Cardinal Collins' "virtuous" public health official Dr. Eileen "Cruella" de Villa accuses religious gatherings of super sreading the CCP Virus - but what is this about her investment portfolio?

Dr. Eileen "Cruella" de Villa is the Chief Medical Officer of Health for the City of Toronto and the woman singularly responsible for the lockdown insanity still underway in this metropolis. A child herself of two doctors and originally from the Philippines, we must presume that de Villa was at least raised a Catholic, or maybe her parents were. Dr. de Villa is also married to a doctor. Richard Choi, a Toronto Cardiologist, is associated with St. Joseph's Health Centre and holds significant financial interests in AstraZeneca, BMS/Phizer and Sanofi as well as Boehringer Ingelheim/Lilly HLS, Novartis and Bayer - all in one way or another developing gene therapies and vaccines against the CCP virus. 

Suffice to say, the de Villa/Choi couple are making a lot of hay from Covid. In the video below from CityPanic 24 also known as Constant Panic, de Villa continuously speaks of vaccines from which her family is enriching itself. 

Yet, for someone presumably raised as a Catholic and certainly within the world of science one would expect more from the "virtuous" doctor than this quote from the nterview yesterday on Toronto's CP24.

When will life in the city return to normal? Toronto's top doctor answers COVID-related questions | CP24.com

Where is the proof that de Villa provides to back up this statement that there "were a number of cases, clusters and outbreaks" from churches? Where is the data? Are we not to "follow the science?" or do we just believe anecdotal suppositions from the elite global pharma peddlers? There "were" a number of cases? When, in March 2020? I do not recall hearing of any outbreaks here in southern Ontario. Is de Villa referring to some scattered outbreaks in the United States? Where in Canada did this happen? Where in Ontario? Where in the greater Toronto area? If we believe in science, where is the data? 

Read between the lines. As I surmised a few posts below, de Villa has no intention of loosening the "grey zone" diktat in Toronto and no intention of relenting or recommending to Premier Ford that there should be an easing up on church attendance to thirty-percent from the current ten-person limit.

No doubt, the person asking the question was either Neil MacCarthy, Communications expert for the Archdiocese of Toronto or a good soul following Thomas Cardinal Collins' request to send letters to Members of the Provincial Legislature and Premier.

On March 10, Father Edward J. Curtis, Chancellor of Spiritual Affairs for the Archdiocese of Toronto issued a memorandum outlining the regimented restrictions on Holy Week services, "depending on the restrictions in place," where the parish might be, thus presuming that in some places, there will be No Holy Week For You.

Thomas Collins has been played by his once "virtuous" public health officials. He has reacted too late and too slowly and has yet to rally the courage in himself to take this fight to the courts where he would be laughed out for waiting for toolong. He has failed to stand up to the diktats of imbeciles such as Doug Ford and a medical establishment making millions from this crisis. 

Make no mistake, Holy Week and Easter are in lockdown, again. I'd be happy to be wrong.

The fault is at the feet of Thomas Collins who cast his lots and lost.

I have followed the Cardinal's request - below is my letter

To Christine Hogarth, MPP, Etobicoke-Lakeshore

Dear Christine,

The letter below was written by a professional marketing expert hired and paid for from the cathedraticum of the faithful. I do not agree with the genteel language, though I support the theme. As much as it is a disgrace on your part and that of Premier Ford, the lateness of our Catholic Archbishop to this matter is scandalous and repugnant. But, I suppose it is better late than never. I have written you numerous times and have spoken with your staff. While your staff are to be commended for their understanding that is only as far as any praise can go.

Yesterday, I drove down Allanhurst Road in Etobicoke to find a crew of dozens and dozens on a movie crew. Yet, every Saturday we see people arrested at Dundas Square for executing their God-given and constitutionally protected rights to gather and protest the diktats of government overlords. We see pastors and people fined and threatened with imprisonment. When did we become China! Has it's virus infected our brains as well as our bodies?

The Cardinal, to his shame, has ceased the public offering of Holy Mass because he could not grasp how to cope with the ten person limit. This is his doing, not Ford's. However, the person limit itself is non-sensical. Thirty-percent is a bare minimum. This action on your part and that of the Government which I voted for is a disgraceful infringement on religious rights. It is repugnant and you are responsible for it.

Shame on you and your colleagues, except for Roman Baber and Belinda  Karahalios who had the courage of conscience and their convictions. Doug Ford has proved himself to be a dictator and has succeeded in silencing you as my Member of the Provincial Parliament and that is a disgrace which will be remembered on election day.

Here is the Cardinal's His Excellency Mr. Neil MacCarthy's recommendation who, as with the GSA's is "handling it."

Dear Christine Hogarth

I am grateful for your service, especially over the past year. I am writing today as someone who finds comfort in my faith and recognizes the essential work undertaken by places of worship throughout the province.

That’s why it’s so hard to understand the restrictions currently in place for religious organizations. In grey (lockdown) areas, only 10 people can be inside a church, temple, mosque or synagogue. Yet retailers can open up at 25% capacity. This inequity must be addressed immediately. 

I have seen first-hand the impact that my local faith community has provided to those in need, offering spiritual, mental and physical support. Many of those they serve do not have access to technology and need to gather in person. This has been done in a safe and responsible manner for many months. A strict limit of 10 people in a facility that can accommodate hundreds or even thousands does not make sense. 

Please advocate for places of worship and address this inequity as soon as possible with your colleagues. Any future restrictions should be based on capacity and the current restrictions must be amended as soon as possible. 

Thank you for sharing these concerns directly with your colleagues and Premier Ford. I await your reply regarding this extremely important issue.

 

Thomas Cardinal Collins - why the sudden change to challenge the Premier in a most genteel manner?

Let us try, not just this writer but all of us, let us try to consider what has finally caused the Archbishop of Toronto, Thomas Cardinal Collins to finally, no matter how weak and ineffectual it may be, finally decide to confront the Premier over the unjust treatment of religious services. However, before doing so, we must remember that it was not Doug Ford that closed our churches and cancelled religious services, all he did was limit the occupancy to ten persons, it was Collins who stopped the public celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. 

It is clear to this writer that the Cardinal knows he has made a grievous error. Unfortunately, for whatever reason and I won't speculate, he has refused to acknowledge it, apologize for it and rectify it. Rather, he has done a minor adjustment with his conjured up service of Holy Communion and reluctantly allowed Mass for funerals and weddings at the ridiculous provincial limit. In the two posts below, the recent letter issued and links to the petition letters can be found. https://www.archtoronto.org/en/outreach/news/archdiocesan/a-call-to-action-from-cardinal-collins-end-covid-19-restriction-inequities/

As of midnight last night, Toronto and Peel were put into the "grey" category which still limits Mass attendance to ten persons. It is only in red that it returns to the niggardly thirty-percent. We are in this grey category for two weeks and in the days leading up to March 22, it will be reassessed. Grey could be extended for two weeks or we move to red and return to thirty-percent. Now, what is coming up in this period. If we move to red on the 22nd of March then we have Palm Sunday and if not then it is not until April 5 which is right after Easter.

Collins sees what is coming. He also believes what I believe. That the Mayor of Toronto, John Tory and the Chief Medical Officer of Health will advise the Premier not to return Toronto to red until after Easter. This is why he is now in full panic mode. They will keep us out to reduce family contact and religious ritual and he knows it, I know it and you know it.

In March of 2020, I and many went along with the restrictions because we did not know what we were dealing with and reports from the World Health Organization indicated a death rate approaching three-percent - hundreds of thousands in Toronto alone. "Three weeks to stop the spread," they said, "bend the curve" we were told. We accepted it but it is now about much more than that and it is unacceptable that Thomas Cardinal Collins did nothing for these four months, even if we accept the situation one year ago. He has allowed himself to be overrun by incompetent bureaucrats. accountants, lawyers and public health officials whom he calls "virtuous" but are from it.

If, on the other hand, I am wrong, Cardinal Collins will take all the credit for finally getting Doug Ford to listen and allow religious services. At that point, it will be obvious to all that it is not his success but evidence of his complete failure. Had Collins rallied the faithful in November, we would acted, we would have had an effect. Now, Ford will laugh. It is my view that few Catholics will respond.

I predict now that this blog headline on April 4, 2021 will be, "Happy Easter and there is still, for the second year in a row, No Mass For You. I will be pleased to be wrong.

Here is the suggested letter on the diocesan web page.

Dear MPP is named,

I want to thank you for your service to the province. I know the past year has involved long days and time away from loved ones. Thank you.

The pandemic has been tough on all of us and we understand the need for restrictions to protect ourselves and others. Yet I can’t help but feel that faith communities are not being treated equitably when I look at the latest restrictions implemented by the province.

In the “lockdown” (grey) regions, retailers can now open at 25% capacity yet places of worship are limited to 10 people maximum. It doesn’t matter whether the church, temple, mosque or synagogue can normally accommodate 150 or 1,500, they can only have 10 people present.

I know what my own faith community has done to protect me and others during the pandemic. It’s been incredible – hundreds of volunteers, cleaning between services, masks, distancing, all done responsibly. So why are they being penalized?

I urge you to immediately address this unfair approach. I believe our places of worship provide essential services. At minimum, they should be given an opportunity to open with a percentage of capacity, whether it is in grey zones now or when considering any restrictions in the future.

Please amplify my concerns in conversation with your colleagues and Premier Ford.

I very much look forward to hearing from you on this important matter!

Your name.

It's the Third Sunday of Lent and the Toronto Star writes that the "Archbishop" says that it "Makes no sense" but in spite of that, Collins still says that there is

No doubt, Toronto Archdiocesan communications expert Neil MacCarthy has been hard at work cajoling the usual anti-religious and anti-Catholic Toronto Star to give a little publicity over the "Archbishop's" letter to us, his "Friends," particularly if it goes against Doug Ford as  conservatives. Even progressive ones like Ford are not the Star's favourites. The Toronto Star features an article based upon the letter issued Friday by Cardinal Collins which you can read one post below. The Star highlights the comments that the continued restriction on religious services "makes no sense."

Oh dear, we've put down the glass of gin, woken from our stupor only to clutch our pearls. 

No, it makes no sense.

It makes no sense that the Archbishop of Toronto who now is afraid of being irrelevant and that this last year and what is to come is his legacy, is the same one that threatened in a leaked webinar to "shut you down... I will shut you down," to any priest who would defy him or the "virtuous" public health officials on the rites of Holy Communion.

It makes no sense that the same episcopal shepherd who waxes on in a homily in the empty Cathedral about persecution and being "cancelled" does it to his own priests.

It makes no sense that the Cardinal went along with the closing of churches in March 2020 for more than two or three weeks to "flatten the curve." 

It makes no sense that Collins cowered in fear to the "virtuous" public health officials who demanded to control our religious rites on how Holy Communion is administered. 

It made no sense that the Cardinal should arbitrarily eliminate the right to our rites without considering any creative alternatives such as this. - No Holy Communion at Mass, by appointment only, in private as an individual or a family group, on the tongue if requested with all sanitary precautions taken before and after. Simple, no? Some Catholics have not had Holy Communion now for nearly a year, especially those who attend traditional Latin Masses, when they can, if they could.

It makes no sense that the Cardinal agreed that when churches opened at thirty-percent, people could not sing, even whilst wearing a mask. 

It makes no sense that when the Premier dictated the non-sensical diktat to limit services to ten persons that the Cardinal shut down the public celebration of Holy Mass. entirely. That was the Cardinal, not the Premier. Yet, he says now, "it makes no sense." He could have followed the communion manner above, ordered every priest to offer two or three Masses a day in every parish. Do you know how many priests are at St. Michael's Cathedral? Nine. That's right, nine, plus him. That is ten Masses per day, or twenty, times nine people. As ridiculous as that limit is, he did not do it. He locked the doors completely. He did not say to Doug Ford, "I'll see you in court." That, makes no sense.

It makes no sense that Cardinal Collins suggested that parishes should be open daily for private prayer but did not order it. Many, maybe most, stayed locked up and shuttered. 

It makes no sense that Cardinal Collins has let our few Protestant brethren who at least have zealous faith be alone in going to court in Toronto, such Peter Youngren Ministries while others in Ontario face massive fines or even jail, such as Pastor Jacob Reaume.

It makes no sense that Thomas Cardinal Collins did not use his position a year ago, or at least, four months ago, to garner the whole Christian and religious community, evangelicals, protestants, and others to confront the Premier in the public square and the courts and to stand up for our rights.

Your Eminence, I agree with you, your leadership and reaction and lack of action over the last year, "makes no sense."

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/03/06/makes-no-sense-archbishop-slams-covid-restrictions-that-allow-more-people-inside-a-liquor-store-than-a-church-funeral.html

Now, is the "appropriate time" Cardinal Collins? Now? A year after the fact? Four months after you shut down the Mass?

Hinting just a week ago that he would threaten to get the laity riled up to write General Secretary Ford of the Ontario Politburo about the abrogation of religious freedoms, Cardinal Thomas Collins has today, after missing it for the last twelve months, hit the broad side of the barn. Let us all rejoice and be glad. Playing on a scriptural theme, according to Collins, "Now is the acceptable appropriate time for us to respectfully amplify our concerns."  

No Eminence, the acceptable and appropriate time was four months ago, even twelve months ago when this abomination began. On February 27, I wrote:

"The Cardinal, in a letter earlier this week, seemed to threaten that he might, in a rare moment of courage, just perhaps, possibly could just might actually, consider and actually may beg, plead or ask, Comrade Ford and the Ontario Politburo to relent. He then had the temerity to ask the good people of the Archdiocese of Toronto to engage in a letter or telephone campaign to implore, beg, cajole, beseech and otherwise grovel to our politburo masters if we could "please, Sir, may I have some more," Mass when it was he, himself, that shut it down."

Addressing the laity in Doug Ford style salutation, "My Dear Friends," Collins has just discovered that the public worship of God is more "essential" than renting out a church hall to a group of fifty for a movie crew.

"A few days ago, a movie scout contacted one of our churches to inquire whether the basement hall could be used to feed a crew of 50 people. “We have dispensation from the province and strict protocols will be enforced.” Later in the week, the priest presided at a funeral in the same church, limited to 10 people inside (including himself).

Which of these do we consider more essential?" Card. Collins

How ironic. How hypocritical of the man who shut down the public celebration of the Mass after the Feast of Christ the King last November. Four months ago. He did that. Not the ignoramus Ford. Collins did it. Collins has sat by watching this abomination of the Ontario government and only now, four months later, has decided to rile up the laity. It won't' happen. The people are depressed, disheartened and beaten from spiritual and psychological warfare and abuse. Ford's diktats removed the already limiting thirty percent occupancy to ten persons. Rather than fight this unconstitutional attack on religious freedom or join with courageous evangelical protestant pastors in their protests and court challenges, Cardinal Collins did nothing and even went so far as to exceed the province's actions, shutting down public Mass entirely, limiting the Sacraments and shuttering churches. He can whine that he asked priests to open churches and reach out, many did, many did not. He asked, he did not order and now regrets it. He went along with the Premier and his so-called, "virtuous" public health officials and now has buyer's remorse. "I do not believe that our elected officials and medical officers of health consciously intend to supress (there typo) religious freedom," wrote Collins. 

In the letter, he urges the laity to write to the Premier which can be done on this web page link provided by the Cardinal in his letter. A Place to Worship

"The province has relaxed restrictions in Grey (Lockdown) regions, with retailers permitted to operate at 25 percent capacity. Yet places of worship, regardless of whether they seat 100 or 1,000 people, must remain at a hard cap of 10 people. Next week, a funeral at St. Michael’s Cathedral (capacity 1,500) will be capped at 10 people, while around the corner dozens can enter the local liquor store and thousands will visit the Eaton Centre. This makes no sense."  Card. Collins

Good grief, Your Eminence, has this writer not been telling YOU this for four months? 

Tell me, Your Eminence. Why would you expect Doug Ford to respond to us, or to listen to us, or to respond to our letters or needs when you yourself refuse to do so? You have ignored the pleas of the laity and now you expect the Premier to do otherwise. 

A second Holy Week is on the chopping block, Your Eminence. And you did it. 

I can hear the Premier laughing at you already.

cardinal-collins---archdiocesan-mailing-list-communication---march-5-2021.pdf (archtoronto.org)

Bergoglio's Vatican betrays the Blessed Mother and praises the devil Mahomet

Is there anything else that this evil monster won't do? What a disgusting, blasphemous pathetic man. No sane Catholic would ever do this. 

May God deliver us from this false shepherd.

"The same folks to bring you “Abrahamism”—the idea that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are intricately connected—have narrowed their sights on promoting Mary, the mother of Christ, as “a Jewish, Christian and Muslim woman,” in the words of Catholic priest Fr. Gian Matteo of the Pontifical International Marian Academy. In a ten-week webinar series titled “Mary, a model for faith and life for Christianity and Islam,” the academy will seek to present Mary as a bridge between the two religions."

"If few Christians today know about this Islamic claim, medieval Christians living in Muslim-occupied nations were certainly aware of it. There, Muslims regularly threw this fantasy in the face of Catholic and Orthodox Christians who venerated Mary as the “Eternal Virgin.” Thus, Eulogius of Cordoba, an indigenous Christian of Muslim-occupied Spain, once wrote, “I will not repeat the sacrilege which that impure dog [Muhammad] dared proffer about the Blessed Virgin, Queen of the World, holy mother of our venerable Lord and Savior. He claimed that in the next world he would deflower her.”

From Raymond Ibrahim ...

Vatican Betrays Virgin Mary for Prophet Muhammad – PJ Media

Statue in the Church of Our Lady in Dendermonde, Flanders (Belgium). They show the late 17th-century pulpit, sculpted in wood by Mattheus van Beveren.  The person subdued by the angels and having a Koran in his hands is Mohammed. The sculpture represents the triumph of Christianity over Islam.  

Toronto Bishop's email hacked.!

Well, this is interesting. 

On February 9, 2020, Neil MacCarthy Director, Public Relations & Communications for the Archdiocese of Toronto wrote a memo to all clergy, parishes and staff regarding the email account of Bishop John Boissonneau. It had been "compromised" or hacked, the day before. It was a "Rogers" account. Having my email service from them myself, I know the security is pretty good. For example, the password one uses to log in through Yahoo is not the password that one uses to manage the account. Further, the password for Outlook, if one is using that as one's email program, is actually provided by Rogers, so the security seems pretty sound.

Anyone who wishes to write to the Auxillary Bishop for the Northern Region can use these emails.

northern.region@archtoronto.org or office@bishopboissonneau.com 

To all those in Simcoe who now find themselves again in the situation where there is 

You're welcome.

Odd, no? I mean, where would someone be browsing or visiting that something might infect their email? 

Tis Good Lord to Be Here, but not in most of the Archdiocese of Toronto, because Cardinal Collins says that here, there is

How much longer, Eminence, will you cower before priests who refuse to offer the Sacraments and open their churches? 

How much longer, Eminence, will you cower before the diktats of an egoist, unchurched, ignoramus Premier who has neither common sense nor an intelligent quotient above room temperature in order to govern rather than cower in fear before a modern day Mengele! 

How much longer, Eminence, will you cower before “virtuous” public health officials, who have used psychological warfare on the public and a Mayor that laughs behind your back? 

How much longer, Eminence, will you engage in this spiritual abuse that you have put upon the faithful by cooperating with this evil? 

Advent. Christmastide. Epiphantide. The Gesimas. Ordinary Time, if you will. Ash Wednesday. Lent I, II. Is Holy Week next? No Triduum for the second year? Easter, gone? My bet is, yes!

Quite the legacy. 

Cowardice. Hypocrisy. Abandonment of the sheep by a false Shepherd.

Shameful!

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1 'Tis good, Lord, to be here!

Thy glory fills the night;

Thy face and garments, like the sun,

Shine with unborrowed light.

2 'Tis good, Lord, to be here,

Thy beauty to behold,

Where Moses and Elijah stand,

Thy messengers of old.

3 Fulfiller of the past!

Promise of things to be!

We hail Thy body glorified,

And our redemption see.

4 Before we taste of death,

We see Thy kingdom come;

We fain would hold the vision bright,

And make this hill our home.

5 'Tis good, Lord, to be here!

Yet we may not remain;

But since thou bidst us leave the mount,
Come with us to the plain.

Archdiocesan Toronto Catholics in Simcoe County - After only one week, there is No Mass For You! Is York Region next?

After only one week, it appears that the Chief Medical Officer of Health in Simcoe County, part of the Archdiocese Toronto, has developed irritable bowel syndrome and has ordered General Secretary Ford of the Ontario Politburo to deploy what His Excellency, Mister MacCarthy calls in his latest memo to all clergy and parish staff, the "emergency brake." Thus, after only one week, in Simcoe County, there is now:

Of course, Comrade Ford has actually not banned the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in public, he has insanely and simply and arbitrarily with no basis in science, reduced religious services and ritual to a maximum of ten. This means that with a little work and creativity, Mass could go on, publicly, to a maximum of ten. However, never to be outdone by political fascists, our episcopal fascists have once again, doubled down and shut down entirely, the public celebration of Holy Mass. After only one week!

There is no other phrase to describe this action on the part of His Eminence Mr. Neil MacCarthy, Thomas Collins as spiritual abuse!

Archdiocese of Toronto - Simcoe County Moving to Grey (Lockdown) as of Monday, March 1, 2021 (archtoronto.org)

The Cardinal, in a letter earlier this week, seemed to threaten that he might, in a rare moment of courage, just perhaps, possibly could just might actually, consider and actually may beg, plead or ask, Comrade Ford and the Ontario Politburo to relent. He then had the temerity to ask the good people of the Archdiocese of Toronto to engage in a letter or telephone campaign to implore, beg, cajole, beseech and otherwise grovel to our politburo masters if we could "please, Sir, may I have some more," Mass when it was he, himself, that shut it down.

The Cardinal, who cancels priests and then waxes on in homilies online about being cancelled and begs the laity to back him up and write to demand answers when he refuses to respond to the laity and their emails, letters and phone calls, has quite the nerve.

There is a word that our Lord Jesus Christ used for this.

"But woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men, for you yourselves do not enter in; and those that are going in, you suffer not to enter." Matthew 21:13

The effect of this on the people of Simcoe will be profound. The future economic survival of our parishes to say nothing about the loss of faith is now at greater risk.

It is the legacy of Cowardinal Thomas Collins.

Cardinal Collins to the faithful - "We will be asking for your assistance in contacting our elected officials to amplify our voices."

 It was back on November 18, 2020, that I first wrote about Thomas Cardinal Collins shuttering Archdiocese of Toronto churches. He intended to move from the government diktat of thirty percent occupancy to fifty persons, even in churches that would hold 500, 800 or 1,200. A few days later, after the Premier reduced occupancy to a maximum of ten persons, the Cardinal ordered the cessation of public Mass. The label No Mass For You with a picture of the Cardinal taken from a leaked webinar video with his finger rising in the manner of the Seinfeld Soup Nazi, emphasized clearly what he was doing to the lay faithful. The Cardinal NAZI. The clericalist extraordinaire. Mass for me. Sacraments for me. None for you. On Thursday, November 26, 2020, I wrote an open letter to the Cardinal. I have consistently, sometimes daily, urged the Cardinal to repent of this error and to challenge the provincial diktat and stand up for our religious rights. I have urged him to join with other Christian pastors in the fight. I have urged him to dare the Premier to arrest him and his priests. 

In a stunning letter today, four months later and four months, no; eleven months too late, Cardinal Collins actually has the temerity to indicate that he is about to call upon the Catholic faithful to send a letter to the Premier and elected Members to beg them to return to us, our rights. The Cardinal writes of equity and rights and the numbers permitted in retail but not in worship. Where has he been? Have we not been saying this for months, nearly a year?

This is the same man who in the leaked webinar video referred to the public health officials that he has cowardly allowed to do this to the Church and the faithful as "virtuous." He failed to stand up to these virtuous cretins who put our religious rights as less than our right to buy marijuana. 

I wrote that he should have kept churches open and fought and defied the reduction to ten. That he should have ordered every priest to comply with his order or face suspension and to defy the government through the opening of churches with proper precautions - as we did from June to November. He admitted that there was no data that supported the suspicion that the virus was being transmitted in churches. He went along with all the diktats of politicians and public health minions and did nothing, nothing at all to confront them, nothing more than a phone call or putting his failed communications director on it. The same one who told Toronto priests, "we're handling it," with regards to so-called gay-straight alliances in Catholic schools. Yes, they handled that all right, as bad as they handled this.

It's an embarrassment. It is laughable that only now has he awoken from his slumber, only now, he worries about our spiritual needs, only now, does he consider that he might, just in case, ask us to write a letter or make a phone call. Does this woeful Shepherd think we've not been? At least, those of us to care enough?

I guess the money is running out. Yes, that is it. It's all about the money. Even Andy MacBeth has realized that and earlier this week opened St. Margaret of Scotland for private prayer. What happened, Father, a little blog publicity? 

The cowardice, the betrayal and the legacy of failure of Thomas Collins is a pathetic indictment on his whole tenure as Archbishop which will come to an end in a year. He has sold us out for less than thirty pieces of silver to the radical secularists. He gives homilies now about persecution. Well, this is the man that opened the door to it by failing to stand up when necessary. Failing to rally the Catholic faithful when it would have meant something. Now, he offers a vacuous and ineffectual threat that he might ask us to write a letter, an email or pick up a telephone.

It won't happen, Eminence. The people have been abandoned by you to the secularist wolves. You failed when it was necessary to act in March 2020 and November 2020. It is simply too little, too late. It won't work. The political class is laughing at you.

What a failure. What a coward. What a legacy.

February 24, 2021
 
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
 
Lent is a penitential season in which, each year, we prepare ourselves for the celebration of Easter by following the call of Jesus to engage in prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. This past year of pandemic has itself been a kind of penitential season, forcing us to consider our human fragility, and the stark fact of sickness and death.

Many people have experienced great privation, which has come uninvited, and not as a penitential choice. And yet, just as the voluntary penances of Lent can lead us to a deeper appreciation of our human frailty – the fact that we are dust and to dust we shall return -  and of our need for God, so too we pray that these involuntary privations may be experienced in a way that will lead not to fruitless anger, but to a deeper self-awareness, and to compassion for our neighbours who are suffering.
 
Especially in a time of crisis, our sacramental life is essential. Here is an update on the operation of churches in the Archdiocese of Toronto. As of this writing, the following restrictions remain in effect for places of worship in the archdiocese:

• Durham Region, Simcoe County, Orangeville and York Region churches – these areas have returned to the “Red” (Control) designation, as determined by the Province of Ontario. This permits churches in these regions to operate sacramental celebrations at 30% capacity.
   
• Toronto and Peel Region churches – the province, in consultation with local medical officers of health, has extended the stay-at-home order in these regions until at least March 8, 2021, restricting places of worship to no more than 10 people (including the celebrant) in the church at any given time.

I am heartened that public Masses have returned to more than 35% of our parishes. Where this is not yet possible, I have asked all parishes to remain open each day for a period of private prayer. Permission has also been granted to parishes in these regions to continue to offer Holy Communion services on the weekend. Please check with your local parish regarding their current schedule.
 
I am grateful for the many sacrifices that you have made over the past 11 months. Throughout the pandemic, out of love for neighbour, in an effort to minimize the transmission of Covid-19, we have followed the health authorities’ direction on significant restrictions, limiting the ability of the faithful to gather. This has resulted in great spiritual sacrifice and pain for all of us, and especially for those who are isolated and vulnerable.
 
Despite temporary restrictions, we need to worship together, and to return to our full sacramental life as soon as is possible. We continue to urge that places of worship be treated equitably by the province; for example, it is only fair that there be a consistent approach to restrictions as they relate to retail businesses and to places of worship. Recently, a coalition of faith leaders has written to Premier Ford, highlighting the essential nature of in–person communal worship and spiritual support. If the government does not address these issues sufficiently, we will be asking for your assistance in contacting our elected officials to amplify our voices.
 
Once again, thank you for the sacrifices you have made. We pray for those who have died and for those who are sick, as we pray that this pandemic may soon come to an end. May God continue to bless you.
 
Sincerely in Christ,

Thomas Cardinal Collins
Archbishop of Toronto

 

Food for thought! Toronto pastor preaches "veganism" from pulpit - says we have a: "Vegan-god!"

 

The Pastor at St. Ambrose Parish in Toronto's Alderwood neighbourhood is featured in Cardinal Collins' Catholic Register promoting veganism. Reverend Donatello Iocco had a traumatic experience watching a Netflix film. "It just moved me so much seeing animals suffer and being so scared of the human hand," said Iocco in the diocesan-owned Catholic Register.

I am sure that Father feels the same about the slaughtering of the innocent in the womb and the quote could have read, "It just moved me so much seeing babies suffer and being so scared of the human hand."

"Eden was vegan," says the vegan priest. (Yes, before the "Fall" as our erudite commenters have noted - which according to Blessed Anne Katherine Emmerich happened on the first day!) What does Holy Scripture actually say? Shall we look first at Genesis 1:28:

"And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth."

Further on we read Genesis 9:1-4:

"And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. 2 The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the air, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered. 3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. 4 Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood."

Note that God says that "Every moving that that lives shall be food for you." The only restriction he puts on it us is that we don't eat an animal that is alive or slaughtered and not drained of its blood. That is what it says. As an animal lover and someone who loves a good tenderloin or lingcod, there is no contradiction. We must love God's creation and treat it with respect. We are educated, civilized and cultured and caring people and advanced societies. Our animals should be slaughtered with humane considerations - the unnecessary suffering of an animal is never acceptable. On this, we would have no argument. Even our native ancestors in North America understood that and revered the animals they slaughtered for food and clothing even thanking God for it, in their own way.

The Catholic Register of this Archdiocese reports that Iocco has been not so subtle with his parishioners - actually lecturing them from the pulpit - a place reserved for the Good News of Salvation, not politically or ideologically inspired messages of a personal nature:

"As an impassioned new convert to the plant-based lifestyle, Iocco soon began preaching to his congregation about the virtues of compassionate eating, presenting statistics where possible, but admits he did receive some pushback. Some congregants were not ready for that message, even quoting the Old Testament and Paul in the New Testament to show eating meat is biblically permitted."

This is a totally inappropriate use of the pulpit. How does this not result in a rebuke from his bishop rather than publicity in the diocesan press?

UPDATED:

At the parish website, Father promotes fishless Fridays by suggesting that we choose "plant-based" fishless fillets. Poisson Poison! Fabricated food that this priest suggests we put in our bodies. He even has the temerity to advertise a product and retail outlet. 

In the parish bulletin, he promotes recipes and web pages on veganism as an ideology.

Veganism appears to be Father Locco Iocco's new religion. Perhaps he needs to discern his vocation - he should have been a holistic nutritionist! But then, he would figure out that these plant-based food products are nothing more than laboratory chemicals and highly processed poisons.

By the way Father. The altar cloths are to be white!

304. Out of reverence for the celebration of the memorial of the Lord and for the banquet in which the Body and Blood of the Lord are offered, there should be, on an altar where this is celebrated, at least one cloth, white in color, whose shape, size, and decoration are in keeping with the altar’s structure. When, in the Dioceses of the United States of America,  (IDENTICAL IN CANADIAN EDITION OF THE MISSAL AND GIRM PRINTED IN THE FRONT - no longer online) other cloths are used in addition to the altar cloth, then those cloths may be of other colors possessing Christian honorific or festive significance according to longstanding local usage, provided that the uppermost cloth covering the mensa (i.e., the altar cloth itself) is always white in color. General Instruction on the Roman Missal, (GIRM)

Father was trained at St. Augustine's Seminary in Homiletics, no doubt. Has he forgotten what was taught or was he taught there that this is suitable? Not only is it inappropriate, but I would also argue that it is objectively sinful and abusive - he has people hostage and he chooses to push an agenda that is not about Christ, not about doctrine or morals and has no basis in Holy Scripture. In fact, if he is telling his flock from the pulpit what he says in the video below or in the article, he is outright misleading and lying. 

In June 2019, Father appeared on a YouTube video by a group called In Defense of Animals. Sadly, the poor priest displays a gross ignorance of Scripture and history.

The best starts at 52 minutes.

"God has never commanded us to eat meat," says Father. But what of this given which is very relevant to our season of Lent? As well-formed Christians, we know that the Lamb of the Passover was a precursor to the real Lamb of God, Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Paschal Lamb Itself, slaughtered and sacrificed for our sins and eaten by the priests and the people. Below is the first Passover. It sounds like a command to me.

“3 Speak ye to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, and say to them: On the tenth day of this month let every man take a lamb by their families and houses. 4 But if the number be less than may suffice to eat the lamb, he shall take unto him his neighbour that joineth to his house, according to the number of souls which may be enough to eat the lamb. 5 And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one year: according to which rite also you shall take a kid. 6 And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month: and the whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice it in the evening. 7 And they shall take of the blood thereof, and put it upon both the side posts, and on the upper door posts of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. 8 And they shall eat the flesh that night roasted at the fire, and unleavened bread with wild lettuce.”

He continues that "God has given us a vegan diet, he commands that. That's his will. God's will is for us to eat a vegan diet."

3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. 4 Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood."

Father's ignorance of scripture and history is astounding and the blame for this must fall on his formation at St. Augustine's Seminary in Toronto. How can any priest make a statement such as, "God does not want (blood) sacrificial offerings" and link "the blood of lambs and goats" to eating meat? He continues that "Jesus said himself, I want kindness and not animal sacrifices." He suggests we Google, "Jesus as a vegetarian." He goes so far as to state that Holy Scripture is only affected by history and culture. He continues that we only eat meat because "after the flood, there was no vegetation to eat?" If that were true, how did the dove find the olive branch? He blames it all on the poor translation of Greek, Hebrew and Latin. 

Yet, we know that this is simply untrue. Father is either suffering from a delusion or is intentionally misleading. We know that Jesus ate the Passover meal which must include meat - specifically, lamb. We know that he ate fish as evident when he appeared to the apostles after the resurrection.

"We have a vegan God," according to Reverend Iocco. Such blasphemy.

Look, I'm sure Father Iocco is a nice guy, probably a very kind man. This reflects more on his formation and the abandonment of parish priests by their bishops. It speaks of a priest with too much time on his hands to watch Netflix. It speaks of a system that leaves pastors alone and on their own. No community. It speaks of a man who would preach from the pulpit a political agenda filled with manipulation and a made-up interpretation of scripture. The pulpit is no place for this kind of propaganda.

This is an indictment of the leadership of the Cardinal and his recent predecessors, his Auxiliary Bishops, his Seminary leadership and the entire clericalist structure of the Church in Toronto that has allowed such ideas to be foisted upon the faithful. The faithful that suffers for solid preaching of the Good News of Salvation, the efficaciousness of redemptive suffering, the cause of life and freedom of religion and trust in God, especially at this time. They have a right to sound homiletics, not political and ideological leftist bile from the pulpit.

Father has a right to be a vegan. He does not have the right to foist his views on the people in his parish in a Mass, nor does he have a right to his own private and quite incorrect interpretation of scripture as a Catholic priest and then to preach it publicly. 

First Sunday of Lent and it's all the way back to before Christ the King and yes, it has been that long since in Toronto, there has been

 

As of Tuesday, February 16, General Secretary Ford of the Ontario Politburo reduced some of the draconian suspension of civil rights in Ontario. In most of the Archdiocese, geographically speaking, Mass today is back at thirty percent capacity. In the population centre, however, of Toronto and Peel (Mississauga and Brampton), the limit is still ten. Collins refused to allow Mass for so few persons so has rather substituted a contrived service of Holy Communion. Toronto and Peel will have no public Mass for at least the Third Sunday in Lent thanks to the fearful Dr. Eileen "Cruella" de Villa's whipping of Collins and General Secretary Ford of the Ontario politburo. 

Your Divine Office for today. Divinum Officium

Prayers of the Mass. TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS PROPERS IN ENGLISH: FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT (tridentine-mass.blogspot.com)

If you work at the Vatican, get the needle or get a new job!

Bishop of Rome Bergoglio's minions have threatened Vatican staff with dismissal describing it as "interruption of employment" if those without valid medical exclusion refuse to take the Chinese Communist Party virus, gene-therapy injection.

The so-called "vaccines" which alter a person's genetic make-up and not provide the traditional infective protein, have been tested using the stem lines of hundreds of children murdered in the womb.

Bergoglio and his alleged theologians have twisted themselves in pretzels to justify that the "vaccine" is ethical and is not a cooperation with evil. Allegedly, Bergoglio and Ratzinger have both taken it.

Vatican mandates COVID vaccine for employees (catholicregister.org)

Not only have these two benefited, allegedly, from the death of those children, they have recommended it to all of us and have threatened the rights of those in their employ who will have conscientious objection to it for the abortion matter or concern over its safety.

Their judgement will be most severe.

May the LORD free us soon from these evil men and those who would ally to follow them. May JESUS CHRIST THE KING destroy convert or destroy these wicked clerics and send us a holy pope to restore the Church and our societies. 

ROME (AP) — The Vatican is taking Pope Francis’ pro-vaccine stance very seriously: Any Vatican employee who refuses to get a coronavirus shot without a valid medical reason risks being fired. 

A Feb. 8 decree signed by the governor of the Vatican city-state says that employees who opt out of vaccination without a proven medical reason could be subject to a sanction up to and including “the interruption of the relationship of employment.” 

The directive cited the need to protect Vatican employees in the workplace, as well as guidelines issued by Francis’ advisory COVID-19 commission, which said individuals have a moral responsibility to get vaccinated “given that refusing a vaccine can constitute a risk for others.” 

The decree sparked heated debate Thursday, since its provisions go well beyond the generally voluntary nature of COVID-19 vaccinations in Italy and much of the rest of the world. The Vatican is an absolute monarchy in the heart of Rome that operates independently of Italian law and Italian labor protections. 

In a statement late Thursday responding to questions about the decree, the Vatican City State governorate’s office defended the measure but denied it infringed on the rights of employees. It said it was issued as an urgent response to a public health crisis and reflected the need to protect individual workers and the broader community. 

The statement said the reference to a 2011 norm allowing for the possible firing of an employee who refuses preventive health care measures was not punitive in nature. Rather, the statement said, it is “a tool providing a flexible and proportional response to the need to balance the health care of the collective with the freedom of choice, without resorting to any repressive means vis a vis the employee.” 

Some Catholics and other believers have expressed faith-based concerns about vaccines because some of the ones available were indirectly connected to research that used aborted fetal cells. The Vatican’s doctrine office has judged it morally acceptable for Catholics to receive COVID-19 vaccines, including those that relied on research that used cells derived from aborted fetuses. 

Vaccines are not mandatory in Italy, where Europe’s coronavirus outbreak erupted this time last year and which has the highest pandemic death toll of any European country except Britain. Some doctors and nurses who have expressed anti-vaccine sentiments or skepticism about the virus have been threatened with professional sanctions. 

The Italian government’s bioethics committee said in November that while it couldn’t rule out the need to require vaccines for members of highly exposed groups, such as medical personnel, any move to mandate COVID-19 jabs must be “discussed within their professional associations and be revoked as soon as there is no longer a significant risk for the collective.” 

The Vatican, which has around 5,000 employees, is on its way to becoming perhaps the first country to complete its adult vaccination campaign. The Holy See’s health service began inoculating staff member and their families in January with the Pfizer vaccine. Francis himself has received both of the needed doses, and the Vatican has expanded its vaccine offerings to also cover homeless people in the area. 

Francis has frequently spoken about the need to ensure that vaccines are widely available, especially to the poor and marginalized.

Cardinal Collins promotes abortion/gay/womynpriest tolerant "nun" Joan Chittister to support vocations!

How do you pronounce this? Is it a "ch" or does it have an "s" sound reminiscent of Bergoglio's fascination with coprophagia?

Really, Your Eminence. We can do better.

When you really promote coprophagian poppycock like this is it any wonder why there are few vocations?

What young man in their 20's has ever heard of Chittister, let alone agree with her? Anyone who researches here will flee.

TORONTO CATHOLIC WITNESS: Archdiocese of Toronto promoting pro-abortion Joan Chittister

Rush.

Rest in peace, you God-fearing Patriot. 

The Indispensable Man: Rush Limbaugh, 1951-2021 :: SteynOnline

Gregorio Allegri: Miserere

Psalm 50 [1] Unto the end, a psalm of David, 2 When Nathan the prophet came to him after he had sinned with Bethsabee.

50:3 Have mercy on me, O God, * according to thy great mercy.

50:3 And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies * blot out my iniquity.

50:4 Wash me yet more from my iniquity, * and cleanse me from my sin.

50:5 For I know my iniquity, * and my sin is always before me.

50:6 To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil before thee: * that thou mayst be justified in thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art judged.

50:7 For behold I was conceived in iniquities; * and in sins did my mother conceive me.

50:8 For behold thou hast loved truth: * the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me.

50:9 Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed: * thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.

50:10 To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: * and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice.

50:11 Turn away thy face from my sins, * and blot out all my iniquities.

50:12 Create a clean heart in me, O God: * and renew a right spirit within my bowels.

50:13 Cast me not away from thy face; * and take not thy holy spirit from me.

50:14 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, * and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.

50:15 I will teach the unjust thy ways: * and the wicked shall be converted to thee.

50:16 Deliver me from blood, O God, thou God of my salvation: * and my tongue shall extol thy justice.

50:17 O Lord, thou wilt open my lips: * and my mouth shall declare thy praise.

50:18 For if thou hadst desired sacrifice, I would indeed have given it: * with burnt offerings thou wilt not be delighted.

50:19 A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit: * a contrite and humbled heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

50:20 Deal favourably, O Lord, in thy good will with Sion; * that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up.

50:21 Then shalt thou accept the sacrifice of justice, oblations and whole burnt offerings: * then shall they lay calves upon thy altar.

V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.

R. As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.50:3

 

Miserére mei, Deus, * secúndum magnam misericórdiam tuam.

50:3 Et secúndum multitúdinem miseratiónum tuárum, * dele iniquitátem meam.

50:4 Ámplius lava me ab iniquitáte mea: * et a peccáto meo munda me.

50:5 Quóniam iniquitátem meam ego cognósco: * et peccátum meum contra me est semper.

50:6 Tibi soli peccávi, et malum coram te feci: * ut justificéris in sermónibus tuis, et vincas cum judicáris.

50:7 Ecce enim, in iniquitátibus concéptus sum: * et in peccátis concépit me mater mea.

50:8 Ecce enim, veritátem dilexísti: * incérta et occúlta sapiéntiæ tuæ manifestásti mihi.

50:9 Aspérges me hyssópo, et mundábor: * lavábis me, et super nivem dealbábor.

50:10 Audítui meo dabis gáudium et lætítiam: * et exsultábunt ossa humiliáta.

50:11 Avérte fáciem tuam a peccátis meis: * et omnes iniquitátes meas dele.

50:12 Cor mundum crea in me, Deus: * et spíritum rectum ínnova in viscéribus meis.

50:13 Ne proícias me a fácie tua: * et spíritum sanctum tuum ne áuferas a me.

50:14 Redde mihi lætítiam salutáris tui: * et spíritu principáli confírma me.

50:15 Docébo iníquos vias tuas: * et ímpii ad te converténtur.

50:16 Líbera me de sanguínibus, Deus, Deus salútis meæ: * et exsultábit lingua mea justítiam tuam.

50:17 Dómine, lábia mea apéries: * et os meum annuntiábit laudem tuam.

50:18 Quóniam si voluísses sacrifícium, dedíssem útique: * holocáustis non delectáberis.

50:19 Sacrifícium Deo spíritus contribulátus: * cor contrítum, et humiliátum, Deus, non despícies.

50:20 Benígne fac, Dómine, in bona voluntáte tua Sion: * ut ædificéntur muri Jerúsalem.

50:21 Tunc acceptábis sacrifícium justítiæ, oblatiónes, et holocáusta: * tunc impónent super altáre tuum vítulos.

V. Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

R. Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

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 From Toronto Catholic Witness.

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Our Lady of the Assumption Toronto and its pastor Sherwin Hernandez - what's going on?

Here is a little oddity in the "Arch" of Toronto.

The pastor of Our Lady of the Assumption parish on Bathurst Street in the west end of Toronto has been suddenly removed and sent to live "in residence" at St. Boniface. 

He has been replaced by the pastor of Prince of Peace parish in Scarborough who will continue on as pastor of both. Odd, no?

Surely the pastor of much closer neighbouring parishes could administer in the interim.

The bigger question is, what is going on at the Church of Our Lady? What do the people know? 

Did someone get a fancy new Architectural Digest kitchen as at Our Lady of the Rosary under the Boys of St. Basil?

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And even at these two Toronto parishes there is still