The Campaign of Accountability continues.
The signs above were shown at St. Teresa, St. Patrick's and Corpus Christi parishes on the weekend.
The text of the brochure used at my protests is shown below.
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PASTORS AND
BISHOPS WITH BLOOD ON
THEIR HANDS
Dear Fellow Catholic,
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. (Ezekiel 33:8)
Introduction
Many ask me why I take the measures I do to
communicate my message and my concerns. The answer is simple: to save lives and
to save souls. Please do not allow mindless religion to overtake you. Instead,
exercise the full range and authority of your Catholic faith. Whoever has ears
to hear, let him hear.
The Silence
of the Bishops
Along with many other Catholics, I am greatly
distressed by the ongoing, virtual silence of too many Bishops on the subject
of legalized child-killing in Canada and I plead with the Bishops to take every
necessary step to confront the demon of abortion in Canada which has claimed
over three million unborn victims. In addition I am very troubled by the near
total neglect by Bishops—and their priests—to teach and reinforce the Moral Law
of God, as defined by the Catholic Church in her official teachings, to those
under their spiritual care. These two striking failures have taken a dramatic
toll on Canadian society, paving the way for a multitude of present day evils.
Desecration
of the Eucharist Precludes Respect for Life
In evaluating the factors contributing to the
tragedy of legalized child-killing in our nation, special notice must be taken of
the desecration of the Eucharist by obstinate, dissenting Catholics living in
grave sin and 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.” 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 sympathize,
knowingly or unknowingly, with the doctrines of 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 Catholics 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 in Canada. The truly faithful Catholics have
been scandalized and demoralized for decades by this officially sanctioned
sacrilege.
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 of the Catholic Church, 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 dissent—if not outright heresy—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.
The most egregious example of such rebellion surfaced in the Church’s last
encyclical on contraception, "Humanae Vitae" in July 1968, wherein
the Church reinforced its prohibition of contraception as a moral absolute.
However, the Canadian bishops in their “Winnipeg Statement” of September 1968 said
it was not. In effect their statement was the same as saying that there are
circumstances in which fornication and adultery and sodomy are legitimate.
Through sophistry, the Winnipeg Statement planted the seeds of destruction of
the Canadian Catholic Church.
Shouldn’t the Bishops be warning all obstinate
unrepentant Catholics 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 they corrupt the faith and prove themselves not
shepherds but wolves, risking the eternal salvation of millions of 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 confused about the true means of obtaining God’s grace.
Pope
Emeritus Benedict Pointed to the Problem
Which habits have the Bishops determined to change
in light of Pope Benedict’s warning in October 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 the
courts, 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.
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 through
strong spiritual formation which generates an authentic Catholic conscience.
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 an emphasis on mobilizing the
Christians of Canada to vote effectively on behalf of securing legal rights for
the Unborn originate with a campaign outside the oversight of the Bishops? 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 of
voting age 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 the Bishops for their
failure in this most practical of all ways to end the holocaust of the Unborn.
Their inaction for decades makes them culpable in the deaths of millions of
unborn children.
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 triad of legal contraception, abortion and
homosexuality upon Canada, along with the liberalization of divorce laws.
Up until our current PM’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 the 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 PM was denied communion.
Canada’s Bishops failed to deal with the grave
scandal caused by Paul Martin, Canada’s most recent pro-abortion, pro-sodomy
Catholic PM, 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 PM 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 Emeritus Benedict.
How can such a caricature of apostolic leadership be described as anything
other than the “blind leading the blind?”
Bishops
Urgently Need to Implement Guidelines Provided by Rome
Two sets of guidelines authored by Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger, later 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 and reviving respect
for the moral law of God.
In a 2004 letter to the American bishops entitled
appropriately Worthiness to Receive Holy Communion [Web address: http://www.catholicculture.org/library/view.cfm?recnum=6041&longdesc]
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.
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 the Bishops.
Bishops
Need to Call for a National Fast and Penance
Much is made these days in Catholic circles of
initiatives such as the “New Evangelization” and “Social Justice.” However,
truly worthwhile Catholic endeavours such as these can never see the blessing
of God until the fundamental errors and injustices addressed in this letter are
resolved. Celebrations like the recent 2008 international celebration in Quebec
City by the Bishops with the theme “The Eucharist, gift of God for the life of the
world” ought to instead be a call for a national fast whose primary purpose is
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
life for the ongoing desecration of the Eucharist.
Rather than using the Old Testament imagery of an
Ark making its journey across the nation the Congress ought to have enjoined
Catholics throughout Canada to instead put on sack cloth and ashes, seeking
repentance and forgiveness for the disobedience of the Bishops and the
profanation of the Holy Eucharist.
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. 22 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. 23 Take away from me
the noise of your songs; I will not listen to the melody of your harps. 24 But
let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing
stream. (Amos 5: 21-24)
Conclusion & Statement of Goodwill
To the best of my knowledge and belief, nothing
said in this letter contradicts the Catechism of the Catholic Church or the
official teachings of the Catholic Church. My approach has been criticized and
some have accused me of saying uncharitable things about religious leaders,
i.e. Bishops, Priests and Pastors. If what I say is true then it cannot be uncharitable
since charity demands the truth. For those who claim I have made false
accusations against the clergy, I simply ask: Please provide the proof of that
charge and supply evidence that refutes my claims.
Eric Alcock
Paradise, NL
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