Dear Canadian readers: if there is one thing you do before you vote, I would urge you to watch this video. I urge you to share it. Here we have the only surviving architect of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms, former Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, stating that he is horrified that the federal government, and ALL the provinces have violated the Charter.
This video is gravely disturbing, as Peckford not only reflects on the dangers before Canada, but before the entire so-called '"West". Peckford highlights the moral corruption in this country that has led to this tragic state of affairs. He calls out a corrupt legal system, medical establishment, big business, government, media, and academia. We, as discerning Catholics, can add: a corrupt church. Peckford also touches upon "facts" and their absolute value for truth.
He speaks of his years in Office being surrounded by ineffectual, cowardly, ignorant politicians and cabinet ministers, easily manipulated. He has choice words for Doug Ford.
He references Bacon regarding the sacredness of "facts". Interestingly, Ratzinger, in "An Introduction to Christianity", wrote back in 1969 that "facts" were being twisted to whatever we wished to be, and that a moral crisis was arising. "Facts" were no longer sacred, to be discovered, rather, they have been perverted into what we wish to make of them. In other words, reality is subjective. Or, if held by a powerful corrupt elite, fiction can be made into "facts".
Which brings me to my most disturbing conclusion. How is it that Premier Peckford can see the corruption, identify it, but our churchmen cannot?
How is it that they, the watchmen on the tower, are failing to not only sound the alarm, but actually joining in the advance of a techno-authoritarian State?
I do not know if Premier Peckford is a practicing Christian, but I contrast his view that the medical establishment are corrupt un-elected technocrats stripping us of our Charter rights, to that of Cardinal Collins who refers to them as "very virtuous". Premier Peckford sees our rights being stripped, the bishops of Canada do not. Further they not only sit silent, but approve of these violations.
Friends, the leaders of the Catholic Church in Canada have betrayed not only us, but every citizen. For here are dealing with matters of natural Law that is ingrained on every man's heart: be he Jew or Greek, male or female, slave or freeman. (and yes, if you have been thrust into unemployment by a lock down, you are de facto a slave).
Barona
ReplyDeleteGreat post. Nice to hear some courageous common sense. And yes, our Bishops are, like so many politicians, extremely insecure.
I truly believe that our God has allowed this coronavirus pandemic to occur because of all the mortal sins committed against God's Will -- against Life that God created as our Creator since He first breathed His Life into the first man and woman.
DeleteGod said in His Commandments that we shall and should love Him above all persons and all things, and that we should love our fellow men and fellow women as we should love ourselves.
To commit mortal sins is NOT to love our God and our fellow men and fellow women.