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AD APOSTOLORUM Ages-old traditions carved in stone PRINCIPIS Encyclical of Pope Pius XII Pope's Butler GRESHAM, Ore., May Voice of the Papacy 30—Vatican leaks are the tip of the iceberg, investigators allege; the real story involves On Communism and the mud-slinging cardinals who Church in China are positioning to be Bene- June 29, 1958 dict's successor. Vatican in- siders are abuzz this week To Our Venerable Brethren following news that Bene- and Beloved Children, the dict's butler, Paolo Gabriele Archbishops, Bishops, other was arrested by magistrates as Local Ordinaries, and Clergy the source behind leaked and People of China in Peace documents, the so-called Va- and Communion with the Apos- tileaks scandal that has tolic See. plagued Rome since 2011. The media seem to be glee- Venerable Brethren and Be- fully speculating about a loved Children, Greetings and deeper more sinister plot. Apostolic Benediction. They may be hoping that they have found the ultimate At the tomb of the Prince of the weapon to destroy the Catho- Apostles, in the majestic Vati- lic Church-- which they think can Basilica, Our immediate they are attacking. Investiga- Predecessor of deathless mem- tors point to one man in par- ory, Pius XI, duly consecrated ticular, the Vatican secretary and raised to the fullness of the of state, Cardinal Tarcisio priesthood, as you well know, Bertone. "the flowers and . . . latest buds After being elected in of the Chinese episcopate."[1] April, 2005, Ratzinger as "Pope Benedict XVI" quickly 2. On that solemn occasion he appointed Cardinal Bertone as added these words: "You have the Cardinal Secretary of come, Venerable Brethren, to State. Benedict also appointed visit Peter, and you have re- Bertone as his Camerlengo to ceived from him the shepherd's be the head administrator at staff, with which to undertake his death. Reports say Bene- your apostolic journeys and to dict has subtly indicated that gather together your sheep. It is Bertone could be his choice Peter who with great love has for successor, and both men embraced you who are in great have at times appeared to be part Our hope for the spread of stacking and massaging the the truth of the Gospel among Red Hats in Bertone's favor your people."[2] for the next conclave. BREAKING—Additional 3. The memory of that allocu- arrests are expected in the tion comes to Our mind today, next few days. Venerable Brethren and dear Source: 17-part Special RNN In- 2008 by Arnaud 25 children, as the Catholic vestigation: Basilica of Saint Denis in Paris, France Church in your fatherland is www.raidersnewsupdate.com/ experiencing great suffering vatileaks-investigation.htm and loss. But the hope of our FOOTNOTE great Predecessor was not in National Catholic Reporter article, "A Triptych on Benedict's Papacy, vain, nor did it prove without and Hints of What Lies Beyond," effect, for new bands of shep- by John L. Allen Jr., May 13, 2011 herds and heralds of the Gospel Quoted from investigation cited above. have been joined to the first group of bishops whom Peter, Vatican bank living in his Successor, sent to feed those chosen flocks of the chief ousted in Lord. no-confidence 4. New works and religious vote undertakings prospered among ROME, May 26— Known you despite many obstacles. since 2009 by the evasive We too shared that hope when title, “Institute for Religious later We had the pleasure of

Works” (IOR), the Vatican 2005 by C Goodwin establishing the hierarchy in bank has effectively ousted its Charles I of Naples (or Anjou), Basilica of Saint Denis. Note he holds his heart in his left China and saw yet wider paths president after receiving a hand. All but three of the kings of France are buried in this ancient church. opening up for the spread of unanimous vote of no- the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. By Kathleen Plumb ...Continued on page 3 also recorded that King Da- 10th to the 18th centuries, Editor, The Four Marks 5. But, alas, after a few years gobert moved the body of Saint nearly every king was buried the sky was overcast by storm n 475, St. Genevieve pur- Denis, a patron saint of France, there, as were many from the clouds. On your Christian com- to the new church. It appears previous centuries. (Although I chased land and built a ...Continued on page 9 We will be back in church on the location near that construction continued the coronations of kings were held at the Cathedral of Paris, France where this basil- under King Pepin the Short and August! We hope to Rheims; queens were com- ica stands. In the 7th century, completed under the Emperor catch up on many by order of King Dagobert I, Charlemagne, who was present monly crowned at Saint Denis.) the earlier church was replaced at its consecration in 775. Early on, Saint Denis became tasks, long over due. with the new construction of Saint Denis became a place of the abbey church of a growing pilgrimage and the burial place monastic complex. In the 12th —The Four Marks what would be a great edifice: the Church of Saint Denis. It is of the French kings. From the ...Continued on page 7 2 June 2012 The Four Marks Editorial—opinion Liberal media Readers’ canonizes Saint Obama? FORUM Email: [email protected] Or Box 58, Ballantine, MT 59006 By Kathleen Plumb Your letters should be exclu- sively for publication in The This editorial is not particularly about Barrack Hussein Four Marks. Please don’t include those distributed by email lists, or Obama, Barry Soetoro, or whoever he is. Nor is it previously printed in another pa- Dedicated to Our Lady’s about where he was born and his eligibility to be per. Include name, address, and Immaculate Heart phone number, (only name, city “And in the end my president according to the Constitution (although it and state will be printed, except in Immaculate Heart will triumph!” does play a part.) And lastly, although it is not about the case of organizations.) Publica- tion is at our discretion. Letters his Communist roots or who his real father is, I would may be edited —especially for The Four Marks like to mention the new documentary film based on the length. (300 word max.)

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First printed February 2006 The US federal government permits (if not approves) three of the four sins that cry out to IX’s encyclical on Communism heaven for vengeance, and now, in case we had any doubts, our “president,” “Saint Obama,” that I just read in the latest issue Editor of The Four Marks. I am left Kathleen Plumb has publicly supported the fourth: the sin of Sodom. So shouldn’t it be obvious that the federal powers are no longer legitimate, since besides ignoring the US Constitution, they even defy the truly shaken at how Communist Featured writers: ideology has enveloped our way laws of God? Leonard Anaya of doing business here in the Fr. Daniel Ahern Do Americans support the governmental shift away from God’s laws? Evidently not, al- United States. If only those Fr. Athanasius though you’re not likely to read it in the morning paper or see it on TV. Consider what may be who “occupy Wall Street” who John S. Daly happening next door: Some states are taking measures to prevent or limit an oppressive federal are so concerned about the ine- Fr. Benedict Hughes, CMRI takeover. State legislators in South Carolina, Utah, Virginia and Georgia have begun looking qualities between the rich and Fr. Brendan Hughes, CMRI the poor could or would read Clare Kolewski into using state currency due to irresponsible federal policies. “If folks lose faith in the dollar, that encyclical! They would John Lane we need to have some kind of backup,” South Carolina State Sen. Lee Bright told the Spartan- Ana Maggio surely see clearly that it is only burg Herald Journal. Wisconsin is considering starting state owned banks for essentially the through the teachings of Our Hugh Miller —science writer same reasons. Wyoming has similar concerns and is discussing forming its own army. Cam- Fr. Michael Oswalt Lord and His Church that true Fr. Dominic Radecki, CMRI paigning in Montana, candidates say they will fight against federal interference; any infringe- justice can be had! Fr. Francisco Radecki, CMRI ment on the right to bear arms is fought across party lines. There are more, but you get the I believe that it is more nec- Griff Ruby point: These states aren’t reacting to imaginary fears. essary now than ever before for Robert Valente those of us who consider our- While federal powers may not have a plan to obliterate states’ rights, media and wealthy Cartoonist selves blessed to be chosen by s: liberal lobbyists are aimed in that direction. And as their goals grow ever closer, they seem less John Francis Borra, SFO God to be a part of the remnant Paul Nichols and less concerned about keeping it quiet. A good example would be the Newsweek cover last to, as Pope Pius IX suggested,

month, showing Obama with a rainbow colored halo, as “The First Gay President.” We imme- fast and pray. He reiterated the About The Four Marks diately think of Bill Clinton, who was dubbed the “first Black president” in the middle of the words of Our Lord that some Unity in the truth, throughout Monica Lewinsky scandal. In this case, Obama is nearing a presidential election. demons cannot be cast out but history and in all places best marks by prayer and fasting. our path to the protective arms of But let me backtrack. How does this tie into the “four sins that cry out to heaven for venge- I would like to make a pro- Holy Mother Church. Though we ance”? Let’s look at them first: may feel abandoned, we are not posal to my fellow remaining alone. May this newspaper further 1. Taking innocent blood, murder (Genesis 4:10) Catholics and to you, Kath- unite us in our love and defense of 2. The sin of Sodom (Genesis 18:20; 19:13) leen. Would there be room the pure doctrines of Our Lord! in TFM to list those readers And though our path treads the 3. Oppression of the poor (Exodus 3:7-10) especially the widow, orphan, and foreigner; in who would willingly pledge one edge of a precipice, with God’s general oppressing the weak and vulnerable (Exodus 22:20-24) day a week of fasting and grace we will not fall while we 4. Defrauding a laborer of his just wage (Deuteronomy 24:14-15) prayer for the following inten- cling to Tradition. tions: Who is cut from the Church, 1. In reparation for the sins of those loyal to Christ’s doctrines, or These sins effect society as a whole. Consider how these sins are woven into the those who rewrote them? Who is the hierarchy in Novus Ordo wrong, one who attends the Mass of fabric of our federal government: Church; 2. the return of the Novus his ancestors, or one who attends a 1. Taking innocent blood new mass unknown to his Ordo Church to the true grandfathers? No, the grieving The word “murder” means the intentional killing of an innocent man, woman, or child. Faith in our lifetimes and, remnant did not leave the Faith. We know it is wrong instinctively. Nevertheless 40 years ago, the US Supreme Court (a 3. to call down upon us the The only way to rectify the problem federal court) reversed all laws forbidding abortion, in nearly every state. Circumventing Mercy of God. is for all to accept the laws, doctrines, and rites as practiced by the legislative branch of government that makes the laws, the Court legalized murder with It could be anything from a the Church before Vatican II broke the flimsy excuse that these weren’t “persons.” Certainly such evil has played a part in the total fast, to a fast of only bread with Tradition. utter destruction of society, families, and the loss of trust within both. 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Depositors are usu- do, just that he be willing to put watching's, His fasting, His their name down as promising ally limited to Vatican employ- preaching, His journeys, His ees, religious orders and people to the best of their ability and conversations, His miracles-all memory to do something extra who transfer money for the Athanasius those were for us.” pope's charities. on one day a week for the Robert Valente above-mentioned intentions. Northville, Michigan “The Vatican bank's fi- Thanks and may God bless nances have long been shrouded and have Mercy on us all, in secrecy. Most famously, it Email: [email protected] Jean Koneazny Pollock, Bullets was implicated in a scandal Please mark subject field: ASK FATHER

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ers. The Vatican and officials of Italy's largest fraud cases. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. Editor: Thanks for your sugges- said this was due to having Roberto Calvi, the head of tion. These intentions are vital leaked documents and failed to Banco Ambrosiano, was found to all of us and at the heart of do his job at a critical time hanging from Blackfriars Dear Fr. Athanasius, who we are as Catholics. Read- during Benedict’s efforts to ers may send their names as Bridge in London in 1982 in I have two questions: 1) Two popes, Cardinal St. Robert participants, joining other read- show financial transparency. circumstances that remain mys- Bellarmine and other theologians say that one who commits ers to fast and pray for these Essentially this is an effort to terious. the sin of manifest heresy loses any office he may have in the intentions. After the list has a shed the IOR's image as a se- Church automatically. He is not to be followed. My confusion minimum of several partici- “Banco Ambrosiano col- cretive tax haven battered by revolves around the question of what kind of heresy (manifest) pants, their names will be years of scandal. President lapsed following the disappear- listed. However, only the new ance of $1.3 billion in loans the causes a pope to lose his office. Which heresies were commit- names, with a minimum of sev- Ettore Gotti Tedeschi is also being investigated for alleged bank had made to several ted by our modern popes since Vatican II, which have caused eral at a time, will be posted. dummy companies in Latin NOTE: Readers may use pen money laundering by Italian them to lose their office? names for this prayer army. magistrates, though this may America. The Vatican had pro- 2) Some people say that St. Francis de Sales in his book

have nothing to do with the vided letters of credit for the “The Catholic Controversy” proves that most of the modern Email: loans. [email protected] Vatican bank. In addition, traditional priests do not possess a mission (either ordinary or Or send to: The Four Marks Gotti Tedeschi was found to “While denying any wrong- extraordinary) from Our Lord Jesus Christ, therefore they are Box 58, Ballantine, MT 59006 have leaked confidential docu- doing, the Vatican bank agreed illegitimate. Could you please refute this? ments to serve his personal and to pay $250 million to Ambro- Sincerely, Answered prayers political interests, according to siano's creditors.” A Concerned Traditionalist First off, I am not trying to Business Week sources. Al- Source: Business Week, Nicole pick the pepper out of the sugar. though he has not been offi- Winfield, May 26, 2012 Clare Kolewski is an excellent cially terminated, they are Dear Concerned Traditionalist, writer. However, I’d like to looking for a replacement. Ban gender- As you state, St. Robert Bellarmine and other theolo- make known another take on In July, Benedict meets gians teach that a person who enjoys an office in the "unanswered prayers." Saint with Moneyval, a Council of specific abortion John Vianney says, “God Church loses that office through manifest heresy. But it is Europe committee that will WASHINGTON, May 30— makes use of everything. There difficult to find a definition for “manifest.” Most treatises determine whether the Vatican Fr. Frank Pavone, National Di- is nothing easier than to pray to Bank has complied with inter- rector of [Conciliar] Priests for on the subject speak of formal and material heresy, and I God, and nothing is more com- national norms to fight money Life, today issued a statement in trust you understand the difference there. forting! God is everywhere to laundering and terror financ- favor of the Prenatal Nondis- hear your prayers. He who does As far as “manifest” is concerned, I would say that it ing. Transparency of the bank's crimination Act (PRENDA), not pray is like a hen or turkey means that educated Catholics can see the heresy. It is finances has been one of sev- which is expected to be voted that cannot rise into the air. He manifest to them. Now if we apply this to Benedict XVI, eral criteria that the Moneyval on in the House of Representa- who prays is like an intrepid evaluators have investigated. tives this evening. there are numerous heresies of his which are manifest to eagle. No prayer is ever lost.” Italian authorities placed Gotti the faithful. His denial of the resurrection of the body, the Saint John Vianney clarifies Tedeschi and the IOR's top The measure would outlaw unanswered prayers when he any abortion performed because real presence of Christ in the Eucharist and the unity of manager under investigation in the Church (through his teachings and practices on false says “No prayer is ever lost,” September 2010 and seized of the gender of a baby. by showing us that there really (EURO)23 ($30 million) from "This is one of those meas- ecumenism) are clear examples of heresy, to name just a are no unanswered prayers, for a Vatican bank account at the ures that drives home the point few. God has answered by not an- Rome branch of Credito Ar- that abortions in America can But there is another factor here, and that is the swering; for knowing all tigiano Spa, after the bank in- be performed for any reason “favouring” of heresy. By not suppressing heresy, he be- things He is saving this person formed the Bank of Italy about whatsoever. People often react possible violations of anti- in horrified unbelief that there comes guilty of it, despite what he may say to the con- even is such a thing as sex- trary. He constantly shows himself a heretic by his asso- Note to subscribers: We continue to receive newspapers selection abortion. But the exis- ciations and by his actions (praise of Martin Luther and returned by the Post Office. Please be sure we have your tence of legislation to stop it so forth), as well as by his heretical teachings. address and that the addresses you give for gift subscrip- can awaken the consciences of As far as your second question, there are two schools tions are correct. many. Let's pass this law, and let's use the vote of our Repre- of thought. Some believe that a bishop, by the mere fact sentatives on this bill as an elec- of his consecration receives jurisdiction. But the common

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Gomara, to whom Cortes Hernando Cortés, Conquistador of Christ related the incident in his old age, concludes: “He was in- jured by the fall, and also Part 1-B from obscure, but reputable stricken by a quartan fever beginnings, without the aid which kept him in bed for a The Making of the Man of family influence or supe- long time; so he was unable rior fortune.”32 Cortes was to sail with Governor 34 By Rev. Fr. Brendan Hughes, CMRI what we would call a self- Ovando.” made man. And a man who Having lost opportunity would prove to be altogether to sail to destiny, he turned thirty ships. Thus, he came to self-less. his interest once more to the First published in be acquainted with the Cor- The Reign of Mary Chance was often at odds expeditions of El Gran Capi- tes family, and perhaps be- Vol. XL, No. 133 Winter 2009 with fortune in the making of tan. So he departed for Italy, Subscribe to TRM at email: came a friend. Martin and [email protected] his fate. And chance dealt and “to go thereto, he set Catalina hoped, therefore, Reprinted with permission. with our hero disconcertingly foot for Valencia”35 with that he could best advance nearly upon the eve of depar- eager will and empty wallet. their son’s career in the New till, most looked to Italy ture. For in going to keep a Yet he never arrived in Italy. World. Others claim that for initial experience, as 29 romantic appointment with a What the restless youth did S Ovando was a relative. Gonsalvo de Cordoba was lady, he made his way walk- for the time being remains Whether by kinship or leading the last military cam- ing upon roofs, and scaling a concealed by his singularly friendship, Ovando offered paign close to home. For in wall. He was luckless in admirable discretion of si- Hernando invitation to his the very year after the taking love, however, as the mortar lence. Again, to Gomara suite. But let us take note of Granada attention could be Hernando Cortés in a contem- of the wall gave way, send- alone did Cortes in manhood porary rendition that even if Ovando was re- turned to reclamations from ing him tumbling to the street relate his youthful frolicks. newly-emerging France. And Gomara safeguards the Troubles in Catalonia and “The mast—how like to the cross of Christ! ‘They wept for joy, raised their hands to character of Cortes while Navarre were settled; heaven, thanked the most merciful God, [L]ord of all things. One said that land disapproving only sparingly: Cerdagne and Rousillon re- could not be far away, another one that it was the Holy Ghost which in the form of “Yet he did not cross over to possessed. In 1494 as the fin- that bird had deigned to come to comfort the sad and afflicted. Wherever the dove Italy, but wandered wan- 41 est general of Spain, Gon- flew, there the ship followed.’ And so it was fitting that a dove would guide Her- tonly, though not without salvo had gone off to Italy nando Cortes to the New World in the wake of Christopher Columbus, for the dis- much need and hardship for reasserting titular rule of the coverer’s name, whether the Italian Columbo or the original Catalan Colom, means nearly a year.”36 Nineteen 42 kingdom of Naples. In but ‘dove.’ And the discoverer’s name in Baptism, Cristobal, was shared with the first and eager to embark upon 43 one year the Italian campaign of the fortunate mariners to announce the sighting of land. They were saved! It his own manhood, his were forced the French to their was the feast of the Resurrection of the Divine Redeemer.” not likely to be wanderings side of the Alps. Gonsalvo of idleness, but rather of returned to an appreciative be- fancy. Yet he was evidently endless possibilities which lated, Cortes came to fame Spain receiving large estates low. Half buried in rubble, he successful in not betraying the New World afforded. For and fortune in his own right. in the Abruzzi. He would was fortunate at least that his himself for he was man one might calculate the scant This is so even despite the sally forth once more to Italy, shield had clattered down enough to bear in silence his likelihood of a soldier’s suc- fact that “ingenious genealo- dislodging the Turks from 30 before the doorway of a misfortunes, and humble cess in being awarded estates gists” there were who quite Cephalonia and Zante and kindly old woman. For he enough to not boast of his in Spain, for by the end of unconvincingly attempted to restoring these to allied Ven- had also gained the attention successes. The author the fifteenth century over trace Hernan Cortes to “an ice. Attention then returned of a man who had dashed out Madariaga is forced to admit half of Castille was owned illustrious ancestry, reaching to the French, as they had re- willing to promptly run him that he knew not where the by the higher aristocracy, back even to the kings of asserted their influence. Vic- 31 through with his sword, but wanderings of Cortes took leaving the remaining to the Lombard and Tuscany.” tory in Cerignola, in Apulia, who was prevented by the him. Yet in the same breath lower aristocracy and to the For what little merit the in 1503, presaged for the fol- woman, who happened to be he surmises curiously that Church. Most of the appor- claim has, and, for that mat- lowing year a greater triumph his mother-in-law and who Cortes “wandered wantonly tionment of Castille, in fact, ter, whether Ovando was a at the River Garigliano, be- “begged him to do the we know not where but we was held in perpetuity by a relative or not, is neither here tween Naples and Rome. stranger no harm till he had may safely guess in Seville, mere three hundred noble nor there. For the fact of the 33 Spain now mastered half found out who he was.” ...Continued on page 5 families who enjoyed the matter is that Cortes “rose of Italy while Gonsalvo de “sacred right of mayorazgo, Cordoba, having proven bet- or entail, which even the ter than France’s legendary Catholic Kings were unable Gaston de Foix, merited the Announcing MORE JOY for Catholic Families to shake.” 27 title El Gran Capitan. John Yes, success in Spain was Learn to have the Lynch writes in Spain under JOY of the saints! unlikely, and even if success NEW!!! MORE JOY the Hapsburgs: “The victory Perfect Bound, 60 lb. cream was achieved, its rewards By Rt. Rev. Paul Wilhelm Von Keppler paper, softcover 144 pages was a sign of the times, for it were diminutive in compari- Today so many people are chasing pleasure after pleasure without knowing how to obtain joy. gave further proof, if proof Bishop Von Keppler writing in Germany before both world wars understood our need for joy and son to the hopes in the New were needed, of the power teaches how we can have the joy of the saints, a fruit of the Holy Ghost. He begins by examining World. But a military career “the joylessness of modern civilization” the same today as in the past which he states is not a inherent in the union of Cas- close to home had been for result of “Christian, or Catholic, growth; it flourishes in the world’s own soil.” He explains how tile and Aragon, and the suc- joy begins to enter the soul when we have learned to “face boldly the pain of this life and the many the opening of oppor- cess of their collaboration. threat of ever-approaching death.” More Joy begins by examining the necessity of joy for both tunity beyond the ocean. And our physical and spiritual health. 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...Continued from page 4 Cadiz, and other harbors beaten by the waves of new Making Sense world life.”37 Once more the prodigal “And I saw that wisdom excelled folly, as much as returned to his father after a light differeth from darkness.” —Ecclesiastes 2:13 year in the school of experi- ence, or, as we say, the school of hard knocks. With Of Humans and Vegetables renewed chagrine, his par- ents seized upon another By Mario Derksen, M.A. them in some obscure and occasion to send him off to indirect way, especially if follow after Ovando. For not Mario Derksen is a convert to they are not themselves well the sedevacantist position. In -grounded in the sound prin- only did they give him their the late 1990s, he discovered blessing, but they paid his an intense passion for philoso- ciples of Catholic scholastic philosophy, which reached passage. Perhaps even they phy and the right use of rea- being: The rational soul and prived of essential rational son, devoting his personal its pinnacle in the High Mid- had come to acknowledge the animal body form an or- powers but is simply unable studies in particular to logic, dle Ages (13th century) at that the New World alone metaphysics, ethics, criteriol- ganic whole that is the hu- to exercise them because of the time and due to the influ- offered opportunity abundant ogy, and natural theology. He man being. As long as this its dependence on the body obtained a B.A. in philosophy ence of St. Thomas Aquinas. enough for their spirited son. soul remains united to the in this earthly life. from Florida Atlantic University To illustrate this, I would Jon Manchip White con- in 2000 and an M.A. in the body, the human being exists To illustrate how reason- like to examine a miscon- cludes: “Cortes, like many of same field from Holy Apostles and is alive; once the soul able this conclusion is, con- College & Seminary in 2004. ception that is being gradu- the conquistadores, became leaves the body, the human sider the following: If a hu- He currently resides in Cincin- ally introduced into our so- a nobleman in the New nati, Ohio. being is dead and turns into a man being ceased to be a ciety, which many people World because there was no corpse. human being every time a are embracing simply be- scope for him to become one Second, as regards the circumstance kept him from cause it has the appearance in the Old. Other motives, of “WHO CARES about phi- distinction between essence exercising the ability to rea- of sound reason and they do course, were at work: love of losophy? What difference and circumstance: The es- son, we would constantly be not know how to discover, adventure; the typical curios- does it make to anything?” sence of a thing is that which ceasing to be —and becom- much less refute, its error: ity of the age; the itch for Questions like these are makes the thing what it is; a ing once more— human. For the idea that a human being fame; the desire to serve sometimes asked by people circumstance is simply an example, we do not use our who no longer has any or God, the King, and the new struggling to understand the event or a fact that impacts reason while sleeping, when 38 only insufficient brain func- Spain.” importance and influence of the thing but doesn’t change in a coma, or in our infant tion —and therefore is lack- He took passage on a philosophy, especially in the what the thing is. For exam- years. Of course, it would be ing the ability to reason— convoy of five merchant last few decades, which ple, a chair can be brown or entirely absurd to think that is a “vegetable.” ships setting sail from San could rightfully be dubbed red or black (circumstance); we are constantly changing This false and most dan- Lucar de Barrameda in 1504. the “True Dark Ages” of hu- but it cannot have only one our essence —the kind of gerous idea has at its roots His ship was captained by man knowledge. leg and still be a chair being we are— depending the half-truth that beings the mischievously ambitious The importance of phi- (essence). Likewise, a man on what we are currently who are alive but not able to Alonso Quintero, but piloted losophy and its impact on can have brown hair or grey doing. For a few hours dur- know, love, or feel, are of a by the capable Vincent Pin- society cannot be overesti- hair or black; he can even be ing the day we’d be human, vegetative nature; they are zon, who had contributed his mated. This reality is a two- bald and still be a man then, at night, we’d become vegetative beings, or vegeta- own ship, La Nina, sailing edged sword: It goes for the (circumstance). But he can- brute animals, only to wake bles. As with most other from Palos under Columbus good as well as for the bad of not be female and still be a up fully human again. lies, half-truths are the most on the epochal voyage of this discipline. Just as the man (essence). That’s be- Likewise, human nature dangerous falsehoods out discovery. The initial leg of fruits of an understanding cause being male pertains to has the ability to procreate. there. They are most danger- the journey was standard – and application of right rea- his essence as a man, Yet, there are some people ous precisely because of the sailing to La Gomera where son, of sound and wholesome whereas being brown-haired who, by happenstance, are truth contained in them, they reprovisioned food and philosophy, are great natural or bald, etc., does not. unable to do so and cannot which makes them more water, and commended their happiness through the attain- In short: Things can have children. Does that appealing and therefore safety in prayer to St. Mary ment of natural knowledge, change circumstantially make them non-humans? more acceptable to people. of the Passage. Desiring to leading us to the doorstep of without changing essentially. Since even plants can pro- The fundamental errors arrive ahead of the others so Faith and entrance into the As long as their essence is create, are we to believe that in the idea is that (1) it relies as to sell his merchandise at Catholic Church —so the not changed, things remain these people are of a lesser on a false conception of hu- greater profit without com- understanding and applica- what they are. Now let us life form than plants? And man nature; and (2) it fails petition, Quintinero slipped tion of a disordered and apply this to our case: Does a what about children, who to distinguish essence from his ship away unobserved. faulty philosophy, no matter human being whose brain is cannot procreate? ...Do you circumstance. Yet nature would not be how well-intentioned it no longer functioning see what a slippery slope this First, as regards human complicit in his cunning, and might be, are sure to bring (whether temporarily or per- is, and where it is leading? nature: We humans share a with winds whipping up natural and moral ruin to a manently) cease to be human Can you imagine what sort lot with the brute animals; even before he arrived to the society and block the doors and turn into a “vegetable”? of court decisions would be like them, we have a body westernmost of the Canary to Faith and therefore Eternal The answer: Absolutely not! handed down (and have and sense experience. We Islands, the mast with cros- Salvation. Why not? Because the been!) by judges who have have emotions, too, such as syards, sail, and rigging Though most ordinary essence —that of the pres- fallen prey to such a monu- fear, pleasure, or suffering. came crashing down upon people would never care to ence of the rational human mental error? Yes, the secu- But we are also very much ...Continued on page 8 read or adhere to the danger- soul joined to the human lar world concedes that hu- unlike brute animals: We ous (and forbidden by the body—has not changed; the mans have rights and alleg- can know, reason, choose, Church) works and thinking soul has not left the body. edly even animals to an ex- love, judge, and speak, for of, for example, Rene Des- While it is true that the per- tent, but plants do not, and example. The reason we can cartes, Immanuel Kant, son whose brain functions certainly not vegetables. Can do these things is because Georg Hegel, Charles Dar- have ceased can no longer you see where this is going? we have a human soul, en- win, Karl Marx, or Friedrich reason, know, love, choose, Because of ignorance dowed with the rational Nietzsche, this does not at all etc., or even experience any regarding sound philosophy powers of intellect and will. mean that they would not fall feelings or emotions, this is or willful rejection thereof, This rational soul is what for their false philosophical merely incidental – it is a people are starting to think makes the otherwise mere principles when proposed to circumstance depriving the of humans as non-humans, “animal” body into a human soul of the possibility to ex- which is always the first step “By their fruits you shall know them.” (Mt 7:16) ercise certain functions for to treating them accordingly. 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advice would we as her par- ents or brother or pastor or My take on the SSPX negotiations best friend have to give to her?

Griff Ruby lives in the Central California coast with his and then that woman was either slim or none, though First, she must realize that wife and child. Born in 1958, he was raised as an summarily stowed in his at- he needs her influence to he is already lost to her, the atheist, but was drawn through a succession of beliefs culminating in the Faith of all times; author of The tic, not as neck working avoid damnation. He can’t way things are now. He has Resurrection of the Roman Catholic Church, and regular closely with her head in be allowed to fall into Hell, put a time limit on his pur- columnist for DailyCatholic since 2004. leading a family body, but as he just can’t! Don’t you see? ported “love” for her, and his chattel to be locked and suf- She just has to give it a shot, latest and (presumably) ulti- By Griff Ruby focated in a trunk in an attic. come what may! It’s her mate promise towards be- Columnist The Four Marks Since that time she never only chance at happiness, coming a Catholic for her if it may, knowing of his lack again heard from her former and his, for that matter! For only she would marry him is of the Faith, she could not friend and has no way of her, there is no walking as much riddled with loop- he young woman was bear the thought of this knowing whether she is even away. If she doesn’t marry holes as ever. For her to T one of uncommon vir- young man ending up in Hell still alive or not. him by the deadline it will be give in and marry him is to tue. While so many of her for his wayward ways. She too late and he will never lose the Faith, pure and sim- peers all fell into the ways of Though he has made no was willing to do literally real promise to become a find salvation, and she will ple. So, what to do now? the world, falling even into anything to prevent that trag- never find happiness. He She must look within herself all manner of sins, she kept Catholic if she marries him, edy, even if it meant putting she feels that she can con- will go to Hell, and the most for that inner strength to do herself above all that. In- herself in Hell, for such was crucial and precious portion what is right and stand by it deed, were it not for one dif- strue various other things he the scope and scale and na- has done and said as being a of her own soul will be right totally and unabashedly, for ficulty, her virtue might have ture of her utterly self- there in Hell with him. The God the Holy Ghost dwells approached well nigh even close enough semblance of sacrificing love (or is it in- such a promise. Now, after misery of that prospect al- within her, as He dwells that of our Lady. Her humil- fatuation) for this man. ready fills her soul, as if all within all who are of the ity, her sweetness, her fierce So yes, she loves him, but loyalty, all showed her char- After all, what if he did repent? What if at some point he really as I earlier said, she is also acter to be one fully imbued heroically virtuous and did see the utter waywardness of his life and actually begin listen- with the graces of the Holy would not consider marrying ing to the ghosts of his dead Catholic ancestors, and really turn his Spirit. She was comely and a non-Catholic, not even un- a mere slip of a girl; to see life around? der what terms as the Church her in her demure sweetness, has occasionally permitted. one would not realize that Herein enters the biggest part of that already happened. Faith. she was in fact a warrior of how many months of being of the problem. While he almost unparalleled battle alone with him, whispering Meanwhile, he smirks at In her newfound position obviously is not a Catholic, force against the forces of sweet nothing-doings in each the thought of what a help- of strength, her new message he will, at times, and most evil. With obedience she other’s ear or whatever, he less puddle of emotion he to him must be as follows: particularly when within her conquered rebellion; with finally puts the ultimatum to has reduced her to. What a “You are not a Catholic, and company, make some half- truth she conquered error; her: “Marry me now, or for- disgusting lout. The best no matter how much I love hearted attempts at seeming with right she conquered ever lose your chance to thing would be for her to you I will not marry a non- quite accommodating of her might; with humility she marry me at all!” Deep have nothing more to do Catholic. If ever some day request for him to at least down, she does know that if with this man, to walk away conquered pride. you decide to grow up and conduct himself something he does not marry her he will from him forever. But in her become a Catholic, and have Her one weakness was that like a Catholic when around not become a Catholic, so for abjectly desperate and miser- done so, feel free to give me she had a certain affair of the her. He will sit with her in the sake of his salvation, he able state that obviously a call. But so long as you heart which was not going Church sometimes, though needs her. But she hesitates. smartest and best course is refuse to become a Catholic, well. The problem was the he does not participate. He No matter how hard she absolutely not on the table. don’t even bother! For if young man she had set her states that he respects all re- might convince herself that After all, what if he did re- you refuse to commit your- sights on. He was not a ligions, even hers. In her he really could become a pent? What if at some point self fully and truly and ex- Catholic. He had, however, almost obsessive desire for Catholic and save his own he really did see the utter clusively to the Faith, how once come from a most this man, she took every soul if only she did marry waywardness of his life and can I trust you to commit prominent and wealthy small nod even vaguely him, there is an awareness on actually begin listening to yourself fully and truly and Catholic family, but he was made in the direction of Ca- her part. However subcon- the ghosts of his dead Catho- exclusively to me as your himself merely a bastard son. tholicism as evidence that he scious and unacknowledged, lic ancestors, and really turn wife?” In fact, there was much is coming around or at least she was aware of the fact his life around? Then he wrong with his character. He And then that’s it. The that he is willing to come that there really is no real or would become a Catholic, deadline passes and she does was quite ill-bred and ill- around some day, to some- clear promise on his part that she could marry him with a mannered, an undisciplined not sign up. If he then walks thing of a Catholic way of he would become a Catholic good and easy conscience, away she must bite her lazy bum and a drunkard, looking at things. if she did marry him. Time and the two of them could having a violent temper and tongue and avoid calling him Everyone else can plainly and time again, whatever live so happily ever after incapable of that fidelity back, lest she fall back into see that this would-be suitor seeming agreements he signs together. which any marriage requires. her former position of weak- is in no wise interested in along those lines all have Despite having squandered What a sweet dream! The ness. Will he become a becoming a Catholic, but serious loopholes that give vast amounts on his gam- possibility of that, no matter Catholic and come back? If only in being able to woo him an out. He seems so bling, prostitutes, and any how faintly remote, is some- there remains anything of and win this most devout willing to commit to her; number of silly vanities, he thing she cannot let go of. goodness and decency in woman as some kind of why is he somehow not quite was still wealthy, but the As I said, the possibility of him, it will bring him back. “trophy wife.” His pretenses willing to fully commit to only reason he had inherited just walking away is not on But if not, then whatever of interest in Catholicism are accepting her Faith? so much from his prosperous the table. And really, in all potential she thought she saw so thin and threadbare that Catholic forebears was that Now, my question to you justice, repentance IS always in him is gone or never ex- all can see through them; he had driven all of his far is this: If you were this possible, however unlikely, isted, and he is part and par- only her insane infatuation worthier brothers into exile woman’s father, or mother, and certainly if ever it could cel of Hell already. I think with this guy prevents her or brother, or pastor, or best be realistically and genuinely through various intrigues. he will call again, even if from seeing it as well. She friend, would you recom- brought about it would be a only to try at seducing her. Yet, she was smitten by wants to marry him, and mend she press ahead with a truly wonderful thing. So, ...Continued on page 7 him. For any number of seems all too willing to hope wedding to this man and factoring all that in, what those mysterious reasons of that once she does marry him hope for the best, or would the heart that never admit to she will be able to change you tell her to get herself as Do You Have a Vocation? a rational analysis, she him. Perhaps she figures far from him as possible? If you are a young man of high school age who has a voca- wanted to be always near that even though he will be But she loves him! His tion, then Saint Joseph Seminary may be the ideal place for him. What does she see in you. Our four-year course of studies offers the regular high her head, she at least would need for her is bigger than him? The rest of us will be the neck. school curriculum, with an emphasis on Latin, theology, choir never know. She thinks his life and death, yet he barely and foreign language. 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Michael Oswalt The Four Marks June 2012 7 ...Continued from page 6 means, let them give their St. Denis And whenever that should grandchildren a blessing. happen, her first question to My Observations In veritate Jesu Christi, ...Continued from page 1 him must always be, “Have Fr. Athanasius century, Abbot Suger rebuilt A personal look at the New Church and the Catholic Church you become a Catholic, portions of the abbey church fully, completely, and ex- using pioneering structural and By Rev. Father Michael Oswalt clusively?” Dear Fr. Athanasius, decorative features, which en- Former Conciliar priest Now, as the title of this Some people I have hanced lighting through expan- piece indicated, I intended talked to think that any name sive stained glass windows. The Father Michael Oswalt rose window at the center of the Mount Saint Michael to lay out my own take on in the Bible is acceptable to 8500 North St. Michael’s Road upper story was also an original the whole situation of the name a child. Granted, I Spokane, WA 99217 concept. This was probably the [email protected] SSPX negotiations with the don’t think they are talking about Judas, but shouldn’t first example of a rose window Vatican modernists. In within a square frame, which case the parallels haven’t they be named for a saint? was to become a dominant fea- lot of the time in life we do not pay attention to the little been obvious enough, I And although Daniel was a ture of the Gothic facades of A things, the little eye openers that the Good God gives us supply now the secret de- prophet in the Old Testa- northern France—and would be to help us take away the veil from our minds. I can look at my coder ring. The young ment, we don’t refer to him imitated at Chartres Cathedral own conversion and see that it was a culmination of so many woman of the story is the as “St. Daniel.” So what are and many others. As so many small incidents over the course of time, that when added up, SSPX. Her suitor over the rules? Thanks. great works of Catholic art, it as I look back, equal a vast reservoir of grace. One small inci- was destroyed in the Revolu- which she is so obsessed is Sincerely, dent was when I was in seminary, outside my room on my Planning ahead tion; the current window is a door I had put a bumper sticker that had on it, “You can’t be the modernist Vatican ap- 19th century replacement. The paratus. The prominent and Catholic and pro-abortion”. Now, here I was in a “Catholic” basilica retains stained glass of seminary, amongst seminarians and priests only, who even in wealthy family of which he Dear Planning Ahead, many periods (although most of is a bastard son is the the panels from Abbot Suger's my neophyte understanding of morals knew that this saying is Church in all of its former Thank you for bringing time (12th century) have been a fundamental moral principal. Apparently, I needed to be glory and history, the exiled up this important question! removed for long-term conser- “schooled” about a few things. I later found that this sticker and worthier brothers are Sadly, many Catholics to- vation and replaced with photo- had been ripped off my door and destroyed. It did not dawn on the entire succession of day only think of names graphic transparencies), includ- me the statement I was making by having that on my door. I what few faithful traditional that are “cute” or ing exceptional modern glass. thought I was being Catholic. I thought I was professing The Abbot is said to have cre- bishops exist today. And strength in the Faith. What I was doing, though, was adding to “different” without regard- ated the first truly Gothic build- her friend that disappeared ing the importance of giv- my already growing file being kept on me with adjectives to ing. Abbot Suger’s prayers describe me such as “rigid”, “judgmental”, and “intolerant”. into the man’s attic, is Bp. ing their children the name were etched in stone entrances. How could I be pastoral if I dared to think and say something Rifan and his flock in Cam- One such comment speaking of of a saint whom they can as black and white as that sticker? pos, Brazil. And who are learn about and invoke as the church he was building con- her parents, brother, pastor, cluded, “The year when it was their patron. Canon 761 It should come as no surprise then that there was a huge and best friend? Why, all consecrated was the one thou- controversy that brewed in the seminary over the denial of the of us who truly have the stipulates that the priest is sand, one hundred and fortieth Sacraments to those “Catholic” politicians who professed best interests of the SSPX to add a Christian name to year of the Word.” themselves “pro-choice”. The controversy was not that there at heart. the one chosen by the par- The basilica’s nave (center area were some who thought that the Church should not actually ents, if they have not cho- of a church) remodeled in the 13th century, became the proto- follow Canon Law and deny the Sacraments to public, pro- sen one themselves. Fur- type for the Rayonnant Gothic fessed sinners but the controversy was that there were some of Fr. Athanasius ther, the Roman Ritual in- style, and provided an architec- us who thought the Church should actually enforce Canon structs the priest to see to tural model for cathedrals and Law. We had many lectures and debates over this issue. And Dear Fr. Athanasius, it that “ugly, notorious, or abbeys of northern France, Eng- it always ended up revolving around the word “pastoral.” We I was very excited when I ridiculous name[s] are not land, the Low Countries, Ger- needed to be sensitive to the feelings of others, we needed to read about blessing my chil- many, Spain, northern Italy and be open and tolerant to others’ convictions. In other words, dren in the May issue of given, nor those of false Sicily. deities or heathen profli- incidents such as this were small ways that the Good God was Four Marks. I wondered Most of what is now known showing that this new religion has its own new morality as whether grandparents and gates. Rather, let names of about the Carolingian church at well. We were being trained as people pleasers rather than Saint Denis resulted from a godparents may also bless the saints be selected, as God’s messengers and warriors. Now I can look back and see “their” children. For that far as possible, whose ex- lengthy series of excavations begun under the art historian that what I was being trained to say was what was said 2000 matter, is it good for an un- ample the faithful may de- Sumner McKnight Crosby in years ago, which causes me to fall on my knees in repentance, cle or aunt to bless his nieces voutly imitate and to 1937. “We have no king but Caesar.” and nephews also? whose patronage they are Burials in the Basilica Sincerely, consigned.” of Saint Denis: Blessing my children I have seen books writ- In 1264, remodeling of the (726-783) Henry III (1551–1589), also ten for parents with names crypt was completed, including the tombs of 16 kings and Carloman I King of the Franks King of Poland (heart burial Dear Blessing children, of numerous saints and queens, in the “French Royal (c.751 - 771) monument) I have never read or their feastdays. Some of Necropolis,” which were rear- Charles the Bald (823 - 877) Henry IV (1553–1610) Louis XIII (1601 – 1643) heard that aunts and un- these books even have ranged within the basilica ac- (his monument was melted short biographies of the cording to lineage. These down) and his wife, Ermentrude Louis XIV (1638 – 1715) cles could do this. Cer- of Orléans (823 - 869) Louis XV (1710 – 1774), saints. One you are likely tombs featured life-like carved tainly they pray for their images lying on raised bases. Carloman (866 - 884) Louis XVI (1754 – 1793) and nieces and nephews, but it not familiar with, but The statues were badly defaced Robert II the Pious (972–1031) Marie Antoinette (1755 – 1793) seems that only parents which may be obtained in during the French Revolution, and Constance of Arles (c. 986 Louis XVII (1785–1795) (Only his heart. His body was dumped can really give a blessing. English translation, is though all but two were subse- - 1032) called The Roman Marty- quently restored by Viollet le Henry I (1008–1060) into a mass grave) I would, however, include Louis VI (1081–1137) Louis XVIII (1755–1824) rology. In fact, you will be Duc in 1860. grandparents, for they are All but three of the Kings of Louis VII (1120–1180) and still “parents,” although surprised to read there that France from the 10th century Constance of Castile (1141– such a blessing is nor- the prophets of the Old until 1789 have their remains 1160) Other royalty and no- mally given by the father Testament are included. here, as well as other monarchs. Philip II Augustus (1180–1223) bility Not only is the prophet A partial listing of the most Charles I of Naples (1226– Nicolas Henri, Duke of Orléans and/or mother of the child. 1285), king of the Two Sicilies (1607–1611), son of Henry IV, Daniel listed (feastday prominent some of the earlier Especially in today's cul- monarchs, whose remains had (1266–85). An effigy covers his Gaston, Duke of Orléans (1608 ture, grandparents often July 21), but 5 other saints been transferred from the Ab- heart burial. –1660), son of Henry IV, must step in to help raise of the same name, of bey of St Genevieve to Saint Philip III the Bold (1245–1285) Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier (1605–1627), wife the children, so by all whom 4 were martyrs! Denis, are listed below: Philip IV the Fair (1268–1314) As you can see, there and Isabella of Aragon (1247 – of Gaston, 1271) Marguerite of Lorraine (1615– are many saints' names to It isn’t that they Clovis I (465 - 511) Leo V of Armenia (1342–1393) 1672), Duchess of Orléans and choose from. Let parents Childebert I (496 - 558) Louis XII of France (1462– second wife of Gaston, can’t see the be sure to give their chil- Arégonde (c.515 - c.573) 1515) Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans solution. It’s that dren the names of saints, Fredegonde (Wife of Chilperic I Francis I (1494–1547) (1627–1693), la Grande Made- whom they can learn about of Neustria) (? - 597) Henry II (1519–1559) and moiselle, they can’t see the Dagobert I (603 - 639) Catherine de' Medici (1519 – Marguerite Louise d'Orléans problem. and invoke in life's trials. Clovis II (635 - 657) 1589) (1645–1721), Grand Duchess of In veritate Jesu Christi, Charles Martel (686 - 741) Francis II (1544 – 1560) Tuscany, Jean Gaston d'Orléans, (1650– —G. K. Chesterton Fr. Athanasius Pippin the Younger (714 - 768) Charles IX (1550–1574) (no and his wife Bertrada of Laon monument) ...Continued on page 8 8 June 2012 The Four Marks Leonard Anaya

penance… I force myself in New York and London, The Knickerbocker Press, 1909), p. vain to meditate on the Mys- 2 Psalter of Our Lady teries of the Rosary. I don’t 11. MacNutt, p. 2 12. Madariaga, p. 22 succeed in fixing my mind 13. Carroll, p. 12 on them. For a long time I 14. Ibid., p. 11 Dryness of Soul 15. Ibid., p. 10 was desolate about this lack 16. White, p. 33 of devotion that astonished 17. Madariaga, pp. 24 & 25 Leonard Anaya is a Traditional Roman Catholic and resides in Colorado. 18. Madariaga, p. 23 He had the great grace of being born and baptized into the One, Holy, worthless. It useless for you me, for I love the Blessed 19. Madariaga, p. 24 Catholic, and Apostolic Church in 1975. He attended Saint Michael’s Acad- to say the Rosary. You better Virgin so much that it should 20. White, p. 33 emy in Spokane Washington, where he graduated. He is also blessed to 21. Ibid. have a brother, who is Pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Tacoma, get on with other be easy for me to recite in 22. Cronica de la Nueva Espana, things.” (Secret of the Ro- Her honor prayers that are so con la conquista de Mexico y By Leonard Anaya otras cosas notables hechas por sary, St Louis de Montfort, p. pleasing to Her. Now I am el valeroso Hernando Cortes, For The Four Marks member we are very weak. 91) This all sounds very fa- less desolate: I think that the Marques del Valle, Capitan de Procrastination happens to su Magestad en aquellas partes. the point of talking ourselves miliar doesn’t it? Queen of Heaven, since She Con mucha diligencia corregida is my MOTHER, must see y anadida por el mesmo autor out of the benefits from pray- Everyone goes through en Caragoca, Gomara, ch. i, fol. ing the Rosary. Before we this in one degree or another. my good will and She is sat- ij., as quoted in Madariaga, p. isfied with it.” (Saint Teresa 25 know it, the days and weeks St. Louis tells us not to look 23. The True History of the Con- pass without our taking ad- for candy or jam with our of Lisieux, Story of a Soul) quest of Mexico Written in the Year 1568 – by Captain Bernal vantage of this great grace. daily bread. Consolations are We must pray for perse- Diaz Del Castillo, One of the There are crosses that we not a prerequisite of the Holy verance in our interior life, Conquerors, translated from the Original Spanish by Maurice may think are our own pri- Rosary, but rather a gift. It no matter what deterrence we Keating, Esq., Introduction by vate troubles. When we en- may be easy to think that the may encounter. The Rosary Arthur D. Howden Smith (Robert M. McBride & Company, dure dryness of soul, bore- saints had it easier than we is the answer. Saint Alphon- New York, 1927 – First Edition, dom, fatigue, or deterrence do. When reading on their sus Marie Liguori tells us London, 1800), pp. vii & viii 24. Ibid., p. viii while praying, St. Louis lives we find that their quite simply that the only 25. Ibid. once heard a priest say Marie de Montfort assures us crosses were amazing. They reason there are souls in hell 26. White, p. 35 that the hardest part about cooperated with God’s grace. is because they did not pray. 27. Ibid, p. 37 I this is very normal. 28. Ibid., p. 45 praying the Rosary is start- “My grace is sufficient for If you pray you will merit the 29. Trials and Triumphs of the “Being human, we easily ing. I have noticed this, as thee.” (2 Corinthians 12:9) graces of eternal life. Catholic Church in America, become tired and slipshod- published with approbation of well. Why is it so hard to do A very popular modern No matter how bad things James Cardinal Gibbons, D. D. something so simple that is but the devil makes these (J. S. Hyland & Co., Chicago, difficulties worse when we day saint often went through get or how hard it is, do not 1901), p. 69 so efficacious? There could 30. MacNutt, p. 1 are saying the Rosary. Be- these very crosses in her de- give up this devotion. be many reasons that come 31. Ibid. fore we even begin he makes votion. St. Teresa of Lisieux, “Finally, my dear 32. MacNutt, p. 2 to mind. The devil… human also known as the Little 33. De Rebus Gestis Ferdinandi nature… the world…. all us feel bored, distracted or Brother, the Daily Rosary Cortesii (Incerto Auctore), in exhausted-and when we have Flower reveals her own trou- has so many enemies that I C.D.H.M., vol. I, p 510 ff., as seem plausible. These are bles while reciting the Rosary. quoted in Madariaga, p. 26 probably the biggest reasons started praying he oppresses look upon the grace of perse- 34. White, p. 37 35. Gomara, loc. cit., as quoted in we suffer from lack of moti- us from all sides. And when, “I am ashamed to admit vering in it until death as one after much difficulty and Madariaga, p. 26 vation. The devil is working it, but when alone, the recita- of the greatest favors Al- 36. Gomara, loc. cit., as quoted in many distractions, we have Madariaga, p. 27 overtime to prevent such tion of the Rosary is more mighty God can give finished, he whispers to us: 37. Madariaga, p. 29 devotions, but we must re- difficult for me than the us.” (Secret of the Rosary, St 38. White, pp. 37-38 “What you have just said is wearing of an instrument of Louis de Montfort, p. 107) 39. Cronica de la Nueva Espana que escribio el Dr. Francisco Cervantes de Salazar, cronista course. In spite of his experi- most merciful God, [L]ord of head off, and throw my body de la Imperial Ciudad de Mexico Fr. Brendan (The Hispanic Society of Amer- ence, Pinzon lost his bear- all things. One said that land to boil into that cauldron on ica, Madrid, 1914), bk. II, ch. 45 xv, vol. I, p. 96, as quoted in ...Continued from page 5 ings, and the ship drifted could not be far away, an- the fire.” And so the vessel Madariaga, p. 22 the deck. The sailors were aimlessly upon the open other one that it was the Holy plied along the tranquil 40. Madariaga, p. 30 ocean. “The sailors were as- Ghost which in the form of coast, coming to the harbor 41. De Rebus Gestis Ferdinandi fortunately clear of the catas- Cortesii, in C.D.H.M., vol. I, p. trophe, being occupied in tonished, the pilot was sad, that bird had deigned to of Santo Domingo on the 515, as quoted in Madariaga, p. the passengers wept and no come to comfort the sad and fourth day after having 31 consuming the preserves and 42. Madariaga, p. 31 jams which Cortes had one knew the way they had afflicted. Wherever the dove sighted land. Here their com- 43. Ibid. brought aboard for his own come nor the way they had flew, there the ship fol- panion vessels lay at anchor, 44. Ibid. 41 45. Ibid. appreciation. Fortunately for to go. The shipmaster threw lowed.” And so it was fit- cargo already unloaded and his companions, the generous the blame on the pilot, the ting that a dove would guide sold at premium. Ovando and good-natured Hernando pilot on the shipmaster; for, Hernando Cortes to the New was away, and so his secre- St. Denis had enticed them from dan- as it turned out, they were at World in the wake of Chris- tary, Medina, came aboard to ger. For even from his child- loggerheads. By then, food topher Columbus, for the greet Cortes in person, for he ...Continued from page 7 hood he had been congenial was getting scarce and there discoverer’s name, whether with the fated crew had been 1652), Duke of Valois, in all manner of games and was no water: for they drank the Italian Columbo or the given up as lost at sea. But Marie Anne d'Orléans, (1652– 1656), Mademoiselle de Char- without the traits of gam- none but that which they col- original Catalan Colom, fortunately, as Divine Provi- lected when it rained; and means “dove.”42 And the dis- dence would have it, the only tres bling. Indeed, he showed “as Henrietta Maria of France (1609 they all confessed [each coverer’s name in Baptism, loss was to Quintinero’s good a face to losses as to –1669), queen consort of 39 gains.” From what precious other, and forgave each Cristobal, was shared with purse. Charles I of Scotland and Eng- little we may know, his youth other, adds another chroni- the first of the fortunate land, and adolescence were the cler whom we may readily mariners to announce the Footnotes (for Parts 1 A-B) Philippe of France, Duke of 43 1. Cortes and the Downfall of the making of the man. And his believe]. Some cursed their sighting of land. They were Aztec Empire, Jon Manchip Orléans, (1640–1701), brother selfless generosity would fortune; others asked for saved! It was the feast of the White (Copyright 1971, First of Louis XIV, Carroll & Graf Edition, Carroll & Princess Henrietta of England serve him well in claiming mercy, awaiting death, Resurrection of the Divine Graf Publishers, Inc., New York, the loyalty of his soldiers in which some had swallowed Redeemer. 1989), p. 37 (1644–1670), first wife of Phil- 2. Quoted in Salvador de ippe, the future campaign against already, or expecting to land For his part, the pilot Pin- Madariaga, Hernan Cortes, Con- Elisabeth Charlotte of the Pa- on islands inhabited by Car- zon had regained his confi- queror of Mexico, pp. 19 & 20 the Aztecs. latinate (1652–1722), second The hapless Quintinero ibbeans, where they eat dence, asserting that they had (Chicago, 1955), as quoted in 40 Our Lady of Guadalupe and the ...Continued on page 9 had no option but to turn men.” come upon a congenial coast Conquest of Darkness, Warren back to Grand Canary, where Their fate was in the being none other than “the H. Carroll (Christendom Press, Front Royal, Virginia, 1983), p. FEED A SOUL he pleaded with his compan- hands of Divine Providence. Coast of Fig Trees and the 13 And they knew it. Nor would Promontory of Samana, on 3. White, p. 30 give ion captains to forestall their 4. Ibid., p. 35 course so as to set out in re- the good God leave them to the island then known as Es- 5. Ibid. The Four Marks despair, but answered their panola.”44 Still, the Quintin- 6. D. Quixote, part II, ch. xxiv, as united convoy. This they did quoted in Hernan Cortes – Con- only to allow Quintinero to prayers on the very day of ero clan remained anxious queror of Mexico, Salvador de the crucifixion of the Christ. about setting foot upon what Madariaga (The Macmillan Com- Traditional relapse un-contrite but a few pany, New York, 1941), p. 27 At sunset of Good Friday a might be an island of canni- 7. White, p. 35 Catholic Sermons days later as he ordered full dove gracefully encircled the bals. But the confidence of 8. Ibid., p. 29 sail in the darkness of night 9. Ibid., p. 20 Listen To Outstanding to once more speed away. mast before alighting Pinzon won out over the 10. Alaman, Disertaciones sobre la Catholic Sermons thereon. The mast—how like fears of the timid as he de- Historia de la Republica Mexi- For Free! And once more nature ren- cana, dissert. v., as quoted in to the cross of Christ! “They clared that they had come dered the justice of the Crea- Heroes of the Nations - Fer- TraditionalCatholicSermons.org nando Cortes and the Conquest wept for joy, raised their upon the focal-island of New tor as the wind in strong of Mexico, Francis Augustus Tell A Friend! force swept the vessel off hands to heaven, thanked the Spain. “If it be not so, cut my MacNutt, edited by H. W. C. Davis (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, The Forgotten Saint The Four Marks June 2012 9

...Continued from page 8 France (1737–1787), daughter wife of Philippe, of Louis XV, Marie Thérèse of Austria (1638 Louis Joseph, Dauphin of The Forgotten Saint –1683), consort of Louis XIV, France (1781–1789), first son Louis of France (1661–1711), of Louis XVI and Marie An- The Curé D’Ars le Grand Dauphin, toinette Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria Princess Sophie Hélène Bé- Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney (!660-1690), Dauphin of atrice of France (1786–1787), France, wife of Louis, second daughter of Louis XVI Collection of inspiring quotes from the saint Princess Anne Élisabeth of and Marie Antoinette By Robert Valente Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, France (1662), daughter of From the time he was in high-school Robert Valente had a desire to write. Louis XIV, Vicomte de Turenne (1611– The two subjects he found most appealing were Church History and English. 1675), Maréchal General de “I married a fine Catholic Girl, had two children, a daughter and son, which Princess Marie Anne of France eventually led into three grandchildren and four great grandchildren. My wife (1664), daughter of Louis XIV, France. and I left the Catholic Church with the introduction of the Novus Ordo, for 24 Marie Thérèse of France (1667– yrs. Through a friend at work, we found a Traditional Catholic Church, and found home again. To this day, I still have this great thirst for our faith, and 1672), daughter of Louis XIV, continue to do much spiritual reading. My wife was my strength; she passed Philippe Charles, Duke of An- Voice away, March 15, 2010.” jou (1668–1671), Duke of An- jou, son of Louis XIV ...Continued from page 1 It must have been very inspiring to hear him from the pulpit, I know that I would be munities, many of which had Louis François of France glued to each sermon. been flourishing from times (1672), Duke of Anjou, son of long past, there fell sad and Our Saint says we should say every morning, “My God, send me the Holy Spirit to Louis XIV, sorrowful times. Missionaries, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans teach me what I am and what Thou art.” —Robert Valente among whom were many (1674–1723), Regent of France, archbishops and bishops noted Louis of France (1682–1712), On the Sacred Heart: bends down to listen to His child when it for their apostolic zeal, and Our Duke of Burgundy, speaks to Him. own Internuncio were driven Let us open the door of the Sacred Heart, Marie Adélaïde of Savoy (1685 from China, while bishops, and shut ourselves in for a moment amidst –1712), Duchess of Burgundy, On Detachment: priests, and religious men and its divine flames; we shall then realize Louis of France (1704–1705), women, together with many of If you look for God you will find Him, and Duke of Brittany, what God's love means. the faithful, were cast into Louis of France (1707–1712), in the hour of your death He will say to you: prison or incurred every kind of Duke of Brittany, Catechism in the Act of Love: "See, I am here whom you have ever Charles of France (1686–1714), restraint and suffering. Love here consists in loving Him more than sought!" Duke of Berry, any created thing —loving Him better than Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orlé- 6. On that occasion We raised our own life. [I am sorry for all the Catechism on the Love of God: ans (1693–1714), Duchess of Our voice in sorrow, and, in Our Encyclical of January 18, souls that do not take advantage of this, and God is like a mother who carries her child in Berry, just let this go by, they may never know Na (not baptized) d'Alençon 1952, Cupimus imprimis,[3] her arms by the edge of a precipice. While (1711) rebuked the unjust attack. In what this is like. Read it again, and again, she is seeking all the time to keep him from Charles d'Alençon(1713) Duke that letter, for the sake of truth how wonderful and close to God this makes danger, He is doing his best to get into it. of Alençon, and conscious of Our duty, We your heart feel. —RV] Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Alen- declared that the Catholic Charity of John Vianney: Church is a stranger to no peo- çon (1714) Catechism on Sin: On the Feast of the Sacred Heart, our Lord Marie Leszczyńska (1703– ple on earth, much less hostile God wills that we should work today and places us on his Heart. Ah! If we could re- 1768), consort of Louis XV, to any. With a mother's anxiety, tomorrow; and after that, an eternity of Louise Élisabeth of France she embraces all peoples in main there always. (1727–1759), Duchess of impartial charity. She seeks no happiness, awaits us in heaven. Parma, earthly advantage but employs Catechism on the Real Presence: what powers she possesses to Catechism on Suffering: Henriette of France (1727– What sweetness there is in forgetting our- 1752), daughter of Louis XV attract the souls of all men to God calls His friends to bear His Cross af- selves in order to seek God! and twin of the above, seek what is eternal. We also ter Him. Louise of France (1728–1733), stated that missionaries promote daughter of Louis XV, the interest of no particular na- Words heard at Ars and quoted during the Louis of France (1729–1765), tion; they come from every Catechetical Illustration from Nature: Saint's lifetime in a Sermon at Saint- Dauphin of France, quarter of the earth and are When God sees us coming to Him in Suplice: Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of united by a single love, God, prayer, He leans His heart down very low Give God your love. He is so good-love Spain (1726–1746), first wife of and thus they seek and hope for to His little creature, like a father who Him all you can. above, nothing else save the spread of Maria Josepha of Saxony (1731 God's kingdom. Thus, it is clear that their work is neither with- Quoted from The Secret of The Curé D’Ars, by Henri Ghéon, edited by G.K. Chesterton, translated by Francis Joseph –1767), second wife of Louis, Sheed. Publisher Langmans, Green and Co., 1929. Philippe of France (1730– out purpose nor harmful, but 1733), Duke of Anjou, beneficent and necessary since Princess Marie Adélaïde of it aids Chinese priests in their to none (nor could they do so) same doctrine as understood by of which only a small part is France (1732–1800), daughter Christian apostolate. in their true loyalty and love of its authors, whether in theory known to men, but for all of of Louis XV, their native country. Seeing or in its consequences, cannot which you will someday re- Princess Victoire of France 7. And some two years later, also that there was being receive the approval of a ceive an eternal reward from (1733–1799), daughter of Louis October 7, 1954, another En- spread among you the doctrine Catholic, since it turns minds God. XV, cyclical Letter was addressed to of the so-called "three autono- away from the essential unity Princess Sophie of France you, beginning Ad Sinarum mies," We warned--by virtue of the Church. 9. Nevertheless We regard it as (1734–1782), daughter of Louis gentem,[4] in which We refuted of that universal teaching au- Our duty to declare openly, XV, accusations made against thority which We exercise by 8. In these days, however, We with a heart filled to its depths Princess Louise Marie of Catholics in China. We openly divine command--that this have to draw attention to the with sorrow and anxiety, that declared that Catholics yielded fact that the Church in your affairs in China are, by deceit lands in recent years has been and cunning endeavor, chang- brought to still worse straits. In ing so much for the worse that SEE NEW LISTINGS! the midst of so many great the false doctrine already con- sorrows it brings Us great demned by Us seems to be comfort to note that in the approaching its final stages and daily attacks which you have to be causing its most serious

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By David Goldstein, LL.D. First published in 1943 David Goldstein’s Letters: David Goldstein, a Catholic newspaper columnist and lecturer popu- larly known as “the lay apostle to the man in the street,” died June 30, Hebrew-Catholic to Mr. Isaacs 1957, at age 87. After his conversion, Goldstein became an outstanding champion of the Catholic Church. A pioneer street preacher, he was also a gifted writer who for 10 years promulgated the principles of his Faith in a column in The Pilot, newspaper of the Boston archdiocese. been wounded at some stage reference is made to things Born in London in 1870 of Jewish parents from the Netherlands, Mr. of its existence, for God that belong to nature, the Goldstein came to this country in 1871. He had joined the Socialist Party in 1895 and left it in 1903. He was baptized in the Catholic Faith in 1905, and could not have made it that characteristics or constitution devoted the rest of his life to a defense of Catholicism. The author of 10 The way. The answer was found such as man receives at birth books, he was a vigorous critic of socialism, bolshevism and birth control. In April, 1955, he was named a Knight of St. Gregory by Pope Pius XII. A daily Effects of in original sin, the wounded through his parents. By su- communicant, he attended Mass and received Communion on the day of his state of the human soul. pernatural, reference is made death. Original Sin In the 1930s Mr. Goldstein toured the country in a specially constructed I found that my obstacle to the state, the condition of mission car to “carry the Catholic message to the man in the street.” Accom- to an understanding of origi- man that transcends, that is panied by an assistant, Theodore H. Dorsey, he traveled for two years in the superior to those powers and car and addressed about 480 open-air meetings. nal sin was partly due to nar- In many of his addresses, Goldstein tried to clear up what he referred to rowing down the term to a exigencies that come to him as “misapprehensions” about the Church ... My dear Mr. Isaacs: personal transgression, for through his parents. It is a 11. For under an appearance of which the individual person gift, something of a divine tery of his passions, ex- In considering the ques- patriotism, which in reality is alone suffered. And as I did nature which God bestows emption from death, tion of original sin, I natu- upon man gratuitously. It is sanctifying grace, the just a fraud, this association rally look back to my own not eat the "forbidden fruit," aims primarily at making "why should I, and millions what St. Peter called being vision of God in the next experience, having taken to life. The Creator, whose Catholics gradually embrace the of others, be punished for a "partakers of the divine na- tenets of atheistic materialism, things Catholic in my man- ture" (2 St. Peter 1:4). gifts were not due to the hood after studying the sin committed in the infancy by which God Himself is de- human race, had the right nied and religious principles are teachings of the Church. of humanity?" "Why should By sin Adam lost the su- the saints, with rare excep- pernatural grace with which to bestow them on such rejected. Having arrived, step by step, conditions as he wished to belief in God, in revela- tions, have had to continually God had endowed him. 12. Under the guise of defend- tion, in Judaism fulfilled in “There is but one exception, says the Church, that is the soul of the Blessed ing peace the same association Christianity, in the Catholic receives and spreads false ru- Church being the Church of Virgin Mary, the mother of the Savior Jesus Christ. This Spotless Lily of Is- rael, the vessel from whom Jesus took His human body, was miraculously mors and accusations by which the living God, and her being many of the clergy, including protected from error in mat- conceived without the stain of original sin, through the merits of her divine venerable bishops and even the ters of faith and morals, Son. For that reason she is designated the Immaculate Conception.” Holy See itself, are claimed to some of her teachings, such admit to and promote schemes as the Trinity, the Immacu- for earthly domination or to battle against inward evil Though deprived of that gra- and to make their conser- give ready and willing consent late Conception, the As- vation depend upon the sumption of the Blessed Vir- forces?" This obstacle was tuitous gift, Adam lived on to exploitation of the people, as fidelity of the head of the if they, with preconceived opin- gin Mary, were accepted by overcome upon learning that as a natural, but not a super- when the Catholic Church natural man. I had to keep family. A prince can con- ions, are acting with hostile me on her infallible say so. fer a hereditary dignity on intent against the Chinese na- This seemed quite reason- speaks of original sin, she this important fact continu- refers not to a personal, an ally in mind in order to un- condition that the recipi- tion. able to me, for if God speaks ent remain loyal, and that, through His Church, as I be- actual sin, of which Adam derstand what the Church was guilty, but rather a state, means by original sin. Also, in case of rebellion, this 13. While they declare that it is lieve He does, then can she essential that every kind of free- a condition of the soul. When that Adam, who is the father dignity shall be taken no more be in error than from him and, in conse- dom exist in religious matters could God be in error, in the Church speaks of the fall of humanity according to the and that this makes mutual rela- of man, resulting from the sin flesh and blood, is also the quence from his descen- such a thing as original sin. dants" (Vol. II, p. 314). tions between the ecclesiastical of Adam, she refers to the head and representative of and civil powers easier, this humanity according to the Enough has been said, in association in reality aims at “Also, that Adam, who is the father of humanity spirit. Hence the loss was of this and my preceding letter, setting aside and neglecting the according to the flesh and blood, is also the head a spiritual nature, a loss in to show that there is warrant rights of the Church and effect- and representative of humanity according to the which the descendants share in Jewish writings for the ing its complete subjection to spirit. Hence the loss was of a spiritual nature, a as part of that Adamic hu- Catholic concept of original civil authorities. loss in which the descendants share as part of manity, as "from one man sin. Also to explain what it that Adamic humanity, as "from one man God God created the whole hu- is; and what some of its ef- 14. Hence all its members are forced to approve those unjust created the whole human race" (Acts 17:26).” man race" (Acts 17:26). fects have been upon human- ity. So you may expect soon prescriptions by which mission- No matter how profound aries are cast into exile, and by and extensive the explanation to learn how the sin of Adam which bishops, priests, religious of original sin may be, it re- became "the starting point of men, nuns, and the faithful in Christian belief," as Rabbi Yet I had to be convinced wound that affected the na- mains a mystery, as do a considerable numbers are thrust S.... said, how atonement that what the Church taught ture of the soul of man, due thousand and one things in into prison; to consent to those on the subject is not contrary to every person conceived of science, from that invisible was made for it. measures by which the jurisdic- tion of many legitimate pastors to right-reasoning. Believing woman having received his thing called the electron to Sincerely in the Messiah, nature from Adam, whose that visible immensity called is persistently obstructed; to that God made all things David Goldstein defend wicked principles totally "good," including man, I be- stain he inherits. There is but the universe. Yet, as Father one exception, says the L.A. Lambert said, in his opposed to the unity, universal- gan to ask some searching ity, and hierarchical constitution Church, that is the soul of the questions: "Why are we liv- admirable Tactics of Infidels, Voice of the Church; to admit those ing in a valley of tears, in- Blessed Virgin Mary, the “It is no more difficult to first steps by which the clergy stead of a terrestrial paradise mother of the Savior Jesus imagine how a prattling ...Continued from page 9 and faithful are undermined in such as was the abode of our Christ. This Spotless Lily of infant takes its guilt from these objectives in view: that the obedience due to legitimate first parents during their days Israel, the vessel from whom Adam than it is to under- they might foster patriotic senti- bishops; and to separate Catho- of obedience of God's will?" Jesus took His human body, stand how it takes its ex- ments; that they might advance lic communities from the Apos- was miraculously conceived istence and form from the cause of international peace; tolic See. "Why do women suffer the that they might accept that spe- pangs of childbirth, whereas without the stain of original him through numberless cies of socialism which has 15. In order to spread these animals bring forth their sin, through the merits of her intermediate individuals divine Son. For that reason been introduced among you wicked principles more effi- young unaided, without suf- and thousands of years. and, having accepted it, support ciently and to fix them in every- fering?" "Why does man, she is designated the Im- The child born an exile, is and spread it; that, finally, they maculate Conception. one's mind, this association-- and not animals, suffer the an exile.” might actively cooperate with which, as We have said, boasts affliction of concupiscence?" Having overcome that What I have said only civil authorities in defending of its patriotism--uses a variety "Why, like a furnace from obstacle, by making a dis- what they describe as political of means including violence echoes in my own language and religious freedom. And yet- which all sinful notions as so tinction between actual sin what the Catholic Encyclope- and oppression, numerous -despite these sweeping gener- lengthy publications, and group many sparks continually and a state of sin, I realized dia says with authority, and that a further distinction had alizations about defense of meetings and congresses. arise, is man kept struggling more tersely. peace and the fatherland, which against the rebellion of his to be borne in mind in order can certainly deceive the unsus- "Man did not lose his 16. In these meetings, the un- passions?" They are physical to properly understand origi- pecting--it is perfectly clear that natural faculties. By the willing are forced to take part afflictions which must arise nal sin. That is the difference this association is simply an sin of Adam he was de- by incitement, threats, and de- from the soul, which is the between man as a natural and attempt to execute certain well prived of Divine gifts to ceit. If any bold spirit strives to vital, the animating principle a supernatural personage. By defined and ruinous policies. defend truth, his voice is easily in man. The soul must have natural, as the word tells us, which his nature had no strict right, complete mas- smothered and overcome and he Clare Kolewski The Four Marks June 2012 11

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17. There should also be noted n the heart of Las Vegas, those courses of instruction by I Saint Joseph’s Catholic which pupils are forced to im- Church stands out not only bibe and embrace this false doc- for being a jewel of tradi- trine. Priests, religious men and tional liturgical beauty, of- women, ecclesiastical students, fering solely the Tridentine and faithful of all ages are forced to attend these courses. Latin Mass, but also for its An almost endless series of involvement in the commu- lectures and discussions, lasting nity. On second and fourth for weeks and months, so Wednesday of June, like weaken and benumb the every month before, parish- strength of mind and will that ioners and volunteers will by a kind of psychic coercion come together to distribute an assent is extracted which more than 10 thousand contains almost no human ele- pounds of food to the home- ment, an assent which is not less and needy. freely asked for as should be the case. The parish also hosts din- ners on Thanksgiving and 18. In addition to these there are Christmas, serving from 400- 500 dinners at each event. Photos courtesy of J. Saraceno the methods by which minds ABOVE: St Joseph’s Catholic Church in Las Vegas are upset--by every device, in Particularly during the BELOW upper : Showing patio-garden area. Lower: Interior. private and in public, by traps, present financial crisis, the When Fr. James Wilson first opened his chapel, there were no priests in the area offering deceits, grave fear, by so-called hard working families of the Mass according to the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church. Fr. James Wilson had retired forced confessions, by custody parish were harshly affected from the diocese of Wichita, Kansas. He assured the faithful who came to him that they in a place where citizens are and in order to assist these would receive the sacraments and the Roman Catholic Faith that they accepted before the forcibly "reeducated," and those members, the food pantry Second Vatican Council—a council which, contrary to all teachings and laws of the Catholic "Peoples' Courts" to which even was started. Since then, it has Church, changed our Catholic Faith. In March 1993, Father Courtney Edward Krier began assisting Fr. Wilson in the care of the faithful attending St. Joseph’s. Since Fr. Wilson’s venerable bishops are ignomini- expanded its apostolate, the ously dragged for trial. death in 1997, Fr. Krier has expanded the chapel, making it the inviting chapel seen below. corporal work of mercy to feed the hungry. This gives 19. Against methods of acting ture on the edge of the Enter- such as these, which violate the the community a chance to tainment Center of down- principal rights of the human view St. Joseph’s Catholic person and trample on the sa- Church—not as some cult town Las Vegas. Father cred liberty of the sons of God, lost in the labyrinth of antiq- Krier believes Divine Provi- all Christians from every part of uity as the Conciliar Church dence has placed Saint Jo- the world, indeed all men of would want to portray the seph’s at this location, where good sense cannot refrain from parish, but actively involved hedonism reigns, just like raising their voices with Us in in providing food for their Divine Providence placed the real horror and from uttering a bodies as well as their souls center of Christianity in protest deploring the deranged as Christ fed the hungry in Rome, where hedonism conscience of their fellow men. the wilderness. reigned during the time of St. This is especially unique Peter. You can find St. Jo- 20. And since these crimes are in so far as Las Vegas is seph’s Church on the internet being committed under the at stjosephlv.org. guise of patriotism, We con- called the “City of Sin.” Fa- sider it Our duty to remind eve- ther James Wilson first Source/more info: ryone once again of the opened the Mass center in stjosephlv.org Church's teaching on this sub- 1982 in a garage and since Fr. Courtney Krier ject. then, with Father Courtney St. Joseph’s Catholic Church 131 N 9th St. Edward Krier, the Church Las Vegas, NV 89101-4225 21. For the Church exhorts and has had a permanent struc- encourages Catholics to love their country with sincere and strong love, to give due obedi- ence in accord with natural and that are Caesar's and to God the they would be usurping God's positive divine law to those things that are God's."[5] We rights or forcing Christians ei- who hold public office, to give call it a declaration because ther to act at variance with their them active and ready assis- these words make certain and religious duties or to sever tance for the promotion of those incontestable the principle that themselves from the unity of the undertakings by which their Christianity never opposes or Church and its lawful hierarchy. native land can in peace and obstructs what is truly useful or order daily achieve greater advantageous to a country. 24. Under such circumstances, prosperity and further true de- every Christian should cast velopment. 23. However, if Christians are aside all doubt and calmly and bound in conscience to render firmly repeat the words with peoples--by the firm ties of the beloved sons--does not consist 22. The Church has always im- to Caesar (that is, to human which Peter and the other Apos- rights of the Supreme Lawgiver, of words alone and does not pressed on the minds of her authority) what belongs to Cae- tles answered the first persecu- and by the bonds of mutual fra- children that declaration of the sar, then Caesar likewise, or tors of the Church: "We must rely on changing formulas ternal love and cooperation. Divine Redeemer: "Render those who control the state, obey God rather than men."[6] which are suitable for the mo- therefore to Caesar the things cannot exact obedience when ment but contradict one's real 28. As she looks forward to and 25. With emphatic insistence, plans and practices, which do not conform with the meaning hopes for this peaceful dwelling those who promote the interests together of nations, the Church of this association which claims and way of true peace but with hatred, discord, and deceit. expects each nation to preserve God, forgive us a monopoly on patriotism, that degree of dignity which speak over and over again of becomes it. For the Church, 27. Peace worthy of the name for making abortion legal! peace and admonish Catholics which has ever kept a friendly must be founded on the princi- earnestly to exert all their ef- attitude toward the various ples of charity and justice which forts to establish it. On the sur- events in your country, long ago He taught who is the "Prince of face these words are excellent spoke through Our late Prede- Peace,"[7] and who adopted this and righteous, for who deserves cessor of happy memory and title as a kind of royal standard greater praise than the man who expressed the desire that "full for Himself. True peace is that prepares the way to introduce recognition be given to the le- which the Church desires to be and establish peace? gitimate aspirations and rights established: one that is stable, of the nation, which is more just, fair, and founded on right 26. But peace--as you well populous than any other, whose order; one which binds all to- know, Venerable Brethren and civilization and culture go back Please support this ad with your donations. gether--citizens, families, and

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provide better for their tiff with regard to truths to be St. Obama? families. When an em- Voice believed, and to observe what ...Continued from page 2 ployer withholds part of a they call ecclesiastical direc- to the earliest times, which has, tives, they proceed with such laws in fourteen states that had until then, successfully re- man’s wages, claiming he in past ages, with the develop- sisted having their laws blotted out. These were: Alabama, worked less hours, for ex- boldness that they refuse to ment of its resources, had peri- obey the precise and definite Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, ample, the employee may ods of great prosperity, and prescriptions of the Holy See. Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, not be able to make pay- which--it may be reasonably They protest that these refer to Texas, Utah, and Virginia. Through their ruling, the Court ment on bills, and may be conjectured--will become even political affairs because of a also institutionalized this sin at the federal level. We have charged late fees, which is greater in the future ages, pro- hidden meaning by the author, seen “gay rights” pushed in the US Military, and we can theft by the employer. He vided it pursues justice and as if these prescriptions took be sure that the US Supreme Court will ultimately overturn cannot support the busi- honor."[8] their origin from some secret all state laws that forbid “gay marriage” unless we stand nesses of other men in his conspiracy against their own by God’s laws. As a starter, we might defend the states’ community. There is less 29. On the other hand, as has nation. sovereign rights as written in the Constitution. prosperity overall. When been made known by radio and by the press, there are some-- the federal government 36. Here We must mention a In addition to their perversity, homosexual acts are con- even among the ranks of the symptom of this falling away trary to God’s plan that mankind multiply. Though there is takes taxes from wages clergy--who do not shrink from and later returns them as a from the Church. It is a very no reason to believe that these odd couples want to stay casting suspicion on the Apos- serious matter and fills Our together, let alone adopt children, their movement de- “refund” that is admitting tolic See and hint that it has evil heart--the heart of a Father and mands that no adoption agency be allowed to exclude that you didn’t owe those designs toward your country. universal Pastor of the faithful-- them. Is that a strategy to make their repugnant behavior taxes. Nevertheless, the with a grief that defies descrip- seem normal and acceptable? It seems evident from the IRS working with the fed- 30. Assuming false and unjust tion. For those who profess pro-homosexual media that “their” children are groomed eral government, has had premises, they are not afraid to themselves most interested in to be a second generation of the same. your money with the dol- take a position which would the welfare of their country lars of millions of other confine within a narrow scope have for some considerable Since the government permits divorce and remarriage, Americans to use for in- the supreme teaching authority time been striving to dissemi- it dishonors the marriage contract, (which like other con- vestments at your expense. of the Church, claiming that nate among the people the posi- tracts they should uphold) and thereby uphold the welfare Is that not defrauding the there are certain questions-- tion, devoid of all truth, that such as those which concern Catholics have the power of of children. Obama’s promotion of “gay” marriage is a laborer of his wages by more pointed attack against the family: upon which com- social and economic matters--in directly electing their bishops. your government? munities and nations are built. These acts are a sin against which Catholics may ignore the To excuse this kind of election the social good and duties of marriage: procreation and the teachings and the directives of they allege a need to look after this Apostolic See. the good souls with all possible education of children (including baptism and training in “These four things, how- speed and to entrust the admini- the Faith.) Homosexual acts spread the curse of AIDS and ever, by their social nature, 31. This opinion--it seems en- stration of dioceses to those other diseases to innocent victims, including children. ‘call out for vengeance’ even tirely unnecessary to demon- pastors who, because they do Prior to 1962, sodomy was a felony in every state, pun- in this life, because a society strate its existence--is utterly not oppose the communist de- ished by a lengthy term of imprisonment and/or hard la- that practices them will, just false and full of error because, sires and political methods, are bor. Then the laws were overturned and a spiritual war as a natural consequence of as We declared a few years ago acceptable by the civil power. was unleashed on altar boys… these actions becoming com- to a special meeting of Our The laws against deviant sex in Montana were struck mon, fall apart. They are the Venerable Brethren in the epis- 37. We have heard that many down in a lawsuit waged against the state –not for enforc- four signs of social deca- copacy: such elections have been held dence, because they pervert contrary to all right and law and ing the law, just for having it. The state couldn’t afford to that, in addition, certain ecclesi- appeal the decision! Montana was one of the last states to human relations so funda- 32. "The power of the Church is mentally.”1 in no sense limited to so-called astics have rashly dared to re- lose their anti-sodomy laws before the Supreme Court rul- 'strictly religious matters'; but ceive episcopal consecration, ing nine years ago. How does that happen? How are these Each of these Four Sins the whole matter of the natural despite the public and severe laws, incorporated at the establishment of each of the that cry out to heaven for law, its institution, interpreta- warning which this Apostolic many states in America, so easily crushed? If the federal vengeance have step by step tion and application, in so far as See gave those involved. government is the higher governing authority, and officials been institutionalized by the the moral aspect is concerned, didn’t think this was just, or for the common good, why federal government, and this are within its power. Since, therefore, such serious was it allowed? [Although there are very few souls in government has removed the offenses against the discipline Montana, still less than a million and fewer voters to con- right of states to reject the 33. "By God's appointment the and unity of the Church are vince, homosexual activists couldn’t get the laws changed incorporation of these sins observance of the natural law being committed, We must in through proper steps (through the state legislature or the within their boundaries. In concerns the way by which man conscience warn all that this is completely at variance with the initiative process.) Failing that, they (the “couple” and nu- must strive toward his super- the case of each of these four teachings and principles on merous liberal activist groups, including the ACLU) sued sins, the federal government natural end. The Church shows the way and is the guide and which rests the right order of Montana. After all, that way, they only had to convince has acted outside its author- guardian of men with respect to the society divinely instituted one liberal judge, not the voters or the state legislators.] In ity, unconstitutionally. What their supernatural end."[9] by Jesus Christ our Lord. other words, the law in Montana was changed through un- I am saying, is that the fed- lawful maneuvering. eral government has incorpo- 34. This truth had already been rated evil into its very fabric 3. Oppression of the poor wisely explained by Our Prede- Sponsor an ad for your and defies the laws of God. Oppression of the poor, slaves, widows and orphans, or cessor St. Pius X in his Encycli- chapel. Tell readers the These four sins pervert cal Letter Singulari quadam of time and place. Help your those burdened by impossible taxation, is a sin against our September 24, 1912, in which fellow man. When banks and car manufacturers are bailed fundamental social relation- chapel and support The ships—in families, commu- he made this statement: "All out at the expense of children not yet born, when the fed- actions of a Christian man so Four Marks eral debt is greater than US dollars in circulation: we know nities, in government, in the far as they are morally either apostolate! that the federal government, through the IRS and the Fed- work place-- and the victims good or bad--that is, so far as eral Reserve, is systematically oppressing the people – cry out to God to end their they agree with or are contrary Call, write, or including the weakest and most vulnerable. 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...Continued from page 12 words: "The power of jurisdic- they indisputably prove that can claim the right of nominat- common father, you may re- 38. For it has been clearly and tion which is conferred directly they follow this line deliberately ing bishops; that no one can main steadfast and without expressly laid down in the can- by divine right on the Supreme in order to escape from the dis- lawfully confer episcopal con- blemish in that faith by which ons that it pertains to the one Pontiff comes to bishops by that cipline which now prevails and secration unless he has received We are united and by which Apostolic See to judge whether same right, but only through the which they ought to be obeying. the mandate of the Apostolic alone We shall obtain salvation. a person is fit for the dignity successor of Peter, to whom not See.[18] and burden of the episcopacy, only the faithful but also all 44. We mean that discipline 54. But now, following the ar- [11] and that complete freedom bishops are bound to be con- which has been established not 48. Consequently, if consecra- dent dictates of Our heart, We in the nomination of bishops is stantly subject and to adhere only for China and the regions tion of this kind is being done must tell you of the close and the right of the Roman Pontiff. both by the reverence of obedi- recently enlightened by the light contrary to all right and law, particular feelings of intimacy [12] But if, as happens at times, ence and by the bond of of the Gospel, but for the whole and by this crime the unity of which draw Us near to you. To some persons or groups are unity."[14] Church, a discipline which the Church is being seriously Our mind come those torments permitted to participate in the takes its sanction from that uni- attacked, an excommunication which rend asunder your bodies selection of an episcopal candi- 41. Acts requiring the power of versal and supreme power of reserved specialissimo modo to or your minds, particularly date, this is lawful only if the Holy Orders which are per- caring for, ruling, and govern- the Apostolic See has been es- those which the most valiant Apostolic See has allowed it in formed by ecclesiastics of this ing which our Lord granted to tablished which is automatically witnesses of Christ are endur- express terms and in each par- kind, though they are valid as the successors in the office of incurred by the consecrator and ing, among whose number are ticular case for clearly defined long as the consecration con- St. Peter the Apostle. by anyone who has received several of Our Venerable Breth- persons or groups, the condi- ferred on them was valid, are consecration irresponsibly con- ren in the episcopate. Daily at tions and circumstances being yet gravely illicit, that is, crimi- 45. Well known are the terms of ferred.[19] the altar We offer to the Divine very plainly determined. nal and sacrilegious. Vatican Council's solemn defi- Redeemer the trials of all of nition: "Relying on the open 49. What then is to be the opin- them, together with the prayers 39. Granted this exception, it 42. To such conduct the warn- testimony of the Scriptures and ion concerning the excuse and sufferings of the whole follows that bishops who have ing words of the Divine abiding by the wise and clear added by members of the asso- Church. been neither named nor con- Teacher fittingly apply: "He decrees both of our predeces- ciation promoting false patriot- firmed by the Apostolic See, who enters not by the door into sors, the Roman Pontiffs, and ism, that they had to act as they 55. Be constant then and put but who, on the contrary, have the sheepfold, but climbs up the general Councils, We renew alleged because of the need to your trust in Him according to been elected and consecrated in another way, is a thief and a the definition of the Ecumenical tend to the souls in those dio- the words: "Cast all your anxi- defiance of its express orders, robber."[15] The sheep indeed Council of Florence, by virtue ceses which were then without ety upon Him, because He cares enjoy no powers of teaching or know the true shepherd's voice. of which all the faithful must a bishop? for you."[20] of jurisdiction since jurisdiction "But a stranger they will not believe that 'the Holy Apostolic passes to bishops only through follow, but will flee from him, See and the Roman Pontiff hold 50. It is obvious that no thought the Roman Pontiff as We ad- 56. He sees clearly your anguish because they do not know the primacy over the whole world, is being taken of the spiritual monished in the Encyclical and your torments. He particu- voice of strangers."[16] and the Roman Pontiff himself good of the faithful if the Letter Mystici Corporis in the larly finds acceptable the grief is the Successor of the blessed Church's laws are being vio- following words: ". . . As far as of soul and the tears which Peter and continues to be the lated, and further, there is no his own diocese is concerned 43. We are aware that those many of you, bishops and true Vicar of Christ and head of question of vacant sees, as they each (bishop) feeds the flock who thus belittle obedience in priests, religious and laymen, the whole Church, the father wish to argue in defense, but of entrusted to him as a true shep- order to justify themselves with pour forth in secret when they and teacher of all Christians, episcopal sees whose legitimate herd and rules it in the name of regard to those functions which behold the efforts of those who and to him is the blessed Peter rulers have been driven out or Christ. Yet in exercising this they have unrighteously as- are striving to subvert the Chris- our Lord Jesus Christ commit- now languish in prison or are office they are not altogether sumed, defend their position by tians among you. These tears, ted the full power of caring for, being obstructed in various independent but are subordinate recalling a usage which pre- these bodily pains and tortures, ruling and governing the Uni- ways from the free exercise of to the lawful authority of the vailed in ages past. Yet every- the blood of the martyrs of past versal Church....' their power of jurisdiction. It Roman Pontiff, although enjoy- one sees that all ecclesiastical and present--all will bring it must likewise be added that ing ordinary power of jurisdic- discipline is overthrown if it is about that, through the powerful those clerics have been cast into tion which they receive directly in any way lawful for one to 46. "We teach, . . . We declare intervention of Mary, the Virgin prison, exiled, or removed by from the same Supreme Pon- restore arrangements which are that the Roman Church by the Mother of God, Queen of Providence of God holds the other means, whom the lawful tiff."[13] no longer valid because the China, the Church in your na- supreme authority of the primacy of ordinary power over ecclesiastical superiors had des- tive land will at long last regain Church long ago decreed other- all others, and that this power of ignated in accordance with its strength and in a calmer age, 40. And when We later ad- wise. In no sense do they ex- jurisdiction of the Roman Pon- canon law and the special pow- happier days will shine upon it. dressed to you the letter Ad cuse their way of acting by ap- tiff, which is truly episcopal, is ers received from the Apostolic Sinarum gentem, We again pealing to another custom, and immediate. Toward it, the pas- See to act in their place in the referred to this teaching in these 57. Relying on this hope, to you tors and the faithful of whatever government of the dioceses. and to the flocks committed to rite and dignity, both individu- your care We most lovingly www.ThucBishops.com ally and collectively, are bound 51. It is surely a matter for grief grant in the Lord, as a token of In doubt about the “Thuc Bishops”? Years of research regarding the fact, by the duty of hierarchical sub- that while holy bishops noted divine gifts and a sign of Our validity, and lawfulness of the Thuc line have culminated in a powerful, ordination and true obedience, for their zeal for souls are en- special good will, Our Apos- systematic study refuting the SSPV’s position. “An Open Letter to Bp. not only in matters which per- during so many trials, advan- tolic Benediction. 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Excerpted from Fr. Martin Skierka, SSPV “History of Our Faith,” The Roman Catholic, Vol. XV, No. 4, 1993, p. 28 [St. Catherine of Siena and St. Bridget of Sweden supported Urban VI; St. Vincent Ferrer supported Clement VII]

Who is the pope and other questions “There is a lesson in this for traditional Catholic priests. Some priests are very intolerant of all who disagree with their opinion on the question of the status of John Paul II in the Church. Some of these priests say that you cannot doubt that John Paul II is the pope and still be a true Catho- lic. Others say that if you do not declare John Paul II to be a non-pope, you cannot be a true Catholic. Neither of these groups, of course, has any authority to bind the consciences of Catholic people. Neither has the power to demand that Catho- lics assent to their opinions and convictions. “If saints can disagree in their assessment of the question of who is and who is not the pope, it is not surprising that Catholic people disagree. Saints could disagree because there were objective doubts. There were strong arguments on both sides of the question. As St. Antonie of Florence said: ‘Although it is necessary to believe that there is but one supreme head of the Church, nevertheless, if it happens that two Popes are created at the same time, it is not necessary for the people to believe that this one or that one is the legitimate Pontiff; they must believe that he alone is true Pope who has been regularly elected and they are not bound to discern who that one is; as to that point, they may be guided by the conduct and opinion of their particular pastor.’ (Parsons, Studies in Church History, Vol. II, p. 530).”

Police visit convent 12 hours after associated non-profit files lawsuit against city

BREAKING— This story is breaking as we go to press . In- Reprinted with permission, The Patriot Post (www.patriotpost.us/subscribe/) formation is a bit sketchy. It is unknown whether this is a EDITOR: The Patriot’s cartoon above refers to an innovative, fictional cartoon character used Vatican II convent, but it is presumed so. The story is given in the Obama re-election campaign. It supposedly shows how Obama's policies would affect a as is in the press release, with minimal editing. typical American girl (the cartoon character Julia) throughout her life if he is re-elected. Ac- BLUE ISLAND, Illinois, warrant, the midnight search cording to a Washington Post article by Glenn Kessler, “Obama’s ‘Life of Julia:’ misleading June 1, — No more than 12 turned into a vehicle registra- on Social Security,” the cartoon is just that, misleading. His article shows this girl to be far hours had passed since Afford- tion raid as multiple tickets from reality and in the column Fact Checker, we see that this clip of “The Life of Julia” re- able Recovery Housing (ARH) were placed on cars in the con- ceives “Three Pinocchios.” filed suit yesterday in the vent's parking lot for assorted There are numerous parodies of The Life of Julia, which may be found on the internet along United States District Court violations. John Dunleavy with Obama’s original: www.barackobama.com/life-of-julia against the City of Blue Island watched the actions of the po- and Fire Chief Terry Vrshek, lice and photographed the tick- for the assertion of city code In response to last night's ery from drug and alcohol ad- when a group of police visited eting of cars. During these ac- violations and to put on the police visit, Mary Jo Dunleavy diction. In fact, Mayor Pelo- the convent/boarding house at tions, an officer yelled at him, agenda of the City Council expressed frustration over the quin praised it effusively in 12:50AM under the pretext of "Keep taking pictures of the ARH's appeal of an order to City's actions toward her fruit- 2011. looking for a person with an police, [and] you will get a vacate the convent, which had ful non-profit. "I feel bullied outstanding warrant and felony [expletive]." [Deleted been ignored up to this point. and threatened. Isn't the gov- Editor: It is not known how wanted to search the building. expletive in original.—Ed.] ARH was told to continue tak- ernment's response to our de- many buildings are involved on When police appeared at "Did the police think that ing steps toward obtaining per- fense of our rights in court, this property, or whether all the convent, the CEO of ARH, raiding our home would give the buildings are in one loca- tinent license(s) and permit(s). more typical of North Korea John Dunleavy asked them for them some sort of information tion. ARH's attorney, John than of America?" an arrest warrant, the police to use in the law suit? It seems Mauck, summarized the out- ARH is sharing occupancy could only show an old one fishy to me that after nine come of the court hearing to- with five nuns at the Sisters of from another state. The police months of us doing good for day. "The judge is allowing for Sorrow Convent on Western wanted to search the building the community here, the last ˜™ due process before any danger Avenue and houses 73 men and when Mr. Dunleavy asked two weeks have been one gov- is done to the residents by put- committed to living a changed for a search warrant, the police ernment contrived emergency Submit obituaries to: ting them on the street." life without alcohol. This non- could not produce one and action after the other." Said The Four Marks Only one week ago, Fire profit recovery program has stated that they could ""o what Mary Jo Dunleavy, the Execu- Box 58 Chief Terry Vrshek gave a been recognized by the Cook they want or take one of [them] tive Director of ARH. Ballantine, MT "cease and desist" order to the County Board of Commissions to jail." When the Executive "It seems like the city does- 59006 non-profit which aims to assist for an outstanding program of Director asked for badge num- n't want us here. 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shires. There is a beautiful piece but in Heaven and willing to help. of this apostolate, and those of GayeLynn Gallegos, 60, died of of property that, were we able to --Jean Koneazny Pollock the editor, supporters subscribers cancer on Feb. 9. She was a acquire it, would be perfect for just · Conversion prayers for single and contributors. devoted Catholic and member of · Fr. Courtney Krier, suggested such an endeavor. We would like mother of 2. Mount St. Michael’s parish. stipend $20,end with request · For vocations and seminarians to invoke Father Vincent McNabb · Friend suffering from scruples to and their needs. and other serious troubles. Pauline McDonald parishioner at 131 N 9th St. · Conversions, especially for the · Thanks for prayers for the speedy Mount St. Michael’s, used to work Las Vegas, NV 89101-4225 conversion of the Jews. ˜™ sale of house, and income needs. on the grotto. Died mid February · For greater unity among Catho- 2012. Update—Received offer on St. · Your priest listed here. lics … and for the triumph of Holy Adopt a Joseph’s Feast Day, sale final. Mother Church and the Immacu- Charles E. McChesney, 80, died · Your priest listed here. · Financial needs of single mother. late Heart of Mary. October 21, 2011, Hopewell, Vir- · Fr. Martin Stépanich, OFM — ginia. Married 50 years to Joanne. SEMINARIAN Received Last Rites. 16 June 2012 The Four Marks Bullets Praying for unborn of the run-down building to botched abortion victim. Many against the administration of awaiting ambulances on Janu- of the deficiencies were repeat Plucarto Elias Calles, who ...Continued from page 3 babies — nearly ary 21, 2012, and reported the violations. sought to restrict —if not elimi- Kansas); Najah Bazzy, RN, 100,000 Rosaries incident to authorities. A 911 Source: Operation Rescue and Pro- nate— Catholicism from the CEO of Diversity Specialists prayed call obtained by the activists Life Nation country. and Transcultural Health Care revealed that the abortion clinic Out on June 1, the movie Solutions; and Rabbi Noah Fab- MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 22 had overdosed the women on a The Cristero War: has a striking list of stars, in- ricant, assistant rabbi at Wash- --A multinational pro-life dangerous drug. When the Ala- cluding, Andy Garcia, Eva ington Hebrew Congregation in prayer event in May had close bama Department of Public For Greater Glory Longoria, and Peter O'Toole. Washington, DC. The 2012 to 100,000 Rosaries prayed for Health (ADPH) investigated, This new movie documents Liberal media coverage is slim, Health Privacy Summit can be an end to the killing of unborn they discovered 76 pages of Mexico's Cristero War (1926- and negative. watched live online at tiny.cc/ human persons. [Conciliar] deficiencies, including a third 29) — a grassroots rebellion elivew. The prayer event, known as the ONE MILLION ROSARIES Black leaders FOR UNBORN BABIES and coordinated by the Saint Mi- appalled: chael the Archangel Organiza- NAACP endorses tion of Memphis, Tennessee gay agenda (USA), had registrations come in from persons living in more WASHINGTON, May 22— than 70 nations. Those nations "Neither my great-grandfather are: Indonesia, Vietnam, Can- an NAACP founder, my grand- ada, Solomon Islands, Thai- father Dr. Martin Luther King, land, Costa Rica, Slovakia, Sr. an NAACP leader, my fa- South Africa, Poland, Mexico, ther Rev. A. D. Williams King, Malaysia, Venezuela, Chile, nor my uncle Dr. Martin Luther USA, Nigeria, Wales, Argen- King, Jr. embraced the homo- tina, Kuwait, Australia, China, sexual agenda that the current Kenya, Brunei, Malta, India, NAACP is attempting to label Italy, Philippines, France, Ma- as a civil rights agenda," said laysia, Romania, Portugal, Dr. Alveda C. King, founder of New Zealand, England, Neth- King for America and Pastoral erlands, Belgium, Holland, Associate for Priests for Life. Norway, Moldova, Ukraine, "In the 21st Century, the Nepal, Ireland, Scotland, Bah- anti-traditional marriage com- rain, Denmark, Venezuela, munity is in league with the anti United Arab Emirates, Oman, -life community, and together Trinidad, Pakistan, Switzer- with the NAACP and other land, Germany, Barbados, sympathizers, they are seeking Croatia, Sweden, Qatar, Slove- a world where homosexual mar- nia, Latvia, Peru, Dominican riage and abortion will suppos- Republic, Mauritius, Spain, edly set the captives free," King Uganda, Austria, Finland, Sin- added. gapore, Columbia, Cayman "Many Black people are Islands, Namibia, Lesotho, realizing just how far off the Saudi Arabia, Ecuador, Zim- mark the NAACP is with regard babwe, South Korea, Hondu- to the real issues and the most ras, Macedonia, and Guyana. important problems facing the Source: Saint Michael the Archan- black community," said Dr. gel Organization; P. O. Box 41257; Memphis, Tennessee 38174—The Day Gardner, founder of the non-profit inc. was established in National Black Prolife Union. 2007 and leads only to a post office "The NAACP organization was box and no phone number. Whil e it is undoubtedly aligned with the founded by blacks who had an Vatican Church, its intentions are understanding and strong faith admirable. in God. They were people — pastors and congregations who knew that the Bible — which is 23 Lawsuits God's final word — was indeed filed against very clear on the immorality HHS mandate and wages of homosexuality STATEN ISLAND, NY, and abortion. It is appalling that May 21—Twelve new lawsuits this one time super hero, 'civil were filed around the country rights' organization supports the today in protest of the Health breakdown of traditional mar- and Human Services mandate riage and the ruthless killing of forcing employers to provide our unborn children — as a coverage for activities they civil right," Gardner said. "In its find objectionable, e.g., abor- decision to please the world, the tion. The lawsuits represent 43 NAACP has turned its back on plaintiffs, including the Con- the things of God, therefore, we ciliar archdioceses of New must encourage those who York, Washington, DC and St. know the truth to speak out — Louis, the Michigan Catholic to stand firmly on the solid rock Conference, and several dio- — to not look to the right or to ceses. the left. Dr. Martin Luther King Source: Priests for Life Jr. once said: Our lives begin to end, the day we become silent Birmingham about things that matter," said Gardner. abortion clinic "The homosexual commu- surrenders nity is demanding that their license, closes lifestyle be legitimized and viewed by society as a lifestyle down that is right. We are subjected BIRMINGHAM, May to the distasteful alignment of 19— Pro-life groups around homosexuality with the 'Civil the country are celebrating Rights Movement and with the today after the New Woman argument that gay rights should All Women (NWAW) abortion be guaranteed under the Consti- clinic in Birmingham, Ala- tution. These two issues are bama, surrendered its license to incompatible." Rev. Clenard the State Health Department Childress, Friday and ceased operations. www.blackgenocide.org. The State ordered the closure Sources: King for Life after pro-life activists filmed Priests for Life two women being carried out