What Is Love? Follow up on Scott Hahn and "She's not your girlfriend".

Friends,

Following up on my earlier criticism of Professor Scott Hahn's assertion in the Mass of the Ages 3 movie that every bishop in the world should "fall in love with the Blessed Virgin Mary", I received a number of comments that make me realize "What is love?" is a question that first must be answered in order to understand how cloyingly mawkish, just plainly over-  sentimental, Hahn's comment is. 

• But first of all, please note he is speaking of bishops using their full Apostolic powers. In my original essay, I reported Hahn as saying, “All bishops and priests ought to fall hopelessly in love with the Blessed Virgin Mary.” 
• I have now watched the MOTA3 movie, and at 39 minutes in, Prof Hahn's full quote is, "I think bishops need to really stretch themselves to move from the natural to the supernatural. The bishops ought to be in persona Christi in a way that corresponds to Vatican II defined as the plenitude of holy orders. They ought to fall hopelessly in love with the Blessed Virgin Mary. That's the only safe way they can lead us."

A bit of a jump there, a bit tangled too, though now I understand his comment in context. (And for me, any reliance on anything Vatican II produces an immediate headache.)

Yet my initial observation in my original critique STILL stands: I wrote then that the majority of (at least the Western World's) bishops are chosen for their "hard-nosed" unbelief in the supernatural. All of Vatican II, especially the Novus Ordo Mass, is a desacralization of the Faith. That was exactly what the 16th century Reformation was, and Vatican II is exactly that revolution come again. In other words, the Modern Church Catholics who don't know what the Eucharist is regarding the Real Presence, they are a FEATURE of the Vatican II Church, not a BUG!

All this is because a non-Catholic "junta" or "deep state" runs the modern Church, and has done so since Pope John XXIII let his people he chose to manage the Vatican II Council be removed when the Council opened and "young Turks" took over.

This is self-evidently obvious. To deny it is to go cross-eyed with cognitive dissonance. And I mean that. The junta running the Church since the '60s has never relented in its goals. It wants no-nonsense materialist financial and "bottom-line" managers; it does not want "men of Faith". That's why Bergoglio dumped Bishop Strickland (and others): they obviously believed. That's why Benedict was deposed (and he was deposed.) That's why the Vat 2 junta remains at war with the Traditional Latin Mass: that ancient liturgy creates and inspires believers. Ergo, they want it G.O.N.E.

 

So, with that observation reinforced, I also note again how cartoonish, written in thick crayon and felt, like decorations for kindergarten, Prof Hahn's statement is. Therefore, here's a quick discussion of what love actually is.

Love

First of all: love, real love, is to "will the good of another", and it is to will their good without demanding or even wanting a return on that investment. Fr Ripperger so defines it in one of his online talks. How simple, how direct. And so of course the Vatican II Church never uses it. 

Christians use the Greek word "agápē" for this love. It was a Greek word originally employed as just a generic term, and Christians used it to denote their new love revelation: God is love. This sort of "real" love is different fundamentally from other kinds of love. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son..."; John 3:16. Translate that as "For God so willed the good of the human race and His creation that He gave Himself...". 

Love in English

In English, we can say anything from "I love you" to a spouse or a child, or "I love ice-cream" or "I love the old Twilight Zone show" or "I love baseball" to "I love God" or "I love my country". The Greeks had a different word for each of those. Many languages invest in different words precisely to avoid confusion. But English doesn't. The word "like" is no substitute: "I like ice-cream" is quite different from "I love ice-cream." But idiomatic phrases like "fall in love" specifically refer to romantic love, and that's the phrasing Scott Hahn used. Note he used "hopelessly". That's clearly used of romantic love.

But romantic love is the cheapest and silliest of all "loves". It didn't exist for most human beings for most of the human history. There's an old joke about a Greek and an Italian arguing over who had the better civilization. For every thing the Greek came up with, the Italian had something to match it. "We created democracy" said the Greek. "We had a republic" the Italian countered. "We had the Parthenon" said the Greek. "We had the Pantheon" said the Italian. Finally, the Greek boasted, "You must admit, though, that it was we Greeks who created romantic love." The Italian thought for a bit and countered, "Yeah, OK, I'll have to admit that. But you have to admit one tiny fact about it." "Oh," said the Greek, "and what is that?" The Italian said, "We Italians first gave it to women."

This is funny precisely because it is true. What we call romantic love was a homoerotic creation, first by the Ancient Greeks, and later by the Muslims of Moorish Spain, where it was transferred via the Cathar heresy to Southern France and the famous troubadours. Only later did it become a standard affectation of average people. And of course, fiction writers and playwrights like Shakespeare made it a nearly de jure icon men and women were supposed to experience.

Maybe Scott Hahn didn't intend for his comment to be read this way, but he's supposed to be a professor, a knowledgeable man. As I wrote in the original essay, "We Catholics have the problem of too few men in the Catholic world. The world itself has that problem."

And so it is. The most important types of love: i.e. married spousal love, parental love, patriotic love, can never be just strong emotion and "desire". It HAS to be rational, founded in Faith in God's Creation and in the Will, and it must be selfless, a product of the rational mind, as the soul is itself rational. We get our emotions from our bodies, rationality from our souls. It's our bodies that get all passionately "love crazy." Careless "idiomatic usage" does NOT help clarify all this. 

AnP

Bergoglio Is an Unconscionable, Diabolical Liar

Amici,

Such is my takeaway after listening to Fr. Charles Murr discuss Bergoglio with John-Henry Westen and Liz Yore here at LifeSiteNews. 

The first half of this episode is Fr. Murr detailing (and I mean detailing) how Bergoglio, as a young Jesuit and then a bishop and archbishop, would come to Rome and "pump" Vatican insiders for inside information. Bergoglio also represented himself as a strong conservative and very much the anti-Communist, so much so that he fooled a good friend and mentor of Fr. Murr's, a friend who had been raised in Northern Italy, knew all about Communists, and was a die-hard enemy of Marxists. So Bergoglio fooled everyone, and it was one of the ways The Ogre got himself eventually elected pope. (Along with all the other behind-the-scenes nefarious goings on the Freemasons were plotting, naturally.)

And of course this proves Archbishop Viganò's idea that Bergoglio isn't a valid pope because he accepted the papacy illegally in that the Argentinian devil had NO INTENTION of serving as a pope is supposed to. He lied there, too, in other words. Yes, yes, yes, it may be that Benedict didn't abdicate the papacy correctly, and other aspects factor in, but clearly Bergoglio has never had ANY intention of serving the office as a successor of Peter is supposed to. Out with the vermin!

WHY do we commit suicide? Why does Europe flood itself with Muslims who have no intention of ever becoming "European"? Why do we tolerate that evil child molester Joe Biden flooding the U.S.A. with enemies while he drains the economy and the military and impoverishes the country by sending its wealth to a dictatorship in Ukraine? (Well, there the U.S. politicians are laundering money and "farming" child sex slaves.)

And most of all, WHY do we Catholic tolerate – even obey (Bishop Strickland, among so many others, I'm looking at you!) – a putrid hypocrite con-artist like Bergoglio, so obviously the son of his father, the Father of Lies, in fact? WHY? Has Catholicism become a suicide cult?

To every and any Catholic or "popesplainer" who says, "But he's pope! The world's bishops say he is!" I shout back: "Fool! If someone tells you to shoot yourself between the eyes, do you do it? No matter who he is?"

Listen to Fr. Murr tell what he knows about the younger Francis and how he slimed his way into power in the Church, and then try to tell me Jorge Mario Bergoglio isn't a true son of the Fallen Lightbringer himself.

Not dealing with this travesty is wrecking the Church, from top to bottom, as we see now with this blasphemous "funeral" of a deviant and promoter of deviancy from St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. Of course they claim they didn't know. Right. In the Empire of Lies, even the Truth looks guilty.

         AnP

Sodom and Gomorrah and Bergoglio: Hell's Triplets; Horror about to be unleashed

Friends,

Spot Quiz

City of Dis 'Low' School

You are a Modernist Catholic if you think:

□ 1. Sex-related sin is sin, but not as bad as spiritual pride, voting conservative, or loving Trump.

□ 2. Sex-related anything isn't sin at all. It's an expression of who you are, and the only "sin" is NOT engaging in your carnal fantasies.

□ 3. Better it would be for the entire world to end tonight than another sin to occur.

Answers

▣ 1. You're a Vatican II Catholic; but you're obviously slipping behind the times.

▣ 2. You're a Bergoglian Synodal Church "Catholic". Just don't tie your shoes anywhere near Cardinal Fernández.

▣ 3. You're a Traditional, orthodox Catholic; you can find your mugshot on "Open Season" hunting posters near any mainstream church.

Amici,

Since The Logos made the world and everything in it, and doubly so since God the Father would not remake the world except through the Blessed Virgin Mary, NEVER has there existed a scope of words that Angels or Men ever conceived which can possibly express the absolute disgust, the utter, utter despisement I have toward that subhuman, that feral, brutish Bergoglio and his subcreatures, imps, incubi, hobs, hellions and gremlins.

Or I should add: EXCEPT for the disgust I feel toward those (i.e., Cardinals Burke and Müller, Bishop Schneider, and so many, many others) who ought to have "outted" and denounced Bergoglio a decade ago. (And cursed him every year since, because he keeps adding evil to evil.) I cannot conceive what their just punishment would be. They're shepherds! Yet they let their lambs be raped, skinned alive, and eaten raw. Bishop Strickland, you abandoned your sheep to a false pope, a "porno-pope anti-pope". You let the Wolf win. Thankfully, God is the the judge of all these men, not me. Other than that they are – not a one of them – St. John Fisher, I have nothing to say to them. Bergoglio serves as their ringmaster, clearly, he's their dominus, their dog collar and chain.

Over at Mundabor's blog, he notes that TWO MORE obscene books Fernández wrote years ago have come to light. Mundabor makes the logical observation that the putrid Fernández used these 'books", what with their small print runs, as "grooming" tools. "I think it is – if possible – even more sinister than that. I think that all these books were written and published in order to help this guy to groom young people, more likely boys."

Were I such a one to have any standing in the world, secular or ecclesiastical, I'd be begging the Italian government of the Republic of Italy to invade Vatican City and arrest all these perverts and rapists of children and nuns. More has come out recently about what the rapist Rupnik did to a nun, breaking her fingers and telling her it was a Jesuit ritual. (Again, words just fail.) Go through their computer files, oh Officers of the Republic, expose every last criminal among them, then lock them up and melt down their Vatican keys. For surely, these wretches have melted down the Keys of the Kingdom.

See also Anthony Stine's new podcast: "Francis Just Inflamed The Scandal He Caused With Satanic Blessings" Please give it a thorough review. Anthony Stine updates daily with a steady flow of information.

As for the rest of us, it is past time to take the gloves off:

Psalm 68 Douay-Rheims (69 in Protestant Bibles)

Verse 20ff: Thou knowest my reproach, and my confusion, and my shame.

21 In thy sight are all they that afflict me; my heart hath expected reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve together with me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort me, and I found none.

22 And they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

23 Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense, and a stumblingblock.

24 Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back bend thou down always.

25 Pour out thy indignation upon them: and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

26 Let their habitation be made desolate: and let there be none to dwell in their tabernacles.

27 Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.

28 Add thou iniquity upon their iniquity: and let them not come into thy justice.

29 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; and with the just let them not be written.

30 But I am poor and sorrowful: thy salvation, O God, hath set me up.

31 I will praise the name of God with a canticle: and I will magnify him with praise.

In short: "In the lips of the wise is wisdom found: and a rod on the back of him that wanteth sense." Proverbs 10:13

   An Préacán

Fatima and Sliding into Chaos: Senator calls on assassination of Putin and NATO cranks up operations

 Amici,

First, let's remember Fatima and the prophecy given then, in 1917. Here is Bishop Strickland's tweet:

Maybe the U.S. Trucker convoy, 70 miles long, might get our evil leaders' attention.

Well, well, all this nightmare, and for what? Money and sex, what else? Ukraine is certainly a cash cow that Western Big Shots don't want to lose, and a flesh market for human trafficking for the sexually depraved. It must be, since the unelected, "installed" western governments are so close to pushing us into World War, the Third Edition, over it.

Why do I write this? "Aunt" Lindsey Graham, a supposedly conservative U.S. senator but basically a neo-conservative Deep State apparatchik "war-hawk", is calling for Putin's assassination, as reported on here at The Conservative Treehouse. That is so grotesquely contrary to ANYTHING a senator should be saying.

Graham also called the January 6 protestors terrorists and wants them locked up with the keys thrown away. He is the sort of perverted cesspool drudge the Republican "RINOs" have an endless supply of. Yet you can't help but wonder, with high American officials making comments like these, that Graham and the other evil Republicans in Congress, Mitch McConnell and friends, especially those on the Senate Intelligence Committee, would not hesitate to get the "government's mafia", the CIA, to assassinate Trump, if he runs again, or is elected Speaker of the House. Put nothing past them. After all, they're trying their best to whip up an actual world war right now.

As many bloggers have pointed out, no matter what happens, we will never know the actual amount bribes and graft people like Graham and other "neo-cons" have taken from the "Military-Industrial Complex". Democrats too, of course. Biden himself is merely the tip of the proverbial mountain. It is galling that these bastards, these "right bastards" are now lobbying for Communist China and that country's military-industrial complex.

But think about this: we are supposedly buying 100s of 1000s of barrels of oil from Putin, with the U.S. government flatly refusing to open the Keystone pipeline from Alberta that Biden closed down ON HIS FIRST DAY in office, yet we're also calling on Putin's assassination? Is this all theater, or what? Putin has World Economic Forum connections, as well. Just what is going on? Are we actually as insanely dishonest, treacherous, and conniving as all of that? For you who doubt that, for you who suspect I've gone over into tin-foil hat territory, I have one word, just one: Covid.

Finally, read this article on how NATO seems to be cranking up the pressure toward starting a European-wide war here. This is the extreme pro-Putin side, of course, but use it to balance what you're hearing in most of the Western media. It has a lot of shocking data, like the current head of NATO "retiring" soon to head Norway's Central Bank – showing how intertwined these swine are, you know, like the FDA/CDC and Big Pharma!

Bottom Line

At this point, I honestly cannot say NATO (and the U.S. Deep State) isn't fully, intentionally, trying to start a world conflagration. Just as our Western insistence on bringing Ukraine into NATO and the EU's orbit finally prompted the Russians to attack, so insisting on supplying the Ukrainians with weapons gives Putin the excuse to attack Ukraine's western borders, and that might kill some NATO military personnel. NATO maybe be a "paper tiger" in many ways, but it is not exactly unarmed. And Poland has a strong army, as does France, so in theory they could give the Russians a strong conventional war fight, especially if Whoever-Runs-the US-government throws American military assets in.

With that potential threat, no matter how unlikely we might think of the French hopping Germany to fight manfully side-by-side with the Poles, it does put Putin in kind of in a bind. No wonder he has been talking up nukes. In Putin's calculations, tactical nukes would definitely be an option in this context, based on the idea that the West has absolutely NO will to use to "go nuclear" in return. So, we've no way of knowing how this might go.

Ultimately, though, I think the Treehouse's Sundance is right when he references the absolutely totalitarian governments we've developed in the West during Covid. We need the BRICS to step up to counter-balance this new and abysmal West. (BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China – well, no, we don't need Communist China – and South Africa)

So thanks, Putrid Lindsey and the RINO neo-cons for pushing us to the verge of Armageddon. Thanks all the American Deep State for ditching the internationally cautious Donald Trump. Thanks to the George Soros-World Economic Forum and the "Deep State" of the western world, too, and let's not leave out the popes since Benedict XV for not consecrating Russia. Thanks to all of you for foisting war upon us.

All I can say is, pray, and get to Confession while you have the chance.

An Préachán

His bishop asks Fr. Robert Altman to resign...

 A chairde, my friends,

Just incredible...Fr. Robert Altman's bishop in La Crosse, Wisconsin, "The Most Reverend" William Patrick Callahan, has asked Fr. Altman to resign, because he's "divisive". For those who don't know, Fr. Altman has become a beacon of hope in a collapsing Church, but the local ordinary (bishop) is caving to pressure to oust the priest.

Here Taylor Marshall interviews Fr. Altman here.

Lifesite has the news here you can read. :

An excerpt:

LA CROSSE, Wisconsin, May 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Father James Altman, the priest whose video message last fall “You can’t be a Catholic and a Democrat” went viral and who has fearlessly criticized the U.S. bishops for needlessly shutting churches and denying the faithful sacraments during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced on Pentecost Sunday that his bishop has asked him to resign for being “divisive and ineffective.”  

Bishop William P. Callahan began threatening the outspoken priest with “canonical penalties” in September, even as public support for the priest surged among rank-and-file Catholics around the country and the world.

After delivering a powerful Pentecost Sunday homily, Altman explained: “I regret to inform you, they want my head on a platter. They want my head now for speaking the truth. I apparently have created enemies in the hierarchy.”

“To paraphrase the great, great Cardinal Burke, ‘When I die, I will stand in judgment before the Lord, not any Bishop of the church, nor as the great Cardinal Burke specifically said, the USCCB,’” said the embattled priest.

...

Bishop Strickland of Texas supports Fr. Altman:

Bishop J. Strickland

@Bishopoftyler

·

May 24

Fr James Altman is in trouble for speaking the truth. I originally supported him when he spoke bold truth during the election. I continue to support him for speaking the truth in Jesus Christ. He inspires many to keep the faith during these dark days. Let us pray for him.

...The Lifesite article also states:

Father Richard Heilman, without mentioning Altman’s name, wrote on Facebook: “With tears in my eyes, I write: I have never met a more humble, kind, holy priest in my life. Those who have met him, know.”

“This is war, folks. The vipers in the episcopacy are playing for keeps, while ‘conservatives’ play for what they can hold on to ... for now,” declared Lepanto Institute President Michael Hichborn.

“Fr. Altman is showing priests EVERYWHERE what it means to be a MAN of God!  It means putting everything on the line, and being willing to suffer whatever comes in the face of witnessing to the Truth,” continued Hichborn.

“These godless, gutless bishops, who allow the James Martins of the world to spread their festering cancerous rot, say nothing about the filth infesting the Church or those pushing it ... but they hamstring, hang, draw and quarter good Priests who dare to give spiritual and moral truth to feed their flocks!” he said.

An P again:

Beyond outrageous. Fr. Altman is another Athanasius. For example, see this article. :

This is true, but of course it drives the bishops bonkers.

There's an older petition here supporting Fr. Altman, which I've signed and alas, it won't let me sign again. But over 14,000 people have signed it, and it apparently makes NO difference to the bishop. This petition has a wonderful statement about just who is behind the attempt to oust Fr. A, as well.

Although I'm in Hungary right now, I'm so mad I tried calling the Le Crosse chancery some minutes ago. I'm sure people are calling them from all over. Some months ago, I had written a long snail-mail letter to that execrable bishop in Columbus, Brennan about his hideous treatment of Fr. Klee, but the man never responded in any manner (and I had my address snail and email!). These guys are not noted for either their courage nor their manners.

Using the +1 (608) 788-7700 number Lifesite provided below, I tried calling from Hungary just now, and got the computer (of course). After screwing around with the directory, I finally tried the secretary, but it said "your call cannot be completed as dialed. Hang up and call again." It should have been a "Secretary not available" or something. I didn't try the other numbers as I'd probably get the same run-around. It is quite expensive calling the U.S. from here. So anyone else gets the right extension, or an email address, please let me know.

For those who wish to try to contact Bishop Callahan, see the following Lifesite info:

Contact information for respectful communication:

Catholic Diocese of LaCrosse
Bishop William Callahan
3710 East Avenue South
P.O. Box 4004
La Crosse, WI  54602-4004
United States
+1 (608) 788-7700

Very Rev. William Dhein, Msgr. Michael J. Gorman, and Msgr. Joseph Diermeier, Vicars General
+1 (608) 791-2655

Rev. Woodrow Pace, Vicar for Clergy
+1 (608) 791-2652

Online contact form

You can also write a letter of protest to the Apostolic Nuncio:

Archbishop Christophe Pierre
3339 Massachusetts Ave.
NW Washington DC, 20008