As the regular readers of this blog know, I focus on a multiplicity of issues and how they should be viewed through the lens of the Traditional, Unchanging, Catholic Faith which has been "driven underground," so to speak, by the Great Apostasy at Vatican II. Hence, each week's topic is not always about Bergoglio the Apostate. As the "tagline" of this blog states, it's about "The World as Seen from a Traditionalist Catholic Perspective." I decided that my original topic for this post would be put off when the news was released on September 18, 2020 that Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the United States Supreme Court had died from complications due to cancer at age 87. Immediately, there was an outpouring of praise and adulation of this woman (known by her initials as "RBG") who joined the High Court in 1993 when nominated by former President Bill Clinton. She was subsequently confirmed by the Senate to replace Associate Justice Byron White. (Ironically, Justice White wrote the dissenting, pro-life opinion in Roe v. Wade and Clinton made sure an avid pro-abortionist would replace him).
I was aghast at how many people were treating her as a "heroine" and "champion of women," and seen as above criticism. Even President Trump (not politically correct to be sure) spoke of her in glowing terms; most likely because the president realized he couldn't survive the backlash if he dared to speak the truth about this horrid jurist. There is an old aphorism, De mortuis nihil nisi bonum, which translates roughly as "Of the dead, [say] nothing but good" because it is wrong to attack someone's character when they cannot defend themselves. While this might apply to the average person, public figures are another matter. I will not allow another day go by without the truth about her record being known. Ginsburg being pro-baby killing and pro-sodomite is only the beginning of her promotion of evil.
Ginsburg was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for years. She served on the Board of Directors. According to the ACLU's own website:
Ginsburg deliberately chose the ACLU as the vehicle for her legal work, rather than an organization with a narrower women's rights agenda, in large part because she believed that the ACLU would enhance the credibility of the women's rights cause. Ginsburg has also said that she chose the ACLU because of the integral interconnection between civil liberties and civil rights, including women's rights. 'I wanted to be a part of a general human rights agenda . . . [promoting] the equality of all people and the ability to be free,' she said. (See https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-history-driving-force-change-aclu-womens-rights-project; Emphasis mine). Bader Ginsburg knew all about the ACLU and proudly promoted their agenda. This agenda, as this post will show, has nothing to do with "human rights" or "women's rights." It attempts to destroy society and banish God from human thought. Most don't realize just how depraved that agenda really is and the untold harm it does to souls. WARNING! Some descriptions in this post are graphic in nature. Reader discretion is advised.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Short Bio
As most people of been besieged in the media with her "remarkable achievements," I offer here a concise biography, free from hyperbolic claims. Ginsburg was born Joan Ruth Bader on March 15, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York. The second daughter of Nathan and Celia Bader, she grew up in a low-income, working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn.Ginsburg earned her bachelor's degree in government from Cornell University in 1954, finishing first in her class. She married law student Martin D. Ginsburg that same year. The early years of their marriage were challenging, as their first child, Jane, was born shortly after Martin was drafted into the military in 1954. He served for two years and, after his discharge, the couple returned to Harvard, where Ginsburg also enrolled. She became the first female member of the Harvard Law Review.
The Communist Connection Of The ACLU and Director Ginsburg
The ACLU was founded in 1920 by Roger Baldwin, an agnostic, and a Socialist who became a convinced Communist. He said, "I am for Socialism, disarmament, and ultimately for abolishing the State itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control by those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal." (See Peggy Lamson, Roger Baldwin: Founder of the American Civil Liberties Union: A Portrait, [1976], pg. 192). Baldwin was born to a wealthy family that was Unitarian. He got the idea of forming the ACLU to transform America via using the Courts and legal system. He counted among his closest friends the eugenicist Margaret Sanger, the diabolical founder of Planned Parenthood. (Ibid)
Baldwin told those who helped him found his organization that the ACLU was to disguise itself as a pro-American organization; Communism and Socialism were not to be mentioned. Instead, they were to talk about the Constitution and how their goal was to keep America free by enforcing the Constitutional rights of all citizens. They would enlist young and idealistic lawyers from law school, eventually winning them over to their subversive ideals and eventually getting them placed in high positions as judges. The ACLU began its relentless attack against traditional values in four areas:
- Children
- Marriage
- Human Life
- Religion
The Assault Against Children
Jefferey Curley was a normal ten year old boy, living in Massachusetts, who liked baseball and riding his bike. Unfortunately, both parents needed to work, and he was a "latchkey kid," spending his time afterschool without supervision. The year was 1997, and two sodomites, Salvatore Sicari (age 21) and Charlie Jaynes (age 22) had befriended the boy; they lived near him and would make conversation as well as taking him out to eat multiple times. On October 1st, Jeffrey's life would be brutally ended. The two perverts took Jeffery for a ride, ostensibly to go eat. Prior to that, the men had gone to the public library and accessed the website for the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) which promotes pedophilia and abolishing age-of-consent laws. During the ride, Jayne offered to buy Jeffrey a new bike since his old one was stolen. He asked the boy to have sex with him in the back seat of the car as "payment" for the new bike. Jeffrey refused and tried to fight off Jaynes, but Jaynes got angry, pinned the boy down, and held a gasoline-soaked rag over his mouth and nose until the fumes killed him. Jaynes and Sicari then drove to a local store and purchased lime, concrete and a 50 gallon container, and headed out to an apartment Jaynes had been renting. There they had sex with Jeffrey’s corpse (necrophilia), then proceeded to place his body in the 50 gallon container and fill it with concrete. Early the next morning they dumped his body in a nearby river called “The Great Works River." Jeffery's body was eventually found, and both Jaynes and Sicari were found guilty. Sicari was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.
Jaynes was found guilty of second degree murder and will be eligible for parole in 2021, however in 2006 a former prisoner stated he heard Jaynes yell “I wouldn’t hesitate to do it again. I would pull him out of the grave and do it [kill and rape the boy] again and again.” The prisoner told sources “It was in his gut, it was how he really felt.” The crime was so heinous, the Massachusetts legislature came within one vote of restoring the death penalty.
(See e.g., http://lanternproject.org.uk/library/general/articles-and-information-about-sexual-abuse-and-its-impact/curley-kidnapping-still-packs-a-punch/).
In 2000, Jeffery's parents initiated a wrongful death lawsuit Curley v. NAMBLA, against NAMBLA for inciting the murder of their son. The ACLU came to the defense of NAMBLA.
According to Curley family attorney Larry Frisoli, Jaynes kept a diary in which he wrote that he turned to NAMBLA's website in order to gain psychological comfort for what he was about to do. The killer had been stalking Curley prior to the boy's murder and possessed various materials from the clandestine group. The ACLU argues that the newsletters and other NAMBLA materials in Jaynes' possession, which contain ''photographs of boys of various ages and nude drawings of boys,'' are protected speech under the Constitution. The material does not ''urge, promote, advocate or even condone torture, mutilation or murder,'' ACLU attorneys wrote. ''Examination of the materials that have been identified by the plaintiffs will show that they simply do not advocate violation of the law,'' the dismissal motion states. ''But even if that were the case, speech is not deprived of the protection of the First Amendment simply because it advocates an unlawful act."
...According to court documents from the ACLU, the case raises ''profoundly important questions under the First Amendment,'' because NAMBLA is not being sued for making any particular statements, but simply for creating an ''environment'' that encourages sexual abuse. ''What they don't like is what NAMBLA stands for,'' said John Reinstein, legal director of the Massachusetts chapter of the ACLU. ''They don't like their ideas or the notion that someone else would have accepted them,'' he told the Boston Globe. (See https://www.wnd.com/2000/12/4648/; Emphasis mine).
The ACLU won on a technical ground. Much has been made about the inaccurate claim that Ginsburg wanted the age of consent dropped to twelve years old, but no one can deny that she sat on the Board of Directors of the organization which protected child molestation advocates. Moreover, in her book Sex Bias in the U.S. Code, published in 1977 by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (where the 12-year-old remark was made in reference to gender-neutral language), she has gone on record asserting that laws against “bigamists, persons cohabiting with more than one woman, and women cohabiting with a bigamist” are "arguably" unconstitutional. (Page 195).
The Assault Against Marriage
In 2004, in New Paltz, New York, then-Mayor Jason West "married" twenty-five "same sex couples" which was against New York State Law at the time. He was charged on multiple misdemeanor charges for performing marriages without a license. The left-wing judge dismissed the indictment because "the state failed to show it has a legitimate interest in banning same-sex weddings." (See https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32522-2004Jun10.html?nav%3Dheadlines).
The AP newswire of 2/26/04 reported that the Executive Director of the NY Chapter of the ACLU (which defended West) stated, "Bravo, bravo for the mayor. Equal rights for gay couples (sic) are long overdue. They are entitled to equal treatment under the law, including the right to marry and the family protections enjoyed by heterosexual couples." Are "equal rights" what sodomites (and their Communist ACLU allies) really want? That question was answered in 2011 when Andrew "Put the COVID patients in the nursing homes" Cuomo, a member of the Vatican II sect, made legalizing sodomite "marriage" a priority.
One of my friends from law school was elected as a Republican member of the State Legislature; he was a member of the Democratic-controlled, 150 member State Assembly. When the same-sex "marriage" bill came up for a vote, he obtained the floor to speak. What he did next to expose the homosexual agenda was nothing short of brilliant. He proposed that to settle the matter, he would sit down with counsel for the Democrats and draw up a bill for a "New York State Domestic Partnership Bill" which would ensure homosexual "couples" get every single right as that of heterosexual couples. The only difference would be that heterosexual unions would be called "marriage" in respect to the long held societal and religious beliefs in New York, and the homosexual unions would be called "NYS Domestic Partnership"--only the nomenclature would be different. The chamber went crazy with pro-sodomite legislators calling him a "fascist" a "homophobe" and the guards had to be called in to restore order. This is proof they don't want "rights," they want to destroy the institution of marriage.
Why do Ginsburg and her ACLU comrades want to destroy the institution of marriage? The legal benefits afforded to heterosexual couples affirms the belief that real marriage is the most valuable sexual relationship in society. If homosexual partners are called "married," it makes their relationship equal to heterosexuals and makes deviant, perverted behavior seem normal. It is a slap in the face to both the Natural Law and the Divine-Positive Law. Ginsburg thus (as far back as 1977) was contemplating as unconstitutional laws prohibiting polygamy and, in effect, "group marriage." The civil law is a great teacher, and it will teach that deviant sex is normal. This will encourage adolescents to experiment with such behavior, thereby increasing the number of homosexuals and bisexuals (there is already evidence of that happening). Moreover, your children will be indoctrinated in school, and you will get "diversity and tolerance" training at work. "Tolerance and respect" is a one-way street; you must tolerate and respect deviants, but they need not respect and tolerate your values and religious beliefs.
If you think that the tragedy of Jeffery Curley is an isolated instance of murder caused by homosexual deviance, it is not. Homosexuality was rightly considered a mental disorder by the APA until they caved to political pressure in the 1970s, and until the 5-4 decision in Lawrence v. Texas in 2003, homosexual sodomy could be criminalized (and it was in several states). Ginsburg was in the five member majority.
Here are the statistics you should know:
- Donald Harvey claimed 37 victims in Kentucky
- John Wayne Gacy raped and killed 33 boys in Chicago, burying them under his house and in his yard
- Patrick Kearney accounted for 32, cutting his victims into small pieces after sex and leaving them in trash bags along the Los Angeles freeways
- Bruce Davis molested and killed 27 young men and boys in Illinois
- A gay sex-murder-torture ring (Corll-Henley-Brooks) sent 27 Texas men and boys to their grave; and Juan Corona was convicted of murdering 25 migrant workers (he had sex with their corpses--necrophilia--as in the case of the murderers of poor little Jeffery Curley).
A study of 518 sexually-tinged mass murders in the U.S. from 1966 to 1983 determined that 350 (68%) of the victims were killed by those who practiced homosexuality and that 19 (44%) of the 43 murderers were bisexuals or homosexuals (See Cameron, Dr. Paul, [1983] "Is homosexuality disproportionately associated with murder?" Paper presented at Midwestern Psychological Assn Chicago).
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Associate Justice Elena Kagan were in the five member majority in the decision declaring "sodomite marriage" a "Constitutional right" (See Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644). Yet, neither had the right to hear the case ethically, because they were bound to recuse themselves. Title 28, Part I, Chapter 21, Section 455 of the U.S. Code titled “Disqualification of justice, judge, or magistrate judge,” states that “Any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”
Kagan performed a September 21, 2014, same-sex “marriage” ceremony for her former law clerk and his partner in Maryland. Likewise, Ginsburg performed a same-sex “marriage” ceremony at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., in August 2013. They refused to recuse themselves and neither was impeached. Can you imagine if Associate Justice Clarence Thomas joined the March for Life and continued to hear cases involving abortion?
The Assault Against Human Life
In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court decided by a 5-4 decision, that the 2003 Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, made law by Congress in 2003, was constitutional. (See Gonzales v. Carhart, 550 U.S. 124) Partial birth abortion is the act by which an unborn baby (usually seven to nine months old) is taken out of the mother's womb, and with just a couple of inches of his/her head inside the mother, has the head opened with a surgical instrument and his/her brains extracted; the decapitated body is thrown out as "medical waste."
Ginsburg wrote the dissenting opinion as to why this barbaric means of murder should be allowed. Her opinion states, "Thus, legal challenges to undue restrictions on abortion procedures do not seek to vindicate some generalized notion of privacy; rather, they center on a woman's autonomy to determine her life's course, and thus to enjoy equal citizenship stature." Ok, so decapitating a child fully capable of living outside the mother's womb isn't murder, it's about the woman "determining her life's course" and being an "equal citizen." At least half of those babies murdered are female. What about their rights? Ginsburg also doesn't care about how abortion is unfair to men based on her own secular legal principles. Example: a man gets a women pregnant and he tells her to kill the child by abortion. She says no, and keeps the baby. He must pay for the child he didn't want to have for the next 21 years. If in the same scenario, the man wants to keep the child and take care of him/her and pay for him/her, the woman can say no and kill the child by abortion. How is this fair to men in Ginsburg's world?
In an interview with the New York Times, Ginsburg had this to say, "Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe [v. Wade; legalizing abortion in 1973] was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. " (See https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/magazine/12ginsburg-t.html?hp=&pagewanted=print; Emphasis mine). Exactly what populations do we "[not] want too many of"? Blacks? Hispanics? Non-Jews in general?
The Assault Against Religion
I'll let Ginsburg's record of rulings on religion while on the Supreme Court speak for themselves:
- In 2019, the case of American Legion v. American Humanist Association, the Court allowed the Bladensburg’s Peace Cross memorial for WWII veterans to remain on public property by a 7-2 decision. Ginsburg wrote the dissent. She contended, inter alia, that the Cross offended non-religious observers and its symbolism violated the conscience of those who did not share the meaning of “the Latin cross … the foremost symbol of the Christian faith" and it was funded by taxpayers. While Ginsburg would allow enemies of Christianity to stop the Cross maintenance by tax dollars, and, in the name of conscience, to refuse even to associate in any way with the theological meaning of the cross, she will not extend the same right to believers not to be coerced to act against their beliefs.
- In 2014, Ginsburg dissented in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. whereby the Court ruled in favor of a corporation, Hobby Lobby, when they objected on religious grounds to paying for drugs popularly (and erroneously) called contraceptives. Those "contraceptives" also acted as abortifacients (i.e., they kill unborn babies) and were mandated by Obamacide. In her dissent, Ginsburg noted how dubious it would be for a firm to claim their corporate conscience had been violated. Yet this same woman had no problems with corporations refusing to do business in states that did not support same sex marriage prior to 2015. Can you say hypocrite?
- In 2018, the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd., et al., Petitioners v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, et al upheld the right of a Protestant who designs wedding cakes to refuse service to a homosexual couple based on his religious beliefs. The ACLU supported the sodomites in Court. Did Ginsburg respect the right of the baker's conscience? On the contrary, she dissented because the Christian must conform to "laws of general applicability." She treats your right to be free from religion as practically inviolate; she regards your right to act on your religion to be circumscribed by “laws of general applicability”
Conclusion
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a Communist sympathizer and "fellow traveler" who supported everything ungodly. God is to be banished from the public square. Sexual perverts are to be extolled and marriage destroyed. Babies are to be murderer at any point during pregnancy, and for any reason, in the name of "women's rights." This person is a "great American" and a "champion for human rights"? She aided and abetted the ACLU in its plan to destroy America and belief in God. Have the Vatican II sect "bishops" condemned her life of evil actions? You already know the answer. Not a word from the Argentinian apostate, Francis.
Writing an article for the Jesuit rag America magazine ("What I will teach my children about Ruth Bader Ginsburg") Erika Bachiochi opines, "Justice Ginsburg lived a heroic life (!) in many ways, and I am grateful for her exemplary tenacity, equanimity and concern for others—not to mention her trailblazing work at the Supreme Court in the 1970s." I am reminded of the Biblical verse Isaiah 5:20, "Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." Ruth Bader Ginsburg was "RBG"--Repugnant Blasphemous Garbage.
Here in Canada, Henry Morgentaler has been lauded for killing hundreds of thousands of unborn children. He was jailed when abortion was still considered a crime (it still is, but not for politicians, judges, feminists and "human rights" defenders). And it was the same in France with Simone Veil. This world is completely twisted! Those who do evil are great people and those who speak out against evil are persecuted. But this is not surprising because Saint John tells us that the whole world is in the power of the Evil One (1 John 5:19). One day there will be the Last Judgment and we will see true Justice appear and the wicked justly punished.
ReplyDeleteSimon,
DeleteVery true. The world loves the wicked. Look at all the praise and admiration for Bergoglio!
God Bless,
—-Introibo
The other false popes also had praise. It shows that they are false prophets (Luke 6, 26).
DeleteIf she didn’t save herself, she must be in a well-deserved hell right now.
ReplyDelete@anon6:22
DeleteNo doubt.
God Bless,
—-Introibo
Lee,
ReplyDeleteGreat and truthful acronym!
God Bless,
—-Introibo
Judge Antonin Scalia was noted for his close friendship with Ginsburg. I don't understand the attraction between the two of them as Scalia was conservative.
ReplyDeleteSee link below where Scalia's son talks of his Father's friendship with Ginsburg.
JoAnn
https://www.ncregister.com/news/catholics-respond-after-supreme-court-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-dies-at-87-cabtb9pu
Joann,
DeleteI studied Constitutional Law for a summer semester taught by Justice Scalia. What you say is true. I don’t understand his affinity for Ginsburg. Scalia has nine children, and his son Paul Scalia is a Vatican II sect “priest.”
—-Introibo
I surmise it's one of those oddities where you can respect the talents and abilities of someone who's on the other side, as it were. Much like how General Erwin Rommel fought for the Nazis during World War II, yet was still respected by many Allied officers during and after the war for his general character (which is, admittedly, subject to much debate). He may have been guided by a impulse of charity for Ruth Bader Ginsburg in terms of how they related with one another; whether it had any impact on the fate of her immortal soul will be known only to the Judgment of God.
DeleteBut in terms of what Ruth Bader Ginsburg actually **did**, her record is a miserable one. Regarding her style and philosophy as a judge, a comment from Alan Keyes speaks volumes on this matter. To quote from his 2004 Illinois Senate debate against Barack Obama (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn6x_9CLTB4), on the subject of marriage: "to act as if concepts are laughable means that you want to be irrational...human beings reason by means of concepts and definitions. We also make laws by means of definitions, and if you don't know how to operate with respect for those definitions, you can't make the law."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a horrendous record with regards to operating with respect to definitions, whether tied to the Natural Law, the Divine Law, or even the merely Civil Law. As such, she betrayed herself as a radical postmodernist who had no business being a judge, promoting policies and societal changes based on nothing more than her own desires.
Sincerely,
A Simple Man
Simple Man,
Delete“Her own desires” is all that drives her decisions. It is rumored that leftist Justice Thurgood Marshall once remarked, “If I die just stuff my body like a prize animal and keep it on the bench. No replacement is necessary because everyone knows how I would vote, and you can just add my name to the opinion that best fits my views.” Probably apocryphal by accurate nevertheless.
God Bless,
—-Introibo
Reportedly they shared a love for opera. This past weekend the local classical music station played one of her supposed favorites in her honor - Don Giovanni. Forgive me Lord,but I thought that was ironic!
DeleteJannie
I know someone who is LEFTIST + we get along very well.
DeleteI feel more at ease w/this individual as opposed to 95% of people I've met.
The divide happens when this person brings up religion
and sociology.
It's not common but these type of situations exist.
Antonin Scalia was an academic intellectual like RBG.
God bless
-Andrew
Jannie,
DeleteInteresting information!
Andrew,
You make an interesting point.
—-Introibo
Maybe it is just me, but anytime I have befriended a non-Christian it has not worked out for the good. As a result I have very few friends to associate with. I guess, I would rather have no "friends" than ones who are not Christian.
Delete"Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness? [15] And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath the faithful with the unbeliever?
[16] And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God; as God saith: I will dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. [17] Wherefore, Go out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing: [18] And I will receive you; and I will be a Father to you; and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. 2 Cor.Chapt 6 Verse 14-18
JoAnn
Excellent work exposing the demonic in our justice system! In case you missed it, Michael Voris did a good video denouncing RBG, too. He labeled her a stone-cold killer. SEE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYE0AF4EtDQ
ReplyDeleteThank you for the information my friend!
DeleteGod Bless,
—Introibo
I find it ironic that Ginsburg's Supreme Court seat may be replaced by the conservative Amy Coney Barrett. While she is a practicing Novus Ordo "Catholic" she is supposedly involved with a non-denominational community called "People of Praise" which is quite controversial. I believe the group is very anti-LGBT which is the total opposite of Ginsburg.
ReplyDeleteJoAnn
Joann,
DeleteOne can only hope Trump’s nominee will do the OPPOSITE of Ginsburg!
—-Introibo
Introibo,
DeleteI think the chances of Barrett being better than Ginsburg is optimistic. However, never can tell with all the flip flopping going on these days. If physio-morphology is any indication, Barrett looks angelic compared to the demonic Ginsburg!
JoAnn
Joann,
DeleteJust about ANYONE would look good by comparison!
—-Introibo
Introbio,
ReplyDeleteDo you believe in Physiomorphology? It seems to me as if our enemies really are starting to look like demons.
Ryan,
DeleteI’m beginning to consider the possibility!
God Bless,
—-Introibo
Intro:
DeleteI've never heard of physiomorphology before this. Sounds interesting. I'd like to see it tackled by you some time in a future post.
I have heard about "reptilian" humans but that is really far out as far as I am concerned; it sounds like human hybridization which I can't think God would permit, because I believe that humans really are so "wonderfully and fearfully made" that any of these talked-about vaccine experiments in DNA manipulation would meet with abject failure.
Can you or any of the readers here explain the difference between physiomorphology and so- called hybrid humans? Thanks.
Jannie
The "PM" I was writing about is where we exteriorly manifest our interior disposition by way of physically looking how we really are. In other words if one lives his life full of hatred he will look like a hateful man. If someone is totally evil and does everything they can to subvert all sense of morality and sanity then they will end up looking like Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Hope this helps.
DeleteJannie,
DeleteRyan said it well!
—-Introibo
Introibo,
DeleteWanted to know your thoughts on an aptronym (also: aptonym) or charactonym? A name aptly suited to its owner. Such as Bad-er for example.
JoAnn
Joann,
DeleteCertainly is appropriate in her case!
—-Introibo
Is it ok to pray for her Soul or should we focuse on the Holy Souls in
ReplyDeletePurgatory?
God bless
-Andrew
Andrew,
DeleteAs we can never know the fate of a soul we may always pray for those who have died in the hopes that in the last minutes or even seconds of their lives they had a sudden conversion to the One True Faith and had perfect contrition for their sins.
If she is in Hell (most likely), your can ask God to use your prayers for a forgotten soul in Purgatory.
—-Introibo
Thank you!
Delete-A
DeleteI am in the midst of a very difficult situation and am in need of prayers. Thank you.
JoAnn
Perhaps you can shed light on this question in relation to prayers for the dead. Since God is outside of time, does he take into account all the future prayers, masses and penances done for the departed before their death? For instance if I have a mass said for my grandpa in the present does that only benefit him if he is presently in purgatory? Or could God also see that act of charity and give him Grace's at the end of his life in the past before his judgement?
DeleteJoann,
DeleteI ask all my readers to pray for Joann—-as I have been doing.
—-Introibo
David,
DeleteThe Church has not defined anything on the matter, but it is possible on the basis of God’s “Middle Knowledge” (by which God knows what his free creatures would do under any circumstance—championed by theologian Molina), that He knows you would freely offer Mass for your grandpa, and can take all those Masses and prayers applying them to his soul at the particular Judgement, and lessening the duration of his suffering on that account, so in essence the Mass after his death was already efficacious.
I’m a Molinist with regard to God’s Middle Knowledge, but it is only my opinion and nothing has been decided by the Church regarding this matter.
God Bless,
—-Introibo
Thanks for the reply my friend. For me it's one thing that's always fascinated me in regards to prayers for the dead. To me it only makes sense that some people in the past are saved through God's Grace because of the sacrifices and prayers of those in the future and vise versa, based solely on the fact that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ. We are are all members of the Body of Christ, past, present and future.Knowing that God knows and sees all and is apart from time, to me it makes sense that God could give a sinner in the past the gift of true contrition at the moment of their death because of the deeds of those who live in the future/ present.
DeleteGod bless my friend, may the Most Holy Eucharist enrich and strengthen you and all Catholic people!
JoAnn, I'm keeping you in my prayers and offering my Rosary for your intention. May Our Blessed Lady watch over you!
DeleteJoanna S.
Joanna S.,
DeleteThank you and God Bless you for the prayers!
My husband was taken to ER via Ambulance. He was running a temperature of 103. He tested positive for Covid-19 and has double pneumonia.
Thanks again for the prayers!
JoAnn
Joann,I'll pray for you during my Holy Rosay.
DeleteGod bless,
-Andrew
Andrew,
DeleteThanks so much. God bless you.
JoAnn
"For instance if I have a mass said for my grandpa in the present does that only benefit him if he is presently in purgatory? Or could God also see that act of charity and give him Grace's at the end of his life in the past before his judgement?"
DeleteWhen we pray for the dead, as your grandfather seems to be, the traditional teaching of the Church is that, if the person is in Purgatory, God can use those prayers to reduce the person's suffering in Purgatory. While everything is possible with God, there is nothing in Catholic practice that says that prayers offered for a dead person can have a retro-active effect on their behavior while they are alive.
The idea that we can pray for past events in the present is an idea invented, as far as I can tell, by EWTN. It has no basis in Scripture or tradition.
That being said, you should certainly pray for your grandfather, because if he is in Purgatory he needs as much prayer as possible.
@anon6:05
DeleteYou misunderstand. The teaching of theologian Molina are neither invented by EWTN and have grounds in both Scripture and Tradition. There is no praying for past events in the future.
1. God stands outside of time. For Him everything is present at once.
2.God knows with infallible certainty the future free acts of all human beings as well as their ultimate fate as saved or damned.
3. Since God knows a certain person will be saved, He also knows if that soul goes directly to Heaven or to Purgatory.
4. If the soul goes to Purgatory, He knows with Infallible certainty the Masses and prayers that will be said for this soul.
5. Therefore, when the soul goes to Judgement, it receives the shortened sentence to Purgatory due to those Masses and prayers.
6. In like manner, Mary was Immaculately Conceived IN VIEW OF THE FORESEEN MERITS OF JESUS CHRIST. This is a DOGMA defined by Pope Pius IX. Since God CAN do it, could he do likewise with the foreseen merits of HIS SON’s UNBLOODLY SACRIFICE? The Church has not decided but it is a genuine theological opinion held by many theologians.
—-Introibo
Look up what longtime ACLU
ReplyDeletesupporter Al Goldstein stated
about Catholicism.
Not posting it because his words are disgusting,though it doesn't any curse words.
Like Deacon Bergoglio,
(Novus Ordo kept the
6 minor orders until 1972)
his words are abominable yet honest.
Someone like Fr.Ratzinger,who appears to be somewhat
"traditionally minded" is much more cunning + dangerous.
God bless
-Andrew
@anon11:37
ReplyDeleteSodomites are pure evil.
God Bless,
—-Introibo
Ginsburg of the 'Synagogue of Satan' --- not my words; these come from Our Lord Himself, so they are necessarily true.
ReplyDelete@anon6:47
DeleteShe was satanic.
—-Introibo
Introibo, is there such time limit as to how long is labor allowed on Sunday before being considered a sin?
ReplyDeleteI've heard something like that from a sermon,
Thank you.
@anon12:49
DeleteAccording to Theologian Jone, servile work should ideally be less than 2 1/2- 3 hours depending upon how assiduous it is; to be safe stay under 2 1/2 hrs. 3hrs or more is mortal sin. (See Moral Theology [1961], pg. 121)
—-Introibo