Monday, March 30, 2020

The End Of Innocence


In January of 2019, the Argentinian apostate pretending to be "pope," Jorge Bergoglio, made the following pronouncement about sex education:

He [Bergoglio] said: "Sex education must be given in schools." Specifying and underlining that above all "sex is a gift from God." And "it’s not a monster." It is God’s "gift to love." Then – fully aware he added - that some people use it to earn money or exploit is another problem, yet it does not affect the innate purity of the gift. .. Then he adds and explains: "Because if sexual education is given in schools soaked in ideological colonization, you destroy the person." At the same time, sex understood "as a gift from God must" be "taught" not with "rigidity," or with mental and ideological closure. By creating taboos, precisely. The Pope specifies that "to [be] educated, from the Latin "educere (to lead, to draw out, ed.), is to bring out the best of the person and accompany him/her along the way." The Bishop of Rome [sic]warns: "The problem is the system." He warns against the risks that "those responsible for education, both at the national and local levels, as well as in each school unit, may encounter:"  in particular, the type of "teachers" chosen for this task, and the "textbooks" that are adopted for children and young people.
(See https://www.lastampa.it/vatican-insider/en/2019/01/29/news/the-pope-sex-is-a-gift-we-must-talk-about-it-also-in-schools-1.33673131)

That we live in a sex-saturated culture is an understatement. In movies, television, radio, music, schools, and even in Vatican II sect churches, sex propaganda runs rampant. Promotion of artificial contraception, fornication, adultery under the euphemism "open marriage," sexual perversion/homosexuality, "single parenting," and abortion are routinely pushed on innocent youngsters with disastrous consequences to their bodies, souls, and society at large. Sex education is a large part of the problem, which is now lauded by Bergoglio and his sect of clerical perverts. When I speak of sex education, I'm not talking only about the kind found in the godless public school systems, I'm referring to any form of sexual education, even when under the auspices of a church and/or those claiming "traditional family values."

Sex education is inherently evil, and the reason was summed up nicely by a group in the early 1990s calling itself The National Coalition of Clergy and Laity (NCCL): Classroom sex education is a perversion of nature. It makes what is by its very nature private and intimate, public and open. All education is an activity which is essentially public, but because matters of sex are private and intimate (and pertain fundamentally to the family), the teaching of sex can not ever be accomplished in the classroom without violating that privacy and intimacy. Such a violation is an abominable form of scandal, scandal of the sort which Our Lord solemnly and literally condemned when he declared: "And whoever receives one such little child for my sake, receives me. But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it were better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depths of the sea." (Matt. 18:5-6) (The group's website--which is "conservative" Vatican II sect--does not seem to be active in over ten years; See https://www.national-coalition.org/about.html).

This post will demonstrate Church teaching on sex education, the inherent evils that it produces, and its promotion by the Vatican II sect, which gives yet another reason that the sect cannot be the One True Church of Jesus Christ.

The Teaching of the Church on Sex Ed
Naturalism is the philosophy that human reason is supreme and nothing exists beyond nature; therefore there is no supernatural order. One of the grave errors that flow from Naturalism is that of Indifferentism. This is the heretical idea that one religion is as good as another (positive indifference) or the idea that one religion is just as bad as another (negative indifference). The United States was based on this premise since most of the Founding Fathers were Freemasons, and Naturalism is the guiding force of Masonry.

Public schools, as they exist in most countries today, have a type of sex ed most especially dangerous, because it is founded on Naturalism. No religion is allowed to be taught in public schools as they banish God from the classroom. Hence, everything must be approached as if God does not exist. We must depend upon ourselves to solve problems. No consideration of fallen human nature, sin, or God's grace can ever be considered.

Pope Pius XI, Encyclical Divini Illius Magistri:
 Another very grave danger is that naturalism which nowadays invades the field of education in that most delicate matter of purity of morals. Far too common is the error of those who with dangerous assurance and under an ugly term propagate a so-called sex-education, falsely imagining they can forearm youths against the dangers of sensuality by means purely natural, such as a foolhardy initiation and precautionary instruction for all indiscriminately, even in public; and, worse still, by exposing them at an early age to the occasions, in order to accustom them, so it is argued, and as it were to harden them against such dangers.

Such persons grievously err in refusing to recognize the inborn weakness of human nature, and the law of which the Apostle speaks, fighting against the law of the mind; and also in ignoring the experience of facts, from which it is clear that, particularly in young people, evil practices are the effect not so much of ignorance of intellect as of weakness of a will exposed to dangerous occasions, and unsupported by the means of grace. (On Christian Education, 1929; para. #65 and #66).

Yet, what about sex ed in Vatican II sect schools? Aren't their sex education programs--sometimes called chastity programs-- morally acceptable because they are not based on Naturalism, and God can be invoked, especially in a "conservative" parish school? No. The reason was articulated well by the NCCL, "The child is deliberately exposed to information which focuses on and stimulates the sexual function - while at the same time he is being told to be chaste, i.e. pure in thought, word, and deed. This causes a tremendous (and unnatural) psychological, moral and spiritual conflict in the young, especially considering that stimulation of the sexual function, which is cumulative, will find a way to express itself."

The Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office
The Congregation was asked, "Can Catholics approve of the method called "sex education" or "sex initiation"? Response: In the Negative. In the education of youth the method to be followed is that hitherto observed by the Church and the Saints as recommended by His Holiness the Pope in the Encyclical [Divini Illius Magistri, cited above] dealing with the Christian education of youth, promulgated on Dec. 31, 1929.The first place is to be given to the full, sound and continuous instruction in religion of both sexes. Esteem, desire and love of the angelic virtue must be instilled into their minds and hearts. They must be made fully alive to the necessity of constant prayer, and assiduous frequenting of the Sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist; they must be directed to foster a filial devotion to the Blessed Virgin as Mother of holy purity, to whose protection they must entirely commit themselves. Precautions must be taken to see that they avoid dangerous reading, indecent shows, conversations of the wicked, and all other occasions of sin.

Hence no approbation whatever can be given to the advocacy of the new method even as taken up recently by some Catholic authors and set before the public in printed publications." Therefore, any theologian who advocated any loosening of these norms, on any grounds, would not have their books approved and would be censured. They could no longer be considered approved theologians.

Moreover, these norms against sex education or "chastity programs" retain perennial principles that do not diminish or "change with the times." When confronted with such Modernist sentiments the pope spoke forth.

Pope Pius XII, Allocution to French Fathers and Families, Sep. 18, 1951
…Even the principles so wisely illustrated by Our Predecessor Pius XI, in the encyclical Divini Illius Magistri, on sex education and questions connected thereto are set aside — a sad sign of the times! With a smile of compassion: Pius XI, they say, wrote twenty years ago, for his times! Great progress has been made since then!...Fathers of families… Unite… to stop and curtail these movements under whatever name or under whatever patronage they conceal themselves or are patronized.

Pope Pius XII, Allocution to the Fifth International Congress of Psychotherapy and Clinical Psychology, April 13, 1953
The Holy See published certain rules in this connection [sex ed] shortly after the Encyclical of Pius XI on Christian Marriage [Casti connubii].  These rules have not been rescinded, either expressly or via facti.

The Dangers of Sex Ed--Both Public and Religious
1. It has a political agenda. As far back as 1991, Newsweek magazine reported in its June 17th issue that the ACLU was suing to get an abstinence-based sex ed program (still bad but much better than the rest) called Sex Respect. The reason the ACLU wanted it banished almost 30 years ago is telling: 
"Sex Respect, according to the ACLU, stereotypes boys as 'sexual aggressors,' and girls as 'virginity protectors,' mischaracterizes AIDS as nature's way of 'making a statement on sexual behavior,' frowns on birth control, and presents two-parent heterosexual couples as 'the sole model' of a 'healthy,' 'real,' family." 

Sex ed effectively:
  • rejects traditional Catholic moral standards
  • makes all things relative by interpreting traditional moral teaching as "outdated" or even "abnormal"
  • considers religious objections to any behaviors to be irrelevant
  • promotes choice and motive  as the sole criteria whereby sex acts are to be judged
  • construes and calls any restraint on sexual behavior "an intrusion on human rights"
  • encourages birth control, abortion and "sexual experimentation" through peer pressure
2.  The Vatican II sect supports this political agenda; now consider why they do.
After the 2002 pedophile scandal erupted, the Los Angeles Times conducted a survey showing how the sodomites had taken control. It began with the Communists putting an estimated 10,000 sexual deviants in the seminaries, and culminated with the Modernists letting the perverts walk in openly through the door after Vatican II. The results are here for all to see. I use the term priest without quotations for the sake of brevity:
  • The Times poll of priests asked respondents to characterize their sexual orientation. A combined 15% identified themselves as homosexual (9%) or "somewhere in between, but more on the homosexual side" (6%)
  • However, for priests ordained after 1982, the number of homosexuals rose to 23%
  • 5% declared themselves "in the middle" (i.e., bisexual)
  • 53% of priests who were ordained in since 1982 said a "gay subculture" existed in the seminary when they attended
(See https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-oct-20-me-gaypriest20-story.html)

In some accounts, the number of perverts (sodomites and bisexuals) are placed as high as 80%. (See In the Closet of the Vatican, [2019] by Frederic Martel).  If the sodomites can make their abominable acts acceptable, think of the benefits for them, and the inestimable harm to souls. 

3. On what basis can the Vatican II sect justify using sex ed or "chastity education"?
Four words: The Second Vatican Council. By introducing false principles by which theology should be guided, they lead the way to acceptance of unnatural behavior. The "Constitution on the Church in the Modern World" (Gaudium et Spes) begins the moral decay:

Para. #54:  "The circumstances of the life of modern man have been so profoundly changed in their social and cultural aspects, that we can speak of a new age of human history.New ways are open, therefore, for the perfection and the further extension of culture. These ways have been prepared by the enormous growth of natural, human and social sciences, by technical progress, and advances in developing and organizing means whereby men can communicate with one another. Hence the culture of today possesses particular characteristics: sciences which are called exact greatly develop critical judgment; the more recent psychological studies more profoundly explain human activity; ..." (Emphasis mine). 

Para. #62: "In pastoral care, sufficient use must be made not only of theological principles, but also of the findings of the secular sciences, especially of psychology and sociology, so that the faithful may be brought to a more adequate and mature life of faith." (Emphasis mine). 

The pagan aspects of psychology and sociology were thereby introduced. Vatican II joins modern psychology in the heretical teaching of humanity's "intrinsic self-worth." In Gaudium et Spes, para. 24 states, "...if man is the only creature on earth God has wanted for its own sake, man can fully discover his true self only in a sincere giving of himself," as if people possesses such value in themselves that it would cause God to create them.  In the Catholic meaning, the self-worth or "dignity of man" cannot be considered as a characteristic in people's very nature that imposes respect for all choices, because this dignity depends on right will turned toward the Good and is therefore a relative and not an absolute value. 

A Father Who Really Knew Best
My friend, the late Fr. Paul Wickens, ordained in 1955 for the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, found his way back to the True Church when Archbishop Peter Gerety, an ultra-Modernist validly consecrated just after Vatican II (1966) "suspended" Father for his activities against him. One of Father's greatest complaints involved Gerety's attempt to destroy the innocence of children with a sick and sinful sex ed program. As reported in 1984 by the New York Times:

The 54-year-old Father Wickens, a self-styled traditionalist, has preached against the teaching of sex education in parochial schools, a view contrary to the Archbishop's, and then helped publish a newsletter which was generally critical of the Archbishop. (See https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/02/nyregion/newark-archbishop-evicting-defiant-priest.html)

Fr. Wickens told me how he then heard of Fr. DePauw and started reading his material. He eventually rejected Vatican II and opened up his own Traditionalist Chapel in 1996. Called St. Anthony of Padua Traditionalist Chapel, Father Wickens affiliated himself with the SSPX. He never made it all the way to sedevacantism, although he kept an open mind in our discussions. When he had approached Gerety about the sex ed program, he had a well-written statement about how all sex education conflicts with True Catholic teaching (as I outlined above). Gerety threw the paper in Father's face saying, "You don't know what you're talking about Wickens!!" He had Father unceremoniously thrown out of the Chancery and was told "don't bother me anymore." 

Father had cited statistics which former Secretary of Education William J. Bennett, in a speech to the National School Board Association, would later discuss:
  • More than one million teenage girls become pregnant each year, and 40 percent of today’s fourteen-year-old girls will become pregnant by the time they are nineteen.
  • Teenage pregnancy rates are at or near an all-time high. The 25 percent decline in birth rates between 1970 and 1984 was due to a doubling of the abortion rate during that period. More than 400,000 teenage girls have abortions each year.
Bennett himself confessed, "These numbers are an irrefutable indictment of sex education’s effectiveness in reducing teenage sexual activity and pregnancies." (See William J. Bennett, “Sex and the Education of Our Children,” U.S. Department of Education, 22 January 1987; transcript of talk at the National School Board Association in Washington, D.C.) Yet, according to Gerety, Fr. Wickens didn't "know what he was talking about." Right.

Father Wickens died in 2004 at the age of 74 from esophageal cancer. While in the hospital, Gerety had the audacity to visit him and ask him to "be reconciled with the Church (sic)." Father's response was to throw his bedpan at Gerety's head and sent him running from the room! Gerety went to Judgement in 2016 at the incredible age of 104--and at least publicly---without any repentance for his heresy, his many sins, and corrupting the innocence of thousands of young people in his "Catholic" schools.

Conclusion
The Church has always taught that sex ed corrupts the minds, bodies, and souls of youth. Yet "Pope" Francis says, "Sex education must be given in schools." Vatican II sect apologists tell us that there is a "hermenutic of continuity" between mutually exclusive, contradictory teachings. The "recognize and resist" forces will tell us that Francis is a heretic, and sex ed is wrong, but Bergoglio can still be pope. It is allegedly up to us to decide what to accept and what to reject. This makes the individual (and not their pope) the Rule of Faith, which is contrary to Church teaching. $teve $kojec will tell us "the Church can defect, so please pay me for telling you" or words to that effect.

 In so doing, they all support, directly or indirectly, the man who destroys the innocence of youth. Remember the words of Our Lord quoted above and shudder, "And whoever receives one such little child for my sake, receives me. But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it were better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depths of the sea." (Matt. 18:5-6). 

52 comments:

  1. Sex education is such a multi-faceted creature.

    -The type encouraged by groups like the ACLU and Planned Parenthood shun anything that even remotely approaches self-control or chastity; rather, they encourage and advocate for the most deviant of behaviors, as early as possible.

    -It fosters a common sentiment that people are *primarily* sexual beings, and therefore anyone who tries to constrain sex is not only "weird", but morally wrong. It also leads to a general disdain or mockery for the virginal state.

    -It substitutes the state in a matter that is naturally the parents' to explain. The general assumption is that parents won't know what they're talking about, or rather will refuse to tell their children what they "need to know". Hence the greater trend in modern times for any form of sexual education to be done without parental consent or even notification.

    -Its deviance encourages malformed conceptions of human sexuality, which then flourish through various forms of media (often under fictional auspices to make it more 'palatable'). Transsexual, transgender, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, and so on and so forth; in addition, it encourages disgust for normality itself (as anyone who's ever read young LGBTQ individuals rage against the "cisgender hetero-patriarchy" can tell you).

    -It makes children more susceptible to the advances of actual predators.

    -It ultimately renders the traditional, religious, and natural understanding of marriage into an absurdity, substituting the primary end (the raising and propagation of children) with the satisfaction of the adult spouses (which. coincidentally, Vatican II also did; if I recall correctly, Montini's encyclical "Humanae Vitae" - much-lauded by conservatives and maligned by liberals - advanced the notion that the raising of children is merely *equal* in importance to the unity and mutual love of the spouses, which is also erroneous).

    I could go on.

    It touches on everything; and as we see various forms of deviance become more socially acceptable, I'm reminded by how many times traditional Christians were mocked for using the slippery slope argument during the societal debates over the legality of "gay" marriage in the 2000s.

    Well, it seems now that the slope has become a free-fall.

    Sincerely,

    A Simple Man

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    1. Simple Man,
      A free-fall that seems only Divine Intervention can stop!

      God Bless,

      —-Introibo

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  2. Sometimes a massive catastrophe sent by our Lord wiping us away doesn't seem far off...
    -Andrew

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    1. Andrew,
      Maybe COVID-19 is a foreshadowing of things to come if we don’t change?

      God Bless,

      —-Introibo

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    2. How are the powers do be going to "cure" this virus - they can't even cure the common cold!

      JoAnn

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    3. Joann,
      Let’s pray for a miracle!

      —-Introibo

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    4. Imagine the amount of $
      big pharma would lose if they
      "cured" common cold or cancer.
      Not saying there is a classified cure but a slight possibility.
      -Andrew

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    5. Andrew,
      I’m no conspiracy theorist, but I’ve thought the same thing!!

      —-Introibo

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    6. Perhaps big Pharma will come up with a cure for the virus as it is so deadly and the powers to be could become struck with it and become it's victims as the virus is not preferential in who it attacks. Unless, of course they have a vaccine and are using it. I wonder why Trump and his family members have not been struck with the virus.

      JoAnn

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  3. Our society is so saturated in sexual perversion that whether I'm at work or at social gathering a word, phrase, or sentence not related at all to sex all of a sudden can turn into a sexual joke whether by innuendo of implication. If anything good can be said about this quarantine (not implying that the overall situation is good) I would say not being forced to be around nasty minded people who out of the mouth the heart speaks.

    Jorge Bergoglio also says that sins of impurity are the least serious of sins when he said in a interview "The sins of the flesh are not necessarily (always) the gravest. Because the flesh is weak. The most dangerous sins are those of the mind. I have talked about angelism: pride and vanity are sins of angelism... what I call “below-the-waist” morality. The more serious sins are elsewhere." (Francis with Dominique Wolton, A Future of Faith: The Path of Change in Politics and Society)

    According to St. Alphonsus Liguori (Doctor of the Church) this is heresy.

    He says in the book "The Sermons of St. Alphonsus Liguori" (on impurity):

    First Point – Delusion of those who say that sins against purity are not a great evil.

    1. The unchaste, then, say that sins contrary to purity are but a small evil. Like "the sow wallowing in the mire” (”Sus lota in volutabro luti – 2 Pet. ii. 22), they are immersed in their own filth, so that they do not see the malice of their actions; and therefore they neither feel nor abhor the stench of their impurities, which excite disgust and horror in all others. Can you, who say that the vice of impurity is but a small evil can you, I ask, deny that it is a mortal sin?

    If you deny it, you are a heretic; for as St. Paul says: “Do not err. Neither fornicators, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, etc., shall possess the kingdom of God.” (1 Cor. vi. 9.) It is a mortal sin; it cannot be a small evil. It is more sinful than theft, or detraction, or the violation of the fast. How then can you say that it is not a great evil? Perhaps mortal sin appears to you to be a small evil? Is it a small evil to despise the grace of God, to turn your back upon him, and to lose his friendship, for a transitory, beastly pleasure?"

    Lee

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    1. Lee,
      Jorge has a ready response. When asked, “Do you deny impurity is a mortal sin?” —Bergoglio will answer, “Who am I to judge?”

      When will people wake up??

      God Bless,

      —-Introibo

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  4. If there's one positive thing to come out of this virus crisis, it is that children, wnd the parents who care, are getting a break from the school sex - brainwashing they have been subjected to for years.
    Jannie

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    1. Jannie,
      That is one positive point!

      God Bless,

      —-Introibo

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    2. I have read reports that home schooling is going to take off in a big way.

      JoAnn

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    3. Joann,
      Unfortunately, I double it. Most parents need to work to provide for a family. The ones who can life on one income selfishly don’t want to do so. I can see an upturn, but not on a large scale.

      God Bless,

      —-Introibo

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  5. In addition to the children being exposed to sex ed in schools, they have easy access to porn via the Internet and movies with explicit sexual content. The children really don't stand a chance in this depraved society and it is the adults who are responsible for the children's ensuing outcome. They then grow up and become the porn and x-rated movie producers, the abortion doctor's and on it goes. The children were not even safe from depravity in the Novus Ordo Churches as scores of children were being abused by pedophiles masquerading as Priests. The Novus Ordo with "Pope" Francis had the year of Mercy, perhaps they are now getting a glimpse of God's Judgment. God's judgement being a subject the Novus Ordo seems to ignore and not address.

    JoAnn

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    1. Joann,
      The Vatican II sect has good reason to not discuss Judgement; they want to pretend it doesn’t exist and they will not be subject to it!

      God Bless,

      —-Introibo

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  6. Could not be truer. We received sex ed for the first time at *10 years* old. We were pretty innocent children. After receiving sex ed *all* of us engaged in double talking and dirty thinking.
    I protested to receiving sex ed at both 14 and 15 years. The teacher called my parents and swore that they would only give us "information" and we would choose how to use that according to our worldview. Of course all of her "information" was filled with her own opinions, but who cares. Later, on biology we were taught that "the Catholic Church invented that contraceptives don´t work" and we "could not force our opinions on others". Most of my classmates listen to mega obscene reggaeton music *inside* of the school and nothing happens. Add to this, we have read very obscene books in literature, and almost all criticize the church.

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    1. Poni,
      You offer powerful testimony as to the innate decadence of sex ed!

      Thank you for sharing!

      God Bless,

      —-Introibo

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    2. Don´t you think that sex ed is a form of abuse?

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    3. Poni,
      Yes. As far as I’m concerned, and based on Church teaching, sex Ed is a form of child abuse.

      God Bless,

      —-Introibo

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  7. Mayor Bill de Blasio threatening to close down churches in New York City permanently if services continue being held. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/nyc-mayor-threatens-permanent-closure-of-churches-defying-coronavirus-ban-64073

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    1. @anon7:20
      DeBlasio is a Communist in all his words and deeds, even if not using that appellation. An excuse to attack religion. He is truly despicable.

      God Bless,

      —-Introibo

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    2. What happened to the "separation of Church and State"?

      JoAnn

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    3. I notice he seems to focus on churches and synagogues, but not mosques.

      The willingness of atheists and Communists to ally with Islamists has always been fascinating, to see how their disdain for Christians would allow even mutually exclusive antagonists to ally in the practical order.

      One could even call it diabolic.

      Sincerely,

      A Simple Man

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    4. @Joann,
      Separation of Church and State has been de facto interpreted to mean the State is everything and religion is nothing but a nuisance to be extirpated.

      @Simple Man,
      I’ve noticed the same, my friend. One atheist zealot online wrote about how he “despises all religion,” yet in the next sentence, claims he abhors “Islamophobia.” Am I the only one that sees the internal contradiction?

      God Bless you both,

      —-Introibo

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    5. Historically,)ews in Spain fought united w/Muslims AGAINST Spanish Catholics during the
      Reconquista.
      Political divisions & alliances change every few yrs or decades.
      -Andrew

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  8. I wonder if the closing of false churches everywhere, by choice, is part of God's ongoing confirmation that yes, they are false. The Traditional Catholic Churches are the only ones to my knowledge that remain open. It must be because they profess the Mission to put the soul above the body, which the True Church has always done and defended even to death, unlike false religions. Just a thought...
    Jannie

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    1. Jannie,
      Brilliant minds think alike! I’ve had the same idea.

      God Bless,

      —-Introibo

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    2. The few traditional chapels in my area are closed.
      SSPV (once a month)
      SSPX-Resistance
      Main SSPX (Sunday only) are all closed and have zero idea when they're re-opening.
      -Andrew

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    3. Andrew,
      Interesting. In the hot spot of NY, they keep going—-although Cuomo has forced them not to have public Mass by threatening arrest and/or fines to gatherings of 10 or more people for ANY reason!!

      —-Introibo

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    4. The local CMRI chapels in my area have settled on a compromise of sorts: although Mass is being offered privately, the priests are scheduling rolling 'shifts' where the sacraments can be administered to up to 9 people at a time, so as not to break the 10 person limit. In like manner, for the private Masses, up to 9 people can go, depending on who signs up over the email list provided.

      It's certainly put the emphasis on the laity beeing active when it comes to the sacraments, I'll tell you that much.

      The funny thing is, this is a system that could've easily been implemented by the Novus Ordo parishes, to have rotating 'shifts' where laity who desire their faux-sacraments can at least sign up in advance. But they not only don't do that, but they also deny the opportunity for confession, baptism, and even extreme unction.

      How times have changed since St. Charles Borromeo's virtuous leadership during the plague of Milan!

      Sincerely,

      A Simple Man

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    5. Simple Man,
      Thank you for the information; the CMRI and other Traditionalist clergy are doing all they can!

      —-Introibo

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    6. For sure!
      The Traditionalist clergy and laity are stepping up while the NO generally is stepping back and retreating into its own comfort and interests. On March 31, "Bp". Rozanski of the Springfield, Ma. "Diocese" gave orders to their clergy to not administer the "Anointing of the Sick" until further notice. Nurses have been authorized to anoint patients and prayers, if desired, can be phoned in! This was reported on LifeSite.
      Jannie

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    7. Definitely surprised me that all 3 are on indefinite temporary shutdown.
      -Andrew

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    8. Jannie,
      Not to give Last Rites? Cowards who (a) are Naturalists that make the body the end all; there is no soul to save. Ironically, the prayers of a simple nurse, putting her life on the line is more pleasing to God than the phony, worthless “anointing of the sick.”

      Andrew,
      There are still Traditionalists stepping up—the SSPV in NY is among them. Don’t know why yours is different. Do they only have Mass there once per month? If you don’t mind answering, in which state do you live?

      —-Introibo

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    9. Southern States CSA territory.
      -Andrew

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  9. Skip to 15:40 https://banned.video/watch?id=5e84160f1ae564001ca01c18

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  10. As of my writing this, Masses are continuing to be live-streamed from at least 5 Trad (Sede) chapels that I know of. MHT Seminary in Florida (Bp. Sanborn) has been conducting vespers as well, which can be watched online.

    Fr. Steven McKenna at St Gertrude the Great wrote about the topic of church closures and Mass attendance in the March 29 bulletin.
    If interested go to the website at sgg.org - you'll see a "download the bulletin" button on the front page below the church photo; it will take you to it on PDF.
    Jannie

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    1. CMRI's pilot Chapel from Rathdrum, ID livestreams daily Mass as well:

      http://www.miqparish.org/livestreaming-mass/

      Sincerely,

      A Simple Man

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    2. Jannie and Simple Man,
      Thank you for supplying this information!

      —-Introibo

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    3. A brief addendum: Most Holy Trinity Seminary's livestreams are available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuux5pdNEtdocBDT-EmsxXA

      The homilies are later uploaded to a separate YouTube channel called "epikeya": https://www.youtube.com/user/epikeya

      Sincerely,

      A Simple Man


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  11. For what it is worth, I just wanted to share something positive I observed today regarding COVID-19. I live in a suburban area of a large City. The people are generally very unfriendly, keep to themselves and if you can get someone to say hello while walking the dog, you are lucky. Today, I ventured out to go shopping. The amount of people in my neighborhood, who would usually just ignore me, were waving and smiling. As I was getting out of my car in a shopping center, I was equally surprised by the amount of people who drove by me and waved! Not being used to people being friendly, I was shocked to say the least. Anyone have any thoughts on this change in people's behavior? Has anyone noticed a change in people in the area where you live since the Coronavirus struck? Thanks.

    JoAnn

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    1. Try working with nothing but Freemasons + their children.
      It's an ugly experience you'll never forget.

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  12. JoAnn
    I notice the friendliness too. That is one good thing to come out of this; it has a good effect on the mind and mood. Humans are such social creatures, we can't tolerate continued isolation, and we pull together in tough times.
    I noticed the waving and smiling too, after 9-11. Unfortunately it was short lived. We seem to go back to business as usual when a crisis subsides. Even so, I think that most people are kind and generous. We also hear too much about the selfish types, in the media, and not enough of the generous ones.
    Jannie

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    1. It's a pattern often seen with Israel in the Old Testament: they fall into sinful ways and forget about God, who then withdraws His graces to let them enjoy the fruits of their wickedness. As calamity strikes, Israel wails and cries out for God to have mercy, which He then grants as they return to His ways. Then, as time passes, Israel once more forgets God and falls into wickedness once more. And so the cycle continues.

      It's a tale as old as time, and it brings to mind the communion prayer of St. Augustine:

      xxxx

      BEFORE Thine eyes, O Lord, we bring our sins, and we compare them with the stripes we have received.

      If we examine the evil we have wrought, what we suffer is little, what we deserve is great.

      What we have committed is very grievous, what we have suffered is very slight.

      We feel the punishment of sin, yet withdraw not from the obstinacy of sinning.

      Under Thy lash our inconstancy is visited, but our sinfulness is not changed.

      Our suffering soul is tormented, but our neck is not bent.
      Our life groans under sorrow, yet amends not in deed.

      If Thou spare us, we correct not our ways: if Thou punish, we cannot endure it.

      In time of correction we confess our wrongdoing: after Thy visitation we forget that we have wept.

      If Thou stretchest forth Thy hand, we promise amendment; if Thou withholdest the sword, we keep not our promise.

      If Thou strikest, we cry out for mercy; if Thou sparest, we again provoke Thee to strike

      Here we are before Thee, O Lord, confessedly guilty; we know that unless Thou pardon we shall deservedly perish.

      Grant then, O almighty Father, without our deserving it, the pardon we ask; Thou Who madest out of nothing those Who ask Thee. Through Christ our Lord. Amen

      xxxx

      Sincerely,

      A Simple Man

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    2. ASM:
      You have hit on the perfect meditation for these times. I will say this and think on it often.
      Thank you
      Jannie

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    3. Joann, Jannie, and Simple Man,
      I agree that people are generally more supportive. I also agree with Simple Man's analysis.

      ---Introibo

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    4. I am hoping that perhaps this act of God vs. an act of man such as acts of terrorism or acts of war will really wake people up and they will reevaluate the selfishness which has so permeated this Godless society. Man can't bomb this virus away or buy it to go away. This is not a war being fought thousands of miles away. There is not one person in this Country who hasn't been affected by the virus from losing jobs, to the possibly of losing your life or the lives of a loved one. Man has been rendered virtually powerless. Perhaps man has been humbled and will turn to the Almighty and realize that man is not sitting on the throne after all. Just my 2 cents.

      JoAnn

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  13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1jV3tJ2Lqw&feature=youtu.be

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  14. @Jannie
    Traditional Priest in Conneticut.
    Share this with anyone who may need last rites before being admitted to the hospital.
    http://olotr.rosarychapel.net/node/20

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    1. @anon11:15
      Thank you for this information!

      ---Introibo

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