Cardinal Burke’s recovery from COVID-19 was nothing short of miraculous. Based on his age and body habitus, followed by the rapid progression of his disease process, most men would have died. I know, because I’ve watched it happen more times than I can count. His recovery was an answer to the prayers and sacrifices of many. Of this, there can be no doubt.

https://youtu.be/75E88wA6J1o

On the one hand, this new law will prevent another January 6 from happening, which is its intent. On the other hand, this new law will have a chilling effect on Free Speech in our nation’s capital. The National Guard can now be used to intimidate and disburse peaceful protesters, as well as violent ones. Human nature dictates that this WILL happen at some point — guaranteed. The era of large protests is over in Washington DC, whether violent or not. I’m curious to see how this new law will play at the annual March for Life in Washington DC this January.

I’ve never been one for protests or demonstration. I’ve only attended a few in my life. I find them to be useless and a waste of time. The potential for violence, or something else going wrong, greatly outweighs the benefit of showing up and waving your sign, rosary, flag or whatever. So I don’t go to them anymore, and I haven’t in years. I think the last protest I attended was in 2009.

I find that real change happens quietly, in silent revolutions, when Christians finally decide to do something about a problem, and vote accordingly. In today’s political climate, it is impossible to reform Washington DC through any means. So it’s best not to try. The best thing to do is empower the states, and try to strip Washington of as much power as possible by asserting states rights. All politics is local. That saying is true. Focus on your home town, your county and your state. Forget about the federal government. It’s lost. If you choose to vote, vote local, and you’ll likely be much more satisfied with the results.

https://theepochtimes.com/congress-passes-bill-to-give-capitol-police-authority-to-request-national-guard-assistance_4158203.html

This is the nuclear bomb of rebuttals, to those who say Christmas is Pagan, and discourage others from celebrating it. Please read and share generously, and of course, may you have a Holy Advent and a Merry Christmas !!!

https://news.gab.com/2021/12/15/against-the-modern-judaizers/

Yesterday, Gab News published an article I wrote about the modern Judaizers of our day, and how they are really not much different from the Judaizers of ancient times during the early Church. This article has proved to be both well-liked and controversial at the same time, highlighting the severity of the problem we face. For nearly 200 years now, Christianity has been under a direct assault from modern Judaizers. These consist of any Christian who attacks other Christians for their celebration of Christmas, Easter and Halloween, as well as their worship of God on Sundays. Some examples of this include the Seventh-Day Sabbath Keepers of the 19th century, to the more recent "Messianic Jews" of the 20th century, along with a variety of Christians in-between. While it is good for Catholics, and other Christians of good will, to engage these modern Judaizers in debate about individual celebrations and observances, at the same time we must call out these people for what they are -- Judaizers! The tables must be turned. We must put them on the defensive for a change. The burden of proof is now on them. They must answer, and demonstrate, that their actions are not Judaizing. And if they are Judaizing, then they must be called upon to stop it in the name of Jesus Christ. I offer this article to my fellow Catholics, and other Christians of good will, as a template for how to recognize this heresy of Judaizing and move forward in dealing with it.

https://news.gab.com/2021/12/15/against-the-modern-judaizers/

THIS is how it works. This is what it means to be part of the one, true Church established by Jesus Christ on Peter the Rock. This is why I don't fear the coming schism. I know that once it happens (and it will happen), some time will pass, and the Church will be purified of those who can no longer tolerate an all-male-priesthood, marriage between one man and one woman, and abortion as a mortal sin. These people WILL MOST CERTAINLY leave the Church within a very short time. They will cause a great disruption when they do. Chaos will follow in their wake. The Catholic Church will be shaken to its knees. However, within just a couple of decades, once the Church is smaller and more pure than it is now, God will open wide the floodgates of evangelism. This will be the "Springtime of Evangelization" that Pope St. John Paul II prophesied would eventually come. It will be like nothing we have seen in 500 years. Where will it be? I suspect Africa and Asia will be the locations. Meanwhile, in Europe and the Americas, the schismatic sect of liberal Catholics will die out and become irrelevant, much like the mainline Protestants are today, until all that remains is the fervent Catholicism of the faithful and traditional Catholics who remained loyal to the papacy, in spite of the office being drug through the mud as it is now.

This is in anticipation of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. The federal government knows the odds are likely the high court will overturn the unconstitutional ruling, so in anticipation of that, abortion drugs will be sent by mail into Pro-Life states, in the hopes of maintaining the Left's SACRAMENT of abortion there, at least up to 10-weeks gestation. Sadly, we all know where this will lead. Women who miscalculate their gestation, or intentionally lie about it, will likely suffer hemorrhagic shock at botched home abortions. Meanwhile, a plan is being worked by abortion providers to transport women across state-lines to receive surgical abortions too.

The likely ruling from the Supreme Court will probably fall along strict constructionist lines, as that tends to be the leaning of the new (more conservative) court. Rather than overturning Roe to legislate from the bench a Pro-Life national law, they will likely instead turn things over to the states, following the federalists principle of "states rights" as envisioned by America's founding fathers. Thus, each state will be given back its power, to act more like an independent country, on this particular matter. Blue states, that usually vote Democrat, will become Pro-Choice states, while Red states, that usually vote Republican, will become Pro-Life states. The end result is a fractured country on a hotly contested issue, much like how things were before the Civil War on the issue of slavery.

This will likely hold the Union together for a while longer. Giving the states more free-reign to legislate as they like on hotly-contested issues such as abortion.

https://www.ncregister.com/cna/breaking-fda-allows-women-to-procure-abortion-pills-by-mail

HERE IT IS. This is the Freedom Map. The Patriot States are Green. The Tyrant States are White. If you are a Catholic, who loves life and freedom, and you live in a white state, a tyrant state, you need to GET OUT and move to a green state, a patriot state, where you can be free and live among people who share your Catholic values. Seriously, get out. Time is running short. Move to one of these green, patriot states while you still can. The criteria for this map can be found here: https://www.thepatriotleague.org/post/american-alignment-anywhere-so-long-as-it-be-free

IT IS DONE. Rome, via the pontificate of Pope Francis, has effectively banned the rites of the pre-conciliar Church. They are now so severely curtailed and amputated that growth within a diocesan structure is impossible. Catholics attached to the traditional form now have only two options available to them. (1) Find a rogue bishop who is willing to disobey Pope Francis on this issue (yes, there are some), and move to his diocese, or (2) join the SSPX.

https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2021/12/urgent-roche-christmas-massacre-cdw.html

THE FIX IS IN. The traditional rite is slated for total destruction. It is now impossible to obey the pope, and keep traditional Catholicism alive. A bishop must now choose between one or the other. I have it on good authority that a handful of US bishops will disobey the pope on this, and keep the traditional rite alive in spite of his edicts and wishes. At least one of them is a US cardinal currently reigning over an American archdiocese. I’m not at liberty to say who it is yet. We have finally reached the point where obedience to the pope, and keeping the old traditions alive, are no longer possible to do together. This is a sad state of affairs for the Catholic Church, and a situation that is totally unwarranted. Pope Francis is off his rocker.

https://www.ncregister.com/news/traditions-custodies-vatican-responses-to-11-dubia

Had the post-conciliar bishops only used more Latin in the Novus Ordo, and simply strived to make the new mass beautiful in a traditional and reverent sense, there would not be so many people clamoring for the old mass. But alas, things are always action and reaction. Everyone blames the traditionalists, but it was really liberals in the Church who started it all, and continue to make it worse. I say this as an outsider, a convert, who sees it for what it is.

If Francis wants to play this game legitimately, then he should have stepped up to the plate and required one 1970 Missal mass in Latin per week at all parishes. Then, he should have directed the CDW to dispense with all liturgical abuses and innovations, insisted on Gregorian chant and more traditional expressions of liturgical renewal. In other words, make the 1970 Missal look as much like the 1962 Missal as possible. But he did none of that. Instead he just attacks traditionalists, and uses them as scapegoats to hide the shortcomings and failures of himself and liberal bishops.

When you’re a boss, and you want an employee to quit, because you don’t want to pay unemployment, you go about it very carefully. What you do is you start changing rules, and work conditions, in such a way that you know will not agree with that employee. You make things so miserable for that particular employee that he eventually just quits all on his own. That’s how you do it.

When your name is Pope Francis, and you want a certain group of Catholics to leave the Church voluntarily, because you don’t want to look like the bad guy for excommunicating them without just cause, you go about it very carefully. What you do is you start changing rules, and church conditions, in such a way that you know will not agree with those people. You make things so miserable for that particular group that they eventually just go into schism all on their own. That’s how you do it.

We must oppose Dispensationalism and Zionism. We must oppose Judaizing as well. But that is not the same thing as becoming Antisemite or Anti-Jew. The truth is always a fine line that is walked between extremes. Only those who love Jesus Christ will dare to tread on it. Click here for details… https://completechristianity.blog/2021/12/21/against-the-antisemites/

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The most important message in the history of the world is that Jesus Christ is God. From this truth, all the other Christians truths are built, including that of his atoning sacrifice on the cross, and his Kingship, not only over all of Israel (the Church) but of the whole universe as well...

https://completechristianity.blog/2018/05/02/jesus-christ-is-god/

It's kind of comical that people are getting so worked up about my Judaizing article, taking it so personally, and claiming I'm "attacking their family traditions." It's like the didn't read the part that says...

"The definition of Judaizing is trying to make non-Jews follow the precepts of the Old Covenant or the Law of Moses. This is not the same as Jewish Christians (or Hebrew Christians) who simply want to keep their Jewish customs within their own families, as a cultural connection to their ethnic people. That, in itself, is a personal matter, and by definition, it is not Judaizing."

Hey, if you like celebrating the Sabbath and Passover, knock yourself out! Enjoy! Just don't tell other Christians that they have to do it too. Otherwise, it's Judaizing...

https://news.gab.com/2021/12/15/against-the-modern-judaizers/

So it would appear, that Pope Francis and the Modernists in the Church, are preparing to silence all criticism of them with this new addition to the Code of Canon Law, effective December 8, 2021….

“Can. 1373 A person who publicly incites among subjects animosities or hatred against the Apostolic See or an ordinary because of some act of power or ecclesiastical ministry or provokes subjects to disobey them is to be punished by an interdict or other just penalties.”

So does this mean that anyone who criticizes (even charitably criticizes) the pope or bishops can now be punished? Does this mean that the pope and bishops are now placed above all criticism?

It appears that way, since the Canon does not define what it means by “animosities or hatred.” These are pretty subjective terms. One man’s criticism is another man’s animosity. We run across this all the time on the Internet. I publish something that is simply a criticism, and others interpret it as “hatred and animosity.” This especially seems to be the case for those who cannot tolerate criticism, of which there appear to be more and more these days. We have seen how sensitive the Modernists can be to all forms of criticism. Will the Modernist leaders of the Catholic Church now use this ambiguous Canon to punish their critics? Time will tell.

Saint Paul warned us, that just because God has allowed some Jews to persist in unbelief, we should not be boastful against them. For he can change their hearts at any time, and bring them to faith in Christ. Simultaneously, he can allow Gentile pride to get the better of them, and allow them to fall into unbelief and hardness of heart. The resurgence of the Neopaganism and Neoheathenism is an example of this. Because of their self pride and animosity towards others, God is allowing some of the Gentiles to fall back to their former ways of unbelief. See Romans 11.