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Heretical Beliefs aided by Supporters of Heretic
So for one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, it is a sin. [James 4:17]
But as for cowards... their lot is in the burning pool of fire and sulfur... [Rev. 21:8]

Conservative media, religious, and other Catholic centered organizations –perhaps unintentionally due to poor early upbringing– have been, possibly with a few exceptions, supporting evil through denial of the reality of a fundamental truth. There is much failure to recognize that no man is personally shielded from being in opposition to God's Will. The basic understanding that no man, regardless of office held, has the authority to diminish, change direction, or rescind the established hierarchically approved "Word of God," has been lost on liberals and conservatives alike. The following is a sampling of conservative groups directly or indirectly supporting heresy by lending creditability to a de facto heretic retaining office by reason of legal dysfunction:

The Wanderer; St. Paul, MN; (651) 224-5733 — Alphonse J. Matt, Jr., Editor;
HLI, Human Life International, Front Royal, VA. 22630; (800) 549-5433; E-Mail: hli@hli.org Rev. Paul Marx, Founder — http://www.hli.org/index.html :: A list of organizations misled by Fr. Marx into believing that the contraceptive mentality of NFP (Natural Family Planning) is something other than "condemned birth control" that is opposed by God throughout Scripture – http://www.hli.org/culture_of_life_websites.html. The following index refers to several web pages that explain why NFP; at least with the contraceptive mentality is mortal sin: NFP Document Index.
EWTN, Eternal Word Television Network; Irondale, Al; (205) 271-2900
Knights of Columbus; New Haven, CT; (203) 752-4000 — Carl A. Anderson;
Legionaries of Christ; Cheshire, CT; (203) 271-0805 — www.LegionofChrist.org
Priests for Life; Staten Island, NY; (888) 735-3448 — Fr. Frank Pavone;
Catholic Family News; (905) 871-6292 — John Vennari, Editor; www.oltyn.com/cfn.htm
Couple to Couple League; Cincinnati, OH; (513) 471-2000 — www.ccli.org
The Fatima Crusader; Fort Erie, ON (Canada); (1 905)
Catholic lawyers throughout the world – These have especially grave responsibility for continuous evil in the Church as by virtue of office they are to be specialists in understanding and defending truth and justice.
Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist; Ann Arbor, MI;
Most Holy Family Monastery, Fillmore, NY, (585) 567-4433

The above organizations and individuals have in common either giving favorable press coverage to, having pictures taken with (in order to obtain public favor or to assist in the acquiring of donations – the graphic and statement at the right is representative of many conservative groups.), financially supporting, being submissive to the personal teachings of a person rather than to those of the Holy Trinity, endorsing or promoting teachings contrary to the Will of God, defending or otherwise acting in support of a de facto reining heretic. A related fallacy is the belief that justice may be received through legitimate petition to the appropriate Vatican office. While many groups seek justice through the Vatican, justice is received only when there is sufficient public media outcry if the liberal agenda (One World Religion – John Paul II promotes the concept that every religion is approved by God, One World Government that includes population control, One World Order under satanic influence) is being opposed.
Individuals belonging to, writing for, employed by, or members of these and similar organizations may not be cognizant of, or be personally supportive of one who directly (by act) and indirectly (by omission) promotes teachings not of the Catholic faith. Even so the question exists, "is their ignorance vincible?"
While full respect for the papal office must always be retained, the person holding the office looses the respect associated with the office should he go against authentic Church teachings –directly or by omission endorse scandal including homosexual acts– or personally commit public scandalous acts, or commit concealed acts (known to an accountable few) against the good of the Church.

The following activities and teachings are Counter Catholic:

Promotion of false gods or treating them as equals with the Christian Trinitarian God.
Retention of cardinals and bishops who have protected pedophiles and practicing homosexuals.
Retention of cardinals and bishops who promote heresy or defend immoral sex education programs.
Retention of cardinals and bishops who oppose dogmatic teachings on procreation, defense of life beginning at conception, capital punishment, etc.
Retention of cardinals and bishops who are members of or endorse Freemasonry or other secret organizations.
Retention of cardinals and bishops who fail to publicly excommunicate politicians and other notables who endorse evils such as abortion and sodomy.
Retention of cardinals and bishops who oppose those who are seeking justice for the unborn.
Retention of cardinals and bishops who receive, obtain, retain, enhance, or construct monuments serving Satan such as the new cathedral in Los Angeles, California; phallic symbols such as the obelisk in front of Saint Peter's in the Vatican,^* promote nudity and homosexuality such as seen in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.

^* A view of the piazza or plaza at the Vatican, also known as St. Peter's square. The large eight-rayed sun wheel design, symbolic of Ishtar, is immediately noticeable. In the center of the wheel you see an obelisk, a genuine Egyptian obelisk shipped from Heliopolis to Rome by the Roman emperor Caligula. The obelisk is a phallic symbol.
It is claimed that the word 'obelisk' literally means 'Baal's shaft' or 'Baal's organ of reproduction'. Source: Masonic and Occult Symbols Illustrated, by Dr. Cathy Burns, pg. 341.
The obelisk is a phallic symbol of fatherhood : 'the rock that begot' Guernsey has been chosen as the start of the new world order with Oriris on his throne with the elite of the " Guernsey Mafia " gathered around.
Note that around the obelisk, at the center of the huge eight-point sun wheel, is a smaller four-pointed sun wheel, the same symbol as found on the altar stone in the temple of Baal in Hatzor!

Here you see the reverse side of a coin celebrating the pontificate of John Paul II, and on it is the obelisk and sun wheel of St. Peter's piazza. The correlation of the symbolism is striking.

While this document has its principle focus on conservatives, it does not defend neo traditionalists. This category, while in many ways well intentioned (as are most who consider themselves conservative), is in effect schismatic. They falsely use non-universal teachings, primarily of past Church authorities (non infallible), and the writings of saints as though they were a matter of dogma. A few going so far as to promote beliefs that in effect make God out as being unjust, unmerciful, or just plain unfair (when the Gentiles who do not have the law by nature observe the prescriptions of the law, they are a law for themselves [Rom. 2:14] ). In doing so they demonstrate that they do not have a firm grasp of the qualities and attributes of the Catholic God who is nothing but absolute goodness in every trait and is in every aspect of His being both just and fair.

BOSTON, Dec. 20, 2003 — Hundreds of people who say they were abused by priests in the Archdiocese of Boston learned on Saturday how much money they would receive as part of an $85 million settlement reached with the church in September.
Each plaintiff will get $80,000 to $300,000. An arbitrator who met individually with plaintiffs and their lawyers over the past six weeks determined the amount. The amounts were based on type and duration of abuse and how it affected the victim.
It is now reasonably estimated that pedophiles, pederasts, and ephebophiles have now cost the Catholic Church into the equivalent of billions of U. S. dollars.
VATICAN CITY, DEC. 19, 2003 (Zenit.org).- Hundreds of lawyers gave John Paul II an encyclopedic book on his teachings on law, as a gift for his 25th anniversary as Pope.
Among the authors of the 1,148-page book, entitled "John Paul II -- The Paths of Justice: Itineraries for Lawyers of the Third Millennium," are Jews and Muslims.
The book was coordinated by professors Aldo Loiodice of the University of Bari, and Massimo Vari, vice president emeritus of the Italian Constitutional Court.

By act or omission most conservatives, liberals, and traditionalists
support the reining heretical pope, Pope John Paul II.
Middle of the Roaders –the worst segment– just don't care.

So for one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, it is a sin. [James 4:17]
But as for cowards... their lot is in the burning pool of fire and sulfur... [Rev. 21:8]

Teaching Discrepancies in the Catechism of the Catholic Church !

Death Penalty:
CCC §2266 tells us that "legitimate public authority has the right and the duty to inflict punishment proportionate to the gravity of the offense."
CCC §2267 says that "Assuming that the guilty party's identity and responsibility have been fully determined, the traditional teaching of the Church does not exclude recourse to the death penalty."

Evangelian Vitae

(a non-infallible document. NOTE: The CCC is itself not infallible doctrine of the Church. If it were, it could not be diminished from one version to the next.)

* So Pilate said to him, "Do you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you and I have power to crucify you?" Jesus answered (him), "You would have no power over me if it had not been given to you from above. For this reason the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin." [John 19:10-11]
"Although they know the just decree of God that all who practice such things deserve death, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them." [Romans 1:32]

Penance:
CCC §1422 states, "Those who approach the sacrament of Penance obtain pardon from God's mercy for the offense committed against him, and are, at the same time, reconciled with the Church which they have wounded by their sins and which by charity, by example, and by prayer labors for their conversion."

Penny Catechism

the original 4 plus the sin of sacrilege

"The penance given by the priest does not always make full satisfaction for our sins.
We should therefore add to it other good works and penances..."

How many times do assigned penances actually "correspond as far as possible with the gravity and nature of the sins committed?" Do three Our Fathers and three Hail Marys (often only one Hail Mary) even come close to dealing with the seriousness of many sins?
Many priests have a set penance that they give everyone for everything, does this constitute "fruitful satisfaction"? Could this even fit the part that states a penance "must take into account the penitent's personal situation and must seek his spiritual good"?
Once again, let us return to an earlier catechism and actually make reparation for our past lives and truly do penance for our sins. Often times it is the penance that we accept or impose on ourselves through conscience, that increases our purpose of amendment and makes us more receptive to God's grace enabling us to avoid the same sin in the future.
Knowing this, let us lead lives of penance (conversion), not just perform a devotional penance assigned by a confessor and then get on with our sinful lives. There must be contrition (includes firm intent to avoid confessed sins in the future), confession, and satisfaction on the part of the penitent. All three must be sincere. We need to take a good hard look at this sacrament in the light of Holy Scripture and Sacred Tradition. If we stop with just what is written in the CCC, we may be selling ourselves short on the graces found therein, we may also be building time in Purgatory - or worse!

Decline of the Church Under Recent Popes

Statistics extracted from an article in The Latin Mass magazine.
The article was received via E-mail December 8, 2003.

The Vatican II Renewal: Myth or Reality
by Kenneth C. Jones . . .

Priests: In 1920 there were 21,019 total priests in the United States. In 1930 there were 26,925, in 1940 there were 33,912, in 1945 there were 38,451, in 1950 there were 42,970, in 1955 there were 46,970, in 1960 there were 53,796. This is not the mark of a declining Church, but of a vigorous Church — in 1960 it had a record number of men who were its frontline soldiers, whose ranks had grown 15 percent in the five years between 1955 and 1960.
Seminarians: As one would expect, as the number of priests increased, so did the number of seminarians — and it continued to increase substantially up to the Council. In 1920 there were 8,944 seminarians, in 1930 there were 16,300, in 1940 there were 17,087, in 1945 there were 21,523, in 1950 there were 25,622, in 1955 there were 32,394, in 1960 there were 39,896.
Seminaries: The bishops and heads of religious orders found it extremely difficult to keep up with demand and had to build scores of new seminaries. In 1945 there were 53 diocesan seminaries, in 1950 there were 72, in 1955 there were 78, in 1960 there were 96. This was a huge increase in property plant and equipment to accommodate the young men who were storming the seminaries to be trained as priests. Religious seminaries experienced similar growth. There were 258 in 1945, 316 in 1950, 385 in 1955, and 429 in 1960. Remember that building a seminary is a tremendous investment — it is really a leap of faith by the chief executive officer, in this case the bishop or head of a religious order, that the organization is growing and will continue to grow in the future. The tremendous boom in seminary construction was a true testament that the Church was growing and, more importantly, perceived itself to be growing, in the period before the Council.
Priestless parishes: And as one would also expect, as the number of priests increased, the number of parishes without a resident priest was declining. In 1945 there were 839 parishes without a resident pastor, in 1950 there were 791, in 1955 there were 673, in 1960 there were 546.
Brothers: The number of religious brothers was also on the increase in the decades before the Council. In 1945 there were 6,594, in 1950 there were 7,377, in 1955 there were 8,752, in 1960 there were 10,473.
Sisters: The next book that is crying out to be written is a study of the destruction of the convents and women's religious orders since the Second Vatican Council. What a profound tragedy. And the wreckage has been so devastating, so thorough, that one can only wonder whether it had a diabolical aspect to it. But contrary to what some would have you believe, it wasn't like that before the Council. In 1945 there were 138,079 sisters, in 1950 there were 147,310, in 1955 there were 158,069, in 1960 there were 168,527.
Parochial schools: Dioceses and parishes predict the future by building more schools in order to educate young Catholics. In 1920 there were 5,852 parochial schools, in 1930 there were 7,225, in 1940 there were 7,597, in 1945 there were 7,493, in 1950 there were 7,914, in 1955 there were 8,843, in 1960 there were 9,897.
Parochial school students: Parents who send their children to parochial schools show that they value a Catholic education and trust the parish to educate their children in the faith. In 1920 there were 1.7 million parochial school students, 1930 there were 2.2 million, in 1940 there were 2.1 million, in 1945 there were 2 million, in 1950 there were 2.4 million, in 1955 there were 3.2 million, in 1960 there were 4.2 million.
Infant baptisms: There were 710,000 in 1945, 943,000 in 1950, 1.1 million in 1955, 1.3 million in 1960.
Adult baptisms: The number of adult baptisms is a true sign of the strength of any religious organization. And in the years before the Council the number of adult baptisms was skyrocketing: 38,232 in 1930, 73,677 in 1940, 84,908 in 1945, 119,173 in 1950, 137,310 in 1955, and 146,212 in 1960.

These hard facts show a growing, vibrant, militant Church at the time the Second Vatican Council opened. Attempts to portray it otherwise are revisionist history by those who want to justify or explain away the revolution in the Church since the Council. . . .
Since. . . 1984, the crisis in the Church has accelerated. In every area that is statistically verifiable — for example, the number of priests, seminarians, priestless parishes, nuns, Mass attendance, converts and annulments — the "process of decadence" is apparent.

Priests: After skyrocketing from about 27,000 in 1930 to 58,000 in 1965, the number of priests in the United States dropped to 45,000 in 2002. And remember that in all of these statistics, the per capita decline has been even worse, because the number of Catholics has continued to increase since 1965. In 1965 there were 12.l85 priests for every 10,000 Catholics, in 2002 there were 7.l0 — a decline of 46 percent. By 2020, there will be about 31,000 priests — and only 15,000 will be under the age of 70. Right now there are more priests age 80 to 84 than there are age 30 to 34.
Ordinations: In 1965 there were 1,575 ordinations to the priesthood, in 2002 there were 450, a decline of 350 percent. Taking into account ordinations, deaths and departures, in 1965 there was a net gain of 725 priests. In 1998, there was a net loss of 810.
Priestless parishes: About 3 percent of parishes, 549, were without a resident priest in 1965. In 2002 there were 2,928 priestless parishes, about 15 percent of U.S. parishes. By 2020, a quarter of all parishes, 4,656, will have no priest.
Seminarians: Between 1965 and 2002, the number of seminarians dropped from 49,000 to 4,700 — a 90 percent decrease. Without any students, seminaries across the country have been sold or shuttered. There were 596 seminaries in 1965, and only 200 in 2000.
Sisters: 180,000 sisters were the backbone of the Catholic education and health systems in 1965. In 2002, there were 75,000 sisters, with an average age of 68. By 2020, the number of sisters will drop to 40,000 — and of these, only 21,000 will be age 70 or under. In 1965, 104,000 sisters were teaching, while in 2002 there were only 8,200 teachers. From 1965 to 2002, per capita, the number of sisters fell from 39.43 per 10,000 to 11.56 — a decline of 71 percent.
Brothers: The number of professed brothers decreased from about 12,000 in 1965 to 5,700 in 2002, with a further drop to 3,100 predicted for 2020.
High Schools: Between 1965 and 2002 the number of diocesan high schools fell from 1,566 to 786. At the same time the number of students dropped from almost 700,000 to 386,000.
Parochial Grade Schools: There were 10,503 parochial grade schools in 1965 and 6,623 in 2002. The number of students went from 4.5 million to 1.9 million.
Sacramental life: In 1965 there were 1.3 million infant baptisms, in 2002 there were 1 million. (In 1965 there were 287 infant baptisms for every 10,000 Catholics, in 2002 there were 154 — a decline of 46 percent.) In 1965 there were 126,000 adult baptisms in 2002 there were 80,000. In 1965 there were 352,000 Catholic marriages, in 2002 there were 256,000. In 1968 there were 338 annulments, in 2002 there were 50,000.
Mass attendance: A 1958 Gallup poll reported that 74 percent of Catholics went to Sunday Mass in 1958. A 1994 University of Notre Dame study found that the attendance rate was 26.6 percent. A more recent study by Fordham University professor James Lothian concluded that 65 percent of Catholics went to Sunday Mass in 1965, while the rate dropped to 25 percent in 2000.
The decline in Mass attendance highlights another significant fact — fewer and fewer people who call themselves Catholic actually follow Church rules or accept Church doctrine. For example, a 1999 poll by the National Catholic Reporter shows that 77 percent believe a person can be a good Catholic without going to Mass every Sunday, 65 percent believe good Catholics can divorce and remarry, and 53 percent believe Catholics can have abortions and remain in good standing. Only 10 percent of lay religion teachers accept Church teaching on artificial birth control, according to a 2000 University of Notre Dame poll. And a New York Times poll revealed that 70 percent of Catholics age 18-44 believe the Eucharist is merely a "symbolic reminder" of Jesus.
Religious orders: I'm not being chicken little here, but the religious orders will soon be virtually non-existent in the United States. For example, in 1965 there were 5,277 Jesuit priests and 3,559 seminarians; in 2000 there were 3,172 priests and 389 seminarians. There were 2,534 OFM Franciscan priests and 2,251 seminarians in 1965; in 2000 there were 1,492 priests and 60 seminarians. There were 2,434 Christian Brothers in 1965 and 912 seminarians; in 2000 there were 959 Brothers and 7 seminarians. There were 1,148 Redemptorist priests in 1965 and 1,128 seminarians; in 2000 there were 349 priests and 24 seminarians. Every major religious order in the United States mirrors these statistics. . . .

The myth that the situation has improved recently.

Another myth that is popular among certain Catholics is that things have gotten better in the last decade or so, coinciding primarily with the pontificate of John Paul II. Actually the statistics don't bear this out — in fact, the rate of decline has accelerated in some cases. Look at the number of priests. In 1975, three years before JPII was elected, there were 58,909 priests. In 1980, two years after his election, there were 58,621, a one percent decrease from five years previously. But the pace of the decline has picked up since then — 57,317 in 1985; 53,111 in 1990; 49,947 in 1995; 45,713 in 2000; 44,874 predicted for 2005; 37,624 in 2010; and 30,992 in 2020.

Seminarians: 17,802 in 1975; 13,226 in 1980; 11,028 in 1985; 6,233 in 1990; 5,083 in 1995; 4,719 in 2002.
Sisters: 135,225 in 1975; 126,517 in 1980; 115,386 in 1985; 103,269 in 1990; 92,107 in 1995; 75,500 in 2002. . . .

. . . the one piece of advice I can give is — do something. And don't be afraid to be confrontational. The more I observe and experience the behavior of our shepherds, the more I've come to believe that they will make no concession unless they are forced to. They will act in the area of true reform as they acted in connection with the priest sex abuse crisis — they will ignore it until they are exposed. I have to agree with Pat Buchanan, who advocates what he calls the politics of conflict. . . .
That doesn't mean we have to be rude, obnoxious or boorish. It means we have to know our principles and be willing and able to defend them, and to bring the battle to our enemies. Too often we are on the defensive. We have 2,000 years of tradition behind us, we have nothing to apologize for. . . .
My final piece of advice is: Let's turn back the clock. And don't tell me it can't be done, because it can. In fact, people do it all the time. Remember in 1985 when Coca Cola was the dominant producer of soda in the world? Company experts got the great idea of introducing New Coke and doing away with old Coke. How did people react — the statistics are undeniable. Sales of Coca Cola plummeted, the numbers proved that it was a failure. And what did the company do? It turned back the clock. It pulled New Coke from the market, and brought back Coke Classic, the real thing.
I say it's time we discard New Catholicism, as we discarded New Coke. It's time to bring back Catholicism Classic, the real thing.

Kenneth C. Jones, author of the

Index of Leading Catholic Indicators

, is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Washington University School of Law. He is a publisher of a legal newspaper and lives with his wife and seven children in St. Louis.

Catholic Answers, 22 Dec 2003
Karl Keating

SURPRISE! THERE IS NO VOCATIONS SHORTAGE ...
I think there are lots of men who have an authentic priestly vocation but either get washed out from the seminary system or, having paid attention to internal Church affairs in recent years, figure it would be a waste of time to apply to their local seminary, knowing that they would be perceived as "rigid" (meaning: they believe what is in the Catechism) and would never be ordained.
Thus many vocations never make it to the seminary door or find that it is a revolving door.
While there is no real vocations shortage, there is a real shortsightedness in how the Church in this country takes advantage (or fails to take advantage) of the vocations that actually exist.
The fault is not on the part of the laity, for producing too few vocations. The fault is on the part of Church leadership, which often gives the appearance of having no clue about what needs to be done--and, worse, sometimes does not appear to care.

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And I said: Hear, you leaders of Jacob, rulers of the house of Israel!
Is it not your duty to know what is right, [Micah 3:1]
[12] Admonish your friend--he may not have done it;
and if he did, that he may not do it again. [Sirach 19:13]

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The following are the leading articles in The Wanderer dated January 6, 2004. These articles are representative of the misguided thoughts of conservative Catholics who are willing to blame Cardinals and bishops while absolving the person who approved their appointments, and who is the only person with the authority to remove them from office.

LA Lawsuit... Details Apparent Homosexual Corruption Within Archdiocese
By PAUL LIKOUDIS

LOS ANGELES - A civil lawsuit filed against the Archdiocese of Los Angeles which names 28 high-ranking priests, including two auxiliary bishops, presents a stark and disturbing picture of what appears to be a pederast-cadamite system of recruitment of young seminarians and their advancement into the priesthood and high positions in the Church based on acceptance of the homosexual-pederast-cadamite lifestyle.

A "cadamite" is the beneficiary/victim of an older, powerful, homosexual predator-pederast who is constantly recruiting a succession of adolescents, and showering affection, preferences, professional opportunities and material goods in return for sexual favors.

Many Catholics may have suspected this in their darkest moments; but the lawsuit filed December 17 in Los Angeles Superior Court by 17 sex abuse victims, only two of whom are women, hint at a homosexual underworld controlling the archdiocese of Los Angeles' minor seminary and major seminary, the chancery tribunal, religious education, major fundraising operations - in short, all that has to do with the propagation of faith for future generations.
As one local Catholic explained to The Wanderer, "It is no surprise now that we saw catechesis in this archdiocese subverted so deeply and for so long and converted into a program of sexualizing young people.
"Homosexuals have no interest in marriage or family, except as an ongoing source of ... victims."
For Roger Cardinal Mahony, one has to assume that he enjoys the favor of the ruling media and political elite, for in Los Angeles, there has not been the frenzied media exposure that caused public outrage among both Catholics and the general population in Boston, which ultimately forced Cardinal Law from office.
In its report on the lawsuit, The Los Angeles Times quoted archdiocese spokesman Tod Tamberg calling the claims "over the top and without merit" and said the
– See "homosexual corruption" p. 9

Pope John Paul II . . .
"The Kingdom Of God Is At Hand!"

At the general audience on December 17, the Holy Father reflected on Advent, a season that bears the signs of great hope. At moments when we feel drained of the strength we need to fight evil, the Pope said, Christian "hope comes to our rescue" with the mystery of Christmas, which "assures us that God is the Emmanuel - God-with-us." That is why we must never feel alone.
"Know that the Kingdom of God is at hand; be sure that He will not delay." These words from today's Liturgy express the atmosphere of our anxious and prayerful preparation for the Christmas celebrations near at hand.
Advent keeps alive our expectation of Christ who will come to visit us with His salvation, fully establishing His Kingdom of justice and peace. The annual evocation of the Messiah's birth in Bethlehem renews in believers' hearts the certainty that God keeps His promises. Advent is, therefore, a powerful proclamation of hope, which deeply touches our personal and communitarian experience.
Every man and woman dreams of a more just and supportive world where a dignified standard of life and peaceful coexistence harmonize relations between individuals and peoples. All too often, however, this is not the case. Ob-
– See "general audience" p. 2

All who sin outside the law will also perish without reference to it, and all who sin under the law will be judged in accordance with it. For it is not those who hear the law who are just in the sight of God; rather, those who observe the law will be justified. For when the Gentiles who do not have the law by nature observe the prescriptions of the law, they are a law for themselves even though they do not have the law. They show that the demands of the law are written in their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even defend them on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge people's hidden works through Christ Jesus. [Romans 2:12-16]

The Vatican II Sham
by Brett M. Decker
Posted Nov 20, 2003

In The Great Facade: Vatican II and the Regime of Novelty in the Roman Catholic Church, Christopher A. Ferrara and Thomas E. Woods, Jr., examine the process that has devastated Catholicism over the past 40 years. The fact that the institution and the religion are in crisis is obvious to anyone that has eyes to see or ears to hear.
Churches are being closed because pews are un-peopled, the number of those receiving the sacraments is dwindling and the percentage of Catholics who believe in the claims of their faith is small. Most bishops are knee-jerk leftists. Seminaries are empty, and recent scandals have shown that too many of those who are ordained priests are sexual deviants.
Rome wasn’t built in a day. Likewise, the forces mobilized to destroy it didn’t appear over night. For more than a century before Vatican II, popes fought and warned of internal elements who sought to alter the church’s historic opposition to the dangers of liberalism, including sexual pedagogy, materialism and socialism.
Pope John XXIII, who instigated the liberalizing Second Vatican Council, changed the modus operandi. On summoning all the bishops to Rome for the council, he declared that it was time to open the windows of the Church to the modern world—a transparently suspect strategy given that this was the1960s, when Communism was expanding its dominion across the world and the introduction of the birth-control pill was goading unparalleled libertinism.
A request by 450 bishops that the council condemn Communism was rejected.
Pope John Paul II repeatedly has referred to the "new springtime of the Church" that somehow, somewhere has been initiated by Vatican II. Either he lives on a different planet than the one billion adherents of the religion he leads, or he merely is defending the devastating policies for which he is largely responsible. Without any doubt, during the 25 years of his pontificate, the magnitude of the crisis had gotten progressively worse.
The myth that John Paul II has been a great pope is beginning to fade. It is too difficult to explain away senseless papal acts such as kissing the Koran, praying to John the Baptist to protect Islam, his curia’s coddling of Red China, ecumenical negotiations with voodoo witches and pro-abortionists, and the complete bastardization of the liturgy that spiraled out of control on his watch.
Many Catholics excuse the pope by blaming current heterodoxy on the bishops—but John Paul II appointed 95% of today’s bishops. These are his men on his mission.
If the pontiff’s liberal credentials are in doubt, consider the Final Declaration of the Inter-religious Assembly that was published under his authority in October 1999.
This document asks the world’s religions to "confront together, responsibly and courageously, the problems and challenges of our modern world (i.e., poverty, racism, environmental pollution, materialism, war, proliferation of arms, globalization, AIDS, lack of medical care, breakdown of family and community, marginalization of women and children, etc.)." Except for the token mention of the family, this could pass for the platform of the 2004 Democratic convention.
As Messrs. Ferrara and Woods explain, none of the novelties instituted since Vatican II require assent from Catholics. By design, all the post-traditional prerogatives have been based on vague definitions and wiggle words that avoid establishing new doctrine. The New Order is all the result of a successful ideological putsch that can be rolled back.
The Second Vatican Council was an ecclesiastical Woodstock. It unleashed forces inside the Catholic Church that genuflected to the delusions and experiments of the era rather than raise swords against them. The destruction continues to this day.
Christopher Ferrara and Thomas Woods have written an impressively thorough exegesis on the crisis. The total failure of Vatican II should be admitted, and the whole sham finally abandoned.
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U.S. Birth Rate for 2002 Lowest Ever Recorded
Source: LifeSiteNews.com
Date: 2003-12-18
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New statistics from the CDC on U.S. births paint a grim picture with the news that in 2002,

the birth rate fell to the lowest rate ever recorded for the United States, 13.9 per 1,000 total population. The general fertility rate declined 1 percent for 2001-2002 to 64.8 births per 1,000 women aged 15-44 years.
Two birth complications which are more common among women who have had previous abortions - preterm births and low birthweight - have risen according to the CDC figures.
- The rate of preterm births (less than 37 completed weeks of gestation) increased in 2002 to 12.1 percent of all births. Preterm delivery is a leading cause of neonatal mortality and birth-related morbidity. Influenced in part by the rising rate of multiple births (multiples are more likely to be born early), the proportion of preterm infants has risen 14 percent since 1990.
- The low birthweight (LBW) rate (less than 2,500 grams) increased to 7.8 percent, the highest level reported in more than three decades. Also influenced by the growth in multiple births, LBW has risen 15 percent since the mid-1980s; the rate of LBW among singleton infants has increased by a more modest 5 percent. The rate of very low birthweight (VLBW) (less than 1,500 grams) was 1.46 percent for 2002, compared with 1.44 percent for 2001.

Errors in the "Catechism of the Catholic Church" :

CCC §39 "In defending the ability of human reason to know God, the Church is expressing her confidence in the possibility of speaking about him to all men and with all men, and therefore of dialogue with other religions, with philosophy and science, as well as with unbelievers and atheists."
One of the references sited in this paragraph is from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Declaration "Dominus Iesus" on the Unity and Salvific Universality of the Church. This document itself is confusing at best and contradictory at worst. The catechism states "...the Church is expressing her confidence in the possibility of speaking about him to all men and with all men, and therefore of dialogue with other religions, with philosophy and science, as well as with unbelievers and atheists."
According to the declaration, "the differences between Christianity and the other religions tend to be reduced at times to the point of disappearance " due to differences in terminology (faith, belief) between the religions. If this is true, could not dialogue (free exchange of ideas) actually cause more harm than good?
This supporting document does make some very good, clear, and concise points, i.e., "all the children of the Church should nevertheless remember that their exalted condition results, not from their own merit, but from the grace of Christ. If they fail to respond in thought, word, and deed to that grace, not only shall they not be saved, but they shall be more severely judged." It also states, "especially in those things that concern God and his Church, all persons are required to seek the truth, and when they come to know it, to embrace it and hold fast to it." These things are true, but one tends to loose focus on these elements of truth when one must wade through passages like the following:
"The Catholic faithful are required to profess that there is an historical continuity - rooted in the apostolic succession- between the Church founded by Christ and the Catholic Church: 'This is the single Church of Christ... which our Saviour, after his resurrection, entrusted to Peter's pastoral care, commissioning him and the other Apostles, to extend and rule her, erected for all ages as "the pillar and mainstay of the truth." This Church, constituted and organized as a society in the present world, subsists in [subsisted in] the Catholic Church, governed by the Successor of Peter and by the Bishops in communion with him.' With the expression subsisted in, the Second Vatican Council sought to harmonize two doctrinal statements; on the one hand, that the Church of Christ, despite the divisions which exists among Christians, continues to exist fully only in the Catholic Church, and on the other hand, that 'outside of her structure, many elements can be found of sanctification and truth,' that is, those Churches and ecclesial communities which are not yet in full communion with the Catholic Church. But with respect to these, it needs to be stated that 'they derive their efficacy from the very fullness of grace and truth entrusted to the Catholic Church.'
So basically we are told that we should be in dialogue with other religions, a sharing back and forth of ideas, but that these other religions are not in possession of the fullness of truth as we are. So, what is the purpose of dialogue? Should we be in "dialogue" only, or active in missionary activity. Does the following sound like dialogues?
"It was in the awareness of the one universal gift of salvation offered by the Father through Jesus Christ in the Spirit, that the first Christians encountered the Jewish people, showing them the fulfillment of salvation that went beyond the Law and, in the same awareness, they confronted the pagan world of their time, which aspired to salvation through a plurality of saviours."
CCC §43 "Admittedly, in speaking about God like this, our language is using human modes of expression; nevertheless it really does attain to God himself, though unable to express him in his infinite simplicity. Likewise, we must recall that 'between Creator and creature no similitude can be expressed without implying an even greater dissimilitude'; and that 'concerning God, we cannot grasp what he is, but only what he is not, and how other beings stand in relation to him.'"
Saint Thomas Aquinas is telling us here in this misquote from Summa Contra Gentiles, that our language can not adequately describe God, except in the negative. We can say that God is eternal, which means He has no beginning nor ending of being, but even this is a description in the negative. The catechism would have us to believe that we can not come to know God in reality, because we are so very much different from Him. It proposes for us the belief that we can learn what God is not, but not what He is. Scripture and Holy Tradition teach us otherwise. We are given attributes of God throughout Scripture, and are taught to even call God, "Our Father." That does not denote an entity that can not be known, but rather a personal relationship with our Creator - on His terms - not ours. When these words were spoken, it was common knowledge that the Father had complete and total control of his family. He was the first and final authority. God has become "Our Father" only if we accept Him in this role as well !