About a week ago, InsanityBytes joined the ranks of many Bloggers have decided to take a break from fighting against the tide of Political Correctness. I can't really blame her; the 'tide' has turned into a tsunami. Here, for example, are the headlines I saw just this morning:
Elites escaping Justice; bragging about they intend to plunder the populace even more; while Trash Culture has taken over the Marine Corps and the Justice League of America. All in one morning, too: it's hard to top that level of discouragement.
But in a lot ways, the recent news about the WCJD Case has had a 'centering' (as my younger friends say) effect. I keep thinking about a scene from a favorite movie, 1961's Judgement at Nuremberg. Based on a true story, this film was about the trial of four Nazi judges who were involved in the judicial murder of an innocent Jewish man. A recurrent theme running through this deeply philosophical film, was "what is the death of man against the millions who perished?" The WCJD story brought to mind this line from the verdict in that movie: "Let it be known that this is what we stand for: justice, truth, and the value of a single human being."
"The value of a single human being." That is what it all comes down to the end. Our faith, our civilization, our Constitution: all of these things revolve upon that point. When life no longer has value; when Narcissism and Hypocrisy become mainstream---then there are greater consequences, as as another short clip from the film explains.
So, this Sunday, I didn't attend our local church, but watched an inspiring sermon on Youtube from a prelate in the Serbian Orthodox Church. I've already felt considerable friction with our local bishops over the way that that notorious flexibility so characteristic of the postmodern Right has resurfaced in the Church around the Scamdemic. Many leaders of the Church shamefully turned a blind eye while corrupt politicians locked down churches---i.e. issued an Interdict, which only the Church has a right to do---as well as supporting vicious regimes like Australia in their blatant violations of Human Rights.
Such prelates have always been around, and always been a menace, but several others were defying the Color Revolution. The situation took a turn for the worse when the Loyalty Vaxx was rolled out; and not only because the Vaxx and its accompanying 'passport' is a political---not a medical---position. Big Pharma regularly trafficks with Abortion Mills and uses fetal tissue to make its 'vaccines.' It's no ethical argument to claim that the Vaxx saves lives---even if it actually did. Organ harvesting from Chinese political prisoners save lives too: that doesn't justify trafficking in such merchandise.
So there have been a number of recent news stories surfacing about statements from Pope Francis on the Vaxx and Vatican policy. To be honest I hadn't paid much attention to any of that because practically nothing that the Media ever says about Francis is true and he rarely makes a statement that isn't twisted or taken out of context. Thus, I'd see headlines about Pope Francis making some statement on the Vaxx or the Scamdemic, shrug and move on.
But last week, this story came out.
"Three Swiss Guards have resigned ‘voluntarily’ from the ceremonial Vatican force, while several others have been suspended after the Holy See ordered the troops to get vaccinated against Covid-19 without any religious exemptions... all Swiss Guards had been ordered to get a jab 'to protect their health and that of the others they come into contact with as part of their service,' the unit's official Lt. Urs Breitenmoser told AP...
"Since October 1, all residents, employees and visitors must provide a valid health certificate – the so-called Green Pass used in Italy and other EU states – to enter the city state grounds. There are no religious exemptions, except for those specifically invited to attend Mass 'for the time strictly necessary for the rite.'”
This came across as hard to imagine, but the Order came directly from Cardinal Bertello, who is the civil head of the Vatican State. Pope Francis authorized the decree:
"In the audience granted on 7 September 2021, the Holy Father stated that it is necessary to ensure the health and well-being of the laboring Community while respecting the dignity, rights, and fundamental freedoms of everyone; requested that the Government issue this ordinance to adopt any suitable measure to prevent, control and combat the health emergency public in progress in the Vatican City State and in the areas referred to in Articles 15 and 16 of the Lateran Treaty, in the context of their specific legal borders;"
Let us see if we can sort this out.
1. "No religious exemption". Or, Right of Conscience---which the Church has championed over the years. The Church has defended the rights of medical and insurance personnel to opt out of supporting the Abortion Industry. They have fought for the Right of adoption agencies and catering services to reject recognizing homo 'equality.' But now, they refuse the Right of Conscience to those who reject the Loyalty Vaxx?
2. "The Green Pass." This from an institution that has preached accepting refugees and immigrants as a national duty. "Turn not away the stranger." is a favorite saying of Pope Francis. Yet, now we're being told that we can be turned away from the Holiest shrine in all of Christendom unless we carry papers proving our submission to the New Order.
3. "Invitation-Only Masses for the Unvaxxed." I just have to ask: how is this even remotely Christ-like? When did Jesus turn people away for not having official papers from the EU? I seem to recall that Jesus approached the sick---as well as welcoming children, fallen women, and pagans to speak with him. It's hard to imagine that this is the same Pope Francis who reinstated the Apostolic tradition of foot-washing.
Recall that the pictures above were taken inside a prison, a home for the elderly poor, a refugee camp, and a home for the disabled, respectively. The Pope should also recall that the man who's throne he now occupies was rebuked by God Himself in a vision for refusing communion with Gentiles. It's the Brahmins who have a Caste System---not us.
4. "Respecting the dignity, rights, and fundamental freedoms of everyone." Apparently though this doesn't include anyone who loses his livelihood because he stood on a little thing like principles.
Francis adopted his name in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, who held his mission to assist the poor. How does this Pope honor St. Francis by supporting a Regime whose stated goal is reach 70% compliance before locking out (or locking up) the remainder? Think of this: 1/3 of people in Christian nations reduced to poverty or slavery. Would St. Francis be proud of that?
Where is the value of single human being in our Church right now?
I realize that some are going to argue that Francis and the Curia are acting in their capacity of national rulers and that the Pope hasn't pronounced ex cathedra that these rules are binding on all Catholics. I argue that he may as well have. He has, through the agency of human law, imposed upon Catholics a policy contrary to the Church's own teachings. If he had an opinion on the Loyalty Vaxx different from ours, it wouldn't matter. But this is translation of political opinion into concrete action: action that adversely effects human lives; specifically Christians who are going to be most impacted by it.
“Man has the right to act in conscience and in freedom so as personally to make moral decisions.”---the Catechism.
“Man must not be forced to act contrary to his conscience. Nor must he be prevented from acting according to his conscience, especially in religious matters."---Declaration from the 2nd Vatican Council.
And let us add this observation from Bishop Sheen: "It should be obvious that those who set up arrangements with Planned Parenthood or other abortion facilities to receive the remains of aborted children, so that they can be used in programs of experimental research, are doing something that cannot be justified under any principle of Catholic teaching. The direct cooperation between the parties in this matter sullies the hands of those who receive the fetal materials and makes them cooperators in the evil of abortion."
Contrast this with the official statement of our more 'flexible' US Council of Catholic Bishops: "Given that the COVID-19 virus can involve serious health risks, it can be morally acceptable to receive a vaccine that uses abortion-derived cell lines if there are no other available vaccines comparable in safety and efficacy with no connection to abortion. If it is possible to choose among a number of equally safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines, the vaccine with the least connection to abortion-derived cell lines should be chosen.iv If a vaccine with no connection to abortion-derived cell lines is not readily available, vaccines that used such cell lines only for testing would be preferable to those that use such cell lines for ongoing production. Such choices may not be possible, however, especially in the early stages of vaccine distribution. In that case, one may receive any of the clinically recommended vaccines in good conscience with the assurance that reception of such vaccines does not involve immoral cooperation in abortion."
What's especially sickening about all of this is our Republic survived successive attacks for two centuries; the Church withstood them for two millennia; and Civilization withstood them for twenty millennia---and for what? So that a handful of fanatics with money could buy the whole system out.
Banksters like Gould were ahead of his time; I doubt that he could have pulled that off during the 19th Century, but I also have no doubt that his woke successors both can and will. "I got mine: sux to be you!" ought to be the official slogan of his whole era. Hitler once threatened to send troops into the Vatican and have Pope Pius shot; Brezhnev ordered the assassination of Pope John Paul. Today we have a Church that will look the other way at wholesale poisoning of entire countries, actually faithful people who are being reduced to destitution, and the horrid traffick in murdered babies---on the condition that if they behave themselves the New World Order might let them keep their positions and bank accounts.
Once a Government, a Society, or a Church has turned this corner; that they no longer respect human life---then nothing else they say or do has any morally binding significance. The underlying principles of these institutions haven't changed and the so-called 'leaders' have no authority to change them. Four young people permanently crippled by Big Pharma; a young woman found dead by a highway 40 years ago; three Swiss soldiers unjustly disgraced---these are things that matter. Until our Society gets back to the fact that caring for one's neighbor is a moral duty, we're in for a very difficult future.
And hopefully Pope Francis will someday recall his own words:
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