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“I
hear all cries of peace, peace, and security, going throughout your world, My
children. But there is no peace, there is no security. And your country, the
United States of America, the great eagle has been plucked by satan and his
agents. You see lying now before you a majestic eagle, the once proud symbol of
America, fallen because of paganism and sin.
"It is
known through history that once a country has given itself over to all manner of
paganism and sin, it is not long before that country falls into a system of
dictatorship, bringing great sorrow, even murder to the masses.” – Jesus,
May 26, 1979
I have recently heard several Catholic sermons which
compelled me to write this article. The homilies were by an otherwise marvelous
traditional Catholic priest, but some gaping omissions in his words made me jump
to the keyboard with a response.
This priest has repeatedly exhorted the viewers of his
livestream Latin Mass to be patient with the pandemic lockdown. He went so far
as to say "it is not for us to judge at this moment," "not time to give
critique", referring to the decisions of our government officials and bishops.
I wholeheartedly disagree. The mission of the Catholic
Church is to save souls and combat the errors of this sinful world. As
And
I wouldn't be writing this article if this priest had made some distinctions by
explaining the Church's clear teaching that laws of the State contrary to God's
law or reason are not laws at all, but a usurpation of true law and must be
resisted.
Certainly the protests worldwide in response to the
draconian lockdowns are not without merit, and the priest should have conceded
this point. To not do so broadly paints all critics of the lockdown as somehow
sinful or misguided.
Catholics are not blindly obedient to the State; that has
never been the teaching of the Catholic Church. Priests need to give a full
explanation of the Church's teaching on true obedience regarding the State. A
half-explanation can oftentimes be poison to the Catholic faithful, as they can
easily be led to a wrong conclusion and maybe into sinful actions, based on a
sermon that didn't give a complete explanation.
I have yet to hear a homily quoting from
Pope Leo XIII's
encyclical, On the Nature of Human Liberty,
which succinctly explains the limits of the State:
"But where the power
to command is wanting, or where a law is enacted contrary to reason, or to the
eternal law, or to some ordinance of God, obedience is unlawful, lest, while
obeying man, we become disobedient to God. Thus, an effectual barrier being
opposed to tyranny, the authority in the State will not have all its own way,
but the interests and rights of all will be safeguarded — the rights of
individuals, of domestic society, and of all the members of the commonwealth;
all being free to live according to law and right reason; and in this, as We
have shown, true liberty really consists." (Pope
Leo XIII, On the Nature of Human Liberty,
#13)
"Likewise, the
liberty of those who are in authority does not consist in the power to lay
unreasonable and capricious commands upon their subjects, which would equally be
criminal and would lead to the ruin of the commonwealth; but the binding
force of human laws is in this, that they are to be regarded as applications of
the eternal law, and incapable of sanctioning anything which is not contained in
the eternal law, as in the principle of all law. Thus,
"But when anything is commanded which is plainly at variance with the will of God, there is a wide departure from this divinely constituted order, and at the same time a direct conflict with divine authority; therefore, it is right not to obey.
"By the patrons of
liberalism, however, who make the State absolute and omnipotent, and
proclaim that man should live altogether independently of God, the liberty of
which We speak, which goes hand in hand with virtue and religion, is not
admitted; and whatever is done for its preservation is accounted an injury and
an offense against the State. Indeed, if what they say were really true, there
would be no tyranny, no matter how monstrous, which we should not be bound to
endure and submit to." (Pope
Leo XIII, On the Nature of Human Liberty,
#30-31)
Pope Leo XIII in this same encyclical refers to liberals as
"those who follow in the footsteps of Lucifer" (#14). Are there not many priests
and bishops who, in practice, are making the State "absolute and omnipotent" by
stopping all Masses and Sacraments and blindly following the whims of the State?
An objective review of how Christian churches have been
treated during this pandemic versus other institutions give a clear picture of
discrimination against houses of worship. I find it very telling that President
Trump and his Attorney General William Barr have made a stronger defense to open
churches, than many of our Catholic bishops and priests.
AG Barr stated, "if a government allows movie theaters, restaurants, concert
halls, and other comparable places of assembly to remain open and unrestricted,
it may not order houses of worship to close, limit their congregation size, or
otherwise impede religious gatherings."
And then there is the ruling by
The always insightful
Roberto de Mattei accused the hierarchy of "auto-persecuting" their own
faithful in this crisis:
"It is strange,
however, this persecution seemingly without any heroic form of resistance, unto
martyrdom of the persecuted; so unlike anything that has happened throughout all
the great persecutions in history. In reality, it is not anti-Christian
persecutions that we should speak of, but of “auto-persecution” among Churchmen,
who, by closing the churches and suspending Masses, seem to be bringing to its
ultimate coherence a process of auto-demolition begun in the 1960s with the
Second
There are good reasons to question the extent of the
coronavirus lockdown: Why are our God-given rights being trampled upon
and the Sacraments of the Church been denied the Catholic faithful
worldwide? Why weren't measures used to promote both safety and the continued
availability of the Sacraments, at the same time? If it could have been done,
why wasn't it?
As far as "patience" goes, there are times in history when
it can be deadly, when immediate action is necessary to oppose a quickly
approaching dictatorship or lethal threat. In the words of G.K. Chesterton,
“The wisest thing in
the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you
are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the
impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have
been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a
tyranny before it exists.” (G.K. Chesterton,
Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically
Organized State)
The always brave
Archbishop Viganò has warned against blind obedience and our duty to speak
out, citing the example of Nazi Germany, "There was a time when, with the
obedience of the masses, a hellish dictatorship committed a very serious crime".
The Founding Fathers of the
Benjamin Franklin wrote, "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience
to God."
Thomas Jefferson warned, "All tyranny needs to gain a
foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
A hat-tip to the Southern Baptists and some of the other
Protestants churches: many have shown more fight in them to keep their churches
open than the Catholics today. I respect their courage and conviction, and pray
for their conversion to the Catholic Church. Catholics should admire their
courageous actions in their fight for religious liberty.
But our Catholic leaders are sadly another story. Are
priests being silent because they fear
retribution from their bishops and from the State? Is fear of man muzzling our
priests and bishops from spreading the Gospel and the Sacraments?
The bishops and pr
Admittedly, we must reasonably protect ourselves from the
spread of coronavirus but that doesn't mean that we submit to slavery or the
removal of our God-given rights to achieve this. A more reasoned response has
been accomplished in other countries, where the Catholic faithful haven't been
robbed of Mass and the Sacraments, where citizens are not being robbed of their
God-given rights and civil liberties.
Latvia, for example, never stopped the Mass and Sacraments.
During the times of the Black Plague, the light of the world shone brightly
with many courageous priests and bishops continuing to distribute the holy
Sacraments even at the risk of their own lives, such as the courageous
During many wars, Catholic chaplains have provided the Mass and the Sacraments to soldiers in active war zones. Catholic chaplains have gone out into live ammunition fire to reach a dying soldier, intent upon giving that soldier the Last Rites. Many brave Catholic chaplains died attempting to reach wounded soldiers. They are heroes and examples for all of us.
Protective solutions have been offered by American
priests such as
confessions in church parking lots, but some bishops have prevented their
priests from using this option. Why?
Because God is not being served above all things. Many
bishops and priests are most obedient to the State, and most disobedient to God.
When faced with an obstacle, many of these bishops and priests
choose the path of least resistance. They are traitors to their country like
Benedict Arnold; they are traitors to their Church like Judas.
Such a traitor does not truly serve God. And herein lies
one of the foundational problems in the Catholic Church today: Many of the
bishops and priests are without loyalty to Christ, without true courage, which make them unfit leaders.
Without courage, our leaders will act as mere hirelings,
fleeing when the wolf (danger) approaches (John 10: 12-13).
It is more and more apparent why Jesus told Veronica that
priests were becoming men of the state: "We ask that the priests take themselves
out of this world. They are becoming men of the state, not men of God." (June
18, 1990;
listen)
Without courage, great evil cannot be resisted. Without
resistance, there cannot be victory. Herein is the explanation of why there are
so many defeats within the Church today: Failure to manfully resist and conquer
evil.
As Jesus warned us at Bayside, the Catholic clergy "have
become soft and pliable to the enemy":
"Because of your sin, because of your arrogance and pride, you have
brought into the Eternal City forces of evil. You have opened the doors,
allowing men of weak faith and those heretics and men--separated brethren--to
enter upon you. You shall not compromise My House, My Church, for you are
separating My sheep.
"Awaken from your slumber, O pastors! You have become soft and
pliable to the enemy, because you have fallen asleep on your job! Compromise!
Change! If you have a solid foundation--and you were given a solid
foundation--what need is there to change, for you seek then to change the
foundation. You are chipping away at My Church; you are burrowing like rats into
the foundation of My Church." (Jesus,
June 12, 1976)
Compromise rules our Catholic leaders and much of the
laity at this time.
There will always be
evil ones trying to destroy the Church and cause chaos. But the destruction
within the Church is so
complete today precisely because good Catholics do very little and therefore enable corruption within the Church.
The Church today is succumbing to massive corruption because many Catholics are
spiritual weak and will not fight off the infection of evil surrounding them.
And so the evil grows.
The enemies of the Church fight harder to destroy it, than
Catholics do to defend it.
Dictatorship and slavery are inevitable for the
All Catholics need to humbly acknowledge our shortcomings
and failures to effectively confront the evils within the Church and society. We
need to acknowledge the great holiness of God, seek forgiveness and then pray
for strength to fight harder in the future for God's glory.
Some months ago it was reported that
ten priests from the diocese of Bergamo, Italy had
died, who heroically ministered the Sacraments to dying coronavirus
patients.
Such heroic priests should be considered
as being martyrs in their love of souls, who ensured the dying Catholic faithful
were not spiritually abandoned in their last moments.
But in many parts of the world, the Sacraments have been
suspended or severely limited for those afflicted with coronavirus. Even some
Catholic hospitals in the
A denial of the Last Rites is truly satanic, and should be
recognized by all Catholics as such. Fr.
Chad Ripperger, exorcist and member of the Fraternity of St. Peter stated
that when death is imminent, “the priest would have an obligation, regardless of
what his bishop said, to hear your confession and give you absolution.”
And regarding the Sacrament of Last Rites, the priest would
“have the obligation to give the last rites, because his obligation is the
person’s salvation over his own physical well-being."
In the 6th Century, when plague ravaged
Is not the suspension of Sacraments and Masses throughout
the world yet another indication that the great apostasy is now strangling the
Catholic Church, that the
Church is now uniting with the pagan world?
If these priests and bishops who are unwilling to give the
Last Rites were instead soldiers fighting in a war and fled the battle, they
would be designated deserters, hunted down, tried in a military court, and
imprisoned or shot for desertion.
Are not many priests and bishops now deserters, fleeing the
spiritual battle, abandoning their post due to their own corruption, manifested
now by their fear of the State and
coronavirus?
In times of crisis, there are always shining moments when
true heroes step forward into the gap.
As I listened to the words of a
Marine/doctor at the
And then my mind turned to the thought: Where are the
priests and bishops defending us from tyranny like this Marine? Fighting for our right to
religion, the Mass and Sacraments? Are the lay people the only ones left with
fight in them? Have our spiritual leaders fled their posts?
I again recalled the words of a traditional priest's
sermon admonishing us to have "patience." And then I replayed the
video of the Marine at the
Sacramento protest, and I felt nausea.
Nausea.
Exactly what was I feeling in the pit of my stomach, and
continue to feel when I compare the actions of this
brave Marine versus Church
leaders who admonish "patience" in the face of such evil?
Has God given to all of us, by nature, a visceral reaction
against cowardice? I believe so.
St. Cyril of
"With the Spirit within them it is quite natural for people
who had been absorbed by the things of this world to become entirely other
worldly in outlook, and for cowards to become men of great courage. There can be
not doubt that this is what happened to the disciples. The strength they
received from the Spirit enabled them to hold firmly to the love of Christ,
facing the violence of their persecutors unafraid." (St. Cyril of
So
how is it that many of our "good" priests are now silent on the deprivation of
our God-given rights to religion, that are even enshrined in our American Bill
of Rights? Are they laying low? Are they afraid of retaliation by the State, by
their bishop?
Have they now become collaborators with dictatorial state governors by their
silence in this critical hour?
Why do the excuses of our Church leaders far outnumber
their battles against an overreaching State?
Are the guilty consciences of weak priests lashing out at
the courageous laity because they know that they themselves have become cowards?
Are they doubling down on their sin of cowardice?
This is a likely explanation.
Like the classic 1952 movie "High Noon" starring Gary
Cooper, when faced with a mortal threat even apparently good people will cave.
In fact, these people will even do irrational things to avoid being reminded of
their cowardice. To cowards, watching a truly brave man in action is painful to
them.
So too, the knee-jerk phrases of
"do not judge" or "be more
charitable" are many times the calling cards of a coward, who wants to run away
from a necessary fight.
Fraternal
correction is not a sin
We know from the Bible and our Catholic faith that to
admonish the sinner is a spiritual work of mercy; it is a virtuous act, not a
sin. "My brethren, if any of you err from the truth, and one convert him: He
must know that he who causeth a sinner to be converted from the error of his
way, shall save his soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins."
(James 5: 19-20)
Also, the writings of the saints explain our duty to defend
the Catholic faith, even against our priests and bishops. The great doctor of
the Church, St. Thomas Aquinas, writes, “It must be observed, however, that if
the faith were endangered, a subject ought to rebuke his prelate even publicly.”
(St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica II,
II, q. 33, a. 45)
And another quote from St. Thomas Aquinas:
“Augustine says in his Rule: ‘Show mercy not only to
yourselves, but also to him who, being in the higher position among you, is
therefore in greater danger.’ But fraternal correction is a work of mercy.
Therefore even prelates ought to be corrected.” (St. Thomas Aquinas,
Summa Theologica II, II, q. 33, a. 4, Sed
Contra)
We do not want any of our priests or bishops to go to
hell. It may be our charitable rebuke to their errors that will
shake some of them from their lethargy and save them from hell.
A warning to the
unrepentant priests and bishops
But for those priests and bishops who will not change or
accept charitable correction, they should meditate upon these
ominous words of yet another doctor of the Church, St. John Chrysostom: “The
road to hell is paved with the skulls of erring priests, with bishops as their
signposts.” (
To be a leader in the Church according to the holiness of
Christ, a priest or bishop must be a humble leader, a fighter, unbendable,
morally untouchable, willing to give his life to defend the Church, for the sake of the
Catholic faithful. A priest or bishop must be selfless and willing to suffer
personal loss to defend the truth. He must be virtuously masculine.
"If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and
mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea and his own life
also, he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever doth not carry his cross and come
after me, cannot be my disciple." (
Many priests and bishops today are not fit to rule; they do
not have sufficient strength of character to bear the weight of leadership
without being seduced by its many temptations. Many have been intentionally
chosen to become bishops by evil agents within the Church for the very reason
they are not true leaders nor virtuous men, but are mere boys in the body of a
man who will betray Christ and the Gospel at the approach of any serious danger
or obstacle.
Many are, in the words of Jordan Peterson, "weaselly men,"
weak men without true virtue.
Without a virtuous warrior of a man as a bishop or priest,
the faithful will not be protected from approaching dangers, spiritual or
secular, and the wolves will ravage the flock.
Our Lady of the Roses has many things to say about today's
derelict Catholic hierarchy. Here are just a very few highlights:
#1) Parents must
stand solidly up to their bishops, who are misleading their children:
"Mothers must now take full precedence for their children. In other words, My
child, they must be the teachers now; for those who were teachers have given
themselves over now to all forms of modernism, and pacifying those that are evil
in their teachings. They do not stand on their two feet solidly before their
bishops, who are doing wrong in the teaching of their children." (Jesus,
October 6, 1988)
#2) There is much
deceit throughout the hierarchy: "There is much deceit throughout the
hierarchy. It will be cardinal against cardinal and bishop against bishop, for
satan has set himself in their ranks.” (Our
Lady, May 28, 1977)
#3) Many bishops are
on the road to hell: "Many mitres are on the road now to perdition. Awaken
from your slumber, O pastors; you have fallen asleep!" (Our Lady, June 5, 1976;
read more)
#4) The sin of
omission will condemn many to hell: "The sin of omission shall condemn many
to hell, be they layman or hierarchy. I repeat: not the sin of commission, but
the sin of omission will commit many to hell. Among them there will also be
mitres." (Our Lady, October 6, 1980;
read more)
#5) Clergy blinded
by luxury and ease: "All clergy, cardinals, bishops, parish priests, and
laymen shall be accountable for the fall of all souls within their self-imposed
dedication of protection, which has been cast aside, as many have been blinded
by a life of too much luxury and ease." (Jesus, June 13, 1981;
read more)
#7) Many bishops
have become despoilers of the human race: "Cardinals, bishops, priests of
the order of God, if you are guilty, turn from your ways. I make no accusations
by name, though the list is growing long, to the Eternal Father. You who were
given the God-given grace to be leaders of the flock have now scattered Our
sheep! Bishops, what has become of your vocation? You are becoming despoilers of
the human race. You cannot hide your sin from the Eternal Father. Turn back
while there is still time!" (Our
Lady, June 18, 1993;
listen)
How many of our priests and bishops view our holy Church's
teachings through the lens of their own cowardice, and end up spreading false
teachings, their own false opinions from their pulpits? Too many I'm afraid.
And God, who cannot lie, has told us of the sorrow state of
the Catholic Church today: "When this battle is over, you will be most
fortunate, without prayer, if you will find one hundred true priests, men of
God, left among you. I say ‘true.’" (Jesus,
May 18, 1977)
This truth was repeated by Our Lady on May 23, 1979: "Oh
sorrow of sorrows from your Mother’s heart, that as We now go throughout your
world, can We say that there are one hundred true priests left in My Son’s
House? Shall He return and find even a flicker of faith left among His sheep?
The shepherds don’t carry the light." (Our
Lady, May 23, 1979)
There are currently 196 nations in the world. That averages
to less than a single priest per country, that God would label as "true."
Need I remind the reader, that there has been only one
bishop in the world to publicly attend a Rosary prayer vigil at the Bayside
apparition site in
Only one … in the world.
That is how little courage exists among the Catholic
bishops today.
We
In every generation, God has risen up courageous men and
women who will do the right thing and will not bend to tyranny and evil.
One such hero from the Old Testament was the courageous Mathathias who
lamented, "The holy places are come into the hands of strangers: her temple is
become as a man without honour." Even under the pain of death Mathathias would
not offer sacrifice to idols but rather smashed the pagan altar and led the
Israelites to return to God (1 Macchabees 2: 6-30).
When these two devious Jewish priests were caught in a lie and false accusation, they were put to death.
The discouraged prophet Elijah was told by God, "I have left
me seven thousand men, that have not bowed their knees to Baal." (Romans 11: 4)
By God's grace, may we be one of those today who will not
bend a knee to Baal.
When the flag has been dropped by the fallen or cowardly,
the brave must pick it up from the ground and go forward.
Over 100 years ago, God sent Our Lady to
Even after over one hundred million have been murdered by
communism worldwide, this simple act of obedience which will end communism still
has not been done. There is not sufficient love of God in the hierarchy to move
them to obey their Creator, who died for all of us on the cross.
Over 50 years ago, God again sent Our Lady, this time to
Bayside,
Among the thousands of bishops worldwide, only one had the
courage to pray on the apparition grounds.
And you wonder why the Church is rocked with scandal after
scandal? Most of the Catholic hierarchy are not truly good or holy. They are
unable to resist evil, and many are outright agents of evil who have
successfully infiltrated the Catholic Church to cause as much damage as
possible. The "good" cardinals and bishops, many are so weak they won't oppose
the evil as they are not really serving God, but themselves. They will do the
right thing only until things become too difficult. At that moment, they
will compromise and flee the difficulty, exposing themselves as the hired hands
that they truly are (John 10: 12-13).
The Mystical Body of Christ, the Catholic Church, is
spiritually very sick. It's members are weakened by innumerable sins, more so
than perhaps at any time in history.
Never before have the Sacraments of the Catholic Church
been so needed, but in many places they have been almost entirely suspended.
And now the world faces a renewed ons
Light a fire under the cowardly priests and bishops. Motivate them to do their God-given duties
of providing the
soul-saving graces of the Sacraments as well as consecrating Russia to Our Lady. Jar them from their complacency lest you
allow these priests and bishops to further betray the Church during this epic
battle for our Catholic Faith and American freedoms that is now at hand.
"My children, no country now shall be free from the evils of communism. My heart is torn, for I have come to you in countless appearances upon earth to warn you as Our children to avoid compromise with the enemies of God, though they come to you with smooth tongues, rationalizing their behavior. And because man has fallen out of grace, he will accept these lies and become enslaved." - Our Lady, May 13, 1978
Directives from Heaven
D10 - Consecrate Russia PDF
D103 - Communism PDF
D224 - Restore America to One Nation Under God PDF
D317 - Dictatorship PDF
D329 - Revolution PDF
D353 - Dark Clouds Over America PDF
D388 - False Obedience PDF
Articles and videos:
VIDEO: Courageous priest admonishes Archbishop Gregory and rioters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK5XaowbeHQ&feature=youtu.be&t=829Pope John Paul II: The Tyrant State
https://www.nuestrasenoradelasrosas.org/news1/TyrantState.htm