by
Thomas A. Droleskey
Our Lady Does Not Honor Pro-Aborts, which was posted twenty days ago now, dealt with the egregious offense being given to the Mother of God at the formerly Catholic university named in her blessed honor that is represented by the fact that the Marxist-trained, pro-abortion President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, will receive a honorary doctorate from the University of Notre Dame on May 17, 2009, before he gives the commencement address to the university's graduating classes of 2009. All manner of protests have originated from various well-meaning sources to denounce this travesty. Most of those "protests"--and we must remember that it was, after all, Martin Luther who gave the revolutionized world in which we live an institutionalized form of "protest," namely, the evil that is Protest-antism--have missed the mark rather badly. Permit me an opportunity to explain in this very brief article.
I. The Catholic Church Does Not Confer Honors on Men Who Promote Evils Under Cover of the Civil Law
The Catholic Church does not confer honors on men who promote evils of any kind under cover of the civil law.
Barack Hussein Obama is an enemy of God as he promotes one objective evil after another under cover of law. No one who promotes objectively sinful actions under cover of law is a friend of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as such a person is making it possible for human beings, contingent creatures who have been redeemed by the shedding of every single drop of the Divine Redeemer's Most Precious Blood on the wood of the Holy Cross on Good Friday, to offend God and to thus wound their own immortal souls. Those who wound their own immortal souls by means of objectively sinful actions enslave themselves, whether or not they are aware of this fact, to the devil by means of their sins, making them instruments of disorder and violence in the world-at-large.
Silvio Cardinal Antoniano made the point in the Sixteenth Century that it is impossible to advance the common temporal good, which must be undertaken in light of man's Last End, by the promotion of things that are repugnant to the peace and happiness of eternity:
The more closely the temporal power of a nation aligns itself with the spiritual, and the more it fosters and promotes the latter, by so much the more it contributes to the conservation of the commonwealth. For it is the aim of the ecclesiastical authority by the use of spiritual means, to form good Christians in accordance with its own particular end and object; and in doing this it helps at the same time to form good citizens, and prepares them to meet their obligations as members of a civil society. This follows of necessity because in the City of God, the Holy Roman Catholic Church, a good citizen and an upright man are absolutely one and the same thing. How grave therefore is the error of those who separate things so closely united, and who think that they can produce good citizens by ways and methods other than those which make for the formation of good Christians. For, let human prudence say what it likes and reason as it pleases, it is impossible to produce true temporal peace and tranquillity by things repugnant or opposed to the peace and happiness of eternity. (Silvio Cardinal Antoniano, quoted by Pope Pius XI in Divini Illius Magistri, December 31, 1929.)
Barack Hussein Obama is a moral reprobate who has the blood of the innocent dripping on his hands. He has issued Executive Orders to permit the execution of innocent human beings. This simple fact alone, over and above his long philosophical support for baby-killing and perversity under cover of law and his long legislative track record, both at the state and Federal levels, in support of baby-killing, whether by chemical or surgical means, disqualifies him from being the recipient of any awards from any institution that considers itself even remotely associated with the Catholic Church.
Let me reiterate this point: Barack Hussein Obama has the blood of the innocent preborn on his hands. He has issued orders that will result in the direct, intentional deaths of innocent human beings. No one who has the blood of the innocent preborn on his hands is a fit recipient of any award from any institution that claims to be Catholic. This is not something that is open to debate.
Indeed, Many conciliar "bishops" have gone to great lengths to denounce Bishop Richard Williamson for the comments he has made concerning the nature and the extent of the crimes committed by agents of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich against Jews and others. Leaving aside Bishop Williamson's false ecclesiology (see Father Anthony Cekada's
Bp. Williamson's Mentevacantist Error for a reminder of this manufactured ecclesiology that has nothing to do with the Catholic Faith whatsoever), he has murdered no innocent human being. He has ordered the execution of no innocent human being. He has justified the execution of no innocent human being, whether by Hitler's Third Reich or by any other government at any time. Nonetheless, of course, Bishop Williamson is considered to be a "criminal" who can never be given any kind of forum to speak.
Barack Hussein Obama, who has ordered the execution of innocent human beings? Ah, he is welcome to speak at a former Catholic institution. The Catholic Church does not honor such men. She has nothing to "learn" from such men. While she prays for the conversion of such men, she shuns them in public and accords them no honors whatsoever.
Some might protest at this point that the administrators of the University of Notre Dame invited then President George Walker Bush to speak at its commencement exercises on May 20, 2001? And your point is what? George Walker Bush was then--and remains now--a killer of the innocent in his own right by virtue of his funding the chemical and surgical assassinations of millions upon millions of innocent preborn children by means of domestic and international "family planning" programs and by virtue of the fact that he, Bush, supported as a matter of principle the right of women to kill their innocent preborn children under cover of law in certain "hard" cases.
Even before he commenced his unjust and immoral war invasion of Iraq under false premises seventy-three months ago that resulted in the deaths of countless thousands of innocent Iraqis, George Walker Bush was as disqualified as Obama from speaking at a putatively "Catholic" institution as a result of his support for the the funding of chemical abortifacients that deny the Sovereignty of God over the sanctity and fecundity of marriage. That George Walker Bush was indemnified by conciliar "bishops" as being "pro-life" in spite of his open support for the direct, intentional taking of innocent preborn life in the "hard" cases and his administration's open support of and funding for the chemical and assassination of the innocent preborn is one of the great scandals of the counterfeit church of conciliarism. George Walker Bush was not in 2001--and is not in 2009--pro life. He should never have been invited to speak at of the University of Notre Dame or any other allegedly "Catholic" institution.
These words of Pope Pius XI, contained in Casti Connubii, December 30, 1930, serve as a grave warning to anyone in public life who supports the direct, intention killing of preborn children under any circumstances whatsoever:
Those who hold the reins of government should not forget that it is the duty of public authority by appropriate laws and sanctions to defend the lives of the innocent, and this all the more so since those whose lives are endangered and assailed cannot defend themselves. Among whom we must mention in the first place infants hidden in the mother's womb. And if the public magistrates not only do not defend them, but by their laws and ordinances betray them to death at the hands of doctors or of others, let them remember that God is the Judge and Avenger of innocent blood which cried from earth to Heaven. (Pope Pius XI, Casti Connubii, December 30, 1930.)
The graduates of the various colleges and schools of the University of Notre Dame have nothing to learn from a man who supports and who orders the execution of innocent babies under cover of the civil law.
The Mother of God would never honor a man who dishonors her Divine Son, Who was conceived as a helpless embryo in her own Virginal and Immaculate Womb by the power of the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, God the Holy Ghost, by supporting and making possible abortion under cover of the civil law in any circumstances. Administrators of a university named in her blessed honor will not be able to count on her maternal intercession at the hour of their own deaths unless they repent publicly of the scandal they are causing by honoring and giving a platform to a man who has the blood of the innocent on his hands.
II. The Counterfeit Church of Conciliarism Does Confer Honors on Men Who Promote Evils Under Cover of the Civil Law
In contrast to the Catholic Church, the counterfeit church of conciliarism does confer honors of men who promote evils under cover of the civil law.
Although the opposition to the honorary doctorate that will be conferred by the administrators of the University of Notre Dame upon the Marxist-trained, pro-abortion President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, on the part of Catholics attached to the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism is certainly warranted and most commendable, it fails to recognize the glaring incongruity posed by the simple fact that the past two conciliar "pontiffs" have conferred "papal knighthoods" upon one pro-abortion Jewish rabbi after another. It is a little incongruous to oppose the awarding of an honorary doctorate to Barack Hussein Obama when the conciliar "popes" have conferred "papal knighthoods" and medals upon men who deny the Sacred Divinity of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and who make war upon His Holy Church and upon all social order by their promotion of various evils, including the active promotion of abortion, under the euphemism of "reproductive" rights, in the United States of America and elsewhere throughout the world.
Incongruity is, of course, the order of the day in the madness that is passed off as Catholicism by the lords of the counterfeit church of conciliarism. Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, for instance, can violate the First Commandment grievously and repeatedly by esteeming the symbols of false religions with his own priestly hands and by praising the nonexistent ability of these religions, each of which is hated by God, to promote the common temporal good within nations and peace among them without much, if any, criticism by the same people who are understandably and justifiably upset by the award being given to--and the forum being provided to-- Barack Hussein Obama by the University of Notre Dame.
Crimes against God, however, are higher in gravity than crimes against men. How can one oppose crimes against the Fifth Commandment when one is silent about crimes against the First Commandment? And it is the fact that the conciliar "pontiffs" have offended God grievously and repeatedly by violating the First Commandment that they have seen fit to honor adherents of Talmudic Judaism who promote crimes against the Fifth Commandment. After all, one g who loses his sense of the honor and glory and majesty of God by giving credibility and esteem to false religions will come to see no incongruity at all in honoring men who adhere to these false religions even though they are at war with God by means of the public promotion of one social evil after another, including the direct, intentional killing of the innocent preborn.
Consider the fact that Sir Sigmund Sternberg, a member of the "Reform" branch of Talmudic Judaism, was "knighted" by Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II in 1985. Sir Sigmund, as he is called in the United Kingdom, was responsible for arranging for Wojtyla/John Paul II's first-ever "papal" visit to a Talmudic synagogue on April 13, 1986, whereby the false "pontiff" violated the Canon Law of the Catholic Church, which forbade such visits. Sir Sigmund was responsible for convincing Wojtyla/John Paul II to move a Carmelite convent from a site near the Auschwitz concentration camp. He was also instrumental in establishing diplomatic relations between the State of Vatican City, now in conciliar captivity, with the Zionist State of Israel on December 30, 1993.
All of this is, of course, bad enough, indicative of how the counterfeit church of conciliarism caters to the ancient enemies of the Faith, those who make warfare against the Social Reign of Christ the King so incessantly and in so many varied ways, without ever once--and I mean ever once--seeking with urgency their unconditional conversion to the true Faith as did, say, Saint Peter and Saint Stephen the Protomartyr and the man who presided over his martyrdom, Saint Paul the Apostle, and Saint Vincent Ferrer, O.P., among others.
Sir Sigmund Sternberg, however, has also been quite supportive of an organization called Rights and Humanity, issuing the following statement in its support:
“What Rights and Humanity has achieved since its establishment is quite astounding, whether at government level, in association with non-governmental organisations, universities or professional associations." (Sir Sigmund Sternberg,
Order of St John, KCSG, Patron)
Rights and Humanity's website is very explicit in its support of "reproductive rights:"
UN Adoption: the tipping point
At the same time, the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, was calling for the integration of human rights into the broad range of UN activities, including in the areas of development and humanitarian affairs.
We had already been working intensively with WHO and UNDP to ensure integration of human rights into their policies and programmes. Rights and Humanity’s book was of immediate benefit to the staff of all UN agencies who were grappling for the first time with understanding how human rights was relevant to their work and led to a rapid adoption of the human rights approach to development across UN agencies.
Over the coming years, we were commissioned to advise on policy and the practical implementation of this approach and to provide training for a wide range of UN agencies in this regard.
Simultaneously, other factors were combining to help build the environment conducive to a human rights approach to development and which influenced its adoption on the international stage.
These include:
- confirmation at the World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, 1993, of the right to development as an inalienable human right
- recognition of women’s rights, including reproductive rights, as an essential basis for development and the strengthened global commitment to ensuring equality between men and women made at the 1994 Cairo and 1995 Beijing Conferences
- establishment of the post of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) with the strengthened mandate to promote the right to development
- the experience of UNICEF in utilising the Convention on the Rights of the Child as a foundation for its policies and programmes.
Sir Sigmund Sternberg is also the Vice President of a pro-abortion organization known as One World Action, which awards something called the "One World Action/Sternberg Award annually.
None of this was an impediment to Sigmund Sternberg being made a "knight" of the Order of Saint John by Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II. Ecumenism trumps truth as the counterfeit church of conciliarism bestows honors on those who promote social evils under cover of the civil law.
It is incongruous, you see, for those in the counterfeit church of conciliarism to protest an award being given to a sitting President of the United States of America who supports the same evils as those adherents of the Talmud who have been "knighted" or awarded medals by Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II and Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI.
Indeed, Sir Sigmund Sternberg has company in the conciliar hall of shame that honors men such as himself despite the fact that they belong to a false religion that makes warfare against the Church and thus against all social order while promoting one evil after another under cover of the civil law.
The late Leon Klenicki, a rabbi of the Reform branch of Talmudic Judaism, and an official in the pro-abortion Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai Brith, was granted a "knighthood" in Order of Saint Gregory by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI on August 27, 2007 (see Continuing to Knight Infidels).
Reform Rabbi Walter Jacob was"knighted" to the Papal Order of Saint Gregory by the then conciliar "bishop" of Pittsburgh, who has since succeeded Theodore "Allah" McCarrick as the conciliar "archbishop" of Washington, D.C., on June 18, 2005.
We must not forget, of course, that the ever avuncular Roger "Cardinal" Mahony, the nefarious conciliar "archbishop" of Los Angeles, California, whose archdiocese has had to pay out close to $1 billion in settlement money to victims of perverted priests who had been protected by Mahony and his crew, bestowed "papal knighthoods" upon thirty-third degree Masons Roy Disney, whose motion picture company's various divisions have distributed films that have attacked the Catholic Faith and promoted all manner of insidious evils, and Rupert Murdoch,whose FOX broadcast television network broke ground in the field of producing and airing some of the most reprehensible and morally offensive programming in the history of American television.
Some will protest that these "papal" "knights" were bestowed honors in spite of their support for various evils, that their work in "other areas," such as ecumenism (or, in the cases of Roy Disney and Rupert Murdoch, giving oodles and oodles of money to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles for the deformation of souls under Mahony's false stewardship).
Well, isn't this what "Father" John Jenkins, the President of the University of Notre Dame du Lac, is claiming to be the case with President Barack Hussein Obama, that he, Obama, is not being honored because of his support for abortion but because he is the first black President of the United States of America?
Obviously, it does not matter whether Barack Hussein Obama is black, white, green, yellow, red, brown, pink or turquoise. What matters is that he supports the mystical dismemberment of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in the persons of innocent preborn children in their mothers' wombs. It does, however, become a little incongruous for those attached to the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism to protest an honor being bestowed upon a sitting pro-abortion President of the United States of American when honors have been bestowed by the conciliar "pontiffs" upon men who have been in the vanguard of promoting one social evil after another under cover of the civil law.
The Catholic Church does not confer honors on men who promote evils under cover of the civil law. The counterfeit church of conciliarism does confer such honors.
A true pope never threatens the integrity of the Deposit of Faith by honoring those who are at war with the One Whose Vicar on earth he is. The false "popes" of conciliarism threaten the integrity of the Deposit of Faith by, among things, honoring those who are indeed at war with the Invisible Head of the Catholic Church, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
III. Catholics Have Nothing to Learn from Barack Hussein Obama
Some defenders of the Marxist-trained, pro-abortion Barack Hussein Obama's commencement address at the University of Notre Dame on May 17, 2009, claim that Obama will "learn" something from being there and that the university community will learn something from having him there. This is simple rubbish.
The University of Notre Dame has long been a stronghold of Modernism. Obama will be reinforced in his own embrace of the errors of Modernity. Most of the students who listen to him will have their own Modernism reinforced by Obama. Obama's appearance at the University of Notre Dame du Lac is a case of true symbiosis, of one Modernist organism feeding off of another to the benefit of Modernism.
Moreover, of course, leaving aside an instance when an expert in a particular field (e.g. nuclear physics, applied engineering, microbiology) who is not a Catholic might have something useful to say in his own field of expertise (mindful that it is only a truly believing Catholic in any field of study who will understand how a particular piece of knowledge relates to the Sovereignty of God over human existence and how it relates in the scheme of man's well-ordered life here below in his quest to save his soul for all eternity as a member of the true Church), a non-Catholic has nothing, as in ZERO, to "say" to Catholic students at a commencement address. Zero. Nothing. Nada. The doughnut hole. Zip. Zilch.
Why is this so? I am glad that you asked.
The Catholic Church is the exclusive repository and the sole and infallible interpreter of the Deposit of Faith, that is, of everything contained in Divine Revelation, which consists of Sacred Scripture and Apostolic (or Sacred) Tradition. She alone has been given the commission by her Divine Founder and Invisible Head to teach all men in all nations until the end of time. She has within her Divine Constitution everything that she needs to teach men. She does not need "insights" offered" by heretics or infidels or pagans or barbarians or naturalists or anyone at all who is outside of her maternal bosom. Her children must not be poisoned by the insights of those who deny one or more, if not all, of the articles of the Catholic Faith, which is why her children must be kept as far away from the conciliarists themselves as from men such as Obama as both are dissenters from the Deposit of Faith and as such are, objectively speaking, enemies of Christ the King and of Mary our Immaculate Queen. It is that simple.
What can Barack Hussein Obama "teach" the graduating classes of 2009 at the University of Notre Dame du Lac about the purpose of human existence?
Does Barack Hussein Obama absolutely believe that it is necessary to live in accord with the entirety of Deposit of Faith that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has entrusted to His Catholic Church for Its infallible explication and eternal safekeeping?
Does Barack Hussein Obama absolutely believe that it is necessary to have belief in, access to and cooperation with the Sanctifying Graces won for us by Our Divine Redeemer on the wood of the Holy Cross in order to be virtuous and to attempt to scale the heights of personal sanctity, which is, after all, a precondition of social order?
Does Barack Hussein Obama absolutely believe that it is necessary to give public veneration to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the very Immaculate Mother of God who made possible our salvation, by sponsoring public Rosary processions in her glorious honor?
Does Barack Hussein Obama absolutely agree with Pope Saint Pius X that the civil state must recognize the true Church and help its citizens attain their final end, namely the possession of the Beatific Vision for all eternity?
That the State must be separated from the Church is a thesis absolutely false, a most pernicious error. Based, as it is, on the principle that the State must not recognize any religious cult, it is in the first place guilty of a great injustice to God; for the Creator of man is also the Founder of human societies, and preserves their existence as He preserves our own. We owe Him, therefore, not only a private cult, but a public and social worship to honor Him. Besides, this thesis is an obvious negation of the supernatural order. It limits the action of the State to the pursuit of public prosperity during this life only, which is but the proximate object of political societies; and it occupies itself in no fashion (on the plea that this is foreign to it) with their ultimate object which is man's eternal happiness after this short life shall have run its course. But as the present order of things is temporary and subordinated to the conquest of man's supreme and absolute welfare, it follows that the civil power must not only place no obstacle in the way of this conquest, but must aid us in effecting it. (Pope Saint Pius X, Vehementer Nos, February 11, 1906.)
Does Barack Hussein Obama really believe that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has given us Heaven's Peace Plan through the message that Our Lady gave to Jacinta and Francisco Marto in the Cova da Iria in Fatima, Portugal, from May 13, 1917, to October 13, 1917?
Does Barack Hussein Obama really believe that these words written by Pope Pius XI in Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio, December 23, 1922, constitute the only foundation for true peace within the souls of men and those among them in their nation-states?
There exists an institution able to safeguard the sanctity of the law of nations. This institution is a part of every nation; at the same time it is above all nations. She enjoys, too, the highest authority, the fullness of the teaching power of the Apostles. Such an institution is the Church of Christ. She alone is adapted to do this great work, for she is not only divinely commissioned to lead mankind, but moreover, because of her very make-up and the constitution which she possesses, by reason of her age-old traditions and her great prestige, which has not been lessened but has been greatly increased since the close of the War, cannot but succeed in such a venture where others assuredly will fail.
It is apparent from these considerations that true peace, the peace of Christ, is impossible unless we are willing and ready to accept the fundamental principles of Christianity, unless we are willing to observe the teachings and obey the law of Christ, both in public and private life. If this were done, then society being placed at last on a sound foundation, the Church would be able, in the exercise of its divinely given ministry and by means of the teaching authority which results therefrom, to protect all the rights of God over men and nations.
It is possible to sum up all We have said in one word, "the Kingdom of Christ." For Jesus Christ reigns over the minds of individuals by His teachings, in their hearts by His love, in each one's life by the living according to His law and the imitating of His example. Jesus reigns over the family when it, modeled after the holy ideals of the sacrament of matrimony instituted by Christ, maintains unspotted its true character of sanctuary. In such a sanctuary of love, parental authority is fashioned after the authority of God, the Father, from Whom, as a matter of fact, it originates and after which even it is named. (Ephesians iii, 15) The obedience of the children imitates that of the Divine Child of Nazareth, and the whole family life is inspired by the sacred ideals of the Holy Family. Finally, Jesus Christ reigns over society when men recognize and reverence the sovereignty of Christ, when they accept the divine origin and control over all social forces, a recognition which is the basis of the right to command for those in authority and of the duty to obey for those who are subjects, a duty which cannot but ennoble all who live up to its demands. Christ reigns where the position in society which He Himself has assigned to His Church is recognized, for He bestowed on the Church the status and the constitution of a society which, by reason of the perfect ends which it is called upon to attain, must be held to be supreme in its own sphere; He also made her the depository and interpreter of His divine teachings, and, by consequence, the teacher and guide of every other society whatsoever, not of course in the sense that she should abstract in the least from their authority, each in its own sphere supreme, but that she should really perfect their authority, just as divine grace perfects human nature, and should give to them the assistance necessary for men to attain their true final end, eternal happiness, and by that very fact make them the more deserving and certain promoters of their happiness here below.
Does Barack Hussein Obama really believe in these words, written by Pope Saint Pius X in Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910?
This, nevertheless, is what they want to do with human society; they dream of changing its natural and traditional foundations; they dream of a Future City built on different principles, and they dare to proclaim these more fruitful and more beneficial than the principles upon which the present Christian City rests.
No, Venerable Brethren, We must repeat with the utmost energy in these times of social and intellectual anarchy when everyone takes it upon himself to teach as a teacher and lawmaker - the City cannot be built otherwise than as God has built it; society cannot be setup unless the Church lays the foundations and supervises the work; no, civilization is not something yet to be found, nor is the New City to be built on hazy notions; it has been in existence and still is: it is Christian civilization, it is the Catholic City. It has only to be set up and restored continually against the unremitting attacks of insane dreamers, rebels and miscreants. omnia instaurare in Christo. (Pope Saint Pius X, Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910.)
Does Barack Hussein Obama really believe that the purpose of human existence is to live in accord within the Deposit of Faith in order to be in a state of Sanctifying Grace so that one can be ready at all times to die in a state of Final Perseverance with perfect contrition for one's sins?
Barack Hussein Obama believes in none of these things. He has no business speaking to Catholics about anything. A man who does not understand First and Last Things as they have been entrusted to and taught by the Catholic Church is the absolutely last person to be honored or to be considered a fit speaker before a Catholic audience.
IV. What Applies to Obama Applies to the Conciliarists
Does Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI believe that it is absolutely necessary to live in accord with the entirety of Deposit of Faith that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has entrusted to His Catholic Church for Its infallible explication and eternal safekeeping?
Does Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI believe that it is absolutely necessary to have belief in, access to and cooperation with the Sanctifying Graces won for us by Our Divine Redeemer on the wood of the Holy Cross in order to be virtuous and to attempt to scale the heights of personal sanctity, which is, after all, a precondition of social order?
Does Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI believe that it is absolutely necessary to give public veneration to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the very Immaculate Mother of God who made possible our salvation, by sponsoring public Rosary processions in her glorious honor?
Does Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI absolutely agree with Pope Saint Pius X that the civil state must recognize the true Church and help its citizens attain their final end, namely the possession of the Beatific Vision for all eternity?
That the State must be separated from the Church is a thesis absolutely false, a most pernicious error. Based, as it is, on the principle that the State must not recognize any religious cult, it is in the first place guilty of a great injustice to God; for the Creator of man is also the Founder of human societies, and preserves their existence as He preserves our own. We owe Him, therefore, not only a private cult, but a public and social worship to honor Him. Besides, this thesis is an obvious negation of the supernatural order. It limits the action of the State to the pursuit of public prosperity during this life only, which is but the proximate object of political societies; and it occupies itself in no fashion (on the plea that this is foreign to it) with their ultimate object which is man's eternal happiness after this short life shall have run its course. But as the present order of things is temporary and subordinated to the conquest of man's supreme and absolute welfare, it follows that the civil power must not only place no obstacle in the way of this conquest, but must aid us in effecting it. (Pope Saint Pius X, Vehementer Nos, February 11, 1906.)
Does Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI really believe that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has given us Heaven's Peace Plan through the message that Our Lady gave to Jacinta and Francisco Marto in the Cova da Iria in Fatima, Portugal, from May 13, 1917, to October 13, 1917?
Does Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI really believe that these words written by Pope Pius XI in Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio, December 23, 1922, constitute the only foundation for true peace within the souls of men and those among them in their nation-states?
There exists an institution able to safeguard the sanctity of the law of nations. This institution is a part of every nation; at the same time it is above all nations. She enjoys, too, the highest authority, the fullness of the teaching power of the Apostles. Such an institution is the Church of Christ. She alone is adapted to do this great work, for she is not only divinely commissioned to lead mankind, but moreover, because of her very make-up and the constitution which she possesses, by reason of her age-old traditions and her great prestige, which has not been lessened but has been greatly increased since the close of the War, cannot but succeed in such a venture where others assuredly will fail.
It is apparent from these considerations that true peace, the peace of Christ, is impossible unless we are willing and ready to accept the fundamental principles of Christianity, unless we are willing to observe the teachings and obey the law of Christ, both in public and private life. If this were done, then society being placed at last on a sound foundation, the Church would be able, in the exercise of its divinely given ministry and by means of the teaching authority which results therefrom, to protect all the rights of God over men and nations.
It is possible to sum up all We have said in one word, "the Kingdom of Christ." For Jesus Christ reigns over the minds of individuals by His teachings, in their hearts by His love, in each one's life by the living according to His law and the imitating of His example. Jesus reigns over the family when it, modeled after the holy ideals of the sacrament of matrimony instituted by Christ, maintains unspotted its true character of sanctuary. In such a sanctuary of love, parental authority is fashioned after the authority of God, the Father, from Whom, as a matter of fact, it originates and after which even it is named. (Ephesians iii, 15) The obedience of the children imitates that of the Divine Child of Nazareth, and the whole family life is inspired by the sacred ideals of the Holy Family. Finally, Jesus Christ reigns over society when men recognize and reverence the sovereignty of Christ, when they accept the divine origin and control over all social forces, a recognition which is the basis of the right to command for those in authority and of the duty to obey for those who are subjects, a duty which cannot but ennoble all who live up to its demands. Christ reigns where the position in society which He Himself has assigned to His Church is recognized, for He bestowed on the Church the status and the constitution of a society which, by reason of the perfect ends which it is called upon to attain, must be held to be supreme in its own sphere; He also made her the depository and interpreter of His divine teachings, and, by consequence, the teacher and guide of every other society whatsoever, not of course in the sense that she should abstract in the least from their authority, each in its own sphere supreme, but that she should really perfect their authority, just as divine grace perfects human nature, and should give to them the assistance necessary for men to attain their true final end, eternal happiness, and by that very fact make them the more deserving and certain promoters of their happiness here below.
Does Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI really believe in these words, written by Pope Saint Pius X in Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910?
This, nevertheless, is what they want to do with human society; they dream of changing its natural and traditional foundations; they dream of a Future City built on different principles, and they dare to proclaim these more fruitful and more beneficial than the principles upon which the present Christian City rests.
No, Venerable Brethren, We must repeat with the utmost energy in these times of social and intellectual anarchy when everyone takes it upon himself to teach as a teacher and lawmaker - the City cannot be built otherwise than as God has built it; society cannot be setup unless the Church lays the foundations and supervises the work; no, civilization is not something yet to be found, nor is the New City to be built on hazy notions; it has been in existence and still is: it is Christian civilization, it is the Catholic City. It has only to be set up and restored continually against the unremitting attacks of insane dreamers, rebels and miscreants. omnia instaurare in Christo. (Pope Saint Pius X, Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910.)
Does Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI really believe that the purpose of human existence is to live in accord within the Deposit of Faith in order to be in a state of Sanctifying Grace so that one can be ready at all times to die in a state of Final Perseverance with perfect contrition for one's sins?
Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI believes in none of these things as they have been taught perennially by the authority of the Catholic Church. He has no business speaking to Catholics about anything. A man who does not understand First and Last Things as they have been entrusted to and taught by the Catholic Church is the absolutely last person who can serve as a true and legitimate Success of Saint Peter.
The likes of Barack Hussein Obama will continue to be honored by formerly Catholic universities and colleges now in conciliar captivity as long as pretenders to the papal throne hold most Catholics worldwide captive to a false church that offends God daily by means of the Protestant and Masonic Novus Ordo service, by denials of the natured of dogmatic truth, by the esteeming of the symbols and the "values" of those false religions, by engaging in the forbidden practice of "inter-religious" prayer, by promoting religious liberty and separation of Church and State, by attempting to "re-image" Sacred Scripture and the writings of the Fathers of the Church by "stripping away" the "filter" provided by Scholasticism in favor of the condemned propositions of the New Theology, by making the false "Second" Vatican Council, understood in light of a "tradition" that has been corrupted and distorted and perverted by that New Theology, the very foundation of a false religion that has harmed so many souls and contributed mightily to the deterioration of order within nations and peace among them.
All of the "protests" and the "petition" drives in the world won't stop Barack Hussein Obama from speaking at the University of Notre Dame du Lac on May 17, 2009. All of the "protests" and "petition" drives in the world won't "convince" "Rome" to stop Obama from speaking as "Rome" is at the root of the problem we face today. Our Rosaries, however, can convert the most hardened sinners, including those in public life and those in the leadership positions of the counterfeit church of conciliarism. After all, hasn't the Rosary helped to convert us, who are frequently among the most hardened sinners on the face of this earth
Although the Church Militant on earth has undergone her Mystical Passion, Death and Burial in recent decades, she will, like her Divine Founder out of Whose Wounded Side she was born, know her Resurrection. We must simply and faithfully continue to cleave exclusively to true bishops and to true priests in the Catholic catacombs who make no concessions to conciliarism or to the nonexistent legitimacy of its apostate "officials," men who are most casual in their acceptance of outrages that have become commonplace in their false church that gives so much offense to Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and to His Most Blessed Mother.
We must also recognize that our sins have contributed mightily to the worsening of the state of the Church Militant and to the state of the world. We have much for which to make reparation, especially those of us who were slow to embrace the truth that those who defect from the Faith expel themselves from the Church and cannot hold office within her legitimately. Our Rosaries of reparation today may help to plant the seeds for the restoration of the Church Militant at some point in the future.
The Glorious Mysteries of the Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary we pray during these next forty-nine days of Easter rejoicing presage a glorious future for Holy Mother Church once the conciliarists are vanquished. We may not be alive when the Resurrection of the Church Militant occurs. We should and must be content to plant a few seeds for this Resurrection of the Church Militant as the consecrated slaves of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary with joy and with love.
Alleluia! He is Risen!
Vivat Christus Rex! Viva Cristo Rey!
Isn't it time to pray a Rosary now?
Immaculate Heart of Mary, triumph soon!
Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death.
Saint Joseph, pray for us.
Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.
Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.
Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.
Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us.
Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us, especially on your feast day today!
Saint Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.
Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.
Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, pray for us.
See also: A Litany of Saints
