“I understood that devotion to the Sacred Heart is a last effort of His love towards Christians of these latter times, by proposing to them an object and means so calculated to persuade them to love Him… This devotion was the last effort of His love that He would grant to men in these latter ages, in order to withdraw them from the empire of Satan which Jesus desired to destroy, and thus to introduce them to the sweet liberty of the rule of His love, which He wished to restore in the hearts of all those who should embrace this devotion.” -St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, vision of the Sacred Heart, 1673
Blessed Feast of the Sacred Heart, an object and means so calculated to persuade you to love Him, if even in a fraction of the way He loves you.
123 The Church was founded by the God-Man Jesus Christ. 124 Christ founded the Church in order to continue His work of redemption for all time. 125 Christ gave his Church and hierarchical constitution. 126 The powers bestowed on the Apostles have descended to the bishops. 127 Christ appointed the Apostle Peter to be the first of all the Apostles and to be the visible Head of the whole Church, by appointing him immediately and personally to the primacy of jurisdiction. 128 According to Christ’s ordinance, Peter is to have successors in his Primacy over the whole Church and for all time. 129 The successors of Peter in the Primacy are the bishops of Rome. 130 The Pope possesses full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the whole Church, not merely in matters of faith and morals, but also in Church discipline and in the government of the Church. 131 By virtue of Divine right the bishops possess and ordinary power of government over their dioceses. https://www.padreperegrino.org/2022/10/infallible/
Bergoglian Synodality means laypeople in offices of governance, something that is entirely impossible. Holy Orders are a prerequisite for governance.
Even Google AI understands it:
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Yes, the Catechism of the Catholic Church indicates that
Holy Orders are necessary for governance within the Church, as it is the sacrament through which Christ’s mission continues to be exercised. Specifically, the Catechism refers to Holy Orders as the “sacrament of apostolic ministry”.
Here’s why Holy Orders are essential for governance:
Sacred Power: Through the sacrament of Holy Orders, ordained ministers (bishops, priests, and deacons) receive a “sacred power” which is a participation in the unique priesthood of Christ. This sacred power is for the service of the faithful.
Ministerial Priesthood: The ministerial priesthood of bishops and priests is specifically directed at building up and leading the Church.
Teaching, Sanctifying, and Governing: The ordained ministers exercise their service by teaching, divine worship, and pastoral governance.
Bishops’ Role: Bishops, in particular, oversee the governance of the Church in their respective dioceses. They hold the full sacrament of Holy Orders and have the sacred right and duty to make laws, pass judgment, and moderate everything pertaining to the ordering of worship and the apostolate.
Hierarchical Structure: The Catholic Church is structured hierarchically, with the Pope at the top, followed by bishops, priests, and deacons. This structure ensures that the Church operates cohesively and effectively.
In summary, the Catechism emphasizes that Holy Orders, particularly for bishops and priests, are not only for spiritual purposes but also for the crucial function of governing and leading the Church in accordance with Christ’s mission.
Zohran Mamdani, a self-identified far-left democratic socialist, has secured the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor after defeating former Governor Andrew Cuomo. His sweeping far-left progressive platform—centered on government-run grocery stores, free public buses, universal childcare, defunding the police, protecting criminal illegal aliens, and rejecting President Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda—has triggered renewed concerns over ideological extremism in the dangerous sanctuary city. More broadly, it has reignited fears of communism spreading across the nation.
The current mayor, Democrat Eric Adams, is expected to appear on the November ballot as an independent candidate. His challenger on the Republican ticket is Curtis Sliwa—a radio personality and founder of the Guardian Angels anti-crime patrol—who previously lost to Adams in the 2021 mayoral race.
Tuesday’s news of foreign-born Zohran Mamdani defeating Cuomo in the Democratic primary sent shockwaves through political circles on X, sparking widespread concern over the rise of anti-American far-left extremism…
“The last 13 years of demoralization from Rome has made desperate Western Catholics ready to follow anyone, even another non-Catholic. They are willing to “disbelieve their lying eyes” on the evidence pointing to yet another Marxist. Why? Consider again the words of KGB-defector Yuri Bezmenov on a dejected people: “A person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information, with the authentic truth, with documents, with pictures. Even if I take him by force… he will refuse to believe it.””
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Today is the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, born without the stain of Original Sin, thanks to the miraculous grace of his gestational Baptism at the moment of the Visitation. When John leaped in the womb of Elizabeth, at the approach of the Blessed Virgin carrying our Lord in her own womb, John was Baptized in his own amniotic fluid. Pretty cool.
That moment of his Baptism, the Visitation, is the Second Joyful Mystery of the Most Holy Rosary. The fruit of the mystery is Fraternal Charity. St. John loved our Lord, and so he loved the law. The two things go together like a horse and carriage; you can’t have one without the other, as the song goes. As the great Forerunner of Christ, John never suffered from mission creep, and his mission was to point to the truth: Point to our Lord, and point to the Law.
For this he would give his life.
The reason for his beheading was his intransigence on the Commandments, which he loved dearly, because he loved our Lord. But I repeat myself. The subject matter in this case was the sanctity of marriage. Fraternal Charity is exactly what St. John was practicing when he rebuked Herod over his adulterous sham “marriage.” St. John laid down his life out of love of our Lord, out of love for His law, AND FOR THE SAKE OF HEROD’S SOUL. That’s Fraternal Charity, folks. We would do well to meditate on this, and pray to be given an ounce of his courage. We are going to need it.
St. John the Baptist, pray for us.
At that time, Herod himself had sent and apprehended John, and bound him prison for the sake of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he had married her. For John said to Herod: “It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother’s wife.” Now Herodias laid snares for him: and was desirous to put him to death and could not. For Herod feared John, knowing him to be a just and holy man: and kept him, and when he heard him, did many things: and he heard him willingly. And when a convenient day was come, Herod made a supper for his birthday, for the princes, and tribunes, and chief men of Galilee. And when the daughter of the same Herodias had come in, and had danced, and pleased Herod, and them that were at table with him, the king said to the damsel: “Ask of me what thou wilt, and I will give it thee.” And he swore to her: “Whatsoever thou shalt ask I will give thee, though it be the half of my kingdom.” Who when she was gone out, said to her mother, “What shall I ask?” But her mother said: “The head of John the Baptist.” And when she was come in immediately with haste to the king, she asked, saying: “I will that forthwith thou give me in a dish, the head of John the Baptist.” And the king was struck sad. Yet because of his oath, and because of them that were with him at table, he would not displease her: But sending an executioner, he commanded that his head should be brought in a dish. And he beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a dish: and gave to the damsel, and the damsel gave it her mother. Which his disciples hearing came, and took his body, and laid it in a tomb. -Mark 6:17-29
Imagine how many sleeper cells were allowed to walk into the country the past four years. If you know anything about the softness of soft targets, and the incapacity of local LEO to contain even a small coordinated force, you would understand what a big deal this is. The illegals in LA managed to disarm LAPD with flags in one hand and rocks in the other. Imagine Iranians with AKs vs soft targets.
“The ongoing Iran conflict is causing a heightened threat environment in the United States. Low-level cyber attacks against US networks by pro-Iranian hacktivists are likely, and cyber actors affiliated with the Iranian government may conduct attacks against US networks. Iran also has a long-standing commitment to target US Government officials it views as responsible for the death of an Iranian military commander killed in January 2020. The likelihood of violent extremists in the Homeland independently mobilizing to violence in response to the conflict would likely increase if Iranian leadership issued a religious ruling calling for retaliatory violence against targets in the Homeland. Multiple recent Homeland terrorist attacks have been motivated by anti-Semitic or anti-Israel sentiment, and the ongoing Israel-Iran conflict could contribute to US-based individuals plotting additional attacks.”
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I’m having flashbacks to 2003, having to explain to neocons yet again that you cannot just go to war with a country that hasn’t done anything to you. At least back then (Iraq), they could blame blinded by “patriotism.” It doesn’t matter how much intel you think you have about WMDs, nukes, whatever. If the other country has taken no action against you, your preemptive aggression is unjust. While there are other, more nuanced aspects of Just War Theory, this one here is basic enough for a third grader to understand. Needless to say, the fact that this was done as proxy for a third country makes it even worse.
