915: THE INCONVENIENT CANON

I am grateful to that grand lady, Mrs Daphne McLeod of Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice for bringing to our attention the existence of a petition to be addressed to Rome regarding the forgotten Canon 915, which requires the withholding of the Sacred Species from those who are in manifest grave sin.

The petition information can be found here:  http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/discipline-dissenters-apply-church-law/

Not that respecting the gravity of the situation means anything to prelates like Donald Wuerl or to ubiquitous online "supercanonists" who twist themselves into knots trying to make the Canon mean something it does not.  But here is the situation in a nutshell: priests, Bishops and Cardinals are giving Holy Communion to public sinners and persecutors of the Church like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, pro-abortion politicians, etc.  Full stop.

Now either we believe that the Holy Communion wafer contains the Body and Blood of the Son of God, or we don't.   I have no idea what Donald Wuerl believes and others like him but I do know what the Church believes and  teaches on this simple point.  One does not need to have a degree in Theology to know what receiving God unworthily lets us in for.

We were taught that before receiving the Holy Eucharist we were to confess our sins especially serious, mortal sins to a priest before we could approach the altar rail.  Perhaps we missed Mrs Pelosi and Mr Biden in the Confession line but I cannot recall them amending their pro-abortion, pro-sodomy ways after their unworthy reception of Communion.

The question must always be asked if petitions to Rome ever do any good.  It's a reasonable question.  I have no answer to it, alas.  How many petitions were sent to Rome about the unspeakable Rembert Weakland which went unanswered and ignored?  He was never removed.  He removed himself only after being exposed as a poof.  The same with Cardinal O'Brien.  The list goes on.  Regardless of whether petitions do any good or not, or to what extent they do some good, it is praiseworthy to let the Vatican know, especially in cases of outrages as horrifying as this that Christ should be mocked no longer.

We at The Eye Witness commend Daphne McLeod, and the members of the Catholic Truth Society, for organizing this vital work.

"Joanna", from marypages.com

TALES OF THE LOVING LGBT COMMUNITY

Jeffrey Curley, who had the misfortune of meeting someone who was "born that way"

Again we remind our readers as best we can of the ravages of the lifestyle of the perverse, and once again we warn you that the details of the case we present are hideous.  We trust the wise leaders of the Boy Scouts might take note, as well as some wise men in the Church, such as Cardinal Danneels, who are so worried about hurting the feelings of child-molesting homosexuals.

The late Father Andrew Greeley claimed to know some secrets about the homosexual mafia well ensconced in the Archdiocese of Chicago.  He intimated that they were responsible for at least two murders.  I am not surprised, and the story I will refer you to bears out what everyone knows about that side of poofdom that no one wants to talk about.

But we want to talk about it:  http://www.freedomisknowledge.com/otw/barbaracurleyintro.htm

Mr and Mrs Curley, whose son was murdered by a homosexual

THE HEALING OF RUSSIA

There is a nagging thought going through our heads here at The Eye-Witness that something wonderful is happening in Russia.  This poor country, which has suffered multiple crucifixions over the last century and before, would appear to be emerging from the swamps and entering into a phase of restoration.  Are we perhaps witnessing a Russian renaissance?

Today we hear news of another small but important indication that makes one wonder if Russia is to be the country that will henceforth be doing Heaven's work.  Our friends at The Eponymous Flower blog site alert us to this happy development in the land loved by the Blessed Virgin Mary:

http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2013/06/russian-pro-morality-bill-passes-west.html

And then there is this news, also startling in nature, and hardly insignificant:

http://www.romereports.com/palio/russian-faithful-allowed-corpus-christi-procession-after-95-years-english-10214.html#.UbiR9diW5a8

Within one week we see the pernicious sodomites in Russia slapped down again (following other recent moves to limit the influence of the homosexual contagion) and we see a Corpus Christi procession process through the streets unfettered.  While America and other countries are continually blackened by crimes against nature being foisted upon the citizens by their own government we see, in an amazing reversal, Russia going in the opposite direction.  Russia was once the persecutor of peoples; will it now be their rescuer?

Russia is ruled by a man named Vladimir Putin.  Whatever his faults may have been in the past or in the present he is the polar opposite of the creeps and criminals who are elected to high political office in America.  Russia still, to this admittedly uninformed observer, is making a mistake or two, like being overly deferential to the US government on certain crucial issues and being far too trusting of the likes of Mr Obama.  Perhaps that will change in time.  If the resistance on the part of Russia's leaders to help out in another US/Israel war of aggression in Syria is any indication perhaps Russians will begin to realize that these two countries are oppressive and rotting from the inside.  One hopes Russia will begin to smell the stench and keep its distance from these two troubled regimes.

Dear Russia had its Lenins, its Trotskys, its Stalins and its secret police goons.  Russia is slowly cleansing itself from these past evils.  America, conversely, is embracing them and is fast turning into a tyranny worse than the Nazi and Communist ones.  The Communists and the Nazis killed the bodies of men; the American oligarchs want to kill men's souls - by forcing men to abandon simple decency and morality using the legal system, the corporate-controlled media and the full force of government organs of oppression.

Predictably the media is literally foaming at the mouth over Russia's great and sensible move to limit the spread of perverse propaganda.  It is amusing watching and reading their comments on this.  We suggest you glance at them as well, and enjoy the spectacle of these spluttering, spittle-dripping commissars decrying Russia for coming back to its senses.

There is still much to be done in that holy land to bring back normalcy.  Among other things Russia is still plagued by abortion, a crime that makes Heaven not only weep but think of vengeance.  Eighty years of pro-abortion propaganda and abortions from the Communists has, tragically, made it acceptable.  To eradicate this unspeakable evil may, sadly, take some time, but with God all things are possible.  Catholics know that Russia's complete return to happiness and God's good graces would be facilitated if only our Popes would have listened to the very words of the Blessed Virgin some 90+ years ago.  But cowardice and contempt have prevented them from acting on the instructions they were given.  Like the King of France, who also dithered before acting on Heaven's command, great misery will come to them for this refusal.

Nevertheless, the Mother of God loves Russia.  These recent events are the obvious proof of that.

UPDATE 15 June 2013:

We saw this at The Remnant webiste, and thought we should pass along these words of genuine wisdom:
http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=10522

THE TYRANT HAS NO CLOTHES

In the event that you may not have been aware of what has been going on in the Benighted States of America, the worldwide all-seeing eye of Big Brother has been watching you, every day, all the time.  The Fourth Amendment is now officially dead, joining the other deceased protections from government predations that Americans once enjoyed.

Two tyrants, the hapless and stupid George Bush and the evil and mendacious Barack Obama, have set in motion a system of surveillance unprecedented in the history of the world.  Up until now the cut-rate Stalins who have been our "presidents" have, through fear and intimidation, kept this all under wraps.

Until now.  A whistleblower has come forward.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance?CMP=twt_gu

The two Official Parties have said little to nothing, other than such deeply thoughtful men as Republican Senators Lindsay Graham and John McCain, the two who never met a war they didn't like, who are both cheering on the junior G men trashing our right to be left alone and unbothered by a ubiquitous police state.  A few Senators, like the execrable Dianne Feinstein, are calling for the whistleblower's extradition and, presumably, lynching.

Washington and New York feel pretty confident that they have nothing to worry about.  They think it will all blow over and that everyone will soon settle back onto their couches and watch the latest raw sewage pumped from Hollywood (and  New York.  Always New York) via our TV screens, splashed into our homes.  Perhaps they haven't anything to worry about from weak-willed Americans who don't want to get "involved".  We shall see.

But the extent of the abuse is, every day being more and more revealed.  For instance, this morning we read the startling news that another country has been doing some of Uncle Sam's dirty work:

http://www.businessinsider.com/israelis-bugged-the-us-for-the-nsa-2013-6

No free people will survive when this sort of thing is allowed to continue.

All conflicts are religious in nature, even this one when you look at it dispassionately.  And given the clear signals that the US government has been sending, namely: that Catholics are in their crosshairs (as are any others who might get uppity and oppose Organized Buggery and Organized Sadism), we might start to begin taking this seriously.

Our Catholic brothers in France have shown the way when they converged on Paris to fight state-imposed sodomy.  What are we going to do here in America about things like this?

UPDATE 13 June 2013:

It gets stranger and stranger:  http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/shady-companies-nsa/2/

SATURDAY NIGHT CATHOLICS

The Cathedral at Rheims

I realize that the title of this little piece might be taken in an offensive manner by some but it is not intended so.  Rather, it is our small contribution to the effort of keeping holy the Lord's Day.  Which is Sunday.  Not Saturday.

Obviously, the situation I am referring to is the now common practice of Roman Catholics keeping their Sundays free for relaxing, shopping, sports and fun by getting Holy Mass out of the way on the previous Saturday night...preferably around 4:30, so that it doesn't interrupt the dinner hour.  Everyone knows about this; it is unnecessary to elaborate.  Drive by any Catholic church around 4:30 on a Saturday evening and just count the parked cars.  There will be far more than the ones parked there for the 8 a.m. Sunday Mass the next morning.

My very dear Catholic friends, this is a bad idea.

Who and what brought us to this sorry pass?  It is of course the result of those liberalizations to the Church which came in the late 1960s as a result of that Council.  Rome granted this Saturday evening Mass concession and that action has opened up a number of serious problems in both Church and State.  This writer can still remember a time when most stores were closed on Sundays (indeed up until two years ago most stores in England were still closed on Sundays).  That all went by the boards in the late 60s and early 70s.  In most dioceses today the largest Mass attendance figures, apart from the Big Holy Days, are found on Saturday night.  There are two very grave problems with this.  The first is that it has the effect, unintended or not, of erasing the idea in the Catholic mind of keeping holy the Lord's Day.  The second problem is that it increases another activity that is repugnant to God: doing unnecessary servile work on the day of rest.  If we all flock to Wal-Mart or the malls on Sundays we force people to not keep their Sundays holy by doing servile work for their bosses on that day.  This is in addition to our being tempted to shop and spend on a day that should be devoted to Our Lord, our family and our rest.

When the Church, in a very misguided move, allowed the Saturday night "anticipatory" Mass it opened up the Pandora's Box that we are now faced with: Sunday is just another day in the week to spend money and have fun.  The Church still, amazingly, has not recognized the folly of this move.  Not one in a thousand clerics ever mentions these problems.  [Please write to let us know if and when some brave priest or Bishop has brought this up.  We would welcome such information.]  I am deliberately avoiding the issue of the utter banality and ugliness of most of the Masses people have to attend in order to fulfill their Sunday obligation; that is a story for another day.   The problem is that we are not keeping this clear, unequivocal Commandment demanded by our Creator Himself on Mount Sinai.  I hesitate to say that we are telling God that we will decide how to spend our time on His day.

Not a few Saints have stated that the two sins that offend God the most are taking His name in vain and not keeping holy the Lord's day.  If this opinion is true should it not give us all pause?

This is not the time to get into that red-herring discussion about which day is the "true" sabbath, a discussion that is pointless and leads people away from the central issue.  That question, for those interested, was written about in an interesting article found here.

There are those who will say that the Church has the right to make disciplinary adjustments and exceptions.  And, of course, it does.  What is forgotten, however, is the idea that sometimes those adjustments are problematical or imprudent.  The charism of infallibility does not protect the Church or the Pope with regard to disciplinary changes; they are either good, not so good, or poor.  Examples of disastrous disciplinary changes approved by the Vatican abound but two should settle the argument: altar girls and Communion in the hand.  Those two decisions have wreaked havoc on doctrine, liturgy, the sacred and any sense we ever had of Catholicity.  The great Bishop Athanasius Schneider has written well on the debacle of Communion in the hand, and the idiocy of altar girls has been well and truly exposed by the late Michael Davies.  We needn't cover that ground here.  We know these were tragic mistakes.

And so was the decision to allow an anticipatory Saturday evening Mass.  If we would but look at what this has done to doctrine alone, how it has sown the seed of doubt in Catholic minds, we would see that it is something that we who are trying to cling to the Faith should try never to do.  If nothing else this switching from Sunday to Saturday Mass keeps Catholics off-balance.  We are never certain any more.  Who is right?  Who is wrong?  Of course that is the story of the entire Church today.

Our first goal should be to find a Mass that is beautiful, quiet and reverent.  Not easy, I know.  But our second goal should be to attend that Mass on Our Lord's day.  We might also gently tap on the shoulders of our Catholic family members and friends who use the Saturday exception and encourage them to return to the "old way", which is really the right way.  It is my hope that if we can begin to restore to Sunday the proper reverence that such a day is due we will begin to see the end of several problems plaguing the Catholic Church.

THE DIRKHISING CASE: IGNORING THE FACTS WITH GAY ABANDON

We at The Eye Witness like to counter propaganda whenever we can.  We are one of many bloggers who do this.  It is necessary work.

The Jesse Dirkhising case has been pretty much lost down the memory hole thanks to a media which has as its goal the shoving of sodomy into the faces of everyone from cradle to grave.  But it is good to remember this case.  It is not an isolated one.

If you do not have a strong stomach, do not read the details.  I haven't read all the details.  I don't want to.  There is enough, more than enough, in the general reports to give the correct impression.  Searching for the least offensive reporting of the story possible we came across this article:

http://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/2009/09/10th-anniversary-of-13-year-old-jesse.html

Mary Ann Kreitzer wrote it and she wrote it very well.  We bring it to the attention of our readers so that we can understand the hellish forces we are up against.  If you know any Boy Scout leaders, you might bring this article to their attention; it will let them know what is very possibly in store for them in the near future.

Don't look for any in-depth reports from the usual disinformation sources.  They are not interested in the truth.  They are the enablers of evil.

There are other cases of murder by homosexuals.  They are also hushed up.  But we are not interested in hushing them up.  Quite the contrary.

MONSATAN...ER, MONSANTO

A French farmer rips out GMO corn from a field. 

Sometimes you just have to sit back and admire the crass, amazing and unbridled chicanery of The Devil's Own corporation, Monsanto.  We write about them often here at The Eye-Witness because it never ceases to amaze us how predatory and downright unscrupulous this company is and how little people seem to care.  So with apologies to those who are tired of the subject, and who can skip on to some other article, we present to you this latest clever move by this amazing bunch of monsters.

http://rt.com/op-edge/monsanto-deception-game-europe-gmo-261/

The article was written by William Engdahl, a perceptive observer of European trends and a man dedicated to the increasingly difficult task of keeping his health in a world awash with fake food.  His article makes for very interesting reading indeed.

The recent "March Against Monsanto" in places around the world, a march not organized by the usual NGOs, initially caught the kindly folks at Monsanto off guard.  It was organized by social media, by real people sick (literally) of what Monsanto is doing to the world's food supply.  This bothered them.  It showed that the opposition to their junk came via a grass-roots effort.  They were unamused that the peons were rising up.  But with that Beelzebub-like facility for always landing on their two feet Monsanto initiated a very clever (you have to admire it) disinformation campaign intended to make the world believe that they were reconsidering their sales efforts in Europe.

Many believe that to be true.  Not so.

Engdahl shows exactly what is happening and how Monsanto has managed it.  They are masters of a Public Relations technique that they and other multinational corporations who prey on hapless consumers have honed to the very last word in perfection.  They really are quite brilliant.

But, then again, so is Mr Engdahl.  And he has got the goods on them.