Whom Will You Serve?

 The evil in the Church has aligned with the evil in politics against people of good will both in and outside of the Church in what Karl Marx would have described as dialectical materialism, which requires conflict between a thesis and an antithesis, which results in a synthesis, and thus progress toward an imagined perfection.  This is totally diabolical, of course, because it suggests the natural order established by God can evolve and must evolve into a world without God and exist only materially without any reference to spiritual being or eternal truth.  

Mary Ann Kreitzer’s letter published recently on Lifesite News addressed to mealy mouthed coward bishop Callahan was beautiful.  Click and read it if you have not already.  This kind of resistance to evil is more necessary today than ever before.  We are experiencing one of those rare times when both the political world and the Roman Catholic Church are both on a serious brink of destruction.  The evil one has decided to rise up against all----politically, economically, spiritually, and physically. 

When AlexanderTschugguel took action against a pagan idol in a sacred space, in a Catholic Church in Rome, he acted for so many of us who are sidelined by fear.  We tell ourselves, well; I have more to think about than myself.  I have a family to consider, or a reputation, or a career.  Alexander inspired us and proved that sometimes it takes only a small thing to make a very big difference.  (To this day no action has been taken against him by the owner of the wooden idol, by the Diocese of Rome, or by any secular court of law.) 

 Nick Sandman is another.  A meek unknown teenager leaned not on his own authority or network of power, but on what he learned in Church about how to address evil when it stares you in the eye.  Nick said in an interview that he kept thinking, as the Indian pounded the drum, I mustn’t do anything to disgrace or embarrass my parents. You don’t back down, you don’t run in fear, you don’t cower and concede, you lean on God and stand confidently by what you know is right.  Nick is now a hero to many and an example to all of us who think there is nothing we can do.  This is not true, of course. 

 There is something we can all do and should be doing more fervently and more faithfully than we care to admit.  We must pray without ceasing that God’s will be done on earth as it is in heaven.  And when we pray, we must make it our intention to cooperate with that prayer by making our own lives as obedient to the Father as are those of the heavenly beings in eternity among whom we wish to be when our life here is over.

 History has a strange way of unfolding quite rapidly on the one hand, seen from a distance, and very slowly to those present as it occurs.  To read it in a 400 page history/synopsis can take maybe three or four weeks to cover, depending on how fast you read and comprehend,  what in reality occurred over a decade or even four or five decades.  When you are actually living it, you may be too close to the events to understand that, in hindsight, they will have been connected in ways you could not “connect.”  It is easy to say, what was the matter with those people?  Didn’t they know?  Couldn’t they see where this or that policy would end?  In every case of this sort we can cite and take as an opportunity to second guess, there actually were people who could see, who did know, who fully understood where the ideas and philosophy being advanced would take them. 

 Dietrich von Hildebrand is a good example.  He lectured until his message in universities was completely rejected by the listeners and banned by the government.  The economist Ludwig von Mises, who warned about socialism, is another who warned and warned until he too left in fear of his life.  One, a theologian, the other an economist, they knew the inevitable tragedy of following a godless path and inventing a structured society without respect for God, human nature, and natural talent.  There were also men at the Second Vatican Council who knew the schemes and plans being seeded in the documents purposefully to destroy the Church.  Cardinal Ottaviani and Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre are two names all should recall and understand their warnings were loud and clear, but sadly ignored. Ottaviani died soon after the council and Lefebvre was ridiculed, shamed, and shunned, from then until he died by people who wished to discredit him and those also who were led by their naiveté to hate what they were told to hate. Today is no different.  

We do have people raising the red flag and saying this is not right!  They are writers and clergymen, like Fr. James Altman, like Bishop Joseph Strickland, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, and Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, who has recently reiterated the objections of Lefebvre to the dismay of the guilty who believe they are about to see their dreams fulfilled.   Many others cry out against the one world order, against the evil of socialism, and those also who speak to the fact Catholic Truth is being buried or rewritten, ignored and deemed non essential, disregarded and laughed at. 

 Not only are the forces of evil aligned----those in governments, in secret societies, in the highest ranks of our Church, but also the patriotic warriors of freedom and the faithful soldiers of the Church Militant on earth now recognize what the enemy is in a way never more united and are prepared to resist.  This is a time of taking sides like we may never have seen before in all of recorded history.  It is a time of family member against family member, of politician against politician, bishop against bishop, and cardinal against cardinal. 

 When we pray, “St. Michael, defend us in battle,” we should be more aware than ever that THIS IS the battle of which we speak.  Not everyone is called to lecture or preach, or write, but we are all required to speak up against error in our own little circle of friends and acquaintances, and we are all required to seek and find the Truth for the salvation of our eternal souls and the political method we need to carry on in society until the last day.  Sadly, many have never heard the names of those who have taken action, who have spoken out, who write regularly to try to convince people to reject error---both political and spiritual.  They are not interested in finding out. 

 I believe history will tell us it was no accident that Donald Trump came along to lead this country out of peril and no coincidence that at the same time the Catholic Church was itself within an inch of selling its authority to globalists and abandoning its mission, that a simple parish priest in La Crosse, Wisconsin, few had ever heard of, hurled a message that shook the giants of both the Church as well as the titans of politics as surely as the stone thrown by David at the forehead of Goliath. 

 Prior to now, conservatives in the Church have been shamed to be more compassionate and charitable.   As voters we were told to drink at the font of compassionate conservatism, illuminated by the "points of light" ---- whatever the hell that is.  We have been trained to not be hard hearted or mean spirited.  To meet people "where they are," to dialogue endlessly with those we disagree. To donate your $$ to organizations with happy "nice sounding" titles without question and accept the idea Doctrine must evolve to meet the needs of a connected world.  

 And just when the Church hierarchy at the very top and globalist new world order believers were in lock step, you could say,.... a king of industry, construction, and financial deal making came along and said no to their plans and a little disciple with a vow to preach the truth in a small Midwestern town said what had long needed to be said.  They along with those of us who take inspiration from them can be sure that the inconceivable can happen when it is the desire of righteous men and the will of God to intervene on their behalf.

 We must never forget, the rulers of this world are no different than the enemies of the chosen nation of God in the Old Testament.  They opposed His laws and His hierarchical order for mankind.  They refused to obey.   And the giants then, (see Numbers 13:1-33) who fought their battles, are no different than the wicked among the clergy today that claim power over our souls.  It is the hope of these evil doers that they will prevail against us, but our hope is in the power of God to protect and guide us through this and all storms of life.