Perpetual Indulgence of Perversity Must Lead to Its Institutionalization, part one

The scandal, by now well-documented, I am sure, of the invitation extended by the ~~Brooklyn~~—I mean, Los Angeles—Dodgers to the blasphemous group of transvestites that call themselves the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” to be honored this evening, that is, on Friday, June 16, 2023, the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, at Dodger Stadium is the result of abject indifference, if not open support, of this truly wicked group by various conciliar priests and presbyters.

This “organization” that is dedicated to the open mockery of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, His Most Blessed Mother, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the consecrated religious life and, quite indeed, almost everything about the Catholic Faith has been able to insinuate itself in some of the pervert-friendly parishes around the country, to say nothing of invading places such as the Cathedral of Saint Patrick in the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York, New York, on Sunday, December 10, 1989, during what was called an ACT-UP disruption of the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical service that was presided over by John Joseph “Cardinal” O’Connor, the conciliar “archbishop” of New York from March 18, 1984, to May 3, 2000, that I witnessed personally.

Famously, the late Father Stephen Merriweather, then the conciliar church’s chancellor in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, permitted the “Sisters” of Perpetual Indulgence” to exhibit their sacrilegious behavior at the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer in the notorious Castro District of the city named after Saint Francis of Assisi, in 2006. This travesty took place around the same time that a conciliar “bishop” in Canada had permitted a pro-abort, pro-pervert presbyter to run for public office without any interference or reproof from Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI. This what I wrote about both scandals at the time:

To wit, the following story, appeared on LifeSiteNews.com, a Canadian-based Catholic news site. It was written by Hilary White and John-Henry Westen:

MONTREAL, October 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Fr. Raymond Gravel, the pro-abortion, and pro-gay 'marriage' parish priest of the Catholic diocese of Joliette announced last week that he would be running for the separatist Bloc Quebecois party in the federal by-election for the north Montreal riding of Repentigny. Today his diocese confirmed with LifeSiteNews.com that he has the permission of his bishop to run for public office, despite a prohibition of such activity in the Church's Code of Canon Law.

Gravel is a former homosexual prostitute and one of Canada's most vociferous opponents of Catholic teaching on homosexuality, marriage and the sanctity of life. His self-proclaimed goal in running for federal office is to "fight for justice."

Since the scandal through the 1980's of Fr. Robert Drinan, a US Jesuit priest who as a Congressman helped usher in the current situation with legalized abortion-on-demand, Catholic priests have been forbidden by the Church's Canon Law from running for or holding public office. This decree, however, as with most modern disciplinary rules, has the caveat that the local bishop can overrule if there is some serious necessity for the "protection of the rights of the Church or the promotion of the common good."

Thus far, Fr. Gravel's greatest claims to public notoriety have been his vociferous opposition to Catholic teaching on sexual purity and the sanctity of life. Even so, the Joliette Diocese has confirmed with LifeSiteNews.com that Gravel was given permission to run by his bishop, Gilles Lussier.

In 2004, Gravel boasted to a radio interviewer, "I am pro-choice and there is not a bishop on earth that will prevent me from receiving Communion, not even the Pope."

In February this year, Gravel joined a group of nineteen priests in issuing a letter condemning Catholic teaching on sexual purity and opposing the bishops' submissions to Parliament against the same-sex "marriage" law.

The diocesan spokesman said that when Fr. Gravel takes on the role of politician, he may not function in any way as a priest. "It was decided that M. Gravel, during his political adventure, is relieved of his functions as a priest giving out the Sacraments, saying Mass and hearing marriages. Although he's still a priest."

Gilles Ferland, Communications Director for the Joliette diocese, said that part of the agreement was that Gravel would not take positions as a politician that "go against the doctrines of the Church."

Aside from his history of public opposition to those teachings, however, his choice to run for the Bloc Quebecois party that supports homosexual 'marriage,' abortion, and a host of others issues counter to the sanctity of life and family, would put him at odds with the Church from the outset.

Ferland told LifeSiteNews.com that the Vatican was not consulted by the diocese in making the decision. "No, it is not the Vatican that gives permission, it is the bishop. The responsibility to accept or refuse the request was his."

When asked if the bishop had raised the issue with any other bishops, the response was, "No, not at all."

The diocese' council of priests, the "presbyteral council" was consulted, however, and agreed. Ferland said the other priests of the diocese felt there was no problem. It was understood that "this is (Fr. Gravel's) career plan," Ferland said.

The Globe and Mail notes that Gravel himself speculated last year in an interview in a homosexual magazine that at least half of Quebec's priests are homosexuals.

"I would say that 50 per cent of the priests in Quebec are gay," he said. "But if I became a priest, it's because I'm a believer and I believe in the message of Christ."

LifeSiteNews.com's calls to Canada's nuncio and to Fr. Gravel at his parish were not returned by deadline. (“Pro-Choice”, Pro-Gay Priest Given Permission from Bishop but not Vatican to Run for Politics.)

Yes, conciliarism always has a catch. Priests and religious are prohibited by the conciliar code of canon law from running for public office, except, of course, if the local bishop deems it "necessary" to give permission.

Ah, yes, the "springtime of the Church." One can be disciplined by Joseph Ratzinger one day but remain a priest in canonical good standing despite his support for baby-killing under cover of law and for "marriage" between those steeped in perversity. Yesterday's slap-on-the-wrist disciplinary letter is no impediment, however, to receiving a conciliar bishop's approbation a few years later to run for public office even though most Catholics believe that John Paul II was supposed to have barred all priests and religious from running for public office and from serving in positions of civil governance. The scandals of the pro-abortion serving Father Robert Drinan in the United States House of Representatives, of Sister Agnes Mansour serving as the head of the State of Michigan's Department of Social Services, which administered a Medicaid program that funded abortions for low-income women, and of Fathers Miguel d'Escoto and Ernesto Cardenal serving in the Sandinista government of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, were to have been things of the past. No, not in conciliarism, where such Hegelian slogans of pluriformity in unity and continuity in discontinuity are supposed to make perfect positivist sense. You are not allowed to run for office except when you are allowed to run for office. Makes perfect Hegelian sense, doesn't it?

In plain English, folks, this is a travesty, yet just another indication of the depths of depravity to which into which the counterfeit religion must perforce continue to fall as it makes it "accommodations" to the spirit of the modern state. It is not an impediment in the conciliar church for a Catholic priest to openly announce his support for abortion and for "same-sex marriage" and to remain a Catholic in good standing, no less to run as an ostensible cleric for public office while supporting these abominations.

Not to be outdone, of course, the conciliar Chancellor of the Archdiocese of San Francisco had been planning to sponsor event in the parish of which he is the pastor, Most Holy Redeemer, that is so gross and vulgar that any mention of its details would be an offense against all decency and modesty. A columnist and attorney by the name of Allyson Smith wrote the Chancellor, Father Stephen A. Meriweather. Unfortunately, Mrs. Smith's letter contains some of the graphic details that I consider too gross to include on this site. Here is, however, one brief excerpt:

Words fail to express my outrage at finding out that you are allowing the blasphemous sodomite drag queens, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, to use Most Holy Redeemer for their perverted, pornographic bingo games. You are not only the pastor of MHR, you are the CHANCELLOR of the San Francisco Archdiocese! How could you--how dare you--allow these perverts to desecrate Most Holy Redeemer by openly parading their abominable homosexual vice in the very same building where the true Most Holy Redeemer, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, is present in His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity?

Are you out of your mind -- or do you find nothing wrong with this? Do you approve of sodomy, one of the sins that cries out to Heaven for vengeance, and of allowing open sodomites to desecrate our Lord's Real Presence and His temple? It certainly appears so, as I just called your church and a staffer there, Joey, confirmed that you are aware of these activities and that they are taking place with your approval.

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence make endless mockery of our Lord's sacrifice at Calvary and of good, faithful nuns who spend their lives in prayerful, selfless service to the Church. They openly display their perversion in public streets during "gay pride" parades -- and now, apparently, in your own parish. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME! . . . .

HOW DARE YOU ALLOW PORN DVDs AND [unspeakable products] TO BE GIVEN AWAY IN THE HOUSE OF GOD? God have mercy on you and these wicked degenerates!!!

The [website for this perverted group] contains an announcement that the "Sisters" will hold their next bingo game at Most Holy Redeemer this Thursday, November 2, ALL SOULS DAY! What a horrific way to mock Jesus Christ, who died to save sinners, by allowing unrepentant, mocking sodomites to hold their bingo game on that day in a Catholic church!

Father Meriwether, I beg and demand that you put an immediate stop to this terrible sacrilege. Kick the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence out of Most Holy Redeemer NOW. And, as you do, tell them to go to Confession and repent of their abominable homosexual vice. Do not aid and abet their mortal sin and blasphemies any longer. And seek forgiveness yourself for allowing our Lord to be mocked and vilified so hideously in your own parish.

Leaving aside the probability that Our Lord is not present at Most Holy Redeemer Church, Mrs. Smith properly expressed her outrage as a Catholic about this travesty. Her letter did result in a rather prompt and most appropriate response from the Archdiocese of San Francisco, which stated that the event has been canceled and that Father Meriwether is "on leave from his duties." This is indeed most welcomed and to be congratulated. Here is the statement issued by the Archdiocese of San Francisco on October 30, 2006:

Permission to use Ellard Hall should not have been given to the group [the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence]. The Archdiocese of San Francisco has directed the parish to end the arrangement immediately. For years the group has directed contempt and ridicule at Catholic faith and practices. The particular targets of the group’s derision are women in religious communities, for whom Catholics, and many non-Catholics, have a special reverence and respect.

Fr. Meriwether is on leave from his duties.

It remains to be seen whether some of the laity in leadership positions in the parish will "direct" parishioners to an alternate venue for the "performance," if not arrange that venue themselves. This is a standard modus operandi when a chancery office cancels something odious on church grounds after protests are lodged and made public. Stay tuned.

For example, a lecture by Father Richard McBrien, the notorious "theologian" from the University of Notre Dame, who remains in "good standing" as a priest in the Archdiocese of Hartford, Connecticut, was held at the Performing Arts Center in Appleton, Wisconsin, six months ago. The lecture was promoted actively by Our Lady of Lourdes Church in De Pere, Wisconsin. Telephone calls to the Diocese of Green Bay were met with the "explanation" that the event was not being sponsored by the diocese and was not being held on diocesan property. Do not be surprised if something similar happens in San Francisco with the event that had been scheduled to take place at Most Holy Redeemer Church.

What remains an enduring scandal in Archdiocese of San Francisco, however, is that Father Meriwether had enjoyed the confidence of William Levada when he was the Archbishop of San Francisco from 1995 to 2005. Furthermore, the invitation extended to the perverted group did not just "happen." That the event was scheduled at all is indicative of the underlying ethos that has been fostered within the infrastructure of the Archdiocese of San Francisco for many decades now. How many of the people who planned this event will retain their positions?

Yet another scandal is that the current conciliar “archbishop of San Francisco, George Niederauer, had praised the pro-sodomite motion picture Brokeback Mountain upon its debut earlier this year. Niederauer, a product of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, co-owns a beach house in southern California with his predecessor, another product of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the current conciliar prefect of the so-called Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, William “Cardinal” Levada.

Although, thankfully protesting in Sodom-by-Bay does appear to have gotten somewhere regarding the proposed "performance" at Most Holy Redeemer Church, the Homosexual Collective is still quite active in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, especially as young people are propagandized by "programs" that undermine the innocence and purity of children and adolescents. One must recognize that conciliarism and its novelties, including that episcopal collegiality, make it impossible for believing Catholics across the contemporary ecclesiastical divides to reverse all of the ceaseless outrages against God and His Sacred Honor and Glory that are committed on a regular basis under the official auspices of the conciliar officials.

The problem here, ultimately, is not in San Francisco, it is in conciliar Rome itself, where Benedict places the Protestant syncretistic Roger Schutz in Heaven and convinces himself that the revolution he helped to wrought as a peritus at the Second Vatican Council has produced a veritable "springtime of the Church." His revolution has been a rejection of the constant patrimony of the Catholic Church and a disaster at the pastoral level for the souls for whom Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ shed every single drop of His Most Precious Blood. One must reject conciliarism and then come to recognize that what is happening at Most Holy Redeemer Church, which is in the temporary hands of non-Catholics, does not emanate from the Catholic Church at all.

There are several other contemporary examples of the rot involving the sodomite infestation of the conciliar structures (including a pending document to be released in two weeks by the United States Conference of Conciliar Bishops, USCCB, which will encourage the baptism of the children "adopted" by "gay couples). An elderly reader wrote to me a few days ago to explain that she was leaving the internet to concentrate on her prayer life before she dies, "Why do I have to keep up with the problems in the conciliar church. I don't keep up with the problems in various Protestant sects. Why should I bother myself with the outrages taking place in Catholic structures that are now in the control of the non-Catholic conciliarists?" Indeed. The conciliar church is of its very synthetic nature a positivist exercise to convince believing Catholics that it is the Catholic Church. It is not. (From: A Positivist's Work is Never Done, October 31, 2006. A follow-up commentary, Yet Another Conciliar Shell Game was published on November 18, 2006, to explain that Father Stephen A. Meriweather was placed on a brief administrative leave before being permitted to return to the self-described “gay” parish, the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer.)

Well, it was nearly a year later that “Brokeback Mountain” George Niederauer personally gave what purported to be Holy Communion to the wretched “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” during a staging of the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical abomination:

What could not be verified yesterday morning was verified by yesterday afternoon: the conciliar "archbishop" of San Francisco, California, George Niederauer, did indeed give what purports to be "Holy Communion" during a Novus Ordo service at Most Holy Redeemer Church in San Francisco on Sunday, October 7, 2007, to two cross-dressing "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence." The photographs proving that this sacrilege of distributing what Niederauer presumably believes is the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ within the context of the sacrilege of the Protestant and Masonic Novus Ordo Missae were taken by members of the Saint Joseph's Men's Society, which is based in northern California. The photographs are authentic. George Niederauer distributed "Holy Communion" in a Novus Ordo to two people who were dressed in a bizarre costume that mocks the consecrated religious life, two people who are dedicated to the public promotion of the very thing, sin, that caused Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to undergo such fearsome suffering in His Passion and Death and that caused His Most Blessed Mother's Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart to be pierced through and through with Seven Swords of Sorrow.

Once again, here is the photograph of the moment when Niederauer gave what Novus Ordoites believe is Holy Communion to the "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence:"

Father Meriweather was placed on a temporary leave from his duties by the Archdiocese of San Francisco after the event became known. Indeed, the conciliar authorities of the archdiocese even issued the following statement on October 30, 2006, about the "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence:"

Fr. Meriwether is on leave from his duties.

Father Meriwether's leave did not last long. It was, as noted last year in www.christorchaos.com/YetAnotherConciliarShellGame.htm">http://www.christorchaos.com/YetAnotherConciliarShellGame.htm">Yet Another Conciliar Shell Game, Father Meriwether's temporary leave from Most Holy Redeemer Church was a mere public relations move. True, Meriwether is no longer the conciliar chancellor of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. He is still at Most Holy Redeemer Church, which sponsored a booth--with the permission of the conciliar authorities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco--at the celebration of perversity that took place this past weekend at the annual Castro Street "fair." Father Meriwether's pastorate at Most Holy Redeemer Church has also featured at least one bulletin announcement, published on September 16, 2007, extolling the birth of a child to two men "wedded" in their perversity:

Congratulations to parishioners James Donaher and Joel Alegria on the birth of twins Isabella and Ian, whom we look forward to baptizing soon during our Sunday Liturgy.”

There has never been a time in the history of the Church, not even when Saint Peter Damian was exposing the problems of perverted priests to Pope Leo IX in the Eleventh Century, when a Catholic parish treated two men living in a situation of open perversity as a "couple" with the same status and rights as a man and woman joined together validly in the Holy Sacrament of Matrimony. Two men with twin babies? One has a situation of perversity coupled with one where babies were conceived via the immoral means of in vitro fertilization, making a mockery of God's Sovereignty over the sanctity of the procreative powers of human beings.

Mrs. Randy Engel's www.riteofsodomy.com/">http://www.riteofsodomy.com/">The Rite of Sodomy explains how Saint Peter Damian condemned that which is glorified at Most Holy Redeemer Church on a regular basis:

According to Damian, the vice of sodomy "surpasses the enormity of all others," because:

"Without fail, it brings death to the body and destruction to the soul. It pollutes the flesh, extinguishes the light of the mind, expels the Holy Spirit from the temple of the human heart, and gives entrance to the devil, the stimulator of lust. It leads to error, totally removes truth from the deluded mind ... It opens up hell and closes the gates of paradise ... It is this vice that violates temperance, slays modesty, strangles chastity, and slaughters virginity ... It defiles all things, sullies all things, pollutes all things ... This vice excludes a man from the assembled choir of the Church ... it separates the soul from God to associate it with demons. This utterly diseased queen of Sodom renders him who obeys the laws of her tyranny infamous to men and odious to God... She strips her knights of the armor of virtue, exposing them to be pierced by the spears of every vice ... She humiliates her slave in the church and condemns him in court; she defiles him in secret and dishonors him in public; she gnaws at his conscience like a worm and consumes his flesh like fire. ... this unfortunate man (he) is deprived of all moral sense, his memory fails, and the mind's vision is darkened. Unmindful of God, he also forgets his own identity. This disease erodes the foundation of faith, saps the vitality of hope, dissolves the bond of love. It makes way with justice, demolishes fortitude, removes temperance, and blunts the edge of prudence. Shall I say more?" (Mrs. Randy Engel, The Rite of Sodomy, p. 53.)

Most Holy Redeemer Church in San Francisco, California, has embraced utter degradation. Mrs. Engel has written a letter via e-mail to the lay administrator of Most Holy Redeemer Church seeking an explanation of the bulletin announcement about the men with the twins. She has received no response as of this posting.

Naturally, of course, the conciliarists must make a good "show" of things now and again, which is why the conciliar authorities in San Francisco issued the statement that they did in October of 2006, indicating that they knew full well about the horrific nature of the "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence." It is all a show, however, as demonstrated by the simple fact that the "archbishop" himself decides to give these people who make a mockery of the Faith and who celebrate quite publicly their own sins what he believes to be Holy Communion. Then again, this is all the rotten fruit of over forty years of making a mockery of the Faith by means of the Novus Ordo, is it not? How can a conciliar "archbishop" who praised a motion picture, Brokeback Mountain, propagandizing in favor of perversity be expected to refuse what he believes, falsely, of course, to be Holy Communion to perverts in demonic costumes when putative "popes" have distributed what purports to be Holy Communion to half-naked people in Africa and Asia and Australia (and Rome itself on occasion)?

The Novus Ordo's mania for the "inculturation of the Gospel" and conciliarism's de facto embrace of the heresy of universal salvation have convinced Niederauer, it appears, that no one can be denied what purports to be Holy Communion in the Novus Ordo, including known promoters of perversion who mock the Catholic Faith. This could never--emphasis on never--have happened in the Catholic Church. That it happens all the time in the counterfeit church of conciliarism, which apes but is not the Catholic Church, is simply a sign of the apostasy that has wrecked the sensus Catholicus of so many within its ranks, admitting quite readily that there are "clergy" and members of the laity in the conciliar structures who have maintained the Faith as best as they can and who are justifiably outraged by events such as the one that took place three days ago. And another telling sign of the apostasy represented by the counterfeit church of conciliarism is that men such as Niederauer who are responsible for sacrileges and blasphemous outrages almost never find themselves being disciplined by the conciliar authorities in Rome. The novelty of episcopal collegiality rules the day.

An additional wrinkle to this sordid story is the abject silence about it from many in the Motu communities. Silence must rule the day in order not to threaten the "privileges" extended by Summorum Pontificum. Silence ruled the day two months, seven days ago when Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI called Mount Hiei in Japan, a place where the Tendei sect of the false, demonic religion of Buddhism got its first "stronghold, "sacred." Defending the rights of God Himself? Calling for acts of reparation for this outrage committed against the First Commandment? No, silence ruled the day in most Motu circles. Silence. The same silence that is ruling the day amongst so many, although certainly not all, traditionally-minded Catholics still attached to the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism. (From: www.christorchaos.com/RomesForbearanceWithSacrilege.htm">http://www.christorchaos.com/RomesForbearanceWithSacrilege.htm">Rome's Forbearance With Sacrilege, October 10, 2007.)

The conciliar authorities have been very indulgent of the collection of sodomites dressing up as religious sisters to mock Our Lord, Our Lady, Holy Mass, and the Holy Faith for far, far too long. The laissez-faire Joseph Alois (“My authority stops at that door”) Ratzinger/Benedict XVI did not order Catholic parishes in conciliar captivity not to have anything to do with the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and it is certainly the case that the entirety of Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s ten years as the head of the conciliar directorate has done nothing but encourage indecency, perversity, crudity, and lewdness as many of his conciliar “bishops” and presbyters have conducted the most outrageously offensive displays in support of the full panoply of the so-called “LQGBTIMLNOPQRSTUVXWYZ” agenda, which is embedded in the sinews of many conciliar dioceses around the world, especially in Germany, Switzerland, parts of Austria, especially in Christoph Schonborn’s Archdiocese of Vienna, The Netherlands, Canada, and many places here in the United States of America (Robert Brom’s Diocese of San Diego, Wilton Gregory’s Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Rene Cupich’s Archdiocese of Chicago, Joseph Tobin’s Archdiocese of New York, John Stowe’s Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky, as well as in various parishes such as the Church of Saint Frances Xavier and the Church of Saint Paul in the Borough of Manhattan, Saint Brigid’s Church in Westbury, New York, Saints Cyril and Methodius Church in Deer Park, New York, Saint Joan of Arc Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and, of course Most Holy Redeemer Church in San Francisco).

Why, therefore, should the Los Angeles Dodgers or the entity known as “Major League Baseball” care about offending Catholics when Jorge Mario “Who am I to judge?” Bergoglio, who has enabled the sodomite agenda, has made it a point to praise “New Ways Ministry,” has empowered the likes of Timothy Radcliffe and James Martin to reaffirm the false notion that there are “all types of families,” and has met with groups of people who have paid to have their bodies mutilated by chemical and surgical means to attempt the ontologically impossible feat of changing their genders?

The corporate barons who own the Dodgers and the other owners of Major League Baseball care about pleasing people who are at war with God and also with themselves, whose natures have been made to know, love, and serve Him as He has revealed Himself to men exclusively through His Catholic Church, as they are counting on the expectation that the relatively few number of Catholics who might be offended by the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” are too attached to the “game” and their “team” to do anything other than go “cluck, cluck, cluck” and “harrumph, harrumph, harrumph” before going out to the stadium again to spend their disposal income on the games, the gear, the food, the parking, the drinks in the name of “enjoying” themselves. Most Catholics, living as they do in a land of abject religious indifferentism that was bound to become a land of open hostility to religion in general and to the true religion in particular, are so attached to the world and its false allurements that the thought of acting as Catholics did a hundred years again when their bishops called them to boycott a particular motion picture, magazine, book, or speaker is foreign to their mind as the concept of equal application of the law is to Merrick Garland and Jack Smith, just to pick a few random names out of hat, you understand.

To be sure, the statement made by the misnamed United States Conference of Catholic Bishops about the Dodgers’ initial invitation to the “Perpetual Sisters of Indulgence” before it was withdrawn and then extended once again is very good as it calls for that which is almost unheard of within the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism, acts of reparation, and for Catholics to pray the Litany of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus for the offenses this Heart of Hearts will suffer on His Feast Day, tomorrow, Friday, June 16, 2023:

WASHINGTON - On June 16, the Catholic Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Most Reverend Timothy P. Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), and Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee for Religious Liberty, joined by Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, have called on Catholics to pray the Litany of the Sacred Heart, and make an act of reparation—an act offered to the Lord with the intention of repairing the spiritual damage inflicted by sin.

The bishops’ invitation to the faithful follows:

“Catholic Christians traditionally recognize June as the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. During this time, we call to mind Christ’s love for us, which is visible in a special way in the image of His pierced heart, and we pray that our own hearts might be conformed to His, calling us to love and respect all His people.

“This year, on June 16—the day of the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus—a professional baseball team has shockingly chosen to honor a group whose lewdness and vulgarity in mocking our Lord, His Mother, and consecrated women cannot be overstated. This is not just offensive and painful to Christians everywhere; it is blasphemy.

“It has been heartening to see so many faithful Catholics and others of good will stand up to say that what this group does is wrong, and it is wrong to honor them. We https://lacatholics.org/sacredtruth/">call on Catholics to pray the www.usccb.org/prayers/litany-sacred-heart-jesus">https://www.usccb.org/prayers/litany-sacred-heart-jesus">Litany of the Sacred Heart on June 16, offering this prayer as an act of reparation for the blasphemies against our Lord we see in our culture today.” (www.usccb.org/news/2023/catholics-invited-pray-act-reparation-solemnity-...">https://www.usccb.org/news/2023/catholics-invited-pray-act-reparation-so...">Catholics Invited to Pray an Act of Reparation on Solemnity of the Sacred Heart.)

Additionally, a number of individual conciliar “bishops” have also expressed their outrage, something that Senor Jorge, recently released from Ospitale Gemell in Rome, would never do under any circumstances:

Prominent Catholics and other Christians, including baseball players and bishops, continue to denounce the Los Angeles Dodgers’ decision to honor an anti-Catholic drag group called the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” at a game on June 16.

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are a national drag queen group that impersonates nuns and uses Catholic religious imagery and themes in protests and sexualized performances to raise awareness and money for LGBTQ+ causes. The performers call themselves nuns and regularly use the images of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and women religious.

The Dodgers will be honoring the L.A. chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence with a “Community Hero Award” before a game against the San Francisco Giants.

Here is what some of the country’s leading bishops are saying about the decision.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, New York City

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, blasted the Dodgers’ decision to honor the drag group in an episode of his talk show “The Good Newsroom” on June 2.

Dolan pointed out that beloved former Dodgers who were devoutly religious such as Sandy Koufax, Tommy Lasorda, and Vin Scully would be outraged today.

“Sandy Koufax, a great Dodger, there was a guy that loved religion so much he wouldn’t pitch on Yom Kippur,” Dolan said. “Now the Dodgers … are honoring this viciously anti-Catholic group.”

“We here in New York are well aware of them,” Dolan said of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. “These are the ones that spit on Cardinal John O’Connor, these are the ones that threatened to desecrate the holy Eucharist, these are the ones who exposed themselves in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. We’re well aware of their antics. This isn’t some benevolent, humorous group.”

“You shouldn’t do this to any group,” Dolan added. “Why is the only group that they feel free to attack Catholics?”

Archbishop Jose Gomez, Los Angeles

Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, the archbishop of the city in which the anti-Catholic group is being honored, called on Catholics and people of goodwill to “stand against hate in any form” in a May 23 tweet.

“The decision to honor a group that clearly mocks the Catholic faith and makes light of the sincere and holy vocations of our women religious who are an integral part of our Church is what has caused disappointment, concern, anger, and dismay from our Catholic

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, San Francisco

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, the city whose team the Dodgers will compete against on June 16, stated that “we now know what gods the Dodger admin worships.”

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, San Francisco

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, the city whose team the Dodgers will compete against on June 16, stated that “we now know what gods the Dodger admin worships.”

Archbishop Joseph Naumann, Kansas City

Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, called on the Kansas City Royals’ ownership to “communicate their disapproval to the Dodgers’ management for their actions that show disrespect for the Catholic faith,” in a May 31 https://archkck.org/statement-regarding-los-angeles-dodgers-honoring-cat..." target="_blank">statement.

Naumann also called on Major League Baseball to “not allow baseball to be used to advance ideologies that are offensive to many of their customers” so that fans could enjoy games “without having to be subjected to blasphemy and the mockery of the deeply held religious beliefs of many of its players and fans.”

“I am appalled and disgusted by the Dodgers honoring a group that calls themselves the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,” Naumann added. “This group openly mocks Catholic beliefs, and their actions are nothing less than blasphemous.”

Naumann pointed out that former Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda was a supporter of women religious.

“When Tommy was managing the Dodgers,” Naumann said, “he would always give some of his complimentary tickets to Catholic religious sisters. The real heroines for the care of HIV-positive patients are groups like Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, who operated AIDS hospice care facilities.”

“Tommy Lasorda would be appalled by the Dodgers’ actions,” Naumann said.

Archbishop Paul Coakley, Oklahoma City

“There are more than 4 million Catholics in Los Angeles,” Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City said in a June 2 tweet. “The decision by the Dodgers to invite a group that seeks to openly disparage them and the millions of Catholics around the world is abhorrent and should be rescinded.”

“This group specifically mocks the witness of religious sisters around the world who dedicate their lives to serving the poor and those in need,” Coakley added. “Would they allow mockery of other faiths — our Jewish or Muslim brothers and sisters? Of course not.”

Coakley also shared that during this month of the Sacred Heart, he would be praying for “the conversion of hearts” and called on Catholics and people of goodwill to join him in condemning “the vile mockery of any faith.”

Bishop Kevin Vann, Orange, California

Bishop Kevin Vann of the Diocese of Orange, California, released a statement on May 22 condemning the Anaheim mayor’s decision to honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at a June 7 Anaheim Angels game.

“The decision to openly embrace a group whose demeaning behavior is anti-Catholic and anti-Christian is misguided and disrespectful to the sisters of the Catholic Church who minister in Orange County and selflessly dedicate their lives to God’s underserved people,” the diocesan statement said.

In a later tweet on June 7 the diocese said the mayor’s decision was “deeply offensive and divisive” and that “embracing this group provokes division in our community instead of fostering a unifying spirit.”

Bishop Robert Barron, Winona-Rochester, Minnesota

Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester called for a boycott against the Dodgers in a video he tweeted on May 25.

“Anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable prejudice in America, and we shouldn’t tolerate it,” Barron said in a tweet. “I’m a big baseball fan. I’ve even thrown out the first pitch at a Dodgers game. But I’d encourage my friends in L.A. to boycott the Dodgers. Let’s not just pray but make our voices heard in defense of our Catholic faith.”

Bishop Michael Burbidge, Arlington, Virginia

“This is totally unacceptable and it’s so sad,” Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, said in a June 5 episode of his “Walk Humbly Podcast.”

“This is not going to change until we stop supporting organizations like that. So, if I was a Dodgers season ticket holder I’d cancel my season tickets,” Burbidge added. “We have to be a strong voice and we cannot back down to this kind of discrimination.”

“They mock the Catholic faith, and why is it, it seems, that the only ones that can be subjected to this kind of public mockery and agitation and discrimination are Christians? It’s not tolerated with any other group,” Burbidge pointed out. “It’s deeply, deeply concerning.”

“I’m a baseball fan and I just hate seeing this kind of division coming into sports because sports is supposed to be a time when you can bring your family, you can relax, you can enjoy the game, you’re not dealing with all this political agenda,” Burbidge said.

Bishop James Conley, Lincoln, Nebraska

In a June 1 tweet, Nebraska’s Bishop James Conley said that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence group “is slanderous toward our religious sisters and all women.”

The Dodgers’ decision to honor a group “that mocks Catholicism and all of Christianity,” Conley said, “is unwise and disappointing.”

“The Dodgers and MLB need to correct this decision,” Conley concluded.

Bishop Donald Hying, Madison, Wisconsin

In a May 26 tweet, Bishop Donald Hying of the Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin, said: “Let’s call this out for what it is: anti-Catholic bigotry and blasphemy against God.”

Bishop Joseph Strickland, Tyler, Texas

Bishop Joseph Strickland of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, urged his followers to “please speak against this evil being promoted at Dodger Stadium,” in a May 24 tweet.

Strickland will be leading a “prayerful procession” at Dodger Stadium the day of the game, June 16, according a June 5 report by LifeSite News. The event is being organized by a group called “Catholics for Catholics.”

In another tweet on May 30, Strickland said: “Target, Kohl’s, Dodgers, the list grows. As for me and my house we will serve & honor Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God and oppose any group that denigrates His Sacred Name and Truth.” (www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254532/here-s-what-the-bishops-are-sayin...">https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254532/here-s-what-the-bishops-a...">Here’s what the bishops are saying about the Dodgers honoring an anti-Catholic group.)

These statements run the gamut from firm (“So, if I was a Dodgers season ticket holder I’d cancel my season tickets”) to milquetoast (“unwise and disappointing”). However, despite the fact that “Bishop” Robert Barron called for a boycott and that “Bishop” Michael Burbridge called upon Catholics who are Dodgers’ season ticket owners, the fact that these conciliar “bishops” did not speak una voce in support of a permanent boycott of all Major League Baseball games until such time as so-called “pride days,” which celebrate perversity openly and are just as offensive to the true God of Divine Revelation, the Most Blessed Trinity, as invitations extended to the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” by the Los Angeles Angels, who are owned by a Catholic, Arte Moreno, and by the Los Angeles Dodgers, are ended.

These “pride days” have been happening for many years now, and there has been much bullying of players to participate lest they be stigmatized with the label of “hateful homophobe.” It is time for Catholics to treat the promotion of sodomy in baseball, which used to be refuge from the issues of the day, the way that so-called “conservatives” are treating Bud Light, Target, Kohl’s, and Cracker Barrel, which has boasted recently of “pleasing people,” meaning that there is no place in the restaurant and country store’s corporate mentality to think of pleasing God.

As I noted when I walked out of my beloved Shea Stadium on July 16, 2002, just days before I was scheduled to be interviewed on the Mets’ pregame radio program about a book (later expanded, revised and retitled) I had written about the team’s first quarter-century of existence (1962-1977) because of the open advertising of a pharmaceutical product that was popularized by the hapless, inarticulate, mercurial thirty-third degree Freemason named Robert Joseph Dole that was entirely inappropriate in any public venue and especially in front of thousands of day camping youngsters attending the game. I knew that my personal boycott was not going to accomplish anything even with the limited publicity (a few radio interviews, one Newsday column written by Bill Reel, and about fifteen minutes of time being interviewed about the matter on the Buchanan and Press talk show on MSNBC) that was paid to my decision. However, I considered it important for my own salvation to demonstrate that I could no longer remain indifferent to the growing coarseness and open vulgarity that had been permitted, if not encouraged, by the lords of baseball in order to appeal to the “younger set” and thus to make more and more money.

Going to a sports contest is a volitional activity. One can live without it. Indeed, one can gain great merit if one relinquishes otherwise legitimate pleasures to please God, especially when doing so removes one from a situation of being actively or passively complicit in the acceptance of that which is offensive to God and thus injurious to the souls for which His Co-Equal, Co-Eternal Divine Son shed every single drop of His Most Precious Blood during His Passion and Death on the wood of the Holy Cross on Good Friday to redeem.

Take it from one who grew up in the baseball soaked atmosphere of New York City when three teams—the Brooklyn Dodgers, the New York Giants, and the incarnation of all evil in the world, the New York Yankees—dominated baseball to such an extent that one of three, if not two of three, were involved in every World Series from 1949 to 1958 (and the 1959 World Series featured the transplanted Dodgers following their move to Los Angeles after its sixty-seven year history in Brooklyn ended following the 1957 season) and then started following the New York Mets even before their first season began on April 11, 1962, and subsequently went to over 1600 baseball games, principally at the Polo Grounds and Shea Stadium in New York but also in other places around the nation: one can live without going to baseball games, and one can live without even following the games on what the late Bishop Robert Fidelis McKenna, O.P., termed “hell-o-vision” or listening to them on the radio.

Yes, one can live without baseball. It is a diversion. A pastime. Although some pointed out to me twenty-one years ago that I should have walked out of Shea Stadium when “rock” “music” replaced a live organ when new owners (Doubleday Publishing and Sterling Enterprises) took control of the Mets in 1980, I finally did walk out and, though there were a few times as late as 2011 that my knees buckled slightly, I have not been back and have no need to do so ever again. Why could not the conciliar “bishops” have called for a total boycott of Major League Baseball, including instructing pastors of parishes within their dioceses to stop organizing parish-sponsored group outings at baseball games that have become opportunities for rank ideologues to promote all that is indecent, impure, and unjust for “love” of the “game”? Where is one’s love for God and eschewal of the world and its false allurements?

Furthermore, how can Catholics in good conscience continue to pay for cable television service or even watch television at all, no less be indulgent of contemporary motion pictures and of “music” that is designed to arouse the passions, agitate the soul, and din the use of human reason by the bombardment of a constant barrage of cacophonous sounds that are but foretastes of the tortures visited upon the damned in hell?

Similarly, while one has to shop for groceries, one does not have to go out to a restaurant to eat, and one can certainly choose to avoid places that are going out of their way to demonstrate their commitment to all that is perverse, ugly, and indecent. This applies also to banking and financial services, which is why I, for one, have been seeking an alternative to PayPal for some time now, although it is probably only a matter of time before I am “demonetized” because of this site’s work.

Thus, while the invitation extended by the Los Angeles Dodgers and, before them, the Los Angeles Angels thirty miles to the south of Chavez Ravine in Anaheim, to the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” has aroused the ire of many of the more notably “conservative” conciliar “bishops” in the United States of America, some of the statements quoted above went out of their way to speak of “respecting” all people, which was a shorthand way of demonstrating sympathy for those who base their human self-identification. It is this perpetual indulgence of the falsehood that it is legitimate to identify oneself on the basis of one’s proclivity to the commission of perverse sins against nature that has made it almost impossible, humanly speaking, to withstand the cultural onslaught of the adversary’s ever-evolving, ever-adapting forces of rank iniquity. The “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” have gained “mainstream” cultural acceptance in many quarters precisely because many of the conciliar “bishops” have sought be “compassionately understanding” of “gay people” while others among their numbers are undisguised supporters of all that is perverse, wicked, twisted and even overly demonic, and “Pope Francis” himself has gone out of his wretched way to demonstrate his own “solidarity” with the “oppressed” denizens of the homosexual collective, which have coopted God’s sign of peace after the Great Flood—the rainbow—as a symbol of their proud adherence to that which is in full violation of both the Divine and Natural Law. This makes it all the more difficult for some of his Girondist/Menshevik “bishops” to be taken seriously as his fellow Jacobin/Bolsheviks (the aforementioned Robert Brom, Rene Cupich, Wilton Gregory, John Stowe, Joseph Tobin, et al.) are constantly enabling that which is perverted, ugly, and indecent and have, to a man, remained silent about the “Sisters of Perpetual Induglence.”

To wit, the parish in conciliar captivity where the pro-abort, pro-pervert, venally corrupt and diabolically possessed statist who seeks to crush all dissenting views, Robinette Biden, Jr., goes to the Novus Ordo liturgical travesty in Washington, District of Columbia, Most Holy Trinity Church, just staged a “Rainbow Mass” to show their solidarity in perverting the month of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (see www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/catholic-faithful-offer-rosary-in-reparation-...">https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/catholic-faithful-offer-rosary-in-rep...">Catholic faithful offer Rosary in reparation for LGBT 'Pride Mass' at Joe Biden's parish) and none other than Blase Cupich will personally stage the Novus Ordo abomination for the late Joseph Bernardin’s AGLO (Archdiocesan Gay and Lesbian Outrage) that promotes perversity in the name of “changing” that which can never change: the binding precepts of the Divine Positive Law and the Natural Law (see www.lifesitenews.com/news/cdl-cupich-to-celebrate-mass-for-pro-lgbt-grou...">https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cdl-cupich-to-celebrate-mass-for-pro-l...">Cupich to celebrate Mass for pro-LGBT group that dissents from Church teaching for details). Similar events are taking place throughout the United States of America and the world as this month of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus continues to be perverted almost as never before.

Thus, the issue here is not only the anti-Catholicism of the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” and of the corporate entities who desire please such bigots. The issue here is the acceptance of sodomy as a civil “right” and of sodomites as a legitimate class of human beings who must be considered “pillars” of a “diverse” world. No matter how many conciliar “bishops” may express “respect” for “diverse lifestyles” and are ever ready to offend God in order to please mere creatures in their suicidal quest for recognition, approval, acceptance and public honors, and no matter how many corporations, eager to increase their “social credit” scores according to the infallible tenets of “Critical Race Theory,” “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion,” and “Environmental and Social Guidance” (see, for example, www.lewrockwell.com/2023/06/brandon-smith/esg-dystopia-why-corporations-...">https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/06/brandon-smith/esg-dystopia-why-corpo...">ESG Dystopia: Why Corporations Are Doubling Down on Woke Even as They Lose Billions and www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2023/06/11/dulis-has-chick-fil-a-gone-w...">https://www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2023/06/11/dulis-has-chick-fil-...">Has Chick-fil-A Gone Woke? An Updated Rap Sheet) so that they can qualify for injections of capital funding from lenders at good rates and also get good publicity from those who serve as the Praetorian Guards of popular culture, such as it is these days.

Despite all the advance of the homosexual collective and all its perverse permutations—and despite all the overt efforts, including imposing jail sentences on those who oppose perversity’s advances in some so-called “civilized” nations, the following facts remain immutably true no matter how few people accept them as truth exists independently of human acceptance:

Human beings choose to engage in the sin of Sodom and/or its related vices of perversity.
Human beings choose to mutilate their bodies by surgical and chemical means in the furtive attempt to become that which they can never be, a member of the opposite gender.
Such volitional decisions can never receive the recognition of the civil law as legitimate categories of self-identification and legal protection.
Each human being should enjoy all the privileges and immunities of the civil law because they are human beings who, whether or not they know it or accept it as such, have been made in the image and likeness of God in that they have an immortal soul endowed with a rational intellect and will capable of choosing between right and wrong, and because they have been redeemed by the shedding of the Most Precious Blood of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ whether they or not they know or accept it.
That is, we are to treat all people with kindness and to do our best to exhort publicly unrepentant sinners who are “proud” to tell others about their sins as they demand approval upon penalty terming anyone who disagrees with them as a “hater,” which is nothing other than exercise in infantile behavior (how many times has a parent heard a child exclaim “You don’t me, well, I hate you” because he has not gotten his way?), to reform their lives lest they die in their sins without even having any kind of sorrow for them.

Naturalistic means are worthless to oppose the sentimentality its spirit engenders.

For my part, you see, I care about the Sovereignty of God over the sanctity and fecundity of marriage.

I care about the civil state’s pursuing the common temporal good in light of man’s Last End, the possession of the glory of the Beatific Vision of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost for all eternity in Heaven.

I care about the primacy of the binding precepts of the Divine Positive Law and the Natural Law over men in all circumstances, whether acting individually on their own or in concert with others in civil institutions of government.

I care about the fact that mere mortals, who did not create themselves and whose bodies are one day destined for the corruption of the grave, have any moral authority to vitiate those binding precepts as they seek to equate degrading practices with the Holy Sacrament of Matrimony.

I care about the following words found in the Book of Genesis:

And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth. And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them. And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth. And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own kind, to be your meat: And to all beasts of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to all that move upon the earth, and wherein there is life, that they may have to feed upon. And it was so done. (Genesis 1: 26-30.)

I care about the fact about the following words of Sacred Scripture that condemn in uncertain terms what is being celebrated politically, culturally, educationally, and corporately all throughout the world:

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For this cause God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature. And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts one towards another, men with men working that which is filthy, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error. And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness, full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity, whisperers, Detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, foolish, dissolute, without affection, without fidelity, without mercy. Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death; and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them. (Romans 1: 18-32.)

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The modern civil state, including the United States of America, is the product of Protestant Revolution’s overthrow of the Social Reign of Christ the King and the subsequent rise of Judeo-Masonry, a situation that leaves men who know better helpless in the face of the “Who are you to tell me what to do?” canard that furthers the descent of men and their societies in the depths of the abyss. The religiously indifferentist state must become an instrument of evil as it is powerless to stop its advance, and it is also powerless to stop the rise of the totalitarianism that is upon us even as most people are distracted by their bread and circuses.

Protestantism was founded on the pursuit of lust and divorce.

Judeo-Masonry has sought to break down the family with the liberalization of divorce laws and thus the stability of families, something that Pope Leo XIII noted in Arcanum, February 10, 1890.

Nevertheless, the naturalists, as well as all who profess that they worship above all things the divinity of the State, and strive to disturb whole communities with such wicked doctrines, cannot escape the charge of delusion. Marriage has God for its Author, and was from the very beginning a kind of foreshadowing of the Incarnation of His Son; and therefore there abides in it a something holy and religious; not extraneous, but innate; not derived from men, but implanted by nature. Innocent III. therefore. and Honorius III, our predecessors, affirmed not falsely nor rashly that a sacrament of marriage existed ever amongst the faithful and unbelievers. We call to witness the monuments of antiquity, as also the manners and customs of those people who, being the most civilized, had the greatest knowledge of law and equity. In the minds of all of them it was a fixed and foregone conclusion that, when marriage was thought of, it was thought of as conjoined with religion and holiness. Hence, among those, marriages were commonly celebrated with religious ceremonies, under the authority of pontiffs, and with the ministry of priests. So mighty, even in the souls ignorant of heavenly doctrine, was the force of nature, of the remembrance of their origin, and of the conscience of the human race. As, then, marriage is holy by its own power, in its own nature, and of itself, it ought not to be regulated and administered by the will of civil rulers, but by the divine authority of the Church, which alone in sacred matters professes the office of teaching.

Next, the dignity of the sacrament must be considered, for through addition of the sacrament the marriages of Christians have become far the noblest of all matrimonial unions. But to decree and ordain concerning the sacrament is, by the will of Christ Himself, so much a part of the power and duty of the Church that it is plainly absurd to maintain that even the very smallest fraction of such power has been transferred to the civil ruler.

Lastly should be borne in mind the great weight and crucial test of history, by which it is plainly proved that the legislative and judicial authority of which We are speaking has been freely and constantly used by the Church, even in times when some foolishly suppose the head of the State either to have consented to it or connived at it. It would, for instance, be incredible and altogether absurd to assume that Christ our Lord condemned the long-standing practice of polygamy and divorce by authority delegated to Him by the procurator of the province, or the principal ruler of the Jews. And it would be equally extravagant to think that, when the Apostle Paul taught that divorces and incestuous marriages were not lawful, it was because Tiberius, Caligula, and Nero agreed with him or secretly commanded him so to teach. No man in his senses could ever be persuaded that the Church made so many laws about the holiness and indissolubility of marriage, and the marriages of slaves with the free-born, by power received from Roman emperors, most hostile to the Christian name, whose strongest desire was to destroy by violence and murder the rising Church of Christ. Still less could anyone believe this to be the case, when the law of the Church was sometimes so divergent from the civil law that Ignatius the Martyr, Justin, Athenagoras, and Tertullian publicly denounced as unjust and adulterous certain marriages which had been sanctioned by imperial law.

Furthermore, after all power had devolved upon the Christian emperors, the supreme pontiffs and bishops assembled in council persisted with the same independence and consciousness of their right in commanding or forbidding in regard to marriage whatever they judged to be profitable or expedient for the time being, however much it might seem to be at variance with the laws of the State. It is well known that, with respect to the impediments arising from the marriage bond, through vow, disparity of worship, blood relationship, certain forms of crime, and from previously plighted troth, many decrees were issued by the rulers of the Church at the Councils of Granada, Arles, Chalcedon, the second of Milevum, and others, which were often widely different from the decrees sanctioned by the laws of the empire. Furthermore, so far were Christian princes from arrogating any power in the matter of Christian marriage that they on the contrary acknowledged and declared that it belonged exclusively in all its fullness to the Church. In fact, Honorius, the younger Theodosius, and Justinian, also, hesitated not to confess that the only power belonging to them in relation to marriage was that of acting as guardians and defenders of the holy canons. If at any time they enacted anything by their edicts concerning impediments of marriage, they voluntarily explained the reason, affirming that they took it upon themselves so to act, by leave and authority of the Church, whose judgment they were wont to appeal to and reverently to accept in all questions that concerned legitimacy and divorce; as also in all those points which in any way have a necessary connection with the marriage bond. The Council of Trent, therefore, had the clearest right to define that it is in the Church's power "to establish diriment impediments of matrimony," and that "matrimonial causes pertain to ecclesiastical judges."

Let no one, then, be deceived by the distinction which some civil jurists have so strongly insisted upon -- the distinction, namely, by virtue of which they sever the matrimonial contract from the sacrament, with intent to hand over the contract to the power and will of the rulers of the State, while reserving questions concerning the sacrament of the Church. A distinction, or rather severance, of this kind cannot be approved; for certain it is that in Christian marriage the contract is inseparable from the sacrament, and that, for this reason, the contract cannot be true and legitimate without being a sacrament as well. For Christ our Lord added to marriage the dignity of a sacrament; but marriage is the contract itself, whenever that contract is lawfully concluded. . . .

Truly, it is hardly possible to describe how great are the evils that flow from divorce. Matrimonial contracts are by it made variable; mutual kindness is weakened; deplorable inducements to unfaithfulness are supplied; harm is done to the education and training of children; occasion is afforded for the breaking up of homes; the seeds of dissension are sown among families; the dignity of womanhood is lessened and brought low, and women run the risk of being deserted after having ministered to the pleasures of men. Since, then, nothing has such power to lay waste families and destroy the mainstay of kingdoms as the corruption of morals, it is easily seen that divorces are in the highest degree hostile to the prosperity of families and States, springing as they do from the depraved morals of the people, and, as experience shows us, opening out a way to every kind of evil-doing in public and in private life.

Further still, if the matter be duly pondered, we shall clearly see these evils to be the more especially dangerous, because, divorce once being tolerated, there will be no restraint powerful enough to keep it within the bounds marked out or presurmised. Great indeed is the force of example, and even greater still the might of passion. With such incitements it must needs follow that the eagerness for divorce, daily spreading by devious ways, will seize upon the minds of many like a virulent contagious disease, or like a flood of water bursting through every barrier. These are truths that doubtlessly are all clear in themselves, but they will become clearer yet if we call to mind the teachings of experience. So soon as the road to divorce began to be made smooth by law, at once quarrels, jealousies, and judicial separations largely increased: and such shamelessness of life followed that men who had been in favor of these divorces repented of what they had done, and feared that, if they did not carefully seek a remedy by repealing the law, the State itself might come to ruin. The Romans of old are said to have shrunk with horror from the first example of divorce, but ere long all sense of decency was blunted in their soul; the meager restraint of passion died out, and the marriage vow was so often broken that what some writers have affirmed would seem to be true -- namely, women used to reckon years not by the change of consuls, but of their husbands. In like manner, at the beginning, Protestants allowed legalized divorces in certain although but few cases, and yet from the affinity of circumstances of like kind, the number of divorces increased to such extent in Germany, America, and elsewhere that all wise thinkers deplored the boundless corruption of morals, and judged the recklessness of the laws to be simply intolerable.

Even in Catholic States the evil existed. For whenever at any time divorce was introduced, the abundance of misery that followed far exceeded all that the framers of the law could have foreseen. In fact, many lent their minds to contrive all kinds of fraud and device, and by accusations of cruelty, violence, and adultery to feign grounds for the dissolution of the matrimonial bond of which they had grown weary; and all this with so great havoc to morals that an amendment of the laws was deemed to be urgently needed.

Can anyone, therefore, doubt that laws in favor of divorce would have a result equally baneful and calamitous were they to be passed in these our days? There exists not, indeed, in the projects and enactments of men any power to change the character and tendency with things have received from nature. Those men, therefore, show but little wisdom in the idea they have formed of the well-being of the commonwealth who think that the inherent character of marriage can be perverted with impunity; and who, disregarding the sanctity of religion and of the sacrament, seem to wish to degrade and dishonor marriage more basely than was done even by heathen laws. Indeed, if they do not change their views, not only private families, but all public society, will have unceasing cause to fear lest they should be miserably driven into that general confusion and overthrow of order which is even now the wicked aim of socialists and communists. Thus we see most clearly how foolish and senseless it is to expect any public good from divorce, when, on the contrary, it tends to the certain destruction of society. (Pope Leo XIII, Arcanum, February 10, 1890.)

It is worth highlighting the text in bold above to illustrate just how prophetic Pope Leo XIII’s words were one hundred thirty-two years ago as there is no human means to retard the advance of outright bigamy, polygamy, pederasty and even bestiality. How long will it be until someone claims to have the “right” to “marry” an animal or even a robot? Not long. Not long at all. Thus, I ask of you to re-read the following passage and to consider that there is no legal, constitutional, political, cultural, educational, secular, humanistic, naturalistic, religiously indifferentist or interdenominational way to stop the spread of any evil, especially those evils associate with man’s lower passions that become so easily ingrained and so hard to break:

There exists not, indeed, in the projects and enactments of men any power to change the character and tendency with things have received from nature. Those men, therefore, show but little wisdom in the idea they have formed of the well-being of the commonwealth who think that the inherent character of marriage can be perverted with impunity; and who, disregarding the sanctity of religion and of the sacrament, seem to wish to degrade and dishonor marriage more basely than was done even by heathen laws. Indeed, if they do not change their views, not only private families, but all public society, will have unceasing cause to fear lest they should be miserably driven into that general confusion and overthrow of order which is even now the wicked aim of socialists and communists. Thus we see most clearly how foolish and senseless it is to expect any public good from divorce, when, on the contrary, it tends to the certain destruction of society. (Pope Leo XIII, Arcanum, February 10, 1890.)

In like manner, of course, divorce led to contraception, which led to a rise in adultery, divorce, civil remarriages, broken families, the feminization of poverty, the rise of the welfare state and its agenda of alienating children from their parents. Contraception also led to the surgical execution of children in the womb, which has made the killing of anyone after birth by means of “brain death” and “palliative care” legal, accessible and a daily occurrence in American life.

Pope Pius XI explained how the rise of divorce and contraception had led to the call for “new species of unions” contrary to the laws of God and thus to the good of men and their societies:

Armed with these principles, some men go so far as to concoct new species of unions, suited, as they say, to the present temper of men and the times, which various new forms of matrimony they presume to label "temporary," "experimental," and "companionate." These offer all the indulgence of matrimony and its rights without, however, the indissoluble bond, and without offspring, unless later the parties alter their cohabitation into a matrimony in the full sense of the law.

Indeed there are some who desire and insist that these practices be legitimatized by the law or, at least, excused by their general acceptance among the people. They do not seem even to suspect that these proposals partake of nothing of the modern "culture" in which they glory so much, but are simply hateful abominations which beyond all question reduce our truly cultured nations to the barbarous standards of savage peoples. (Pope Pius XI, Casti Connubii, December 31, 1930.)

Pope Pius XI referred to the new species of unions ninety years ago as “hateful abominations.” American jurists of both the naturalist “left” and their false opposite in the naturalist “right” believe that the civil law can recognize “new species of unions” if their elected representatives pass legislation or they themselves pass a referendum to so.

It used to be the case in the not-too-distant past that those who know to commit sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance carried with them a fully justified stigma as men used to have a horror and detestation of such sins when the world was ordered properly according to the right principles of Catholic teaching. This is why famous actors such as Raymond Burr and Rock Hudson and entertainers such as Wladyslaw Liberace never confirmed their perverse ways as they knew that their careers would be ended by the shame that they would have to carry with them for the rest of their lives unless they repented and converted. They knew that they could lose their employment and that most people would not have had pity for them as they had chosen their own plight. Public sins must carry public stigmas.

Instead, however, today’s world glorifies, celebrates, and protects what should be stigmatized as believing Catholics pray for the conversion of those so stigmatized and seek to make reparation for their own sins.

While we are called to treat all people with dignity and respect, it is not unjust for an employer to refuse to hire or to fire someone who is so intent on identifying himself by that which is opposed to the law of God and thus opposed to his own temporal good and that of those around him.

We are faced at present with an aggressive, in-your-face “accept what I do or I will take you to the Supreme Court” mentality that has forced bakers, photographers/videographers and others to go out of business and has caused those who criticize what is considered to be “normal” expressions of “love” to be stigmatized as “haters” by the “mainslime” media, academics galore and the Christophobic likes of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Those who “identify” themselves on the basis of their perverse behavior are not entitled to any legal recognition or protection because of their own freely chosen decisions to succumb to the temptations of the adversary to live indecent and perverse lives that let loose the gates of hell upon themselves and their nations. Sodomy confers no right before the law. None.

While we must pray for the conversion of those steeped in unrepentant sins and for those who support them while we pray every day for the graces we need to work on our own daily conversion away from our sins, our selfishness, our disordered love of self and spiritual tepidity, we can never do anything—either by omission or commission—that reaffirms anyone a life of grievous sin as to do so may very well send us to perdition in the process.

Pope Saint Pius V explained the just penalty due clerics caught in the act of unnatural vice:'

That horrible crime, on account of which corrupt and obscene cities were destroyed by fire through divine condemnation, causes us most bitter sorrow and shocks our mind, impelling us to repress such a crime with the greatest possible zeal.

Quite opportunely the Fifth Lateran Council [1512-1517] issued this decree: "Let any member of the clergy caught in that vice against nature . . . be removed from the clerical order or forced to do penance in a monastery" (chap. 4, X, V, 31). So that the contagion of such a grave offense may not advance with greater audacity by taking advantage of impunity, which is the greatest incitement to sin, and so as to more severely punish the clerics who are guilty of this nefarious crime and who are not frightened by the death of their souls, we determine that they should be handed over to the severity of the secular authority, which enforces civil law.

Therefore, wishing to pursue with the greatest rigor that which we have decreed since the beginning of our pontificate, we establish that any priest or member of the clergy, either secular or regular, who commits such an execrable crime, by force of the present law be deprived of every clerical privilege, of every post, dignity and ecclesiastical benefit, and having been degraded by an ecclesiastical judge, let him be immediately delivered to the to the secular authority to be put to death, as mandated by law as the fitting punishment for laymen who have sunk into this abyss. (Pope Saint Pius V, Horrendum illud scelus, August 30, 1568.)

Death, not “brotherhood” and “mainstreaming” for the sake of “inclusivity,” was what Pope Saint Pius V, faithful to the teaching of Saint Paul the Apostle in his Epistle to the Roman cited above, believed should be imposed on the clergy as well as the laity who were caught in “such an execrable crime” that caused him “such better sorrow” and shocked his papal mind as he sought to “repress such a crime with the greatest possible zeal.”

Mind you, I am not suggesting the revival of this penalty in a world where it would not be understood and where the offender would be made a "martyr" for the cause of perversity, only pointing out the fact that the Catholic Church teaches that clerics and others in ecclesiastical authority who are guilty of serious moral crimes are deserving of punishment, not protection, by their bishops. Such is the difference yet again between Catholicism and conciliarism.

Alas, everything must “be up for grabs” when the souls of men are not taught, sanctified, and governed by Holy Mother Church. Unrepentant sins of the most vile manner imaginable must abound, resulting ultimate in entire races of walking "blank slates," human beings who must decide "for themselves" that which has been ordained by God Himself in the Order of Nature (Creation) and the Order of Redemption (Grace.) Men come to think that they are demigods, beings who have the ability “to decide” what to think in matters to pertaining to Faith and Morals without assenting their intellects completely and without any reservation at all to what Holy Mother Church teaches infallibly.

Pope Leo XIII, writing in Immortale Dei, November 1, 1885, specifically and categorically rejected the diabolical falsehood of the “sovereignty of the people”:

The sovereignty of the people, however, and this without any reference to God, is held to reside in the multitude; which is doubtless a doctrine exceedingly well calculated to flatter and to inflame many passions, but which lacks all reasonable proof, and all power of insuring public safety and preserving order. Indeed, from the prevalence of this teaching, things have come to such a pass that may hold as an axiom of civil jurisprudence that seditions may be rightfully fostered. For the opinion prevails that princes are nothing more than delegates chosen to carry out the will of the people; whence it necessarily follows that all things are as changeable as the will of the people, so that risk of public disturbance is ever hanging over our heads.

To hold, therefore, that there is no difference in matters of religion between forms that are unlike each other, and even contrary to each other, most clearly leads in the end to the rejection of all religion in both theory and practice. And this is the same thing as atheism, however it may differ from it in name. Men who really believe in the existence of God must, in order to be consistent with themselves and to avoid absurd conclusions, understand that differing modes of divine worship involving dissimilarity and conflict even on most important points cannot all be equally probable, equally good, and equally acceptable to God. (Pope Leo XIII, Immortale Dei, November 1, 1885.)

The lowest common denominator in American politics and jurisprudence is practical atheism's rotten fruit of law by sentimentality, which is the same thing as mobocracy, and the mob controls the minds of so many today and has, quite ironically, the support of the “rainbow flag” flying at the White House with the full support of Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., and has been displayed proudly, if you recall, by none other than the man Biden hates and whose arrest and imprisonment he has worked from behind the scenes to engineer, Donald John Trump.

We Must Love and Honor the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Not Pervert His Month of June

Today, of course, is the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus coming as it does this year on the third Friday in the month of the Sacred Heart, the month of June, which was appropriated by the adversary as a month to honor perversity starting in 1969 and that received approbation at the Federal level by one William Jefferson Blythe Clinton thirty years later. It is no accident that the month that is devoted to the love of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

There was a time just about twenty-three years ago now when I was driving from Reno, Nevada, where I had been visiting a generous Catholic who funded my "Living in the Shadow of the Cross" and "To Be Catholic from the Womb to the Tomb" lecture programs from September of 2000 to April of 2003, to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to give a lecture there. The drive was long, over a thousand miles. About half of the drive took me through desert roads in the wasteland known as Nevada. It's a drive I never want to make again even though I made great time driving at breakneck speeds during the middle of the night. Let me explain why.

Although I do not get overcome by feelings of oppression on a regular basis, I did have a palpable sense of evil as I drove through the Nevada desert late at night into the early hours of the next morning (and, no, I can't recall the exact dates as there has been some "slippage" of the memory on some details while others are retained unfailingly, at least up until now). The reason for this palpable sense of evil became clear as I saw little red lights stationed at the driveways of "ranches" alongside US-95 and US-93 in those Nevada counties that permit human beings to sell themselves to engage in the commission of various sins against the Sixth and Ninth Commandments. "Wow," I said to myself, this is a mockery of the Real Presence of Our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament and of His Most Sacred Heart that beats within It."

Red vigil lamps burn near that Real Presence of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in the Most Blessed Sacrament, signifying that the One Who redeemed us by the shedding of every single drop of His Most Precious Blood on the wood of the Holy Cross because of His love of His Co-Eternal and Co-Equal Father in Heaven and his love of us awaits our acts of adoration, thanksgiving, reparation and petition as His Most Sacred Heart pulsates radiant beams of that Divine love to warm us in the midst of the chills of this passing world, full of so many problems, many of which, of course, we cause for ourselves, especially by refusing to accept God's will for us in our lives and refusing to embrace the crosses that He sends us, each of which has been perfectly fitted by Him for us from all eternity. Each cross we are given is the means by which we can give honor and glory to the Most Blessed Trinity through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, out of which the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus that beats for us with such love in the tabernacle was formed.

It is thus understandable that the devil would want to mock the Real Presence of Our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament by having people of bad reputation, shall we say, advertise themselves by means of a red light and that their districts of sin be known as "red light districts." It is also understandable that the devil would want to make this month of June, the month of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus into a celebration of perverse sins against the Sixth and Ninth Commandments as all manner of lewd, vulgar, obscene, and disgusting spectacles take place in city after city in the United States of America and elsewhere in the so-called "civilized" or "developed" world, and has now devolved to the point where children are being inundated aggressively to undergo surgical and chemical mutilation in the ontologically impossible goal of changing their sex, an aggressive agenda that has the full support and encouragement of the serial grifter, cravenly corrupt moral reprobate known as Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.

We must, therefore, increase our acts love for the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus as we increase our desire to undertake voluntary penances to make reparations for the many ways we, perhaps more than we realize and much more than many others who appear to be worse sinners than we are, have abused His tender mercies, taken them for granted and perhaps even cast them aside to be heartless and unforgiving with others, heedless of the fact that nothing we suffer in this life and nothing that anyone says about us, does to us, or causes us to suffer is the equal of what one of our seemingly least Venial Sins caused Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to suffer in His Sacred Humanity during His Passion and Death on the wood of the Holy Cross on Good Friday and that caused His Most Blessed to suffer in perfect compassion with Him as our Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.

On this Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Friday, June 16, 2023, perhaps it would be good to consider the following words from Pope Pius XII’s encyclical letter on the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus in order to contrast the spirit of hatred that motivates the leaders of this passing world with the tender mercies of the Divine Redeemer, Christ the King, Who was made manifest to the Gentile Kings on the Feast of the Epiphany, January 6, that is still observed as an octave in those chapels that adhere to the General Roman Calendar of 1954.

Pope Pius XII emphasized that devotion to the Most Sacred Heart is not “burdensome” and is at the heart of fighting for Christ the King and His rights in the midst of a world that is cold and hostile to Him:

8. The Church has always valued, and still does, the devotion to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus so highly that she provides for the spread of it among Christian peoples everywhere and by every means. At the same time she uses every effort to protect it against the charges of so-called “naturalism” and “sentimentalism.” In spite of this it is much to be regretted that, both in the past and in our own times, this most noble devotion does not find a place of honor and esteem among certain Christians and even occasionally not among those who profess themselves moved by zeal for the Catholic religion and the attainment of holiness.

9. “If you but knew the gift of God.”[7] With these words, venerable brethren, We who in the secret designs of God have been elected as the guardians and stewards of the sacred treasures of faith and piety which the divine Redeemer has entrusted to His Church, prompted by Our sense of duty, admonish them all.

10. For even though the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus has triumphed so to speak, over the errors and the neglect of men, and has penetrated entirely His Mystical Body; still there are some of Our children who, led astray by prejudices, sometimes go so far as to consider this devotion ill-adapted, not to say detrimental, to the more pressing spiritual needs of the Church and humanity in this present age. There are some who, confusing and confounding the primary nature of this devotion with various individual forms of piety which the Church approves and encourages but does not command, regard this as a kind of additional practice which each one may take up or not according to his own inclination.

11. There are others who reckon this same devotion burdensome and of little or no use to men who are fighting in the army of the divine King and who are inspired mainly by the thought of laboring with their own strength, their own resources and expenditures of their own time, to defend Catholic truth, to teach and spread it, to instill Christian social teachings, to promote those acts of religion and those undertakings which they consider much more necessary today. (Pope Pius XII, Haurietis Aquas, May 15, 1956.)

A Brief Comment:

Paragraph 11, above, summarizes the beliefs of so many Catholics who permit themselves to be drawn into the agitation of the conflicts between the false opposites of the naturalist “left” and “right” that are simply manifestations of the anti-Incarnational Judeo-Masonic spirit of Modernity and can never be in the service of promoting a genuine social order.

Pope Pius XII went on to explain the attitude of those who consider devotion to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus to be suited only for women and not for “educated men” even though it is a strong antidote to the sophistries of Modernity:

12. Again, there are those who so far from considering this devotion a strong support for the right ordering and renewal of Christian morals both in the individual’s private life and in the home circle, see it rather a type of piety nourished not by the soul and mind but by the senses and consequently more suited to the use of women, since it seems to them something not quite suitable for educated men.

13. Moreover there are those who consider a devotion of this kind as primarily demanding penance, expiation and the other virtues which they call “passive,” meaning thereby that they produce no external results. Hence they do not think it suitable to re-enkindle the spirit of piety in modern times. Rather, this should aim at open and vigorous action, at the triumph of the Catholic faith, at a strong defense of Christian morals. Christian morality today, as everyone knows, is easily contaminated by the sophistries of those who are indifferent to any form of religion, and who, discarding all distinctions between truth and falsehood, whether in thought or in practice, accept even the most ignoble corruptions of materialistic atheism, or as they call it, secularism.

14. Who does not see, venerable brethren, that opinions of this kind are in entire disagreement with the teachings which Our predecessors officially proclaimed from this seat of truth when approving the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.? Who would be so bold as to call that devotion useless and inappropriate to our age which Our predecessor of immortal memory, Leo XIII, declared to be “the most acceptable form of piety?” He had no doubt that in it there was a powerful remedy for the healing of those very evils which today also, and beyond question in a wider and more serious way, bring distress and disquiet to individuals and to the whole human race. “This devotion,” he said, “which We recommend to all, will be profitable to all.” And he added this counsel and encouragement with reference to the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus: “. . .hence those forces of evil which have now for so long a time been taking root and which so fiercely compel us to seek help from Him by Whose strength alone they can be driven away. Who can He be but Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God? ‘For there is no other name under heaven given to men whereby we must be saved.’[8] We must have recourse to Him Who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”[9]

15. No less to be approved, no less suitable for the fostering of Christian piety was this devotion declared to be by Our predecessor of happy memory, Pius XI. In an encyclical letter he wrote: “Is not a summary of all our religion and, moreover, a guide to a more perfect life contained in this one devotion? Indeed, it more easily leads our minds to know Christ the Lord intimately and more effectively turns our hearts to love Him more ardently and to imitate Him more perfectly.”[10]

16. To Us, no less than to Our predecessors, these capital truths are clear and certain. When We took up Our office of Supreme Pontiff and saw, in full accord with Our prayers and desires, that the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus had increased and was actually, so to speak, making triumphal progress among Christian peoples, We rejoiced that from it were flowing through the whole Church innumerable and salutary results. This We were pleased to point out in Our first encyclical letter.[11]

17. Through the years of Our pontificate — years filled not only with bitter hardships but also with ineffable consolations these effects have not diminished in number or power or beauty, but on the contrary have increased. Indeed, happily there has begun a variety of projects which are conducive to a rekindling of this devotion. We refer to the formation of cultural associations for the advancement of religion and of charitable works; publications setting forth the true historical, ascetical and mystical doctrine concerning this entire subject; pious works of atonement; and in particular those manifestations of most ardent piety which the Apostleship of Prayer has brought about, under whose auspices and direction local gatherings — families, colleges, institutions — and sometimes nations have been consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. To all these We have offered paternal congratulations on many occasions, whether in letters written on the subject, in personal addresses, or even in messages delivered over the radio.[12]

18. Therefore when We perceive so fruitful an abundance of healing waters, that is, heavenly gifts of divine love, issuing from the Sacred Heart of our Redeemer, spreading among countless children of the Catholic Church by the inspiration and action of the divine Spirit; We can only exhort you, venerable brethren, with fatherly affection to join Us in giving tribute of praise and heartfelt thanks to God, the Giver of all good gifts. We make Our own these words of the Apostle of the Gentiles: “Now to Him Who is able to do all things more abundantly than we desire or understand, according to the power that worketh in us, to Him be glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus unto all generations world without end. Amen.”[13]

19. But after We have paid Our debt of thanks to the Eternal God, We wish to urge on you and on all Our beloved children of the Church a more earnest consideration of those principles which take their origin from Scripture and the teaching of the Fathers and theologians and on which, as on solid foundations, the worship of the Sacred Heart of Jesus rests. We are absolutely convinced that not until we have made a profound study of the primary and loftier nature of this devotion with the aid of the light of the divinely revealed truth, can we rightly and fully appreciate its incomparable excellence and the inexhaustible abundance of its heavenly favors. Likewise by devout meditation and contemplation of the innumerable benefits produced from it, we will be able to celebrate worthily the completion of the first hundred years since the observance of the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was extended to the Universal Church. (Pope Pius XII, Haurietis Aquas, May 15, 1956.)

Our last true Holy Father thus far explained the spirit of the hatred of God that was at work in the world sixty-seven years ago and can be said to be at the foundation of modern politics as nihilists of the “left” and the “right” eschew the life-giving waters of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and the truths of the Holy Faith that can and do lift the minds and hearts of men to the things that eternal, in the light of which all things earthy must be judged:

117. And there is more. For if We experience bitter sorrow at the feeble loyalty of the good in whose souls, tricked by a deceptive desire for earthly possessions, the fire of divine charity grows cool and gradually dies out, much more is Our heart deeply grieved by the machinations of evil men who, as if instigated by Satan himself, are now more than ever zealous in their open and implacable hatred against God, against the Church and above all against him who on earth represents the Person of the divine Redeemer and exhibits His love towards men, in accordance with that well-known saying of the Doctor of Milan: “For (Peter) is being questioned about that which is uncertain, though the Lord is not uncertain; He is questioning not that He may learn, but that He may teach the one whom, at His ascent into Heaven, He was leaving to us as ‘the representative of His love.'”[116]

118. But, in truth, hatred of God and of those who lawfully act in His place is the greatest kind of sin that can be committed by man created in the image and likeness of God and destined to enjoy His perfect and enduring friendship for ever in heaven. Man, by hatred of God more than by anything else, is cut off from the Highest Good and is driven to cast aside from himself and from those near to him whatever has its origin in God, whatever is united with God, whatever leads to the enjoyment of God, that is, truth, virtue, peace and justice.[117]

119. Since then, alas, one can see that the number of those whose boast is that they are God’s enemies is in some places increasing, that the false slogans of materialism are being spread by act and argument, and unbridled license for unlawful desires is everywhere being praised, is it remarkable that love, which is the supreme law of the Christian religion, the surest foundation of true and perfect justice and the chief source of peace and innocent pleasures, loses its warmth in the souls of many? For as our Savior warned us: “Because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold.”[118]

120. When so many evils meet Our gaze — such as cause sharp conflict among individuals, families, nations and the whole world, particularly today more than at any other time — where are We to seek a remedy, venerable brethren? Can a form of devotion surpassing that to the most Sacred Heart of Jesus be found, which corresponds better to the essential character of the Catholic faith, which is more capable of assisting the present-day needs of the Church and the human race? What religious practice is more excellent, more attractive, more salutary than this, since the devotion in question is entirely directed towards the love of God itself?[119] (Pope Pius XII, Haurietis Aquas, May 15, 1956.)

Pope Pius XII was referring to the false slogans of materialism being spread by Communists sixty-six years ago, but we know only too well that Communist apologists, if not actual Communists, hold the levers of global power today, including here in the United States of America, where many “respected” opinion-makers believe that the time has come for a formal censorship of any speech that is opposed to “democracy,” meaning opposed to the statist/globalist program for the New World Order. The charity of men hath indeed grown cold because of men’s hatred of God, and it is an easy thing to hate His rational creatures if one hates the very Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier. Hence the reason for so much violent crime today and its indemnification by prosecutors who care not for the protection of innocent life but do everything imaginable to defend and excuse the guilty so that they can kill and maraud again and again.

Linking devotion to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus with devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Pope Pius XII explained that a rekindling of a love for God in the hearts of men would lead to the reconstruction of a just social order on the right principles of the true Faith:

123. Finally, moved by an earnest desire to set strong bulwarks against the wicked designs of those who hate God and the Church and, at the same time, to lead men back again, in their private and public life, to a love of God and their neighbor, We do not hesitate to declare that devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is the most effective school of the love of God; the love of God, We say, which must be the foundation on which to build the kingdom of God in the hearts of individuals, families, and nations, as that same predecessor of pious memory wisely reminds us: “The reign of Jesus Christ takes its strength and form from divine love: to love with holiness and order is its foundation and its perfection. From it these must flow: to perform duties without blame; to take away nothing of another’s right; to guide the lower human affairs by heavenly principles; to give the love of God precedence over all other creatures.”[124]

124. In order that favors in greater abundance may flow on all Christians, nay, on the whole human race, from the devotion to the most Sacred Heart of Jesus, let the faithful see to it that to this devotion the Immaculate Heart of the Mother of God is closely joined. For, by God’s Will, in carrying out the work of human Redemption the Blessed Virgin Mary was inseparably linked with Christ in such a manner that our salvation sprang from the love and the sufferings of Jesus Christ to which the love and sorrows of His Mother were intimately united. It is, then, entirely fitting that the Christian people — who received the divine life from Christ through Mary — after they have paid their debt of honor to the Sacred Heart of Jesus should also offer to the most loving Heart of their heavenly Mother the corresponding acts of piety affection, gratitude and expiation. Entirely in keeping with this most sweet and wise disposition of divine Providence is the memorable act of consecration by which We Ourselves solemnly dedicated Holy Church and the whole world to the spotless Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.[125] (Pope Pius XII, Haurietis Aquas, May 15, 1956.)

There are many Catholics who devoted themselves tirelessly to the cause of the Triumph of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus as the fruit of the Triumph of the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, and some of these Catholics have already suffered massive financial loss because they have openly criticized the advance of the homosexual agenda under the “rainbow” banner and in the name a false “pride” that will be the shame for eternity in fires of hell of those rebels who refuse to repent before they die. One of these courageous Catholics is Ross McKnight, who owns Backwoods Foei Gras Homestead in Louisiana:

A Louisiana farm is facing devastating backlash for its www.foxnews.com/category/faith-values/faith">https://www.foxnews.com/category/faith-values/faith" target="_blank">pro-faith social media post.

Owner of the Backwater Foei Gras farmstead, Ross McKnight, has lost two-thirds of his restaurant business after he made an Instagram post commemorating the Catholic celebration of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, leaving his "tiny" family-owned farm under intense economic pressure.

In the post, he referred to the "attempted coup of the month," referring to Pride Month. He then suggested "some antidotes to a false pride."

www.foxnews.com/category/shows/fox-friends-weekend">https://www.foxnews.com/category/shows/fox-friends-weekend" target="_blank">During his appearance on "Fox & Friends Weekend," McKnight noted that he has never been "quiet" about his faith, making the widespread pushback from his post even more surprising.

"I did know, I suppose in the back of my mind, that eventually there would be a conflict," he began. "It's not out of nowhere, of course, right. Because the conflict happens across the country all the time. But, that it would happen now seemed a little bit perhaps like it was a concerted effort."

Since making the controversial post, the Backwater Foei Gras farmstead has taken a massive financial hit, leaving the future of the farm in inauspicious circumstances.

"Fox & Friends Weekend" co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy asked McKnight, how has the unrelenting blowback impacted his livelihood?

"We have a great deal of confidence in our faith" McKnight replied with valor.

"Like you mentioned, you know, about two thirds of our restaurant business. So that's, of course, never a good thing when you're a really, really tiny operation that's just a family farm. But, you know, we have a great deal of confidence in our faith. We have a great deal of confidence in the triumph of the www.foxnews.com/category/us/religion/christianity">https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/religion/christianity" target="_blank">Sacred Heart and of the Immaculate Heart of Mary," he explained.

"And so, we're not worried in that sense. You know, we know we will be taken care of regardless of what that looks like, but it's a veil of tears. So what's to be expected other than suffering?" (www.foxnews.com/media/louisiana-dad-faces-economic-warfare-social-media-...">https://www.foxnews.com/media/louisiana-dad-faces-economic-warfare-socia...">Louisiana farmer facing economic hit after social media post touted his Catholic faith, called out Pride month.)

Mr. Ross McKnight knows that faithful Catholics must, despite their own sins and failings, never make any compromises for the sake of career success, financial security, and popular approval.

We have not been baptized and confirmed to seek career seeks, financial security, or popular approval.

We have been baptized and confirmed to know God as He has revealed Himself to us through His true Church, to love God has he has revealed Himself to us through His true Church, and to serve God as He has revealed Himself to us through His true Church. In sum, we are here to please God, not men.

It is only by adherence to our Catholic Faith as we prostrate ourselves before Our Eucharistic King and pledge ourselves to Him through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary to His own Most Sacred Heart that we can find a remedy in the souls of individual men to help them overcome the conflicts and agitations of the moment and thus rise to the heights of personal sanctity.

This world in which we live is passing away. The triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary will be made manifest ‘ere long. We must be focused on the sanctification and salvation of our own immortal souls as we keep our First Friday devotions with fervor and pray Our Lady’s Most Holy Rosary every day, including on each First Saturday for the intentions specified by the Mother of God in the Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal, and to Sister Lucia dos Santos in Tuy, Spain.

The following prayer, found in The Raccolta, is one that we should pray today in addition to the Act of Reparation to Most Sacred Heart of Jesus as mandated by Pope Pius XI in and I should add that we should pray the following prayer every day:

O Christ Jesus, I acknowledge Thee as the King of the universe; all that has been made hath been created for Thee. Exercise over me all Thy sovereign rights. I hereby renew the promises of my Baptism, renouncing Satan and all his works and pomps, and I engage myself to lead henceforth a truly Christian life.And in an especial manner do I undertake to bring about the triumph of the rights of God and Thy Church, so far as in me lies. Divine Heart of Jesus, I offer Thee my poor actions to obtain the acknowledment of every heart of Thy sacred kingly power. In such wise may the Kingdom of Thy peace be firmly established throoughout all the earth. Amen. (As found in (The Raccolta: A Manual of Indulgences, Prayers and Devotions Enriched with Indulgences, approved by Pope Pius XII, May 30, 1951, and published in English by Benziger Brothers, New York, 1957, Number 272, p. 149.)

Put your trust in the Most Sacred Heart of Christ the King and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, praying as many Rosaries each day as one’s state-in-life permits.

Vivat Christus Rex!

Vivat Regina Mariae Immaculate!

Our Lady of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.

Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, pray for us.

Saint John Francis Regis (whose feast can be celebrated on this day most years but whose feast is impeded this year), pray for us.

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