Attention Bishops of Scotland! Time Flies, Eternity Awaits…
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Satirical, Catholic Truth serious, straight- Keeping the Faith. Telling the Truth. talking www.catholictruthscotland.com https://catholictruthblog.com/ Attention Bishops of Scotland! Time Flies, Eternity Awaits… When Pope John Paul II looked out of the were re-opened, placing Christ the King in a Yet, in both Church circles and in the media, window of the home in which he grew up in position subordinate to questionable, selective you are regarded as mere diplomats who are Poland, he saw a sundial inscribed with the science and the diktats of a secular state. expected to subscribe to a wholly superficial words “Time Flies, Eternity Awaits” (Polish: relationship with the world; you must “go- Czas Ucieka Wieczność Czeka). along-to-get-along” with politicians, leaders of non-Catholic religions and others in public A sobering thought. A thought which is, in life. This has been the modus operandi of fact, at the very heart of the Gospel: “Stay bishops and priests for years now. You should awake, for you do not know the day nor the find the thought of being called to judgment hour…” (Matt 25:13) with such a curriculum vitae, terrifying. As recently as 13 January 2021, the Feast of Pope Benedict XV repeats what the Fathers St Mungo, Patron Saint of Glasgow, Philip When he penned his Christmas address to the of the Church have always taught as necessary Tartaglia, the Archbishop of Glasgow, was faithful, in which he lamented the “strangeness” for salvation: called to his judgment. Think about that: the of this Christmas, Archbishop Tartaglia could Archbishop, whose God-given mandate to “The nature of the Catholic faith is such that not have known that his “day and hour” was fast teach and preach Christ in that city, was called nothing can be added to it, nothing taken approaching - that eternity awaited. to give an account of his stewardship on the away. Either it is held in its entirety or it is very day marking the celebration of the city’s Had he realised that his own death and judgment rejected totally. This is the Catholic faith patron saint. were imminent, what might he have written? which, unless a man believes faithfully and firmly, he cannot be saved.” In our January newsletter, we published, with Personally, I like to think that he would have biting commentary injected, the Archbishop’s apologised for closing the churches in the first Crystal clear. As clear as crystal. place, and announced their re-opening, if not Christmas address to the faithful, in which he Archbishop Tartaglia now knows the truth of immediately, then soon thereafter. acknowledged that Government restrictions that Polish inscription:“Time Flies, Eternity prevented us from joining with others in There are other issues, such as certain concerns Awaits” and we pray for his soul. We can’t church to celebrate the birth of Our Lord. of the clergy, injustices, real or perceived, which help but wonder, however, who’s next? The Bishops, however, had collaborated with the Archbishop may have sought to address in the Scottish Government to close churches, the weeks prior to his death, had he realised that even before Government measures had been the time was certainly flying and that eternity announced and, when briefly re-opened, the surely awaited. Bishops imposed “safety” measures which That truth, of course, applies to each one of us: “If I were not a amount to an insult to Our Lord. Catholic and were “Do not neglect the grace that is offered to you. God, it seems, is not only non-essential, but looking for the true The God who offers the sinner pardon, does not Church in the world dangerous to our physical well-being. He who promise him tomorrow.”(St. Gregory) told us that every hair on our head is counted, today, I would look that not even a sparrow falls to the ground but Bishops of Scotland, remember that each of you for the one Church the Father knows it…We are to regard this is personally accountable for the diocese in which did not get God as dangerous to our health? The very idea which you have been placed. You have not been along well with the is even more of an insult when we recall that entrusted with the souls in your diocese as a world; in other the Bishops have rejected all efforts to restore member of the Bishops Conference of Scotland words, I would look for the Church the traditional practice of the reception of (a novel concept), nor have you been charged which the world hated…” Holy Communion on the tongue, not least in with affirming non-Catholics and non-believers (Archbishop Fulton Sheen) order to safeguard the Sacred Species which in their errors; you have been charged with has been found lying on the floor in churches teaching the undiluted Catholic religion in your and, scandalously, dropped on the ground and particular diocese. You are each responsible for trampled underfoot at various outdoor events. seeking the salvation of the souls who trust you to lead them safely to Heaven, and for bringing Even in the traditional churches, there were souls to Christ who are in danger of being lost. people who wore masks when the churches Nothing else. An immeasurably important task. Extract from Letter to Contents include… Page Jeane Freeman SNP, Biden: The Man Who Stole America 3 USA Correspondent Health Secretary from Martin Blackshaw Church & State: Perfect Societies… 4 Father David Sherry Since my immediate concern is about Scottish deaths, I will restrict my observations to offi- Covid-19: The Masks Are Coming Off 5 cial Scottish Government figures. According Rob Slane to these, 15,000 deaths are insinuated on the government website from a population of 5.5 Covid-Church: The New Abnormal? 6 million, which number equates to a mere Media Monitor 0.27% of the Scottish population - hardly the plague upon us! Daphne McLeod RIP - Obituary 7 I say insinuated because nowhere on the gov- Letters 8 ernment website is there a declaration of deaths resulting directly from Covid-19. Nor Dark Days For Catholics 9 indeed are we told how many of these 15,000 Jim Allen deaths were of people with pre-existing seri- ous underlying health conditions, which, as Education - Thinking Through Catholic Truth 10 we know, accounts for most deaths. The Catholic Church Has Changed Since Vatican II - Concerns… 11 Instead, we have the ambiguous declaration of Extracts from the writings of Robert McGlame RIP deaths of those who have tested positive for COVID-19 and deaths where COVID-19 was Irish Priest Calls For Boycott of RTE 12 mentioned on the death certificate. Given Homily - Fr Seán Mulligan what we now know about PCR testing it is quite possible that very few of these people News Round-Up 13 died from Covid-19. Is this why the website is so strangely, perhaps legally, vague in the What Is “Clericalism”? 14 matter? Aleteia website Just to emphasise how harmless this virus is Tomorrow May Never Come 15 for a majority of the world's healthy citizens, St Alphonsus Liguouri the American Centre for Disease Control (CDC) released the following Covid survival Editorial 16 statistics in September last year: Age 0-19 years: 99.99% - Age 20-49 years: 99.98% - Age 50-69 years: 99.5% - Age 70 & over years: 94.6%. These numbers have not al- Covid-19 : The Truth tered in the five months since they were pub- lished. Now, given that at the height of virus infec- tion in England last year 40% of acute NHS Is The UK In Permanent Lockdown? beds were lying empty for the first time in "Giving the latest figures at the daily briefing on Thursday [4 February], the First Minister said decades, and given that more people are at 53 deaths from coronavirus and 1,149 positive tests have been recorded in Scotland in the past risk of dying from suspended testing and 24 hours.” Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First Minister, quoted in The Scotsman newspaper online, 4 treatment for genuine life-threatening illness- February, 2021. es, not to mention rising suicides and the mental health impact of Covid lockdowns, I I checked on the official Scottish COVID-19 death statistics again last night and discovered that want you to tell me what this is really all about. there is not a single death recorded as directly resulting from COVID-19. Official statistics and declarations do not lie Of the almost 15,000 deaths recorded to date, 6,300 were of people who had merely tested and cannot be written off so easily as "con- positive for the virus and 8,400 were of those whose death certificates mentioned COVID-19. spiracy theory". This lockdown business, the Not a single death has actually been declared as directly from the virus. Besides that, 15,000 psychological manipulation via the media to deaths represents a mere 0.27% of the Scottish population. This is the kind of information that ensure compliance, the mask and social dis- exposes the evil behind these lockdowns and the push for vaccination. tancing mandates, the surveillance, the misuse I have said before and I say again, what is presently unfolding is a global government crime of police, the encouraging of neighbours and against humanity hatched by the Davos people who own the world and hate God. The Nazis children to report perceived rule breakers, come a very distant second in wickedness in comparison with what these demons are currently etc., these are all classic tactics of Communist orchestrating.