Abp. Viganò: Catholics have ‘sacred and urgent duty’ to resist Cdl. Cupich’s Latin Mass crackdown

 Amici,

Archbishop Viganò has issued a clarion call, a battle cry, against Bergoglio and Cupich and all their ilk.

Abp. Viganò pulls out all the stops and takes no prisoners in his essay. An excerpt (highlights mine, but the entire letter should be highlighted): 

This umpteenth show of strength by Cupich, who is cynical and ruthless towards the faithful even before the Canons of the Institute of Christ the King, can constitute a healthy moment of reflection on the many omissions and equivocations that need to be clarified, especially in the matter of acceptance of the Conciliar mens and the Bergoglian “magisterium.” I trust that the Canons of Christ the King and all of the Ecclesia Dei institutes will be able to see in these days of trial a precious opportunity for purification, courageously witnessing to the necessary coherence between the profession of Faith and its cultic expression in the Mass, and the consequent irreconcilability between these and the doctrinal and liturgical deviations of Vatican II. Because it is not possible to celebrate the Mass of Saint Pius V and at the same time to accept the errors of its enemies.

Cupich knows this very well, and this is why he wants to prevent the celebration of that Mass. He knows how much that Mass is a very powerful exorcism against the servants of the devil, both those who wear miters and those who do not. He knows how immediately that Mass is understandable to anyone for its supernatural sense of the sacred and divine – the mysterium tremendum of Moses before the burning bush – and how that Mass opens the eyes of the faithful, warms their hearts, and enlightens their minds. After decades of unspeakable torments, the faithful are finally able to approach the Majesty of God, to be converted, to change their lives, to educate their children in holiness, and to spread the Faith by their example. What could be more desirable for a Bishop who is truly a Shepherd of the Sheep entrusted to him by the Lord? And what could be more detestable for those who want to see the Sheep be torn to pieces by wolves or fall into the abyss?

The lay faithful, priests, and Bishops have the sacred and urgent duty to rise up against the decisions of these completely discredited characters and to demand, without yielding an inch, that the venerable Tridentine Liturgy remain an inviolable bulwark of doctrine, morality, and spirituality. We must obey God rather than men (Acts 5:29), especially when these men have demonstrated by their reprehensible conduct, that they do not love either God or their brothers in the Faith.

AnP again:

Viganò is his usual brilliant self here, even more than usual. And I suspect many laity and clergy watching from the sidelines get the strong sense that Bergoglio has over-reached himself. Joe Biden is massively over-reaching his miserable self, as well. Both these "installed" puppet leaders totter (literally, in both cases) on the brink of toppling into the Abyss that Viganò mentions in his letter. The deadline of the U.S. November elections loom, as does China's opportunity to invade Taiwan, as does Russia's chance to slap down NATO and most of all, I'm seeing from multiple sources that the death and injury count from the Covid "vaccines" is reaching unbelievable heights, and there's no way to keep the lid on that news much longer, at least, not short of closing down the entire Internet.

And please note Viganò's core point: the Trad Mass is incompatible with pretty much the whole of Vatican II. That's true in part due to what the Vat2 documents actually say, especially Dignitatis Humanae, Declaration On Religious Freedom; Nostra Aetate Declaration on On the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions; and Unitatis Redintegratio, the Decree On Ecumenism. But it is mainly true from the actual accumulated effects of the Second Vatican Council. We have seen, over half a century, that whatever the printed, voted-on documents actually say, the Modernists in the Church just decree that they actually mean whatever the Modernists want to push at a given moment. The Vatican II documents might as well be printed on Kleenex. So, ergo, the whole of Vatican II needs to be sunk. (Preferably in the Marianas Trench.)

And the ever-present irony is, the more Bergoglio & Co. push for "Vatican II acceptance", the more they ensure it's rejection, precisely because of "...the consequent irreconcilability between these (Traditional Catholic teachings and practice) and the doctrinal and liturgical deviations of Vatican II."

The only real question is whether we'll survive the Great Chastisement we're entering into. If we can, great. If not, then...maybe old Sweeny Astray will let me join him at "his tree in charming Glen Bolcain, for that was his fortress and his haven, it was his house there in the glen," as Flann O'Brien once put it long ago.

   An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him.

Simply Unbelievable: Cupich shuts down the Institute of Christ the King in Chicago

 Amici,

Can we hate them now? Yes, pray for their conversion because they're going to Hell. I know that sounds judgmental, it sounds presumptuous. But when some weird character starts "petting" or "caressing" your child, do you stand there and say to yourself, "I don't want to be judgmental"? If someone breaks into your house where your wife and kids are sleeping, do you "turn the other cheek"?

Bottom line in all this: You don't get to be a true, old-fashioned no-holds-barred Pharisee, not after all what Our Blessed Lord went through with them during his Earthly ministry. Enough is enough.

Cardinal Cupich, Bergoglio's chief (spiritual) eunuch in the U.S., Bergoglio's homunculus with the soul that would embarrass a cockroach, in the U.S. is shutting down the Institute of Christ the King in Chicago. Excerpt:

Cupich of Chicago has told the members of the Institute of Christ the King in Chicago, that he is effectively shutting them down as of 1 August. This will be formally announced on Sunday at the Institute’s church on the South Side of Chicago.

No Masses. Nothing. 31 July is their last day to function.

I’m sorry that the Institute itself was not able to break the news.

This is very bad for everyone, as it is another move to slam shut the gates of grace, to make the Church smaller, stingier, narrower. If a place is doing well, then – by gum – crush it.

It seems that they would rather have smoking, salt-sown craters rather than vibrant churches where Tradition is maintained. I am reminded of the fateful words of Tacitus about the Romans in Germany: “Where they make a desert, they call it peace.”

AnP again: If we don't hate sin, hate sinful stupidity, hate the sinful Vatican II Church lies that have lain as thick as the Greenland ice cap for these past 60 years, what are we? The Church of Laodicea, of course. And that's precisely the church Bergoglio, Cupich, and the Modernists what us to be. The kind that blesses Chinese dragons; yes, Cupich did that, the fool.

No man who practices deceit

shall live within my house.

No man who utters lies shall stand

before my eyes.

Morning by morning I will silence

all the wicked in the land,

Uprooting from the city of the Lord

all who do evil.

Psalm 101 (Douay-Rheims Psalm 100)

Of course, the more they do inexpressibly stupid things like this, the shorter their rule becomes, and when they fall, and they will, they'll fall utterly flat. Their absolute flatness will mirror the flatness of their souls.

   An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him.

The Democrat Party and Obama's Purge of the Military -- a little history

Amici,

Something said last night got me into research a bit of history that I'm surprised I don't remember very well. Something Obama, who famously said, "Elections have consequences," did. In the context of recent events, it is important to bring it up.

Tucker Carlson is a conservative commentator on Fox News, and I have friends who think he goes a bit extreme, and I do indeed get the sense he sometimes goes too far, as he did when the Coronavirus was first appearing on the international scene. Carlson was in scream mode, then. He was a Cassandra, then, although later he quickly enough took the opposite position as evidence mounted that it was a hoax -- "hoax" in the sense that it was in no way the all-conquering, millions-killing disease it was initially cranked up to be, requiring us to shutter the Western World economically.

Now Tucker is on the meme (or scream) that Black Lives Matter is about to take over the U.S., by taking over the Democrat Party and giving us Joe Biden as a puppet president and Keith Ellison as Attorney General -- he's an execrable American Muslim and former Congressman -- whom George Soros' money installed as Attorney General of Minnesota (legal experts are saying already that Ellison is making a mess of the prosecution of the cop that killed George Floyd, and Floyd might easily get off). It is certain that the Democrats will try to "steal" the election in November in divers ways, and it is possible they might succeed -- the Dems are excellent at stealing votes, that's well-documented -- though tensions are so high that if they'd do so, the U.S. would descend into a true shooting Civil War.

They're already taking over sections of Seattle. Antifa is: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/06/09/antifa-militants-seize-seattle-police-hq-set-up-autonomous-zone-n512621

However, what Carlson didn't mention, and as I've noted before, within the larger African-American community, Black Lives Matter (BLM) is in an uneasy partnership with AME (i.e. "African-Methodist-Episcopal", the long-established Black Civil Rights mafia that controls a good part of the Democrat Party), and even now, evidence is quickly mounting that "blowback" is coming against the extremist BLM people. The AME people are big in the Democrat Party and regularly ensure Democrats get the Black vote. But BLM is just too extreme for them. Also, were they to just surrender to the BLM, the AME factin would lose their cachet of power -- something they definitely don't want.

This article: https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/09/the-crowd-that-booed-jacob-frey-is-on-the-cusp-of-controlling-the-democratic-party/ gives a good description of the stark issues facing the standard Democrat Party bigshots. Since the 2018 election (when the Dems took control of the House of Representatives), standard Democrats have so far let the Left (as in Sandy Ocasio, a.k.a. "AOC") run the Democrat show. For example, the past couple of years have seen countless articles discussing how "AOC" has upstaged and to some extent bossed Nancy Pelosi around. The Leftist tail is wagging the Democrat dog, to put it that way.

But are mainstream (i.e., mildly Left-of-center) Democrats willing to "go there"? It is far more likely that the BLM and the rioters and the insane rhetoric will turn off far, far more Democrat votes (Black, White, Latino, Asian, Gay) than it will attract. Also, over the summer, indictments not only of radical Leftists (Antifa) but the Deep State plotters will be filed. (Or so one hopes.) It will be interesting. And as for "defunding the police", Chicago has suffered it worse night for murder, 18 murders in 24 hours. https://disrn.com/news/chicago-suffers-deadliest-day-in-60-years-with-18-murders-in-24-hours

I can't image many people really voting "Democrat" this Fall. BTW, the mayor of Chicago is begging businesses to stay, as they get prepared to leave, like Walmart. But why would anyone in any of these cities? In Minneapolis, the same story. https://www.startribune.com/manufacturer-that-burned-during-mpls-riots-plans-to-move-out-of-the-city/571104922/

An excerpt:

A Minneapolis manufacturing company has decided to leave the city, with the company's owner saying he can't trust public officials who allowed his plant to burn during the recent riots. The move will cost the city about 50 jobs.

"They don't care about my business," said Kris Wyrobek, president and owner of 7-Sigma Inc., which has operated since 1987 at 2843 26th Av. in south Minneapolis. "They didn't protect our people. We were all on our own."

Wyrobek said the plant, which usually operates until 11 p.m., shut down about four hours early on the first night of the riots because he wanted to keep his workers out of harm's way. He said a production supervisor and a maintenance worker who live in the neighborhood became alarmed when fire broke out at the $30 million Midtown Corner affordable housing apartment complex that was under construction next door.

"The fire engine was just sitting there," Wyrobek said, "but they wouldn't do anything."

Two days after the riots began, Gov. Tim Walz described the city's response as an "abject failure." Walz ordered the National Guard into Minneapolis to restore order at the request of Mayor Jacob Frey. The violence sometimes overshadowed peaceful protests over the death last month of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.

Frey said Monday that he was unaware of 7-Sigma's decision to move, and he declined to say whether the company's decision reflects the challenges facing city leaders as they try to convince business owners to rebuild in Minneapolis. Many business owners have criticized the city, saying their pleas for help went unanswered.

Ron again:

Fantasy is fun, but Reality is a beast.

However, last night Carlson asked an excellent question: "Why doesn't the Left criticize the military any longer?" I hadn't noticed that. They don't. Carlson said the Left/Democrats/Deep State had subdued the military. Right now the Left is in full-scale war against the police, however, and that's because they don't control them, but are aiming to. The police won't actually be "defunded" but regular police will be replaced by BLM-approved security forces, heavily Muslim and Sharia compliant, especially in Minneapolis, which has a large Muslim population now.

As for the military, this fiasco of the Sec of Defense ordering both regular military and Nat. Guards to "stand down" during this past weekend's riots is interesting to me. Extremely. In any coup d'état, you need to control the military, or a good portion of it.

In any event, Carlson's point is that the Left is critical of the police because they don't control them, but they control the military. Look at Gen. James Mattis ridiculous critique of Trump, and there's a host of others, like retired General John Kelly. There's a host of others.

So I did a little research and found this article from October, 2013:

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/197-military-officers-purged-by-obama/

An excerpt

    07:01 PM ET 10/29/2013

Defense: What the president (at that time, Obama) calls "my military" is being cleansed of any officer suspected of disloyalty to or disagreement with the administration on matters of policy or force structure, leaving the compliant and fearful.

We recognize President Obama is the commander-in-chief and that throughout history presidents from Lincoln to Truman have seen fit to remove military commanders they view as inadequate or insubordinate. Turnover in the military ranks is normal, and in these times of sequestration and budget cuts the numbers are expected to tick up as force levels shrink and missions change.

Yet what has happened to our officer corps since President Obama took office is viewed in many quarters as unprecedented, baffling and even harmful to our national security posture. We have commented on some of the higher profile cases, such as Gen. Carter Ham. He was relieved as head of U.S. Africa Command after only a year and a half because he disagreed with orders not to mount a rescue mission in response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi.

Rear Adm. Chuck Gaouette, commander of the John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group, was relieved in October 2012 for disobeying orders when he sent his group on Sept. 11 to "assist and provide intelligence for" military forces ordered into action by Gen. Ham.

Other removals include the sacking of two nuclear commanders in a single week — Maj. Gen. Michael Carey, head of the 20th Air Force, responsible for the three wings that maintain control of the 450 intercontinental ballistic missiles, and Vice Adm. Tim Giardina, the No. 2 officer at U.S. Strategic Command.

From Breitbart.com's Facebook page comes a list of at least 197 officers that have been relieved of duty by President Obama for a laundry list of reasons and sometimes with no reason given. Stated grounds range from "leaving blast doors on nukes open" to "loss of confidence in command ability" to "mishandling of funds" to "inappropriate relationships" to "gambling with counterfeit chips" to "inappropriate behavior" to "low morale in troops commanded."

Nine senior commanding generals have been fired by the Obama administration this year, leading to speculation by active and retired members of the military that a purge of its commanders is under way.

Retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, an outspoken critic of the Obama administration, notes how the White House fails to take action or investigate its own officials but finds it easy to fire military commanders "who have given their lives for their country." Vallely thinks he knows why this purge is happening.

"Obama will not purge a civilian or political appointee because they have bought into Obama's ideology," Vallely said. "The White House protects their own. That's why they stalled on the investigation into Fast and Furious, Benghazi and ObamaCare. He's intentionally weakening and gutting our military, Pentagon and reducing us as a superpower, and anyone in the ranks who disagrees or speaks out is being purged."

Another senior retired general told TheBlaze on the condition of anonymity, because he still provide services to the government and fears possible retribution, that "they're using the opportunity of the shrinkage of the military to get rid of people that don't agree with them or do not toe the party line. Remember, as (former White House chief of staff) Rahm Emanuel said, never waste a crisis."

For President Obama, the military of a once-feared superpower is an anachronistic vestige of an America whose exceptionalism and world leadership require repeated apologies. It must be gutted and fundamentally transformed into a force wearing gender-neutral headgear only useful for holding the presidential umbrella when it rains. It is to be "his" military and used only for "his" purposes.

An Préachán