In the Scriptures Jesus warns us, “Do not give dogs what is Holy; and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot and turn to attack you.” (Matt. 7:6).
St. James also gives a severe warning in his letter, “Unfaithful creatures! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”(James 4:4)
Reporting on the presence of unmarked graves in the vicinity of Residential Schools, the Trudeau controlled press called them “mass graves” to imply that some sort of genocide had taken place at the hands of the Catholic Church who was running some of the schools. Trudeau jumped at the opportunity to fan the flames by publicly demanding that Pope Francis personally come to Canada to apologize to the indigenous people. (Pope Benedict XVI had already received a delegation of Canadian Indigenous leaders at the Vatican in 1969 when he formally apologized). What Trudeau’s press did not report was that in the 2014 final report of The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, they said that the primary cause of the failure to protect the lives and wellbeing of the children was mainly due to government policies, underfunding and mismanagement. Trudeau successfully put the blame on the Catholic Church which resulted in over 60 churches being vandalized and some being burnt to the ground. Trudeau refused to condemn the violence.
The only Canadian bishop who spoke up against Trudeau was Bishop Emeritus Fabian Henry of Calgary who addressed a letter to Trudeau pointing out that the bishops of Alberta had already apologized in 2014 saying, “We also express our apology and regret for Catholic participation in government policies that resulted in children being separated from their families and often suppressed Aboriginal culture and language at the Residential Schools.” He emphasized to Trudeau the regret he had that the Church ever had participated with the government policies. i.e. “Do not throw your pearls before swine… lest they turn to attack you.”
Another example where the Canadian bishops cooperated with the government was through their social justice division called Development and Peace. Using money collected from unsuspecting Catholics, Development and Peace accepted money from the government and then found themselves partnered with secular NGO’s who promote the use of artificial contraception and abortion. Do not give dogs what is Holy”
Closer to home, The Sisters of St. Martha agreed to turn over their hospital in Antigonish, NS to the government with the written agreement that the Catholic policies regarding sterilizations, abortions and euthanasia would be respected and maintained. In short order the government separated one of the buildings attached to the hospital, declared it to no longer be part of the hospital and set up facilities there for murdering people using their MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) program. “Do not give dogs what is Holy.”
With regard to the experimental drug which the government calls a vaccine and which is developed using embryonic stem cells from aborted babies, the bishops decided to cooperate with them and even encourage Catholics to get the ”Jab”. The Catholic Church teaches that “One may never do evil so that good may result from it.” (CCC - 1789 ). If this teaching is true then we should never expect good to come from this so called vaccine. Having given the stamp of approval for the abortion tainted vaccine, the bishops at the same time gave the green light to drug companies to continue using cell lines from aborted babies to develop whatever products they wish. The use of aborted babies and baby body parts for experimentation is a long standing partnership between drug companies and the abortion industry. Since the initiation of the experimental drug as the only government approved treatment for Covid-19, the number of instances of adverse effects is growing exponentially. The serious adverse effects from taking the experimental drug, include heart damage, Bells Palsey, brain bleeds, strokes and deaths. The government continues to promote the “Jab” in spite of the evidence revealed that it is not effective in preventing the spread of the current variant of Covid-19. The result is that the majority of people being hospitalized due to the virus are those who have received the “Jab”.
The Canadian bishops have further cooperated with the government’s Covid-19 program to address the so called “pandemic” by agreeing to close our churches and deny access to the Sacraments of Holy Eucharist, Confession and the Sacrament of the Sick. In the past where the Communist governments of Russia and China forcibly closed our churches we had no trouble identifying it as evil. Today our bishops willingly close our churches in exchange for money; even though “we can never use evil means to accomplish a perceived good.” In return for their cooperation the government imposed the most severe Covid-19 restrictions on churches. A person could go to Wal-Mart, the liquor store or get an abortion but he wouldn’t be able to go to his brother’s funeral because only 5 people could attend in a church that could hold a thousand people. “Don’t throw your pearls before swine… lest they turn and attack you”
There is nothing more powerful than the Truth and eventually people will be made aware that Covid-19 does not meet the standard of a Pandemic, (115 fewer people died in Nova Scotia in 2020, the year of the “pandemic”, than in 2019.) Further, there is no scientific evidence to support the effectiveness of wearing masks, imposing lockdowns, and enforcing social distancing as a means of preventing the spread of the virus.
The history of the Canadian bishops’ willingness to cooperate with the world began with the issuing of the Winnipeg Statement in 1968 where they effectively rejected the Church’s constant teaching that condemns the use of artificial contraception. Giving priority to individual conscience over God’s commandments, they chose to cooperate with the world. “Unfaithful creatures! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? (James 4:4) There was a rumour at the time that a great bi-partisan party was held on Parliament Hill to celebrate the end of the influence of the Catholic Church on Canadian politics. There can be no question that this measure was the springboard for the proliferation of the sexual revolution in Canada. The widespread use of contraception among the population, including Catholics, led to fornication, adultery, divorce and abortion. Within the next few years with Pierre Trudeau acting as Justice Minister, the laws prohibiting the sale of artificial contraceptives, and pornography were lifted. This was followed by decriminalizing homosexual acts which eventually led to recognizing same sex marriage. The homosexuals reasoned that a sterilized woman was equivalent to a man. There was no meaningful opposition by the Canadian Bishops to these measures.
When the laws governing abortion were struck down by the Supreme Court in 1969, politicians refused to introduce new legislation leaving Canada to be the only country in the world with no laws to protect the unborn, even from partial birth abortion. While the Canadian bishops authorized annual Sunday collections for the compromised Development and Peace, there were no collections to support Pro-Life efforts. The ongoing fight for the Right to Life for the unborn was carried out by the laity while the bishops remained mostly silent.
It is interesting that the Canadian bishops would allow Catholics to use their own conscience to defy the Church’s teaching against the use artificial contraception which it describes as a moral evil, yet they won’t sign a letter to support a Catholic’s conscientious decision to reject the abortion tainted “Jab”. Confusion?
A physiatrist from New York, Rollo May stated that there are three evidences of the presence of the diabolical in a society, “Pornography, Violence and Confusion”. Pornography has never been more prevalent in our society then it is today. Through the internet there is an endless supply of pornographic material accessible for anyone, including our children. Stemming from it we see the destruction of the moral fabric of our society which leads to the violent sexual abuse by predators against the defenseless, especially women and children. The latest form of violence is the surgical mutilation of children who suffer from gender dysphoria. With the false idea that using artificial contraception constitutes safe sex, we see widespread heterosexual and homosexual fornication which has led to a pandemic of venereal diseases. Because of the unwarranted faith put in the use of artificial contraception, there has been a huge increase in unplanned pregnancies which has led to the genocidal murder of over 100,000 per year of innocent Canadian citizens, children in their mothers’ wombs.
When we consider confusion as one of the evidences of the presence of the diabolical in our society we need only observe the performance of those who are supposed to be the leaders and protectors of our Church and society. Prime Minister Trudeau and many members of the Liberal Caucus claim to be Catholics yet they promote the murder of innocent children and the weak vulnerable members of our society who are lured into the government’s assisted suicide program. There is no outcry from the bishops and so it is not surprising when a Canadian population who predominately profess to be Christian elect a pro-abortion Liberal government. For Prime Minister Trudeau and his Liberal Party, there are not enough babies in Canada to satisfy their lust for killing so that they send taxpayer money in the amount of 600 million dollars to fund reproductive services (abortion) in third world countries.
Canadian bishops and priests have been complicit in the deterioration of the moral fabric of our country by their silence. It is they who swear a Sacred Oath before God to teach what the Church teaches and to defend the Faith. In too many cases they are committing fraud, since they had no intention of carrying out their commitments. They prefer to cooperate with the world by embracing the heresy of the Modernists who reject the teachings of the Scriptures, Sacred Tradition and the Magisterium of the Church. The foundational objective of the Modernists is to conform the Church to the modern world and they have no regard for St. James warning,” Unfaithful creatures! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?”
Modernists are heretics who refuse to leave the Church. The danger they pose to the Church is expressed by Pope St. Pius Xth “Nor will God err in accounting them the most pernicious of all the adversaries of the Church…they put their designs for her ruin into operation not from without but from within; hence the danger is present almost in the very veins and heart of the Church. (“Pascendi Dominici Gregis”)
The Modernist heresy is a plague on the Church but as with all of the former heresies in the Church, the Holy Spirit will ultimately defeat it. The Church teaches that, “Before Christ’s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will unveil the ‘mystery of iniquity’ in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah to come in the flesh.” (CCC 675)
We have to discern the signs of our times. In an address presented in the United States in 1976, by Pope John Paul II, as then Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, warned,
“We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has ever experienced. I do not think that the wide circle of the American Society, or the whole wide circle of the Christian Community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-church, between the gospel and the anti-gospel, between Christ and the Antichrist.”
We must pray for the conversion of Modernists who are living a dangerous error which makes them enemies of God and traitors to Jesus Christ and His Church. Jesus warns traitors, “The Son of Man goes as it is written of Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.” (Matt.26:24). In the Book of Revelation, Jesus reveals the fate of traitors saying, “But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” (Rev. 21:8)
For faithful Catholics living through this current crisis in the Church, it has become a painful challenge to our faith. But Jesus foretold of these times when He said, “And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. And because wickedness is multiplied, most men’s love will grow cold. But he who endures to the end, will be saved.” St. James however, challenges us not to lose hope when he calls us to, “Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”
Have no doubt that Jesus Christ, the King, is in charge of His Church and that all things will work for the good of those who love Him.
Thy Kingdom come!