Idol of Our Lady of Guadalupe on America’s southern border
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
Ephesians 5:11
Is it logically possible to hold to Rome’s theology while at the same time rejecting her politics and economics? Many American Roman Catholics, some of whom may be more Protestant in their thinking than they realize, would answer yes.
Writing in his 1999 book Ecclesiastical Megalomania, John Robbins gave the opposite answer. In the Introduction of his book, Robbins noted that Rome’s pronouncements on politics and economics were not, “disjointed statements, but the logical conclusions of premises accepted in Roman theology.” Put another way, if someone accepts Rome’s theology, he logically must also accept Rome’s politics and economics.
Rome’s theology, politics, and economics are part of a “package deal” as Robbins put it, and one does not have the option of following Rome in its theology while at the same time rejecting its political and economic philosophy. “This,” Robbins commented, “flies in the face not only of the claims of the Church-State itself but of reason as well.
I bring up this point as today, December 12, marks the date on which the Church-State celebrates the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. According to one article in the America Magazine, a Jesuit publication, Our Lady of Guadalupe (OLG) “remains a cherished part of Mexican national identity.” Another piece in America magazine gives several other titles OLG is known by: Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, La Virgen de Guadalupe, Empress of the Americas, and Our Lady of Tepeyac.
Here’s one interesting item of OLG trivia from one of the America Magazine articles. Juan Diego, the fellow to whom the demon in the form of Mary is said to have first revealed herself, may never have existed. Despite his possible non-existence, he was canonized anyway in 2002, “as part of a strategy to retain indigenous Catholics in Mexico and across Latin America who have been defecting in droves to Protestantism, especially Pentecostalism.”
In one way, this really isn’t surprising. Rome makes up stuff all the time and has done so for centuries. Still, to come right out and say that “there is no hard evidence St. Juan Diego ever existed” while at the same time canonizing him is a bit shocking. Apparently, the Church-State really is running scared that it’s losing its centuries-long grip on “indigenous Catholics in Mexico and across Latin America.”
Cardinal Michael Czerney, SJ blesses a replica of Angels Unawares on Loyola University in Chicago on 9/19/2021. The original is in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican and was commissioned by Pope Francis. The main purpose of the sculpture appears to be that of guilting Western nations into destroying themselves with welfare migrants, in order to advance the Roman Catholic Church-States goal of world government.
The Roman Catholic Church-State (RCCS) has always hated the United States of America and has relentlessly sought to subvert and destroy it.
Americans in the 19th century understood this well as evidenced by the many books published by American authors during that century warning people of the dangers Rome posed to the American republic.
If you go a Google Books, you can find a remarkable number of books, nearly all of them forgotten, written by American authors in the 19th century on the threat that growing Roman Catholic political power posed to the liberties of the American people. Here are a few examples:
And just as these books and their authors have largely been forgotten by 21st century Americans, so too has the threat of “political Romanism” been forgotten by them.
Today, one rarely hears any complaint by American Protestants about the baleful influence of Roman Catholic economic and political thought on our republic. In his masterful book Ecclesiastical Megalomania, John Robbins wrote about the hesitance of non-Catholic scholars to research and criticize the RCCS.
Perhaps it is the fear of being labeled “anti-Catholic” that has dissuaded non-Catholic scholars from writing about the Church-State – a fear that undermines all scholarship. Scholars, apparently more solicitous of their academic reputations than of learning itself, have shied away from studies such as this. Perhaps there are other, more legitimate, reasons, such as the excessive secrecy of the papacy. But whatever the reason, the Roman institution has not received the attention and scrutiny it deserves from American scholars (10-11).
Rather than opposing the false philosophy and theology of the RCCS, 20th and 21st century Protestants went out of their way to find common ground with the Antichrist papacy and his Babylonian Harlot church. Today, one is more likely to hear putatively Protestant ministers praise the pope as a brother in Christ than to hear them denounce him as Antichrist. Rome hasn’t changed. It’s still a false church, teaching a false gospel of a false Christ who saves no one. But Protestants have changed. And not for the better.
It’s almost as if we have become ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Justification by Belief Alone, which our forefathers preached boldly but which we seem to fear articulating, or not to even understand.
When Protestants should be rebuking, correcting and refuting the errors of Antichrist – and by Antichrist, I mean the office of the papacy; all popes are Antichrist in that they occupy the office of Antichrist; recent examples of papal Antichrists include Pius XII, of whom we will have more to say shortly, John Paul II, Benedict the XVI and the current papal Antichrist, Francis I – instead they are taking their theological cues from him, offering their congregations little more than warmed-over Romanism with a sprinkling of Evangelical fairy dust to fool the people in the pews into thinking their ideas are somehow Biblical.
But lest we get too far afield in this short post. Let me get to the main point for today, which is to talk about Rome’s bogus World Day of Migrants and Refugees (WDMF).
Jesuits Push Mass Migration While America’s Southern Border Burns Down
Can anything good come from Chicago? Although I’m sure there are Christians in Chicago, that city has a remarkable penchant for being ground zero for some of the most anti-American ideas and movements one can find.
Chicago, (Sept. 20, 2021) – In observance of National Migration Week, Sept. 20 – 26, 2021, Archdiocese of Chicago parishes and its Immigration Ministry will host events celebrating Chicagoland’s diverse Catholic community. This year’s National Migration Week theme is “Towards an Ever Wider ‘We’.”
“The Holy Father’s theme of widening the ‘we’ comes at a time when so many migrants and refugees are seeking humanitarian aid, protections and resettlements from violence, war, repeated natural disasters and climate change-induced droughts and famine during a surging global pandemic,” said Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago. “As he emphasizes in his encyclical letter Fratelli Tutti, we should think no longer in terms of ‘them’ and ‘those,’ but only as ‘us’. Our Church’s universality calls us to cultivate and celebrate community and diversity and to be companions for those seeking safe havens.”
This is a jaw-dropping headline. At a time when America is in the throes of perhaps the worst migrant crisis in our history, a crisis deliberately caused by our illegitimate, Roman Catholic president Joe Biden, the Archdiocese of Chicago wants to celebrate the very thing the RCCS is using to burn down America as if the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 were something the Archdiocese sees as a model for the whole country.
Worth noting is that the Angels Unawares statue blessed by the Jesuit Cardinal is a replica of a statue commissioned by Antichrist Pope Francis in 2019. As the story notes, “It’s the first sculpture added to the Vatican’s famed St. Peter’s Square in 400 years.”
Now let’s ask a question, is there a connection between the migrant crisis on America’s southern border, the WDMF, and the in-your-face celebration of the WDMF by the Archdiocese of Chicago. The answer is, I am persuaded, yes.
Earlier in this post, I mentioned Pope Pius XII. This Antichrist, subject of the book Hitler’s Pope – not many people today are aware of this, but the Nazi Party was a principally a Roman Catholic movement; Hitler himself served as an acolyte in the Roman Catholic Church and attended Dominican high school, where he was first introduced to the Swastika – was the author of the 1952 Apostolic Constitution Exsul Familia (the Emigree Family), which has served ever since as Rome’s template for promoting mass, welfare migration for the purpose of subverting nation-states, strengthening the RCCS, and ushering in Rome’s dream of world government.
That Exsul Familia is a tissue of nonsense doesn’t seem to matter. It gives the appearance of piety, and that’s enough to persuade many people, both inside and outside the RCCS of the document’s righteousness. In short, the argument of Exsul Familia is that since Joseph was warned in a dream to take Jesus and Mary and flee to Egypt to get away from the murderous King Herod, it’s okay for migrants from Haiti to barge into America and demand taxpayers pick up the tab for their room, board and anything else they may happen to want.
There are several obvious objections to this line of reasoning. First, when Joseph took his family to Egypt, he was fleeing to another province of the Roman Empire, not to a foreign country. Second, the Scriptures remain silent as to how the family was supported. There was no welfare state, so either they supported themselves or perhaps were taken in by the Jewish community living in Egypt. Third, the scale of the migration is entirely different. Where in the New Testament we see a family of three fleeing to Egypt, today we’re talking about thousands, hundreds of thousands or more. A more appropriate example of mass migration in the Bible is the Exodus. And in the history of the Exodus, we see that Moses was extremely careful not to impose upon the land and resources of established nations.
In Numbers 20 we read,
Now Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom…We will not pass through fields or vineyards, nor will we drink water from wells; we will go along the King’s Highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory.
Unlike the RCCS and its cardinals, bishops, priests, and nuns, Moses respected the property of others and did not see it as or as Israel’s right to barge into another nation’s territory and take their stuff. That would be stealing. And stealing is prohibited in the Ten Commandments.
But Rome constantly and unctuously lectures Americans and the citizens of other Western nations that they have an altruistic moral duty to destroy their countries on behalf of migrants when no such duty exists.
Contrary to the false economics of Rome, need is not only not the sole moral criterion of ownership, but it is not a criterion at all. The American people owe nothing, nada, zip, zilch to Haitians. Now, if Christians wish out to help Haitians by giving their own time and money in the name of Jesus Christ – Christian charity is always done in the name of Jesus Christ, see Matthew 10:42 – that’s one thing. But Rome has contempt, as do socialists of all stripes, for private charity. Rome believes in government welfare, where the civil government, contrary to the Bible and to the Constitution, steals money from the American people and lavishes it on foreign migrants, many if not most of whom are in this country contrary to American law.
Rome’s WDMR is a bogus attempt to guilt the wealthy nations of the West into surrendering their sovereignty due to an imagined duty to give their wealth to foreigners when no such duty exists. This canard is a lie of Antichrist in an attempt to cover his lust for world power and dominion with a veneer of pseudo-Christion ethics.
Joe Biden, Servant of Antichrist
It is no accident that America’s greatest migrant crisis is happening on Joe Biden’s watch. Joe Biden, America’s second Roman Catholic president appears to be enthusiastically carrying out the destruction of the United States by means of mass migration and doing so at the behest of Antichrist Pope Francis.
But as bad as Joe Biden is, he still isn’t going far enough for the taste of the of Rome’s many American migration madmen.
In a letter signed by 164 Catholic organizations – 164! – many in the RCCS expressed their outrage that Biden was not moving fast enough to destroy America as they think he should. They think it’s a “travesty” that Biden is summarily deporting people from nations who have a high incidence of disease using Title 42 to do so. Apparently, these treasonous organizations of the RCCS have no problem exposing Americans to communicable diseases so long as they can oversee the importation of more Romanists and other non-Christian, illegal migrants into America. It’s almost as if they’re paraphrasing King Jehu of Israel and saying, “Joe Biden serves Antichrist a little, but we shall serve him much!”
Perhaps Joe Biden’s concession to immigration sanity is the political nature of his position. Things have gotten so bad that on the immigration issue that even people who normally don’t pay much attention to politics are starting to wake up to the fact that the southern border is getting out of hand. On the other hand, the immigration nutjobs in the 164 treasonous Roman Catholic organizations have no public to answer to and care not a whit what the public thinks of them.
Joe Biden, the people associated with these 164 organizations, and anyone who supports their efforts, is, in the opinion of this author, committing treason against the United States of America and is become a domestic enemy of our nation of the sort the Constitution speaks of.
19th century American Protestants would in no way be surprised by this turn of events. This is the very thing they warned about, and it is coming to pass in our generation.
Way back in 1884, Dr. Samuel D. Burchard called the Democrats “the party whose antecedents have been rum, Romanism, and rebellion.” He was excoriated for saying so, which goes to show that large parts of supposedly Protestant America had already fallen under the sway of the Roman Harlot in his day. And what was true in 1884 is even more true today.
The alarm bells are going off. Our nation is burning down due to the predations of Antichrist and his Mother of Harlots Church. Are there enough Christian men left to put out the fire?
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Ohio senatorial candidate J.D. Vance shared tweeted out this screen shot from a recent NBC News broadcast. It would seem that if you question the liberty destroying Covid protocols demanded by the Democrats or think the 2020 presidential election was stolen, the Department of Homeland Security thinks you just may be a terror threat.
I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
Psalm 18:3
“America is under sustained attack,” wrote Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar in a recent tweet.
In what way? you may ask.
The Rep. Gosar went on to site a few examples. “America is under sustained attack on its sovereignty with open borders, against its culture by race hustlers, against our public fisc [fisc meaning state treasury], and against our political/medical dissidents with a capricious legal system.”
The Congressman is right on all counts.
Worth noting is that Rep. Gosar’s tweet was in response to a tweet by Ronna McDaniel, Chairwoman of the Republican National Committee who had tweeted out “The Republican Party stands with the people of Cuba fighting for freedom!”
Rep. Gosar finished his tweet writing, “For the love of everything holy Cuba can wait. Help America First.
Again, Paul Gosar is right on target.
The Democrats have openly become the party of treason and tyranny, while the Republicans uselessly tweet out about the goings on in other countries while ignoring the fire in our own house.
To borrow a turn of phrase from Isaiah, our cites are burned with fire (Antifa and BLM riots) while strangers devour our land before our face (Biden’s treasonous open borders polity, what some migrants call “la invitación”), yet all the Republican leadership can do is tweet out about demonstrations in Cuba. Apart from a few individuals – Sen. Rand Paul, Rep. Thomas Massie, the afore mentioned Rep. Paul Gosar and some others – very few Republicans have taken any kind of public stand against the deliberate destruction of the United States of America by the treasonous, lying, illegitimate Biden regime, the Democratic Party, and Deep State technocrats such as the Jesuit Anthony Fauci.
America is under sustained attack to a degree and in a way that I personally have never witnessed. And I’d be less than honest with you were I to say that I’ve been unfazed by it. I’ve found myself alternately furious, despairing, and even scared.
In mid-August 2021, Americans are faced, not only with some of the items already mentioned, but by vaccine mandates, vaccine passports, renewed mask requirements and possible lockdowns, not to mention a War On Domestic Terror which is threatening to criminalize political opinions at odds with the ruling elite’s preferred narrative.
Masker and Vaxxer in Chief, Jesuit trained Dr. Anthony Fauci.
I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
Isaiah 44:6
“I just can’t believe it’s come to this.” I find myself saying that a lot lately.
In some ways, that’s an odd statement for me to make. After all, I’m a Christian and know the Scriptures. I know who the prince of this world is, and I know how the Lord has wrought destruction on disobedient people throughout the history recorded for us in the Bible. Even a cursory reading of secular history shows that liberty is a precious thing most fleeting.
When I think of my writing over the past several years, the theme of decline and fall, especially the decline and fall of the formerly Christian West, seems always at the forefront of my mind.
And yet for all that, I still find myself shocked when I read the headlines and see the evil of the Covid tyranny unfolding all around me.
When word first began to spread concerning the novel coronavirus last January, I was suspicious but didn’t know fully what to think. Could this be a serious, naturally occurring pandemic, or is there something more at work.
In March of 2020, my employer went 100% work from home, and arrangement that still obtains to this day. At that same time, the lockdowns began, and this helped bring things into focus for me. You don’t lockdown healthy people. That’s one of the first rules of dealing with epidemics. In Leviticus 13, we read God’s prescription for dealing with outbreaks of disease. If someone thought he had a skin disease, he was to show himself to the priest. Depending on the condition, the priest was to follow a particular course of examination. At the end, the priest either would proclaim the person clean or unclean. If the diagnosis was unclean, that person was to go outside the camp.
But note well, it was only sick people who were quarantined, and that only after the due process of examination by the priest. There was no provision in the law of Moses to lockdown all Israel in the hope of preventing the spread of leprosy or any other disease. The law of Moses was individualistic and was concerned with identifying conditions pertaining to individuals. The law of tyrants is collective. Collectivists don’t see individuals; they see the masses.
Another point worth making is that it was through a process of self-examination that anyone would go to a priest as a possible leper. There was no state-enforced leprosy screening program in Israel. One went to a priest for examination on one’s own. This eliminates the idea of forced testing that has been loudly advocated by many Covid tyrants.
“It needs to be hard for people to remain unvaccinated.”
Dr. Leana Wen, CNN Medical Contributor
When I first begin writing about Covid, now nearly a year and a half ago, I was very concerned about what I was seeing. The never-ending drumbeat about Covid in the press, even in January and February 2020, immediately made me suspicious that it represented some sort of PSYOP (psychological operation). By whom or to what end, I was not sure, but it had the look and feel of a propaganda effort.
Today, I’m more convinced that ever that Coivd is a remarkably sophisticated hoax and is being used by the powers that shouldn’t be to advance their agenda of tyrannical global government.
One bit of evidence for this is how the rhetoric of Covid tyranny not only is not subsiding but seems to be getting louder, even as threat of Covid long ago peaked.
One example of this is a comment made by the appalling Dr. Leana Wen, a CNN medical contributor. Just last week, she said in an interview, “It needs to be hard for people to remain unvaccinated” Dr. Wen went on to say, “But at some point, these mandates, by workplaces, by schools, I think it will be important to say, ‘Hey, you can opt out, but if you want to opt out, you have to sign these forms, you have to get twice weekly testing.”
Back when Covid first became an issue in early 2020, there were any number of people saying that it was going to be used as a means to usher in tyranny – vaccine passports, lockdowns, mandatory vaccines, and all that – but they were just a bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists, who didn’t know what they were talking about.
Today, they don’t look so crazy.
In fact, all those warning from a year or more ago look rather prescient today.
One example of early warnings about the globalists’ intent to use the so-called Covid pandemic to advance their plans to impose tyranny comes from James Corbett, an outstanding independent journalist who’s reported on the nefarious plans of the deep staters and globalists for years. His video “Medical Martial Law 2020” discusses the origin or the lockdowns and vaccine mandates we’re still fighting here in July 2021.
Luther at the Diet of Worms, by Anton von Werner, 1877.
There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a might man is not delivered by much strength.
Psalm 33:16
Watching the news. It’s hard to do these days.
I admit to following day to day events, politics, economics, and the like. It’s too much a part of me not to do so.
But it really isn’t a very enjoyable experience.
There’s simply no good news. Or at least many days it doesn’t seem like it.
As a reformed believer, I know well that God has decreed all things, whatsoever comes to pass. He doesn’t merely know in advance what’s going to take place, or passively allow it to happen. He actively brings about the events that occur, both in our own lives and on the scale of nations and of the world.
As much as I don’t like it, God decreed from all eternity that Joseph Robinette Biden would be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States on January 20, 2021. And his purposes in doing so are his own glory and the good of his people.
But even though a Biden presidency is for our ultimate good as Christians, this does not mean that it is going to be a pleasant experience.
Scripture does not teach a foolish optimism where we’re expected to treat disasters as if they were manna from heaven. It’s okay to call a disaster a disaster an mourn over it. As the Author of Hebrews tells us, “Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful.”
Jeremiah wept at the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. Jesus wept at the tomb of Lazarus. If it was not wrong for them to grieve, it is not wrong for us to grieve the enormous disaster that has befallen our nation.
And yet, there comes a time when grieving must end, and work must begin. We, all of us, have suffered difficulty and disappointment in our lives. There is a time for grieving, and a time to cease grieving.
Joe Biden is in a position to do a lot of damage to this nation. As Christians, we have a responsibility to speak out against his evil policies, to refute them from the Word of God and, if possible, to prevent them from being enacted. We have a responsibility to preach the Gospel of Christ, that perhaps some who don’t know him may hear and be saved. We have a responsibility to protect and provide for our families, both our natural family and our brothers and sisters in Christ.
How do we do this? Do we look to ourselves, to our inner strength? As the hymn goes, the arm of flesh will fail you, you dare not trust your own.
No. It is to Christ we must look if we are going to find the knowledge, wisdom, and strength to not just to survive, but to triumph in these dark times.
This brings me to the lesson from Luther which I’d like to discuss.
“We will not stand for any attacks against Judge Barrett’s faith,” said Donald Trump at the recent Al Smith Dinner. He told his hearers that “Judge Barrett is a “proud graduate of the University of Notre Dame [Our Lady] Law School,” and described attacks on her faith as “anti-Catholic bigotry.” The President went to state that our nation is strong, because of Catholics and people of all faiths.
Coming from the President, none of this is surprising or even particularly disappointing. Donald Trump is not himself a Christian, so it’s to be expected that he would not understand that the Roman Catholic Church-State, far from being a source of American strength, has worked for over 200 years to undermine our Protestant republic. Given the sorry state of America in 2020, it appears that Rome’s efforts have largely succeeded.
In truth, it was the Biblical, Protestant faith of the American colonists that would go on to shape the political institutions of the United States, which from its inception was a constitutional capitalist republic. “Constitutional capitalism,” as John Robbins correctly noted in Ecclesiastical Megalomania, “is a social consequence of the theology of the Reformers.” Contra President Trump, it was not “people of all faiths” that made America strong. To the degree “people of all faiths” follow the teachings of their religious traditions and reject what the Bible teaches about politics and economics – the politics of the Bible is limited, constitutional government; the economics of Scripture is free market capitalism – to that degree they are a source of weakness, not strength.
The Roman Catholic Church-State, as the largest religious organization in the United States, is the source of a great deal of anti-Christian political thought and action in this country. To say this is not, as the President states, “anti-Catholic” bigotry, but a necessary conclusion drawn from the study of Scripture.
In 1884, Presbyterian minister and Civil War veteran Dr. Samuel D. Burchard famously called the Democrats the party of “rum, Romanism and rebellion.” He was right then, and he is right today. Indeed, the Democratic party has been one of the primary mechanisms Rome has used to advance its anti-Christian Social Teaching in the United States.
Given Rome’s deep philosophical opposition to our republican institutions, it would be foolish for any American Protestant to put aside his concerns about putting Roman Catholics in positions of political authority. This is not to say that a Roman Catholic magistrate cannot faithfully execute the American law, but Rome’s hostility to republican government and claims of ultimate political, religious and moral authority means that a Roman Catholic official will, of necessity, find himself constantly having to choose between two masters, the Constitution and the pope.
In last week’s post, we looked at this problem in some detail. This week let us look further at Amy Coney Barrett’s religious affiliation, this time with an ecumenical charismatic group called People of Praise.
One could hardly find a better word than Janus-faced, meaning duplicitous or two-faced, to describe the men who comprise the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). For these guys truly are masters of appearing to look in all directions at once, of seeming to be all things to all men, while at the same time never deviating from their evil plans.
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