Catholic Bloggers have a Right to Speak Out

Recently the Catholic Register quoted Archishop Weisberger who claims that bloggers who speak out on scandal are outside the Church (e.g. raising the issue of the scandal of funding pro-abortion groups in South America).

A grave allegation is made about bloggers who have, for example raised the above mentioned issue or blown the whistle on such militant anti-Church groups such as the "Catholic Network for Women's Equality" that promotes pantheism, priestesses etc. Vox Cantoris is to be commended for his expose of this organization.

Perhaps what is far graver than this is the decision of Archbishop Weisberger to state the following without any clarification:

"I think first of all they’re not part of the church, they’re not Catholic in the sense that they have no mandate, they have no authority, they have no accountability".

Here, a straw man is constructed and then demolished by the bishop. Canon Law states that Catholics have a right to make know to their pastors their spiritual concerns.

Can. 212 §1. Conscious of their own responsibility, the Christian faithful are bound to follow with Christian obedience those things which the sacred pastors, inasmuch as they represent Christ, declare as teachers of the faith or establish as rulers of the Church.

§2. The Christian faithful are free to make known to the pastors of the Church their needs, especially spiritual ones, and their desires.

§3. According to the knowledge, competence, and prestige which they possess, they have the right and even at times the duty to manifest to the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church and to make their opinion known to the rest of the Christian faithful, without prejudice to the integrity of faith and morals, with reverence toward their pastors, and attentive to common advantage and the dignity of persons.

Meanwhile, bishops should be attentive to the following:

Can. 386 §1. A diocesan bishop, frequently preaching in person, is bound to propose and explain to the faithful the truths of the faith which are to be believed and applied to morals. He is also to take care that the prescripts of the canons on the ministry of the word, especially those on the homily and catechetical instruction, are carefully observed so that the whole Christian doctrine is handed on to all.

Also, a bishop should consider the salvation of souls as his primary objective and not helping the poor. Alms and charity are a means to sanctification, but not the end. Obviously we cannot forget our less fortunate brothers, but even more so we cannot forget any spiritual misfortune that may be upon them. Hence, preaching the Gospel is primary.

In conclusion, a bishop is obliged to clarify and make restitution if indeed the Catholic laity have been funding abortion via Development and Peace. The laity also have a right to know the Canadian bishop's stand on organizations such as the "Catholic Network for Women's Equality" which operates within the canonical territory of the Canadian bishops. -Does this group use the word "Catholic" with episcopal approval per canon law? If so, why, and if not - will the bishops request they cease doing so.

May Catholic bloggers continue to raise their voices loudly and clearly!

A Glorious Opportunity

Bishop Richard Williamson can still draw good from evil by not just accepting what happened - but why it happened. Evil actions are first the result of premeditation. The Shoah was the result of decades (even centuries) of spiritual rot that accelerated with the rise of social Darwinism. Darwin himself would have been horrified, yet the fact remains that this paradigm shift allowed the opening for the rise of a eugenicist movement that culminated in Jews being deemed sub-human, worthy of extermination. 

As Pope Benedict has written, though the SS was a movement of atheists (and occultists), the sad fact remains that most of them were also baptized (be they protestant or Catholic). This certainly provides an opportunity to explore the reasons for this apostasy (the paganizing Renaissance, the Reformation, the French Revolution and the rise of a virulent atheism and anti-Christianism). 

Bishop Williamson could also develop the links between various forces of totalitarianism - Nazi, Soviet and the contemporary phenomena of the dictatorship of relativism. He could touch on the rise of "mercy killing" and compare it to the extermination of 70,000 physically and mentally handicapped Germans by the Nazi regime prior to the commencement of the War. 

He could explore the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which partitioned Poland and paved the way for the extermination of Jews. He could explore the facts behind Nazis training in Soviet Russia prior to the war; he could explore the NKVD and its leading "lights" and how they inspired the SS. For example he could reflect on the similarities between psychopaths such as Himmler of the SS and Beria of the NKVD. He could discuss Katyn and how this atrocious act set the precedent for similar Nazi exterminations in the east. In all of this he could point out how the Soviets led and the Nazis followed. He could also discuss the terrible silence of western collaboration (through denial and silence) with the Soviets. 

 

He could also explore the various other genocidal acts that took place and are so sadly forgotten and even denied: the Armenian Holocaust, the Holodomor, the Gulag (Leninist and Stalinist) Cambodia, the Cultural Revolution, the Tibetan Annexation, the Palestinian Refugee Crisis, the Rwandan, Chechen and Sudanese Genocides - as well as, what can only be regarded as a new Holocaust: the Chaldean Holocaust (where, since 2003 the  vast majority of Chaldeans have been exterminated, forcibly "converted" to Mohomedanism, or - if lucky - have fled the country). On this issue, as with so many others there is a deathly silence. Finally, he could conclude with the "Silent Scream" of millions of souls lost through the unspeakable crime of abortion. 

 

He could draw his final conclusion: this is not because of religion, it is because of lack of religion. It is because mankind refuses to bend the knee to the Prince of Peace, to realize that true peace is the tranquility of order - the order of Christ. 

What a glorious opportunity with the world watching! What a defeat for the secular press which despises Christ and His Church.  What a defeat for satan. 

 

Reflections on Anti-Catholic Hatred following the Lifting of the Excommunications

God bless Pope Benedict for lifting the excommunications. God bless him also for refusing to cave in under extraordinary media pressure which sought to reverse this action. Yet this only underscores two points: 1) total ignorance of Church law, and more importantly: 2) the anti-Catholic nature of the anti-papal attacks. The Pope can no more re-excommunicate Bishop Williamson for his private opinion than he can "re-incommunicate" him if he re-examines the historical evidence. Will the media be now calling for the excommunication of Armenian and Ukrainian Holocaust deniers/negationists etc.? And let us not forget, this latter group contains legions of followers. 

With reference to Bishop Williamson, it is curious that the "freedom of speech" crowd (as no doubt they would be very proud of calling themselves) is denying the bishop his "freedom". Is one only free to express (indeed regurgitate) only what has been decreed permissible by powerful international forces - such as the "media"?

Nonetheless, God is drawing good out of evil, as 40 years of Vatican II "ecumenism" and "dialogue" has been exposed as a fraud. "Ecumenism" and "dialogue" have now been seen for what they are  conformity of the Church to the world and false religions - and not the conversion of , for example Jews to the one, true Faith. 

Alas, vitriolic Zionist hatred of the Catholic Church has been exposed. A search of the internet makes this very clear. Following closely - yet more insidiously - is the hatred of Catholic Tradition (in reality, Catholic Truth) by numerous materially heretical so-called Catholics who are raging against the lifting of the excommunications (many behind the facade of opposition to Bishop Williamson; as if his private opinions have any reflection on doctrine). 

Quite enlightening is the warped, unhinged approach of numerous nominal "Catholics" who wish Bishop Williamson be thrown out of the Church, yet cannot seem to raise themselves to call for the expulsion of priests and bishops who are teaching heresy. Surely denying the Divinity of Christ is infinitely worse than denying the Shoah? Surely rejecting Humanae Vitae is likewise infinitely worse - just look at the number of deaths by comparison! 

It is now imperative that indeed a true dialogue (St. Thomas More defined dialogue as "two friends who swear to each other to yield to the light and only the light") commence on the various questionable aspects of Vatican II. It should be re-emphasized that this Council was pastoral, that acceptance of a number of highly questionable doctrines be re-examined for the greater good of the entire Church. 

May God bless Pope Benedict. May God bless Bishop Fellay. And yes, may God bless Bishop Williamson, as well as those who hate the Catholic Church. May they, as Christ wishes be brought to the fullness of Catholic Truth. 

Sung Mass in Toronto

Please visit Vox Cantor for all the details for Mass celebrated this evening (All Souls') in Toronto. 

Fraternity to Arrive in Toronto

Remarkable news!

The Fraternity of St. Peter's is to be given an apostolate in the Archdiocese of Toronto. For further information, please visit Vox Cantor.

Does this man speak for the SSPX?

“What remains of the magisterium in the Church? It is a matter of faith that Our Lord endowed His Church with a living and perpetual Magisterium, that is to say a papal and episcopal voice which, in every era and at the present time, is the echo of divine revelation and the relay of tradition. Well, this magisterium, at least as regards the truths denied by the conciliar hierarchy, lies in Mgr Lefebvre in whom it can be found in a certain manner. He is the veritable echo of tradition, the faithful witness, the good shepherd whom simple sheep have been able to identify from the wolves in sheep’s clothing. Yes, the Church still has a living and perpetual magisterium and Mgr Lefebvre is its saviour. The indefectibility of the Church can be seen in the inflexibility of the Archbishop.”

Tissier de Mallarias, SSPX Bishop. Fideliter, 1989 (No. 72, p10)

My question: Archbishop Lefebvre is dead. Where is Mallarais' magisterium now? 

SSPX Tragedy ??

The SSPX leadership seems to have failed to respond in a positive manner to the 5 points sent from Rome. They have, for all purposes, turned away from the process of regularisation and combating the modernists; they have fled the fight. Make no mistake, the fight is where the Pope (and hence Church is). The fight is not in chapels, in ghettoes that have no canonical standing.

To disobey a superior is a grave matter. St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Robert Bellarmine teach that one may indeed disobey when the order is intrinsically evil, and explicit and manifest. When an order is within the realm of "probability", then order is still to be obeyed, with the sin falling on the superior. In fact, St. Robert, basing himself on Scripture states that to hold the contrary is heresy.

Hence, why not cease the opportunity? Is it because the New Mass is "intrinsically evil", and the Second Vatican Council "heretical"? Or so it is claimed by some. Yet who are these persons - the Pope? Certainly not. Yet only the Pope has the power (the Keys) from Christ to do so. For any Catholic to claim the New Mass as evil, to claim the Council heretical, to claim a power he cannot have (and thus to usurp the Pope's singular power) is an act of schism.

Now is the time. Now is the time for humility, to join the fight in the front lines! Now is the time to bring in several hundred "shock troops" to increase the Traditional pressure. Now is the time to help Pope Benedict restore the Church. Now is the time to bind the wounds of Holy Mother Church. Now is the time.

However, we should end on a positive note. It seems that perhaps Bishop Fellay is under intense pressure from extreme elements within the Society; those with schismatic inclinations. What are such inclinations? To judge without authority between the Rome of today and the Rome of yesterday, to declare the New Mass an impiety, evil, to speak of two "churches" etc. 

Let us continue to pray for Bishop Fellay, that he reach out to the Holy Father.