Posted in Radio Lux Lucet, tagged Ecclesiastical Megalomania, Globalism, Immigration, John Robbins, Pope Francis, Roman Catholic Economics, Roman Catholic Politics, Roman Catholic Social Teaching, Roman Church-State, Rome and Immigration on February 21, 2021| Leave a Comment »
“Pope Calls on faithful to help migrants achieve ‘new life’“
“Bannon: Catholic Church needs ‘illegal aliens to fill the churches,'” Washington Post, 9/7/2017
“Bannon: Catholic Church One of the ‘Worst Instigators of Open Borders Policy,” Newsmax, 6/17/2018
“Romanizing America Through Illegal Immigration,” by Pastor Ralph Ovadal, 2006
Posted in Radio Lux Lucet, Uncategorized, tagged 2020 Presidential Campaign, Ecclesiastical Megalomania, Joe Biden, John Robbins, Roman Catholic Economics, Roman Catholic Politics, Roman Catholic Social Teaching on October 31, 2020| Leave a Comment »
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“I will venture to make some specific predictions…The alliance between neo-evangelicals and Romanists in the Culture Wars will…result in the election of our second Romanist president.”
In April 1927, The Atlantic ran a story titled “An Open Letter to the Honorable Alfred E. Smith.” It’s a remarkable letter, the sort of thing one would never see today from any publication of national note. Indeed, it’s hard to imagine a supposedly Christian publication running such a piece in 2020.
The letter is remarkable in that it openly questions whether Al Smith, a leading contender for, and eventual winner of, the 1928 Democratic presidential nomination would be able to support and defend the Constitution of the United States in light of his Roman Catholic faith.
The open letter, written by attorney Charles C. Marshall, raised a number of important points, asking how Smith could reconcile the political and economic pronouncements of the Roman Church-State (RCS) with America’s Constitution.
Time does not permit me to go through all of Marshall’s arguments, but the following two paragraphs are representative.
It is indeed true that a loyal and conscientious Roman Catholic could and would discharge his oath of office with absolute fidelity to his moral standards. As to that in general, and as to you in particular, your fellow citizens entertain no doubt. But those moral standards differ essentially from the moral standards of all men not Roman Catholics. They are derived from the basic political doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church, asserted against repeated challenges for fifteen hundred years, that God has divided all power over men between the secular State and that Church. Thus Pope Leo XIII, in 1885, in his encyclical letter on The Christian Constitution of States, says: ‘The Almighty has appointed the charge of the human race, between two powers, the ecclesiastical and the civil, the one being set over divine, and the other over human things.’
The deduction is inevitable that, as all power over human affairs not given to the State by God, is given by God to the Roman Catholic Church, no other churches or religious or ethical societies have in theory any direct power from God and are without direct divine sanction, and therefore without natural right to function on the same basis as the Roman Catholic Church in the religious and moral affairs of the State. The result is that that Church, if true to her basic political doctrine, is hopelessly committed to that intolerance that has disfigured so much of her history. This is frankly admitted by Roman Catholic authorities.
Posted in Politics, tagged 2020 Presidential Campaign, Amy Coney Barrett, Antichrist, Donald Trump, Feminism, Jesuits, Roman Catholic Social Teaching, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court on October 4, 2020| 7 Comments »
“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.
Posted in Politics, Scripturalism, tagged Coronavirus, Ecclesiastical Megalomania, Epistemology, Gordon Clark, John Robbins, Roman Catholic Social Teaching on August 2, 2020| 2 Comments »
Watching the news is a painful experience. I refer here not so much to the events that flash before us on the screens of our televisions or smart phones, but to the deliberately misleading explanations of those events that are fed to the public by the mainstream legacy media.
John Robbins has noted that events do not explain themselves but must themselves be explained. This may seem strange a first. It’s tempting for us to say that such and such is just self-evident. But is it? If events are self-evident, that is to say, if events explain themselves, why is it that two people can observe the same event and come to very different conclusions?
For example, some people praise Dr. Anthony Fauci’s social distancing, lockdown and mask recommendations. Others see the response by him and other public officials as, at best, unnecessary meddling. Some may even see the calls for masks – and now the calls for face shields! – as an example of tyranny. How is it that people, even intelligent well-informed people, can interpret the Covid regulations that have been imposed on America and other nations so differently? It all starts with one’s worldview, one’s philosophy.
Posted in Rome Watch, Uncategorized, tagged Ecclesiastical Megalomania, Roman Catholic Social Teaching, Socialism, USCCB on August 30, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Millennials receive a lot of criticism from older generations for their SJW snow flakery and their professed love of socialism. A lot of this criticism is well deserved.
When those who believe in capitalism discuss the origin of the younger generation’s rejection of the free enterprise system and embrace of big government, it’s not uncommon to hear them blame the education system.
There’s a lot of truth in this, of course. Thinking of my own experience in public education from thirty and forty years ago, I never learned much about free-enterprise. Doubtless, things have gotten worse in that regard since I was in school. But to blame only the schools, by which many people mean our socialist public schools, for the problem is inadequate
Socialism isn’t some new phenomenon in the United States that suddenly sprang from the ground with the election of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It wasn’t as if when I, or my parents, or even my grandparents were growing up that America had a fully functioning capitalist economy.
Socialism has been around in the United States for at least 100 years. That’s probably news to many people.
Here’s something else that’s probably news to a lot of folks: The Roman Catholic Church-State (RCCS) has been, during that whole period, at the very center of the socialist movement in America.
You don’t have to take my word for it either. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), actually brags about this on its website.
In a news release on 8/29/19 titled “USCCB Chairman Issues Labor Day Statement During The Centenary Year of the United States Bishops’ Program of Social Reconstruction,” the USCCB celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Bishops’ Program of Social Reconstruction, a tract written by Jesuit John Ryan and published by .
Ryan, who would later serve in the Roosevelt administration and help implement the New Deal in the 1930’s, had been a public intellectual since the publication of his 1906 book A Living Wage. According to John Robbins in his groundbreaking 1999 book Ecclesiastical Megalomania, Ryan himself described his political/economic system as “Essential Socialism” and “Semi-Socialism,” so there’s little reason to question that what Ryan advocated, and what the USCCB is celebrating, is, in fact, socialism.
The Bishops’ Program was issued by the Administrative Committee of the National Catholic War Council, which would later be renamed the USCCB, and sets forth the political and economic program the RCCS would pursue over the ensuring decades. In his piece, Ryan called for, “government unemployment, sickness, invalidity and old age insurance; a federal child labor law; legal enforcement of labor’s right to organize; public housing; graduated taxation on inheritances, incomes, and excess profits; regulation of public utility rates; worker participation in management, and so on” (Robbins, Ecclesiastical Megalomania, 84).
So just how successful was Ryan in getting his program of “Essential Socialism” implemented? According to Robbins, Catholic writer Aaron I. Abell wrote in 1963 that, “All the immediate measures set forth in the Bishops’ Program were adopted in whole or in part.” This was a mere 44 years after the Bishop’s Program was published, which is not much time at all when you consider the tremendous changes that were required to implement Ryan’s program.
Worth noting too is that Abell wrote what he did in 1963, shortly before the explosion in socialism that was to take place under President Lyndon Johnson in the mid to late 1960’s. If the USCCB was successful in implementing socialism in America in 1963, how much more is that the case today, seeing all the socialist legislation that’s been enacted in the years since.
By way of example, consider socialism in medicine. Nationalized healthcare in the form of the the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was passed in 2010. In a 2013 interview, Cardinal Timothy Dolan boasted the RCCS had been pushing for national health care since 1919. Fact checkers Politifact reviewed Dolan’s claim and, citing the 1919 Bishops’ Program that called for the state to provide insurance against illness, invalidity, unemployment and old age, declared Dolan’s statement to be true.
One of the takeaways from all this is that before we Gen Xer’s, Baby Boomers and Silents get too worked up at Millennials for their socialist leanings, it’s important for us to understand that the Protestant system of free enterprise in America has been under attack for a long time. Socialism in America didn’t begin with the elections of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. We who are older would do well to examine our own ideas to see if we ourselves haven’t absorbed some of Rome’s socialism.
Further, it’s important to understand one of the main, perhaps the main, source of the attack on constitutional/capitalism in America for the past 100 years has been the USCCB pushing its unchristian, unconstitutional, incompetent program of socialism.
Posted in Immigration, Rome Watch, tagged Antichrist, Immigration, Roman Catholic Social Teaching, Roman Church-State, Rome and Immigration, Rome and World Government, Strangers No Longer on July 7, 2019| Leave a Comment »
They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves to commit iniquity.
– Jeremiah 9:5
Miss two weeks, miss a lot. That’s how it is when you track the evil work of Antichrist. Mind you, I’m not speaking about all the evil the Pope and his minions are up to. God alone knows this. For the moment, I speak only of the evil work he and his ministers are doing on the immigration front. And that’s only here in the America!
Yes, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the Antichrist Roman Catholic Church-State are up to their usual immigration treachery as they continue their attempt to destabilize America by flooding the nation with bogus asylum seekers and welfare migrants, most of whom are themselves Roman Catholics.
More than any other institution, it is the Roman Catholic Church-State that is responsible for the mess on America’s southern border. One could liken Rome to the arsonist who first sets you house on fire, pretends to be the hero by showing up in a fire truck to douse the blaze, and then lectures you for your supposed lack of fire safety precautions.
Rome’s scan works like this. First, representatives of the Mystery Babylon cynically encourage people to violate US immigration law, often at great personal risk to themselves. Then, when something bad happens to one of their pawns, Rome sends its representatives to primp and preen before the cameras to lecture and to shame Americans about how it’s all their fault due to their supposed lack of Christian charity. Finally, in light of the most recent border tragedy Rome renews demands for the federal government to divert even more taxpayer funds to solve the humanitarian crisis Rome created in the first place. Naturally, “solving the humanitarian crisis” means letting more migrants in faster and, once they get here, giving them even more free stuff paid for by Americans.
Of course, the USCCB is very careful during this whole process to make clear that they believe that nations do have a right to regulate their borders, except when, “such control… is exerted merely for the purpose of acquiring additional wealth” (Strangers No Longer, 33). But oddly enough, every time the Trump administration attempts to do something that’s actually effective at ending the abuse of American citizens at the hands of the Pope’s welfare migrant hordes, Rome cries foul. Quite obviously, the claims of the USCCB, and of other individuals and organizations within the Roman Church-State, that it believes that nations have a right to regulate their borders is a fig leaf to cover their real agenda, which is to break America and to initiate world government through mass welfare migration.
This scam is not unique to America. Rome does the exact same thing in Europe, where the Pope has openly conspired with leaders such as Germany’s Angela Merkel to push a mass migration from the Middle East and Africa, a program which is clearly at odds with the best interests, not only of the German people, but of the people of the other EU nations.
As in all other matters, when Rome’s representatives speak concerning immigration, they do so with a tongue they’ve taught to speak lies.
In support of these claims, I’d like to walk through three recent press releases by the USCCB concerning the migrant crisis on America’s southern border.
Posted in Politics, Presidential Campaign 2020, Roman Catholicism, tagged 2020 Presidential Campaign, Antichrist, Capitalism, Ecclesiastical Megalomania, Joe Biden, John Robbins, Pope Francis, Roman Catholic Social Teaching on May 12, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Leading Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden thinks Americans have an “obligation” to foot the medical bills of illegal aliens. Now where did he get that idea? AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
“I think that anyone who is in a situation where they’re in need of health care, regardless of whether they are documented or undocumented, we have an obligation to see that they are cared for.”
– Joe Biden, 2020 Presidential Candidate
It seems like only yesterday that Antifa thugs were smashing windows in Washington D.C. to protest Donald Trump’s inauguration, and here we are talking about the 2020 presidential campaign. My, how time flies. And here I am, a year and a half before the November 3, 2020 vote talking presidential politics.
Not that I mind terribly much. As readers of this space know, I’m a bit of a political junkie. Always have been. In fact, politics is one of the ways the Lord led me to faith in Christ. That probably sounds a bit odd, so let me explain.
Posted in Immigration, tagged AMLO, Donald Trump, Mexico Mass Migration and the Example of Moses, Migration, Roman Catholic Social Teaching, The Wall on April 8, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) promised a migrant invasion of the United States and he actually delivered. How many politicians can say that?
“Soon, very soon, after the victory of our movement, we will defend migrants all over the American continent and the migrants of the world who, by necessity, must abandon their towns to find life in the United States…It’s a human right we will defend.”
These were the words of then Mexican presidential candidate, and now president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO as he is known south of the border.
When I first read those words as reported in the 6/22/18 edition of the Daily Caller, a number of thoughts went through my mind. First off, it was hard not to see this statement as a threat. AMLO was very clearly articulating his intention to facilitate a migrant invasion of the United States. Second, quite obviously his rhetoric was based on Roman Catholic Social Teaching, which holds that need creates an obligation to give. This is the essence of the unchristian notion of altruism. Third, I was struck by just how weird the comment was. I mean, imagine, if you will, Donald Trump running on a platform promising to defend the right of every American to migrate to Canada. No one would ever get elected on such a promise. Not in the US at any rate. But in Mexico, apparently, it’s a big seller.
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