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Years of Plenty For SSPX Continue

21 Wednesday Oct 2015

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SSPX Winona 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

In yesterday’s post titled “Tłuste Lata” For Catholicism in Poland (see here) we chronicled the advance that Catholicism is making in the Polish Church. The advance can be seen in the growing numbers of men who are presently studying for the priesthood in Catholic seminaries.

Today, we turn our focus to the Catholic Church’s FIRST RELIGIOUS SOCIETY AMONG EQUALS, the Fraternal Priestly Society of St. Pius X. On the SSPX’s US website, (see here) via the DICI website, we are informed that a total of 53 new entrants have commenced their first year of study at SSPX seminaries. Furthermore, another 49 men have entered the pre-seminary phase who will take courses in the humanities before beginning their specialized seminary studies.

To provide context, since context is everything, I would like to draw your attention to the situation at the Seminary of Our Lady Co-Redemptrix in La Reja Argentina. La Reja is approximately 30 miles west of Buenos Aires. (see here) Just this year, 9 new entrants will begin their first year of spirituality and a further 14 will begin the pre-seminary phase. That is a total of 23 men just this year. When added to the 30+ seminarians (will confirm once I have exact figure but there are 49 seminarians in La Reja and Goulburn collectively), the total comes out to no less than 53.

While at the same time, over at the diocesan seminary of Buenos Aires, the number of seminarians is less than 30. (Once again, see here) And for further context, here is a comment from a friend of this blog, Mr Richard Malcomb who writes:

“Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio in his last year as the Archbishop of Buenos Aires had in his seminary a grand total of 28 seminarians.”
…which was a two thirds dropoff from what he inherited in 1997.

Before I go to the post, I would just like to remind all my readers that the SSPX’s Seminary Project in Virginia is underway. (see here) Last time we checked in, the slate roof was being installed. (see here) If you would be so kind as to venture over to their website and even kinder and contribute to this noble cause, your humble blogger would be most grateful.

On an aside, at this rate, it would appear that this new seminary will be needed just to handle the overflow from St. Thomas Aquinas Seminiary in Winona.

Deo Gratias!

Archbishop Lefebvre, ora pro nobis!

And now, I am reproducing the post below…

FOR THE RECORD

From DICI we offer this joyful news about this academic year’s number of entrants to the SSPX’s seminaries, as well as the total of postulants to the brotherhood.


The Society of St. Pius X is admitting a total of 53 young men to their first year of spirituality in its different seminaries for the current academic year 2015-2016.

In the Northern Hemisphere, the Seminary of the Holy Cure of Ars in Flavigny (France) is welcoming 14 new seminarians (4 Frenchmen, 4 Swiss, 2 Gabonese, 2 Italian, 1 Nigerian and 1 Pole) and 2 postulant brothers (1 French and 1 Canadian), as well as a pre-seminarian.

Sacred Heart Seminary in Zaitzkofen (Germany) is welcoming 10 new seminarians (2 Germans, 2 Czechs, 1 Austrian, 1 Frenchman, 1 Lithuanian, 1 Pole, 1 Russian and 1 South African).

St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary in Winona, Minnesota (U.S.A.) is welcoming 12 new seminarians and 5 postulant brothers (all Americans), as well as 30 pre-seminarians who will take courses in the humanities before beginning their specialized seminary studies. [Read at STAS.ORG: 35 new vocations]

In the Southern Hemisphere the beginning of the new academic year in March 2015 saw the arrival at the Seminary of Our Lady Co-Redemptrix in La Reja (Argentina) of 9 new seminarians (5 Argentines, 2 Brazilians, 1 Chilean and 1 Guatemalan) and 3 postulant brothers (1 American, 1 Brazilian and 1 Dominican), and of 14 pre-seminarians as well.

At Holy Cross Seminary in Goulburn (Australia), 8 new seminarians had entered as first-year students (2 Australians, 2 Filipinos, 1 American, 1 Indian, 1 Kenyan, and 1 Ugandan), as well as one postulant brother and 4 pre-seminarians.

That makes for this calendar year 2015 a total of 53 first-year seminarians and 10 entering as postulants to become brothers. There were 51 new seminarians in 2014, 43 in 2013, 50 in 2012, 57 in 2011, and 48 in 2010.

(Source: FSSPX/MG—DICI no. 323, 10-19-2015)

Like the old saying claims: You can’t argue with success!

 

“Tłuste Lata” For Catholicism in Poland

20 Tuesday Oct 2015

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SSPX ZeitzkofenI interrupt the chronicling of the Synod of Filth to bring some good news. Below is a translation of two posts, one from the SSPX Polish website and the other from the  UnaCum.pl post (Polish Una Voce) pertaining to seminarians studying in SSPX and Ecclesia Dei Seminaries.

As you can see dear reader, the Poles are experiencing “Tłuste Lata”, which translates roughly into a “Years of plenty”.

First, the SSPX since they have pride of place and are first among equals on your humble blogger’s even humbler blog. On the back of the 39 seminarians that took their cassocks at the SSPX’s seminaries that we chronicled in the post titled Vaches Grasses (see here) and had to quickly update it, which we did with the post titled Make That 39!, (see here) all in February of this year. Well the new year has started and it promises to be another  “Tłuste Lato”. We have a further 10 taking their cassock at the SSPX’s Zaitzkfen International Seminary alone, being reported by the SSPX’s Polish website.  Here is the translated post: (original see here)

This year, to the international seminary belonging to the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X, the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Zaitzkofen Bavaria, knocked the next ten young men who want to study and take formation to serve the Church as priests. Candidates for the priesthood come from eight countries: among them two Germans and two Czechs and one candidate from Austria, France, Lithuanian, Poland, South Africa and Russia – the latter does not appear in the photo, because it is still waiting for a visa to enter the EU .

And from co-religionists and brothers in Christ, fighting the good fight inside the pro-conciliar church structures, over at at the UnaCum.pl website the following can be read: (original see here)

Poles in traditional seminars UnaCum.pl

As every year, we publish the joyous news about Poles who are preparing for the priesthood in the priestly pontifical institutes of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei. These seminarians are asking for prayers, for their priestly vocations.

In the European seminary of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) in Wigratzbad in Bavaria, studying theology are Mr James who comes from the Diocese of Torun and Mr Michael who is from the Archdiocese of Warsaw. Studying philosophy in Bavaria are two Poles: Mr Peter of the Archdiocese of Lodz and Mr Wojciech from the diocese of Bielsko-Zywiec. In the US seminary of the FSSP in Denton studying theology is Mr Krzysztof who comes from the diocese of Bielsko – Zywiec.

The seminary of the Institute of the Good Shepherd (IBP) in Courtalain in France, the following individuals are preparing for the priesthood: Mr Wojciech from the Diocese of Torun, Mr Michael of the Archdiocese of Warsaw, Mr. Rafal from the Diocese of Radom, Mr. Peter of the Archdiocese of Gniezno, Mr.. Przemysław from the Archdiocese Warsaw and Mr.George of the Archdiocese of Warsaw.

On 1 November 2012, the Superior of Institute of St. Philip Neri (ISPN), headquartered in Berlin, the Academy was established by Card. Baronius. The Academy educates future priests for the Institute, but the classes are open to all. The course of studies at the Academy last 6 years and is consistent with the Roman guidelines for training priests in philosophy and theology. In this academic year, continuing his studies at the Academy is Mr. Martin who is from the Diocese of Rzeszow.

Sancte Gabriel Possenti, ora pro eis!

And just to give you a point of reference as to how big this news is, please recall that Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio in his last year as the Archbishop of Buenos Aires had in his seminary a grand total of 28 seminarians. (see here)

A big DEO GRATIAS and please keep these young men, all the other young men who are attending traditional seminaries as well as seminaries that teach traditional Catholicism in your prayers.

Archbishop Lefebvre, ora pro nobis!

PS Brick by brick!

Running With The Devil

08 Thursday Oct 2015

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Card. Danneel V

In yesterday’s post titled Theology, Ideology and One Confused Cardinal (see here), we demonstrated that within the medical profession, two schools of thought exits. One school of thought could be termed “scientific” while the other is one base on “ideology”. We demonstrated how to distinguish between which medical professionals are “scientific” and which are “ideologues“. We then turned to a statement that Card. Kasper made regarding the changing of Catholic doctrine with respect to “intrinsically disordered” behavior. We observed that Catholic moral teaching is based on a “scientific” approach. And we asserted that if the Church were to change its “scientific” approach, it would naturally fall into the “ideological” camp. And then we posed the following question:

Which leads to the following question: how can the Church “reconsider the situation of homosexuals” if the Church has always had and presently has an OBJECTIVELY CORRECT position with respect to “intrinsically disordered” behaviour, behaviour which encompasses homosexuals.

And then we made the follow-up observation:

That is, unless the Church wants to transform Catholic THEOLOGY into an IDEOLOGY.

Which brings us to today’s subject matter.

If our heterodox Cardinal Kasper was a bit ambiguous on the point of “changing” Catholic doctrine on “objectively disordered” behavior, the position of his fellow cardinal of Team Bergoglio and “mafia club” fame, the heterodox Cardinal Godfried Danneels leaves no room for doubt.

Actually, Cardinal Danneels not only supports changing Catholic doctrine with respect to “objectively disordered” behavior, but would even allow individuals afflicted with same-sex attraction to formalize their arrangement through “same-sex marriage”. Here is Cardinal Danneels’ position as set out by Damian Thompson (see here):

Danneels maintains that the church ‘has never opposed the fact that there should exist a sort of “marriage” between homosexuals’.

And we know that a “sort of marriage between homosexuals” would not be possible in FrancisChurch since it would not be a “sacramental marriage”, which would imply that homosexuals are second class citizens, etc. Therefore, Cardinal Danneels is claiming, ipso facto that the Sacrament of marriage encompasses “same-sex unions” for the lack of a better term.

What’s even more interesting if not outright disturbing, is that Cardinal Danneels practices what he preaches in related forms of “intrinsically disordered” behavior. When confronted with child abuse allegations of one of his fellow bishops, who was accused of raping his (the accused bishop’s) nephew, Cardinal Danneels made the following suggestion to the victim of said child abuse:

In 2010, a man confided in Danneels that he had been abused by a bishop, Roger Vangheluwe. The cardinal, who didn’t know he was being tape-recorded, told him to shut up until after the bishop retired.

Aside from holding the “progressive” position, what that other heterodox Reinhard “Bling” Marx, the cardinal of Swank (see here) would call a “left position” (see here), Cardinal Danneels’ position appears to be one of: sexual consent is only required from one party, no statutory legal age of consent required, child abuse is condoned (if bishop involved), child abuse is not considered a criminal activity so no need to investigate/report. With respect to the “Sacrament of marriage”, Card. Danneels’ position is that the “church” has never opposed the fact that there should exist a sort of “marriage” between homosexuals’.

What the above demonstrates is that Cardinal Danneels not only considers the “right” of individuals engaging in “intrinsically disordered” behavior to have their activities sanctioned by the Catholic Church, but that this sanctioning falls in the category of the “sacramental marriage”.

And to finish up this topic on the “sacrament of same-sex marriage”, Damian Thompson observes that:

No other cardinal holds this batty view.

But that’s not to say that no other “religion” holds this batty view.

One other “religion” that does hold this “batty” view, i.e. that individuals who engage in “intrinsically disordered” behavior should have the right to formalize their “relationship” by “ecclesiastical authorities” is none other than the Satanists.

According to the national spokesman for the Satanic Temple, the following is part of their “belief system”: (see here)

He added that gay “marriage” is a Satanic “sacrament.”

Here is how “Lucien Greaves” expounds on the Satanist’s “religious” beliefs:

“Lucien Greaves” told Detroit’s Metro Times that he would like to help women avoid complying with pro-life laws by saying abortion restrictions violate their Satanic religious beliefs. He added that gay “marriage” is a Satanic “sacrament.”

Therefore, the question then arises, how is it that a Catholic cardinal, the former head of the Belgian Episcopate Conference and the head of the Satanic Temple would both consider the “intrinsically disordered” behavior as being akin to a “sacrament”?

Let’s start with the easy part, i.e. the Satanists.

According to Catholic doctrine (see here), Satan is the father of lies. We also know that Satan is a fallen angel, who sinned by desiring to be “as God”. Here is a more detailed explanation:

The whole Church and each one of her children are beset by dangers, the fire of persecution, the enervation of ease, the dangers of wealth and of poverty, heresies and errors of opposite characters, rationalism and superstition, fanaticism and indifference. It would be bad enough if all these forces were acting apart and without any definite purpose, but the perils of the situation are incalculably increased when all may be organized and directed by vigilant and hostile intelligences.

Well, those forces are surely “organizing and directing” in the natural realm.

So what we can infer from the above passage is that Satan is a “hostile intelligence” who is working to promote perils in the world and the weakness of the flesh.

Therefore, if Satan is a hostile intelligent being who is working to undermine the children of the Church to promote perils and by promoting the weakness of the flesh, and we know that which Satan is promoting is not what God intended and not what the Catholic Church teaches and has always taught, then it must follow that the OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE of the work of Satan can be considered to be the following: (see here)

This study compared prevalence rates of most common sexually transmitted diseases (STD) in heterosexual and homosexual men who made respectively 12,201 and 5324 visits to an STD clinic over 18 months. Overall, homosexual men were significantly (p < 0.001) more likely than heterosexual men to have gonorrhea (30.31% vs. 19.83%), early syphilis (1.08% vs. 0.34%) and anal warts (2.90% vs. 0.26%) but less likely to have nongonococcal urethritis (NGU) (14.63% vs. 36.40%, p < 0.001), herpes genitalis (0.93% vs. 3.65%, p < 0.001), pediculosis pubis (4.30% vs. 5.35%, p < 0.005), scabies (0.42% vs. 0.76%, p < 0.02), and genital warts (1.68% vs. 6.69%, p < 0.001). In most cases the differences in rates remained significant (p < 0.05) when corrected for age and race. It is speculated that higher rates of gonorrhea and syphilis result from a larger mean number of sexual contacts, more potential sites of infection, and more hidden and asymptomatic disease, while the lower rates of the other STD result from a lesser susceptibility of anal mucosa to the causative agent(s) of NGU, herpes genitalis, and venereal warts or from a lack of pubic apposition (pediculosis pubis).

So from the above OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE, one can easily infer why the Satanists would not only be actively promoting this sort of “intrinsically disordered” behavior, but also why they would consider behavior that creates this type of human misery derived from the “weakness of the flesh” as one of their “sacraments”.

But what about Cardinal Danneels and why would he share the same position with the Satanists, i.e that “intrinsically disordered” behavior, behavior that creates this type of human misery derived from the “weakness of the flesh”, should be considered an “ecclesiastical sacrament”?

The easy answer: IDEOLOGY.

A secondary motivation: ECUMENISM?

I will leave you, dear reader with this thought, and pick up this topic tomorrow.

Theology, Ideology and One Confused Cardinal

07 Wednesday Oct 2015

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Card. Kasper ConfusedToday we pick up where we left off yesterday, namely with a quote from our heterodox Cardinal Walter Kasper. Just to remind you dear reader, in yesterday’s post title Clinically Speaking, Your Eminence… (see here), we demonstrated that the heterodox Cardinal Schonborn’s statement that a “stable gay relationship” is better than a ‘temporary’ one”, is an OBJECTIVELY FALSE statement.

As the evidence demonstrated, the more temporary the “gay relationship”, the better. And the optimal “gay relationship” is a non existing one. Clinically speaking, of course.

Today we pick up with the Breitbart post that we linked to at the end of that post. In that link, we see a statement that is made by another of the heterodox cardinals, i.e. Cardinal Walter Kasper. In this passage, Card. Kasper makes the following claim:

Kasper advocates a more holistic approach to theology, while lamenting what he terms “a certain fundamentalism” in the Church. “You take one line of the Gospel and this becomes an ideology to support your case,” he said.

The statement above, in and of itself is an OBJECTIVELY TRUE statement.

Theology, or to be more precise, Catholic theology can be very much described as a theology derived through a “holistic” approach. If we recall from our post titled Discernment Guide for Dummies (see here), please recall that our Catholic faith comes from two sources, i.e. as known through (1) “natural light of human reason from the things that are made” and (2) as known through “divine revelation”.

The second sentence is also quite correct in that if you take “one line of Gospel” you can create an “ideology to support your case”. This is an OBJECITELY TRUE statement due to the fact that Catholic theology is derived from two sources. With respect to the term IDEOLOGY, we recall from our last post that IDEOLOGY is defined as “body of doctrine, myth, etc. that guides an individual, institution, class, or large group”. A “system that derives ideas exclusively from sensation” and is confined to “theorizing of a visionary or impractical nature”.

Therefore, a citing of “one line of Gospel” definitely could not be considered CATHOLIC THEOLOGY, but by all means can be considered an IDEOLOGY. So from the above paragraph, we have determined that this statement of Card. Kasper is in fact an OBJECTIVELY TRUE STATEMENT.

Which brings us to yesterday’s post and the specific issue of GAY BOWEL SYNDROME (Gay Bowel Disease GBD). In yesterday’s post, we likewise demonstrated that the diagnosis of the condition refered to as GBD was also derived through a NON-IDEOLOGICAL manner. It was actually derived through what is termed “the scientific method”, a methodology that we Catholics refer to as Thomistic. But I digress…

Adding more data points to our body of evidence presented in yesterday’s post, we have a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from as recently as 2010 which states:

“Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) represent approximately 2% of the US population, yet are the population most severely affected by HIV and are the only risk group in which new HIV infections have been increasing steadily since the early 1990s. In 2006, MSM accounted for more than half (53%) of all new HIV infections in the United States…”

And to finish this point, the reason that GAY BOWEL SYNDROME exists is due to harmful and dangerous sexual practices, sexual practices that the Catholic Catechism defines as “intrinsically disordered”. The reason that these sexual practices are termed “intrinsically disordered” is that “human physiology makes it clear that the body was not designed to accommodate this activity”. Furthermore,” the anus is a delicate mechanism of small muscles that comprise an “exit-only” passage. With repeated trauma, friction and stretching, the sphincter loses its tone and its ability to maintain a tight seal. Consequently, anal intercourse leads to leakage of fecal material that can easily become chronic”. “The potential for injury is exacerbated by the fact that the intestine has only a single layer of cells separating it from highly vascular tissue, that is, blood.” “Furthermore, ejaculate has components that are immunosuppressive. In the course of ordinary reproductive physiology, this allows the sperm to evade the immune defenses of the female. Rectal insemination of rabbits has shown that sperm impaired the immune defenses of the recipient. Semen may have a similar impact on humans. The end result is that the fragility of the anus and rectum, along with the immunosuppressive effect of ejaculate, make anal-genital intercourse a most efficient manner of transmitting HIV and other infections.”

OBJECTIVELY TRUE clinical information.

Sounds like the kind of information that a physician would be advised to explain to his patient, a patient who might be in danger of contracting or even exhibited symptoms of the GAY BOWEL SYNDROME.

Furthermore, any medical services provider, who provides health information to individuals who are afflicted with this “intrinsically disordered” inclination, would want to inform these individuals of the health risks involved in engaging in this “intrinsically disordered” behavior. Especially in a highly litigious society like the one in the United States of America.

So let’s assume that the above is our BASE CASE SCENARIO and see what evidence we can find to support this HYPOTHESIS.

Over at the Mayo Clinic website (see here), in the Healthy Lifestyles, Men’s health section, in a post titled Health issues for gay men and men who have sex with men, the Mayo Clinic staff provides the following advice:

All men face certain health risks. However, gay men and men who have sex with men have some specific health concerns.

Although your individual risks are shaped by many factors beyond your sexual orientation and practices — including family history and age — it’s important to understand common health issues for gay men and steps you can take to stay healthy.

Good start. Let’s read further to see what other advice the Mayo Clinic staff provides to individuals who would be in this group that exhibits heightened GBD risks. We read the following category titles:

Use a condom or other protection,

Be monogamous.

Limit the amount of alcohol you drink, and don’t use drugs,

Know the risks associated with sexual venues.

Get vaccinated.

Get tested and have your partner tested.

Consider the drug Truvada.

Hmmm….. I do not see any evidence of what is usually considered “preventive health care”. For that matter, I do not see any evidence that the information provided on this site gives the visitor the impression that engaging in this “intrinsically disordered” behaviour could cause that individual grave health conditions.

Although the Mayo Clinic staff mention the OBJECTIVE FACT that “Men who have sex with men are at increased risk of contracting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, as well as other sexually transmitted infections, including hepatitis, human papillomavirus (HPV), herpes simplex, gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis”, they do not go into any further detail or even address the more basic concerns, concerns that would be addressed on a pack of Marlboro’s with respect to smokers and lung cancer or even on McDonald’s coupon booklet addressing the potential for the client to incur burns from drinking hot coffee.

Maybe this Mayo Clinic website is an outlier. Maybe other health providers are a bit more interested in preventive medicine and more accurately explaining the health risk in engaging in “intrinsically disordered” behavior?

Over at a United Kingdom website called netdoctror (see here), surely these types of preventive medical concerns will be not only stated, but even highlighted. Especially since the National Health Service exits in a perpetual state of underfunding and over extension. Surely preventive medical advise would be provided on the netdoctor website?

Surely.

On the Anal sex page of the netdoctor website, we find the following passage:

Anal sex has always been a highly controversial subject, and the controversy that surrounds it looks set to continue into 2014 because evidence is accumulating that this practice may sometimes lead to anal cancer.

That’s a good start. Let’s see how the UK doctors answer the question that they themselves posed on their page, the question being about “anal sex being safe”. Here is what appears:

Anal sex, if practiced with care, is possible for most couples.

Which leads to the next self posed question, “How to try to keep anal intercourse safe.” And here is the answer:

It is possible for both men and women to ‘receive’ it, although care is needed for it to be safe and comfortable.

Ensure the anal area is clean and the bowel is empty. This is important both aesthetically and practically. If the bowel is empty, there is no risk of the receptive partner passing faeces.

Gentleness, care, adequate lubrication and anal relaxation are required. The insertive partner must be gentle with any thrusting, so as to give the receptive partner time to allow the sphincter to relax. With time and practice, this may become easier.

So there you have it.

With respect to our HYPOTHESIS asserting that a medical professional would discourage his patients from engaging in a harmful and dangerous behavior, behavior that could lead to said individual contracting GAY BOWEL SYNDROME, the two above cited source have demonstrated our HYPOTHESIS to be incorrect.

Using our earlier framework of SCIENTIFIC v IDEOLOGICAL medical professionals, it is self-evident that the medical professional who have identified and diagnosed GAY BOWEL SYNDROME would be considered SCIENTIFIC while the medical professionals who recommend how to perform the OBJECTIVELY harmful and dangerous “intrinsically disordered” behaviour as being IDEOLOGICAL.

Which brings us to our heterodox Cardinal Kasper. In another paragraph of the same Breitbart post, Cardinal Kasper makes the following statement:

On the eve of the Vatican synod on marriage and the family, progressive German Cardinal Walter Kasper has come out publicly against doctrinal “fundamentalism” in the Church, while expressing his hope that the synod will open a “dialogue” on contraception for Catholics and reconsider the situation of homosexuals.

Which leads to the following question: how can the Church “reconsider the situation of homosexuals” if the Church has always had and presently has an OBJECTIVELY CORRECT position with respect to “intrinsically disordered” behaviour, behaviour which encompasses homosexuals.

That is, unless the Church wants to transform Catholic THEOLOGY into an IDEOLOGY.

Which appears, prima facia to be what Cardinal Kasper is suggesting.

 

Clinically Speaking, Your Eminence …

06 Tuesday Oct 2015

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Card. Schonborn IIIn yesterday’s post we left off with a comment by the heterodox Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna, in which he stated that a “stable gay relationship” is better than a ‘temporary’ one”. Today we will examine (test) whether such an animal exists and if it does, whether the desire for these “stable” relationships this is in fact an OBJECTIVELY TRUE statement.

So let’s get cracking.

According to the Catholic Education Resource Center, (see here) the following is the case with homosexual behavior: (emphasis added)

“Male homosexual behaviour is not simply either ‘active’ or ‘passive,’ since penile-anal, mouth-penile, and hand-anal sexual contact is usual for both partners, and mouth-anal contact is not infrequent. . . . Mouth-anal contact is the reason for the relatively high incidence of diseases caused by bowel pathogens in male homosexuals. Trauma may encourage the entry of micro-organisms and thus lead to primary syphilitic lesions occurring in the anogenital area. . . . In addition to sodomy, trauma may be caused by foreign bodies, including stimulators of various kinds, penile adornments, and prostheses.”20

By far the largest problem with which the human body has to cope, when engaging in homosexual behavior is as follows:

Anal intercourse is the sine qua non of sex for many gay men.22 Yet human physiology makes it clear that the body was not designed to accommodate this activity. The rectum is significantly different from the vagina with regard to suitability for penetration by a penis. The vagina has natural lubricants and is supported by a network of muscles. It is composed of a mucus membrane with a multi-layer stratified squamous epithelium that allows it to endure friction without damage and to resist the immunological actions caused by semen and sperm. In comparison, the anus is a delicate mechanism of small muscles that comprise an “exit-only” passage. With repeated trauma, friction and stretching, the sphincter loses its tone and its ability to maintain a tight seal. Consequently, anal intercourse leads to leakage of fecal material that can easily become chronic.

The potential for injury is exacerbated by the fact that the intestine has only a single layer of cells separating it from highly vascular tissue, that is, blood. Therefore, any organisms that are introduced into the rectum have a much easier time establishing a foothold for infection than they would in a vagina. The single layer tissue cannot withstand the friction associated with penile penetration, resulting in traumas that expose both participants to blood, organisms in feces, and a mixing of bodily fluids.

Furthermore, ejaculate has components that are immunosuppressive. In the course of ordinary reproductive physiology, this allows the sperm to evade the immune defenses of the female. Rectal insemination of rabbits has shown that sperm impaired the immune defenses of the recipient.23 Semen may have a similar impact on humans.24

The end result is that the fragility of the anus and rectum, along with the immunosuppressive effect of ejaculate, make anal-genital intercourse a most efficient manner of transmitting HIV and other infections. The list of diseases found with extraordinary frequency among male homosexual practitioners as a result of anal intercourse is alarming:
Anal Cancer
Chlamydia trachomatis
Cryptosporidium
Giardia lamblia
Herpes simplex virus
Human immunodeficiency virus
Human papilloma virus
Isospora belli
Microsporidia
Gonorrhea
Viral hepatitis types B & C
Syphilis25

Sexual transmission of some of these diseases is so rare in the exclusively heterosexual population as to be virtually unknown. Others, while found among heterosexual and homosexual practitioners, are clearly predominated by those involved in homosexual activity. Syphilis, for example is found among heterosexual and homosexual practitioners. But in 1999, King County, Washington (Seattle), reported that 85 percent of syphilis cases were among self-identified homosexual practitioners.26 And as noted above, syphilis among homosexual men is now at epidemic levels in San Francisco.27

A 1988 CDC survey identified 21 percent of all Hepatitis B cases as being homosexually transmitted while 18 percent were heterosexually transmitted.28 Since homosexuals comprise such a small percent of the population (only 1-3 percent),29 they have a significantly higher rate of infection than heterosexuals.30

Anal intercourse also puts men at significant risk for anal cancer. Anal cancer is the result of infection with some subtypes of human papilloma virus (HPV), which are known viral carcinogens. Data as of 1989 showed the rates of anal cancer in male homosexual practitioners to be 10 times that of heterosexual males, and growing. 30 Thus, the prevalence of anal cancer among gay men is of great concern. For those with AIDS, the rates are doubled.31
Other physical problems associated with anal intercourse are:
hemorrhoids
anal fissures
anorectal trauma
retained foreign bodies.

So main take away from the above text is the homosexual behavior is not only harmful, but in a clinical sense it is also dangerous.

With respect to long-term health problems for individuals who engage repeatedly in homosexual behavior, this medical condition is known as the GAY BOWEL SYNDROME (Gay Bowel Disease or GBD). The GSD is described as follows: (see here)

Gay bowel syndrome, which has also been described as gay bowel disease, was named as an illness in 1976 in the medical literature via the journal Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science and in 2004 Medscape stated that gay bowel syndrome is a significant issue in regards HIV infection (The Johns Hopkins HIV Guide website also presently features a literature review article which is essentially a duplicate of the aforementioned article at Medscape).[1][2][3][4] Gay bowel syndrome is a clinical pattern of anorectal and colon diseases which occur with unusual frequency in homosexual patients (the diseases are not exclusive to male homosexuals)

And the key for our post today is the following passage:

Dr. Michael Heller’s medical journal article in the Annals of Emergency Medicine entitled The Gay Bowel Syndrome: A Common Problem of Homosexual Patients in the Emergency states regarding gay bowel syndrome the following: “Frequently and promiscuity of sexual intercourse is probably a major risk factor. Gay men in this country have both higher rates of intercourse and many more sexual partners than do either straight men or gay women.”[11]

From the above, it is self-evident that the statement by the heretic Card. Schönborn is NOT AN OBJECTIVELY CORRECT statement.

It is NOT an OBJECTIVELY CORRECT statement since the “frequency” of engaging is this dangerous and “intrinsically disordered” behaviour leads to the medical conditions described above. Therefore, it is IN FACT a “temporary gay relationship” that is “better” than a “stable gay relationship” that would be the OBJECTIVELY CORRECT STATEMENT in this case. Actually, abstinence from this type of “intrinsically disordered” activity would be the best case scenario.

Clinically speaking, of course.

With respect to the “stable gay relationships” themselves, ‘do these “relationships” in fact exist?’ is the next question. And if they do exist, to what degree do they exist in a state of OBJECTIVE REALITY. Here is the relevant passage:

Monogamy, meaning long-term sexual fidelity, is rare in GLB relationships, particularly among gay men. One study reported that 66 percent of gay couples reported sex outside the relationship within the first year, and nearly 90 percent if the relationship lasted five years.

Oh well, looks like the “stable gay relationship” appears to be a very rare animal.

Actually, it is such a rare animal that a study by Colleen Hoff at the Center for Research on Gender & Sexuality at San Francisco State University affirms what we already suspected from the evidence above: monogamy in even “stable” homosexual relationships is rare. (see here) Here is a how Colleen Hoff explains this situation:

Three out of 4 people (male homosexuals) described non-monogamy as a positive thing, and said it gave them a sexual outlet without having to lie. Participants reported it helped relationships survive by providing honest options and minimizing deceit, tension and resentment. Some “played” independently, others as a threesome, and about 80 percent agreed to tell all or some details of their encounters, the rest preferring a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

Concluding, from the evidence above, it becomes quite self-evident that engaging in a harmful, if not dangerous activity leads to health problems. Furthermore, the more frequent this dangerous activity, the higher the risk of these medical health problems arising. We can drop the “probably” qualifier here. The empirical evidence bears this causal relationship out. And in this section of the population, frequency and promiscuity of sexual intercourse are the norm.

On the other hand, the notion that a “stable gay relationship”, one that is monogamous, in the proper sense of that word, is ipso facto a mythical animal at best.

Therefore, summing up the heretic Card. Schönborn statement that “stable gay relationship’ is better than a ‘temporary’ one”, the evidence above suggest that what we are dealing with in this case is nothing more than a “body of doctrine, myth, etc. that guides an individual, institution, class, or large group”. A “system that derives ideas exclusively from sensation” and is confined to “theorizing of a visionary or impractical nature”.

In other words, what the heretic Card. Schönborn is promoting is simply an IDEOLOGY.

The very same IDEOLOGY WORD that that other heretic Cardinal Kasper is presently warning about. (see here)

One final thought with respect to the above.  It would appear that the secular Homo Lobby (GENDER LOBBY) and the neo-modernists have at least one thing in common. The manner in which they deconstruct and corrupt the objective meaning of words is very similar (see here). If one reads the Hoff article, one notices that the HomoLobby uses the term “monogamous” in a very similar manner as the neo-modernist uses the word “doctrine”.

Funny that!

The “Synod of Filth™” Begins

05 Monday Oct 2015

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Francis HellThe BIG SHOW starts today. And with today’s post, your humble blogger is adopting a new strategy. Over the course of the next three weeks, your humble blogger will be chronicling “SCIENTIFIC” evidence to support the contention (HYPOTHESIS), one based on OBJECTIVE REALITY, that deviant sexual behaviour is in fact “intrinsically disordered”.

First a word about the term “scientific”. Here we will be restricting ourselves to OBJECTIVE SCIENCE, for the lack of a better term. What we will not be dealing with is “JUNK SCIENCE”, i.e. the kind that cannot be replicated. (see here) In other words, FRAUDULENT. This FRAUDULENT “SCIENCE“ is the basis for the heretical prelates who are trying to change Catholic doctrine and ecclesiastical law to promote an “intrinsically disordered” ideology, i.e. GENDER.

The science that we will be using is based on clinical studies of the EFFECTS CAUSED by perpetrators of “intrinsically disordered” behaviour specifically, but also perpetrators of behaviour that deviates from that taught by the Catholic Church, grounded in natural moral law and natural law in general. In other words, FORNICATION.

On a more general level, what I will try to illustrate over these next three weeks is the causal relationship between the Kasperian “theology of mercy” and its logical end effects.

So let’s get cracking, shall we?

The first re-post comes from the website PubMed.gov (US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health). I am republishing the post titled  Enteric diseases of homosexual men (see here)…. (emphasis added)

FOR THE RECORD

Enteric diseases of homosexual men.

Baker RW, Peppercorn MA.

Certain enteric ailments are particularly common among homosexual men. They are primarily infectious diseases and include not only such common venereal diseases as gonorrhea and syphilis but also infections not usually regarded as being sexually transmitted. Among the latter are shigellosis, salmonellosis, giardiasis, and amebiasis. Patients’ symptoms are non-specific and seldom helpful in diagnosing particular diseases. The practitioner must be prepared to identify a number of infections with similar presentations that may occur singly or together in gay men. Gonorrhea is probably the most common bacterial infection in gay men. Carriage rates as high as 50% have been reported, and extra-genital carriage is common; this necessitates culturing the urethra, rectum, and pharynx. Procaine penicillin G is the treatment of choice for most patients; spectinomycin is probably the drug of choice in penicillin-sensitive patients. In contrast to other venereal diseases, syphilis may have a characteristic protoscopic presentation. Benzathine penicillin G is the treatment of choice for most patients. Lymphogranuloma venereum causes penile lesions and inguinal lymphadenitis in heterosexual men, whereas homosexual men are more prone to proctitis. The disease may mimic Crohn’s disease. Recommended treatment includes tetracycline or sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim. Shigellosis usually presents as an acute diarrheal illness. Patients generally require only supportive treatment with fluids. Herpes simplex viral infection is difficult to diagnose and has several different presentations, including lumbosacral radiculomyelopathy. Symptomatic treatment with sitz baths, anesthetic ointment, and analgesics is recommended. Venereal warts are believed to be caused by the same virus that causes verrucous warts; they are usually found in the anal canal or around the anal orifice. They are commonly treated with 25% podophyllin solution. Parasitic infections include giardiasis, amebiasis, and pinworm infections. Metronidazole may be used in the treatment of symptomatic giardiasis and amebiasis, but it is not approved for the former indication; quinacrine is approved for giardiasis. Pinworm infestation may be treated with pyrantel pamoate or mebendazole. Cure of enteric diseases in homosexual men must be documented.

So there you have it.

Concluding, one can say that normal sexual activity can also cause the contraction of sexually transmitted diseases. No matter how remote the chances are. But this is a TRUE STATEMENT. The difference however, is that in an “intrinsically disordered” activity, the effects described in the post above are caused by the activity itself, whereas in a “intrinsically ordered” activity, they are a side issue caused by abuse per se.

In other words, if the “intrinsically ordered” activity of the participants was guided by the moral teaching of the Catholic Church, the effects described above would be non-existent. With respect to the “intrinsically disordered” activity, no amount of application of natural moral theology will eliminate these effects. Even in “stable gay relationship”, as the HeterodoxCard. Schönborn suggests (see here). And the reason for this state of REALITY is because this type of activity is OBJECTIVELY INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED by its very nature.

And it is the promotion and permissiveness of this harmful, both spiritually and physically OBJECTIVELY INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED  behaviour that is the end goal of FRANCISMERCY as practiced by the heretics pushing the Bergoglian/Kasperian “theology done on the knees”.

T -1: Let’s Talk About Aberro-Sex Baby!

05 Monday Oct 2015

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With a topic on my mind for today’s post, I read the Harvesting the Fruit blog of Louie Verrecchio and the post titled Money, sex and modernism (see here), and most of what I wanted to say, Louie already said. The part that I would like to draw your attention to is the following two paragraphs:

The question remains, if not exclusively to protect the interests of those who profited from the Vatican Bank’s lack of transparency, what exactly was the primary motivation for those who wished to see Pope Benedict XVI removed?

The general answer, it seems, was to promote doctrinal and liturgical liberalism, but the more specific and far more relevant answer can be summed up in a word: homosexuality.

Which is exactly what the Peirce/Ockham pragmatic methodology (see here) has been indicating since 18 December 2014, when we laid out the case that the Stealth Sex Synod of Bishop’s is about nothing more than changing Catholic doctrine and ecclesiastical law with respect to aberrant sexual practices, i.e. “intrinsically disordered” behaviour (see here). Or to put it another way, the Synod of Bishops’ is about introducing GENDER IDEOLOGY into the Catholic Catechism and Code of Canon Law. (see here)

More confirmation come from none other than Hilary White at her newly created site What’s Up With the Synod? (see here). In a post titled This goes in one ear and out the other (see here), we get the following exchange:

A year ago, someone told me that the whole thing was going to dissolve down into a big homo-hoedown…

… and for some reason that completely escapes me right now, I was skeptical.

Can’t imagine what I was thinking…

Yes, it was hard to believe that Francis would actually call a synod to introduce GENDER IDEOLOGY into Catholic doctrine. I even had a hard time believing it. But the Peirce/Ockham pragmatic methodology didn’t. Once again…

Numquam Ponenda est Pluralitas Sine Necessitate

But this is not all the confirmation that has reached your humble blogger’s radar screen. On the secular front, and this is war, over at Rush Limbaugh’s website, we read transcripts from last Thursday’s show with the following titled: Why Transgenderism Tops Obama’s Agenda (see here)

“Patil ( White House Chief Data Scientist DJ Patil) helped launched the initiative in order to quantify the desires from the transgender community so that the federal government could reach out with assistance.” Now, you have to ask yourself something.  What percentage of the population is transgender?  Anybody want to take a wild guess, just a stab in the dark at this?  I think it is so small you can’t even assign it a number.  You can’t even assign it one-tenth of 1%, it’s that tiny.  So what’s going on here?  I mean, if you’re gonna reach out to the transgender community — oh, speaking of which, the Drive-Bys are fit to be tied over the pope meeting with Kim Davis. 

As to Kim Davis, we know how that story ended. But I digress…

The reason that I am bringing this to your attention is that this issue is not something limited to a few crazy heretical prelates, but is a much, much wider phenomenon.

And if you don’t believe me, check out this: (see here)

This report comes in the wake of recent United Nations initiatives to advance LGBT human rights, such as the UN Free & Equal campaign and the ‘Being LGBT in Asia’ initiative. In the last few years, top leaders of the UN, including Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, have been ardent advocates of the need to protect and promote the rights of LGBT people. The new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the first from an Arab country, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, has also been a supporter of equality, saying that there can be no justification for discriminating against people on the basis of their sexual orientation.

Reading the above, it becomes quite evident that what we have here is a full frontal attack on natural moral law and natural law itself. This attack is being directed at ANY AND ALL INSTITUTIONS which do not adhere to GENDER IDEOLOGY. In fact, the entire effort is designed to not only promote GENDER IDEOLOGY, but also to break any resistance to this insipid ideology.

And just to give a sense of just how insipid GENDER IDEOLOGY is, we return to Rush’s article where he describes the abuse meted out to a child at the hands of his mother intends on “making” this child into a TRANSGENDER. Here are the gory details:

Look, can I give you the real answer?  It is indeed about crisis invention, and it’s about legacy, but it’s in your face, is what this is.  This is Obama himself basically flipping the bird to middle America and to flyover country and the bitter clingers.  This is Obama basically just getting in everybody’s face and saying, “Screw you.”  This is exactly what this is.  This is as in your face as anything else that this man has done and his administration.  No question about it. 

Now, another companion story here from Breitbart.  Headline: “Video of Mom Giving First Hormone Shot to Transgender Teen Goes Viral — The video of a mother giving her young teenager the first doses of hormones needed to continue a transgender transformation has gone viral. The video, first posted to YouTube, explained that the teen had been waiting 2-1/2 years for doctors to approve the hormone treatments, and had been waiting months for a ‘readiness letter’ to be sent to doctors in Chicago.”

This boy is now 14.  They have been trying to transgender this kid for two-and-a-half years.  That is to say, since he was only 11-and-a-half, they have been trying, his mother has been trying to transgender him.  “The mother went on to note that the teen ‘had no idea on a timeline of when it would actually happen.’  Mom picked up the hormone medicine when the teen was at school, and sprang the news later that evening, while recording the teen’s reactions.

“‘Sorry, I had to stop recording because we were both blubbering, sobbing fools,’ the mother wrote. The video was picked up by Buzzfeed and soon went viral, gaining over 2 million views in only three days. The mo[ther] told BuzzFeed that the incident was ‘the most pivotal turning point in [the child’s] life, and we both knew it.’ She also said that if there is any negative backlash, it would be worth it to help even one child.” Folks, the world has gone mad.  It is official.  So what do you think happened here? 

Can it get any more debauched than this?

Where are the authorities?

And where is the Catholic Church, who is supposed to protect the little ones?

I will leave these as open questions.

T -2: Ite Ad Thomam

02 Friday Oct 2015

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Ite Ad ThomamThis post is intended for tomorrow, the 3rd of October 2015. I am posting it today since tomorrow I will be traveling.

The reason that this post will appear on my blog tomorrow is due to a conference that will be held in Rome titled “Ways of Love: Snapshots of Catholic Encounters with LGBT Persons and their Families”. This conference will be attended by heretics who are attempting to change Catholic doctrine and ecclesiastical law with respect to “intrinsically disordered” behavior.

In addressing this quite disturbing development, I am republishing a text from the website of the Constitutional Rights Foundation (see here). This post contains background to Catholic social and moral doctrine as developed by St. Thomas Aquinas.

Specifically, I would like to draw you attention to three crucial aspects of Catholic moral and social doctrine as it applies to rulers and the ruled. These three key aspects are the following:

Aquinas addressed the problem of unjust rulers who might be a king, the few rich, or the many poor. Aquinas noted that when rulers make laws that violate natural law, they become “tyrants.”

And with respect to a situation when a ruler becomes a tyrant, the following principle applies:

What should the people do about a tyranny? Aquinas agreed with St. Augustine that the subjects of unjust rule are not obliged to obey the laws since they are not legitimate.

And what is the threshold for taking action against tyrannical rule:

Aquinas argued that the subjects of a tyranny, acting as a “public authority,” might rebel and depose it. Aquinas cautioned that the people should not do this hastily, but only when the damage done by the tyranny exceeds what may occur in a rebellion.

Concluding, I think the cardinals and bishops at the upcoming Stealth Sex Synod™ of 2015 have a very simple decision that they need to make, and it is as follows:

Is the damage done by tyrant ≥ to the damage from a rebellion?

This is what the Church demands of them!

FOR THE RECORD

St. Thomas Aquinas, Natural Law, and the Common Good

St. Thomas Aquinas, a medieval Roman Catholic scholar, reconciled the political philosophy of Aristotle with Christian faith. In doing so, he contended that a just ruler or government must work for the “common good” of all.

Before the time of Jesus, the Greeks developed concepts about how the world worked and human beings behaved. Aristotle, who died in 322 B.C., was an Athenian philosopher who wrote about science, ethics, politics, and almost every other realm of knowledge.

Throughout his writings, Aristotle did not teach that the Greek gods or religion controlled the world and its people. Instead, his observations led him to conclude that nature was purposeful and driven by natural laws that human reason could discover. These natural laws provided a way to explain the world and the place of humans within it.

In one of Aristotle’s works called The Politics, he reasoned, “man is by nature a political animal.” By this, he meant that people were naturally destined to live in groups, which required some sort of ruler or government. According to Aristotle, only by living in a community “to secure the good life” could human beings achieve such virtues as courage, honesty, and justice. In his time, this human community was a city-state like Athens.

Applying his scientific method of observation and analysis of evidence, Aristotle studied the governments of 158 city-states in the Greek world. He classified rule by a king (monarchy) and the superior few (aristocracy) as “good” governments. He judged rule by the few rich (oligarchy) and the many poor (democracy) as “bad” governments.

Aristotle concluded that the best government was one that “mixed” the features of oligarchy and democracy. For example, all the citizens would choose some government officials by lottery. But only some citizens with a certain amount of property or wealth could qualify for other offices. Aristotle thought this form of government provided the best chance for political stability.

Augustine and Christian Faith

Hundreds of years later, Christianity emerged as the dominant religion in the Roman Empire. The fathers of the early Christian Church introduced a way of explaining the world far different from that of Aristotle. Perhaps the most important of these early church fathers was St. Augustine.

Augustine was born in A.D. 354 in North Africa, then a province of Rome. As a youth, he studied the concepts of natural law and human reason from the writings of classic Greek and Roman thinkers like Aristotle and Cicero. Augustine converted to Christianity when he was 33.

He became a Christian priest and bishop of the North African city of Hippo. For a while, he believed reason and faith were compatible. By the year 400, however, he had changed his mind. “Do not therefore try to understand in order that you may believe,” he wrote, “but believe in order that you may understand.”

Augustine taught that when Adam and Eve put their own desires above God’s will, they committed a sin that became the source of evil among human beings. Christians often call this “original sin.” Augustine believed that all human beings were born with original sin and were thus doomed to damnation. But like other Christians, he also believed that God was merciful and sent Jesus to save believers from sin and eternal suffering.

Even so, Augustine viewed humans as essentially sinful. Only some of them would escape from the fires of hell. These individuals, known only to God, would achieve heavenly bliss in what Augustine called the “City of God.” Membership in the Christian (Roman Catholic) church was essential, he wrote, but even that did not guarantee salvation.

Because of Adam and Eve’s sinfulness, government was needed to control and punish sinful humans. Augustine said that government forms were not important since they were all temporary.

Augustine argued that people should obey their rulers unless they violated God’s word. In that case, believers could refuse to obey, but must expect punishment. In general, though, he advised that it was better to endure a wicked state during one’s brief existence on Earth, having faith that eternal life awaited in the City of God.

Augustine died in 430 as barbarians assaulted Hippo, heralding the end of the Roman Empire. Later, the Roman Catholic Church made him a saint. St. Augustine’s writings helped develop Catholic Church beliefs.

Thomas Aquinas Combined Reason and Faith

Nearly 2,000 years after Aristotle died, only a few of his works on logic survived in Western Europe. But Jewish and Muslim scholars had preserved much of his writing. Starting in the 1100s, scholars in the West began to translate Aristotle’s works from Hebrew and Arabic into Latin, making them available in the new universities that were forming. Along with these translations came extensive commentaries on Aristotle such as those by the Spanish Muslim scholar Averroes.

The rediscovery of Aristotle’s works with their sophisticated explanation of the world based on natural law and reason seemed to challenge the teachings of the Christian faith. At first, the Roman Catholic Church tried to ban his works.

But some church scholars such as Albert the Great at the University of Paris thought it was possible to combine human reason and Christian faith. Thomas Aquinas, an Italian Roman Catholic theologian (religious scholar), devoted his life to this task.

Aquinas was born in 1225, the son of a noble family in the kingdom of Sicily, which included part of the mainland of Italy around Naples. His family sent him at age 5 to the Benedictine monastery of Monte Casino to train as a monk.

Later, Aquinas attended the University of Naples where he first encountered the writings of Aristotle. Against his family’s wishes, he joined the Dominican order at 18, taking a vow of poverty.

In 1245, Aquinas traveled to the University of Paris where a great debate was going on about Aristotle’s ideas. The young Aquinas studied under Albert the Great who sided with those who believed Aristotle’s view of the world was compatible with that of Christianity.

Aquinas came to think that one should believe only what is self-evident (e.g., human beings use reason) or can be deduced from self-evident propositions (e.g., human reason can discover truth).

Aquinas became a Dominican teacher of religion at the University of Paris and in Italy. He continued to study the works of Aristotle and the Muslim commentaries on them.

Aquinas wrote his own commentaries on Aristotle, which included reasoned propositions based on certainties revealed by God. He also wrote summaries of Catholic doctrine that also attempted to combine reason and faith.

Natural and Human Law

Thomas Aquinas, much like Aristotle, wrote that nature is organized for good purposes. Unlike Aristotle, however, Aquinas went on to say that God created nature and rules the world by “divine reason.”

Aquinas described four kinds of law. Eternal law was God’s perfect plan, not fully knowable to humans. It determined the way things such as animals and planets behaved and how people should behave. Divine law, primarily from the Bible, guided individuals beyond the world to “eternal happiness” in what St. Augustine had called the “City of God.”

Aquinas wrote most extensively about natural law. He stated, “the light of reason is placed by nature [and thus by God] in every man to guide him in his acts.” Therefore, human beings, alone among God’s creatures, use reason to lead their lives. This is natural law.

The master principle of natural law, wrote Aquinas, was that “good is to be done and pursued and evil avoided.” Aquinas stated that reason reveals particular natural laws that are good for humans such as self-preservation, marriage and family, and the desire to know God. Reason, he taught, also enables humans to understand things that are evil such as adultery, suicide, and lying.

While natural law applied to all humans and was unchanging, human law could vary with time, place, and circumstance. Aquinas defined this last type of law as “an ordinance of reason for the common good” made and enforced by a ruler or government. He warned, however, that people were not bound to obey laws made by humans that conflicted with natural law.

Government and the “Common Good”

In 1267, Thomas Aquinas completed a work on government inspired by Aristotle’s Politics. Aquinas asserted, “Yet it is natural for man, more than any other animal, to be a social and political animal, to live in a group.” He presented logical proofs of this such as the self-evident fact of human speech to allow individuals to reason with one another.

Aquinas further observed that people tend to look only after their own self-interest. “Therefore,” he concluded, “in every multitude there must be some governing power” to direct people toward the “common good.”

Thus, Aquinas did not agree with St. Augustine that the main purpose of government was simply to keep the sinful in line. Aquinas saw government as also helping to work for the “common good” that benefits all. The common good included such things as protecting life, preserving the state, and promoting the peace. Aristotle would have called this “the good life.”

Aquinas addressed the problem of unjust rulers who might be a king, the few rich, or the many poor. Aquinas noted that when rulers make laws that violate natural law, they become “tyrants.” Aquinas went on to conclude, “A tyrannical government is not just, because it is directed not to the common good, but to the private good of the ruler, as the Philosopher [Aristotle] says.”

What should the people do about a tyranny? Aquinas agreed with St. Augustine that the subjects of unjust rule are not obliged to obey the laws since they are not legitimate. But Aquinas went far beyond St. Augustine and virtually all other medieval thinkers on this matter.

Aquinas argued that the subjects of a tyranny, acting as a “public authority,” might rebel and depose it. Aquinas cautioned that the people should not do this hastily, but only when the damage done by the tyranny exceeds what may occur in a rebellion. This was one of the first justifications for revolution in Western thought.

Aquinas further developed the meaning of “just war” that had been discussed by the Roman statesman Cicero and by St. Augustine. For a war to be just, there must be these three conditions:

1. A declaration by the ruler to defend the “common good” against enemies.

2. A “just cause” for an attack on an enemy “because they deserve it on account of some fault” such as avenging wrongs they have committed.

3. A “rightful intention” to advance good or avoid evil such as punishing evil-doers and not simply grabbing land or goods.

These conditions for a “just war” later influenced the development of international laws of war.

Aquinas wrote thoughtfully about the best form of government. He, like Aristotle, preferred a mixture of government forms. Aquinas recognized the value of a king, “a shepherd seeking the common good of the multitude.” But he opposed an absolute monarch.

The nobility, Aquinas argued, should advise the king and limit his power. Furthermore, the king’s laws must result from the “deliberation of reason” and have the consent of both the nobility and the common people. These were radical ideas for a time when kings claimed no one but God could hold them accountable.

The Legacy of St. Thomas Aquinas

Aquinas spent his last years teaching and writing in Italy. He died in 1274 at age 49 from an illness he developed while walking to France to attend a church conference.

At first, the Roman Catholic Church rejected Aquinas’s massive effort to reconcile human reason with Christian faith. In 1277, the church condemned some of his writings based on Aristotle’s ideas. About 50 years after his death, however, the church revived his works and made him a saint.

The writings of St. Thomas Aquinas combining reason and faith became the basis for official Roman Catholic doctrine (known as “Thomism”). In addition, his forward-looking political ideas regarding natural law, unjust rulers, and rebellion influenced European Enlightenment philosophers such as John Locke and even Americans such as Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King.

T -3: The “Filthy” Pontificate

02 Friday Oct 2015

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Today we republish a post from Rorate Caeli, who has the best inside scoop to the upcoming Stealth Sex Synod™ of 2015. (see original here) I would just like to draw your attention to keeping your eye on the ball. And the ball is the introduction of GENDER THEORY into Catholic doctrine and ecclesiastical law. Hence, the title of this post.

All else is a side-show to distract our interest.

One final thought. After all that has happened in the Francis pontificate, I can’t believe that an overwhelming majority of the bishops and cardinals don’t thing that Francis is DAMAGED.

The question is: when will they act?

FOR THE RECORD:

BOMBSHELL – SECRET PARALLEL SYNOD: Papal Post-Synod Document ALREADY being drafted by Jesuit group to allow communion for divorced and other aberrations

Summary: Italian journalist Marco Tosatti reveals that A SECRET PARALLEL SYNOD has been established in Rome, a cabal composed almost exclusively by Jesuits, with the occasional Argentinian presence (easy to guess who), to draft the necessary post-synodal documents to implement whatever the Pope wants to implement. And they will implement it, no matter what, as the secret committee to draft the Annulment reforms has shown; what everyone supposed was true in fact is true: the Synodal process is a sham.

***

The always admirably well informed Marco Tosatti, who has refused to become a stealth spokesman for the pontificate and has kept his journalistic integrity — and, for this reason, has become, along with Sandro Magister, the best Italian religious correspondent in the current pontificate — reports today on the most recent machinations for 2015 “Synod on the Family”, which opens in a few days.

Because since, as Edward Pentin revealed in detail, the 2014 Synod was rigged, the 2015 will be rigged beyond all measure, as Pentin himself reported on September 29 at the National Catholic Register, on procedural changes to be announced tomorrow (Friday) that will make any control over the outcome impossible by Synod Fathers who realize they are being cheated (as happened last year – the manipulators learned their lesson):

At last year’s meeting, the interim document, properly called a relatio post-disceptationem, caused controversy after it was sent out to the media before the synod fathers had read it. Critics said the document lacked references to Scripture and tradition, and most controversially, appeared to imply the Church was considering giving tacit acceptance of same-sex relationships — an issue that was hardly discussed during the meeting’s first week.

The probable decision not to have an interim report may be an effort to avoid last year’s controversy from recurring. But some fear it will lead to less transparency, and worry the timing could be intentional in order to facilitate the advancement of controversial proposals as time runs out for discussion.

…

Another rumored change is that the rule on propositions having to pass by a two-thirds majority might be eliminated and a simple majority take its place.

This would favor a controversial proposal, such as Cardinal Kasper’s, because his thesis only received a simple majority at the last synod. (It should have therefore been rejected under the rules in place, but the Holy Father insisted that it, and the paragraph on a new approach to same-sex relationships that also failed to achieve a two-thirds majority, remain in the lineamenta (guidelines), for this October’s synod).

And in fact the first part of Marco Tosatti’s article today translates what Pentin reveals in his own piece in the Register. Then, Tosatti adds his own exclusive information, which is quite explosive, considering that the last time a secret papal commission met, what we got was the most authoritarian canon law reforms in the history of the Church, in violation of all understanding of the proper boundaries of papal power and establishing de facto Catholic divorce under the guise of easy acccess to “annulments”:

In this context [that is, of the procedural changes mentioned by Edward Pentin], news has arrived to us for about twelve days that around thirty people, almost all of them Jesuits, with the occasional Argentinian, are working on the themes on the Synod, in a very reserved way, under the coordinatin of Father Antonio Spadaro, the director of Civiltà Cattolica [the official journal of the Holy See], who spends a long time in Santa Marta, in consultation with the Pope.

The discretion in the works extends also to the Jesuits of the same House, the villa of Civiltà Cattolica, Villa Malta, on the Pincio [Hill], where part of the work is done. One possibility is that the “task force” works to provide the Pope the instruments for an eventual post-synodal document on the theme of the Eucharist to the remarried divorced, on cohabiting [couples], and same-sex couples.

Update: A final observation is in order. As Pentin and other observers have noted, it has been said that the Pope may wish to avoid a typical post-synodal EXHORTATION, which has been the typical papal document following the creation of the post-conciliar format of the Synod of Bishops. These exhortations have typically been papal lists of the majority decisions of the synods, as guided by the popes, and interpreted by them, and have guided future decisions. This is obviously not what we mention above. Considering the character of Francis, it is not surprising that he now wants to avoid a wordy exhortation that leads nowhere. No, the post-synodal documents being prepared secretly should obviously have an executive or legislative nature and would be promulgated with a different shape and weight than that of a mere exhortation. It would obviously make no sense for the Pope and his allies to go through this immense process and get absolutely no palpable result (text) from it, right?…

Second update – Tweets:

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T -4: “Homo-lobby” Showing Their Hand

01 Thursday Oct 2015

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Showing One's HandWith the Stealth Sex Synod™ of 2015 getting ready to commerce this coming Monday, we turn our focus to what your humble blogger has identified as the TRUE AGENDA for this entire bi-synod process. This TRUE AGENDA is nothing more than the introduction of GENDER THEORY into the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the Code of Canon Law.

We have identified the introduction of GENDER THEORY into Catholic doctrine and ecclesiastical law (HYPOTHESIS) as early as the 18th of December 2014 in our post titled Secret Synod:Synod of the Three Paragraphs. (see here). We have been adding to our supporting evidence since this initial post. One of our last posts on this subject was titled A “Small” Embedded Risk Event (see here), which set out our HYPOTHESIS and indicated the relevant supporting posts published to date. In the subsequent post titled The Trojan Horse (see here), we received further confirmation that our HYPOTHESIS is indeed spot on.

Which brings us to today’s subject matter and a re-publication of a Rorate Caeli translation of a Sandro Magister post titled Homosexuality on the threshold of the Synod: Two Conferences in Rome. (see here) It is a short post and I will comment below, so I am reproducing it in its entirety… (emphasis added)

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Homosexuality on the threshold of the Synod: Two Conferences in Rome.

by Sandro Magister
[from his Italian-only blog] Settimo Cielo

Homosexuality is per se outside of the topics of discussion at the Synod convened to discuss matters of the family. But in fact it was present in a powerful way in the debates themselves. According to the media hype, the dominant leanings in the Catholic world are for a radical change in the doctrine and practice of the Church, with the full acceptance of the practice of homosexuality and with the blessing of unions between persons of the same sex.

But there are also others who want to take a new path with respect to the pastoral ministry to homosexuals that is firmly based on Catholic doctrine. Both these approaches will be represented in Rome in these feverish days before the Synod.

The first approach will have its moment in the sun on Saturday, October 3 at the international conference with the title “Ways of Love: Snapshots of Catholic Encounters with LGBT Persons and their Families”. The program in Italian, English and Spanish can be found at waysoflove.wordpress.com. LGBT is an acronym for Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual. At this meeting in Rome, they explain, they will initiate “a global network of LGBTQI Catholics”, extending the acronym to include “queer” and intersexuals. Their stated objective is “a Catholic Church in which the whole people of God—LGBT and heterosexual persons—can live, pray and offer their service together in harmony”. Speakers at the conference include Mary McAleese, the former president of Ireland, José Raúl Vera Lopez, Bishop of Saltillo in Mexico, himself a Dominican, the Jesuits Pedro Labrin from Chile and Pino Piva from Italy, the American Sister Jeannine Gramick and the Italian Sister Anna Maria Vitagliani, Martin Pendergast from England, Rungrote Tangsurakit, from Thailand, and also “a priest who works in Africa whose anonymity was requested by his superior”.

The second approach will be expounded on Friday, October 2, in a conference at the Angelicum, the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas. In the morning session papers will be presented by Cardinal Robert Sarah and by Livio Melina, the president of the Pontifical Institute John Paul II for the study of marriage and family. The speakers at the afternoon session are Cardinal George Pell, the psychiatrist Paul McHugh of the Johns Hopkins Institute, Dr. Timothy Lock, and Jennifer Morse of the Ruth Institute. Included in the morning session will be testimonies from three Catholic homosexuals each with his own different story: Rilene, David and Paul.

The meeting was organized by the San Francisco based publishing house, Ignatius Press, (http://www.ignatius.com), founded and directed by the Jesuit Joseph Fessio of the Napa Institute (http://napa-institute.org/), headed by the Jesuit Robert Spitzer, and by Courage International (http://couragerc.org), a Catholic organization headed by Father Paul Check and dedicated to the pastoral care of homosexual persons, which operates with the placet of the United States Conference of Bishops and the Pontifical Council for the family. The conference statement, program, profiles of the speakers and other information can be found at truthandlove.com (http://www.truthandlove.com).

The presence of Cardinals Sarah and Pell at this conference leaves no doubt about the orientation of this conference and its opposition to the “openings” supported by the “Rainbow Catholics” at the other conference in Rome and the Synod fathers friendly to their way of thinking.

Father Check introduces the conference at the Angelicum in this way:

In the Gospel Jesus does not only bestow his compassion, but he also calls us to conversion, because he knows that we will be truly joyful and fully realized as persons only when we live in the way that God wanted us to live when he created us. Many of today’s approaches to homosexuality do not include this fuller perspective of the human person. They rather seem to limit themselves to an acceptance without recognizing the call of Jesus to conversion. And they defend a “right” to sexual intimacy, but they do not acknowledge the plan of God with respect to marriage to which Jesus himself refers to in Matthew 19.

[a Rorate translation]

What I would like to draw your attention to is the timing of these two conferences.

The international GENDER LOBBY whose agent behind the Sacred Walls of the Vatican is  notorious Homo-lobby, has schedule their conference titled “Ways of Love: Snapshots of Catholic Encounters with LGBT Persons and their Families” for this Saturday, the 3rd of October 2015, or the day preceding the start of the Synod of Bishops of 2015.

First observation is this: the timing most definitely has to do with providing the Homo-lobby with the BIG MO, (momentum) going into the Stealth Sex Synod of 2015.

Also notice that the Homo-lobby conference is dedicated to this issue as opposed to all those other issues dealing with communion for the serial adulterers and public sinners living in concubinage. Not to mention issue relating to the family. In other words, all those issues that were the supposed reason behind calling this bi-synod in the first place.

So what is the significance of staging a conference titled “Ways of Love: Snapshots of Catholic Encounters with LGBT Persons and their Families”, with all the GENDER LANGUAGE openly stated?

The significance of having this conference dedicated to the introduction of GENDER LANGUAGE and GENDER THEORY at this point in time is nothing short of the GENDER LOBBY, the Homo-lobby and the promoters of the synod of bishops such as cards. Kasper, Marx & co.,…

SHOWING THEIR HAND.

This GENDER LOBBY obviously thinks that it would be very “unhelpful” if the Synod players got the mistaken impression that … “Homosexuality is per se outside of the topics of discussion at the Synod convened to discuss matters of the family.”

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