Catholics in the USA!
Julian Assange of Wikileaks,
a snotty leftist hacker, may be
the best friend you have right now
by Oakes Spalding
Oct. 17, 2016
Wikileaks, under the leadership of Julian Assange, has been publishing embarrassing leaked emails from the Clinton campaign for a number of weeks.
(This post will contain no links. Things are changing so fast, there isn't a lot of point. Go to Drudge for the latest. It will be up for at least the next few months.)
There have been so many devastating Wikileaks reveals that they threaten to drown each other out.
For Catholics, the most interesting revelations have been that Clinton operatives view faithful Catholics as enemies and set up two Catholic front groups to control and influence not only the Catholic vote but the direction of the Catholic Church itself.
In a free country with a free media, these leaks would be the lead stories every day on the major networks and on the front pages of every newspaper. No one has denied their accuracy. Instead, there has been almost a total mainstream media blackout.
A small exception was a report on CNN, where it was announced that if anyone read Wikileaks material without it being filtered through CNN, he might be breaking the law.
And the content of the leaks themselves have shown the media to be completely in the tank for the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign.
If we had an honest government, many of the leaks would have prompted FBI investigations. Instead, the US government is now cracking down on Wikileaks and Assange to retaliate against them for releasing information that put the Clinton campaign in a negative light. Does that make sense?
Assange has been in sanctuary in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London for the past four years. Technically, he's attempting to avoid extradition to Sweden (and then perhaps the United States) for accusations of sexual harassment that came up at precisely the most convenient (for his opponents) moment. Does that sound familiar?
Take a good look at his face. He may not be long for this world. In the last 24 hours his internet access (in the embassy) has been cut off, and they've acted against other alleged Wikileaks operators, attempting to block them as well.
The British government has also just acted against RT News. It is alleged (without any evidence that I know of) that Russia is the source for some of the Wikileaks material.
The US may have just launched, or be about to launch, a cyberwar with Russia to protect the Clinton presidential campaign. Does that make sense?
So, fearing the worst, Wikileaks has apparently just activated its "dead man" switch, revealing a key to decrypt some of its most important data.
What does it all mean? This isn't our country anymore.
And by "our", I'm not just referring to fellow faithful Catholics. Far from it. Faithful Catholics are just 1% (or whatever) of the current community of peasants. You better start making friends with some of the others.
The bad guys want to keep that boot grinding down. It's their country. Or they think it is. And they'll do anything to keep it that way.
Julian Assange is a snotty, leftist hacker. But right now, he may be the best friend you have.
Tomorrow, he'll be you.
Fr. Rutler's weekly pastoral note tackles the Wikileaks scandal on the Hillary Clinton anti-Catholic strategy...
Are Americans turning into people
who will willingly martyrize martyrs?
by Fr. George W. Rutler
Oct. 23, 2016
Last Sunday, seven saints were canonized: two martyrs, four priests and a contemplative nun. The martyrs were Salomone Leclercq, who was killed during the French Revolution in 1792, and José Sánchez del Río, who was only 14 when he was tortured and shot in 1928 while resisting the anti-Catholic government of Mexico.
It is embarrassing to match these figures against various people in our own country who call themselves Catholics while trying to refashion the Church to their own liking.
Recently discovered WikiLeaks documents have revealed attempts by politicians to strip the Church of her Catholic principles so that she might be a pliant agent of a secular agenda. I have written about this recently with reference to saints who saw similar attempts in their own days. (See
www.crisismagazine.com: “Two Newmans and Two Catholic Springs.”)
One of the politicians wrote: “There needs to be a Catholic Spring in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.”
This mixture of arrogance and ignorance is contradicted by the fact that
dictatorships are the typical construct of governments hostile to the Faith. The emperor Julian the Apostate set the tone in the fourth century. Then fast forward a millennium to Henry VIII shrinking the Church in England into the Church of England, and that manipulation grew with gusto when the French revolutionaries created a Gallican Church, the Nazis set up a Reichskirche, and the Chinese Communists imposed a Patriotic Church.
The outward forms of those sects camouflaged their pliant obsequiousness to their respective tyrannies. They were enabled by morally ambiguous politicians who professed to be “personally opposed” to sin while giving free reign to its public promotion.
A Church refashioned to indulge the suburban conceits of lukewarm Christians
[or even worse, CINOs, Christians in name only, which Democrats who call themselves Christians are] would not be the Church of Christ Crucified.
There were more mockers at the foot of the Cross than adorers.
Archbishop Kurtz, head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has responded:
“There have been recent reports that some may have sought to interfere in the internal life of the Church for short-term political gain. If true, this is troubling both for the well-being of faith communities and the good of our country. . .
As Catholics, we hold onto our beliefs because they come to us from Jesus, not a consensus forged by contemporary norms. . . We also expect public officials to respect the rights of people to live their faith without interference from the state.”
In 1922, Chesterton said, “America is a nation with the soul of a church.”
If compromised Catholics sell that soul in a Faustian bargain, our nation will be like a whitewashed sepulchre and will not produce willing martyrs, but will produce people who willingly martyrize the martyrs.
In the category of bizarre info-manipulation moves, one must take note of the Bergoglio Vatican's tendency and attempts to suppress previously published material from the Vatican website for various reasons known only to those responsible for the censorship. In the early days of this pontificate, for weeks and weeks Benedict XVI's cameo portrait was not included in the Vatican home page's image links to the popes preceding the current one.
And we are all familiar with the on-and-off appearance of Eugenio Scalfari's (unedited) accounts of his conversations with JMB, glorified under the rubric DOCUMENTS of this Pontificate. I do not know if they are back on as of today, but it does not matter because they have been included in the Vatican-published volumes of Bergoglio's various interviews... Well, here are the latest twists and turns from the [shadowy] Vatican webmaster(s):
Pius XI’s writings return to Vatican website,
but not JPII’s exhortations on marriage
by Steve Skojec
October 21, 2016
On Wednesday, it was noted that Pope Pius XI’s page on the Vatican website had vanished, along with all of his encyclicals, even though the work of popes both before and after him remained.
We noted that his
Mortalium Animos is damning of modern-day ecumenism, and
Quas Primas is, of course, another encyclical that has — inasmuch as it promotes the civic duty to recognize Christ the King — shoved down the memory hole in action, if not in fact.
Others noted that
Casti Connubii — still arguably the most authoritative papal document on marriage and family — is an even more inconvenient bit of magisterial truth. But despite many suspicions, at some point yesterday, his page — and his documents — returned. There was no notation of any kind, so we may never know what happened, or why. And perhaps it doesn’t ultimately matter, if it was really (as is likely) just a mistake.
Nevertheless, Bai MacFarlane of Mary’s Advocates observed something similar yesterday, and it’s a problem that hasn’t been resolved:
Five translations of Saint Pope John Paul II’s often-quoted instruction to tribunal judges was removed from the Vatican’s website some time last year. It is now only available in Italian.
Each year, the Pope gives an address to the Tribunal of the Roman Rota and these are instructions to the world’s canon lawyers from THE legislator, the Pope. In 1987, Saint Pope John Paul II gave an address that cautioned against misusing the grounds for nullity of marriage – particularly “on the pretext of some immaturity or psychic weakness” (Canon 1095).
I posted a YouTube video on the Mary’s Advocates channel, showing how the Vatican’s website used to have a page showing all of Saint Pope John Paul’s addresses to the Roman Rota (in up to six different languages). That webpage was removed some time last year, which I demonstrate in my video by using a public webpage archiving tool, “way back time machine.” ...
In Saint Pope John Paul II’s 1987 address to the tribunal, he cautioned against the “scandal of seeing the value of Christian marriage being practically destroyed by the exaggerated and almost automatic multiplication of declarations of nullity of marriage in cases of the failure of marriage.”
He taught, “By preventing the ecclesiastical tribunal from becoming an easy way out for the dissolution of marriages that have failed, […] it also brings about an increased commitment in the use of resources for pastoral care of people after marriage.” He cites Familiaris Consortio’s instruction for helping married couples in day-to-day married life, long before anyone is thinking about divorce.
In my research, I found that in the active tribunals that cover half the population of the United States in 2012, they granted annulment (on average) in 98.7 percent of the cases judged.
In the summer of 2015, Pope Francis made some newsworthy changes to the annulment process, making them less expensive and faster. However, the grounds for annulment themselves were technically not changed. Sometime after that, the English translation of Saint Pope John Paul’s 1987 speech the Roman Rota appears to be missing from the Vatican’s website, along with the list of all of his speeches in multiple languages.
The sad thing is that in an age where we have a Vatican that can’t be trusted — and a complicit Catholic media helping them to edit inconvenient statements out of papal speeches in real time — occurrences such as these automatically take on the suspicion of being anything but an accident.
I am reminded time and again by even my most suspicious friends who have dealt with the Vatican directly of the first rule in such cases:
Never ascribe to malice what can be equally easily attributed to incompetence when it comes to the Vatican and the Internet.
Nevertheless, it is a bit easier to believe an entire missing webpage is an accident than the surreptitious removal of easily accessible translations.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 24/10/2016 00:24]