by Jimmie Moglia for The Saker Blog
Sooner or later it was inevitable that the capitulation of the Vatican to the demands of a decadent culture and of powerful enemies would awaken the trumpet of sedition inside the Catholic Church.
As readers may already know, Cardinal Viganò recently wrote an open letter to Pope Francis asking him to resign. I will attempt to show the link connecting that letter to the actual resignations of Pope Benedict XVI, and to the recent bitter and acrimonious fight to prevent the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court.
I have no credentials, knowledge or desire to pass judgment on a judge. But the enemies who loudly roared against the nominee showed no other qualifications, as champions of controversy, than a hardened front and a strong voice. As for their key witness of discredit, “Doctor” Ford, she turned out to be a cumbersome monument of incredibility, and a simple, squalid and genuine fake.
I only watched a short section of her testimony. There was a kind of confession in her looks which her modesty had not craft enough to color. And it was remarkable how easily and quickly she moved from a tearful recollection of her ancient offended chastity, to a wholehearted laughter shared with her attorneys.
For people run with great avidity to give evidence in favor of what flatters their vanity, feeds their ambition and satisfies their avarice. In the instance, the vanity of publicity and the ambition of being the center of national attention. As for avarice, this doctoress of Freudian psychology will no doubt monetize her notoriety, and soon sink into the swallowing gulf of dark oblivion.
But I digress.
There are several and various events connecting the open rebellion against the Pope and the bitterly contested nomination of a Supreme Court judge. I will attempt to separate from each other the scenes that are connected only by the order of time.
Pope Benedict XVI appointed Cardinal Viganò as Apostolic Nuncio to the United States in 2011. An Apostolic Nuncio equates to the charge of an Ambassador of the Vatican. Why “nuncio” and not “ambassador”? Because the word ‘nuncio,’ whose etymology is related to the word ‘announcement’, suggests and implies two functions: to diplomatically represent the Vatican with a foreign government, while simultaneously (and importantly), strengthening and maintaining the ties between the Vatican and the many churches and hierarchies in a country.
The term was already used in the early Middle Ages, to describe the representatives of the Pope at the Court of Byzantium, prior to the schism of 1054, that divided Christianity between the Catholic and the Orthodox. After the Council of Trent (1545-1563) the ‘nuncios’ also took up the role of the official ambassadors.
In his letter to Pope Francis, from which I quote extracts, the Cardinal does not mince his words,
“Bishops and priests, abusing their authority, have committed horrendous crimes to the detriment of their faithful, minors, innocent victims, and young men eager to offer their lives to the Church, or by their silence have not prevented that such crimes continue to be perpetrated.
To restore the beauty of holiness to Church, which is terribly disfigured by so many abominable crimes, … we must tear down the conspiracy of silence with which bishops and priests have protected themselves at the expense of their faithful, a conspiracy of silence that in the eyes of the world risks making the Church look like a sect, a conspiracy of silence not so dissimilar from the one that prevails in the mafia. “Whatever you have said in the dark … shall be proclaimed from the housetops.” (Lk. 12:3)
… But now that the corruption has reached the very top of the Church’s hierarchy, my conscience dictates that I reveal those truths regarding the heart-breaking case of the Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, D.C., Theodore McCarrick….
The letter mentions the two preceding Nuncios to Washington, prematurely deceased, who
“… did not fail to inform the Holy See immediately, as soon as they learned of Archbishop McCarrick’s gravely immoral behavior with seminarians and priests.”
One of the deceased Nuncios had conducted an investigation and one of his aids, professor at the diocesan seminary in Newark , wrote a letter to the Vatican. In which he said that,
“…there was a recurring rumor in the seminary that the Archbishop (McCarrick) shared his bed with seminarians, inviting five at a time to spend the weekend with him at his beach house. And he added that he knew a certain number of seminarians, some of whom were later ordained priests for the Archdiocese of Newark, who had been invited to this beach house and had shared a bed with the Archbishop.”
Cardinal Viganò proposed a course of action as follows,
• Given that it seemed a new scandal of particular gravity, as it involved a cardinal, a scandal added to the many others affecting the Church in the United States,
• and that, since the matter had to do with a cardinal, and according to can. 1405 § 1, No. 2˚, “ipsius
Romani Pontificis dumtaxat ius est iudicandi”; (it pertains to the Roman Pope the right and task to judge),
• I proposed that an exemplary measure be taken against the Cardinal that could have a medicinal
function, to prevent future abuses against innocent victims and alleviate the very serious scandal for the faithful, who, despite everything, continued to love and believe in the Church.”
The Cardinal’s proposal resulted in Pope Benedict XIX imposing on Cardinal McCarrick sanctions that included,
“… to leave the seminary where he was living, and he was forbidden to celebrate [Mass] in public, to participate in public meetings, to give lectures, to travel, with the obligation of dedicating himself to a life of prayer and penance.”
There is evidence that these sanctions were communicated to Cardinal McCarrick by more than one party, including Cardinal Viganò when he was appointed Nuncio to the US.
Viganò then says,
“I repeated them (the sanctions) to Cardinal McCarrick at my first meeting with him at the Nunciature. The Cardinal, muttering in a barely comprehensible way, admitted that he had perhaps made the mistake of sleeping in the same bed with some seminarians at his beach house, but he said this as if it had no importance.”
The point is that these sanctions were not enforced. Viganò adds,
“…McCarrick had no difficulty in insistently presenting for the episcopate candidates known to be active homosexuals — I cite only the well-known case of Vincenzo de Mauro, who was appointed Archbishop-Bishop of Vigevano (a town near Milan in Italy), and later removed because he was undermining his seminarians .”
After the election of Pope Francis,
“… McCarrick, boasted openly of his travels and missions to various continents. In April 2014, the Washington Times had a front page report on McCarrick’s trip to the Central African Republic, and on behalf of the State Department no less. As Nuncio to Washington, I wrote to Cardinal Parolin asking him if the sanctions imposed on McCarrick by Pope Benedict were still valid. Ça va sans dire (it goes without saying) that my letter never received any reply!”
I omit the list of other Church authorities, in the US and the Vatican who, according to Cardinal Viganò, were conniving to protect McCarrick. However, based on the profile of the eminences involved and the sequence of events, it is not far fetched to hazard a tenable reason for the otherwise inexplicable and unprecedented resignations from office of Pope Benedict XVI.
Or rather, the only previous historical instance is that of Celestine V, Pope in 1294 for only five months. Those were the times of Dante Alighieri. Dante dedicates some lines to Celestine V in the “Divine Comedy.” The reluctant Pope is not in Hell but permanently resides in a kind of Hell’s anti-chamber. Dante points to him and says, “There is he (Celestine V), who for cowardice, made the great refusal.”
With Benedict XVI I cowardice couldn’t be the issue. Given the evidence produced by Cardinal Viganò, Pope Benedict probably realized he could not control or overrule the homosexual, or homosexual-protecting cabal, he was surrounded by.
With suitable modifications, it is possible to infer a parallel with the situation of recent US presidents, surrounded by so called neo-conservatives, who are neither ‘neo’ nor conservatives. But this is another matter altogether.
Still, puzzled as to why the sanctions against McCarrick were not enforced, Viganò travels to Rome for a conference.
“….On the morning of Thursday, June 20, 2013, I went to the Domus Sanctae Marthae, to join my colleagues who were staying there. As soon as I entered the hall I met Cardinal McCarrick, who wore the red-trimmed cassock. I greeted him respectfully as I had always done. He immediately said to me, in a tone somewhere between ambiguous and triumphant: “The Pope received me yesterday, tomorrow I am going to China.”
At the time I knew nothing of his long friendship with Cardinal Bergoglio and of the important part he had played in his recent election, as McCarrick himself would later reveal in a lecture at Villanova
University and in an interview with the National Catholic Reporter.
Nor had I ever thought of the fact that he had participated in the preliminary meetings of the recent conclave. …Therefore I did not immediately grasp the meaning of the encrypted message that McCarrick had communicated to me, but that would become clear to me in the days immediately following.”
“…The next day the audience with Pope Francis took place. After his address, which was partly read and
partly delivered off the cuff, the Pope wished to greet all the nuncios one by one. In single file, I
remember that I was among the last. When it was my turn, I just had time to say to him, “I am the Nuncio to the United States.” He immediately assailed me with a tone of reproach, using these words: “The Bishops in the United States must not be ideologized! They must not be right wing, they must be shepherds!” Of course I was not in a position to ask for explanations about the meaning of his words and the aggressive way in which he had upbraided me.”
Cardinal Viganò continues with arguments against the nomination of various pro-gay Archbishops and Bishops in the United States, promoted and prompted by McCarrick.
Here is the conclusion of the letter,
“At the Angelus on Sunday, August 12, 2018 Pope Francis said these words: “Everyone is guilty for the good he could have done and did not do … If we do not oppose evil, we tacitly feed it. We need to intervene where evil is spreading; for evil spreads where daring Christians who oppose evil with good are lacking.”
If this is rightly to be considered a serious moral responsibility for every believer, how much graver is it for the Church’s supreme pastor, who in the case of McCarrick not only did not oppose evil but associated himself in doing evil with someone he knew to be deeply corrupt. He followed the advice of someone he knew well to be a pervert, thus multiplying exponentially with his supreme authority the evil done by McCarrick. And how many other evil pastors is Francis still continuing to prop up in their active destruction of the Church!
Francis is abdicating the mandate which Christ gave to Peter to confirm the brethren. Indeed, by his action he has divided them, led them into error, and encouraged the wolves to continue to tear apart the sheep of Christ’s flock.
In this extremely dramatic moment for the universal Church, he must acknowledge his mistakes and, in keeping with the proclaimed principle of zero tolerance, Pope Francis must be the first to set a good example for cardinals and bishops who covered up McCarrick’s abuses and resign along with all of them.”
The Pope chose not to answer questions about Viganò’s open letter. But in a homily, he made indirect reference to it. Which prompted the Cardinal to write a second open letter, of which I will only quote the following statement,
“…the Pope’s reply to my testimony was: ‘I will not say a word!’ But then, contradicting himself, he has compared his silence to that of Jesus in Nazareth before Pilate, and compared me to the great accuser, Satan, who sows scandal and division in the Church, though without ever uttering my name.”
After the second letter, an official voice of the Catholic establishment (in the instance Cardinal Ouellet), accused Viganò of having built a “political fabrication,” of having lodged a “monstrous accusation,” of having launched a “blasphemous attack on the Pope,” of having inflicted “a grievous wound on the Church” etc.
From now on, the affair acquires the tone of a tabloid, with invectives, accusations, hints and innuendos about Viganò’s obscure, supposed, and diabolic motivations. A detailed rendition would last as long as a night in the Artic, when nights are longest there. I have already driven the reader past the bounds of reasonably bearable patience. Incidentally, McCarrick resigned his cardinalship in July 2018.
The next step in connecting the turmoil in the Catholic Church with the nomination of Kavenaugh to the Supreme Court is an attempt at tracing the roots of the turmoil itself, and an examination of why it became inevitable.
In a previous article, “Quo Vadis Vatican?” I described the revolutionary about-turn of the Catholic Church on her relationship with the Jews, during the second Vatican Council. Meaningful, for example, is the following statement by Cardinal Kasper,
“The Catholic Church can attend to (whatever ‘attend’ means is left unsaid), attend to those who, from culture or habit, feel uncomfortable with the liturgical reforms and other reforms of Vatican II. But the Catholic Church cannot accept in any form and for whatever reason, the lingering-on of the prejudice and the diffidence and contempt towards Jews and Judaism. Let’s just consider how the accusation of having killed Christ, created and continues to create in certain places the conditions of an enmity that curses both Judaism and the Gospel of Humanity.”
Translated this means, the Catholics are essentially committing a sin by being unfriendly to the Jews. The Church, he says, needs no longer to proselytize and promote Jewish conversion. Simply because Israel was always in alliance with God, and was loved by God. The Jews are “our elder brothers of the Bible.” Therefore Israel does not need to convert to Christianity, unlike practitioners of other religions.
According to the same prelate Kasper, after Pope Pius XII, the Catholic Church has been and is in a continuous evolution, even re-evaluating established dogmas. One of the great results of the change is that the Catholic Church is now co-existential (his words), with Judaism. And, though not openly stated, ‘co-existential’ implies shared values and… policies.
Which brings us to another important Encyclical, recently issued by Pope Francis, which has to do with the family, “Amoris Laetitia” (The joy of love (in the family)). The essence of that long document can be summarized into one sentence, “The Church must be firm and flexible.” Given that ‘flexible’ is the antonym of ‘firm,’ once more we find an imposed lexical stress that the language itself is not really equipped to bear.
In the instance, the flexible firmness – or if you like, the firm flexibility – involves the issues of same-sex marriages, abortion, divorced couples, single parenting, sex-neutrality, homosexuality, transgenderism, sodomy etc. Issues that American Judaism, by their proud admission, has taken the lead in aggressively promoting and even enforcing. [Remember the Kentucky clerk, Kim Davis, who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples].
The Encyclical “Amoris Laetitia,” more than a program, represents a summary of an evolution begun 50 years ago. Out of several, I will produce one example, which will bring us closer to the connection with the storm surrounding the appointment of the latest Supreme Court judge.
Eugene Kennedy (1928-2015) was a psychologist, award-winning writer, public intellectual, syndicated columnist, etc…. and professor emeritus of Loyola University Chicago. He was a priest who dropped his priestly robes to get married, and a follower of Erik Erickson, a German-American Freudian psychologist of Jewish roots.
In 1970 Kennedy, with the approval and sponsorship of the American Catholic authorities appointed Erickson to conduct a study on the psychological profile of 219 priests.
Erickson had developed yet another theory on the psychological development of human beings. According to him, there are 7 stages of development in humans. Stage 6 is intimacy. In a nutshell, sex is needed to reach the final stage #7 of maturity. Otherwise a man is immature.
Say this to a group of people, Catholic priests, who have made a vow of celibacy. The inevitable conclusion is that, ipso facto, all priests are immature. In the instance, Catholic-funded Jewish psychology tells priests to act on their sexual desires, including, of course, homosexuality.
For psychology / psychiatry is a Jewish science, promoting Jewish values and in particular sexual liberation. Psychiatry substitutes the essentially free-of-charge Catholic confession with a license to sin, in exchange for juicy fees paid to the psychiatrist.
The Kennedy study, being conducted on behalf of the Catholic Church, was published with great clout, and we can imagine the devastating effects it had on the morals of the Catholic priesthood.
By the way, though raised as a Catholic, I am writing agnostically, and as a long-time follower of what Kant defined as the ‘categorical imperative.’ A trivial example of which may be found in the reason why most of us stop at a red traffic light, even if we are confident that no police is around to give a ticket.
Still, all conversations with my Catholic school friends and some of their Catholic parents, grandparents and relatives have led me to one conclusion. Episodes of deviance in the Church may have always occurred, but none of my friends and relatives – and myself – saw or reported any. The explosion of scandals is a historically recent phenomenon.
We reached the final link in the connection I was looking for. Kavanaugh is a Catholic, a point not openly discussed but not overlooked in the contentious debate. His enemies are the enemies of a view of life and society at the opposite pole of what (at least until recently), the Church represented. They keep their design always in view, and lay hold of any expedient that time should offer.
The core of the issue is very well exposed in a satirical article written for “Veterans Today,” by Kevin Barrett, and titled “Kavanaugh converts to Judaism to save Supreme Court nomination.” Where we read,
“In the latest shocking turn of events in an increasingly twisted saga, embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has announced his impending conversion to Judaism. Speaking at a hastily-convened press conference on the Capitol steps, Kavanaugh said he will undergo a conversion ceremony, including a public circumcision by top Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi Yehuda Karinski, at the National Cathedral in Washington DC beginning at noon tomorrow…..
“By converting to Judaism and having the end of my penis sliced off, I will prove once and for all that I am qualified,” Kavanaugh stated.
He explained that his conversion solved the problem of Catholic overrepresentation on the court—he would have been the fifth Catholic out of nine justices—while simultaneously helping address the crisis of Jewish underrepresentation. Kavanaugh explained that there are currently only three Jewish justices, making up a mere 33% of the Court, despite the fact that Jews constitute more than 65% of America’s ruling elite.
As the fourth Jewish justice, Kavanaugh explained, he will be striking a blow against anti-Semitism by helping the Jewish community overcome institutionalized barriers of prejudice and racism that have impeded its natural rise to a position of complete dominance over all American institutions of power.
Kavanaugh also claimed that his public circumcision, which will be broadcast live in wide-screen close-up by CNN, NBC, Fox, and all other media, will provide a moving spectacle of atonement for his alleged crimes.
…. Defenders of Kavanaugh’s decision to convert included the five Jews who had been leading the anti-Kavanaugh movement: Diane Feinstein, Richard Blumenthal, Chuck Schumer, Debra Katz, and Michael Bromwich. In a joint statement, the five vowed to switch sides and support Kavanaugh as soon as his conversion was completed and his offending penis mutilated.”
There you have it. It is a sign of the times that fear trumps truth when truth must be sought in satire. Outside satire, as a right line describes the passage from point to point, a right opinion is that which connects distant truths by the shortest intermediate propositions.
In the instance, the intermediate propositions were not the shortest. On the other hand, whether to see life as it is will give us much consolation is uncertain. But the consolation which is drawn from truth, if any there be, is solid and durable; that which may be derived from error, must be, like its original, deluding and fugitive.
And if I have taxed the patience of my 25 readers, I did not do it on purpose.
PS. 1. On the principle that one picture is worth a thousand words, this is a very short video clip from a recent Catholic Youth Synod in Rome
2. I owe the information about the Loyola University psychological research to Professor E. Michael Jones.
There is nothing more evil and corrupt than the catholic church – it has been so for hundreds of years at least – who needs yet more evidence of this before believing it?!
“Still, all conversations with my Catholic school friends and some of their Catholic parents, grandparents and relatives have led me to one conclusion. Episodes of deviance in the Church may have always occurred, but none of my friends and relatives – and myself – saw or reported any. The explosion of scandals is a historically recent phenomenon.”
Mass abuse over the centuries would’ve brought down the Church many years ago. If our local parish priests and bishops were at the centre of child abuse rings then the fathers in my housing estate would have beaten the living daylights out of ’em. The mass abuse is recent and, to a certain extent, hyped up by the Zionist-controlled media. For example, the movie “Spotlight” is based on lies and exaggerations.
What happened recently, historically speaking? Oh yes, the Zionist infiltration of the Catholic Church. Same old criminals. That the Zionists are waging a war on European Christianity is so obvious it is tedious to point it out. What rankles most is that they have already won the war — they control everything in our political order (money-making, culture-making and law-making) yet continue to undermine our societies.
Of course you’ll continue to blame the Catholic Church whilst the banksters continue to mop up any remnants of independent power and influence.
We knew in the fifties Cardinal Spellman ‘loved’ his altar boys. We knew he was ‘queer’.
Just as we knew J.Edgar Hoover ‘loved’ his roommate. We knew he was ‘queer’.
Knowing and being empowered to do anything are quite different things.
The Papacy has been a center of corruption in our lifetime, Pius XII being a fascist ally.
The chain of Popes since then has been a fairly continuous relay (save John XXIII).
The Polish Pope was as foreign to spiritual leadership as any. It was geopolitics all the time. After all, the Intel Services made certain he was in power, didn’t they? So he worked for his sponsors.
The West is corrupt and deviant and all Western institutions merely follow suit.
It’s not just a Catholic Church and Papacy thing. The Civilization has gone to Satan.
Governments, academia, corporations, and every form of leadership group model from the Civilization’s Elite and Powerful. Show an exception anywhere in the West. I don’t see anyone, much less any significant entity.
The Church is irredeemable. It can’t be reformed. It sits near the center of the circus and is programmed for evil.
It is a significant part of the whole of the Cult of Liberalism and so, degenerate as all the rest.
Have you never heard of Sodom and Gomorrah? History repeats itself, over and over again.
But, still “it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee” [Capernaum]: “Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not: 21 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you. 23 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. 24 But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee”.
The mortal sin, the unforgivable sin “either in this age or in the age to come.” is denying the divinity of Jesus Christ. The sin against the Holy Ghost: ″…to sin against the Holy Ghost is to confound Him with the spirit of evil, it is to deny, from pure malice, the Divine character of works manifestly Divine.″ Resurrection, for example. The Lord Jesus Christ is God, not a mere prophet, or rabbi, for that matter.
It is an altogether different level of discussion, beyond the perceived ‘pedophilia’ (sodomy, to define it by its proper name) of the ‘irredeemable church’.
Yeah…. fascinating that one isn’t it? Esp. as Christ’s divinity was decided by majority decision (ie., vote) at the First Council of Nicaea in 325AD. (An’ the three that refused to agree got banished.)
“fascist ally”? Wht proof do you hve for such slnder? Besides if you think the Soviets, the Chinese Communists & the Zios who took Plestine 3 yrs _fter the w_r were on the side of He_ven (Removed for language,MOD).
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/08/pius-xii-european-fascism-and-the-vaticans-wwii-records/
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/va-pope-pius-xii-fascists.htm
http://iiipublishing.blogspot.com/2010/11/pius-xii-hitler-and-role-of-catholicism.html
From these articles are many links and books that detail more linkage.
Histories before revisionist Catholic writers tried hard to spin the Truth document the factual record.
Living at the time of man, there was no doubt. There was a daily record in the press of his words and actions.
The “Spotlight” articles by the Boston Globe performed a great service.
They exposed past and ongoing child abuse, and have likely prevented much child abuse from happening now and in the future.
Ironically, though the Spotlight articles exposed one wrongdoing they at the same
time protected and supported another. I will get to that further below, but first…
I think I am the one that cursed the Church and brought it down.
The above is a jest, of sorts, of course.
But I did curse Cardinal Law, and within a year the child abuse scandal broke wide open and Cardinal Law was exiled from Boston. Of course, we know that it was Cardinal Law that had cursed himself.
It all began when Episcopalians had gathered and protested with Boston Palestinians in front of the Israeli consulate in Boston.
There had been an incidence of violence, the particulars of which I have forgotten, that took place in Israel and some of the violence perpetrated by Israelis upon Palestinians had taken place in an Episcopal church building and/or it’s grounds.
I viewed on television a live panel discussion between a Boston Jewish community representative(s) and a Boston Episcopalian minister. They were having a polite and civil discussion moderated by a local news reporter
about the protests and what was taking place in Israel.
At some point in the discussion the moderator said, “let us bring Cardinal Law into this, he has offered to be a mediator”. A video screen lit up in front of the discussion participants and there was Cardinal Law on the screen. What Cardinal Law said next blew me away. “I want to offer myself as a mediator in this incidence of
anti-semitism.”
No one on the television program had even hinted at “anti-semitism” being part of this. But here was Cardinal Law playing the part of a generous and beneficent Priest, offering his service to the community by
helping to mediate between two religions, Episcopalians and Jews.
And what comes out of his mouth? He charged the Episcopalians with being motivated by anti-semitism, while in the same hypocritical sentence he is calling himself a “mediator”.
Cardinal Law’s hypocrisy just blew me away, I was incensed.
What an obvious and smiling snake he was.
Here is a Spotlight article from the period when Spotlight was first exposing the church’s child abuse behavior. Though Cardinal Law was a horrible protector of child abusers Spotlight tells us he was not all bad.
As Cardinal Law “kissed the ring” of Zionists.
“Law invested considerable personal capital in ecumenical and interfaith relations,
and he was highly regarded by leaders of the Jewish community. He forged a close
friendship with Leonard P. Zakim, who until his death in 1999 was the longtime executive director of the
Anti-Defamation League’s New England Regional Office.”
He was not all bad Spotlight tells us.
http://archive.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories3/121402_record.htm
I remember in the lead up to Bush’s invasion of Iraq Bush gave two important speeches
wherein he used a particular propaganda technique. Cause and effect, they follow
one upon the other in the minds of the the typical reader/listener. Propagandist
speech writers know this. Bush would say in his speeches “Saddam” followed immediately
by or preceded by “September 11th”. Bush never said directly that Saddam was involved
in September 11th, but that is what people would hear. He used it five times in his State of The Union
Address two months prior to the invasion and he used it five times in his speech that he
gave immediately before Congress voted giving Bush the authority to use military force
against Iraq. The vast majority of Americans believed Saddam was involved in 9/11 at the
time of our March 2003 invasion of Iraq, you may recall.
Why am I mentioning this?
The Boston Globe Spotlight article does something similar – cause and effect. In one long sentence Spotlight
speaks of Episcopalians protesting in front of the Israeli consulate and in that same sentence
it speaks of “hate crimes”.
“Law was clearly concerned about using his powerful post to prevent flare-ups of interreligious strife.
Just last year, when Episcopal bishops in Massachusetts caused a stir by protesting for
Palestinian rights outside the Israeli consulate in Boston, Law offered to help broker talks,
and he pulled together an unprecedentedly broad group of interreligious leaders to condemn
hate crimes after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.”
Checked my references to George W Bush. Should have done it before and not relied on very old memories.
Here is the speech Bush gave just before the vote on the authorization to use force on Iraq. You will certainly be amazed by it, I was.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/oct/07/usa.iraq
For example,
“We’ve learned that Iraq has trained al-Qaida members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases. And we know that after September 11 Saddam Hussein’s regime gleefully celebrated the terrorist attacks on America.
Iraq could decide on any given day to provide a biological or chemical weapon to a terrorist group or individual terrorists. Alliance with terrorists could allow the Iraqi regime to attack America without leaving any fingerprints.”
The speech does evoke September 11th five times but they are not all in the immediate vicinity of “Saddam” or “Iraq”, though close.
Bush’s State of the Union Address 2003 evokes September 11th three times. Only one of them has “Saddam” next to “September 11th”.
“Before September 11, 2001, many in the world believed that Saddam Hussein could be contained. But chemical agents and lethal viruses and shadowy terrorist networks are not easily contained. Imagine those 19 hijackers with other weapons, and other plans — this time armed by Saddam Hussein.”
The “Catholic Church” is luciferian, do a little research, it will blow your mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K2aqYiUJaM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk6gQhKa9YQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evu3gJoRR6g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmh_Og42WnQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g6YYKbHdKM
The list goes on and on. Check the sources from these example videos, and do little research. Draw your own conclusions.
@Anon, I counter your unsupported assertion with my unsupported assertion:
The Catholic Church is the greatest force for good that the World has yet seen.
(Catholic from the Greek, Kath Holos — to the Whole World)
@ Anonymous
‘There is nothing more evil and corrupt than the catholic church’.
Remove it from the world and what have you left? Which American protestant sect would you like to carry the torch? This guy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2FhIl3VaMM Where is eastern orthodoxy in W Europe, Africa, S. America, Asia? For all its faults, it carries a flame for thousands of years that sects and even wholly legitimate manifestations of Christianity, eg Orthodoxy, have not carried.
If this abuse issue has led you you to trot out your trite and shallow jibe, consider the facts:
We Catholics have a problem with homosexuals. 75% of condemned pedophiles in the general public self identify as heterosexual (meaning that the 2% homosexual population are responsible for 25% of pedophile cases).
Numerous investigative reports by the church as well as convicted abusers show that 80-90% of convicted priests self identify as homosexual. We have a problem with gay’s doing what some gays do, which is disturbed men destroying innocence. We are dealing with it.
By comparison, to leaven your statements about the ‘evil corrupt church’, of all professions, Christian priests of all denominations have the lowest incidence of child abuse. Of them, Catholic priests are the lowest. Their errors have been labored by the media that is going for the jugular of the Catholic Church 24/7.
The profession with the highest incidence of child abuse are PE / sports teachers and coaches. Let me hear you say ‘the evil and corrupt volley ball industry’.
The greatest incidence of sexual child abuse is by Dads and step dads of their own children. I can think of little more sickening or sorrowful, but I can not justify a condemnation of the institution of marriage on that basis.
Sir,
Thank you for this wonderfully written article. Like you, I was raised Roman Catholic. In my mid-20’s I became interested in Eastern Orthodoxy, a faith that I don’t ever remember hearing about once in my entire lifetime of Catholic schooling.
I have been Orthodox for the second half of my life; and although my Church has its share of scandals, they are nothing in comparison to the subject which you just addressed.
If you are interested in the Orthodox attitude towards our “Elder Brothers,” you should read the hymns chanted during Great and Holy Passion Week…especially on what you in the West call, “Good Friday.”
Suffice to say, we believe that the best thing our “Elder Brothers” can do is to unite themselves with the Messiah Whom they rejected, persecuted and hung on a cross.
If you are interested in the Orthodox attitude towards our “Elder Brothers,” you should read the hymns chanted during Great and Holy Passion Week…especially on what you in the West call, “Good Friday.”
Yes, indeed!!
Very very good point.
I have always wondered which country would be the first one to ban the Lenten Triodion, especially the Holy Week section…
Kind regards,
The Saker
Very well written. A most enlightening piece, not being a catholic, it is interesting to see it from one brought up in that tradition.
Regarding maturity, it seems to me that a truthful understanding of the divinity is required, Shakespeare comes to mind. I would think that if there were some representatives of humanity, who for some coincidence beyond comprehension, were granted a personal comprehension of the hand within and behind the scenery, then some professions or protestations of belief, especially when propounding some doctrine or another, seem highly dubious at best.
Such an understanding seems to me requires a kind of artistry, which finds unique and free floating order to the universe, and not hard and fast rules or regulations, since this experience we share is supposed to be a creation, which appears to be “beautiful,” while also awful and awe inspiring. Which means that there is searching and not getting ever to the bottom of it.
Which kind of turns the entire hierarchy of the church, and the notion of “moral authority,” for example on its head here and there, and life has a tinge of the absurd to it, if it didn’t end in occasionally misery and inevitably death.
“Enlightenment,” I think, may require “life experience,” over say reading words or willful ignorance, and sexuality may be one of many life experiences on a path to living examples of human enlightment? And I truly wonder whether such a state would establish a political or social hierarchy in the first place, but human beings seem disposed towards all sorts of insecurities leading toward errors in thought, and in this light, a great part of humanity seems off kilter, out of allignment, and we arrive at this moment.
“For psychology / psychiatry is a Jewish science, promoting Jewish values” – Never have truer words been spoken, Mr Moglia. I would add to that it forms a religion of its own- “psycologism” – and that it is almost exclusively the females among the Gentiles who are its most ardent students because Psycology and Sociology are the most common degree subjects for women at university in USA, UK and west Europe. Psycologism backed up by its fake ‘studies’ from universities, is being used to normalise the perverse, such as creating transgender children, while accusing normal behavior as the perverse, such as forbidding heterosexual men to flirt with heterosexual women. They have an agenda and its clear for all to see, each move of Psycologism expands the Anglo Zionist power and weakens and divides its enemies.
The power structure of the Anglo Zionists is composed of Jewish supremacists, assisted by female supremacists and useful idiots like Catholic ‘modernists’, Ukrainian Nazis and Transgender perverts. Psycologism + Feminism + Multiculturalism + Postmodernism = the End.
A 2017 OnePeter5 article asks ‘Did Obama Force Benedict’s Abdication?’. From the second paragraph:
‘Obama was eager to dethrone Benedict XVI for two reasons. On the one hand, his presidency was close to fundamentalist Islam…whereas Ratzinger, ever since his famous Regensburg lecture, had been identified internationally as a strong opponent of Islamism. On the other hand, Obama was worried about the Church’s reconciliatory efforts toward Moscow’s Orthodox patriarch, within the scope…“of a geopolitical project aimed at European-Russian integration, actively supported by Germany and Italy.”’
For ‘Obama’ substitute ‘Jewry’. ‘On the one hand’, Islam is vital to Jewry as a means of de-Christianizing Europe.
‘On the other hand’, it has long been important to Jewry to prevent an alliance between Europe and Russia. Henry Wickham Steed wrote in 1924 that the ‘gulf that severed Western Europe from Russia during the latter half of the 19th century was dug and kept open chiefly by Jewish resentment of Russian persecution of Jews. Yet that resentment sprang also from Jewish detestation of the Russian Holy Synod and of the Russian Orthodox Church’.
I definitely would not call myself a Christian – and think the evil jealous god of judeïsm is not the same as God the Father of Jesus, but even then…
But the faith of my childhood, Roman Catholicism is still the only thin, nostalgic connection to Christianity I have left, and I think this is the case for many millions of relatively secular western Europeans. Who hate the despicable evangelicals but don´t comprehend anything about orthodox Christianity either.
Living in America, I automatically tune out whenever either side of the Kavanaugh farce starts with their routines. Thus, while I gave the author a try, just at the point when I was curious about who this cardinal was and what was going on, when the author jumped sideways into the Kavanaugh farce, I stopped reading.
For the record, I could care less about the Ford v Kavanaugh he-said, she-said routine. At best, I’d suggest putting both into an MMA cage and letting them fight it out. Winner gets to fight last week’s thug. I was however opposed to Kavanaugh reaching the supreme court. I am also opposed to the Democrats for the way they opposed it. Instead of talking about how someone who was right in the middle of the Dubya Bush torture approval scheme be made part of the court that decides constitutional issues, the Democrats instead relied on this farce. Thus, torture will now be confirmed by the highest American court, and its hard to see how any opponents of the empire are happy about this.
I could care less. But, if an author can’t write about the Vatican without jumping sideways with no introduction or warning into more of the he said/she said nonsense, well that’s where he lost me. Not that I was all that interested in the Vatican anyways.
This is unadulterated tripe!
Despite being just rubbishy anti-Semitism (in line with the ‘Jews eat gentile babies for breakfast’ nonsense) I see no reason to attribute to the Jewish people exclusively a field they have shared but certainly do not own. As for “sexual liberation” being a particularly “Jewish value” – go try that one on the Hasidim.
Exactly what is meant by “recent?”
[From https://www.livescience.com/8606-7-unholy-pope-scandals.html%5D
3. Pope Benedict IX (1032 and 1048)
Gaining power and wealth from an early age as a result of his family’s ties to the church, Benedict IX essentially inherited the title of pope since he was the nephew of both Pope John XIX and Pope Benedict VIII. He was only 20 years old, but quickly developed a reputation as being “cruel and immoral,” according to “The Rise of the Medieval World, 500 – 1300” (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002).
In fact, in his third book of dialogues, Pope Victor III wrote of Benedict IX’s “rapes, murders and other unspeakable acts. His life as a pope so vile, so foul, so execrable, that I shudder to think of it,” according to “The Spirit.”
Saint Peter Damian had similar things to say of Benedict IX, describing him as “feasting on immorality” and “a demon from hell in the disguise of a priest,” who sponsored orgies and routinely partook in bestiality, according to “The Spirit.” In his final act of corruption as pope, Benedict IX decided that he wanted to pursue marriage, so he sold his holy title to his godfather for 1,500 pounds (680 kilograms) of gold.
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I find it interesting that no-one discussing religion is able to avoid the homosexuality bugbear….. Here again it raises its ugly head declaiming “I am better than you because I am not homosexual!” But, throughout the animal kingdom where species are differentiated by sex we find sexual ambivalence. The numbers range from 1 to 90% depending on animal, group, type etc., averaging out at about 20% with 8-13% for humans.
Way I see it, that’s neither here nor there, neither good nor bad; just the way things are – the way God made the world. In my opinion, you aren’t better if you’re straight – you’re just luckier. The ardent moralist (backed by his religion) condemns another for being homosexual as though being homosexual is a choice – like shall I wear a blue or white shirt today: and never realises he’s assuming such people are choosing to be outcast and condemned? How sick is that?
Problem is that we anthropomorphize God, we assign human personality traits. Seems to me that we cannot possibly understand the motivations of something with the unimaginable power and intelligence to create a universe and all it encompasses. As likely as an ant dissecting Einsteins relativity theorem.
As to the Jews, if they choose to believe in a God with human traits of vengeance and jealousy that looks upon them only as his chosen people, then that sounds like a sales pitch for a cult. Even more amusing is that anyone else would take their absurd proposition seriously. Was Jesus there to actual point that out to them as the establishment certainly disn’t like him? Surely if his intention was to start a new gentile religion he would have proselytized among the gentiles?
If homosexuals exist it surely must be as they are meant to, or did God make a design mistake? Perhaps it isn’t our sexual orientation that is important but what we do with it, is a lecherous straight a better person than a pious gay?
Well, it’s a pretty big cult.
The God of Abraham is the God of the Jews, the Christians and Islam. Oh, we like to pretend that’s not so…. MY God is nothing like your God or that God or his God! But really, it’s all the same God.
Sometimes seems to me He’s more trouble than He’s worth.
Useful in foxholes …. but we don’t spend our lives in foxholes. We spend our lives trying to get on (or not) with others; others we all too often differentiate according to our own images of God.
I have little patience with this “my God is better than yours, my religion, my version of our religion, my beliefs are purer, my rites are original (yours are fake.) “Check, MY main guy has a three mile long hardly pronounceable title and a really cool fancy dress! Great head of hair too.” It’s distraction. Doesn’t matter the version or the sect, all Christian rite that’s separate from Judaic is bastardised from the pagan: Christmas, Easter, Baptism whatever. IMO, the only good, original thing that came out of any of them was the Christian “He died that you might live” because it eradicated human sacrifice. Then, once it had done its job it morphed it into some mystical “spiritual” nonsense.
If people really do need religion and God and “spiritual” to be (no-afterlife terrified into being) good decent human beings and they aren’t good decent human beings because that’s how they want to be treated in return – then there’s something seriously wrong with how we bring up succeeding generations. And this idea that we condemn people for being (born) Jewish or black or homosexual or whatever the flavour of the week is, is no better than condemning people for being (born) Tibetan, or woman, or green-eyed … or club-footed.
Someone born to Jewish parents is “born Jewish.” Same for Christian or Muslim or Hindu or any other. Sure he can change his religion (well in lotsa places + certainly ours) but why should he? Why should he change what he knows, is comfortable with, grew up with and loves – just because – Other People think “Jews are evil, Jews stink, Jews whatever?” He knows Jews are just people. As for … but Jews think they’re chosen and better than everyone else – their religion says so … is pure bs. All religions are exclusive, odd, weird, just plain daft and “we’re the special ones” “our God’s specially chosen ones” to someone else somewhere. Jews think they’re better than everybody else. Christians think they’re better than everybody else. Muslims think they’re better than everybody else – what the big deal? (Me thinks they just haven’t given it much think.)
We find consensus in our similarities but it’s our differences that make us interesting….. If we were all the one and only right proper same – we’d have nothing to talk about. You’d know the answer without asking the question.
The problem with the Kav nomination is . . . (drumroll), Bret Kavanaugh.
The Ford drama was ancillary.
Actually, the Ford drama is what ended up getting Kav voted in.
It provided a distraction from Kav’s realyl debilities and a false dichotomy or a false choice that our senators were not up to seeing through and ignoring. And, of course, they voted what they see as their short-term political advantage. Thoroughly American, that.
Not sure what Kav’s Catholicism has to do with it.
This is a ery interesting essay until it gets to Kav. The Kav part of it does not really fit. In fact, I think I do follow Moglia’s logic but I do think it is pretty forced. Disappointed to see Jimmy apparently coming to the defense of Kav on the basis of enemy of my enemy, or symbolic enemy, is my friend. Not in this case. Kav is odious, regardless of the quality or character of the person who “testified” against him.
But the Kevin Barrett piece is very funny. Thanks for that!
Katherine
My impression was that the Ford accusations accomplished their purpose; to use “divide and conquer” tactics to prevent anyone from paying any attention to Kavenaugh’s role in the purposeful destruction of the 4th Amendment and the destruction of right to privacy.
”Psychiatry substitutes the essentially free-of-charge Catholic confession with a license to sin, in exchange for juicy fees paid to the psychiatrist.”
Very true. Western psychiatry essentially boils down to a commodified, utterly bogus ”science” of human behaviour and beliefs, which it shares in full with another similarly putrid creed claiming scientific credentials — economics. To wit: Psychiatry for the gender confused and other degenerates such as all these poor little Western mercenaries suffering from ”trauma”; economics for the celebration of the rampant greed, egoism, violence, and lawlessness of the West’s Elites.
As for the Roman Catholic Church and its obsession — from top to bottom at that — with child rapist camaraderie, that’s a vivid illustration indeed of the moral stature of contemporary Western religiosity. Confessions and grovelling before a die-hard, committed paedophile should make you wonder if Western Christianity (or at least a significant part of it) is fine with the moral fibres of 100% evil, rotten filth just as the West’s economists are. However, the latter are getting handsomely paid for their esteemed, ’scientific’ judgments.
Can you give me ONE single name of the accusers of Archbishop McCarrick? Take your time, look everywhere!
They have no face!
And later this letter asking the Pope to resign, just like Lula in Brazil, cuz he knew.
There is a clear campaign against this Pope and the Church. Just check google and youtube.
The autor did not show any doubt about the accusation. Im just wondering why is that…
If one is under the law, holds the law as of the upmost importance, one should realize that law is based on two parts: accusation and judgement. Accusation is the easy part; judgement not so much. Accusation is associated with the devil, who is known in Christian scriptures as the accuser. Judgement is associated with God the most merciful and just. Following Rene Girard, who maintained that the awareness of persecution, to be the hallmark of modernity and legacy of Christianity, we are more likely to see accusations against accusations, then justice–
which like the Kingdom, is not of this world. Process is the architecture whereby just decisions can be made as much as humanly possible, but process is not judgement.
The Latin Church teaches that there are the evangelical counsels: poverty, chastity and obedience. I leave for the reader to ponder these things.
“The explosion of scandals is a historically recent phenomenon.”
If it wasn’t for the internet and our technological wonders we would have largely known little to nothing about any of this.
Raises the question before the advent of such media God only knows the sins that were committed and that a hell exists thank Almighty God is going to serve a great many extremely well!
I can’t begin to imagine what the exchange is going to be between priests such as this and Christ on judgment day?
and then there is as St. Paul rightly said to the Corinthians who had within their midst a man who had his fathers wife deliver such a one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh so that the soul may be saved. Sin once it transgresses past a certain point it becomes reprobate.
too bad about the Vatican – luckily it doesn’t represent the majority of Catholics – who are great and decent people generally. And I quite like this pope – even if he is a Jesuit – I have no idea if he’s a bad guy deep down – he seems to be ‘okay’ as far as I’m concerned.
Its a strange phenomena that as soon as the Pope sided with Palestine – all these deviancies have erupted – kind of the same thing that happened to the Sauds – they told Trump ‘No More Oil’ – and the journalist was killed – even before finding his body – https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2017/03/25/1363709/west-true-perpetrator-of-yemen-genocide-pundit –
article by Soraya Sepahpour Ulrich – written in 2017 – amazing how she can see the future –
and this is from her page on FB – yesterday – https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenrwald/2018/10/05/saudi-arabia-tells-trump-no-more-oil/#6058e90d6dfc
and her comment above the latter link is
“Right about this time that we first heard news of an assassinated Saudi – WP journalist ”
and
It’s amazing the quantity of people that combat the deep state and do not hesitate to ally themselves with the deep state to prove a 1000 years point.
They take any allegation from the NYT as granted. Do not question anything at All.
And of course it’s not weird at all that the scandal comes from the USA. Have you heard about the scandal in Brazil, Argentina, France or anywhere else?
Looks the Vatican is the site’s Achilles’ heel.
They are only humans!
I think Moglia is saying that these latest “revelations” and “denunciations” of “the scandal” is an Anglo Zio Capitalist propaganda war that has been relentlessly blasting at Christianity in general and the Roman Church in particular since 2003, when an assembly of representatives from most of the World Churches denounced the AZC gang rape of Iraq as An Unjust War. If so, I agree.
For what it’s worth, being an agnostic I rate Christian organizations as I rate any other organization, and their Leaders as I would rate any other Leader. And in my lifetime I have “felt good vibes” from the Vatican under Good Pope John (Liberation theology), Pope JohnPaul (world consciousness, and for apologizing to Muslims), and the present Pope Francis (for his knowledge of human nature and his robust common sense).
There have always been jokes about the Vicar and the Choirboy; expel Human Nature from the door and it will climb back through the window. But my only criticism against the World Christian organizations is that the Church merely condemned the gang rape of Iraq by the AZC in a once-only written statement. In my view, they should have thundered against Operation Enduring Freedom from the pulpits; every Sunday they should have preached against the hypocrites Bush and Blair and their Coalition of the Killing. There ought to have been Excommunications. There ought to have been Murder in the Cathedral and “blood on the steps” — the blood of martyred bishops, like the blood of Bishop Romero. But the Church was timid, kept prudently PC — and lost the moral high ground. Their opponents were not placated, because the AZC demands perfect obedience, and play rough. That only-half-hearted protest by the Church exposed the Church’s spiritual weakness. Laid the Church open to blowback, to this ongoing AZC propaganda “denunciation” — age old folk tales freshly warmed up for a modern MSM campaign. AZC Identity Politics to Perfection.
The Vatican has been a Jewish Mafia asset for many centuries. Enough said.
Good Job Jimmy – and thanks to Saker et al for the posting.
I would like to read the letter Jimmy writes of. I assume it is in Latin… urls?
States and Civilizations exist as structures stabilized by institutions. When they change, or collapse, a Signal Process and indicator is the corruption, hysteria, and irrationality of these institutions. “Western Civilization” is in collapse, so the institutions are failing to function…
This is also observable in the Academy. And the Military, and in Courts, and so on.
In nazi period of WW2 similar scandal (largely contrived in the instance) undermined and weakened the clergy of both Catholic and Protestant Church.
I disagree with chimmy, who wrote: “If one is under the law, holds the law as of the upmost importance, one should realize that law is based on two parts: accusation and judgement.”
Law is based on Custom and Contract. Accusation relates to Criminal Law, as does punishment, while most legal principles deal with Torts. Blackstone does a nice job: “…Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be “a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong”. Let us endeavour to explain it’s several properties, as they arise out of this definition.
And, first, it is a rule: not a transient sudden order from a superior, to or concerning a particular person; but something permanent, uniform, and universal. Therefore a particular act of the legislature to confiscate the goods of Titius, or to attaint him of high treason, does not enter into the idea of a municipal law: for the operation of this act is spent upon Titius only, and has no relation to the community in general; it is rather a sentence than a law. But an act to declare that the crime of which Titius is accused shall be deemed high treason; this has permanency, uniformity, and universality, and therefore is properly a rule. It is also called a rule, to distinguish it from advice or counsel, which we are at liberty to follow or not, as we see proper, and to judge upon the reasonableness or unreasonableness of the thing advised: whereas our obedience to the law depends not upon our approbation, but upon the maker’s will. Counsel is only matter of persuasion, law is matter of injunction; counsel acts only upon the willing, law upon the unwilling also.
It is also called a rule, to distinguish it from a compact or agreement; for a compact is a promise proceeding from us, law is a command directed to us. The language of a compact is, “1 will, or will not, do this”; that of a law is, “thou shalt, or shalt not, do it”. It is true there is an obligation which a compact carries with it, equal in point of conscience to that of a law; but then the original of the obligation is different. In compacts, we ourselves determine and promise what shall be done, before we are obliged to do it; in laws, we are obliged to act without ourselves determining or promising any thing at all. Upon these accounts law is defined to be “a rule”. ” You get the idea… Read entire commentary…https://www.laits.utexas.edu/poltheory/sidgwick/elempol/elempol.c02.xr03.html
The original letter by Cardinal Vigano’ was written in Italian. One site where a PDF version can be found is at
https://ep00.epimg.net/descargables/2018/08/26/0d0a26bae83df8dcc7a3fc68a9fc5002.pdf
Thank You! I will struggle with the Italian. The letter seems to mark a Signal Moment in the Process and to be one of those nuanced inflection points in History, of which historians try to make note.
Thinking about what law was, and sometimes is, minds me of a Law, or a relationship to Law, established in Talmudic Diaspora period…Babylon…expressed as Dina d’malkhuta dina. There’s a wiki on it so I won’t go into it past saying that is says, more or less, “the law of the kingdom is the law”…and it deals essentially with “raising taxes, duties and imposts, on the condition that the exacter is fully authorized and does not exact more than what he is entitled to exact.” It is often understood that, later, Jesus repeated this principle saying render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, etc etc. Quite doctrinaire, I expect. The point here being that it does not seem to involve criminal law…or punishment, or judgement. Essentially it is submission to superior power in civil affairs. Getting along with minimal violence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina_d%27malkhuta_dina
It is interesting that the principle would not apply in Israel, some Rabbis say. Or, in theory, anywhere other than a kingdom, e.g, it would not apply in a democracy, Iceland, for example… This to observe that the principle is situationally dependent. So, they say, is sodomy.
The moral decline of the Roman Church, and the Protestant Churches, and perhaps also the Eastern Church, and Unions, and States, and Financial Institutions, and so on, are not necessarily the cause of anything, but the result… That’s a useful position for inquiry anyway.
Marx and many others have pointed out that Ethics is circumstantial, situational. Why now do we see the abundant perversions? Why now is marriage conflated with sodomy? What changed? What are the processes? Something in the water? Keiser Report seems to suggest that this is an end of species era…https://www.rt.com/shows/keiser-report/440936-trump-administration-discussion-nuclear/ Perhaps a logical hypothesis accounting for the corruption in the Roman Church is that the foundations of Ethics are going away, as we destroy our environment and prepare human liquidation. Chris Hedges recently spoke to this as well…https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/438556-america-book-conversation-economy/ and https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/439149-hamilton-christian-right-goal/
All three of the RT shows cited (vide supra) are worth thoughtful examination, if you can bear the sadness.
Well, churches are becoming empty, being converted to all kinds of things, or just allowed to deteriorate into ruins. The emptier they become, the more enthusiastically does the Vatican stimulate the canonization machinery. I hear they are now canonizing Paul VI, the one who enforced all the reforms of Vatican II. I suppose seminars are also pretty empty, priesthood not being what it used to be, especially when it comes to offering possibilities of coverage for all kinds of perverts and fakes. I lived for a while in an apartment building where the person living above us was a priest (not a catholic, but from one of the main branches of Protestantism). He lived with his male lover, a guy at least 20 years his junior, a shady character who always wore very dark sunglasses, even in the gloomiest of winter days. Once in a while they held late night gatherings with other fellows, gatherings not exactly dedicated to pious endeavours, I imagine.
Generally the whole business of organized religion seems to work as a magnet to many repulsively fake priests, who saw in it a perfect place to practice their deviancies. But let’s not throw out the baby with the bathwater. There is some magnificence in the cumulative pomp of the rites through the centuries, and of course western music owes much of what it has achieved to the work of monks and church people. And Sunday mass was an important institution of social cohesion. There is some value in organized religion, in spite of these disgusting weasels. But anyway, it looks like the dismantling of these venerable institutions is too far advanced to be reversible anywhere. So if it was planned by jewery, they did a pretty good job. Pussy Riot and company might be leading the way, maybe their act will evolve to replicate more and more the scenes of advanced decadence and crime that took place in the altars of temples as narrated in parts of the old testament.
Yes, I agree, churches are being converted into something else…like cafes. I have seen that now Orthodox churches in many places have pews..! Perhaps a bar will be next, with the priest serving drinks while people SIT.
Now to JM’s article, I find it strange that the US supreme court consists of catholics and jews and yet the preponderant religion is protestant.
A thought provoking article, as always from JM
One fact stands clearly out reading the above discourse: the level of education(useful or a waste in the long run – time will tell) amongst those, that have at one time or another in their lives received Christ into their lives is a magnitude above us: the laymen.
Having squandered most of my youth on edumification, behind the iron courtain, that I have consided useless even by the standards of the day, how I wish for those years wasted, the curiousity of youth, the passion to know – only to be taken to the woods time and time again by this or that charlatan. The one benefit to this method of filtering information through long years is, that one gets a sorta overview, a large picture of a situation, an impression of it.
The particulars sink into the background, outcome the cornerstones of the argument, that are worthy of serious consideration. One gets a feeling, whenever something is fishy. Yeah, you could call that cynical, but I wouldn’t. When something passes this quick smelltest, the story becomes personal, emotional.
I will not comment on Mr Moglia’s essay aside from saying, that it resonates with what I know.
As to the connex to the SCOTUS hearings: search for ” e michael jones kavanaugh ” on the tube, the man is a (inter)national treasure.
Now, as to why I bothered:
We seem to be on the precipice of a perfect storm, and while some would quote me from this and some from an other book of knowledge, I have never read anything, that comes as close to describing the events of our days as precisely as does the protocols of the elders of zion.
Also, it seems, that as the ancient constructs and traditions, that we erected to guode our lives fail one after the other, more and more people from all walks of life are starting to shead the aversion to pointing out documented hostile intent, instead of constellation of stars.
Thanx Mr Moglia!