Just a few days after the Cardinal of Westminster and his buddy at the liturgical congregation in Rome, a know-nothing named Roche distort and literally lie about the ancient liturgy, the Vicar of Rome has declared an outright war, banning the sacraments beyond Mass, sacramentals and the Easter Vigil at the FSSP and the whole Triduum elsewhere. This action by the Vicar of Rome is not exclusive. This writer knows of specific cases close to home with similar decrees.
Concurrently, Cupich in Chicago has taken on the Mass himself no doubt threatening the very existence of the ICRSS and the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius.
Yet, while this evil is going on and this writer has warned about the intransigence of some the so-called faithful Catholic trads have used other blogs to deride this writer. One out there by some guy named Fred which I viewed once and will not again is one. The other is of my good friend Barona at Toronto Catholic Witness who send me these:
Barona won't be publishing these, he sent them to me to do so. You have proven me correct.
You fail to understand ecclesiology. You fail to understand corporation sole and basic property rights. You fail to understand legitimate authority whether you happen to like it or not. You continue at TCW and some guy named Fred and probably others by now to point to this writer while the collapse is all around you. You are no doubt, all Americans, all influenced by evangelical protestant heresy and do not think as Catholics, do not discern as Catholics using the whole body of Catholic teaching and thought of two millennia.
Let me give some basic facts about the law in Ontario. The Chief Medical Officer of Health has been given extraordinary powers due to a declared pandemic. Many of these powers have existed in the revised Health Protection Act for more than a century, since the Spanish Flu. This masking in public places including churches is a mandate under the Act. The bishops have instructed all to follow the civil law and have made their own commands to ensure it. You may not like it but that is the way it is in Ontario. You may wish to debate the justification of the law, the pandemic itself, that is a different debate.
Let us look at what the Catechism has to say:
Authority
does not derive its moral legitimacy from itself. It must not behave in a
despotic manner, but must act for the common good as a moral force based on
freedom and a sense of responsibility: A human law has the character of law to
the extent that it accords with right reason, and thus derives from the eternal
law. Insofar as it falls short of right reason it is said to be an unjust law,
and thus has not so much the nature of law as of a kind of violence.
Authority
is exercised legitimately only when it seeks the common good of the group
concerned and if it employs morally licit means to attain it. If rulers were to
enact unjust laws or take measures contrary to the moral order, such
arrangements would not be binding in conscience. In such a case, authority
breaks down completely and results in shameful abuse. —Catechism of the
Catholic Church , nos. 1902-1903
The
citizen is obliged in conscience not to follow the directives of civil
authorities when they are contrary to the demands of the moral order, to the
fundamental rights of persons or the teachings of the Gospel. Refusing
obedience to civil authorities, when their demands are contrary to those of an
upright conscience, finds its justification in the distinction between serving
God and serving the political community. “Render therefore to Caesar the things
that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” “We must obey God
rather than men” (Acts 5:29): When citizens are under the oppression of a
public authority which oversteps its competence, they should still not refuse
to give or to do what is objectively demanded of them by the common good; but it
is legitimate for them to defend their own rights and those of their fellow
citizens against the abuse of this authority within the limits of the natural
law and the law of the gospel. —CCC, n. 2242
I suggest that "despotic" acting governments are of grave concern but this is debate on how far some have gone. The "common good" is a debatable point - I have taken Cardinal Collins to task for using this to the promotion of injection, not a mask. A mask in a pandemic is not unreasonable. The obligation of conscience not to follow involves the fundamental right of the person not to receive an unwanted medical intervention, not use fabric to prevent the transmission of a virus - whether or you think it works is not the point.
More importantly, the Mass is worth crawling on broken glass to get to. A mask is a minor inconvenience. People have died for the Mass. You choose to stamp your feet like a spoilt child.
To suggest that it is worth shutting down the Mass rather than wearing a mask proves that you are a faithless and hopeless cretin. To use this logical and moderate series of posts on this matter over a very real situation when the Devil is prowling for destruction as evidenced above proves you are in his control. Sadly, you're proving Bergoglio's very argument in Tradtionis Custodes about those people. You have fulfilled the evil monsters Alinskyite actions and played right into his hands and those of Cupich, Roche and others.
You have proved me absolutely right.
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