I wonder if the US restraint toward the church was in part due to the usefulness of the church's cooperation in combating communism. Vatican city from what I have read for many years held more diplomatic posts than any nation in the world. I am sure that it was a primary target for infiltration and intelligence gathering by many governments for their own purposes beyond those of defeating common enemies. The church in the US is heavily manipulated and has pushed its agenda on the Vatican for a long time. Groups like the Ford Foundation and other insanely wealthy families like the Rockefellers were hell bent on using the tools of the US Govt like the CIA to establish their corporate hegemony over the world and in turn break up Catholic social organization to destroy the unity of the church. The Church in the US was incredibly united and powerful back then, not to mention has always commanded great wealth. Ireland is a prime example of a church who's leadership should have been screaming from the rooftops and yet barely a murmur was heard on the gay marriage and abortion votes. In the US now we have men like Pete Buttigeig who is running to become the first sodomite president. We have been intentionally divided and our voices virtually silenced to the moral and cultural causes of our day. We can't keep wringing our hands expecting the leadership in the church to do a thing about it either. It has to come from us.
Here in the US there has been since our inception strong Masonic influence in the movers and shakers of government right from the planning of the American revolution.
14 US presidents who were members of one of the most mysterious and powerful secret societies in history Áine Cain, Business Insider US February 11, 2018 https://www.businessinsider.sg/us-presidents-who-were-masons-2017-3/?r=US&IR=T
Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but did two caucasion nuns end their conversation with a traditional greeting of Thailand (also Middle Eastern/Asian)? It occurs within the first ten seconds of the video. It is called a wai. It can be considered cultural as well as religious. "The gesture is said to date from the 12th century, to show that you were not clasping a weapon in either hand. The position of the hands and the depth of the bow should vary according to the other person’s seniority. Fingertips should be below the chin for equals, in front of the nose for seniors and at eye level for those of the highest standing." I'm probably hyper-sensitive but the nuns were meeting in Rome. Then there is the rest of the video. Superiors General on women deacons and law for reporting abuse cases
This may have been a part of it, but I think mostly it was because there used to be respect for clergy by society at large. It would have been almost unthinkable to arrest a priest or anything of that nature. The people would be up in arms. I remember my father telling me that when he was young a priest was robbed in NY. The local mafia found the guy who did it and no one heard from him again. The clergy used to be totally off limits.
Pope Francis speaking to the International Union of Superiors General of Woman religious, referring to the death penalty "I have clearly stated that the death penalty is unacceptable, it is immoral. 50 years ago, no ... but there has been a better understanding of morality" https://twitter.com/CatholicSat/status/1126800009847087105
Better, of course, than all those idiots and morons who preceded him...all those Apostles, Fathers, Saints, Popes, Scholastic Philosophers, Theologians-what would these simpletons have known about morality? A small victory, this week. Apparently, an appeal court in New York has declared that the remains of Archbishop Fulton Sheen may be returned to Peoria. For some unfathomable reason, great efforts had been made by the diocese of New York to obstruct this return, which had the additional effect of delaying the case for sainthood.
On this point, what I find compelling is that much of this stuff, including a "resignation protocol" for the Pope and installing a wolf as shepherd by a mafia was foretold over 20 years ago in " Windswept House" by a Vatican insider, even including some details of what is unfolding now. When i read this book about a year ago it blew me away and convinced me that the facts foretold in such detail must be true. This has given me a firm internal position, understanding what is going on. It makes me less agitated when I read about certain acts or statements of a so-called Pope. It gives me a sense of peace, I feel like my eyes have been opened.
Yes I am inclined to believe this. Sometimes I wish I could go forward in a Time Machine 200 years and read about all that actually happned in this Era. Much of what we think is just guesswork and we are fed so many lies. The Vatican Press Office is an Abomination.
"A better understanding of morality" is the perfect solvent. If it can be used to invert the constant teaching on the deployment of the death penalty, and the only debate upon it on Golgotha was not the a priori injustice of crucifixion, but who among the trio deserved it, it can be used to invert any moral, whatsoever. Is it not the case that Amoris Laetitia claims a better understanding of marital morality than He who created the whole shooting match? The arrogance is staggering and of a scale previously unknown in human history, to my mind, certainly at the level of the Church where it is being displayed. The only comparable event I can think of is the Luciferian rebellion. While it can be difficult to discriminate between the many prophecies that are out there, it is unsurprising that they are there, considering the circumstances, and most of them seem to share a broad truth-that Man has uniquely exceeded his bounds and that a hard rain's a-gonna fall. If the modernists 'know better' about the morality dictating issues of life and death, and many are sympathetic to abortion and euthanasia also, it is inevitable that they will claim to do so regarding other moral issues (although these other issues are also ones that ultimately culminate in choices between life and death) and we are already familiar with the 'better understanding' of sodomy and of male-on-male sexual predation, in general, that is being slowly foisted upon us from both within and without the Church. It is now only a question of how long God restrains His hand, but we mustn't forget He has all the time in the world and that He is a lot more patient than we are. This could go on for quite a while, in human terms. I expect no Intervention in my lifetime, but I wouldn't be in the least surprised to be wrong.
I was always bewildered about the meaning of Dylan's great epic, Desolation Row. Funnily enough, as time goes on, I am beginning to slowly get a handle upon it. The 'beauty parlour filled with sailors' (who would have been exclusively men back in 1965), seems more indicative of the present than those past times. And we are definitely being led by 'blind commissioners' under the lead of 'tight-rope walkers'-sadly, the line about the location of the commissioners' other hand might be the most apt of all. Astutely, Dylan created a link, way back in 1965, between 'Noah's great rainbow' and Desolation Row. The nurse in charge of the euthanasia drugs ('the cyanide hole') is also responsible for the Mass cards (the cards that read 'Have Mercy on his Soul'); this image seemed weird and incomprehensible when I listened to the song for many years-to be honest I reduced it to very skilled word-play: now it becomes eerily descriptive of the reality we see dawning before us. We are all now living in Desolation Row, God help us, and 'the Titanic sails at dawn' (Dylan also wrote a Titanic-based allegory of imminent apocalypse, the title-piece of his most recent album of original songs, Tempest).
I had a bit of work on this morning and I was thinking about all these matters on the way. It's a beautiful morning, here in Tipperary, and it is easy to appreciate the goodness of God's creation. When one transposes all the evils that men are doing upon this goodness, evils that are hard to comprehend in contrast to God's creative generosity, it is, to me, impossible to provide any logical explanation for this dichotomy other than the Doctrine of the Fall. The consoling thought also struck me that part of our fallen condition is ignorance and maybe ultimate Mercy will be shown to the great majority who are ignorant lotus-eaters rather than deliberate fomenters of evil. It's impossible to be so sanguine about the latter category.
I note in a tweeted comment upon Pope Francis' claim to know better about moral matters than his predecessors a relevant observation that it is 'chronological snobbery'. Chronological 'prejudice' might be a more accurate term. At any rate, the Truth just is. It is beyond time. Time is over-rated, perhaps because we mortal beings perceive we have only a small bit of it. Time is only a measure of the sequence of events, one that enables us to discern one act from another, one effect from its cause, just as space is only a statement of the permitted positions available for particles of matter. In that light, PF's assertions about 'time being greater than space' is only sophistic nonsense, BS, to be blunt. Morality does not and cannot change with time. Only that which can die and decay changes with time and time is just the measure of that process. The supporters of PF might assert in response that it is not morality that they are changing, but our 'understanding' of it. This is Gnosticism, the old heresy that only initiated elites can know the 'truth'. The real Truth is that Truth is quite simple and uncomplicated and what we need of it has been revealed to us. This neo-Gnosticism is the road to Infernal Chaos, because 'truth', under this ideology would be reduced to a function of the elite that happens to possess the power to define it, which is exactly where we find ourselves. Now, people of the same sex can 'marry'. Now, a man can declare himself a her, at a moment's notice and the rest of us had better agree. The audacity of the lie is in direct proportion to the degree of tyranny involved in its enforcement.
Cardinal Mueller: ‘There has never been an ordained female diaconate’ Maike Hickson | https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/...e-has-never-been-an-ordained-female-diaconate catholic, gerhard müller, women deacons May 9, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former Prefect of the Congregation for Doctrine of the Faith, insists that in the history of the Catholic Church, “there has never been an ordained female diaconate (except a blessing, in part, similar to the minor orders and to the sub-diaconate).” This statement, given to LifeSiteNews, has now been confirmed by some of Pope Francis' words on the findings of his female deacon commission that had submitted its findings to the Pope back in the summer of 2018. Cardinal Müller told LifeSiteNews that he has “collected and reviewed all the sources for this topic” and that he has also presented his findings in three different books: Priesthood and Diaconate (San Francisco, 2002); Frauen in der Kirche (Women in the Church – Würzburg 2001), and Der Empfänger des Weihesakramentes. Quellen zur Lehre und Praxis der Kirche, nur Männern das Weihesakrament zu spenden (The Recipient of the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Sourceas concerning the teaching and practice of the Church, to administer only to men the Sacrament of Holy Orders – Würzburg 1999). LifeSiteNews had reached out to Cardinal Müller in light of the comments made by Professor Peter Hünermann, who is a proponent of the female diaconate and who recently told LifeSiteNews that the recent commission on the female diaconate had found that “there is no historical evidence that in the patristics women were ordained as deacons.” Cardinal Müller, in his own comments, points to the “character of the Sacrament of Holy Orders as a representation of Christ Himself as the Bridegroom,” thus excluding women from the Sacrament of Holy Orders. “For people like Professor Hünermann and others, the diaconate is only the first step to the sacramental priesthood,” the German prelate explains, “that is why individual historical documents are being bent until they fit.” “It is sad,” he said. “There is no sign of any broad tradition in the Universal Church of a sacramental [female] diaconate.” Already early in his work as the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Müller had made it clear that a female diaconate is not possible. In 2013, he said: “The Sacrament of Holy Orders, in the steps bishop-priest-deacon can, according to the Church's teaching, only validly be received by a man.” Female deacons existed in certain regions in the history of the Church, he then added, but they “did not receive the Sacrament of Holy Orders in its real sense.” Their role was, for example, to visit women, something that was impossible for a priest to do. In 2001, the German prelate spoke about the Church Fathers and showed that they always rejected the idea of ordaining female deacons: “All important Church Fathers explicitly rejected as heretical the practice of a few communities separated from the Church to admit women to the diaconate and to the priesthood.” Having been a member of the Vatican commission that studied the history of the diaconate under the leadership of then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Müller has dealt with this topic for many years and has always come to the same conclusions. Female ordination is not possible. In 2016, when Pope Francis decided to set up yet another study commission on the female diaconate, Cardinal Müller had pointed out that there had already been such a commission which worked within the International Theological Commission. After a ten-year period of studying the topic, the commission published its own report in 2002. The report stated at the time: With regard to the ordination of women to the diaconate, it should be noted that two important indications emerge from what has been said up to this point: 1. The deaconesses mentioned in the tradition of the ancient Church – as evidenced by the rite of institution and the functions they exercised – were not purely and simply equivalent to the deacons; 2. The unity of the sacrament of Holy Orders, in the clear distinction between the ministries of the bishop and the priests on the one hand and the diaconal ministry on the other, is strongly underlined by ecclesial tradition, especially in the teaching of the Magisterium. Now, for the first time, Pope Francis himself revealed the findings of the female deacon commission that he had established in 2016 and which had submitted its final report in the summer of 2018. At an in-flight press conference on his recent return from a May 5-7 apostolic visit to Bulgaria and Macedonia on Tuesday, the Pope said that, according to the commission, “the formulae of ordination for the [female] diaconate found until now are not the same as for the male diaconate and are more similar to what today would be the abbatial blessing of an abbess.” “There were deaconesses in the beginning,” he added, but the question is whether “it was a sacramental ordination or not.” “What is fundamental,” the Pope explained, “is that there is no certainty that there was ordination with the same form and finality as male ordination.” He further explained, saying: They [the female deacons] helped, for example, in the liturgy of baptism, which was by immersion. When they baptized a woman the deaconess assisted. They also assisted for the anointing of the woman’s body. Then a document came out that showed the deaconess was called by the bishop when there was a marital dispute, for the dissolution of the marriage or the divorce or separation. When the woman accused her husband of having hit her, the deaconesses were sent by the bishop to look at her body for bruises, and so they testified for judgment. Thus, Pope Francis' commission appears to have come, in important aspects, to the same conclusion as the previous commission of 2002, and also as Cardinal Müller's own research has shown it. However, the Pope somewhat vaguely added that the members still had some disagreements about this question and that they would thus individually continue their own research. We will see what Pope Francis will tell the International Union of (female) Superiors General, who three years ago asked him to appoint a commission to study the question of female deacons, when he meets them on May 10.
