Archbishop Sheen:"...either the merciful Face of Christ, or the horrible face of Satan"

Archbishop Fulton Sheen speaks about the devil. 

Watch, learn, and pray. 

THE SACRED TRIDUUM ~ 2018 ~ Chapel at Carmel Heights

Fr. John O'Connor: dissent is blasphemy !

Fr. John O'Connor

"One of the Twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said,

“What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?”

They paid him thirty pieces of silver,

and from that time on he looked for an opportunity to hand him over'.

The gift of faith must be guarded and protected. It needs to be nurtured with prayer and acts of corporal mercy. When we abandon one aspect of the gift of faith, little by little, we end up losing all of our faith. So it tragically was with those who rejected the Church's teaching about the sacredness of the Marital Act. 

Here, Fr. John O'Connor reflects on the of dissenters against Humanae Vitae. The near universal rejection of Pope Paul VI's reaffirmation of 2000 years of Church teaching that the use of contraception is a grave mortal sin has very serious consequences. Rejecting Humanae Vitae, the dissenters - as Fr. O'Connor said - claimed that not only was Christ's Vicar was wrong, the Church was wrong. In this, as Fr. O'Connor pointed out, they blasphemed the Spirit of Truth, the Holy Spirit. 

Please listen to the following talk by Fr. O' Connor on dissenting theologians from Humanae Vitae:

St. John Chrysostom: "...do you see that He everywhere declares that He has been sent..."

"I have come in My Father's name, and you receive Me not; if another shall come in his own name, him will you receive". (John 5:43)

2. Do you see that He everywhere declares that He has been sent, that judgment has been committed to Him by the Father, that He can do nothing of Himself, in order that He may cut off all excuse for their unfairness? But who is it that He here says shall come in his own name? He alludes here toAntichrist, and puts an incontrovertible proof of their unfairness. For if as loving God ye persecute Me, much more ought this to have taken place in the case of Antichrist. For he will neither say that he is sent by the Father, nor that he comes according to his will, but in everything contrariwise, seizing like a tyrant what belongs not to him, and asserting that he is the very God over all, as Paul says, 'Exalting himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, showing himself that he is God.' This is to 'come in his own name.' I do not so, but have come in the Name of My Father. 

That they received not One who said that He was sent of God, was a sufficient proof that they loved not God; but now from the contrary of this fact, from their being about to receive Antichrist, He shows their shamelessness. For when they received not One who asserts that He was sent by God, and are about to worship one who knows Him not, and who says that he is God over all, it is clear that their persecution proceeded from malice and from hating God. On this account He puts two reasons for His words; and first the kinder one, That ye may be saved; and, That ye may have life: and when they would have mocked at Him, He puts the other which was more striking, showing that even although His hearers should not believe, yet that God was wont always to do His own works. 

Now Paul speaking concerning Antichrist said prophetically, that God shall send them strong delusion — that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. Christ said not, He shall come; but, if He come, from tenderness for His hearers; and because all their obstinacy was not yet complete. He was silent as to the reason of His coming; but Paul, for those who can understand, has particularly alluded to it. For it is he who takes away all excuse from them.

Pope Benedict XV: "...Christian charity ought not to be content with not hating our enemies..."

On Passion Sunday, let us reflect upon the words of Pope Benedict XV. The holy Pope's encyclical, "On Peace and Reconciliation" was composed just after the conclusion of the Great War when palpable hatreds continued to fester in Europe, following the senseless slaughter. It is a lovely meditation on forgiveness of enemy, and true brotherly love. Sadly, there is even greater hatred in the world today, with Nations, peoples rejecting Christ and His Church. 

“But I say to you, love your enemies; do good to them that hate you; pray for those that persecute you and calumniate you, that you may be the children of your Father who is in Heaven, Who maketh His sun to rise upon the good and the bad”. Hence that terribly severe warning of the Apostle St. John. 

“Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in himself. ”Our Lord Jesus Christ, in teaching us how to pray to God, makes us say that we wish for pardon as we forgive others: “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against Us.” And if the observance of this law is sometimes hard and difficult, we have not only the timely assistance of the grace of Our Divine Redeemer, but also His example to help us to overcome the difficulty. For as He hung on the Cross He thus excused before his Father those who so unjustly and wickedly tortured Him: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” 

We then, who should be the first to imitate the piety and loving kindness of Jesus Christ, whose Vicar, without any merit of Our own, We are; with all Our heart, and following His example, We forgive all Our enemies who knowingly or unknowingly have heaped and are still heaping on our person and Our work every sort of vituperation, and We embrace all in Our charity and benevolence, and neglect no opportunity to do them all the good in Our power. That is indeed what Christians worthy of the name ought to do towards those who during the war have done them wrong. 

Christian charity ought not to be content with not hating our enemies and loving them as brothers; it also demands that we treat them with kindness, following the rule of the Divine Master Who “went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed by the devil”, and finished His mortal life, the course of which was marked by good deeds, by shedding His blood for them. So said St. John: “In this we have known the charity of God, because He hath laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. He that hath substance of this world and shall see his brother in need and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him? My little children, let us love not in word nor by tongue, but in deed and in truth.”

Cardinal Collins: "...Go to Joseph"

On St. Joseph's Day, His Eminence Thomas Cardinal Collins said Mass at St. Joseph's Health Centre in the west-end of Toronto. His Eminence preached on the quiet, strong, holiness of St. Joseph, pointing him out as a model for us all. 

"Today, throughout the whole world, we celebrate the Feast of the great St. Joseph", began the Cardinal Archbishop of Toronto.  

Cardinal Collins emphasized that St. Joseph was the Protector of the Universal Church. As such, even during dark hours and times, we should have confidence in Joseph that, as he defended the Holy Family from attack, so too, would St. Joseph defend the Church. 

"We honour saints so that they may be an example for us", said the Cardinal. "He is or heavenly guardian", the one we look to for example...continued His Eminence. After a few words on a Catholic hospital under the patronage of so great a saint, the Cardinal then drew his sermon to a close with an emphasis on St. Joseph being the patron of a happy death: "ultimately we are just passing through". 

Today, on Palm Sunday as we begin to reflect more intensely on the coming Passion of Our Lord, may we pray to St. Joseph to draw closer to the Cross. 

Pink Swastika Rising: Homoerotic Gnosticism is an Ideology of Evil (Part 3)

"An ideology of evil" is what was, and is, driving the demand to accept homosexuality. So wrote St. Pope John Paul II about the push in the European Union to have so-called "homosexual unions" accepted. Homoeroticists do not consider their lifestyle an "alternate" one, but superior to the "breeders", the "masses", as they refer to normal men and women. 

This superman mentality of the 21st century homosexual theologian, as I noted earlier,  is inherited from the proto-Nazi occultists of the 19th century, the early Nazi homosexuals of the Weimar Republic, and the fully fledged rabid SS and Gestapo of the Third Reich. We have to understand and be aware that post-War homosexual gnostics have spent decades developing an entire "theology" - really an ideology - around the "queerness" of Christ and Christianity. They are dedicated to the glorification of homosexuality as the ritualistic centre-piece (through homosexual practices de facto becoming anti-sacraments) of a new "religion" that rejects and perverts the very notion of human nature as a given reality (c.f. Memory and Identity, Pope John Paul II, p.13).

This homoerotic, gnostic "religion" is based on a perverted belief that there is a secret tradition of homosexuality in the Bible: David and Jonathan, and Our Lord and St. John. Saints such as Sts. Perpetua and Felicity, Sts. Sergius and Bacchus, St. Francis of Assisi have been declared by homosexualist gnostics as engaging in homosexual practices and being adherents to an earlier "acceptance" of homosexuality amongst "ancient Christians"; in fact, according to these dissenters, founders of the homoerotic, gnostic false religion. With this counter-"gospel", the homosexualists seek to have the vice of homosexual practices not only excused, but promoted as a positive good and "godly".  

By the mid and late 1970s, leading homosexualist gnostic theoreticians began to increase their output and publish their gnostic ideas for the secret advancement of homosexuality, and its acceptance by the masses in the future. The writings of John McNeill S.J., quickly formed the basis of the gnostic ideology of the dissident group, "Dignity".  Along with the Dominican priest, Donald J Goergen, and his landmark 1974, book, "The Sexual Celibate", (in which he also denied the Virgin Birth), other prominent figures emerged as contributors to this occult-driven, homoerotic "religion". Richard Woods, Gareth Moore, Adriano Oliva are but three names that can be mentioned who have contributed over the decades to the development of homoerotic "theology".

This "theological" evolution of homoeroticism would eventually proclaim that Christianity in general, and Catholicism in particular, is not only positive towards homosexual experiences, but that Our Lord, and His Sacraments are actually gay-positive, they are "queer".  Indeed, this new, false religion even has its own "saints", such as Harvey Milk. 

As I wrote in my previous post, Andy Buechel, who teaches at the Jesuit-run, Xavier University in Cincinnati, explains this homosexual, gnostic "christ" in this way: 

The encounters with the resurrected Lord intensify the limitations and reductions of modern conceptions of sexual difference and sexual orientation, limitations first seen at the transfiguration. Jesus’ body is not only queer in its fluidity, openness, and excess; it is queer by how it relates to other bodies erotically, drawing them towards the Divine. 

The superior caste homosexual, according to this gnostic interpretation, is not limited, but with this "queer" so-called Christ, through an homoerotic encounter with him draws near to the divine. This is very similar to the "sex magick" of Crowley, but worse. Whereas, Crowley rejected openly Christianity, these homoerotic theologians continue to use Christian terminology, showing they really are under diabolical influence. 

Thus, "queering" theologians do not argue that homosexuality is just an alternate lifestyle, they argue that it is superior, sacred, holy and participating in the Divine life of what they call "god". Thus, homosexuals are the new "supermen", the ones with the special, gnostic insight and link with the "divine" through occult homosexual practices. In all of this, we can see the dark involvement of Lucifer. It is in fact, an encounter with the Evil One, under the guise of "light". 

In what was his final book, "Memory and Identity", Pope John Paul II in the chapter entitled "Ideologies of Evil" includes the promotion of "homosexual unions" (p.13) as "another ideology of evil, more subtle and hidden, perhaps, intent upon exploiting human rights themselves against man and against the family". 

The holy Pope continued: 

"Why does this happen? What is the root of these post-Enlightenment ideologies? The answer is simple: it happens because of the rejection of God qua Creator, and consequently qua source determining what is good and what is evil" (p.13). 

There are some homosexuals who are purely demonic - an inner circle -  who delight in perversion, sadism, and the diabolical. There are some who are spreading this evil, gnostic homoerotic perversion in the Church because they hate Christ and His Church. To refuse to repent, confess and ask for mercy is to blaspheme against the Holy Spirit. God will be their judge. 

There are others who have been abused as children, young boys, teenagers - let us therefore recall the admonition of Mgr. Foy that "among the evil fruits of this decadent age there is an unparalleled betrayal of homosexuals". 

To conclude with the words of Mgr. Foy, that God's Grace move the homosexuals to conversion, even those under near complete diabolical control: 

All can pray for homosexuals; we should never deviate from charity towards them while never condoning homosexual activity. We can give homosexuals the example of lives lived in chastity and goodness.

To all homosexuals we say: Peace, Hope, and Joy in your daily pursuit of chastity and holiness. God be with you! May you always keep in your hearts the words of St. Paul, “You are not called to immorality but to holiness.”

Pink Swastika Rising: Homosexuality and "Queering Christianity" (Part 2)

In my previous post, "Pink Swastika Rising: Homosexuality and Nazism", I briefly outlined the historical roots of Nazism in homosexuality, and its  fusion of anti-Christian neo-paganism with sexual perversion. St. Paul, St. Jude and St. John Chrysostom (for example) all identified godlessness as the root cause of sexual deviancy and perversion. The saints pointed out that the darkening of the mind through godlessness, leads to a rejection of God and His creation, opening the door to the human mind being seduced into unnatural sexual vice.

It is no coincidence that homosexuality was rife in the ancient world. Only amongst one people was unnatural vice seen as sin: Israel. The recent statements by revisionist writers that Our Lord did not mention homosexuality and therefore that He approved of such activity is preposterous and blasphemous for a number of  reasons: 1) God does not change; His Moral Law does not change: male and female He created them; 2) Our Lord had no reason to discuss homosexual practices with the scribes and pharisees, as all in Israel knew homosexuality to be a grave sin. We do however, have one incident where Our Lord responded to a case of sexual sin (adultery) brought before Him. His response was go and sin no more your sins are forgiven you. 

The Catechism of the Catholic Church [2396] lists homosexual practices as graves sins.

In 1968, following the issuing of Humanae Vitae, there was an explosion of dissent. Monsignor Vincent Foy documented the tragic and lamentable influence of the late Gregory Baum in orchestrating rebellion against the sanctity of the Marital Act. Baum, logically, also dissented on the issue of  homosexuality, and held great influence here in Canada and abroad amongst "rebellious theologians" (Mgr. Foy). 

The result of rejecting Christ's teaching on Matrimony, was the acceptance of "alternate lifestyles" (see the above link on Mgr. Foy). That is, sexuality was not for unity and life, it was for "love".These "rebellious theologians" having rejected God's truth about sexuality, turned their lust into a new idol.

A number of other leading dissident priests need to be mentioned. Fr. John MacNeill S.J., and Fr. Donald J. Goergen O.P., were two leading figures in the early and mid 1970s. Indeed, homosexuality was so rife in some seminaries, that they had to be closed. St. Bernard's Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa was shut down in 1969 due to rampant homosexuality, as  the late Fr. John O'Connor revealed. 

These pro-homosexual theologians were, in their writings in a different, yet similar manner following the earlier homosexual Nazis. Both groups were all male environments and under obedience to superiors. Both hold the superiority of the homosexual over male and female. Both groups also were fundamentally anti-Christian and developed intricate gnostic ideologies to justify their evil. Whereas the Nazis strove for a homosexual supermen to rule over the "Aryan" nations, the dissident homosexualist priests strove for a gnostic homosexual priest to rule over the Catholic Church. Nazis sought their twisted justification of homosexuality by looking to the ancient world and the occult; homosexualist priests look to gnostic writings and humanism. Both worlds are linked to the satanic. 

This satanic influence has led the Gnostic theologians to "queer" what they call "Christ". The earlier advocacy for "alternate lifestyles" was merely to soften opposition to homosexuality, as the homoerotic gnostics never considered themselves "equal" with anyone. No, they were and are a secret, superior type of human according to their ideology. They are a superior caste unto themselves, reflecting the Nazi superiority ideology of the earlier homoerotic warriors of the Third Reich. 

For the homoerotic theologian, homosexuality is not only justifiable, but a link to the "divine". Homosexual practices become a type of "sacrament". In this, they accept and parallel occult beliefs that sexual activity is a form of "magick", as was famously advocated by occultists, such as Aleister Crowley. According to  these "queering Christianity" theologians, Christ was a homosexual who had homoerotic encounters with at least two disciples: St. John and St. Thomas. Further reading on this can be found at Joseph Sciambra's excellent website [warning: graphic and very disturbing content]. Within the priesthood these  "queer" theologians regard themselves as a part of a superior, secretive group enlightened in the hidden homosexual tradition of Jesus and His disciples.  

The very influential gay theologian, Andy Buechel wrote: 

…God became human that humans might become God. Our deepest desire is to participate fully in the erotic life of God, to be immersed so totally in love that the Divine Life and our own become the same.

The encounters with the resurrected Lord intensify the limitations and reductions of modern conceptions of sexual difference and sexual orientation, limitations first seen at the transfiguration. Jesus’ body is not only queer in its fluidity, openness, and excess; it is queer by how it relates to other bodies erotically, drawing them towards the Divine.

Buechel then proposes that the encounter between Our Lord and St. Thomas was essentially a homosexual encounter: 

In this, the intimacy and eroticism are manifest. Jesus himself is guiding the hand of the fascinated Thomas toward his side. He is guiding the penetration of his wound, of the womb from which the church is born. Strictly, and anachronistically, speaking, this encounter is homosexual: it involves deep erotic intimacy between two people of the same sex.

Part Three: Pink Swastika Rising: Homoerotic Gnosticism is an Ideology of Evil