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| China uses its vast COVID surveillance infrastructure to stifle protests |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-14-2022, 10:31 AM - Forum: Socialism & Communism
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China bank protest stopped by health codes turning red, depositors say
SHANGHAI, June 14 (Reuters) - A protest planned by hundreds of bank depositors in central China seeking access to their frozen funds has been thwarted because the authorities have turned their health code apps red, several depositors told Reuters.
The depositors were planning to travel to the central province of Henan this week from across China to protest against an almost two-month block on accessing at least $178 million of deposits, which has left companies unable to pay workers and individuals unable to access savings. read more
Rights groups have warned China could use its vast COVID surveillance infrastructure to stifle dissent. Without a green code on their smartphone app, citizens lose access to public transport and spaces such as restaurants and malls, as well as the right to travel across the country.
"They are putting digital handcuffs on us," said a depositor from Sichuan province surnamed Chen, who declined to use his full name for fear of government retribution.
The Henan provincial government, the National Health Commission and the Ministry of Public Security did not respond to requests for comment.
After recent COVID outbreaks, some regions in China have asked travellers to register their plans online.
A man surnamed Liu, who lives in Hubei province, found that his health code turned red on the morning of June 12 after he registered the day before to travel to Henan.
Liu had planned to travel to a protest planned for Monday in the Henan provincial capital Zhengzhou, where he had hoped to get his money back. The protest would have been the latest among numerous such demonstrations in Henan in recent months.
More than 200 depositors were similarly blocked when their health codes turned red, according to members of a WeChat group.
It could not be ascertained if the change in code was intended to block the protesters or for another reason, but three depositors told Reuters they knew people who had registered to travel to Henan, who were not connected to the frozen funds, whose codes did not turn red.
Yu Zhou Xin Min Sheng Village Bank, Shangcai Huimin Country Bank and Zhecheng Huanghuai Community Bank froze deposits on April 18, with all three telling customers they were upgrading internal systems. read more
Liu, who declined to give his full name for fear of government repercussions, said his child may not be able to go to school if his code does not soon revert to green.
"I can't do anything, I can't go anywhere. You're treated as though you're a criminal. It infringes on my human rights," said Liu.
Wang Qiong, who lives in the central city of Wuhan, found her health code had turned red after she registered to travel to Henan on June 11.
"The police had my identity details from the last time I went to protest in April," said Wang, who said she has lost access to 2.3 million yuan ($341,550).
Other depositors told Reuters they were able to arrive in Zhengzhou by train and car but their codes turned red as soon as they scanned city health codes.
($1 = 6.7340 Chinese yuan renminbi)
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| US Seeks To Expand Monkeypox Testing As Narrative Keeps On Rolling |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-14-2022, 06:14 AM - Forum: Health
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US Seeks To Expand Monkeypox Testing As Narrative Keeps On Rolling
ZH | Jun 13, 2022
The Biden administration is working to expand monkeypox testing capabilities beyond a narrow group of public health labs, as infectious disease experts are now suggesting that testing for the virus needs to become part of routine care.
As the Epoch Times notes, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a conference call on Friday that her agency is working with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to expand testing capacity to include commercial laboratories.
At present, monkeypox testing is done through a network of 69 public health laboratories, which send results to the CDC for confirmation.
So far, there have been 50 confirmed cases in the US across 16 states, while roughly 300 monkeypox tests have been administered.
"There is not enough testing going on now for monkeypox in the United States," said Dr. Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. "The commercial labs are used to working with healthcare providers from across the country, moving samples around quickly, reporting results quickly in a way that providers understand and expect."
Meanwhile, as Off-Guardian notes, Monkeypox hysteria continues - with The Atlantic publishing a recent piece suggesting that Monkeypox "Could be nothing," or "Could Be the Next Syphilis."
Nature asks, "can the global outbreaks be contained?"
That said, there has been some pushback to the 'dire' sounding headlines - with the CDC declaring that it was "very unlikely" Monkeypox is airborne (in response to a NYT article claiming it can become so), and the Washington Post noting that "Number of monkeypox cases grows, but U.S. officials say overall risk is low."
And despite monkeypox's relatively low transmission rate, as we noted on Sunday, the Biden administration has ordered 500,000 more doses of monkeypox vaccine.
Denmark-based biotech group Bavarian Nordic, the manufacturer of the vaccines, said that the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has placed the order, to be delivered later this year.
“With the previous order from BARDA for 1.4 million doses of liquid-frozen JYNNEOS, awarded in 2020, this order will bring the total U.S. inventory of the vaccine to nearly 2 million doses,” the company announced on Friday. Many of the 1.9 million doses are being held by the company until the U.S. government requests them.
The 500,000 vaccine doses will be manufactured using bulk materials that are owned by the United States under previous contracts with BARDA, and are currently stored with the company.
“The majority of this bulk, however, will be converted to approximately 13 million freeze-dried doses of JYNNEOS during 2023-2025,” Barvarian Nordic said.
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| Canada’s top doctor claims pandemic ‘not over,’ urges preparation for ‘seventh’ COVID wave |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-14-2022, 06:08 AM - Forum: Health
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Canada’s top doctor claims pandemic ‘not over,’ urges preparation for ‘seventh’ COVID wave
'I think the pandemic is not over, and ... given the continuous evolution of the SARS‑CoV‑2 virus,
we think that it’s very likely that we will get some more viral activity in the future,' said Dr. Theresa Tam.
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Theresa Tam, chief public health officer of Canada.CTV News / YouTube
Mon Jun 13, 2022
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Canada’s chief public health officer has said that people should “prepare” for a possible seventh wave of COVID come the fall.
“I think the pandemic is not over, and … given the continuous evolution of the SARS‑CoV‑2 virus we think that it’s very likely that we will get some more viral activity in the future,” said Dr. Theresa Tam while speaking before a House of Commons Standing Committee on Health last week. Tam was responding to a question about a possible “seventh” wave of COVID from NDP MP Don Davies.
“We can’t predict exactly how big the next wave is, but I think we need to prepare, we need to prepare for the fall and winter season.”
Quote:Canada’s top doctor Theresa Tam warns of a possible seventh COVID-19 wave in the future. She added that “we need to prepare for the fall and winter season.” Tam also said the pandemic is not over. pic.twitter.com/PsdEa6LRVx
— Élie Cantin-Nantel (@elie_mcn) June 9, 2022
Tam also said that she and her team are “watching out for some very different variants” of COVID mutations, including different sub-variants of omicron.
Tam declared that the COVID injections, when given in three doses, offer a 60 percent protection against omicron, while admitting that two doses of the jab offers only 20 percent protection.
“Omicron was a game-changer, is a game-changer,” said Tam.
“Prior to that, two doses of a vaccine for example, had very high efficacy against infection as well as severe outcomes.”
She then claimed that, as the COVID jabs themselves do not along stop COVID transmission, a layered approach including the use of masks needs to be considered.
The COVID jab trials have never generated evidence that the injections stop infection or transmission of the virus. There is also very strong evidence that those with the COVID jabs are just as likely to carry and transmit the virus as the unvaccinated.
For months both the federal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau along with provincial governments encouraged Canadians to take the injections, often through coercive means such as threatening to take away their jobs. Those who refused were shown contempt.
Indeed, last year Trudeau called the vaccine-free “extremists who don’t believe in science” who are “often misogynists” and “often racists.”
The Trudeau government still has in place a mandate that all federal employees, even those who work from home, must be “fully vaccinated” with the COVID jabs.
Also in place is a mandate that in effect bans those who have chosen not to get the COVID vaccines from traveling by air, rail, or sea. This measure bans Canadians from flying within Canada as well as out of the country. Very few exceptions are given.
However, cracks in the prime minister’s strategy are showing as just last week a report surfaced that the “massive” majority of MPs within Trudeau’s own party want the COVID travel mandates gone.
Trudeau just today announced he had tested positive for COVID, which is the second time in less than six months.
A recent international study has found that COVID jab mandates have done far more harm than good.
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| Biden administration orders half million more doses of monkeypox vaccine |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-13-2022, 11:40 AM - Forum: Health
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Biden administration orders half million more doses of monkeypox vaccine
U.S. stocks up on vaccines for disease that primarily spreads through homosexual activities.
Mon Jun 13, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews [adapted]) — The Biden administration announced on Friday that it had ordered an additional 500,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine to add to the 372,000 already purchased by federal officials.
“As of Friday, the U.S. had identified 45 cases in 15 states and the District of Columbia,” the Associated Press reported. “More than 1,300 cases have been found in about 30 other countries outside the areas of Africa where the virus is endemic.”
The disease is primarily spread through close contact, often between homosexual men although the AP downplayed that risk in its reporting.
“Last month, cases began emerging in Europe and the United States,” the AP reported. “Many — but not all — of those who contracted the virus had traveled internationally. Most were men who have sex with men, but health officials stress that anyone can get monkeypox.”
The new fear of monkeypox has raised questions about what public health officials knew about the disease before it became public. For example, on April 21 Canadian health officials ordered 500,000 doses of a smallpox vaccine, which reportedly can be used against monkeypox. However, the first monkeypox cases were not announced until May 13.
Attorney Michael Senger wrote an article for the Brownstone Institute in which he noted that the “world’s first-ever global outbreak of Monkeypox” is occurring “just one year after an international biosecurity conference in Munich held a simulation of a ‘global pandemic involving an unusual strain of Monkeypox’ beginning in mid-May 2022.”
“The global Monkeypox outbreak — occurring on the exact timeline predicted by a biosecurity simulation of a global Monkeypox outbreak a year prior — bears a striking resemblance to the outbreak of COVID-19 just months after Event 201, a simulation of a coronavirus pandemic almost exactly like COVID-19,” Senger wrote.
Meanwhile, a historian of infectious diseases says that homosexual men like himself need to be warned about the risk of monkeypox.
“I worry that public-health leaders are not doing enough to directly alert men who have sex with men about monkeypox,” Professor Jim Downs at Gettysburg College wrote on May 28. “Gay men are not the only people at risk, but they do need to know that, right now, the condition appears to be spreading most actively within their community.”
He argued in The Atlantic, a left-leaning magazine, that “public-health agencies should also press gay social-media apps and other online platforms to tell their users that men who have sex with men have been disproportionately infected by the virus.”
“[M[onkeypox doesn’t require sexual contact but is prone to spread in situations where people with exposed skin are together in close quarters,” he wrote.
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| "This is where the ‘Great Reset’ comes in..." |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-13-2022, 11:31 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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US Is "Beyond Bankrupt" - Kim Dotcom Fears "Controlled Demolition" Enabling A "New Dystopian Future"
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ZH | Jun 11, 2022
Authored by Alexandra Bruce via ForbiddenKnowledgeTV.net,
New Zealand tech CEO, Kim Dotcom did the math on the United States’ sovereign debt and he tweeted a thread about it, saying it may the most important thread that he may ever make.
Kim explains that US spending and debt have spiraled out of control and the Government can only raise the money it needs by printing more of it, which means that hyperinflation is guaranteed.
He says this has been going on for decades and there’s no way to fix it and that the US got away with this for so long, because US dollar is the world’s reserve currency.
When the US Government prints trillions, it is thereby robbing Americans and the entire world in what he calls the biggest theft in history.
He says the total US debt is at $90 trillion, which together with $169 trillion in US unfunded liabilities totals $259 trillion, which is $778,000 per US citizen or $2,067,000 per US Taxpayer.
Now, the value of all US assets combined: every piece of land, real estate, all savings, all companies, everything that all citizens, businesses, entities and the state own is worth $193 trillion.
Our total debt, $259 trillion minus our total net worth, $193 trillion equals negative $66 trillion of debt and liabilities after every asset in the US has been sold off.
So even if the US could sell all assets at the current value, which is impossible, it would still be broke.
This is where the ‘Great Reset’ comes in and he asks, “Is it a controlled demolition of the global markets, economies and the world as we know it? A shift into a new dystopian future where the elites are the masters of the slaves without the cosmetics of democracy?”
He notes how the world has changed so much in recent years and how nothing seems to make sense anymore.
He sees the blatant corruption and the obvious gaslighting propaganda media and the erosion of our rights but he doesn’t know where it’s all going and he finishes the thread asking, “What’s the end game?”
As Harrison Smith from the American Journal says, “It’s a pyramid scheme. The people perpetrating the pyramid scheme are in charge of everything…they’re going to sacrifice humanity in order to maintain their system…
“The world economy is being collapsed, the food supply system is being destroyed, the energy that we rely on to maintain civilization is being curtailed and eliminated and we’ll be forced into the Great Reset where we will own nothing.”
Former BlackRock stockpicker, Ed Dowd believes that the entire COVID sham was created as a cover for the financial collapse and that new lockdowns are coming, to try mitigate the inevitable violence and chaos that we can expect to be witnessing in the streets.
We also saw how Dr Mike Yeadon, former Pfizer VP also believes that COVID and the death shot are an elaborate hoax to engineer a collapse of sovereign currencies to bring in the Great Reset and the introduction of programmable central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), for a wholly-controlled population, in which people will not be able to buy food, etc. unless the algorithms permit and the undesirables can basically be starved to death via artificial intelligence.
Rumble video: Kim Dotcom Breaks Down the Scale of Government Debt
Kim Dotcom June 5, 2022 Thread (emphasis ours)
Quote:This may be the most important thread I ever make. Big picture stuff about the major global collapse that is coming.
I will try to help you understand why the future is not what we’re hoping for. It’s worse than most can imagine.
Our leaders know.
But what are they planning?
The United States did not have a surplus or a balanced budget since 2001. In the last 50 years the US only had 4 years of profit. In fact all the profit the US had would not be enough to pay for 6 months of the current yearly deficit. So how did the US pay for things?
US spending and debt have spiraled out of control and the Govt can only raise the money it needs by printing it. That causes inflation. It’s like taxing you extra because you pay more for the things you need and all your assets decline in value.
See the US money printing frenzy:
The reason why the US got away with it for so long is because USD is the worlds reserve currency. Nations everywhere hold USD as a secure asset. So when the US Govt prints trillions it’s robbing Americans and the entire world. The biggest theft in history.
Quote:The reason why the US got away with it for so long is because USD is the worlds reserve currency. Nations everywhere hold USD as a secure asset. So when the US Govt prints trillions it's robbing Americans and the entire world. The biggest theft in history. pic.twitter.com/K1UKC7tWf0
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) June 5, 2022
The problem is that this has been going for decades and there’s now no way to fix it. The reality is that the US has been bankrupt for some time and what’s coming is a nightmare: Mass poverty and a new system of control. Let me explain why this isn’t just doom and gloom talk.
Total US debt is at $90 trillion. US unfunded liabilities are at $169 trillion. Combined that’s $778,000 per US citizen or $2,067,000 per US tax payer 
Remember, the only way the US Government can operate now is by printing more money. Which means hyperinflation is inevitable.
The total value of ALL companies listed on the US stock market is $53 trillion. The real value is much lower because the US has been printing trillions to provide interest free loans to investment banks to pump up the stock market. It’s a scam.
Most of the $53 trillion is air.
The value of all US assets combined, every piece of land, real estate, all savings, all companies, everything that all citizens, businesses, entities and the state own is worth $193 trillion.
That number is also full of air just like the US stock market.
US total debt: $90 trillion
US unfunded liabilities: $169 trillion
Total: $259 trillion
Minus all US assets: $193 trillion
Balance: – $66 trillion
That’s $66 trillion of debt and liabilities after every asset in the US has been sold off.
Do you understand?
So even if the US could sell all assets at the current value, which is impossible, it would still be broke.
The US is beyond bankrupt.
This patient is already dead.
This patient is now a zombie.
You probably wonder why are things still going? Why didn’t everything collapse yet.
It’s all perception, denial and dependency.
The perception is that the US has the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. But in reality the US is broke and can’t afford its army.
The denial is that all nations depend on a strong USD or global markets collapse.
The reason why the US zombie keeps going is because the end of the US is the end of western prosperity and an admission that the current system failed as a model for the world. It doesn’t change the reality. The collapse is inevitable and coming.
What are our leaders planning?
You may have heard about the ‘great reset’ or the ‘new world order’. Is it a controlled demolition of the global markets, economies and the world as we know it?
A shift into a new dystopian future where the elites are the masters of the slaves without the cosmetics of democracy?
Without a controlled demolition the world will collapse for all, including the elites. The world has changed so much and nothing seems to make sense anymore, the blatant corruption is out in the open, the obvious propaganda media, the erosion of our rights.
What’s the end game?
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| Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by St. Margaret Mary Alacoque |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-12-2022, 10:11 AM - Forum: Novenas
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Efficacious Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
by St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
[This powerful prayer was recited every day by Padre Pio for all those who asked for his prayers.
It brought about thousands of miracles and it was Padre Pio’s favorite prayer.]
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I. O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you.” Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of…… (here name your request)
Our Father….Hail Mary….Glory Be to the Father….Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.
II. O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.” Behold, in your name, I ask the Father for the grace of…….(here name your request)
Our Father…Hail Mary….Glory Be To the Father….Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.
III. O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, heaven and earth will pass away but my words will not pass away.” Encouraged by your infallible words I now ask for the grace of…..(here name your request)
Our Father….Hail Mary….Glory Be to the Father…Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.
O Sacred Heart of Jesus, for whom it is impossible not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us miserable sinners and grant us the grace which we ask of you, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, your tender Mother and ours.
Say the Hail, Holy Queen and add: St. Joseph, foster father of Jesus, pray for us.
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| The Athanasian Creed |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-12-2022, 08:29 AM - Forum: Church Doctrine & Teaching
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Excerpt from Dom Prosper Guéranger's The Liturgical Year - Trinity Sunday
For this end, we will unite with holy Church, who in her Office of Prime, recites on this Solemnity, as also on every Sunday not taken up by a Feast, the magnificent Symbol known as the Athanasian Creed. It gives us, in a summary of much majesty and precision, the doctrine of the holy Doctor, Saint Athanasius, regarding the mysteries of the Trinity and Incarnation.
It is a psalm or hymn of praise, of confession, and of profound, self-prostrating homage, parallel to the Canticles of the elect in heaven. It appeals to the imagination quite as much as to the intellect. It is the war-song of faith, with which we warn first ourselves, then each other, and then all those who are within its hearing, and the hearing of the Truth, who our God is, and how we must worship Him, and how vast our responsibility will be if we know what to believe, and yet believe not.
The Athanasian Creed
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Quicumque vult salvus esse, ante omnia opus est ut teneat Catholicam fidem.
Whosoever would be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold that Catholic faith.
Quam nisi quisque integram inviolatamque servaverit, absque dubio inæternum peribit.
Which faith, except every one doth keep entire, and unviolated, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
Fides autem Catholica hæc est, ut unum Deum in Trinitate, et Trinitatem in Unitate veneremur;
Now the Catholic Faith is this: that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity;
Neque confundentes personas, neque substantiam separantes.
Neither confounding the persons, nor dividing the substance.
Alia est enim persona Patria, alia Filii, alia Spiritus sancti.
For one is the person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost.
Sed Patris, et Filii, et spiritus sancti una est divinitas, æqualis gloria, coæterna majestas.
But the Godhead of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one, the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal.
Qualis Pater, talis Filius, talis Spiritus sanctus.
Such as the Father is, such is the Son, such is the Holy Ghost.
Increatus Pater, increatus Filius, increatus spiritus sanctus.
The Father is uncreated, the Son is uncreated, the Holy Ghost is uncreated.
Immensus Pater, immensus Filius, immensus Spiritus sanctus.
The Father is incomprehensible, the Son is incomprehensible, the Holy Ghost is incomprehensible.
Æternus Pater, æternus Filius, æternus Spiritus sanctus.
The Father is eternal, the Son is eternal, the Holy Ghost is eternal.
Et tamen non tres æterni, sed unus æternus.
And yet they are not three eternals, but one eternal.
Sicut non tres increati, nec tres immensi, sed unus increatus, et unus immensus.
And also they are not three uncreateds, but one uncreated, and one incomprehensible.
Similiter omnipotens Pater, omnipotens Filius, omnipotens Spiritus sanctus.
In like manner the Father is almighty, the Son is almighty, the Holy Ghost is almighty.
Et tamen non tres omnipotentes, sed unus omnipotens.
And yet they are not three almighties, but one almighty.
Ita Deus Pater, Deus Filius, Deus Spiritus sanctus.
So, the Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Ghost is God.
Et tamen non tres Dii, sed unus est Deus.
And yet they are not three Gods, but one God.
Ita Dominus Pater, Dominus Filius, Dominus Spiritus sanctus.
So, the Father is Lord, the Son is Lord, the Holy Ghost is Lord.
Et tamen non tres Domini, sed unus est Dominus.
And yet they are not three Lord, but one Lord.
Quia sicut singillatim unamquamque personam Deum ac Dominum confiteri Christiana veritate compellimur: ita tres Deos aut Dominos dicere, Catholica religione prohibemur.
For, as we are compelled, by the Christian truth, to acknowledge each person, by himself, to be God and Lord: so, are we forbidden, by the Catholic religion, to say there are three Gods, or three Lords.
Pater a nullo est factus, nec creatus, nec genitus.
The Father is made of no one, neither created, nor begotten.
Filius a Patre solo est: non factus, nec creatus, sed genitus.
The Son is from the Father alone; not made, nor created, but begotten.
Spiritus sanctus a Patre et Filio, non factus, nec creatus, nec genitus, sed procedens.
The Holy Ghost is from the Father and the Son; not made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.
Unus ergo Pater, non tres Patres; unus Filius, non tres Filii: unus Spiritus sanctus, non tres Spiritus sancti.
There is, then, one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Ghost, not three Holy Ghosts.
Et in hac Trinitate nihil prius aut posterius, nohil majus aut minus: sed totæ tres personæ coæternæ sibi sunt, et coæquales.
And in this Trinity, there is nothing before or after, nothing greater or less; but the whole three Persons are co-eternal to one another, and co-equal.
Ita ut per omnia, sicut jam supra dictum est, et Unitas in Trinitate, et Trinitas in Unitate veneranda sit.
So that, in all things, as hath been already said above, the Unity is to be worshipped in Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity.
Qui vult ergo salvus esse: ita de Trinitate sentiat.
He, therefore, that would be saved, must thus think of the Trinity.
Sed necessarium est ad æternam salutem: ut Incarnationem quoque Domini nostri Jesu Christi fideliter credat.
Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting salvation, that he also believe rightly the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Est ergo fides recta, ut credamus et confiteamur: quia Dominus noster Jesus Christus Dei Filius, Deus et homo est.
Now the right faith is, that we believe and confess, that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is both God and Man.
Deus est ex substantia Patris ante sæcula genitus: et homo est ex substantia matris in sæculo natus.
He is God, of the substance of his Father, begotten before the world; and he is Man, of the substance of his Mother, born in the world.
Perfectus Deus, perfectus homo: ex anima rationali, et humana carne subsistens.
Perfect god, perfect Man: subsisting of a rational soul, and human flesh.
Æqualis Patri secundum divinitatem: minor Patre secundum humanitatem.
Equal to the Father according to his Godhead: lesser than the Father, according to his Manhood.
Qui licet Deus sit, et homo: non duo tamen, sed unus Christus.
Who although he be both God and Man, yet he is not two, but one, Christ.
Unus autem non conversione divinitatis in carnem, sed assumptione humanitatis in Deum.
One, not by the conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by the taking of the Manhood unto God.
Unus omnino, non confusione substantiæ, sed unitate personæ.
One altogether, not by confusion of substance, but by unity of person.
Nam sicut anima rationalis et caro unus est homo, ita Deus et homo unus est Christus.
For, as the rational soul and the flesh is one man, so, God and Man is one Christ.
Qui passus est pro salute nostra, descendit ad inferos, tertia die resurrexit a mortuis.
Who suffered for our salvation; descended into hell; rose again, the third day, from the dead.
Ascendit ad cœlos, sedet ad dexteram Dei Patris omnipotentis: inde venturus est judicare vivos et mortuos.
He ascendeth into heaven; he sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead.
Ad cujus adventum omnes homines resurgere habent cum corporibus suis, et reddituri sunt de factis propriis rationem.
At whose coming, all men shall rise again, with their bodies; and shall give an account of their own works.
Et qui bona egerunt, ibunt in vitam æternam; qui vero mala, in ignem æternum.
And they that have done good, shall go into life everlasting; and they that have done evil, into everlasting fire.
Hæc est fides Catholica: quam nisi quisque fideliter, firmiterque crediderit, salvus ese non poterit.
This is the Catholic faith: which except every man believe faithfully and steadfastly, he cannot be saved.
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| St. Ignatius of Loyola: God Rewards Those Who Show Zeal for His Glory |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-12-2022, 07:47 AM - Forum: The Saints
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God Rewards Those Who Show Zeal for His Glory
From L'Apostolat de la priere, p. 38, in The Catechism in Examples, by Rev. D. Chisholm, 1919, vol. 5, p. 397
St. Ignatius was so much imbued with charity toward his neighbor that he was accustomed to say: "If I were at the point of death, and the assurance were given me that I would immediately enter into the possession of the eternal happiness of Heaven, and if God should ask me to remain on earth for a few years longer at the risk of my salvation in order that I might gain souls to Him, I would most willingly consent to remain."
On hearing these words one day, a pious critic remarked to him that he considered it to be a most imprudent thing to expose himself to lose his own soul for the sake of saving the souls of others. "For," he added, "in such an important affair, charity to ourselves requires of us to look to our own eternal interests in the first place before those of our neighbor."
The Saint, inspired by his great zeal for the salvation of souls and filled with confidence in God, answered: "Is God perchance a tyrant, or is He so indifferent to the welfare of one whom He sees placing himself in danger for the promotion of His glory by endeavoring to save souls for whom His Divine Son died, that He would condemn such a one to hellfire? Oh, no! Such a thought would be repugnant to the goodness and mercy of God."
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| Quebec has vaccinated over 1,500 people against monkeypox |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-10-2022, 07:13 AM - Forum: Health
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Quebec has vaccinated over 1,500 people against monkeypox
Public health officials warn the 'entire population is susceptible' to the virus despite a low number of cases in the province.
Thu Jun 9, 2022
MONTREAL (LifeSiteNews) — Quebec’s Health Department said Thursday that 1,622 people have already been vaccinated against monkeypox since the first cases were discovered in the province in late May.
The relatively large number of monkeypox vaccinations given to Quebecers comes after various public health officials in the nation warned that the entire population was at risk for contracting the rare virus despite the World Health Organization saying the illness only spreads through prolonged close contact “mainly but not exclusively” between “men who have sex with men.”
As of right now, a total of 98 cases have been reported in the province.
While monkeypox does not have a specific vaccine available for use in Canada, Theresa Tam, the country’s chief public health officer, told reporters in late May that smallpox vaccines can be used as they have been proven to be effective against the milder monkeypox virus.
Despite the WHO not being made aware of the viral outbreak until May 13, LifeSiteNews noted that Public Services and Procurement Canada put out a tender for 500,000 smallpox vaccines doses on behalf of the Public Health Agency of Canada nearly a month earlier.
Since the so-called outbreak of monkeypox in mid-May, many have begun to question the mainstream narrative surrounding the virus drawing parallels between the origin of monkeypox and the origin of COVID-19.
In an article for the Brownstone Institute, U.S. attorney Michael Senger pointed out that the “world’s first-ever global outbreak of Monkeypox” is occurring “just one year after an international biosecurity conference in Munich held a simulation of a ‘global pandemic involving an unusual strain of Monkeypox’ beginning in mid-May 2022.”
“The global Monkeypox outbreak — occurring on the exact timeline predicted by a biosecurity simulation of a global Monkeypox outbreak a year prior — bears a striking resemblance to the outbreak of COVID-19 just months after Event 201, a simulation of a coronavirus pandemic almost exactly like COVID-19,” Senger wrote in the piece.
“Event 201 was hosted in October 2019 — just two months before the coronavirus was first revealed in Wuhan — by the Gates Foundation, the World Economic Forum, Bloomberg, and Johns Hopkins. As with the Event 201, the participants at the Monkeypox simulation have thus far been stone silent as to their having participated in a pandemic simulation the facts of which happened to come true in real life just months later,” the lawyer added.
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| Cdl. Müller addresses controversies surrounding two pontiffs, says Francis is pope |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-10-2022, 07:09 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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Cdl. Müller addresses controversies surrounding two pontiffs, says Francis is pope
The current pope's actions have led some Catholics to question the validity of his ascent to the chair of St. Peter.
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Thu Jun 9, 2022
(LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Gerhard Müller, former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, recently addressed the questions and controversies raised by the resignation of Benedict XVI and the last nine years of the pontificate of Pope Francis in a presentation of the book “Benedetto XVI nove anni di papato-ombra” (Benedict XVI nine years of shadow-papacy) by Massimo Franco (Milano 2022).
Müller firmly threw his weight behind the legitimacy of Francis’ pontificate. “Against all contrived theories and swollen aversions,” he declared, “the statement is impeccable and irrefutable: There is legitimately only one pope and his name is Francis. Whoever was pope, living or dead, is no more, even if he is entitled to all gratitude and personal veneration.”
The cardinal then delved into the confusions caused among the faithful by Benedict’s resignation. “The resignation of Pope Benedict in 2013,” he said, “has introduced a tension into the Petrine principle of the unity of the faith and the communion of the Church that has no parallel historically and has not yet been dogmatically addressed. The norms of canon law are by no means sufficient here, and the tricks of diplomacy even less so.”
Acknowledging the freedom of the Pope to resign from his office according to ecclesiastical law, Müller pointed out that “the pope is never merely the president of their [the bishops’] assembly, appointed by the bishops, who could or should retire into well-deserved retirement at the end of a term of office or at his own discretion,” but is rather called to witness to the crucified Christ even to the point of death.
“It is true that according to purely ecclesiastical law the Pope of Rome can freely declare his resignation, but this is counterbalanced by the fact that according to divine law he is personally appointed by Christ, the invisible but true head of the Church, as Peter’s successor and as his deputy in the universal pastoral office, and that as the visible head of the whole Church he has all spiritual authority to lead the house of the living God in communion with the other bishops. Therefore, the pope is never merely the president of their assembly, appointed by the bishops, who could or should retire into well-deserved retirement at the end of a term of office or at his own discretion. This is already forbidden by the mission and authority to bear witness to Christ in the word of proclamation, even to the death of martyrdom, following the suffering and crucified Jesus.”
The cardinal also argued that the resignation of the Roman Pontiff must remain an extremely rare exception in the Church and cannot become an ordinary standard or permanent practice. “Even those who pragmatically accept the facts and grant them normative force,” he said, “can by no means — this is the conclusion drawn from the nine years of coexistence of a single pope and his predecessor as papa emeritus — declare the resignation of a pope for reasons of age and health to be the normal case. It must remain the strictest exception and must then be contemplated only for the good of the Church. The bonum ecclesiae, however, is not to be interpreted with the categories of worldly professions, but in view of the witness to Christ entrusted to the apostles and their successors until death.”
The issue of Benedict XVI’s resignation has raised questions from the beginning of Francis’ pontificate due the frequency of heterodox statements and continuous scandals. From Amoris Laetitia to the changing of the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the death penalty, from the Pachamama idolatry to financial scandals, from the McCarrick abuse to countless other cover-ups of episcopal crimes, from the harsh persecution of the those who love the Traditional Latin Mass to the recent appointment of pro-LGBTQ cardinals, the scandals of the current pontificate have left many faithful Catholics confused, wondering how to reconcile these things with their faith in the Church.
The question of the legitimacy of the current papacy and Benedict’s resignation has increasingly received attention among theologians and Catholic commentators. Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano recently called for an investigation by the bishops into the matter. Layman Patrick Coffin has argued that Benedict XVI did not in fact lay aside the papal office and that Francis is therefore not Pope. Edward Feser has argued against this claim. Just today, Bishop Athanasius Schneider laid out his position that Francis is indeed the legitimate Pope, even if there were irregularities in either Benedict’s resignation or Francis’ election. He argued that to hold otherwise defies the tradition of the Church.
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| Bishop Schneider: Theory that Benedict XVI is pope and not Francis defies ‘tradition of the Church’ |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-09-2022, 03:43 PM - Forum: General Commentary
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Bishop Schneider: Theory that Benedict XVI is pope and not Francis defies ‘tradition of the Church’
The ‘hypothesis of Benedict XVI’s invalid renunciation, and therefore of the invalidity of the papacy of Francis,
properly presents itself as a dead end, a cul-de-sac,’ said Bishop Schneider.
Thu Jun 9, 2022
(LifeSiteNews) – Bishop Athanasius Schneider, the well known auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazahkstan, has spoken out against the theory that Benedict XVI is the only valid pope, saying that the argument would contradict the “proven and reasonable practice of the great tradition of the Church.”
In a newly recorded video message (full transcript found below), Bishop Schneider outlined the Catholic Church’s teaching and history regarding contested papal elections. Drawing from examples in the Church’s history, notably the cases of Popes Gregory VI and Urban VI, the bishop stated:
Quote:The safest guiding principle in the crucial question for the life of the Church regarding the validity of the papacy of Pope Francis, should be the prevailing practice in the history of the Church, with which were resolved cases of presumably invalid papal renunciations or elections. In this prevailing practice was shown the sensus perennis ecclesiae.
In recent months, arguments suggesting that the Pope is actually Benedict XVI, not Francis – motivated perhaps by the growing scandals emanating from the Vatican – have gained increasing prominence, notably though Catholic podcaster Patrick Coffin.
The Church must have a visible ‘Supreme Shepherd’
Schneider wrote that a fundamental principle with which to address the question was that “human law that regulates the assumption of the papal office or the dismissal from the papal office must be subordinated to the greater good of the whole Church, which in this case is the real existence of the visible head of the Church and the certainty of this existence for all the body of the Church, clergy and faithful.”
READ: Bp. Schneider: There’s a ‘basic error’ in Vatican documents on ‘material cooperation’ with abortion-tainted vaccines
The Church, by nature a visible entity, “cannot exist for a considerable time without a visible Supreme Shepherd,” he said, “since the vital activity of the universal Church depends on its visible head, such as the appointment of diocesan bishops and cardinals, appointments that require the existence of a valid pope.”
Schneider added that “the spiritual good of the faithful depends on a valid appointment of a bishop,” which in turn relies upon a valid and clearly visible Pope.
Should a bishop be invalidly appointed, his priests “would lack pastoral jurisdiction (confession, marriage),” said Schneider.
To apply, in this case, the “principle of supplying of jurisdiction would undermine the characteristic of the Church’s visibility and would be substantially the position of the sedevacantist theory,” he warned.
The auxiliary bishop of Astana made clear that Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, the founder of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), did not fall under this category of undermining the Church, since while he “applied the principle of supplying jurisdiction, he applied it only to specific cases and not to the entire pontifical jurisdiction. He always mentioned the pope in the Canon of the Mass.”
Guided ultimately by the “spiritual good and eternal salvation of the faithful,” the Church supplies the principle of “sanatio in radice (healing at the root),” said Bishop Schneider – meaning that “in the case of doubts about a renunciation or a pontifical election” the matter is resolved by the “peaceful and morally universal acceptance of the new Pontiff by the episcopate and the Catholic people.”
Lessons from Church history
Bishop Schneider cited the example of “invalid pontifical elections” from the Middle Ages, noting how Pope Gregory VI invalidly bought the papacy, yet was still considered by the Roman Church as a “valid pope,” despite the “illegitimate manner by which Gregory VI became pope.”
Questions were also raised about the legitimacy of Pope Urban VI, who “had been elected under enormous pressure and threats from the Roman people,” added Bishop Schneider.
While “all the cardinal electors paid him homage and recognized him as pope during the first months of his pontificate,” doubts were raised about the “validity of the election” after a few months, noted Schneider.
When a new pope was elected by the cardinals because of this doubt, “he and his successors were considered by the Roman Church always as anti-popes,” said Schneider. “The Roman Church has always recognized Urban VI as a valid pope, despite the probably invalidating factors of his election,” he added.
Similarly with the case of Pope Celestine V who resigned “in circumstances of pressure and insinuations by the powerful Cardinal Benedetto Gaetani, who succeeded him as Pope Boniface VIII in the year 1294,” said the bishop.
Such circumstances meant that part of the laity and the clergy “never recognized Boniface VIII as a valid Pope,” yet “the Roman Church considered Boniface VIII as a legitimate pope, because the acceptance of Boniface VIII by the overwhelming part of the episcopate and the faithful healed ‘at the root’ the possible invalidating circumstances of both the renunciation of Celestine V and the election of Boniface VIII.”
For Francis to not be pope would have ‘paralyzed’ the Church
Bishop Schneider also presented a series of hypothetical scenarios regarding the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, but stated that “the hypothesis of Benedict XVI’s invalid renunciation, and therefore of the invalidity of the papacy of Francis, properly presents itself as a dead end, a cul-de-sac.”
For the Apostolic See to be “de facto vacant” would thus mean that “the universal Church would be paralyzed in its visible aspect,” he said. “Such an assumption would amount in practice to the attitude of sedevacantism.”
To argue that Benedict XVI is still pope “contradicts not only the proven and reasonable practice of the great tradition of the Church, but also simply common sense,” Bishop Schneider said.
Instead of explaining the crisis in the Church by arguing that Pope Francis is not the Pope, Bishop Schneider added that “the rudder of the boat of the Church holds Our Lord Jesus Christ in his hands even in situations of heaviest storms, such as it can be in a time of a doctrinally ambiguous pope.”
He referenced “a time of calm, doctrinal security, liturgical sacredness and holiness of the priests, bishops and popes” which would come when, “in the midst of the confusion and the storm within the life of the Church of our day, Our Lord will rise and rebuke the winds and the sea.”
See below the full transcript of Bishop Schneider’s video.
Reflections on the question of the validity of the papacy of Pope Francis
The safest guiding principle in the crucial question for the life of the Church regarding the validity of the papacy of Pope Francis, should be the prevailing practice in the history of the Church, with which were resolved cases of presumably invalid papal renunciations or elections. In this prevailing practice was shown the sensus perennis ecclesiae.
The principle of legality applied ad litteram (to the letter) or that of juridical positivism was not considered in the great practice of the Church an absolute principle, since the legislation of the papal election is only a human (positive) law, and not a Divine (revealed) law.
The human law that regulates the assumption of the papal office or the dismissal from the papal office must be subordinated to the greater good of the whole Church, which in this case is the real existence of the visible head of the Church and the certainty of this existence for all the body of the Church, clergy and faithful.
This visible existence of the head and the certainty about it are required by the very nature of the Church. The universal Church cannot exist for a considerable time without a visible Supreme Shepherd, without the successor of Peter, since the vital activity of the universal Church depends on its visible head, such as e.g. the appointment of diocesan bishops and cardinals, appointments that require the existence of a valid pope.
In turn, the spiritual good of the faithful depends on a valid appointment of a bishop, since in the case of an invalid episcopal appointment (due to a presumably invalid pope), priests would lack pastoral jurisdiction (confession, marriage). From this also depend those dispensations that only the Roman Pontiff can grant, and also indulgences, all this for the spiritual good and eternal salvation of souls.
Applying in this case the principle of supplying of jurisdiction would undermine the characteristic of the Church’s visibility and would be substantially the position of the sedevacantist theory. Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, when consecrating bishops without the Pope’s mandate, also applied the principle of supplying of jurisdiction, but he applied it only to specific cases and not to the entire pontifical jurisdiction. He always mentioned the pope in the Canon of the Mass.
The acceptance of the possibility of a prolonged time of a vacancy of the Holy See (sedisvacantia papalis) easily leads to the spirit of sedevacantism, which ultimately constitutes a kind of a sectarian and quasi-heretical phenomenon that has appeared in the past sixty years due to the problems with Vatican II and the conciliar and post-conciliar popes.
The spiritual good and eternal salvation of the faithful is the supreme law in the normative system of the Church. For this reason, there is the principle of supplet ecclesia or of sanatio in radice (“healing at the root”), that is, the Church completes what was against the human positive law, in the case of the sacraments, which demand jurisdictional faculties, e.g. confession, marriage, confirmation, the burdens of the intentions of the Masses.
Guided by this truly pastoral principle, the instinct of the Church has also applied the supplet ecclesia or the sanatio in radice in the case of doubts about a renunciation or a pontifical election. Concretely, the sanatio in radice of an invalid pontifical election was expressed in the peaceful and morally universal acceptance of the new Pontiff by the episcopate and the Catholic people, for the same fact that this elected (presumably invalid) Pontiff was nominated in the Canon of the Mass practically by the entire Catholic clergy.
The history of the Church is a sure teacher in this matter. The longest vacancy of the Apostolic See lasted two years and nine months (from 29 November 1268 until 1 September 1271). It was also the time in which lived St. Thomas Aquinas. There were evidently invalid pontifical elections, i.e. assumptions of the papal office invalidly, e.g. Pope Gregory VI became pope by buying the papacy with a large sum of money from his predecessor Pope Benedict IX in the year 1045. However, the Roman Church has always considered Gregory VI as a valid pope and even Hildebrand, who later became Pope St. Gregory VII, considered Gregory VI to be a legitimate pope, notwithstanding the illegitimate manner by which Gregory VI became pope. Pope Urban VI had been elected under enormous pressure and threats from the Roman people. Some cardinal electors feared even for their lives, such was the atmosphere of the election of Urban VI in the year 1378. During the coronation of the new pope all the cardinal electors paid him homage and recognized him as pope during the first months of his pontificate.
After a few months, however, some cardinals, especially the French cardinals, began to doubt the validity of the election because of the threatening circumstances and the moral pressure they had to suffer during the election. For this reason, these cardinals elected a new pope, who was called Clement VII, a Frenchman, who chose Avignon as his residence. He and his successors were considered by the Roman Church always as anti-popes (see the editions of the Annuario Pontificio). Thus began one of the most disastrous crises in the history of the Church, the Great Western Schism, which lasted almost forty years, tearing apart the unity of the Church and damaging the spiritual good of souls so much. The Roman Church has always recognized Urban VI as a valid pope, despite the probably invalidating factors of his election. The fact that even a saint, as for example St. Vincent Ferrer during a time, recognized the anti-pope Clement VII as the only valid pope, is not a convincing argument, since saints are not infallible in all their opinions. The same St. Vincent Ferrer later abandoned the Avignon anti-pope Clement VII and recognized the pope in Rome.
Pope St. Celestine V made his renunciation in circumstances of pressure and insinuations by the powerful Cardinal Benedetto Gaetani, who succeeded him as Pope Boniface VIII in the year 1294. Because of these circumstances, a part of the faithful and clergy of that time never recognized Boniface VIII as a valid Pope. However, the Roman Church considered Boniface VIII as a legitimate pope, because the acceptance of Boniface VIII by the overwhelming part of the episcopate and the faithful healed “at the root” the possible invalidating circumstances of both the renunciation of Celestine V and the election of Boniface VIII.
The following explanation of Professor Roberto de Mattei demonstrates convincingly the inconsistency of the theories of an invalid papacy of Pope Francis:
Quote:“It has mattered naught that Monsignor Georg Gänswein, in a declaration to LifeSiteNews on February 14, 2019, reaffirmed the validity of Benedict XVI’s renunciation of the Petrine Office, by stating that “there is only one Pope legitimately elected – and it is Francis.” By then the idea of a possible redefinition of the Papal ministry had been launched. Some people say that pope Benedict’s intention was that of maintaining the papacy, assuming the office capable of bifurcating in two; but this is a substantial error, since the monarchal and unitary nature of the Papacy is of divine right.
God alone judges intentions, whereas Canon Law merely limits itself in evaluating the outward behavior of the baptized. A well-known sentence of canon law affirms that «De internis non iudicat praetor»; a judge does not judge interior things. On the other hand, Canon 1526, § 1 of the new Code of Canon Law points out that: «Onus probandi incumbit ei qui asserit» (the onus of providing the proofs falls to the one alleging). There is a difference between a clue and a proof. The clue suggests the possibility of a fact, the proof demonstrates the certainty. Agatha Christie’s rule whereby three clues are a proof, is fine in literature but not in civil or ecclesiastical courts. Furthermore, if Pope Benedict is the legitimate Pope, what would happen if from one day to the next he should die, or instead, before he died, Pope Francis should pass away? Given the fact that many current cardinals were created by Pope Francis and none of the cardinal electors consider him an Anti-Pope, the apostolic succession would be interrupted, jeopardizing the visibility of the Church. The paradox is that to prove the invalidity of Benedict’s renunciation juridical sophisms are employed, but then to resolve the problem of Benedict’s or Francis’s succession, extra-canonical solutions ought to be used.” (The Unknowns at the End of a Pontificate, originally in Corrispondenza Romana, July 1, 2020)
The hypothesis of Benedict XVI’s invalid renunciation, and therefore of the invalidity of the papacy of Francis, properly presents itself as a dead end, a cul-de-sac. For nine years the Apostolic See would have been de facto vacant, since Benedict XVI did not make any act of government, no episcopal or cardinal appointment, no act of dispensation, of indulgences, etc. For this reason, the universal Church would be paralyzed in its visible aspect. Such an assumption would amount in practice to the attitude of sedevacantism.
In the past nine years all the appointments of Apostolic Nuncios, diocesan bishops and Cardinals, all the Pontifical dispensations, the indulgences granted and used by the faithful would be null and void, with all the harmful consequences for the spiritual good of souls (illegitimate bishops, invalid episcopal jurisdictions, etc.). All the cardinals nominated by Pope Francis would be invalid, that is, there are non-cardinals, and this would apply to the most of the current college of cardinals.
Another purely theoretical hypothesis: if Benedict XVI would have been an extremely liberal and almost heretical pope and would have renounced in 2013 in circumstances similar to those that actually occurred in 2013 (therefore having possible elements of invalidity) and then would be elected a new pope with an absolutely traditional spirit. And this new pope – presumably elected invalidly because of the invalid renunciation of his predecessor and because of the violation of some norms of the conclave – would begin to reform the Church in the true Catholic sense, appoint good bishops and cardinals, issue professions of faith or ex cathedra pronouncements to defend the Catholic faith against the current errors within the Church, certainly no good cardinal, bishop and faithful Catholic would consider this new hundred percent Catholic pope an illegitimate pope, asking for his renunciation and for the old liberal pontiff to return to rule.
Another hypothesis: The person who was Pope Benedict XVI could still live for several years, and in the meantime all the cardinals nominated by John Paul II and Benedict XVI would die, therefore the college of cardinals would be composed only of cardinals appointed by Pope Francis, therefore they would be non-cardinals according to the theory of the invalid pontificate of Francis, therefore there would no longer be a college of cardinals, and therefore there would be no valid electors, who could proceed to a new pontifical election. The law that says that the cardinals are the only valid electors of the pope has been in force since the eleventh century and was sanctioned by the Roman Pontiffs, therefore only a Roman Pontiff is competent to change the law of the pontifical election and to sanction a rule that would allow to have other electors except the cardinals. If one would follow the theory of the invalid pontificate of Francis, in the hypothetical case, when all the cardinals appointed before Pope Francis would die and also the former Pope Benedict XVI would die, it would not be possible to validly elect a new Pontiff. The Church would be in a dead end, a cul-de-sac.
The hypothesis that says that Benedict XVI is still the only valid pope, and therefore Pope Francis would be an invalid pope, contradicts not only the proven and reasonable practice of the great tradition of the Church, but also simply common sense. Furthermore, in this case one absolutizes the aspect of legality, that is, in our case of the human norms of renunciation and pontifical election, to the detriment of the good of souls, since there is created the situation of uncertainty on the validity of acts of government of the Church and this undermines the visible nature of the Church, and one approaches the mentality of sedevacantism. The surer way (via tutior) and the example of the constant practice of the great tradition of the Church must be followed also in our present case.
The rudder of the boat of the Church holds Our Lord Jesus Christ in his hands even in situations of heaviest storms, such as it can be in a time of a doctrinally ambiguous pope. Such storms are relatively short compared to other great crises during the two thousand years of the existence of the militant Church.
In the midst of the confusion and the storm within the life of the Church of our day, Our Lord will rise and rebuke the winds and the sea (see Mt. 8:24), and there will be again given a time of calm, doctrinal security, liturgical sacredness and holiness of the priests, bishops, and popes. We have to renew in the midst of a situation which humanly spoken appears helpless, our unshakeable faith in the Divine truth that the gates of hell will never prevail against the Catholic Church.
+ Athanasius Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana.
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| St. Louis de Montfort: After the Mass, No Greater Devotion than the Rosary |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-09-2022, 09:50 AM - Forum: Our Lady
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After the Mass, No Greater Devotion than the Rosary
by St. Louis de Montfort, The Secret of the Rosary, TAN Books, 1993, book II, chap. 5
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St. Augustine assures us that there is no spiritual exercise more fruitful or more useful than the frequent reflection on the sufferings of Our Lord. Blessed Albert the Great, who had St. Thomas Aquinas as his student, learned in a revelation that by simply thinking of or meditating on the Passion of Jesus Christ, a Catholic gains more merit than if he had fasted on bread and water every Friday for a year, or had beaten himself with the discipline once a week until blood flowed, or had recited the whole Book of Psalms every day.
If this is so, then how great must be the merit we can gain from the Rosary, which commemorates the whole Life and Passion of Our Lord?
Our Lady one day revealed to Blessed Alan de la Roche that, after the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, which is the first and most living memorial of Our Lord’s Passion, there was indeed no more excellent devotion or one of greater merit than that of the Rosary, which is like a second memorial and representation of the Life and Passion of Jesus Christ.
Fr. Dorland relates that in 1481 Our Lady appeared to the Venerable Dominic, a Carthusian devoted to the holy Rosary, who lived at Treves, and said to him:
“Whenever one of the faithful, in a state of grace, says the Rosary while meditating on the mysteries of the Life and Passion of Christ, he obtains full and entire remission of all his sins.”
She also said to Blessed Alan: “I want you to know that, although there are numerous indulgences already attached to the recitation of my Rosary, I shall add many more to every five decades for those, who free from serious sin, say them with devotion, on their knees. And whosoever shall persevere in the devotion of the holy Rosary, with its prayers and meditations, shall be rewarded for it. I shall obtain for him full remission of the penalty and the guilt of all his sins at the end of his life.
“And let this not seem incredible to you; it is easy for me because I am the Mother of the King of Heaven, and He calls me full of grace. And being filled with grace, I am able to dispense it freely to my dear children.”
St. Dominic was so convinced of the efficacy of the Rosary and its great value, that when he heard confessions, he hardly ever gave any other penance, as we have seen in the story I told you of the lady in Rome to whom he gave only a single Rosary.
St. Dominic was a great saint and other confessors also ought to walk in his footsteps by asking their penitents to say the Rosary with meditation on the Sacred Mysteries, rather than giving them other penances that are less meritorious and less pleasing to God, less likely to help them avoid sin. Moreover, while saying the Rosary, people gain numerous indulgences that are not attached to many other devotions.
As Abbot Blosius says: “The Rosary, with meditation on the Life and Passion of Christ, is certainly most pleasing to Our Lord and His Blessed Mother and is a very successful means of obtaining all graces. We can say it for ourselves as well as for those who have been recommended to our prayers and for the whole Church."
Let us turn, then, to the holy Rosary in all our needs, and we shall infallibly obtain the graces we ask for from God to attain our salvation.
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