Yesterday afternoon Cardinal Collins released a letter calling on the faithful to "amplify" their voices regarding public worship. Vox Cantoris carries a full report and outlines in detail the disastrous decisions (spiritual and temporal) taken by the Cardinal since last March.
Here I shall but review a number of key statements made in this Letter by the Cardinal to priests and the faithful. The Cardinal wrote:
"...we continue to urge that places of worship be treated equitably by the province, for example, it is only fair that there be a consistent approach to restrictions as they relate to retail businesses and to places of worship".
Comment: How has the Cardinal "urged"? For the public record, based on his statements from the pulpit, on video conferences, and releases on the Archdiocesan website and social media platforms, the Cardinal has consistently claimed the lock downs and church restrictions are necessary for the common good of all, and therefore righteous. I ask directly: HOW HAVE YOU URGED PLACES OF WORSHIP TO BE TREATED EQUITABLY?
The Cardinal continued:
"Recently a coalition of faith leaders has written to Premier Ford, highlighting the essential nature of in-person communal worship and spiritual support".
Comment: RECENTLY? Where has the Cardinal been since last Summer? Why has not this "coalition" taken the government to Court? Why did not the Cardinal take the government to Court? I ask directly: HOW DID YOU COMMUNICATE THE ESSENTIAL NATURE OF WORSHIP, AND WHAT ACTIONS DID YOU TAKE?
The Cardinal continues:
"If the government does not address these issues sufficiently, we will be asking for your assistance in contacting our elected officials to amplify our voices"
Comment: The is a fudge. The Cardinal knows full well that letter writing campaigns will achieve nothing, but it will create the illusion amongst the naive that something is being done. In other words, a non-protest "protest". From personal experience the Cardinal knows that letters achieve nothing. He himself receives letters and ignores them. Why should atheistic, pro-abortion, cowardly MPPS do any differently? They also know the penalty for rebelling against their leaders: expulsion from caucus, the Party, and a chance for re-election. We already had one MPP thrown out by the tyrannical Premier Ford. I ask directly: WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO OBEY GOD RATHER THAN MAN, AND RE-OPEN THE CHURCHES?
Conclusion: The Letter is a public admission that the government is discriminating against religion, and it is also a retraction (albeit without a public apology) of the lie that the boarding up of our churches was to save lives and for the "common good". Indeed, if the Cardinal believed the virus was a deadly killer he would continue to accept and promote the decrees of the anti-religion public health officials.
The question remains:
CARDINAL COLLINS WHEN WILL YOU TELEPHONE DOUG FORD AND TELL HIM THAT ST. MICHEAL'S AND ALL THE CHURCHES ARE REOPENING?
WHEN WILL YOU TELL HIM:
"WE ARE RE-OPENING ALL THE CHURCHES.
IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, YOU KNOW WHERE TO FIND ME.
I'LL MEET YOU AFTER PUBLIC MASS AT THE FRONT STEPS OF THE CATHEDRAL AT 9 A.M.
IF YOU WANT TO BRING THE POLICE WITH YOU TO ARREST ME, GO RIGHT AHEAD.
I WILL OBEY GOD RATHER THAN MAN".
1 comment:
To expect that the cardinal will all of a sudden sand up to the civil authorities is to expect nothing short of a miracle. Yes, they do happen, but are the clergy and faithful of this diocese or any diocese in this country of the sort that would pray for such a thing? The cardinal is on record as are priests through their social media accounts in favour of the vaccine. They are ideologically wedded to the pandemic narrative and it would be highly uncharacteristic for them to disavow government diktats. Truth be told, there are now two churches at play; the antichurch wedded to the powers of this world and the Remnant Church united to the Passion of Our Saviour. This division became evident in 1968 with the Winnipeg Statement and it has now become a gaping chasm. For generations, faithful Catholics, both clergy and laity have been vilified, ostracized, marginalised and even proscribed (anyone rememeber Steallarton, NS?). Labeled fanatics, they were the enemy in parishes, school councils, seminaries, and presbyterates; though not among the episcopate, because no one with conviction or a backbone makes it to that exclusive club. The antichurch now includes clergy who do everything to undermine the traditional Faith and laity who have no interest in being authentically Catholic. The covid narrative has taken hold of them and they will even report their priests to the OPP as happened in one of the parishes of the Archdiocese of Toronto recently. The cardinal's pronouncements and webinars have also made common cause with the covid scare and it may be too late for buyer's remorse.
The bishop in white is leading the pack when it comes to compliance and formal cooperation with the covid dictatorship. The papolatry of the Canadian hierarchy is a new thing and it binds the bishops even more to a program that appears to have as one of its many goals the complete collapse of traditional Catholicism.
Your blog rightly often bewails the demise of Catholic education. This battle is over and all that remains now is for the transgender flag to be flown at all Catholic schools. It will come. It is no exaggeration to say that the only Catholic schools in the country are the home schools. Similarly, soon enough, once the purge is complete and the dust settles after this second lockdown, the only authentic epression and experience of the Catholic Mass will be in the house churches.
The so-called conservative clergy who complied with the liturgical aberrations imposed by the public health dictatorship have not been of any help. A lighter shade of cooperation at best.
We can only pray that in His mercy God will hasten the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart and deliver humanity from the scourge of Communism. The messages of Fatima were for the most part ignored. Unless we are aided by divine assistance, even our greatest efforts now are too little too late.
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