Open Letter to the
Catholic Bishops of Canada
1) Introduction
April 25, 2013
If [...] you do not
speak out to dissuade the wicked man from his way, he [the wicked man] shall
die for his guilt, but I will hold you responsible for his death. [Ez 33:8]
To the Bishops, the Successors of the Apostles, in Canada,
2) The Silence of the
Bishops
With great distress faithful Catholics in Canada note the
ongoing virtual silence of too many Bishops on the subject of legalized child-killing
in Canada and expect the Bishops to take all necessary steps to confront the
demon of abortion in Canada which has claimed over three million unborn
victims.
3) Desecration of the
Eucharist Precludes Respect for Life
In evaluating the factors contributing to the tragedy of
legalized child-killing in our nation, how can any faithful Catholic fail to
take special notice of the desecration of the Eucharist by obstinate,
dissenting "Catholics" living in grave sin? This widespread and
large-scale practice counts as the single greatest contributing factor to
Canada's moral descent and disrespect for human life. Without acknowledging the
neglect and/or indifference of too many Bishops in this tragic situation, it
would be impossible indeed to account for such a phenomenon, because, in fact,
the oversight of the Eucharist is entrusted entirely to the Successors of the
Apostles. How is it possible to foster respect for human life when disrespect
for God Himself, through the Body and Blood of Christ, is not only tolerated
but modeled at every Mass?
This sacrilege of handing over Jesus to His enemies, through
Holy Communion, is no less a crime today than when it was first perpetrated by
Pilate 2000 years ago. The Scriptures warn, "For he that eats and drinks
unworthily, eats and drinks damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's
body." Furthermore, the Christian "cannot drink the cup of the Lord
and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the
table of demons. [1Co 10:21]." Communion with Christ and communion with
devils cannot be had at once. Christians, who by association, sympathies, and
actions participate in devilish strategies that destroy life, family and the
Common Good, cannot participate in Holy Communion. Unless the Holy Scriptures
can lie, the implications of this truth are clear and astounding: No such
wholesale sacrilegious communion could take place unless so many Bishops had
been communing with demons!
Shockingly then, just as "pro-choice" Pontius
Pilate, who was "personally opposed," nevertheless delivered Jesus
over to His enemies, so too many Bishops of Canada have dispensed the Body and
Blood of Jesus to any and all persons in the communion line, even though
independent sources cite that as many as 90% of "Catholics" reject
the authority and certain crucial teachings of His Church. The truly faithful
Catholics have been scandalized and demoralized for decades by this officially
sanctioned sacrilege.
4) A Pseudo-Catholic
Culture Flourishes in Canada
The result of this abomination is a flourishing pseudo-Catholic
culture - one based not upon the mystery of the Eucharist but upon the
"magic" of the Eucharist. Thanks to the negligence, or perhaps simply
the spiritual darkness, of too many Canadian Bishops, regardless of the moral
conduct or spiritual disposition of vast numbers of renegade
"Catholics", attendance at Mass and mere reception of Holy Communion
is assumed to magically confer absolution for even the gravest sins and satisfy
all of God's significant imperatives for the Catholic. This grave misrepresentation
of the Catholic faith not only dishonors faithful Catholics but scandalizes the
entire Christian community in Canada, many of whom are forced to conclude that
Catholicism is but another cultish enemy of the true Christian faith.
The Bishops are well aware that, according to the Catechism,
those "Catholics" who deny Church teaching on the intrinsic evils of
contraception, abortion and sodomitic relations as well as the mortal sins of
masturbation, co-habitation, fornication, pornography, adultery and divorce
disqualify themselves from partaking in the Holy Eucharist. Without first
giving evidence in Confession of genuine repentance and receiving absolution,
they may not receive the Body and Blood of Christ. Despite such explicit
teaching, not only inordinate numbers of average Catholics condemn themselves
through sacrilegious Communion but significant numbers of openly dissenting
priests, religious, theologians, and professors do so as well. These leaders
are permitted to further corrupt the faithful by disparaging the Church's
doctrine on priestly celibacy, women's ordination, same sex
"marriage," and other non-negotiables of the faith, all without
public rebuke by the Bishops. The heresy dissent from Rome's teaching by too
many Bishops themselves in regard to Catholic sexual ethics, particularly
contraception, with its consequent immoral living by millions of Catholics is
bringing Canada to the brink of demographic and cultural collapse.
But shouldn't the Bishops be warning such obstinate unrepentant
persons that neither baptism nor the Eucharist will save them? Again, according
to the Catholic Catechism, to die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting
God's merciful love is to be separated forever from Him in Hell. The Bishops
know these things but their neglect or unbelief betrays them since they refuse
to teach and to warn Catholics. Therefore many of them corrupt the faith and
prove themselves not shepherds but wolves, risking the eternal salvation of
more than 13 million Canadian Catholics. The result of their distorted,
devilish thinking is a collapse in the integrity of the Canadian Catholic
community as a whole and an entire generation of Catholics is ignorant of the
true means of obtaining God's grace.
5) Pope Benedict
Pointed to the Problem in 2006
Which habits have the Bishops determined to change in light
of Pope Benedict's warning
in September of 2006? In no uncertain terms, the Pope tackled the failure of
Bishops to address the moral problems of Canada, specifically pointing to
homosexual "marriage" and abortion and to the extreme split between
the Gospel and culture, strongly evidenced by the exclusion of God in the
political realm. If the Bishops continue the unscriptural and heretical
practice of granting Holy Communion to those who obstinately persist in
manifest grave sin, and refuse to take due diligence in defending the Holy
Eucharist from sacrilege by the ordinary Catholic, Canadian society will
continue to go amuck "in the most disturbing of ways," in the Pope's
words, through neglect of the truth and of discipline.
The Pope's comments politely and subtly point to a pervasive
counterfeit culture which is supported by these sacrilegious communions and the
immoral lifestyles of Catholics living in grave sin. Multitudes of such corrupted
"Catholics" said to be "in good standing with their Church"
impact every strata of Canadian society, including politics, and further
degrade it with their anti-God and anti-life attitudes. Politicians,
particularly pro-abortion, pro-sodomy "Catholic" Prime Ministers,
draw special attention and indeed are capable of shocking degrees of scandal
but it is the average uncatechized Catholic voter, in step with the spiritual
blindness and befuddlement of too many Bishops, who empowers these
"pro-choice" legislators and killers of the Unborn.
6) Bishops Have
Failed to Mobilize the Catholic Voting Bloc
There is perhaps no greater example of the dereliction of
duty of too many Bishops to halt the killing of Unborns in Canada than the
failure to mobilize the Catholic voting bloc in Canada. Legal protection for
unborn children necessitates a political, legislative solution, a fact evident
to even the least politically savvy of Canadians. Roman Catholic Bishops in
Canada exercise moral authority over a formidable voting bloc of nearly 10
million Catholics and yet after nearly forty years of "legalized"
child killing in Canada there is no indication whatever that Catholics have
been guided by the Bishops to effect this political change in Canada through even
the simplest of voting strategies, one solidly founded on basic moral
principles yet not centred in partisan politics.
Why must such a campaign—mobilizing the Christians of Canada
to vote effectively on behalf of securing legal rights for the Unborn—fall to
some marginalized pro-life entity? Surely, if the Bishops had a will to stop
the child killing in Canada, a focused and comprehensive Canada wide, diocesan
wide, strategy to engage every Catholic to cast a vote for legal protection of
the Unborn would have yielded long ago a complete halt to the killing. In the
rare case where Bishops have been found to do anything in this regard it has
amounted to a poorly organized, last minute, ineffective scramble. God have
mercy on those Bishops for their failure in this most practical of all ways to
end the holocaust of the Unborn. Their inaction for decades makes them
substantially culpable in the deaths of millions of unborn children.
7) Political
Consequences of the Counterfeit Catholic Culture
Out of Canada's counterfeit Catholic culture has emerged
political devils such as "Catholic" Prime Ministers Trudeau,
Chretien, and Paul Martin. Catholic Bishops were clearly in a compromised,
weakened state when, in 1969, they permitted "Catholic" Prime
Minister Pierre Trudeau and "Catholic" Justice Minister John Turner
to foist the "legalization" of the triad of contraception, abortion
and sodomy upon Canada, along with the liberalization of divorce laws.
Up until PM Harper’s election, except for a five month break
in 38 years, "Catholic" Prime Ministers have managed the affairs of
Canada. Every one of them without exception has flouted Catholic teaching on
sexuality through their pro-contraception, pro-abortion, pro-sodomy agendas.
And every one of them considered themselves good Catholics and regularly
presented themselves for Holy Communion. During that 38 year reign of social
devastation and spiritual ruin too many Catholic Bishops failed to take steps
to deal with this epic scandal. Despite the fierce defiance of Catholic
teaching exhibited by the Prime Ministers there is no record of even one single
occasion when a Catholic Prime Minister was denied Communion.
Canada's Bishops failed to deal with the grave scandal
caused by Paul Martin, one of Canada's recent pro-abortion, pro-sodomy
"Catholic" Prime Ministers, defeated in the 2006 election, who
spearheaded same sex "marriage" in Canada and vehemently proclaimed
his government's commitment to "a woman's right to choose" without
restrictions. His Bishop, the Bishop of Canada's capital city, Ottawa,
dismissed any possibility of discipline for Martin, claiming that the Prime
Minister was a "faithful member of my cathedral parish." (This same
Bishop attends the Ottawa March for Life and at the 2004 March delivered a
homily condemning the killing of human embryos for their stem cells.)
Profound failures such as this by too many Bishops of Canada
blur the line between that which is evil and that which is good and sustain the
"extreme split between the Gospel and culture, strongly evidenced by the
exclusion of God in the political realm" lamented by Pope Benedict. How
can such a caricature of apostolic leadership be described as anything other
than the "blind leading the blind?"
8) Bishops Urgently
Need to Implement Guidelines Provided by Rome
Two sets of guidelines authored by Benedict XVI, if
diligently and universally honoured by the Bishops of Canada, would decidedly
impact the moral climate of Canada and immediately set Canada on a path to
rescuing the Unborn. In a 2004 letter to the American bishops entitled
appropriately Worthiness to Receive Holy Communion, then-Cardinal Ratzinger
said that those "Catholics" who continue to obstinately reject Church
teachings must be denied Communion. He cited canon 915 and other Church
documents to support this position. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith, in 2003, published The Participation of Catholics in Political Life
which was directed to Catholic Bishops, Catholic politicians and all lay
members of the faithful called to participate in the political life of
democratic societies. Principles contained in this guide urgently need
application in Canada but are constantly ignored by too many Bishops.
9) Bishops Need to
Call for a National Fast and Penance
An international celebration carried out by Canadian Bishops
in 2008 in Quebec City with the theme "The Eucharist, gift of God for the
life of the world" should instead have been a call for a national fast
whose primary purpose was repentance and conversion. God desires first of all
obedience from His Bishops, certainly not festivals, celebration and song at
such a time of crisis as we face. Ironically, God's gift of life is also the
Unborn... who will pay with their lives for the ongoing desecration of the
Eucharist.
Rather than using, as the Bishops did, the Old Testament
imagery of an Ark making its journey across the nation, the Eucharistic
Congress ought to have enjoined Catholics throughout Canada to instead put on
sack cloth and ashes, seeking repentance and forgiveness for the disobedience
of too many Bishops and the profanation of the Holy Eucharist.
10) Conclusion
Every day the Bishops delay, the souls of Catholics
entrapped in the darkness of a false religious culture remain in great danger
of eternal damnation and every day the Bishops delay, a further 300 unborn
Canadians perish. Their silent scream continues to daily torment those whose
Christian conscience remains unfettered by the deceptions of demons.
I hate, I despise your
festivals -- and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you
offer me your burnt offerings, and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and
the offerings of well-being of your fatted animals I will not look upon. Take
away from me the noise of your songs; I will not listen to the melody of your
harps. But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an
ever-flowing stream. [Am 5:21-24]
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