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In today’s post we continue with the Restoration theme in the Polish Church and try to put it into context. Below, for your information, I have translated a post that appeared on the UnaCum.pl (Una Voce Poland) website (see here). The original post appeared on the Centrum Kultury i Tradycji Wien 1863 (Ed. translation: Center for Culture and Tradition Vienna 1863). See original here.

The reason that I am bringing this to your attention is to demonstrate how the Restoration is being implemented and spreading in Poland. If you recall from our last post titled Reconnaissance From Poland – Situation Report (see here), Fr. Pio mentioned that: (emphasis and comments added)

A return to Tradition for such bishops clerics and laity is being deflected every step of the way as an assault upon their (Ed. note: neo-modernist) HOMOCENTRIC (Ed. note: anthropocentric) world view and church.The die is cast. The only thing this wing of the Polish Church lacks …is the wide support of the faithful who seeing such rot are either leaving in droves and choosing secularism as their life – guiding ideology or filling the chapels of SS Pius X and other centers of true Catholic worship. (Most happily this includes the young some of whom are discovering their true spiritual inheritance…..TRADITION.

Due to the obstinancy of a large part of the episcopal class, the Restoration is being executed and progressing in a “bottom-up” effort, initiated by the laity.

The below post represents just one of the projects that the laity has implemented. As we can read in the below post, this project is in its 5th year and has sent more than 600 informational Traditional Packages to Clerics already. Seeing as how there are approximately 28,457 priests in Poland, and 44 diocese, this would mean that 2.1% of the priests in Poland (13 per diocese) have already received their Traditional packages. Please see below table.

Not bad when considering that this is just one, small, privately funded effort.

Here is the translation of the post (see original here)

Traditional Package for a Cleric. Fifth Edition

For the fifth time this year, our traditional Christmas campaign is organizing a Package for a Cleric. In recent years, thanks to your generosity and magnanimity we sent more than 600 parcels to seminarians and priests; each containing between two and six books.

The aim of our campaign is to provide good literature, which is very important in the formation and preparation for the priesthood. Often, we know it from the recipients, the literature provided in the contents of Traditional Parcels help in providing reasons for deepening the ties with the traditional liturgy and Catholic doctrine.

Today, due to some of those receiving gifts from you in the first edition of the Packages for Clerics, they are now priests and in their parishes and other communities and are offering the Mass in the traditional form.

Probably, it was through your generosity in recent years, that the delivered literature had an impact on the direction of their priestly paths.

This year we also want to be able to give to clerics who are interested in the Catholic Tradition, and these requests continuously arrive, likewise from the diocesan seminaries. We trust that we’ll be able to provide them with several important pieces of liturature.

On the occasion of the Christmas Holidays, to the Package for a Cleric we want to insert the following books:

Cajetan’s Paradise Mass celebrated in the Traditional manner. Discussions with priests.

Fr. Peter Wulgaris’ The reform and renewal of the Roman Breviary in the twentieth century

Michael Krajski’s Tradition negated (the book in preparation, will be released in 2016.)

We are confident that, as in previous years, this year you will wish to support our action.

Read more on the website wieden1683.pl (see here)

Given the above, one is left wondering why the Polish Episcopate would not support such an effort, an effort that is bearing such fruit and can “attract” large numbers of lapsed Catholics back into the pews? Fr. Pio writes the following in the Reconnaissance post, which I think answers this question:

It is primarily (in my opinion), the bishops who supported the direction of the previous ruling party, (Platform Obywatelski…recently booted out of government by general elections and directly opposed to the Roman Catholic Church’s teachings), and their underlings who are so vehemently opposed to the TLM, since it interferes with their deconstructionist tendencies within the Church and society itself…a trend which has lead to much conflict within the Polish Episcopal Conference.

Confirmation for the accuracy of Fr. Pio’s observation can be discerned from a post that appeared recently on Fr. Z’s blog. (see here) Here is the lead into the subject matter:

In an interview with a French Catholic weekly magazine, Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard reflected upon his five years as Primate of Belgium and Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels.

And here is the pertinent passage and Fr. Z’s comments:

Asked to comment on the steep rise in the number of seminarians– from four in 2010 to 55 in 2015— [4 … t0 55 in FIVE YEARS] Archbishop Léonard told Famille chrétienne that he spoke with prospective seminarians personally rather than referring them to the vocation office: “a man who wants to give his life to Christ, a bishop must receive him!”  [What?!?  Was that an accident?  I ask you… speaking to seminarians personally?!?  What was he thinking?  Let’s cut through the B as in B, S as in S. Liberal bishops don’t want priests.  They want women.  Let’s just call it what it is.  If they can find 55 men who want to be priests in Brussels, they can find them everywhere.  Even more proof that what bishops such as the Extraordinary Ordinary, Morlino of Madison, do in regards to vocations … wait for it… WORKS.  There doesn’t have to be a vocation crisis.  The vocation crisis has been engineered for decades now.  By liberals.  It’s not rocket science.]

So what we see here is that even in Belgium, vocations can increase exponentially with very little effort. Something as simple as bishop speaking with potential cleric.

Which leads to the obvious question: why isn’t this being done in the Universal Church?

This answer is quite simple likewise.

The answer is, as Fr. Z points out that the neo-modernists “don’t want priests”.

Actually, it is a bit more than not wanting priest. The more comprehensive answer is provided by Dr. Joseph Shaw in his LMS Chairman blog. In a post titled A smaller, weaker, impurer Church, the pertinent passage pertains to the often quoted Benedict XVI quote about a “smaller” Church going forward and  is as follows : (see original here and the entire thread is a must read) (emphasis added)

In light of this, at the time widely held, view, the passage makes a very different kind of sense to that sometimes, I think, attributed to it by conservative Pope Benedict fans. To a large extent it is not about the disaster of post-Conciliar collapse – which wasn’t so visible in 1969 – as about the liberal hope for purification and growth following the sloughing off of the privileges and institutions which were cramping the work of the Holy Spirit. Of course, the two things are closely related. When Pope Paul VI talked about the ‘autodemolition’ of the Church, he was talking about the way that liberals were deliberately and joyfully smashing the place up, convinced that this would lead to a new springtime. The liberal attitude has not gone away entirely. Even now, bishops planning for the institutional disappearance of the Church in their dioceses give their discussion documents jaunty and optimistic titles like ‘Leaving Safe Habours‘. Only if we leave all those fusty old things like schools, hospitals, and parish churches, behind, can we really get going with our evagelisation. Hanging on to the old institutions is playing it too safe. If smashing up half of them didn’t have a positive effect, then we should try smashing up the remaining half.

This is the fuller answer, namely that the neo-modernists want to smash-up the Holy Roman Catholic Church as an institution.

Here is a neat summary by Dr. Shaw:

As you build new Catholic institutions, the key thing is not to let the liberals get their hands on them: they will instinctively destroy them. They can’t help it. It is their nature.

And why is it in the nature of the neo-modernists to destroy anything they get their hands on?

Because they are IDEOLOGUES at their core. Once again the definition of an ideologue is (see here): an impractical idealist :  theorist. One who is intensely or excessively devoted to a cause. One whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world.

Or as we say on this blog: TRANSRATIONAL

And just like the collectivist, regardless of whether he is in the US, in Poland or in the Vatican, the neo-modernist will never acheive his ideal because he will always be…

one execution away from utopia.

Reconnaissance From Poland – Situation Report

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Presently I am traveling and in Poland. For those who do not keep up with foreign affairs, Poland has found itself in the midst of the cultural war. The reason Poland has found itself in the midst of a cultural war is that it voted “incorrectly” in the presidential election as well as in the general parliamentary election last year. So at present, the “leftist International”, who we all remember from the Stealth Sex Synod™ (see here) of 2015, has decided to make its stand, and a resulting sh*t storm has ensued. I will write more about this situation, and the unrelated disastrous attendance numbers for the Francis pontificate (see here), which your humble blogger has been tracking (see here), in a subsequent post.

With respect to today’s post, I am reproducing two comments that I received in my comment box from a Polish priest who resides in Poland, and commented under the nom de plume Fr. Pio Kowalski.

I cannot confirm if in fact Fr. Kowalski is a Polish priest since both him and I are anonymous and write under said nom de plumes. Yet I am highly confident that that which Fr. Pio Kowalski writes is in fact correct. Therefore, I am re-producing his two comments in the body of this post for your general information. I have taken the liberty to clean up the text, while avoiding to change any of the meaning of the text itself.

One passage which I would like to draw your attention to is in the second comment where Fr. Pio writes: (emphasis added)

A letter was read on the Feast of the Holy Family (N.O.). ( I am surprised it was not read at the Mass you attended S.A. since it is mandatory to read such letters, from the Episcopal Conference of Polish Bishops), which very strongly upheld traditional teaching on the family…except for one sentence. This sentence left open the matter of Holy Communion for those living in an irregular union and who pledge within the “internal forum”, (does that sound familiar?…It should to anyone who followed the proposals of the radicals at the Synod), to abstain from sexual intercourse and live as brother and sister. In other words, someone could within confession (say that he or she has made such a pledge within the internal forum, break with it by engaging in sexual intercourse and then simply go to confession in order to put the matter right again not missing a beat and receiving Holy Communion). This formulation caused consternation even among the most moderate of pastors at the parish level…and I believe we have not heard the last of the protests against it.

The reason that I mention this dear readers is to draw your attention to the varied interpretations of what this novel approach to “internal forum” has taken on.
If you recall:

• in the German interpretation, the “internal forum” means that serial adulterers go to a priest who “absolves” them permanently, regardless of whether they engage in fornication and if this priest allows them to go to communion, so be it. This interpretation is designed to cover aberro-sexual behaviour likewise, so as it can conform to the new German Church Law.

• in the English interpretation, the “internal forum” means that serial adulterers who decide to cease and desist fornicating and accept the limitations to live as sister and brother in their subsequent “marriage/s”, can get access to the sacraments through an “internal forum” mechanism. Obviously this interpretation is not accepted by the radical FrancisBishops like Cupich, Wuerl, etc, but most of the US bishops are in this camp.

• in the Polish interpretation, it would appear that “even moderate” priests, let alone the bishops, have problems with serial adulterers living in adulterous relationships, i.e. public sinners. So the “internal forum” is administered with an even greater limit with respect to the degree to which public adulterers can cause a public scandal by cohabiting in open adulterous relationships.

So what we have is three different episcopates and three different interpretations of the “internal forum”.

I guess we will need to wait for the future Council of Econe to sort out this mess.

Closing, please keep Fr. Pio in your prayers.

Father Pio Kowalski:

In response to my Introibo Ad Altare Dei post (see here) from the 21/12/2015.

The resistance of the Church in Poland to the Soviet-enforced communist system was not as monolithic as one may tend to think. There were a few dominant camps within the Polish Episcopate which dealt with both local and national problems in various ways. After the the economic and political changes in the late 1980’s and during the 1990’s to the present, the Polish bishops could be categorized by their political leanings just as in many countries of the West. The percentage of priests and bishops who actually co-operated with the objectives of the Communist regime, (in both small and significant ways, for whatever reason),, was shockingly high. And unfortunately many of these unsavory apparatchik-type relationships have remained in place to this day.

It is primarily (in my opinion), the bishops who supported the direction of the previous ruling party, (Platform Obywatelski…recently booted out of government by general elections and directly opposed to the Roman Catholic Church’s teachings), and their underlings who are so vehemently opposed to the TLM, since it interferes with their deconstructionist tendencies within the Church and society itself…a trend which has lead to much conflict within the Polish Episcopal Conference.

The only thing that seems to have changed the situation somewhat and united bishops (at least publicly) was the Synod on the Family, in which most bishops saw an actually threat to the INSTITUTIONAL integrity of the Universal Church and the Church in Poland as well. (And yes…bishops and their chanceries too must eat!) All bishops of the country signed a letter to Pope Francis upholding tradition Catholic teaching and practice concerning matters of marriage and sexual morality.

But was that perceived threat to the integrity of the institutional Church enough to make converts to a return to Tradition? I think not. Most recently it was announced in the Archdiocese of Lublin, that the administration of the centuries – old Jesuit church in the city of Lublin has been given over to the Neo-catechumenal Way…, in effect with no clerical oversight.The Jesuits pulled out because of a dirth in vocations …another sign of the “new springtime” promised us by the V II crowd. When this news raised eye-brows and caused wide-spread consternation…, it was added later by archdiocesan officials that a clerical administrator had been appointed to share in the duties. Well here we go again!

The ecclesiological-ligturgical revolution is alive and well in Poland. Attend Sunday Mass and you will witness a plethora of “extra-ordinary ministers of the Eucharist” becoming very ordinary through heavily funded and supported diocesan training courses, as female lectors have come to dominate the presbiterium during “Liturgy of the Word”. At this rate and with secular feminism on the rise, I predict it will not be long before they two are included in “Eucharistic minister” training programs, ( open now only to men) and will be distributing Holy Communion alongside their very, very V II priests..

A return to Tradition for such bishops clerics and laity is being deflected every step of the way as an assault upon their HOMOCENTRIC (Ed. note: anthropocentric) world view and church.The die is cast. The only thing this wing of the Polish Church lacks …is the wide support of the faithful who seeing such rot are either leaving in droves and choosing secularism as their life – guiding ideology or filling the chapels of SS Pius X and other centers of true Catholic worship. (Most happily this includes the young some of whom are discovering their true spiritual inheritance…..TRADITION.

Sincerely yours in Christ and Mary Immaculate ..from the front lines in Poland.

Fr. Pio Kowalsk

In response to my Dispatches From The Eastern Front post from 30/12/2015 (see here)

When I was a seminarian in Poland 30 years ago (not a terribly long time ago in historical terms), each Polish seminarian studied Greek for two years and Latin for four years. The program was demanding and I think it is safe to say that any future priest having finished this course of study was and is adequately prepared to celebrate (at least linguistically) the Mass in Latin. A weekly N.O Mass in Latin was celebrated at that time at the seminary as was the “Summa” (Ed. note: High Mass) on Sundays at the cathedral, with all seminarian present. My fondest memories of these Masses was the chanting of the Ordinary parts of the Mass by over 300 seminarians. I am sure you can appreciate the beauty.The Slavic soul must have a sense of the sacred during the celebration of the Sacred Liturgy. It simply must.

Unfortunately in in the past 10-15 years, the course of study for Latin has been reduced to two years only and Greek has been eliminated from what I hear. And often the Latin requirement is treated with disregard by seminary officials. The fact that some priests actually celebrate Mass in Latin and according to the ancient rites (myself included)…blows the minds of the younger generation of priests and yet at the same time intrigues them.

I agree with you…much has changed for the better among some sectors of the Polish Church since the Synod on the Family, in this regard and a renewal is going forward. But the “Great Divide” which exists in the Universal Church still exists in Poland. A letter was read on the Feast of the Holy Family (N.O.). ( I am surprised it was not read at the Mass you attended S.A. since it is mandatory to read such letters, from the Episcopal Conference of Polish Bishops), which very strongly upheld traditional teaching on the family…except for one sentence. This sentence left open the matter of Holy Communion for those living in an irregular union and who pledge within the “internal forum”, (does that sound familiar?…It should to anyone who followed the proposals of the radicals at the Synod), to abstain from sexual intercourse and live as brother and sister. In other words, someone could within confession (say that he or she has made such a pledge within the internal forum, break with it by engaging in sexual intercourse and then simply go to confession in order to put the matter right again not missing a beat and receiving Holy Communion). This formulation caused consternation even among the most moderate of pastors at the parish level…and I believe we have not heard the last of the protests against it.

One of the mal-formed priest of the younger generation with whom I have daily contact simply stated…”well, the bishops have spoken so now its up to us to be obedient”! What!? Really!? I took the opportunity to remind him that Episcopal Conferences have no legitimate authority in the Church structure Our Lord instituted to make such decisions and that bishops, whether in collaboration with each other or individually do not possess the gift of infallibility. Such thinking never crossed his very, very Vatican II – formed mind. My question is as follows: what caused this fissure in the newfound unity of the Polish bishops? The priests I know are already protesting what they are calling “confessional concubinage”!

Please pray for the Church in Poland. There are so many great signs of renewal trying to get a foothold here. And we all know that where there is such grace the Evil One will be busy..but I believe the Church in Poland with its history of martyrs and saints, has a Messianic role to fulfill for the entire Church.

Sincerely in Mary Immaculate
Fr, Pio Kowalski

Dispatches From the Eastern Front

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This past Sunday, White Sunday to be exact (Feast of the Holy Family in Pauline/Bugnini rite), I ventured outside my „micro-aggression” free, liturgical ”safe space” and attended a Novus Ordo “celebration” in a small chapel approximately 20 miles outside of Warsaw (Poland).

The chapel was selected at random during last year’s Christmas visit. I happened to stumble upon it by making a wrong turn, and the church structure itself caught my eye. The church seats no more than 50 and appears to be attended exclusively by the locals. I subsequently attended a mass during last year’s visit, also between Christmas and New Years Eve. So naturally, I was interested to see what this year’s “celebration” of the “Eucharistic meal” would look like one year on. My specific interest was to see if there had been any noticeable changes post the Polish bishops heroic rear guard action in support of Catholic orthodoxy during the Stealth Sex Synod™ of 2015 and if so, in what direction they were progressing.

So back to the little chapel outside Warsaw. From what I observed, this year’s “celebrant” could accurately be described as one of those “butterfly priests” with fast track aspirations to “airport bishop-dom”. The priest the previous year was much more low-key. The meeting/greeting chatter and the homily was mostly about him, not about Him. The altar servers (must have been about 10 of them this year, as opposed to 2 last year) did not wear cassocks, some of their jacket hoods sticking out of the back of their suplices. They stood around in a semi-circle without much of anything to do, aside from completing the circle. The reverence of the “celebration” was reasonable, compatible with that of the previous year. But this can be said for most of the N.O. masses in Poland, outside of the children masses.

And now for the positive observations. This year, the “mass” was a sung mass, with choir. Last year they had a bleating nun doing karaoke with a boom box (I kid you not), hidden in the choir loft. I sat in the choir loft last year. The choir this year however did not use the choir loft, but rather stood in front of the side altar. I had the impression that they were transitioning from a guitar/keyboard boy/girl folk ensemble to a proper choir. Yet for the director, the transition appeared to not be as smooth. She appeared to have a hard time letting go of her keyboard, which stood off on the side. Before each piece, she went over and struck a key only to make her way back to the front of the choir. Must have been a psychological comfort thing.

As for the music, they did sing the Kyriale… for the most part. Kyrie (Greek), Sanctus and Agnus Dei (Latin) although I could not identify the setting. During the Gloria, the choir sung a circular refrain composed of three words: “Gloria Tibi Domine”, while the priest and congregation simultaneously recited the Gloria proper in Polish.

The homily was interesting. Since it was the Feast of the Holy Family, the priest tied in the plight of the Holy Family with the waves of Middle Eastern immigrants/invaders that have reached the shores of the Old Continent this year. He made a rather accurate distinction between those who come with the intent of conquest as opposed to those families who legitimately flee their war-torn countries in search of safety. He made an analogy to the Holy Family, in that they too fled to a foreign country in search of safety, while emphasizing that this is the proper distinction that needs to be made when assessing the present situation. All in all, a very interesting, common sense homily and one with which Francis would no doubt strongly take issue.

Back to the mass, the Faithful actively recited the “Jewish table” offeratory prayer and stood while the Sanctus was sung. The consecration was under EP II. No more than two minutes on the ground kneeling. And then off to communion. After communion, the final blessing was also done standing.

At the end of the “celebration” the priest did the parish announcements. He mentioned that the chapel was in the process of forming a children’s choir and a schola. He invited interested parties to come to the meetings.

I later found out that this priest offers a TLM once a month, but that the TLM does not appear on any of the official UnaCum.pl (Una Voce) or WikiMass websites. I had a chance to exchange a few pleasantries with one of the priests after mass. Found out that TLM is not advertised locally. If someone inquires, then that person is informed as to the time and place.

All in all, a positive experience to the one from the previous year, which in itself was not bad. For a N.O. “celebration”, that is. On an aside, I usually attend the SSPX chapel in Warsaw when I am in town, so one gets used to first rate liturgy. This year, the SSPX’s Warsaw chapel added a female schola which sounded very nice. But I digress…

But back to the local church, it would appear that a process of “graduality” is in motion. From what I gathered, the problem is not so much with the laity, but rather with the clergy. On the one hand, the local ordinaries represent the JPII cult for the most part. Any divergence from “the spirit of VII” would be seen as “disloyalty to the memory of JPII”.

A more basic problem of a forging ahead to the TLM is that most of the clergy do not speak Latin. Starting to offer the TLM en mass could make them look pretentious on the one hand, while allowing the internal enemies of the Polish church, i.e. the ex-communists and their clerical agents, to play the Roman/anti-patriotic card. What needs to be kept in mind is that the Polish church never went through a “de-communisation” of their ranks, so many latent agents are still among the clergy.

A second issue is internal discent within the church itself. The present leadership of the Polish Episcopate Conference just finished uniting two waring internal fractions, the one that went astray was led by JPII’s assistant card. Dziwisz. We highlighted this situation in our post titled How The Mighty Have Fallen (see here). This unification of the internal discent allowed for the unification of the Catholic vote, and the resulting election of the present President, Andrzej Duda and the election five months later of the first non hostile majority government (Law and Justice) to the Catholic Church since 1939, with two short exceptions lasting 11 months and 2 years respectively.

Concluding, one can say that the situation for the Restoration in Poland is improving. It is a long way from that which we see in some of the US dioceses, i.e. Madison WI for instance. Yet the undercurrent is there and for the discerning visitor can be detected.

So brick by brick, on the Eastern front, progress is being made.

On an aside, for those who are on Facebook, you can venture over to the page of the Archdiocese of Praga (district of Warsaw). The archbishop is one of the favorites of this blog, Archbishop Henryk Hoser (see here). The Latin Mass Society equivalent has started to become quite active. The title of their FB page is “Msza Rzymska w formie starożytnej w Diecezji Warszawsko-Praskiej”, and they have just added a new TLM in southh east Warsaw. The Warsaw archidiocese, just across the river, is presently running Gregorian chant workshops. Their FB page is titled “Archidiecezja Warszawska”. So we are seeing progress here likewise.

Post scriptum. The video at the top of this page is from one of this years Rorate masses at a little chapel in Bialystok Poland.

The Catholic God – By The Numbers

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“… and God said: (…) … and there was light!”

I hope all my readers had a very Merry Christmas. The Armaticii family is spending this holiday season on the Old Continent. I will write more in a future post.

As for today’s post, it is a re-publication from an article which appeared in the Wall Street Journal (see original here). The theme of the article is one with which we have dealt with in numerous posts, namely Visibilium Omnium, et Invisibilium. Just as a recap, in the Nicene Creed, we Catholics recite/sing:

We believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
and of all that is, seen and unseen.

With respect to our Catholic God, we know that God exists from two sources, namely:

(1) as known through “natural light of human reason from the things that are made”

and

(2) as known through “divine revelation.”

With respect to the article below, we are dealing with point (1), i.e. the proof of the existence of God through natural light of human reason. The basis for our proof as to the existence of God comes from none other than St. Thomas Aquinas, who in his seminal work Summa Theologica written between 1265 and1274, formulated his five proofs as follows: (see here)

• Argument from Motion
• Argument from Efficient Causes
• Argument from Possibility and Necessity (Reductio argument)
• Argument from Gradation of Being
• Argument from Design

In the fifth arguement, i.e. Design, we read the following explanation:

1. We see that natural bodies work toward some goal, and do not do so by chance.
2. Most natural things lack knowledge. 
3. But as an arrow reaches its target because it is directed by an archer, what lacks intelligence achieves goals by being directed by something intelligence.
4. Therefore some intelligent being exists by whom all natural things are directed to their end; and this being we call God.

Fast forward to 2015, we read the following in our re-published post: (emphasis added)

Fred Hoyle, the astronomer who coined the term “big bang,” said that his atheism was “greatly shaken” at these developments. He later wrote that “a common-sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super-intellect has monkeyed with the physics, as well as with chemistry and biology . . . . The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.

What we see in both the above texts, that from 1265-1274 and that from 2015 is the notion of universality, i.e.relation, extension, or applicability to all. In other words, what St. Thomas observed and what Fred Hoyle observed are those same properties that are universal to things visibilium omnium, et invisibilium.

Ending on this note, here is the Wall Street Journal article re-published in its entirely. Consider it supporting evidence for Aquinas’ 5th proof. I am re-posting it…

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Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God

The odds of life existing on another planet grow ever longer. Intelligent design, anyone?

By Eric Metaxas

Dec. 25, 2014 4:56 p.m. ET

In 1966 Time magazine ran a cover story asking: Is God Dead? Many have accepted the cultural narrative that he’s obsolete—that as science progresses, there is less need for a “God” to explain the universe. Yet it turns out that the rumors of God’s death were premature. More amazing is that the relatively recent case for his existence comes from a surprising place—science itself.

Here’s the story: The same year Time featured the now-famous headline, the astronomer Carl Sagan announced that there were two important criteria for a planet to support life: The right kind of star, and a planet the right distance from that star. Given the roughly octillion—1 followed by 27 zeros—planets in the universe, there should have been about septillion—1 followed by 24 zeros—planets capable of supporting life.

With such spectacular odds, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, a large, expensive collection of private and publicly funded projects launched in the 1960s, was sure to turn up something soon. Scientists listened with a vast radio telescopic network for signals that resembled coded intelligence and were not merely random. But as years passed, the silence from the rest of the universe was deafening. Congress defunded SETI in 1993, but the search continues with private funds. As of 2014, researchers have discovered precisely bubkis—0 followed by nothing.

What happened? As our knowledge of the universe increased, it became clear that there were far more factors necessary for life than Sagan supposed. His two parameters grew to 10 and then 20 and then 50, and so the number of potentially life-supporting planets decreased accordingly. The number dropped to a few thousand planets and kept on plummeting.

Even SETI proponents acknowledged the problem. Peter Schenkel wrote in a 2006 piece for Skeptical Inquirer magazine: “In light of new findings and insights, it seems appropriate to put excessive euphoria to rest . . . . We should quietly admit that the early estimates . . . may no longer be tenable.”

As factors continued to be discovered, the number of possible planets hit zero, and kept going. In other words, the odds turned against any planet in the universe supporting life, including this one. Probability said that even we shouldn’t be here.

Today there are more than 200 known parameters necessary for a planet to support life—every single one of which must be perfectly met, or the whole thing falls apart. Without a massive planet like Jupiter nearby, whose gravity will draw away asteroids, a thousand times as many would hit Earth’s surface. The odds against life in the universe are simply astonishing.

Yet here we are, not only existing, but talking about existing. What can account for it? Can every one of those many parameters have been perfect by accident? At what point is it fair to admit that science suggests that we cannot be the result of random forces? Doesn’t assuming that an intelligence created these perfect conditions require far less faith than believing that a life-sustaining Earth just happened to beat the inconceivable odds to come into being?

There’s more. The fine-tuning necessary for life to exist on a planet is nothing compared with the fine-tuning required for the universe to exist at all. For example, astrophysicists now know that the values of the four fundamental forces—gravity, the electromagnetic force, and the “strong” and “weak” nuclear forces—were determined less than one millionth of a second after the big bang. Alter any one value and the universe could not exist. For instance, if the ratio between the nuclear strong force and the electromagnetic force had been off by the tiniest fraction of the tiniest fraction—by even one part in 100,000,000,000,000,000—then no stars could have ever formed at all. Feel free to gulp.

Multiply that single parameter by all the other necessary conditions, and the odds against the universe existing are so heart-stoppingly astronomical that the notion that it all “just happened” defies common sense. It would be like tossing a coin and having it come up heads 10 quintillion times in a row. Really?

Fred Hoyle, the astronomer who coined the term “big bang,” said that his atheism was “greatly shaken” at these developments. He later wrote that “a common-sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super-intellect has monkeyed with the physics, as well as with chemistry and biology . . . . The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.”

Theoretical physicist Paul Davies has said that “the appearance of design is overwhelming” and Oxford professor Dr. John Lennox has said “the more we get to know about our universe, the more the hypothesis that there is a Creator . . . gains in credibility as the best explanation of why we are here.”

The greatest miracle of all time, without any close seconds, is the universe. It is the miracle of all miracles, one that ineluctably points with the combined brightness of every star to something—or Someone—beyond itself.

Mr. Metaxas is the author, most recently, of “Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life” ( Dutton Adult, 2014).

Correction

An earlier version understated the number of zeroes in an octillion and a septillion.

Francis’ Holy Year Of Mercy Off To A Cracking Start!

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Above is a picture from L’Osservatore Romano via the Rorate Caeli blog. The picture was selected by the Argentinian blog Caminante Wanderer Revisited. (see here)

The following is the Rorate Caeli text:

The Remains of the Day

“For a day can bring all mortal greatness low…”

Sophocles

Ajax

The day is March 13, 2013 [Ed note: Francis elevation to Throne of St. Peter]– its remains could be seen in this striking picture of St. Peter’s Square in the General Audience of December 2, 2015, now a recurring sight, as mentioned by Camillo Langone in his article for Il Foglio just published by us below. How fickle are the multitudes, how untrustworthy are the crowds!… Even when one does everything to please them! Ungrateful plebs!

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According to the Il Foglio article, this scene is repeating itself with regularity at the papal general audiences and in the Square of St. Peter. Readers of this blog should not be shocked, since we have been chronicling the systematic and unabating destruction of the institution of the Catholic Church by a cabal of 1960’s reactionaries lead by Francis, the bishop of Rome.

What is important to notice in this picture is the complete collapse of any sort of presence of the Faithful at this particular Francis Event. Not only is Francis repelling the faithful Catholics away from himself and the Church, but he is unable to “attract” any new followers, adherents, groupies… or even accidental tourists for that matter,  in their place.

What is also of note, is that we are in the Francis Holy Year of Mercy. If this is how the following year is going to unfold, then we could be closer to the end of this FRANCIS NIGHTMARE PONTIFICATE than we suspect.

Please keep in mind that even reactionaries need to eat.

UPDATE

MORE PHOTOS from 2 December 2015 General Audience. (full catalog see here)

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Introibo Ad Altare Dei

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Tomb of St. Stanislas Bishop and Martyr – Wawel Cathedral

Continuing our Restoration theme, todays news from two parts of Europe, namely Poland and the UK.

With respect to the UK, what is interesting to observe is the progress that the Immemorial Mass of All Ages is making, even in the face of the headwind that is Francis. What’s nice to see is that even at the height of the “spirit of VII” reactionary assault of 2014, no territory was lost. In fact, one can even venture to say that the worst of this version of the “Francis Effect” has passed, and it has become a spent force.

With respect to Poland, here what is interesting to observe is how the TLM is breaking into the Cathedrals. Even if only in some side chapels, the infrastructure is being rebuilt.  This is time-consuming. I have read somewhere that it only takes a couple of days to teach a priest to offer the TLM, but the scholas, choirs and organists take much longer. And if anyone has traveled to Poland in the last few years, you would no doubt be shocked by the awfulness of the “organist”. We are talking nuns doing karaoke. AT BEST!

Below are the two posts that I am reproducing…

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Cathedral in Poland, where the Tridentine Mass is celebrated at Wawel Cathedral

Krakow – side chapel of the Wawel Cathedral of St. Stanislaus B&M and St. Wenceslas.

Bialystok – old Parish church within the complex of the Archdiocese Basilica of the Assumption.

Opole – church of St. Alexander located within the Cathedral complex of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.

Gliwice – church of the Holy Trinity is located in the Cathedral complex of Sts. Peter and Paul in Gliwice.

Sandomierz – Cathedral Basilica church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Legnica – cathedral of Apostles Sts. Peter and Paul.

Swidnica – Cathedral of St. Stanislaus and Wenceslas.

Rzeszów – Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

The Mass dates you can learn from our maps

See original here

While on the other side of Europe, from the LMS Chairman we get this rundown of Masses offered in the UK and Wales: (see original here)

61 Traditional Christmas Masses in England and Wales

See the whole list of Christmas Masses here, and Masses for the Epiphany here.

The Latin Mass Society is advertising a record number of Masses in the Extraordinary Form being celebrated this Christmas. Counting Midnight Mass and the Mass of Christmas Day, there will be no fewer than 61 celebrations this year. This represents an increase of 11 since last year

2012 – 44

2013 – 50

2014 – 50

2015 – 61

It is interesting that there was not increase between 2013 and 2014. In many ways I have the impression that there was something of a pause in the development of the Traditional Mass around that time. But that is over now, and it is not difficult to see where the growth has come from. We have a whole group of new centres for the celebration of the Traditional liturgy coming on-stream this year: the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest in Preston, the Fraternity of St Peter in Warrington, the Friars in Gosport, the Oratory in York, a new EF Mass venue in Bedford, and so on. Who would have thought, ten years ago, that there would be celebrations of the Traditional Mass for Christmas in six churches in the Archdiocese of Liverpool?

That there would be a Traditional Mass for Christmas in places like the University Chaplaincy at Leeds, or Portsmouth Cathedral?

That there would be traditional High Masses – with celebrant, deacon and subdeacon – in five different places for Christmas? In Sheffield, Birmingham, Warrington, New Brighton, and Gosport.

We have a long way to go, in making the Traditional Mass genuinely available to Catholics in England and Wales. But thanks to the tremendous work of the priests who love this Mass, and to the faithful who support them – including the Latin Mass Society – we are moving in the right direction.

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From Saul To Paul. It’s Never Been Easier!

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Msgr. Luigi Manganini, until the end of 2012 Archpriest at the Cathedral of Milan and master of ceremonies for the Archbishop, processing to offer Holy Sacrifice of Mass.

Over the last few posts, I have returned to chronicling the advance of the Restoration that is taking place within the Catholic Church. I think it is critical to understand the real situation on the ground, especially when contrasted with the utterings coming from the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Soviet that has captured the Vatican and installed itself in the Domus Sanctae Marthae. The two “pictures” emanating from these two areas of the Catholic Church could not be more different. So a clearer understanding of what is transpiring is needed and that is where you humble blogger comes into the picture.

Today we skip over to the Spanish-speaking world. Two examples of the Restoration in progress come from the two main pillars of Tradition (Catholicism) in the Catholic Church, namely from the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) and the SSPX breakaway group, the Fraternal Society of St. Peter (FSSP). Just to recap the various strengths of these institutions of religious life, or what would be called the Table of Organization and Equipment in the US military, the SSPX is 600+ priests strong while the breakaway FSSP has approximately 250.

With respect to the FSSP, the video below comes from the New Liturgical Movement website (see here) and promotes the opening of a house of priestly formation in Guadalajara Mexico. Although the FSSP has a few parishes under its care in Mexico, this house of formation will be the first step in replanting the vocations infrastructure needed to carry out the Reconquista south of the border.

As to the SSPX, a major player in the Americas, the post and video in the right hand bar of the website (see here) is a promotional video to the consecration of a new Church in Pilar Argentina, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires that took place on the 5th of December of this year. The Sisters of the Society of St. Pius X have their novitiate for Spanish-speaking vocations in Pilar and this Church will serve their community. The SSPX community counts “nearly 170 professed sisters divided amongst 25 houses and 4 novitiates”. Once the consecration Mass is available, I will post it as an update to this post.

Which brings us to the subject matter of today’s post. Over at the Sandro Magister blog, we read in his post titled All the Toil of Being Primate of Italy (see here), from the 17th of November 2015, the following passage:

With the address in Florence, Pope Francis has in fact given the Italian Church its new marching orders, which to a large extent are the same ones that John Paul II had suspended in Loreto, thirty years ago on the dot.

It is a change of direction that is also substantiated in a series of targeted appointments, in the most significant episcopal sees:

This passage is a correct assessment of the strategy of Francis, bishop of Rome in his campaign to complete the take-over the Catholic Church (see here). He will be appointing prelates in critical Sees who he thinks will carry on his revolution. We have confirmation of just this in the MondayVatican post titled Pope Francis, the Church of the future starts now, (see here) from the 13th of January 2015, the special post after the January consistory. In this post, Andrea Gagaliarducci writes the following:

The February 22 consistory will start shaping the future Church. The numbers are clear. From now to 2017, 32 cardinals will turn 80, thus losing the right to vote in a future conclave. And from now to Feb. 22, there will be 106 cardinal electors, so Pope Francis had in fact 14 “red hats” he can grant this year, according to the norm introduced by Paul VI which sets the maximum number of voting cardinals at 120. The Pope will create (in the language of the Church, cardinals are “created”) some 46 cardinals from now to 2017, more than one-third of the cardinals voting in the conclave.

Given that this is the state of play, what is important to understand is first not to be distraught. Despondence after all is a sin. Second, the Holy Spirit has our back. And to prove this last assertion, I am reproducing this post (see here) from the Eponymous Flower blog to illustrate just this phenomenon. I will add emphasis and re-post it…

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From Saul to Paul of the Traditional Rite

(Milan) The Christian faith always aims to conversion and repentance This is what distinguishes the truth of God from the ideologies of men. This lifetime opportunity and possibility is what distinguishes Christianity. This allows diverse and unexpected ways. Such is reported from the Archdiocese of Milan. “”The infamous Msgr. Luigi Manganini until the end of 2012 was Archpriest at the Cathedral of Milan and master of ceremonies for the Archbishop, a sworn enemy of the traditional rite and as grim and zealous opponent of the Catholic tradition, has celebrated today in the traditional form of the Roman Rite”, says the traditional site Chiesa e postconcilio.

For Decades, a Bitter Opponent of the Traditional Rite

For decades Msgr. Manganini was a fierce opponent of tradition and the traditional rite, he “insulted it in every possible way”. Among other things, he spoke publicly of “old scrap iron destined for the heap,”  said Messa in Latino.

Canon Manganini was not just any priest, but until his retirement in late 2012, the most prominent liturgist in the Ambrosian Archdiocese.

Notorious is the episode when the already elderly Msgr. Angelo Amodeo as privately celebrating Msgr. Manganini canon of the Cathedral of Milan, was on his way a few months before his death in 2012 in the house of the canons, to say the Holy Mass in the traditional Ambrosian rite, as it had been approved in 1954 by Blessed Archbishop Cardinal Ildefons Schuster. On the way he met Msgr. Manganini. When he saw the maniple and chalice veil, he berated him loudly and hurled against Msgr. Amodeo all the  curses  which one can only imagine. This Holy Mass was known as the “insult Mass” in  Milan Church history.

“The Holy Mass was to be celebrated, as if we were in the Soviet Union”

Or the episode where in Saregno he forbade the celebration of the traditional Mass at first, then allowed, but only behind “closed doors”, on the grounds that such a celebration would trigger “astonishment” among the faithful. Without rehashing all the details: In Saregno a conference on  Blessed Newman took place in 2010 with.Abbé Jean-Pierre Herman, the Secretary of the then Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels, the just consecrated Msgr. Leonard who wanted to celebrate the Holy Mass in the traditional rite.  Msgr. Manganini forbade it and then allowed the celebration only when Rome intervened. Nevertheless, he tried wherever possible to hinder the celebration. He knew at that very time already that the traditional Mass attracts the faithful. Therefore, the doors of the Church had to be closed. The faithful could only reach  it through the sacristy into the church. They had almost to secretly sneak into the church, as if they did something illegal or  to hide in the Jacobin France of the Revolution or in Communist Russia of the Soviet era. But what happened in Saregno 2010 was not played out in the time of the French Revolution and not in the Soviet Union, but in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan under Archbishop Dionigi Cardinal Tettamanzi  and had been ordered by Msgr. Manganini.

The Rediscovery of the Traditional Rite

Msgr. Manganini is now retired and it was very quiet around him. A few months ago he accepted the request of a group of faithful in Milan to celebrate the traditional Rite. “The formerly so despised and traditional believers are apparently the only ones still showing  honor to him, while in the higher church circles that he defended so zealously, no one seems to look after him,” said Chiesa e postconcilio.

“What would those now say of Msgr. Manganini who was once an idol? Will they also go the way to Damascus, which was opened by Christ for all? ” says Messa in Latino.

But Christ makes it possible that from Saul there can always be a Paul. And so it was that old Msgr Manganini, from whose mouth now came the words, which are a cause of real “astonishment”:. Introibo ad altare Dei. Ad Deum qui Laetificat Juventutem meam.

Msgr. Manganini was ordained a priest on 21 June 1958 by the then Archbishop of Milan, Giovanni Battista Cardinal Montini, the future Pope Paul VI.  even in traditional Ambrosian rite.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: Chiesa e postconcilio

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

Link to Katholisches…

AMDG

Dogs May Bark, But Caravan Needs To Keep Moving

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Came across this post at the National Catholic Reporter website via the Dad29 blog. (see here and original here). If the information is correct, it would appear that the Restoration is gathering pace.

The title of the post at Dad29 is as follows: OMG! An Actual Catholic Priest!! Obviously the proprietor of that blog was using the literary device, commonly refered to as sarcasm (harsh or bitter derision or irony). Obviously! However it’s worth noticing that sarcasm aside, there is a small grain of disbelief contained in this particular title, namely that a Catholic priest would be implementing these sorts of changes against the wishes of a small, yet very vocal CLERICALIST element in his parish.

Yes?

Yet for readers of this blog, there should be no surprises.

So for your reading pleasure, I am republishing the post, with emphasis and [comment]…

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North Carolina parishioners clash with pastor, petition for his removal

In the small Catholic world of the bucolic North Carolina mountains, this Advent is dawning with discord.

A total of 143 parishioners from St. John the Evangelist Church in Waynesville, in a parish of roughly 300 families, [If we assume 3 to 4 individuals per family, we have 900 to 1,200 parishioners, which puts the “complainers” at 16.8% to 11.9%] have petitioned Bishop Peter Jugis of the Charlotte diocese to remove their pastor, Fr. Christopher Riehl, who came to the church just a little over a year ago.

Parishioners who value what they say was the post-Vatican II style of their parish have locked horns with Riehl, who came to Waynesville from the Knoxville, Tenn., diocese in July 2014 intent with what his critics describe as “restorationist” approaches to liturgy and church governance.

In their petition, dated March 9, signees say that Riehl has moved ahead on rectory repairs and other expensive projects over the objection of the parish finance committee [Sound familiar?]; has taken over the parish’s Rite of Christian Initiation for Catholic converts with a pastor-centric approach which is at odds with the recommendations of the U.S. bishops; and has “openly defamed the Second Vatican Council” while substituting popular hymns with Gregorian chant. [Gregorian Chant was given pride of place in Vatican II documents, supposedly] Most of the choir resigned en masse after the former director was relieved of her duties.

In interviews with NCR, parishioners say their pastor has been aloof and removed from the concerns of grieving families at funerals. Attendees at one local civic leader’s funeral, which included a large number of non-Catholics, were told in the pastor’s homily about church teaching on purgatory and little or nothing about the life of the deceased. [They must have been distraught that the Fr. did not tell them that the deceased is now on the heavenly back nine?] They also said their pastor is slow to respond to requests for the sacrament of the sick for the dying. Their complaints fill hundreds of pages of documents they have submitted to NCR and to Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, apostolic nuncio to the United States.

The parish is divided between a group which continues to attend St. John the Evangelist and supports Riehl, and others who have either left the parish for the town’s Episcopal and Methodist congregations or no longer attend Christian worship. [Free country, still. Where is the problem?] Some parishioners now attend Sunday Mass at the office of a local dentist, after being asked by Jugis to cease Sunday worship at the nearby Living Waters Retreat House.

For potential Catholic parish shoppers, there are few alternatives [What’s wrong with the Methodists or the Episcopalians? Sounds like a better fit.] around Waynesville, a tourist town whose population swells in the summer and is located some 30 miles from Asheville in the sparsely-populated and largely Protestant Bible Belt region.

Carol Viau, a local Catholic, considers herself to be part of “St. John’s in exile.” The retreat center Sunday Mass had attracted as many as 100 former St. John’s parishioners. [Truer figure for the disgruntled is 8% to 11%] Petitioners have so far received no formal response from the bishop, other than his suggestion that the group meet with Riehl. A first meeting, held Dec. 1, was described by Viau as providing some progress in addressing concerns about the pastor’s response to requests for the sacraments.

She is, however, not pleased with the response from the diocese on the larger issues. 

“The group feels that the bishop is pro-restoration movement and that’s why he’s turned a deaf ear,” said Viau, a member of St. John’s for eight years. [Sounds like the TRUE AGENDA is to stop the Restoration, regardless of what the pastor and the rest of the parish Faithful want.] The restoration movement, popular among some newly-ordained priests, grew during the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI. Broadly defined, the movement has called for a leaner, muscular church, more attached to ancient liturgical traditions with a strict interpretation of Catholic doctrines and practices.

The diocese denies it is nurturing a “restorationist” movement [Denail, Denail and once again Denial! By the way, it is not a river.] and, according to diocesan spokesman David Hains, it is a term used by Riehl’s critics to discredit him.

Viau said that St. John’s was “a happy and vibrant parish” but is now deeply divided.

Parishioner Mark Zaffrann acknowledged that church attendance is down, but attributed that to what he said was discord sowed by the dissident group. [Political HIDDEN AGENDA at work.] The leadership of that group had “unbridled control of the various ministries” in the parish and resented Riehl’s new approach. [Problems of Bishop Livieres+ and Bishop Finn ring a bell?] He said the old finance council in the parish presented Riehl with an overly-optimistic view of the church’s finances, which was disputed by a diocesan-sponsored audit requested by the new pastor. As for the rectory repairs, Zaffrann, a local realtor, said the structure was uninhabitable and desperately needed renovations.

Liturgically, the parish has improved, Zaffrann told NCR. “My impression is that the Mass is better,” he said. “It’s very humble, reverent and solemn. It brings respect to the Eucharist.” [Graduality, is the operative word here.]

However, critics of Riehl, ordained in 2009 for the Knoxville diocese, say he is out of step with the pastoral emphasis of Pope Francis.

The pope, in his Nov. 18 general audience, suggested that newly-ordained priests avoid rigidity. “I’m scared of rigid priests. They bite,” joked the pontiff.

In an address to Italian Catholics, also in November, Francis suggested, “it is not useful to search for solutions in conservatism or fundamentalism, in the restoration of obsolete conduct or forms that no longer have the capacity of being significant culturally.”

A retired priest of the Charlotte diocese, who has celebrated Mass for the petition signers, said that what they have experienced is common in the diocese. The priest, who requested anonymity for fear of publicly confronting Jugis, said that “restorationist” pastors have been placed in parishes throughout Western Carolina as well as the growing city of Charlotte and its nearby suburbs. [Oh my!!!]

“Wherever they go, people leave,” said the priest, noting that while in other regions shopping for a new parish is easy, the isolation of Catholic parishes in western North Carolina makes it more difficult for those seeking alternatives.

“They took a stand,” he said about the group which considers itself in exile from the parish.

Riehl did not return a phone call from NCR. Jugis, via spokesman Hains, offered a statement which said that liturgical diversity is part of the church’s practice, and quoted Francis that “the Church has a face that is not rigid.”

Regarding the situation in Waynesville, Jugis said: “Parish priests have valued options for the sacrament and as long as there are options there will be differences.” [Options, until the hippies buy the farm.]

The bishop declined to comment on the other complaints from the St. John’s parish group. [The Poles say that dog may bark, but the caravan needs to keep moving.]

[Peter Feuerherd reports on parish matters for NCR and is a professor of journalism and communications at St. John’s University, New York.]

The Mercy Killing Of A Pontificate

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Yesterday I came across a petition asking Francis, the bishop of Rome to resign.

Seeing as how Francis has not found a leftist campaign issue that he has not liked… or promoted, I think that the folks over at the Remnant are ahead of the curve on this one. I would consider it an act of a MERCY KILLING ( the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding medical measures from a person or animal suffering from an incurable, esp. a painful, disease or condition.) of this pontificate.

I think it is a great idea, since I think it is much more humane to kill a pontificate than a human being. But that’s just me.

So just in case you, dear reader have not come across this petition, please consider its contents and signing it. You can find the full version of the original here and I am posting it…

FOR THE RECORD

An Urgent Appeal to Pope Francis to Either Change Course or Renounce the Petrine Office 

December 8, 2015

Feast of the Immaculate Conception

Your Holiness:

Pope Celestine V (r. 1294), recognizing his incapacity for the office to which he had so unexpectedly been elected as the hermit Peter of Morrone, and seeing the grave harm his bad governance had caused, resigned the papacy after a reign of only five months. He was canonized in 1313 by Pope Clement V. Pope Boniface VIII, removing any doubt about the validity of such an extraordinary papal act, confirmed in perpetuity (ad perpetuam rei memoriam) that “the Roman Pontiff may freely resign.”

A growing number of Catholics, including cardinals and bishops, are coming to recognize that your pontificate, also the result of an unexpected election, is likewise causing grave harm to the Church. It has become impossible to deny that you lack either the capacity or the will to do what your predecessor rightly observed a pope must do: “constantly bind himself and the Church to obedience to God’s Word, in the face of every attempt to adapt it or water it down, and every form of opportunism.”

Quite the contrary, as shown in the annexed libellus, you have given many indications of an alarming hostility to the Church’s traditional teaching, discipline and customs, and the faithful who try to defend them, while being preoccupied with social and political questions beyond the competence of the Roman Pontiff. Consequently, the Church’s enemies continually delight in your pontificate, exalting you above all your predecessors. This appalling situation has no parallel in Church history.

Last year, speaking of Pope Benedict’s resignation, Your Holiness declared that if you felt incapable of exercising the papacy “I would do the same.” On the first anniversary of Benedict’s resignation, you called upon the faithful to “join me in prayer for His Holiness Benedict XVI, a man of great courage and humility.”

With no little trepidation, being under the gaze of the One who will judge us all on the Last Day, we your subjects respectfully petition Your Holiness to change course for the good of the Church and the welfare of souls. Failing this, would it not be better for Your Holiness to renounce the Petrine office than to preside over what threatens to be a catastrophic compromise of the Church’s integrity?

In this regard we make our own the words of Saint Catherine of Siena, Doctor of the Church, in her famous letter to Pope Gregory XI, urging him to steer the Church aright during one of her greatest crises: “Since He has given you authority and you have assumed it, you should use your virtue and power: and if you are not willing to use it, it would be better for you to resign what you have assumed…”

Mary, Help of Christians, pray for us!

Your subjects in Christ,
Christopher A. Ferrara
Michael J. Matt
Dr. John Rao
Professor Brian McCall
Elizabeth Yore
Timothy J. Cullen
Chris Jackson
Michael Lofton
Father Celatus
Connie Bagnoli
Susan Claire Potts
Robert Siscoe
John Salza, Esq.
Vincent Chiarello
John Vennari

The Natural Order of Things

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Today we return to Politics, Economics, Greece and our Visibilium Omnium, et Invisibilium theme. In our post of a similar title, (see here) we observed that at the end of the day, there exists a NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS, or as we say, NATURAL LAW. This natural law governs all of… well,… God’s creation. Given the above, we can observe the NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS not only in Catholic theology and moral doctrine, but likewise in areas as diverse as politics, economics and even social policy.

An example of the above, can be observed in the political landscape on the old continent that is presently playing itself out. Two elections have come to pass recently, one in Poland and one in France.

Starting with the latter, the election is only the first round, with the run off election scheduled for this Sunday, (see here) but it looks like the Front National (FN), a political party that is strongly backed by the French Catholic vote, has pulled off stunning win against its rivals from the mainstream establishment. Your humble blogger did a couple of posts recently about just this Restoration phenomenon recently (see here and here). One of the leaders of the Front National is Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, the 26-year-old granddaughter of Jean Marie Le Pen, the FN founder and a Catholic. As in traditional Catholic. (see here) And as one would expect, after the results of the first round of voting, all hell is breaking loose among the “humanist” sector.

The other significant, and more important election was held in Poland on the 25th of October of this year, and Law and Justice Party (L&J) won that election. After their candidate, Andrzej Duda defeated the post-communist candidate in the May presidential elections, the L&J party captured a stunning victory in October, becoming the first party to win an outright election in Poland since the Soviet Communist regime fell in 1989/1991. The L&J Party is also deeply rooted in conservative Catholicism, of the JP II variety at present. (see here)

One of the first declared initiatives of the L&J Party is to pass a law by the end of the 1st Quarter 2016, under which each family will receive a stipend of 500 PLN ($120) for the second child and each subsequent child there after. Needless to say, in the economic reality that subsists in Poland presently, this stipend will be a game changer. And as one would expect, this game changer has not gone down well with the “humanist” sector either. Actually, all hell broke loose on account of this initiative and the necessary L&J’s moves to be able to implement it.

These two above mentioned elections share many similar attributes. Catholicism being but one of them. What these two political parties also share is the conviction that what is needed in both countries is a national currency, in order to be able to implement and carry out much-needed reforms. And naturally, these intended reforms are designed to comply with the NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS.

With respect to the situation in France, the leader of the French National Front, Marine Le Pen has declared that the first initiative of any new NF government will be a referendum about leaving the Euro currency and returning to the French Franc. Whereas in Poland, which never abandoned its national currency, the Polish Zloty, the new government has dropped “Euro entry” responsibilities from the job title of the new Vice Finance Minister. This act is of significance in that it signals that the Poles will not be entertaining any Euro entry thoughts for the foreseeable futures.

And just to reinforce the significance of these two events, allow me to say this once again: the HUMANIST INTERNATIONAL is not happy.

What they are not happy about is that RATIONAL politicians are being elected by sizeable majorities who have completely ignored the mainstream narratives promoted by the establishment media. Furthermore, they are also not happy that the resistance is coming from the Catholic voters.

And this is a good thing in and of itself.

Therefore, I have decided to republish the below post from Jeff Thomas of the InternationalMan blog via the ZeroHedge website (see here), in order to provide you dear reader with a reference text about the importance of national currencies and RATIONAL economic and monetary policies. But in the larger scheme of things, what is important to understand is that there is a NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS that exits and any non RATIONAL ideology that strays too far from this ORDER, must be prepared to suffer consequences.

And those consequences are not pleasant.

FOR THE RECORD

Weimar Greece – The Effects Of A Currency Collapse

Cash is a scarce commodity in Greece.

In June, Greek banks declared a surprise limitation on how much could be withdrawn from an account. At present, the government still limits the cash withdrawals of Greeks.

And, of course, this is just the most recent in a series of events that make up the cash squeeze. In response, Greeks have done what all people do when they cannot get enough currency – they improvise.

Several alternate systems for payment of goods and services have cropped up in Greece since 2010. One is TEM, which allows people to gain monetary credit on an internet site, which may then be used to pay others. Another system is the Athens Time Bank, which logs time units, allowing individuals to pay each other with their time. The services provided can be anything from language lessons to medical consultation. Other systems are popping up, as Greeks seek out any method of payment other than the euro, since they’re closed off from their own savings at the banks. As can be expected, barter is becoming more commonplace.

Greece is right where Weimar Germany was in late 1922. The 1919 Treaty of Versailles required Germany to pay reparations for WWI. At the time, Germany, having lost the war, was already on the ropes economically. The conditions of the treaty amounted to an unpayable level of debt. As it became apparent that it was impossible to pay, the allies squeezed harder. Economic conditions in Germany worsened dramatically, not unlike Greece today, and for the same reason.Germans did their best to sidestep the economic squeeze. As the cost of goods and services was rapidly rising (on a daily basis), Germans learned that it was best to spend Reichsmarks as quickly as possible on virtually anything that was holding its value better than banknotes.

Interestingly, in 1922, virtually no one felt that currency was the problem. German politicians blamed the allies, particularly the French, for demanding that Germany live up to the treaty they had signed. Bankers often blamed foreign currencies for rising against the mark. And the people of Germany generally placed the blame on the most immediate symptom – that costs were rising more quickly than wages. Although they were pleased when their own wages went up, they wanted the prices of commodities to remain the same. They therefore blamed the merchants (particularly the many Jewish merchants) for raising the prices of their goods every time wages increased. They blamed this on Jewish greed, failing to understand that, every time wages increased, the cost of production increased and that increase was passed to the merchants.

In 1922, as in 2015, virtually everyone failed to recognise that monetary movement is circular in nature, not linear. All payments, for all goods and services, impact each other, in a domino effect.

The provision of goods and services is the lifeblood of any economy. Those who offer them and those who pay for them create wealth by doing so. This is the natural order of economics. However, if currency is artificially pumped into an economic system, either through the printing of bank notes, as in Germany in 1922, or the provision of bailouts, as in Greece in 2015, no goods have been created, no services have been performed. The injection of currency fails to improve the economy; it makes the situation worse. At some point, the money tap must be shut off, and, when it is, a crash takes place. The severity of the crash is directly proportional to the degree of currency injection.

So, as long as we’re comparing parallel events, what else happened back then? Well, one interesting development was that, although most everyone in Germany was experiencing a steady decrease in their standard of living, farmers seemed to be holding their own. This, of course, was because they remained productive. They created essential goods for sale to others, so they maintained their living standards. In the autumn of 1922, most Bavarians could not afford to attend Oktoberfest, but the beer halls did an acceptable business with the farmers who came to town for the celebration. They were deeply resented by city dwellers for being able to afford beer that they themselves could not afford.

Such was the resentment that the prime minister of Bavaria submitted a bill to the Reichsrat to make gluttony a public offense.

In 1923, as the Weimar inflation grew to the point that city dwellers were starving, many of them went out to the country to steal the produce the farmers had worked to grow. Resentment was so high against the farmers that many raiders killed the farmers out of hatred. Further, since they couldn’t take the farmers’ cattle back to the city with them, they slaughtered them in the fields, out of spite. Of course, by destroying the source of the food, they assured that they would receive even less in future. Many starved.

As stated by British Author Adam Fergusson in When Money Dies:

It brought out the worst in everybody… It caused fear and insecurity among those who had already known too much of both. It fostered xenophobia. It promoted contempt for government and the subversion of law and order.

As stated at the time by Sir Basil Blackett, controller of finance of the British Treasury, “Each class in Germany thinks that the burden of taxation should fall on some other class.” (Does any of this sound familiar?)

If Greece in 2015 mirrors Germany in 1922, then we might expect Greece in 2016 to come to resemble Germany in 1923.

But how about the rest of us? We’re not in the state that Greece is in – at least not yet. But the EU as a whole, and the U.S., Canada, and many other “First World” countries, are following the same destructive economic path. (They just aren’t quite as far along as Weimar Germany, 1923.)

So, we might be interested to know what came next in Germany.

Demands increased by the public for a mandatory redistribution of wealth.

This has become a common cry, particularly in the U.S., where a presidential election will take place in a year and some candidates are fanning the flames on this issue.

Movement of currency had to notified, then authorised.

Currency controls are being implemented, one after the other, to limit the people’s ability to move their own money. Most threatening is a plan to eliminate cash, so that money cannot be transferred without the permission of the banks.Importation was regulated.

Politicians in the EU and U.S. are speaking increasingly of the need for protective tariffs.

Political leaders have, for decades been squeezing the economy for all they can get and, as they’ve reached the point of diminishing returns, they’ve done what politicians always do, increase debt in order to prolong and increase their intake of wealth.

This can be likened to a farmer who, wanting more milk than a cow can produce, milks it dry, then, refusing to admit his folly, starts draining the cow of its blood. He may say to both himself and others that the increasing need may be satisfied by increasing the removal of blood and, on a temporary basis, this will allow him to continue making use of the cow. However, once he has done so, it is a certainty that, at some point very soon, the cow will collapse.

This was the case in Germany in 1923…and is the case in much of the world now.