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  Holy Mass in North Carolina [Charlotte area] - June 9, 2024
Posted by: Stone - 05-28-2024, 07:01 AM - Forum: June 2024 - No Replies

Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Sunday within the Octave of the Sacred Heart
[Third Sunday after Pentecost]

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Date: Sunday, June 9, 2024


Time: Confessions - 8:30 AM
              Holy Mass - 9:00 AM


Location: 3802 Solen Drive
                     Harrisburg, NC 28075
                   

Contact: Nino 980-833-2379

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  Holy Mass in North Carolina [Raleigh area] - June 8, 2024
Posted by: Stone - 05-28-2024, 06:56 AM - Forum: June 2024 - No Replies

Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Feast of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary
[Transferred from May 31st]

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Date: Saturday, June 8, 2024


Time: Confessions - 3:30 PM
              Holy Mass - 4:00 PM


Location: 2722 Kudrow Lane
                     Morrisville, NC 27560 [Raleigh area]
                   

Contact: Margarita 510-361-4394

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  Oregon Counties Voting to Join 'Greater Idaho
Posted by: SAguide - 05-25-2024, 02:32 PM - Forum: General Commentary - No Replies

Oregon Counties Voting to Join 'Greater Idaho'

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Demonstrators hold signs in favor of the Greater Idaho Movement 
   in Enterprise, Oregon, on May 12, 2023. Voters in Crook County, Oregon, 
backed the project on Tuesday.


On Tuesday, Crook County in Oregon became the 13th county to approve a proposal to secede from the state and join neighboring Idaho by 53.5 percent of the vote against 46.5 percent, as part of what supporters are calling the "Greater Idaho" project.
Backers of the plan argue the more conservative areas of eastern and central Oregon are currently dominated by liberal-leaning cities such as Portland and Salem and argue their interests would be better represented in traditionally Republican Idaho.

Thus far, the Oregon counties of Wallowa, Union, Baker, Malheur, Grant, Harney, Morrow, Wheeler, Crook, Lake, Sherman, Jefferson and Klamath have all voted to support the Greater Idaho project according to Citizens for Greater Idaho, a group campaigning in favor of such a split.

Advocates of Greater Idaho hope Umatilla and Gilliam counties will vote to join the project in full, as well as Wasco and Deschutes counties in part, at which point roughly the eastern two-thirds of what is now Oregon will have backed secession. Initially, Citizens for Greater Idaho also hoped to incorporate part of southern Oregon, but they ended this plan after voters in Josephine and Douglas counties voted against the proposal.

Citizens for Greater Idaho executive director Matt McCaw welcomed the Crook County result in a statement, saying: "The voters of eastern Oregon have spoken loudly and clearly about their desire to see border talks move forward. With this latest result in Crook County, there's no excuse left for the Legislature and Governor to continue to ignore the people's wishes."

Speaking to Newsweek he added: "We are happy for the people of Crook County that they had a chance to have their voice heard on the matter, and that their elected leaders now have no doubt what the people want.
  "Crook County voters, as well as the rest of eastern Oregon, have made clear that they want to pursue changing their state governance through this peaceful, win-win solution. We call on the governor and leaders of the Oregon legislature to move this forward and open up border talks."

Idaho Governor Brad Little told Newsweek: "I understand why many people want to be Idahoans. They're looking at Idaho fondly because of our strong economy, regulatory atmosphere and our values.
"Still, the decision to change Idaho and Oregon's borders would need to go through both states' legislatures and the U.S. Congress for approval. There's a lot that needs to happen before moving the border is within the realm of possibility."
The proposal would require approval by the legislatures in both states and Congress itself for counties to leave Oregon and join Idaho.
On its official website the Citizens for Greater Idaho states: "If the United States were governed as a single state, we wouldn't have the opportunity for state governance to vary according to the culture of a local area. The purpose of having state lines is to allow this variance.

"The Oregon/Idaho line was established 163 years ago and is now outdated. It makes no sense in its current location because it doesn't match the location of the cultural divide in Oregon. The Oregon/Washington line was updated in 1958. It's time to move other state lines."
If the Greater Idaho plan comes to fruition, Oregon would lose around two-thirds of its land but only 10 percent of its population, the New York Post reported, reflecting the more rural nature of the state's east.

Western States Strategies, the political arm of the Portland-based nonprofit Western States Center, opposes the Greater Idaho movement.
Speaking to Oregon Public Broadcasting in 2023, Western States chief of staff Jill Garvey said the group was concerned about Greater Idaho because of the history of secessionist movements in eastern Oregon linked to white nationalist campaigners.
"What we're doing is just pulling back the curtain. Nothing else. These are how these organizations are connected. We're naming what we believe their real goals are," Garvey said.
Newsweek has not seen any evidence that those behind Citizens for Greater Idaho hold white nationalist views.


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  Courage Under Fire- ‘It is not people, but Jesus Christ who I am trying to please’
Posted by: SAguide - 05-25-2024, 02:13 PM - Forum: General Commentary - No Replies

NFL’s Harrison Butker doubles down on pro-
family speech: ‘What I value most is my Catholic faith’
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee (LifeSiteNews) — In his first public appearance since enduring relentless attacks from mainstream media outlets for his pro-family commencement address last week, Kansas City Chiefs’ kicker Harrison Butker showed no sign of backing down, declaring that the “shocking level of hate” is a clear sign that “timeless Catholic values are hated by many.” 

The three-time Super Bowl champion delivered his latest remarks at a fundraising event in Nashville for the Regina Caeli Academy (RCA), a classical preK-12 homeschool hybrid for Catholic families. Butker serves on the academy’s board. 

“The theme for tonight’s gala, ‘Courage Under Fire,’ was decided many months ago,” began the tuxedoed Butker, “but it now feels providential that this would be the theme after what we have all witnessed these past two weeks.” 


“If it wasn’t clear that the timeless Catholic values are hated by many, it is now,” he said, referring to the storm of criticism against his earlier speech at Benedictine College.  

‘It is not people, but Jesus Christ who I am trying to please’

During last week’s 20-minute address at Benedictine, Butker unapologetically pushed back against abortion as well as so-called Pride Month, which he called a “deadly sin.” He singled out President Joe Biden, cowardly U.S. Catholic bishops, and “people pushing dangerous gender ideologies onto the youth of America.”  
Butker also addressed himself to female graduates specifically, warning them to be aware of the “diabolical lies” the world tells them about putting their job ahead of their family.  
“The more I’ve talked about what I value most – which is my Catholic faith – the more polarizing I have become,” explained Butker in his address last night to the RCA. “It’s a decision I’ve consciously made, and one I do not regret at all.” 
“If we have truth and charity, we should trust in the Lord’s providence and let the holy Ghost do the rest of the work,” he continued to loud applause from the crowd.  “Our love for Jesus, and thus our desire to speak out, should never be outweighed by the longing of our fallen nature to be loved by the world. Glorifying God, and not ourselves, should always remain our motivation despite any pushback or even support.” 
“It is not people, but Jesus Christ who I am trying to please,” he added. 


“If heaven is our goal, we should embrace our cross, however large or small it may be, and live our life with joy, to be a bold witness for Christ,” declared Butker, adding that he hoped that “many more will be unapologetic of their Catholic faith and never be afraid to speak out for truth, even when it goes against the loudest voices.”   
A LifeSiteNews petiotion supporting Butker has garnered more than 20,000 signatures in less than a week after being launched. 
 
A growing number of clergy, including Bishop Joseph Strickland, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, as well as prominent lay persons like former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz have expressed support for Butker in recent days. His red number 7 jersey has become a best-seller.  
A devout Catholic who exclusively attends the Latin Mass, Butker, the 28-year-old father of two was signed by the Chiefs in 2017 after being waived by the Carolina Panthers. The franchise won its third Super Bowl in five years in 2024. He has constantly given “glory to God” after his many impressive performances.

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  24 Republican governors tell Biden they will resist ‘unconstitutional’ WHO pandemic treaty
Posted by: Stone - 05-25-2024, 07:00 AM - Forum: Health - No Replies

24 Republican governors tell Biden they will resist ‘unconstitutional’ WHO pandemic treaty
Republican governors in nearly half the states condemned the WHO’s pandemic treaty and International Health Regulations in a letter to Joe Biden, warning that they violate ‘our Constitution’s core principles’ and threaten America’s ‘national sovereignty.’



May 24, 2024
(LifeSiteNews [adapted - not all hyperlinks included]) — Almost half the governors in the U.S., all of them Republicans, have signed a letter to President Joe Biden declaring that they will resist any efforts of the World Health Organization (WHO) to control public policy in America through its proposed “Pandemic Agreement” and amended International Health Regulations (IHRs).

The 24 governors declared their united opposition to the pending treaty and IHRs because the agreements “would undermine national sovereignty, infringe upon states’ rights, and jeopardize constitutionally guaranteed freedoms.” The Biden administration reportedly plans to bypass the legal requirement that the U.S. Senate agree to a treaty with a two-thirds vote.

The GOP state leaders said that the aim of these agreements is to allow the WHO to “restrict the rights of U.S. citizens, including freedoms such as speech, privacy, travel, choice of medical care, and informed consent, thus violating our Constitution’s core principles.”

The governors asserted that the agreements would “seek to elevate the WHO” from a merely advisory – if already massively influential – body, “to a global authority in public health” able to “compe[l] citizens to comply with WHO directives,” potentially including medical intervention mandates. They noted that the WHO would furthermore be able to unilaterally “declare a ‘public health emergency of international concern’ (PHEIC) in member nations, extending beyond pandemics to include a range of perceived emergencies.”

READ: Rep. Chris Smith warns WHO pandemic treaty is the greatest threat to freedom in human history

Echoing the concerns of other public figures around the world, they stressed that this would altogether undermine the sovereignty of WHO member nations. Other dangers of the agreements include “global surveillance infrastructure and requirements for member states to censor speech related to public health,” according to the governors.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, and the others noted that the pandemic treaty and the IHRs would give the WHO “unprecedented and unconstitutional powers over the United States and its people” and “could drastically change the role of governors in response to their charge as the state health officials.”

“As governors, we affirm that public health policy is a matter reserved for the states, not the federal government, and certainly not international bodies like the WHO. We are committed to resisting any attempts to transfer authority to the WHO over public policy affecting our citizens or any efforts by the WHO to assert such authority over them,” the governors concluded.

A growing number of public figures as well as U.S. states and elected officials have raised the alarm about the so-called Pandemic Agreement in recent months.

Earlier this month, Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin rallied every Republican in the U.S. Senate to sign an open letter imploring the Biden administration to reject the pending agreements being considered at the World Health Assembly (WHA) in late May.

READ: All 49 GOP senators call on Biden admin to withdraw support for WHO pandemic treaty

On Thursday, April 18, a group of GOP lawmakers and conservative activists similarly warned about the agreement at a press conference on Capitol Hill organized by the Sovereignty Coalition.

“The treaty would put us under the thumb of the UN and communist China and the WHO for whatever they wanted to declare a crisis, whether it’s poverty crisis, or a gun violence crisis or a climate crisis, or a health crisis, and make us listen to the WHO. That is not constitutional,” Rep. Bob Good of Virginia declared.

This year’s meeting of the World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the WHO, will be held from May 27 to June 1 in Geneva, Switzerland.

The governors who signed the letter to Biden include: Governor Kay Ivey (AL), Governor Mike Dunleavy (AK), Governor Sarah Sanders (AR), Governor Ron DeSantis (FL), Governor Brian Kemp (GA), Governor Brad Little (ID), Governor Eric Holcomb (IN), Governor Kim Reynolds (IA), Governor Jeff Landry (LA), Governor Tate Reeves (MS), Governor Greg Gianforte (MT), Governor Jim Pillen (NE), Governor Joe Lombardo (NV), Governor Chris Sununu (NH), Governor Doug Burgum (ND), Governor Kevin Stitt (OK), Governor Henry McMaster (SC), Governor Kristi Noem (SD), Governor Bill Lee (TN), Governor Greg Abbott (TX), Governor Spencer Cox (UT), Governor Glenn Youngkin (VA), Governor Jim Justice (WV), and Governor Mark Gordon (WY).

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  CA to legalize human composting by 2027
Posted by: Stone - 05-25-2024, 06:51 AM - Forum: General Commentary - No Replies

California to legalize human composting by 2027 as residents seek environmentally healthy burials
Growing industry of 'out-of-state customers, especially Californians' flying or driving
deceased loved ones to be composted in Washington: LA Times

Fox News [adapted: not all hyperlinks included]| May 23, 2024 


California has already voted to legalize the composting of human remains in 2027, but some residents are not willing to wait that long.

The Los Angeles Times wrote about California resident Blaire Van Valkenburgh being one of a growing number of residents composting the remains of their loved ones, "But this kind of burial — natural organic reduction — won’t be legal in California until 2027, so Van Valkenburgh paid to fly her husband’s body to Washington, the first state to legalize human composting in 2020."

Until 2027, it appears that there will be a budding industry of collaboration to facilitate compost burials for those who live in California. "[I]n the first of what will probably be other such collaborations, the family-owned Clarity Funerals and Cremation in Anaheim has partnered with Return Home to offer a package deal for people in Southern California who want to compost their loved ones in Washington," the LA Times wrote.

The same outlet reported that currently, the three human composting mortuaries operating in Washington "have reported steady business from out-of-state customers, especially Californians, who are either flying or driving their deceased loved ones north."


Former Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, who took credit for authoring California’s law, spoke about her reasons for doing so.

"I love the outdoors and I really want to be a tree in my afterlife," she told the LA Times. "My family has a crypt in Mexico, where there are no trees or shade around .... I want my soil to be used specifically for a plum tree, my favorite fruit, and my loved ones can visit me there."

Garcia added that she wanted an earlier date than 2027 for legalization of human composting, but needed to satisfy the state Cemetery and Funeral Bureau’s request for more time to set rules and standards.

"I didn’t want to risk it not getting passed," Garcia said.

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  Holy Mass in New Hampshire - June 2, 2024
Posted by: Stone - 05-22-2024, 02:32 PM - Forum: June 2024 - No Replies

Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Sunday within the Octave of Corpus Christi

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Date: Sunday, June 2, 2024


Time: Confessions - 10:00 AM
             Holy Mass - 10:30 AM


Location: The Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary 
                     66 Gove's Lane
                     Wentworth, NH 03282


Contact: 315-391-7575                    
                  sorrowfulheartofmaryoratory@gmail.com

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  Holy Mass in Canada [Saskatchewan area] - May 30, 2024
Posted by: Stone - 05-22-2024, 02:23 PM - Forum: May 2024 - No Replies

Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Feast of Corpus Christi


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Date: Thursday, May 30, 2024


Time: Confessions - 2:30 PM
              Holy Mass - 3:00 PM


Location: Regina, Saskatchewan area - contact coordinator below for details


Contact: Brian 306-757-3133

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  Holy Mass in Canada [Bay Tree area of Alberta] - May 29, 2024
Posted by: Stone - 05-22-2024, 02:14 PM - Forum: May 2024 - No Replies

Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Feast of St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi

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Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2024


Time: Confessions - 5:30 PM
              Holy Mass - 6:00 PM


Location: Bay Tree, Alberta [contact coordinator below for details]


Contact: Jim 780-353-3101

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  Holy Mass in Canada [Calgary area] - May 29, 2024
Posted by: Stone - 05-22-2024, 02:01 PM - Forum: May 2024 - No Replies

Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Feast of St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi


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Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2024


Time: Confessions - Contact Coordinator [below] for location details.
              Holy Mass - Contact Coordinator [below] for location details.


Location: North of Calgary, Alberta area - Contact Coordinator [below] for location details.


Contact: Mr. and Mrs. Nord
                  403-415-5939

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  Funeral Mass in Canada [Calgary area] - May 28, 2024
Posted by: Stone - 05-22-2024, 01:57 PM - Forum: May 2024 - No Replies

Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Feast of St. Augustine of Canterbury
Funeral Mass of David Page



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Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2024


Time: Confessions - 10:00 AM
             Funeral Holy - 10:30 AM


Location: North of Calgary, Alberta area - Contact Coordinator [below] for location details.


Contact: Mr. and Mrs. Nord
                  403-415-5939

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  Holy Mass in Canada [Calgary area] - May 27, 2024
Posted by: Stone - 05-22-2024, 01:51 PM - Forum: May 2024 - No Replies

Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Feast of St. Bede the Venerable


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Date: Monday, May 27, 2024


Time: Confessions - Contact Coordinator [below] for location details.
              Holy Mass - Contact Coordinator [below] for location details.


Location: North of Calgary, Alberta area - Contact Coordinator [below] for location details.


Contact: Mr. and Mrs. Nord
                  403-415-5939

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  The Proof of Censorship Is … Censored
Posted by: Stone - 05-21-2024, 07:10 AM - Forum: General Commentary - No Replies

The Proof of Censorship Is … Censored
Jeffrey A. Tucker


TIA | May 20, 2024

It’s not been a good week for the Censorship Industrial Complex.

The machine has been built and put into action over nearly a decade but largely in secret. Its way of doing business has been via surreptitious contacts with media and tech companies, intelligence carve-outs in “fact-checking” organizations, payoffs, and various other clever strategies, all directed toward boosting some sources of information and suppressing others. The goal has always been to advance regime narratives and curate the public mind.

And yet, based on its operations and insofar as we can tell, it had every intention of remaining secret. This is for a reason. A systematic effort by government to bully private sector companies into a particular narrative while suppressing dissent contradicts American law and tradition. It was a consensus, until very recently, that free speech was essential to the functioning of the good society.

Four years ago, many of us suspected censorship was going on, that the throttling and banning was not merely a mistake or the result of zealous employees stepping out of line. Three years ago, the proof started to arrive. Two years ago, it became a flood. With the Twitter files from a year ago, we had all the proof we needed that the censorship was systematic, directed, and highly effective. But even then, we only knew a fraction of it.

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U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy demanding censorship of any dissent over Covid policy in 2021

Thanks to discovery from court cases, FOIA requests, whistleblowers, Congressional inquiries thanks to the very narrow Republican control, and some industrial upheavals such as what happened at Twitter, we are overwhelmed with tens of thousands of pages all pointing to the same reality.

The censors developed a belief at the highest levels of control in government that it was their job to govern what information the American people would and would not see, regardless of the truth. The actions became truly tribal: our side favors banning gatherings, closing schools, says the Hunter Biden laptop is a fake, favors masking, mass vaccination, and mail-in voting, and denies the import of voter fraud and vaccine injury, whereas their side takes the opposite approach.

It was a war over information, undertaken in total disregard for the First Amendment, as if it doesn’t even exist. Moreover, the operation was not only political. It clearly involved intelligence agencies that were already hip deep in the “all-of-society” pandemic response.

“All of Society” means all, including the information you receive and are allowed to distribute.

A vast swath of unelected bureaucrats took it upon themselves to manage all knowledge flows in the age of the Internet, with the ambition to turn the main source of news and sharing into a giant American version of Pravda. All of this occurred right under our noses – and is still going on today.

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A Twitter manager testifying before the House on censorship demanded by the government

Indeed, censorship is a full-on industry now, with hundreds and thousands of cut-outs, universities, media companies, government agencies, and even young people in school studying to be disinformation specialists, and bragging about it on social media. We are just one step away from a New York Times article – as follow-ups to their recent praise of the Deep State and also government surveillance – with a headline like “The Good Society Needs Censors.”

Incredibly, the censorship is so pervasive now that it is not even reported. All these revelations should have been front page news. But so captured is the news media today that there are very few outlets that even bother to report the fullness of the problem.

Not receiving nearly enough attention is the new report from the Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government of the US House of Representatives.

Running nearly 1,000 pages including documentation (however many pages are purposely blank), we have here an overwhelming amount of evidence of a systematic, aggressive, and deeply entrenched effort on the part of the federal government, including the Biden White House and many agencies including the World Health Organization, to tear out the guts of the Internet and social media culture and replace them with propaganda.

Among the well-documented facts are that the White House directly intervened in Amazon’s own marketing methods to deprecate books that raised doubts about the Covid vaccine and all vaccines. Amazon responded reluctantly but did what it could to satisfy the censors. All these companies – Google, YouTube, Facebook, Amazon – became acquiescent to Biden administration priorities, even to the point of running algorithmic changes by the White House before implementation.

When YouTube announced that it would take down any content that contradicted the World Health Organization, it was because the White House instructed them to do so.

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As for Amazon, which is like every publisher in wanting full freedom to distribute, they faced intense pressure from government.

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These are just a few of thousands of pieces of evidence of routine interference from government against social media companies, either directly or through various government-funded cut-outs, all designed to enforce a certain way of thinking on the American public.

What’s amazing is that this industry was allowed to metastasize to such an extent over 4-8 years or so, with no legal oversight and very little knowledge on the part of the public. It’s as if there is no such thing as the First Amendment. It’s a dead letter. Even now, the Supreme Court seems confused, based on our reading of the oral arguments over this whole case (Murthy v. Missouri).

One gets the sense when reading through all this correspondence that the companies were more than a bit rattled by the pressure. They must have wondered a few things: 1) is this normal? 2) do we really have to go along? 3) what happens to us if we just say no?

Probably every corner grocery store in any neighborhood run by a crime syndicate in history has asked these questions. The best answer is to do what you can in order to make them go away. This is precisely what they did time after time. After a while, the protocol probably begins to feel normal and no one asks anymore the basic questions: is this right? Is this freedom? Is this legal? Is this just the way things go in the US?

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The Censorship Industrial Complex report -  click here to read the full report

This article was first published in Brownstone Institute on May 7, 2024

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  Archbishop Viganò: Homily for Pentecost - May 19, 2024
Posted by: Stone - 05-20-2024, 06:36 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò - No Replies

Msgr. Carlo Maria Viganò
HOSTEM REPELLAS LONGIUS
Homily on Whitsunday


We implore Thee! O forgiving SPIRIT,
now descend again,
Aid Thy own in holy living,
Aid, also, unknowing men;
Come and re-create; revive
Dead hearts doubting and in sins;
Vanquish and the vanquished give,
Divine reward, Thyself who wins.

Alessandro Manzoni, La Pentecoste, vv. 89-96


Popular devotion celebrates this solemn day with the name “Easter of Roses” [Pasqua delle rose], recalling the ancient custom of symbolizing the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles and on Mary Most Holy with a cascade of rose petals. It is so similar to Easter that on the Eve of Pentecost Holy Baptism was solemnly administered to those who had not been able to be regenerated during the Vigil of Holy Saturday. Just as the Jewish Passover was a prefigurement of the Christian Passover [Pasqua or Easter], so the Jewish Pentecost – in which the promulgation of the Ten Commandments was celebrated seven weeks after the flight from Egypt – was a prefigurement of the new Pentecost, this time extended to all peoples.

At Easter, the κόσμος bows to the Majesty of Christ the King and High Priest, per quem omnia facta sunt. On Pentecost, creation renders homage to the Creator Spirit, to the Creator Spiritus who in his power renews the face of the earth. At Easter, the Messianic promises of the Ancient Law are fulfilled. On Pentecost, the promises of the Messiah himself are realized in His Mystical Body, the Holy Church, the Mother of Saints – Madre de’ Santi – as Manzoni calls her in his famous sacred hymn for this feast.

The Apostles are locked in the Cenacle propter metum Judæorum (Jn 20:19): they had not yet received the Holy Spirit, and their human fears would disappear only ten days after the Ascension of the Lord, with the descent of the Holy Spirit. Today that same fearful inaction is repeated in reverse, with a Hierarchy that culpably ignores, culpably remains silent, and hides and nullifies the sanctifying work of the Paraclete even after His descent, and even after two thousand years of Christianity have demonstrated the Spirit’s divine power in winning souls to God and building up the Holy Church.

We must not underestimate the gravity of this act of hiding: it is deliberate, knowingly oriented to cause harm, because the mercenaries are aware that in order to demolish civil society and the Church it is necessary to prevent as much as possible the spread of Grace and its action through the Sacraments, which stop the right hand of God’s Justice by means of the Holy Mass. They want to ensure that the Sacrifice of Christ is nullified, so that by drying up the torrents of Grace, souls will be weakened and die of thirst as they cross the desert of a hostile world. Their fault – just as we saw with doctors during the pandemic farce – is not incompetence or inability: it is instead a desire to do evil, to serve the Enemy, to support the power of the New World Order in the vile and abject illusion of seeking a place in the court of the Antichrist. Miserable traitors, for whom the only reason for living is to consume themselves in this sordid libido serviendi.

This subversive work – because such it is in all respects, with regard to God, the Church, and souls – has as its aim the usurpation of the Lordship of Our Lord Jesus Christ, so that in His place the son of perdition, the Antichrist, may sit in the holy place, in a grotesque counterfeit of both civil and religious authority. We cannot believe that a Successor of the Apostles could deny and contradict the mandate received from Christ and instead serve His enemy, without understanding that by doing so he becomes complicit in the satanic plan of the Revolution. No, dear faithful: after decades of the systematic dissolution of the Church – and over two centuries of social dissolution – no Pastor in good faith can still think that the innovations introduced by Vatican II have nothing to do with the disastrous state in which the world finds itself. For those who still defend the indefensible supposed “orthodoxy” of the Council and its liturgy, in the face of the massacre of souls of the last sixty years, the words of the great Bossuet are perfectly suited: Dieu se rit des hommes qui déplorent les effets dont ils chérissent les causes – God laughs at men who deplore the effects while approving the causes.

The hiding of the Church – that is, her eclipsing by the conciliar and synodal sect, her active cooperation in the synarchic project of Freemasonry – is the exact opposite of the vigilant trepidation of the Apostles, who, still spiritually disarmed, awaited the celestial weapons that would be given to them by their Lord, and they would then be ready to take up those arms and fight even at the cost of their lives, as subsequently happened.

Tristes erant Apostoli: the hearts of the Apostles were burdened by the recent Ascension of the Lord, and their anxious waiting for the Consoler Spirit relied on hope rather than any human certainty. Our Lady alone preserved – unshaken (and unshakeable) – the certainty of Faith, and She certainly consoled the Apostles as they waited by reminding them of the words of Her divine Son.

The hearts of the mercenaries are not fearful. Instead, they are driven mad with hostility towards the One who has already won the victory, serving and pleasing those who know they have already inescapably lost. And it is equally madness to believe that in the presence of such a scandalous and unprecedented betrayal on the part of the Hierarchy, that same Holy Spirit cannot deploy His Omnipotence in extraordinary ways, raising up prophets from the very stones.

This is the creative and regenerating power of the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete: to blow wherever He wills. And as Our Lord teaches Nicodemus, “where he wills” does not mean “wherever he feels like going” – it does not imply arbitrariness – but rather the union of the divine act with the divine will. And He wills to come down to sanctify and bless the Sacrifice of the Altar with His Grace: veni, et benedic hoc sacrificium tuo sancto nomini præparatum. He wills to descend on those who are reborn in the water of Baptism, on the milites Christi in Confirmation, on the Ministers of the Most High in Sacred Ordination, on spouses in Matrimony, on the sick and dying in Extreme Unction. He also breathes within the small communities that resist the spirit of the world: a lying spirit that does not come from God. He blows in those churches where the flame of Faith is preserved, and in the flourishing of traditional Vocations, both secular and religious.

In place of Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s “God of surprises,” the true Church and true Pastors contrast the semper idem of Divine Eternity. Because the newness of Christian Revelation is not an unattainable goal pursued by so-called progress, which is also subject to fashions and the passage of time; but rather an historical event that constitutes the discrimen – the distinction between before and after, between the old and the new, precisely; between darkness and light. It is a Revelation which is Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal Word of the Father, and which the Paraclete seals with his Gifts, the Divine Love who proceeds from the Father and the Son; the same Spirit who has spoken through the Prophets and who continues to speak to us in the eternal words of Holy Church, the voice of Christ which the sheep recognize.

The world mocks and rejects the peace that only Our Lord can give. Pax Christi in Regno Christi: whoever wants to make Satan reign can neither understand nor desire the peace of Christ, intending instead Chaos Antichristi in Regno Antichristi. Peace comes only from Christ, and without Christ there can be no peace. There can be no peace in the world sunk into apostasy and the cult of Satan due to the betrayal of the corrupt civil authority that is subservient to power; there can be no peace in a Church whose Hierarchy is no less apostate, corrupted in both Morals and Faith and subservient to the same power.

But if in a world that daily crucifies its Lord there can be neither peace nor prosperity, there is however a small sanctuary in which this peace is possible, in which the Lord deigns to choose to make his dwelling, in which the Angels love to stop and rest: it is our soul. A precious sanctuary that, by God’s will, no one has the power to violate, not even demons and their servants who are intoxicated by the delirium of artificial intelligence. The state of the soul in the Grace of God makes it grow in holiness, and the more it confidently abandons itself to the will of the Lord, the more quickly this spiritual growth proceeds. That is the Cenacle in which we often take refuge, asking the Consoler to give us strength and support us in times of trial. And the family is a similar refuge – the “domestic church” – where the horrors of the corrupt world do not enter and which will be saved when the exterminating Angel passes over.

If the Most Holy Trinity dwells in our soul, we will not lack interior peace even in the most difficult moments, because we will know that it is precisely in those situations that the Lord comes to our aid like a Divine Cyrenian. We will not fail even when we have to answer, as if for a crime, for fully professing the Catholic Faith. When they bring you before the synagogues, the magistrates and the authorities, do not worry about how to exonerate yourself or what to say; because the Holy Spirit will teach you in that moment what you should say (Lk 12: 11-12). This is the meaning of the word Paraclete: the Advocate, Advisor and Defender of those under accusation, whom the devil – διάβολος, the accuser – slanders with his false arguments. This is why in the Veni Creator we ask the Paraclete: Hostem repellas longius – drive the enemy away. This is why we unite to that invocation the request for peace: pacemque dones protinus.

Let us therefore invoke, dear brothers and sisters, the Divine Consoler, dulcis hospes animæ, so that in the sanctuary of our heart, in our families and communities, Christ, the Prince of Peace, may reign; so that where the Son reigns, the Father and the Holy Spirit may also reign, restoring the Divine Order broken by sin. And so may it be.



+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop

19 May 2024
Dominica Pentecostes

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  Pope Francis says ‘conservative’ bishops have ‘suicidal attitude’
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Pope Francis says ‘conservative’ bishops have ‘suicidal attitude’ during 60 Minutes interview
Certain of the U.S. episcopate have been notable in defending elements of Catholic teaching, often in seeming juxtaposition to Francis’ own stance – including such men as Bishop Joseph Strickland and Cardinal Raymond Burke.

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Pope Francis with Norah O'Donnell.
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May 17, 2024
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has described “conservative” bishops as having a “suicidal attitude” due to being closed “inside a dogmatic box.”

“A Conservative is one who clings to something and does not want to see beyond that,” Francis said in response to a question about “conservative bishops in the United States” the CBS “60 Minutes” interviewer described as as opposing Francis’ “efforts to revisit teachings and traditions.”

“It is a suicidal attitude because one thing is to take Tradition into account and to consider situations from the past, but quite another is to be closed up inside a dogmatic box,” continued Francis.


His comments were part of an hour-long interview with CBS’s Norah O’Donnell. Conducted in late April, a small segment of the interview was released at the time, with the full hour to be aired on CBS this Sunday and Monday.

In a previous clip from the interview, Francis denigrated crit

“There are people who are foolish, and foolish even if you show them research; they don’t believe it,” Francis declared. “Why? Because they don’t understand the situation or because of their interest, but climate change exists.”

Responding to the latest clip, a former U.S. Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, supported Francis’ statement. “For once Bergoglio is absolutely right: conservatism wants to ‘preserve’ the outward appearances of Tradition without the doctrinal substance that makes it alive,” he said.

Quote:Conservatism is the attitude of those who criticize the excesses of the synodical church but are careful not to question its causes, which are to be found in Vatican II. Conservatism is really a “suicidal behavior” because it creates an artificial “dogmatic box,” made of Novus Ordo ad orientem with Roman chasubles and Gregorian chants and also of Vetus Ordo; made of selected quotations of some conciliar documents, accidentally not contrasting with the Catholic Magisterium of all time; made of the apotheosis [deification/divinization] of John Paul II and the regret of Benedict XVI, whom we all loved.


Continuing, Viganò differed with Francis with regard to Tradition, saying that “Tradition is not conservatism; Tradition is not a ‘dogmatic box’ because it draws from the clear and pure water of the divine source, drawing from Grace and fidelity to the Gospel and the Depositum Fidei the lifeblood that makes it capable of looking to the future without denying the past.”

Francis has long appeared to express discontent towards American Catholics, often employing his description of “rigid” when referring to them. Certain of the U.S. episcopate have been notable in defending elements of Catholic teaching, often in seeming juxtaposition to Francis’ own stance – including such men as Bishop Joseph Strickland and Cardinal Raymond Burke.

Others among the U.S. episcopate have taken a less vocal stance than Strickland and Burke, yet nevertheless have taken positions in line with Catholic teaching that have been contradicted by Pope Francis. For example, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone banned pro-abortion Nancy Pelosi from receiving Holy Communion, but this was in practice overruled by the current pontiff.

Indeed, Francis’ relationship with, and his argued ignorance about, the Church in the U.S. has been a regular talking point throughout his pontificate. In recent days, an editorial in the National Catholic Register urged Francis to visit the U.S. “to dispel inaccuracies about the U.S. Church that have been propagated in Rome by some papal advisers.”

“Such misunderstandings have also been fostered by the caricatures of faithful American Catholics that our own nation’s secular press routinely propagates,” the Register’s editors wrote.

British Papal biographer Austen Ivereigh, argued in response that Francis is “astonishingly well informed about the US Church” but did not elaborate on his claim.

The Papal Nuncio to the U.S., Cardinal Christophe Pierre, is undoubtedly a publicly staunch and loyal ally of Francis – characteristics not unexpected in a papal nuncio but which are embodied in a particularly strident manner by the French cardinal. 

However, even Pierre’s supporters have critiqued his efficacy in reshaping the U.S. episcopate in Francis’ image, noting that while there are some key appointments with Francis’ ideals, Pierre has not wrought as great a change as expected.

Such a change could well be implemented in the upcoming months, should he and Francis so decide, given the large proportion of sees currently, or shortly, due a new ordinary.

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