Writing in the prominent German daily, Die Tagespost, on May 14, the auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, said the reactions and language of critics of the Appeal are reminiscent of life under Soviet Communism, when “dissenters of the prevailing ideology and politics were accused of being complicit in the ‘conspiracy theory’ disseminated by the capitalist West.”
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“If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated.”
Note that Dreher is not saying the conservatives he ridicules as “Mask Truthers” should wear masks simply in order to get along with their skittish neighbors, even if the ritual is medically worthless. Rather, he bases his jeremiad on a premise he makes no effort to prove: that the universal wearing of masks of some kind—whatever kind, it doesn’t matter— in fact makes every community “safer” from the virus, so that anyone who declines to slap something or other over his face when doing business is in fact selfishly putting the community “more at risk from the virus.”
Perhaps what this experience has highlighted is, ironically, a general lack of wisdom—natural or supernatural—on the part of the presumed leaders of the world. As Alasdair MacIntyre has observed in After Virtue (page 263): “If the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not entirely without grounds for hope. This time, however, the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time. And it is our lack of consciousness of this that constitutes part of our predicament.” Can the necessary and absolutely requisite wisdom of governance be systematically injected into those charged with determining the course of the human race, our very leaders, like some type of miraculous and enlightening vaccine? Manifestly no.
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Francis has cast his lot with the Communists and red smoke enshrouds the Catholic Church. In the words of Cardinal Joseph Zen, Francis “delivered the Church into the hands of the enemy. ” ________
BREAKING NEWS Additional Signatories Include — 3 cardinals, 8 bishops, theologians and Italian journalists, American publishers, prestigious teachers and lawyers, Italian medical doctors, heads of associations and so many more! (See full list at the end of this article) ___________
Would that we could proclaim the same for the ravages of modernity! Whether it advances today under the mantra of the “New Normal”, or just yesterday under the terminology of building a “Post-Modernity”, it is the same diabolical, naturalist, anti-Christian, soul killing, and therefore dreadfully boring agenda that the purveyors of Enlightenment have been foisting upon the world for centuries in the name of assuring its final liberation. This sophistic mess of pottage is always presented as being dictated by some absolute necessity or some exciting new insight. And it is in its seemingly more restrained, “health-friendly”, non-violent manner—its Moderate Enlightenment, John Locke, and therefore anti-social, atomistic, consumer materialist manner—that it is now gaining this, its greatest victory in the history of Christendom against a prostrate Catholic Church. How accurate of our chaplain to refer to our stay-in-place Diktat as a “John Locke-down”.
Pope Benedict, somewhere in his writings, argued that reality is based on relationship because it was created by the Triune God. Aristotle’s great mind perceived this partially, naming man a “social animal,” Politics, Bk. I, Pt. II, though even Aristotle could not perceive that God is social as well. The astonishing response of governments around the world to the COVID-19 disease therefore presents a metaphysical problem.
Is testing every single American the way to go? ___________
In a new interview with Italian journalist Marco Tosatti, published on April 29 on Stilum Curae, Archbishop Viganò said: “I believe that authoritative scientists have capably demonstrated what is really happening [with Covid-19], and what on the other hand the masses are being led to believe, through a widespread control of information that doesn’t hesitate to resort to censorship in order to silence dissenting voices.”
Or, Post Mortem of a Mass Hysteria…
“The Trump administration has acted to ensure that no funds from the new Paycheck Protection Program, set up to assist small businesses battered by COVID-19, will go to Planned Parenthood.
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Yes, Nancy, visit them. That’s not quite the same as setting them loose on society so they can visit our wives and daughters in parking ramps and dark alleys.
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