, if not actually the
motive power of, the vast conspiracy which produced the Protestant
revolt. In fact, it was the famous Battle of the Books, a dispute
over the Jewish Talmud and Kabbala, which set the stage for Luther.
Erasmus's friend Reuchlin, the defender of the Jewish books, assembled
around his a party of revolutionaries without whose instant support the
Augustinian monk’s voice might have had no more effect than Huss's or
Segarelli's. Once the landslide began, the wide-spread
wealth and power of Talmudic Jewry was organized behind the new
movements in England, Germany, and France, and probably gave them their
permanence. International finance gave the Protestant Revolt a world
capital at London. Many good things came to an end: medieval hospitals
and charities; the unity of Europe; the Catholic guilds of workmen, from
which the modern labor movement still has much to learn.
Charles
apparently had no insight into the real significance of all this
revolution that was going on around him and in his very household. For
many years he retained a pathetic belief in the efficacy of physical
force and, even more, of political intrigue. As he had compromised with
the Lutheran movement in Germany, so he attempted to outflank the
Anglican position by compromise and finesse. He arranged for
Philip (whose Portuguese wife had died) to marry Mary Tudor, with the
hope that they would have a son who would inherit both England and
Spain, and thus bring England back into the Catholic fold. This in part
was to be Philip's recompense for having lost the Empire. The whole
international anti-catholic ring had seen to it that the Imperial
succession would pass not to the Spanish prince, whose unyielding
devotions to the Catholic Church was well know, but to his cousin
Maximillian, whose lukewarm Catholicism was believed to mask a
Protestant heart. Philip, however, would still be the most powerful
ruler in Christendom: he would have, besides England and Spain, the
control of Italy through Milan and Naples; Burgundy, the Low Countries,
and the New World. The recovery of England would make the victory over
Protestantism decisive.
This
beautiful dream dissolved in the light of actuality. Charles and his
obedient son made the fatal mistake of not following the advice of the
Pope and Cardinal Pole on the restoration of the immense properties of
the English Church, stolen by Henry VIII and passed on by him to crafty
upstarts who supplanted the ancient nobility. These men, under the
skillful and unscrupulous leadership of William Cecil, were resolved at
all costs to suppress the Catholic worship in England, for the sake of
the loot they held. They were so cowed at the accession of Mary that a
bold stoke then might have forced them to restore the monastery lands
and other properties to the rightful owners. But Charles and Philip
advised Mary not to insist too much on the point; counting, of course,
on the birth of a Catholic heir, and the healing effects of time. The
heir was not born, however, and time proved unfaithful. When Mary died
without issue, Philip felt sure that her bastard sister Elizabeth would
keep her oath to be a good Catholic if crowned. It had been within his
power to exclude her; he even toyed with the idea, doubtless with
encouragement by Elizabeth, that he could marry her if he chose, and
thus keep England within his hand. Philip did not know that William
Cecil had secretly arranged matters with Ann Boleyn's daughter, and
would control her by his powerful will, and the weapon of fear, for
nearly all her life. She had hardly been crowned when she broke
her oath, revealed herself a Protestant, and made Cecil her chief
minister. Thus Philip, with the best of intentions, and it must be
admitted, as victim of his father's opportunist policies, had set up a
power which would become the rallying point of the new Protestant world,
shield the ancient hatred of the Catholic Church, and plague him to the
day of his death. Thanks to his father's political advisers,
too, he had been drawn into a costly and foolish war with Pope Paul IV,
who on his side was deceived by a scoundrelly nephew; and it was a sorry
satisfaction when the Spanish troops under the Duke of Alba, took Rome.
Charles,
meanwhile, on returning to Spain to prepare his soul for death, had had
more than one rude awakening. With no Ximenes beside him to give wise
and disinterested advice, the prematurely old Emperor was shocked
especially to learn that while he had been neglecting the Inquisition
founded by his ancestors, and making clever compromises with the
heretics of Germany and England, Lutheranism had not only appeared, but
had made considerable headway, in Spain.
Even
after the reforms of Ximenes, there was some danger that an
anti-Catholic movement might take hold in Spain. The reforms of the
great Cardinal had not yet permeated the secular clergy. Also,
among the large population of Catholic Jews there were still some who
were waiting for any opportunity to embrace a cause which called itself
Christian (without demand the Christian test of sincerity in the
confessional) and yet was a solvent of true Christianity. Finally
Erasmus had sown the seeds of dissidence. This Voltairian individual,
this versatile mediocre man with far more knowledge than wisdom, this
sickly misbegotten dispeptic who had an almost irrational hatred of
monks because his uncle had forced him to enter an Augustinian
monastery, and jeered at Crusaders among whom his puny limbs could never
have taken a place, became immensely popular in Spain at the beginning
of the siglo de oro. He had done some good
works on pagan and Christian antiquities, and in patrology; he was
ski;lful in polemics; above all, he attacked clerical abuses at a time
when it was fashionable all over Europe to do so. He went even
further: he ridiculed rites and ceremonies of the Church, and scoffed at
some of her sacred dogmas. He despised such warrior Popes as Julius II
(whom Moses would have understood better) and could not find words
enough to flatter the Medici Popes, Leo X and Clement VII, under whose
pontificates occurred two of the greatest calamities that had befallen
the Church: the loss of Germany and the loss of England. His Praise of
Folly contained in embryo all of Luther's subsequent attack, and even
ridiculed texts of Holy Scripture. Good men were taken in by
him, believing him to be a sincere Catholic seeking needed reforms.
Saint Ignatius began reading his works on the advice of his confessor:
but on noticing his fervor and devotion began to ebb away in proportion,
he cast away the book he was reading, and thereafter held all the
writings of Erasmus in abhorrence. Juan de Vergaro, thought he had been a
secretary to Cardinal Ximenes, was less sensitive to spiritual odors;
he obtained a Spanish pension for Erasmus. Neither wholly
Catholic or wholly Protestant, this mean-spirited scholar withdrew from
the abyss in which Luther had walked, while his disciples became
pioneers of the New Religion in England, and even in Spain.
To
understand the shock of horror with which the Emperor Charles
discovered all this in 1558, just before his death, one must consider
circumstances often omitted or overlooked in the modern conspiracy (When
I use “conspiracy” in this sense, I do not mean necessarily a plot
controlled by one man, or a small group: it suffices to notice that men
of the same spiritual affinity tend toward a common end) against truth which has poisoned the records of the English-speaking world, but painfully real to men of the time. England,
more than ninety per cent Catholic, was quietly taken in hand by a
small rich minority of enemies of the Catholic church, many of them,
like Cecil, of very obscure origin. In France, leagued with the English
Protestants, another small but rich minority of Calvinists, chiefly
nobles and usurers, were beginning the formidable plots which were to
lead to the eight bloody Huguenot Wars. These two groups had very
intimate connections with the Lutheran princes of Germany, and with
William of Orange, who was already laying the groundwork for the
Protestant revolt in the Low Countries, and urging the Turks, through
Jewish bankers friends who were his heavy creditors, to attack Catholic
Spain from the Mediterranean. Not all of this was evident in 1558, but
enough of it had come to light to make the last nights of the Emperor
very restless indeed. And then to find out that a Lutheran plot was well
advanced in Spain – !
Perhaps
the Spanish, having fought the battles of Christendom against unbelief
so many centuries, had a keener awareness that some of their northern
neighbors of the significance of such movements. They had learned that
in this world appearances are often deceptive. A Dominican theologian,
familiar with the recent activities of the Alumbrados,
discovered by the agents of [Cardinal] Ximenes [de Cisernos], and aware
of the ideas of the medieval Manichee heretics from which they derived,
would not be long in stripping the gospel of Luther of its accidents,
which gave it the superficial appearance of something new, and fining in
its essentials the same old enemy that the Catholic Church had been
fighting so many centuries. Luther professed to be appealing from the
Middle Ages to the virgin purity of the first Christian centuries. In
reality he was leading the minds of his victims even further back in
time, back, in the labyrinth of ideas, to the gospel of despair so
elaborately disguised by the bhikkus of India, and so craftily revived by the Beghards, Beguins and other secret societies of the thirteenth century.
“Escape
from the evils of life (Karma), from desire and action, into
nothingness,” said the Buddhists in effect. “Join us, look within, and
sink into pure contemplation. Once desire is dead, you shall be free
from sin, rebirth and misery.”
“Life
is evil, the work of the devil,” said the medieval Manichees. “Do not
listen to Pope or priest, but join our sect of the Pure and the Perfect:
then, no matter what you do, you are free from sin, from the torment of
conscience, from the evil of living.”
“Be illuminated by a divine feeling from within,” said the Alumbrados. “Obey no one but God, Once you have become perfect and left desire behind, no carnal act you happen to perform can be sinful.”
“No
human works are of any avail,” said Luther. “Only faith can save you.
If you have faith, it does not matter how much you sin; in fact, the
more you sin the more you prove your faith. Therefor be a sinner, sin
strongly, sin a thousand times a day.”
Was
not Luther's doctrine of salvation by grace alone a restatement, with a
somewhat different emphasis, of the old despairing dogma of the Alumbrados, the Manichees, the Gnostics, the Buddhists? Did not he and Melancthon, in the name of reform revive that other heresy of Fraticelli:
the detestable error that the state had absolute power over the
individual and the Church that the State was the supreme judge and
master of human affairs: there was a familiar Manichean smell about all
this Lutheran business, and in the nostrils of the Dominicans it was not
good.
Spain
had a reminder of the implications of Illuminism in 1544, when the
Inquisition, in one of its few moments of activity under Charles V,
astonished the country by arresting the famous beata, Sister Magdalena
de la Cruz, who had been a nun for forty years at the convent of Saint
Isabel of the Angels in Cordoba, and had had such a reputation for
holiness that even members of the royal family went to solicit her
prayers, while the Empress Isabel, wife of Charles V, gave her in
gratitude the robe in which her son, Philip II, had been baptized. It
was said that the saintly woman performed dreadful penances and vigils,
that she lived only on the Host received in Holy Communion, and that she
had received the stigmata of Our Lord on hands, feet and side.
Under
examination by the Dominican inquisitors, however, Sister Magdalena
made some very different revelations. She admitted that she was not a
Catholic at all, but one of the sect of the Alumbrados; that when seven
years old, she had been persuaded by the devil to pretend sanctity; that
at eleven she had made a pact with two demonios incubos, named
Balban and Pitonio, who used to have intercourse with her by night,
disguised in various ways – now as a Jeronymite friar, now as a
Franciscan, now as a black bull, now as a camel. In obedience to them
she made wounds on her hands, feet and side so cleverly that even holy
persons were deceived; she went into “trances” in which she seemed
insensible even to the prick of needles, she imposed even upon
princesses and the Empress.
The Inquisition imprisoned this foul impostor for life. Yet
her evil mission had a certain measure of success even after her death.
Her example made good people afraid of all who manifested any of the
phenomenon to which she laid claim; so that when Saint Teresa of Avila
experienced real raptures and visions, she was suspected by pious
persons of being just one more Magdalena of the Cross, and endured
unspeakable persecutions in consequence, even after the Inquisitors
declared her free from heresy and deception, and a true mystic.
Whether
Magdalena was an impostor, a paranoiac, a lunatic, or one possessed, is
beside the point here. It was intolerable that such a person should be
allowed to represent the Catholic religion and impose upon the Catholic
people. It was one of the functions of the Holy Office to protect the
faithful from such deceptions; and although Luther was a very different
sort of person from the nun of Cordoba, there was a certain similarity
between his doctrine and that of the secret society to which she
belonged. They too, used Christian terminology, though with
esoteric meanings; they spoke of “contrition for sin,” “the cross of the
Christian,” “the warmth of the Holy Ghost” and so on; and all their
emphasis was on feeling as opposed to reason, and on private judgment as
opposed to the authority of an ordered Church. (William Thomas Walsh, Characters of the Inquisition, New York, P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1940 pp. 214-223.)
This
describes Jorge Mario Bergoglio just as much as the “Christian
Zionists” who are such enthusiastic supporters of President Donald John
Trump, especially after his decision to relocate the American embassy in
the Zionist State of Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem over the course
of the next several years.
William
Thomas Walsh’s commentary about the work courageous work of Francisco
Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros, known by contemporaries as Ximens de
Cisernos, to root out Jewish infiltration of the Church in Spain to
spread the errors of Luther makes it very clear how Jewish saboteurs
have long sough to take down Holy Mother Church and thus to discredit
and supplant her role in civil society:
The
Dominicans, Augustinians and Carmelites did not resist. It was his own
community that gave him one of the great battles of his life. After the
death of Saint Francis, as we have seen, that order passed through a
hectic period, at the end of which when peace had been restored through
the efforts of Saint John Capistrano, there still remained two
divisions, the Conventuals, who took the easier road for human nature to
follow as regarded property and other matters, and the Observatines,
who sought to follow the ideal of Saint Francis in all its rigor.
Ximenes himself a member by choice of the latter group, put all
Franciscans in Spain under the direction of the Commissary General, and
then proceeded to reform them. The Conventuals were furious; many of
them, in fact, were good men sincerely convinced that their modified
rule was better than the original one. The dispute reached such a stage
of acrimony that an Italian Franciscan General went to Spain purposely
to put an end to the reform, spoke insultingly to Queen Isabel in his
anger, and evoked from her a memorable rebuke, while Gonzalo de Cetina,
secretary for Aragon, threatened to hang the distinguished visitor with
the cord of his habit. Such strong representations were made at the
Vatican that Alexander VI, in 1496, ordered the housecleaning suspended,
but the following year, being better informed, he allowed it to go on.
Ximenes carried on the war to victory. He had the satisfaction of
learning that a thousand bad monks had given up the struggle in Castile,
and had migrated to Morocco, where they might live as they pleased –
some of them taking along women with whom they had given scandal. The
Church and Spain were much better, of course, for their departure; and
although Ximenes never completed his task with the secular clergy, he
had carried the movement so far that when he died the boast was made,
with justice, that the Spanish monks were noted beyond all those of
Christendom for temperance, chastity, and virtuous living in general. In
the course of time, the improved state of the monasteries had its
effect upon the secular priesthood. It was probable the reform
of Ximenes, therefore that saved Spain from succumbing, after his death,
to Protestantism. Unlike his English contemporaries, he proved that
monks could be brought back to discipline without cutting off their
heard, destroying their works of mercy and handing over their lands to
usurers.
Every
heretical movement had two important elements: (1) a protest, usually
exaggerated but with more or less foundation in fact, against abuses
arising from the weaknesses of human nature in the Church; and (2) a
conspiracy, often cloaked by some sort of secret society, to pervert the
teachings of Christ and the Church, under pretext of reform. Ximenes
had forestalled the first of these conditions in Spain. He also did a
great deal to expose and prevent the second. It was while he was
Inquisitor General, for example, that the sect known as the Alumbrados or Illuminates was first discovered in the Peninsula.
Nothing in history is without cause and without effect. The Alumbrados
were a link in the chain of causality connecting the Manichees of the
Middle Ages with modern anti-Christian movements; the Inquisition of
Toulouse with the French Revolution and the Bolshevik Revolution.
The name Iluminado
first appeared in Spain when a report sent to Cardinal Ximenes
concerning the activities of one Fray Antonio de Patrana, who had begun
to preach a revelation which he said came to him directly from God,
called himself Illuminatus, and went about the countryside with
certain holy women, on whom he had been instructed, by the inner voice
he followed, to beget prophets. The Inquisition clapped him into prison,
and scattered his sect.
Obviously,
he was a spiritual descendent of those Fourteenth Century imposters
Segarelli and Dulcinus. It was no new cure that he dispensed. Nor was
Illuminism but a distortion of Christian mysticism, any more than it was
a perversion of Judaism. True it made its way into the
Christian Church under the guise of various heresies, as it deceived
many of the scattered children of Moses under the covers of the Talmud;
but in reality it was quite different in origin. The Law of Moses and
the Law of Christ came from God, from the source of being, of good, of
light, of growth; when free to do so they always produced orderly and
beautiful living. And both of them were opposed, from very early times,
by a totally different spirit, the spirit than denies, that hates life,
that causes confusion and chaos. This dark spirit enthroned itself in
the East, even before the Incarnation; and there shielded by a
singularly pure and austere code of morality, it evolved systems of
thought which took on the appearances of religions, but were in reality
elaborate form of atheism. Is not the Nirvana of the Buddhists, the goal
of all their strivings thought countless reincarnations, nothing but
the death and annihilation of the individual conscience, the extinction
of human personality in an All which is but a step from Nothing?
Buddhism, the child of pantheistic Brahminism, is atheism in disguise;
and granting all that may be said for Buddha's good intentions, the
sincere and self-sacrificing lives of many of his followers, and the
truth of many of their teachings, the system itself contained the seeds
of intellectual and spiritual degeneration. Out of it came a
pseudo-mysticism based upon such conceptions as these: life is not worth
living, personality is a burden and a curse, marriage is a bed of hot
coals leading to the propagation of an evil, all labor and effort are
useless, the family and other forms of society therefore become
pointless, anarchy thus follows logically, and man can do no better than
escape from the penalties of Karma and the chains of human desire into a
cold and selfless (but actually selfish) absorption into Nirvana. Pure
contemplation, to these mystics, meant that the soul lost its
individuality and annihilated itself as it sank into the infinite
essence, until at last it arrived at a state of perfection which was
soul, there could be no sin.
These
ideas underwent many fantastic transmutations as they traveled from the
dying East to invade the living West. But the dangerous corollary that
to the pure all things are pure, that nothing a perfect soul may do in
the ectasy of contemplation can be sinful, persisted in the teachings of
several heresies. It was taught by the early Gnostics, by
Plotinus, by the Priscillians in Galicia, by the thirteenth century
Albigenses of Southern France, by thefourteenth century Beghards of
Beguins in Catalonia and Leon. And now the hoary superstition of the
Buddhist bkikkus (beggars) which isolated the human soul from
human society, from moral good (through braking down the distinction
between good and evil) and from God Himself, was reappearing under the
mask of “Illuminism.” In exposing and punishing the
Alhumbrados, then, Ximenes was merely resuming in Castile the battle
that Eymeric had waged, more than a century before, in Aragon and
Catalonia.
He
was eighty years old when King Fernando died in 1516. Queen Juana was
less fit than ever to reign. Her son Charles was in Flanders, where he
had been brought up, and was not yet seventeen. All the old intrigues
which had divided and weakened Spain in the past began to stir behind
the scenes. Nobles were reaching again for power. Catholic Jews
of slight orthodoxy saw a fresh opportunity to deal a blow at the
Inquisition, which had fallen so heavily upon them or upon their
ancestors. They offered Charles V 800,000 ducats if he would make
certain “reforms” in the procedure of the Holy Office.
The
young king was tempted to accept. What did the Inquisition mean to him?
He had been in Spain very little, and was more of a Fleming than a
Spaniard, both in looks and in training. Why not do as the Conversos suggested, and allow, among other things publication of the names of witnesses and delators?
Ximenes,
who knew that the Holy Office had been the cornerstone of the
resurrected Spain, the fulcrum not only of political unity and power,
but of spiritual reform, wrote a memorable letter to Charles.
“Most
high and mighty Catholic King, most gracious lord: The Catholic
sovereigns, as your Majesty is aware, have bestowed so much care upon
the Holy Tribunal of the Inquisition, and examined its laws and
institutions with so much prudence, wisdom and consciousness, that
modifications of it are not needed, but would rather be harmful than
otherwise. At the present moment such changes would fill me the more
with sorrow, as they would assuredly tend to increase the defiance shown
to the Inquisition by the Catalonians and the Pope. The pecuniary
embarrassment of your Majesty is, I confess, very great, but certainly
that of Fernando the Catholic, the grandfather of your Majesty, was
greater, when the newly converted Christians offered him 600,000 gold
ducats to carry on the Navarrese war. He did not accept their proposals,
because he preferred the purity of the Christian religion to all the
gold in the world. With all the true devotion of a loyal subject, with
the zeal which I must have for the office to which your Majesty has
raised me, I beseech you to open your eyes and follow the example of
your Majesty's grandfather, and consent to no changes in the proceedings
of the Inquisition. All the objections raised by its adversaries have
before been refuted, under the Catholic kings of glorious memory. The
modifications of even the most unimportant law of the Inquisition could
not be made without betraying the honor of God and insulting that of
your most illustrious ancestors. If this consideration has not
sufficient weight with your Majesty, may it please you to recall the
deplorable occurrence which has lately taken place at Talavera de la
Reina, when a newly-converted Jew, who had learned the name of his
accuser, searched for him and stabbed him. The hatred against these
informers is indeed so great that, if the publication of their names is
not prevented, they will not only be assassinated in private and public,
but even at the foot of the altar. No one will be found in future
willing to risk his life by similar denunciations; this would be the
ruin of the Holy Tribunal, and the cause of God would be left without a
defender. I live in confidence that your Majesty, my King, and Lord,
will not become unfaithful to the Catholic blood which runs in your
veins, but be convinced that the Inquisition is a tribunal of God, and
an excellent institution of your Majesty's ancestors.” William Thomas Walsh, Characters of the Inquisition, New York, P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1940 pp. 204-207.)
Be not deceived, good readers, that is, if any are still reading this long article!
Be not deceived.
The efforts to overturn the results of the November 8, 2016, presidential election and to effect a coup d’etat
against President Donald John Trump can never but never cause a
believing Catholic to develop a “rooting” interest in this side show as
our cause is that of Christ the King and His true Church, the cause of
Catholicism, not a false nationalism and not the illusion that the
current president is anything other than a wholly-owned subsidiary of
one set of Talmudists as opposed to another.
Let
me remind you once again of the following exchange between Theodore
Herzl and Pope Saint Pius X that took place on the Feast of the
Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle, January 25, 1904:
HERZL:
Yesterday I was with the Pope [Pius X]. . . . I arrived ten minutes
ahead of time, and without having to wait I was conducted through a
number of small reception rooms to the Pope. He received me standing and
held out his hand, which I did not kiss. Lippay had told me I had to do
it, but I didn’t. I believe this spoiled my chances with him, for
everyone who visits him kneels and at least kisses his hand. This hand
kiss had worried me a great deal and I was glad when it was out of the
way.
He
seated himself in an armchair, a throne for minor affairs, and invited
me to sit by his side. He smiled in kindly anticipation. I began:
HERZL:
I thank Your Holiness for the favor of granting me this audience. [I
begged him to excuse my miserable Italian, but he said:
POPE: No, Signor Commander, you speak very well.
HERZL:
[He is an honest, rough-hewn village priest, to whom Christianity has
remained a living thing even in the Vatican. I briefly laid my request
before him. But annoyed perhaps by my refusal to kiss his hand, he
answered in a stern categorical manner.
POPE: We
are unable to favor this movement [of Zionism]. We cannot prevent the
Jews from going to Jerusalem—but we could never sanction it. The ground
of Jerusalem, if it were not always sacred, has been sanctified by the
life of Jesus Christ. As the head of the Church I cannot answer you
otherwise. The Jews have not recognized our Lord, therefore we cannot
recognize the Jewish people.
HERZL:
[The conflict between Rome and Jerusalem, represented by the one and
the other of us, was once again under way. At the outset I tried to be
conciliatory. I said my little piece. . . . It didn’t greatly impress
him. Jerusalem was not to be placed in Jewish hands.] And its present
status, Holy Father?
POPE:
I know, it is disagreeable to see the Turks in possession of our Holy
Places. We simply have to put up with it. But to sanction the Jewish
wish to occupy these sites, that we cannot do.
HERZL: [I said that we based our movement solely on the sufferings of the Jews, and wished to put aside all religious issues].
POPE: Yes,
but we, but I as the head of the Catholic Church, cannot do this. One
of two things will likely happen. Either the Jews will retain their
ancient faith and continue to await the Messiah whom we believe has
already appeared—in which case they are denying the divinity of Jesus
and we cannot assist them. Or else they will go there with no religion
whatever, and then we can have nothing at all to do with them. The
Jewish faith was the foundation of our own, but it has been superceded
by the teachings of Christ, and we cannot admit that it still enjoys any
validity. The Jews who should have been the first to acknowledge Jesus
Christ have not done so to this day.
HERZL:
[It was on the tip of my tongue to remark, “It happens in every family:
no one believes in his own relative.” But, instead, I said:] Terror and
persecution were not precisely the best means for converting the Jews.
[His reply had an element of grandeur in its simplicity:]
POPE: Our
Lord came without power. He came in peace. He persecuted no one. He was
abandoned even by his apostles. It was only later that he attained
stature. It took three centuries for the Church to evolve. The Jews
therefore had plenty of time in which to accept his divinity without
duress or pressure. But they chose not to do so, and they have not done
it yet.
HERZL:
But, Holy Father, the Jews are in a terrible plight. I do not know if
Your Holiness is aware of the full extent of their tragedy. We need a
land for these harried people.
POPE: Must it be Jerusalem?
HERZL: We are not asking for Jerusalem, but for Palestine—for only the secular land.
POPE: We cannot be in favor of it.
[Editor
Lowenthal interjects here] Here unrelenting replacement theology is
plainly upheld as the norm of the Roman Catholic Church. Further, this
confession, along with the whole tone of the Pope in his meeting with
Herzl, indicates the perpetuation of a doctrinal emphasis that has
resulted in centuries of degrading behavior toward the Jews. However,
this response has the “grandeur” of total avoidance of that which Herzl
had intimated, namely that the abusive reputation of Roman Catholicism
toward the Jews was unlikely to foster conversion. Further, if, “It took
three centuries for the Church to evolve,” it was that very same period
of time that it took for the Church to consolidate and launch its
thrust of anti-Semitism through the following centuries.
HERZL: Does Your Holiness know the situation of the Jews?
HERZL: Does Your Holiness know the situation of the Jews?
POPE:
Yes, from my days in Mantua, where there are Jews. I have always been
in friendly relations with Jews. Only the other evening two Jews were
here to see me. There are other bonds than those of religion: social
intercourse, for example, and philanthropy. Such bonds we do not refuse
to maintain with the Jews. Indeed we also pray for them, that their
spirit see the light. This very day the Church is celebrating the feast
of an unbeliever who became converted in a miraculous manner—on the road
to Damascus. And so if you come to Palestine and settle your people there, we will be ready with churches and priests to baptize all of you.
HERZL:
[At this point Conte Lippay had himself announced. The Pope bade him be
admitted. The Conte kneeled, kissed his hand, and joined in the
conversation by telling of our “miraculous” meeting in the Bauer
beerhall at Venice. The miracle was that he had originally intended to
stay overnight in Padua, and instead, it turned out that he was given to
hear me express the wish to kiss the Holy Father’s foot. At this the
Pope made no movement, for I hadn’t even kissed his hand. Lippay
proceeded to tell how I had expiated on the noble qualities of Jesus
Christ. The Pope listened, and now and then took a pinch of snuff and
sneezed into a big red cotton handkerchief. It is these peasant touches
which I like about him best and which most of all compel my respect.
Lippay, it would appear, wanted to account for his introducing me, and
perhaps ward off a word of reproach. But the Pope said:
POPE: On the contrary, I am glad you brought me the Signor Commendatore.
HERZL: [As to the real business, he repeated what he had told me, until he dismissed us:]
POPE: Not possible!
HERZL:
[Lippay stayed on his knees for an unconscionable time and never seemed
to tire of kissing his hand. It was apparent that this was what the
Pope liked. But on taking leave, I contented myself with shaking his
hand warmly and bowing deeply. The audience lasted about twenty-five
minutes. While spending the last hour in the Raphael gallery, I saw a
picture of an Emperor kneeling before a seated Pope and receiving the
crown from his hands. That’s how Rome wants it.] (Marvin Lowenthal, Diaries of Theodore Herzl, pp. 427- 430.)
Not
exactly how the conciliar "popes" have spoken to the adherents of the
Talmud whenever they have permitted themselves to have been treated as
inferiors in Talmudic synagogues and as Talmudic choirs have sung about
how the Talmudic Jews of today are "waiting for the Messiah," now is it?
Oh,
no. Pope Saint Pius X sought the conversion of souls, making no
accommodations to the nonexistent legitimacy of false religions. Jorge
Mario Bergoglio was a regular visitor of Talmudic synagogues in
Argentina and has done so as “Pope Francis” in Rome on January 17, 2017.
Remember also that Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI visited three of them,
including one in Rome itself (see Saint Peter and Anti-Peter).
Donald
John Trump, of course, has spent his entire life around Talmudists. As
one who is ignorant of any kind of history, including true
history, Trump’s beliefs, such as they are, depend almost entirely upon
those of the people who influence him, starting with the Kushners and
his Talmudic business associates. He thinks that he has acted
“courageously” by announcing the eventual move of the American embassy
in Israel from Tel Aviv. All that he has done, however, is to make good a
campaign promise that was premised upon his shallow belief that support
for the Zionist State of Israel is righteous and in the best interests
of the United States of America and for peace in the Middle East. It is
not.
Our
Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Himself explained the conditions
under which peace will come to the Holy Land where He triumphed over the
power of sin and death on the wood of the Holy Cross and made manifest
His victory by rising gloriously from the dead on Easter Sunday:
At
that time, Jesus said to the Scribes and Pharisees, Therefore, behold, I
send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some you will scourge
in your synagogues, and persecute from town to town; that upon you may
come all the just blood that has been shed on the earth, from the blood
of Abel the just unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom
you killed between the temple and the altar. Amen I say to you,
all these things will come upon this generation. Jerusalem, Jerusalem!
you who kill the prophets, and stone those who are sent to you! How
often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen gathers her
young under her wings, but you would not! Behold, your house is left to
you desolate. For I say to you, you shall not see Me henceforth until
you shall say, Blessed is He Who comes in the name of the Lord! (Matthew 23:34-39.)
There
will never be peace in the Middle East until everyone in that region
converts to the Catholic Faith and say in unison, “Blessed is He Who
comes in the name of the Lord!”
(A person who recommended that I appear on Crossfire in
1987 to discuss an outbreak of Palestinian-Israeli violence then was
incredulous--perhaps "mortified" is a better word—when I said that I
would say just that, that everyone involved had to convert to the
Catholic Church, in a live appearance on television. Guess what? I did
not appear on Crossfire.)
Every
single bit of the Holy Land, including Jerusalem, was sanctified by the
Incarnation, Nativity, Hidden Life, Public Life and Passion, Death,
Resurrection and Ascension of Our Divine Redeemer, Christ the King.
Let
me reiterate this fact: Jerusalem belongs to Christ the King and His
Holy Church, not to the Zionist State of Israel or any other entity.
Period.
While
Catholics must always bear themselves kindly towards all, including
Jews, of course, as each person posseesses an immortal soul created in
the image and likeness of God and has been redeemed by the shedding of
every single drop of the Most Precious Blood of the Divine Redeemer, Our
Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, whether or not they know this or
accept it as being true, we are always to oppose Judaism as a false
religion and to oppose Zionism and the murderous, racialist policies of
the Zionist State of Israel.
It
is not “anti-Semitic” to be opposed to the Zionist State of Israel and
“right” to exist. Even some Orthodox adherents of the Talmud, including
rabbis, who are anti-Zionists and who recognize the
Father
Denis Fahey, the great defender of the Social Reign of Christ the King,
explained how the Talmudists use the “anti-Semite” card to tar anyone
and everyone who opposes them and will not accept their false religion
as valid and who dares to place into question their tortured accounts of
human history:
Yet
all the propaganda about that display of Anti-Semitism should not have
made Catholics forget the existence of age-long Jewish Naturalism or
Anti-Supernaturalism. Forgetfulness of the disorder of Jewish
Naturalistic opposition to Christ the King is keeping Catholics blind to
the danger that is arising from the clever extension of the term
“Anti-Semitism,” with all its war-connotation in the minds of the
unthinking, to include any form of opposition to the Jewish Nation’s
naturalistic aims. For the leaders of the Jewish Nation, to stand for
the rights of Christ the King is logically to be “anti-Semitic.” (Father
Denis Fahey, The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation.)
These
words of wisdom apply to the cultural and political legal warfare that
has been waged in this country by Judeo-Masonry. Indeed, as Father Fahey
quotes from Pope Pius XI:
“Comprehending
and merciful charity towards the erring,” he writes, “and even towards
the contemptuous, does not mean and can not mean that you renounce in
any way the proclaiming of, the insisting on, and the courageous defence
of the truth and its free and unhindered application to the realities
about you. The first and obvious duty the priest owes to the world about
him is service to the truth, the whole truth, the unmasking and
refutation of error in whatever form or disguise it conceals itself.”
(Pope Pius XII, Mit Brennender Sorge, March 14, 1937) (Father Denis Fahey, The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation.)
Anti-Semitism—or
simple fidelity to this mission that the God-Man, Our Blessed Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ, gave to the Eleven before He Ascended to the
Father's right hand in glory on Ascension Thursday?
And
the eleven disciples went into Galilee, unto the mountain where Jesus
had appointed them. And seeing them they adored: but some doubted. And
Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven
and in earth. Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in
the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching
them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and behold I
am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world. (Mt. 28:
16-20)
Today is Gaudete Sunday, the Third Sunday of Advent.
Writing in The Liturgical Year, Dom
Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., reminds us of the joy that must be ours
because we belong to the Catholic Church, she who can make no terms with
error any more than the likes of Saint Lucy to offer grains of incense
to the false idols:
O
holy Roman Church, city of our strength! behold us thy children
assembled within thy walls, around the tomb of the fisherman, the prince
of the apostles, whose sacred relics protect thee from their earthy
shrine, and whose unchanging teaching enlightens thee from heaven. Yet, O
city of strength: it is by the Saviour, who is coming that thou art
strong. He is they wall, for it is He that encircles, with His tender
mercy all thy children; He is thy bulwark, for it is by Him that thou
art invincible, and that all the powers of hell are powerless to prevail
against thee. Open wide thy gates, that all nations may enter thee; for
thou art mistress of holiness and the guardian of truth. May
the old error, which sets itself against the faith soon disappear, and
peace reign over the whole fold! O holy Roman Church ! thou hast for
ever put they trust in the Lord; and He, faithful to His promise, has
humbled before thee the haughty ones that defied thee, and the proud
cities that were against thee. Where now are the Caesars, who boasted
that they had drowned thee in thy own blood ? where the emperors, who
would ravish the inviolate virginity of thy faith ? where the heretics,
who during the past centuries of thine existence, have assailed every
article of thy teaching, and denied what they listed ? where the
ungrateful princes, who would fain make a slave of thee, who hadst made
them what they were ? where the empire of Mahomet, which has so many
times raged against thee, for that thou, the defenceless State, didst
arrest the pride of its conquests ? where the more modern sophists in
whose philosophy thou was sent down as a system that had been tried, and
was a failure, and is not a ruin ? and those kings who are acting the
tyrant over thee, and those people that will have liberty independently and at the risk of truth, where they will be another hundred years?
Gone and forgotten as the noisy anger of a torrent; whilst thou, O holy
Church of Rome, built on the immovable rock, wilt be as calm as young,
as unwrinkled as ever. Thy path through the ages of this world’s
duration, will be right as that of the just man; thou wilt ever be the
same unchanging Church, as thou hast been during the eighteen years
past, whist everything else under the sun has been but change. Whence is
thy stability, but form Him who is very truth and justice? Glory be to
Him in thee! Each year, He visits thee; each year, He brings thee new
gifts, wherewith thou mayest go happily through thy pilgrimage; and to
the end of time, He will visit thee, and renew thee, not only with the
power of that look wherewith Peter was renewed, but by filling thee with
Himself, as He did the every glorious Virgin, who is the object of thy
most tender love, after that which thou bearest to Jesus Himself. We
pray with thee, O Church, our mother, and here is our prayer: ‘Coe, Lord
Jesus! Thy name and Thy remembrance are the desire of our souls; they
have desired Thee in the night, yea, and early in the morning have they
watched for Thee.’ (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year, Volume I, Advent, pp. 201-202.)
Although Dom Prosper Gueranger did not foresee the fact that even worse sophists
and heretics would arise within one hundred years of his death on
January 30, 1875, his description of the glories of Catholic Church can
be applied to the counterfeit church of concilarism in no manner
whatsoever as the latter entity is an embodiment of sophistry and heresy
that has made terms with the ancient enemies of Christ the King and all
other false religions, false philosophies and social currents.
Our
hope, therefore, is in Christ the King, not in political "saviours" of
the "left" or the "right" nor in "conservative" "cardinals" who refuse
to recognize that they have enable heresy and error, including religious
liberty, separation of Church and State and false ecumenism, in their
own right.
We
need Our Lady's help, especially by means of her Most Holy Rosary, in
these troubling times as without the graces she sends us we will be
prone to view the world through the eyes of naturalism and not through
the supernatural eyes of the Catholic Faith.
May we take solace in these words of Dom Prosper Gueranger about Gaudete Sunday:
There
hath stood One in the midst of you, whom you know not, says Saint John
the Baptist to them that were sent by the Jews. So that our Lord may be
near. He may even have come, and yet by some be not known! This Lamb of
God is the holy Precursor’s consolation; he considers it a singular
privilege to be but the voice which cries out to them to prepare the way
of the Redeemer. In this, St. John a type of the Church, and of all
such as seek Jesus. St. John is full of joy because the Savior has
come, but the men around him are as indifferent as though they neither
expected nor wanted a Savior. This is the third week of Advent; and are
all hearts excited by the great tidings told them by the Church, that
the Messias is near at hand? They that love Him not as their Savior, do
they fear Him as their Judge? Are the crooked ways being made straight,
and the hills being brought low? Are Christians seriously engaged in
removing from their hearts the love or riches and the love of sensual
pleasures? There is no time to lose: The Lord is nigh!" If
these lines should come under the eye of any of those Christians who are
in this state of sinful indifference, we would conjure them to shake
off their lethargy, an render themselves worthy of the visit of the
divine Infant; such a visit will bring them the greatest consolation
here, and give them confidence hereafter, when our Lord will come to
judge all mankind. Send thy grace, O Jesus, still more plentifully into
their hearts; ‘compel them to go in,’ and permit not that it be said of
the children of the Church, as St. John said of the Synagogue: There
standeth in the midst of you One, whom you know not. (Dom Prosper
Gueranger, The Liturgical Year, Volume I, Advent, pp. 205-206.)
We
need Our Lady's help to make straight the path of her Divine Son into
our own souls so that, liberated from the muck and mire of competing
sets of naturalists, we may focus on the joy that should be shared by
everyone in the world about the fact that He has become Incarnate for us
and our salvation and deigned to be born in a lowly estate on Christmas
Day.
This
is all the more reason to take seriously this week's Ember Days in
order that we might make reparation for our sins by offering up our
prayers, fasting and sacrifices to the Throne of the Most Blessed
Trinity as the consecrated slaves of Our Lord Jesus Christ through the
Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Viva Cristo Rey!
Viva La Virgen de Guadalupe!
Isn't it time to pray a Rosary now?
Immaculate Heart of Mary, triumph soon!
Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.
Saint Joseph, pray for us.
Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.
Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.
Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.
Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us.
Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.
Saint Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.
Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us
Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, pray for us.
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"At this point, what difference does it (election) make?" -HRC quipped re: Benghazi.
Ask her now, as she hobbles along with her "boot" over her ankle bracelet.