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The Holy Father sounded a dire warning Pope Francis is now the world’s most Aw, Your Holiness, is that really a fact? It about the current state of affairs. “The signs influential climate activist…[I read his] 184- really feels like things are starting to get a today are not good”, he said, pointing to page encyclical known as Laudato Si, the little better, and may be on path to get a lot declining investment in clean energy and eco-manifesto that solidified his reputation better. Have faith.2 a rise in the concentration of carbon dioxide as a climate thinker… And, it’s, um, in the atmosphere. well…how to put this delicately…unusual? Not what I expected? Citing leading climatologists and experts, Pope Francis said, “Their message was OK, forgive me, Holy Father: It’s super- Footnotes: weird… clear and insistent. We need to act 1 Visit of the Holy Father to the Pontifical Academy of decisively to put an end to all emissions of The pope’s message in Laudato Si is Sciences, for "Discussion on Sustainable Developments greenhouse gases by mid-century at the surprisingly gloomy for such an inspiring Goals", Vatican News, 22/1/20. very latest, and to do even more than To read the full report, and text of Pope’s talk, visit figure [Ed: er? “Inspiring”? Pope Francis? https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2019- that”… You kidding?] especially at a time when the 05/pope-francis-on-climate-change-time-is-of-the- Pope Francis told the finance ministers, world’s largest emitters, the U.S. and China, essence.html 2 are cleaning up their own act… “There is Why the Pope is wrong about climate… A close look at “Time is of the essence. We await your Francis's major encyclical finds some awfully strange decisive action for the sake of all also the fact that most people no longer views, even for people who care about the environment, humanity.” 1 seem to believe in a happy future,” the pope Michael Grunwald, The Agenda, 27/9/15 wrote in Laudato Si. https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/09/why- the-pope-is-wrong-about-climate-000257 Contents include… Page Glasgow Miracle Education Seminar… Advertisement 3 Equality, Diversity, Victimhood - Fight or Flight? Sealed Canonisation of John Ogilvie SJ Bishop of Paisley Continues To Promote Unapproved Medjugorje Phenomenon... 4 Home Affairs Correspondent Staff Reporter English Seminary in Rome… Background… Homosexual Concerns Raised by Catholic Truth Ignored 5 Staff Reporter John Ogilvie was the eldest son of Walter Ogilvie, a respected Calvinist who owned the Non-Catholic: What Changes in the Church estate of Drumnakeith in Banffshire. At the age Would Make Concerned Catholics Happy? 7 of twelve he was sent to Europe to be educated. Blog Watcher He attended a number of Benedictine establishments and eventually, he decided to Letters 8 become a Catholic. Archbishop Leo Cushley 9 The first part of the 17th century was a turbulent Thought for the Day and dangerous time to be a Catholic priest in Scotland because after 1560 (Scottish Education - Thinking Through Catholic Truth 10 Reformation), Catholicism was outlawed. Ogilvie returned to Scotland, arriving in Hollywood Comes to Scotland… Motherwell Priest Live-Streams Mass 11 Glasgow disguised as a horse trader. He Staff reporter celebrated Masses in secret, and was eventually betrayed to the authorities only a year later. Bishop of Galloway: Holy Family Were Once Refugees 12 Diocesan Watchdog Reports… He was tortured, and paraded through the streets of Glasgow before being hanged for News Round-Up 13 treason at Glasgow Cross. 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The parish priest, Father Thomas Reilly, pinned a medal of Blessed John to Fagan’s pyjamas. Their prayers were indeed answered. His wife kept vigil at his bedside and he had slipped into a coma. The family doctor visited late at night and told Mary she had to prepare herself, as he expected her husband to die during the night and that he would return in the morning to sign the death certificate. In the early hours of the morning John spoke to Mary, who was shocked when he told her he was hungry and asked for something to eat. He had not eaten for months. She made him an egg and toast which he ate. In the morning, the doctor returned and was so amazed to see John sitting up in bed talking that he collapsed into a chair. The news of these strange events spread all over Glasgow and beyond. Medical examinations did indeed prove that there was Feast of St John Ogilvie no longer any sign of the tumour. The Vatican was informed and the process of 10 March… investigation began. Father Reilly was named as the Vice Postulator of the cause and all Scotland’s only canonised necessary papers were sent to Rome. Reformation martyr. Continued on p.9, column 1

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As we have reported before in The advertisement One Bishop conscious of his this newsletter (e.g. January, below is also found on 2019, Issue # 109) Bishop the website of the duty to NOT lead parishioners Keenan (left) is promoting the Diocese of Paisley - it astray, takes protective unapproved apparition site of has its own page which action… Medjugorje against not only includes a reservation the traditional practice of the form - check it out at… Church, but also against the https://rcdop.org.uk/even express wishes of the local ts/september-and- diocesan Bishop whose october-pilgrimage-to- damning indictment of the claims of the medjugorje The letter below is Bishop Keenan’s Coat of Arms alleged seers is a matter of public record: from the former “The local bishop…on the basis of numerous Bishop of the investigations, does not consider as credible Diocese of Joliet, That fact, and the Bishop’s own personal any ‘apparition’, any message, any secret”… Illinois, USA, Peter endorsement on the Diocesan Facebook page, (Local Bishop: Medjugorje Apparitions are not Sartain to his confirms that this advertisement has not credible, Total Croatia News, 24/7/18) priests… slipped through the net via some Medjugorje- To read the statements of the local Bishop on believing webmaster. It is being promoted by this subject visit the Bishop himself. http://medjugorjedocuments.blogspot.com/ Dear Brother Priests,

From time to time we are approached by parishioners who would like to invite speakers Diocese of Paisley Facebook… representing various alleged apparitions of the Blessed Virgin, private revelations or locutions, or others claiming to possess extraordinary spiritual gifts. My purpose in bringing this to your attention is to ask that you not issue such invitations. Whether the speakers would make presentations on we1l-known a1leged apparitions, such as Medjugorje, or lesser known private revelations, we must be extremely cautious about inviting or promoting them.

As you know the Church takes great time and care before declaring that an apparition is worthy of belief, and even then it never says that a Catholic must accept the apparition as a matter of faith. We must avoid giving the impression that alleged apparitions about which the Church has not made a judgment are somehow already approved. It is our responsibility to see that our parishioners are not led down the wrong path. That is not to say that those who ask us to promote these matters are doing so out of bad faith, but we must be extremely careful not to confuse our parishioners. Our greatest spiritual treasures are the Word of God, the Sacraments, especially the Eucharist, and the teaching of the Church, and our focus should always be there. Needless to say, these comments do not refer to apparitions such as Fatima, Lourdes or Guadalupe which enjoy the approval of the Church.

Thank you for your attention to this important spiritual matter, and I am grateful for your cooperation.

Sincerely in Christ, [Bishop Peter Sartain]

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Below, abbreviated extracts from an article same-sex marriage. need to put the brakes on it.” first published on our blog on 6/11/18… We are discussing, on our blog, the sacking of Be assured, I take no pleasure in writing any a sound priest from both Maynooth seminary in of this but I feel duty bound to place the matter Some time ago, Catholic Truth was contacted in your hands, leaving it with your conscience by an English reader who was concerned about Ireland and St Mary’s Oscott in Birmingham, simply because he sought to apply the and the consciences of the staff copied into this a seminarian from an Archdiocese in England email. [Signed, Editor, Catholic Truth]. who, on social media outlets, has shown prohibition required by the Church. support for the “gay culture”. Evidence of this My intention is not to upset you. I hope you Receiving no reply from the Rector, or any of “support” for the “so-called gay culture” was understand that, and that I do, in conscience, the priests copied into my email, and since provided, and – given that the Vatican believe that I was wrong to so readily dismiss publicity is genuinely our last resort, Editor prohibition on the acceptance into seminary and the Church’s ruling on refusing homosexual wrote one last time to the seminarian as follows: ordination of homosexuals includes not only candidates for seminary, in your case. That I When you failed to respond to my email dated those who are homosexually active or with was wrong to do so, has been driven home to 20 October, I decided that I ought to contact deep-seated homosexual tendencies but also me by the flood of revelations now in the the Rector and other senior staff at your those who “support the so-called gay culture” public domain, and the shocking role of many seminary. It occurs to me that I – the material did ring an alarm bell. bishops, themselves homosexually should have copied you into that In an email dated 26 July 2018, Editor wrote to compromised, in the cover-up of homosexual email, so, [appending now] with the seminarian in question: abuse of vulnerable young people – including apologies for that oversight… seminarians. “…a reader in England sent me some Facebook I look forward to your reply, in the hope that [As one commentator wrote] When screen shots of you, ‘liking’ ‘gay’ you have, in fact, realised yourself, in the light even Pope Francis expresses the view that clubs and stating that you were on of the ongoing scandals, that the Church is wise something has to be done about the rampant ‘Pride’ committees – stuff like that to refuse ordination to those who are actively homosexuality in seminaries, it’s clear that -which led me to believe that you – at homosexual, have deep seated tendencies there is a problem! Thus, I repeat my least at that time – didn’t fully and towards homosexuality and/or who support the exhortation to you to reconsider your position; unequivocally accept Catholic teaching on so-called gay culture, and that you will, perhaps you would reply to this email by homosexuality as laid out in the Catechism of consequently, re-consider your own vocation. Thursday, November 1, Feast of All Saints, the Catholic Church. You appeared also, on latest, to let me know if you agree. Since I have Twitter, to support a pro-gay ‘marriage’ article When it became clear that the seminarian was not had any reply from your Rector then, in the Telegraph… Since you are on your way going to sit it out, Editor felt we had no absent the above requested assurance from to ordination to the priesthood, it would be alternative but to contact the seminary Rector, you, I will be duty bound to place the reassuring to know that the above is all in the Monsignor Philip Whitmore, Archdiocese of information in my possession, into the public past and that you now, fully and unequivocally, Westminster, copying into that email, the domain. That does not mean that I will name accept Church teaching on homosexuality.” Vice Rector, Fr John Flynn, Diocese of you – I won’t do that, but with the available Salford, Pastoral Director, Fr John Metcalfe, data, it should not be too difficult for informed The seminarian replied promptly, to assure us Diocese of Hallam, Academic Tutor, Fr English Catholics to work out your identity. that he did “now fully and unequivocally accept James McAuley, Diocese of Portsmouth and Obviously, that is not desirable, so I sincerely the Church’s teaching on this Spiritual Director, Fr Anthony Doe, hope that you will reconsider your position,[in matter…” [emphasis added]. Archdiocese of Westminster. Thus, nobody at light of] the Church’s prohibition on the We decided that we were obliged to the seminary can claim ignorance of the fact that ordination of those with homosexual take him at his word and reassured a seminarian with a public homosexual profile tendencies, or even who “support the so-called him on this point. is to be ordained for an English archdiocese. gay culture”… Then the veritable tsunami of homosexual Editor’s email – dated 24 October 2018 – to the Rector, copies to the above-named senior staff, The deafening silence from the English scandals broke, with shocking insights into the College in Rome continues. normalising of homosexual life in Catholic follows, urging that this seminarian not be seminaries, published across the internet. ordained: So… is that it? Bishops, not merely tolerating homosexual Dear Monsignor Whitmore, Not quite. A reader from England has now couplings (bad enough as that would be) but … in the light of the tsunami of scandals named this young man, and given evidence of actually approving such activity within his past LGBT dissent, to orthodox American seminaries. Editor felt compelled to write again involving homosexual seminarians, priests and bishops, I am reminded news outfits. We will report any developments to the seminarian - her email dated 20 October, in due course. 2018, follows, but this time, received no reply: of the detail of the Church’s concerns about homosexuality within the Reflect… Further to our brief email exchange priesthood: “In the light of such Here’s what we have… A seminarian in the in July, when I was pleased to accept teaching, this Dicastery, in accord with the English College in Rome has been ordained your assurance that you now accept Congregation for Divine Worship and the deacon and, with his superiors in full the teaching of the Church on Discipline of the Sacraments, believes it knowledge of his support for the “gay culture”, homosexuality, I hope you appreciate that, in necessary to state clearly that the Church, while is going to be ordained a priest because his the light of the tsunami of homosexual scandals profoundly respecting the persons in question superiors refuse to apply the Church’s criteria involving priests and bishops which followed cannot admit to the seminary or to holy orders for ordination. That’s brazen. That’s food for our correspondence, given the Church’s those who practise homosexuality, present thought - like how many more? prohibition on the ordination of homosexual deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support men or even those with “deep seated the so-called ‘gay culture’.” The Church has good reason for refusing tendencies” or who “support the so-called gay ordination to homosexuals. It’s not about Last May, Pope Francis spoke behind closed culture”, I am unable to remain silent in the “bigotry” or “discrimination” in the pejorative doors to Italian bishops gathered for their face of the evidence of your participation sense. [in]the “gay” scene, and even support for plenary assembly, telling them: “The seminaries are welcoming too many homosexuals” and “we Continued on p.6

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 5 English Seminary in Rome - Homosexual Concerns… Continued from p. 5 Below, the pertinent section from the Vatican Given the flood of recent scandals, and the Pondering Politics document Concerning the Criteria for the ongoing scandals at the Irish and English Discernment of Vocations with regard to seminaries, Maynooth and Oscott respectively, Post-General Election Persons with Homosexual Tendencies in view the senior seminary staff – together with their Warren Peace bishops – bear a very heavy responsibility of their Admission to the Seminary and to Holy It is a common opinion among the young, often before God for their defiance in refusing to Orders… lasting into middle age, that society’s problems apply the crucial criteria for the discernment of From the time of the Second Vatican can be solved by changing political structures. priestly vocations. It’s not a matter of Catholic Council until today, various Documents Some form of compassionate leftism is a Truth being ignored, but, much more of the Magisterium, and especially the popular model. Get rid of this government, they importantly, it’s a very serious matter of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, have say, and give back power to the people, etc. Church’s ruling being ignored, on who may and confirmed the teaching of the Church on “ may not be admitted to seminaries to prepare This is to miss the main political problem homosexuality. The Catechism distinguishes for ordination to the priesthood. completely, which is human sin. Even if you between homosexual acts and homosexual manage to contrive some sort of political Eden, The crisis in the Church today is essentially a tendencies. that nasty old serpent will always manage to crisis in the priesthood and that crisis is Regarding acts, it teaches that Sacred Scripture creep in and spoil things. If everyone, rulers hallmarked by the widespread infestation of presents them as grave sins. The Tradition has and ruled, were free from evil, there would be homosexual activity and mentality, into the constantly considered them as intrinsically paradise on earth. If everyone were just, loving once glorious Catholic priesthood: “This immoral and contrary to the natural law. and unselfish, there would result an earthly Congregation reaffirms the need for Bishops, Consequently, under no circumstance can they heaven and not the ‘vale of tears’ that we know major superiors and all relevant authorities to be approved. now. In fact, government would be so easy carry out an attentive discernment concerning that, in the words of the Book of Revelation: Deep-seated homosexual tendencies, which are the suitability of candidates for holy orders, “A little child shall lead them.” There would be found in a number of men and women, are also from the time of admission to the seminary until no need for police, prisons and locks on doors objectively disordered and, for those same ordination. This discernment must be done in - administration only would suffice. people, often constitute a trial. Such persons light of a conception of the ministerial must be accepted with respect and sensitivity. priesthood that is in accordance with the What is the way Every sign of unjust discrimination in their teaching of the Church. Let Bishops, episcopal to make people regard should be avoided. They are called to conferences and major superiors look to see good then? The fulfil God’s will in their lives and to unite to that the constant norms of this Instruction be answer has been the sacrifice of the Lord’s Cross the difficulties faithfully observed for the good of the with us for 2,000 they may encounter. candidates themselves, and to guarantee that years - [that is], the Church always has suitable priests who are In the light of such teaching, this Dicastery, in true shepherds according to the Heart of accord with the Congregation for Divine Christianity. But, say the cynics and Christ.” (The Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI, on 31 Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, politicians, it does not work; it has not been believes it necessary to state clearly that the August 2005, approved this present Instruction1 and tried, says G.K. Chesterton. The only perfect Church, while profoundly respecting the ordered its publication. Rome, 4 November 2005, Christian societies have been religious orders Memorial of St Charles Borromeo, Patron of and then only in their early periods. Even in persons in question cannot admit to the Seminaries.) seminary or to holy orders those who the ages of faith Christianity did not have a complete influence: the baddies were always practise homosexuality, present deep-seated Be sure that you with us to spoil things homosexual tendencies or support the so- first preach by the called “gay culture” way you live. If you The only holy politician we have had in the Such persons, in fact, find themselves in a do not, people will last 500 years is St Thomas More. Food for situation that gravely hinders them from notice that you say thought: someone once asked, “What’s wrong relating correctly to men and women. One one thing, but live with the world?” - “Look in the mirror”, was must in no way overlook the negative otherwise, and your the unexpected reply. consequences that can derive from the words will bring God has problems! He is not a fascist and ordination of persons with deep-seated only cynical laughter and a derisive homosexual tendencies. requires souls to obey Him of their own free shake of the head. (Charles Borromeo) will. He could, by His almighty power, Different, however, would be the case in which compel us to obey His commands but He is one were dealing with homosexual tendencies not interested in slaves and does not want us that were only the expression of a transitory In conclusion… to descend to the instinctive level of animals. problem – for example, that of an adolescence Unlike dictators, Jesus hanging on the cross not yet superseded. Nevertheless, such As noted earlier, one of our readers in England compels no-one. As to politics, He was tendencies must be clearly overcome at least has contacted a number of orthodox neither to the right or the left. “Render unto three years before ordination to the publications in the USA with the information Caesar, what is Caesar’s and to God what is diaconate.” [End of extracts - emphases added]. in this report, so they may decide to take it God’s”. forward. We have contacted all concerned – Summary… including the staff at the English College, Nowadays, it is gradually becoming illegal to Clearly, there is no excuse whatsoever for who, unconscionably, are continuing, unfazed profess the Christian faith. Political seminary Rectors to continue to accept and - Hell-bent, it seems, literally - on ordaining correctness is actually proving to be more ordain young men with homosexual tendencies a candidate who is unsuitable, certainly powerful than Nero and Attila the Hun. The or who are supportive of the culture that according to the Church’s requirements, for delicate sensibilities of the P.C. Brigade recoil nourishes this tendency – which is, in fact, a ordination to the priesthood. in shock horror at upsetting “people of other vice. faiths”, then, in reality, they don’t give two A thought: would you want such a priest in hoots about such people but use P.C. as a We asked the seminarian in question to re- your parish? useful weapon to obliterate Christianity. All consider his position – that is, to withdraw from this is obvious to any Christian with an ability seminary and refuse ordination in an act of to think, but sometimes the obvious needs humble submission to the teaching and stating again and again. Now is such a time discipline of the Church. Failing this, his Footnotes: superiors should refuse him ordination. We 1 Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of have been ignored. Vocations with regard to Persons with Homosexual Tendencies in view of their Admission to the Seminary Warren Peace is a pseudonym for one of our and to Holy Orders… readers who lives in the south of England.

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 6 Non-Catholic: What Changes in the Church Would Make Concerned Catholics Happy? Blog Watcher instead seek to advance through ambiguity or exploited through progressive interpretations Marc’s Question… the tactic of saying one thing and then saying of ambiguous statements. This is the root of the opposite. where we are today. I would really like to understand the root cause(s) of much of the consternation on this Pope Francis is a classic example of this, his Of course some, notably Archbishop Marcel blog. I understand that the Pope (and his recent documents are ambiguous, he creates loopholes Lefebvre, saw this danger early on but was predecessors) are terrible leaders – even I can via footnotes, he repeatedly gives interviews castigated by all and sundry for rocking the boat see that – but, what exactly is it; what changes and then denies he said what was reported etc. and endured decades of calumny. Ultimately would you like to see happen that would make Modernists have largely controlled the Church he has been proven right. Increasing numbers you content with your Faith? I notice, also, that since the Second Vatican Council. If you of clergy and scholars see this. But a problem the contents of the second Vatican Council is compare the mainstream Church of today, with is when they do not just say “he was right” but something which attracts much derision. Would the Church of the preceding 2000 years, you instead just keep insisting on orthodox you like to see the entirety of Vatican II cannot help but note how starkly different it is. interpretation of Vatican II. That stance is not renounced and go back to the way it was before The differences are in how it worships, what it good enough, because as long as Vatican II then? Is that even possible? Or is it something teaches, how it teaches, how it regards itself endures, the door to modernistic interpretations else entirely? I’m genuinely curious. Thanks. and how it regards false religions etc. it has will be left open. gone from being a dependable rock, as Christ Prior to Vatican II, the Church was supremely intended, to being a chaotic body which is in confident, dynamic, highly successful, constant flux. Fortunately there are growing purposeful, growing and virile – as Christ had elements of traditional Catholicism, which will intended. ultimately steady the ship. Nowadays the mainstream Church is doubtful, So really, authentic Catholics never want any un-confident, rudderless, moribund and in change to the faith, only that it is taught decline in many places. Its bastions have been faithfully, whole and entire. “Go and teach all undermined and are in doubt. nations” as Jesus said. But the mainstream Church has not being doing that in recent Rather than pursuing its divine mission, it Gabriel’s Answer… decades – instead it just wants to be ‘one of the wastes time glorifying false religions, seeking [You ask] “what changes would you like to crowd’, erroneously equating all religions, loopholes in its own teachings and arguing with see happen hat would make you content with which is a grave error – and it has suffered itself as to its nature and what it teaches. This your Faith?” decline and the growth of ignorance as a direct is the wages of the fall out of Vatican II. It result. A good recent example is Francis and really is pathetic and cannot go on. The moral teaching of the Church is his “pachamama” rubbish. Ultimately, fans of Vatican II claim it unchanging – it cannot change, for absolute [You then ask] “Would you like to see the represented “a new springtime” for the Church, truth cannot change. What was true 2,000 years entirety of Vatican II renounced and go back but as time goes on we can see how erroneous ago must necessarily be true today – for to the way it was before then? Is that even this is. Rather than a new springtime, the results example that it is wrong to kill or steal. possible?” of the Council have been more like a harsh and barren winter. This is not just opinion, but in If you look at the home page here: Yes and yes! www.catholictruthscotland.com There is a fact can be clearly demonstrated using a variety rotating banner of quotations from Popes and However it is important to note that at the time of statistics – number of vocations, number of Saints which highlight the fact that the faith is Vatican II was pitched only as a Pastoral baptisms, marriages etc, number of parishes and unchanging and can never to be altered. Some Council, not a teaching one. That is, it was not dioceses, mass attendance, fidelity to teachings of them warn us to be very wary of anyone who seeking to instigate any significant, etc. advances novel ideas: fundamental changes to the Church. But now, I am sorry for such a long winded reply, but I decades later, it is clear that in fact modernists hope it is of some use! “It is an error to think that Christ did not teach used the Council as a gate of entry to instigating a determined body of doctrine, applicable to change: change which has proved disastrous to Ed: “of some use?” You kidding? You have just all times and all men” – Pope Pius X the Church and destroyed the faith of many. provided the basis for the next Council - bring on Vatican III ! A big problem today is that, for a variety of They did this through the tactic of ambiguity in reasons, some Churchmen attack, undermine documents. Statements which can be read in an or ignore the unchanging truths the Church is orthodox manner, but which also are capable supposed to proclaim. These include teachings of being inverted and read in a very different which may be awkward or unfashionable in the fashion. current era: for example that Catholic is the only true faith, or that homosexual behaviour This is how they concealed the mechanisms of is morally unacceptable. change. Cardinal Kasper, himself a young man at the time of the Council, has since openly People who think that the meaning of doctrines admitted this: “In many places, [the Council and words can change over time – to suit Fathers] had to find compromise formulas, in changing societal values etc – are called which, often, the positions of the majority are modernists and they are a big problem for the located immediately next to those of the Church, for they disseminate erroneous ideas minority, designed to delimit them. Thus, the and falsehoods. They mislead the faithful conciliar texts themselves have a huge potential essentially. This is very serious as it could cause for conflict, open the door to a selective the loss of souls. reception in either direction.” (L’Osservatore Modernists are very cunning as to how they Romano, April 12, 2013) propagate their ideas. Knowing the Church is The goal was to produce documents which protected from formally teaching error, they seemed orthodox, but which could then later be

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 7 John Baxter, A reader in Manchester sent Your Letters the following poem, to reach us for Christmas. It was too late for the January edition, but since the message is timeless, Thank you for your excellent newsletter. It I enclose an article from the Daily Mail - enjoy, now. is very professional, well thought out and really excellent. I’ve never before seen a is doing a good job for the Holy Catholic two-page spread in the secular press on One Solitary Life… Church. the Pope and Vatican [Ed: this article is a commentary on the film The Two Popes.] I wish I could get the people in my parish He was born in an obscure village. to read it. They are all sleepwalking in a What was great for me was the accurate He worked in a carpenter’s shop until he naturalistic soup. The PP is just one big account of the actions of [Pope Francis] was thirty. social worker. and how he is disliked but zero is done. It He then became an itinerant preacher. appears the Netflix film shows him as a I wish you a happy and productive new He never held an office. “goody” while Pope Benedict is the “baddie” year. With all good wishes. Paul Hellyer, He never had a family.* Leeds I have not got Netflix (Ed: keep it that way]* He never owned a house nor will I look at this film but giving [ a copy He didn’t go to college. of the article] to a Parish Priest I know, the He had no credentials but himself. All the best for 2020. I read the January passkeeper overheard my views and as I [Issue #115] edition. I think page 15 is very Twenty centuries have gone, and today was leaving he said: “I saw the film. Pope interesting [Qualities of a Holy Priest - he is the central figure of the whole Francis came over as a really kind and Theory & Reality] . human race. gentle person” [Ed: tell that to the woman The priest is an evangelist and an apostle. whose hand he slapped, growling as he pulled All the Armies that ever marched, Cardinal Mahoney in the USA is a prime away from her, on one of his walkabouts, widely All the Navies that ever sailed, example of what is spoken about in the reported at the time.] The Vatican have said All the Parliaments that ever sat, reality part of page 15 of the newsletter. the film was totally acceptable etc.” And all the Kings who ever reigned Dr John Bollan is a phoney. What is Have not affected the life of man on this He did not view Pope Francis as the person interesting is he is big friends with [name earth, as much as that one solitary life. withheld], the ex-teacher who is in a I described: “I have it wrong” - from his seminary down south. Fight the good fight viewpoint. Few people will read the [Daily Who is He? Jesus of Nazareth. don't give up. A Protestant, Glasgow Mail] article, but many will see the Netflix *Ed: we assume the poet means that Our Lord film and it is all win for Pope Francis - no was not married, with his own family. He did, of wonder the Vatican welcomed the film. May peace and prosperity accompany you course, live as a member of the Holy Family, Perhaps you could print some counter view on life's journey and your great work on with His mother, Mary, and Foster Father, St that the people viewing may realised that Joseph. this invaluable website. they are seeing a fairy story. George Mills, If no one has already alerted you, I would Glasgow like to tell you that the greatest American *Ed: providentially, it turns out, every time I N O T I C E S president in history, has not only this week resolved to sign up for Netflix, something Sincere gratitude to everyone who donated to reinstated prayer into U.S. public schools, prevented me. Now, I’d sooner eat Mars Bars our funds following the January dipped in Worcester Sauce than pay them a but he is going to lead the marchers in edition. We are, as ever, deeply Washington for the annual March for Life. penny. To find out why, turn to page 16 to read Netflix Insults Christ… impressed and touched by your The first president to so do. generosity. On your broader request to alert readers to the In between he gave a wonderful speech to And, as always, a special false depiction of Pope Francis in the film, our word of gratitude to our the Satanists gathered at Davos, telling readers are already made aware - in every them that [Karl] Marx would never reign edition of this newsletter and on our blog - of this Standing Order donors supreme in the US. I see our present Pope’s true character and the damage he is because these regular donations very Pontiff was so chagrined, that he is organ- doing to the papacy and the Church, and thus much help us with our planning. ising an opposition gathering in Assisi this to the wider world. So I don’t think any Catholic Thank you. year of world Marxists who are determined Truth reader viewing The Two Popes is likely to Miss McMoneypenny to rob the not-so-wealthy to give our pen- be convinced otherwise by the Netflix nonsense, sions to those who never worked for a just as you were not fooled by it. For the odd soul For whosoever shall give you to who may have slipped through the net, not yet living - or something. drink a cup of water in My name, fully comprehending, your letter and this editorial because you belong to Christ: [President Trump] also ignored the new footnote should serve as a very bright red amen I say to you, he shall not global warming cultist religion by asking warning light. lose his reward. (Mark 9:40) "What age is that Swedish child? and when told 17 - he said "Great". 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Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 8 Glasgow Miracle…Continued from p.2 Eventually, the miracle was declared and nine years later, on 17 October 1976 Pope Paul VI Archbishop Leo Cushley canonised John Ogilvie. John Fagan had been in the army in Rome in Thought for the Day 1944 when the city was liberated from the Nazis. He found himself on the steps of St Radio Scotland, 5/1/20 Peter’s Basilica, looking at the magnificence of the Vatican. Little did he realise that three Archbishop Leo Cushley spoke on BBC Radio "When the disciples were feeling vulnerable, decades later he would return there to play a Scotland to give his Thought for the Day, Jesus told them to trust God, saying: ‘Let not major role in the making of a saint. discussing the importance of feeling peace in your heart be troubled’. He knew that the heart our heart and safety in our places of worship. is our safe place and that it must be protected above all things. “You know, we’re a security conscious lot. Most of us lock up our homes and vehicles and "Why? Because when your heart is troubled, use passwords to protect our phones and it robs you of all your peace (if you’ve been computers. We want to feel safe. We want to broken-hearted, you’ll know what I mean). But feel secure. when our heart is safe and serene, well, that’s a different story. It lifts our whole being. "However, the latest terror incident in London on Sunday highlighted again that few places "Knowing this, gives us the empathy required are ever completely safe. Not even our places to help others with spiritual and practical of worship. support. And when our heart is in the right place, we all benefit and our communities "The Scottish Government recently announced become safer places for everyone. John Fagan and his wife at the canonisation funding to protect such places. The scheme of St John Ogilvie in Rome, on makes half-a-million pounds available to "I hope all places of worship will be treated as 17 October, 1976, by Pope Paul VI churches, temples and mosques to install sanctuaries of prayer and safety; and I hope security measures to protect them against hate your heart and your home are a haven of peace John Ogilvie died for witnessing to his beliefs crime. today." in a world hostile to the values of Christ. His martyrdom made a deep impression on many "It’s a move meant to reassure us that no-one Broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland's Good who witnessed his execution. The blood of should fear violence, and that’s surely to be Morning Scotland, on Thursday 05 January, the martyrs is so often the seed of the commended. But security gates and CCTV, and published on the website of the blossoming Church. while practically important, will never be 100 Archdiocese of St Andrew’s & Edinburgh. per cent effective. Sadly, however, this has not been the case in Scotland, where the martyr’s death is "That got me thinking about what creates the repeatedly downplayed by the Scottish conditions to make us feel secure. So, where’s hierarchy in the cause of what is manifestly your safe place? false ecumenical progress. The last time we "Well, families and close relationships ought checked, for example, the tourist bus to be places where we feel secure and loved. informed visitors to the city that Glasgow Cross is famed for the way gossipy women "Our communities are also places where we used to be placed in the stocks and pelted with should feel secure if we know neighbours are rotten tomatoes. There is no mention of looking out for us. Feeling connected, cared Scotland’s only post-Reformation martyr, for and comforted gives us a certain peace of canonised as recently as 1976, who was mind. Archbishop Leo Cushley executed on that very spot. The application of so-called “Tolerance and Diversity” has a way to go yet, in Scotland Editorial Comment…

There’s not a lot to complain about in the Now, it would be unreasonable to expect a Prayer to St. John Ogilvie Archbishop’s short talk above, is there? Who full-blown explanation of the dogma “Outside doesn’t want to feel safe and secure? Who the Catholic Church there is no salvation” in St. John Ogilvie, you converted doesn’t want an untroubled heart? the context of a short talk of only a few to Catholicism at a young age. minutes duration on a radio programme. It’s quite some time, I admit, since I’ve Please pray for all our recent However, it’s surely not unreasonable to listened to the morning Thought for the Day converts, that they may continue expect those representing the Church in the when it was broadcast on Radio 4. their education in our faith, media to avoid giving the impression that there focus their zeal, and deepen their I always noticed, however, that when it would is no such dogma. be delivered by a representative of any non- love for God. St. John, though the risks were Isn’t it the case that all practising Catholics, Christian religion, they made a point of always great, you begged to go to Scotland to including the Hierarchy, wish to ensure the teaching something about their own beliefs. evangelise the people there. true safety, security, peace of mind and soul This is not true of Catholic broadcasters, Pray that we may boldly preach the Good of all our family and friends, whether lapsed however, and, sadly, Archbishop Cushley’s News in a society hostile to Christianity. or outside the Church - by taking every broadcast was no exception. opportunity to alert them to the belief of the St. John, you died bravely as a martyr for Anyone listening to the above Thought for the Church that only through Christ, will we find Christ; pray that we may offer our deaths in Day could be forgiven for thinking that salvation? “Jesus saith [to Thomas]: ‘I am union with His for the salvation of our souls Catholics see no difference at all between the way, the truth and the life. No-one cometh and the souls of others…St. John Ogilvie, religions. The casual linking of “churches, to the Father, but by Me.’” (John 14:6). pray for us! temples and mosques” in the context of “our If the “Catholic” bit got through the editing places of worship” gives the impression that Taken from ‘Warrior of God.. process it would certainly generate some “we’re all Jock Tamson’s bairns” - we’re all A Faith & Prayer Blog’. hostile headlines next day. Modern martyrdom the same; one religion is as soon as another. …not exactly “Dial 999” stuff - is it?

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 9 Thinking Through Catholic Truth “I have come to Scotland to unteach heresy and to save souls”

St John Ogilvie SJ The Holiness of the Church Feast: 10 March Extracts from Iota Unam: A Study of Changes in the Catholic Church in the XXth century Iota Unum, aut unus apex, non praeteribit… Not one jot, nor one tittle [of God’s Law], shall pass away (Matt 5:18) Romano Amerio

That the Church is holy is a dogma of the will find themselves preaching a doctrine grace, but the Church is holy It is not Faith, included in the creed, but the which is better than their own deeds. No Christians who make the Church holy, but theological definition of that holiness is a man can preach himself, beset by the Church that makes them holy. It is also difficult business. We are not here weakness and failure; he can only re- true that the biblical affirmation of the concerned with canonized holiness, which preach the doctrine taught by the God- irreproachable holiness of the Church non has indeed varied in style with the Man, or better, preach the person of the habentem maculam aut rugam (Ephesians centuries: the holiness of the Emperor St God-Man Himself. Thus truth too,is a 5:27: “Having neither spot nor wrinkle”) is Henry II is markedly different to that of St constituent element in the holiness of the applicable to the Church in time only in an John Bosco, as is that of St Joan of Arc Church and is forever attached to the Word initial and partial way, despite the fact that from that of St Therese of Lisieux. There and for ever at odds with corruption, it is indeed holy. is furthermore a gap between the heroic including one’s own. All the Fathers take that absolute virtue of the canonized saint, and the The holiness of the Church is revealed in flawlessness as connected with the final holiness inherent in anybody who is merely what could be called a subjective way in eschatological purification rather than with in a state of grace. the holiness of its members, that is, in all the Church’s pilgrim state in time In the Summa Theologica, III,q.8,a.3 ad those who live in grace as vital members secumdum, and in the Catechism of the of the mystical body. It appears in an Council of Trent, in the section on the outstanding and obvious way in its creed, it is explained how the sins of the canonized members, whom grace and their Above extracts taken from Chapter VI, Sanctity baptized do not prejudice the holiness of own activity have pushed onward to the of the Church. An Apologetical Principle, p127ff) the Church, but this remains nonetheless highest levels of virtue. This holiness did a complex notion which only a rigorous not fail, be it noted once again, even in the distinction can render clear. A definite periods of the greatest corruption in distinction must be drawn between the Christian society and among the clergy; in an age when the papacy was depraved by Romano Amerio, episcopal consultant to the natural element, and the supernatural Central Preparatory Commission of Vatican element which produces the new creature; pagan influences saw the fourishing of II “has written the best book on the pre- between the subjective and the objective Catherine of Bologna (+1464), Bernardino Council, the Council, and post-Council” - element which operates within it. of Feltre (+1494), Catherine dei Fieschi quoted on cover of the book, Iota Unum… (+1510), Francis of Paola (+1507), Jeanne Available to purchase on Amazon. Firstly, the Church is objectively holy de Valois (+1503) as well as many ISBN 0-9639032-1-7 because it is the body which has the reformers such as Girolamo Savonarola God-Man as its head. In union with that (+1498). head it becomes itself theandric: no profane body can be conceived as living in Considerations and facts of this sort, union with a holy head. Secondly, it is however, do not clear the field of all objectively holy because it professes the objections. Paul VI conceded to the Eucharist which is, in its very essence, the Church’s critics the fact that “the history of Sacred and the Sanctifier: all the the Church has many long pages that are sacraments derive from the Eucharist. not at all edifying” but he did not distinguish Thirdly, it is holy because it possesses clearly enough between the objective revealed truth in an indefectible and holiness of the Church and the subjective infallible way. The fundamental principle of holiness of its members. In another Catholic apologetics must be located here: address he put it in these terms: “The the Church cannot display, throughout its Church ought to be holy and good, it ought history, an uninterrupted sequence of to be as Christ intended and designed it to activity in perfect conformity with the be, and sometimes we see that it is not requirements of the Gospel, but it can point worthy of the title.” It would seem that the to an uninterrupted teaching of the truth: Pope is turning an objective note of the the holiness of the Church is to be located Church into a subjective one. It is indeed in the latter, not the former. It follows from true that Christians ought to be holy, and this that those who belong to the Church they are inasmuch as they live in a state of

The name of ‘Reformed’ is a blasphemy against Our Lord, who has so perfectly formed and sanctified his Church in his blood, that it must never take other form than of his all lovely Spouse, of pillar and ground of truth. One may reform the nations in particular, but not the Church or religion. She was rightly formed; changes of formation is called heresy or irreligion. The tint of our Saviour’s blood is too fair and too bright to require new colours. St Francis de Sales: The Catholic Controversy - Authority of the Church Chapter XI. ‘Of the Universality or Catholicity of the Church’.

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 10 Faith & Hollywood Comes As well as listing every saint alongside his/her patronage (pray for the unemployed to St to Scotland… Joseph the Worker and Margaret Sinclair – that Morality sort of thing, a seemingly endless list) this priest Motherwell Priest prayed that Pope Francis “will get to put all Matters his ideas into practice” – words to that effect, Live-Streams Mass and I think that IS a verbatim quote; if not, it’s Your Problems Answered close). So, we all know where he’s “coming Aunt Evangeline Staff reporter from”, as they say, and – without any doubt – where he’s going unless he repents of what might be considered sacrilegious, if not Charlene from Cheshire asks if she would blasphemous Masses. For one thing, he be doing the wrong thing by agreeing to serve preached about Our Lord being a “human her parish as an Extraordinary Minister of being” – a common enough error, but not one Holy Communion. expected from a priest. Christ was ALWAYS a Aunt Evangeline replies… “divine being” who took on our human nature. There IS a difference. We are unable to encourage Charlene to take So, here is yet another rogue priest in the on this role of Extraordinary Minister Diocese of Motherwell. I wonder how many of Holy Communion (EMHC), more there are? Fr Matthew Despard is really whereby lay people are allowed to having his Faith put to the test. Effectively distribute the Blessed Sacrament. thrown out of the priesthood in a Diocese which The norm for receiving Holy allows this sort of make-it-up-as-you-go-along Communion is on the tongue, (insert adjective) priest - shocking administered by a priest: Is it not true that the ordinary minister of Holy Communion is the priest? (C.J.C. 845, 1; Council of Trent 13 c.8, 22 c.1) Catholic Truth blogger, Vianney, posted the following comment on our blog on 12 January: All attempts by the Vatican to limit the use of EMHCs have failed, not least because the Does anyone know anything about Fr James Vatican refuses to enforce its own rules, and Morris from St Gabriel’s church in Viewpark? so nowadays, lay people are routinely found I watched a Mass from his church and couldn’t “helping” the priest, even where there is a very believe what I was seeing. He wore a stole that small congregation. was tartan at the top and had the words Mary’s [Ed: see opposite - the congregation of 16, were Meals in the middle and figures at the bottom. “served” by the priest and a gentleman from the Instead of a chalice and ciborium he uses a congregation who distributed the contents of the wine glass and glass dish, and appears to make wine glass). up much of the Eucharistic Prayer as goes St. Thomas Aquinas teaches: "…Accordingly along. He plays the guitar and sings during as the consecration of Christ's Body belongs Mass, and sings during the distribution of Holy to the priest, so likewise does the dispensing Communion instead of saying “the Body of Consecration at Mass, Friday, 7/2/20 belong to him." S.T.III, q. 82 a. 3. Christ.” If you have nothing better to do In his book Pope Paul’s New Mass, Chapter tonight, and want to do a little bit of penance, II entitled Revolutionary Legislation, Michael there will be a Mass tonight at 5,30 pm. Davies writes of “the bewildering assortment https://stgabrielsviewpark.scot/web-cam/ of documents” which has emerged to legalise Editor tuned in and shared her opinion - brace the liturgical revolution. Here’s an extract yourself… from one of those, Redemptionis Sacramentum I have now watched that live Mass and couldn’t - On certain matters to be observed or to be believe the half of it. If ever a priest loved the avoided regarding the Most Holy Eucharist: sound of his own voice, in both words and [45.] To be avoided is the danger of obscuring music, it’s this Fr Jim Morris. Goodness, what the complementary relationship between the a patient congregation. If that Mass is valid, action of clerics and that of laypersons, in such then I’m the Queen of Scotland… a way that the ministry of laypersons I’m giving thought to how [we might] deal with undergoes what might be called a certain this, since the Bishop clearly isn’t; watching “clericalization”… the largely ageing congregation going up for Mass, Friday, 7/2/20, congregation totals 16 so after [46.] The lay Christian faithful called to give Communion (on the hand, of course) and then the Gospel, taking a break from his country & assistance at liturgical celebrations should be back up (after reams of prayers to every saint western style singing, Father gathered everyone well instructed and must be those whose under the sun) for some kind of anointing, I round the “altar” (a small table) instructing them to Christian life, morals and fidelity to the couldn’t help wishing [we were]outside with “squeeze” hands. Lengthy prayers instructed God Church’s Magisterium recommend them…No to heal all sorts of things, e.g. “renew all brain cells an informative leaflet to educate them in the one should be selected whose designation to prevent memory loss…” and (all hands raised in fact that they had just wasted an hour of their could cause consternation for the faithful… charismatic type praying) it was announced that lives. One of the most striking things about that “All of Scotland shall be saved!” Praying “in Yet, there is an abundance of evidence Mass was the time the priest spent boasting tongues” followed but if anyone doesn’t have that revealing that people who are living in about how many people are watching his live gift yet, just “open your mouth and make some contradiction to God’s law (co-habitees, Masses, from all over the world, naming noise.” Noise ensued - no Protestant Pentecostalist homosexual partners etc) are given the role of countries, and the numbers really were could have done it better EMHC so, clearly, the above Vatican amazing…. In any event, I was one of those restriction, like so many others, is not enforced numbers this evening and I was watching in Ed: I emailed Fr Morris with the link to our blog by priests and bishops. We urge Charlene, not horror so I doubt if everyone who tunes in does discussion on his “Masses” and offered to publish to take on this role. It cannot be pleasing to so because they’re delighted with what they see any comment he wished to be included in this God going on at his “Masses”. report. Wisely, he has not replied. It’s always best not to try to defend the indefensible, dontcha think?

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 11 Bishop of Galloway When Irish Holy Family Were Once Refugees Diocesan Watchdog Reports… Eyes Are

In his Christmas message, Bishop John there weren’t any. If there had been a room, Cunningham (pictured below) criticises the they would have been given a room. It was NOT Government’s policy of not encouraging illegal customary to take travelers into homes, as migrants to enter the country.1 He conflates when people journeyed to Jerusalem to offer “refugees” with “migrants” although the term sacrifice. As Alfred Edersheim explains the Smiling “illegal migrants” is not used; it is, however, denial of a room had nothing to do with their UK Government policy on preventing the entry poverty. The rabbinic teaching was that of illegal migrants to which he refers. travelers were to be received as the shekinah should be received [Ed: as people in whom God dwells). So, they weren’t rejected because they Leprechaun were poor, or “different” or foreigners, blah blah blah. The inn or khan was FULL. Singing and dancing priest Fr Ray Kelly said if he was chosen for the Eurovision, The Holy Family went to Egypt. Why? Just the song he entered could be a winner for before the Patron Saint of Planned Ireland. The song, written for him by two Parenthood, Herod, ordered the slaughter of musicians, is called ‘Hallelujah Day’ and all the babies, an angel told Joseph in a dream will be on the priest’s new album set to be to take his family to Egypt. If an angel tells The Bishop quotes Pope Francis’ description released by Easter. Asked whether he you to do something, you do it. So, the flight of refugees as “a blessing not a threat” and he thought the song could win the song contest into Egypt was not just due to the awful goes on to cite statistics from the United he said: “Personally I think it could, I’d be circumstances caused by Herod, it is Nations - 37,000 people forced to flee their biased though. “It’s an unreal song, it’s also divinely directed because of what Herod homes because of conflict and persecution… fabulous. It’s a Gospel song with a country- was going to do. 70 million forcibly displaced people western flavour to it. I think it would go worldwide, no wonder there are so many Also, they had to go to Egypt so that the down brilliantly, the chorus is so simple I migrants seeking safety and shelter and security prophecy would be fulfilled: That it might be could just see the whole auditorium joining elsewhere, he argues: “Yet, those in need do fulfilled which the Lord spoke by the prophet, in.” Fr Ray prefaced his comments saying: not always get a warm welcome. Many saying: Out of Egypt have I called my son. “My first love first of all is my priesthood, countries take active measure to keep these (Matthew 2:15) and that’s number one in my life.” people out. The UK in particular does its best So, no, the Holy Family, seeking refuge in Ed: unfortunately for this poor, misguided priest, to ensure that as few as possible reach our Egypt at the specific direction of God, is not “number one” in his life isn’t good enough. And shores.” Peter said: “Lord, we have left everything to the archetype of all refugees today. [Even] if follow Thee” (Matt 19:27). One TV interviewer Sympathising with those who suffer “hardship they were, in a sense,“refugees”… a) they queried: “How did we get from the Sacraments and the dangers they encounter… the tragedies were three people, not thousands and they to the Samba?” Wide grins all round, with an that can take aware their hopes and their lives”, were b) fleeing the concrete danger of murder assurance from Fr Ray that his showbiz career the Bishop ignores the fact that these tragedies of their Child. They sought sanctuary. had the Bishop’s blessing. Does anyone doubt it? occur because people are being brought to the Moreover, the Holy Family were no threat to Currently the priest… is competing in UK illegally, and paying a pot of money for the the national security of Egypt. When the Dancing with the Stars (photo below) and privilege. Surely Bishop Cunningham is not danger was over, they went home. has stayed in the competition by popular actually endorsing breaking the law? Is he It is interesting to note that the Joseph of vote despite receiving low scores from the really saying that we should welcome all those Genesis was driven into Egypt, which led to judges. who enter illegally - without a thought as to the enslavement of the People. Joseph of the how that would encourage others to risk their Fr Kelly (left) said he New Testament was driven into Egypt, which would be happy whether lives, or that accepting such numbers might led to the salvation of the People. Herod and affect those applying to come here legally? knocked out or not. He Pharaoh both ordered the slaughter of infants. said: “It looks like I’m Bishop Cunningham’s (and Pope Francis’s) Moses and Jesus both escaped slaughter in getting a popular vote claim that the Holy Family were “refugees” is Egypt and both led an exodus from bondage.2 from the people of a common error, peddled in pulpits especially Ireland at the moment. around Christmas. Below, one American priest “And it’s not particularly challenges the claim… It’s a sign of the times that popes and bishops for my dancing but he Holy Family goes first to Nazareth because do not recognise the maybe for my of the census. If you are going to your ancestral truths revealed to us in entertainment or my popularity in other town mandated census, you are not a refugee. the Gospels for what ways, or maybe the Hallelujah story “But Father!” libs are squealing, “They were they are, but, instead, resonated with a lot of people as well, denied a room in the inn. Those innkeepers twist them to fit there’s a lot of things going on there.” were mean refugee hating meanies! They were popular/liberal agendas, “My logic is that it’s bringing happiness and undocumented migrants and the haters refused even when, patently, it liveliness to people’s lives for an hour or to let them in. doesn’t make sense to two, and if I can do that maybe not with my If you register in the census, you are not do so dancing but with my popularity and the fact “undocumented”. They weren’t migrants, that I’m a bit of an entertainer, then bring it Footnotes: on.” (The Irish Catholic, 6/2/20) because they were only there to register and 1 then return home to Nazareth. Ed: in a country notorious for its recent history of http://www.gallowaydiocese.org.uk/the-bishop-writes sexual abuse of children by priests, the last thing They didn’t get to stay at the inn or the khan, 2 https://catholicismpure.wordpress.com/2017/12/27/mary- Ireland needs is a priest flaunting his worldliness because – try to follow this – there was no room was-an-unwed-mother-the-holy-family-were-refugees- in the national media at the inn. Which means there was no room at father-z-replies/ the inn. They weren’t given a room because

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 12 What The Papers Say News Round-Up Flourish, official publication of the Archdiocese of Glasgow, February 2020 “The Word of God”… edition contains a brief report about “a new opportunity for prayer for Cumbernauld Pope Francis catches up From the Blog… Catholics thanks to a new initiative by the with Pope Leo XIII parish of Sacred Heart in the town. Exposition Westminster Fly on of the Blessed Sacrament will henceforth take “GOD has written a love letter to you … England: [Liverpool] Synod To place every first Friday in the Sacred Heart Day Chapel … The Parish Priest Fr Campbell treasure it and read it every day. That was the Discuss Women Priests - Inching powerful message of Pope Francis as he marked invites all Catholics in the area to come along the Church’s first ever “Sunday of the Word of Closer to Open Schism? and pray for vocations.” Extract ends. God”. If there’s such a shortage of The new annual occurrence has been introduced priests in that [Liverpool] diocese, why not give the The “Sacred by the Holy Father to encourage Catholics to Heart Day parishes over to the read the scriptures on a daily basis.” Chapel” … (Flourish (Publication of the Archdiocese of flourishing traditional orders – Glasgow), February 2020: God’s love letter to you a strategy which has and me.) seemingly worked well in other dioceses? No, I think some people would rather have “Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, President of lay-led eucharistic services and even Catholic Truth heard about Fr Campbell years the Pontifical Council for Promoting New women ‘priests’ than the Traditional Latin ago and then, when he first moved to Evangelization underlined the great ecumenical Mass. Cumbernauld we were contacted by not one, value that this Sunday possesses as it falls close but two parishioners, on the same day, can you to the Day of Dialogue between Jews and believe, totally unconnected to each other, Catholics and the Week of Prayer for Christian RCA Victor on expressing concerns about his “ministry” (to Unity. President Trump Makes History… use the term loosely). As with other initiatives of the Pontifical First In Office To Address March All these years later, we caught up with Fr Council for Promoting New Evangelization, Campbell via Flourish and YouTube. Seeing Fisichella said this too has a characteristic logo For Life! his “Sacred Heart Day Chapel” and listening to that is immediately identifiable and may [Let’s] pray for him, and pray him lecture on YouTube, we needed to look no provide inspiration for a catechesis that helps for Our Lady of Guadalupe to further. Fr Campbell’s concerned parishioners to understand the meaning of the celebration of sow division in the camp of his were on to something. Put it this way… this Sunday… Pope Francis, Fisichella enemies, and that those who concluded, wants to make sure everyone is seek to destroy him be Fr Campbell’s photograph could easily and entrusted with the Word of God…” (Vatican brought to justice. very appropriately be placed on the front cover News, 9/2/29) of Pope [Saint] Pius X’s Encyclical Letter On Who might those enemies be? Obama, the Doctrine of the Modernists because he fits Ed: truly, though, there is “nothing new under Clinton, Biden, Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler, the description perfectly: “…in their books one the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:10): here’s Pope Leo: James Comey, John Brennan…oh and finds some things which might well be approved let’s not forget George Soros! Statement published on the by a Catholic, but on turning over the page one opening page of the is confronted by other things…” [Section: The Douay-Rheims Bible… Trump is an inspiration methods of Modernists]. Thus, minutes into Fr whatever his human failings. Campbell’s YouTube talk the unsuspecting May God bless him and bring might be satisfied that here we have a sound him to the one true faith. It priest: he spoke about praying the rosary, for Indulgence might happen…Deo gratias. example. Wonderful But later, referring to Our Lady’s humility, this bombshell: “…The evidence we have of her life is of a young Vianney on woman, heart-sore despite her immature years, “Pope Leo XIII granted to the faithful who despite the stress of single motherhood, despite shall read for at least a quarter of an hour the UK Court: Ethical veganism her lack of education and status, despite all this books of Sacred Scripture with the ‘deserves same protection as being against the likelihood of her being the veneration due to the Divine Word and as religion’, rules judge… God-Bearer, she attracted the attention of God spiritual reading, an indulgence of 300 because of her passion for the Divine…” Eh? days” A friend who works in a café Priests like Fr Campbell, for all their blether Preces et Pia Opera, 645 told me that, since the New about reading Sacred Scripture, often preach in Year, they have been run off direct contradiction to the Scriptures. Our their feet with people wanting “The Douay-Rheims Bible was translated Lady knew that she was legally married to bacon rolls and Lorne from the Latin Vulgate and diligently Joseph so she was not set to become a “single sausage rolls. So much so compared with the Hebrew, Greek and other mother”. And no false humility from her, either: that they have had to increase their order editions in divers “My soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit for bacon and sausage. She is convinced languages (The Old rejoices in God my Saviour…behold, from that it’s a backlash against veganism. Testament was first henceforth all generations shall call me published by the English blessed.” (Luke 1:46-48) College at Douay, AD [Now that] one is free to define 1609 and The New one’s own gender, I suppose As for Our Lady “attracting” the attention of Testament was first this latest ruling is yet another God, the talk on the street is that God had published by the English sign of what happens when chosen Mary from all eternity, even preserved College at Rheims, AD society rejects God. Divine her from the stain of Original Sin, inherited by 1582” wisdom gives place to the “light” of the every other human being, because she was to Prince of Darkness and all rejoice in their be the Mother of Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus With notes by Bishop Challoner and also new-found “liberation”. Christ. That’s the talk on the street. Mixing with The Encyclical Letter ‘On the Study of the all those clever scripture scholar types, Fr Poor deluded souls! Holy Scriptures’ Campbell probably missed that

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 13 Why do so many people risk an eternity spent in Hell? Jim Allen A Vision of Hell shares his thoughts… From The Way of Perfection, St Teresa of Avila (Ch. Xiii, 2) The chief reason why the vast majority of people do not accept the Christian Faith is the of themselves, hemmed illusion that life in this world is all there is and Our Lord shows St. Teresa me in on every side. I that perfect happiness can be found here if you the place which had been could not breathe. There know how. We are imprisoned in distractions was no light, but all was and activities so that we cannot escape into the reserved for her in hell, if she thick darkness. I do not vast blissful spaces of God’s salvation. Pascal, had not amended her life… understand how it is; in the 17th century, called this “divertessiment” though there was no light, [diversion]. Our modern religion of “scientism” yet everything that can points to such great achievements giving the I was one day in prayer when I found give pain by being seen impression that it will eventually explain myself in a moment, without knowing how, was visible. everything and render religion obsolete. The plunged apparently into hell. I understood Our Lord at that time would not let me see Devil uses this “D” tactic to deflect us from the that it was our Lord's will I should see the more of hell. Afterwards I had another most “unum necessarium” [the one thing necessary]. place which the devils kept in readiness for fearful vision, in which I saw the Apart from its usefulness, the computer and its me, and which I had deserved by my sins. punishment of certain sins. They were most associated technology is the greatest toy ever It was but a moment, but it seems to me horrible to look at; but, because I felt none invented. Together with about fifty channels impossible I should ever forget it, even if I of the pain, my terror was not so great. In on radio and TV, unwary souls are offered were to live many years. the former vision our Lord made me really twenty four hours of divertessiment. The entrance seemed to be by a long feel those torments, and that anguish of Particularly vulnerable narrow pass, like a furnace, very low, dark, spirit, just as if I had been suffering them are those youngsters and close. The ground seemed to be in the body there. I know not how it was, who find life too saturated with water, mere mud, but I understood distinctly that it was a difficult and can now God is not on exceedingly foul, sending forth pestilential great mercy that our Lord would have me escape into unreality at the internet odors, and covered with loathsome vermin. see with mine own eyes the very place from the flick of a switch. and cannot At the end was a hollow place in the wall, which His compassion saved me. I have But God is not on the be contacted listened to people speaking of these things, like a closet, and in that I saw myself internet and cannot be on the and I have at other times dwelt on the confined. All this was even pleasant to contacted on the smartest of various torments of hell, though not often, smartest of phones. behold in comparison with what I felt there. phones. There is no exaggeration in what I am because my soul made no progress by the While giving science saying. way of fear; and I have read of the diverse tortures, and how the devils tear the flesh its due, I can’t help But as to what I then felt, I do not know with red-hot pincers. But all is as nothing feeling a certain dread where to begin, if I were to describe it; it is before this; it is a wholly different matter. at all this seduction of our conscious minds. utterly inexplicable. I felt a fire in my soul. In short, the one is a reality, the other a Only one hundred years ago families did not I cannot see how it is possible to describe picture; and all burning here in this life is have even a radio. There was much more real it. My bodily sufferings were unendurable. as nothing in comparison with the fire that contact in conversation and letter writing. To I have undergone most painful sufferings is there. entertain themselves people had to use their in this life, and, as the physicians say, the creative skills. greatest that can be borne, such as the I was so terrified by that vision… [that] I Nowadays, we stare at screens instead and, contraction of my sinews when I was remember no time in which I do not think consequently, have descended to the lower paralyzed, without speaking of others of that all we have to suffer in this world is as human level of mere “digital man”. different kinds, yea, even those of which I nothing. It seems to me that we complain have also spoken, inflicted on me by Satan; without reason. I repeat it, this vision was Then there is the question of noise which you yet all these were as nothing in comparison one of the grandest mercies of our Lord. It are unable to switch off. Let me tell you a with what I felt then, especially when I saw has been to me of the greatest service, personal story. Living in London amid that there would be no intermission, nor because it has destroyed my fear of trouble inescapable traffic noise, I went on a retreat to any end to them. and of the contradiction of the world, and a monastery in the country. Sitting in the room because it has made me strong enough to they gave me, something hit me with great These sufferings were nothing in bear up against them, and to give thanks force - absolute silence! Not just the absence comparison with the anguish of my soul, a to our Lord, who has been my Deliverer, of noise but a powerful rich embrace that made sense of oppression, of stifling, and of pain as it now seems to me, from such fearful me more conscious of myself and things so keen, accompanied by so hopeless and and everlasting pains… around me than before. The clouds outside cruel an infliction, that I know not how to When I had seen this vision, and had seemed very alive. I have met people who speak of it. If I said that the soul is learned other great and hidden things would not be deprived of external noise. I think continually being torn from the body it which our Lord, of His goodness, was that they were using it to drown out that would be nothing - for that implies the pleased to show me - namely, the joy of internal voice where God should dwell. Only destruction of life by the hands of another; the blessed and the torment of the wicked in silence (and solitude) can one think and pray but here it is the soul itself that is tearing - I longed for the way and the means of properly. The “still small voice of God” cannot itself in pieces. I cannot describe that doing penance for the great evil I had be heard in a traffic jam or certainly not in that inward fire or that despair, surpassing all done… I tried to think what I could do for awful modern manifestation of mass hysteria, torments and all pain. I did not see who it God, and thought that the first thing was to the pop concert. If Pascal were living today, was that tormented me, but I felt myself on follow my vocation to a religious life, which would he have bought a TV? fire, and torn to pieces, as it seemed to me; His Majesty had given me, by keeping my Ed: you kidding? He’d probably have his own and, I repeat it, this inward fire and despair rule in the greatest perfection possible show - Pascal’s Got Principles! are the greatest torments of all.

Left in that pestilential place, and utterly Asked what had sanctified her cousins, now Saints Jim Allen is a long-time supporter of Catholic without the power to hope for comfort, I Jacinta and Francisco, Sister Lucy of Fatima Truth; his correspondence often appears in our could neither sit nor lie down: there was no replied: “…to invent ways of praying and making Letters Page, and he is a popular some-time room. I was placed as it were in a hole in sacrifices. The other thing…was to see the vision guest-columnist. Jim lives in the sunny south of the wall; and those walls, terrible to look on of Hell” (Interview, Fr Fuentes 26/12/57) England. (Well, nobody’s perfect…)!

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 14 Report by “Gay Rights” Group: Young People And “Gays” Are Victims of Sexual Promiscuity Health Correspondent

Cases of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) accounting for 75% of all syphilis diagnoses. are shouldering the heaviest burden of new STIs." are being diagnosed every 70 seconds, as Some of the highest overall rates of STIs were campaigners say soaring numbers of cases reported in black Caribbean and black non- He added: "The government must roll up its should be a "wake up call" for the government. Caribbean/non-African populations. sleeves and get to work because the current A report by the Terrence Higgins Trust and the Campaigners also warn inconsistent testing state of the nation is simply not good enough." British Association for Sexual Health & HIV across sexual health clinics means some STIs, Dr John McSorley, president of the British (BASHH) found diagnoses of syphilis are at such as Mgen, are going undiagnosed. Association for Sexual Health and HIV, called their highest since World War Two and some Government spending on sexual health for a "joined-up" approach to sexual health STIs are going undiagnosed by "struggling" services has been slashed by a quarter since services. 1 sexual health services. 2014. The State of the Nation Report says nearly half Jonathan McShane, chair of Terrence Higgins St Joseph, chaste a million cases of STIs were diagnosed in Trust, says the government must take action England in 2018. to curb "spiralling" rates of cases. guardian of the Virgin Mary, to you Over the last decade, cases of gonorrhoea have "Local government has played a key role in risen by 249%, while rates of syphilis have I entrust the purity of improving sexual health but has been held my soul and body. increased by 165%. back by a combination of severe cuts to their Young people, gay and bisexual men, public health budgets and the lack of a clear individuals from some ethnic minority national strategy," he said. "This has resulted populations and people living with HIV were in the rates of some STIs spiralling and Footnotes: found to be disproportionately affected. services struggling to cope with demand. “The 1 Source: Sky News / msn… Nearly half of all new STI diagnoses were impact of this is being felt most by groups https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/syphilis- young people, with gay and bisexual men already facing discrimination and stigma who cases-at-their-highest-since-world-war-two/ar- BBZEM2o?ocid=se Scottish Family Party Challenges Scotland’s Education Minister on Corruption in Schools… Education Correspondent

On YouTube, Richard Lucas of the Scottish endorsement. Uproar ensued. corruption. John Swinney in his dulcet tones (which by now come across as somewhat Family Party recounts his experience at a As Richard began to quote the materials, using meeting of the National Parent Forum of sinister) stated that he had seen the videos; he the sexual language as taught to children, one apparently had no problem at all repeating his Scotland1, where parents were (supposedly) lady from the NPFS did everything possible to endorsement of these shocking materials. to be afforded the opportunity to question stop him from continuing; waving her arms John Swinney, Minister for Education in the about, demanding the microphone back, Richard Lucas will be joining the panel at our Scottish Government. Below, an overview of announcing that this event was being live- Education Seminar (see p.3 for booking details) what happened at that meeting but readers can streamed - she hadn’t anticipated his rebuttal when he will answer questions from the watch the whole debacle for themselves on that if this language were not suitable for use audience on the above encounter, and on his YouTube.2 in a meeting of adults, how could it be suitable launch of the Scottish Family Party (SFP) to for use in schools! A second NPFS woman provide a political voice supporting stable First to speak, Don, began by praising John attempted to pull the microphone physically family life in our society. The SFP plan to field Swinney’s emphasis on the importance of from Richard, but he insisted that he would candidates in the Scottish parliamentary materials being appropriate for all children. finish and went on to describe some of the elections in 2021, so this is an excellent Don queried: “How is the current sex- unnatural practices being taught to children as opportunity to find out more about them. education material appropriate for any child, normal and natural. In one video, sexual Given the Scottish system, there is every let alone all children… I’m talking behaviour alone (i.e. self-abuse) is portrayed chance that they could win seats in the Scottish particularly about the lessons on as harmless, with, incredibly, tips on how to Parliament. pornography and normalising it… I don’t make it romantic spelt out (candles etc), while Note: we are aware that there will be young know a parent who actually supports the unnatural sexual activities with others are people present at our Seminar, so we will not teaching of that material - how can we get our graphically described elsewhere on video. use the explicit language of the sex-educators. voices heard, to change it?” Explicit language is used to name all of these We will refer to the entire area of sex The Minister’s response amounted to “take a activities, including pornography which is education as “Human Relationships” and the hike”, dressed up in murmurs of concern actively promoted - despite John Swinney’s terminology of promiscuous actions will not about the need to prepare young people for denial. His weak excuse is that youngsters can be used, in order to protect innocence, and in what is out there in the world, but if it really access this stuff on the internet anyway, compliance with St Paul’s exhortation not to bothers you, chat to your child’s school… so…Sheer corruption. The lady from the NPFS let impure behaviour “be named among you…” (Ephesians 5:3) Enter Richard Lucas. Drum roll. To the threw up her hands in horror at Richard’s consternation of the organisers, Richard descriptions ignoring the fact that he was only Footnotes: repeating what was being taught in schools, in sought to highlight actual examples of the 1 https://www.npfs.org.uk/ order to ascertain whether John Swinney would materials used in schools, with the aim of 2 To view YouTube video visit link below… asking the Education Secretary to repeat his repeat his earlier endorsement of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujePAmm5uK4&t =21s

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 15 Netflix Insults Christ… The following review was published on order to Netflix to withdraw the film, in a MrcNewsBusters 12/12/19 response to a petition by a Brazilian Catholic organisation. However, Netflix has refused to America’s Media Watchdog… respond to the various petitions in the UK and so Caroline Farrow, who organised the Netflix, the far-left’s cultural enrichment CitizenGo petition, writes: Netflix is refusing center, has decided to provide a grotesque riff to respond to the over 1.5 million people who on the life of Jesus Christ for the sake of signed our petition. Currently, “The First “comedy.” Partnered with Brazilian producers, Temptation of Christ” still remains on their the streaming giant produced a comedy film platform. It’s shocking that at any moment in about a homosexual Jesus going home for the the day, someone can view this blasphemous holidays and introducing the rest of the Holy film that depicts Jesus Christ as a homosexual, Family to his new boyfriend. His disciples are alcoholics and unruly, and Called A Premeira Tentacao de Cristo, or The the Blessed Mother as a sexual deviant. First Temptation of Christ, the Brazilian- Call to Action… produced Netflix holiday movie has already created a major stink in Brazil, where We’re counting on you to help us increase the reportedly 1 million folks have signed a petition pressure on Netflix like never before. The condemning the garbage. fastest way to do that is to invite your friends and family to join this call to action by It’s not hard to see why. The concept itself is cancelling their Netflix subscription. It’s reprehensible enough as Jesus Christ represents easy. To cancel Netflix visit this page: moral perfection and spiritual purity. The trailer www.netflix.com/cancelplan is infuriating as it presents Jesus coming home for his 30th birthday (Christmas of course) with * Netflix will require them to sign into their his boyfriend in tow. The family hi jinks ensue account prior to cancelling. as both Mary, Joseph and his friends slowly realize that Jesus Christ’s holiday guest knows * Once they’ve cancelled their subscription, the Savior on a more intimate level. You can they will find a box where they will be able to see the Virgin Mary raise her eyebrows as she inform Netflix that they will only consider slowly figures out what’s going on. What’s coming back once “The First Temptation of more hilarious than the Son of God coming out Christ” is removed from its platform. Ends I’ve an important announcement to to his family? (Merry Christmas, Christians! It is astonishing to think that many, if not most, make. Some poor soul, possibly an Netflix Special Has Christ as a Closeted Gay, Catholics reading this won’t cancel their illegal migrant who can’t find MrcNewsbusters.) Netflix subscription. How many blasphemous work thanks to the rampant racism Editorial Comment: there have been a films are there likely to be compared to the here, robbed the presbytery this number of online petitions, signed by millions number of courtroom dramas, thrillers and week and my guitar and tartan of people, calling for Netflix to withdraw their family films, which we’ll miss if we cancel, stole has gone, along with a number blasphemous “Christmas special”. A Rio de they’ll say, forgetting that it only takes one of other valuable items. Some are Janeiro judge, Benedicto Abicair, issued an mortal sin to see us in Hell just sentimental value like my Bible which I always think looks good on my bookshelf, Visitors the world and this will be in a terrible manner. expect it especially the local Church From the editor... The punishment from Heaven is imminent.”1 of Scotland minister, Mrs Barb The Church and the world are in chaos: Dwyer. Understandable. To cut to scandals abound. We continue to hear of the chase… Dear Reader … priests abandoning their ministry - indeed, the We’re going to have a few extra Pope Francis is correct. Time is short but not most recent in a string of such defections in the collections because I won’t just be in the sense he means (p.1); rather, in the sense Archdiocese of Glasgow is taking place as we replacing my Bible, guitar and taught by Christ: “The time is accomplished are going to press. Catholic schools are failing stole - what’s a tartan stole without and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and by not teaching doctrine while promoting the a kilt, folks? No, I’m launching a believe the gospel.” (Mark 1:15) LGBT+ world view, and yet Barbara Coupar, new inculturation programme, Director of the Scottish Catholic Education Along with my tartan stole, I plan All Catholics have a duty to attend Mass and Service continues to ignore my invitation to to start wearing a kilt instead of Confession frequently, along with daily prayer participate in our Education Seminar (p.3). O the old vestments which are totally and the spiritual reading which is essential for well, be like that… But what about us - so- out of tune with Scottish culture spiritual growth, if we are to believe the saints. called informed Catholics? today. I’m also booking bagpipe If we want to know God, they tell us, we must lessons, so I’ll need to buy a set of speak with Him, and read to learn about Him. If we are not fully living the Fatima Message, then we are surely contributing to Our Lady’s pipes, and work with the Liturgy That’s all basic stuff - there’s no need to book Committee on how to adapt the counselling sessions to work out why we’re sadness. “The two means to save the world are prayer and sacrifice” Sr Lucy told Fr Fuentes, music: guitar AND bagpipes - just not fervent in the Faith if we’re not even doing think of it… We’re set for the the basics, any more than we need to consult revealing, too, that God has given a new efficacy to the Rosary, especially for our times. Eurovision Song Context, so that a nutritionist to work out why we’re unhealthy Irish priest better watch out! if we’re not eating our greens. Easy-peasy. Let’s take advantage of that, immediately if not It’s SO not difficult! sooner… Let’s pray for fervour - urgently. Let’s soften him up with a few Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us! verses of “It’s a long way to In her famous interview with Fr Fuentes, Tipperary” on page 4 in the hymn 26/12/1957, Fatima seer, Sister Lucy told him Footnotes: books. All stand - unless you’re that Our Lady “is very sad because no-one has rather sit… Whatever… paid any attention to her Message, neither the 1 Mark Fellows: The Father Fuentes Interview, Sister Lucia, Apostle of Mary’s Immaculate Heart, Fatima See p 11 & 12 good nor the bad… Father, God will chastise Center, p.264

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