Check the news today…every day. The West crumbles and we appear to be powerless to stop
it. Moral chaos, including rampant homosexual rights and pornography, looming
economic collapse, creeping Islam, losses in religious freedom and freedom of
speech, erosion of constitutional rights, waning international influence and
credibility: THESE ARE ALL CONNECTED.
I don’t believe in fate and I don’t believe
God wills for us this kind of demise. However, in God’s economy, actions
produce consequences and wrong actions produce—at the least—painful
consequences. We are straying tragically from the path of God and we are experiencing
tragic consequences, i.e. the breakdown of our society. Only God knows whether
we’ve passed the point of no return.
God has direct representatives here on
earth, those in the lineage of the Apostles, whose duty is to instruct and
exhort in the ways of God. These representatives, the Catholic Bishops, have remarkable
influence—far more than we can imagine—in the world, particularly in our Western
society which traces its institutions and worldview predominantly to
Christianity.
Warning is a function of exhortation and
beyond a shadow of a doubt, we need the clearest and strongest possible
warnings. They will not come except from God’s prophets and in our day, those prophets
are none
other than the Bishops. I will continue to make this case because unless
the people of God rise up and demand holy and fearless leadership from their
shepherds, all will likely be lost for our civilization and like Greece and
Rome we will be replaced with a more worthy successor. Chances are—and if
history is any judge—such a replacement will be revealed in the midst of great
upheaval, war and destruction.
Will Christians secure the attention of God
and His governors, the Bishops? Will their cries reach Heaven and the cathedrae
of the Bishops? First must come repentance.
"Who is going to save our Church? Not our
bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have
the minds, the eyes, the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that
your priests act like priests, your bishops like bishops and your religious act
like religious."
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The
following was a press release issued in 2007 which provides in vivid detail one
snapshot of the alarming failure of Catholic Bishops in Canada to preach and
teach God’s Word and the true Catholic faith which is the only formula for
godly character formation. Such failure consigns our nation to a continuing degradation
and injustice which threatens the hard earned, God-given prosperity of our
great nation.
Vote Life, Canada! Decries Honours
Heaped by Montreal’s Cardinal Turcotte on Chief Justice Antonio Lamer, One of Chief
Architects of Canada’s Culture of Death
Toronto, ON December 11/Christian
Newswire—The recent funeral of Canada’s former Chief Justice Antonio Lamer was
presided over in Montreal’s Cathedral by Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte who described
Lamer as "a giant of the law," claiming that his passion for justice
would make the whole world more peaceful and serene and intimating
that his form of justice pleased God.
“What scandalous remarks were these
and other absurd comments made by the Cardinal,” protests Eric Alcock, President of Vote Life, Canada! “This
event illustrates well the case made in our “Open Letter” that the
Catholic Bishops of Canada are sustaining and fostering a pseudo-catholicism
which has overtaken Canada and fatally blinded the vast majority of Catholics
to the true tenets of Catholicism.”
The truth says Alcock, is that “Lamer
practically denied the concept of
Common Good, as set forth by Church teaching, and
pursued his own perverse notion of individual liberty and autonomy as a
democratic right, thereby denying God’s true justice.”
“Incredibly, by his own testimony
at times, he sought to divorce legal considerations from morality, the
Judeo-Christian tradition, and the absolute law of God, urging Canadians to
accept the secular nature of Canadian society demanded by the Charter of Rights.
This is the secularization
link to which Catholic Bishops like Marc Ouellet appear blind, a link which
starts in every Bishop’s own diocese through a failure to adopt a
faithful (to official teachings), comprehensive and determined approach to
Catholic catechesis and exacerbated by a serious neglect of Catholic discipline
mandated by the tradition of the Church. Both failures make it impossible to
prevent—and rout—the radical anti-life and anti-family politics or ‘democracy’
espoused by renegade Catholics like Lamer.”
“A solid orthodox Catholic faith would
have uniquely positioned Lamer to guide Canada safely through the choppy
complex waters of Charter
interpretations for the greater Common Good of Canada,” observed Alcock. “But
his pseudo-catholic faith, imbibed and lived out approvingly under the tutelage
of Canada’s pseudo-catholic Bishops, led rather to the dismemberment of millions
of unborn children and also the intense assault on family and marriage.”
Alcock maintains that Lamer’s spurious
Catholicism and the nation-wide scandal it spawned ought to have provoked the
firm rebuke and correction
of some Canadian Bishop aiming to preserve the Common Good, protect the
innocent and defenseless and save faithful Catholics and other Christians from
devastating confusion. According to Catholic teaching, scandal is defined as “an attitude
or behavior which leads another to do evil.”
“The fact that not one Canadian Bishop
is on record addressing this long term national scandal testifies to the pervasive
and spiritually corrupting effect of pseudo-catholicism. The lukewarmness,
heresy or in some cases outright rebellion
against official Church teachings by Canada’s Bishops has clearly left them
susceptible to gross deception and manipulation by the devil.
“What a grievous time in our nation’s
history when the most urgent and charitable work in Canada is to summon
Catholic Bishops, the God given shepherds of our nation, to flee the wrath of
God and return to the true faith.”
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