Dear Ann,

In addition to thanking you for all your good work, I would like to call to your attention something Jorge Bergoglio said recently, which I consider egregious even among his own pronouncements but which seems to have escaped general notice.  I mention it to you in the hope and reasonable expectation that you will grasp the seriousness of the remark, which Zenit reports (from the pre-Angelus address, July 7) as follows:

“On the contrary, it’s a joy rooted in the promise that — Jesus says — ‘your names are written in Heaven’ (v. 20). With this expression He means the interior and indestructible joy that is born of the awareness of having been called by God to follow His Son, namely, the joy of being His disciples.”

This little gem of horizontal exegesis, in context, appears to confine Christian discipleship to this world alone, as though the journey outweighs the destination.  Our joy doesn’t come from the knowledge of having been called, in other words, but precisely from the Dominical affirmation that the call extends beyond this life–which Bergoglio here at least implicitly denies.

Naturalism again.

It has been a point of heated debate whether or not this man believes in Hell.  Evidently it is time to start questioning whether he believes in Heaven, either.

(Cue John Lennon . . .)

Sincerely yours in Christ,

H

The only thing I can say with certainty that Antipope Bergoglio believes in is POWER. He is a Diabolical Narcissist Psychopath, and his mode of operation is PERONISM. He will say anything and do anything to advance and retain his own personal power. Power for power’s sake. No rationality, no shackles of conscience, certainly no fear of God nor of Hell. Nothing. Just the pure lust for power. You can see why satan chose Bergoglio to be the probable False Prophet Forerunner of the Antichrist.

Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us, only sky
Imagine all the people living for today
Ah…

Are you telling me that there are not only inland crabs, but of QUALITY? In multiple places called Crab ORCHARD????

I am a complete slave of crustaceans.  Mud bugs, soft-shell crabs, scampi, lobsters, you name it, I’m there, with a bib on.

The mud bugs of all sorts, being so sweet, and so totally, sweetly, deliciously non-kosher are just another proof-set of God’s infinite love for us.

Love of God and other humans, and eat up, within moderation. Including pork and sweet sea cockroaches.

Yay sea arachnids! (They’re cockroaches. Yummy, sweet, bottom dweller cockroaches. Who are you to judge?)

The problem? Those New England hot dog buns.  Perfect for frying in BUTTER hot dog-type on the exposed sides.  Never seen ’em in KC nor Denver. Never. Absolutely dying over here.  Must. Go. To Maine…. But is there a Trad Mass…?

Oh my goodness there is an Una Voce Maine and I’m now officially dying over here…. They even use my absolute favorite favorite image of the Archangel Gabriel delivering the Annunciation to Our Lady, by da Vinci. Look at the look on HIS face.  Ferocious Love! Dear God give me love like that!!!

That’s it.  I’m dead.  Go to Maine, find the Trad Mass, tell them I sent you, then go have a luncheon of Lobster Rolls.  Warmed, not fried, in butter.

 

 

 

Dear ChurchMilitant Crew:

Given that you have published

THIS ARTICLE

by Antonio Socci in which Socci openly discusses the fact that Pope Benedict is still the one and only living Pope due to the canonical invalidity of his attempted partial resignation of only the active ministry for the governance of the Church, and not the Petrine Office in se,

YOU MIGHT WANT TO REMOVE MY NAME AS A CENSOR TERM IN YOUR COMMENT BOX, BECAUSE A BUNCH OF PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO LEAVE HELPFUL COMMENTS, WHICH ARE BEING CENSORED BECAUSE THEY REFERENCE ME.

If you are publishing Socci, there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to censor my name, and thus discussion of the evidence set and Canon Law surrounding the events of February ARSH 2013.

Speaking of which, here is my most recent video, recorded on 16 June, which lays out the Canon Law argumentation and Freemasonry’s/German Theological Academy’s decades-long open discussion of dissolving the Papacy by trying to dissolve the Petrine Office in favor of a shared, collegial, synodal Petrine Ministry/Function. If you haven’t watched it, you really should. This clear, objective evidence set is what people are trying to discuss in your Comment Boxes. Why in the world not let them, especially if you are publishing Socci??

Fast and pray for Pope Benedict, the Papacy, and the Church-

Ann

Via Marco Tosatti:

Algorithmic translation of Tosatti’s post:

Marco Tosatti

This book, of its kind, is certainly unique; and intended to arouse long and intense discussions between those who reflect on the role of the Pontiff, and the singular historical anomaly we are experiencing. We leave the word to the author, to try to explain the meaning of his creature. Sergio Russo talks about himself in the third person presentation.

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“The Author starts from a thesis, so simple, as today forgotten in the contemporary Catholic Church, and that is that the body-church can have only one and only head (visible) at its top, otherwise, that same” body “, if have more than one “boss” (and here it does not matter if one is “emeritus” or whatever) said “body” would obviously be a monstrosity!

How fundamental and indispensable it is for the Catholic Church to absolutely have a univocal successor to Peter, is demonstrated, without a shadow of a doubt, by two millennia of ecclesial history.

In 2013, Benedict XVI, after his sensational “renunciation” (the seventh, which occurred throughout the entire history of the Church), retired to “private life”, but did not return to being Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, but inexplicably, he continues to wear white (the only prerogative reserved for the Vicar of Christ alone), to keep his papal coat of arms, to still sign himself with the papal name, etc.

While instead, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, newly elected and assuming the name of Francis, he declares to the world to be “simply” the new Bishop of Rome, arrived there from the “end of the world” …

Both of them (in spite of themselves perhaps?) Are in reality making the most incredible and enigmatic Marian prophecies, together with those of numerous Catholic mystics and saints, all of whom refer to the so-called “last times” of the world and of the Church above all, in which speaks both of the Holy Father (and Benedict XVI has remained substantially so), as well as of a “Bishop dressed in white” (and unexpectedly this is how Pope Bergoglio defined himself, on the centenary of the Apparitions of Fatima, in Portugal, on the 13th May 2017), both characters who, according to the now known visions of Blessed Anna Caterina Emmerich, would have ruled – in our times, dramatically confused and tragically perverse – one, the Catholic Church of all time, while the other, one would placed at the head of a “new Church: large, strange and extravagant”, this church, which would instead have as its main objective, the reunification of all confessions Christians (Catholics, Orthodox, Protestants and sects of various kinds and titles), at the tragic price, however, of apostasy from the true Faith!

However, the author does not stop there, for he identifies in the “Bishop dressed in white”, the biblical figure of the so-called “false prophet” (also called “beast of the earth”), masterfully described in the most enigmatic Book of Christian Revelation: l ‘Apocalypse.

And this unusual (as well as unpublished) juxtaposition, the Author does it taking inspiration from a “particular” that, at first glance, might seem irrelevant: that false prophet in fact, seems to be “like a lamb, with two horns, which however speak like a dragon “.

Why a “lamb”? And what are those “two horns”?

The solution is provided by an “explanation” that the Madonna herself (obviously for those who believe, but the “whole” is remarkably coherent in itself), revealed to a charismatic priest: don Stefano Gobbi, founder of the “Mariano Sacerdotal Movement”, currently widespread in the five continents.

There is therefore a “conclusion” underlying this book, which the author intends to launch as a “lifesaver” to the many contemporary Catholics, lost and bewildered by the current pontificate: “courage – he seems to say – above souls, everything this had already been predicted … ». It therefore follows that Jesus Christ is truly the Lord: the absolute master of human history and of the destinies of the world and of his church, and nothing escapes from his hands! Therefore, to us faithful believers, however, there remains a very specific duty – which is then that famous “final test”, destined to shake the faith of many believers, and which is spoken of in the Catechism of the Catholic Church: “… an apparent solution to their problems, at the price of apostasy from the truth! “- that is, the duty to remain faithful to the true Gospel, at the cost of one’s life, since even” if someone preached to you, even an angel, a gospel different from the one you received, be anathema. As for you, dear friends, persevere firm in the Faith! “.

Across my transom came a VERY interesting email asking me to alert folks to the very specific agenda behind the promotion of one specific tribe in the Amazon that the Bergoglian Antichurch is holding up as the example and model of humanity in its purest, most pristine form: the Yanomami.

There are many Amazon tribes, including in Antipope Bergoglio’s Argentina, but Antipope Bergoglio and his cabal have anointed the Yanomami tribe as the poster children for their “new church with an Amazonian face”.

Well, it turns out that the other tribes, while certainly horrific culturally, do mostly have a patrilineal structure and sexual mores that conform to the Natural Law.

The Yanomami, however, do NOT live in recognizable family units, and there is rampant homosexuality, pedophilia and bestiality. For this reason, anthropologists who have “studied” the Yanomami have been sex predators themselves, and have engaged in prostitution with the Yanomami, essentially paying for sodomy with adults and children of both sexes, which the Yanomami have willingly participated. The two main criminals here are Jacques Lizot and Nicholas Good. Good preferred female children, and Lizot preferred males of all ages.

Bottom line, the Yanomami are being held up as the models and foundation of the Freemasonic Antichurch and Anticulture precisely because the Yanomami are the farthest removed from the Natural Law, and thus from true human dignity. “No social classes. No leader. No God. No money.” Has a familiar ring, doesn’t it? Layer on top of that, no marriage, no family, no sexual morality and you can see why the Structuralists, led by Claude Levi-Strauss, gravitated to these people. Their rejection of the Natural Law is so thorough that it constitutes a sub-animal categorization. Exactly the agenda of satan – to drag men down to depths beneath the animal.

Levi-Strauss funded Jacques Lizot, who used the Yanomami as his sexual playthings, and then essentially built his entire scholarly thesis upon the circular argument that because these “noble savages” engaged in sodomy, pedophilia and bestiality (with Lizot himself, often in exchange for payment), that this was a manifestation of human culture in its purest, most pristine form.

“Central to the Structuralist vision is a State where individual thought coalesces into a collective or ‘savage thought.’ It is ‘thought that does not think,’ habitual to tribalism.”

Please watch this documentary about this topic and share it. Be warned, it contains fairly graphic descriptions of sodomitical acts and sexual abuse of children. Remember, no one has any interest in baptizing these people, and the so-called missionaries down there even hold it as a point of pride that they don’t baptize anyone. They only “accompany.”

The Yanomami are simply being used as poster children for the Freemasonic-satanic NewWorldOrder – pantheistic Gnosticism, sub-animalic sexual perversion, and Communistic social structure.

Here is a short essay on Structuralism.

EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE WITH THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND THE PRECEPTS OF THE CHURCH.

FIRST COMMANDMENT:

I AM THE LORD THY GOD; THOU SHALT NOT HAVE STRANGE GODS BEFORE ME.

Sins contrary to the First Commandment are the following:

neglect of prayer; ingratitude toward God; spiritual sloth; hatred of God or of the Catholic Church; tempting God (explicitly or implicitly, e.g. by exposing one’s self to danger of soul, life, or health without grave cause); not behaving reverently when in church (e.g. not genuflecting to the Blessed Sacrament when entering or leaving the church, etc.); excessive attraction to things/creatures (e.g. over-affection to animals, sports fanatic, having movie star /music/TV idols, love for money, pleasure or power); idolatry (worshiping false gods such as giving honor to a creature in place of God (e.g. Satan, science, ancestors, country); superstition (ascribing powers to a created thing which it does not have); hypnotism (without sufficient cause); divination (communication with Satan, demons, the dead or other false practices in order to discover the unknown, consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, fortune telling); attaching undue importance to dreams, omens or lots; all practices of magic or sorcery (e.g. witchcraft, voodoo); wearing charms; playing with Ouija boards or rotating tables; spiritism (talking with the spirits); sacrilege (profaning or treating unworthily the Sacraments, especially the Holy Eucharist, and other liturgical actions, as well as religious persons, blessed things such as sacred vessels or statues, or places consecrated to God); sacrilege by receiving a sacrament, especially the Holy Eucharist, in the state of mortal sin; simony (buying or selling of spiritual things); profane or superstitious use of blessed objects (sometimes done in order to remain in sin); practical materialism (one believes he needs and desires only material things); atheistic humanism (falsely considers man to be an end in himself, and the sole maker with supreme control of his own history); atheism in general (rejects, denies or doubts the existence of God, either in theory or practice, i.e. ignoring Him in the daily living of our lives); agnosticism (postulates the existence of a transcendent being which is incapable of revealing itself, and about which nothing can be said or makes no judgment about God’s existence declaring it impossible to prove or even to affirm or deny).

Sins against Faith:

Wilful doubt of any article of faith; deliberate ignorance of the truths of faith which ought to be known; neglect of instructing oneself in the faith according to one’s state in life; rash credulity (e.g. giving credence to private revelation too easily or believing in a private revelations which has been condemned by the lawful Church authorities); apostasy; heresy; indifferentism (to believe that one religion is as good as another, and that all religions are equally true and pleasing to God, or that one is free to accept or reject any or all religions); reading or circulating books or writings against the Catholic belief or practice in such wise as to jeopardize one’s faith; to remain silent when asked about one’s faith; engaging in schismatic or heretical worship; joining or supporting masonic groups or other forbidden societies.

Sins against Hope:

despair of God’s mercy (to give up all hope of salvation, and the means necessary to be saved) or want of confidence in the power of His Grace to support us in trouble or temptation; no desire to possess eternal happiness in heaven or after this earthly life; presumption (to hope for salvation without help from God or to assume God’s forgiveness without conversion, or to hope to obtain heavenly glory without merit); presuming on God’s mercy or on the supposed efficacy of certain pious practices, in order to continue in sin; refusing any dependence on God.

Sins against Charity:

not making an act of charity at regular intervals during life especially during times of necessity; egoism (one cares only about himself, praises himself, selfish, enjoys receiving praise) wilfully rebellious thoughts against God; boasting of sin; violating God’s law, or omitting good works through human respect.

SECOND COMMANDMENT:

THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD IN VAIN

Sins contrary to the Second Commandment:

dishonoring of God by profane or disrespectful use of the Name of God, or of the Holy Name of Jesus Christ, the name of the Blessed Virgin Mary and all the saints; blasphemy (speech or gestures that have contempt for or insult to God, Jesus Christ, the Catholic Church, the Blessed Virgin Mary or the saints); perjury (to promise something under oath with no intention of keeping it, or breaking a promise made under oath); taking false or unnecessary oaths (to call on God to be witness to a lie); breaking vows or promises to God; talking during Mass and in a Church without sufficient reason or to the distraction of others.

THIRD COMMANDMENT:

REMEMBER THAT THOU SHALT KEEP HOLY THE LORD’S DAY

Sins contrary to the Third Commandment:

omission of prayer and divine worship, all unnecessary servile work, and whatever hinders the keeping of the Lord’s Day holy; engaging in unnecessary commerce, i.e. buying and selling on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation.

FOURTH COMMANDMENT:

HONOR THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER

Sins contrary to the Fourth Commandment:

For Parents: Hating their children; cursing them; giving scandal to them by cursing, drinking, etc.; allowing them to grow up in ignorance, idleness or sin; showing habitual partiality without cause; deferring a child’s baptism; neglecting to watch over their bodily health, their religious instruction, the company they keep, the books they read, etc.; failing to correct them when needful; being harsh or cruel in correction; sending children to Protestant and other dangerous schools; neglect of directing them to attend Holy Mass on Sundays and Holy Days and to frequent reception of the Sacraments.

For Children: All manner of anger or hatred against parents and other lawful superiors; provoking them to anger; grieving them; insulting them; neglecting them in their necessity; contempt or disobedience to their lawful commands.

Husbands and wives: Ill-usage (i.e. using them without consideration for their own welfare and without regard to charity); putting obstacles to the fulfilment of religious duties; want of gentleness and consideration in regard to each other’s faults; unreasonable jealousy; neglect of household duties; sulkiness; injurious words; neglect of attempting to secure means of supporting the family due to laziness or timidity.

For Employers: not allowing one’s employees reasonable time for religious duties and instruction; giving bad example to them or allowing others to do so; withholding their lawful wages; not caring for them in sickness; dismissing them arbitrarily and without cause; imposing unreasonable policies.

For Employees: disrespect to employers; want of obedience in matters wherein one has bound oneself to obey (e.g. by fulfilling a contract); waste of time; neglect of work; waste of employer’s property by dishonesty, carelessness or neglect; violating company policies without sufficient reason.

For Professionals and Civil Servants: culpable lack of the knowledge relating to duties of office or profession; neglect in discharging those duties; injustice or partiality; exorbitant fees (this sin may also be included under the Seventh Commandment).

For Teachers: neglecting the progress of those confided to their care; unjust, indiscreet or excessive punishment; partiality; bad example; loose or false maxims (i.e. teaching them things which are untrue as being true)

Students: disrespect; disobedience; stubbornness; idleness; waste of time; giving in to idle distractions (e.g. partying and undue recreating)

For All: contempt for the laws of State and country as well as of the Church; disobedience to lawful authority; breaking of civil laws.

FIFTH COMMANDMENT

THOU SHALT NOT KILL

Sins against the Fifth commandment include:

murder; performing an abortion; having an abortion, aiding in someone procuring an abortion (the penitent should know that having, causing or aiding in an abortion causing one to be excommunicated); euthanasia; withholding ordinary means to a dying or terminally ill patient; suicide; attempts of suicide, deliberately entertaining serious thoughts about committing suicide; fighting; quarreling anger; hatred; desires of revenge; human torture; gluttony (excessive eating or drinking); drunkenness; abuse of alcohol, medicine or drugs; endangering other people’s lives (e.g. by drinking and driving, by driving too fast, drinking and text messaging, etc.); risking one’s own life or limb without a sufficient reason (e.g. daredevil stunts, Russian roulette, etc.); carelessness in leaving about poisons, dangerous drugs, weapons, etc.; mutilation of the body, such as castration, vasectomy, tubal ligation, hysterectomy (without sufficient medical cause); immoral scientific research and its applications; bad example or scandal; disrespect for the dying or the dead; not trying to avoid war; showing aversion or contempt for others; refusing to speak to them when addressed; ignoring offers of reconciliation especially between relatives; cherishing an unforgiving spirit; raillery and ridicule; insults; irritating words and actions; sadness at another’s prosperity; rejoicing over another’s misfortune; envy at attention shown to others; tyrannical behavior; inducing others to sin by word or example; injury to health by over-indulgence; giving drink to others knowing they will abuse it; taking contraceptive pills which may or may not be an abortifacient; use of prophylactic or barrier methods to avoid pregnancy; using licit means of avoiding conception while fostering a contraceptive mentality; direct sterilization; causing unnecessary suffering or death to animals.

SIXTH COMMANDMENT

THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY

Sins against the Sixth Commandment are the following:

impurity and immodesty in words, looks, and actions, whether alone or with others, telling and listening to dirty jokes; wearing immodest clothing; buying, renting or watching indecent movies, television or books (pornography as well as books which contain impurity); masturbation; fornication (sometimes called premarital sex); prostitution; sodomy (homosexual practices); adultery; divorce; polygamy; incest; sexual abuse; rape; prolonged and sensual kissing; petting or foreplay outside the context of marriage and within the context of marriage not ordering foreplay to the consummation of the natural conjugal act; immodest dancing; dating without taking the necessary precautions to safeguard purity or one’s faith.

SEVENTH COMMANDMENT

THOU SHALT NOT STEAL

Sins against the Seventh Commandment are:

stealing; petty thefts (e.g. taking things from one’s place of employment to which one is not entitled or taking money from a family member without his permission); cheating; plagiarizing; breaking copyright regulations, (e.g. photocopying without permission); keeping borrowed or lost objects without making a reasonable attempt to restore the other’s property; possession of ill-gotten goods; counseling or commanding someone to do injury to another person or to his goods; careless or malicious injury to the property of others; concealment of fraud, theft or damage when in duty bound to give the information; tax evasion by not paying just taxes; business fraud; dishonesty in politics, business, etc.; not paying just debts at scheduled time and neglecting to make reasonable efforts and sacrifices in this matter, e.g. by gradually laying up the amount required; not making reparation or compensation to someone suffering from unjust damages; forcing up prices by taking advantage of the ignorance or hardship of another; usury (lending money at high interest rates to someone in financial difficulty); speculation in which one contrives to manipulate the price of goods artificially in order to gain an advantage to the detriment of others; corruption in which one influences the judgment of those who must decide in legal matters; accepting bribes; appropriation and use for private purposes of the common goods of an enterprise; work poorly done; paying unjust wages or defrauding an employee of due benefits; forgery of checks and invoices; bouncing checks knowing that there is not enough funds to cover them; excessive expenses and waste; not keeping promises or contract agreements (if the commitments were morally just); gambling and betting (if they deprive someone of basic living needs for himself or others); excessive unnecessary waste of goods, resources, money or funds.

EIGHTH COMMANDMENT

THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOR

Sins contrary to the Eighth Commandment are:

lying; boasting; bragging; flattery; hypocrisy; exaggerating; irony; sarcasm; unjust injury to another’s good name either by revealing true and hidden faults (detraction); telling false defects (slander or calumny), talebearing, or spreading rumors; to criticize others, to listen with pleasure to others being criticized; gossiping; unjustly dishonoring another person in his presence (contumely); rash judgment (firmly believing, without sufficient reason, that someone has some moral defect); revealing secrets; publishing discreditable secrets about others, even if true; refusing or delaying to restore the good name one has blackened; baseless accusations; groundless suspicions; rash judgments of others in our own mind.

NINTH COMMANDMENT

THOU SHALT NOT COVET THY NEIGHBOR’S WIFE

The Ninth Commandment forbids all those impure thoughts and desires which we take deliberate pleasure in so thinking, or we willingly consent to it whenever these unchaste thoughts or passions come into our mind. The penitent should keep in mind that any sin listed under the sixth commandment in which one willing or deliberately entertains may have the same degree of gravity, i.e. either mortal or venial sin.

TENTH COMMANDMENT

THOU SHALT NOT COVET THY NEIGHBOR’S GOODS

The Tenth Commandment forbids the following:

envy (desire another goods); jealousy (a zealous vigilance in keeping a good enjoyed by oneself from others); greed and the desire to have material goods without limit (avarice); the desire to become rich at all costs; businesses or professions who hope for unfavorable circumstances for others so that they may personally profit from it; envious of someone else’s success, talents, temporal or spiritual goods; the desire to commit injustice by harming someone in order to get his temporal goods.

THE PRECEPTS OF THE CHURCH

Besides the Ten Commandments of God, the faithful are also bound to follow the Precepts of the Church. The power for making these laws comes from Jesus Christ, and includes everything necessary for the government of the Church and for the direction of the faithful in order that they may attain their eternal salvation.

FIRST PRECEPT

TO ASSIST AT HOLY MASS ON ALL SUNDAYS AND HOLY DAYS

OF OBLIGATION

There are Six Holy days of obligation:

1) Christmas Day (December 25)

2) The Circumcision (January 1)

3) Ascension Thursday (40 days after Easter)

4) The Assumption (August 15)

5)All Saints Day (November 1)

6)The Immaculate Conception (Dec. 8)

The Church obliges us to abstain from servile work on Holy Days of Obligation, just as on Sundays, as far as we are able. Catholics who must work on Holy Days are obliged to attend Holy Mass unless excused by a reasonable grave cause. One may violate this precept by not attending Mass on the prescribed days or by arriving late to Mass without sufficient reason.

SECOND PRECEPT

TO FAST, ABSTAIN AND DO PENANCE ON PRESCRIBED DAYS

The law of abstinence binds those who have completed their 14th year. The law of fasting binds those who have attained their age of majority (18), until the beginning of their 60th year. Fasting means to eat less food than one normally eats.

On days of fasting, we are allowed only one full meal and two smaller meals together are less than one full meal; days of fasting are Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.

On days of abstinence, we are forbidden to eat flesh-meat; days of abstinence are: all of the Fridays of the year. In the United States, some form of penance or prayers may be done in place of the abstinence for those Fridays of the year outside of Lent. The permitted substitute penance could be: saying a Rosary, Stations of the Cross, visiting the sick or imprisoned, etc.

THIRD PRECEPT

TO CONFESS OUR MORTAL SINS AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR

The Church urges us to go to the great Sacrament of Confession frequently, but only actually commands us to go at least once a year in order to warn those people who may have presumption on the mercy of God, which is a sin against the Holy Ghost. Parents must prepare their children for Confession when the children learn to distinguish right from wrong. (i.e.) at about 7 years of age). The obligation to confess once a year is only binding on those who have committed a mortal sin and have not confessed for at least one year.

FOURTH PRECEPT

TO RECEIVE HOLY COMMUNION DURING EASTER SEASON.

The Easter Season begins on the First Sunday of Lent and ends on Trinity Sunday. However, after receiving our First Holy Communion, it is

strongly recommended to receive this great Sacrament frequently during our lifetime (everyday if possible as recommended by Pope St. Pius X).

FIFTH PRECEPT

CONTRIBUTE TO THE SUPPORT OF YOUR PASTOR

This precept requires each to provide for the material needs of the Church according to his means.

SIXTH PRECEPT

TO OBSERVE THE LAWS OF THE CHURCH CONCERNING MARRIAGE.

Have I entered into marriage or aided any one else to do so without permission from the Church to marry or before a State official or a Protestant minister; or without dispensation within the forbidden degrees of kindred; or with any other known impediment?

I’m still cracking up over Frank Walker’s term “Swishops”.  Why didn’t I think of that!!!!

But on a very serious tip, sure enough, the “There is one Pope, and it is Francis” quote attributed last week to Pope Benedict has been revealed to be a total fabrication, concocted deep in the bowels of… wait for it… Vatican News (formerly Vatican Radio).

WHAT??  People of no integrity willing to lie, support and enable criminals, sex perverts and an Antipope who is probably the False Prophet Forerunner of the Antichrist in order to keep a sh***y job in Rome and be invited to all the best luncheons and cocktail parties?  WHAT??  I simply CANNOT believe it!!

Wouldn’t it be funny if one of the main “highly placed Vatican sources” and sock puppets behind the Trad, Inc. “Francis is Pope shut up stupid!” echo chamber were an entrenched Vatican Radio/News employee who worked on the top floor of the Vatican Radio office building – hence “highly placed source inside the Vatican”? Wouldn’t that be a hoot?

It’s fake news folks, and Frank Walker’s term “the BenedictBot” has been proved true.  Words are being put in Pope Benedict’s mouth and have been all along, and we are definitely in a post-truth paradigm in which everything attributed to Pope Benedict MUST be assumed to be not genuine.  I take no satisfaction in this.  Quite the opposite.  It is a horrifying thought.  We talked about this in a recent Barnhardt Podcast, #084, specifically in terms of the emerging technology of deep-fake video algorithms, etc., and what a truly terrifying descent into chaos the human race is now making. Hagan lio, indeed.

HERE IS THE LIFESITE NEWS REPORTAGE.  

Pray for Pope Benedict XVI, the Papacy, and Holy Mother Church – One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and VISIBLE.

Not surprisingly, it is getting hard to find the Battle Hymn on YouTube.  Far too masculine.  Far too Christian.  I post this version for obvious reasons, despite its very low quality.  And, I think this might be one of the very last versions still available that leaves the final verse unaltered:

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps;
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps,
His day is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me;
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free!
While God is marching on.

As one learns ever more, the hard truths about the beginnings of the United States of America and its historical context become more and more awkward.  In fact, SuperNerd and I will be recording a Podcast today in which we have a blunt discussion about reconciling the Freemasonic foundation of the U.S., and the Freemasonic monstrosity it has become, with the 4th Commandment’s call for love of country and homeland.

With that in mind, I decided to revisit Patrick Henry’s speech, which I recited and posted to YouTube what seems like a lifetime ago, now.  You have to admit, this is one HELL of a piece of rhetoric.  As I re-read the text, the relevance to the situation today with the Bergoglian Antipapcy and ascendancy of the Antichurch, the relentless attacks, and the completely impotent non-response response to all of it leaps from the text.  I post the text for those who prefer reading, and I post my video recitation, for those who might prefer the spoken version.

No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony. The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne! In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free– if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending–if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained–we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!

They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable–and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace– but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!