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“Appeasement”
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Elymas -
5/12/2004
Part one
From The Fruit We Know The Tree
If we observe the fruits of the tree, what we see
from the Catholic Church here in Australia is anything but Catholic.
One of the first changes was the tampering with the
liturgy, and the first victim was the Latin Mass, which virtually ceased
to exist, except for the Pius X ‘dissenters’ who continue to offer it to
the present day. The Latin Mass was replaced with four new anaphors in
the vernacular of the country. The main altar was abandoned and replaced
by a table, with the celebrant facing the people during the celebration
of Holy Mass. Later the Tabernacle, which since immemorial time had been
the centre, the fulcrum, and the most sacred of sacred objects because
of the Divine presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, was relegated in many
instances, to a secluded corner, side altar or chapel.
I first recall seeing a priest in Reggio Emilia,
Italy, in ‘clergyman’s habit’, as it was called then in the late
sixties. The priest was dressed in a way I thought only an Anglican
minister would dress, in a dark grey suit with white dog collar rather
than in the soutane. Since then even the “Anglican” appearance has
disappeared through a series of changes till now we cannot recognise a
priest at all. Not long after, nuns too followed the new trend to
change their habit [and faith] to a more secular kind, again through a
series of changes – “to be in tune with the world”. Hence no more veils,
but more visits to the hairdresser and more adaptations in belief to
match.
We have approximately 100,000 abortions
annually in Australia, 75,000 of them paid for by our taxpayers through
Medicare. When Tony Abbott became Health Minister, this greatly
disturbed his Catholic conscience, and he cried out for help to the
Catholic Church hierarchy and laity to support him in condemning this
national tragedy. Did anybody hear the Catholic bishops speak out in his
support? [except for a puny statement, as a last resort - see:
Catholic Church Calls For
Viable Alternatives For Women Considering Abortions
ABC Radio AM
Program 26 November 2004
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2004/s1252032.htm
With its copycat government curriculum, with its
sex ed, which is anything but Catholic, and teaching of
evolution/Darwinism, are they doing anything to reverse this
anti-Christian trend? Don’t hold your breath!
Those parents who know the Catholic Faith (many do
not, having been through the system themselves) discover that their
children are not taught the most basics tenets of the faith in Catholic
schools – the Holy Trinity, the mystery of the Incarnation, Original
Sin, the Immaculate Conception – few know the Apostles’ Creed, the
Confiteor, Acts of Faith, Hope and Charity, the Act of Contrition, the
Angelus, the Memorare, let alone the Rosary and its Mysteries.
As the latest form of Ecumenism - under the
guise of buzzwords, such as “dialogue” and “tolerance”. It
is not unusual today for the Australian Bishops to make statements on
the environment and to have a press media released on the topic. That
is just what we need! They remind me of the Dalai Lama, or
Ted Turner and Maurice Strong
who advocates “social justice”, “harmony” and ‘dialogue”
as well as being vigorous
proponents of U.N. population control programs,
among many other deadly programs – “for the sake of Gaia, a
so-called Earth spirit”.
We went from a few rare cases pre-Vatican II to
thousands nowadays – what do they have to say about it? Is this the
Catholic Church or is it a Talmudic-Pharisee Church? This is a repeat of
what happened in Jesus’ time, as we read in Matthew 19:3-6: “Some
Pharisees came to him, and to test him they asked, "Is it lawful for a
man to divorce his wife for any cause? …
So then, they are no longer two but one
flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."
What then is the difference between divorce and
annulment? It comes down to a matter of semantics.
What do the Catholic Bishops have to say about it
when, even in a Catholic hospital, the withdrawal of food and fluid from
the terminal ill is taken for granted as “the way to go”?
Based on lies, and which decision was taken
singled-handed by our Prime Minister John Howard - what did [and do]
they have to say about it?
Do we ever hear anything from them on this tragic
genocide? Because 9/11, the Iraq war, and the Palestinian issues are all
tied up together, and Israel stands to gain from all of them. Is the
fear of being labelled “anti-semitic” the reason for this total silence
from the Australian Catholic Bishops. They know well that the U.S. War
on Terrorism, and John Howard’s decision to go along with it, is
ultimately a war that profits none but Israel.
Do I need to say more? So what is the use of an
Australian Catholic Bishops Conference? Probably to keep the
Australian bishops “in line”, using so-called collegiality
to take away their individual authority, temper any individual
initiative to act as representative of Jesus Christ (rather than of the
Vatican or the national bishops conference), and true shepherd of their
own flock.
Dietrich von Hildebrand describes the clergy factor
in these words:
“One of the most horrifying
and wide spread diseases in the Church today is the lethargy of the
guardian of the Faith of the Church. I am not thinking here of those
bishops who are members of the ‘fifth column’, who wish to destroy the
Church from within, or to transform it into something completely
different. […] I am thinking of the far more numerous bishops who have
no such intention,
but who make no use whatever of their authority when it comes to
intervening against heretical theologians or priests, or against
blasphemous performances of public worship. They either close their eyes
and try, ostrich-style, to ignore the grievous abuses as well as appeals
to their duty to intervene, or their fear to be attacked by the press or
the mass media and defamed as reactionary, narrow minded, or medieval.
They fear men more than God. The words of St. John Bosco apply to them:
“The power of evil men lives on the cowardice of good.”
(Inaugural Meeting – Catholics Affirming the
Traditional Faith)
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