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Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Dallas Mask-Wearing Incident: Time to unleash all Hell on ...

 ... the mainstream Catholic Church? Pretty much, the mainstream Church is unleashing all Hell on itself. Honestly, this lamentable report from Dallas is too much.


A lot of video with this link, and I suggest anyone interested in the Church watch look into it. Of course, there's two sides to every story, and more will be coming out about this, I'm sure. But as of now; A pregnant woman, Deirdre Hairston, with a one-year-old, was "removed" in Church, after going to Communion, by a policewoman (backed up by two male officers) who first interrupted her post Communion prayer and asked her to leave, then grabbed her arm, dragging her out, while an usher screamed, "Lock her up!" Deirdre was ticketed for trespassing. Yep. Trespassing at a Catholic Church during Mass. Her husband was present, as well, as you see in her video of the incident.

Enough, people. Enough.

Had I been there and saw this, there's the possibility I'd be in jail now for police assault, because I might have tried to intervene, the old dilapidated Barliman Butterbur that I am. But maybe I have taken too long to realize what was happening? The police entered, went right to Deirdre, spoke to her and she and her husband and child went outside to talk over what was happening. Also, it is important to note that NO ONE in the congregation came to her aid, asked what was going on, etc. I assume the police would have brushed them off or arrested them for interfering, whatever gambit they use now. 

The diocese has issued a statement here

To wit:
In it, they state that Hairston wasn’t arrested or ticketed, merely issued a trespass warning. They also said the pastor of the parish has required masks at Mass out of concern for the health and welfare of its entire congregation. Hairston and her husband said that isn’t true. They said it wasn’t required – only encouraged.Furthermore, the church expects “the faithful to wear masks out of charity and concern for others,” the church continued.
The Diocese is looking into the details regarding the incident, and said, “recognizing that this pandemic has been stressful for everyone, an increase in patience and charity is necessary during these days.”
Ron again:
"Patience and charity"??? The word "hypocrisy" mean anything to anyone anymore? How 'bout the bishop and the diocese go get stuffed? In charity, of course, and patience. We could use a slow, patient speak: "Go. Get. Stuffed." There, very charitable. 

A video embedded in this article has Taylor Marshall interviewing the young mother in question, Deirdre, and within that video her film of the arrest (or whatever it could be called). Something you ought to see. Deirdre says, 'This just proves all this more...that is obviously a political statement (of the Church's and the police); it's about complying, it's not about health.'

That's of course what the entire Covid fiasco-hoax is ALL about. Making us all "lie down" as the old Orange song says, "Croppie, lie down!"

Deirdre also notes how the police kept saying that the Church is a business, so apparently businesses can demand mask compliance in Texas, a state that ended state-mandated mask compliance. And Taylor Marshall points out that the government keeps says, from local police to the president (well, the 'pResident') that the Church is just a business. "Once we lose that ground, the 'Church is just a business', we're in big trouble." Indeed. Ugly materialism triumphant. Deirdre herself says, "I told her (the police woman), 'This isn't MacDonald's; this is a sanctuary.'" Both Deirdre and Marshall point out that the bishop actually owns the building and only he could call for a trespassing charge.

Deirdre was issued a warning and is never allowed back on the this church's property again. There was no fine, but she didn't stick around to press the issue. They made it very clear to her that if she goes back to that church, she'll be arrested. The video shows her husband trying to explain to the woman police officer that the bishop owns the church as has issued a mandate, but a mandate that actually says wearing a mask is requested but not required. The  cop can only say, "Take it up with them." Obviously, these Dallas churchmen never read First Corinthians 6:1, "Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?"

And both Marshall and Deirdre were shocked that no one not even came to Deirdre's aid, but no one showed ANY interested or curiosity -- at all. And Marshall showed this photo from a church in Florida:
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The vaccinated get to sit on the right side of the church but the lepers (i.e. unwashed) have to sit on the left.

At the end, Deirdre asks, "It this really about health, or is this about control?" and of course that is what it is ALL about.


So, what? Demean yourself for a totally useless (indeed, mask wearing is detrimental to your health (see Dr. Delores Cahill on that, here, starting at 10:30 into the interview). So, mask wearing is bad for you. See also this article at America's Frontline Doctors.

So, as I say, enough is enough.

It so happens that in another venue yesterday, I came across the following post from a man in NY state who left the Church over this sort of thing:
March 30, 2021 6:07 am

The Catholic Church is the absolute worst, at least in suburban Westchester, NY.

In addition to all the insanity regarding religious services, the pastors no longer allow any community groups to use parish facilities.

This includes the seniors who play Bingo as well as AA and NA groups who have not been allowed to hold meetings in the church hall for over a year.

Our AA groups have been decimated and we have lost many people who most likely went back out drinking.

I have heard horror stories about the increase in drunk driving not to mention all the other problems that befall alcoholics who go back out there.

The parish priest I deal with is worse than any politician; in fact, he is an inhuman sociopath who seems to enjoy telling us we can no longer use the giant space where we have held our meetings for over 40 years.

The room has capacity of 350 people while all our groups are less than 30 people.

I have tried everything including quoting scripture to no avail. I have reported him and others to the Archdiocese which is just like telling FU Schumer.

This is why so many Christians like myself have left the Catholic Church. It is a thoroughly corrupt institution that doesn’t follow the teachings of Christ.

I tried to comment on his comment, but after all, what can you say? And can anyone be surprised? This priest, and his idiot bishop, wouldn't even let the AA meet! It just leaves one speechless. "Masked", one might say, actually.

An Préachán

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

It's official: Greenland hasn't warmed since 2001...

 Friends,

An article at Climate Change Dispatch has the news.
If you are interested, read the whole thing, for at the end the author points out how the "scientists" unaccountably insist the warming will start again, even though there's no scientific evidence for this.

Apparently, despite WHATEVER the reality is, the cult of "Global Warming" just keeps jugging away, sort of like the Covid hoax -- hmmmm, maybe they're related? (/sarc)

An Préachán

Monday, March 29, 2021

Modernism in the Church: a Review of Ireland's Synodal Pathway

Amici,

Someone sent me this link to the Ireland's 'Synodal Pathway' article. I don't see who, exactly, wrote the article, but it is classic Modernist drivel. True, utter, banal, drivel. For example:

"The changes that have occurred in our human understanding in the past fifty years have been staggering. The stunning technological innovations and inventions, the ever-expanding horizons of insight in the sciences be they in physics, the biological sciences, neuroscience, the social, economic, and political sciences, the arts – the list is almost endless. It is the case that both human history and our self-understanding have changed more in the past fifty years than in the whole of previous human history."

Or just take a look at footnote 3, referencing Christianity in Evolution: An Exploration. Ugh!

This is absurd Progressive Church tediousness. The Modernist, Progressive Church wants to be exciting, "with it" and "on the cutting edge" when it is banal hackneyed tripe. They're still singing "The Age of Aquarius", haha.

Of course the physical sciences have advanced, but to where? We're still trying to figure out where, and the unstated but assumed premise is that as we have advanced in those, so we advance equally well in the psychological sciences. And the psychological sciences? What do we really know about the human heart, the human mind, the human soul, that the great philosophers and saints of the past didn't know? The Iliad exhibits more understanding of the human condition than almost all of modern psychology, and Sun Tzu's immortal The Art of War is wiser in "the social, economic, and political sciences" than any post 1960 work, (and most anything post what, pick a date, 1880 or 1900?).  And they were pagan works!

And as for the actual hard sciences, that depends on what scientist we're talking about, and which field. A lot, indeed, has advanced in the hard sciences, to the point where we can realistically establish a self-sustaining colony on Mars. But the reality is the colonists would be the same human beings as back on Earth, with the same sort of strengths and weaknesses all humans have had since the beginning.

Modernism in the Church is founded on the evolution idea transferred from biology to theology: that we are evolving rapidly spiritually. We know so much more than our ancestors did! We are so much more wiser! More insightful! We don't need all their old-codger laws, rules, and strictures! Right. This is why the Church is loaded with sexual deviants, perverts, and predators. The Vat 2 crowd thought they could discard all the old morality because as a Marxist or any typical Modernist "Liberal" or "Progressive" thinks, we humans are basically good. Just let people alone and they'll achieve moral perfection without all the rules, dogmas, and doctrines.

And look where that got them.

So,  yes, we have a "Church" within the Church, and it will have to be driven out. That process has been occurring, in fact, since the Council ended. This false Church is antithetical to the Faith, which is a Revelation of an Unchanging God to His Fallen Creatures, who without participating in His Incarnation, will (and are) falling back to the hideous insanity of Sodom.

An Préachán 

Saturday, March 27, 2021

A Defense of the B.V.M against Bergoglio and Other Protestants

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 A Chairde,

I applaud anyone who wants to defend the sovereignty of God in these latter days, but Catholics are neither Muslims, who so zealously defend God's "aloneness" that they damn all Christians to Hell and even have Muhammad boast about raping the Blessed Mother in Heaven, or Presbyterians, who in their defense of God's sovereignty created a dour parody of the Faith.

Look, the Lord God – for many reasons, I'm sure, but it is so frustrating most of the time – works His salvation history THROUGH PEOPLE. It drives us all crazy to have to go to a priest for the sacraments when too often the anointed cleric, standing in persona Christi, doesn't seem to understand what he's celebrating nor celebrates them in a holy and "vertical" way. Or how maddening is it to know the True Faith and have to sit through sermons consisting of gummy bear spirituality.

Very, very rarely does God directly act, as He did with that crazed firebrand known as Saul of Tarsus. Most of the time, "faith comes through hearing" mere mortals, inspired by the Holy Ghost. God wants us to work together and comprehend our togetherness, our dependency on each other and how our salvation "plays out". Just as He created Israel, and then preserved Juda, even bringing it back from Babylonian exile through the mediation of Cyrus the Great, a Persian, so He raised up the New Israel, the Church, of which salvation is not possible apart from (unless God so wills it, but we cannot presume on His mercy).

And we are surrounded by a cloud of Heavenly witnesses (Hebrews 12:1), on Earth and in the Spirit, and the most powerful is His Co-Remptrix, without whose freely willed "Fiat" the Incarnation would not have been possible. She is the single most important human being ever born (as Our Lord is both Human and God Himself) and she is the entire point of the whole history of Israel: a teenage Jewish girl named after Moses sister was the fulcrum of all merely human history and she by her faith Our Lord bestowed on her beforehand undid the catastrophe of Eve's betrayal. She it is, who does the will of the Father first and foremost, and thus is His Mother (St. Matthew 12:47-49) in that way as well as being the physical mother of Joshua of Nazareth, Who is both God and Man. But she also influences Him where He might not act (the Wedding at Cana: St. John 2:1-8). She is also OUR Mother because when we receive the Lord through the Most Holy Eucharist, we receive both His Human and Divine Nature, and He received His Human Nature from His mother – so WE have Notre Dame's bodily inheritance in US.

It is a mystery why God works through humanity the way He does, but so it is. I kneel before the mystery and say my Rosary (not as regularly as I need!) to His Most Blessed Mother, without whose motherly love I know I myself could not continue is the insane cesspool of a modern world that we have created.

An Préachán

Monday, March 22, 2021

A dialogue about Allopathic Medicine, and where it might be going

 Street scene, current-day America


(John Q. is walking down the street, and stops beside an advertising board, looking at someone approaching from the opposite direction)

John Q.
Publicus! Oh no! Here to lecture me on something I don't care about. You've become an anti-vaxxer, you know! And a bore.

(Publicus approaches and stops, nodding to John Q. and looks at the board next to them, which has an image of a huge needle above the words: "Love the jab!")

Publicus
I'm getting there, maybe, John Q. Though maybe "non-vaxer" would be closer to the truth.

John Q.
"Just say no," eh?

Publicus
Yep. I fear they're forcing everyone to take these vaccines for Covid, using various methods, like restraining you from traveling, and in general, of course, there's ever more and more vaccines. More and more and more vaccines. But what's the exit strategy? When will enough be enough?

John Q.
"Exit strategy"? What do you mean?

Publicus
Just like they've no exit strategy for Afghanistan, nor had they one for Vietnam, for that matter. They're clearing gearing up for an endless vaccine regimen, for kids and adults. Forever. Or so it looks like.

John Q.
And just who is this "they"?

Publicus
Government and Big Pharma. And remember, from 1986 on, Big Pharma in the U.S. is completely immune from lawsuits of any kind regarding children's vaccines...

John Q.
Surely not.

Publicus
Drug companies cannot be sued for ANY bad results of their product, except through a special court that is a star chamber, basically. And recently government has fixed it so adults can't sure about vaccine products. Carte blanc immunity.

John Q.
Sounds unbelievable.

Publicus
Yet true. There's some sort of special court for parents to sue about vaccines, but it is reputed to be a joke. But about the vaccines, when is enough enough? It's getting to be more of an "exist" strategy than an exit one. How we exist on this planet that is so "buggy" we'll all die without endless vaccinations? How many more are we going to have to take? Next thing you know, they'll start building the Axiom.

John Q.
That's a cute pop-culture reference, yeah. Wall-E, the movie. But it is medicine, Publicus. Medicine! We're the epitome of medicine's evolution! Allopathic medicine will save the world!

Publicus
You don't think things are getting out of control, John Q.? Back in 1985, kids were getting about three vaccine shots, and not they're getting 72, as I understand it.

John Q.
Seventy-two!

Publicus
And more are in the pipeline. They're essentially saying that without massive and invasive drug and genetic therapy, we simply can no longer live in the biodome we evolved in.

John Q.
We're our own aliens, then? Strangers in a strange land?

Publicus
And then, consider the profit motive in all of this. A doctor gets a more than a few bucks for giving someone a shot, the company that made it makes money, so on and so forth. And the whole pharmaceutical industry has gone from 50 to 100 billion dollars to 1.3 trillion, and that's gotta be related to ever more people of all ages being loaded with vaccines.

John Q.
Whew, that's a lot of dough! And money is motive! But then also money makes the world go around, amigo.

Publicus
Yeah, but honestly. In 2000, the vaccine profits of the overall Big Pharma business was about $8 billion a year, and now it it just over $60 billion. Unbelievable! That's got to skew whatever facts there are about vaccines. The same with Global Warming: write a scientific paper questioning Global Warming and you'll get no government money or grants, and you'll be called a shill for "Big Oil", maybe even fired. Write a paper about the world ending in ten years and you're set for life.

John Q.
You're a pessimist, you know. Always gloom and doom. Allopathic medicine is the most western, science-based, data collection-based, extensive drug testing-based, medicine in all of history. And it is also the most government regulated....

Publicus
I know what it is supposed to be, John Q. It treats illness via drugs, radiation, and surgery. I know it has worked pretty well for the past 100 years or so; done miracles, in fact. But look at the world today? In 1910, the U.S. had no heart disease, but by 1940, it was one of the chief causes of death. And chronic diseases have multiplied nightmarishly, especially with kids. The meds developed since then seem to multiply along with the illnesses. All I see is endless vistas of forced drug use, forced vaccinations.

(The two start moving down the street, away from the poster board, but soon another poster board begins to come in sight.)

John Q.
Well, I don't think people should be forced to take vaccines, that's true; after all – it's a free country, right? But then, the other side of the coin is if so many people refuse the vaccines, we'll never get out of this pandemic. 

Publicus
I don't believe that is true....

John Q.
Why not?

Publicus
...Because of the universal past history of contagions.

John Q.
How do you mean?

Publicus
These contagions always fade out after no more than two years. Even the Black Death did that. It killed – some estimates say, though we can't be sure – one-third to half the population of Europe. Imagine such a thing today!

John Q.
No thanks!

Publicus
Yet even it faded away – though it had smaller region-specific flare ups here and there like the big one in 1666 in London, till the last was in the early 1700s. But they never had a vaccine for it.

John Q.
Wasn't there some English doc who "saved the day" with a vaccine?

Publicus
Edward Jenner, but that was with small pox and at the end of the 18th century.

John Q.
So who cured the Black Death?

Publicus
God. No human did. We don't even know for sure what caused the Black Death.

John Q.
The Bubonic plague did.

Publicus
Some late-19th century French bacteriologist named Alexandre Yersin claimed it was Bubonic plague, and most people since just follow along with that, like sheep, much like they follow along today about Covid, in fact.

John Q.
I am feeling woolly.

Publicus
But aside from both Bubonic plague and the Black Death having buboes (swollen lymph glands which occur with other sicknesses, too), that's about it. It moved too fast for the Bubonic plague, which is carried by rats and fleas, and was a lot more deadly than the Bubonic plague, as well. It in fact was a lot more like Ebola...

John Q.
Who cares? I'm going to take my vaccine and be cured of Covid! Covid is special! Very dangerous! I hear it every day, after all. Endlessly.

Publicus
Oh, c'mon. ALL such contagions, all pandemics, burn out after two years. Historically, that's true. The Spanish flu is a classic example. And it is certain that that contagion was a series of different ones, as it acted differently in different regions. You know, Covid is doing the exact same thing.

John Q.
You must believe in "herd immunity" (snorts, snickers).

Publicus
"Herd immunity" is probably it. Or if it isn't that (and I know various worthies argue endlessly about it, round and round – honestly, do we really know anything much?), something is. There is obviously some mechanism – completely natural, clearly – that makes these contagions follow the same bell-curve pattern. World-wide. Through all history.

And in any event, because this Covid has only a 0.03 mortality rate in the overall population of those who actually show symptoms (whether that is as opposed to the PCR test-derived "cases", is a bit murky), why "vaccine" for it at all? Especially odd is this "bum's rush" to push-push-push vaccines. None of them are properly tested, and they're only approved for emergency use.

John Q.
Oh, you c'mon. Those PCR tests are perfect, sublime, saving the human race! (John Q. snorts as he says this.)

Publicus
You don't sound convinced. Actually, the guy who invented the PCR test, Kary Mullis, who even won a Noble for it, was recorded recently saying the test can't work for this Covid business, and that the sainted Fauci didn't know squat about anything.

John Q.
Covid is deadly! I've been told to memorize that, you know. It's the national meme. Deny it at your peril, Kemosabee.

Publicus
The international meme, I would say. The mortality almost entirely involves older folks, those who precisely don't have naturally occurring vitamin D build up. Ever notice that? Same with chronically ill folks whose bodies can't produce the necessary vitamin D, and other elements that naturally enhance the immune system. Such unfortunates, by definition, can't get out in the sun and soak up a few rays, can they?

John Q.
Well, whatever. So YOU say. I for one can't hardly wait to get my vaccine, so I can stop worrying. Maybe get out a bit, live again. I know they're dangling that as bait, but I can't help it. I'm going insane with lockdowns.

Publicus
Fauci says you can't stop worrying, though; that you have wear masks and social distance until next year. I think he's a fraud but whatever, that's certainly what he's saying.

John Q.
I'm sure he's not saying that, 'cause it wouldn't make any sense! Why vaccine then? And anyway, when are YOU going to get YOUR vaccine?

Publicus
I myself can't recommend vaccination to any of my friends, whatever their ages. I sure won't take it myself.

John Q.
Okay, don't do it then. But leave the rest of us alone. We want to save Granny!
(They had come up to the second poster board, which sported a large computer drawing of a smiling elderly woman with grey hair, giving the "thumbs up" signal. Under the caption the slogan read: "Save Granny!"

Publicus
Speaking of saving people, you know that world-wide, these vaccines have killed a good few people. I think about 2,000 now, isn't it? Probably more. In the U.S. it is officially just under 2,000. And there's a lot of reporting of bad side-effects. It would seem logical if something makes you sick when first introduced to you, it will make you sick later, as well. Maybe, maybe not. It is a possibility, though. These things are extremely complicated meds, highly machined and calibrated bio-weapons, in fact. They're like hired gunslingers, and they're supposed to kill on the bad guys, magically. And they've only be authorized for emergency use. It takes a year or so at least for any serious testing of them to be completed.

John Q.
I can't wait a year!

Publicus
Compare the rush to use these vaccines with what they done with the long-standing, cheap Lysosomotropic drugs such as Hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin. These have been around for ages, the former from the 1940s and the latter from 1975. And the powers-that-be hemmed and hawed and delayed their use and delayed their use, tested and tested again, and now finally they're being used to....

John Q.
I can't wait any longer! I want the vaccine! 'Cause, mainly, I want to get out and about, yeah, but still! So, they can just give me the vaccine and I'll be on my way....

Publicus
Remember there's no one vaccine: there are several, and they're quite different, too. Then look at Europe: what is available in Hungary, for instance, is usually the Russian one or the Chinese. I think it would be utter madness to take either, though propagandists are now saying these are healthier than the Western ones. Who knows? The Western European authorities are talking about not recognizing these vaccines for travel permits. But then again, the Western ones are themselves having a lot of problems, as well. So, it is a complete mess.

John Q.
(Piously) "To make an omlet, you have to break a few eggs!"

Publicus (eyes rolling)
And of course just as there is no one vaccine, there is no one virus. The virus in Italy and then New York City was remarkably different in how it acted than the one in California, the one that was directly derived from China. The people in Wuhan were supposed to be collapsing in the streets, but we never saw that pathology here. In short, there may be completely different viruses, actually, when you realize that their so-called "isolated" virus came from very few people.

John Q. (Walking on.)
Oh, c'mon! That's CAN'T be true! Even I can see how that wouldn't....

Publicus (Following him.)
It is, though. Maybe by now it isn't just one,of course. It's like a handful. And of course they used "laboratory culture" to "isolate" it, which involves mixing it with other bio-material, and then stressing it out, starving it, a whole host of things. The actual, formal, true isolation process takes a long time and involves getting samples from at least a thousand dispersed individuals. In that sense, you probably don't know this, but I've read where the chicken pox and Herpes viruses have been truly isolated, but measles and HIV have never been isolated. SARS-CoV-2 hasn't been, either, needless to say.

John Q.
But all those scientific papers?!?

Publicus
All those endless "scientific" papers in the last couple of years that affirm the virus has been isolated, if you read the "Methods" section, each and all say "laboratory culture" mixture and they almost all work from the original single sample. 

John Q.
But medical scientists wouldn't lie to us!

Publicus
Ever hear of lobotomies? Using mercury to fight illness? And I'm not talking a long time ago, as late as the 1930s they used drugs with mercury, one of the most poisonous elements for humans on the planet. I won't even mention the standard way they used to deal with breast cancer. Or look at the current sex-change craze; that’s lobotomies all over again. When the fad is over, the mess remains.

John Q.
That was then!

Publicus
And they had mercury loaded into children's vaccines until the '60s! As a preservative. Mercury! Until someone took the time to add up the mercury doses and broadcast the alarm, so they stopped using mercury – haha, and they started using aluminum!!!! Insane! AND they didn't withdraw the mercury vaccines, but let them be slowly used up. Waste not, want not.

John Q.
I don't believe it. That's just too weird.

Publicus
Look it up. Your Allopathic medicine too often treats life as the machine philosophy of Descartes called for, I think.

John Q.
We put "de cart" before the horse, eh?

Publicus
Haha, yeah. Just dump more wrenches and bolts and screwdrivers into the engine and it will run better. But life is far too dynamic for that. An
RNA virus like a coronavirus, if it infects you and makes you (in some degree ill) and you pass it on to someone else, that virus isn't the exact same as the one that entered you. They mutate VERY fast! So we end up chasing a moving, mutating target with one (or a handful) of vaccines – clearly, it's a wild-goose chase. We can't "catch up", and there'll be "booster shots" every year – maybe sometimes twice a year – for eternity. It's like an insane merry-go-round you can't get off of.

John Q.
Er...well, I have heard of the booster shot business. But surely....

Publicus
Also, ever notice how they'll say, "This vaccine in 95 percent effective" as if that's a good thing? There's FIVE PERCENT of the viri that shrug off the vaccine, and you can be sure that's the variety that will survive and multiply, forcing yet ever more vaccines – vaccines for ever and ever and ever.

John Q.
Well, I know they have that exact problem with antibiotics. But, well, whatever it takes.

Publicus
You live in fear. I find myself disgusting, actually, to be honest, in that I am, in my own small way, adding to the fear porn. "Fear the vaccine!" "Fear the cure!" But fear....

John Q.
I don't fear the virus, but I take it seriously, as should everyone. I'm just careful. I'm usually holed up at home, in my own Fortress of Solitude, seeing no one, except the people who bring me my food. 

Publicus
I see you are not wearing a mask nowadays, however. Why not? Does that make smoking easier?

John Q.
Even I could see the mask biz was bogus, Publicus. You've got viruses and bacteria that normally reside in your head, in the nose and mouth. Even fungi. They don't normally get into the lungs. But a mask collects those and won't let them disperse in the normal way, and so you breathe them back into your lungs, after they've had time to concentrate! You know I've been a smoker for decades, so I read up on this. If you have compromised lungs, asthma, COPD, if your a smoker like me, the mask can easily set you up for serious infections, and not from coronavirus but from things that normally live in your mouth and nose but do NOT belong in your lungs. Not to mention how it cuts down on your oxygen intake and uptakes, seriously uptakes, your CO2 levels.

Publicus
Wow, I'm impressed! A lot of bad pathology with these masks, right? But I would say one has to take one's health seriously, in the sense of knowing what a human's immune system needs (vitamin D, zinc, and so on). Do that and whatever causes illness can be kept at bay. But did you know the AMA journal – mainstream publication, absolutely – had an article a while ago stating that annually, about the 128,000 Americans died yearly from the proper-use taking of prescription drugs.

John Q. (Coming to a street corner, he turns onto a new street and walks down that sidewalk.)
So, they messed up their dosages.

Publicus (Walking with John Q.)
No, it was about people who PROPERLY used their meds.

John Q.
Well, that's not too many, if you think about it.

Publicus
We lost 55,000 men in Vietnam. Abut the same again in Korea, a little less. So annually, more Americans die of proper drug use than in either of those wars. That's simply staggering!

John Q.
So, what's your point? I'm still taking the vaccine!

Publicus
I'm trying to show how our Allopathic medicine system is almost certainly prescribing too many drugs. It is a drug-heavy medical culture, mostly consisting of looking up your problems on a list, checking what the list says are the drugs you should take for whatever illness they think you've got, and that's that.

It is certainly over-relying on vaccines. Did you know that over two hundred or so new vaccines are "in the works" of the "Big Pharma" giants?

John Q.
That many? Why?

Publicus
They're producing vaccines for just about everything imaginable, and they have been working (not so much the past couple of decades) on a vaccine for cancer! Since the Nixon Administration! In any event, they are definitely gearing up now! They seem to be "set for life", with a perpetual market of a population apparently in need of ceaseless new vaccines, producing an ever growing number of vaccines for the world's population. Job security. But that simply can't possibly remotely be good for the human immune system. It's throwing endless wrenches into the gearbox. Common sense would dictate the system will be pushed and pulled and stomped on till the gearbox truly crashes.

John Q.
Yeah, job security for them, that's for sure. Well, though, you know, if we need the meds....

Publicus
But like I say, can that simply can't possibly be at all good for the human immune system, John Q? Doesn’t common sense suggest there’s a limit? Surely it will stretch our immune system till it snaps. And here's something else to consider, something I never see discussed except by those who question the entire vaccine regimen. Every year, there are more vaccines we are supposed to take, and as noted, right? A LOT more are in the pipeline. Vaccines, vaccines, vaccines. Kids are just soaked in vaccines, and now adults. In fact, governments are clearly going to implement a world-wide vaccine regimen where you can't get a passport or travel without taking vaccines. You can't even get a driver's license in Argentina without "showing your papers" about your vaccination history.

John Q.
That'll never happen. Or if it does, so what?

Publicus
It's happening now, though, here and there. In China, surely. So, what? The obvious observation to make, John Q., is that Western Allopathic Medicine is apparently determined to "vaccinate" the population, over and over again, against an endless variety – and an apparently ever growing variety – of viral or bacterial threats in the biodome we somehow evolved in. But how could the human race have evolved and existed on this planet in such an apparently poisonous "biodome" for the last million years or so? When anyone takes such a long view of this distinctive pattern, a "30,000 feet" view, it looks stark-raving insane. It's a merry-go-round we can never get off of.

John Q.
Maybe. Maybe not. Nothing lasts forever, does it? I don't care. I live my my cats and my dog. I really don't want to know about all this. Er, well...the masks, yeah, that was bogus.

(They come to yet another vaccine poster, this one covering a three-story wall, a huge computer drawing of super-healthy kids with super-smiles, all wearing masks and giving the thumbs up. They both gaze at it for a moment.)

Publicus
Ugh. We're now in 1930s Germany or Russia. (Sighs.)

John Q.
It is, even I must admit, eerily similar.

Publicus
I, too, don't mind being alone. However, it is hell and death for most people. Suicides are through the roof, domestic violence, depression, pornography, alcoholism and drug use, you name it. Society is crumbling under this suffocating security-blanket lockdown regime. It's like committing suicide to keep from dying, or the famous "We had to destroy the village in order to save it."

John Q.
Sounds familiar. So, you're saying the same idiots that gave us Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan are...well, whatever.

Publicus
Ultimately, and call me a conspiracy theorist if you must, but ultimately what I'm saying is that all we've been experiencing for the past year and more is just too stupid and extreme NOT to be intentional. It has to be planned. So, I'm ready to join Dr. Delores Cahill and her World Freedom Alliance because....

John Q.
Beware, though, Publicus. Beware! Too much knowledge is a burden. You're like the Lovecraft investigator who learns too much, and goes mad. (John Q. chants) "Yog-Sothoth is the key." (Back to normal, he says) Yet true or not, there's not a damned thing either of us an do about it.

Publicus
So, the unexamined life isn't worth living, or perhaps, you're saying, not possible to survive in.

John Q.
I.... (He breaks off, looking at a person walking toward them.)

(It's a cop. The policeman approaches them. More copes appear.)

Policeman
Excuse me, citizens. This street has a medical facility. Why aren't you wearing your masks? Let's see your papers, please.

An Préachán

"This is child abuse, this is madness, this must stop": Canadian father arrested for calling his daughter a daughter

Amici, 

Another great aritcle at LifeSiteNews.

This is child abuse, this is madness, this must stop

This week, a Canadian father was jailed for the crime of referring to his 14-year-old daughter as his daughter.

Friday, March 19, 2021

For St. Josephe's Feast Day -- Are Catholics in Communion with Pope Francis?

Amici,

I see a lot of talk about "being in Communion" with Bergi. I'm not having that. 


We're in Communion with the office of the papacy, the Petrine Office. After all, Our Lord created the Petrine office directly, whereas the Apostles more clearly created the office of bishop in general (and diaconate) and delineated the seven sacraments (such as ordination). When they died, the Apostolic offices were ended, and bishops were subsequently the leaders of the Church. All of them passing on, each generation to each, the Most Holy Eucharist, the Divine Blood Oath, sworn on the Body and Blood of God, they they saw Our Lord after He had risen from the Dead. and they created the regular priest level of the job via ordaining "elders" (presbyter/presbuteros) in specific faculties out of the seven sacraments, leaving the rite of ordination to themselves solely. 


Yet bishops and bishoprics come and go. Laodicea no longer has a bishop (unless some Vatican bureaucrat has been given the empty title.) For example, Tsar Peter the Great ("the First Peter" the Russians call him) nixed the office of the Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church; Pete just said nyet to it, and the Russian Dox were governed (till the Communist Rev) by a "Holy Synod", as is the Greek Dox Church today. Proud Constantinople is reduced to a small ghetto in Istanbul, the Patriarch himself, a Turkish citizen, is tolerated on sufferance by the Muslims; they could extinguish that office in a moment. 


But Rome is unique in being the "Thou art Peter" bishopric. So, obviously, the office itself takes precedence over who is in it. Being actually in it is what gives the office holder his power. (Notice one is elected to it, not ordained to it.) So therefore we're in Communion with the Petrine office, not necessarily the man holding it at a given time, especially if he clearly is working against its purpose and duties, which Bergi is. Bergi is supposed to be the slave of Scripture and Tradition, but he's too busy rewriting it for such slavery. He's supposed to be the servant of the law, not its master.


So, the particular man in the office is temporary, but the office abides.


Look at "the Great Western Schism" (1378-1417) when we had at first two, then THREE popes! There were canonized saints supporting the various contenders. Clearly it was the office, regardless of who claimed it, that they were in Communion with. And in our case, when the man holding the office is a heretic, he still maintains his priestly and episcopal faculties, even if he denies them. Bergi would have to publicly and formally announce he's abdicated (something Ratzinger seems hesitant to do fully, as he still wears white, etc.). Therefore, I think it fair to say we're in Communion with God through the Petrine Office, and not necessarily the man – especially should he go wacky.


FWIW. At least it gets us out of the no-win situation of having to say were in full Communion with a guy who is not Catholic, or perhaps even a Christian as traditionally understood. And we pray St. Joseph, Protector of the Church and Terror of Demons, intercede with Our Lord to save the Church. 



An Préachán

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Pfizer's Dr. Michael Yeadon on Covid, & the Canadian Health Alliance

A Chairde,

I just never ceased to be amazed at the information I keep uncovering about this insane "Covid pandemic". There's the mainstream, government-endorsed "narrative" about it, of course, that the media keeps relentlessly inundating us with 24 hours a days, seven days a week, and then there is the "minority report", produced by a variety of front-line doctors, science researchers, and skeptics. It, too, is based on science (western empirical scientific method, operation, and practical testing) and in-depth research as well as actual medical practice (i.e. dealing with patients). But you have to do a bit searching yourself to find the minority report. It just doesn't fit the official "narrative," you see. So, you are lied to about it, or it is studiously ignored.

For example, Dr. Michael Yeadon, now retired and who used to be Pfizer's top scientist (that's the company behind the premier mRNA vaccine, the one forcing sovereign countries to sign over national assets to it!) before Covid came along, said last NOVEMBER there was no need for vaccines.

This is the LifeSiteNews article from a year ago. Yeadon is massively experienced, to be sure. So why isn't what he says better known? Why? Because it doesn't fit the narrative, of course.

If you are remotely interested in Covid, however, I highly recommend the article on Yeadon, dated though it is. Then there's this recent one, by a doctor, as well, wherein I found the Yeadon link, and it has a good few more links. Incidence of Covid infection is declining fast enough that it cannot be because of the vaccines. The downward trend began too early for them to be a cause. This article here has a lot of statistical analysis about how the MSM manipulate statistics in order to "throw shade" at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Nasty politics has cost a lot of people their lives, and even more their livelihoods. Anyway, this article is well worth a read.

But, of course, as has always been the case with Covid, the actual government agencies tasked with dealing with it keep lying about it, for example. Another "surge"? C'mon! And the CDC, as reported here, wants toddlers to wear masks! 
Excerpt:
On Friday, health officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released guidance calling for toddlers to wear masks and socially distance “for the foreseeable future” — even well after every adult at the school or child-care facility has been fully vaccinated.
The proper reply to this is, of course, a strongly worded "STOP IT! Just STOP!" After a year of Covid, we know children don't get it or pass it on (for example, in Canada, three kids out of eight million are said to have "died of Covid" over the past year whereas the regular seasonal flu kills a lot more (see below). Also, Moderna, the other of the top two vaccine mills, is now testing children with these experimental vaccines, is Johnson&Johnson. This is utterly immoral and absolutely evil, and totally scientifically needless.

Regarding children, schools and overall the Covid infection, some Canadian docs are speaking out, too, and produced an excellent video found here.

The Canadian Alliance for Health produced it. info@canadahealthalliance.org

In the video, the doctor says that only THREE PERCENT of patients who the positive tests actually have Covid! THREE PERCENT! As the doctor says, the PCR test is practically worthless, and I've read were the inventor of the PCR test, Kary Mullis, said it wouldn't work for what they were applying it for. (For more on this shocking revelation, see this article.)

The Canadian doctors show a graph of reported "cases" (i.e. positive tests, ever mounting) and actual deaths (the line flat):

They have a graph showing how children are basically immune to it, their handful of deaths (3 out of 8 million Canadian children) is statistically zero. Eight children died of the flu in Canada over the 2018-2019 flue season.

And then there's a doctor at 6:10 in, Dr. Dorle Kneifel, talking about  prevention. She actually had Covid at one point, and took a strong dose of Vitamin D (60,000 International Units) till the symptoms vanished. That took 2 days to happen! "The fact I am here, talking to you, is proof our bodies know what to do," Dr. Kneifel says.

Dr. Bill Bode (at 7:30 minutes in) is also excellent. He, too, had Covid and explained his vitamin regimen and how fast it worked. 

Watch the video before YouTube removes it. (If they do, repair to their website for it.)

So, in short, the evidence is out there and it just keeps mounting and mounting, but the media and the governments keep trying to hide it. Meanwhile, vaccinations continue.

Why the "bum's rush" about a disease that is no worse than a bad seasonal flu?

An Préachán

Is Orthodoxy the "True Church"?

A commentator at OnePeterFive asserted that "Orthodoxy was the one true Church." I wrote the following in answer:

I want to be kind, I do. However, I must write the following:

You are not serious, sir, when you write: "The Orthodox Church is the one true Church." That's absurd.

I submit this is manifestly untrue, manifestly so. There are 14 autocephalous Churches, self-governing, "sovereign" in their own rights, and the Patriarch at Istanbul is only a nominal figure -- even the Greek Orthodox Church refuses to allow him any hand in their government. (They're governed by a Holy Synod, as was the Russian Orthies from Peter the Great -- "The First Peter" -- until after the Revolution, when the Soviets revived the office -- what a great foundation for a Patriarchal Office).

So which of the 14 is the "True Church"? The question answers itself. They all fight among each other like cats and dogs, "uniting" only to oppose the Western Church, and were it not for the "Black Death" that swept through the Western Church post Vatican II, leaving, as did the original contagion, devastation behind: empty churches, etc., Orthodoxy would still be what it inherently is: ghetto ethnic Churches. Or one can say were it not for the huge Russian Orthodox Church, the total population of "the Orthodoxies" is negligible. Their membership consists almost entirely of ethnics, and a handful of disgruntled Catholics like Rod Dreher, who joined the Russian (i.e. its American doppelganger) Church and idealistic Protestants, such as Frank Schaeffer, son of the famous Protestant author Francis Schaeffer.

Yet another aspect of this that only the Antiochan Orthodox Church could be said to be "founded" by an Apostle (Peter, who traveled back and forth between Rome and the East a number of times). The Greek Church, as noted above, has no Patriarchal holder now. Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, a.k.a. Byzantium, when it rose to be the imperial capital, CLAIMED St. Andrew founded it, but that claim has no tradition behind it in those first centuries, UTTERLY unlike Peter and Paul being martyred at Rome.

And the Antiochan Church is basically the Syrian Orthodox Church, a ghetto Church in Damascus. Antioch itself, the "Queen of the East" is an empty ruin just inside Turkish Territory.

The Coptic Church's first patriarch was St. Mark, not an Apostle, but rather St. Peter's associate and secretary. Jerusalem itself was a center of the Faith only for a short time, with the Jews killing off or driving out followers of "the Way" before the Romans erased the city 4o years after the Crucifixion, and rebuilt it as Aelia Capitolina, which in its turn was never rose as high as Rome (or eventually Constantinople), before the Arabs conquered it and renamed it Al-Quds.

So, saying Orthodoxy is "the true Church" is conspicuously, strikingly, outstandingly wrong on every level.

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Was Vatican II Our Equivalent of the Black Death and the Rite of St. Gregory the Great?

Amici,

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all of you. For the occasion, a couple of religious thoughts.

The Great Pestilence ('Black Death' is a 19th century title for it)

Look at the last 70+ years in the following way...

The 1950s were as the decades between the death of Aquinas (1274) and the year 1346, when "the great pestilence" appeared in Europe. Vatican II and the grim "Spirit of Vatican II" were the Black Death sweeping through the Church, and we are shell-shocked survivors, walking among the unburied corpses, the untended fields, the abandoned churches, the desolate monastic houses (as then, so now: entire monasteries emptied: during the Black Death by physical plague, during this last 70 years, by spiritual plague). We wander about, stunned, trying to make sense of the utter tragedy of it all.

During the Great Plague of the 1340s, that's when the second half of the Hail Mary was added, remember. We need to pray both halves now as we wander about among the ruins, thankful for both surviving the pandemic and for God allowing us to keep the Faith.

The TLM

Modernist like to say the change from the TLM to the Novus Ordo was no big deal, that something like it happened when Greek was dropped from the Roman rite at some point after Constantine. And of course some argue the TLM should be called the rite of St. Gregory the Great, famous for issuing decrees and rules for it, but it predates St. Gregory the Great (d. 604).

Whatever the form of the very earliest liturgies, the major population centers soon generated early liturgies that "took hold" over entire regions. Antioch is a prime example, with "the Queen of the East" influencing liturgies toward the East and down into Syria proper, and Westward as far away as Milan and Gaul. The Egyptian liturgy of Alexandria soon influenced liturgies throughout Egypt and down into Ethiopia, etc. Later, the liturgy of St. John Chrysostom from Constantinople would inspire all the Slavic Orthodox liturgies. But Rome, at that early date still the actual imperial capital of the united empire and its major population center, would have developed its own liturgy, and the TLM has and austerity about it, an "Old Roman" reserve and seriousness not found in the other major liturgies, such as the Antiochan, which was in the Greek language, for certain, from the git-go. So Rome's liturgically must have went its own way for a while, its character colored by the old Roman spirit of duty and stoicism. After all, for a couple of hundred years after Peter and Paul, Roman Christians basked in martyrdom of the two great saints, and in the prestige of Rome's bishops (such as the first Clement), with all those early popes being martyred or exiled.

But that unique Roman character of the TLM must have been there from the first, and that in turns strongly suggests the Latin language was intimately involved. Language is essential to culture, and a bulwark against foreign influences. Heidegger said language was "the house of being". If the Roman liturgy had been entirely or even mostly in Greek for a couple of hundred years, as is usually alleged, why then the old Roman gravitas in the Roman liturgy? Rome's liturgy exhibits an inherent sobriety and austerity when compared to the lavishness of the others. And if you think about it, although Imperial Rome had a large Greek-speaking population, and although "Magna Graecia" was just to the south of it (Naples, etc.), the Eternal City also was home to hordes of people from Gaul (by Sts. Paul and Peter's time, as it had been conquered by Caesar not so long before) and Hispania, not to mention the Latin (or Berger-speaking) North African coast! Note how St. Augustine, born in 354 A.D., was both (probably) a Berber speaker from youth, and the greatest prose stylist Latin ever produced – yet he knew no Greek. And in that mix, as Christianity spread from Baptized Jews (like Peter and Paul) into the non-Jewish population, it attracted folks of all ranks, but probably mostly the lower classes, who either spoke Greek because they were Greek slaves and/or hailed from Southern Italy, or Latin, because they were from everywhere else. Latin was the lingua franca of the Western Empire, a land of many tongues.

So, in short, I have little patience with the idea that Greek was the language of the liturgy in Rome until Constantine. Of course after Constantine, the Eternal City steadily became less important, and soon began to lose its large population. The grain-bearing fleets setting sail from Egypt were redirected to Constantinople, remember, after Constantine the Great. And yet, fascinatingly, Rome's liturgy at that time began to spread everywhere in the Western Empire. Eventually it replaced the Antiochan-derived liturgies (the Gallic Rite, the Mozarabic Rite, and (sadly for me) the Celtic Rite.

So, know it predates St. Gregory the Great. By a lot. FWIW


An Préachán

Monday, March 15, 2021

Is Ireland finally going to throw off the Covid "party-line" brutal idiocy?

 A Chairde,

I highly recommend this article, by Gary Jordan, from Dublin (hat tip to a friend for sending it to me) about Sunday's protest against the continued lockdown. Highly recommended. 

An excerpt:

An P again:

Great news from Ireland. We have all of us got to keep pushing. For example, share this video of a series brief comments from doctors around the world discussing Covid, mostly about the vaccines, but Covid in itself, as well.

Some commentators are more believable than others, as there's an acupuncturist and a homeopathy person included, but most are standard M.D.s from first-world nations. Their cumulative effect is very strong.
It opens with well-known American Dr. Andrew Kaufman, and includes the also very well-known author Dr. Tom Cowan in a brief appearance. Some highlights are:
Dr. Hilde De Smet comes after Kaufman and is very effective: 0:49-1:50
She's followed by Dr. Nils R. Fosse
Dr. Vernon Coleman     3:50-4:36
Prof. Delores Cahill, the one Irish doc, at 4:39; then the Americans
Dr. Carrie Madej     12:47-14:13
Dr. Rashid Buttar    17:58-18:25
and then the Swedish Dr. Mikael Nordfors and the Dutch Dr. Elke F. De Klerk.
The latter four are quite powerful, I think, in their absolute conviction. Dr. Carrie Madej is outstanding.
So, please pass it on.

Other than that, all I can say is, the cracks in the Covid lockdown narrative widen every day, as reported here at Lockdown Sceptics. At some point, people simply won't take it any longer. How can any sane government expect them to? Maybe this can be the government program in China or North Korea, but where else? That's especially true as the weather will fast improve in the northern hemisphere now that we've reached the Ides of March.

At the point when people have had enough, either the repressive authorities must simply force, at gun-point – and I mean, straight-out shooting – a lot of their own people and utterly subjugating entire nations, or the people win. It's the governments that are pushing it so far that there will be no middle ground, just as this article relates about Ireland. But of course, it is "Big Pharma" and the Chinese who benefit, the former by getting richer and the latter by wrecking their opponents for world domination.

If the people do rise up, it would be an absolute house-cleaning, politically speaking. But we'll see. The clearly orchestrated, never-ending "fear porn" about Covid is both unrelenting yet absurd. The more it is pushed, the closer we get to an "emperor has no clothes" revelation. When you have Sweden and Florida and Texas and a few other nations/states with large populations (Florida has 19 million, for example, as big as Sweden and Hungary combined, Texas itself has about half the population of Italy and a little less than half that of France) prove the entire lockdown narrative to be false, or in effect false (i.e. statistically "helping" very little, as per the lockdownsceptics article above), then people are going to be enraged. As Lincoln famously said, you can fool all of the people some of the time and some of them all of the time, but never all of them all of the time.

That's especially true should the vaunted "vaccines" prove either harmful or less than useful. Many authorities, like Fauci, insist merely being vaccinated won't end lockdowns or mask wearing. But the vaccines may fail in themselves. See this article, or note that even CNN had to make such a report. If you can't stand CNN, there's the UPI reporting the same thing(Germany, by the way, rejects the blood-clot risk. Just peachy.)