Cry Out With a
Hundred Thousand Tongues!’
We have read the generic statements of those who say it is wrong for people to speak out against another when we all have beams in our own eyes.
We have read the pontiff’s concerns for an all-out religious war as a result of the war in Iraq. In fact, before the Vatican stopped beating around the bush and came out with the Truth of its concerns, we wrote, “What the Pope Is Really Worried About.”
We, again, tell everyone, we are not seers, prophets or even, dare we admit it, perfect. We are sinners. But we are sick of the hypocrisy that is swirling around us at this crucial time in mankind’s history. And if there is one thing we have learned from our study of the Shroud is that if you let the liars get away with it, they will continue to make others believe their lies while the Truth is buried deeper and deeper.
So we will not let hypocrisy stand. Instead, we will stand, as we have said before, with the Church Militant — not the Church wimp.
Not with a Church in which one diocese sues another — completely against the admonition of the Gospel — over who is ultimately responsible for letting a pedophile priest continue his criminal behavior.
We will stand with St. Catherine of Siena, the patron Saint of Italy (with St. Francis of Assisi), whose body that bore the stigmata is buried under the Altar of Santa Maria sopra Minerva (Holy Mary over [the false goddess] Minerva) in the town of Assisi.
We will stand with St. Catherine who “wholeheartedly supported Pope Gregory XI’s call for a Crusade against” the moslems who were, surprise, killing Christians in the Holy Land. (Yes, Virginia, that is how the Crusades came about!)
Does this sound familiar?
While the Vatican frets over an all-out religious war, perhaps nobody has been paying attention that WE ARE ALREADY IN ONE!
Not only are we, as Christians, the victims of the islamic horde that wishes our destruction, but so is, as they call it, the “Zionist” state of Israel and every Jewish person living anywhere on this planet!
Perhaps our Church is sleeping while Catholics are being slaughtered in the Philippines by moslem fanatics.
Perhaps the East Timor genocide by moslems against Catholics is too old a story to be remembered in the hallowed halls of the Vatican.
Perhaps Constantinople is half a millennium behind us.
Perhaps St. Catherine — who had visions of Christ and bore the stigmata — didn’t really mean what she said, along with a ton of other Saints, about a Crusade.
Perhaps Father Gobbi is a phony who really didn’t hear from the Blessed Virgin Mary that islam represents the antichrist.
Perhaps the koran doesn’t teach blasphemy against the Holy Trinity.
Perhaps we should dialogue with those who send women and children under the threat of death into the hands of a coalition killing field so that an evil regime can use the innocent victims for propaganda value.
Perhaps it was just a bad dream we had when we thought we read and saw that some sort of islamic fanatics blew up the World Trade Center in New York.
Perhaps we should get some more lawyers who can tell each and every diocese how they can politically and economically escape the multitude of lawsuits that are draining the Sunday basket to pay for the crimes of bishops who hid felons disguised as priests.
Or perhaps we should be brave and FOLLOW THE SAINTS, and not a bunch of wimp bishops who wish to embarrass those who would dare fall to their knees before our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament!
Perhaps we should not point out the beam in our “brother’s” eye for fear that we have a skyscraper in ours.
Perhaps we should not point out that mad donna is a woman who is in danger of hellfire when in her new anti-American video she raps that she is “not a Christian and not a Jew.” We guess it’s no big deal if other children rap along with her and repeat these words despite the fact that the Lord Jesus said not to deny Him before men if we want Him to not deny us before His Father and the Angels of Heaven.
We guess we should condemn Planned Parenthood but not Margaret Sanger because we may have a beam in our own eye.
We guess we should be obedient to the bishops who sue each other despite the embarrassment they cause going from one wrong move to another.
We guess we should love moslem homicide bombers as they blow our true brothers and sisters up.
We guess, despite the fact that they do not accept Jesus as their God, nor Mary as their Mother, that everyone on this planet qualifies as our brother and sister. We just talked to our brother, the crack dealer, and complimented him on his refusal to accept that Jesus is God because we do not want to offend him or his clients.
We guess we should ignore the history of the Saints, such as St. Anthanasius, because, if we follow such a rogue character as he, we might appear to be disobedient to a bunch of bishops in heresy.
We guess we should listen to the pundits who think that we should not raise our voices as the hierarchy will straighten itself out as long as we are silent and obedient.
We guess we can accept any changes in the Church as long as “they” tell us that is what we are to do. God forbid if Sacred Tradition should get in our way. Hey, bring on some more rock music during that “Teen Life” Mass; I didn’t want to pray anyway!
We guess we should ignore Pope St. Leo the Great’s statement: “He that sees another in error and endeavors not to correct it, testifies himself to be in error.”
We guess we should ignore Pope St. Pius V’s statement that “All the evils of the world are due to lukewarm Catholics.”
We guess Pope St. Pius X didn’t know what he was talking about when he said, “All the strength of satan’s reign is due to the easygoing weakness of Catholics.”
We guess the Scripture is wrong when it was written, “Them that sin reprove before all: that the rest also may have fear” I Timothy 5:20.
We guess St. Augustine didn’t know what he was talking about when he wrote, “Medicinal rebuke must be applied to all who sin, lest they either themselves perish, or be the ruin of others. … Let no one, therefore, say that a man must not be rebuked when he deviates from the right way, or that his return and perseverance must only be asked from the Lord for him.”
We guess we should stop adhering to the words of Pope St. Felix III.
We guess St. Catherine of Siena displeased the Lord when she said in regard to Church corruption, “We’ve had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence!”
We’re terribly sorry that we have not been silent.
We regret that with the gigantic skyscraper in our own eye we have had the audacity — based on the unchangeable and irrefutable Truths of the Catholic faith — to point out the specks in the eyes of other humans. Eyes which do NOT always belong to our brothers or sisters because they do not believe nor accept Jesus as their God and Brother, nor Mary as their Queen and Mother. For unless one accepts these two Truths, one cannot be our brother or sister.
We will instead run headfirst with eyes shut tight into obeying any bishop — no matter what heresy or legal problems they have embraced or caused — and, at the same time, remain silent on the threat of islamic fundamentalism in fear of a worldwide religious war.
For none of these situations is currently in the news. It’s just our imagination.
And it’s okay if another islamic terrorist wishes to assassinate the pope. Far be it for us to speak out when we have a skyscraper in our eyes.
We will stop crying out and stick our heads in the proverbial sand in the hopes that it will just all go away.
© 2003 Agnus Dei Presents!
As a starting point, let's begin with those who were involved in any way with covering up the crimes of those who have harmed the innocent!
For a follow-up, if there is any bishop anywhere that did not this year follow your directive by ensuring the faithful had access to a Divine Mercy Feast -- as so many have neglected to do in the past -- remove him from his position and grant the faithful one who will follow your magesterium!
We bet our bottom spiritual dollar, Your Holiness, that those who offer this great gift of God that you have asked to be instituted throughout the Universal Church will probably never be caught up
in an embarrassing scandal!
