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https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2018/07/03/the-catholic-roots-of-the-new-socialism/

Quote below is from link above, emphasis is mine.

The Catholic roots of the New Socialism

The "patron saint" of today's Democratic Socialists of America got his start with Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker Movement. But for Day, prayer and the sacraments came first, not "the revolution."

In a primary defeat that the New York Times has called "the most significant loss for a Democratic incumbent in more than a decade," ten-term Representative Joseph Crowley of New York was defeated in a Queens and Bronx district that is majority-minority by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old Latina. A native of the Bronx and a former community organizer for Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, declared that it was "time for generational, racial, and ideological change." She garnered more than 57 percent of the vote in the primary.

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) rhetoric played well in the 14th District, which is 70 percent people of color, and 50 percent immigrant. Founded in New York City by Michael Harrington, an Irish Catholic and Holy Cross College graduate, the DSA still draws upon the same rhetoric surrounding Catholic social teachings on human dignity and human flourishing that Harrington promoted in his early days of community organizing in the 1950s. In 1951, Harrington got his start in socialism at what the DSA website calls "Dorothy Day's anarchist-pacifist Catholic Worker movement." In the early days, Harrington was devoted to the Catholic movement, residing at the group's "House of Hospitality" on Chrystie Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side. "There, with other volunteers, he worked in the soup kitchen which catered to the homeless alcoholics who crowded the nearby Bowery District," according to the DSA website.

Although Harrington eventually abandoned Catholicism and joined the Young People's Socialist League, a youth affiliate of the Socialist Party, Catholic social teachings on the importance of dignity in work and human flourishing continued to shape Harrington's rhetoric and his organizing strategies. He inspired the formation of faith-based organizing that we still see today in Catholic Churches throughout the country, many of them funded through the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum was used in these early days to provide a guiding force in organizing workers because it gave a Catholic rationale for the worker's right to organize and secure what Harrington called "economic dignity." In 1973, Harrington broke away from the Socialist Party, creating the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, which merged with the leftist New American Movement in 1982. The merged organization became the Democratic Socialists of America.

Ocasio-Cortez is a direct descendant of Harrington, drawing from the same rhetoric and strategies. But, today's movement is a Democratic Socialism that has been emptied of any pretense of Catholicism. In an interview with Vogue magazine earlier this month, Ocasio-Cortez tried to explain Democratic Socialism:

"I think what it really means is just democratic participation in our economic dignity, and our economic, social, and racial dignity. It is about direct representation and people actually having power and stake over their economic and social wellness, at the end of the day. To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity...to examine the historical inequities that have created much of the inequalities—both in terms of economics and social and racial justice."

For Ocasio-Cortez, and quite possibly a majority of the voters in the 14th District in New York, socialism is the only way to "guarantee a basic level of dignity. ... There is no other force, there is no other party, there is no other real ideology out there right now that is asserting the minimum elements necessary to lead a dignified American life."

Tapping into the resentment of her constituents, Ocasio-Cortez was the first New York primary candidate to call for abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE), and for clearing the path to citizenship—claiming that "ICE operates with virtually no accountability, ripping apart families and holding our friends and neighbors indefinitely in inhumane detention centers."

Outspent by the Crowley campaign by a 10 to 1 ratio, the Ocasio-Cortez campaign received 70 percent of its contributions from individual contributions under $200. Progressive PACs including Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats, as well as MoveOn, Democracy in Action, and People for Bernie, provided valuable endorsements.

While Ocasio-Cortez's economic rhetoric draws heavily from Catholic social teachings on human dignity, it is a redefined and hollowed-out Catholicism in many respects. Human dignity for Ocasio-Cortez and the Democratic Socialists of America requires full reproductive rights. On her website, Ocasio-Cortez demands "reproductive freedom for all individuals of marginalized genders, including cisgender women and trans people...Alexandria does not accept any federal, state, or local rollbacks, cuts, or restrictions on the ability of individuals to access quality reproductive healthcare services...open access to safe legal, affordable abortion."

Notably absent from Ocasio-Cortez's supporters were the usual progressive Catholic organizations. There are not (yet) many Catholic colleges and universities with chapters of Democratic Socialists of America on campus. And, although Georgetown University is listed on the Democratic Socialists of America website as having an active chapter on campus, the chapter website is unavailable.

It is likely that others will follow the Ocasio-Cortez socialist playbook as they try to carve out a new niche in the Democratic Party. Her stand on open borders and a path to citizenship for all is appealing to many progressives. The abolition of ICE has quickly become a mantra for progressive Democrats like Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY.

That creates a problem for progressive Catholics. In some ways it is similar to the dilemma that DSA founder Michael Harrington faced in 1952 when he departed both the Catholic Worker movement and the Church to join the Young People's Socialist League. Harrington is idolized by the DSA today—and his religious connection is part of the pseudo-sainthood he has achieved within the DSA. There has been a recent re-launch of the DSA publication Religious Socialism and although there is not yet a Catholic presence on the editorial board, there are a number of prestigious professors, including Princeton philosophy professor and honorary chair of the DSA Cornel West.

Harrington recalled in his 1973 memoir, Fragments of the Century: "All I knew of the Catholic Worker when I walked into the House of Hospitality in 1951 was that it was as far Left as you could go within the Church." When Harrington left the Church, he called it an act of "pious apostasy." Harrington, like many of today's progressive Catholics, wanted to go further left than the Church could have allowed; but unlike Harrington, many of today's Catholics are attempting to change the Church from within.

In the opening lines of The Other America, Harrington's best-selling sociological study of poverty in the United States, he credits Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement with opening his eyes to the "terrible reality of involuntary poverty and the magnificent ideal of voluntary poverty." But, as Patrick Jordan recently pointed out in an essay titled "Dorothy Day, The Catholic Worker, and the Liturgy," Dorothy Day's commitment to alleviating the pain of the poor was always "a personalist and communitarian movement, inspired and maintained by sharing the poverty of the crucified Christ in the poor." Jordan recalls that Day once wrote:

"Without the sacraments of the Church, primarily the Eucharist, the Lord's Supper as it is sometime called, I certainly do not think that I could go on... Only by nourishing ourselves as we have been bidden to do by Christ, by eating His body and drinking His blood, can we become Christ and put on the new man."

For Day, faith and prayer came first. An obedient daughter of the Church, Day supported Catholic teachings on divorce, contraception, and abortion. She often spoke of the need to return to the spirit of Franciscan poverty, charity, and obedience. So obedient, it has been said that Day would have closed down the Catholic Worker movement if Rome had asked her to do that. In contrast, for Michael Harrington, the socialist revolution came first. It is difficult to predict whether progressive Catholics will follow the sacramental model promoted by Dorothy Day, or the "pious apostasy" of Michael Harrington.

The movement toward socialism in our nation has Roman Catholicism written all over it. The present Pope unquestionably leans heavily toward it, and prefers it above evil Capitalism which he routinely attacks. Certain Catholics have even boasted that China's government comes closer to the vision of Roman Catholic social justice, than any other. The Roman Catholic church is not communist though, it is not socialist or capitalist either. To the contrary, it is a unique political entity which conquers all others by entering nations under a religious guise crying for religious freedom if necessary to obtain access, then taking over from within by commanding the ever increasing number of her adherents to establish her social justice agenda through legislation. She is as determined as ever to establish what she has always believed to be her divine right, rule over all the religions and governments of this world. She used the evil capitalist United States to help her topple evil communism as a world power in the recent past, and she now sides with socialists and communists to topple the US as such as well, so that she will be the only remaining world or globalist power. Or at the very least, the one on top of the new global order she continually calls for and seeks to establish. If this isn't a ruthless attempt to put greater wealth and power into the hands of fewer people, then what is?

It is no surprise that an institution greatly supported by wealth redistribution to the tune of countless billions of dollars every year from tax paying citizens the world over with or without their consent, seeks to establish government which also redistributes the wealth of all as it sees fit. Especially since she will obviously have a good deal of influence toward that distribution as well. There is nothing Christian about such. Free will offerings alone, have any merit in God's eyes.

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https://time.com/4047605/joe-biden-pope-francis-is-challenging-us/

Article below from link above, emphasis is mine.

Joe Biden: 'Pope Francis Is Challenging Us'

he first time I met Pope Francis was in 2013 when I attended his inauguration in Vatican City. After the ceremony, the other government representatives and I stood in line in the Basilica to greet the Holy Father at the foot of the altar. When it was my turn to greet Pope Francis, he reached out his hand and embraced mine. Then he said warmly, "Mr. Vice President, you're always welcome here."

That's the message Pope Francis is sending to the world. He's put a welcome sign on the front door of the Church.

Pope Francis is taking us back to the basics. He emphasizes what I have always believed to be the central mission of our faith—Catholic Social Doctrine—that cuts across all confessional faiths: What you do to the least among us, you do unto me; we have an obligation to one another; we cannot serve ourselves at the expense of others; we have a responsibility to future generations.

That's the mission I learned growing up in the Church. It was how my mother raised our family. It is a mission that says we will be measured by what we do, not just what we say.

Pope Francis is challenging us. He has raised some of the most difficult issues facing the world today—income inequality, poverty, mass migration, immigration, human trafficking, climate change. These are issues we can, and must, address.

He's also offering hope. A message of optimism. That there is no reason we can't make this a better world. That's why people of all backgrounds and faiths feel connected to this Pope.

After meeting Pope Francis at his inauguration, I walked outside the door of the Basilica and met a group of nuns. The excitement on their faces was radiant. They were overjoyed. When President Obama and I greeted Pope Francis at the White House this week, millions of Americans of every background had the same feeling.

We welcomed him as he's welcomed all of us.

Biden for President will just be Obama for President over again. They were both major allies of the Roman Catholic Social Justice agenda. That is, the reconstruction of existing governments into Roman Catholic globalist institutions under the direct supervision of the same.

Rev 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. 3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: 5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2020/05/04/amid-coronavirus-fight-canadas-trudeau-mulls-handgun-bans-and-gun-confiscation-n2568110

Amid Coronavirus Fight, Canada's Trudeau Mulls Handgun Bans and Gun Confiscation

You may have missed it with all the Wuhan coronavirus news, but Canada suffered one of the worst mass shootings in its history when 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman shot and killed 13 people on April 18 and 19. Nine additional people were killed by the fires he set. The rampage included 16 crime scenes. It's no secret that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants to further chip away at Canadian gun rights.

In response to this tragedy, Trudeau has banned so-called military-style assault rifles. He's also mulling gun confiscation and he did not discount the idea of banning handguns as well (via Daily Caller):

Effective immediately, it is no longer permitted to buy, sell, transport, import or use military-grade assault weapons in this country," Trudeau said.

The prime minister described the sweeping regulations as "closing the market" on these weapons in Canada. He has also discussed banning all handguns, but he avoided discussing that option Friday.

Trudeau talked about confiscating the roughly 100,000 existing firearms affected by the order at some future time through a "fair and effective buyback program." Approximately 1,500 different weapons will be considered "military-grade" by the ban.

Canadian Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said a "non-permissive amnesty" will be established in order for Canadians who currently possess the now-banned weapons will be able to possess their firearms for two years but will be unable to use it or sell it.

Just like here, there will be a fight. The Daily Caller interviewed Nicolas Johnson of Canada's The Gun Blog, who said he was skeptical that law-abiding Canadians would turn over their private property while noting that every time the Liberal Party is elected into office, they go after gun rights. Yeah, it's the same across the border with the Democratic Party. And like in the US, the lefties of Canada are using a national tragedy to score political points, using the dead as their deposit slips to enact their odious agenda. Anti-gun liberals in the US want to do the exact same thing here, the only exception is that our right to individual gun ownership is codified in law.[/size]

Another Catholic politician taking advantage of every and any opportunity to implement papal policy of the disarmament of all citizens of all nations. Free armed people simply are not conducive to the elitist peasant two class societies the papacy prefers. She does not appreciate commoners having the ability to defy the religious and political lovers she is constantly in bed with and manipulating unto her own ends.

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https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/11/is-china-a-model-of-the-common-good

Article below from link above. Emphasis is mine. My comments in blue.

IS CHINA A MODEL OF THE COMMON GOOD?

n 2018, Archbishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, said in an interview: "Right now, those who are best implementing the social doctrine of the Church are the Chinese."

He contrasted China with the more liberal America. "Liberal thought has dismissed the concept of the common good," he said. "It does not even want to take it into account, it states that it is an empty idea, without any benefits. On the contrary, the Chinese, no, they propose work and the common good."

Sanchez Sorondo may want to reconsider these statements. Last week, the New York Times revealed new details about the Chinese state's mass internment of Uighur Muslims in the western province of Xinjiang. Over the last three years, an estimated one million people have been detained in prison camps, where they are subjected to "reeducation" and urged to abjure Islam. Documents leaked to the Times showed that this campaign of repression was organized after President Xi Jinping urged party leaders to show "absolutely no mercy" and to employ the "organs of dictatorship."

The system by which detainees are selected combines big data with big brother. As the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists put it, "Chinese police are guided by a massive data collection and analysis system that uses artificial intelligence to select entire categories of Xinjiang residents for detention."

Of course, the existence of such camps—among many other abuses—had already been reported when Sanchez Sorondo made his statement. At the time, Bernardo Cervellera, a China expert and head of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions' news service, proposed that the bishop "read the daily news tracking violence, arrests of Christians, Muslims, Buddhists."

"All the unofficial churches have been closed and at least 6 million Catholics have no meeting places," Cervellera said. "The threat of the regime that 'best implements the Churches' social doctrine' is arrest, stratospheric fines and expropriation of the buildings where the faithful gather."

How could a high-ranking Catholic, the leader of a pontifical academy, praise such a regime? It is not mere naivete. Sanchez Sorondo's statement exemplifies the way in which defenses of the "common good" sometimes slip into apologias for authoritarianism. It is important to challenge these statements, because they misunderstand the common good utterly.

In 1943, Charles de Koninck, a Thomist philosopher, wrote an essay against some of the more liberal and individualist strains in Catholic thought. De Koninck believed that certain Catholic thinkers sympathetic to liberal society had a deficient idea of the common good. He rejected their views, but he warned that rejecting liberalism in the name of the common good could never mean embracing tyranny.

"Would it suffice to exalt the primacy of the common good?" he wrote. "Not at all. Totalitarian regimes seize on the common good as a pretext for enslaving persons in the most ignoble fashion. Compared to the slavery to which they threaten to reduce us, the servitude of the beasts is liberty. Shall we commit the cowardice of conceding to totalitarians this perversion of the common good?"

De Koninck rightly worried that false invocations of the common good by totalitarian regimes would do more to discredit the notion of the common good than any argument by those who rejected it explicitly. He therefore criticized not just liberalism—the target of Sanchez Sorondo's polemics—but the oppressive regimes falsely presented as its alternative.

According to de Koninck, liberals and totalitarians shared certain errors. Both groups opposed state and individual. Liberals glorified the individual at the expense of the state; totalitarians glorified the state at the expense of the individual. By opposing the common good to the good of individual persons, they destroyed a correct understanding of each.

But the connection between liberalism and totalitarianism went even deeper. Liberals tend to think that man is freest when unbound by any law. Totalitarians seem to reject this idea, but in fact they simply embrace it on another plane. Rather than seeking to liberate the individual from all constraints, they seek to liberate the state. The totalitarian state is unbound by God's law. It need not make any reference to man's final end, his highest good. It can do what it wants, how it wants. Precisely like the liberal individual.

In such societies, de Koninck wrote, "obedience is substituted for the legal justice of the citizen subjects." Men do not participate in a shared end as citizens. They are simply forced to submit.

Across the world, liberalism is in retreat. Drawing on the World Values Survey, Roberto Foa and Yascha Mounk have found that "citizens are growing more disaffected with established political parties, representative institutions, and minority rights." For example, whereas 41 percent of older Americans believe it is "absolutely essential" that "civil rights protect people's liberty," only 32 percent of millennials agree.

As people turn away from liberalism, it is important that they do not turn to ideologies that share with liberalism a fundamental mistake. If they do, Catholics must state clearly that the common good is not a euphemism for tyranny, and oppression is not a synonym for order. Counter to what Sanchez Sorondo seems to believe, neither China nor America is a model society.

The above article properly addresses the pitfalls on either side of the common good ideology, coming to a wrong conclusion however, while defending this Roman Catholic created or adopted doctrine. Pointing out the failures of unchecked individualism or statism in connection with Roman Catholic notions of the common good in relation to her social justice agenda, is simply to declare superiority for the latter. The obvious answer suggested to the dilemma created by either unchecked individual liberty, or unchecked power of the state over the same, is control or heavy influence over both by the guiding force of the common good as interpreted by Roman Catholic social doctrine. That is to say, the Church above the individual and the state. That is to say, the reestablishment of the dark ages all over again.

The wrong conclusion of the article above was in stating that these United States of America were and are not the correct model of the ideology of a common good. Our Declaration of Independence and Constitution are exactly that. Which principles allowed for a continued evolution of liberty and justice for all individuals to be freed from political, religious, and or racial injustices as the history of our nation has demonstrated. Biblical principles of self government and equality for those willing to govern first and foremost their own lives, enabling them then to properly govern themselves together as a society built upon such freedom of responsibility. As is obvious, only the personally educated and responsible, either deserve or can maintain individual freedoms and liberties. Those who refuse to govern their own selves must therefore be governed by others.

The false narrative of this nations history being passed off as the truth today, is all about creating misinformed ignorance and a mindset of dependency prepared to be ruled over by supposed elites. Who themselves are nothing but power hungry self important people who want to control and manipulate the lives of all around them. The Roman Catholic church and her Pontiff are not the least of these individuals and or institutions who have been battling our form of government for a long time now, many fully supporting if not straight up creating the false historical narratives about our nation which are now passed off as the truth upon an increasingly ignorant people by exact design and purpose. The Church of Rome simply seeks to rise again to the pinnacle of power she once had while in bed with the kings of this earth during the dark ages, under a new guise with new political ideologies and structures on a global scale. The first couple of paragraphs of our Declaration of Independence however, reveal the true intent of our founding fathers, and the baseless deception of the false narrative of our history adopted by the true enemies of any real common good. This nation became great under God's guidance because of this true agenda of common good which encouraged people from the world over to seek refuge in our nation and still does to this very day. These people are not stupid, they want to come here for a good reason. How unfortunate that so many from within and without have been and continue to seek to destroy what is left of this nation built upon such high and lofty principles. Emphasis in the following quote is mine.

In Congress, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world............

If you believe the above ideals to represent evil intentions of government, then you are simply ignorant or perhaps evil yourself. So be it.

If in fact the government established by such ideals expressed above in that establishment has become to corrupt to any longer support, then the answer does not lie in support of already proven failed systems of abuse, but rather the reestablishment of the ideals expressed above which brought this nation to the greatness it once possessed and represented. The answer most certainly does not lie within the establishment or reestablishment of historically abusive institutions of government and or religion such as communism, socialism, facism, or the likes of the Holy Roman Empire. We absolutely should not be looking to present day leaders of these kind of governing bodies to fix the corruption of our own nation, but rather to reestablish the high ideals it was founded upon as expressed in our own founding documents. Do not be deceived by those who have always warred against our most "Christian"  and biblically based form of government ever established. It is the freedoms and liberties espoused by the same, that also require us to be ever educated and on guard against the deceptions of those who would overthrow such in seeking to exalt their own power over all others. Hear the words of one of the following founders of our nation, and understand where the high ideals and principles of our government came form, and what it was fighting against.

John Adams - A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (On man's standing in the order of creation)

"Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind." This is an observation of Dr. Tillotson, with relation to the interest of his fellow men in a future and immortal state. But it is of equal truth and importance if applied to the happiness of men in society, on this side the grave. In the earliest ages of the world, absolute monarchy seems to have been the universal form of government. Kings, and a few of their great counsellors and captains, exercised a cruel tyranny over the people, who held a rank in the scale of intelligence, in those days, but little higher than the camels and elephants that carried them and their engines to war.

By what causes it was brought to pass, that the people in the middle ages became more intelligent in general, would not, perhaps, be possible in these days to discover. But the fact is certain; and wherever a general knowledge and sensibility have prevailed among the people, arbitrary government and every kind of oppression have lessened and disappeared in proportion. Man has certainly an exalted soul; and the same principle in human nature, -- that aspiring, noble principle founded in benevolence, and cherished by knowledge; I mean the love of power, which has been so often the cause of slavery, -- has, whenever freedom has existed, been the cause of freedom. If it is this principle that has always prompted the princes and nobles of the earth, by every species of fraud and violence to shake off all the limitations of their power, it is the same that has always stimulated the common people to aspire at independency, and to endeavor at confining the power of the great within the limits of equity and reason.

The poor people, it is true, have been much less successful than the great. They have seldom found either leisure or opportunity to form a union and exert their strength; ignorant as they were of arts and letters, they have seldom been able to frame and support a regular opposition. This, however, has been known by the great to be the temper of mankind; and they have accordingly labored, in all ages, to wrest from the populace, as they are contemptuously called, the knowledge of their rights and wrongs, and the power to assert the former or redress the latter. I say RIGHTS, for such they have, undoubtedly, antecedent to all earthly government, -- Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws -- Rights, derived from the great Legislator of the universe.

Since the promulgation of Christianity, the two greatest systems of tyranny that have sprung from this original, are the canon and the feudal law. The desire of dominion, that great principle by which we have attempted to account for so much good and so much evil, is, when properly restrained, a very useful and noble movement in the human mind. But when such restraints are taken off, it becomes an encroaching, grasping, restless, and ungovernable power. Numberless have been the systems of iniquity contrived by the great for the gratification of this passion in themselves; but in none of them were they ever more successful than in the invention and establishment of the canon and the feudal law.

By the former of these, the most refined, sublime, extensive, and astonishing constitution of policy that ever was conceived by the mind of man was framed by the Romish clergy for the aggrandisement of their own order. All the epithets I have here given to the Romish policy are just, and will be allowed to be so when it is considered, that they even persuaded mankind to believe, faithfully and undoubtingly, that God Almighty had entrusted them with the keys of heaven, whose gates they might open and close at pleasure; with a power of dispensation over all the rules and obligations of morality; with authority to license all sorts of sins and crimes; with a power of deposing princes and absolving subjects from allegiance; with a power of procuring or withholding the rain of heaven and the beams of the sun; with the management of earthquakes, pestilence, and famine; nay, with the mysterious, awful, incomprehensible power of creating out of bread and wine the flesh and blood of God himself. All these opinions they were enabled to spread and rivet among the people by reducing their minds to a state of sordid ignorance and staring timidity, and by infusing into them a religious horror of letters and knowledge. Thus was human nature chained fast for ages in a cruel, shameful, and deplorable servitude to him, and his subordinate tyrants, who, it was foretold, would exalt himself above all that was called God, and that was worshipped.

In the latter we find another system, similar in many respects to the former;1 which, although it was originally formed, perhaps, for the necessary defence of a barbarous people against the inroads and invasions of her neighboring nations, yet for the same purposes of tyranny, cruelty, and lust, which had dictated the canon law, it was soon adopted by almost all the princes of Europe, and wrought into the constitutions of their government. It was originally a code of laws for a vast army in a perpetual encampment. The general was invested with the sovereign propriety of all the lands within the territory. Of him, as his servants and vassals, the first rank of his great officers held the lands; and in the same manner the other subordinate officers held of them; and all ranks and degrees held their lands by a variety of duties and services, all tending to bind the chains the faster on every order of mankind. In this manner the common people were held together in herds and clans in a state of servile dependence on their lords, bound, even by the tenure of their lands, to follow them, whenever they commanded, to their wars, and in a state of total ignorance of every thing divine and human, excepting the use of arms and the culture of their lands.

1 Rob. Hist. ch. v. pp. 178-9, &c.
But another event still more calamitous to human liberty, was a wicked confederacy between the two systems of tyranny above described. It seems to have been even stipulated between them, that the temporal grandees should contribute every thing in their power to maintain the ascendency of the priesthood, and that the spiritual grandees in their turn, should employ their ascendency over the consciences of the people, in impressing on their minds a blind, implicit obedience to civil magistracy.
Thus, as long as this confederacy lasted, and the people were held in ignorance, liberty, and with her, knowledge and virtue too, seem to have deserted the earth, and one age of darkness succeeded another, till God in his benign providence raised up the champions who began and conducted the Reformation. From the time of the Reformation to the first settlement of America, knowledge gradually spread in Europe, but especially in England; and in proportion as that increased and spread among the people, ecclesiastical and civil tyranny, which I use as synonymous expressions for the canon and feudal laws, seem to have lost their strength and weight. The people grew more and more sensible of the wrong that was done them by these systems, more and more impatient under it, and determined at all hazards to rid themselves of it; till at last, under the execrable race of the Stuarts, the struggle between the people and the confederacy aforesaid of temporal and spiritual tyranny, became formidable, violent, and bloody.

It was this great struggle that peopled America. It was not religion alone, as is commonly supposed; but it was a love of universal liberty, and a hatred, a dread, a horror, of the infernal confederacy before described, that projected, conducted, and accomplished the settlement of America...........

Please do find and finish reading the above by John Adams. Go back and read what the founders of this nation really believed, and what the Reformers who inspired many of them believed. The Papacies non stop calls for universal religion and government on a global scale under her own guidance relating to a common good, are nothing but a ploy to reestablish the power she once had on a global scale. The lefty progressives and other globalists of today are just so many willing or unknowing minions of her own design unto the exaltation of her own vision for humanity. Which vision is nothing less than the vision of BABYLON THE GREAT, riding the final global beast or government of biblical prophecy. The tower of Babel was destroyed by God, and humanity was dispersed to prevent universal rebellion against God unto global destruction once again. The final unification of humanity as envisioned by the Church of Rome, will be the realization of this very universal rebellion against God in the building of a spiritual tower of Babel in defiance of the same. God divided us for a reason, the evil one alone desires our unity under his control through his agents unto our destruction once again. We must fight the good fight against this final deception. Christ's true church can never become one with the prince of the powers that be of this world, most of whom deny His rightful authority over them.

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https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/13/how-the-wuhan-virus-is-accomplishing-the-green-new-deals-goals/

Article below from link above.

How The Wuhan Virus Is Accomplishing The Green New Deal's Goals

Coronavirus is a glimpse of the long-term pain a Green New Deal and environmental radicalism would inflict on America. And besides, grandma would die eventually anyway.

Coronavirus is accomplishing in a matter of weeks what Democrats' Green New Deal could only hope to do. Crushing capitalism, putting the oil and gas industry into panic, ending travel, and controlling population would all be deliberate consequences of the radical Green New Deal. So its supporters—Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sen. Bernie Sanders, billionaire and former presidential candidate Tom Steyer, and myriad eco-leftists—should be mildly, if not outwardly, pleased.

Don't come to their defense, with claims like, "The Green New Deal is meant to help the environment and battle climate change!" Listen, I don't make value judgements on intentionality, Kant. So, don't @ me with what the Green New Deal was "meant" to do. Let's talk like grownups about what it would actually do.

The Green New Deal's call "to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions" is a nicer way of saying "ban the combustion engine." Sure, that's your car and the family minivan, but it's also the lawn mower and leaf blower. You have any recreational toys like jet skis? Gone. Boats? Gone. ATVs, RVs, all gone. Four golfers and their clubs can putt around 18-holes in an electric cart. Try hauling the family over the hills and through the woods to grandma's house in one.

You know what industry is only economically viable because of the relatively inexpensive combustion engine? The travel industry. And the coronavirus is crushing it. CNN declared the coronavirus is doing the same thing to airlines as 9/11 did. Their stocks are down 30 percent since the panic began. The cruise industry is getting slammed even worse: bookings are down 50 percent, and Carnival Cruise, the largest in the industry, has seen its stock price fall from $51 to $23 in just six weeks.

Good news for the green community, right? Tourism was killing the planet! Climate change apostles have long scolded us for tourism, which "studies show" is responsible for 8 percent of carbon emissions. Even U.S. News and World report breathlessly tells us tourism's carbon footprint has increased from 3.9 to 4.5 gigatons. Wow: 4.5 gigatons!

To inaccurately quote (like an MSNBC anchor) Marty McFly in "Back to the Future": what the hell is a gigaton? Doesn't matter, and the article doesn't really explain. But you've increased it 0.6 amounts. I hope your trip to Mykonos was worth the environmental Armageddon.

If you believe tourism is killing the planet — and by logical deduction that ending tourism would save it — so deeply that you would introduce legislation to achieve this end, then coronavirus is a blessing.

Beyond tourism, I haven't even touched on the hundreds of other commercial enterprises that run on combustion engines. Trains. Trucking. Trans-Atlantic cargo ships. That gadget you bought on Amazon yesterday: odds are it was manufactured overseas in a factory powered by coal, shipped to some west coast port or a tanker that runs on diesel, put on a train to a Bezos sweatsho—err, "fulfillment center" powered by coal or natural gas electricity, and will arrive tomorrow at your front door in a gas-powered UPS truck.

You think that gadget will still be affordable without fossil fuels? From your smartphone where you bought it to the synthetic sneakers of the man who stole it from your front door, every step of the Amazon life cycle is fossil-fuel dependent.

"Nonsense!" the greenies will scream. "Electric engines work fine!" Well, partly true, but when our electric grid is made, "green" electricity bills will double or triple under the fiscal boondoggle of renewables. Currently, fossil-fuel-rich Americans pay an average of 12 cents per kilowatt hour in an average household. The "green" Germans pay 33 cents. Wunderbar! That's something to look forward to.

You think there won't be negative social repercussions with electric bills three times as high? We need only look at our older brother, England, to see what will happen: old people die. Skyrocketing electricity costs in the United Kingdom brought about by its green mandates have left seniors quite literally in the cold. Caroline Abrahams, director of the charity Age UK, made the connection clearly: "because high heating costs are prohibitive for many, resulting in large numbers of older people finding it virtually impossible to stay adequately warm."

Two winters ago, 46,000 British seniors died from the cold. In their homes. Which they could not afford to heat, because England went "green." Forty. Six. Thousand. And it barely got a mention in the press.

That's also not some third world, primitive country. That's this earth, this realm, this England, which watched it happen.

What else has high numbers of old people dying? Winner, winner, chicken-flavored tofu dinner (meat is banned under the Green New Deal): coronavirus! From China to Italy to here at home, older people are at a greater risk of—well, let's not say "death," let's say "reducing the population to save the planet."

So once again coronavirus is accomplishing the same ends as the Green New Deal. And it didn't even need a vote in Congress. It's as powerful as Barack Obama's pen.

Green activists want to be judged by their intentions. When they destroyed the coal industry with help from Obama's Environmental Protection Agency and Mike Bloomberg's $650 million tax-deductible donation, their intention was to combat climate change. In reality, their combined efforts gave coal miners opioid addictions, increased suicide rates, and rampant poverty. Those facts didn't make it into Bloomberg's ubiquitous campaign ads.

That is the future of energy workers if the Green New Deal were to become law: ghost towns where people once sunk their savings into a now worthless mortgage. Abandoned main streets. Institutional poverty. Despair.

But the green activists don't fret these casualties. Grandma freezing to death is a necessary offering on the altar of climate change. These are the necessary means to accomplish the Greta ends. Sorry, GREAT ends. Don't know why I wrote Greta...

Unless you think you will be immune, just watch the markets. Watch the economy. Watch the millions who work in hospitality, restaurants, airlines, and energy. Watch the coronavirus crisis intensify and a recession come. Watch entire industries collapse.

Sure, they will demand Trump be held responsible and maybe even call for congressional hearings to stem the unemployment crisis. Nothing makes congressmen feel more potent than sitting in high-backed chairs and feigning indignation reading a script prepared by an intern.

But deep down inside, in a warped sense of justice where math, economics, physics, and logic have no home, the greens will rejoice. Earth is more important than its inhabitants. And people are a disease.

Fewer gigatons of something are being released. Fewer engines are combusting. Fewer factories are manufacturing. Fewer people are working. And that is the goal of the Green New Deal, whatever they claim as their intention.

Coronavirus is a glimpse of the long-term pain a Green New Deal and environmental radicalism would inflict on America. And besides, grandma would die eventually anyway.

Good article addressing some straight forward facts. Of course as usual, the true author of the Green New Deal, the Pope of Rome and his papal minions and politicians attempting to implement the same are not addressed at all. Papal hands are all over the Green New Deal, Coved-19, and the W.H.O. Of course for any who care to actually pay attention, papal hands seem to be  increasingly all over almost everything. As it will have to be, for any serious contender for top seat in the global order.

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-upholds-individual-mandate-obamacare-survives

Supreme Court upholds individual mandate, ObamaCare survives

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld nearly all of President Obama's health care overhaul, in a landmark ruling that will have sweeping consequences for the economy, the election and America's health care system.

In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled as constitutional the so-called individual mandate requiring most Americans to obtain health insurance starting in 2014.

The ruling is a victory for the president, ensuring for now that his signature domestic policy achievement remains mostly intact. It also ensures that the law will play a prominent role in the general election campaign, as Republican candidate Mitt Romney vows to repeal the law if elected.

Obama is expected to speak publicly about the ruling later in the day.

Chief Justice John Roberts, who was appointed during a Republican administration, joined the four left-leaning justices on the bench in crafting the majority decision.

"The Affordable Health Care Act survives largely unscathed," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of those justices, declared at the end of the reading, claiming the "setbacks" going forward will be "temporary blips, not permanent obstructions."

The ruling relied on a technical explanation of how the individual mandate could be categorized. Roberts, in the opinion, said the mandate could not be upheld under the Constitution's Commerce Clause. However, it could be upheld under the government's power to tax.

"The Affordable Care Act is constitutional in part and unconstitutional in part  The individual mandate cannot be upheld as an exercise of Congress's power under the Commerce Clause," Roberts wrote. "That Clause authorizes Congress to regulate interstate commerce, not to order individuals to engage it. In this case, however, it is reasonable to construe what Congress has done as increasing taxes on those who have a certain amount of income, but choose to go without health insurance. Such legislation is within Congress's power to tax."

Roberts stressed that the decision does not speak to the merits of the law. "We do not consider whether the act embodies sound policies. That judgment is entrusted to the nation's elected leaders," he said.

The ruling did rein in one element of the law -- the expansion of Medicaid across the country to take in millions of low-income Americans. The opinion allows Washington to offer more funding to states to expand the program, but says the federal government cannot penalize states for not participating in the new program by withholding existing Medicaid funds.

Democrats, many of whom were bracing for the court striking down the mandate, celebrated the decision Thursday.

Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., told Fox News that the ruling "gives us the opportunity to re-sell the bill, which we did not do before."

But Republicans vowed to re-double their campaign to repeal the still-controversial law.

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The decision Thursday virtually guarantees the health care law will remain at the forefront of the 2012 campaign.

Ever since Bush appointed Roberts and Alito to the Supreme Court, there has been a Catholic majority in the same. Though both of these men were considered conservatives, Roberts who is the Chief Justice, has decided with the liberals several times upon crucial issues. Catholics have had the ability to form a majority upon every vote since then. Roberts support of Obamacare shocked many conservatives, but this was no shock to anyone who understands Roman politics. His decision favored the social justice agenda and politics of the Papal See. Universal Healthcare is one of their political ends.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/gop-conservatives-angry-supreme-court-chief-john-roberts-obamacare-119431

Conservatives steamed at Chief Justice Roberts' betrayal

They begrudgingly gave him a pass for the first Obamacare ruling. Not this time.

Conservatives were left baffled after Chief Justice John Roberts saved Obamacare three years ago. On Thursday, as the George W. Bush appointee again helped President Barack Obama's signature legislative achievement avoid a potentially devastating blow, they felt betrayed.

Adding to the sting: The chief justice wasn't just along for the ride. When the court's ruling allowing the law's insurance subsidies to be offered nationwide emerged, he wrote the majority opinion and delivered it from the bench.

"It's a sad day for the Constitution when the clear terms of a statute can be 'interpreted' away in the service of an aggressively lawless president. The two biggest losers today are the English language and the legacy of Chief Justice Roberts," said Carrie Severino of the Judicial Crisis Network.

"If the chief justice is willing to join the court's liberals in this linguistic farce, it's time we admitted that our national 'umpire' is now playing for one of the teams," she added, alluding to Roberts' famous description of a judge's role as calling balls and strikes.

Roberts' decision to side with the Obama administration for a second time on the high-profile health care law threw a huge splash of fuel onto a long-simmering debate about whether Republicans misjudged the chief justice when he was nominated a decade ago or whether he has grown more moderate in his years on the court — a phenomenon many conservatives complained about with earlier Republican appointees such as Justices David Souter, Sandra Day O'Connor and John Paul Stevens.

The new ruling from Roberts comes just weeks after the chief joined with the court's liberals in a 5-4 decision he wrote backing restrictions on fundraising for judges' election campaigns. Earlier in the term, Roberts joined frequent swing Justice Anthony Kennedy and the court's Democratic appointees in a 6-3, pregnancy discrimination decision that took a decidedly moderate tack, disappointing both businesses and women's advocates.

But those decisions were minor when compared to the momentous victory Roberts helped deliver to the Obama White House Thursday.

"This affirms that Roberts is something very different than what conservatives and probably even liberals thought they were getting," said Curt Levey of the Committee for Justice, a group that presses for conservative judges. "I would expect people to be bitterly disappointed with Roberts ... You can try to explain that away one time — people did try to explain it by saying he was intimidated ... but it's hard to see that happening twice.".............................................

Roberts and the Catholic majority once again uphold Obamacare in line with the Vaticans social justice agenda. Republicans and conservatives feel betrayed again and doubt if Roberts really was a conservative. The real problem is that which they will not consider or voice, Vatican influence upon Catholics of both the right and left.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/27/conservatives-blast-roberts-1386124

Conservatives blast Roberts as turncoat

In 5-4 decisions on federal rules and citizenship question, chief justice joins court liberals and frustrates the right.

Chief Justice John Roberts just keeps on breaking conservatives' hearts.

On two consecutive days this week, Roberts sided with the court's liberal wing to deliver 5-4 rulings that deeply disappointed right-leaning lawyers and pundits who had been counting on near-certain victory from a court now stocked with a pair of Trump-appointed justices handpicked by conservative legal activists.

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"I'm for impeaching the Chief Justice for lying to all of us about his support of the Constitution. He is responsible for Roberts care and now he is angling for vast numbers of illegal residents to help Dems hold Congress. Enough Deception from GOP judges on the Constitution," American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp tweeted shortly after the Thursday ruling.

"I want to Impeach Roberts and Trump would get another pick. Sounds good to me,"' Schlapp added. "Chief Justice John Roberts 'fixed' Obamacare and now he found an I significant [sic] excuse to allow those here illegally to help Dems keep the house majority. He lied to all of us and under oath in the Senate. It's perfectly legal to ask citizenship ? on census."

Former White House aide Sebastian Gorka also weighed in to express his disgust. "Chief Justice Roberts of the #SCOTUS betrays the US Constitution again," Gorka said on Twitter........................

More of the same outrage and accusations of betrayal expressed by Republicans. Just how real that outrage is, will not likely be known before our Lord returns and everything comes out in the laundry. It should certainly not be any surprise anymore, that many professed Republicans are so in name only, certainly not practice. "Republican" Catholic House Speakers such as Rat Fink Ryan as I have heard him called, certainly helped prevent Republicans from accomplishing many things while they had the power to do so in congress. This they did with the aid of several other Republicans in name only as well.

Ryan himself actually stated in a speech at a breakfast meeting, that Catholic Social Doctrine was the answer to many of our nations problems. This would be of course why he would do as much as possible to prevent any actual immigration reform toward slowing down the process in line with the papacies own views regarding immigration. Which is of course why our Catholic majority Supreme Court also defends and upholds papal policy over American citizens and the Constitution of these United States of America. As our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ decisively pointed out, "a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand". Nor has the papacy, or does she want any kingdom to be able to stand, which does not capitulate to her demands and or self appointed authority.

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https://7mu.com/the-supreme-courts-activism-john-roberts-betrayal-and-the-2020-election-op-ed/

THE SUPREME COURT'S ACTIVISM, JOHN ROBERT'S BETRAYAL, AND THE 2020 ELECTION (OP-ED)

The Supreme Court has once again reminded conservative voters that our work is not yet done as they blocked President Trump from ending the notorious "DACA" program today.

As of 2018, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program serves to benefit 699,350 illegal immigrants in the United States.

What is so shocking about the Supreme Court's decision is that it violates a very basic presidential tradition, the right of the sitting president to overturn previous executive orders.

You see, separate from the DREAM Act, DACA was not created by Congress. In fact, it came to be with the stroke of then-president Obama's pen in 2012– after the election, of course.

So how is it that a "presidential memorandum" can be shielded from the duly-elected successor? It seems like a gross violation of the "checks and balances" of the three branches of government. I am not aware of any precedent for such action by the judicial branch.

On its face, it makes no sense but neither did several other 5-4 decisions in recent memory including preserving the "Obamacare" mandate, blocking the citizenship question from the 2020 census, preserving sanctuary cities, extending workplace protections to transgender employees, and effectively upholding a ban on church services during the pandemic....................................

More of the same. Still no one will make the obvious connection between a majority Catholic Supreme Court, and the decisions they make, which are in line with Roman Catholic Social Doctrine and justice agendas. Even when such decisions are an apparent total betrayal of sentiments so many once believed these Justices had. To the contrary I believe. Many are very aware of what is really going on, they are just either part of it, or afraid of the powers that be responsible for it. Or, as the obvious plan is, just to outnumbered to do anything about it.

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https://townhall.com/columnists/bobbarr/2020/04/29/supreme-court-disappoints-on-gun-rights-once-again-n2567810

Supreme Court Disappoints on Gun Rights Once Again

Last December I suggested that conservatives hold off uncorking the champagne when the Supreme Court agreed to hear oral arguments on its first major gun rights case since it decided District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008 and McDonald v. Chicago two years later. On Monday, my cautionary note proved prescient. The High Court once again sidestepped providing jurisprudential support for the fundamental right to possess a firearm. 

In what has become a recurring theme for conservatives looking to Chief Justice John Roberts for a degree of constitutional backbone in protecting individual liberty against government overreach, he sided with the more liberal members of the Court in not taking a position.

The case before the Court (New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York, New York) involved a New York City ordinance that prohibited even the few New Yorkers permitted by the Big Apple's police department to have a gun in their home, from transporting it to any location outside the city's limits, even if necessary to practice at a lawful gun range.

In taking this case for consideration, the Court appeared ready at long last to put some teeth into its 2008 and 2010 majority decisions (which included Chief Justice Roberts), that declared the right to possess a firearm as guaranteed by the Second Amendment, to be an individual right rather than a collective right as favored by the more liberal justices and by gun control advocates like former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg.


New York City officials were not asleep at the switch, however, and once the High Court agreed to take the case for decision, they cleverly rescinded the gun-transportation ordinance; notwithstanding their earlier argument that it was "essential" for protecting the public. Their gambit appears to have worked. 

On Monday, a majority of Supreme Court justices, including neophyte Associate Justice Kavanaugh and Chief Justice Roberts, sided with the Court's liberal bloc in a 6-3 decision declaring the case to be moot; thereby sidestepping the underlying and important questions about the law's constitutionality. Protecting Americans' right to possess a firearm free of prohibitory restrictions imposed by local government, once again has been brushed aside for another day.

There is, perhaps, at least a bit of a silver lining in this latest dark cloud hanging over gun rights in America.

The dissent, authored by Justice Alito and joined by fellow Associate Justices Thomas and Gorsuch, clearly and forcefully laid out the reasons why the New York City law was abhorrent to the Second Amendment's fundamental purpose.  These justices also argued that the case was anything but "moot."  

Hopefully, this dissenting narrative will provide legal ammunition for federal and state court judges, who far too often defer to state and local governments that have enacted regulatory barriers severely limiting individuals' ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

Noteworthy also is the position taken by Justice Kavanaugh in his concurring opinion. In it, the newest member of the High Court said the Court has a responsibility to address these important gun rights issues, and that it should consider doing so "in one of the several Second Amendment cases .  .  .  now pending before the Court."  

There are in fact a number of cases as described by Kavanaugh awaiting decision by the Court whether to grant review; including some that present even clearer evidence of government overreach than did the New York City case did. 

We can only hope that the messages delivered in Monday's opinions by Justices Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh will be heard -- and heeded -- by Chief Justice Roberts.

The Vatican does not believe that any citizens of any nation, should have the right to own and bear arms. This decision was also then, in line with papal teaching and practice. Which most obviously supports disarmament of all citizens, placing them at the mercy of their governments for protection against criminal elements, or completely helpless against tyrannical government. This of course would be to her advantage, as she herself is so very involved with so very many governments of this world. When they lose power, she loses power, and when they are threatened, she is threatened. 

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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/chief-justice-roberts-sides-liberals-refuses-california-church-right-assemble-pandemic/

Chief Justice Roberts Sides with Liberals – Refuses California Church Right to Assemble During Pandemic

Chief Justice Roberts joined the the liberal bloc of the Supreme Court in deciding Governor Newsom has the right to deny churchgoers the right to assemble during this pandemic.

Once again, Roberts' logic is muddled as he this time sided with the far left against the First Amendment of the United States.

The Hill reported:
The Supreme Court issued a rare late-night ruling on Friday against a California church challenging their state's stay-at-home order.

In a 5-4 vote, Chief Justice John Roberts broke from other conservative justices to rule in favor of the state. The case was brought by the South Bay United Pentecostal Church in Chula Vista, Calif., which said Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D) stay-at-home order ignored religious freedoms.

Roberts noted in an opinion concurring in the unsigned ruling that the restrictions in place are applied to non-religious gatherings and therefore don't pose a threat to religious liberties.

"Although California's guidelines place restrictions on places of worship, those restrictions appear consistent with the free exercise clause of the First Amendment," Roberts wrote.

"...Similar or more severe restrictions apply to comparable secular gatherings, including lectures, concerts, movie showings, spectator sports, and theatrical performances, where large groups of people gather in close proximity for extended periods of time," he wrote.

It's OK, the Pope agrees with Roberts on this one.

https://religionnews.com/2020/06/22/pope-francis-accuses-priests-who-defied-pandemic-safety-measures-of-acting-like-adolescents/

Pope Francis accuses priests who defied pandemic safety measures of acting like 'adolescents'

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https://jonsnewplace.wordpress.com/2020/03/29/united-nations-secretary-general-antonio-guterres-and-pope-francis-issue-call-to-end-all-global-conflict-so-world-can-unite-against-covid-19/

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres And Pope Francis Issue Call To End 'All Global Conflict' So World Can Unite Against COVID-19

"It is time to put armed conflict on lock-down and focus together on the true fight of our lives," United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. "The virus does not care about nationality or ethnicity, faction or faith. It attacks all, relentlessly." Speaking at his weekly blessing in rome, delivered from the papal library instead of St. Peter's Square because of the lockdown in Italy, Francis specifically mentioned the appeal Guterres made earlier in the week.

Pope Francis on Sunday added his voice to a call by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for an end to global conflict so all resources can focus on fighting the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

OK everyone, it's official, we are absolutely living in an end times novel with new and wacky end times things happening nearly every day now. Today's offering is Pope Francis backing a call from the United Nations Secretary-General for all nations of the world to lay down their arms, end all conflict, and unite under the twin banner of the United Nations and Rome. Do you still think that the coronavirus pandemic is really about a virus? It's not.

"Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy." Zephaniah 3:8 (KJB)

Don't get me wrong, the COVID-19 coronavirus is real, and real people are really dying, and from the beginning I have urged people to take all necessary precautions to protect you and your loved ones from getting the infection. Trump's own expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci said today he expects 100-200,000 Americans to die from the coronavirus. It's no joke, but that said, it is also a trojan horse that is being used to usher in the New World Order. Anytime you see the United Nations talking about anything, be suspicious, anytime you see the United Nations collaborating with the Roman pope, open your bible and start reading.

The United Nations is foretold in scripture, just as the Roman church who will lead the One World Religion is also foretold within the pages of prophecy. Keep one eye on the United Nations and the other on Rome, mischief is afoot....................................

Interesting verses quoted in the article above.

Zep 3:1 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! 2 She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God. 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. 4 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law. 5 The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame. 6 I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant. 7 I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings. 8 Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

Old testament prophecies reaching across history to the end often posses a dual nature concerning literal Israel of old, and spiritual Israel, or the church of Christ during this new covenant era. The nature of these prophecies take on the universal character of God's kingdom or nation during this new covenant era as apposed to the literal kingdom or nation of the Israel of the old covenant pre-Christ era. The book of Zephaniah is a good example of such prophecy.

There is no denying the spiritual application and nature of the Israel of God in this new covenant era as declared by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the Apostle Paul in particular. All those truly in Christ are the children of Abraham by faith, and the new covenant Israel of God. Just so is there also a universal polluted and oppressing city of biblical prophecy in this new covenant era depicted both in the above old testament prophecy, and the new covenant prophecies. In the book of Revelation this woman or city makes all the kings of the earth and all the world drunk with the wine of her fornication. These two prophetic cities represent the whole of humanity when our Lord returns unto judgment and or salvation for one and the other. Humanity will either choose the God of Israel and worship at His holy mountain, which is the kingdom of God established by His Son Jesus Christ, or the god of this world and worship one of the seven mountains, or heads, or beasts of the prince of the powers that be of this world. This has been the issue from the beginning of the biblical beasts of prophecy and their relation to God's own in this world.

Rev 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was crucified in Israel by the combined power of apostate Jews, and the Roman state, while it was under Roman rule.

Rev 14:8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

Rev. 16:19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

Rev. 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. 3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: 5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.....................
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. 10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. 11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.............................
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

Rev 18:10Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.........................................
16 And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! 17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, 18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! 19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

Is not this city BABYLON THE GREAT THE Roman church as identified by the Protestant reformers and may before them? Yes it is. Is she not the result of the combined powers of apostate "Christianity" and the Roman state along with all the pagan religions incorporated within said empire? Yes she is. Has she not crucified our Lord over and over throughout history by persecuting and killing His true followers first through the Roman state, and then through riding upon the backs of ten kingdoms she helped facilitate it braking up into? Yes she has. Has she not been increasing in power and ever seeking to reestablish the power she once had on a global scale after receiving a deadly wound in 1798? Yes she has. Is she not now involved in the politics of this world over and calling for the unity of all humanity, and the religions and political powers that be of this world? Yes she is. Is this not in accordance with God's own prophesied will regarding the gathering together of all nations before His return and judgment upon the same? Yes it is. Will not all the world have to choose between this literal city of the earth claiming global power and authority over the same, and God's spiritual new covenant city established in Christ Jesus which really has power and authority over all the world? Yes they will.

Heb 11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. 9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: 10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

Rev 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. 13 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

Rev 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. 5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. 6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. 7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. 9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. 10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; 12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: 13 On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. 14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. 16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. 17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel. 18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. 19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; 20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. 21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. 22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. 24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. 25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. 26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. 27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.

Choose the city of God established in Christ Jesus. As a citizen of spiritual Israel according to the children of the faith of Abraham in Christ our Lord. Worship at the Holy mountain of God, not at one of the counterfeit mountains, kingdoms, or heads of the beasts of the evil one.

Eze 28:12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. 16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. 18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. 19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.

The evil one was cast out of the mountain of God, and has sought to establish his own in this world against the will of God ever since. Do not worship at his most recently developing profane mountain and meet his same end described above. Come let us worship at the mountain of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Psa 48:1A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. 2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. 3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge. 4 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together. 5 They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away. 6 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail. 7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind. 8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah. 9 We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple. 10 According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness. 11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments. 12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. 13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following. 14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

Isa 2:1The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

Isa 56:1 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed. 2 Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. 3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. 4 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; 5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. 6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; 7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people. 8 The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.

[Rella]

Quoted article below may be viewed in its entirety at the link provided above it. Emphasis is mine, my comments are in blue.

https://townhall.com/columnists/bobbarr/2020/04/29/supreme-court-disappoints-on-gun-rights-once-again-n2567810

The Vatican does not believe that any citizens of any nation, should have the right to own and bear arms. This decision was also then, in line with papal teaching and practice. Which most obviously supports disarmament of all citizens, placing them at the mercy of their governments for protection against criminal elements, or completely helpless against tyrannical government. This of course would be to her advantage, as she herself is so very involved with so very many governments of this world. When they lose power, she loses power, and when they are threatened, she is threatened. 

I sure would love to get a glimpse of Roberts bank accounts. I bet we would all be amazed 

[Rella]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/chief-justice-roberts-sides-liberals-refuses-california-church-right-assemble-pandemic/

It's OK, the Pope agrees with Roberts on this one.

https://religionnews.com/2020/06/22/pope-francis-accuses-priests-who-defied-pandemic-safety-measures-of-acting-like-adolescents/

Pope Francis accuses priests who defied pandemic safety measures of acting like 'adolescents'

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Yep... Frankie certainly would support this. Anything to keep people away from worshiping.... Jesus, even though they do it somewhat differently then regular Christians.

I have been espousing that Frankie could well the "The " Anti-Christ.

I am revising myself now to declare he is most likely "The False Prophet"  .... This certainly fits.

As to Newsome and the church shut down.... of course..... cannot possibly have people who put their faith in God get together.... just might end up in an uprising...

But gotta keep the people  home so they are force to vote by mail so the votes can be altered... and dont want people too upset with these additional ones.... who will make it into the rolls of the homeless, if they survive.

Newsome is importing people from Mexico with Covid-19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzo8EJAVZ6E&feature=youtu.be  2min 44Sec

So another thing Frankie will be thrilled with in CA

[Amo]

Amazing. Everything is so bassackwards. How can people not become suspicious conspirators with such constant asinine behavior from our politicians and the mindless minions which follow them?

[Rella]

Amazing. Everything is so bassackwards. How can people not become suspicious conspirators with such constant asinine behavior from our politicians and the mindless minions which follow them?

Total agreement.

[Amo]

http://adventmessenger.org/first-it-was-pope-francis-now-president-macron-wants-a-new-ecocide-law/

Quoted article below from link above. Emphasis is mine.

First it was Pope Francis, Now President Macron Wants a New 'Ecocide' Law

Pope Francis and President Emmanuel Macron are supporting new proposals to recognize "ecocide" as a new crime that would punish those who are a threat to the environment. Last year, Pope Francis called on international leaders, criminal law attorneys and other policy makers to recognize ecocide as a crime against peace. [1] President Macron appears to have accepted the Pope's challenge.

President Macron has just announced that he would support changing the French Constitution to include ecocide, which would be defined as "causing serious damage to the environment." He said that as early as 2021, a referendum could be held that would introduce "ideas of biodiversity, protecting the environment and fighting climate change in the first article of the French constitution." [2]

The new ecocide laws would be characterized as crimes against our ecology and against humanity. Ecocide would criminalize what Pope Francis has called our moral transgressions against Mother Earth. At the forefront of this global effort to combat climate change, Pope Francis is putting pressure on political leaders by urging them to adopt his green climate encyclical, Laudato Si, which includes a Sunday rest provision for the world.

According to Rome, all of the world's problems will be solved as soon as the Pope's encyclical becomes law. Remember, Pope Francis' commitment is not only with environmentalism and social justice, but also with Sunday restrictions. Just two weeks ago Archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort, head of the French Catholic Bishops Conference, announced that "the recent pandemic shutdown had shown both the planet and its people needed a real day of Sunday rest." [3]....................................

[Amo]

http://adventmessenger.org/the-jesuits-and-gay-pride/

Quoted article below from link above.

The Jesuits and Gay Pride

The well-known Jesuit priest and author, José María Rodríguez Olaizola, has written an article to commemorate 'Gay Pride' on the Jesuit website, PastoralSJ.org. He regrets that this year there will be no floats, parades and crowds celebrating 'Gay Pride' due to the coronavirus outbreak. But he looks to the day when there will no longer be any need to have them. He says that day will come when:

"Everyone recognizes the dignity of people, of each person, without sexual orientation"
"The day when coming out of the closet is not news, because it is pure normality"
"The day when contempt, rejection, or persecution is already history"
"A day on which, also as a Church, we have advanced towards a greater and better integration and acceptance of the reality of homosexual people, of their need and their right to love"
"[When] we overcome the doses of misunderstanding that still exist in some Church people towards the reality of LGBTQ people" [1]
The Jesuits have one serious problem. It's called a "Bible" problem. There is not Biblical command or example in all of the Holy Scriptures for what they are doing. No matter how you read the Bible, there is no way to interpret it as giving the Church permission to accept the reality of the right to "homosexual love." You can turn the Bible upside down, turn it around, turn it in circles and still it will not give the church the right to sanction something that God has not authorized.

Jesuit revisionists have joined the movement to legitimize homosexuality in the church. They have become LGBT+ advocates, even though what they are doing is completely opposed to the Christian faith and the history of the church. When these Jesuit priests invoke the name of God during mass, they are not calling upon the true God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. These people were praying to an imaginary god created by the LGBT+ movement, a god who does not exist in the Bible, but a god who exists only in their own imagination.

The push to force immorality on the church has begun. The recent decision of the United States Supreme Court that codified the LGBT+ lifestyle as a civil right will help accelerate this Jesuit plan in which all churches will accept "homosexual love." That is the new American system in the modern era. The days of raising your family, running your business and living your faith as described in the Bible are coming to an end.

Soon, the LGBT+ mafia will force many Christians to bow down and apologize for their homophobia and bigotry. Many of our churches will become submissive, awaiting instructions from the new LGBT+ masters. They will force their sexual immorality on all those churches that try to resist. If you protest, they will persecute and prosecute and beat you until you accept the Jesuit vision and affirm homosexuality.

You may recall how in Acts 5 the first disciples were imprisoned; they were called to stand before the chief priests and were told to change their message. Those days are coming upon us again. May God grant us the grace to stand up and say, "We must obey God rather than men." Acts 5:29.

But the God of heaven, the mighty Ruler of the universe, took this matter into His own hands; for men were warring against His work. He showed them plainly that there is a ruler above man, whose authority must be respected. The Lord sent His angel by night to open the prison doors, and he brought forth these men whom God had commissioned to do His work. The rulers said, Speak not "at all nor teach in the name of Jesus;" but the heavenly messenger sent by God said, "Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life." (Testimonies, Vol. 5, p. 713).

[Amo]

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/04/12/pope-francis-calls-for-structural-change-activists-to-take-advantage-of-coronavirus-crisis-in-easter-letter-n384947

Article below from link above. Emphasis is mine, my comments are in blue.

Pope Francis Calls for 'Structural' Change Activists to Take Advantage of Coronavirus Crisis in Easter Letter

BY TYLER O'NEIL APR 12, 2020 11:39 PM EST

On Easter Sunday, Pope Francis sent a letter to leaders of social movements promoting "structural changes" to the "economy of exclusion and inequality." Among other things, he encouraged these activists to use the coronavirus crisis as an opportunity to spur radical change and launch a "humanistic and ecological conversion." He also endorsed the idea of a universal basic income (UBI), championed by former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang.

Pope Francis addressed his letter to the World Meeting of Popular Movements (WMPM), an alliance of Roman Catholic Church leadership and "grassroots organizations working to address the 'economy of exclusion and inequality' by working for structural changes that promote social, economic and racial justice." In the letter, the pope argues that these activists are "invisible to the system. Market solutions do not reach the peripheries, and State protection is hardly visible there." Rather than encouraging philanthropy to reach these peripheries, Francis writes to encourage "you who are looked upon with suspicion when through community organization you try to move beyond philanthropy or when, instead of resigning and hoping to catch some crumbs that fall from the table of economic power, you claim your rights."

In this context, Francis endorses a UBI. "I know that you have been excluded from the benefits of globalization. You do not enjoy the superficial pleasures that anesthetize so many consciences, yet you always suffer from the harm they produce," he argues. "Street vendors, recyclers, carnies, small farmers, construction workers, dressmakers, the different kinds of caregivers: you who are informal, working on your own or in the grassroots economy, you have no steady income to get you through this hard time ... and the lockdowns are becoming unbearable. This may be the time to consider a universal basic wage which would acknowledge and dignify the noble, essential tasks you carry out. It would ensure and concretely achieve the ideal, at once so human and so Christian, of no worker without rights."

This tepid support for UBI grabbed headlines — and it got Yang's attention.

"Wow. Pope Francis today: 'This may be the time to consider a universal basic wage.' Game-changing," Yang tweeted with a "praying hands" emoji.

Joe Biden: Coronavirus Is an 'Opportunity' for 'Structural' Change on Voting, Climate Change

Yet Pope Francis does not stop with the support for a UBI. He suggested the coronavirus crisis should be an opportunity for broader structural change.

"I hope that this time of danger will free us from operating on automatic pilot, shake our sleepy consciences and allow a humanist and ecological conversion that puts an end to the idolatry of money and places human life and dignity at the centre," the pope's letter continues. "Our civilization — so competitive, so individualistic, with its frenetic rhythms of production and consumption, its extravagant luxuries, its disproportionate profits for just a few — needs to downshift, take stock, and renew itself."

Pope Francis is partially right: the coronavirus crisis should encourage introspection and it should spur Christians on to further acts of charity. It should encourage leaders to think of new ways to help people.

However, the coronavirus is not a reason to reject the free market. While capitalism does run on the desire to make money, it channels selfish desires to productive ends. Over the last two hundred years, the free market system has unleashed monumental progress in living standards. The global network of trade allows Americans to buy products from around the world, as new technologies — developed in pursuit of the filthy lucre Pope Francis rightly condemns — enable them to heat and cool their homes, preserve and heat food, enjoy running water, access reams and reams of information and entertainment, and more.

Pope Francis condemns these true tangible benefits as "superficial pleasures," and compared to the promise of eternal life with God, they are. But the material progress is not to be dismissed. The true grinding poverty of the sort our ancestors knew two hundred years ago has been relegated to the fringes — and it is disappearing even there. Even in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, the internet has enabled churches to hold virtual services — something unimaginable one hundred years ago.

This system of wealth creation faces many threats, but few are as dire as the climate alarmist movement. Legislation like the Green New Deal, pushed in the name of saving the climate from a disaster that persistently fails to occur, would seriously undermine the market system and create an overbearing government apparatus to pick winners and losers. In a free market, consumers tend to buy the cheapest option, but they also shift their purchases in pursuit of other goals like sustainability. Many businesses are already pursuing practices that leave a smaller carbon footprint and both clean technologies like nuclear energy and cleaner greenhouse gases are already shrinking emissions.

Yet Pope Francis has reportedly tried to blame carbon emissions for the coronavirus crisis, suggesting the virus is nature's response to bad environmental stewardship.

The pontiff's fears about capitalism are correct in one respect. Christians should not be at home in this world, and we need to work to help others in as many ways as we can. The free market harnesses greed to productive ends, encouraging people to add value to society in exchange for money. Yet workers and entrepreneurs are not just driven by greed — and the wealthy in a capitalist system often reinvest their wealth, either in their businesses or in a burgeoning philanthropic sector that is constantly finding new ways to help the poor.

The free market allows them to do that in ways that a government-run economy would not. When the government tries to meet philanthropic needs, it often creates more problems than it solves. Philanthropy is not immune from criticism, either, but philanthropy is not taken for granted as a "right."

Pope Francis seems to have good intentions, but his push for "structural" reforms, coupled with his attacks on capitalism and his endorsement of climate alarmism is arguably dangerous to the market system that has brought so much prosperity and opportunity to the world. Furthermore, his suggestion that activists use the coronavirus crisis as an opportunity for structural change echoes the Democrats' shameful attempts to capitalize on the suffering of millions.

Hmmmm.... Communist praising Pope Francis calls upon leaders of social movements to "use the coronavirus crisis as an opportunity to spur radical change and launch a "humanistic and ecological conversion." This through "an alliance of Roman Catholic Church leadership and "grassroots organizations working to address the 'economy of exclusion and inequality' by working for structural changes that promote social, economic and racial justice." Shortly after which an opportunity presents itself in the death of a black man at the hands of a white police officer. Which the heavily marxist influenced BLM turns into a cause for riots over suggested social, racial, and economic injustices. With violent and destructive effects upon successful people, their properties, and businesses. Blacks included. All of which are of course the result of the evil Capitalism this Jesuit Pope continuously attacks.   

BLM was joined of course by the likes of ANTIFA, and other deluded groups or individuals who buy into the evil pronounced upon all who do not submit to the Communist global agenda of the Vatican and her minions. The Pope gave his minions their marching orders, and they carried them out at the first opportunity they could create and or take advantage of. Wake up America! The See of Rome has no problem reducing this nation to ruins if it will not join in and comply with her own vision of the future, as she has so many nations already in the past. Her puppets may be seen and heard in the voice and actions of politicians and peoples alike, as the example of puppet Joe Biden's comments reflect in the above article. Countless Roman Catholics and other minions take the social justice agenda of the Vatican as their own with or without realizing the true source and or motives of the originator of their cause. The motive has always been the same, which is to regain on a global scale the power she once had to dominate the body and soul of all.

Her weapons of warfare are the manipulation of the uneducated and ignorant masses whom she helps to create and foster. Destroying the true narratives of history and replacing them with her own revisionist history which inspires hate toward the truth and love of the lie. Thus creating the destruction of history and society we are presently witnessing by the hands of the ignorant and deceived masses she ever seeks to establish and rule under her thumb. So be it.

2Ti 3:12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; 15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

The government and unity the Pope of Rome is calling for is not according to the holy scriptures. It is according to the tyrannical persecuting global beast of biblical prophecy which will rule for a very short while right before our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ returns and puts down all earthy authority inspired by the evil one. The Pope and his minions desire to destroy government for the people by the people exactly because it does not allow for the establishment of its authority above all else. The end of her endeavors is a return to the two class society of the old world producing the exact inequalities she now pretends to be battling. Unelected self appointed political and religious elites, and subjugated peasants. The clergy and royalty as it were, over and above the laity and peasants. The Holy Roman Empire and dark ages all over again under the new guise of the common good and a united humanity under the banner of Rome.

Rev 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. 3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:  5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R39ZCHyrxRo

Good video about BLM. Exposing papal puppet Joe Biden helping foster the exact conditions now decried by BLM and others being used to advance marxist globalist and therefore papal political aspirations. Just what we need now, another papal puppet as President to join the majority of the others already running our Congress and Supreme Court.

Though their numbers have been increasingly dwindling, faithful Protestants and others have been warning this nation of the dangers Roman Catholicism poses toward any and all freedom loving peoples. Having been largely ignored, here we are today on the brink of disaster under many different fronts as Catholic leadership of our nation has been steadily increasing over time. Two of our three branches having already been compromised by large numbers of the same, the third awaits a Catholic President to complete the conquest of all three. The following historical quotes refer to some of Rome's methodologies which we can see are and have been employed in tis country.

The following quote is from the book FACTS OF FAITH by Christian Edwardson, Southern Publishing Association 1942

A MESSAGE FOR OUR TIMES

P.205

We shall here refer to one other similar denial. In the Roman Catholic paper, Shepherd of the Valley, there appeared an article by the editor, in which he stated: "If Catholics ever attain, which they surely will, though at a distant day, the immense numerical majority in the United States, religious liberty, as at present understood, will be at an end." A Protestant lecturer, who made use of this quotation, was bitterly arraigned in a double-column front-page article in the Catholic Standard and Times for his false statements regarding Catholics; for, it pointed out, if he had finished the quotation with the words which followed, "so say our enemies," it would have reversed its meaning. The incident would have passed off at the expense of the Protestant lecturer, had not the Western Watchman of July 24, 1913, continued the quotation still further, declaring: "The whole quotation should read: 'If Catholics ever attain, which they surely will, though at a distant day, the immense numerical majority in the United States, religious liberty, as at present understood, will be at an end. So say our enemies; so say we.' "- Quoted in "Protestant Magazine," October, 1913, p. 474. Why those who tried to deny their former statements should leave out the words, "so say we," is very evident. But what can we think of those who publicly deny facts to screen their church from unfavorable public opinions, unless they act from the motive that "the end justifies the means," and that "heretics" have no moral right to facts which they would misuse.

This explains the papacies views and stance regarding immigration, and the many mass migrations of Roman Catholics to these United States in our past and the ongoing migrations from south of our border which fosters and facilitates.

"Whosoever becomes prince of a city or State, more especially if his position be so insecure that he cannot resort to constitutional government either in the form of a republic or a monarchy, will find that the best way to preserve his princedom is to renew the whole institutions of that State; that is to say, to create new magistracies with new names, confer new powers, and employ new men, and like David when he became king, exalt the humble and depress the great, "filling the hungry with good things, and sending the rich empty away." Moreover, he must pull down existing towns and rebuild them, removing their inhabitants from one place to another; and, in short, leave nothing in the country as he found it; so that there shall be neither rank, nor condition, nor honor, nor wealth which its possessor can refer to any but to him. And he must take example from Philip of Macedon, the father of Alexander, who by means such as these, from being a petty prince became monarch of all Greece; and of whom it was written that he shifted men from province to province as a shepherd moves his flocks from one pasture to another. These indeed are most cruel expedients, contrary not merely to every Christian, but to every civilized rule of conduct, and such as every man should shun, choosing rather to lead a private life than to be a king on terms so hurtful to mankind. But he who will not keep to the fair path of virtue, must to maintain himself enter this path of evil." (Machiavelli)

The Church of Rome, BABYLON THE GREAT, rides her adherents along this path of evil.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/how-a-controversial-letter-from-pope-francis-shaped-climate-politics-and-the-biden-2020-campaign

Article quoted below from link provided above. Emphasis is mine, my comments in blue.

How a controversial letter from Pope Francis shaped climate politics and the Biden 2020 campaign

"We have a good one now," Vice President Joe Biden laughed as he read aloud a leaked draft of Pope Francis's landmark encyclical on climate change.

It was June 2015, and Biden was addressing a White House-sponsored forum on clean energy investment, his first public appearance since his son Beau's death from cancer in May. The vice president was in good spirits. Just the day before, numerous media outlets had obtained an early copy of Pope Francis's book-length letter on the environment. For Biden, the contents were encouraging: Francis framed climate change similarly to the way the Obama administration did — as both a moral and economic issue.

Before quoting the encyclical at length, and becoming the first Obama official to comment on it, Biden declared that the concerns of the pope fit nicely with the president's push for more businesses to adopt clean energy alternatives. He warned that when even the pope weighs in on the issue with such urgency, it's a clear sign that humans are approaching the "point of no return" in preventing climate change's negative effects.

"There's a consensus growing," Biden said. "This doesn't only have a moral component to it. It has a security component to it, as well as an economic component."

Within days, the Vatican published the full version of the encyclical, titled Laudato si'. The encyclical, written five years ago this week, decries "throwaway culture" and calls modern society "one of the most irresponsible in history." It concludes that global mistreatment of the earth is a symptom of the same destructive urge that leads people to sideline the poor, the elderly, and the unborn.

Since its publication, Laudato si' has become a lightning rod in American public discourse on the environment: the extra-political document to which politicians appeal when framing climate change as a moral crisis.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was one of the first to realize the potential of Laudato si'. Upon its publication, the self-described nonreligious senator hailed Francis as a "miracle" and Laudato si' as a "powerful message" that should "change the debate around the world."

"Denying the science related to climate change is no longer acceptable," Sanders said.

Democratic megadonor Tom Steyer also sensed opportunity. Still, in the throes of his spat with the Obama administration over the permit for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, the billionaire climate activist began plugging the encyclical in his fundraising messaging. Steyer praised the pope, calling Laudato si' "the most important statement in the history of confronting climate change."

"He is somebody who has won over more people in the world than anybody," Steyer said of Francis when the encyclical was released. "And what he has to say on this could have an absolutely dramatic impact on how this issue is viewed."

Republican politicians weren't so enthusiastic. The 2016 presidential campaign season was just starting up, and the media frenzy over Francis's encyclical made Laudato si' one of the first litmus tests (on an issue already uncomfortable for many Republicans) in the crowded primary field. Many of the Catholic candidates, including Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, distanced themselves from the pope.

Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, both a Catholic and a fierce critic of climate change legislation, said that the pope "should leave science to the scientists." Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a Catholic convert, echoed Santorum, saying that he didn't rely on the pope for his political positions.

"Religion ought to be about making us better as people and less about things that end up getting into the political realm," Bush said.

But at that point, it was too late. For better or worse, Laudato si' had become a document with political weight. President Barack Obama released a statement praising Francis for using his "moral authority" to call for "action on global climate change." Obama promised that, through his administration, the United States would become a "leader" in combating climate change protecting the poor.[/b] The president then outlined some of his goals: cutting carbon emissions, encouraging clean energy innovation, and building "resilience in vulnerable communities."

Obama also said that the encyclical would likely be a guide for him when considering how to proceed at the Paris climate summit scheduled for that December. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi proved that prediction correct when, in choosing the delegation to send to France, she commented on how "thrilling" it was to have a pope whose writings provided a moral framework for the need to reduce air pollution.

When Francis visited the U.S. in mid-September, environmentalists redoubled their efforts to push the message of Laudato si'. At a rally held on Capitol Hill just days before Francis visited Washington, D.C., Sanders called for a living wage and better conditions for workers. When he finished speaking, the crowd knelt in prayer as a pastor read out passages from the encyclical, asking God to "touch the hearts of those who look only for gain at the expense of the poor and the earth."

When Francis arrived in the city on Sept. 23, climate activists swarmed the halls of congressional office buildings. Many handed out copies of Laudato si', along with pamphlets backing Maryland then-Rep. Chris Van Hollen's Healthy Climate and Family Security Act, which sought to establish a system of capping carbon emissions.

Francis delivered a speech to Congress that day and exhorted it to heed his message in Laudato si'.

"I am convinced that we can make a difference, and I have no doubt that the United States, and this Congress, have an important role to play," he said. "Now is the time for courageous actions and strategies, aimed at implementing a culture of care and an integrated approach to combating poverty, restoring dignity to the excluded, and at the same time protecting nature."

The pope was met with applause — but not unanimous. In anticipation of a paean to the environment, Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, himself a Catholic, said he would boycott Francis's speech.

"I don't need to be lectured by the pope about climate change," Gosar told CNN. "When he wants to take a political position, I will tell you: He is free and clear to be criticized like the rest of us."

And so it went for the remainder of Francis's time in the U.S. The pope won near-universal acclaim from climate activists and widespread criticism, at worst disdain, from climate change skeptics.

After the pope's speech before Congress, Sanders told MSNBC that he was "deeply impressed." He added that because of Francis's work linking environmental issues to economic inequality, his own movement was able to "very significantly turn the tide" on economic justice, combating "the idolatry of money, the worship of the millionaires and billionaires."

The admiration was mutual. In early 2016, after Sanders had become the surprise star of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, the Vatican invited Sanders to speak at a forum on economic injustice, occurring only several days before the New York primary. The speech was ostensibly apolitical, but Sanders was able to wedge his campaign issues in at the end.

"As Pope Francis made powerfully clear last year in Laudato si', we have the technology and know-how to solve our problems — from poverty to climate change to health care to protection of biodiversity," Sanders said. "We also have the vast wealth to do so, especially if the rich pay their way in fair taxes rather than hiding their funds in the world's tax and secrecy havens."

Sanders concluded that, to him, the message of Laudato si', along with several other encyclicals, was a "moral" challenge, aiming to instill politics with a "vision to the common good."

The election of Donald Trump put a damper on the late Obama-era euphoria over climate action. But by then, Laudato si' had become stamped in the public consciousness. When Trump visited the Vatican in 2017, Francis gave him a copy of the encyclical as a gift. It was widely interpreted as "a message" to Trump, who has not included climate change as one of his administration's top priorities.

The document also became a rallying cry for many Christian environmentalists, who protested the Trump administration's climate positions at the 2017 People's Climate March. And, with the introduction of the Green New Deal by New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, it once again became a reference point for advocates of climate change grounded in both moral and economic awareness.

And when the 2020 Democratic presidential primary started up, as early as January 2019, hopeful candidates began testing if the encyclical still carried the cache it did in 2016. Steyer began mentioning it again in his stump speeches, at one point saying that the pope "really nailed it" with the message.

Biden, though, is the one who made Laudato si' a consistent part of his campaign. The former vice president has it listed as the document that drives him to support policies that will help people "serve as stewards of our creation and protect our planet against climate change." Some of his goals include reducing carbon emissions to zero by 2050, cleaning up pollution in low-income communities, and creating jobs within the clean energy sector.

Biden argued, in an op-ed published in the Religion News Service, that as president, he would answer Francis's call by caring for the "imperiled planet" with environmentally conscious policies.

"My faith teaches me that we should be a nation that not only accepts the truth of the climate crisis but leads the world in addressing it," Biden wrote. "Pope Francis is right in Laudato si': 'Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last 200 years.'"

This article brings together many of the people, politicians, wealthy, and religious who compose what so many refer to today as the left. It also identifies where they really get their marching orders, and what self proclaimed and appointed authority they really are rallying behind. They are just so many papal puppets, committing fornication with BABYLON THE GREAT, in forming the final abusive and persecuting global biblical beast of prophecy. The implications and policies of which are in direct contradiction to the heavily Protestant and therefore biblical principles upon which the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these United States were formed. Placing religious, political, and economic freedom and personal liberties back under the authority of self proclaimed and appointed elitist religious and political leaders as it was during what is now referred to as the dark ages by any truly historically informed or educated individual. The ignorant masses who are either deceived by the revisionist historical narratives of these papal puppets, or completely indifferent to the same, are and will continue to be easily manipulated by these self appointed Satanic imps. The Pope of Rome is the epitome of self appointed and important elitist leaders, claiming the position of Jesus Christ upon this earth, he is the leader of the many like minded individuals and institutions which are now gladly joining BABYLON'S pursuits.

Come Lord Jesus and establish your proven, rightful, righteous, pure, holy, and undefiled authority over all. Delivor your own from the evil one and his minions who are about to bring the final biblical beast of prophecy about in defiance of your own impeccable authority.

Joh 18:36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. 37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

Cursed be those who would mingle the kingdom of Christ with the false religions and politics of this world. So be it.

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https://www.biblebasedministries.co.uk/2020/07/02/rome-the-jesuits-and-the-black-lives-matter-communist-revolution/

Article quoted below from link provided above.

Rome, the Jesuits, and the "Black Lives Matter" Communist Revolution
2 JULY 2020 SHAUN WILLCOCK

Rome the Jesuits and the Black Lives Matter Communist Revolution, PDF format

It is not my intention to analyse all aspects of the "Black Lives Matter" (BLM) Communist revolution in this article.  Things are moving so rapidly that we have to pick our battles.  Fortunately the purpose of the BLM movement has been documented and exposed by many investigators, and many of its backers have been exposed as well.  It has been shown to be a Communist revolutionary movement.  This is now well known among large numbers of political conservatives, and is even now quite well known among many of the dupes of these sinister organisations themselves.  Not universally known, of course, for most of those caught up in these violent anarchic activities are merely pawns of their Red masters, the unthinking, dumbed-down cannon fodder of the revolution.  But at least some now know that it is nothing less than a Communist-directed, militant, violent revolutionary organisation aiming to destroy the old, Capitalistic order, conservative and semi-conservative leadership, law and order, morality, real factual history, and if possible western civilisation itself, and to install a Communist, anti-family, anti-Christian government wherever possible.

  But I will focus in this article on what almost no one knows about the BLM revolution: the part played by the Roman Catholic institution in guiding this orchestrated assault on western civilisation.

BLM is a Communist Movement – but There's Even More to It
  The following is a good summary of what this is all about, but in common with so many otherwise-accurate commentators it fails to discern one vital ingredient in the whole evil mix:

  "It's happening.  Right before our very eyes.  The final chapter of the World Revolution, by communists referred to as 'World October', is upon us!  As the countries of the West are still struggling to contain the Chinese-orchestrated pandemic [which is no real threat at all to the vast majority of the world's population – author] and are desperately trying to get their grounded economies back running, the spiral of calculated escalation has moved on to the next stage: the instigation of chaos (possibly, civil war) as a means to bring down the rule of law and government itself.  These are not spontaneous protests against a 'systemic racism' that doesn't even exist (certainly not in the United States).  This is a coordinated attack on nothing less than the constitutional foundations of the American Republic, carried out by Moscow/Beijing-directed communists (sailing under whatever banner) and reminiscent of every communist revolution in history (including the French Revolution, by the way).

  "We are now witnessing an America in its death-throes.... And no sufficient alarm, even now.  At least, about whence the attack is coming.  After all, an overwhelming majority (including, sadly, America's political and economic elite) swallowed the bait of 'collapsible communism' and of the 'great investment prospects in the East' thirty years ago.  America's suspected 'victory of the Cold War' was prematurely carved in stone; Gorbachev, and then Yeltsin, were hailed as honest democrats (rather than understood as unchanged communists).  America and the West got quickly caught up in the overall lie of a 'defunkt USSR' and a 'defunkt' communist bloc.  Nothing could have been further from the truth.  The communist world even massively expanded its global influence post-1991, precisely because the West saw no communist threat any more! (Enter: South Africa; Venezuela; Nicaragua; the Congo; Nepal – not to mention the EEC's odd transformation into a much more centralised political union, only weeks after the 'demise' of the Soviet Union)."[1]

  The above analysis is excellent, as far as it goes.  As I have been saying and writing for thirty years, ever since the momentous events of 1989-1992, the so-called "collapse of Communism" was a farce, a lie, a smokescreen.  Communism did not die back then.  It is alive and well today.  The fall of South Africa to Communism in 1994 proves this beyond all shadow of doubt.  I know.  I lived through it.[2]

  But the analysis above makes one error, and it fails to discern a vital component.  The error is implying that this Communist revolution in America is directed only by Communists in Moscow and Beijing.  It is being directed just as much by Communists in America itself.  But more seriously, what the author of the piece fails to discern at all is that not even the Communist powers behind the scenes are the real powers.  Behind them are the secret globalist societies which can all be placed under the umbrella term of the Illuminati.  And behind them – as has been the case for centuries now – are the Jesuits of Rome. 
  Failure to discern and appreciate this fact hamstrings most otherwise-astute observers of the world revolution.  The reason they fail to discern it is because they do not understand Bible prophecy.  "Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth" (Rev. 17:5) is not some murky, undefinable future world system as so many present-day "prophecy experts" speculate.  It is the Roman Catholic institution.  It always has been.  The Papacy is the Beast of Bible prophecy.  The false "Church" of Rome is the Whore of Bible prophecy.  The second Beast of Bible prophecy is the Roman Catholic priesthood.  And within that priesthood the Jesuit Order has dominated and influenced and manipulated not only the Papacy for centuries, but world events as well.  And now, with a Jesuit as pope of Rome in the Vatican, the Jesuits are directing world affairs as never before in their terrible history.

  The grand prize for Rome has always been the destruction of the "Protestant" West, and especially the conquest of the United States of America.  The former has virtually been achieved; the latter may now be on the brink of succeeding.

The Vatican Praises the Black Lives Matter Movement

  Despite all the chaos, all the mayhem, all the looting and killing and destruction of property on a vast scale – despite all this, the Vatican made no bones about it: it has come out clearly on the side of the Communists running the Black Lives Matter revolution.  Vatican News praised BLM as a "movement dedicated to non-violent civil disobedience through protests against police violence directed at black persons as well as all forms of racism."[3] 

  Non-violent?  Really?  All across America and other western countries, violent protesters have trashed cities, beaten up and killed innocent people, attacked police – and the Vatican says the movement is non-violent?  The Jesuit pope and his henchmen are outright liars.  But why should we be surprised?  Rome's priests lied in precisely the same way when they supported the violent African National Congress of Nelson Mandela in its bloodthirsty revolution to take power in South Africa.[4]  They lied then, just as they are lying now.  They claimed the violence was all on the part of the State authorities, never on the part of the revolutionaries.  This has been typical of Communist revolutions everywhere.

  Vatican News went on: "The movement began in 2013 with the use of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media.  Today, Black Lives Matter has decentralized into a broader and worldwide network of movements advocating against police violence towards minorities, the militarization of the police as well as against systemic racism around the world."  More lies.  BLM is not about advocating against police violence towards minorities.  That is the excuse.  The stated issue is never the real issue when it comes to Communist movements.  BLM's real purpose is to use the issue of a single white policeman killing a single black man to claim (falsely) that white police are all racists, so as to ignite a full-blown Communist revolution.

  As Rome has done in one Communist revolution after another, it ignored the openly stated purpose of BLM on its own website: among other things, to "defund the police"; to "disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement"; to "dismantle cisgender privilege"; to be "queer-affirming".  It states: "When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise)."  These statements blatantly contradict official Roman Catholic teaching on sexuality and the family, for Rome has always claimed to uphold the family structure and to oppose homosexuality.  Yet now Rome praises an organisation that opposes everything it claims to stand for on these matters!  This greatly perplexes Roman Catholics and others.  Ah, but what they do not understand is that the prize for Rome by supporting the BLM revolution is far greater, in its judgment, than defending its traditional teaching on the family.  Rome always sides with what it perceives to be the winning side.  It perceives that BLM is part of a global change of direction, a fundamental shift towards international Communism – and therefore it ignores its own centuries of teaching to throw its weight behind the revolutionaries.  The Jesuits, in particular, have always followed this strategy.

Francis I Gives Full Support to the BLM Communist Revolutionaries

  When the Jesuit pope, Francis I, praises the evil work of a radical BLM-supporting bishop, it is very evident that the Vatican of Francis, which is entirely under the control of the Jesuit Order, is fully supporting the BLM revolution.

  The bishop, Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, became the first Romish bishop to publicly "take the knee", surrounded by priests from his diocese who knelt with him while holding a Black Lives Matter sign.  "Taking the knee" refers to the gesture of kneeling, for example during the singing of the American national anthem, to supposedly protest against "police brutality".  After the death of George Floyd at the hands of a white policeman the gesture became a mark of solidarity among BLM revolutionaries and supporters.

  After the stupid gesture by the bishop he received a phone call from no less than Francis I.  "The Holy Father said that he wanted to congratulate me for the words I am saying," said Seitz.[5]  Could anything be clearer than this blatant support for the Communist BLM revolutionaries by the Jesuit pope?

  "I told [Francis] I felt it was very important at this time to show our solidarity to those who are suffering.  I told him I had just come from Mass at which I was praying for him and I always do.  He thanked me and said that whenever we celebrate Mass, we are praying together, he where he is and me at the border [to Mexico].  I told him that I am very honoured to serve here."

  This was not the only phone call the pope of Rome made to encourage his servants in the US to continue their radical agenda.  He also called José Gómez, archbishop of Los Angeles, another outspoken supporter of radicalism. 

  And on the 8th June two auxilliary bishops in Washington, DC, Roy E. Campbell and Mario E. Dorsonville, also attended a rally where a number of priests carried BLM signs.[6]

  Seitz added something very important when he said that the phone calls from Francis to US prelates showed that he "is anxious for the Church to be responsive in a pastoral way to participate in the response, in solidarity with those who have experienced racial discrimination."  His clever words notwithstanding, it was a lie: Francis called to give his full support to the radical Communist revolution engulfing America.  He has sought the downfall of the US since his election as Roman pope.  He has made no bones about his hatred for conservatism, for President Donald Trump, and his full support for radical revolution.  He himself, after all, being a high-ranking member of the Jesuit Order, is fully committed to Communism and to making use of it as the muscle to enable Rome to conquer the world (as I have written about in various articles).

  This came to light again when Francis gave an address in Rome on 3 June.  He spoke in support of the BLM riots and protests.  He said: "We cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form and yet claim to defend the sacredness of every human life."[7]  As Jesuit priest Russell Pollitt said, "This was clearly a critique of Trump's stunt of going to places of worship in Washington, DC, and holding up a Bible in his hands".[8]  As with all other Communist revolutionaries, Francis used the death of George Floyd at the hands of a white policeman to condemn "racism", giving the impression that America was a racist society where blacks were routinely murdered by whites.  The truth of course is that in every society there are those who use their positions of power to harm others.  But this does not mean that racism is everywhere!  One man dies and suddenly an entire country or an entire civilisation is "racist"!  It's a lie, but an extremely effective one to win over the unthinking masses of dupes.

  And Francis claims the moral high ground in defending "the sacredness of human life".  This from the man who heads up a diabolically evil and false "Church" responsible for the murder of multiplied millions of people worldwide for centuries!

Jesuits and Other Roman Catholics Call Support for BLM A Pro-Life Issue Like Abortion

  In an online discussion a black priest, Bryan Massingale, professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University in New York – a Jesuit university – called racism a "pro-life issue" that must be addressed with the same passion and vigour with which the Roman Catholic institution speaks against abortion.[9] 

  This is a very clever move: the Jesuits and others are now seeking to unite these two issues in the minds of their followers, by claiming that as abortion is the murder of the unborn, so racism is somehow the murder of black people!  He was supported by another participant in the discussion, writer Olga Segura from the Dominican Republic.  She asserted that the BLM protests had demonstrated "what it means to be fully pro-life and in solidarity with each other."  How she could say such a thing with a straight face in the wake of so many deaths at the hands of BLM protesters, just goes to show how evil these people really are.

  According to her warped thinking, the definition of "pro-life" has been narrowly interpreted by many Roman Catholics to mean being against abortion.  And priest Massingale supported this, saying that for too long priests and people within the Roman Catholic institution have framed the definition of being pro-life around the "narrow" meaning of being anti-abortion.  "It's high time to stop this fiction that we can be racist and support policies that are detrimental to people of colour, and yet still see ourselves as pro-life," he said.  Segura called on white Roman Catholics and white priests to join the BLM rioters.  And Massingale said that having "visible leaders in their collars" would show "this is a religious and spiritual challenge, that it's not simply a political issue".  "[W]hen bishops show up, not to take over, but to be there in solidarity, it shows that this is a key element of Catholic faith," he said.

  Abortion and racism have nothing in common in reality.  Abortion is the physical murder of an unborn child, whereas racism is an attitude, a belief, which may or may not lead to sinful action.  But now that this supposed connection has been made by these radical Papists, watch and you will see it rearing its lying head more and more in the future.  And as the lie is repeated over and over, it will eventually come to be accepted as truth by the unthinking indoctrinated masses.  This is typical Communist strategy: to redefine terms and phrases to mean something very different from what they originally meant, and what they actually mean by definition.  It has been done time and time again, and will now be done with the term "pro-life".

  Segura, writing in the National Catholic Reporter, a leftist paper, declared: "I believe that the Church must explicitly declare: Black Lives Matter."[10]

  Yes: support for the BLM Communist revolution is now "a key element of the Roman Catholic faith" (as priest Massingale said) under the pontificate of the Jesuit pope, Francis I.

US Roman Catholic Bishops Provide Funds to Communist Revolutionaries

  An investigation by the Lepanto Institute revealed that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) was funding radical organisations that supported the BLM rioters, even though their goals included the killing of police officers.  This funding was provided through the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), which the US bishops declared was funded "by the generous support of Catholics in the United States, especially through an annual parish collection.".  We are about to learn "just how Catholic money is being funneled to Communist, pro-abortion, pro-homosexual front groups."[11]

  Significantly, the Lepanto Institute is not an anti-Roman Catholic organisation, but according to its own website it is "dedicated to the defense of the Catholic Church against assaults from without as well as from within".[12]

  According to America's bishops, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development "is the national anti-poverty program of the U.S. Catholic Bishops, working to carry out the mission of Jesus Christ '...to bring glad tidings to the poor... liberty to captives... sight to the blind, and let the oppressed go free.' (Luke 4:18)".  Very few Americans or others in First World countries understand the radical Catholic-Communist doctrine of "Liberation Theology".  Liberation Theology is a diabolical attempt to merge Communism with false "christianity", re-interpreting various biblical texts to make it appear as if Jesus was a violent revolutionary, fighting to free "the poor and oppressed" from their "oppressors".  Lk. 4:18, wrongly expounded, has always been a favourite text of Liberation Theologians in Latin America, Africa and Asia.  They give it a meaning the Lord Jesus never intended.  The "glad tidings" Liberation Theologians bring to "the poor" is a message of political "liberation" through violent means.  "Liberating captives" has nothing to do with preaching Christ so that men in captivity to sin may find freedom in Him, but is made out to be a message of political "liberty" from "oppression".

  The director of the CCHD, Ralph McCloud, when serving in the Texas government, gave a political endorsement to radical pro-abortion politician Wendy Davis, and also spoke at an event celebrating the election of Communist Barack Obama in 2008, in which he said that Obama's election was a great day where "we will see a new Jerusalem, and justice will flow like waters".  Liberation Theologians love to point to political victories for Communists as being the beginnings of "the new Jerusalem" on earth.  A South African Liberation Theologian, Allan Boesak, said the same thing about the coming to power of the Communist-controlled ANC of Nelson Mandela.

  The founder of the Lepanto Institute, Michael Hichborn, named four organisations which had received funds from the CCHD, and were prominent in the agitations against law and order in the United States via the BLM riots which followed the death of George Floyd.[13]

  There is the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice (NOWCRJ).  This received $150,000 from the CCHD over the past three years.  Yet the NOWCRJ posted a video on Twitter of a protest in which they participated, chanting "Death to the racist pigs", i.e. police.  It also displays a clenched fist as its logo – the well-known logo of Marxist revolutions internationally.  But clearly none of these things were of any concern to the CCHD, and thus of no concern to the US bishops.

  Then there is the Workers' Center of Central New York.  This organisation received $200,000 over the last few years from the CCHD.  It was of no concern to the CCHD, and thus of no concern to the US bishops, that this organisation wrote on Facebook, "these riots and lootings are taking back what the masses of working black and brown communities are owed.  Riots and protests are necessary tools and we fully support... An injury to one is a [sic] injury to all."  It called for the defunding of police.  And it, too, uses the Communist clenched fist in its logo.

  Then there is The People's Lobby Education Institute, based in Chicago, to which the CCHD gave $165,000 in the last three years – clearly unconcerned that this organisation repeatedly called for the defunding of the police and prisons.

  And there is The Workers' Defense Project, which received as much funding from the CCHD as The People's Lobby Education Institute.  This group in a tweet accused the police of Houston, Texas of "murdering PoC [people of colour] with impunity", and called for the defunding of the police.  None of this bothered the CCHD, nor the fact that this group praised homosexuality – which the Roman Catholic "Church" is still supposed to be against officially, and which the CCHD itself implicitly claims to be against, for it states that it is "pro-life, pro-family, and pro-community and will never do anything to undermine that commitment."  Clearly it will, and will also readily lie through its teeth, for it supports radical Marxists and pro-sodomites.  It publicly says it is "pro" these things, but secretly gives them another meaning: it is "pro-life" if that life is a revolutionary's life but not if it is the life of a policeman; "pro-family" if that includes the modern definition of "family", i.e. sodomite relationships; and "pro-community" if the "community" is defined to mean black or brown radicals bent on destruction and looting.

  All par for the course for any Liberation Theology organisation.

   Nor were these four organisations the only ones funded by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.  Several others which had benefitted from CCHD funds signed a Solidarity Letter from the Immigrant Justice Movement, which called for the dismantling of "the police state" by defunding and decreasing police budgets.

  Truly, "at the very core of the CCHD is a philosophy of revolutionary leftist ideologies".[14]

A South African Jesuit Lambastes Trump For Not Supporting Black Lives Matter

 To highlight how, on an international scale, Rome's Jesuits are fully behind the BLM revolution occurring in America, a prominent South African Jesuit priest, Russell Pollitt, hit out at President Donald Trump, writing that when Trump stood before the far-from-Christian St John's Episcopal Church building in Washington, DC, the day after BLM rioters vandalised the edifice, "Trump did not see fit to speak one word of hope or consolation to a nation in trauma.... 'Trump's life matters' is all that matters to him."[15]  Wait a minute: who was it who vandalised the building?  Trump, or BLM thugs?  Why was this Jesuit not condemning them?  Reason: the Jesuits, and Francis' Jesuit-dominated Vatican, hate Trump, conservative America, and fully support the Marxist BLM revolution. 

  Then this Jesuit wrote: "Trump has spent his presidency trying to legitimise himself by delegitimising the first black president of the US.  Under this thin veneer is unbridled racism". Donald Trump is certainly not a true Christian no matter how often he may hold a Bible in his hands.  But that being said, he has certainly not spent his entire presidency trying to delegitimise Barack Obama!  To claim such a thing is utterly dishonest.  It has been Obama who, from the shadows, has been doing all he can to delegitimise Trump's presidency.  Trump has literally turned America around from the catastrophic Obama years.
 
  Pollitt went on to speak disparagingly of those he called "right-wing American Christians who support Trump and seem to have skipped over the key messages of the Bible too."  Liberation Theologians love to label conservatives and Bible-believing Christians as "right-wing", for the left has managed to turn this term into one of contempt – even though it is the leftists who skip over what the Bible is really saying.

  Pollitt went on to promote the very same new angle which we are going to be hearing so much about in the future: tying in being "pro-life", which used to mean being anti-abortion, with various other causes which have absolutely nothing to do with being pro-life: "Trump has done nothing in his term of office to show that he is pro-life.  He could be labelled pro-birth – as are many, sadly, of his gun-toting supporters.  There is a big difference.  When abortion is the only so-called 'pro-life' matter you obsess about, you are pro-birth.  Pro-life includes the categories of people Trump has no regard for: migrants, children, black people and the LGBTQIA+ community.  The so-called 'pro-life' movement (who supported Trump's ascent to the White House), has been exposed for its own hypocrisy under the arm of the Bible wagging president."

  There is so much in the paragraph above that one hardly knows where to start.  Here we have a priest of Rome, a Jesuit priest, condemning those who are against abortion, even though being against abortion has been one of Rome's causes for many decades.  Imagine a priest of Rome mocking those who are against abortion by labelling them "pro-birth" – as if this is a bad thing.  Yet this is precisely what Pollitt has done.  He then gets in a dig at those who support private gun ownership and by implication the right to self-defence – but not a word in condemnation of the AK47-wielding BLM thugs who have taken over an entire section of Seattle, Washington, or the gun-toting and brick-throwing rioters setting America aflame.  The reason?  The Jesuits support the radical Communists and hate and condemn conservatives.

  They are supporting murderous black rioters and their white buddies; they are supporting the deliberately-orchestrated mass migration of illegals, the vast majority of whom are Roman Catholics, into the US from Central and South America; and they are supporting horrific sexually deviant movements (the so-called LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ (give it as many letters of the alphabet as you like – they're adding to it all the time with all their strange, bizarre, outlandish, deviant sexual behaviours).  Isn't Rome supposed to be against such sins as well?  Ah, but the Jesuits say and do whatever advances their agenda for global control.  They overlook sins, turn a blind eye, treat those who commit such abominations with leniency – whatever it takes to make friends, gain support, rake in the money, and take power.
 
  Trump is not a Christian, and anyone who thinks he is has no understanding of what true biblical conversion to Christ is all about.  But he's not the first president to think he is, or to wave the Bible around to justify what he does. Obama used the Bible to justify his evil actions as well – but this Jesuit says nothing in condemnation of him.

What Will Priests and Jesuits Do When Images of "Christ" Are Also Toppled?

  As the Black Lives Matter iconoclasts go from statue to statue, toppling them to the ground in their mad and stupid campaign, at least one Roman Catholic statue has already fallen – that of Papist "saint", Junipero Serra, leader of the Spanish Papist missions in California.  Statues of the Roman Catholic "Jesus" may soon be in the cross hairs of the rioters as well: BLM activist Shaun King called for the removal of statues, murals and stained-glass windows in church buildings which depict Jesus as a "white European", because (according to him) these are "a form of white supremacy".[16]

  True Christians reject supposed images of the Lord Jesus Christ in any form, for they are a violation of the Lord's commandments in the Scriptures.[17]  But Papists have always made use of them.  What will Rome's priests do when the BLM madness reaches out to smash their beloved images?  Millions of Papists and their priests will be outraged, shocked and dismayed if it occurs.  But the Jesuits will make peace with it.  After all, they support BLM and are well aware that in any revolution there is collateral damage.  The loss of images is a comparatively small price to pay for the benefits of a successful Communist revolution in America and other western countries.

  When will Roman Catholics learn?  The Jesuits supported the Bolshevik revolutionaries in Russia; yet when Lenin came to power he turned on the Vatican. The Jesuits and many other priests supported the Communists who came to power in Rhodesia, South Africa, and other countries; yet in many of them the Communist leaders, once in power, turned on their priestly supporters.  Sometimes they are able to control the Red revolutionaries, and sometimes not.  Time will tell in the case of the BLM thugs.

Conclusion: Is the United States in Its Death Throes?

  The United States sold out its western allies years ago to Communism.  Now the chickens have come home to roost, and America is in the vice-grip of an orchestrated, ruthless, highly organised and massively funded Communist revolution.  If Americans think they can just ride out this storm, they are deceiving themselves.  America is not the "only superpower".  It is not even the strongest of the superpowers.  And no amount of gung-ho bluster from Donald Trump or anyone else is going to stop what is now occurring.  Decisive, immediate, firm action is needed – or America as a free republic is doomed.  It is as simple as that. 

  Perhaps decisive action will yet be taken and this present revolution will be defeated.  At this stage it is impossible to say.  But even if decisive action is taken and the BLM revolution is brought to an end, the very worst thing Americans could do is sit back, sigh with relief and say, "Well, at least that's over."  If that scenario unfolds, the only thing that will have been won is a battle – not the war itself.  The war will continue.  The United States is the last bastion.  The war has been lost in Africa, South America, Asia, and Europe.  The battlefield has now moved to America.  And it is winning there.

  Frankly, humanly speaking I do not see any hope.  America may defeat this revolution  – for now.  Time will tell.  But if it does, there will be other uprisings in the future.  We can count on that.  America may win militarily against its enemies for a time – but it has already lost the war morally.  It is not a moral country anymore.  Its enemies have already overwhelmed its schools, universities, political institutions – and churches.  Morally it is utterly bankrupt.  And a morally bankrupt country cannot continue to win in the long term.

  My book documenting the Communist revolution against South Africa, "Holy War" against South Africa, was first published way back in 1996.  At the end of the book I wrote the following about America (and Britain):
 "But what has been said of South Africa can also be said of the other lands of the earth which have enjoyed such blessings from God; sometimes even more than South Africa ever did.  What of thou, O Great Britain?  Or of thou, the United States of America?  All that has been said above about the sins which South Africans are wallowing in, can be applied with equal force to the peoples of Great Britain, the United States, and the other Western lands.  The US, for example, is a moral cesspool and a land of bloodshed.  Sexual perversion of all types is rampant.  Homosexual parades, with tens of thousands of participants, are held in many cities, with this wickedness being openly and defiantly flaunted, and with the blessing of those in top government positions.  Hollywood continues to spew out its filth, and its heroes and heroines are those who can sink the lowest in human depravity.  Tens of millions of human beings have been killed in abortion clinics around the land.  Violent crime in the major cities is almost epidemic.  And in addition, the US is committing increasingly open fornication with the Great Whore.  Can divine judgement be too far away?  As for what was once 'Great' Britain, that once-blessed isle is filled with the same abominations, and crying out for the judgement of God.  Indeed, has not divine wrath already begun to be poured out on the US and Britain and other Western lands?  Surely it has, and it will increase more and more as the days go by.  No country can tolerate within its borders the kind of wickedness that now characterises the Western lands, and escape the wrath of the Almighty God; much less can those do so, which in the past enjoyed so many divine favours."[18]

  If it pleases the sovereign Lord, may this present revolution be stamped out.  Believers in Christ should be praying for this, and they must never pin their hopes on politicians to solve the crisis.  They cannot, even if they had the will to do it.  One western country after another has fallen to the Jesuit/Communist forces over the past decades.  Will the USA finally go the same way?  It will, unless there is a massive change.  Only the Lord can bring this about.

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https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/vatican-hails-non-violent-black-lives-matter

Quoted article below from link above.

VATICAN HAILS BLM AS 'NON-VIOLENT'
NEWS: WORLD NEWS

ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - Vatican News is praising Black Lives Matter (BLM) as a "movement dedicated to non-violent civil disobedience through protests against police violence directed at black persons as well as all forms of racism." 

"The movement began in 2013 with the use of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media," the Holy See's official information service said Wednesday, providing context for comments from president of the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) Abp. Marcel Utembi Tapa, who said he "welcomed the fight against racism being spearheaded by the Black Lives Matter movement."

"Today, Black Lives Matter has decentralized into a broader and worldwide network of movements advocating against police violence towards minorities, the militarization of the police as well as against systemic racism around the world," Vatican News reported.

The Vatican media made no reference to BLM's involvement in riots, it's campaign to "defund the police" or to the movement's goals of "disrupt(ing) the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement," as explicitly stated on the "What we believe" page of the BLM website. 

BLM also proclaims itself determined to "dismantle cisgender privilege," pro-transgender and "queer‐affirming," maintaining: "When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise)" — an agenda in flagrant contradiction of Catholic teaching on sexuality and the family.

"It is ridiculous for the Vatican to pretend that Black Lives Matter is a non-violent movement," British politician David Kurten told Church Militant. "They are, at best, naïve — and at worst, complicit — by sticking their heads in the sand and ignoring its true, radical, Marxist nature."

Kurten, a member of the London Assembly and candidate for mayor of London said: "BLM/Antifa street protests have been characterized by violence and vandalism wherever they have occurred, whether on the streets of London, Seattle, Atlanta or many other cities."

He pointed out that "several black people have been killed at the hands of violent thugs, but they receive no mention and no selective outrage by the progressive leftists who the Vatican seem so keen to appease and emulate."

Archbishop Tapa admitted to Vatican News "he was not very conversant with the ideas of the [BLM] organization" and so could not "speak in detail about it." 

"The realization of a plural and multicultural world must be a priority in this 21st century," Tapa stressed.

Church Militant contacted Vatican News — English for Africa Section asking if the media representing the pontiff intended to stand by its positive appraisal of BLM, despite BLM claims to be a pro-LGBT, pro-abortion organization that is bent on destroying the family and Western civilization and unhesitant to use violence to achieve its goals.

We also drew Vatican media's attention to a Church Militant Special Report revealing two of the three co-founders — Patrisse Cullors and Alicia Garza — identifying as lesbians and, unlike the civil rights movement of the '60s, declaring itself "unapologetically feminist, womanist and queer." 

So far, no Vatican statement or official has condemned or even identified the anti-Catholic, Marxist ideology undergirding the BLM movement.   

Instead, bishops have voiced support for BLM protests, with Pope Francis making a phone call to commend Bp. Mark Seitz of El Paso Texas after he knelt with fellow clergy holding up BLM signs.

On June 8, Washington auxiliary bishops Roy E. Campbell and Mario E. Dorsonville attended a rally where a number of clergy carried BLM signs. 

"I believe that the Church must explicitly declare: Black Lives Matter," Olga Segura writes in the left-wing National Catholic Reporter, advocating a strong relationship between the Church and BLM. 

"This alignment would not mean that the Church would become a pro-abortion institution or change its teaching on marriage, as many critics believe would happen if there were any kind of relationship between the Catholic Church and the Black Lives Matter movement," she claims.     
Kurten reiterated his disapproval of the relationship between the clerical hierarchy and the BLM movement: "Instead of seeking to ingratiate themselves with the right-on, mainstream-media narratives of the moment, the Vatican should stand firm and condemn the violence, thuggery and anarchy that is being perpetrated around the world under cover of the killing of George Floyd.

"Unless they stand up to the wave of Marxism that is attempting to engulf Western civilization in its cultural destruction, the spineless, supine primates will fall, too, when they come for the churches," Kurten warned. 
   
Church Militant received no response from Vatican Media as of press time.

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https://fordhamobserver.com/47152/news/fordham-students-protesting-across-the-country-for-blm/

Quoted article below from link above. Emphasis is mine, my comments in blue.

Fordham Students Protesting Across the Country for BLM

Student Protesters Stand Together Against Police Brutality and Systemic Racism

June is a historic month — it was in 1969 at the Stonewall Inn that queer activists, with trans women of color leading the charge, took up and fought against an early morning police raid on the gay bar. They fought against a history of systemic police oppression and constant attacks on their civil liberties — not by remaining quiet, nor by standing on the sidelines, nor demonstrating in a way that was "convenient" to others.

George Floyd was unjustly murdered on May 25 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  His death served as one of the many catalysts to fight back against a history of systemic oppression against Black people that is as long as the existence of the United States itself. This June, Fordham University students have embraced the Jesuit philosophy of "go forth and set the world on the fire" by joining in the nationwide protests urging for police abolition and the elimination of systemic racism.[/b]

The murder or not of G. Floyd has not been determined in a court of law yet, though I know today guilty until or proved innocent is the norm in most of these racially charged cases. Some sources say he was overdosing on drugs during his encounter with the police, who were confronting him concerning counterfeit money or some such thing. I don't know all the details. Neither has all the footage of the incident been released as usual, accepting that which pertained to the possible cause of Floyd's death as depicted in that which has been released. As always, we will only discover the entire truth when all the facts are brought forward. The question which must be resolved is whether or not it was the intent of the officers involved to murder Floyd. No doubt if the facts do not turn out to support this accusation, there will be more violent riots in the streets.

How interesting that the Jesuit philosophy "go forth and set the world on fire" has been literally carried out by the BLM members. Nothing to see here of course, move on.

Leading in the front is the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, which was founded in 2013 by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi after the acquittal of the man who killed Trayvon Martin.

Minneapolis is the epicenter of protests, and Corina Fuentes, Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) '21, has been attending protests in the city. Fuentes has been protesting against Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) brutality and their instances of racial profiling since 2016.

Her experience while peacefully protesting has been made miserable by the MPD. "I was on the I-35W bridge when the semi-truck drove into the peaceful crowd. Although I have always protested peacefully without breaking curfew, my encounters with the MPD have been less-than peaceful to say the least. While exercising my first amendment right to peaceful assembly, I have had mace sprayed at me twice (both times with absolutely no warning), I have had flash bangs and tear gas thrown into my vicinity, and I have had a member of the National Guard aim his shotgun at me," Fuentes explained.

It doesn't help Corina Fuentes' position stated above, that most of the media still refers to the BLM Protests as peaceful, which many of them are demonstrably not. How do any of us know her testimony concerning these other protests is true. Surely there would be some footage of these violent attacks from police upon these peaceful protests somewhere. I'd like to see them for confirmation before accepting this or any other testimony given in these times of blatant manipulation of the facts by mainstream media and so many others.

Fuentes highlighted that police brutality is just the tip of the iceberg in the fight toward racial equality, and protesting is a necessity to get there. "Systematic racism is alive and thriving in this community...I would hesitate to say that protesting is simply 'significant' to me, it is much more than that; I would argue that protesting is a necessity born out of years of injustice and oppression thinly veiled as coincidences."

Here is a question, why are the vast majority of these protests against systematic racism, conducted in predominantly Democratic liberal strongholds? Does this not suggest that the systematic racism is taking place in these very places? Or are such just the places which allow for these protesters to act out? There is a reason they choose the places they do. Perhaps they choose those places where the leaders themselves feel the most guilty about racism, as many of them should since their party has been most actively racist throughout our history, and their policies perpetuate and promote the same by assuming blacks want and need continuous government aid. Not to mention most actively provide abortion on demand, which as I understand it according to present statistics, effects the black community more than any other. Is it not the guilt felt by these Democratic literals concerning the same, that prevents them from stopping violent protests regarding the same? Maybe not, but the shoe seems to fit.

Systemic racism is practiced and carried out through generations. Abolishing the system demands the demolition of its symbols. Raekwon Fuller, FCLC '23, protested in Anderson, South Carolina. "South Carolina is a historically racist state. First to leave the union, and last to come back. We have a confederate statue in front of the courthouse that says 'In truth's clear far-off light. That the soldiers who wore the gray. And died with lee were in the right.' so basically saying slavery was right. I'm black. And that's why it's also important. I can't sit silent," he said.

Then have them change what is written as a good historical lesson, don't destroy and remove important history and the changes we have made in relation to the same from the view of all who should know. Racism and slavery was prevalent all over the world for thousands of years. It did not begin in this country, but it most certainly has been addressed in the most bloody violent conflict this nation has ever experienced among its own, and ever since. To pretend this never happened and that racism has not and is not being addressed in this nation is a blatant lie. Nor do many at all today in South Carolina or elsewhere in this nation believe in or accept racism. Nor does this nation need to confuse radical marxism, transgenderism, homosexuality, or any other personal choice issue with antiracism as the BLM movement does. The rest of us simply do not have to, and I will not accept any such as a norm, if we choose not to. If such is the new definition of racism, then I am a proud racist.

Statues across the country with ties to the Confederacy and Christopher Columbus — both grounded in violent histories of white supremacy — are also being called into question, but this certainly isn't the first time. It is important to note that there is a statue of Columbus that prominently sits in Columbus Circle — a block away from Fordham's Lincoln Center campus. Most of these statues were built during the early 20th century, and then an additional spike of building occurred in the 1950s and '60s.

Here is a news flash for those who think history itself began in these United States of America, it didn't. While this nation was forming and struggling with issues of freedom and liberty, people were still being imprisoned, tortured, and even burned at the stake for their religious convictions in Europe and elsewhere. That was the world back then. The standards of freedom and liberty against such, which this nation lifted up were a model to the rest of this world and remain so to this day. Slavery was wrongly developing in this nation as it continued the fight against slavery and mass murder under the guise of religion so prevalent in that era.

When this nation tackled this first issue successfully, it then tackled the issue of slavery in as already stated, the most bloody and violent conflict this nation has ever endured. While it surely was not soon enough, nations should certainly stick to one bloody violent murderous war at a time if they intend to survive at all. The revolutionary war had to be fought before this nation could even exist to fight a war within over the issue of slavery. The cause against slavery, and the one for it, began their struggles long before the war itself broke out. Slavery and racism have been being addressed ever since, as they continue to be to this very day. All be it, there are very different ideas of how it should be addressed, and many organizations have attached themselves to this issue with very different agenda's than just getting rid of racism. As is most obvious.

These are facts of history regarding our nation in relation to the war against tyranny, which goes much further back in time than our nation has existed. Revisionist history ignores these facts, separates the history of Europe from our own, and paints a false picture of the history of this nation unto its origins being evil only. This is a blatant lie which is perpetrated by the Jesuits themselves in their attack upon the Protestant founding principles of this nation, in their ever continuing war with us and any and all who will not submit to their Popes usurped authority. So be it.

According to James Grossman, the executive director of the American Historical Association, "These statues were meant to create legitimate garb for white supremacy. Why would you put a statue of Robert E. Lee or Stonewall Jackson in 1948 (over 80 years after the end of the Civil War) in Baltimore?" Over the past few weeks, many protesters have demanded, sometimes by force, the removal of said statues as they stand as symbols of the systemically racist society of the past with lasting effects into today.

Good question. Why presume the answer? Are there not any records of who erected the statues and why? The war between the states was about states rights, slavery was the issue which brought states rights into question and rightly so. I believe in states rights, it is very unfortunate that slavery or not was attached to the issue of states rights, basically dragging it down morally and politically. Those defending states rights lost because they attached support of slavery to it, and rightly so. Things would have been very different, and the issue of states rights would have probably gotten much more support if slavery was not wrongly claimed as a right by those defending it. That is all history now though. Still, I would actually like to know what reason those who erected these statues, had for doing so. Rather than just presuming it was purely evil.

Dane Westerlund, FCLC '21, marched in Columbus, Georgia and was surprised to see the amount of people on the streets considering his city's relationship with racism. He said that the protest "was significant to me as Columbus is a medium sized southern city in which I expected there to be a low turnout due to a long history of racism from a good population of the city's people, however, the amount of people ... was actually astonishing to me and I was proud of my city for showing up and speaking out over a good cause."

In Colchester, Connecticut, Jaisa Pinnock, FCLC '22, protested and was also surprised to see the people of her hometown marching together. She spoke of how Colchester was not racially diverse while she was growing up and how seeing her community rally together for Black lives meant a great deal to her.

"I grew up in a predominantly white town...I was surrounded by people who did not look like me. Who didn't have hair like mine. Who didn't have families like mine. Having a protest here was so meaningful to me. I can not speak for the whole black community in my town, but from who I have spoken to, it meant something to them as well. A protest is more than making signs and wearing black. It's showing up for people of color, and physically standing beside them. It is physically taking time out of your day to listen to what they have to say," Pinnock said.

That is all very nice, but it does not address whether or not racism is still actually going on in the areas mentioned above. Is it? This is the claim of the protesters. If it is, it should be addressed. If it is not, then why the protest? Why not just come out in a memorial of the progress made against racism? The question is whether it is still systematically occurring across our nation as claimed, and therefore justifies mass protests many of which include violence, murder, and the destruction of peoples property, including black people.

Fordham students are taught from their first step on campus to appreciate the diversity of New York and the student community by being "men and women for others."

However, it's also important to acknowledge the position Fordham has taken in its community in the past. The Fordham Lincoln Center (FLC) campus was built on the homes of marginalized and low-income people who were ousted in the name of gentrification glorified by Robert Moses. FLC even commemorated Moses with a plinth on campus, which was removed in 2018.

Ethan Coughlin, FCLC '22 and arts and culture editor, was in attendance at a protest in Baltimore, Maryland. He felt that protesting is his duty in order to take a stance for change. He feels that Fordham should be doing more to practice what they preach.

"Fordham needs to step up and take actual action instead of just 'thoughts and prayers.' If that worked, we wouldn't be here now," Coughlin said.

"Fordham needs to step up and take actual action instead of just 'thoughts and prayers.' If that worked, we wouldn't be here now," Coughlin said.

Where are these people now, while protesting? They are in a democratically controlled city with many black leaders, protesting systemic racism there and at liberal Fordham. If these democratic cities with many black leaders are still systemically racist, how do they think anywhere else will ever not be. Just what does it take to convince these people that there is not systemic racism? What would prove that to them?

There was a similar sentiment behind Raquel Arabalo's, FCLC '22, reason to protest in Los Angeles. She said, "The most important thing I could do right now is listen to those voices that have been silenced for so long and then echo that ... My dad is from Mexico, and I've been in the car with my dad when he's been pulled over in the morning when we're coming back from church and the officer asked if my dad had been drinking. He actually used to be a cop ... and he said that the cops were basically taught to be racist. My parents always say the biggest gang members in the city are the cops."

She continued, "I recognize that I'm half white and half Hispanic, and I can not understand the oppression that some of my friends face. That's why I was protesting, because no one should feel they have a higher chance of going to jail and not getting into college because of their skin color."

Raquel's statement above doesn't seem to make much sense. Almost 40% of California is hispanic or Latino. You are not a minority if your race composes 40% of the population in your state, which is not to mention that she is half white which is probably a higher percentage of the population, or at least up there near it. I don't know for sure.

Still what is she saying but that California, a most liberal and Democratically run state with a very high population of Mexicans, is systematically racist against them? Even though they have a very diverse police force as I understand it, including Mexicans no doubt, they are still taught to be racist? Apparently this is a very prevalent problem in Democratically run areas with heavy populations, leaders, and police who are "minorities". Go figure.

I'm white and I never went to college, and have known and worked with a whole lot of white people over the years who never went either. I chose not to early on, and when I thought it might be a good idea I could not afford to without going deeper into debt, which I did not want to do. Nor have I been able to pay for my children to go to college, though I offered to help as I could if they so chose. I never considered that this was because I was white, nor ever heard any other white people I know who didn't go to college suggest such.

I never understood a college education to be a privilege just given to people, but rather something to be incorporated unto a particular goal requiring certain sacrifices to accomplish. Of course many have parents who can afford to send their children to college, which is great, I do not resent them for this. Is it prejudice to not give people a free college education when they cannot afford it if they are a minority, but not if they are white? Or is it simple resentment and or jealousy to presume that not being able to afford college if you are a person of color is because of racism, even when your race is not a minority in your state? What does it mean to not be able to go to college in a liberally controlled, Democratically dominated state, where the people of your race are in places of leadership and are not a minority ? How can such be racism unless liberals, Democrats, Hispanics and or Latinos are racists themselves, against themselves. I just don't get it.

Other students were unsure of their role in the protests. Jesse McBrearty, FCLC '21, attended a protest with her mother in Bloomfield, New Jersey. She explained that her mother was originally hesitant to attend. She described herself as a "financially comfortable white woman," and because of this, she was fearful her attendance would come across as an overstep. She eventually decided to attend so that she could better educate herself and use her voice to speak out against racism.

McBrearty and her mother came to the realization that "if you're worried about overstepping the boundaries at protests, attend anyway. Walk, listen, educate yourself. No one is going to blame you for wanting to learn about being on the right side of history!"

More than anything, students have focused on keeping the energy going and the conversations continuing. Fuller said, "Remember y'all had this same energy of reopening cases about Carole Baskins Husband. Why are we different. We want y'all to stand with and help us!!"

Protesting day in and day out can be exhaustive, but so is enduring racism.

Pinnock concluded, "It takes a lot to keep momentum day by day when it feels like nothing is getting done. To keep having conversations with people who may never change their minds can break our spirits and make us so angry. But this fight has been pushed aside for far too long. Keep signing petitions, going to protests, donating if you have the means to or even just have a conversation. It is a marathon, not a sprint."

I agree, this fight has been going on far too long. The Democratic left will never relieve themselves of the guilt they acquired in supporting slavery and racism for so long in the past, and still maintain in perpetuating it through their continued policies today. Which policies presume that all people of color are continually at a disadvantage to others, which others would of course then be white people, which of course translates into white people must continuously aid people of color because everyone knows people of color are not as capable as white people. Which of course is racism 101 itself. Go figure.

No, joining a marxist organization intent upon taring down a freedom and liberty loving nation and people in submission to unelected elitist controlled government, whom all are dependent upon, is not the right side of history. It is a call back to the dark side of history, as all non revisionist accounts of history clearly reveal. This article is trash, and is part of a movement to trash the righteous principles this once great nation was built upon, and hurl humanity back into the dark ages.

The Declaration of Independence

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

]Get a grip BLM, the above is not an evil statement with corrupt designs. State and prove your case of systematic abuse and or racism, and the guiding principles of this nation stated above will help you prevail if they be true. Americans will bleed and die if necessary to defend the above righteous principles, as they already have many times over. Leave your marxism and attempts to force matters of personal choice or identification such as homosexuality, transgenderism, feminism, effeminatism, and the destruction of the family unit in the trash can where it belongs. Choose these things if you will, no one is stopping you. Do not presume to force me or anyone else though, to respect or support these personal decisions. Such would represent the very tyranny you falsely claim to war against, and would be in direct contradiction to the righteous founding principles of our government and nation.

Go too, regroup with your Jesuit Pope and army, so you may attack what you truly hate once again. Understand this well though, if or when you ever succeed, they will turn upon you as well. You are just a temporary tool in their hands, to be discarded when you have served your purpose like all the rest. In the end of their design, all will submit to their master. At that time, you will wish for the freedoms and liberties you once had in this nation, once again. It will be to late then though, when their goal is finally realized, the end of all earthly rule will come. So be it. Come Lord Jesus.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NN8GpVBXCk

The  above video by Glenn Beck addresses connections between radical Islam and BLM. As I have already directly connected Roman Catholicism with BLM as well on this thread, is there a connection between Catholicism and Islam that would suggest they would work together to overthrow our nation from within? Though I have already addressed the developing alliance between the two on these threads and this one no doubt, a refresher concerning the same seems appropriate at this time. As apparently their political goals merge in the marxist agenda of BLM.

https://www.sgtreport.com/2019/02/the-pope-and-islams-most-important-imam-just-signed-a-covenant-that-pushes-us-much-closer-to-a-one-world-religion/

The Pope And Islam's Most Important Imam Just Signed A Covenant That Pushes Us Much Closer To A One World Religion

https://newspunch.com/pope-francis-islam-christianity-equal/

Pope Francis Claims Islam And Christianity Are Equal In The Eyes of God

https://grandmageri422.me/2019/02/11/the-chrislam-pope-our-world-is-being-set-up-for-the-one-world-religion/

The "CHRISLAM" Pope: Our World is Being Set Up for the ONE WORLD RELIGION

As the above links clearly point out, the Pope of Rome has added Islam to the never ending growing number of religious, philosophical, political, scientific, corporate, and grassroots organizations alliances she is ever forming. Through whom which, she carries out her global elitist agenda bent upon changing, manipulating, or trashing all who stand in opposition to the same deliberately or otherwise. This in either planning organizing and executing divisive and or detrimental policies or events within such institutions, religions, or governments which stand in her way, or simply supporting such from others which accomplish the same though they be separate from her. All is manipulated toward the realization of her own ends.

2Th 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Those who have rejected the truth of God's word today, make themselves their own gods in the establishment of their false religions, wild "scientific" speculations, secular humanism, and or ungodly grass roots organizations, governments, political systems, and ideologies. All such are being called to a settled form of unity in defiance against the truths of God's word by the original man of sin whose ranks began falling away from the truth even in the Apostle Paul's day as testified in the above scriptures by him.

Excerpts from
ENCYCLICAL LETTER
CARITAS IN VERITATE
OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF
BENEDICT XVI
TO THE BISHOPS
PRIESTS AND DEACONS
MEN AND WOMEN RELIGIOUS
THE LAY FAITHFUL
AND ALL PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL
ON INTEGRAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
IN CHARITY AND TRUTH

Emphasis is mine, my comments in blue.

7. Another important consideration is the common good. To love someone is to desire that person's good and to take effective steps to secure it. Besides the good of the individual, there is a good that is linked to living in society: the common good. It is the good of "all of us", made up of individuals, families and intermediate groups who together constitute society[4]. It is a good that is sought not for its own sake, but for the people who belong to the social community and who can only really and effectively pursue their good within it. To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity. To take a stand for the common good is on the one hand to be solicitous for, and on the other hand to avail oneself of, that complex of institutions that give structure to the life of society, juridically, civilly, politically and culturally, making it the pólis, or "city"[/u]. The more we strive to secure a common good corresponding to the real needs of our neighbours, the more effectively we love them. Every Christian is called to practise this charity, in a manner corresponding to his vocation and according to the degree of influence he wields in the pólis. This is the institutional path — we might also call it the political path — of charity, no less excellent and effective than the kind of charity which encounters the neighbour directly, outside the institutional mediation of the pólis. When animated by charity, commitment to the common good has greater worth than a merely secular and political stand would have. Like all commitment to justice, it has a place within the testimony of divine charity that paves the way for eternity through temporal action. Man's earthly activity, when inspired and sustained by charity, contributes to the building of the universal city of God, which is the goal of the history of the human family. In an increasingly globalized society, the common good and the effort to obtain it cannot fail to assume the dimensions of the whole human family, that is to say, the community of peoples and nations[5], in such a way as to shape the earthly city in unity and peace, rendering it to some degree an anticipation and a prefiguration of the undivided city of God...................................

Now that a further twenty years have passed, I express my conviction that Populorum Progressio deserves to be considered "the Rerum Novarum of the present age", shedding light upon humanity's journey towards unity............................

13. In addition to its important link with the entirety of the Church's social doctrine, Populorum Progressio is closely connected to the overall magisterium of Paul VI, especially his social magisterium. His was certainly a social teaching of great importance: he underlined the indispensable importance of the Gospel for building a society according to freedom and justice, in the ideal and historical perspective of a civilization animated by love. Paul VI clearly understood that the social question had become worldwide [25] and he grasped the interconnection between the impetus towards the unification of humanity and the Christian ideal of a single family of peoples in solidarity and fraternity. In the notion of development, understood in human and Christian terms, he identified the heart of the Christian social message, and he proposed Christian charity as the principal force at the service of development..........................

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[44], but only on Christ, to whom every authentic vocation to integral human development must be directed. The Gospel is fundamental for development, because in the Gospel, Christ, "in the very revelation of the mystery of the Father and of his love, fully reveals humanity to itself"[45]. Taught by her Lord, the Church examines the signs of the times and interprets them, offering the world "what she possesses as her characteristic attribute: a global vision of man and of the human race"[46]. Precisely because God gives a resounding "yes" to man[47], man cannot fail to open himself to the divine vocation to pursue his own development. The truth of development consists in its completeness: if it does not involve the whole man and every man, it is not true development. This is the central message of Populorum Progressio, valid for today and for all time. Integral human development on the natural plane, as a response to a vocation from God the Creator[48], demands self-fulfilment in a "transcendent humanism which gives [to man] his greatest possible perfection: this is the highest goal of personal development"[49]. The Christian vocation to this development therefore applies to both the natural plane and the supernatural plane; which is why, "when God is eclipsed, our ability to recognize the natural order, purpose and the 'good' begins to wane"[50].

Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good report. 3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. 4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. 5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. 7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. 9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: 10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.


The man of sin ruling over that city he ever seeks to create and establish, BABYLON THE GREAT, calls for the unification of all this worlds religions, philosophical, "scientific", and political ideologies of all peoples and nations as the representation of his counterfeit city of God in rebellion against Him. The final strokes of this global deception will be direct warfare against all peoples who will stand firmly upon the word of God, and seek a city and country built by God Himself, not this antichrist man of sin presuming to build that city through the establishment and unification of fallen humanity in direct defiance of the teachings of God's word. Babyl-on Babylon. Tidings from the east and north will continue to greatly disturb you, and the moment you actually realize and accomplish your goal, it will end along with all other earthly authority. Then the real city of God will descend and be established forever.

Rev 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. 5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. 6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. 7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Babylon's counterfeit city of god will be filled with the fearful, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, whoremongers, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars of this world. God's true city which the faithful wait for by faith according to God's word, will have none of the same. Fallen humanities attempt to create the city of God in contradiction to the teachings of His word, will only bring untold suffering and misery upon humanity and ultimately utterly fail in ruin at the literal presence of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ at His second coming. Come out of her my people, and Come Lord Jesus.

Rev 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. 3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: 5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH...........................
15  And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.........................................
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

Rev 18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. 4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. 6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. 7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. 8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. 9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, 10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. 11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: 12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, 13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. 14 And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all. 15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, 16 And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! 17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, 18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! 19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate. 20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. 21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. 22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; 23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. 24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2kJf5iB-qQ

The above video from Church Militant, a Roman Catholic conservative institution, rightly identifies the threat of liberal Catholicism to the founding principles of our nation. While at the same time presenting Roman Catholic revisionist history actually suggesting that liberal Protestantism brought homosexuality and the rampant liberalism now present in the Catholic church into it, rather than the other way around. Worse yet it actually suggests that the Catholic church was and is responsible for western society including the founding principles of this predominantly Protestant founded nation. Many of the settlers whom were fleeing Roman Catholic persecution in predominantly Catholic countries, and even Protestant professing countries which still combined church and state according to this Roman Catholic necessity which they had not yet abandoned. The Catholic church had very little to do with setting up the founding principles of this nation, and very few Catholic citizens early on, and even fewer Catholic politicians. The large number of Catholics in this country to date is the result of several mass migrations of them into it throughout our past and continuing to the present from the predominantly failing Catholic nations to our south. It is not the result of conversions.

Many of these Catholics have been used by their church to undermine the founding principles this nation was built upon throughout our history, and continue to do so today with greater success than ever through the ever increasing number of Catholic politicians inhabiting our government and legislative halls while being heavily influenced by the present globalist Vatican lefty progressive leadership. As is obvious, conservative professing Catholics are just as ready to push misdirection and misinformation through false narratives of revisionist history as their liberal counterparts. Their end game is the same, subjugation of this and every other nation to the See of Rome.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGkb2TORGa4

The above video from Church Militant is proof positive of my suggestions in my previous post. It is a call for President Trump to convert to Catholicism as a bolster to defeat liberal Catholic controlled Joe Biden. In which case of course the President of these United States would most certainly be a Catholic regardless of who wins. Basically giving over all three branches of our government to major Vatican influence, which were created to maintain a balance of power. Comparing Trump to Constantine with more revisionist history invoked, claiming Constantine paved the way for Christianity to be delivered from persecution and establish Christianity as the religion of the land and western civilization. Trump is supposed to do the same in warring against the lefty progressive Catholics, Democrats, and globalists.

While there is a real need to war against such, and Constantine's victory did lead to short lived temporary relief from persecution for Christians, his success ultimately lead in the very opposite direction. It was the beginning of the development and exaltation of the Roman Catholic church above all other Christian entities or otherwise. Which eventually lead to the destruction of much of the ancient worlds recorded historical accounts and writings, including the destruction of many temples, statues, and ancient art works which Catholics found offensive. Does this sound familiar. It also ended in banning all Christian faiths save Roman Catholicism, bringing on the dark ages when the state persecuted, imprisoned, tortured, killed, and or burned at the stake all who would not bow to the Roman Catholic faith. That is to say, what we now know as the dark ages. The two class society of elitist royalty and clergy upon the backs of the peasants and laity. The very direction the Vatican and her globalist minions are leading the world toward right now.

The goal and aim of the Catholic right or left will bring us down this same road to to Roman subjugation. As will the unchecked aspirations of the right or left, conservatives or liberals, Democrats or Republicans being manipulated according to the Hegelian Dialectic. The two opposing parties mindset must be dissolved if we are to avoid or at least fend off the present condition of manipulation being imposed. The gospel of Jesus Christ, and self government according to the high moral standards of scripture alone, can lead away from the trap of ever increasingly intrusive and abusive government. As envisioned by our founding fathers who sought to successfully establish government for the people, by the people. Freedom in Christ Jesus alone, is true self governing freedom, which has no need of the restrictive intrusions of fallen humanities constantly failing governments because they abandon the same.

Joh 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 33 They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? 34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. 35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. 36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

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https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/ncr-connections/aoc-future-catholic-church

Quoted article below from link above. Emphasis is mine. My comments in blue.

AOC is the future of the Catholic Church

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's stunning speech on the House floor last week has been called "a comeback for the ages," "the most important feminist speech in a generation" and "a lesson in sexism and decency."

I just call it "truth."

Responding to an incident on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in which Rep. Ted Yoho of Florida verbally assaulted her — including calling her a "f---ing bitch" — Ocasio-Cortez noted that "this is not new, and that is the problem."

"This issue is not about one incident," she said. "It is cultural. It is a culture of lack of impunity, of accepting of violence and violent language against women, and an entire structure of power that supports that."

As I listened to her 10-minute address on the House floor, I was struck by how often it referenced Catholic values.

Ocasio-Cortez repeatedly railed against the "dehumanizing" of others and instead called for treating people with dignity and respect. These are themes often repeated by Pope Francis, who has  specifically cautioned about gossip and urged the use of respectful language, saying "it is possible to kill someone with the tongue."

The Democratic congresswoman who represents New York's 14th District also universalized the need to treat all people with dignity and respect, noting that Yoho's behavior gave "permission to other men to do that to his daughters."

"I'm here to say that is not acceptable," she said.

Ocasio-Cortez was unimpressed by Yoho's so-called apology on the House floor the day before, in which he insisted he did not use the sexist slur (despite a reporter witnessing it) and said, "I cannot apologize for my passion or for loving my God, my family and my country."

Instead, the congresswoman gave what sounded like a pretty good description of what goes on in the Sacrament of Reconciliation: "When a decent man messes up, as we all are bound to do, he tries his best and does apologize. Not to save face, not to win a vote, he apologizes genuinely to repair and acknowledge the harm done so that we can all move on."

Perhaps such Catholic references are not surprising, since the rock-star millennial leader of the left grew up Catholic and even wrote about how her faith influences her views on public policies such as mass incarceration, for a Catholic magazine.

But there is another Catholic character in this drama: Republican Rep. Yoho, who describes himself as "pro-life" and has received an "A" rating from the anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List, which notes that he "has voted consistently to protect the lives of the unborn" and "defended the Trump administration's pro-life regulatory efforts from pro-abortion attacks to prohibit their implementation." He also has received an "A" rating from the National Rifle Association.

Yoho voted for Trump's tax cuts in 2017 and this year was one of four lawmakers to vote against a bill to make lynching a federal hate crime.

Ocasio-Cortez, as a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, promotes a much more progressive platform; her first piece of legislation was the Green New Deal, which addressed economic disparity and climate change.

Yoho, 65, will retire in January, after announcing he is not seeking a fifth term. Ocasio-Cortez is 30 ("two years younger than Mr. Yoho's youngest daughter," she pointed out in her speech).

As a young Latina, Ocasio-Cortez represents the demographic future of the Catholic Church.

But — if there is to be a future for the Catholic Church in the United States — it must also resemble Ocasio-Cortez in her passion for justice and human dignity, and in her courage and integrity, even in the face of vulgar attacks.

So, a professed socialist is the future of the Catholic Church in the United States. Seems about right with the Commie Jesuit Pope now running the Church. No hiding this agenda. Nothing to see here, move along. AOC would never of course personally insult anyone, would she?

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/brandon-judd-ocasio-cortezs-attacks-on-border-patrol-are-outrageous-and-based-on-lies

Quote below from link above.

Brandon Judd: Ocasio-Cortez's attacks on Border Patrol are outrageous and based on lies

As the president of the National Border Patrol Council, the union representing 16,000 Border Patrol agents, I am personally and professionally offended by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's outrageous, inflammatory and false claims about the dedicated law enforcement officers I represent.

Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., once again tweeted Tuesday to describe our detention facilities for illegal immigrants as "concentration camps" – absurdly comparing these facilities to the death camps run by the Nazis who murdered 6 million Jews and millions of others during World War II.

This is a horrible insult to the memories of the innocent men, women and children slaughtered by the Nazis, and to our Border Patrol agents – implying that our agents are no different from the Nazi butchers. The outrageousness of this vicious slander is breathtaking – especially coming from a member of Congress................................

No big deal, she just basically called thousands of people a bunch of Nazi's. No apology necessary from this poor innocent abused female politician.

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/03/22/aoc-goes-off-on-fox-news-for-disrespecting-her-then-calls-trump-a-disgusting-roundworm-on-late-night-tv-735825

AOC goes off on Fox News for disrespecting her, then calls Trump a disgusting roundworm on late night tv

Socialist congresswoman and unofficial April fool Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appears to be engaging in hypocrisy again, as evidenced by the unflattering remarks she made Thursday evening on late night TV about President Donald Trump.

During an appearance on "Late Night with Seth Meyers," she described the president as a nematode, a nasty type of roundworm known to infect humans, animals and plants, depending on the specific species....................

No big deal, she just called the President of the US an infectious worm, no disrespect intended of course. No apology needed from this poor innocent abused female politician.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/aoc-calls-trump-a-monster-over-his-warning-to-iran-to-not-attack-u-s-falsely-accuses-president-of-threatening-to-kill-women-and-children/

AOC Calls Trump a "Monster" Over His Warning to Iran to Not Attack U.S.; Falsely Accuses President of Threatening to Kill Women and Children

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called President Trump a "monster" Saturday night over his warning to Iran not to attack the United States. Ocasio-Cortez also falsely claimed that Trump threatened to kill "innocent families, women and children."......................................

No big deal, she just called the President of the US a woman and children killing monster. No apology needed from this poor innocent abused female politician.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/08/15/aoc-trump-supporters-not-educated-enough-to-recognize-their-own-racism/

AOC: Trump Supporters Not Educated Enough to Recognize Their Own Racism

This week on Crooked Media's "Pod Save America," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said many of President Donald Trump's supporters were not educated enough on racism to understand the policies they support are racist...............................

She added, "So there are a lot of people that support Trump that genuinely don't believe that they are racist because we do not talk about or educate people on recognizing racism. And because we do not do that we get caught in this debate of is something racist. Then people use their defensiveness, and they say, 'Well, it's not racist because I'm not racist and I believe this thing because it's economic in nature.'"

Silly people, they think they know better than AOC if they are racist or not. How uneducated they are.

https://theblacksphere.net/2019/12/aocs-latest-insult-america-is-fascist/

AOC's Latest Insult: America is Fascist

While a crowd gathered at a Bernie Sanders rally, AOC took the stage to degrade America again.

This time, she said we haven't formed an advanced society. Instead, we live in a nation of fascism.

No big deal, we're all just a bunch of fascists. Move along, nothing to see here.

[Cobalt1959]

This is what amazes me:  On this child board, we see thread after thread and post after post decrying the problems with Catholic doctrine.  SDA's running after Catholicism with torches and pitchforks.  No argument from this corner that Catholic doctrine is all messed up, and is completely at odds with true Apostolic, and Biblical doctrine.  But here is the caveat:

This is filled with irony since SDA doctrine is just as badly flawed as Catholic doctrine.  Let's look at some of the parallels:

Both doctrines teach a works-based salvation?  Check.

Both doctrines have a special prophet/figurehead whom they worship equally or above God?  Check.

Both doctrines claim they are the only one, true way to salvation and anyone who doesn't join their clic is lost?  Check.

Both doctrines tell everyone they will go to Hell if they don't join up?  Check.

Amo, you are stuck in a closed loop.  You proliferate the board with nothing but crap about how everyone else's back yard is messed up, but you have no wish to clean up the junk in your own back yard.  Your SDA doctrine is a Biblical Dead End.  For you, and every single person proliferating it.  There are plenty of people on here who keep trying to hand you the key to turn so you can let yourself out of the jail cell you've placed yourself in, but you aren't having any of it. 

Jesus tells us His yolk is easy and His burden is light. 

You tell us His yolk is difficult and His burden is heavy.

Which one of you is right?

Jesus?

Or you?

[Amo]

This is what amazes me:  On this child board, we see thread after thread and post after post decrying the problems with Catholic doctrine.  SDA's running after Catholicism with torches and pitchforks.  No argument from this corner that Catholic doctrine is all messed up, and is completely at odds with true Apostolic, and Biblical doctrine.  But here is the caveat:

This is filled with irony since SDA doctrine is just as badly flawed as Catholic doctrine.  Let's look at some of the parallels:

Both doctrines teach a works-based salvation?  Check.

Both doctrines have a special prophet/figurehead whom they worship equally or above God?  Check.

Both doctrines claim they are the only one, true way to salvation and anyone who doesn't join their clic is lost?  Check.

Both doctrines tell everyone they will go to Hell if they don't join up?  Check.

Amo, you are stuck in a closed loop.  You proliferate the board with nothing but crap about how everyone else's back yard is messed up, but you have no wish to clean up the junk in your own back yard.  Your SDA doctrine is a Biblical Dead End.  For you, and every single person proliferating it.  There are plenty of people on here who keep trying to hand you the key to turn so you can let yourself out of the jail cell you've placed yourself in, but you aren't having any of it. 

Jesus tells us His yolk is easy and His burden is light. 

You tell us His yolk is difficult and His burden is heavy.

Which one of you is right?

Jesus?

Or you?

A lot of personal opinion and crap above. This thread is about Roman Politics, and filled with articles addressing the same from almost exclusively non SDA sources. Stick you head back in the sand bro, it's all good. Jesus yoke is easy and light, don't worry be happy, there is not evil, no biblical prophecy predicting evil entities, and nothing to warn anyone about. Apart from us big bad SDA's of course.

Just a few scriptures you might want to consider.

Mat 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. 35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. 36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. 37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. 39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

Joh 15:18  If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. 20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

Mat 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. 9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. 10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Jesus Christ is not your personal ticket to easy street and get to heaven free card. Yet He does promise that we may have peace in Him through any and all storms. His yoke is easy and His burden is light because it is His, not ours. We may find rest in Christ, but not in this world. To the contrary, even as our Lord has pointed out in the above verses, all in Christ will be given trouble by this world.

Mat 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Personal insults and accusations are just that. I care nothing for your opinions. If you wish to prove something from scripture, please do. Apart from this, rave on with your trifles, I care nothing for them. Stay on topic though, or I will not respond. Your are of course free to start whatever topic you wish, or address the others already on these boards.

[Amo]

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/02/alexandria_ocasiocortez__reconquistador.html

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: 'Reconquistador!'

By Jonathon Moseley

Last week's most overlooked news was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealing herself as a champion of the "Reconquista" war against Europeans.  The Mexican Reconquista movement is an openly admitted effort by Hispanic activists to take "back" California (Southern especially), New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas through immigration and activism.  This is one of several driving forces behind allowing illegal immigration.

Ocasio-Cortez (D-Venezuela) dominated news on February 7 appearing at a rally to abolish or defund the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.  The same day, Ocasio-Cortez joined other liberal Members of Congress in unveiling her "Green New Deal" (green evidently referring to envy, not the environment).

Almost lost amidst this furor were Ocasio-Cortez's comments that immigration laws should not apply to indigenous people:  As reported in the UK's Daily Mail -- with full video shown:

But she vowed Thursday to defund ICE completely and claimed Latinos should be exempt from criminal proceedings and immigration laws because they are descended from Mesoamerican cultures that preceded the United States.

'We are standing on native land,' she claimed, speaking just outside the U.S. Capitol.  'And Latino people are descendants of native people. And we cannot be told, and criminalized, simply because for our identity or our status. Period." [emphasis added]

Massive protests demanding amnesty swept the country in 2006 and 2007:  "This is unjust. This land used to belong to us and now they're trying to kick us out," complained Sandra Molina, a junior from a Los Angeles Magnet High School.  Joel Rubin and Cynthia H. Cho, "High School Students Extend Immigration Protests Into 4th Day, Los Angeles Times, March 27, 2006.

This is a longstanding, persistent effort to seize the Southwestern and Western United States and Texas.  However, this threat to the U.S.A. "must not be named" in polite establishment political company.  This truth is treated as a conspiracy theory.  The Washington Times reported as far back as 2006 in Mexican Aliens Seek to Retake 'Stolen' Land:

"La reconquista, a radical movement calling for Mexico to "reconquer" America's Southwest, has stepped out of the shadows at recent immigration-reform protests nationwide as marchers held signs saying, "Uncle Sam Stole Our Land!" and waved Mexico's flag.

Even as organizers urged marchers to display U.S. flags, the theme of reclaiming "stolen" land remained strong. One popular banner read: "If you think I'm illegal because I'm a Mexican, learn the true history because I'm in my homeland."

"We need to change direction," said Jose Lugo, an instructor in Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder at a campus march last week. "And by allowing these 50,000, 50 million [immigrants] to come in here, we can do that.""

During 2018, many remarked that caravans of invaders were carrying the flags of the nations they were supposedly "fleeing" instead of the flag of the U.S.A. where they sought refuge.  Trespassers were very interested in celebrating the countries they came from but contemptuous of the U.S.A. they wanted to occupy.  For at least two decades, open borders advocates have marched with the flags of Mexico and Central American countries.  They burned the U.S. flag.

The Washington Examiner also reported in 2006:

Hundreds of thousands of people have marched in Phoenix, Los Angeles, Denver and other U.S. cities since late March to protest a proposed federal crackdown on illegal immigration, and often the crowds have waved flags of Mexico, Guatemala and other countries.

And The Examiner further explained:

The first thing to understand about Reconquista is that while it is perhaps not the official policy of Mexico, it might as well be. Current and former top Mexican government officials and advisers, for example, routinely co-host with leaders of U.S. groups like the National Council of La Raza, the League of United Latin American Citizens and the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce seminars of the Foundation for Solidarity of Mexico and America, according to Hector Carreon of the Aztlan Communications Network.

The basic aim of FSMA, which is a key convergence point of open-borders advocacy in both countries, is uninterrupted immigration from Mexico to the U.S.

Hispanic rights activists postulate a land called Aztlan, originally extending up to the State of Oregon, all of Texas, and the Western third of the U.S.A.  They want to seize the Southwest of the United States and Texas and (re)create a new, independent nation.  They envision that they are taking "back" this land.

And this is a persistent, long-running campaign:  VDARE links to many original sources in its report on the "Plan of San Diego" to give a detailed analysis from newspaper reports of the period, including:  "In January 1915, authorities arrested a man near the border who carried a copy of a revolutionary manifesto. It called for a Tejano armed uprising to reclaim much of the Southwest for Mexico. It also called for Anglo males over age 16 to be killed."  And:  "The second half of 1915 and first half of 1916 witnessed 30 terrorist invasions of Texas sponsored by the government of Mexico..."

Some of the more explicit groups are La Raza Unida, the Brown Berets, the Nation of Aztlán, and the university student group MEChA.  Since they lack the military power to accomplish this, they champion illegal immigration as a way of occupying the land of Aztlan, converting it to their culture, and eventually pushing for independence.

In reality, of course, these populations do not speak Mayan or Aztec or any Native American languages.  They speak Spanish.  Their names are Spanish.  Their cultural features are Spanish.  The Conquistadors -- the Spaniards from Europe -- conquered and occupied South America, Central America, and the islands of the Caribbean basin.  But they claim the United States as well.

There can be little doubt that Ocasio-Cortez lacks the education and analytical ability to comprehend any of this, but she has joined this movement with both feet.  Sandy is not a victim of oppression.  Sandy is a victim of the educational malpractice of the left, who have severely harmed millions of her peer group.

[Amo]

https://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/are-the-holy-see-and-the-united-nations-too-close-for-comfort

Quoted article below from link above. Emphasis is mine.

Are the Holy See and the United Nations Too Close for Comfort?

NEWS ANALYSIS: The relationship has come under closer scrutiny of late.

Edward Pentin

VATICAN CITY —  When Pope Francis received in private audience United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in December, the U.N. chief trumpeted the fact that the Holy See's concerns "coincide with the core values" of the United Nations Charter.

These values consisted of reaffirming the "dignity and worth of the human person," Guterres said in a statement, especially with regards to protecting the planet.

The Holy See's communiqué was similar, focusing on peace, the U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), climate change and migration. Neither statement mentioned the unborn, despite the SDGs (17 points for a sustainable future specifying 169 targets to be reached by 2030) and U.N. institutions as a whole fervently promoting abortion and contraception. The omission was just one example of the ever closer alliance between the U.N. and the Holy See that critics say is growing at the expense of any mention of the Church's nonnegotiable teaching.

Most recently, the Vatican has offered largely uncritical support of the SDGs and hosted its proponents, embarked on regular collaboration with population-control advocates and U.N.-affiliated organizations notorious for promoting abortion and gender ideology, and promoted "human fraternity," a U.N.-backed concept that some see as a push toward a one-world religion.

On Feb. 5, the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences will be hosting a conference on "fraternal inclusion" whose keynote speaker will be Jeffrey Sachs, the SDGs' chief architect and population-control advocate who advised Pope Francis on his 2015 environment encyclical, Laudato Si (Care for Our Common Home). A very regular fixture at the Vatican for the past six years, Sachs is praised there for his vision of a sustainable future while his views on contraception and previous alliance with the radical billionaire abortion promoter George Soros are cast to one side.

The Vatican also appears to be drawing closer to another U.N.-allied non-governmental organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which radically advocates contraception in developing countries and which works closely with Sachs. In November, Pope Francis received Melinda Gates in an unpublicized private audience, sources have told the Register. Vatican communications officials and the Gates Foundation declined to confirm or deny whether such a meeting took place.

Cardinal Müller's Concerns

In short, although Pope Francis' general view of the U.N. is that it is a "much-needed ... global forum for facing global problems," these collaborations have led to growing criticism that the Holy See's seeming prioritization of the U.N.'s agenda over nonnegotiable moral issues represents a breach in the Church's doctrine.

It is "always good" for the Church to cooperate with national and international institutions to pursue "peace, social justice and international understanding" and to fight against "the evils of humanity," said Cardinal Gerhard Müller, former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. "But, unfortunately, many of the goals of supranational organizations are formulated in opposition to human dignity."

He told the Register Jan. 29 he was particularly opposed to inviting "promoters of abortion in the form of population control to papal or episcopal commissions," as it represents a "grave offense against the Gospel and a denial of Christ." And yet Vatican officials see the Holy See's current relationship with the U.N. as a worthy advance and an important collaboration and regard the accusation that the Holy See is becoming too involved with the U.N. while ignoring preeminent moral issues as a misunderstanding of the situation.

One source working for the Holy See in relations with the U.N. system and speaking on condition of anonymity told the Register that the Holy See engages with "fierce fidelity" to the Church's teaching.

"We fight to the end to get as much good as we can," the source explained, adding that objections are always "clearly articulated."

Bishop Sanchez

U.N.-championed causes such as the environment, poverty and combating human trafficking are all issues "inspired by the magisterium of the popes," said Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, in Jan. 14 comments to the Register.

The U.N. "follows the magisterium of the popes on these issues," including the issue of climate change and "not vice versa," he said.

Bishop Sanchez, whose academy has been at the forefront of collaborating closely on these issues with the U.N. and its affiliates such as Sachs, said he did not know if the Vatican has closer collaboration with the U.N. than in the past. But he recalled how he helped insert a condemnation of modern slavery into the SDGs and said that "references to the pope have increased" under the last two U.N. secretary-generals, Ban Ki-moon and Antonio Guterres. Both took leading roles in battling "climate change and modern slavery," as outlined in Francis' encyclical Laudato Si, he said.

Since 1964, the Holy See has been a permanent observer to the U.N., allowing it to play a participatory though non-voting role in the workings of the international body and assign nuncios to the U.N. in both New York and Geneva. Its main motivation is to collaborate for the common good where possible, and popes dating back to St. Paul VI have often spoken appreciatively of the institution.Holy See officials and Church observers insist the Church has never espoused the U.N.'s ideology, but instead taken a two-pronged approach: positively proposing different visions and alternatives rooted in the natural law and revelation and combating ethical and political distortions through its permanent observers and officials.

The Holy See also declines to work with U.N. agencies when their agendas contradict Church teaching in significant ways, and therefore it refuses to work with agencies such as the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) or U.N. Women because of their promotion of abortion and contraception. It has also generally declined to participate with UNICEF because of its recent support for "comprehensive sexual education."

But in recent comments to the Register, Austin Ruse, the president of the Center for Family and Human Rights, which monitors social-policy debate at the U.N., warned that the Holy See should be aware that most U.N. organs are "very much against the Church."

Abortion, sexual orientation and gender ideology are the "No. 1 issues pushed by the U.N. bureaucracy," he added, and so the Vatican needs to understand that "any collaboration on other issues must include understanding the teachings of the Church on these fundamental issues."
The Holy See source insisted that current collaboration "is not naïve" and praised the fact that Pope Francis' clear support for the U.N. has "definitely led to increased conversation and coordination."

Recent Collaborations

Examples of recent extensive collaboration the source highlighted have included work on the Global Compact for Migration — a 2018 multilateral U.N. agreement to foster safe, orderly migration; the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change; and grassroots collaboration between Caritas Internationalis and the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the U.N. Development Program. For its part, the U.N. sees the Holy See and the Pope as a vital and useful tool toward accomplishing its multilateral aims, the SDGs in particular. "We need [the Pope's] moral voice more than ever," said Guterres after his recent meeting with Francis.

The U.N. also favors the Catholic Church's "essential networks," said the Holy See source working with the U.N. system, who pointed to the "increased collaboration" of Bishop Sanchez's pontifical academy, which has a long history of drawing on the knowledge of non-Catholic experts.

"Much of the confusion comes from those who don't know what really happens in the negotiation rooms and erroneously think that, if the Holy See in general supports something like the 2030 agenda, it must therefore support all 169 targets," the source said.

But while that may be the case, professor Stefano Fontana, director of the Cardinal Van Thuan International Observatory on the Social Doctrine of the Church, sees instead a subtle and general surrender to the U.N. mindset. In Jan. 19 comments to the Register, Fontana said that compared to when Cardinal Renato Martino was the Holy See's permanent observer to the U.N. (1986-2002), when a deliberate effort was made not to use the words "reproductive health" (a term interpreted by U.N. agencies to include abortion and contraception), today "the Holy See uses these expressions."

Fontana sees this and the Holy See's increasingly unreserved collaboration with the U.N. as adapting the Catholic faith "to the logic of the world" and to today's U.N.-promoted "secular religion," which he describes as a "multireligious society, ecological religion and planned migration." Issues of the natural moral law such as abortion are no longer considered "of primary importance," he said.

The change is a consequence, Fontana believes, of the Church today insisting on collaborating with everyone on the grounds that "the truth is born of dialogue and confrontation" — witnessed by the frequent appearances of Sachs and others at the Vatican.

'Human Fraternity' Initiative

A further contentious development seen by some as indicative of the U.N. and secular influence on the Holy See has been the push toward a U.N.-organized "World Day of Human Fraternity," which grew out of the Document on Human Fraternity signed in Abu Dhabi last February by Pope Francis and Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand imam of Al-Azhar University.

Holy See officials argue that this does not represent a danger of syncretism but is rather consistent with decades of interreligious dialogue dating back to the Second Vatican Council declaration on the relationship of the Church to non-Christian religions, Nostra Aetate. They also say the contentious phrasing in the Abu Dhabi document, that the "plurality and diversity of religions" is "willed by God," needs to be interpreted as God having "permissively willed" all religions rather than directly willed them.

A similar approach is also seen in two forthcoming events: an international meeting in March called the "Economy of Francesco" in Assisi that will draw together people of different faiths, "inspired by an ideal of fraternity" and a chance to "dream of a new humanism"; and a Vatican-hosted event in support of a Global Alliance on Education, attended by interreligious and secular representatives that aims to overcome "division and antagonism" and promote a "more fraternal humanity."

Both manifest a U.N.-backed agenda that Bishop Athanasius Schneider, a strong critic of the institution's anti-life positions, says involves a "relativization of morality and the moral law" and the pursuit of a "political agenda" in the form of a "one-world education," gender ideology and a "new climate religion." And the Holy See's involvement has reached such a level, the auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, believes, that the Holy See has effectively placed itself under the authority of the U.N., becoming what he called in his recent book Christus Vincit a "daughter house" of the multilateral institution.

"You cannot any more distinguish the language of Holy See from the U.N.," Bishop Schneider told the Register. "There is no more true Catholic identity of the Gospel with the face of the apostles."

Fontana views the adoption of such language and the philosophy behind it as a "flattening of ideas" that removes "metaphysical structure" and "doctrinal absoluteness." "The change is remarkable," he observed, adding that to believe religions can converge into "certain humanistic objectives leaving aside their respective theologies" is "impossible and dangerous."

75th Anniversary

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, a time when the Holy See is expected to extoll the institution. "We work gladly with this institution, trying to bring a contribution for the good of the world," Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, the Holy See's new permanent observer to the U.N., said Jan. 28.

But just as such words of praise are expected to increase, so are those of critics who warn that ever closer alignment with the U.N. agenda is "secularizing" the Catholic faith, in Fontana's words, and leading it toward globalist ends that are anything but Catholic.

Edward Pentin is the Register's Rome correspondent.

To the contrary of the concerns of the writers and some of the contributors to the above article, the Pope and the Vatican know exactly what they are doing. They are entering into a political relationship with this globalist institution as they do with all others, for the purpose of controlling and manipulating the same. Their ideas and agendas are sounding more and more alike because of the increasing influence the Vatican has had upon the UN since 1962. It is the same with all political and even non political institutions  which enter into relations with the See of Rome or BAYLON THE GREAT, they are intoxicated with her wine, then manipulated unto her own designs from within. This includes all nations especially the US over the last several decades, Corporations of communication especially the internet, entertainment, sports and you name it. The leaders and backers of all of these institutions have been meeting with the papacy for years now, and look at the direction they are all heading. As usual though, everyone just sits around and scratches there heads wondering, where did all this crap come from. So be it. This world will succumb to strong delusion because they have chosen lies over the truth.

[Amo]

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=church+and+state+in+Poland&&view=detail&mid=46FD3FA302EC60AF172646FD3FA302EC60AF1726&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dchurch%2Band%2Bstate%2Bin%2BPoland%26FORM%3DHDRSC3

A good video revealing the politics of Rome in adapting to the left or right as necessary to remain in power. Siding with which ever one is predominant in society, if not directly involved in manipulating the same. All freedom and liberty are threatened by her establishment through the left or right. She is ready to defend either if or when they seize power, not to mention help create the chaos necessary to radical change favoring her own situation.

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https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/violence-erupts-as-more-catholic-funded-groups-call-for-defunding-of-police

VIOLENCE ERUPTS AS CATHOLIC-FUNDED GROUPS CALL FOR POLICE DEFUNDING

Tax payers the world over fund the Catholic Church, then it turns around and funds these groups to mention just a few.

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https://www.ncronline.org/news/earthbeat/theologian-praises-irelands-green-new-deal-questions-will-it-happen

Quoted article below from link above. Emphasis is mine, my comments in blue.

Theologian praises Ireland's green new deal but questions: Will it happen?
Fr. Dermot Lane says bishops must provide environmental leadership — in both Ireland and the US
Jul 24, 2020
by Sarah Mac Donald Leaders


DUBLIN — Irish theologian Fr. Dermot Lane, author of a new book on integral ecology, welcomes the environmental policies outlined by the newly formed Irish government. But he questions whether the coalition will be able to deliver on its "ambitious targets."

Lane is the retired president of Mater Dei Institute of Education at Dublin City University. His new book, Theology and Ecology in Dialogue: The Wisdom of Laudato Si', is set to be published in the fall by Paulist Press in New York. 

The new government's so-called Program for Government, "Our Shared Future," shows the Green Party's influence on its two bigger coalition partners, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. These include:

Climate action measures to reduce Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 7% annually;
A major investment of 360 million euros (about $408 million) in walking and cycling infrastructure;
A pledge that all future capital spending on transport infrastructure will be split two to one in favor of public transport over roads;
A ban on further gas exploration in the waters off Ireland;
A ban on the importation of fracked gas.

The new government's three parties managed to conclude a deal and form a government four months after the Feb. 8 general election.
Speaking to EarthBeat in a telephone interview, Lane said successive Irish governments had "kicked the can down the road for far too long" on issues like carbon emissions, fracked gas, clean technology and transport. But he is concerned that the government's environmental promises will either not be fully implemented or may fall by the wayside at budget time.

"I was encouraged by what the Green Party achieved, but the big question is how will they deliver on this economically," Lane said, noting that the proposed environmental reforms will place "extraordinary demands" on the budget as the country grapples with the financial fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

He said he welcomed the proposal for a Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity in the program for government. But he is well-aware that the farming community may feel threatened by this. Ireland's agri-food sector is one of the most important indigenous manufacturing sectors, accounting for 8.5% of national employment and 9.8% of exports, mainly beef and dairy products.

The farming community has, Lane believes, "a very important role to play. There are big scientific questions about how to change agricultural practices to reduce methane gases. It can be done by changing the feed and the quality of the grass."

In a country where farming is still a major player in the economy and farmers still make a major contribution to the social fabric, Lane emphasized that they must not be "made the scapegoat."

The real challenge for the government, he suggested, is "not to create conflict with the farming community but to support them in changing their way of farming and in particular the intensity of their farming."

With the country still on something of a green wave, Lane said he believes the Irish bishops should "seize the moment" to promote Pope Francis' encyclical "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home" and its teachings on care for the Earth. "We have now a growing awareness of the importance of climate change in Ireland with the formation of a new government with a strong Green presence. We would be pushing an open door!"

He also sees a role for the bishops in making sure that the commitments and the responsibilities entered into by the government are honored and kept. He said discourse around climate change must be followed by action: "The encyclical is so strong on the importance of ecological conversion. It requires a shift in everybody's lifestyle." But he said the bishops in Ireland have failed to provide sufficient leadership on the climate crisis.

"They have begun to incorporate Laudato Si' into catechetical textbooks, so that is a step in the right direction," he said, noting that they've also established a Laudato Si' Working Group and have promoted the Season of Creation.

"But are they doing enough? My personal view is that they are not. In particular, they haven't adequately recognized that this year is the fifth anniversary of Laudato Si' and Pope Francis has said this is to be an anniversary year in which we are to reflect and act on Laudato Si'. That is an enormous challenge. It is interesting when that is coming from the top and yet very little is being done."

Lane acknowledges that the COVID-19 pandemic has made things more difficult for the bishops but believes they need to make the link between the global health crisis and the decline of biodiversity and the neglect of the natural world.

"If you have any sense of the meaning of Laudato Si', you begin to see very quickly that COVID-19 is one more expression, and a very sad expression, of the existence of a global climate crisis. You don't have to be a scientist to realize that we are living on a planet that is in peril. Certain boundaries have been crossed that have resulted in coronavirus. The cause behind the pandemic crisis is climate change, more particularly the destruction of the natural habitat of nonhuman species within the Earth's ecosystem.

COVID-19 is a crisis within a bigger crisis — it is a health crisis within the context of the climate crisis. All the reports coming out from the United Nations and from various commentators like David Attenborough are highlighting the damage that we are doing to the universe. We are running out of time. I see the coronavirus as a wake-up call to the climate crisis."

The Irish bishops are not the only bishops with whom Lane expresses disappointment. He believes the Anglophone church has a problem with climate denial and that the bishops in the United States have failed to speak with one voice on the issue.
 
"The Catholic Church in America is very polarized and there are a lot of very conservative Catholics who don't want to know about it," he said. "The petrochemical industry is massive. There are lots of vested interests who are denying climate change and that has seeped into a mindset of a lot of Catholics and many U.S. bishops."

He is also critical of the U.S. bishops for failing to see that climate change is a pro-life issue. "It is about life of the human being and it is about life of other species within the natural world. If half the ardor and energy that goes into the abortion debate went into climate change, they might begin to have an impact." 

When Lane launched his book online in Dublin, due to the COVID-19 lockdown, he told the 186 participants in the webinar that he found it "deeply troubling that President Trump had got into power on such a large Catholic vote."

The Irish theologian told EarthBeat that he would like to see the U.S. bishops be more consistent in their view of what constitutes being pro-life. He cites ideas espoused by the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin about a consistent ethic of life.

When Lane was researching his book during a 2018-19 sabbatical at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California, wildfires in the state killed more than 100 people, destroyed some 140,000 acres of trees, and dislocated about 200,000 individuals.

"What happened is indescribable: the loss of life, the destruction of wildlife, and the annihilation of beautiful trees," he said. "You don't have to be a scientist to recognize the fires are still blazing, there is global warming, there is manifest extreme weather conditions. Just look at the amount of money that the U.S. has had to plow in every year because of drought, flooding and fires."

But despite these signals from nature, none of the six parishes he attended as a worshipper while in Berkeley during the 2018 Season of Creation made any mention of it, Lane said.

Asked what parishes should be doing about the climate crisis, the 78-year-old Dublin priest said they "must begin to read the encyclical and form climate coalitions in parishes, so that they can get their teeth into the content of the encyclical and its vision and values."

Two significant documents were released recently by the Vatican on care for our common home. One is dedicated to the celebration of the Laudato Si' anniversary year for 2020-21. The other is a handbook issued June 18 about making Laudato Si' operational in the life of the universal church. Lane believes these as well as Laudato Si' and the church's teachings on care for the earth may help parishes connect with young people who are alienated from the church but who are engaged with the issue of climate change.

He described the central theme of his book as integral ecology.
"If you don't get what integral ecology means, all the rest of what I have said won't fit into place," he said. "Integral ecology is an innocent-sounding concept, but it has radical implications for ethics and theology. It is about an interdisciplinary approach to climate change, recognizing that everything is interrelated and interconnected and interdependent.

"That is the mantra running through my book and running through Laudato Si'. If you get that, you begin to realize that the COVID crisis is one more very sad, very traumatic expression of climate change; then you begin to sit up and realize — this is a challenge for all of us."
Another mantra of the encyclical and his book is the recognition that it is the poor who have contributed the least to climate change and who are suffering the most.

"We must hear the cry of the poor and the cry of the Earth," Lane said "Pope Francis is very clear, these are not two crises; they are one and the same crisis manifesting themselves in different ways. Care for our common home is not an option, it is not an add-on, it is not something secondary — it is at the heart of Christian experience and if our faith is not informed by that, then it is a defective faith."

[Sarah Mac Donald is a freelance journalist based in Dublin.]

The title says it all, really. The call for Roman Catholic bishops to lead the new green deal movement in Ireland and the US should not be necessary. Such is implied by the papal encyclical Laudato Si'. It is the duty of all Catholic politicians, clergy and laity to seek to establish Roman Catholic social teaching and doctrine within their various nations through legislation or otherwise. See papal - DOCTRINAL NOTE on some questions regarding The Participation of Catholics in Political Life.

Roman Catholics AOC and Ed Markey introduced the Laudato Si' inspired New Green Deal bill here in the US, which is of course being backed up by all faithful Catholics, and or lefty progressives. What is the above call, but a call for the Catholic church to run the state concerning issues she deems necessary. As stated in the above article, " Integral ecology is an innocent-sounding concept, but it has radical implications for ethics and theology. It is about an interdisciplinary approach to climate change, recognizing that everything is interrelated and interconnected and interdependent." In other words, everything needs to come under the control and dictates of Laudato Si' in compliance with the Pope of Rome, the man of sin. The Dark ages all over again on a global scale.

The Pope of Rome and his minions are continuously calling for greater and greater control through global government and the sacrifice of personal liberties under the guise of non stop fear mongering politics. Her agents within the various nations are implementing all such wherever possible, or creating chaos and havoc among those who will not yet comply, to break their will or cohesiveness in defiance of her. She demands the change of everyone's life styles in compliance with her vision, accepting her own of course, and those who will serve her purposes in ruling over all the subjugated masses of the world to her global governance. She will save no one. As the world becomes increasingly intoxicated under the influence of her wine, it will speed the more rapidly toward global ruin and destruction.

Do not join her in believing and spreading her false gospel of salvation for humanity and the world through political, religious, philosophical, and or scientific consensus or unity of action. Salvation is in Christ Jesus alone, who will end all such false testimonies unto the ungodly unification of fallen humanity in defiance of God, with His personal return. Come out of Babylon, that ye receive not of her plagues, before our Lord returns unto salvation upon all who have trusted in Him, and destruction upon all who have not. Papal lead global government is not your Savior, Jesus Christ is.