H I S T 0 R Y versus R E N E W.
History is a most severe teacher impossible to placate, the reason being that History can neither be bought nor bribed. The open secret that, in its recording, History has been subjected to countless attempts at falsification, or has for the last one hundred or so years been made to appear as being the prize captive of the colourless determinism of one of the vilest hoaxes of all times, Evolution, has itself become an indelible fact of living History, branding forever the perpetrators for what they are in the eyes and minds of all future generations. And it will be inevitable that, through those future eyes and minds, the falsifiers of our days will be viewed and condemned by all generations. The feminists who in their ultimate frenzy are determined to impose their evil wills on History in order to radically change its nature, stand to be exposed for their futile attempts by the only possible verdict of all History as 'witches, dealing in witchcraft'. So also will Catholic priests who call for the promotion of the insanity of 'women priests' in exchange for support for the quest of 'married priests', end up, in the eyes of the 21st century, in the same farcical 'chest' as was used to conceal to no avail the ‘wife’ of Archbishop Cranmer from his contemporaries.
The reason for all this is clear. History in its unfolding has been called into being by the free and undisputed choice and decision of the living and true God who, according to the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Universal Church, enjoys “freedom of choice” to the fullest extent of His infinite perfection. This means that, at the Act of Creation, He had the unrestricted freedom to choose and decide the calling into being of any of the endless variety of free choices and decisions of which His human creatures are capable. Out of the unlimited potentialities of all possible worlds, each of those composed of an infinite diversity of free human decisions and choices, it was on this world as we know it that the Divine Mind set Its seal of approval. And this world, as it unfolds itself every minute, containing only the existing creatures, has been freely chosen by God to become the human history as we know it, without any interference by the Creator in the freely chosen actions of His human creatures. And the miracle of this History cannot be falsified or distorted without making the falsification or the distortion part of History and so subject to the Judgement of the Divine Mind which is Truth Itself.
So highly did God value for the fallen human race this teaching power of History, that is, the teaching power of what came into being under the stamp of His approval, that He made part of the recording of this History inerrant. Here we refer to all that is contained in the Books of Sacred Scripture. And it was for this selfsame reason that God made another section of the preservation of History inerrant: the Sacred Tradition of all that He had revealed to us in His Son within the exclusive confines of the Catholic Church. And it is in these two infallible parts of recorded History, in Sacred Scripture and in the living Catholic Tradition, that there lies preserved forever and for all ages the rewards and punishments of God.
A. The first recorded curse of God, the one pronounced against Satan after the temptation and fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, is exceedingly important as the punishment meted out there involves human beings!
"And the Lord God said to the serpent, 'Because you have done this, be accursed beyond all cattle, all wild beasts. You shall crawl on your belly and eat dust every day of your life. I will make you enemies of each other, you and the Woman, your seed and Her Seed. She shall crush your head, and you will strike at Her heel"' [Gen. 3:14-15].
'Because you have done this....'
"There is to be no mistake as to the reason for the curse", writes Pember in his book 'Earth's Earliest Ages'. "It is no accident but the deeply-burnt brand which testifies to God's abhorrence of him who brought Sin into Creation.
'Because you have engineered the first apostasy; because you were successful in making the woman believe you and doubt God, extinguishing in her the supernatural Light of innocent Faith in God: be accursed beyond all cattle'. And the punishment is absolute and forever: never will the devil succeed in producing anything of real or lasting value. For as long as this world will last he and his seed are condemned to be satisfied by crawling around in the dust of dark places ('workshops!'), eating dust and producing nothing but dust.... Never, for one moment, will the divine curse allow them to produce something of real human value, of lasting satisfaction or permanent beauty....
What awesome thought for our contemporaries. How often, in human history, have bishops, priests, teachers and parents repeated the first apostasy? Enforced heresy on those entrusted to their care? Made people believe them, and made them doubt the Voice of God as it became known to humanity in the teachings of the Catholic Church? How often have they extinguished innocent Catholic Faith? Has the curse been mitigated so that they got away with it? Has History truly nothing to say about what is rampant in our days? Is it silent about 'the vengeance of God' over the wilful extinction of innocent Catholic Faith?
No, History has been far from silent! It has told us again and again: 'There will be no mistake: God's pronouncement is indeed a deeply-burnt brand!' No matter how encouraging the popularity of a 'renewed catholicism' is to bishops and priests: it will turn out to be merely dust coming from those condemned to live in dark places. The 'easy catholicism' of our times, the revolt against 'Humanae Vitae', the contraceptive pill, the Modernism that teaches 'freedom of conscience' to do one's own thing: RENEW, 'Women priests', 'Married priests'; and the 'deaneries' to form the framework for the smooth transition of all the benefits of Paul Collins' anti-Hierarchical church into the renewed 'local churches': it will all prove to be dust, condemned to be empty of any real value, of human satisfaction, of lasting joy.
'A deeply-burnt brand....' Let History testify to this!
B . It is now more than 450years since the Protestant revolt in England and on the continent of Europe became a fact of History, and still there is no sign that Anglicans, Lutherans, Calvinists or any of those who make up the reformed churches, are receiving the grace of conversion and of a mass-return to the Catholic Church from which their forefathers broke away. But only the first generation of 'protesters', that is those Catholics who formally adopted and enforced the new religion, were guilty of the sin of apostasy. Yet the fatal consequences of their actions and of their choices have gone on unabating for more than 450years, keeping millions of their spiritual and biological offspring outside the Catholic Church, and with no sign of an end in sight. But maybe 450years is not convincing enough for our Modernists and feminists....
C. It is now nearly 1400 years since Mohammedanism made its appearance in world History, and still there is no sign that Mohammedans are receiving the grace of mass conversions. What awful secret lies at the roots and origins of such an extended and protracted 'desert'? We know that distorted bits and pieces of the Catholic religion have found their way into Mohamed’s earliest religious concepts, making one think that those distortions were readily available and in free circulation in the Christian regions which were the scene of the early onslaught of Islam. If so, then these 'distortions' can only be the result of the apostasy of heretical bishops and priests. In their book 'Civilization in the West' by Brinton, Christopher and Wolff, one can read on p. 175:-
"Syria and Persia were conquered almost simultaneously during the decade after Mohamed's death. The Syrian province, disaffected from Byzantium by Monophysitism, fell easily.... In 639-640 the Arabs took Egypt, the major Byzantine naval base, which was Monophysite in religion and, like Syria, ripe for conquest.... etc".
So there it was. Monophysitism was the plague of the 6th and 7th century, the heresy embraced by bishops and priests of the time who doggedly maintained against the Holy Church's condemnation that there was only one (mono) nature (physis) in Christ instead of two: the divine Nature and the human nature. So at the root of the Islam conquest lies the vengeance of God over heresy preaching Far-fetched? In the same passage quoted above the authors state:
"Moving West across North Africa they took Carthage in 698".
What was so remarkable about that? This, that during the lifetime of St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo (North Africa), this whole vast region of the Roman empire was totally Catholic with more than 300, that's right, three hundred, bishop's sees or dioceses! After the Saint's death all but a handful of these fell into the heresy of Arianism and were wiped out by the Vandals. Of these events the same authors state on p. 84:-
"The Vandals came in 429 but soon seized North Africa for them-selves.... Like the Visigoths, the Vandals were Arian, and often persecuted the orthodox...."
It must be noted here that St. Augustine died in 430.
Arianism is the terrible heresy that denies the divinity of Christ. So, North Africa, weakened by the defection of 300-odd bishops to Arianism to escape the fury of the Vandals, became easy prey for the Mohammedans two centuries later whose own origins as we saw, were intimately associated with other heresies. And for the next 1300 years, the Mohammedan conquest made sure that North Africa became the most prominent region, but not the only one, to miss out on the inestimable grace of mass conversions to Catholicism. But maybe even 1300 years is not going back far enough for some to be utterly convinced how 'deeply-burnt' the vengeance of God is over apostasy....
D. It is by now going on for 2000 years that the high priest, the chief priests, the scribes and the Pharisees disowned Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ before Pilate and persuaded the people to believe them rather than believe the Author of Life and Truth Himself. And the Jewish people believed them and so turned the leaders' rejection of the Messiah into a mass rejection. Now there can be no possible doubt as to the name Our Lord Himself gave to these leaders, when in His teaching days He called them to their faces "Brood of vipers!" and "You have the devil for father". There could be no stronger wording in which the fulfilment of God's prophecy in Paradise could be expressed that in his work of apostasy the devil would have human beings as his offspring: 'you and your seed'.
And for 2000 years, generations of Jews who had nothing to do with the rejec-tion of Christ on the First Good Friday, had to come into existence and die without receiving the grace of mass conversions.
450years, 1300 years, 2000 years: who can maintain, in the face of such awe-some historical records, that the wholesale disintegration of Catholicism in present-day seminaries, teachers colleges, convents, schools, churches and homes is merely a bout of measles which will soon pass over? If the innocent generations after the historically recorded revolts are condemned by God to carry the effects of the apostasy of their fathers for hundreds, even thousands of years, then what punishment awaits those who are either responsible for the revolt or gleefully accept the staggering rejection contained in the embrace of an easy church? If according to recorded History, exclusion from the Catholic Church of those unfortunate enough to be born after leaders who either portrayed or accepted the 'easy catholicism' of our days as coming from Vatican II, must be counted in many hundreds of years, what exclusion, we may well ask, is awaiting those bishops, priests, religious, leaders and parents, who have extinguished innocent Catholic Faith in millions of Catholic children attending Catholic schools, and who proudly boast that the number of victims 'liberated' by RENEW runs in tens of thousands? We get a clear perception of what is at stake here from the words Our Lord addressed to the leaders of the Jewish revolt, the one of 2000 year standing: "You will die in your sin!" Which translates into "Your exclusion will be permanent! The one of your progeny will come to an end. Yours never will...."
The mechanics of the present-day worldwide revolt against the Catholic Church are simple enough and easy to understand. Catholic women-on-the-pill do not want their children - and especially their daughters! - to find out in Catholic schools that there is such a person as an infallible Pope and such a divine Institution as a Catholic Church, who condemn in no uncertain terms, and in the Name of God, that, what their parents are doing, is "intrinsically evil" ['Humanae Vitae']. If the most accurate description of a false prophet is "he who leaves My people in their sin", and who enjoys the approval and popularity that go with it, then the deadly silence from pulpits about the true nature and teachings of the Catholic Church must be considered the veil that covers the destruction of Catholic Faith in seminaries and schools "so that My people can be peacefully left in their sin". The 'false church of the false prophets', in which one is left in tranquillity 'to do one's own thing', must at all cost be traced to Vatican II as if in Opposition to 'Humanae Vitae'. But these were the very mechanics by which the false prophets condemned the Ancient Jews, 'the people of Yahweh', to become 'lo-ammi': "not my people..."
After that, the rest is History, Ancient as well as Modern!
During 1974 the complete story of Our Lady's Apparitions at Fatima was serialised in the 'Geelong Advertiser' on 9 Saturdays within the period of MAR 2 until JUN 22. After the appearance of the 5th instalment on Saturday APR 27, which contained an account of the vision of Hell, granted to the three little seers on JUL 13, 1917, an assistant priest acting as a spokesman for St. Bernard's, Belmont, (Geelong, Vic.) saw fit to publicly dissociate himself and his parish from the Fatima story, a divine event which is bound to disturb the 'false tranquillity' spoken of above.
One is not even technically free to dissociate Our Lady of Fatima 'from the peace and freedom of mind in ones own easy church'. But if this is done, then one is bound to fall into the trap of agreeing with the world that RENEW is 'in' because it is a false prophet 'leaving My people in their sins', and that God and His Church are in the way of progress and must move over.
Fatima is 'out' with the Modernists because it confirms all the Dogmas, the doctrines and devotions, which have identified the Catholic Church for ages and set Her apart from any other 'church' for the spiritual survival of all God's children.
In Fatima were confirmed all the Dogmas, the doctrines and devotions which have identified and set apart the Catholic Church for 2000 years for the spiritual survival of the world. In Fatima were held up and stressed the Dogma of the Blessed Trinity; the Divinity of Christ; the Real Presence; Mary Immaculate and assumed into Heaven; the love and devotion for the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary; the structured Church: Papacy, Bishops, Clergy and Laity; the Holy Family and the honour due to St. Joseph; the existence of Heaven, Hell, Purgatory, Grace, Sin, Angels, Devils; the necessity of Prayer and Purity, of Penance and Reparation, and of the Confession of Sins; frequent Communion and the devotion of the Five First Saturdays; the daily Rosary; the wearing of the Scapular; the reality of Miracles, the infinite Mercy of God and the forgiveness of sins; the Communion of Saints; Mary’s insistence on the good performance of our daily duties; and yes, even Her request for Victimhood and standing in for sinners. And then Her final injunction to mankind: “to stop offending God”….
Those who kept all this hate RENEW and the 'easy church' that spawned it Those who lost any of this do not get it back from RENEW, nor from the 'Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults'. That is the simple reason why RENEW and RCIA are evil and why they are exclusive to the 'easy church' which has defected from the Catholic Church after first becoming inimical to the Woman of Genesis by not heeding Her foremost Fatima request ‘to stop sinning’.
The rest, the failure that is still to come, is already written in the Dust of History....